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First Quantum raised its copper production guidance to 595 000 t for 2018, it said in October. Most of the firm’s copper -- and gold -- production was expected to come from Africa in that year, its financial report shows.
In Panama, the Cobre project is expected to produce 150 000 t of copper this year, 270 000 t to 300 000 t in 2020 and between 330 000 t and 350 000 t in 2021, its first full year of ramped-up production. There is potential to boost that further with additional mills, Newall said.
Cobre Panama is a large open-pit copper project 120 km (74.6 miles) west of Panama City and 20 km from the Caribbean Sea coast. The concession comprises four zones totaling 13 600 ha covered by dense rainforest.
All parts, except for the electrical components, were 3D printed.
It's encrusted with 360 diamonds, because of course.
Her life is one non-stop adventure.
Never underestimate a determined motorcycle cop.
Terrence Sterling, 31, was riding a motorcycle during the last minutes of his life.
You can't really ask for a comfier place to land.
A shooting and stabbing incident at a motorcycle expo in Denver Saturday has left one person deceased and six more wounded.
This guy's a really ride or die-hard sock fanatic.
Beware, litterbugs of the world.
A bike crash, caught on a Russian dashboard camera, has the least likely outcome you could imagine.
While the Skully AR-1 may look like a normal helmet, the self-proclaimed "world's smartest motorcycle helmet" will likely do more than protect your head -- and the Internet is embracing it wholeheartedly.
Ivalynn Branum shows one of her cinnamon queen laying hens and her Grand Champion’s ribbon Thursday after the 4-H poultry show at the Sebastian County Fair in Greenwood. Ivalynn is the 9-year-old daughter of Russ and Marilyn Branum of Greenwood.
Nathaniel Elmore, 8, tries to get another push on the pedal Thursday at the Arkansas Valley Antique Tractor Club’s pedal-pull during the annual Sebastian County Fair in Greenwood. The fair runs through Saturday.
Kylie Brown uses her phone to capture an image of her winning art entry Thursday at the annual Sebastian County Fair art contest in Greenwood. Kylie is the 12-year-old daughter of Debbie Brown and attends Hackett Junior High. Entries to the various craft catagories are on display in the economics building at the fairgrounds through Saturday.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -Clarke MacArthur's first game of the season was a memorable one.
MacArthur scored 3:16 into overtime, and Ryan Miller made 25 saves to give the Buffalo Sabres a much-needed 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night.
MacArthur was called up from Rochester of the AHL on Tuesday night. Cruising in the high slot against the Bruins, he one-timed Drew Stafford's pass from the left boards past goalie Tim Thomas for the win, only Buffalo's third in its last nine games.
"I was nervous all day today," said MacArthur, who was playing in the 20th game of his career. "Even throughout the game, it's always like that your first couple of games. You're just nervous every time you get out there. So to get one of those, it's just a relief."
It's also a positive development for a Sabres team that has struggled some early this season after winning the President's Trophy last year. Buffalo is still a game under .500, and has scored only seven goals over the last four games, but is hoping to build off of MacArthur's big goal.
"It's a good step forward," said Miller, who has played in all but two games for the Sabres.
Ales Kotalik also scored for Buffalo, which snapped a three-game losing streak and rebounded from a shutout loss to Montreal on Monday, the second time this season its been blanked. The Sabres, however, are still in the cellar of the Northeast Division.
"It wasn't our best game, but it wasn't our worst either," Buffalo defenseman Brian Campbell said. "Wins are important. We have to be able to take advantage of these points and start climbing."
Thomas finished with 27 saves and Marc Savard scored for the Bruins, who have lost three straight. Boston has lost eight of its last nine in Buffalo.
"I got a decent look at it, but it knuckle-curved on me," Thomas said about MacArthur's winner.
Boston grabbed a 1-0 lead on Savard's third goal of the season at 8:07 of the first period. From the left circle, Savard was able to convert a rebound after Miller made the initial save on Glen Murray.
