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Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Starring: Jude Ciccolella, Jon Tenney, Jon Polito, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Morton, Danny Aiello, Suzanne Pleshette
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When the Chief of Police transfers tough police captain Janet Hamilton to "The Sewer," a crime-infested inner-city precinct, she suspects that many of her own men have been thriving in this lawless wasteland-though she has no idea how deep the corruption goes. Compelled to investigate after a sergeant is mysteriously murdered, Janet discovers that some of Pittsburgh finest are caught up in one of the most explosive and shocking scandals the City of Pittsburgh has ever seen.
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Yaniv Raz
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Joseph Cross, Heather Graham, Danny Glover, Stephen Root, Blake Clark, Jon Polito
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
As an environmental catastrophe threatens the world; Phillip Katz (JOE CROSS, Milk), a stressed-out, lowly copywriter, experiences an episode of stigmata in church and is positioned as the next MESSIAH by an ambitious reporter, Josephine Tuttle (HEATHER GRAHAM). Phillip is whisked away to a lavish hotel suite as politicians, reporters, and devout fans descend upon him, each hoping to exploit Phillip for their own purposes. After becoming the most famous man on the planet in less than a day, Phillip must decide how to use his newfound celebrity...
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2010
Country: USA, South Korea
Director: Hyung-rae Shim
Starring: Michael Rispoli, Jack Kehler, Blake Clark, Jon Polito, Harvey Keitel, Jason Mewes, Paul Hipp
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Young-goo (Hyung-rae Sim) the son of mafia boss Don Carini (Harvey Keitel), is too foolish to be part of the mafia elite. One day, Young-goo comes to his father and is trained by Tony V (Michael Rispoli) to be his father's successor. A few days later, Young-goo accidentally rescues Nancy (Jocelin Donahue), the only daughter of Don Bonfante, the boss of a rival mafia family. But Vinnie (Jason Mewes), an under-boss of the Bonfante family kidnapped her and fabricates that Young-goo has taken her. Vinnie's behavior provokes an armed conflict between the two families.
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Olek Krupa, Steve Buscemi, Lanny Flaherty, John Turturro, Mike Starr, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A highly styled 'genre' film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart.
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Demian Lichtenstein
Starring: Steven Bauer, Abraham Benrubi, Jon Polito, Donald Faison, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jaime Pressly
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They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...well it's a whole other matter when you live there! Eric (Eddie Guerra) and Tara (Jaime Pressly), a couple living in Vegas are really in need of a major event -- to help them breakup already! He knows she's dating someone new, but can't let her go. Desperate to win back her heart, and convinced that his "unemployed" status is the cause of all their problems, Eric agrees to join his buddies Stu (Donald Faison) and Alex (Eddie Kaye Thomas), whose principle talents are scamming and avoiding adulthood, and with girlfriend problems of their own, when they discover the easy score of a lifetime-a boatl...
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA, Netherlands
Director: Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Starring: Henry Rollins, Jerry O'Connell, Sam Elliott, James Brolin, Selma Blair, Aimee Garcia, Steve Coogan
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Ray Elliot helps people cheat on their spouses by arranging iron-clad alibis for a price. About the time he hires a new assistant, Lola, he learns there's a $5 million contract out on Jack McAdam, his former partner; and, his first and longest-running client wants him to set up a weekend for his son, who's about to marry. When the son's illicit tryst goes terribly awry, Ray has more than his share of problems: police, a jealous boyfriend, angry clients, a polygamist hitman, a coroner's assistant, and various wives converge to put Ray in danger. Can Lola be trusted? What about human nature?
Genres: Drama
Year: 1985
Country: USA, West Germany
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Starring: Stephen Lang, John Malkovich, Jon Polito, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, Linda Kozlowski, Louis Zorich
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Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Keith Gordon
Starring: Mel Gibson, Katie Holmes, Eddie Jones, Alfre Woodard, Carla Gugino, Adrien Brody, Saul Rubinek
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"While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with his protagonist, a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles."
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Ling Bai, Jon Polito, Tony Todd, Michael Massee, Laurence Mason
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Brian Tarantina, Garrett Morris, Richard Pryor, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Sylvia Miles, Jude Ciccolella, Jon Polito
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Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!
Genres: Comedy, Family, Romance
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: John Schultz
Starring: Gabrielle Union, John Leguizamo, Mike Epps, Eric Stoltz, Doreen Keogh, Ajay Naidu, Regina Hall
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New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough money for a down payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot--and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again.
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1991
Country: USA, UK
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, John Goodman, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Lerner, Jon Polito
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2006
Country: UK, Canada
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Starring: Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer, Natascha McElhone, Jon Polito, Julian Glover, Shauna Shim, Mimi Rogers
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Charlie is an ex-teacher turned reluctant call center employee who gets fired on the first day. Distraught on being unable to provide for his daughter Emily and cop wife, Penelope, he is suddenly contacted by Gus, an aspiring scam artist who presents Charlie with a seemingly snag-free plan to make some cash: Blackmail Reverend Smalls a man of the cloth, who's frequently turned up in the company database of visitors to illegal porn-sites. Gus plans on extorting Reverend Smalls, with the intention of publicly exposing his secret shame, should he refuse, with this scandal potentially destroying the man's career. Normally cautious Charlie, is kee...
Year: 2001
Country: USA, UK
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Brian Haley, Scarlett Johansson, Jack McGee, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Tony Shalhoub
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices...
