The accomplished producers and good-taste-havers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Called Quest fame) founded Jazz Is Dead This spring they’ll release Jazz Is Dead 023 a Younge-produced album from the Brazilian singer Hyldon who was just 17 when his music career first took off in the 1960s and became an influential figure in the soul-centric Black Rio movement of the 1970s Hyldon recorded all new music in Younge’s analog studio The impeccably funky lead single “O Caçador De Estrelas” is out today Producing a Hyldon album was a dream come true I’ve studied his catalog for so many years and highly respect the way he mixed the sound of The Beatles I’m still enamored by the fact that he is even a better singer now than he was we greatly miss our dear friend and contributor Mamão and we wish he could have had the chance to hear the finished album Hear “O Caçador De Estrelas” below along with the previously released “Viajante do Planeta Azul.” Jazz Is Dead 023 is out 4/4 via Jazz Is Dead. Pre-order or pre-save it here The most important stories and least important memes Cacador (Hunter) class-4 multi-role MALE (medium-altitude long-endurance) unmanned aerial system (UAS) was officially launched in June 2016 following a demonstration flight held in Sao Paulo The UAS is produced by Brazilian avionics solutions provider Avionics Services based on Heron (Machatz 1) MALE UAV which was developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) IAI supplied technology and know-how for the Cacador air system as part of a technical co-operation agreement signed by the companies in 2013 to expand their operations in the Brazilian defence market The Cacador was recently exhibited at the 15th Defence Service Asia (DSA) exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur As the only class-4 unmanned aerial system deployed in Brazil the Cacador is intended to meet the country’s tactical and strategic operational requirements It is suitable for both military and civil missions including intelligence It can also be used for environmental and agricultural applications Components of the Cacador Class-4 MALE UAS include a UAV The UAV features high-wing monoplane design with twin-boom configuration The twin tail booms are extended rearward from the fuselage and are connected by a single tailplane The vertical tail surfaces mounted at the end of the booms are used to reduce aerodynamic drag The UAV is equipped with a retractable tricycle undercarriage consisting of two main units positioned under the twin booms and one nose gear located in the forward fuselage Equipped with an automatic take-off and landing (ATOL) system the UAS performs automatic take-off and landing manoeuvres the UAV is capable of carrying variety of sensors simultaneously to support a wide range of missions A gyro-stabilised gimbal pod mounted under the forward fuselage incorporates electro-optic (EO) / infrared (IR) sensor suite to provide intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance data under all lighting conditions The UAV uses reliable line-of-sight or beyond-line-of-sight wideband satellite communications data links for transferring information from the air to the ground segment and vice versa at ranges exceeding 1,000km The real-time imagery and telemetry data collected by the UAV sensors is processed and stored at the ergonomic rugged ground control station. The command and control solutions at the ground segment allow operators to plan and execute the UAV missions Propulsion for the Cacador MALE unmanned aerial vehicle is provided by a four-blade pusher propeller driven by a turboprop engine located at the aft of the fuselage The UAV is capable of flying at altitudes of up to 30,000ft The Global Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market 2011-2021 Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network Nelson’s Whitewater Ski Resort will be participating in an annual nationwide event that encourages people to get outside and hit the slopes for the culture 21 encourages Canadians to celebrate the mental and physical benefits of skiing and snowboarding Whitewater’s Kyle Cacador-Florence said that more people have been hitting the slopes this year to take advantage of the improved snow conditions “Our busiest day of the season so far was Feb right as we were amid that storm cycle,” said Cacador-Florence Whitewater had a huge 50-centimetre snowstorm at the beginning of the month making for some of the best skiing days of the season Riders have also been enjoying some of the resort's expansions such as the 60-acre Goat Slide terrain expansion “Visitor numbers have been up significantly over last year's drier winter and it's been incredible to see how much our community and visitors to the Kootenays are getting out and enjoying all that winter has to offer up." Cacador-Florence said that he only expects it to get better “We're expecting some more snow throughout the week and it looks like that will continue through the end of February and into March as the polar vortex has moved south and precipitation looks to remain steady over