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Reding slams France on Roma expulsions
European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding today threatened France with legal action over the mass expulsions of Roma.
● French government 'astonished' by Reding criticism
● Reding's statement in full
By Constant Brand and Jim Brunsden
September 14, 2010 5:16 am CET
European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding today threatened France with legal action over the mass expulsion of Roma.
"Enough is enough," Reding said on Tuesday (14 September), at the end of a damning statement of condemnation, which alluded to the ethnic expulsions of the Second World War and accused French ministers of misleading the Commission.
Reding said that she was personally appalled by a situation, "which gave the impression that people are being removed by a member state in the EU just because they belonged to an ethnic minority".
"This I thought Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War," she said. "Discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin or race has no place in Europe."
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Reding was particularly critical of instructions that had been issued on 5 August to local police authorities by the interior minister's chief of staff, telling them to target Roma for expulsions. The instructions were leaked yesterday, prompting Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister, to issue replacement instructions, omitting mention of the Roma.
Reding said the instructions contradicted "assurances" that she had been given by French ministers and officials in recent weeks that the Roma were not being specifically targeted.
Immediate and swift answers
She said she would ask French authorities "for immediate and swift answers on the matter".
The instructions to police authorities set out the "precise objectives" of targeting and dismantling "as a priority" 300 "illicit" Roma camps across the country. The existence of the memo had not been previously disclosed to the Commission which has been investigating France's expulsions for the last two weeks. News of its existence appears to have prompted today's statement, which Reding and senior officials agreed to draft late yesterday.
She said that an initial legal analysis by European commissioners discussed only last week said that France "would be in violation of EU law" if it intentionally targeted the Roma.
Reding said she was "personally convinced" that the European Commission would have "no choice" but to launch infringement procedures against France.
Reding said believed France had improperly applied the EU's free movement rules by targeting a specific ethnic group or minority and failed to offer those expelled "substantive guarantees" to which they were entitled.
Fast-track infringement procedures
Although no date has yet been fixed for the Commission to decide on whether to launch legal action, Reding said she would push for a "fast-track" infringement procedure. France, apart from a legal and public rebuke, could be fined by the European Court of Justice if it is found in violation of the rules.
Reding added that France might also be in violation of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights.
A French diplomat had no immediate comment on Reding's statement.
Barroso backing
Officials said that Barroso had given his full backing to Reding's decision to take action.
Pierre Lellouche, France's EU affairs minister, had yesterday (13 September) challenged the Commission's right to decide whether member states were complying with EU law. "The French people are the guardian of the treaties," he said.
Claude Moraes, a UK Socialist MEP and a member of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee, said: "The French government is not above the rule of law and now the Commission is making that fact clear to President Sarkozy."
"The beginning of action against a large founder member of the European Union sends a huge warning signal to Italy, Sweden, Denmark and any other member state which feels it can expel EU citizens based on their ethnicity," Moraes added.
Alexander Alvaro, a German Liberal MEP, said he welcomed Reding's announcement. "The documents from the French interior ministry that have come to light in recent days prove that the authorities deliberately wanted to make an example of the Roma," he said.
"It is now clear that EU citizens are being deprived of their fundamental rights. I share the clear assessment of the commissioner that the French authorities have knowingly abused European law," he said.
Alvaro said he expected the French government to stop the expulsions "with immediate effect".
Martin Schulz, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in the Parliament, welcomed Reding's "change of position". He said Reding had "strongly defended" the French government at the Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg last week, even though what she had now recognised was "quite clear to the vast majority of people". Schulz said "a lot of questions remain" about how the Commission had handled the issue.
'Better late than never'
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens, welcomed the Commission's decision to criticise the expulsion of Roma, but said it was "better late than never".
He urged the Commission to follow the criticism with "immediate legal action against all those member states with anti-Roma policies" and called for an immediate halt to all deportations. "Every day of inaction represents a further day in which France can continue with its disgraceful and discriminatory policies against the Roma, which clearly contravene basic EU law."
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It's also roughly as many Americans as died in all the wars in U.S. history since the American Revolution, depending on the estimate used for Civil War dead.
It's true that Muslim Americans – both born in the United States and immigrants from countries other than those subject to Trump's restrictions – have carried out deadly terrorism in the United States. There have been 123 such murders since the 9/11 attacks – and 230,000 other murders.
Last year Americans were less likely to be killed by Muslim terrorists than for being Muslim, according to Charles Kurzman of the University of North Carolina. The former is a risk of approximately 1 in 17 million; the latter, 1 in 1 million.
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The evidence does suggest that if we really want to make Americans safer, then we should require universal background checks before gun purchases (22 percent of guns are purchased without background checks). We should work hard to get guns out of the hands of people subject to domestic violence restraining orders, or people with recent histories of crime or alcohol or drug abuse.
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Who in their right mind would go to see a wedding dress. Apart from that, with no head , in white, and all lit up it looked like a ghost. Maybe that is why the queen did not like it - she thought it was the ghost of Diana !
My wife had a wedding dress in her charity shop window. This morning a girl bought it. Her boy friend hasn't even asked her to marry yet and she's too big to get in it but she said 'I shall diet till it fits'. A lot of folk still want a white wedding but as cheap as possible. Who can blame them!
What I think is most disgusting about weddings are the Church fees. It seems that if you want to practice your religion to day and be baptised, married and buried by the church then you need to be a rich man.
Jesus knew what he was saying about the rich man and the eye of the needle, because if the church has their way they will make sure you get into heaven by making you poor while you are here.
I do agree with what you say Phil and understand why you say it. Unfortunately as we all know churches are large buildings, as you will obviously know Churches as do most large buildings cost a fortune to maintain, and heat when required. Christian Churches are struggling these days.
Well if churches are struggling then perhaps they can sell off some of the works of art that they own, or even some of the property. Between the C of E and the RC church they own most of the land in England that is not owned by royalty. Do they need all these works of art and land. Didn't JC throw the money changers out of the temple for making money out of the church?
Steady Phil, how can these 'churches' ever be rich and powerful again if they aren't starting from rich?
One thing is certain, they spare no expense in the upkeep of the church buildings where their power over the gullible is greatest.
I mean NO expense, nothing, zilch, nada.
