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Toronto Sun
21-07-2025
- Toronto Sun
American judo coach suffers vision loss in JetBlue coffee air incident
The coffee burned his face and right eye, according to a lawsuit obtained by A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 takes off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, on February 19, 2022. Photo by DANIEL SLIM / AFP via Getty Images An American judo coach might have suffered permanent vision loss after a freak in-air accident, according to reports. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Arturas Lanchinskas, 30, a third-degree black belt, was flying to Peru to coach the American team at the Pan American Judo Championships in July 2023 when the incident happened. Lanchinskas owns Darfight Martial Arts in Brooklyn and was on JetBule Flight 1825 when a flight attendant allegedly dropped a pot of scalding coffee, according to the Daily Mail. The coffee burned his face and right eye, according to a lawsuit obtained by 'As a result of the hot coffee splashing onto Plaintiff's face and into his eye, he was caused to sustain severe burns to the right side of his face and severe injuries to his right eye,' the lawsuit reads. 'It felt like a surge of fire hit the surface of my eyeball,' Lanchinskas told The New York Post. 'The pain was sharp and immediate, like a burning needle.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Coincidentally, the passenger seated next to Lanchinskas was a doctor and told him to flush his eye repeatedly with water. But the lawsuit alleges flight attendants were mad at Lanchinskas for using the washroom too often to flush his eye with water. Attorney, Erin R. Applebaum said in the lawsuit that the flight attendants were complaining that other passengers needed to use the bathroom. 'He was even told, 'Sir, you're not the only one on the airplane, we have other guests who need to use the facilities,'' Applebaum said. Once the plane landed, Lanchinskas was rushed to a local hospital in Lima, where doctors treated the burns to his face and eye. But he was later diagnosed with a thermal injury and chemical burn to his right eye. The injury left him with permanent sensitivity to light and a reduced field of vision, Applebaum said. said it reached out to JetBlue for comment but it wasn't clear if they received a response. Check out our sports section for the latest news and analysis. Celebrity Canada Toronto & GTA Other Sports World
Newsweek
21-07-2025
- Business
- Newsweek
Alaska Airlines Reveals Details of Nationwide Outage
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Alaska Airlines has revealed that an "unexpected failure" of a critical piece of hardware caused an IT outage that led to its entire fleet being temporarily grounded on Sunday. The airline announced a ground-stop of its aircraft, including planes flying under its Horizon Air brand, at around 8 p.m. PT. The issue was resolved after around three hours, but knock-on delays continued into Monday. Responding to the incident, Alaska Airlines told Newsweek in a statement: "We're working to get our operations back on track today at Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air after a significant IT outage Sunday night resulted in a system-wide ground stop of flights, which was lifted at 11 p.m. Pacific. "A critical piece of multi-redundant hardware at our data centers, manufactured by a third-party, experienced an unexpected failure. When that happened, it impacted several of our key systems that enable us to run various operations, necessitating the implementation of a ground stop to keep aircraft in position. The safety of our flights was never compromised." An Alaska Airlines plane departing Los Angeles International Airport in March, 2024. An Alaska Airlines plane departing Los Angeles International Airport in March, 2024. DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images The airline added: "Since Sunday evening, we've had more than 150 flight cancellations, including 64 cancellations today. Additional flight disruptions are likely as we reposition aircraft and crews throughout our network. "The IT outage is not related to any other current events, and it's not connected to the recent cybersecurity incident at Hawaiian Airlines. "We are currently working with our vendor to replace the hardware equipment at the data center. "We appreciate the patience of our guests whose travel plans have been disrupted. We're working to get them to their destinations as quickly as we can. Before heading to the airport, we encourage flyers to check their fight status." This is a developing story. More to follow.
