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"This kid I like right now, Jack, he's in this band The Dough Rollers. I like this kid's style. He's not trying to knock you over. I like watching him." Jack White, Rolling Stone.
The Dough Rollers take their name from a song (Dough Roller Blues) officially recorded in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee in 1930 by celebrated blues singer and guitarist Garfield Akers. The track Cottonfield Blues which Akers recorded a year earlier has often been credited with heralding the birth of rock n roll itself and when you consider that the Dough Rollers also cite “Father of the Delta Blues” musician Charley Patton as a major hero you get some idea that you’re not going to see these guys on American Idol any time soon. Which is not to say that haven’t already appeared on the David Letterman Show – because they have.
The Dough Rollers are essentially Malcolm Ford (vocals, guitar) and Jack Byrne (guitar, vocals) and their history as a band dates back to 2008 when they both bonded over a mutual appreciation for blues music. Born in Wyoming Malcolm met New York-born Jack whilst out clubbing and demanded that he give him guitar lessons. Jack duly obliged and the nascent two-piece then expanded to encompass fiddler and singer Julia Tepper. Two albums quickly followed before the band expanded to a four piece for their third long playing offering (adding bass and drums) that really made people sit up and take note. Those people included Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Queens Of The Stone Age who all took the Dough Rollers on tour and Jack White who promptly signed the band to his Third Man Records.
The Dough Rollers released Little Lily/The Sailing Song on 7” vinyl through Third Man Records before recording the five track Gone Baby Gone EP which features Gone Baby Gone, Mansion On A Hill (produced by Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme whose previous credits include much of Arctic Monkeys Humbug), Friend Of Mine, My Love and Garbage Salad (featured on Letterman).
Released in the UK for the first time on April 6th the EP is a chance to get acquainted with Ford’s wondrous whisky-tinged vocals and Byrne’s nimble fretwork and it’s also a foretaste of the band’s debut album as a four-piece, an album they are currently recording in Manhattan’s Relicroom Studio.
The Dough Rollers will be appearing live on the following UK dates:
feb 28 Southampton, The Brook
mar 01 Chester, The Compass
mar 02 Nottingham, Bodega
mar 05 Sheffield, The Maida Vale
mar 06 Birmingham, The Dark Horse
mar 07 Weston Super Mare, The Back Bar
mar 08 Brixton, The Windmill
mar 09 Milton Keynes, Crauford Arms
mar 10 London, The Garage
Gone Baby Gone EP will be available via Third Man Records from April 6th 2015
spanwidth min.: 52 cm
spanwidth max.: 57 cm
size min.: 29 cm
size max.: 32 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 17 days
incubation max.: 19 days
fledging min.: 26 days
fledging max.: 29 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 6
Physical characteristics
Large and colorful bird, being iridescent blue, black and chestnut. Roller without tail streamers, proportionately larger headed than most congeners, and in flight appears long-necked. Nominate race with head, neck amd underparts light blue, whitish around base of bill, and short, thin blackish eyestripe. Rufous brown upperparts, with back, rump and tail-coverts ultramarine blue. Wing coverts greenish-blue, marginal ones purple, primary coverts and bases of primaries azure-blue, remiges otherwise black. Tail greenish-blue with darker base, central feathers greyish. Race semenowi slightly paler than nominate.
Habitat
Warm and sunny lowlands, in open countryside with patches pine or oak woods with heathery clearings, orchards, mixed farmland, broad river valleys, and dissected plains with scattered thorny or leafy trees.
Other details
Coracias garrulus is a widespread summer visitor to southern and eastern Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is relatively small (30%) overall.