Can you imagine our landscape without these wonderful old buildings,many have been sold for home conversion and I think that is so sad.
I have no objections to the churches being well maintained and I would (and do) hate to see us loose them. Some churches are among the most beautiful buildings buildings we have in this country.
I just don't think we should have to pay, unless the church wants to hand them over to us to use as we see fit.
It isn't the buildings that matter it's what they stand for. Lose the buildings and the teachings also decline. And if you throw out Christianity and don't put something better in it's place where does that leave us? if respect, truthfulness, loyalty, honesty and love, all the things the Church stands for (and at it's best teaches for there are always exceptions) we are left with a falling away of what we built our nation on and a long slow decline into what may prove to be man's worst excesses e.g. greed, selfishness, immorality. If all I'm asked to contribute to the Church is the fees for my daughters wedding then it's not much in a lifetime considering all the benefits it has given and continues to give to society.
The trouble is Dave, that the church doesn't stand for those values any more. If a poll was taken and only honest answers were given I think you might be surprised at how many clergy of all faiths don't believe in God.
In the 70's I had a mate who was a Methodist vicar, he didn't believe in God in the slightest. He did when he first started out, but said that all the horrors, misery and suffering he had seen throughout the years in doing his job had wiped away ant belief that he might have had.
I asked him "why he still did the job", his answer was this "its a good job, well paid with a house, also it's the only job I can do and it's what I trained and studied years to do". He added " at least I can do a little toward helping some of the unfortunate people in this world if I remain as a vicar". As much as I thought about it, I couldn't fault his logic. We lost touch over the years, I suppose he could be a bishop or whatever now.
I was told years ago by someone in the Catholic Church that some see the Priesthood as a place of safety to hide in.
I have no time for religion whatsoever,but I do believe the church offers solace and comfort to people in times of trouble and stress, me I'd rather go down the pub.
You can get some very good vicars and some pretty awful ones too.Some preach the word of God but once outside the building have not got a clue.The career ones are the worse.
I have known some very good vicars during my life,people prepared to work within the community.Others just talk the talk.
Putting religeon aside, if the old Saxon and Norman churches go then our British landscape will never be the same, worse still we will be left with the very noticeable mosques which simply don't fit in at all.
Went to Gravesend the other week and finding nowhere to park we went up a side street and, to our astonishment, came across a Sikh temple almost completed. We went to have a look inside. It was massive, richly adorned and totally out of place in England. I get a bit frightened for the English way of life when i see these towering monstrocities dwarfing all the surroundings. Am I old fashioned in wanting what I've known and felt at home with above diversity?


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Depending on where you live, you may not think too much about malaria. And that's a ridiculous luxury, considering that every 30 seconds a child dies from the infectious disease, according to the World Health Organization. Despite favored interventions such as using bed nets treated with insecticides, spraying the inside of dwellings, getting rid of standing water and, of course, drug treatments, about 250 million people get sick and 1 million people die every year from malaria, reports the WHO. Given those numbers, it's hard not to be interested when a malaria vaccine apparently shows promise -- even if it is years away from reaching the people who need it. The candidate in question is RTS,S, a vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, working with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, an organization funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (You know, the same foundation that gives money to people for things like figuring out how to detect tuberculosis with an electronic nose.)


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As you may have guessed, Joan was listening to Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," the breakthrough autobiography that chronicles her life up to the age of 17. So she painted Maya Angelou as a young girl, her hair in little pigtails, her unsmiling face looking you square in the eye with unflinching intelligence and resolve. Joan has written "And Still I Rise," the title poem of Angelou's third volume of poetry, in cursive in a lower corner of the painting. As an activist, Angelou was once a coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked with both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
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Like Malcolm X, she rejected black nationalism and believed that it took black and white people working together to truly achieve equality and positive change.
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We were very busy in room 3 in November. Our Aistear theme was 'The Post Office' where everyone got a chance to write and post some letters. We did lots of printing, practising our letter sounds and creating patterns. We have been learning Irish dancing since September and we are getting very good! Take a look at some pictures from our classroom.
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A passionate educator, he has designed and implemented comprehensive African drumming curricula at Westfield State University, Worcester State University, Boston Arts Academy Performing Arts High School and at the Umana Middle School in East Boston. As music director at the Umana, he also established a multi-genre guitar program and set up a fully-integrated music technology lab.
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He sits on the Young Audiences of Massachusetts Board of Directors and has consulted for The School District of Philadelphia and for MusicianCorps, the flagship program of The Center for Music National Service.
A California native, he graduated with a B.A. in Music from U.C. Berkeley, where he studied traditional Ewe drumming with Ghanaian master drummer C.K. Ladzekpo. Awarded the Alfred M. Hertz Traveling Fellowship to study composition in New York City, he went on to attend The New England Conservatory of Music where he earned a M.M. in Composition. Mr. Cohen continued his Ewe drumming studies in Ghana under Emmanuel and Ruben Agbeli and was a member of the Boston-based Agbekor Drum & Dance Society, an ensemble led by Professor David Locke of Tufts University.
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I spent a long time searching for any opinion about 2 man meta or evaluation of the strongest group but I was not able to find anything what would help me and my friend to decide which composition to play in season 12.
I expect that Rathma + zdps necros could be TOP again (no significant downgrade because it is still possible to generate more than enough healing globes and rathma get buffed).
However, I would like to know if there could be some better (or on same level) group composition after recent buffs to multiple builds. Maybe frozen orb wizard + pestilance necro?
What do you think? I will be happy for any feedback.
2 man competition is really low, so there's never really a "meta". Really far into the season you even sometimes see two DPS combining their forces and playing together - if you can solo a high GR, you can also do a 2 man high GR on a similar level, especially if one forces on trash and the other one single target (and the trash killer can drop Stricken for Esoteric or so).
In several seasons everyone quit and we were only 2 people left so we just played the two classes that we enjoyed most. I think we've probably tried about every class as zDPS (maybe except for necro and DH because didn't like them) and every class as DPS... and just continued to push with what we enjoyed the most. Then you filter diablorank.com 2p rankings and see if you're #1 "without class X" or whatever the meta is. At the end of the day, rankings are about paragon anyways, and that's impossible to combat since Blizzard hasn't banned botters recently and paragon is absolutely skyrocket in S12 with the power creep - so instead of focusing on "what's best" and "how to get rank #1" I'd strongly recommend to play whatever you enjoy most and set your own goals and satisfy yourself with "well, we were #1 legit players of this combination" rather than "yay, we made rank #253 with the cookie cutter combo".


