On release, the bowler ' pinches ' or clicks the thumb and forefinger, causing the ball to come out underneath the hand.

On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: thumb " He smoked sometimes six packs of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products ".

On the Earth's surface, 1 kN is about 101. 97162 kilogram-force of load, but multiplying the kilonewton value by 100 ( i. e. using a slightly conservative and easier to calculate value ) is a good rule of thumb.

On the anterior aspect of a person's forearm, proximal to the wrist, flexor carpi radialis is the most lateral ( closest to the thumb ) tendon visible when the wrist is brought into flexion.

On the larger rope there is a loop on the end big enough for the divers thumb.

On June 28, 2010, Martínez suffered a fractured left thumb, and was placed on the 15-day DL.

On his second drive, Simms suffered a season-ending injury when the thumb on his throwing hand hit a player's helmet on his follow-through.

" On the average they were more than twice as tall as the First Men, and much taller than the Second Men ... the delicate sixth finger had been induced to divide its tip into two Lilliputian fingers and a corresponding thumb.

On August 2, Youkilis ' season was cut short by a right thumb abductor muscle tear, which he had played through for two weeks.

On seeing this, the DH. 9 flown by Captain Anderson, despite itself receiving damage that required his gunner, Lt Mitchell to climb onto the wing and block a leaking fuel tank with his thumb, landed next to the striken aircraft to rescue its crew.

On lateral C-spine X-ray, the thumbprint sign ( or " thumb sign ") describes a swollen, enlarged epiglottis.

On some modern game controllers, the position of the first stick is where the left thumb usually rests, usually to the upper left of the D-pad while the right stick is usually to the lower left of the face buttons.

On the shorter scale EUBs, bass guitar fingering can be used over a large portion of the fingerboard and thumb positions may not be necessary.

On June 9, Matt Guerrier broke his thumb and Lohse was recalled.

On Waters ' second interception, Pat Haden's throwing hand hit Randy White's helmet, breaking his thumb and knocking him out of the game.

On the thumb claw the raised attachment point for the tendon of the extensor muscle is bordered by deep grooves for ligaments.

On November 22, 2008, Bogans, starting his first game of 2008 – 09 season, broke his thumb on his non-shooting hand in a game against the Houston Rockets.

On July 11, 2010, in her fourth tournament after returning from her thumb surgery, Creamer won the U. S. Women's Open.

On June 29, Utley was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained thumb.

On each hand Ouranosaurus bore a thumb claw or spike that was much smaller than that of the earlier Iguanodon.

On June 24, however, Guzmán was injured while tagging out a would-be base-stealer, and had surgery the next day to repair a torn thumb ligament, sidelining him for the rest of the 2007 season.

On release, the bowler ' pinches ' or clicks the thumb and forefinger, causing the ball to come out underneath the hand.

Ramirez began the season fairly slowly, batting. 168 with 5 home runs and 22 RBIs through his first 47 games before landing on the 15-Day Disabled List on June 9 with a bruised thumb.

He was inactive during the Indianapolis Colts loss on October 22, due to a fractured thumb.

* April 3 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

In April 1944, the Japanese colonial government forced Bosung College to change its name and placed it under the thumb of the Japanese authorities.

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Different approaches to studying this problem have looked at describing how to design games ( Crawford, 1984 ; Rollings and Morris, 2000 ; Rouse III, 2001 ), extracting guidelines and rules of thumb for making better games ( Fabricatore et al., 2002 ; Falstein, 2004 ), abstracting commonalities from games and understanding how they relate to each other ( Björk and Holopainen, 2005 ; Zagal et al., 2005 ), and studying the gameplaying experience from the point of view of the player ( Pagulayan et al., 2003 ; Sykes and Brown, 2003 ; Koster, 2004 ).

Key made his Test match debut in the second Test against India in 2002, as a replacement for Marcus Trescothick, who had broken his thumb.

Trescothick had been playing well in 2002, scoring 161 in the Sri Lankan series and being awarded the Player of the Series in the tri-nation NatWest Series ( including a century in the final ), until his season was cut short when he fractured his thumb while fielding.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

An important part of balalaika technique is the use of the left thumb to fret notes on the lower string, particularly on the prima, where it is used to form chords.

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It is supported on the thumb.

As a general rule of thumb, if the condition number, then you may lose up to digits of accuracy on top of what would be lost to the numerical method due to loss of precision from arithmetic methods.

Placing a somewhat closed right hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up, the fingers point from the x-axis to the y-axis, in a positively oriented coordinate system.

The other way of orienting the axes is following the left hand rule, placing the left hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

Thrown in a sidearm manner but with thumb held on the discs ' underside: its also the power finger.

The thumb rests on the shaft of the bow, next to the frog while the other fingers drape on the other side of the bow.

Various styles dictate the curve of the fingers and thumb, as do the style of piece ; a more pronounced curve and lighter hold on the bow is used for virtuoso or more delicate pieces, while a flatter curve and sturdier grip on the bow sacrifices some power for easier control in strokes such as detaché, spiccato, and staccato.

A bassist holding a French bow ; note how the thumb rests on the shaft of the bow next to the frog.

This technique — also used on the cello — is called thumb position.

These markets involve numerous variables and human emotions which may be impossible to deterministically characterize, thus expert systems based on the rules of thumb from experts and simulation data are used.

The economist Walter Block observed critically that while The Road to Serfdom is " a war cry against central planning ," it does show some reservations with a free market system and laissez-faire capitalism, with Hayek even going so far as to say that " probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez-faire.

The most telling passage reads: " We have an example of these things ( that act on the senses ) in sound and fire of that children's toy which is made in many parts of the world ; i. e. a device no bigger than one's thumb.

As a rule of thumb, if a character or symbol was not already part of a widely used data-processing character set and was also not usually provided on typewriter keyboards for a national language, it didn't get in.

Hendrix had large hands and characteristically used his thumb to fret bass notes, leaving his fingers free to play melodic lines on top.