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Cameron Thor
Starring: Virginia Madsen, D.B. Sweeney, Jon Polito, Brooke Shields, Johnathon Schaech, Adam Carolla, Maria Pitillo
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
What do we talk about when sex is over? Meet eight couples - straight and gay; virgins and strangers; lovers, liars, cheaters and swingers - as they deal with the pleasure, anger, confusion, regret, laughter and other sensations that make physical intimacy an emotional ride. Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Marc Blucas, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Taryn Manning, Keir O Donnell, Tanc Sade, John Witherspoon and Jane Seymour lead an arousing cast in this provocative comedy/drama about everything that can happen before the morning and AFTER SEX.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Robert Miranda, Ed Lauter, Jennifer Connelly, Eddie Jones, Paul Sorvino, Alan Arkin, Jon Polito
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Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930's Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the help of his mechanic/mentor, Peevee, he attempts to save his girl and stop the Nazis as The Rocketeer.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Ray Griggs
Starring: Clint Howard, Tom Sizemore, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Michael Rooker, Chris Owen, Sam Lloyd, Jon Polito
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Would-be superhero, Ed Gruberman, who possesses no super powers must join a team of misfit heroes-in-training known as The Super Capers. Having only faith, Gruberman must travel through time to uncover an evil plot involving some gold bullion, a fiery femme fatale, and a criminal mastermind with a dark secret about Ed's past.
Year: 2005
Country: Germany, UK, Ireland
Director: Anthony Byrne
Starring: John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Rade Serbedzija, Jon Polito, Jack Dee, Emma de Caunes, Paul Kaye
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
SHORT ORDER tells a story so vibrantly sumptuous each still could be served as its own meal. Amidst the quaint Parisian street night, Fifi Koko runs a petty short order diner. Although her name is famous in chef circles she has placed her uncanny culinary skills on the back burner as she falls prey to an existential quagmire that fears her talent shall not overcome the expectations her reputation has sown. The late hours play out as Fifi must face her talent and unrequited love for a friend, while a collective stream of colorful creatures of the night make through Fifi's consciousness to feed her with temptation, insight, and humor on the pat...
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Michael Canzoniero, Marco Ricci
Starring: Marcia Jean Kurtz, Jon Polito, Dan Fogler, Yul Vazquez, Brendan Sexton III, Patti D'Arbanville, Steven Randazzo
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
For the past 5 years, 3 months, and 26 days, (not that theyre counting) Anthony and Carmine Marconi have been dutifully serving out life sentences in the family carpet business. Fate intervenes during a routine carpet installation when the brothers step into the world of Louis Lou Burns, playboy and king of the Long Island wedding video business. Mesmerized by Lous fast talk, flashy toys, and leggy secretaries, the brothers abandon the family carpet business and hustle themselves jobs as his new assistants. It isnt long before the brothers encounter the pitfalls of seeking independent lives from their family. Never exactly the best of friends...
Genres: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Carlo Carlei
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Perlman, Eric Stoltz, Jon Polito, Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis, Max Pomeranc
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.


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One of the many things that landed in my mailbox this afternoon was an updated preseason prospectus from Longwood, which included what looks like a full schedule that is nevertheless subject to change.
And if you didn't think that made me just a little happier on a hot summer day, well, you don't know me very well.
While it doesn't look like the schedule is listed on the Lancers' website, it was still easy to copy-and-paste it into here. And so it's listed below, along with a breakdown as part of a look at every school in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia as the schedules are released:
Nov. 14, Virginia-Wise; Nov. 16, Norfolk State; Nov. 18, Gardner-Webb; Nov. 20, at West Virginia; Nov. 22, at Maryland-Eastern Shore; Nov. 24, at Kentucky; Nov. 28, vs. Southeast Missouri State in Las Vegas; Nov. 29, vs. Delaware State or Oakland in Las Vegas
Dec. 3, James Madison; Dec. 14, at Virginia Tech; Dec. 17, at Virginia; Dec. 20, Virginia Intermont; Dec. 28, at Lehigh; Dec. 30, at Navy
Jan. 3, George Washington; Jan. 6, at Florida; Jan. 12, Chicago State; Jan. 17, Savannah State; Jan. 21, Southern Virginia; Jan. 24, NJIT; Jan. 31, Columbia Union
Feb. 4, Maryland-Eastern Shore; Feb. 7, at Savannah State; Feb. 11, Texas-Pan American; Feb. 14, at Texas-Pan American; Feb. 16, at Chicago State; Feb. 21, Colgate; Feb. 23, at High Point; Feb. 25, North Carolina Central; Feb. 28, at North Carolina Central
March 4, at NJIT
They'll miss: Four-year starter Lamar Barrett, who averaged 9.3 points and 5.2 rebounds last season.
They're adding: Freshman guard Martiz Washington, who rolled up 18.4 points, 5.4 assists, 4.6 steals and 4.5 rebounds at the Christchurch (Va.) School as a senior.
Home/road/neutral schedule split: 15/14/2, a superb home/road balance for returning senior Kirk Williams (16.9 ppg).
Best team visiting Farmville: It might just be Colgate; the Raiders went 18-14 last year in the very even Patriot League.
Best home game subplot: OK, maybe this isn't the best subplot from Longwood's perspective. Woeful NJIT of 0-29 fame were dealt two of their losses in February by Longwood. The Highlanders have two more games with the Lancers this year, including the Jan. 24 visit to Willett Hall.
Funny seeing you here: George Washington has defeated the Lancers in Foggy Bottom in back-to-back years. On Jan. 3, the Colonials will become the first Atlantic 10 team to visit Farmville in Longwood's five seasons as a Division I program.
Best road venue: It's hard to argue with selecting the Nov. 24 visit to Rupp Arena to play Kentucky. Sure, there is a trip to Florida, but this is a chance to play in Big Blue Nation.
Best showcase: A chance to play at a vaunted in-state school is pretty cool. But which one? Since the Lancers will be making a trip to Charlottesville for the fourth straight year, let's go with the Dec. 14 game at Virginia Tech. It's Longwood's first trip to the Cassell.