MEDIOCRE in the Premier League, magnificent in the cups, Sunderland manager Gus Poyet does not know whether to laugh or cry – but he will "hide in Asia" if the club fail to beat the drop.
Sunderland were hopeless against Hull in their last league fixture a week ago but, in the FA Cup fifth round, they were more than a match for Southampton, the winner coming from Craig Gardner's thunderbolt of a shot.
So why can Sunderland produce in the cups – they can boast victories this season over Manchester United, Chelsea and Southampton twice – and yet are struggling to retain their top-flight status?
"It's incredible in the cups," said Poyet. "I think there are lessons. Sometimes there is a mentality where we are still thinking that there is time in the league – but there is not. In the cup, you play a game as if it's going to finish today. That craziness of, 'Today we finish' – maybe we have to play the next home game in the league like that.
"We have to play like, 'this is it', otherwise we can go down. We need to put that in the mind of the players and make them crazy. That's an option. Maybe we will put two strikers up there in the league and play differently.
It is certainly true that Sunderland display an effervescence and energy in the cups which has been so lacking in their league performances for the majority of this season.
A paucity of confidence was a hallmark of the short-lived Paolo Di Canio era and the jitters are still evident in the league, hardly surprising given Poyet's predecessor's tortuous regime, where all the fun and enjoyment in playing football was quashed.
Southampton had their chances to gain at least a replay, not least an astonishing late miss from four yards in front of an open goal by Rickie Lambert, but Mauricio Pochettino's decision to rest the likes of Jay Rodriguez, Morgan Schneiderlin and Jose Fonte is indefensible. In fact, it is holding the FA Cup in contempt.
Safe in mid-table, the Saints had an entirely free rein to give it their all with their best team in the FA Cup, but Pochettino selected a weakened side and paid the consequences.
Afterwards, handing the oldest trophy of them all another snub, he even refused to explain himself, sending his deputy instead, who mouthed a few inconsequential words.
The 859 Saints fans who made the long journey up to the North-east were no doubt less than impressed.
Adam Lallana said: "We had a few fresh legs in there but sometimes you just can't put your finger on it. We're really disappointed not to at least get a draw out of it.
"We weren't at our best, myself included. We've got a lot to think about over the weekend and then have another good week's training and get ready for the weekend game at West Ham.
The tie was settled by Gardner's first goal since October 5 – and what a beauty it was as he rounded Victor Wanyama and took aim from 25 yards, watching as the thunderous strike clattered into the underside of the bar before nestling in the net.


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Q: What is a good way to create a bias while generating random numbers? Say if you have a 2 identical arrays of n elements say with numbers from 1 to 10. You randomly pick an item from each array and check if they match. For one iteration the right match can be (10,10) or (3,3) as it randomly changes every time. Since both the arrays have 10 elements, getting the right match overall is very infrequent, if you pick a random number from each array. So each time, a specific weight can be assigned to the right match to increase this frequency. My question is how much weight do you assign the right match so it is more frequent but still seems random enough? How do you decide this?

A: I don't know what your problem domain is, but this kind of thing is a pretty common game design problem, and the solution pretty much comes down to trial-and-error. Implement a weighting that you think makes sense, and then run a bunch of user tests to see what people think of it. Adjust according to your results, and then test again. Ultimately, the "correct" weights are going to depend on your use case, your users, how you feel, etc; there's no one right answer.
Incidentally, many game developers approach this situation with an algorithm referred to as shuffle bag. This way you can avoid long strings of successes or failures; while true randomness has such strings sometimes, people generally don't like that. Instead, a shuffle bag is when you fill the "bag" with all the desired results in the desired distribution, and then randomly pull results from the bag. This way the pulls are still random, but you're not going to get long strings of rare events.


Devastated, she stopped drawing and went back to traditional study methods like highlighting and written notes. But, a funny thing happened, she says: her grades began to slip. "I realized at that point that I learned through doodling. Doing those daily doodles really helped when I was consolidating my learning for the day. I started to doodle again and my grades came right back up. Now my dad supports doodling," she says with a laugh.
Currently finishing her second year of residency at U of A, specializing in cardiac surgery, Dr. Maruyama admits that her doodles are much fancier than most. Regardless, she does find that they help to clarify complex topics for her – and seemingly for others. After one of her exams during medical school, she says, a fellow student came up to her and said he'd been stuck on a question about bone metabolism but recalled a doodle she'd posted to Facebook on that particular subject and was able to answer the question.
Like Dr. Maruyama, others have taken up doodling as a type of visual note-taking. Designer, author and illustrator Mike Rohde, who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, says he always considered himself an expert note-taker. At meetings or conferences, he would meticulously write down everything the speaker said, comforting himself with the thought that he could go back and read the notes later to really grasp the concepts. But what actually happened? "I would look through my notes and think, 'There's no way I am going to hack my way through all of the info to try and find the value.' It's just too much." he says.
So, in 2007, he changed tack and traded his large notebook and pencil for a small Moleskine diary and a pen. At his next conference, he captured the main concepts of the speaker by sketching them on a single page. "I would only focus on the things that I thought I could make use of. I had to really listen closely and then make an analysis on what was valuable info and what wasn't. Because I was doing this analysis, I actually had a little bit of availability to start playing with lettering and imagery and even layout. So I started to experiment with that." He called his technique "sketchnoting," and in 2013 he penned The Sketchnote Handbook, an illustrated guide to visual note-taking for beginners.
Doodling for Academics, the book.
Doodling for Academics is a tongue-in-cheek take on academic life. Author Julie Schumacher organized the book around a day in the life of a hapless, lowly professor. "It's a satirical activity book, I suppose.
I think what's fun about it is it's a lowbrow rendition of an erudite field," says Ms. Schumacher, a professor and director of the creative writing program at the University of Minnesota.


