Tutorial - Folded Ribbon Rose By Carol Daisy of Embroideries From Daisy's Garden

I LOVE just about any kind of silk ribbon embroidery flower and was was thrilled to see that Carol Daisy had a wonderful tutorial on her Silk Ribbon Embroidery blog showing you how to make a folded ribbon rose in silk ribbon embroidery.  Enjoy making your flowers.

Tutorial - Folded Ribbon Rose

Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - Written by Carol Daisy of Embroideries From Daisy's Garden.

Here's what Carol had to say about her tutorial: Once you have mastered the basic folding technique of these Roses, they can be created from a wide variety of Ribbons.

Please respect Carol's TERMS OF USE:  The patterns and designs are available for your private use only & remain the copyright of "Embroideries from Daisy's Garden". Ribbon Embroidery Supplies are available from our Website " Embroideries From Daisy's Garden."

Carol's Bio: My life is at the stage that I can indulge in my interests of Embroidery and Crafts. Ribbons,beads,threads, laces and trims all have a special place here in my studio. 

My childhood was spent on the family dairy farm in Toowoomba, Queensland. When I was about 12 years old, my Grandmother (nicknamed Daisy – hence the name Daisy’s Garden) introduced me to the joys of needlework. I am so thankful to her for giving me a skill that I could enjoy and build upon for life. After the chores were done, whenever I had some spare time, I would sit quietly on the front porch and stitch away. I remember these times so fondly. When I retired, and finally had some time to myself, I had the desire to do embroidery again. I didn’t get far with the fancy work tablecloth however, once I discovered Silk Ribbon Embroidery, I became addicted!

Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - Carol Daisy of Embroideries From Daisy's Garden.

Please visit her Embroideries From Daisy's Garden website at http://www.daisysgarden.net.au, her Silk Ribbon Embroidery blog at http://www.caroldaisy.blogspot.com/, and her Create-Enhance blog at http://www.create-enhance.com/.

How To Make A Cardboard Canvas Tutorial By Alma Stoller

I just love mixed media artists and love to learn everything I can from them. If you do too then you'll be happy to know that Alma Stoller has a wonderful tutorial on her Alma Stoller blog showing you how to make a cardboard canvas.  Enjoy.

How To Make A Cardboard Canvas

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Please respect Alma's TERMS OF USE:  I encourage you to link back to my post. Please give credit where credit is due. Unless otherwise noted, all photos, text, ideas, tutorials and artwork on this blog are the property of Alma Stoller. I'm happy to share with you, but please do not copy, reproduce or use without permission. Thank you.

Copyright © 2003-2012 - All Rights Reserved - Alma Stoller of Alma Stoller blog. Alma is an artist, designer, and blogger.

Please visit her Alma Stoller blog at http://www.almastoller.blogspot.com/, her Alma Stoller Facebook Page at  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alma-Stoller/179752818769188 , and her Alma Stoller Tutorials ETSY Shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/AlmaStollerTutorials.

For 16 October

For the next class, please find a research article in your field (or a field of interest to you) and write a very short summary of its main points. Be sure to note the main purpose or question of the research, the methods used, the most important results, and the implications of the work. Be prepared to tell the class about the paper; you will not have to hand in your summary.

New Academic Articles on Al-Jedda, Al-Skeini, and EU Accession to ECHR

The most recent issue of the Military Law and the Law of War Review (Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre, vol. 50, nos. 3-4 of 2011) has been published. It includes an 'agora' / special thematic part on the Al-Jedda and Al-Skeini judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, with the following contributions:

• Frederik Naert, The European Court of Human Rights’ Al-Jedda and Al-Skeini Judgments: An Introduction and Some Reflections
• Francesco Messineo, Things Could only Get Better: Al-Jedda beyond Behrami
• Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen, ‘Neither Effective Control nor Ultimate Authority and Control’: Attribution of Conduct in Al-Jedda
• Anne-Marie Baldovin, Impact de la jurisprudence récente de la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme sur la planification et l’exécution des opérations militaires à venir: Application extraterritoriale de la Convention, imputabilité des faits des troupes et fragmentation du droit international
• Heike Krieger, After Al-Jedda: Detention, Derogation, and an Enduring Dilemma

And professor José Manuel Cortés Martín, University of Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, has published an article entitled 'Sur l’adhésion à la CEDH et la sauvegarde de l’autonomie de l’ordre juridique de l’Union dans l'identification du défendeur pertinent: Le mécanisme du codéfendeur'  in the Revue du Droit de l'Union Européenne. The article is in French, but this is the abstract in English:

