ARDMORE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - After the touching salute to his father, the teary victory call to his mother back in England and the kiss of the silver trophy, Justin Rose treasured the validation of winning the U.S. Open for his first major championship.

"The silverware and the history books are phenomenal, but it's about learning about yourself and how you can handle it," Rose said after his steely cool finish to claim a two-shot victory over Phil Mickelson and Australian Jason Day at Merion.

"That feeling of testing yourself and coming out on top is incredible."

Rose burst onto the international scene when he finished tied for fourth at the 1998 British Open at Birkdale as a 17-year-old amateur.

The Englishman, who learned the game from his father, Ken, who died in 2002 from leukemia at age 57, turned professional the next day.

He suffered his growing pains in full view, missing 21 cuts in a row.

"I sort of announced myself on the golfing scene probably before I was ready to handle it," said Rose. "And golf can be a cruel game.

"Definitely I have had the ups and downs, but I think that ultimately it's made me stronger and able to handle the situations like today."

Rose began to deliver on his massive potential by winning four times internationally in 2002.

He added two more European PGA titles in the 2007 season before further embellishing his resume with a pair of U.S. tour wins in 2010. Rose won the FedExCup BMW Championship the next year and followed with the WGC-Cadillac Championship in 2012.

He also played a key role in Europe's come-from-behind Ryder Cup victory over the United States last year at Medinah.

Inspired by his good friend Adam Scott, who in April became the first Australian to win the Masters, Rose believed he was ready to take the next big step on Father's Day at Merion.

"I texted my mum late last night and I said, 'let's do it for dad tomorrow.' And she just simply texted me back that would be fantastic."

'FLOODS OF TEARS'

Rose finished his triumphant final round in style with a supremely confident par at the daunting 18th, where he struck a brilliant four-iron following a picture-perfect drive right near the plaque commemorating Ben Hogan's fabled one-iron shot to the green on the way to the 1950 Open title at Merion.

After putting out Rose pointed skyward, touched his lips and pointed upward again before wiping a tear from his eye.

Victory was not yet assured, as Mickelson was still on the course. But Rose knew he had done all he could and later phoned his mother.

"We both were in floods of tears speaking to each other. She misses him immensely. I miss him immensely," he said of his father.

"I felt like I sort of put into practice a lot of the lessons that he's taught me, and I felt like I conducted myself in a way that he would be proud of, win or lose. And that's what today was about for me in a lot of ways."

Rose became the first Englishman to win the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin's triumph at Hazeltine in 1970 and said he hoped his victory would be a springboard for talented compatriots including Luke Donald and Lee Westwood to join the major winners' club.

The new U.S. Open champion said another text message, this one from Masters champion Scott, helped fuel his confidence.

"He sent me a text message after I congratulated him. He said to me, 'this is your time, this is our time to win these tournaments. We're 32, we have been around quite awhile. We paid our dues in some senses."

Rose said disappointments were part of the process.

"This is a journey," he said. "And it goes back 20, 30 years for me of dreaming, of hoping, of practicing, of calloused hands.

"You've had to do it the hard way, you've had to do it yourself."

Well, perhaps not all by yourself.

"I think my dad always believed that I was capable of this," Rose said. "When he was close to passing away, he kind of told my mom, 'don't worry, Justin will be okay. He'll know what to do.'

"He kind of believed in me to be my own man."

(Editing by Peter Rutherford)

The bank, controlled by Standard Chartered Plc, said total operating expenses increased by about 400 million shillings, driven by higher staff costs and loan-loss provisions.

Basic earnings per share fell to 6.06 shillings from 7.79 shillings a year ago, the bank said, adding that the outlook for the rest of the year was positive.

"We remain confident in the outlook for the business as we expect ... momentum to pick (up) pace, especially as the uncertainties around the elections are now behind us," Chief Executive Richard Etemesi said in a statement.

Optimism about east Africa's biggest economy has risen since the country held a peaceful presidential poll in March, in contrast with the violence-riddled poll of five years ago when more than 1,200 people died.

