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Knitting News Archive14-May-2008Doctor Who's new enemy: the BBC lawyers (Daily Telegraph) A Doctor Who fan who gave away Knitting patterns which created vague recreations of the programme's aliens has been threatened with legal action by the BBC for copyright infringement. Health Tip: Can You Quit Smoking Without Weight Gain? (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) (HealthDay News) -- Weight gain doesn't have to be a side effect of quitting smoking if you follow a few simple methods to keep you both slim and healthy. Close-knit group (West County Journal) Lena Dworkin, Bess Garland and Eileen Hurley of Creve Coeur knit dolls for siblings of children that will go through the National Council of Jewish Women's Back-to-School! Store. Women of NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) are knitting more than 100 toy dolls to give away at the one-day shopping event for underserved elementary school children. Carly Simon has a quiet rhythm of life, and a new 'Love' (USA Today) Carly Simon is speaking barely above a whisper. The singer has been rehearsing for an upcoming club appearance to promote her new album, This Kind of Love, and she wants to preserve her voice or what's left of it. "For two days in the studio, we didn't have a sound man, and I couldn't hear myself properly," Simon explains. "So I was screaming over the monitors." OK, so maybe that's not the whole ... Let's hear from you: We're playing the fame game (The Daily News) So, you once dated Michelle Obama. Or, you used to be in a knitting club with Hulk Hogan. You will obey, BBC tells Dr Who knitter (Adelaide Now) A CRAFT enthusiast who posted knitting patterns inspired by Doctor Who characters on the internet has had them exterminated by the BBC's own Daleks in the form of a copyright infringement notice. Alien knitting patterns undo Dr Who fan (Times Online) A Doctor Who fan who created Knitting patterns for the programme?s monsters and gave them away online has been told by the BBC to stop or face the threat of court action.
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