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Weakly NP-complete An NP-complete (or NP-hard) problem is weakly NP-complete (or weakly NP-hard), if there is an algorithm for the problem whose running time is polynomial in the dimension of the problem and the magnitudes of the data involved (provided these are given as integers), rather than the base-two logarithms of their magnitudes. Such algorithms are technically exponential functions of their input size and are therefore not considered polynomial.
Weald A weald once meant a dense forest, especially the famous great wood once stretching far beyond the ancient counties of Sussex and Kent, England, where this country of smaller woods is still called "the Weald". Now that most English forests have been cut down, the word may refer to open countryside or to the special clays found in the Weald.
Wealden cloth industry Cloth-making was, apart from iron-making, the other large-scale industry carried out on the Weald of Kent and Sussex in medieval times. The ready availability of wool from the sheep of the Romney Marsh, and the immigration from Flanders in the fourteenth century of cloth-workers - places like Cranbrook attracted hundreds of such skilled workers - ensured its place in Kentish industrial history.
Wealden Formation The Wealden Formation (or Wealden Group) is a geological formation covering a large part of south and southeastern England (including the Isle of Wight). It takes its name from the Weald region of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
Wealstun (HM Prison) On 1 April 1995, HM Prisons Thorp Arch and Rudgate amalgamated to form HMP Wealstun. The amalgamation of two neighbouring establishments was an historic development for the Prison Service, and had the effect of creating a category C (closed) side and category D (open) side within one establishment.
Wealth condensation Wealth condensation is a theoretical process by which, in certain conditions, newly-created wealth tends to become concentrated in the possession of already-wealthy individuals or entities. According to this theory, those who already hold wealth have the means to invest in new sources of creating wealth or to otherwise leverage the accumulation of wealth, thus are the beneficiaries of the new wealth.
Wealth elasticity of demand Wealth elasticity of demand in microeconomics is the proportional change in the consumption of a good caused by unanticipated net wealth changes (as opposed to changes in personal income). Measuring and accounting for the variability in this elasticity is a continuing problem in Behavioral finance and Consumer theory.
Wealth management Wealth Management is a term that originated in the 1990s in the United States within Broker Dealers, Banks, and Insurance Companies. Wealth Management has generally evolved from high net worth financial consulting for persons who are top clients of any firm.
Wealth primary The Wealth Primary describes the race for money required for electoral politics. Before parties choose nominees and voters decide who gets their vote, before Americans begin to think about an upcoming election, candidates enter this most important part of the electoral process.
Wealth TV Wealth TV is a lifestyle and entertainment channel that gives viewers a behind the scenes view at the lives of the rich and famous. Original programming gives a glimpse into how the wealthy became successful and how they enjoy their success.
Wealthiest Americans (1957) In 1957 Fortune Magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans; the list was republished in many American newspapers. The primary source of wealth was indicated as being inherited or stemming from a particular business or industry.
Wealthy Street Baptist Church Wealthy Street Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan (now called Wealthy Park Baptist Church) was the birthplace to Cornerstone University and served as its home from 1941-1964. It was pastored for 40 years by the legendary King James only proponent Rev.
Weantinock The Weantinock are a tribe that existed during and prior to colonial times in Western Connecticut, eventually amalgamating with Potatuck (Pootatuck) and other indigenous people to form Schaghticokes in Western Connecticut.
Weapon A weapon is an item that is intended for use in combat, to injure, kill, disarm or [an opponent or victim, or to otherwise render resources] non-functional or unavailable. Weapons may be used to [[attack and defend, and consequently also to threaten or protect.
Weapon class destroyer The Weapon class was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy towards the end of World War II. The Weapon was a smaller counterpart to the Battle class, and were the first new destroyer designs for the Royal Navy since the War Emergency Programme destroyers.
Weapon dance The weapon dance employs weapons—or stylized versions of weapons—traditionally used in combat in order to simulate, recall, or reenact combat or the moves of combat in the form of dance, usually for some ceremonial purpose. Such dancing is quite common to folk ritual in many parts of the world.