Standard Chartered Bank of Kenya's net interest income edged up 2 percent to 3.7 billion shillings, while non-interest income fell 9 percent to 1.7 billion shillings, due to the absence of last year's income from the sale of government securities.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Rest easy, Wendy Williams fans; your favorite TV host will be on hand to liven up your days for a while.

Fox Television Stations have made a multi-season commitment to "The Wendy Williams Show," renewing the daytime gab-fest through the 2016-17 season.

The renewal will bring "The Wendy Williams Show" into its eighth season, and comes after a strong May sweep performance. During May sweep, "The Wendy Williams Show" doubled its rating in the key women 25-54 demographic on Fox's WNYW in New York, jumping from a 1.2 rating/9 share during the same period last year to a 2.4/16 this year. It also posted strong gains on Fox's Los Angeles station and, in particular, WFLD in Chicago, where it surged 139 percent year-to-year.

Overall, the show has climbed 43 percent year-to-year in the demo - the only talk show in syndication to post a gain - to a 1.2/8.

"'The Wendy Williams Show' has as much momentum as any show on our air right now, both qualitatively and quantitatively," Fox Television Stations senior vice president of programming Frank Cicha said. "Over the last few years, it's evolved into the ideal lead-out to our morning news blocks. Like our news, the show delivers a day/date immediacy that serves as a blueprint for where we want to be the rest of the day."

A lot of scientists wear worried frowns these days. Science seems under attack from numerous directions. Some of the attackers are wearily familiar. Peddlers of dogma have been sworn enemies of science since the Dark Ages. People whose political beliefs are challenged by research seek to shut it down. And nobody is much surprised when scientists whose findings threaten the basis of a person's or corporation's wealth find themselves facing well-financed opposition and even personal attacks. Scientists who study astronomy, evolution, discrimination and global warming to name a few are used to this situation, and while they surely don't enjoy it, it's really nothing new.

However, scientists now have something else to worry about. The very foundation of science is suddenly being brought into question. The issue concerns "replicability," the assumption that valid scientific studies can be repeated by anybody with the necessary skills and will yield the same results.

In 2005, a distinguished medical researcher wrote an article entitledand its publication seemed to mark some kind of turning point. In the years since, serious concerns regarding the trustworthiness of research findings have been voiced in major journals and at professional meetings of fields as diverse as medicine, physics, cell biology, economics, and my own field, social psychology. []

Across all of those disciplines, the concern has been the same: Findings garnered in one lab, sometimes important and famous findings, have turned out to be difficult, if not impossible, to reproduce anywhere else. When that happens, it's called a "failure to replicate" a phrase that strikes a chill in the heart of any scientist who hears it.

Why do findings sometimes fail to replicate? There are many possible reasons. In a few cases which have become infamous and literally made up their data. One of the most famous instances involved Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel, the subject of a recent , who fraudulently invented data for dozens of studies over a period of years. Other cases of data fraud have been reported recently in oncology, genetics and even dentistry.

But while these egregious cases justly cause widespread alarm, focusing too tightly on them can be misleading. Such fraud is actually rare, and the typical reasons for failures to replicate are different. To list just a few: The replication study might not follow exactly the same methods as the original study, or the new investigators may not have the skills necessary to successfully repeat a complex experimental procedure; the finding in question might have undiscovered "moderator variables," factors that cause the finding to get stronger, or go away; or, the original finding might been a "lucky" accident.

The mechanisms of nature are complicated, sometimes even almost chaotic. Scientists work hard to find signal amidst all that noise, and when they think they find something, are eager to report it to their colleagues and to the world. They also might, in some cases, be a little too eager. After all, research dollars, reputations and careers are all on the line, and it would be surprising indeed if these incentives did not lead scientists who are as human as anyone else to do what they can to convince themselves and their colleagues that they have found something important.

For this reason, it is only natural thatin dealing with replicability issues and developing prescriptions for improvement that are relevant to all areas of science. Special articles or complete special issues with specific recommendations have recently been published by Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Inquiry and the . Social psychologist Brian Nosek and his colleagues have initiated an onlineto make it easier for researchers to share methods and data. And recently, a task force of theformulated other recommendations to help improve the conduct and reporting of research, and to reconsider the incentives that affect the behavior of research scientists.

