Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G (T-Mobile)

What happened to all of T-Mobile's great keyboarded smartphones? I remember a time, not long ago, when the T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide shared shelf space with the Sidekick 4G. Fast forward one year and we've traded those for the pretty average myTouch Q?and now the $149.99 Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G. Don't get me wrong: The Galaxy S Relay is a perfectly respectable smartphone, with a spacious slide-out keyboard and fast performance and data speeds. In fact, it's the best keyboarded smartphone on T-Mobile right now. But with its bulky build, average camera, and mediocre call quality, it just isn't great.

Design, Network, and Call Quality
The Galaxy S Relay measures 4.96 by 2.56 by 0.53 inches (HWD) and weighs 5.29 ounces. That's actually a bit more manageable than many other keyboarded smartphones, but it's still pretty big. It's made entirely of black plastic with a lightly textured back panel. It feels solid, but not particularly premium.

The 4-inch, 800-by-480-pixel Super AMOLED display looks bright and rich, but the PenTile pixel arrangement is really pronounced here, lending a rather fuzzy look to everything. There's a large hardware Home key beneath the display, flanked by a capacitive Options key and a Back button. The 4-inch screen is fine for typing, but you're not buying this phone to type on the touch screen.

Slide the Relay open to reveal its backlit five-row QWERTY keyboard. The rubbery keys are a little flat, but they have a nice clicky feel and I was able to type quickly and accurately during testing. I also love the top row of number keys. This isn't the best keyboard out there (that's currently attached to the Motorola Droid 4?on Verizon and the Photon Q 4G LTE?on Sprint), but it's far from bad.

For data, the Relay hits T-Mobile's HSPA+ 42 network, which often matched AT&T and Verizon's LTE on download speeds in my tests, averaging 10Mbps down. And now that T-Mobile offers plans with truly unlimited data, it's an even better deal than either of those carriers. You can use the Relay as a mobile hotspot to connect up to five devices for an additional $15 per month.

Unfortunately, voice quality isn't great. Incoming calls sound a little scratchy, with an ambient hissing sound in the background. Calls made with the phone are a little better, but voices sound distant and noise cancellation is poor. The speakerphone sounds hollow and abrasive, but it's just about loud enough to use outside. Calls sounded okay through a Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset. Samsung's S-Voice virtual assistant is on board, and I had no trouble using it over Bluetooth. Talk time was excellent; the battery lasted 11 hours and 47 minutes in my tests.

Hardware, OS, and Apps
The Relay is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8620A processor. Benchmark scores were excellent?right up there in Samsung Galaxy S III/Galaxy Note?territory. In fact, the lower screen resolution on the Relay actually means that gaming frame rates are often faster here than on those phones. It's great for gaming, and running the rest of 500,000+ apps available in the Google Play store.

The Relay runs Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and there's no word yet on an update to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Samsung has modified the OS here in much the same way it has on its other recent Android phones. There aren't as many customizable features as there are on the GSIII, but you get the aforementioned S Voice, as well as plenty of motion-activated controls.

There are five customizable home screens that come preloaded with some rather unfortunate-looking wallpaper, apps, and widgets. This isn't a problem, since you can customize these home screens to your liking, but out of the box it looks a little depressing. T-Mobile has loaded the phone with bloatware, and none of it is deletable. You can disable it so that it won't show up in your app menu or elsewhere, but you can't remove it from the phone.

Still, the benefits of Android outweigh these annoyances, and you'll be able to put the excellent email and messaging apps to good use with the QWERTY keyboard.

Multimedia and Conclusions
The Relay comes with 4.89 GB of free internal storage. There's also an empty microSD card slot underneath the battery cover; my 32 and 64GB SanDisk cards worked fine. All of our music test files played back except for FLAC. Sound quality was good over?Altec Lansing BackBeat?Bluetooth headphones, but there's was a faint background hiss audible when using wired 3.5mm headphones. All test videos played back too, at resolutions up to 1080p, except audio clipped in and out on DivX files.

The Relay's 5-megapixel camera isn't a major selling point, but it also isn't a reason to pass the phone up for something else. In short, it's average. Shutter delay is a bit pronounced, at an average of 1.2 seconds. Photos taken have standard color and detail. I've seen better on other phones with similar sensors, but they're fine enough to share online. Video capture is about the same. The Relays records 720p video at a smooth 30 frames per second indoors and out, but it looks a little blurry and washed out. There's also a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat.

The Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G is a perfectly good keyboarded smartphone?it just isn't anything special. The keyboarded T-Mobile myTouch Q is strictly low-end, but then again it's free. If you don't really need a hardware keyboard, your options increase dramatically. The HTC One S?and the Samsung Galaxy S III are both top picks. Each will get you a larger, higher-res display, better call quality, and a more capable camera. But if you can't bear all the on-screen typing, the Relay will serve you fine. Just don't expect a Galaxy S III with a keyboard.

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Ex-church volunteers gets life for molestation

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - An ex-church volunteer has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting nine youths and will serve a life sentence.

Cesar Pastrana pleaded guilty Friday in a Cobb County courtroom.

Authorities said Pastrana met victims while volunteering at NorthStar Church in Acworth. Investigators said Pastrana confessed to police after initial allegations were made against him.

The families of the victims have filed a lawsuit against the church, arguing the abuse could have been prevented.

Church officials told WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/QugKso ) that they could not comment because of the ongoing investigation. Pastrana is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

Information from: WSB-TV, http://www.wsbtv.com/index.html

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Wal-Mart waves goodbye to entire Amazon Kindle line

Following in Target's footsteps, Wal-Mart has announced it will no longer sell Amazon Kindle e-readers and Amazon Kindle Fire tablets.?

By Matthew Shaer / September 20, 2012

Wal-Mart will no longer sell the Amazon Kindle e-reader, pictured here, nor the Kindle Fire tablet line.

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"We have recently made the business decision to not carry Amazon tablets and eReaders beyond our existing inventory and purchase commitments," Wal-Mart said in an internal memo obtained by Reuters. "This includes all Amazon Kindle models current and recently announced."

So what's behind the shift? Well, a healthy sense of competition, mostly. Consider: Wal-Mart sells a range of household and homegoods products. Amazon used to be just a big bookseller, but in recent years it has become a bookseller that also sells television sets and food products and even deodorant. That's threatening to Wal-Mart and Target.?

"I think part of it could be margin, though the bigger point is that Wal-Mart and Target view Amazon as a competitor,"?Scott Tilghman, an analyst at Caris & Company, told Reuters. (It's worth noting that neither Wal-Mart nor Target has officially commented on the reason for removing the Kindle line from stores; Amazon, for its part, is staying mum.)

Earlier this month, at an event in Santa Monica, Kindle CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled?a new line of?Kindle Fire?tablets and a backlit e-reader called the?Kindle Paperlight. Generally speaking, critics have been pleased with the new Kindle Fires, and especially the 7-inch HD model. Writing in Gizmodo, Kyle Wagner said he found the tablet "impressive." The modified Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system? Less so.?

"[A]fter using Jelly Bean on the Nexus 7, it's just impossible to go back to [the Fire] without it feeling horribly slow and laggy," Wagner wrote. "How bad is it? It's bad enough that when you tap an icon, you wonder if you did it wrong, if maybe you didn't tap firmly enough."

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Elder care laws needed to protect employees | San Francisco ...

Many adult children routinely care for or help care for ill and aging parents. With the number of individuals age 65 and older expected to nearly double by 2030 to an estimated 70 million, more and more adult children will take over the responsibility of caring for an aging parent. This has many concerned about possible workplace and elder care discrimination.

Discrimination by employers against adult caregivers is a growing concern for many employees and elder advocates. In one instance, an employee was fired for taking a leave of absence to care for a dying parent. Another woman was chastised by her employer and denied leave when she requested time off to care for her sick mother.

While some laws and protections currently exist for workers who must care for an elderly parent, many employees do not meet requirements to qualify. An employee is only eligible to file a claim under the Family Medical Leave Act if they and their employer meet certain requirements.

To qualify for FMLA, the employee must have worked at the company for at least one year and the employer must have at least 50 employees. These requirements automatically disqualify many elder care providers who work at small businesses.

The growing number of individuals age 65 and older coupled with an increase in the number of women that work outside the home, has made elder care a major issue for many employers. The number of discrimination cases related to elder care has grown considerably in recent years. In one case, a jury awarded a health care worker $11.65 million dollars after he was fired for taking time to care for his parents who were both suffering debilitating diseases.

Growing concern over matters related to elder care and employees' need to take leaves of absence have lead the state of California to explore legislation protecting workers' rights. As more and more Americans pass into their golden years, other states will also be forced to examine laws governing employee rights with regard to elder care.