Weapon focus Weapon focus is a factor affecting the reliability of eyewitness testimony. Weapon focus signifies a witness to a crime diverting their attention to the weapon the criminal is holding, thus leaving less attention for other details in the scene and leading to memory impairments later for those other details.
Weapon Plus Weapon Plus is a fictional clandestine program of the United States government in the Marvel Comics universe, it was created by Grant Morrison during his run in New X-Men. The program's purpose is the creation of supersoldiers intended to fight the wars of the future, especially a Mutant-Human war.
Weapon systems officer The Weapon Systems Officer ("WSO", pronounced "wizzo") is an air navigator directly involved in all air operations and weapon systems employment except actual control of the aircraft (fighter or bomber). The WSO integrates with the pilot to collectively achieve and maintain crew efficiency, situational awareness and mission effectiveness.
Weapon Storage Security System W3S Weapon Storage Security System (W3S) is a marking for the vaults built into the floors of Protective Aircraft Shelters (PAS) on several United States and NATO bases all over the world. These vaults are used for a safe special weapons storage.
Weapon X Weapon X is a fictional clandestine government project in the Marvel Universe conducted by the Canadian Government's Department K (and secretly funded by the US government) which turns willing and unwilling beings into living weapons. The project often captures mutants and experiments on them to enhance their superpowers and also mutates baseline humans.
Weapon X, Lies & Videotape "Weapon X, Lies and Videotape" is an episode from the Marvel Comics X-Men animated series. This episode centers around the insidious Weapon X project, and features Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick and Silver Fox.
Weaponlord Weaponlord (sometimes WeaponLord) is a 1 or 2 player fighting game originally designed for release on the Super Nintendo by Visual Concepts, and published by Namco. During the inception of the title, the development team also began work on a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version and both were released in October of 1995.
Weapons and Equipment of the Imperium (Warhammer 40,000) The Imperium is a vast, galaxy-spanning empire in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe. There are several armed branches of the Imperium's military and police services, and much of their equipment is common to multiple branches.
Weapons company A weapons company, sometimes called a manoeuvre support company is a company-sized military unit attached to an infantry battalion to support the rifle companies of the battalion. It usually possesses some combination of machine-guns, mortars, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, reconnaissance vehicles, and sometimes assault pioneers (infantrymen specially trained in the assault role).
Weapons Director Badge The Weapons Director Badge is a military badge of the United States Air Force which is issued to personnel who are qualified in airborne command and control and have been specially trained as flight controllers with weapons release authority.
Weapons Factory The Weapons Factory (also abbreviated as WF) is a series of video game capture the flag class-based mods, originally created for Quake II by brothers Tom "Tumorhead" Reno and Gregg "Headache" Reno. It since has had several incarnations (six plus three currently in development) on most of the predominant FPS games released since 1998 (in the Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Tribes series).
Weapons in science fiction Science fiction typically features fanciful or not-so-fanciful weapons that depict the changes in the field. A sci-fi story that focuses elsewhere may just use generic beam weapons, while a military science fiction story or a meticulously detailed story might have an intricate variety of weapons.
Weapons in the Fire Emblem Series Conventional weapons are essential for success in the Fire Emblem series. These weapons can be both a melee weapon or be able to hit enimies with a ranged attack, allowing the attacker to avoid being attacked by the defender sometimes, and being able to retaliate to most atacks.
Weapons master The weapons master, sometimes credited as the armorer, weapons specialist, weapons handler, weapons wrangler, or weapons coordinator, is a film crew specialist that works with the property master, director, actors and script supervisor. The weapons master is specifically responsible for maintaining control of any weapon props (including but not limited to firearms, knives, swords, bows, and staff weapons).
Weapons of Kalarippayattu Kalarippayattu (Malayalam: കളരിപ്പയറ്റ്) is an Indian martial art practised in Kerala and contiguous parts of neighboring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It incorporates strikes, kicks, grappling, and weaponry, as well as healing techniques.