the next few weeks.” Cacador-Florence noted that while January was drier than usual the snow base built up in November and December has allowed for the resort team to groom more runs to allow beginner and intermediate skiers to improve their skills Forecasts suggest that steady snowfall throughout February into March will keep the conditions ideal The hill will also be hosting the annual Kootenay Coldsmoke Powderfest from Feb 23 to provide riders the opportunity to celebrate the culture with clinics For more information on the clinics' schedules and how to register, visit the Whitewater Ski Resort website Which language would you like to use this site in Authorities in Angola must account for the whereabouts of a five-year-old boy who went missing after police raided the Mucubai Community in Ndamba area in the outskirts of the city of Moçâmedes the capital of Namibe Province in which 16 houses were torched and personal belongings including blankets Mbapamuhuka Caçador’s disappearance amounts to enforced disappearance Five-year-old Mbapamuhuka Caçador disappeared following the raid on 12 October by Rapid Intervention Police Residents fear the boy may have been burned alive in one of the houses attacked by police as they unleashed violence on the community “Mbapamuhuka Caçador’s disappearance in Ndamba Angolan authorities must leave no stone unturned in ensuring his safe return,” said Muleya Mwananyanda Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa “It is also deeply disturbing that the police were deployed with such force and brutality to resolve a domestic matter Police have a duty to protect rather than terrorize people.” It is also deeply disturbing that the police were deployed with such force and brutality to resolve a domestic matter independently and transparently investigate the circumstances leading to Mbapamuhuka Caçador’s disappearance make public the outcome of any investigation and bring to justice in fair trial anyone suspected to be responsible Authorities must provide the victim with access to justice and effective remedies.” the former (deceased) Provincial Chief of Police in Namibe province The attack was carried out on behalf of Cunha’s widow as part of a campaign to forcibly annex Mucubai community land adjacent to her commercial farm Authorities must halt the forced eviction of the Mucubai community from their land and ensure that their welfare and livelihoods are secured “Authorities must halt the forced eviction of the Mucubai community from their land and ensure that their welfare and livelihoods are secured,” said Muleya Mwananyanda Residents and witnesses said police arrived in Ndamba in the afternoon to raid and burn houses including all the contents inside such as blankets The police also destroyed vegetable gardens and killed livestock belonging to members of the Mucubai ethnic minority group Five people were detained before they were released on 13 October without being charged Mbakahako was forced by police to inhale a toxic gas which caused him to faint the police handcuffed him and threw him in a police car Forced evictions of rural communities such as this are widespread in Angola particularly in the south where powerful individuals connected to the MPLA have grabbed the communal grazing lands of the traditional pastoralists aggravating their vulnerability especially in relation to food and water insecurity socially and politically marginalized and oppressed minority group in southern Angola Together we can fight for human rights everywhere Your donation can transform the lives of millions If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you in a move many say could encourage illegal trade face a new threat: growing demand for their body parts These are sought after for use in traditional medicines and trinkets In many cases these businesses also allow customers to pay for the opportunity to kill lions in so-called “canned hunts,” with the option of taking the head or skin as a trophy On July 16, South Africa announced that it would nearly double the number of lion skeletons that may be exported raising the annual quota from 800 to 1,500 Wildlife experts argue that the decision is likely to do harm by encouraging trafficking in African lion and other big cat parts in part by increasing demand and the seeming legitimacy of such a trade “I’m pretty dismayed by it,” says Luke Hunter, chief conservation officer for Panthera He adds that there is no legitimate scientific reason to export the skeletons South Africa’s department of environmental affairs which didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment said in a news release that increasing the skeleton quota is necessary in part to draw down growing stockpiles of lion bones at captive facilities “If there is ongoing demand for lion bone and the supply from captive breeding facilities is restricted, dealers may seek alternative sources, either through illegal access to stockpiles or by poaching both captive-bred and wild lion,” the department stated in a release. The government hasn’t supplied scientific data to support the idea that