Source: Forbes, "Sex Discrimination, Age Discrimination, Family Responsibilities Discrimination?," Ashlea Ebeling, Sept. 10, 2012

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Universal Halloween Horror Nights Unmasked

by RT Staff | Thursday, Sep. 20 2012 1 comments Grae Drake gets a sneak peek at 2012's Halloween Horror Nights. Larry Bones, head of Boneyard Effects, shares his terrifying calvalcade of zombies, red nurses, Leatherfaces, and all kinds of scary stuff.

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Facebook Testing Automatic 'Photo Synching' Feature For Android Phones

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Possible Breakthrough in Math?s ABC Conjecture

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A Japanese mathematician has released 500 pages of work on a problem known as the abc conjecture. Other mathematicians are excited, but bewildered by the proof.

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Justin Bieber, One Direction Top Billboard 21 Under 21 List

Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas also make list of Music's Hottest Minors.
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Scholars do reality check on Jesus and his 'wife'

New questions are being raised after Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, found an ancient papyrus with text that quotes Jesus referring to "my wife." NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

By Alan Boyle

A fourth-century fragment of papyrus that quotes Jesus telling his disciples about "my wife" has set off a buzz among scriptural scholars?? but this is no "Da Vinci Code" come true. Rather, the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" is just the latest discovery to suggest how the early Christian church took shape.

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Fans of the Dan Brown thriller are already familiar with the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a husband-and-wife relationship. The basis for such speculation lies in Gnostic gospels that came out in the second, third and fourth centuries, but were left out of the standardized scriptures ? texts such as the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Mary and the recently reconstructed Gospel of Judas.

Even though only a few phrases can be read on the papyrus fragment that's just come to light, those phrases are consistent with the Gnostic view of early Christianity ??which tended to give a more prominent role to women, and particularly to Mary Magdalene. The text, written in the Sahidic Coptic dialect, includes the phrase "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'" as well as references to a woman named Mary being "worthy of it," and to a woman who "will be able to be my disciple." ?

The marriage debate
Karen L. King, the Harvard Divinity School professor who received the fragment from an anonymous owner, emphasized that the discovery does not serve as evidence that Jesus was married.?Rather, it suggests that there was a debate within the early Christian church on the status of women, and that Jesus' relationship with women figured into the discussion. Revisiting that debate may be unsettling to some believers, but to scriptural scholars, it just comes with the territory.

Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment appear to provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married. This video from Harvard Divinity School discusses the find.

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a news release from Harvard Divinity School. "This new gospel doesn't prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about sexuality and marriage. From the very beginning, Christians disagreed about whether it was better not to marry, but it was over a century after Jesus' death before they began appealing to Jesus' marital status to support their positions."

Ben Witherington, a New Testament scholar at the Asbury Theological Seminary, noted that the latest find fits King's perspective on scriptural scholarship. "She does have a dog in this hunt," he told me. "She's an advocate for the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Judas, telling us of early Christian experiences of various kinds, particularly of the Gnostic kind."

The fragment that King calls the Gospel of Jesus' Wife could well contribute to the study of Gnosticism in the second or fourth century, but Witherington said it's not a game-changer for our view of the first-century Jesus.?"While this fragment is interesting, if you are interested in the historical Jesus, this is much ado about not very much," Witherington said via email.

Witherington noted that experts who have gotten a close look at the papyrus say it's genuine, ?but he cautioned that "we cannot be absolutely sure of its authenticity or origins" as long as scholars can't track down the details surrounding how, when and where it was discovered.

Bart Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, voiced similar caution. However, if the document proves authentic, it would represent an important advance in scriptural scholarship, he said.?

"It's certainly not reliable for saying anything about the historical Jesus," Ehrman told me. "But what it is important for is that this would be the first time we have any Christian authority or Christian group indicating that, in their opinion, Jesus was married." Like King, Ehrman suggested that such claims might have figured into early Christian debates over the comparative merits of marriage vs. celibacy.?

Monks and 'sister-wives'?
Witherington said the text could be open to alternate interpretations. "In view of the largely ascetic character of Gnosticism, it is likely that we are dealing with the 'sister-wife' phenomenon, and the reference is to a strictly spiritual relationship, which is close but does not involve sexual intimacy," Witherington said.

During a follow-up phone call, he explained that "during the rise of the monastic movement, you had quite a lot of monk-type folks and evangelists who traveled in the company of a sister-wife." The fellow travelers looked after each other, but celibacy was part of the deal, he said.

"The other question about this is ... were these 'fractured fairy tales' that helped monks in the desert while away the time, or were they serious religious texts?" Witherington said.