Best opponent: If Joe Alexander stuck around, chances are it would have been West Virginia. It might still be, but the nod at this stage goes to the Jan. 6 trek to Florida.
New to the schedule: Gardner-Webb, West Virginia, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Kentucky, Virginia Tech, Lehigh, Florida, Chicago State, Columbia Union, Texas-Pan American, Colgate and North Carolina Central. It would appear the Lancers have not played any of these schools since moving to Division I.
Pivotal stretch: Those eight games in 16 days to start the season look pretty brutal. Still, the Lancers play seven of eight at home between Jan. 12 and Feb. 11, mostly against fellow independents and non-Division I opponents. It's the most obvious opportunity for Longwood to get on a roll.


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Covering the worlds of data security, privacy and hacker culture.
Skype has long been a quintessential bad actor for the privacy community–one that not only refuses to make promises about protecting user data from government surveillance, but won't even reveal basic facts about how and when it hands user conversations over to the government. Now, eight months after the voice-over-IP company was officially integrated into Microsoft, a critical mass of privacy activists are demanding answers.
On Thursday a group of 44 privacy and free expression groups along with 61 individual academics, activists and entrepreneurs signed their names to an open letter to Microsoft, demanding that its Skype division detail its government surveillance policies and practices. The petition, which includes everyone from Reporters Without Borders and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to the Tibet Action Network and the hacktivist group Telecomix, calls on Skype to release a "regularly updated Transparency Report" that reveals what data it retains about individuals and for how long, as well as how and when it hands over user data to government agencies.
"We believe that this data is vital to help us help Skype's most vulnerable users, who rely on your software for the privacy of their communications and, in some cases, their lives," reads the letter.
"Skype has become one of the world's biggest telecommunications companies, essentially; People all over the world rely on it for international and domestic phone and video calls. It's being used heavily by some of the most vulnerable populations," says Eva Galperin, international freedom of expression coordinator at the EFF and one of the drafters of the letter along with Nadim Kobeissi, the privacy activist and founder of the encrypted chat program Cryptocat. "So the lack of clarity around privacy after Microsoft's acquisition of Skype has become a major issue."
Specifically, the petition asks Skype to spell out its compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and National Security Letters, both of which can require the handover of private user data to government agencies.
In 2008, Skype claimed that it couldn't comply with CALEA, which requires communications firms to provide a method of allowing access to content to law enforcement, because of the distributed nature of its peer-to-peer technology–what's more, it argued it didn't need to given its European headquarters.
But since then, Microsoft's integration of Skype has moved the company to American soil, the letter posits, raising questions about whether Skype is now subject to CALEA and other American government surveillance. The EFF's Galperin also says that changes to the service's architecture may mean that its data is more centrally collected and vulnerable to governments' requests.
Galperin says she's equally concerned about Skype's cooperation with foreign government surveillance and other third parties. She points to Syrian government surveillance of the use of Skype by activists and rebels in the country, for instance, and also notes reports of the company handing over data on a WikiLeaks supporter to a private security firm hired by PayPal.
Skype's opaque privacy practices came under fire in July of last year when it refused to answer the question of whether it can and does eavesdrop on users' conversations on behalf of law enforcement.
"Until it is more transparent, Skype should be assumed to be insecure, and not safe for those whose physical safety depends upon confidentiality of their calls," wrote privacy activist and now principal ACLU technologist Chris Soghoian at the time.
The company's silence on the issue only contributed to its abysmal reputation in the privacy community: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, whose "Who's Got Your Back" scorecard grades companies on their efforts to protect user data from surveillance, awards the company zero stars out of four.
Now the petitioners are calling on Skype to create a reporting system for its cooperation with government surveillance modeled on the Transparency Reports issued by tech firms like Google, Twitter, and the California broadband provider Sonic.net. Google, for instance, released its latest report Wednesday, showing 8,438 government requests for its data in the second half of 2012, a 70% increase since it began releasing the reports in 2009.
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Follow me on Twitter, and check out my new book, This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim To Free The World's Information.
I doubt that internet activists' opinions are even relevant here, frankly.
People whose communications requirements include protection against government eavesdropping waste their time in considering Skype and behave unreasonably in relying on Skype for privacy, if they actually do that.
Andy, you refer to "demands," but in the letter I saw no mention of "demands."
Rather, I saw this as the key line:
"We call on Skype to release a regularly updated Transparency Report that includes:"
My comment may sound like pedantry, but I was taught by a great high school English teacher that the common use of "These are our demands" and "We demand that" is only appropriate in dire situations. For instance, kidnapping or extortion cases. A simple "call for" or "request" is by no means a demand.
A useful rejoinder when someone says "I demand" is "Or else what?" "How do you plan to back up that demand?"
Even when the request/"we call on" may have implications–for instance, a group calls on another party to do something and says they will otherwise launch a boycott of products, etc.–this should not properly be called a "demand."
The fact that the word "demand" rarely shows up in business negotiations is important.
–Tim May, California
All Skype users concerned with their privacy/security should be using a VPN with Skype [like HotSpotShield]. JMHO.
Some say that Skype's keeping quiet with respect to government requests is a major issue, but actually who gets to decide what constitutes a major issue for Skype? Not EFF types, I think. Shareholders don't seem concerned, average users aren't bothered.
Google started this thing with reporting compliance trends, a couple of left coast companies have jumped aboard. But it's not any major trend.
Skype is not some little rogue company anymore, it's just one product of a US mega-corp doing a lot of government business. If you are on some kind of government watch list, you shouldn't need any report to know that Skype is not the service for you, not anymore.
Reminds me of Occupy Wall Street. Plenty of demands but basically zero clout.