The recommendations are numerous, and some are rather technical (involving, for example, new statistical standards). But the recommendation that might be the most important is also the simplest: Do more research.

Because nature is complicated and reliable findings are difficult to find, we need to examine it using more powerful methods. For astronomy, this might mean a ; for microbiology, it might be a stronger microscope. For all fields of science, including psychology, it means simply more data.

Studies need to get bigger. Small studies are useful for trying out new ideas, but only replications can sort genuine discoveries from false starts, and replication studies need to be large to be conclusive. A finding based on 100 rats will be more reliable than a finding based on 10; a treatment outcome that is evaluated with 1,000 patients will be more reliably assessed than one that looks at only 100; and, in general, the bigger the number of research subjects in a study, the more reliable the finding.

But big studies are expensive and time-consuming. The typical scientist works under conditions of scarce resources and intense time pressure, and replication studies are not conducted or reported as often as they should be. Changing this state of affairs will require some behavior change by some scientists a challenge we in social psychology are eager to tackle but also more resources. Specific replication studies may be deemed successes or failures while firm conclusions only emerge over time. What matters most is that scientists continue to work hard to determine which exciting preliminary findings stand up under repeated research.

The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. This article was originally published on LiveScience.com.

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This was the latest measure by President Mohammed Morsi's government against dissenters, moves that have drawn criticism from human rights groups and foreign governments, including the U.S.

It coincided with an angry protest by writers, artists and intellectuals who stormed the office of the culture minister, chanting, "I am not an infidel, I am an artist. I reject the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood." They vowed not to leave until the minister steps down.

Critics charge that steps taken by the new minister, Alaa Abdel-Aziz, are an attempt to consolidate the Brotherhood's control over the ministry. The minister, who supports the Brotherhood, has fired several senior officials at the ministry.

The referral to trial of the 12 activists and bloggers is seen by critics as part of the government's tactics to stifle dissent ahead of planned mass protests on June 30, calling for Morsi's ouster on the anniversary of his taking office.

The president accuses the opposition of stirring up unrest to undermine his authority, charging loyalists of ousted President Hosni Mubarak with seeking to derail the country's shift to democracy.

The charges against the activists come from a March 22 fight between Morsi's supporters and opponents outside the Brotherhood's headquarters atop Cairo's Muqattam cliff. More than 200 people were injured.

MENA, the state news agency, quoted Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah, a Morsi appointee, as saying the 12 included Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Nawara Negm, Ahmed Douma, and Karim el-Shaer, well-known youth leaders who helped spearhead the 2011 uprising against Mubarak. On Monday, Douma received a six-month suspended sentence for insulting the president.

Abdullah did not refer any Brotherhood supporters to trial.

In another sign of the turmoil that continues to roil Egypt two years after the ouster of Mubarak, workers at the largest terminal at Cairo International Airport blocked airplanes on the tarmac and disrupted flights. The Minister of Civil Aviation fired 15 of the strike leaders and suspended 30 others for endangering the lives of passengers. The strike ended after three hours of negotiations. The striking workers were demanding bonuses and dismissal of corrupt officials.

The protests sweeping the country over power outages, fuel and water shortages and perceived changes to Egypt's identity by the Brotherhood, reflect Egypt's deep polarization and worsening economic conditions under Morsi, the country's first freely elected leader.

The March 22 clashes came during spike in political violence in Egypt. Islamists say that the opposition is unable to beat them at the ballot box and has been trying to undercut them through street protests, wrecking the country's stability. In a speech following that demonstration, a visibly angry Morsi shouted and pounded the table, warning his opponents he was on the verge of taking unspecified measures to protect the nation.

Activists respond that Brotherhood street protesters have been responsible for many of the violent incidents, but were never charged. The March clashes were set off by a videotaped incident in which a Muslim Brotherhood member slapped a woman to the ground and others roughed up activists who were spray-painting anti-Brotherhood graffiti. Brotherhood officials accused the protesters of attacking the group's office and said its members were defending the building.

Several of the 12 said their referral to trial is a political decision.

Karim el-Shaer, a blogger, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he was among those who called for the March protest outside the Brotherhood offices but that he had asked that protesters come unarmed.