This bird is breeding in north-western Africa, south and eastern Europe and western Asia, reaching Pakistan and Mongolia in the east. It winters in sub-Saharan Africa. The population of the European Union has undergone a strong decrease in numbers and a contraction of its distribution since the end of last century. Currently it is estimated at 5000-12000 breeding pairs. Since 1991 it has become extinct in Germany. The principal reasons of this decline are habitat degradation, agricultural intensification and increasing use of pesticides. In some countries the species is also persecuted
Feeding
Diet mainly invertebrates: beetles and other hard-bodied insects, and some small vertebrates. Exceptionally, fruits such as grapes and figs eaten. Many live scorpions taken, and species may be and accomplished scorpion predator. Several other prey items are distasteful: stink-grasshoppers and carabid, lampyrid and silphid beetles. Forages mostly from elevated perch, watching ground intently.
Conservation
Coracias garrulus occurs as two subspecies: the nominate breeds from Morocco, southwest and south-central Europe and Asia Minor east through northwest Iran to southwest Siberia (Russia); and semenowi, which breeds in Iraq and Iran (except northwest) east to Kashmir and north to Turkmenistan, south Kazakhstan and northwest China (west Sinkiang). The species overwinters in two distinct regions of Africa, from Senegal east to Cameroon and from Ethiopia west to Congo and south to South Africa. It has a large global population, including an estimated 100,000-220,000 individuals in Europe (50-74% of the global breeding range). However, following a moderate decline during 1970-1990, the species has contined to decline by up to 25% across Europe during 1990-2000 (including in key populations in Turkey and European Russia). Overall European declines exceeded 30% in three generations (15 years). Populations in northern Europe have undergone severe declines (Estonia: 50-100 pairs in 1998 to no known breeding pairs in 2004, Latvia: several thousand to under 30 pairs in 2004, Lithuania: 1,000-2,000 pairs in 1970s to 20 pairs in 2004), and in Russia it has now disappeared from the northern part of its range. However, there is no evidence of any declines in Central Asia. Should these populations be shown to be declining, the species may warrant uplisting further to Vulnerable. Threats include persecution on migration in some Mediterranean countries and hundreds, perhaps thousands, are shot for food in Oman every spring. Use of pesticides reduces food availability, and the species is sensitive to changing farming and forestry practices. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Monogamous, solitary and territorial, with typical rolling and diving aerial display. Nest site an unlined cavity in a large tree, building, cliff or riverbank. 4-5 eggs, incubation by female, 17-19 days. Chick hatches naked and blind, has closed spiny feather sheaths by 13th day
Migration
An intercontinental migrant, almost entire world population wintering in Africa South of Sahara. In autumn has occurred in great abundance in Algeria and Morocco, though only small numbers winter in West Africa; strong passage up Nile Valley and on West coast of Red Sea, also across Ethiopia, and in October-December through East Africa, especially Rift Valley; weak passage through Arabia. Winters mainly in East & South West Africa in Kenya, Tanzania, North East Botswana and East Namibia; present in October-April/May in South Africa, where prone to flock, evidently still moving South in November-December, and seen in South West Cape Province only in December-February. Congregates in East Tanzania from late March, and in early April up to hundreds of thousands travel in North in narrow corridor along East coastal lowlands to North East Somalia, in one of continent's most spectacularly visible migrations, with thousands passing over a given locality in a few hours, e.g. 40,000-50,000 at Balad, Somalia, on single day in April. In Somalia, migrants fly 300-500 m above land, evenly spaced in column several Km wide, at ground speed of c. 48km/h; also common to abundant in Ethiopia in April. From Somalia birds emigrate at Cape Gardafui, with flocks seen from light aircraft arriving on Dhofar plain in South Oman, after sea crossing of 600 km, and many then cross a further 600 km of desert to reach Persian Gulf; singletons and loose flocks of 10-30 birds frequent in Oman from Mid-April to mid-May, often flying by day on broad front North or North East, or North West on Batinah coast. Recoveries of ringed birds suggest that they travel the 10,000 km from East Europe to Central Africa at c. 67 km/day, and return in spring 110 km/day.