Re: "Eva Galperin, international freedom of expression coordinator at the EFF and …Nadim Kobeissi, the privacy activist and founder of the encrypted chat program Cryptocat"
Say, we missed you all back in 2010 when we were protesting the fact that the Belarusian government somehow seemed to get ahold of all the Skype chat logs of the opposition and human rights groups. Sometimes all they had to do was burst into a physical office where the computer was left on with Firefox as the browser handily opening up every site with passwords stored in the browser; sometimes it could get this information from torturing people in detention. But when the still-named KGB got every single one of hundreds of people, and all the main opposition people's Skype logs and published them all in the aptly-named Sovietskaya Belarus, you had to wonder what it was about Skype the product or Skype the company that made it possible. There were lots of protests, but Belarusians and Russians and everybody kept using it in the former Soviet Union anyway.
Every time my IT guy, a security expert, would see my computer and see that Skype on it, he would fume that I was letting back doors open and delete Skype as a matter of conscience knowing full well that I would soon put it on again because of the free/cheap phone calls overseas.
So, yeah, EFF has come to the party now, but you know, with them, and especially with @kaepora, it's not really about human rights and dissidents and protecting opposition. It's really much more about hardening the trenches for their own radical revolution and attacking corporations that they feel don't aid them in their revolutionary plans.
They're actually not so revolutionary in their soi-disant "demands" as others have noted here. Calling for a Transparency Report is just Silicon Valley Newspeak. When Twitter and Google do that, all we get out of it is this very fake picture that America is "the worst" in the world because it has the most requests from law-enforcement and that "copyright takedown" is "the worst" because most government requests are related to piracy. So the fact that the democratic US system with a very developed Internet is properly filing requests related to real and recognized crime, and that it's okay to pursue copyright, are utterly lost, and the fact that Google is turning over user information to Russia on grounds of vague notions of "extremism" gets drowned out in the copyleftist roar.
"Transparency" is absolutely worthless unless these companies explain their criteria for making judgements and frankly, unless they tell us the cases, like a normal sovereign state under the rule of law does when it ensures that court cases are public information. These companies are usurping the role of states without any of their legitimacy or democracy or due process and groups like EFF and @kaepora merely have a notion of getting them to do their bidding, not really living under the rule of law. @kaepora himself is busy going around silencing his critics by getting takedowns of sites. These types are hardly an improvement over what we face from our governments or Google.
What is the solution? Balance. Activists cannot expect absolute secret encrypted conversations in a liberal state under the rule of law, because that legitimate government must legitimately be able to pursue criminal suspects whether they like it order not. Corporations should develop some ethical plan about how they will deal with oppressive countries like Belarus or Egypt because the business they get from their products there can't outweigh the reputational damage they get from selling opposition or human rights defenders down the river to tyrants. Groups like EFF should stop pretending their cause is about fighting tyranny when it's about fighting copyright and ensuring impunity for hackers and pirates. They are not credible.
Oh, and hey. Human Rights Watch is missing from the group of digital and human rights activists. Is that because Skype is one of their large donors? But other more mainstream human rights groups are missing, too. And I suspect that's because this effort is more about the radical Internet "freedom fighter" movement that wants to fight any rule of law over the Internet whatsoever — over themselves — and cloaks itself in the human rights struggle.


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Well as most of you can see, kkw is a bit of a mess, but all that is about to change very shortly, in the next 30-40 hours in fact if things go well for kkw admin. First some sad news, kkw.com won't be available to us, so we have registered kkw.org instead, this will act as our primary domain and will feed the email addresses etc. Keiraknightley.com is still ours, but it will be pointed to kkw.org I hope all that makes sense, if not I will try and explain it a bit better later.
Also the Galleries are being uploaded as we speak, Oen is going to install the software tomorrow to make it all happen, then hopefully the old fan base will move back here. Remember; please tell everyone where we live now, although over the next 30-40 hours the domains will be a bit messed up as it all changes. The forum is the exception remember, it is separate from the site and is therefore never affected. If you have trouble accessing the site remember this address: http://126.96.36.199/ if anything happens to the domains, this will always work.
Someone had a glass of efficiency for breakfast this morning. :D
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i wish you guys good luck with the moving and stuff :)
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Now all that remains is to promote KKW to everyone you can, we need to get this forum going again, tell all your freinds and also people you don't know on the street, its your challenge to help get this forum back to the level it once was.
will there be a notification of when this all happens? just wondering i'm sorta lost on this issue.... and i tried the kkwavefront.org but it didnt work, i dont know if it's suppose to be up yet or not, or if it's a link for this site
www.kkwavefront.org is live as of roughly now give or take a bit.
www.keiraknightley.com will follow shortly (~24hours) or whenever Vincent wakes up.
www.kkforums.com leads to the forums, but i'll be more eager to have it www.forums.kkwavefront.org to improve the Google standing.
Glare who are you? Have I missed something?
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5 bedroom detached house for saleKelmarsh Avenue, Wigston, Leicester
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Key features
- Extended, spacious detached family house
- Gas central heating, double glazing
- Garage, off road parking
- Gardens front and rear
- Energy rating: D
Full description
Extended detached family house offering spacious accommodation with attractive fixtures and fittings. Porch, hall, cloakroom/wc, lounge/dining area, conservatory, dining kitchen, utility, 5 bedrooms, en suite, family bathroom, garage, off road parking, garden to rear. Photo shows rear of property.
Extended five bedroom detached family house offering spacious accommodation with attractive fixtures and fittings. Porch, hall, cloakroom/wc, through lounge/dining area, conservatory, dining kitchen, utility room, five bedrooms, en suite shower room, family bathroom, garage, off road parking, garden to rear. Gas central heating and double glazing.
Entrance Porch
With double glazed door to front, double glazed window to front.
Entrance Hall
With door to front, radiator, laminated floor, staircase to first floor.
