Advanced Wire Working: Wire Wrapping Pendants

Advanced Wire Working: Wire Wrapping Pendants:

Do you have a stone that would make a wonderful pendant? Techniques for caging tumbled and rough rocks in cages of wire will be taught. Hands-on. ( Basic Wire Working: Earrings or Collage Pendants is a prerequisite.)

Cost: $24, 1 ½ hours, materials included. (Six person limit...only two slots available as of this listing.)
Friday, March 2, 6pm.

https://www.facebook.com/events/315998061790657/

Basic Stringing: Necklace Design

Basic Stringing: Necklace Design: 
Want to learn how to put together a necklace, but not sure how to begin? Or, how to end it? Learn about different necklace lengths and clasps. 
Cost: $18, materials included.
Saturday, March 21, 6pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/258074934268426/ 

Chakras, Stones & Energy Healing

Chakras, Stones & Energy Healing teaches the locations of the seven chakras, their functions and the colors associated with each of them. Learn about gemstones and how to use them to harmonize the seven chakras. Experience a chakra layout as well as a meditation to enhance the harmony of your energy system. This class will provide you with the basic tools to keep your energetic body running smoothly. Handouts & Chakra Stone Kit included in the cost of this workshop. Marlita and Elizabeth will teach this class. 

Cost: $56. Preregistration required. NO WALK-INS. Space is available for up to six (6) participants. Call Beads N Botanicals at 217-365-9355 for more details.
Saturday, March 17, 2pm to 5pm
OR Saturday, April 14, 2pm to 5pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/112815625512233/

Aura Reading Level 2

Aura Reading Level 2 with Debra Joy Hart, R.N., CLL (Certified Laughter Leader). For students who took Beginning Aura Reading (or with instructor’s pre-approval) Learn more about working with auras. Debra Joy is also a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association.

Cost: $20 pre-registered by March 3; $25 thereafter and at the door. Call Beads N Botanicals in Urbana for more information.

217-365-9355
Thursday, March 8, 6pm to 7:30pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/133379696784129/

Reply from Mr Seyran Caferli, Cartoon News Center website director

Mr Seyran Caferli, the director of Cartoon News Center website, sent the following message below requesting me to publish it on this blog, caricaturque.
In his message, Mr Caferli writes that the announcement of the International Restaurant Cartoon Contest arrived in his e-mail box sometime ago and he demanded extra info from the organizers while publishing the present info on his website.
Although promised by the organisers, the extra info has not arrived yet, and with the right notice of my previous post yesterday, Mr Caferli says he has deleted the info about the doubtful Restaurant Cartoon Contest from his website.
Many thanks for his concern and kind answer.
Kemal Ozyurt.

Seyran Caferli: Rica ederim
From: Seyran caferli cartooncenter@gmail.com
Date: 22 Feb 2012 19:32
Sayin Kemal Ozyurt,
Azerbaycandan sevgilerimle..
http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/ Sitenizdeki The International "Restaurant" Cartoon Contest 2012 hakindaki yazinizi ve hakli iradlarinizi okudum.. Bu yarisma benim E-mail adresime gelen duyrulardan biridir ve ben yarismaya sitemde yer verdigimden sonra organizatorlerden bana daha fazla bilgi vermelerini rica etmisdim.. Teesufler ki, onlar detayli bilgileri bana yakin bir zamanda gondereceklerine soz verselerde sonucda bu gunku tarihedek hic bir cevab vermediler.. Sizin sitede yazdiklarinizdan derhal sonra ben hemin yarismanin kosularini web siteden derhal iptal etdim.. ve Sizin hakli iradlariniza gore tesekur ederim Zamaninda bize yardimci oldugunuzdan ve hakli dusuncelerinizden dolayi bir daha tesekur ederim.
Sevgi ve saygilarimla,
Seyran Caferli
Uluslararasi Karikatur Haber Merkezi Web sitesinin direktoru
http://www.cartooncenter.net/
P.S. Degerli Kemal Ozyurt yukaridaki yaziya http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/ Web sitenizde yer vermenizi rica ederim.. Once tesekurler.

XIII International Cartoon Competition "Independence" 2012, Ukraine

Theme: Football
Deadline: 5 May 2012
Source: ecc-kruishoutem

A letter, a blacklist, and a fake competition

From: tawan chuntra tchuntra@yahoo.com
Date: 16 Feb 2012 06:59
Dear kozyurt
I send you the information that the contest that not pay the prize.
Please inform other cartoonists for consideration.
Pease post in your blog, http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/
I won special prize in 39th Skopje 2011,Macedonia, but until now I do not receive the prize anymore. This contest is so fake. Belowing is email that only thing I receive, on Friday, 22 July, 2011 2:20 PM
Regards
Tawan Chuntra

Dear Tawan Chuntra,
Thank you for the participation in the World Gallery of cartoons and congratulations for the award.
The participants who win the Special Award, as you are, are granted with the Special Award Plaque, beside the Catalog (available for all selected participants). We have sent the Catalogs first to all the participants, and afterwards we'll send the Plaque as well.
Sorry for the delay. We are looking forward our future cooperation
Regards from Macedonia,
Mice Jankulovski
Director of OSTEN Skopje.
***
Unfortunately, we notice that World Gallery of Cartoons Skopje is among the blacklisted cartoon contests by FECO: In this page you could find contests where the cartoonists rights are not respected because the organisers claim copyrights:
http://www.fecocartoon.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=27&Itemid=42
Of course, there is still hope:
Hopefully these contest rules will change and then, these contests announcements will join the main contest list !
***
And some fake cartoon contest news again released by only Mr Seyran Caferli's Cartoon News Centre: The International "Restaurant" Cartoon Contest 2012 !!!
Unfortunately Mr George Licurici re-published the info about that fake competition although with a question mark about the organizer. Somebody (with the e-mail address from China !!!) needs original ideas of you honest cartoonits about food and restaurant to copy from! For what? For nothing!
Serious website editors will not promote that false competition I hope and must protest the person behind it and he is already condemned by many editors and cartoonists for sure indeed.