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The Village of Thomaston Landmark Commission approved the hiring of a consultant to help determine the landmark status of the Tower Ford property on Tuesday night. (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)
The Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees approved the hiring of a consultant to aid the village's Landmark Preservation Commission in determining the historical significance of the Tower Ford building during a public meeting on Wednesday.
The commission, on Tuesday, recommended the village hire Archaeology Historic Resource Services for consultant work on whether the structure should be deemed a landmark. Trustees unanimously approved the commission's recommendations on Wednesday, including a $6,000 limit for the consultant services.
The property has been a hot topic throughout the village after plans were submitted, and subsequently withdrawn, to develop a five-story apartment complex on the site of the building, located at 124 South Middle Neck Road, earlier this year.
The state's Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation declared the site eligible to be considered as a historic place on Oct. 29. The village's commission unanimously approved a motion to set a date of Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. to conduct a public hearing on whether the property should be designated as a landmark.
Once public hearings are officially concluded, the commission will have 60 days to make a recommendation on the property's landmark status. Village Attorney A. Thomas Levin said the "clock does not start" for the 60-day deadline until the hearings have concluded, which could potentially extend beyond the scheduled Jan. 4 meeting.
Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg did not recuse himself from the vote, despite acknowledging "a request" made to the village that he do so.
"There is no doubt in my mind as with the underlying application, anything with respect to the landmark commission that I personally do not have a conflict of interest," Weinberg said Wednesday. "I have always held the village's needs and interests as my guiding standard of any decision I would make."
A lawsuit filed by some members of the public claims negotiations on the previously proposed project were conducted between the village and the project's developer inappropriately. Some residents also claim the village did not properly evaluate the project's environmental impact on the rest of the community.
The application was initially presented to the village, with one member of the public present, during a public meeting in July. A June 9 email from the developer's attorney, Stephen Limmer to Levin was provided to Blank Slate Media, discussing permissible workforce housing in the proposed project.
"The Mayor agreed to less than 10% workforce housing," Limmer wrote in the email.
"The proposal, as agreed with the Mayor, is 9%," he also wrote.
Weinberg, in a phone interview, referred to a statement sent out in November regarding the village's conduct throughout the project's application process and declined to comment further due to the pending litigation.
"It saddens me to have to specifically address certain reckless falsehoods, especially for those of you who know me personally," Weinberg said in the statement. "I and your entire Village Board of Trustees did not, have not and will not take anything of any value and did not, have not and will not make any deals with the applicant or any applicant."
Village officials said the application, submitted by 124 Middle Neck Realty LLC, was withdrawn a month ago due to the applicant choosing not to send out the required legal notice for the hearing and not paying the $25,000 deposit to the village for an engineering consulting firm.
Village officials scheduled a Dec. 20 public hearing to repeal a local zoning law that was set in place earlier this year relating to the proposed apartment.
The law was passed during the July meeting and, along with the proposal, has been heavily criticized by the public. The law allows the Board of Trustees to have "sole and unfettered discretion" on what conditions and incentive use permit may be granted to certain applicants. The new law applies to applicants that have a property located partially in the Apartment B and Residence 10 zoning districts, a total area of at least 0.75 acres but not exceeding one acre, a depth at its greatest point of at least 200 feet and street frontage on Middle Neck Road of at least 230 feet.
The property at 124 S. Middle Neck Road meets those criteria, according to village documents.
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SenseTalk was designed to enable people to create their own software, without years of study to master the intricate and arcane details of programming. Information provided in earlier sections of this documentation focus on SenseTalk scripts primarily as simple lists of statements that tell the computer what you want it to do. For many people that basic approach to scripting will be sufficient for their needs.
For those who care to learn just a little bit more, SenseTalk's object model offers a much richer environment, without adding greatly to its complexity.
The information explained here provides an overview of the modular structure of SenseTalk, and introduces the key concepts and terminology that you will want to be familiar with as you proceed with learning how to write your own object-oriented SenseTalk software.
SenseTalk is a "scripting" language. You create SenseTalk software by writing scripts that describe what different elements of your system will do. The usual way to do this in SenseTalk is to create a number of different "objects" which will be the actors in your system. Each object has its own script that tells what it does in the system. By taking this modular approach, each script can be relatively short and self-contained, which makes even complex systems relatively easy to work with.
The objects in your system will interact by sending and receiving messages. An object responds to a message if it has a handler for that message. A script consists of a series of handlers, one for each message that the object will respond to. Any other messages will be ignored by the object.
One SenseTalk object can help another. When you have a number of objects that need to have similar behaviors or abilities, you can create a helper object which embodies those shared behaviors and abilities. Each of the other objects can then be helped by the helper object, eliminating the need for them to each have those behaviors defined in their own scripts. This saves you a lot of time and effort. It also makes it easy to update a behavior by simply changing the script of the helper object. All of the other objects will then "inherit" the changed behavior.
It should be noted, for those who may be familiar with other object oriented languages, that SenseTalk is somewhat different. Most other languages define "classes" of objects and generally only implement behavior at the class level, for all objects in that class. In SenseTalk, each individual object has its own script, so it can have its own unique behavior.
SenseTalk has no classes, but its helpers provide a similarly rich set of capabilities by allowing objects to use (or inherit) functionality provided by any number of other objects. This all-object (classless) approach is both simpler and more versatile than class-based systems.
Objects Defined
SenseTalk is an Object-Oriented Language. SenseTalk scripts describe the behavior of objects. Depending on the host environment, an object may be something visible which can be directly manipulated and interacted with, such as a button or an image on the screen, or it may be more abstract, such as an object representing a bank account or an exercise schedule.
Whether an object represents something visual or something that is purely conceptual, all objects in the SenseTalk world share certain characteristics. Any object can have attributes, called properties, which store information that is important to that object. An object may also have behaviors, which are defined by the object's script and define what the object can do.
In the case of a picture shown on a computer screen, its properties might include such things as its height and width as well as the colors of all the dots that form the image itself. An object representing a person's contact information would include properties such as their name, telephone number, and mailing address.
An object's behaviors as defined by its script might include such things as turning an image upside down, or sending an email message to a person on a mailing list. Other "behaviors" of an object may be more passive, such as providing information about the object which is not directly represented in its properties. For example, an object representing a person might include a property that stores their birth date. The object's script could provide the person's age by accessing the current date and calculating the number of years that have passed since their birth date.