Cloakroom / W.C.
With low level wc, wash hand basin, radiator, heated towel rail, wall cupboard, laminated floor.
Through Lounge / Dining Area 24' 3" x 10' 11" ( 7.39m x 3.33m )
With double glazed windows to front and side, double glazed sliding doors to conservatory, radiator, laminated floor, living flame gas fire with feature stone effect surround.
Dining Kitchen 19' 9" x 11' 6" max. ( 6.02m x 3.51m max. )
Fitted with a comprehensive range of wall and base cupboards with roll edge work surfaces over, 1.1/2 bowl stainless steel sink drainer with mixer tap, fitted double electric oven and 6 ring gas hob with cooker hood over, vent for tumble dryer, integrated dishwasher, radiator, built-in pantry cupboard, laminated floor, access to garage.
Utility Room 8' 9" x 4' 11" ( 2.67m x 1.50m )
Fitted base cupboards, roll edge worktops, double glazed window to rear, door to kitchen, plumbing for washing machine, laminated floor.
Conservatory 11' 4" x 8' 11" ( 3.45m x 2.72m )
Of brick and upvc construction with double glazed windows to three sides with views of garden, double glazed door to side, tiled floor, door to Lounge.
First Floor Landing
With stairs rising from hallway, two loft accesses, one with pull-down ladder and housing central heating boiler.
Bedroom One 14' 4" x 11' 5" ( 4.37m x 3.48m )
Having double glazed window to front, radiator.
En Suite Shower Room
Having shower cubicle, wash hand basin, low level wc, double glazed window to side, ceramic tiled floor, heated towel rail.
Bedroom Two 12' 11" x 10' 11" plus recess ( 3.94m x 3.33m plus recess )
Having double glazed window to front, radiator.
Bedroom Three 12' 7" x 9' ( 3.84m x 2.74m )
Having double glazed windows to side and rear, built-in wardrobes.
Bedroom Four 14' max. x 9' 2" max. ( 4.27m max. x 2.79m max. )
Having double glazed window to rear, radiator.
Bedroom Five 9' 11" x 9' 7" max. ( 3.02m x 2.92m max. )
Having double glazed window to front, radiator.
Family Bathroom
Having obscure double glazed window to rear, panelled bath with part tiled surround, wash hand basin, low level wc, radiator, ceramic tiled floor.
Garage 16' 4" x 14' 7" ( 4.98m x 4.45m )
Having up and over doors, power and light, electric meter, door to kitchen.
The property occupies a good size plot with gardens to front and rear. There is a side driveway leading to the garage. The very pleasant rear garden has a raised decking area with outside tap and lighting overlooking a lawn with steps down. There are flower beds, fenced surround and separate side access.
Proceed from the agent's Oadby office along The Parade towards the village church and turn right at the mini roundabout into Wigston Road. Follow this road to Wigston and at the large roundabout turn left into Bull Head Street. At the traffic lights turn left into Kelmarsh Avenue where the property can be found on the right hand side.
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5: Connells has not tested any apparatus, equipment, fixtures, fittings or services and it is the buyers interests to check the working condition of any appliances.
6: Connells has not sought to verify the legal title of the property and the buyers must obtain verification from their solicitor.
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Readers provide their predictions for the coming year: the good, the bad, and the crazy
HOW ACCURATE IS your psychic ability, your foresight these days? I guess we'll find out because we've asked readers to provide their predictions for what will happen in 2013. As in past years, most of the predictions focused on the bad stuff -- the wars and conflicts, the severe weather, the natural disasters, and a still faltering world economy. But there are also some brighter outlooks for mankind, some interesting scientific discoveries, and even predictions for what might happen in the realm of the paranormal.
- A dark haired, dark skinned boy found alive with dogs! - frecklesoup
- A missing blonde haired girl found alive in dog pound or rabbit farm. - peaceclub04
- A new "think positive" trend will sweep the world globally, and people will compete to see who can perform the kindest deed to random strangers. - Khrysa
- Corporal punishment ends/becomes an issue in a USA state. - peaceclub04
- People will observe the severe and wild weather patterns and become aware that they need to change their relationship with the earth to a more harmonious and sustainable one - and this is truly wonderful! - Jo Nadj
- Prices rise, central banks continue easy money policy, USA economy continues gradual improvement. - peaceclub04
- Reduce unemployment to 5%. The economic situation recovers. - wisigothic78
- Russia is going to project a new mage in 2013, probably an invitation to the world to come and see historical Russia. The emphasis will be on opening up the old isolationist idea of all foreigners being a spy. In the end the foreigners find that people are really just people no matter where you go in the world. - bull874
- The energies love President Obama and call him a true and enlightened humanitarian who focuses on what he can do for health, education, equality and the benefit of his people, but he will have heart problems... not sure if angina, but clear about this. - Jo Nadj
- The recent shootings in the northeast will stimulate greater efforts at gun control. - Jim T.
- The U.S. will finally introduce gun control laws on a par with almost every other country in the developed world. - Brian
- There will be a shift of people feeling that Mother Earth is not happy and a shift to greater focus on home grown, using less resources, and a general simplifying of the way they live their lives, which is wonderful. Amsterdam will be a great example. - Jo Nadj
- Banks will fail in the Euro zone at record rate. Riots will take place as unemployment goes to highest levels in years. France will decide not to use the Euro after 2013. - BigSammy
- China and Japan will go into a trade war. This will cost Japan many jobs and unemployment will rise. - BigSammy
- China's economy will slow. - Jim T.
- Developing civil strife in the USA and a time when a wheelbarrow of money will be worth nothing, reminiscent of the Weimer Republic in Germany after WWI (this will take more than 1 year). - Jo Nadj
- The price of oil will go up. - Jim T.
