Because the river and its tributaries typically freeze in the winter, the spring melt is commonly accompanied by ice floes that get stuck and jammed along the main trunk of the river.

In the spring of 1890 it was reported that one could walk for a hundred miles along the Humboldt River on cow carcasses, and floating carcasses jammed against bridges in Elko, causing flooding.

The elbow of one has a mysterious tendency to become jammed in the jaws of the other.

In a worst-case scenario this may cause a cartridge to fire even when the trigger is not pulled, potentially leading to damage or causing the gun to cycle its action and keep firing until it has exhausted its ammunition supply or jammed.

In a modern context, bayonets are still used for controlling prisoners and as a " last resort " weapon for close quarters combat e. g. situations where a soldier has run out of ammunition, or if his weapon has jammed or is damaged.

Notably, the Stony Creek Band got its start at the Inn in the 1970s, when fiddlers and folk musicians regularly jammed for many hours into the evenings, and has continued to play together ever since, cutting records and becoming significantly popular across the Northeast.

They find they are unable to use the Improbability Drive to escape, as Arthur has accidentally jammed the computer with a simple request for a cup of tea which proved a rather difficult problem.

The Virgin Records mogul, Richard Branson, has a luxury residence in the town, and his label's stars have often visited the village and sometimes jammed at the local bar, ' Sa Fonda '.

The locally jammed sphere packing with the lowest density has a density of only 0. 0555.

However, with communications still jammed, Grant is unable to warn the REF ships of this discovery, and has no choice but to retreat while the remaining ships are left to fight a hopeless battle.

However, with communications still jammed, Grant is unable to warn the REF ships of this discovery, and has no choice but to retreat while the remaining ships are left to fight a hopeless battle.

Harmon was the radio expert when he was in the club, and has equal if not better radio equipment, as hinted by " The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake ", where he temporarily jammed the signals sent by The Mad Scientists Club and came very close to unmasking the monster.

There it is discovered animal tissue of great proportions has jammed in its dive planes.

When they are pressed, a coin or token that has become jammed in the coin mechanism is returned to the player.

The sentence The door cannot open, on the other hand, exhibits a force dynamic pattern: apparently the door has some tendency toward opening, but there is some other force preventing it from being opened ( e. g., it may be jammed ).

The film has obtained some notoriety as a showing of the movie on HBO in 1986 was jammed by a satellite broadcast operator calling himself Captain Midnight.

The hatch in Stretchy's junkyard is jammed, no-one can unstick it and Noisy has a new song.

* Ethiopia has jammed the DW and VOA transmissions as well as ESAT Ethiopian Satellite Television and also as well Eritrean radio stations.

He has jammed at the Indie Game Jam, presented at the Game Developers Conference, and is an active participant in the academic game studies community.

Motor-driven mechanical calculators had these between the drive motor and gear train, to limit damage when the mechanism jammed, as motors used in such calculators had high stall torque and were capable of causing damage to the mechanism if torque wasn't limited.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

Upon inspecting the machine, Alcorn discovered the mechanisms had jammed from an overflow of quarters.

On 10 February, the Schwammenauel dam was taken by American forces, although the Germans had jammed open the dam's floodgates a day earlier, flooding the Rur Valley and delaying the U. S. advance to the Rhine for two further weeks, until 23 February, when the flood waters had receded.

Also, when jammed, Single-8 footage had a tendency to stretch in the projector, unlike the acetate-based Super-8 film, which simply broke.

Light vehicles such as technicals are often thought to be more mobile than armoured vehicles, but on one occasion an African peace-keeper driving a Grizzly AVGP whose guns had jammed, succeeded in catching up with, ramming and rolling over a fleeing Sudanese technical whilst ignoring the technical's apparently ineffectual heavy machine-gun fire.

Powell's gun was also rendered useless during the melee, as it had become jammed. Lewis Powell attacking Frederick Seward after attempting to shoot him.

" The band complained that they had to take the stage at three in the morning because the Grateful Dead had jammed so far past their scheduled set time that by the time Creedence began playing, many in the audience had gone to sleep.

"; a recognition of the deep respect and influence of Booker T and The MG's, with whom the members of the band had jammed.

The thigh muscles had been neatly sliced so he could not close his legs, and then something had been jammed up his rectum, tearing it apart.

Belyayev then had to pull Leonov, whose legs had become jammed under the TV screen console, out of the capsule.

Kempenfelt was writing in his cabin when the ship sank ; the cabin doors had jammed due to the ship heeling and he perished with the rest.

Sakai, who did not know Southerland's guns had jammed, recalled the duel in his autobiography:

Skylab's meteorite-and-sun shield and one of its solar arrays had torn loose during launch, and the remaining primary solar array was jammed.

Both Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure were featured on-stage in the rock-star jammed The Last Waltz, a documentary and concert film made by Martin Scorsese about The Band ( who had an immense following in the late ' 60s to mid ' 70s ) and a large number of their musical friends.

Haynes was unable to move the throttle ; the linkage had been jammed as a result of the engine failure.

Their musical style was an original blend of genres: they combined the high-volume electrified rock sound that had been pioneered by Jimi Hendrix ( whom McLaughlin had jammed with on his initial arrival in New York as part of the Tony Williams Lifetime ), complex rhythms in unusual time signatures that reflected McLaughlin's interest in Indian classical music as well as funk, and harmonic influence from European classical music.

The 15, 000-plus crowds that jammed the Met Center for Cup games were a shock to Rushin, who hadn't seen a crowd that large in the arena in years — and certainly not when he and the rest of the Kennedy High Class of ' 84 held their graduation exercises there.

In the 1906 version of the book Small Wars the author says of machine guns: " The older forms are not suitable as a rule ... they jammed at Ulundi, they jammed at Dogali, they jammed at Abu Klea and Tofrek, in some cases with unfortunate results.

* In the season 4 premiere episode of Criminal Minds, called Mayhem, after an explosive device was used to destroy a Federal SUV, SSA Dr. Spencer Reid says, " device was likely made using oxidizing agents including chromates, peroxides, perchlorates, chlorates, and red mercury all jammed into a device no larger than a cell phone.

After numerous takes the band jammed some old numbers and then returned to " Get Back " one last time in an attempt to record the master take.

Instead, Carney and Auerbach jammed, eventually leading to the duo forming a band in mid-2001 and recording a six-song demo consisting of " old blues rip-offs and words made up on the spot ".

The first session took place in Konk Studios, The Kinks old London studio, where Tempest jammed with English musicians who had formerly played with Massive Attack.