Gnostic works proliferated in Egypt's Christian monasteries until Athanasius of Alexandria drew up what became the "official" list of books in the New Testament and condemned the rest in the year 367. Scholars believe that the best-known collection of Gnostic texts, the Nag Hammadi library, was bundled up and buried in the desert as a result.

The debate over the papyrus fragment's authenticity and the meaning of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife is likely to play out for a long time among scriptural scholars ? and among "Da Vinci Code" fans as well. For now, here are links to background material and the initial blog reactions:

• The news release from Harvard Divinity School points to a Web page about the papyrus and to the manuscript that King has prepared for publication in January's issue of Harvard Theological Review.
• James Tabor, a scriptural scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the co-author of controversial books about Jesus and his family, notes King's research ? and says?Witherington and other scholars should "reconsider the question" surrounding Jesus' marital status.?
• Michael Heiser, a scholar specializing in biblical languages, says on his PaleoBabble blog that he tends to agree with the view that church leaders have "manipulated the testimony of Mary Magdalene"?? but he warns against reading too much into the discovery.
• Jim West, a biblical scholar at the Quartz Hill School of Theology and pastor of Petros Baptist Church in Tennessee, says on the Zwinglius Redivivus blog that "without more context, both historically and archaeologically, the snippet is valueless."?
• James McGrath, a New Testament scholar at Butler University in Indianapolis, also voices caution on the?Exploring Our Matrix blog?but adds that there's no reason why people should find the idea that Jesus was married "inherently unbelievable."

Update for 9 p.m. ET: Some observers have pointed out that the New Testament contains multiple allusions to Jesus as a bridegroom, and the church or the collective people of God as his bride. This report from The Atlantic?catalogs the references.?However, Witherington said the Coptic papyrus appears to refer to a different kind of relationship. "A bride is one thing, and a wife is another," he told me. The fragment's additional references to "Mary" and a prospective woman disciple also argue against attaching a purely metaphorical meaning to the word "wife."

For what it's worth, here are all the translated bits from the papyrus:

"'... not [to] me. My mother gave to me li[fe] ...'"

"The disciples said to Jesus, '..."

"deny. Mary is worthy of it" (Or: "deny. Mary is n[ot] worthy of it")?

"...' Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'"

"... she will be able to be my disciple ..."

"Let wicked people swell up ..."

"As for me, I dwell with her in order to ..."

"an image"

"my moth[er]"

"three"

"forth which ..."

More about scripture and history:

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Obama launches online video game advertisements | The Daily Caller

Console and computer gamers who enjoy driving flaming vehicles recklessly through crowded intersections, mowing down hordes of approaching zombies and taunting their online opponents might notice a new, non-playable character surface during their electronic adventures this fall: President Barack Obama.

Even though the president just last year encouraged the nation?s parents and children to ?turn off the video games and pick up a book,? his national campaign on Monday confirmed it has deployed dozens of virtual advertisements in a variety of online-enabled video games. The ads will appear in Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia through Nov. 3.

Electronic Arts, one of the largest video game publishers, will display the billboard-like advertisements throughout cross-platform sports blockbusters like the football game ?Madden NFL 13,? as well as old Internet-based versions of classics like Battleship, Tetris and Scrabble.

The ads, which are also running on gaming sites like Pogo, focus not only on encouraging turnout, but also on the policy differences between the president and his rival Mitt Romney that most resonate with the young people who typically play video games.

?Think voting isn?t important?? asks one twenty-second pop-up advertisement that currently displays for Pogo users before they can play ?Poppit!,? a Web-based puzzle game that tasks players with repeatedly popping balloons that appear to be bothering an anthropomorphic cactus. ?Obama: doubled Pell Grant funding. Romney: Student aid at risk for millions,? the ad continues.

The ad?s claims are dubious, not only because the president sought to cut Pell Grant funding dramatically, but also because there?s no clear sign Romney wants to make any significant cuts to the program. Given the fast-paced nature of most big Xbox and Playstation releases, though, odds are slim most players will find the time to investigate just how honest these in-game ads are.

?People have short attention spans and limited time now,? Jeremy Airey, head of U.S. production at video game giant Konami, told CNN last year. ?The amount of digital distractions now is far greater than it?s ever been before.?

The Obama campaign began its foray into video game advertising in 2008, when it paid EA for spots that appeared in Madden and the intense racing game ?Burnout: Paradise.? Unlike most racing games, Burnout encouraged players to cause the biggest, most violent car crashes they possibly could.