The Houston Roller Derby girls skate near the front of the 2013 36th Annual 1960 St Patrick's Day Parade in Houston Texas. The Parade runs between Champions Forest Drive and Kuykendahl along FM 1960 on the far north side of Houston.
spanwidth min.: 52 cm
spanwidth max.: 57 cm
size min.: 29 cm
size max.: 32 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 17 days
incubation max.: 19 days
fledging min.: 26 days
fledging max.: 29 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 6
Physical characteristics
Large and colorful bird, being iridescent blue, black and chestnut. Roller without tail streamers, proportionately larger headed than most congeners, and in flight appears long-necked. Nominate race with head, neck amd underparts light blue, whitish around base of bill, and short, thin blackish eyestripe. Rufous brown upperparts, with back, rump and tail-coverts ultramarine blue. Wing coverts greenish-blue, marginal ones purple, primary coverts and bases of primaries azure-blue, remiges otherwise black. Tail greenish-blue with darker base, central feathers greyish. Race semenowi slightly paler than nominate.
Habitat
Warm and sunny lowlands, in open countryside with patches pine or oak woods with heathery clearings, orchards, mixed farmland, broad river valleys, and dissected plains with scattered thorny or leafy trees.
Other details
Coracias garrulus is a widespread summer visitor to southern and eastern Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is relatively small (30%) overall.
This bird is breeding in north-western Africa, south and eastern Europe and western Asia, reaching Pakistan and Mongolia in the east. It winters in sub-Saharan Africa. The population of the European Union has undergone a strong decrease in numbers and a contraction of its distribution since the end of last century. Currently it is estimated at 5000-12000 breeding pairs. Since 1991 it has become extinct in Germany. The principal reasons of this decline are habitat degradation, agricultural intensification and increasing use of pesticides. In some countries the species is also persecuted
Feeding
Diet mainly invertebrates: beetles and other hard-bodied insects, and some small vertebrates. Exceptionally, fruits such as grapes and figs eaten. Many live scorpions taken, and species may be and accomplished scorpion predator. Several other prey items are distasteful: stink-grasshoppers and carabid, lampyrid and silphid beetles. Forages mostly from elevated perch, watching ground intently.
Conservation
Coracias garrulus occurs as two subspecies: the nominate breeds from Morocco, southwest and south-central Europe and Asia Minor east through northwest Iran to southwest Siberia (Russia); and semenowi, which breeds in Iraq and Iran (except northwest) east to Kashmir and north to Turkmenistan, south Kazakhstan and northwest China (west Sinkiang). The species overwinters in two distinct regions of Africa, from Senegal east to Cameroon and from Ethiopia west to Congo and south to South Africa. It has a large global population, including an estimated 100,000-220,000 individuals in Europe (50-74% of the global breeding range). However, following a moderate decline during 1970-1990, the species has contined to decline by up to 25% across Europe during 1990-2000 (including in key populations in Turkey and European Russia). Overall European declines exceeded 30% in three generations (15 years). Populations in northern Europe have undergone severe declines (Estonia: 50-100 pairs in 1998 to no known breeding pairs in 2004, Latvia: several thousand to under 30 pairs in 2004, Lithuania: 1,000-2,000 pairs in 1970s to 20 pairs in 2004), and in Russia it has now disappeared from the northern part of its range. However, there is no evidence of any declines in Central Asia. Should these populations be shown to be declining, the species may warrant uplisting further to Vulnerable. Threats include persecution on migration in some Mediterranean countries and hundreds, perhaps thousands, are shot for food in Oman every spring. Use of pesticides reduces food availability, and the species is sensitive to changing farming and forestry practices. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Monogamous, solitary and territorial, with typical rolling and diving aerial display. Nest site an unlined cavity in a large tree, building, cliff or riverbank. 4-5 eggs, incubation by female, 17-19 days. Chick hatches naked and blind, has closed spiny feather sheaths by 13th day
