But thrusting bat and pad together down the pitch was fraught with danger.
And that smooth drag comes from the graphite-impregnated cork disc, which acts like a brake pad, slowing it down without locking.
Samuels, who required a runner after injuring his knee earlier in the match, was dropped by Warne offf MacGill when on 18, and was grateful when a bat-pad appeal was turned down.
With the pad shoved several yards down the pitch, umpires could be counted on to turn down the bowling team's leg-before-wicket appeals since the ball was so far in front of the stumps that it would be practically impossible to judge definitively whether it would have hit.
So when I jumped a little coming down to the pad, I underestimated the leap and my shins brushed the last rung, picking up the dust.
He drew a calendar on his pad of paper to start counting down the days.
Fearing also for his wife and young son, he put down his recorder and reporting pad and went into hiding.
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Turning down the sensitivity of the pad helped things a bit as did turning up the SmartSense settings to "Max, " but that subsequently resulted in scrolling and other gestures not being as responsive.
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There is no simple way to know for sure if Atlantis has some bad wires like those that flunked the inventory inspection, because they cannot be reached until the shuttle stack is enshrouded in scaffolding inside a "High-Bay" three slow miles down the crawler road from the pad.
Australia, who won the first Test in Brisbane by an innings and 65 runs, reached tea with only four wickets down but lost Marcus North caught off bat and pad in third over of the final session and then Clarke, who got a thick edge to slip.
When Tim and Edra first decided to get divorced in December 2006, they told The Wall Street Journal that they sat down with a bottle of wine and a yellow legal pad--without lawyers present--to divide up their assets.
No matter how the device is plonked down, two of the bumps establish direct electrical contact with the pad.
Though it sacrifices genuine leather in favor of a rubber coating, its contours and features are similar, down to the Engine Start button (here, a d-pad) and the turn signals (replaced with face buttons).
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Kid friendly features of the Child Pad include access to the Kids App Store powered by AppsLib which is filtered down to 14-friendly categories and 10, 000 apps including games, entertainment, communication, multimedia, books, comics, sports and more.
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The command pad appears with one upward swipe on the screen with the S Pen button pressed down.
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The Big Agnes Horsethief is a mummy-shaped down sleeping bag with three major features: no down under sleeper, a sleeve on the bottom to hold a ground pad, and a built-in stow sack to create a pillow by inserting clothing.
The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.
Waingankar then claimed the key wicket of Kevin Pietersen, who advanced down the wicket trying to whip the ball through mid-wicket but was hit on the pad - and the umpire upheld the lbw appeal.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
"It was a cold winter morning out in Afghan and I was just walking down a sandy path with overgrown trees on it when I put my right foot onto a pressure pad IED, it detonated and the next thing I knew I was on my back, " he said.
Penny Van Esterik, author of Materializing Thailand, thinks that pad Thai was the first standardised recipe in the country, thanks to the systemic way in which it was handed down and the nationalistic fervour surrounding it.
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