After the Lisbon Treaty and the Protocol No 14 annexed to the ECHR have come into effect, the obstacles that remained for the European Union accession to this important regional instrument for the protection of human rights have been cleared. This must allow not only completing a legitimate and important aim, but ending the contradictions posed by the current situation in which the ECHR exerts an indirect control of EU Law through the intermediary of EU Member States. The accession should avoid this situation, while safeguarding at the same time the autonomy of EU law. From the perspective of the capacity of the Union and its Member States to be sued, it is necessary to avoid ECHR interferences in the distribution of powers, whose interpreter must be uniquely the ECJ. Therefore it seems essential to provide a kind of collective intervention in ECHR proceedings every time that Union law is directly or indirectly questioned. In the present author’s view, however, the absence of such a procedural provision does not make impossible an adequate representation of the EU interests. This aim could be achieved through the requirement of unity in the international representation of the European Union comprised in the principle of closed cooperation between the Member States and the UE institutions. As proof of this one can point to the experience of more than fifteen years of cohabitation of the Union and its Members States in the WTO and its dispute settlement system. Finally, the principle of autonomy of EU law also raises some concerns in relation to substantive compatibility with ECHR rights and guarantees. This debate has become especially prominent with regard to the application by the Commission of European Competition Law. The answer to this question can only be found in the rich and comprehensive Case-law developed by the ECHR. However, without the specific circumstances of a particular case, it might be found, at most, evidences that could support one or another position. Any projection is lacking of a crucial element, which we have tried to highlight in this work. The current ECHR Case-law is based on States parties, their powers and their exercise in the framework of democratic internal procedures. However, the ECHR Case-law does not keep into account, at least in a structural way, the peculiarities of the European integration process. It is not hard to imagine, however, that the ECHR will be sensitive to the peculiarities of this process, taking into account the specificity of the Union and its legal order.

HUDOC Tutorial Video

Undoubtedly one of the most-used human rights case-law search engines in the world is the European Court of Human Rights' own HUDOC database with all its case-law. Earlier this year, the user interface of the database was relaunched with a different look and more search options. For those trying to find out how the new HUDOC works and for first time users, the Court has now put a tutorial video online, both in English and in French.

New Judges Elected in Respect of Bosnia, Croatia, Moldova, and Russia

Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected judges to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of four countries. The new Bosnian judge will be Mr Faris Vehabovic, judge and vice-president of the Bosnian Constitutional Court and ad hoc judge at the European Court in a number of cases. He obtained a large majority of votes (107 out of 184 votes cast). The new judge in respect of Croatia will be Ms Ksenija Turkovic, professor at Zagreb Law School and also ad hoc judge since this year at the European Court, amongst many other activities (133 out of 187 votes cast). From Moldova, Mr Valeriu Gritco has been elected (112 out of 188 votes). He is a practising lawyer in Moldova and board member of the Moldovan Bar association. Finally, the new judge in respect of Russia will be Mr Dmitry Dedov (120 out of 182 votes), a judge at Russia's Supreme Commercial Court (at which he introduced teh idea of pilot jdugments, in parallel to the European Court's, to unburden the Commercial Court's work.

What is striking is that, in contrast to some of the election in respect of other countries earlier this year, all of these judges have been elected by wide margins of votes. One may note that this new group of judges represents a balanced mix of national judges, academics and practising lawyers, bringing a plurality of perspectives to Strasbourg. The newly elected judges will start working at the Courtin the coming months. Congratulations to them all!

More information (including CV's of all candidates) can be found on the Parliamentary Assembly's website.

New ECHR Academic Articles

The newest issue of SIM's 'current contents' (September 2012) on human rights has been published. As always, it also includes a number of ECHR-related references. These include:

• K. Dzehtsiarou and V. Lukashevich, 'Informed decision-making: the comparative endeavours of the Strasbourg Court', Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 30, no. 3 (2012) pp. 272-298. (the same issue also includes a column by European Court judge Egbert Myjer, entitled 'The succes story of the European Court: The Times they are a-changin'?').

•  S. McInerney-Lankford, 'Fragmentation of international law redux: the case of Strasbourg', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 32, no. 3 (2012) pp. 609-632.

•  A. Stone Sweet, 'The European Convention on Human Rights and national constitutional reordering', Cardozo Law Review, vol. 33, no. 5 (2011/12)  pp. 1859-1868.

The newest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (vol. 61, no. 3, 2012) includes two ECHR-related contributions:

•  M. Amos, 'The dialogue between United Kingdom courts and the European Court of Human Rights', pp. 557-584.
• C. Michaelsen, 'The renaissance of non-refoulement? The Othman (Abu Qatada) decision of the European Court of Human Rights', pp. 750-765.

The most recent issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 24, no. 2 (2012) also features an article on the Abu Qatada case:  

• L. Early and L. Garlicki, 'Case of Othman (Abu Qatada) v. The United Kingdom European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section) judgment', pp. 294-388.
• B. Nicolas, 'Case of Hirsi Jamaa and others v. Italy European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber judgment', pp. 389-467.

Finally, the Pacific McGeorge global business and development law journal, vol. 25, no. 1 (2012) alse contains two articles on the ECHR:

• W. van den Muijsenbergh and S. Rezai, 'Corporations and the European Convention on Human Rights', pp. 43-68.
• S. Kravchenko and J. Bonine, 'Interpretation of human rights for the protection of the environment in the European Court of Human Rights', pp. 245-288.