'Hero Pipe' Wins Chicago Innovation Award Oct 20, 2009
But the winners stretch from a maker of backyard products, Suncast, whose self-winding hose reel is sold in such retail chains as Sears () and Target (), to the Art Institute of Chicago, which reinvented itself with its Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing. In addition, Abbott Laboratories (), which won in 2008 for its Xience coronary stent, claimed the first-ever People's Choice Award, racking up 1,655 votes in online balloting for a "mom-friendly" redesign of its Similac infant-formula packaging. (BusinessWeek)
High-rise high priority Jul 25, 2009
I know where the hose reels and emergency break glass buttons are but have never seen any fire extinguishers. Theres a fire escape map on every floor at the lifts, though. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Green Space: Use 'invasive' perennials effectively Jul 17, 2009
I even found some blooming from inside the hose reel last week. If the foliage gets annoying, I simply pull it out. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Eley Corp. moving manufacturing from Lincoln to China Jul 15, 2009
Eley Corp., a small, family-owned manufacturer of hoses and hose reels, will move its production from Lincoln to China next month, costing seven people their jobs. The seven production employees who will be let go make up half the work force of the small company. (Fremont Tribune, NE)
Longview police catch vehicle prowl suspect with his shorts down Jun 24, 2009
Longview officers responded to the 500 block of 16th Avenue around 2 a.m. Monday after a witness called to report a man breaking into a neighbor s SUV. He smashed the window with a garden hose reel, she said. Officers Brian Nevels, Brian Durbin and Tim Deisher responded. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Family rescued from house arson Apr 20, 2009
While the watch manager reassured the mother, firefighters then entered downstairs wearing breathing apparatus, and extinguished the fire in the door area using one hose reel. The mother and remaining three children were then led to safety. (BBC News -- UK)
How I accidentally invented a word Mar 1, 2009
"Duro" is also a spell-word in the Harry Potter books, a planet in the "Star Wars" universe, a brand name for tires, paper bags, and hose reels, and part of the name of the Palo Duro Canyon state park near Amarillo, Texas - but since none of those things overlap with sewing, there was no confusion. Duro is an example of an eponym - a word taken from someone's name - like the leotard (from Jules L. (Boston Globe)
CFOC to award $90,148.80 to area groups February 12 Feb 9, 2009
15: Harris Fire Department: total project, $31,500; amount approved, $3,500; matching funds, $28,000; project: resources will be used to acquire needed appurtenances, hoses and nozzles and to install a hose reel the department's new used fire pumper vehicle. 16: Osceola County Veterans Memorial: total project, $3,500; amount approved, $3,500; matching dollars, 0; project: project: resources will be used to erect a Veteran's Memorial at Hawkeye Point. (Ocheyedan Press Melvin News, IA)