The Sabres tied it with 4:10 remaining in the second period when Kotalik scored on the power play. After accepting a pass from Maxim Afinogenov, Kotalik ripped a slap shot from the left point for his third of the season.
The goal snapped Buffalo's scoreless sequence at 99 minutes, 13 seconds. Buffalo hadn't scored since Thomas Vanek converted late in the Sabres' 4-2 loss to Florida last Friday.
Thomas helped send the game into overtime with solid stops on Toni Lydman's wrist shot and Stafford's rebound attempt with 30 seconds remaining in regulation.
"We played well enough to deserve a win," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "We collapsed a little bit in overtime and gave them that goal."
The banged-up Sabres were without five regulars because of injuries, including forwards Tim Connolly (strained abdomen) and Adam Mair (sprained right ankle), who both missed their first game after being hurt in Montreal. Enter MacArthur, who was leading the AHL in scoring with 18 points.
"He's played really well in Rochester and he did some good work for us tonight," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "We needed a boost and I thought Clarke gave us that."
Notes: Both teams are in the midst of playing nine straight games against Northeast Division foes. ... Boston hosts Montreal on Thursday in the opener of a three-game homestand. ... Boston D Andrew Ference missed his second game because of an upper body injury. ... Lydman wore a full face mask for the second straight game to help protect a gash above his lip.
Why do millennials insist on living in the past?
As of this month, Polaroid is back. The launch of Polaroid Originals – a new brand dedicated to analogue instant photography, reflects what the press release claims is a growing demand for instant film that “goes beyond nostalgia … in today’s fast-paced, digital world, a tangible object outside of your phone screen becomes a valued artefact”.
The relaunch of Polaroid comes nine years after it was discontinued, and just over a year since the last packs of official Polaroid film expired (Florian Kaps, an Austrian Polaroid enthusiast, bought up the last remaining Polaroid factory in the Netherlands and tried to reinvent the film from scratch. It is this “impossible project” that has acquired the brand and paved the way for Polaroid Originals).
I recall thinking at the time that the winding up of the instant photography arm of the company was a strange business decision; I was at university, and quite a few classmates used old Polaroid cameras they had picked up at car boot sales or had owned since childhood. Interest in analogue photography formats such as Lomography was growing, and already my generation was starting to tinker with their digital photographs by adding filters to give them that dreamy aesthetic for which Polaroid is famed. Since Polaroid went away, photographic nostalgia has flourished in the form of iPhone filters, the Fujifilm instax cameras and film, and the revival of analogue photobooths. These days, there are even services where you can even have your digital photos printed in the shape of Polaroid images.
But it’s not just photography that has been subject to millennial nostalgia in the past decade or so – it’s almost any area of consumer goods that you can imagine, from vehicles (see the ubiquitous revamped VW camper fans), to food (avocados, anyone? Not to mention the popular Twitter feed and spin-off book 70s Dinner Party), home decoration (pot plants in macramé holders, mid-century furniture of the kind that cluttered up junk shops a few years ago), vinyl, and gaming (the NES classic edition immediately sold out and comes pre-loaded with 30 original Nintendo games). It’s big business, and my generation is lapping it up.
But why is this? Is it, as Polaroid claims, a need to return to tangibility at a time when all our stuff is in the cloud? Or is it the belief that, by harking back to the time in which our parents’ – the boomers – were young that maybe, as if by osmosis, we can experience a bit of that “we had it so good” postwar privilege? The objects we consume and surround ourselves with come from a time when housing was affordable, education was free, rock music was new and exciting, drugs were pure, and people weren’t so fat.
Of course, all generations experience nostalgia, and it isn’t always positive. The term itself was coined in 1688, a portmanteau of the Greek nóstos (homecoming) and álgos (pain, ache) and applied to Swiss soldiers who were fighting abroad and suffering a range of disturbing symptoms from dizziness to depression. For a long time, it was considered a form of mental disorder. Words for it, or for feelings like it, exist in many languages, from the Welsh hiraeth to the Portuguese saudade, and the German Sehnsucht, all of which invoke a sense of craving, wistfulness or longing, which, in the case of hiraeth, is for a place that no longer exists, or indeed, may never have never existed at all.
