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SUNY Orange men's golf places 11th at NJCAA Division III championships
Liam Parker finished 52nd overall to lead SUNY Orange golfers at the NJCAA Division III championships held at upstate Chautauqua Golf Club. The Colts finished last among 11 full teams, with 1,431 strokes, 295 behind champion Sandhills Community College, which shot 16-under-par over four rounds at par-72 Chautauqua Golf Course in western New York from June 3-6. Advertisement Parker posted seven pars and nine bogeys on day one; one birdie, seven pars and four bogeys on day two; two birdies, seven pars and seven bogeys on day three; and, two birdies, five pars and nine bogeys on day four. In all, Parker shot 49 over par. Daniel Conrad finished in 55th place, at 54-under. kmcmillan@ X / Twitter: @KenMcMillanTHR 2025 NJCAA Division III nationals SUNY Orange golfers: 52. Liam Parker 83-89-81-84 - 337 (+49); 55. Daniel Conrad 88-89-81-84 - 342 (+54); 65. Alex Miller 102-92-86-84 - 364 (+76); T70. Garrett McGovern 104-95-93-96 - 388 (+100); 72. William Siebert 105-97-93-102 - 397 (+109) Advertisement SUNY Ulster golfers: 59. Austin Uhl 89-88-86-84 - 347 (+59); 66. Jessie Rodriguez 89-86-90-100 - 365 (+77) This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: SUNY Orange competes at 2025 NJCAA Division III men's golf nationals
The Independent
26-05-2025
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- The Independent
Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased' by maximum sentence for attacker
Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is 'pleased' that the man who stabbed him multiple times on stage received the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the 2025 trial about the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, which left him blind in one eye. US citizen Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February and sentenced this month. He was also sentenced to seven years for wounding another man who was on stage with the writer at the time of the attack. On Monday, Indian-born British author Sir Salman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and I hope he uses it to reflect upon his deeds.' He also spoke about working with BBC producer Alan Yentob, who died on Saturday, on a 2024 BBC Two programme that featured an artificial intelligence (AI) creation, based on his fictional conversation with Matar that he recalled in his autobiography Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder. Sir Salman said: 'I thought if I was to really meet him, to ask him questions, I wouldn't get very much out of him. I doubt that he would open his heart to me. 'And so I thought, 'well, I could open it by myself. I'd probably do it better than a real conversation would'.' He added: '(The AI animation) was very startling. I have to say it really certainly made a point.' Sir Salman called former BBC executive and TV presenter Yentob not just an 'unbelievable champion of the arts', but someone who has a 'real gift for friendship'. 'He's one of the giants of British media in the last generation,' he also said. 'I think he will be remembered as a maker of great programmes and as an enabler of great programmes as well.' Sir Salman recalled Yentob gave him his first break with a programme that saw Sir Ben Kingsley read his book Midnight's Children before he won the Booker Prize, and the publication of his 1988 book The Satanic Verses. It was The Satanic Verses that saw Sir Salman accused of being blasphemous by hardline Muslims and prompted then Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for his death in 1989. He later spoofed himself and Yentob, when they appeared to arm wrestle on the BBC satirical programme W1A. Sir Salman also said that it was 'horrendous' that the Kids Company controversy made him resign as the author added: 'I think it needs to be said, repeatedly, (he was) completely exonerated, and so were all the other directors.' Yentob served as chairman of the board of trustees for Kids Company, founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh, from 2003 until the collapse of the charity in 2015. He always insisted there was no conflict of interest in his decision to call Newsnight about its investigation into Kids Company and had not 'abused my position at the BBC'. During Yentob's tenure at BBC2, Absolutely Fabulous, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dame Joanna Lumley, arts series The Late Show and Have I Got News For You, were commissioned. He also launched CBBC and CBeebies, commissioned Colin Firth-starring Pride And Prejudice, and in 2024 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the King for services to the arts and media.