- The U.S. dollar will fall vs. the Euro. - Jim T.
- The U.S. will fall into a deep recession and by year's end will become another Great Depression. -DR_FRAWIN
- Just when you think partisanship in Washington can't get more polarized, it will. - Howard
- Not since the Kennedy presidency has so much anger been pointed at the White House. Serious changes will be attempted. - Jim T.
- Russia will veto a measure the US wants to push through the UN Security Council. - Howard
- There will be a second and very long overdue American revolution. The people vs. the government. - Renrt2000
- An instance of severe weather will be blamed on climate change. - Howard
- Danger in some universities attempted infiltration of new age cults killer? - wisigothic78
- Iran will hurl threats and insults at Israel. Israel will hurl threats and insults at Iran. - Howard
- Israel will attack Iran and fail, and will suffer many casualties as Iran strikes back. The US will outrage the world as it does nothing at first, then bring peace after thousands die. - BigSammy
- North Korea will threaten South Korea and the US with war. - Howard
- Russia will actually become a real threat of war again. - frecklesoup
- The start of 2013 will have a shocking start with the announcement of a terrorist poison attack on the Queen of England succeeding. - Iseeghosts
- There will be increased unrest in the Middle East, leading to war between Israel and Egypt. - Zelethra
- Turkey will be involved in a war, Germany will send troops and restore calm, then be accused of trying to control the country. - BigSammy
- Widespread violence will erupt when a total ban on firearms is enacted -- will lead to Martial Law being declared. - DR_FRAWIN
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Glitter girl, it's great! I love the simplicity of the concept.... grab a star and stick it on! (or circle, or flower, or butterfly etc)
Thanks! I can't wait to get home from work and pull some of these lacy backgrounds out of my stash! :)
As always, you make something that seems very scary look easy! <3 this
As always, you make something that seem very scary look easy! <3 this
Love your layout! As always, thanks for the inspiration!
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This week Glitter Girl takes on the challenge of background die-cuts, either cut with an electronic cutter or premade like the KI Memories cardstock lace product, inspired by this discussion [twopeasinabucket.com] on the general scrapping board.
There are several other examples to be found here at Two Peas where these die-cuts are concerned. Check out…
one [twopeasinabucket.com], two [twopeasinabucket.com], three [twopeasinabucket.com] great examples from Garden Girl Shannon Tidwell, this one product/three ways post [twopeasinabucket.com], and recent layouts by Garden Girl Wilna Furstenberg [twopeasinabucket.com].
Come along for the adventure, won't you?
You might also find this Finally Friday video useful:
This week you have a choice of challenges! Either try the background die-cut challenge with a design you've cut yourself or a premade sheet of die-cut cardstock lace… OR try the 'just go crazy' idea with one motif. Select one shape then throw everything you can with that motif into one design - stars on the paper, die-cuts, Thickers, wood veneers, washi tape - as many stars as I could find in my stash! Upload your project to the gallery and don't forget to click the challenge button in step four of the upload process.
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The Secretary
Interview with our current Secretary, Mr. Bala Baskar (March 2014)
Departure of Mr. Bala Baskar in 2001
For the day-to-day management of the Foundation, the Central Government appoints a Secretary who is responsible to the Chairman of the Governing Board.
The Secretary is a high-level officer from the Indian Administrative Service or a similar organisation. The Secretary lives in Auroville.
From November 2011 Mr. Loganathan, Registrar of Pondicherry University, has functioned as temporary Secretary in-charge.
From 7th March 2012, Mr. N. Bala Bhaskar, I.A.S (Retd.) has been appointed as Secretary of the Auroville Foundation for a period of 3 years.
Mr Bala Bhaskar had been holding this chair from 1996 till 2001 and is familiar with the workings of the township.
Previous secretaries were:
Mr. M. Ramaswamy, I.A.S.
Mr. S.R. Sharma, I.A.S.
Mr. N. Bala Baskar, I.A.S.
Dr. S.C. De, I.P.S.
Mr. L.K. Tripathy, I.A.S.
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She asked the man there if they gave a military discount on there oil changes.... He said no, why should we...
She stated because the military is out ther giving there lives for you and everyone else.
He said something like we don't give one. My wife said that was nasty.
He left and then came back saying I don't appreciate you calling me nasty.... She said she didn't. Just that no military discount is nasty.
He asked her if she wanted to talk to the manager. She said no. But evidently he got him anyway.
The manager said discounts should be asked befor the care was brought in... Personally I don't see what difference that is... If they don't give a discount it doesnt matter. If they did, they would have given it anyway.
I have worked some years working retail... As hard as it is, I have always been told, and when I managed a store went by the rule the customer was right. I realize there could be certain situations that could differ.
But here that employee shouldn't have came out challenging, the manager should have been appologizing for his employee. He didn't.
No big loss for themI guess. We are one family and two cars. But there are to many other places we can go to have a oil change.
Maybe if you are military or a Veteran, it sounds like they are not supporting you.
It will not be the Pittsop.


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Joe Simon
New Castle News
It's one of the most basic skills of the game, but Rayanna Furst had to learn it all over again.
From stepping forward and turning her hips to keeping her head on the ball, swinging away was a new concept to Furst.
Now a junior for the Neshannock High softball team, Furst had utilized what's known as slap-hitting for as long as she could remember. The speedy lefty would swing and start running toward first base all in one motion, making just enough contact to put the ball in play, like a swinging bunt. With Furst's quickness, teams struggled to field the ball cleanly and throw her out.
Yet, longtime Neshannock coach Tracy Kimmel saw something more. He saw a smooth-swinging athlete with the ability to drive the ball to all fields. So, the two decided to make a change.