EA has since included political figures in a handful of its games. Beginning in the 2011 iteration of the Madden game franchise, players who won the Superbowl were treated to a prerendered video of their virtual players meeting Obama at the White House.

And in 2010, the EA Sports title ?NBA Jam? allowed players to field a digital team consisting of President Obama, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore against a squad of Republicans that included George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Dick Cheney, who was capable of superhuman 360-degree dunks from three-point range.

EA, which also recently published a series of sci-fi role-playing games that permit players to enter into homosexual and inter-species romances, has denied any political bias or affiliation.

?EA accepts advertising in our games from credible political candidates, similar to a TV, radio or online channel,? a company spokesperson told the gaming website GamePolitics. ?The ads do not reflect any political policy for EA.?

EA spokesman Dave Madden told Adweek that, based on the company?s analysis, gamers who saw Obama?s adds in 2008 were substantially more likely to consider voting for him.

?It was made clear in the last election that reaching consumers through video games makes a significant impact, so it?s no surprise to see this tactic used once again in such a competitive election,? Madden said.

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HBT: Mets' Davis denies late nights hurting him

In the earlier Ike Davis story, Adam Rubin cited Mets team officials who said they were concerned with Davis being out too late after games and not taking instruction. ?All of this is news to Ike Davis, who does not sound at all happy about what he read this morning:

?I have never missed games or not been ready to work because of anything to do with staying up too late,? Davis told the Daily News Tuesday morning. ?I show up every day. I play hard. It is unfair to me, and it doesn?t make sense.?

Good going anonymous Mets person. You either just pissed off a key part of your team going forward or else you undercut the team?s leverage if you really are trying to trade him.

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Storm clouds move over Wrigley Field delaying the start of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

Storm clouds move over Wrigley Field delaying the start of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Kevin Correia (29) pitches against the Chicago Cubs during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Starling Marte hits a two-RBI triple against the Chicago Cubs during the third inning of a baseball game, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Joel Hanrahan left, is congratulated by Michael McKenry after the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated then Chicago Cubs 3-0 in a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

A fan sits all alone in the bleachers during the eighth inning of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Kevin Correia pitched seven innings of two-hit ball and Starling Marte hit a two-run triple to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates past the Chicago Cubs 3-0 Monday night in a game that was delayed more than 3? hours by rain.

With the Pirates still in playoff contention, the teams waited out two storms at Wrigley Field that pushed back the start for 3 hours, 37 minutes. The first pitch was thrown at 10:42 p.m. CDT, and Joel Hanrahan delivered the final one at 1:28 a.m. on Tuesday.

Pittsburgh tied Milwaukee for third place in the NL Central at 74-72. Both teams are 2? games behind division rival St. Louis for the second NL wild-card spot, with the Los Angeles Dodgers also in their path.

Correia (11-9) walked one and struck out six. Jason Grilli worked a hitless eighth and Hanrahan got three outs for his 36th save in 39 chances, completing the two-hitter.

The Pirates touched up Cubs starter Travis Wood for three runs in the third inning, including Marte's key triple. Jose Tabata drove in Marte with a double to deep center.

Clint Barmes was hit by a pitch and Brock Holt's single up the middle on a 3-2 count sent Barmes to third. After Correia was called out on strikes, Marte tripled to left.

Wood (6-12) worked 5 2-3 innings, giving up four hits. He walked one and struck out a career-high nine.

Pittsburgh loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth, but reliever Michael Bowden retired Holt on a grounder.

Trying to play spoiler and avoid a 100-loss season, the Cubs (58-89) had won seven of eight.

"It's kind of both for us right now," manager Dale Sveum said before the game. "These guys started talking about it a couple of weeks ago about (not) losing 100 games. That's their motivating factor as well as all of us because nobody wants to be associated with that.

"To be able to sit back and knock people out of the playoffs or knock them one game less, that's (also) what you get motivated (for) in September when you're out of it."