Weapons of Legacy Weapons of Legacy is a supplemental rulebook for the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast. It introduces weapons that have histories and abilities matching their history, as well as rules governing such weapons in a campaign.
Weapons of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq On April 9, 2003, Baghdad was formally secured. As the summer of 2003 gave way to autumn, the pattern of anti-occupation attacks shifted to include repeated, deadly suicide car bombings against high-profile targets in Baghdad, such as the headquarters of the UN and the Red Cross, foreign embassies, and police stations of the newly-formed post-Saddam Iraqi police force.
Weapons of the Gods Weapons of the Gods is an ancient Chinese martial arts role-playing game, created by Brad Elliott and Rebecca Borgstrom. Weapons of the Gods is published by Eos Press and is a license from the Hong Kong comic book by Tony Wong of the same name.
Weapons of the Vietnam War A wide variety of weapons were used by the different armies operating in the Vietnam War, which included the opposing Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) and People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), as well as all services of the U.S.
Weapons technology in the Honorverse In David Weber's Honor Harrington military science fiction novels, warfare is naturally ubiquitous. Two thousand years in the future, it remains true that humans will devise ever more ingenious ways of causing death and destruction.
Weapons-grade Weapons-grade means that a substance is pure enough to be used to make a weapon or has properties that make it suitable for weapons use. Weapons-grade plutonium and uranium are the most common examples, but it is also be used to refer to chemical and biological weapons.
Weapons, equipment and vehicles of the Tau Empire The Tau are a race from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe, who were first discovered by the Imperium of Man in the late 35th millennium. They were at a hunter-gatherer stage of development at this time, and were earmarked for cleansing.
Weapons, equipment, and vehicles of the Craftworld Eldar (Warhammer 40,000) Despite the differences between the dozens of Craftworlds of the Eldar, all share the same technology with regards to weapons, equipment and vehicles. In addition, Craftworld Eldar equipment (or very similar variants) is also used by the Harlequins and various groups of Eldar Exodites, outcasts, and pirates.
Weapons, equipment, and vehicles of the Necrons In the table-top wargame Warhammer 40,000, the Necrons are a mysterious race of skeletal warriors that have lain dormant in their stasis-tombs for millions of years. They are ancient beyond reckoning, pre-dating even the Eldar.
Wear and tear Wear and tear is a term for damage that naturally and inevitably occurs due to normal use or aging. It is used in a legal context for such areas as warranty contracts from manufacturers, which usually stipulate that damage due to wear and tear will not be covered.
Wear levelling Wear levelling (also written -leveling) is a techniqueUnited States Patent 6,850,443 Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems for prolonging the service life of some kinds of erasable computer storage media, such as flash memory. The term has also been used by Western Digital to describe their hard disk preservation technique, but hard disks are not generally wear-levelled devices.
Wear Sunscreen Wear Sunscreen or Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay] actually called "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by [[Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.
Wearable computing "Wearable computing" is an active topic of research, with areas of study including user interface design, augmented reality, pattern recognition, use of wearables for specific applications or disabilities, electronic textiles and fashion design. Many issues are common to the wearables, mobile computing, Pervasive computing, Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing research communities, including power management and heat dissipation, software architectures, wireless and personal area networks and sensor networks.
Wearable robots A wearable robot is a person-oriented robot that is designed to be worn. Examples include exoskeletons that help people to walk or lift and robots that are designed to serve as front-end for wearable computers.
Wearables Wearables are a type of item in the Promotional Products category. Wearables are an article of clothing given away as a promotional tool, usually featuring the name and/or logo of a company in a prominent location.
Wears the Trousers Magazine Wears the Trousers ( Wears the Trousers homepage ) is a UK-based music magazine, which focuses on the contribution of women in music industry and on music created or fronted by women. The magazine operates on a not-for-profit basis and is currently published only in an online format.
Wearside Football League The Wearside Football League is a football competition based in England. It consists of a single division which sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System and is a feeder to the Northern League.
