21. Croquet --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on croquet popular outdoor game, played on a lawn or court, with longhandled mallets with which the players hit http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9027984/croquet

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22. Croquet Information on croquet, with pointers to croquet in Chapel Hill, NC, USA, NC croquet events and links to other croquetrelated pages. http://www.cs.unc.edu/~kupstas/croquet.html

Croquet Pages - Starting Point Stoneridge Croquet Club Information on the Stoneridge Croquet Club (Chapel Hill, NC). We play mostly American rules 6-wicket croquet but many of us also play Association rules with varying degress of skill. North Carolina Croquet List of upcoming croquet events in NC and reports on some recent events. Return to Eileen's home page To e-mail me, click on the address below. This page last modified January 31, 2001

23. Lakewood Croquet Club Presents Champions Cup XII Seattle, WA. Extreme Rules. One of the premiere extreme croquet organizations. http://www.lakewoodcroquet.com/

The Lakewood Croquet Club Presents Champions Cup XII , our annual end-of-season extreme croquet finale, set for this coming Saturday, September 1st at Gas Works Park on Lake Union in Seattle. Champions Cup XII will feature two qualifying heats and a championship final. Qualifying begins at 1pm and the top two finishers in each heat will win entry into the Cup final, scheduled for approx 2:45pm Saturday. For more information or to RSVP, send an email to info@lakewoodcroquet.com See You Saturday! LAKEWOOD CROQUET CLUB Mallets Plus Morons Equals Mayhem.™ http://www.myspace.com/lakewoodcroquet http://www.lakewoodcroquet.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/lakewoodcroquet Lakewood Croquet Club . Mallets Plus Morons Equals Mayhem.™

24. Welcome Page Based in Welches, Oregon. 6wicket croquet played on two laser-leveled courts located in the highlands of Mt. Hood National Forest. http://www.highlandscroquetclub.com/

Highlands Croquet Club A t T he R esort at T he M ountain Welches, Oregon Ladder Results Resort Weather Directions Club Play - Spring 2007 Next Club Play is March 24, 2007 at The Resort. Check the weather! We'll be playing at The Resort occasionally this summer. We won't play in the snow or on frosty lawns. Check the weather Watch for us playing with the Portland Croquet Club Sunday afternoons. The Portland Croquet Club plays on the Portland Lawn Bowling Club lawn, by the pond at Westmoreland Park, in Portland, near the corner of SE Bybee at 23rd. The clubhouse phone number is 503-235-3750. Contact Patrick John Sweeney at 503.310.3222 or via e mail at Sweeney@PDXlawyer.com for details. Upcoming Tournaments Jun 4 - Jun 10 The Resort Invitational - The 11th annual Resort Invitational will take place June 4-10, 2007 on the two courts at the Resort at The Mountain in Welches, Oregon. This Association Rules singles event will feature many MacRobertson Shield players from the four countries. The format is double round robin nines, no time limits, top four finishers in the block play for the money prizes on Sunday June 10th. For those who will be in the Pacific Northwest in June and want to see this premier croquet tournament, you call The Resort at 1 800 669-7666 to book a room. Jun 6 - Jun 10 The Seattle Open - The Seattle Open may be early this year because CroqCan will be held in Vancouver in mid- to -late July. Stay tuned for details.

25. Croquet And Lawn Tennis croquet was introduced in England in 1856 and was probably brought to America in the early 1860’s. It was considered particularly suitable for women since http://www.victorianstation.com/leisurecroquet.htm

Croquet was introduced in England in 1856 and was probably brought to America in the early 1860’s. It was considered particularly suitable for women since it required considerable skills but not too much strength or technique. (Women were allegedly deficient in both). Although croquet was never popular men’s game, it had both social and economic advantages: men and women could play together, and it required little equipment and no special clothing. Lawn tennis was another popular sport for middle-class women. At first proper tennis form entailed patting the ball back and forth, without keeping score, but, according to both critics and proponents, players soon were caught up in the competitive spirit of the game, finding it an excellent method of exercise and a useful mental and physical outlet. More active than croquet or archery (which enjoyed a brief popularity in the 1870’s), tennis also appealed to men. By the 1880’s it had become the rage in fashionable summer resorts, and magazines devoted space to the proper attire to wear while playing. Goodie’s recommended "Tuxedo" suits, knitted of fine wool yarn with trim in a contrasting color, for tennis because they were both comfortable and durable.