"I knew she had a good swing," Kimmel said. "And the other kids we had coming up, like (Madison) Shaffer and (Marissa) DeMatteo, I knew they were slap-hitters, too, and I just felt Ray was a little ahead of them swing-wise, so that's why I moved her from leadoff to No. 3.
"She's a junior and the other kids are just moving up (from junior high). They have good skills, too — they both have good swings. Plus I can always have (Rayanna) slap if we need her to."
Slowly but surely, Furst found her swing, and it's paid major dividends for the Lady Lancers during their run to the state championship game.
Furst hit a game-winning, two-run double in the top of the eighth inning during last Tuesday's 5-3 win over Philipsburg-Osceola in the first round of the PIAA Class AA playoffs. She followed that up with a game-tying RBI single in the quarterfinals. This one came with Neshannock's season hanging in the balance as Fairview had two outs and a full count on Furst. The Lady Lancers went on to win that game in the next at-bat, 4-3.
The performance earned her Lawrence County Athlete of the Week honors, an award sponsored by Washington Centre Physical Therapy and selected by the New Castle News sports staff.
Furst's heroics wouldn't have happened if not her for ability to put the team first.
She was one of the team's top players as a sophomore. She could bat from either side of the plate and often would swing away when she hit right-handed. And she was nearly impossible to get out as a slap-hitter from the left side because of her speed. Still, Furst accepted the change because she knew the impact it could have on the Lady Lancers. They were loaded with speed, but they needed some pop in the middle of the lineup.
So Furst moved down two spots in the order and was looked at to hit for power and drive runners in, when just a year earlier she was flailing at the ball and motoring to first base. That's quite a change.
"I sorta knew how (to swing away) from swinging on the right side, but when I switched over to the left, it was still a whole new experience because it was so awkward at first," she said. "I had to get used to it.
"I kept pulling my head off because it was weird rotating another way. I had to get my footwork down and get my hips turning. It was completely different because it was the opposite side."
It was a season-long process, but she caught on, finishing the year batting .474 and leading the team in RBIs with 22. She was still able to show off her speed with 12 steals and 21 runs scored during the regular season.
Despite the success, Kimmel said he noticed her confidence starting to drop late in the WPIAL playoffs, so he placed her back at the leadoff spot in the state playoffs against Philipsburg-Osceola, the defending PIAA champion.
"I said, 'Ray, I can see it in your eye, I don't think you're comfortable in that three spot,' " Kimmel recalled. "So we decided to make the switch. She's good at both. She could do either one. I just made that change just to make a change. It really has nothing to do with her abilities. I just think she's more comfortable in that role."
Late in the game against Philipsburg-Osceola, with runners on second and third and the contest tied 3-3, Kimmel had another conversation with Furst, and his tune changed this time around.
"I remember talking to her and I said, 'You're one of the best hitters on the team, and right now, I don't need anymore baserunners. I need someone to drive the ball,' " Kimmel said. "She looked me in the eyes and said, 'Yeah, coach.' "
Furst then launched a ball to right-center field and both runners scored as it bounced off the fence. Needless to say, her confidence was back, and she proved it in the next game when again she laced a clutch single to keep the Lady Lancers' season alive.
Furst, who's also a good center-fielder — not to mention the sister of Neshannock's star pitcher, senior Amanda Furst — said she's comfortable with any type of swing at this point. Whatever the 23-1 Lady Lancers need, she's ready to deliver.
"The first couple of games, it was awkward, but once I started getting some hits, I got more confidence in it," she said. "It was a gradual process, but I'm comfortable with either (slap-hitting or swinging away). I just wanted it to be good for the team."
POSITION: Center fielder
TEAM: Neshannock
KNOWN FOR: Furst is a dual threat for the Lady Lancers. She can lay down a bunt and use her speed to reach base and drive a ball into the gap and hit for power. She led the team with 22 RBIs in the regular season and hit .474. She's come through in the clutch in the playoffs and has helped Neshannock reach the state championship game.
PARENTS: Jim and Kathy Furst.
FAVORITE PRO TEAM AND WHY: Pittsburgh Pirates. "They're doing good. Go Bucs!"
FAVORITE PRO ATHLETE AND WHY: Caitlin Lowe, a former softball player for the University of Arizona who played on the 2008 Olympic team. "She was a real quick center fielder and a slapper. I used to look up to her when I was little. I watched her play."
FUTURE PLANS: Furst said she's considering playing softball in college and wants to study dermatology.


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To observe or not to observe?
This is likely to be the question hotly debated in the more self-aware international observer missions covering Sudan's elections, due to start on Sunday and marred by a wave of boycotts and claims of fraud.
Sudan's first multi-party polls in almost quarter of a century had promised to be fiercely contested until revelations of irregularities caused boycotts by several parties.
The two largest parties and incumbent President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's only real two contenders both withdrew, saying the ruling party had fixed the polls.
As evidence of fraud continued to emerge, the use of government presses to print presidential and gubernatorial ballot papers, and voter registration books was the final straw. The boycotts have raised serious questions about the credibility of the presidential polls especially.
Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, had hoped to win legitimately, in defiance of the warrant.
This week Sudanese civil society groups asked the international observer missions from the Arab League, African Union, China, Japan and the European Union among others to leave, saying they served only to legitimize a flawed election.
They all arrived in time to observe the voting and counting, while the Sudanese activists said the major fraud began with a flawed 2008 census, demarcating the constituencies followed by the voter registration last year.
The Sudanese observers give examples like a tiny village in the east called Haya, with only a few houses, which under the census was given a population the same as the metropolis of Port Sudan, the capital of the region. These quirks, they say, the newly arrived observers cannot assess.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in Khartoum to lead the only long-term observer mission from the Carter Center on Thursday. He reminded reporters there were thousands of other candidates in the state and national assemblies and gubernatorial elections who were stilling hoping for a competitive election.
