To demonstrate: as I sit writing this blog, I glance at a ball point pen on my desk.
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Finally, in the 78th over of the day, Smith top-edged the new ball to point.
Ball-point pens are banned, but pencils and computers are allowed.
Different from Wacom's capacitive Bamboo Styluses available for iPad, iPhone and other touchscreens, the Bamboo Stylus feel delivers a powerful combination of "active" pen and sensor technology for a digital pen experience that emulates the feel of a traditional ball-point pen or pencil.
Johnson stooped too low to flick on Davies' cross and Zamora was perfectly placed to side-foot the ball in from point-blank range past Carson's despairing dive.
"Every time it would start off OK, and then they would drop the ball at some point, " usually because of gaps in language skills, he says.
Sangakkara played elegantly before he slashed a wide ball from Liam Plunkett to point, where Kyle Coetzer parried the ball above his head and caught it at the fourth attempt.
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The first step is simply for a player to note the time it takes for the ball to pass a fixed point to get a rough approximation of the velocity of the ball.
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To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.
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But all too often the visitors spilled the ball at the crucial point or conceded possession for lack of support.
It also can record the point where ball meets racket, rate your consistency and measure intensity (shots per minute and amount of actual playing time, rather than time on court).
And Sussex nerves were starting to fray when Rory Hamilton-Brown drove the first ball after tea to point and Luke Wright was taken low down at slip driving hard outside off-stump at Plunkett.
Bob Owens of Southington, Connecticut, contends Petraeus is simply doing what soldiers do: "Asking the general if he can win is like asking a professional athlete if he wants the ball in a critical point in the game, " Owens wrote.
Technology such as Hawkeye or the Snickometer would not be used, but an lbw mat - the solid line between the stumps used by broadcasters to determine where the ball pitches and the point of impact on the batsman's pads - will be included.
Worse were those of Paul Collingwood, who threw his bat at a ball well wide of the off stump and was caught in the gully for 24, Matt Prior, who sliced a slower ball from Johnson to point and then Andrew Flintoff, who received a hero's ovation as he walked out, but chased a very wide delivery and was caught behind for seven.
The most important: The Knicks finally have veteran point guards to help distribute the ball, unlike last season when Anthony was playing too much point forward in what became a stagnant offense.
Murali Vijay at silly point grabbed the ball one-handed, however, and returned to Mahendra Dhoni, who smartly deflected on to the stumps.
The hosts pulled one back through Lewis McGugan's penalty after a foul on Chris Gunter and Nathan Tyson fired in a loose ball to earn them a point.
Then, having hit 10 fours in three hours, he was also lured into error, cutting a short ball from Jonathan Clare to point where Wagg held a good low catch.
On came Edwards, so impressive in the first Test against England, and he was immediately rewarded with Strauss slicing one at the diving Pollard at backward point but the ball popped out of his hands.
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The duo took the score to 117-1 in the 13th over before Thomas had Croft caught at backward point with a slower ball.
"I thought Connecticut did a tremendous job in terms of getting into the middle and getting the ball out to the 3-point shooters, " Boeheim said.
My ball machine also became a flash point of potential danger.
When asked about how first-time starter Reggie Jackson has done filling in for the injured Westbrook, Durant faulted himself for demanding the ball too often from the young point guard.
Currently, two writers from each of the 14 American League cities will name up to 10 ball players and allocate a weighted point system to each spot on the ballot where the names of the candidates appear.
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Ponting had already been involved in a heated debate with umpire Aleem Dar about the state of the ball, but then neared boiling point when four overthrows raced past Krejza as he was being handed back his cap by the official.
Craft stole the ball from Burke, but the Michigan point guard hustled back to prevent an easy basket.
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