Property lists were described in an earlier section as a collection of values identified by their keys. It was mentioned there that a property list is actually a simple object.
A property list is an object that's mainly properties. Behaviors can be added to a property list, though, either by assigning helpers, or by setting the script property to a valid script. For more information, see Helpers. To set the script of an object, simply store the text of one or more handlers into the "script" property of that object:
put {width:7,length:12} into myRect
set the script of myRect to {{
return my width * my length
end area
put myRect's area-- 84
Script Files
In many SenseTalk scripting environments, each script is stored in a text file on the disk. In these environments, each such file is a SenseTalk object, and the contents of the file is the object's script.
A script consists of a sequence of SenseTalk commands (also called statements) which define the behaviors of that object. Here is the simplest and shortest complete SenseTalk script you are likely to encounter:
put "Hello, World!"
A script file is an object that's mainly behaviors. The script above constitutes a very simple object, with a single behavior that will be invoked when the script is run: displaying the words "Hello, World!".
Property Declarations
In addition to behaviors, a script file may also include property declarations if desired. When an object is created by loading a script file from disk, any property declarations in that script will define initial values for the object's properties.
A property declaration can be placed outside of any handler. If it is the first thing in your script, the initial handler comes after it. For example, it would appear before a params declaration. Otherwise, it ends the initial handler like a declared handler does. For more information on working with handlers, see Handlers.
Tip: While it is possible to have multiple property declarations in the same script, for simplicity and to avoid confusion it is recommended to only use one.
propertyKey1:value1,
{propertyKey2:value2}
end Properties
Reading Syntax Definitions
Syntax definitions for language elements follow these formatting guidelines:
boldface: Indicates words and characters that must be typed exactly
italic: Indicates expressions or other variable elements
{} (curly braces): Indicate optional elements.
[] (square brackets) separated by | (vertical pipes): Indicate alternative options where one or the other may be used, but not both.
Example syntax:
In this example, "open file" is required and must be typed exactly. "fileName" is a variable element; it is the path to and name of the file being opened. The following expression is optional and indicates why the file is being opened. If this expression is added, "for" is required and must be typed exactly. One of the following must be included, but only one, and they also must be typed exactly: "reading", "writing", "readwrite", "appending", or "updating".
open file fileName { for [reading | writing | readwrite | appending | updating] }
Note: SenseTalk is not case-sensitive.
This property declaration defines five properties of the object, and assigns them initial values. Values that contain spaces and special characters must be enclosed in quotation marks, as shown here for the name and birthDate properties. Simple values do not require quotes, but may be quoted if you prefer. Some properties may be assigned a list of values, as shown for the helpers property.
name:	"Charlie Brown",
birthDate:"May 14, 1942",
hairColor: brown,
numberOfSiblings:1,
helpers: ["Linus", "Lucy"]
Script Folders
A folder can also serve as a SenseTalk object. When treating a folder as an object, each script file within the folder is treated as a handler of that object. If a script with the special name "_initialHandler_" exists in that folder, it will be loaded and used as the folder object's initial handler, and any properties defined in that script will be used as the initial property values of the folder object.
Using Objects
Creating Property Lists
A simple property list (an object with properties but no handlers) can be created by simply listing its properties and values in the format shown here:
put {x:44, y:108, z:-19} into point2
Creating Simple Objects
An object can be helped by other objects (helpers are described in detail later in this section):
put {name:"Hank", age:47} helped by parent,actor into person
Creating Initialized Objects
Fully-initialized objects can be created with a new object expression:
put new object with {width:14, length:9} into dimensions
When an object is created using new object as shown in the example here, the result is essentially the same as the simple objects shown earlier. The only difference is that an "initialize" message is sent to the newly-created object. Of course, it won't have a handler to respond to that message, unless it has a helper with such a handler. You can create the object with one or more helpers, like this:
put new object with (partNum:1234) helped by part into aPart
Creating with Prototype Objects
A more common way to use a new object expression is to specify a "prototype object", as shown in the following example:
set child to be a new Person with {name:"Penny", age:6}
In this example, Person is a prototype object. Prototype objects (if they want) can control exactly how the new object is constructed (the details of how this works are given later in this section). In the usual case, however, the new object will have the properties given in the script plus copies of any other properties from the prototype, and will be helped by the prototype object. So, unless the Person object overrides the usual behavior, the statement above would be equivalent to this:
set child to a new object with ((name:"Penny", age:6) adding properties of (object Person)) helped by Person
Accessing Object Properties
An object's properties can be accessed in several different ways, using a dot (.) or apostrophe-S ('s) and the property name after the object, or the property name followed by "of" before the object:
put {make:Yamaha, model:"U3", finish:"Walnut"} into piano
put "My piano is a " & piano.make && piano's model
put "It has a pretty " & finish of piano & "finish"
Object properties are containers. Properties can be added, deleted, or their values changed, as described in detail for property lists in Lists and Property Lists.
Using "Me" and "My" to Access an Object's Own Properties
It is very common for an object to need to access its own properties from within its script. Rather than referring to itself by name, it can do this using the terms me and my:
put the age of me
if my name begins with "S" then return "Smilin' " & my name
Undefined properties and the StrictProperties global property
Ordinarily, if you access a non-existent property of an object, SenseTalk will simply return empty as the value of that property. Occasionally, this may lead to trouble, such as if you inadvertently misspell the name of a property. To help with debugging your script in such cases, or if you simply prefer a more rigorous approach, you may set the strictProperties global property to true. When this property is set, any attempt to access a property of an object that has not been previously set will throw an exception.
put a new object into emptyObj
put (property abc of emptyObj) is empty -- displays 'true'
set the strictProperties to true
put (property abc of emptyObj) is empty -- throws an exception
Using "Object" to Ensure Object Access
In most contexts, SenseTalk can recognize when an object is needed and will treat a string value as the name of a script object. However, there are times when the meaning may be ambiguous. In these situations, the word object can be used to indicate that a value should be treated as an object name:
put "Person"'s greeting -- since "Person" is text, not an object, the greeting function will be called
put (object "Person")'s greeting -- treat "Person" as an object name, and access it's greeting property
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Lourdes Gourriel Held September Showcase for MLB Teams
The latest "next big thing" to come out of Cuba is Lourdes Gourriel and after being declared a free agent by Major League Baseball recently he is ready to take the next step towards his professional career in the United States. Gourriel held a showcase for Major League teams yesterday in Panama City and Lourdes, the younger brother of Houston Astros prospect Yulieski Gourriel, reportedly put on a show. Were the Yankees watching?