"We are hoping and praying it will be a fair and honest election, at least for the ones who are participating. You have to remember there are about 16,000 candidates who are still involved in the election," he said.
His visit had been overshadowed by Bashir's threats to cut off the fingers and tongues of his observers who had recommended a short delay to the polls to overcome logistical problems. But after an apologetic speech by the Sudanese president, Carter was happy to come.
Sudanese have their own idea of observing elections, whether they be national or more local: They send several monitors whose job it is to monitor each other, and eat, drink and sleep outside the room housing the ballot box until the results come in.
And even that they have found is not always enough. In the University of Khartoum student union elections in the early 1990s, only after the results did whistle blowers help Sudanese figure out that the ruling party had entered through a hidden door in the wall of the voting centre to stuff the ballot box.
The technical form filling and random sampling methods used by international observers are alien to their ears. The Carter Center will have 60 observers and the largest EU mission just 130 in Africa's largest country.
The EU mission has already withdrawn from Darfur, saying it could not work effectively given the continuing conflict there.
Sudanese observers say they will equally not be able to fully cover the 10,000 voting centres and more than 13,000 voting points in the million square miles of territory where people will vote for at least three days.
They say they were relying on the political party agents to help with monitoring. But the boycotts by the major parties they were counting on ironically mean the process is now even more vulnerable to manipulation.


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By V. Phani Kumar and Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Most Asian stocks rallied Monday as news that Cyprus and its international lenders reached a bailout agreement removed fears of the nation's exit from the euro zone, also helping boost U.S. equity futures, the euro and crude-oil prices.
The broad terms of the bailout agreement pave the way for Cyprus to receive up to 10 billion euros ($13 billion) in bailout funds, while protecting depositors holding less than €100,000 in their bank accounts from any losses.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735/delayed JP:NIK -0.16% jumped 1.7% and South Korea's Kospi /quotes/zigman/1652118/delayed KR:SEU -0.31% gained 1.5%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index /quotes/zigman/2622475/delayed HK:HSI +0.10% added 0.6%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO +0.18% climbed 0.5%.
On the downside, the Shanghai Composite Index /quotes/zigman/1858913/delayed CN:000001 +1.12% fell 0.1% after a choppy trading session.
"The bailout deal will mean that the risks of Cyprus defaulting and leaving the euro zone will have significantly diminished," said Crédit Agricole's Asia head of global markets research Mitul Kotecha.
However, Kotecha also cautioned about the sustainability of the rally.
"The deal will still involve a huge amount of work on Cyprus's part to find the $5.8 billion needed to supplement the €10 billion bailout, and subsequently, a lot of economic pain involved," he said. "The current risk rally is likely to fade quickly as markets begin to focus on the task at hand."
Also, Moody's Investors' Service said the crisis in Cyprus was credit negative for all sovereign ratings in the euro area.
"Even if negotiations are successful and Cyprus remains within the euro area, policy makers' recent decisions raise the risk of deposit outflows, capital flight, increased bank and sovereign-funding costs and broader financial market dislocation ... even if those decisions don't disrupt financial market calm in the present," the credit ratings agency said in a statement.
News of the deal also buoyed U.S. stock-index futures, with those for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 30 points, or 0.2%, to 14,489. S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%, and Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.4%.
Among other asset classes, the euro /quotes/zigman/4867933/realtime/sampled EURUSD -0.0648% rose back above the $1.30 level, while benchmark U.S. crude-oil futures advanced about 0.4% in commodities trading. Read currencies market report.
Several financial stocks across the region joined in the relief rally.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/392753/delayed/quotes/nls/mtu MTU -1.17% /quotes/zigman/267078/delayed JP:8306 +0.92% rose 1.6% in Tokyo, and Woori Finance Holdings Co. /quotes/zigman/1660696/delayed KR:053000 +1.44% /quotes/zigman/34126383/delayed/quotes/nls/wf WF +0.20% added 3.8% in Seoul. In Sydney, Macquarie Group Ltd. /quotes/zigman/482521/delayed AU:MQG +0.50% /quotes/zigman/482522/delayed/quotes/nls/mcqef MCQEF -1.62% gained 2.2%, and Westpac Banking Corp. /quotes/zigman/181294/delayed AU:WBC +0.73% /quotes/zigman/181293/delayed/quotes/nls/webnf WEBNF -1.06% added 1.7%.
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In Japan, retailers extended the strong gains they had enjoyed in recent sessions, with Takashimaya Co. /quotes/zigman/198259/delayed JP:8233 -0.21% jumping 7.5%, and Fast Retailing Co. /quotes/zigman/139215/delayed JP:9983 +1.27% /quotes/zigman/139220/delayed/quotes/nls/frcof FRCOF -1.20% adding 4.7%.
The advance came even as a European Union summit with Japan was delayed due to the Cyprus crisis. Officials from the two economies are due to discuss a wide-ranging free-trade deal.
In Hong Kong, the market saw support by gains in China Construction Bank Corp. /quotes/zigman/529424/delayed/quotes/nls/cichy CICHY -0.20% /quotes/zigman/35073/delayed HK:0939 +0.34% and refiner China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec /quotes/zigman/269314/delayed/quotes/nls/snp SNP -1.11% /quotes/zigman/22837/delayed HK:0386 -0.13% , following their 2012 earnings reports.
CCB shares climbed 2.3% after the company narrowly beat estimates with a 14% increase in 2012 profit, while Sinopec shares jumped 2.7% in spite of a 13% drop in its annual profit.
In Shanghai, shares of CCB /quotes/zigman/1876229/delayed CN:601939 +0.97% climbed 1.7%, but Sinopec /quotes/zigman/287863/delayed CN:600028 -0.19% fell 1.6%.