Hydrotherapy in spas still has a ways to go to combat its clunkier aspects: Some people will never get used to the idea of someone shooting a hose of water at them.
As consumers of the internet, of pop culture, we are faced with a fire hose of content that we cannot possibly keep up with.
Undeterred, the folks at Amazon gave the Kindle 1 a hose blast of marketing late in 2007.
On May 6, somebody, Hunsader says, opened up a fire hose worth of quotes straight at the NYSE.
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Morris had a supply of automobile hose clamps and random strips of rubber lying on one of the dusty shelves he had built in the half-basement, not far from where they would have to be used most of the time.
To demonstrate how they would disperse the sulfur dioxide, they had planned to float a balloon over Norfolk, at an altitude of a kilometre, and send a hundred and fifty litres of water into the air through a hose.
Lovingly nicknamed Anna Konda (no explanation necessary), the Norwegian bot was assembled using 20 hydraulic motors powered by a regular fire hose, whose 100 bars of pressure give it enough strength to break through walls and even lift a car right up off the ground.
When their 3-meters long robot, nicknamed "Anna Konda", is connected to a fire hose the hydraulics enable it to project a powerful stream of water and give it enough power to lift 650 kilograms, strong enough, its developers believe, to punch a hole through a door or wall to get to the flames.
At The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, a popular service is the Quick Fix, a combination of a Swiss shower (a multilevel shower with anywhere from nine to 12 showerheads of varying pressures) and Scotch spray-basically a small, pressurized hose used to blast at areas of special pain and tension.
Honda's system includes nozzle accessories and a hose that can reach every corner of the vehicle.
But the chapter marks a significant departure from the Freakonomists' modus operandi: it contains little in the way of economics, other than a brief discussion of externalities and the observation that the hose system would be much cheaper than building an entirely new low-carbon energy infrastructure for the world.
We hooked a breathing tube up to a hose from a ventilator and set it to give him fourteen forced breaths of a hundred-per-cent oxygen every minute.
At Tesco, a quarter of its wine leaves the vineyard in a "flexitank" a 6-meter sterilized bag which, when filled up with a hose, contains 24, 000 liters of wine.
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Steve Lipsky proved this when he made a video showing flames shooting out of his hose.
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Then attach a few lengths of plywood or maybe rubber hose to the back connected by chain links.
Waterproof in up to 8 inches of water and easy to clean with a hose.
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But the hose ban aims to reduce the quantity of water consumed while maintaining a cap on the price.
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Massa's botched pitstop at the Singapore Grand Prix a fortnight ago, which saw him drive down the pitlane with the fuel hose still attached to his car, was the latest in a long line of errors.
The house has also expanded its made-to-measure custom business, offering a wide range of fine leather gloves and cashmere and wool socks (or "hose, " as it quaintly still calls them), silk ties, even boxer shorts.
Topsy uses Twitter's high-volume fire hose of data to look at every tweet in the world, and establish a neutral baseline.
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To replace the force of gravity to ensure waste goes down into the toilet, there is actually a vacuum hose that sucks the waste.
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And if YouTube gets it right, the job of video curator could truly be a whole new job that turns the noisy YouTube video fire hose into an elegant and accessible video gallery.
We've seen in the past pit-stop errors having a huge effect on the outcome of the race - think Felipe Massa leaving the pits with his fuel hose attached in Singapore last season - so you can see why practice makes perfect.
"I worry that the firefighters and their high-pressure hose cannot reach our floor, " says Wu Dongyang, a private businessman who lives on the 16th floor of a 24-story building.
Video from the scene showed people clambering on the wreckage -- including parts of the fallen plane -- and working together to hold up what appeared to be a fire hose.
Speaking in the Hose of Commons, Mr Burley said he had been asked by the health watchdog Monitor to produce a business case and assess the feasibility of transferring the hospital to a community interest company.
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Their rough-hewn prototype sits in a small room at Trust Automation's headquarters in San Luis Obispo, California, using a water-filled vitamin bottle as a shock absorber. ("It runs like a Corvette on a Pinto engine, " Safreno says, smiling.) The ratty demo reel first shows a 22-second clip of an actor walking on a grassy lawn, past a blurred van, squirting water with a hose, at 24 fps.
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