26. Honors Croquet League Seattle, Washington; USA University of Washington. Nine-Wicket Rules. Pictures, news. http://students.washington.edu/croquet/

Honors Croquet League Ingenio Maximus, Arte Rudis About Us I Want to Play Photo Gallery Newsletters ... Links In The News: Database Revived Celebrity Responses Received HCL Featured in P-I Sportcraft Set Recovered ... Yuri Barron Retrospective Next Match: Spring Croquet Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:00 PM UW Medical Center Map Player of the Month: Dirk Heniges Dirk Heniges ( ) has attended a couple of matches in his day. In fact, he has attended exactly three. Each time, he manages to escape the camera, not upset anyone, not win much, and generally ride the croquet wave. This September however, Dirk made quite a splash. After all that, Dirk secured his place in the forefront of the League by volunteering to be our new Webmaster. Even though Nick Addington ( ) still holds the reigns of the website, Dirk has volunteered to give us tech support when problems crop up, updates need to be made, and the database needs to be fixed. For this sudden streak of dedication to the League, we name Dirk our October (September) Player of the Month. Dirk is a junior majoring in Geography.

27. Julian Lombardi's Blog Collected observations and musings on and around the croquet Project, by Duke University Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology http://jlombardi.blogspot.com/

skip to main skip to sidebar Julian Lombardi's Blog Socio-computational systems, virtual environments, learning contexts, and the Croquet Project Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Croquet Doodles A wonderful collection of older and more recent Croquet demos created by David Faught. Posted by Julian Lombardi at 8:00 AM 0 comments Links to this post Monday, March 17, 2008 Saving and Loading Spaces A new build of Cobalt has just been made available download. Added functionality includes the ability to save and load spaces from web or local directories. This means that you can now make your custom Cobalt spaces available to others as a kind of template virtual world over the web! Posted by Julian Lombardi at 8:47 PM 0 comments Links to this post Thursday, March 06, 2008 Contributing to Cobalt Right now there are four big ways you can contribute to Cobalt: Software testing. The central place for tracking the state of Cobalt, feature additions, bug reports, and bugfixes is the Mantis bug tracker here . You'll first need to sign up here for a Mantis bug tracker account.

28. Croquet Artist - Paintings & Art Work By Newport RI Artist Bettie J. Sarantos Newport, Rhode Island; United States of America paintings by Bettie J. Sarantos. http://www.croquetartist.com/

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29. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland -- Chapter VIII Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquetground in her life; it was all ridges Alice trying to play croquet with flamingo and hedgehog http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-VIII.html

Previous chapter: A Mad Tea-Party CHAPTER VIII The Queen's Croquet-Ground A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don't go splashing paint over me like that!' Two, Five, and Seven painting the rosebush `I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; `Seven jogged my elbow.' On which Seven looked up and said, `That's right, Five! Always lay the blame on others!' You'd better not talk!' said Five. `I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!' `What for?' said the one who had spoken first. `That's none of your business, Two!' said Seven. `Yes, it is his business!' said Five, `and I'll tell himit was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.' Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun `Well, of all the unjust things' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low. `Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, `why you are painting those roses?'

30. Chicago Croquet Club Chicago croquet Club, croquet, Chicago, Chicago Park District, USCA, United States croquet Assocaition, Wickets, Rover, chicagocroquet, Squirearchy, www. http://www.chicagocroquetclub.org/

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31. Index.htm Phoenix, Arizona; United States of America balls, mallets, and equipment. http://www.croquetequipment.com/

32. 7 Ways Croquet Is Better Than Second Life At EduTechie.com This article looks at 7 ways croquet is better than Second Life. I also explore some of the con’s of this alternative virtual world and some questions I http://www.edutechie.com/2007/07/7-ways-croquet-is-better-than-second-life/

Blog About Contact My Reads ... EduTechie.com Where Education and Technology Intersect Happy SysAdmin Day EASY! Screen Capture and Share? Forget Camtasia, Try Jing! 7 Ways Croquet is Better than Second Life July 30th, 2007 by Jeff VanDrimmelen Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you're new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed . Thanks for visiting! Recently I posted an article questioning the usefulness of Second Life in education, to which I received mixed feedback. Last week I had the opportunity to see Dr. Julian Lombardi and Dr. Marilyn Lombardi of Duke University demonstrate a open-source peer-to-peer virtual world application called Croquet . Croquet is basically Second Life, but much more. Note: This product does not have a distributable application at this point. This article is one of two things: a call for help, or a glimpse in the future. If you have the skills to help out with the development, please do so, otherwise you should see a downloadable application this coming fall. Pros: 1. Scalelable - Peer to Peer Network Only 15-25 people can get on a second life server at a time. After that you have to use multiple servers to handle it all and it consumes an enormous amount of energy (as much as a real person

33. SQUEAK TUTORIAL www.dmu.com/croquet/ 1k - croquet North Carolina Events Calendar · 16 January 2008 http://www.dmu.com/croquet/