Weasel Sportive Lemur The Weasel Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus), also known as the Weasel Lemur or Greater Weasel Lemur, is a species of lemur native to northeastern Madagascar. Its habitat includes rainforests and tropical rainforests.
Weasel Stomping Day "Weasel Stomping Day" is a song by American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic, which appears on his 2006 album, Straight Outta Lynwood. It is also one of six songs on the album to have an animated music video, created for the Adult Swim show, Robot Chicken.
Weasel word A weasel word is a word that is intended to, or has the effect of, softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement, or avoids forming a clear position on a particular issue. Weasel words can be readily identified in a large amount of corporate correspondence, and are frequently used by politicians.
Weasel Walter Composer and instrumentalist Weasel Walter (born Christopher Todd Walter in Rockford, IL) founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell. Over the years, the band has included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, while creating an uncompromising and mercurial body of abstract music drawing equally from no-wave, death metal, free jazz, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical.
Weather balloon A weather or sounding balloon is a balloon which carries instruments aloft to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde. To obtain wind data, they can be tracked by radar, radio direction finding, or navigation systems (such as the satellite based Global Positioning System).
Weather buoy Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the worlds oceans. They measure parameters such as air temperature, water temperature, wave height, dominant wave period, barometric pressure, wind speed , wind gust and direction and to report these data via satellite communications to meteorological centers for use in forecasting and climate study.
Weather derivatives Weather derivatives are financial instruments that can be used by organisations or individuals as part of a risk management strategy to reduce risk associated with adverse or unexpected weather conditions. The difference from other derivatives is that the underlying asset (rain/temperature/snow) has no direct value to price the weather derivative.
Weather Eye The Weather Eye is a trade name for the patented Nash Motors-designed fresh-air automotive heating system first used in 1938, and is characterized by a cowl-mounted outside air receiver that then passes fresh air through a heater core utilizing hot engine coolant for a heat source. The famed Weather Eye was developed concurrently with the much lesser-known but contemporary Hupmobile Evanair-Conditioner, which took its fresh air through special hood scoops.
Weather forecasting Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. Humankind has attempted to predict the weather since ancient times.
Weather Modification Operations and Research Board A bill to establish a Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes, was introduced on March 3 2005, by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. The text of the bill, with the resulting act to be cited as the Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005, was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Weather of Armenia The Weather of Armenia is sometimes possible to find all the four seasons at the same time. When succulent apricots, peaches and grapes, high on the mountain slopes which surround the valley there is not enough heat even for grain to ripen, while still higher there are places covered with snow all the year round.
Weather or No Weather or No is a one-act comic opera, styled a "musical duologue", by Bertram Luard-Selby with a libretto by Adrian Ross and William Beach. It was produced at the Savoy Theatre from 10 August 1896 to 17 February 1897 as a companion piece to The Mikado, and from 2 March 1897 to 24 April 1897 with His Majesty, for a total of 209 performances.
Weather reporter A weather reporter gathers data on the weather, including rainfall, wind speed, barometric pressure, sunrise/sunset, etc. This information is then broadcast through the media (newspapers, television and radio).
Weather Report Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s, pitting jazz with R&B, funk, and rock elements while still retaining an extremely high level of compositional and improvisational skills. Along with other groups that were founded by Miles Davis alumni (Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Headhunters), Weather Report was one of the greatest innovators of the jazz fusion genre at that time.
Weather Research and Forecasting model The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is a computer program with a dual use for forecasting and research. It is the latest numerical program model to be adopted by the National Weather Service as well as the U.
Weather Rock The Weather Rock is a prop used to make fun of the intricate technology used to create modern weather forecasts, as well as the fact that their accuracy is still not perfect, or even good, in the eyes of some. The joke varies, but in all cases there is a large noticeable rock or similar.