Psychologists have found that, far from being a psychopathology, nostalgia can actually be beneficial. But what they are talking about here is personal nostalgia for actual life experiences – memories of the “we’ll always have Paris” variety. What millennials seem to be engaging in is historical nostalgia for a time that they didn’t actually live through.
It’s an emotion that’s brilliantly satirised in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris, when the protagonist, having time-travelled back to the 1920s that he always so idealised, realises that they’re all obsessed with the belle époque, and that, in fact maybe 2010 isn’t all that bad because at least we have antibiotics. Similarly, my generation is looking to the boomers for visual cues, just as the hippies of the 1960s looked to the pre-Raphaelites and a pre-industrial revolution kind of folky pastoralism for inspiration as a response to increasing environmental anxiety.
This historical nostalgia gets reduced down to an easily marketable form, to the point where it becomes almost kitsch in the way defined by Baudrillard: “It repeats fashion without having been part of the experience of fashion.” It’s the kind of kitsch that you might think of when you see a “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster, though this kind of pre-welfare state nostalgia is better summed up by the Icelandic slang term nostaklígja, which denotes the gall-like taste you get in your mouth just before you throw up. It is used “where an overly romantic view of a bygone era transcends good taste and/or common sense”. For me it cannot help but conjure the spectre of Brexit.
That’s not to say that any of these thoughts are at the forefront of any consumer’s thought process when they purchase a royalist tea set or a pack of Polaroid Originals film (I’m pleased about the relaunch of the latter – it’s a fun and influential creative medium that counts leading photographers among its fans). But I do wonder when my generation is going to start making its own aesthetic stamp on the world rather than looking to their parents for inspiration.
To an extent it reflects the fact that the cultural gatekeepers are, in the main, part of that boomer generation – how many more BBC4 documentaries about the 1960s are we expected to sit through? But it also, to my mind, betrays a certain lack of imagination on the part of my own cohort, and a preoccupation with the lives of previous generations that might be inhibiting innovation. It could be time to move on. Because if the angel of history stubbornly persists in looking back towards the past, it could well end up walking into a lamppost. Not to mention the fact that that sideboard probably ended up in a junk shop for a reason.
STEVE COTTERILL has read the riot act to his Nottingham Forest flops.
He wants his underachievers to wake up to the threat of relegation and stop the blame game that is sabotaging his survival mission.
Forest slumped 4-0 at Leicester in the FA Cup on Tuesday night to leave Cotterill facing calls for his head and fans chanting for the return of ex-boss Billy Davies.
Forest have failed to score in 10 of their last 11 matches and face a daunting trip to promotion chasers West Ham today.
And the Forest boss has given his squad a bleak warning as they bid to save their Championship skins.
He said: “I’ve been pretty annoyed, angry and agitated and if I said anything that’s upset the players, then so be it.
“This is a very big club with great expectations and they can pick or choose if they want to be here.
“You can either stay here or go to a club with lower expectations.
“This year could end up being a messy one but everybody now has to forget about themselves and think about Nottingham Forest.
“The players have grasped the severity of the situation.
“We’ve had a chat about it and when things aren’t going right, it’s easy to look at other people.
Forest have only won twice in two months – both against Ipswich – and face Cotterill’s own tip for the title this afternoon.
The Hammers have been chasing down leaders Southampton for most of the season and Cotterill insists Sam Allardyce’s battle-hardened squad will show the bottle needed to make a Premier League return.
He said: “Southampton are a very good team but the strength of West Ham’s squad and the finance they’ve got means they will get back. I think they’ll win it.
“Their experience will tell in the second half of the season.
Trump, for his part, rehashes unsubstantiated claims tying Cruz's father to JFK's assassin.
Speaking to reporters in Evansville on the day of the state’s presidential primary, Cruz warned that the country could “plunge into the abyss” if Trump is elected president.
“We are not a proud, boastful, self-centered, mean-spirited, hateful, bullying nation,” Cruz said, with his wife Heidi and running mate Carly Fiorina by his side.