BreakingNews.ie
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased' by maximum sentence for attacker
Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is 'pleased' that the man who stabbed him multiple times on stage received the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the 2025 trial about the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, which left him blind in one eye. Advertisement US citizen Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February and sentenced this month. Hadi Matar walks into Chautauqua County court in Mayville, New York. Photo: Adrian Kraus/PA. He was also sentenced to seven years for wounding another man who was on stage with the writer at the time of the attack. On Monday, Indian-born British author Sir Salman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and I hope he uses it to reflect upon his deeds.' He also spoke about working with BBC producer Alan Yentob, who died on Saturday, on a 2024 BBC Two programme that featured an artificial intelligence (AI) creation, based on his fictional conversation with Matar that he recalled in his autobiography Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder. Advertisement Sir Salman said: 'I thought if I was to really meet him, to ask him questions, I wouldn't get very much out of him. I doubt that he would open his heart to me. 'And so I thought, 'well, I could open it by myself. I'd probably do it better than a real conversation would'.' He added: '(The AI animation) was very startling. I have to say it really certainly made a point.' Alan Yentob, a former BBC executive and TV presenter (Jonathan Brady/PA) Sir Salman called former BBC executive and TV presenter Yentob not just an 'unbelievable champion of the arts', but someone who has a 'real gift for friendship'. Advertisement 'He's one of the giants of British media in the last generation,' he also said. 'I think he will be remembered as a maker of great programmes and as an enabler of great programmes as well.' Sir Salman recalled Yentob gave him his first break with a programme that saw Sir Ben Kingsley read his book Midnight's Children before he won the Booker Prize, and the publication of his 1988 book The Satanic Verses. It was The Satanic Verses that saw Sir Salman accused of being blasphemous by hardline Muslims and prompted then Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for his death in 1989. Advertisement He later spoofed himself and Yentob, when they appeared to arm wrestle on the BBC satirical programme W1A. Sir Salman also said that it was 'horrendous' that the Kids Company controversy made him resign as the author added: 'I think it needs to be said, repeatedly, (he was) completely exonerated, and so were all the other directors.' Yentob served as chairman of the board of trustees for Kids Company, founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh, from 2003 until the collapse of the charity in 2015. Entertainment Andrew Garfield's outspoken grief helped with loss... Read More He always insisted there was no conflict of interest in his decision to call Newsnight about its investigation into Kids Company and had not 'abused my position at the BBC'. Advertisement During Yentob's tenure at BBC2, Absolutely Fabulous, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dame Joanna Lumley, arts series The Late Show and Have I Got News For You, were commissioned. He also launched CBBC and CBeebies, commissioned Colin Firth-starring Pride And Prejudice, and in 2024 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the King for services to the arts and media.
Al Jazeera
16-05-2025
- Al Jazeera
Attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison
The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie, leaving him blind in one eye, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum term possible in the case. Friday's sentencing hearing was the culmination of a relatively swift trial that began on February 4. There was little ambiguity about the central events underlying the case: In August 2022, a 24-year-old named Hadi Matar rushed the stage of an amphitheatre where Rushdie was delivering a public lecture for New York's Chautauqua Institution. Matar stabbed Rushdie approximately 15 times, delivering cuts to his neck, body and head. After being airlifted to a hospital, Rushdie eventually lost sight in one eye. Another speaker — Henry Reese, who runs a nonprofit for writers in exile — also received injuries, including a stab wound. Rushdie, now 77, testified in the state-level trial against Matar. 'He was hitting me repeatedly. Hitting and slashing,' the novelist said. He added that he thought at first he was being struck by fists, not a knife. It was only later that he realised the severity of his situation: 'I saw a large quantity of blood pouring onto my clothes.' The injuries resulted in Rushdie undergoing painful surgeries, including to seal his blinded eye. He spent months in recovery. 'I'm not as energetic as I used to be. I'm not as physically strong as I used to be,' he told the court. On February 21, after less than two hours of deliberation, a jury in western New York found Matar both guilty of attempted murder for his attack on Rushdie and of assault for the injuries to Reese. In Friday's hearing, Matar received 25 years for the attempted murder sentence and seven for the assault on Reese, to be served at the same time since the attacks happened at the same time. Rushdie, a British American novelist, was born in India to a Muslim family. His books have won wide acclaim: His novel Midnight's Children earned the Booker Prize, a top literary honour awarded each year to a work of English-language fiction. But it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, in 1988 that stirred up lasting controversy, specifically for passages deemed blasphemous to Muslims. By 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death. The announcement sent Rushdie into hiding, and the British government assigned him round-the-clock protection. Deadly protests accompanied the novel's publication, and bookstores, along with those close to Rushdie, faced violent attacks. Before Friday's sentencing, Matar also delivered a statement to the court voicing his opposition to Rushdie and his work. 