I can remember when it was announced that these two fled their native country for a career in the United States that many believed it was Lourdes and not Yulieski that was the ultimate prize. Yulieski was a little bit older but he has been seen absolutely tearing the cover off the ball for the Astros since Houston promoted him in August. If Yulieski is this good, Lourdes should be better. I think so anyway, do the Yankees?
The Yankees are working towards a youth movement and the 2017 season and beyond and Lourdes fits that mold much better than Yulieski would have. Lourdes is expected to wait until October to sign so he will not be subject to MLB's international free agency signing rules and restrictions for amateur players which also fits into the mold of what the Yankees are currently doing. See the Yankees are still on a signing restriction from their international haul from a few years back and cannot sign an amateur free agent for more than $300K if they fall under the IFA criteria, once Lourdes has a birthday in October he will no longer be subject to those rules and will be treated as a true free agent.
Lourdes is 10-years younger than his brother Yulieski and all signs point to him being a cheaper sign than the $47.5 million the Astros gave to his older brother earlier this year. For these reasons and many more there is expected to be stiff competition for Lourdes and Jon Heyman of Today's Knuckleball has even said as many as 20+ teams will be interested in his services once he decides to sign after his 23rd birthday.
Gourriel turns 23-years old on October 19, 2016 and then all hell breaks loose for his services. The Yankees have never been publicly linked to Gourriel but when the Yankees have an opportunity to add a young player with talent for just money they usually get their guy when they want him. Here's to hoping they want Lourdes Gourriel. Don't let this be another Yoan Moncada incident.
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Yankees could've had 10 people watching him. The Coupon Clipper is not dipping into his wallet. We happen to have the tightest wad Steinbrenner running the show.
Daniel Burch September 16, 2016 at 4:30 PM
In the end when we talk about this in October after he's signed you'll probably be right but I just keep holding out hope that this will be another Masahiro Tanaka situation and that we'll sign him.
We didn't dip into the Japanese market much either thanks to Igawa and Irabu before Tanaka. Maybe Lourdes can be our entryway into the Cuban market, finally.
Ken Reed September 16, 2016 at 5:00 PM
If I were a betting man, I think I would bet on us getting Lourdes this winter!
We have to get Brett and Ellsbury traded before next year...also Hicks, unless he has improved his game by spring training!
In fact, I would trade, McCain and Headly.
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March or Die (1977)
PG | 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 13 October 1977 (UK)
During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster's (Gene Hackman's) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster's small garrison.
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When an American billionaire dies, his poor Italian nephew inherits everything, provided he can arrive in the USA to claim his inheritance before the deadline but the corporate lawyer-executor tries to steal the inheritance.
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A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
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Renegade Luke has been living an easy life so far, travelling through the southwest with his horse Joe, making money by running small-time scams. All this comes to an end when he encounters... See full summary »
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A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
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Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.
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Ian Holm ... El Krim
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Foreign Legion Major William Foster (Gene Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. Foster's unit includes the charming, thieving rascal Marco Segrain (Terence Hill), who joined the Legion only to avoid prison. After long stretches portraying the boredom and hardship of day-to-day life in the Legion, Foster's command occupies a small village where the archaeologists believe they've found a burial site sacred to the Arabs. Arab leader El Krim (Sir Ian Holm) uses this affront to unite the tribes in Jihad, and attacks the tiny Legion garrison at the dig. An epic battle follows, very reminiscent of Zulu (1964). Costumes, firearms, and props are all very authentic-looking, and show great attention to detail. Written by Cameron Fairchild <fairchop@ix.netcom.com>
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The Legionnaires all wear prewar dark blue uniforms and greatcoats even though the the Legion had adopted a khaki field uniform in 1907. See more »
[a battered group of legionares marched through a train station, while the crowd chanted the French national anthem; the first actual lines are about 4 minutes within the movie]
Sgt. Triand: [to a line of German prisioners] If you join the French Foreign Legion, remember: there are no questions asked. Come! Join the Legion!
The one major network showing of "March or Die" was considerably different from the original release, with a great deal of additional footage and a completely different ending. At the end of the original release Marco (Hill) gives a rousing speech to replacement Legionnaires, which is word-for-word the same speech Foster (Hackman) gave recruits near the beginning of the film. (To potential deserters: "If the Legion doesn't get you, the Arabs will. If the Arabs don't get you, the desert will. And if the desert doesn't get you... I will.) A caravan is leaving the fort behind Marco as he gives his speech. The original release ends on this note, implying that Marco has stepped into Foster's shoes as loyal Legion commander. In the network showing, after Marco delivers his speech, we see Marco deserting. He has slipped into Arab garb and joined the caravan leaving the fort. The Sergeant-Major is shown smiling at him, implying that he is complicit in Marco's desertion. Also in the network showing: A fierce desert battle between a legion column and Arab raiders. The entire battle is deleted from the original release. The column is led by the mean Lieutenant. In one scene, the mean Lieutenant is shown placing a pistol to his head and committing suicide. The scene does not appear in the original release. In addition, in the original release, the footage of the mean Lieutenant firing his pistol during the column's battle with raiders, is edited into the final battle scene at the archaological dig. The effect is quite jarring, as he has not been present for about a third of the film. See more »
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is this film a classic? It surely has certain elements that could make
it one. Catherine Deneuve at her best, at the very pinnacle of her
beauty; Max Von Sydow as an archeologist who convinces the French gov't to resume digging in ruins in morocco, in an area containing unruly and savage Berber tribes that have slaughtered all comers; Gene Hackman as the legionnaire captain who has to break his promise to those very tribes that they would never venture into the area again; the guy who played Jaws in James Bond as a Russian 'volunteer' to the legion, sporting a beard that any Taliban would be envious of; some unknown as Marco, a riviera jewel thief, also 'volunteered' into the legion and a cast of doomed conscripts.