Weather stick Also known as a Maine weather stick , the weather stick is a balsam fir rod, generally about 40cm (16") long which when mounted outside twists upward with the onset of good weather and downward as inclement weather approaches. These sticks were first used by the aboriginals of the American northeast and the Canadian east and southeast, who noted the behavior of dry branches prior to the arrival of weather changes.
Weather Station Kurt Weather Station Kurt, officially Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26, was a weather station erected by a German U-boat crew in northern Labrador, Newfoundland in 1943. The installation of Weather Station Kurt was the only armed German military operation on land in North America during the Second World War.
Weather STAR 4000 The Weather STAR 4000 was the first graphics-capable model of the WeatherStar line from The Weather Channel. It was introduced around 1988 and was designed and manufactured by Canadian electronics company Amirix (then the Applied Microelectronics Institute).
Weather STAR XL The WeatherSTAR XL was the fourth system designed for The Weather Channel's Local Forecast. It has more advanced graphics than previous WeatherSTARs, including moving icons and transitions in between each frame.
Weather Systems Weather Systems, released in 2003, is Andrew Bird's first solo album after disbanding the Bowl of Fire. Bird has said that the album was simply a side project during his four or five year recording of The Mysterious Production of Eggs.
Weather Underground (album) Weather Underground is the current working title for the fifth studio album from UK band Massive Attack. Artists currently believed to be contributing to the vocals for the album include Hope Sandoval, Dot Allison, Horace Andy, Mike Patton, and Mos Def.
Weather vane A weather vane, also called a wind vane, is a movable device attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind. Very often these are in the shape of cockerels and are called weather cocks.
Weatherboarding Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall. They are of rectangular section with parallel sides, as distinct to North American riven clapboards of triangular or feather-edged section, where the upper edge is the thinner one.
Weatherby Swann Weatherby Swann, or Governor Swann, is the fictional governor of the Caribbean town of Port Royal in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movies: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man's Chest (2006), and At World's End. Swann is the father of the movies' heroine Elizabeth Swann, played by Keira Knightley.
Weatherbys Weatherbys provides British Horseracing with its central administration, acts as its bank and maintains the founding Thoroughbred breed register. Weatherbys have been involved in British horse racing since 1770 and provide various administration services under contract to the British Horseracing Board.
WeatherBug WeatherBug is a downloadable software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X which displays the current temperature and alerts users to any severe weather warnings issued by the National Weather Service. These alerts are oftened received far in advance of traditional alerting services that are operated by municipalities, townships, etc.
Weatherfax Weatherfax is an acronym of the words "weather facsimile". The term was coined after the technology that allows the transmission and reception of weather charts (surface analysis, forecasts, and others) from a transmission site (usually the meteorological office) to a remote site (where the actual users are).
Weatherford Democrat The Weatherford Democrat is six-day daily newspaper published in Weatherford, Texas, in the afternoon on weekdays (Monday through Friday), and on Sunday mornings. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Weatherhead A weatherhead is a weatherproof entry point for above-ground electrical wiring or telephone lines into a home or business. It typically tops a pipe-like conduit, and is shaped like a hood, with the face pointing down at an angle of at least 45°.
Weathering Weathering is the process of breaking down of rocks, soils and their minerals through direct, or indirect contact with the atmosphere. Weathering occurs in situ, or 'without movement', and thus should not to be confused with erosion, which involves the movement and disintegration of rocks and minerals by processes such as water, wind, ice or gravity.
Weathering Continent The Weathering Continent (風の大陸 Kaze no Tairiku) is the title of a Japanese fantasy light novel series by author Sei Takekawa and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata. Its first installment was published in Dragon Magazine in 1988, with the first collected novel released in October 1990.
Weatherization Weatherization (American English) or weatherproofing (British English) is the practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements, particularly from sunlight, precipitation, and wind, and of modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency. A house with no weatherization is virtually uninhabitable.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania Weatherly a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Mauch Chunk. Early in the twentieth century, there were silk mills, foundries, a candy factory, a fabricating plant, and a cigar factory.