"The referral to trial is designed to terrorize people and sow panic ahead of June 30, but it will backfire because people will not back down," said el-Shaer.

Morsi's government has come under heavy international criticism also over Tuesday's court ruling against 43 workers, including 15 other Americans, who were sentenced to up to five years in prison in a case against foreign-funded pro-democracy groups. All but one of the Americans left the country before the trial. The other left after the verdict.

The verdict was strongly denounced by the United States. Secretary of State John Kerry and a host of powerful lawmakers expressed outrage, charging that the trial and verdict were politically motivated and incompatible with Egypt's transition to democratic rule.

On Wednesday, the Cairo Criminal Court released reasons for its ruling. "Funding is one of new forms of hegemony and control. It is considered a soft imperialism," the court said in a statement. It charged that funding is used by the donors to "shaken security and stability of the recipient state to weaken and dismantle."

It also said that the civil groups used democracy and human rights as a cover to "infiltrate national security, topple the state institutions, divide the society, fragment it, reshape its national fabric and its sectarian and political map to serve the American and the Israeli interests."

A corrected version of the story is below:

By RON BLUM

Associated Press

Various Artists, "Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from The Metropolitan Opera" (Sony Classical)

Yes, there really was a golden age, and this was it.

To mark the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth on May 22, a 25-disc set taken from the archives of Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcasts documents performances of nine of the composer's 10 mature works "Parsifal" was excluded. The recordings date from 1936-54 and while some of these had appeared previously on CD, these are the first authorized releases. The sound from the original lacquers and tapes has been improved and cleaned markedly, but don't expect the clarity, depth and width of the digital era, especially from the 1930s broadcasts. And the conductors of the day made cuts that would be unacceptable to the 21st century Met audience.

But, oh, the singing.

Hans Hotter's booming Dutchman from "Die Fliegende Hollaender" is paired with Astrid Varnay's excitable Senta under Fritz Reiner's baton from 1950. George Szell's "Tannhaeuser" from 1954 shows interesting tempi choices in the overture, which includes a sudden speedup in the Venusberg theme.

Ramon Vinay's clarion tenor is featured as Tannhaeuser, this time matched with Varnay's sultry Venus, Margaret Harshaw's hefty Elisabeth and a young Roberta Peters as the Shepherd.

For a 1943 "Lohengrin," a fresher-sounding Varnay's Elsa is together with Lauritz Melchior in the title role under Erich Leinsdorf's baton that emphasized flow over energy. Melchior's "In fernem land (In a far-off land)" is a model of diction, breath control, pacing, color and inflection.

Melchior is a central part of the Ring Cycle, as Siegmund in a 1940 "Die Walkuere" with Marjorie Lawrence's Sieglinde, Kirsten Flagstad's Bruennhilde and Julius Huehn's Wotan (under Leinsdorf), a 1937 "Siegfried" with Flagstad and Freidrich Schorr's Wanderer (under Bodanzsky) and a 1936 "Goetterdaemmerung" with Lawrence (again under Bodanzsky).

Melchior's seemingly effortless soft singing in "Winterstuerme (Wintry storms)" highlights how often the role is shouted these days by tenors lacking his technique, and Lawrence's "Du bist der Lenz (You are the spring)" builds tension and pace along with Sieglinde's ardor. Flagstad combines iciness and affection in her opening "Siegmund! Sieh' auf mich! (Siegmund! Look at me!)" from the Todesverkuendigung (Annunciation of death). While Huehn's "Leb' wohl (Farewell)" is low on emotion, Flagstad and Melchior sparkle in the closing duet from "Siegfried."

A 1938 "Tristan und Isolde" with Melchior, Flagstad and Bodanzsky reveals an incendiary love duet that lifts the opera to an even higher level, and Flagstad follows with an ecstatic, mournful Liebestod (lovedeath), although here the thin sound of the recording detracts.

Finally, there is a "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" from 1953. Reiner carefully blended Hans Hopf's lyrical Walther, Paul Schoeffler's thick-voiced Sachs and Victoria de los Angeles' sweet and innocent Eva.

