Crokinole ( ) is an action board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha ' penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size.

Crokinole is most commonly played by two players, or by four players in teams of two, with partners sitting across the board from each other.

Crokinole is often believed to be of Mennonite or Amish origins, but there is no factual data to support such a claim.

In 2006, a documentary film called Crokinole was released.

The movie follows some of the competitors of the 2004 World Crokinole Championship as they prepare for the event.

Crokinole is called knipsbrat (" flick-board ") in the Low German spoken by Mennonites.

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

Originating in Dalian in 2005, the Chinese Championships of Crokinole ( CCC ) has been heavily contested since.

Tavistock has hosted the World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually on the first Saturday of June since 1999.

The first one or two roof boards ( marked `` E '' in fig. 6 ) are slipped into place across the roof beams, from outside the shelter.

These boards are nailed to the roof beams by reaching up through the open space between the beams, from inside the shelter.

Concrete blocks are passed between the beams and put on the boards.

The last roof boards are covered with blocks from outside the shelter.

Diving boards must have non-skid surfaces ( coco matting takes an awful beating from chlorine and rots quickly, but grit-impregnated paints are excellent ).

The essential difference between the new trans-illuminated boards and existing billboards is that the former, constructed of translucent plastic panels, are lighted from within.

There are the boards over the window, of course, but they're not painted and too rough to take prints.

Some library boards are wary of the plan.

After that, they are then driven into position using a laptop and 56 motor control boards.

Phase5 designed the PowerUP boards ( Blizzard PPC and CyberStorm PPC ) featuring both a 68k ( a 68040 or 68060 ) and a PowerPC ( 603 or 604 ) CPU, which are able to run the two CPUs at the same time ( and share the system memory ).

As a body of law, administrative law deals with the decision-making of administrative units of government ( for example, tribunals, boards or commissions ) that are part of a national regulatory scheme in such areas as police law, international trade, manufacturing, the environment, taxation, broadcasting, immigration and transport.

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Unlike modern websites and online services that are typically hosted by third-party companies in commercial data centers, BBS computers ( especially for smaller boards ) were typically operated from the SysOp's home.

In some competitions, boards are pre-dealt prior to the competition, especially if the same hands are to be played at many locations ( for example in a large national or international tournament ).

As the boards arrive for play at each subsequent table, the four players take their cards from the board and should count them to ensure that there are 13 cards in their hand before looking at the cards, so that any irregularity can be corrected before the auction and play commence.

Alternatively, if the boards are pre-dealt, " curtain cards " may be supplied which have each hand printed on them, so that each player can check at the beginning of the deal that he has the right cards.

Sheet metal or boards are used to route the airflow through the brick lattice so that fresh air flows first through the recently burned bricks, heating the air, then through the active burning zone.

In some European Union and Asian countries, there are two separate boards, an executive board for day-to-day business and a supervisory board ( elected by the shareholders ) for supervising the executive board.

Other common committees in boards are nominating and governance.

There are also many chess variants, with different rules, different pieces, and different boards.

TACV does not publish timetables, but flight times are listed on departure boards, when these are functioning.

Although central banks today are generally associated with fiat money, the 19th and early 20th centuries central banks in most of Europe and Japan developed under the international gold standard, elsewhere free banking or currency boards were more usual at this time.

Shorter boards are typically considered youth size, designed for use by children, though some varieties of short boards are specifically designed for a special purpose, such as the performance of snowboarding tricks.

Freestyle boards are typically twin-tip in shape ( mirror image along the lateral axis ) to enable riding both ways.

* Powder: Highly directional boards that typically have a rockered nose and tapered shape ( wider tip than tail ).

Alpine boards are typically wide, although they can be as narrow as.

In the UK, nailing is typically done with double nails onto timber battens ( England and Wales ) or nailed directly onto timber sarking boards ( Scotland and Northern Ireland ).

For multilayer boards, those with 3 layers or more, drilling typically produces a smear of the high temperature decomposition products of bonding agent in the laminate system.

Dedicated playing areas for boules-type games are typically large, level, rectangular courts made of flattened earth, gravel, or crushed stone, enclosed in wooden rails or back boards.

* Minutes, a record of the discussion and decisions of the meeting, are often taken by a person designated as the secretary of the committee ; they may be legally obligatory ( again, typically for governance committees, especially boards of directors ).

These boards may be appointed by public officials, appointed by private entities, popularly elected, or elected by benefited citizens ( typically property owners ).

However, the twenty ivory game pieces and the eighteen-sided die in the Mawangdui set are not typically associated with Liubo boards in other tombs, and it is possible that they were not used for playing Liubo, but were equipment for a different game.

Today's longboards are typically long, although some ride boards up to in length.

The institutions that are responsible for local government within states are typically town, city, or county boards, water management districts, fire management districts, library districts and other similar governmental units which make laws that affect their particular area.

Jumpers are typically used to set up or adjust printed circuit boards, such as the motherboards of computers.

The slotted disk is typically sandwiched between two circuit boards containing a photo-diode, photo-transistor, amplifier, and filtering circuits which produce a square wave pulse train output customized to the customers voltage and pulses per revolution requirements.

One of the most widespread use of enamel is in the production of quality chalk-boards and marker-boards ( typically called ' blackboards ' or ' whiteboards ') where the wear and chemical resistance properties of the enamel ensure that ' ghosting ' or unerasable marks will not occur from normal use as they will with cheaper polymer boards.

* Falsework centering is fabricated, typically from timbers and boards.

They are attached, typically by lacing through holes or glue, to the two boards of the cover, and the threads holding the gatherings are knotted to them, resulting in a stronger binding.

Wooden sound boards typically have one or more sound holes of various shapes.

They are produced with a much longer sales life-cycle than consumer boards ( some of the original EPIAs are still available ), a quality that industrial users typically require.

In remote rural areas professionalization was uncommon ; local school boards tightly controlled the one-room schools, typically hiring local women with a high school education or a year at university as teachers, so their meagre salaries would remain in the community.

The defensive wingers — typically placed on or near the red line — will be positioned by the boards to challenge the puck carrier, prevent passing, or even keep opponents from moving through.