The whole film plays out like a funeral procession. the captain
(Hackman) keeps spouting his bile at the gov't, the authorities, the academics, etc. who have condoned this suicide mission, knowing full well they are throwing away men's lives for nothing. He keeps raving in fact even as the Arab tribes are massing and charging toward them.
As in any classic French foreign legion film, the doomed legionnaires are holed up in the ruins of an old castle, hopelessly outnumbered with no escape. if the Arabs don't kill them, the desert will. If the desert
doesn't kill them, the legion will kill them as deserters. There is no
salvation. Only death with honor.
In fact, there is little suspense in the film, as everyone involved
considers the mission absolutely hopeless. And they are right: they
are all gunned down or hacked apart by the desert marauders. The director has a strange sense of cruelty, methodically showing them getting it, one by one.
It's a weird sort of film that relishes and wallows in pure
nihilism. One is left wondering, 'what was the point?'.
I guess that was the idea. I kept waiting for a Hollywood ending, a
speck of optimism on the horizon, a sudden miraculous twist, but as the
credits rolled to a sonorous drum beat i realized, 'Hmmm... this is it, I guess'.
The gloom and doom telegraphed from the very beginning
played out step by step with no surprises or hitches. Sort of a
strange exercise in film-making, if you ask me.
Didn't Gene Hackman comment on this baby, "March or Die: the audience marched in and this film died"?


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Can Kerry Make Up Lost Ground?
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This is a partial transcript of "The Big Story With John Gibson," Sept. 7, 2004, that has been edited for clarity.
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JOHN GIBSON, HOST: John Kerry has eight weeks to make up the ground he's lost to President Bush in the polls. Can he do it?
Let's ask John McCain's former Campaign Manager Rick Davis and Democratic Strategist Jenny Backus. They're both in Washington.
Jenny, from the Democrats' point of view, what does Kerry have to do?
JENNY BACKUS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I think John Kerry's doing exactly what he needs to do which is to start to raise the question about George Bush's failed leadership.
GIBSON: In what department?
BACKUS: Well, everyone wants to flip the paradigm here, including the President of the United States. He ran an entire convention that was more negative attacks on his Democratic opponent than in defense of his own record. This is a referendum on George Bush's failed leadership and John Kerry's ability to step into the shoes as commander in chief.
And I think John Kerry did a fantastic job of that during his convention. The Republicans freaked out, went very heavy negative against John Kerry in August, probably played their best card. And now, he's got the President of the United States on the stump. He doesn't have anything to say about what's happening in Iraq, he doesn't have anything to say about outsourcing. All he's compelled to say is something negative about John Kerry.
GIBSON: Rick Davis, that isn't my impression of what George Bush has to say about Iraq. He says it was right to take Saddam Hussein out. Glad we did it.
BACKUS: What about the catastrophic success or I miscalculated in Iraq?
RICK DAVIS, FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR JOHN MCCAIN: These two candidates took different approaches at their conventions. John Kerry took the approach that he was going to fight the old fight of Vietnam all over again and spoke most about Vietnam and hardly anything about Iraq. George Bush's convention took that head-on and said, "You know what? We do believe Iraq is at the center of this campaign and we're going to talk to you about it."
And John McCain and Rudy Giuliani and even Arnold Schwarzenegger all touch on the themes that dealt directly with Iraq and obviously their convention became a war of wars. And George Bush won the war, as said so by the people who vote and the reasons that George Bush has the momentum today.
And Kerry is now trying to rewrite history by saying, "Oh, and now I'm against the war."
GIBSON: Rick, I think we see Jenny doing what a lot of people say John Kerry's got to do and that is attack. He's been not quite up to the attack game throughout August, and as you've just seen Jenny attacking George Bush. Is that what Kerry has to do?
DAVIS: Well, I think you're right. I think Jenny's doing a much better job than John Kerry is. John Kerry's a candidate who has not been able to find his voice. And I think Kerry has to sort of get his back up against the wall. Well, guess what? Eight weeks and his back has got to be up against the wall.
And every day now that he does not go on the offensive, every day now that he changes his position on another issue to try and meet the most recent polling data that his advisers give him is a day that he's going to look like another weak candidate. It just doesn't sell.
GIBSON: OK. Jenny, I'm going to give you your shot here.
I said you have effectively gone on the attack in this very interview. Isn't that what your candidate has to do?
BACKUS: First of all, I think we need to have a candidate that can show the voters of this country that they care about the issues that they care about and that they'll lead and that they'll produce results. And I think if you call it an attack, or...
GIBSON: What's the lead on Iraq?
BACKUS: What's the lead on Iraq? This is a commander in chief who's going to get us allies...
GIBSON: No, no, no. What is John Kerry's lead on Iraq? How would he lead on Iraq?
BACKUS: I just said he's going to have a plan to figure out when to pull the troops out. He's going to have a plan on how to strengthen the country. He's going to have a plan on making sure that veterans, when they come home from Iraq, have health care.
GIBSON: Can you tell me what those plans are?
BACKUS: I just did tell what you they are.
DAVIS: What we heard today was, he's going to pull the troops out of Iraq in four years. Does that mean in four years, he's going to give it over to a dictator or to chaos, or is he going to have settled the domestic...
BACKUS: But what is George Bush's plan on Iraq?
DAVIS: I think the approach is we're going to stay there until we got a working democracy that...
BACKUS: George Bush has had four different positions on Iraq.
DAVIS: Look, we've had troops in South Korea for 40 years. Now, do you think that's been the wrong thing to do? Would you have thrown the president out if he had said, "Hey, we're going to stay there until we've got a functioning democracy?
BACKUS: I just brought up Korea.
DAVIS: I think those are kinds of things the American public are willing to say, "Look, we're in it for stability. There's no more unstable place in the world in the Middle East and we've got a foothold there and the people of Iraq deserve a democracy.
GIBSON: Jenny, I give you a shot. What's the plan?
BACKUS: The plan is very clear. The plan is to have allies go in and help us with the burden there.
GIBSON: How are you going to get the allies to do that?