Migration
An intercontinental migrant, almost entire world population wintering in Africa South of Sahara. In autumn has occurred in great abundance in Algeria and Morocco, though only small numbers winter in West Africa; strong passage up Nile Valley and on West coast of Red Sea, also across Ethiopia, and in October-December through East Africa, especially Rift Valley; weak passage through Arabia. Winters mainly in East & South West Africa in Kenya, Tanzania, North East Botswana and East Namibia; present in October-April/May in South Africa, where prone to flock, evidently still moving South in November-December, and seen in South West Cape Province only in December-February. Congregates in East Tanzania from late March, and in early April up to hundreds of thousands travel in North in narrow corridor along East coastal lowlands to North East Somalia, in one of continent's most spectacularly visible migrations, with thousands passing over a given locality in a few hours, e.g. 40,000-50,000 at Balad, Somalia, on single day in April. In Somalia, migrants fly 300-500 m above land, evenly spaced in column several Km wide, at ground speed of c. 48km/h; also common to abundant in Ethiopia in April. From Somalia birds emigrate at Cape Gardafui, with flocks seen from light aircraft arriving on Dhofar plain in South Oman, after sea crossing of 600 km, and many then cross a further 600 km of desert to reach Persian Gulf; singletons and loose flocks of 10-30 birds frequent in Oman from Mid-April to mid-May, often flying by day on broad front North or North East, or North West on Batinah coast. Recoveries of ringed birds suggest that they travel the 10,000 km from East Europe to Central Africa at c. 67 km/day, and return in spring 110 km/day.
Voted best in show 2009, High Roller by Vic Jefford. View large and check out the 4000 hours of craftmanship that makes up this amazing motorcycle.
spanwidth min.: 52 cm
spanwidth max.: 57 cm
size min.: 29 cm
size max.: 32 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 17 days
incubation max.: 19 days
fledging min.: 26 days
fledging max.: 29 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 6
Physical characteristics
Large and colorful bird, being iridescent blue, black and chestnut. Roller without tail streamers, proportionately larger headed than most congeners, and in flight appears long-necked. Nominate race with head, neck amd underparts light blue, whitish around base of bill, and short, thin blackish eyestripe. Rufous brown upperparts, with back, rump and tail-coverts ultramarine blue. Wing coverts greenish-blue, marginal ones purple, primary coverts and bases of primaries azure-blue, remiges otherwise black. Tail greenish-blue with darker base, central feathers greyish. Race semenowi slightly paler than nominate.
Habitat
Warm and sunny lowlands, in open countryside with patches pine or oak woods with heathery clearings, orchards, mixed farmland, broad river valleys, and dissected plains with scattered thorny or leafy trees.
Other details
Coracias garrulus is a widespread summer visitor to southern and eastern Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is relatively small (30%) overall.
This bird is breeding in north-western Africa, south and eastern Europe and western Asia, reaching Pakistan and Mongolia in the east. It winters in sub-Saharan Africa. The population of the European Union has undergone a strong decrease in numbers and a contraction of its distribution since the end of last century. Currently it is estimated at 5000-12000 breeding pairs. Since 1991 it has become extinct in Germany. The principal reasons of this decline are habitat degradation, agricultural intensification and increasing use of pesticides. In some countries the species is also persecuted
Feeding
Diet mainly invertebrates: beetles and other hard-bodied insects, and some small vertebrates. Exceptionally, fruits such as grapes and figs eaten. Many live scorpions taken, and species may be and accomplished scorpion predator. Several other prey items are distasteful: stink-grasshoppers and carabid, lampyrid and silphid beetles. Forages mostly from elevated perch, watching ground intently.
