Napoleon's Cutlery and other news

Advertising:
Firstly: What is it with advertisers?  Do they really think we are all stupid?... or are still "wet behind the ears..."? Two items to illustrate the point:  1: Halfords (tm), (A UK store that specialises in motoring/car accessories, and bicycles), are running an advert currently that contains the following "selling point"  (What really annoys me is the "free of charge" bit...):
"We check, FREE OF CHARGE, every bicycle, to ensure it's safety, before it leaves the shop"
(...Does that mean it's perfectly normal to sell a new push bike with no guarantees as to it's safety?...)

2: "Enterprise Rent-a Car" (tm) have an advert currently running, on TV also, where the "seperated by a common language" syndrome is used to, supposedly, highlight the fact that they have the best of both worlds with the best UK and US qualities embodied in their business...
...at a certain point in the script, the American uses the word: "Aluminum".., at which the Englishman corrects him by stating: "It's "Aluminium!", followed by the words:  "...It's got a "U" in it!"...
Both words have 2 "U's" of course...  In actual fact the word has an extra "I" not an extra "U" in it... I love it when the pot calls the kettle black on national television....(you'ld think with all the money they throw at these things they would have someone who could spell correctly, american or english...)  Incidentally it was originally called "Alumium" by Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist, and was, after a new french extraction process was discovered, used to make a set of cutlery for Napoleon which cost more than if the knives and forks etc had been made of solid gold, and the famous statue of "Eros" at Picadilly Circus, London, UK, (which isn't actually "Eros" btw.... ), was also made of this metal in 1893 at great cost...  My thoughts on advertising may be summed up in my poem, here: fav.me/d39kb87

Lastly, still on the subject of advertising.. but so much more fun!:
This is currently running on UK TV stations:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH9YHX… If you don't feel good / better / at least seriously amused, after seeing this, I'm not entirely sure there's any hope for you...? (yeah... it's an advert and designed to tug at the old... but, ...nonetheless...!)

 New Book
If "psi-fi" is your thing.. then pop over to my friend Ke-Yana Drake's page and check out the book she's just had published.. She's really good at this stuff! and has not only written stuff but has designed languages and original written-scripts: fav.me/d5jwnjx , to go with them... a very talented lady whom I met via the fact that she also weaves grasses into bags fav.me/d2bjg7p etc....  Ke-Yana's dA Profile: keyanadrake.deviantart.com/  Ke-Yana's Epic novel! (my words..): Rise of Hawk: keyanadrake.deviantart.com/gal…  Ke-Yana's Book: Time Speaker for sale online: www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/ke-yan… Ke-Yana in print: Local newspaper article, (New Zealand) on Ke-Yana's new book: "Time Speaker"


 Links
I have been assembling a set of knot related links for both my profile page and for the group bracelets and knots...  This is a huge undertaking...  and will be in three parts when finally done:  
1: links on my page;
2: bracelets and knots links on their page;
3: links associated with the tutorials placed in the artist's comments on that deviation's page like:
PKT 8    PKT 12     and  PKT 13    , which already have their links inserted...)

I naturally wish to have as many dA members, or others... as possible, profiting from my tutorials... so with this in mind, I have had the idea of translating them.  I shall make a start on the french and spanish translations as I have some knowledge of these languages, but there are other languages I would like them translated into as a basic resource as shown by the folder titles now present in my "Tutorials" Gallery.  There is now, also, a folder called "Tutorial Translation Aids" which will contain copies of my tutorials that have had their various sections highlighted, and numbered, to facilitate their translation in "bite-sized" chunks....   Anyone who wishes to help me out in this endeavour, wether it be with just one numbered section... or an entire tutorial..., will be most welcome. (I shall try and think up some gift for their help).  As many languages as possible are desirable, but the basic ones I would like to have done are: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Gujerati and Hindi.  Translating the tutorials is also a good way of assimilating the information and techniques contained in them....

This group is having another contest. The basic info is below, but for details click here:  bracelets-and-knots.deviantart…

THE THEME IS:                "More Beads Than You Can Possibly Shake A Stick At...!"
CLOSING DATE:                December 14th*    (...so watch your inboxes on Jan 1st....)
SUBMISSIONS:                Please submit deviations to the "Current Contest" Gallery

The book is progressing....  slowly, because of all the illustrations of knots and techniques, (the section I'm now working on), but it is at least having the effect of speeding up the posting of my dA tutorials...  When the books done I hope you will all appreciate why it's taken so long... it's not, alas!, like a novel where you can invent the rules... stuff has to work in the real world... Oh yeah by the way... I'm still looking for picture contributors... particularly now for the "Makers" and "Gallery" section of the book...  If any of you spot macrame makers you think i should include or have works of your own that you would be happy to have part of my project, please note me or send me an e-mail:  peter.the.knotter@gmail.com

I would also like to take the opportunity to iterate a brief acknowledgement to all those on dA who have helped in some way by encouragement, suggesting deliberately, or by chance, useful ideas or new avenues of thought, contributing samples of their work, help with research etc. So: just a heartfelt:
Thank You Everyone!
(A brief one before the proper "Acknowledgements" which will be in the final MSS.)

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