BACKUS: You're going to have a different president who keeps their promises...
GIBSON: That'll do it?
BACKUS: ... that shows leadership, that doesn't change position four nights -- hold on, John. John, give me one second.
GIBSON: But Jenny, are you really saying that John Kerry's position is a change of face brings allies on board?
BACKUS: I absolutely think that's true.
GIBSON: Really?
BACKUS: Look at George Bush. He changed his face four times during this convention. First it was a catastrophic success. Then we can't really win the war on terror. Then I miscalculated on the war on terror. President Bush went into this war without a plan for peace. We're at $200 billion and counting. Those are the numbers that we should be talking about today.
Or how about the record number of jobs that have been lost?
GIBSON: Rick, would you recommend to George Bush that he stand pat on Iraq?
DAVIS: Absolutely. I mean look, Iraq is a must-win situation.
BACKUS: What's his position?
DAVIS: Iraq is a situation where if you want world peace, if you want to win the fight on global terrorism, you have to make Iraq work. And you can't give some artificial deadline that says, "Hey look, in four years, no matter what's going on in Iraq, I'm pulling troops out." That's irresponsible.
BACKUS: John, would you do me a favor?
DAVIS: And that's a bad commander in chief.
BACKUS: John, do me one favor and ask Rick the same question. What is George Bush's position on Iraq? What does he want to do?
GIBSON: When you guys meet in the hall, you go ahead and ask him.
Rick Davis, Jenny Backus, thanks to both of you for coming on.
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Bali nine: Australia considers recalling Indonesian ambassador over executions
By James Massola and David Wroe
Updated April 28, 2015 — 8.12am first published April 27, 2015 — 4.15pm
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop are considering all options – including the dramatic step of recalling Australia's ambassador to Indonesia – in a sign of the federal government's growing fury at the looming executions of Bali nine duo Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
As Canberra publicly stepped up calls for clemency for the pair on Monday, Ms Bishop said she was "profoundly dismayed" at the looming executions but refused to comment publicly on what the government's response might be.
Ms Bishop also revealed the Australian government asked Indonesia not to announce the pending executions on Anzac Day, but that request fell on deaf ears and that she was "very disappointed that it proceeded in this way".
Behind the scenes, discussions are underway at the highest levels of the Australian government about Canberra withdrawing Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson.
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop: "profoundly dismayed". Credit:Nic Walker
Canberra did not, for example, recall Australia's ambassador to Singapore after the execution of Van Tuong Nguyen in 2005, nor was the Australian ambassador recalled from Malaysia in 1986 or 1993 when Australian citizens were executed.
went ahead, it would likely be couched in the standard diplomatic language of "bringing the ambassador home for consultations" for several months.
Australia in the past has typically taken the pragmatic view that its interests can be better represented by leaving ambassadors in place even after sharp disagreements with other countries.
In line with the actions of other countries – Brazil and the Netherlands both withdrew their ambassadors after two of their citizens were executed in January – the move is being considered to express Australia's extreme displeasure.
Australian ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson. Credit:Jeffrey Chan
But the view inside the Abbott government is the Bali nine case has gone beyond that of a normal diplomatic hitch, especially in view of the international outcry it has provoked, culminating at the weekend with a special plea from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for a death penalty moratorium.
And even as it has faced an international backlash, Indonesia has forcefully pressed other countries to spare the lives of its own nationals when they are convicted of capital crimes and sentenced to death.
The Foreign Minister appealed for the executions to be delayed on Monday until two legal processes regarding the men's cases, currently under way, are completed.
"The lawyers for Mr Chan and Mr Sukumaran have been granted a hearing before the constitutional court. There is also a judicial commission review under way into the original trial," she said.
"There have been some allegations made in relation to the trial and I said [in a conversation with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Sunday] that Australia, indeed the international community, would expect those legal processes to be concluded before any other action was taken."
Fairfax Media reported on Monday the former lawyer of Chan and Sukumaran has outlined explosive allegations of corruption by the judges that sentenced the Bali nine duo to death, saying they asked for more than $130,000 to give them a prison term of less than 20 years.
Ms Bishop said those allegations were very serious.
"They call into question the integrity of the sentencing process and it's a matter for Indonesia's judicial commission to investigate these matters."
As the diplomatic row over the impending execution of the two men deepens, former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday postponed a visit to Perth for a University of Western Australia conference due to be held on Friday.
"Due to the sensitivity of the timing of his visit, Dr Yudhoyono has decided to postpone his trip, but still plans to deliver his keynote address via video technology," UWA vice-chancellor Professor Paul Johnson said.
Ms Bishop would not say whether Mr Abbott was attempting to call President Widodo to ask for clemency. But she did reveal the pair had spoken recently at the funeral of former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew.
ANU Indonesia expert Greg Fealy told Fairfax Media there was no sign President Widodo would reconsider his position, though there were now signs out of Jakarta that the president had realised his decision to proceed with the execution had been based on flawed advice.
"The reality for him is that public opinion is in favour of these executions proceeding ... he simply can't change his mind," he said.
Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek said it was "absolutely completely unacceptable for this sentence to be carried out while those legal matters are still pending".
Mr Abbott is in France and expected to discuss the pending executions with French President Francois Hollande on Monday.
Mr Hollande has publicly warned Indonesia of grave consequences for Indonesia's relationship with France and the EU if French citizen Serge Atlaoui, who is one of the 10 people on death row and who has earned a temporary reprieve pending a legal appeal, is executed.
Dave McRae, an Indonesia expert at Melbourne University's Asia Institute, said Australia should take firm action to make it clear to Indonesia "there will be consequences" if the executions go ahead.
"I think it has to be more than simply expressing condemnation. I think you're looking at a firmer response that might include suspending certain areas of co-operation for a period," he said.
He said it was important for all countries to "act together to show there are costs".
For instance, Indonesia should be made to feel that its stubbornness could put its citizens at risk because other countries that have the death penalty would spurn Jakarta's pleas for clemency for its own nationals in future.
"The things that have allowed abolitionists to gain even temporarily the upper hand in Indonesia have all been things that create pragmatic reasons to abolish [the death penalty], of which the imperative to protect Indonesia's citizens abroad … was the most prominent example."