Conservation
Coracias garrulus occurs as two subspecies: the nominate breeds from Morocco, southwest and south-central Europe and Asia Minor east through northwest Iran to southwest Siberia (Russia); and semenowi, which breeds in Iraq and Iran (except northwest) east to Kashmir and north to Turkmenistan, south Kazakhstan and northwest China (west Sinkiang). The species overwinters in two distinct regions of Africa, from Senegal east to Cameroon and from Ethiopia west to Congo and south to South Africa. It has a large global population, including an estimated 100,000-220,000 individuals in Europe (50-74% of the global breeding range). However, following a moderate decline during 1970-1990, the species has contined to decline by up to 25% across Europe during 1990-2000 (including in key populations in Turkey and European Russia). Overall European declines exceeded 30% in three generations (15 years). Populations in northern Europe have undergone severe declines (Estonia: 50-100 pairs in 1998 to no known breeding pairs in 2004, Latvia: several thousand to under 30 pairs in 2004, Lithuania: 1,000-2,000 pairs in 1970s to 20 pairs in 2004), and in Russia it has now disappeared from the northern part of its range. However, there is no evidence of any declines in Central Asia. Should these populations be shown to be declining, the species may warrant uplisting further to Vulnerable. Threats include persecution on migration in some Mediterranean countries and hundreds, perhaps thousands, are shot for food in Oman every spring. Use of pesticides reduces food availability, and the species is sensitive to changing farming and forestry practices. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Monogamous, solitary and territorial, with typical rolling and diving aerial display. Nest site an unlined cavity in a large tree, building, cliff or riverbank. 4-5 eggs, incubation by female, 17-19 days. Chick hatches naked and blind, has closed spiny feather sheaths by 13th day
Migration
An intercontinental migrant, almost entire world population wintering in Africa South of Sahara. In autumn has occurred in great abundance in Algeria and Morocco, though only small numbers winter in West Africa; strong passage up Nile Valley and on West coast of Red Sea, also across Ethiopia, and in October-December through East Africa, especially Rift Valley; weak passage through Arabia. Winters mainly in East & South West Africa in Kenya, Tanzania, North East Botswana and East Namibia; present in October-April/May in South Africa, where prone to flock, evidently still moving South in November-December, and seen in South West Cape Province only in December-February. Congregates in East Tanzania from late March, and in early April up to hundreds of thousands travel in North in narrow corridor along East coastal lowlands to North East Somalia, in one of continent's most spectacularly visible migrations, with thousands passing over a given locality in a few hours, e.g. 40,000-50,000 at Balad, Somalia, on single day in April. In Somalia, migrants fly 300-500 m above land, evenly spaced in column several Km wide, at ground speed of c. 48km/h; also common to abundant in Ethiopia in April. From Somalia birds emigrate at Cape Gardafui, with flocks seen from light aircraft arriving on Dhofar plain in South Oman, after sea crossing of 600 km, and many then cross a further 600 km of desert to reach Persian Gulf; singletons and loose flocks of 10-30 birds frequent in Oman from Mid-April to mid-May, often flying by day on broad front North or North East, or North West on Batinah coast. Recoveries of ringed birds suggest that they travel the 10,000 km from East Europe to Central Africa at c. 67 km/day, and return in spring 110 km/day.
A real working LEGO Roller Coaster! it has 5 functions, all of them being powered through a gearbox by a single XL motor. The station has 4 moving parts, and the last function is the main lift hill. Look for the video at youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcQOcqFQ69c
Detroit- Thanks to this roller that I saw from a few blocks away where I got dropped off this is the first area I started to wander. North End I think.
I visited an amusement park, last weekend, with roller coasters in mind. I'd never tried to photograph one except at great distance. Let's see what I can learn.
Roller Derby Bout Wellington's Richter City All Stars vs. Sydney's Assassins at the TSB Bank Arena on March 19, 2011. My first roller derby bout.
Skeletor 22 at The Great Bristol Skate Off - Bristol Roller Derby B vs Wiltshire Roller Derby at SGS College Filton on Sunday 22nd November 2015
Antes que algo... dejen un comentario!
no sean ingratos.
Esta gustó mucho, y un cuate me la pidío para reporducirla en figura.
MOC: Rampage Roller. I would like to say that the vehicle seats a minifigure comfortably, but I'd be lying - the word 'comfortably' doesn't belong in that sentence. It's probably quite claustrophobic - but then again, from what I've seen of insides of tanks, there isn't much room anyway. At least you don't need to disassemble the minifig to put it in there. The vehicle, on the other hand...