'Salman Rushdie wants to disrespect other people,' said Matar. 'He wants to be a bully, he wants to bully other people. I don't agree with that.' Later, outside the courtroom, defence lawyer Nathaniel Barone took questions about whether his client felt regret or remorse about his actions. ' I think that's a fair question, and I can't answer that,' he responded. 'All I can tell you is that I think that, unfortunately, people make bad decisions, and it's something that certainly they regret or they're remorseful about, but they may have a difficult time expressing that for whatever reasons.' Barone added that he felt Matar would have acted differently in hindsight. ' I know, if he had the opportunity, he would not be sitting where he is sitting today. And if he could change things, he would.' Matar's defence team had sought a lesser sentence of 12 years in prison and plans to appeal the verdict, arguing that the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt an intent to kill Rushdie. Barone also questioned the intense level of scrutiny on the case, calling it a 'publicity sponge'. He argued that his client was denied the presumption of innocence due to any suspect. The prosecution, however, praised the sentencing hearing's outcome as justice for the pain Rushdie continues to endure. 'He's traumatised. He has nightmares about what he experienced,' Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said after the hearing. 'Obviously, this is a major setback for an individual that was starting to emerge in his very later years of life into society after going into hiding after the fatwa.' In explaining to the judge why he was pushing for the maximum sentence, Schmidt said that Matar 'designed this attack so that he could inflict the most amount of damage, not just upon Mr. Rushdie, but upon this community, upon the 1,400 people who were there to watch it'. Separately, Matar, now 27, faces three counts of federal terrorism-related charges in the US, including providing material support to terrorists and committing terrorism that transcends national boundaries. 'We allege that, in attempting to murder Salman Rushdie in New York in 2022, Hadi Matar committed an act of terrorism in the name of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist organization aligned with the Iranian regime,' former US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Iran, however, has denied involvement in Matar's attack on Rushdie. Rushdie, meanwhile, has channelled his experiences from the attack into a memoir called Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
RNZ News
16-05-2025
- RNZ News
Assailant who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years
This combination of pictures created on 11 February 2025 shows Hadi Matar (left), the man accused in the attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie (right). Photo: Angela Weiss / Tobias Schwarz / AFP The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday (local time) for an attack that also wounded a second man, the district attorney said. Rushdie, 77, has faced death threats since the 1988 publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses," which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, denounced as blasphemous, leading to a call for Rushdie's death, an edict known as a fatwa. Hadi Matar, 27, a US citizen from Fairview, New Jersey, was found guilty of attacking the author in the Chautauqua County Court in Mayville, New York, in February. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison on the attempted murder charge. This combination of pictures created on 11 February 2025 shows Hadi Matar (left), the man accused in the attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie (right). Photo: Angela Weiss / Tobias Schwarz / AFP Video that captured the assault shows Matar rushing the Chautauqua Institution's stage as Rushdie was being introduced to the audience for a talk about keeping writers safe from harm. Some of the video was shown to the jury during the seven days of testimony. "He's traumatised. He has nightmares about what he experienced," Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said after the sentencing hearing, referring to what Rushdie suffered. "Obviously, this is a major setback for an individual that was starting to emerge in his very later years of life into society after going into hiding after the fatwa." Also hurt in the attack was Henry Reese, co-founder of Pittsburgh's City of Asylum, a nonprofit that helps exiled writers. He was conducting the talk with Rushdie that morning. Schmidt said Matar was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the second-degree attempted murder charge stemming from the attack against Rushdie and seven years for a second-degree assault charge for the stabbing of Reese. The sentences will run concurrently. Rushdie, an atheist born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in India, was stabbed with a knife multiple times in the head, neck, torso and left hand. The attack blinded his right eye and damaged his liver and intestines, requiring emergency surgery and months of recovery. Matar did not testify at his trial. His defence lawyers told jurors that the prosecutors had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the necessary criminal intent to kill needed for a conviction of attempted murder, and argued that he should have been charged with assault. Matar's attorney Nathaniel Barone said his client will file an appeal. "I know if he had the opportunity, he would not be sitting where he's sitting today. And if he could change things, he would," Barone said. Matar also faces federal charges brought by prosecutors in the US Attorney's office in Western New York, accusing him of attempting to murder Rushdie as an act of terrorism. Prosecutors accuse him of providing material support to Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, which the US has designated as a terrorist organisation. Matar is due to face those charges at a separate trial in Buffalo. -Reuters