Weatherpixie The Weatherpixie is a web graphic that shows a representation of the current weather derived from a METAR report gathered in one of 6000 locations around the world. A customisable avatar represents what to wear behind a backdrop indicating weather conditions, daylight and current moon phase.
Weatherstripping Weatherstripping is the process of sealing openings such as doors, windows, and trunks from the elements. The goal of weatherstripping is to prevent rain and water from entering by either blocking it out right or by blocking most of it and returning or rerouting it.
WeatherStar WeatherStar refers to the technology used by The Weather Channel (TWC) to generate their Local Forecast segments (currently known as Local on the 8s) on cable TV systems nationwide. The hardware takes the form of a computerized unit installed at the headend of a cable TV company which receives, generates, and inserts local forecast and other weather information, including weather advisories and warnings, into TWC's national programming.
WeatherVision WeatherVision is a company based in Jackson, Mississippi, that produces and provides customized weather forecast segments for local airing by commercial and public television (and radio) stations nationwide. The forecasts are custom-produced for each TV station providing weather information for that station's broadcast area, complete with the station's own on-screen branding and logos.
Weatherwise Weatherwise (ISSN 0043-1672) is a magazine by Heldref Publications on weather and climate for weather enthusiasts as well as meteorologists and climatologists. It is richly illustrated with large color photographs of weather phenomena, which are a large draw.
Weaubleau-Osceola structure The Weaubleau-Osceola structure is thought to be a meteorite impact site in western Missouri near the towns of Osceola and Weaubleau. It is believed to have been caused by a 1200-ft (366 m) meteoroid between 310 and 340 million years ago during the late Mississippian period.
Weave (Forgotten Realms) In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms, the Weave is the fundamental force of both arcane magic and divine magic, from which spellcasters draw their strength. It permeates the world, comparable to aether, the mystical substance.
Weaver ant Weaver ants (genus Oecophylla) are social insects belonging to the ant family, known for their communication and nest building behaviour. Weaver ants are social insects that have complex bio-chemical communication and make elaborate nests out of living tree-leaves.
Weaver Poets Weaver Poets, Ryhming Weaver Poets and Ulster Weaver Poets were a collective group of poets belonging to an artistic movement who were both influenced by and contemporaries of Robbie Burns and the Romantic Movement.
Weaver's Needle Weaver's Needle is a thousand foot high column of rock that rises from the desert floor and dominates the land for thirty miles around. Located in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, Arizona, Weaver's Needle is a weathered volcanic plug with a summit elevation of 4553 ft.
Weavers Green Weavers Green is a British television soap opera, made in 1966 for ITV by Anglia Television. It was notable for being one of the first television programmes to be shot on location using videotape and outside broadcast equipment, rather than film, as had usually been the case for non-studio shooting up until this point.
Weaverthorpe railway station Weaverthorpe railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Sherburn on the York to Scarborough Line and was opened on 5th July 1845 by the York & North Midland Railway. It closed on 22nd September 1930.
Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church is located in the village of Weavertown, between the somewhat larger villages of Bird-in-Hand and Intercourse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The church congregation is affiliated with the Beachy Amish Mennonite fellowship of churches.
Weavile is a fictional character from the Pokémon franchise. It is one of the “preview” Pokémon to the fourth generation of games, cards and anime, having been released prior to the release of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for the Nintendo DS.
Weaving Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn made of fiber called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. This cloth can be plain (in one color or a simple pattern), or it can be woven in decorative or artistic designs, including tapestries.
Weaving (knitting) In knitting, weaving is a family of techniques for introducing extra yarn(s) into a knitted fabric without knitting them. The extra yarns almost always follow the horizontal rows (courses) of knitting and, if visible, resemble a woven texture.
Weaving (mythology) The theme of weaving in mythology is ancient, and its lost mythic lore probably accompanied the early spread of this mysterious art. Westward of Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, weaving is a mystery within woman's sphere, and where men have become the primary weavers in this part of the world, it is possible that they have usurped the archaic role.
Web 2.0 Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

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