While Sony had released 20 individual sets of Met broadcasts in recent years, including a 1968 "Walkuere" and 1972 "Meistersinger," the historic recordings have far more impact when packaged together here. A similar Verdi set is planned for the fall.

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a new gallery to house them, the institution announced Tuesday.

Encompassing almost 400 items ranging from original puppets to behind-the-scenes footage, the gift is a boon for the 25-year-old museum, which saw attendance skyrocket during a temporary exhibit in 2011 and 2012 of Henson's work. And it fulfills a cherished goal for Henson's widow and collaborator, Jane Henson, who died last month at 78.

"She loved the Muppet characters as though they were part of her own family," and the actual puppets themselves were very special to her, one of the couple's daughters, Cheryl Henson, said at a news conference. "It was her dream to have these dear friends find a good home where they could be seen and enjoyed, and where new audiences could learn about the many facets of my father's work."

The exhibit is to open next year at the museum in the Long Island City neighborhood, across the East River from midtown Manhattan. The city is chipping in $2.75 million toward the $5 million cost for a project.

"The only major item that I know will not be represented is the Muppet that they made of me," Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked at the news conference, where he bantered with Miss Piggy about the city's film and television industry and reminisced about their joint work in the 2008 TV special "A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa," which featured Bloomberg as himself.

"You were wonderful almost lifelike," the porcine prima donna quipped Tuesday. (For the record, Bloomberg's personal Muppet has a nice home of its own, in a reading room at the mayor's Manhattan town house.)

A puppeteer, screenwriter and producer, Henson introduced a raft of beloved and familiar characters during a career that spanned from the 1950s until his death in 1990, at 53. Some, including his Muppets and Fraggles, appeared in both television shows and movies among them the 1984 film "The Muppets Take Manhattan," which depicted the fuzzy crew striving to stage a Broadway musical.

While being a shrewd and innovative businessman, "Jim Henson created indelible, memorable characters that live with us throughout a variety of media," said Carl Goodman, executive director of the Museum of the Moving Image. Henson's career showed "that you can march to the beat of a different drummer and succeed in this world," Goodman said.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into a global intelligence company.

Jeremy Hammond of Chicago admitted to hacking into Strategic Forecasting Inc, based in Austin, Texas, in December 2011. He also admitted to being involved in hacks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other entities and agencies.

Hammond and his co-conspirators stole confidential information, including about 60,000 credit card numbers and records for 860,000 clients of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, and uploaded it to a server in New York, prosecutors said.

"I knew what I was doing was against the law," Hammond said in court on Tuesday.

Hammond faces a maximum 10 year sentence on the charge of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York set sentencing for September 6.

Prosecutors said Hammond, 28, went by the nickname "Anarchaos" and participated in a series of hacks by groups called AntiSec and LulzSec, which are loosely associated with Anonymous.

Anonymous and other loosely affiliated hacking groups have taken credit for carrying out attacks against the CIA, Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency and companies such as Japan's Sony Corp. Authorities have arrested a number of the group's key players.

"While he billed himself as fighting for an anarchist cause, in reality, Jeremy Hammond caused personal and financial chaos for individuals whose identities and money he took and for companies whose businesses he decided he didn't like," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

Hammond also admitted to participating in a series of hacks on government and business entities including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association and the Jefferson County, Alabama, Sheriff's Office.

U.S. authorities announced Hammond's arrest in March along with charges against five other hackers who they alleged were also aligned with Anonymous, a loose-knit group of hackers.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond; editing by Andrew Hay)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A gallon of regular gas in Ohio was listed at an average of about $3.69 in Tuesday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That's down 13 cents from last week's average, following a one-week spike of nearly 30 cents.

The Ohio price this week is 6 cents higher than the national average.

The state average is about 12 cents higher than this time last month, and a penny higher than at the same time in 2012.

Online:

AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report: http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com

The justices did not comment Tuesday in rejecting the state's appeal of a federal appeals court ruling in favor of Planned Parenthood.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state law targeting Planned Parenthood went too far. Indiana is among more than a dozen states that have enacted or considered laws to cut off taxpayer money to organizations that provide abortion.

The law aimed to deny Planned Parenthood funds from the joint federal-state Medicaid health program for the poor that are used for general health services including cancer screening.