34. FAQs - Croquet Consortium Answer croquet, as a software development environment, is more extensible than the proprietary technologies behind collaborative worlds such as Second Life http://croquetproject.org/index.php/FAQs

var skin = 'monobook';var stylepath = '/skins'; var wgScriptPath=""; var wgServer="http://croquetproject.org"; FAQs From Croquet Consortium Jump to: navigation search Contents How is Croquet different from other technologies that seem similar? Why do we need Croquet? Who created Croquet? What is TeaTime? ... edit How is Croquet different from other technologies that seem similar? Answer: Croquet, as a software development environment, is more extensible than the proprietary technologies behind collaborative worlds such as Second Life , and before that ViOS . Second Life doesn't create a computational environment that belongs to its users - it uses a constrained computational environment (its servers) to capture "eyeballs" for a variety of schemes to derive revenue from them. With Croquet, users/developers may freely share, modify and view the source code (due to Croquet's liberal license), the technology is not hosted on a single organization’s server (and hence governed by that organization as was the case with ViOS and now with Second Life), and it provides a complete professional programmer’s language (Smalltalk/Squeak), integrated development environment (IDE), and class library in every distributed, running participant’s copy (the programming development environment itself is simultaneously shareable and extensible). Croquet based worlds can also be updated while the system is live and running. For more on how Croquet differs from SL, read this Some of the environments that are enabled by Croquet can superficially resemble those of Sun's

35. Croquet, Anyone? College Park Complex Built Around Leisure. - Washingtonpost.com Mar 8, 2008 Camden College Park is trying to be a fun place to live. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701670.

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36. Clarkpoint Croquet Company Clarkpoint croquet Company established 1981. Manufacturer of handmade croquet equipment. Complete full size sets and accessories, made to official http://www.clarkpoint.com/

Located in Southwest Harbor Maine on spectacular Mount Desert Island, Clark Point Croquet has been producing fine quality croquet sets since 1981. We hope you enjoy your stay, and will contact us with any questions or requests you may have. E-Mail us Mallets Sets About Clarkpoint Clarkpoint Croquet Company P.O. Box 1083 Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679 Phone:

37. Collaborative For Croquet Wisconsin nonstock, non-profit corporation to further development of croquet, provide an organization for projects consistent with this, and a legal entity http://www.croquetcollaborative.org/wordpress/

Collaborative For Croquet Inventing the Future, v.1.0 Welcome March 27th, 2007 Update 9 is available. See the download page. If you encounter problems, send mail to croquetcollaborative@charter.net Convened by computing pioneers Alan Kay and David Reed , the Croquet project is creating software that allows any combination of people in the world to simultaneously and spontaneously work within the same applications at the same time. Moreover, users can seamlessly communicate from within the application, even as they collaboratively create and modify these systems while they are using them. It sounds like science-fiction, but the first versions of the basic technology exist today. There are several institutions and individuals worldwide who are working on various parts of the core technology and applications. Working within the original Croquet Committee and the emerging Croquet Consortium Today, our immediate goal is to make it easy for thought leaders to try a real sample application, showing how much better software and telecommunications can be, and allowing them to participate in this development. Thus we are now producing both system software and an application. This lead application is in early education Posted in Uncategorized Pages About the Collaborative Developer Info KidsFirst Screenshots and Movies ... Try it! (download)

38. Croquet Sets, Croquet Bags, Balls, Mallets - Champion, Tournament, Internationsl Foam croquet Set. Weighted foamcovered wickets stay upright Tournament croquet - Six Player Set. Six 24” durable knurled hardwood handles http://www.shapeupshop.com/games/croquet.html

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39. 3pointD.com Teledildonics coming to croquet virtual worldbuilding platform 3pointD would love to hear about any work being done in croquet. http://www.3pointd.com/index.php?tag=croquet

40. Wow: 3D Operating System, Open Croquet « Scobleizer — Tech Geek Blogger Brief description and review of demonstration, many reader comments and links. Scobleizer. http://scobleizer.com/2006/05/06/wow-3d-operating-system-open-croquet/

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); May 6, 2006 Wow: 3D operating system, Open Croquet Open Croquet , which is a 3D world. Something like Second Life, but runs P2P. We have just seen a new world. You have just witnessed one of the first public demos of a 3D hyperlink in the system. You can walk from world-to-world. You can collaborate with people in new ways. Another demo? A 3D spreadsheet that can let you work in 3D space together on numbers with other people. This is rough, early-adopterish, but once you see this you realize a new kind of computing experience is coming. See that chess set in the image above? You can move around it. You can spin it. You can zoom toward it. And, if you touch it you are playing chess. All running P2P. No centralized servers needed. It's remarkable. They showed how you could just "step into" a new virtual world. Just move toward something that looks like a window and you "dive into" that Window and are instantly in a new world. In that new world there would be new people, new things to see. Sometimes I pinch myself at what I get to be among the first human beings to experience.

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