a legal trade in the bones may offset illegal activity, or to explain why such a large increase is warranted. The trade in lion bones, teeth, and claws, which look similar to those of tigers and are often mislabeled as such, increases the demand and seeming legitimacy of these products, says Aron White, a wildlife campaigner and researcher with the Environmental Investigation Agency The group has documented evidence of eight wildlife seizures, mostly since 2015 in which lion products have been labeled as coming from tigers Increased demand for products from big cats provides more incentive to poach lions have seen an uptick in such activity during the past few years who works with Panthera in Mozambique as a researcher and advocate against poaching says lion numbers in Limpopo National Park dropped from 67 in 2012 to 21 in 2017 and in 60 percent of cases body parts such as faces and paws were removed The networks through which legally obtained lion parts move are notoriously porous and unless the trade is strenuously regulated it’s extremely difficult to tell where they originated and to prevent poached parts from entering the trade chain Having a legal trade allows traffickers to easily pass off illegal products as legitimate as has also been seen in the elephant ivory trade In 2016 the International Union for Conservation of Nature which sets the conservation status of wildlife warned that “wild lion parts from eastern and southern Africa could be drawn into the large illegal wildlife trade to Asia centered around elephant ivory.” And that’s now happening authorities in South Africa found 70 lion teeth and claws in a shipment containing a rhino horn bound for Nigeria “All our research and the data we collected clearly shows that the legal trade is part of the illegal trade,” says Michele Pickover, director of the EMS Foundation. “They cannot be separated.” A lion roams in Chobe National Park A lioness captures her prey, a buffalo calf. The photo appeared in Beverly and Dereck Joubert’s 2006 National Geographic article about the Okavango Delta A lion drinks from a watering hole on Chief’s Island, in the Okavango Delta’s Moremi Game Reserve A lion relaxes on a tree branch at Lake Manyara National Park in northern Tanzania Lion cubs rest near a watering hole in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park A lion sleeps in the plains of Serengeti National Park The picture was taken by a camera-mounted robot car Lions search for prey in Serengeti National Park A lioness sits with her cub in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area Lionesses and cubs feed in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley A lion wanders the dry Nossob riverbed in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, near the border of two protected areas: South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park A lioness descends a tree at Masai Mara National Reserve The reserve is contiguous with Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park A lion rests in the grass of the Serengeti plains A close-up of a male lion at Duba Plains Camp in the Okavango Delta reveals scars of old wounds Portrait of a martial eagle in Serengeti National Park By 2017-03-27T15:32:02+01:00 Brazil's Caçador unmanned air vehicle – an adapted version of the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Heron 1 – has received approval from the nation's defence ministry as a so-called strategic defence product following a series of flight tests conducted in different areas of its territory Made in advance of April's LAAD Defence & Security show in Rio de Janeiro the development stems from a three-year relationship between IAI and its Brazilian partner which have worked together to establish in-country expertise and a UAV centre at Botucatu airfield First flown in its prototype form last year long-endurance Caçador has a flight endurance of over 40h and a service ceiling of 30,000ft Its maximum take-off weight of 1,270kg (2,800lb) includes an ability to carry multiple payloads simultaneously IAI points to the type's satellite communication capability which it says enables it to be operated more than 540nm (1,000km) away from its ground control station The company says it is capable of undertaking roles including “border control precision agriculture and military missions” Norway has received US government approval to acquire up to 300 Raytheon AIM-9X Block II air-to-air missiles plans to compete for the US Navy’s  Undergraduate Jet Training System contract against heavyweights including Lockheed Martin Unmanned air vehicle (UAV) producer Tekever is to invest over £400 million ($532 million) to boost its activities in the UK and add more than 1,000 employees to its workforce whose pilots need to fly regularly to maintain proficiency the US Air Force says its forthcoming fleet of uncrewed fighters will not have to fly a “significant number” of daily sorties Anduril’s YFQ-44A prototype has started ground trials ahead of the type’s first flight scheduled for later this year.  The 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