 shooting from his Skoda Fabia were actually dramatic pyrotechnics supplied by the organisers as each car leaped over this high-speed jump.
Honorary Brit Andy Mick, the reigning Intercontinental Rally Challenge champ, took up where he left off at the end of 2011 by taking the win for The Sun's motorsport partners Skoda UK.
But while he proved too hot for his rivals on the IRC's first 2012 round, his triumph left three of the team's technicians frozen stiff.
Yari Mischinelli, Fabrizio Borra and Danilo Anzoino foolishly promised Mikkelsen they would leap into the North Atlantic Ocean surrounding the Azores islands if he won.
They jumped in wearing their overalls – and soon discovered the Atlantic in February is as cold as a polar bear's ice cream!
Mikkelsen, who became the IRC's youngest champion last year, led the rally from start to finish on narrow and slippery gravel roads.
But he had to fight off a constant challenge from fellow Skoda ace Juho Hanninen and only won by 25.1 seconds after 14 special stages.
Hanninen would have been closer but for a time-consuming spin on the event's signature Sete Cidades stage, which runs around the rim of an extinct volcano.
Bryan Bouffier came home third as the best-placed Peugeot star.
Another Pug driver, local hero Bruno Magalhaes, rolled out of fourth place amid heavy rain.
Delighted Mikkelsen was also awarded the prestigious Colin McRae Flat Out Trophy, named after the British rallying great, thanks to his ten fastest stage times.
He said: "It was a perfect start to the season for Skoda UK. It couldn't be better.
"We had a great fight with Juho right to the bitter end. We pushed hard all the way to the finish and I'm so happy for myself, my co-driver Ola Floene and the whole team."
Source: The SunAlexander McQueen, fashion's enfant terrible turned international success story, staged his first London catwalk show last night since moving his business to Paris three years ago.
Unfortunately for the British fashion industry, however, the show was not under the auspices of London Fashion Week, did not present a new collection, was not open to buyers - and does not mean McQueen intends to return to London permanently. It was part of Black, an event to raise money for the Terence Higgins Trust.
"I wish I was doing an original show in London, and one for more people," McQueen said before the show. "But from a business point of view there's really no point showing in London - although from a vibe point of view there's every point."
The show contained "the best black pieces of McQueen", the designer said, and combined outfits and staging from his most famous collections.
The infamous autumn/winter 1995 Highland Rape collection, whose slashed tartans and bloodied lace angered feminists, was mixed with the following year's Dante collection, famously presented in a disused Hawksmoor church.
Pieces from the Paris La Conciergerie show, in which wolves prowled a spot best known as Marie Antoinette's last resting place, were mixed with those from the Asylum collection, which was staged in London with models pacing inside a glass box.
After the show there was a black-themed auction. The lots included a pair of black fishnet tights worn by Madonna on the opening night of her Reinvention tour and black leather trousers donated by Christina Aguilera.Judge throws out Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against Trump
A federal judge in California dismissed Monday a defamation lawsuit that Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) filed against President Trump for what her legal team described as "irresponsible and defamatory statements” on Twitter.
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Unit 1 has had extensive work towards the eventual decommissioning. Most of this work has taken place between 2019 and 2021. The cover building has been removed in order to eventually place a fuel removal shed similar to the one at unit 4 on top of the building. Clean-up work on the refueling floor was completed in 2020 except for the removal of the overhead crane. Removal of the crane requires extensive preparatory work to the spent fuel pool to prevent damage to the fuel from large falling objects.
Timelines for future decommissioning work can be found in the Fukushima Calendar.
The current plan is to have this new cover building installed by 2023.
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In the US, the telecom companies AT&T and Verizon, as well as the pharmaceutical company GSK, Pepsi, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson and the car rental firm Enterprise, have all pulled advertising from Google’s video-sharing platform, a contagion spreading from Europe, where a number of high-profile advertisers pulled out of YouTube following an investigation by the Times.
Major brands’ content was found to be appearing next to videos promoting extremist views or hate speech, with a cut of the advertising spend going to the creators.
Verizon’s ads were featured alongside videos made by Egyptian cleric Wagdi Ghoneim, who was banned from the US over extremism, and the hate preacher Hanif Qureshi, whose preachings were said to have inspired the murder of a politician in Pakistan.
“We are deeply concerned that our ads may have appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate,” an AT&T spokesman said in a statement. “Until Google can ensure this won’t happen again, we are removing our ads from Google’s non-search platforms.”
Following the exodus of some of its high-profile advertisers, Google has publicly apologized and pledged to give brands more control over where their ads appear.
“This marks a turning point for YouTube. For the first time, it’s dealing not only with reputation damage but revenue damage,” said Alex Krasodomski-Jones, a researcher at the thinktank Demos.
YouTube might purport to be a video-sharing service, but as with Google’s search engine and Facebook’s social network, the platform is really about one thing: advertising. “So when there’s a problem with advertising like this, it’s a big problem,” Krasodomski-Jones said.
The row highlights an uncomfortable fact about advertising in a digital age: most brands don’t know exactly where their online advertising is running. Black box machines are now largely responsible for the placement of ads online, using complex trading systems that try to get the right message in front of the right person at the right time for the the cheapest possible price. This process is called programmatic advertising. When an ad appears against a piece of content, it’s not always clear whether it’s been shown based on a person’s previous browsing behavior, interests, or demographic data or because the brand is affiliated with a particular content creator, such as a YouTube star.
“There has always been good placements of ads and bad placements of ads and media buying companies have always prided themselves on trying to get the context right,” said Charlie Crowe, chairman of the media and marketing publisher C Squared. “The difference in the online world is that it’s all done by an algorithm. The human element is taken out of the equation, so there