The riggers in sculling apply the forces symmetrically to each side of the boat, whereas in sweep oared racing these forces are staggered alternately along the boat.

His primary strength was in sweep oared rowing, where he has the distinction of being one of the few oarsmen to have won Olympic Gold rowing both bowside and strokeside ( starboard and port ).

An 8 oared sweep racing shell ( 8 +).

Each rower in a sweep boat is referred to either as port or starboard, depending on which side of the boat the rower's oar extends to.

The standard crew complement of a contemporary dragon boat is typically 22, comprising 20 paddlers in pairs facing toward the bow of the boat, 1 drummer or caller at the bow facing toward the paddlers, and 1 sweep ( a steerer ) at the rear of the boat.

They paddle in a general canoe style since canoes dragon boats, proa's and rafts are all distinctly differing paddle craft all paddled similarly variations exist due to the size and seating position in the boat ( Note that the sweep is not a helmsman or ' coxswain ', which are British-based naval and competitive rowing terms ( coxswain is also a Canadian War Canoe racing term ) for the person in charge of the boat.

The direction of the dragon boat is set by the sweep, rather than by the paddlers while actually racing, however for docking and other manoeuvres, individual paddlers may be asked to paddle ( while others either stop the boat or rest ) according to the commands given by the drummer or sweep.

The sweep, known also as the steersman controls the dragon boat with a sweep oar rigged at the rear of the boat, generally on the side and off centre, which is used both for ruddering as well as for sweeping the stern sidewards.

Dragon boaters in Portland OR USA first used Taiwanese dragon boats fitted with sweep oars for steering that were mounted over the centre line or keel line of the boat, rather than of to the side and off centre.

Likewise, " coxswain " ( pronounced cox ' n ), " cox " and " helmsman " are terms originally used in the British navy ( like boatswain pronounced bosun ) to refer to the person in charge of a small boat and this person was not necessarily the sweep or person at the rear steering the boat.

On a dragon boat, it is the drummer who calls the stroke, though if there is no drummer aboard, the task can be transferred to the sweep.

In Canadian war canoe racing, the sweep is in charge of the boat and is referred to as a coxswain.

The responses of the boat to the sweep oar are opposite to the direction of the oar grip-if the sweep pulls the oar grip right, or into the boat where the sweep is mounted on the port quarter ( left rear ), then the boat will turn left, and if it is pushed out, or left, the boat turns right.

By the time the historical written record begins to cover this area, it has already seen a number of invasions sweep over it, leaving social and political upheaval in their wake.

* In sweep or sweep-oar rowing, each rower has one oar, held with both hands.

A sculling oar is shorter and has a smaller blade area than the equivalent sweep oar.

However, one has to sweep the celestial object to ensure that the lowest limb of the celestial object touches the horizon.

A " laser broom " has been proposed to sweep space debris from Earth orbit.

The network has no digital on-screen graphic logo in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen on the HD feed, except for a ten-second promotional sweep of a Fox HD acknowledgement ( which before the end of 2010, also featured a sponsor tag for DirecTV ); instead a trigger in Fox's program delivery system at each station displays the affiliate station's logo bug in the 16: 9 right-hand corner of the screen, which disappears during commercial breaks ( during local pre-emptions of Fox programming the logo does remain on display even though the station is not airing the programming ).

This type has a major advantage since sweep speeds can be much faster, allowing for less blurry imaging of moving structures, such as the heart and arteries.

Knowing the area ( S < sub > w </ sub >), taper ratio () and the span ( b ) of the wing, and whether the wing has sweep or not, the chord at any position on the span can be calculated by the formula:

Now the sign has turned into a smooth symbolic sign where the signer makes two touches on the chest, one on each side, with a sweep of the wrist in between.

Pistorius did not qualify for the South African team for the Olympics, but went on to sweep the 2008 Summer Paralympics, and has been ruled eligible to qualify for any future Olympics.

That is, if Yoshi is harmed to the point where the Smile Meter has no remaining petals, the music will sweep down to a lower pitch and tempo, reflecting his dreary mood.

The sweep technique has proved useful in measuring rapidly-adapting visual processes and also for recording from babies, where recording duration is necessarily short.

For many years the sweep technique has been used in paediatric ophthalmology ( electrodiagnosis ) clinics Worldwide.

