A method for exercising muscles acting across a joint is provided. A nozzle plate is provided on one side surface of the flowing-path plate, said nozzle plate having a nozzle that is communicated with the flowing-path space. The circuitry may be capable of providing data recovery during extended drop out periods of a high speed serial link with an embedded clock signal. The opening is formed in misalignment with above an exhaust pipe so that the battery pack is arranged adjacent the exhaust pipe in the width-wise direction of the vehicle. In addition, the invention also allows a subscriber of a regular telephone line that is used substantially or exclusively for outbound-only purposes to convert the regular telephone line into an outbound-only telephone line, thereby allowing the telephone number to reuse the global telephone number for an converted outbound-only telephone line. A circular trellis formed from the bit stream may enable the reading of a targeted data sequence without additional tail bits to improve data transmission efficiency.