Black America Web
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Black America Web
Confederate Group Sues Georgia Over Changes To Stone Mountain Confederate Monument
Source: DANIEL SLIM / Getty I will never understand the intellectual dishonesty of white people who still celebrate the Confederacy. The whole reason the American Civil War was fought was because the Confederacy felt entitled to their slaves, yet those who still celebrate the Confederacy get all apoplectic when that fact is brought up. This is what's currently happening in Georgia, where the Sons of Confederate Veterans have filed a lawsuit against the state over adding an exhibit that addresses the history of slavery, segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan to the Stone Mountain Confederate monument. According to AP News, the lawsuit is over the carving in Georgia's Stone Mountain depicting Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson on horseback. In 2021, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association voted to relocate Confederate flags at the monument and to build an exhibit informing how the monument contributed to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and the role segregation played in its creation. So obviously, the Sons of Confederate Veterans had an issue with the Confederate monument being honest about the Confederacy. The group believes that the removal of the flags from the Stone Mountain Confederate monument is a violation of Georgia law. 'When they come after the history and attempt to change everything to the present political structure, that's against the law,' Martin O'Toole, the chapter's spokesperson, told AP. Bro, they're not coming after the history, they're finally being honest about it. The Confederacy waged and lost a war against their own country because they couldn't stand the idea of Black people having the same freedoms as white folks. You can't be mad that this glorified participation trophy is truthful about the cause it was dedicated to. The United Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the Stone Mountain Confederate monument in 1915. The carving was done by Gutzon Borglum, the same man who later went on to carve Mount Rushmore. The monument, along with the release of the 1915 film Birth of a Nation , were integral to the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan, to the point that the Klan burned a cross on top of the Confederate monument on Thanksgiving night that same year. Source: DANIEL SLIM / Getty Birmingham-based Warner Museums, which specializes in civil rights installations, was hired by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to build the new exhibit. 'The interpretive themes developed for Stone Mountain will explore how the collective memory created by Southerners in response to the real and imagined threats to the very foundation of Southern society, the institution of slavery, by westward expansion, a destructive war, and eventual military defeat, was fertile ground for the development of the Lost Cause movement amidst the social and economic disruptions that followed,' the exhibit proposal says. The removal of flags is probably not the main reason the Sons of the Confederate Veterans are big mad about the exhibit. One of the planned parts of the exhibit addresses how both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans helped perpetuate the 'Lost Cause' ideology and contributed to segregation efforts throughout the South. With that context, this whole lawsuit can't help but feel like the legal equivalent of the 'Wait. Is this f-ing play about us?' meme. Over the last decade, Confederate monuments have become a source of great debate. Last year a poll unsurprisingly found that the majority of white people think Confederate monuments should stay up. There have been efforts across the country to preserve Confederate monuments, including a bill that was passed in Florida last year that aims to preserve the monuments in order to 'protect white society.' No matter how hard Confederacy stans try to convince everyone that their 'rebel pride' is not about racism, the truth always manages to reveal itself. SEE ALSO: Poll: White Americans Support Protecting Confederate Legacy Anti-DEI Alabama Celebrates President Of The Confederacy's Birthday SEE ALSO Confederate Group Sues Georgia Over Changes To Stone Mountain Confederate Monument was originally published on
Forbes
01-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Canada Tariff Fears: Does NY's Clean Energy Push Offer Protection?