Cruz faces a high-stakes test of his presidential campaign in the primary, one of the last opportunities for the Texas senator to halt Trump’s stunning march toward the GOP nomination.
Cruz has spent the past week camped out in Indiana, securing the support of the state’s governor and announcing Fiorina, a retired technology executive, as his running mate.
“I am in for the distance, as long as we have a viable path to victory,” Cruz he said Monday.
Trump, too, devoted more time to campaigning in Indiana than he has to most other states, underscoring his eagerness to put his Republican rival away and shift his attention toward Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“It is no surprise he has resorted to his usual tactics of over-the-top rhetoric that nobody believes,” Trump said.
Earlier in the day, Trump had launched his own tirade against Cruz, rehashing unsubstantiated claims that Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, appeared in a 1963 photograph with John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald – citing a report first published by the National Enquirer.
The film’s screenwriter Bob Gale told the Daily Beast last year that the character was based on Trump.
Cruz’s aides were cautious heading into Tuesday’s vote. Campaign officials had been told to prepare for Cruz to deliver “a very somber” speech Tuesday night in Indianapolis, according to one aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal discussions.
Republican leaders spent months dismissing Trump as little more than an entertainer who would fade once voting started. But Republican primary voters have stuck with the billionaire businessman, handing him victories in every region of the country, including a string of six straight wins on the East Coast.
Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also faced off in Indiana’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, though the stakes were lower than in the Republican race. Clinton holds a commanding lead – she’s secured 91 percent of the delegates she needs to win the nomination. That means she can still win even if she loses every remaining contest.
Sanders has conceded that he faces a difficult path to overtake Clinton, one that hinges on persuading superdelegates to back him over the former secretary of state. Superdelegates are Democratic Party insiders who can support the candidate of their choice, regardless of how their states vote. And they favor Clinton by a nearly 18-1 margin.
Neither Clinton nor Sanders planned to spend Tuesday in Indiana. Sanders was making stops in Kentucky, which holds a primary in mid-May, while Clinton moved on to Ohio, a key general election battleground.
A showdown between Clinton and Trump would pit one of Democrats’ most popular and highly regarded figures against a first-time candidate who is deeply divisive within his own party. Cruz and other Republicans have argued that Trump would be roundly defeated in the general election, denying their party the White House for a third straight term.
Peoples reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report from Washington.
If you're running Windows 7 or 8.1 on a computer that isn't attached to a domain, you're no doubt familiar with the "Get Windows 10" ads that try to convince you -- sometimes subtly, sometimes forcefully -- to install Windows 10. Microsoft's intrusive campaign has drawn much well-deserved ire among Windows customers. I think it represents a new low in Microsoft marketing -- right down there in the Scroogled end of the gene pool.
Back in August, Microsoft posted KB 3080351, a discussion of new Group Policy settings and two obscure registry entries -- DisableOSUpgrade and ReservationsAllowed -- that, taken together, are supposed to "prevent Windows 7, Windows 7 for Embedded Systems, Windows 8.1, and Windows Embedded 8.1 Pro clients from upgrading" to Windows 10.
Yesterday, my old friend and erstwhile co-author Ed Bott ran an article on ZDNet that explains how to change two different registry entries -- AllowOSUpgrade and DisableGWX -- to "block Windows 10 upgrades on your business network (and at home, too)."
Both approaches temporarily block the immediate threat of "Get Windows 10" by removing the GWX icon in the Win7 and Win8.1 system tray and by derailing some of the Windows 10 update programs that are currently installed. Neither approach, however, will remove background tasks that bring GWX back, reclaim the 3GB to 6GB of hidden installation files Microsoft may have surreptitiously stored in the $Windows.~BT folder, nor will they keep your system protected if future Microsoft-initiated GWX attacks similar to the old ones occur again.