Following the Red's sweep of the Phillies in the League Championship Series and New York Yankees in the 1976 World Series ( the only time a team has ever swept the postseason since the League Championship Series was introduced in 1969 ), Pérez was traded to the Montreal Expos with Will McEnaney for Woodie Fryman and Dale Murray.

Each row of the polyplacophoran radula has two mineralized teeth used to abrade the substrate, and two longer teeth that sweep up any debris.

Since the sweep is the only person in the boat who is able to control the boat looking forward ( the drummer is seated facing backward ) he or she has the obligation to override the caller at any time during the race ( or the coach during practice ) if the safety of the crew is threatened in any way such as an impending collision with another boat or a fixed or floating obstruction in the water.

It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self — not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence's whole unbounded sweep — the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike.

Of that list, only Ovechkin has also won the Rocket Richard Trophy for top scorer in the same year, completing what is to date the only Hart-Pearson-Art Ross-Richard sweep.

It has a 2 m belt attached to the front that rotates to sweep leaves, nuts, and small twigs from left to right, depositing the material in the row's center as it drives forward.

It is a work so stupendous in scale, so colossal in the sweep of its power, so reckless of ordinary standards of conception or method, so pure an inspiration of a soul burning with passionate visual imagining and a hand magical to work in shape and colour, that it has defied the connoisseurship of three centuries, and has generally ( though not with its first Venetian contemporaries ) passed for an eccentric failure ; while to a few eyes it seems to be so transcendent a monument of human faculty applied to the art pictorial as not to be viewed without awe.

Off the coast of New Zealand, an undersea volcano has formed an island and the nearby currents sweep many kinds of creatures to it, again creating huge feeding grounds.

The sweep of space, the delicate counterbalance of the white masses, the over-all completeness and unity, the originality and imagination, all entitle it to be called an authentic masterpiece.

However, its original purpose was to evade an opponent's floor sweep and flip to the antagonist's exposed side or it may be used as a double aerial kick to an opponent standing off to the side.

On some CRT monitors, the beam sweep rate may be fixed, resulting in a fixed native resolution.

In theory this could also apply to the 4x and 8x, but most rowing clubs cannot afford to have a dedicated large hull which might be rarely used and instead generally opt for versatility in their fleet by using stronger shells which can be rigged for either sweep rowing or sculling.

Other standard iterative methods for matrix equation solutions can also be used, for example the Gauss – Seidel method, where updated values for each patch are used in the calculation as soon as they are computed, rather than all being updated synchronously at the end of each sweep.

An uncontrolled jibe can happen suddenly by itself when sailing downwind if the helmsman is not paying attention to the wind direction and can be very dangerous as the main boom will sweep across the cockpit very quickly and with great force.

On December 15, in another nationally-televised game, the Bills completed a season sweep at Giants Stadium, beating the Giants 17-13, a game which was close, but would prove to be not as close as this one.

** Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120, 000 to 400, 000.

Barrage jamming may be accomplished by presetting multiple jammers on adjacent frequencies, by using a single wideband transmitter, or by using a transmitter capable of frequency sweep fast enough to appear radiating simultaneously over wide band ( e. g. a carcinotron ).

By changing its sweep angle in this way, drag can be reduced at high speed ( with the wing swept ) without sacrificing low speed performance ( with the wing perpendicular ).

Boas believed that the sweep of cultures, to be found in connection with any sub species, is so vast and pervasive that there cannot be a relationship between culture and race.

The Flyers looked to be headed toward another sweep against the New York Islanders after winning the first three games.

Despite their success against Calgary, round 2 would prove to be a disaster for the Sharks, when they lost in a four game sweep to Detroit ( in a rematch of the previous year ) without even holding a single lead in all 4 games.

Ultimately, once mastered, sweep picking can be applied to virtually any idea — arpeggio or otherwise.

County Down is where, in the words of the famous song by Percy French, " The mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea ", and the granite Mourne Mountains continue to be renowned for their beauty.

However, in winter the city can be vulnerable to windstorms and Arctic cold fronts that sweep across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

) If the subject is arrested in a home, police may search the room in which they were arrested, and conduct a " protective sweep " of the premises where there is reasonable suspicion that other individuals may be hiding.

However, many modern protocols recommend against the use of the finger sweep since, if the patient is conscious, they will be able to remove the foreign object themselves, or if they are unconscious, the rescuer should simply place them in the recovery position ( where the object should fall out due to gravity ).

A single sweep may be adequate or it may be necessary to average the graphs obtained in several sweeps with the averager triggered by the sweep cycle.