A general view shows water flowing over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, New York, on August 13, ... More 2022. (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images) Have you ever seen the beauty of Niagara Falls up close, listened to its rushing water? Or strolled around Niagara Falls State Park? There's even a Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. If so, you've been literally, or nearly, touching the Canadian border. The uncertainty around the tariffs that President Trump has been threatening to impose on Canada and other countries this week are rippling through the states that have the strongest economic ties with Canada, like New York, the home of Niagara Falls and the fourth largest state in the U.S. by population. To prepare for the impact of these tariffs, New York Governor Kathy Hochul directed the state's energy agencies and Homeland Security and Emergency Services to conduct a 'thorough review of the federal energy tariffs and Canadian retaliation that have caused significant instability in capital markets and threaten to drive up electricity and heating costs, destabilize New York's energy markets,' and increase costs for New Yorkers statewide. After this review, including consulting with relevant industries and the New York Independent System Operator, which runs the state's grid, they issued the following statement: 'According to the agencies, cost increases will not be material in the near-term due to New York's rigorous policing of energy reliability and significant investment into clean energy and transmission projects. However, the cost increases will be borne by households and businesses across New York and, over time, with added influence from tariffs on other sectors, New Yorkers could experience compounding cost impacts.' The review also concluded that New York's aggressive push toward renewable energy has insulated the state somewhat from the cost increases the tariffs and volatility could bring, at least in the short term. 'According to the agencies, cost increases will not be material in the near-term due to New York's rigorous policing of energy reliability and significant investment into clean energy and transmission projects. However, the cost increases will be borne by households and businesses across New York and, over time, with added influence from tariffs on other sectors, New Yorkers could experience compounding cost impacts.' Governor Hochul has committed the state to transition to '70% renewably sourced electricity by 2030 and a zero=emission electric grid by 2040.' The state's renewable energy portfolio includes solar, wind, hydropower, advanced geothermal energy, nuclear energy, and hydrogen. The agency planning and innovating the state's complex energy systems and this ambitious energy transition is NYSERDA, or the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. 'We are the state's energy planner, so we're responsible for really looking at the longer term needs from a broad energy system perspective of the state and, and helping our state be prepared for those needs well into the future,' NYSERDA President and CEO Doreen Harris told me in an exclusive interview on Electric Ladies Podcast recently. Doreen Harris, President/CEO of NYSERDA 'We do execute a number of different programs across the state, really facilitating energy efficiency, renewable energy, innovation, all economic development related to all of those things across the state.' With an annual budget of 'around $2 billion,' they plan not in months or years, but 'over decades.' Energy planning inherently requires managing uncertainty because of its long timeline and capital intensiveness, so they develop 'multiple scenarios' to take into account 'very significant variations in the potential futures,' including 'the changing climate.' NYSERDA on Electric School Buses Harris told me that, 'cost is a major aspect of our planning,' both in terms of affordability and, 'We need it to be as cost effective as possible. One of the things that's particularly challenging about the topic of cost is that we need major investments in our energy systems, no matter what we do.' Every scenario reflects higher energy demands in the decades ahead. They also consider the benefits, including 'health benefits, economic benefits, reliability benefits, etcetera,' she said, which includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 'As a good engineer, I call it a multi-variable equation.' Champlain Hudson Power Express project homepage ( One of New York's marquee projects that has been in the works for years, which Harris called, 'the linchpin really to addressing that reliability need, is a very large transmission project that is under construction now moving hydroelectric power from Canada into New York City. It's the called the Champlain Hudson Power Express Project.' Sometimes called 'CHIPPIE,' the $6 billion project is scheduled to enter service in 2026. It will transmit hydropower from dams owned by Hydro-Québec in Canada to New York at all hours. 'Once it enters service in the spring of 2026, CHPE will be the largest transmission line in the U.S. built entirely underwater and underground,' sources told Politico's E&E News in 2023. Some are considering the project a model for other states. As New York presses full-speed ahead with its energy transition, I asked Doreen Harris her advice for other state leaders in the current political, economic and climate change dynamics. 'In my 15 years here, I have been able to see what this transition really looks like in practice. And, I think the foundation of this is that we need to be solving for many variables at the same time,' Harris explained. 'There's a lot of metrics of success that we are working toward. It isn't just about greenhouse gas emissions or cost or reliability or, you know, benefits coming to our state. It's all of those things at the same time. So what we really need are leaders who can be nimble, who are understanding the landscape that we're working within.' And, added that it needs to be 'private sector led, government enabled,' as now-former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm put it. Listen to the full interview with NYSERDA President/CEO Doreen Harris on Electric Ladies Podcast here.