I've been talking about Microsoft's scummy GWX campaign since April, when researchers first identified KB 3035583 as the source of the attack. As best I can tell, KB 3035583 was modified, fortified, and re-released nine times in 2015. Through it all, Josh Mayfield, the inventor of GWX Control Panel, has kept his program updated to protect against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
I asked Mayfield about the registry edit approach to protecting against GWX. He reminded me that GWX Control Panel (then GWX Stopper) started out last August as an easy way for nonprogrammers (and others afraid of manually editing the Registry) to keep themselves protected. But it's evolved into much more.
The DisableGWX value, which GWX Control Panel has been setting since version 1.0, does one thing, and one thing only: When the scheduled GWX.EXE task runs, it checks for that registry value, and if it's set, GWX.EXE quits itself. That's how you remove the icon from your notification area. but this doesn't do anything about the several background tasks that Microsoft installs along with GWX.EXE.
Beginning in version 1.3 of GWX Control Panel, I've included additional logic to help people whose Windows Update control panels get hijacked by Windows 10. Version 1.4 and beyond can even rescue you from an already-initiated unwanted Windows 10 upgrade.
As your own AskWoody.com visitors (and mine) have confirmed many times over by now, KB3035583 needs to be rehidden each time Microsoft pushes a new version. If you don't want to install it, and if you happen to get more than one version installed, uinstalling it no longer gets rid of the update. (I walk through this in more detail in my troubleshooting guide.) This is why I added the new Delete Windows 10 Programs feature in version 1.7.
Beginning about a month ago the KB3035583 update started installing a new background task -- beyond the ones previous versions already installed -- that resets the AllowOSUpgrade value to 1 (enabled) twice a day. Not all users have this background task -- I don't know how Microsoft decides how these things get distributed -- but for those who do, changing this value like [Bott] suggests will only help you for 12 hours or less.
Of course, changing any of the four Registry values won't delete the 3GB to 6GB of files Microsoft surreptitiously installed on many machines in the hidden $Windows.~BT folder. Changing Registry values won't uninstall or hide KB 3035583. Changing the Registry is a good starting point, but it doesn't clean out the crapware underneath.
It's important to realize that nobody has any idea how Microsoft will circumvent these protections in the future. What we do know is that Microsoft has wiggled around the stopgaps in the past -- having new versions of KB 3035583 reset the AllowOSUpgrade value, for example -- and it's clear that Microsoft has no fear of alienating diehard Windows 7 users. As Mayfield said this morning, "I'm still hearing from people who've had their Windows Update control panels hijacked, and Microsoft said they were gonna stop that nonsense months ago. Windows is a moving target, and Microsoft can and do change their policies/tactics at will."
Last October, Windows honcho Terry Myerson promised: "You can specify that you no longer want to receive notifications of the Windows 10 upgrade through the Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 settings pages."
I haven't seen anything in any Win 7 or 8.1 settings pages that allow you to just say no to the Windows 10 upgrade process. If you've seen something, please hit me in the comments.
As Mayfield says, "[GWX Control Panel is] based on both my first-hand experience and reports I've received from hundreds of users (most of whom are IT consultants and tech support professionals). The Windows 10 push is much bigger than what those Registry values cover. Period."
If you want to keep Microsoft from nagging you about Windows 10, you can change a couple of Registry values and hope that history doesn't repeat itself. Or you can hit it with a full barrage. Neither comes with a guarantee that Microsoft will play fair as it pushes the Win10 juggernaut. But I know which one I'll choose.
Robert Sorokanich shared this excellent Lancia Stratos built by Technic expert Piterx. Not unlike the actual car, this Stratos is a completely overpowered, slide happy machine. The twin motor, twin power supply Technic stuff channels my best Jeremy Clarkson "SPEEEEED!" and "POWAAAA!"
Eric Robert Rudolph is shown in a Cherokee County (N.C.) Sheriff's booking mug, May 31, 2003, following his arrest that same day. Rudolph, the longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested in Murphy, N.C.
Credit: AP/Cherokee County Sheriff Dept.
An FBI sketch taken from its Web site shows Eric Robert Rudolph.
Eric Robert Rudolph is shown in this photo released by the FBI in Washington, Feb. 4, 1998.

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