NOTES: The Cubs host NL Central-leading Cincinnati beginning Tuesday night, and Sveum said he doesn't want the Reds to clinch the division title this week at Wrigley Field. "Nobody wants anybody to clinch on your turf, that's for sure," Sveum said. "It's inevitable that they'll end up clinching, you just don't want them to do it at your place." ... Wood had struck out eight batters three times. ... Cubs 2B Darwin Barney extended his career-best hitting streak to 12 games with a second-inning single. ... Bryan LaHair has received limited playing time since the arrival of 1B Anthony Rizzo from the minors. Sveum said LaHair's best bet is to play in the offseason. "I think for his sake he needs to go play winter ball and get those at-bats he missed out on and be ready for spring training like he was this year," Sveum said. ... Pirates 2B Neil Walker was out of the starting lineup. Walker played in the previous three games after missing 15 because of lower back pain. Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said Walker needed a day to rest. ... The State College Spikes, the Pirates' short-season Class-A affiliate, announced a two-year player development contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Spikes had been affiliated with the Pirates since 2007. Pittsburgh will have to find a new short-season affiliate. ... The Pirates stole four bases in Sunday's 13-9 loss to the Cubs and are trying to be more aggressive, Hurdle said. "The baserunning numbers aren't where we want them to be this year ? the stolen bases, the caught stealing," he said. "It's a work in progress. We're doing everything we can, everybody, from our player development system on up, to create a mentality." ... Pittsburgh returns home to host Milwaukee on Tuesday night. A.J. Burnett (15-7) faces Brewers ace Yovani Gallardo (15-8).

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Topless photos ruling: 1st battle in privacy war

Lawyer Maud Sobel, center, reads a statement by a French court which ordered a magazine publisher to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge and blocked the further publication of the images, at a court house in Nanterre, west of Paris, Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012. Under the ruling Tuesday, the French gossip magazine Closer faces a daily fine of euro 10,000 ($13,100) if it fails to hand over the photos taken during the royals' vacation in southern France and cannot disseminate them any further, including on its website and tablet app. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Lawyer Maud Sobel, center, reads a statement by a French court which ordered a magazine publisher to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge and blocked the further publication of the images, at a court house in Nanterre, west of Paris, Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012. Under the ruling Tuesday, the French gossip magazine Closer faces a daily fine of euro 10,000 ($13,100) if it fails to hand over the photos taken during the royals' vacation in southern France and cannot disseminate them any further, including on its website and tablet app. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, smile as they watch a shark ceremony as they arrive at Marapa Island, Solomon Islands, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, Pool)

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, smiles as she and Prince William prepare to depart Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, after an official visit to the South Pacific Island nation. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, center, chats with Lady Kabui, left, the wife of the Solomon Islands' Governor General, and Madam Lilo, wife of the Solomon Islands prime minister, as Kate and Prince William prepare to depart in Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, after an official visit to the South Pacific Island Nation. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, center, chats with Lady Kabui, left, the wife of the Solomon Islands' Governor General, and Madam Lilo, wife of the Solomon Islands' prime minister, as Kate and Prince William prepare to depart in Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, after an official visit to the South Pacific Island Nation. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

LONDON (AP) ? Prince William and Kate Middleton's aggressive legal strategy over topless photos of Britain's likely future queen is the first salvo in what could be a decades-long tug-of-war over their family's privacy.

A French court ruled in favor of the royal couple on Tuesday in their fight over the photos, but the scope of that ruling will be limited.

The unauthorized topless photos of Kate have already been widely published in France, Italy, Ireland and on the Internet ? lessening the impact of Tuesday's court injunction against future publication inside France.

The royals' strong stance also included a bid to persuade French prosecutors to launch a criminal inquiry to target the offending photographer.

The wealthy royal couple did not gain much on paper ? the court-imposed fine was about $2,500 ? but legal experts and royal watchers say the action was designed to demonstrate their willingness to use all legal means to prevent future press intrusion.

That will become even more important when the couple have a child, who would become third in the line of succession to the British throne, said Joe Little, the managing editor of Majesty magazine.

"This was done because they want to set a benchmark for the future," he said.

"They want to send a warning to anybody who might think of doing something similar in the future."

The fast legal intervention, which developed within hours of the publication of the photos Friday in a French gossip magazine, represents a break from Queen Elizabeth II's traditional policy of using legal action only as a means of last resort. It also reflects William's determination not to let the press harass Kate as it did his late mother, Princess Diana, Little said.

Still, the case shows the unlikelihood of controlling photos through legal means once they have been published.

Closer magazine was ordered to turn over all of its digital copies of the photos, but that has little meaning in a world where millions of copies can be made and distributed in the blink of an eye.

The revealing pictures will follow Middleton for the rest of her life ? not unlike the snapshots of her appearance in a charity fashion show wearing black lingerie and a sheer dress during her university days.

"Clearly, the harm has been done," said Christopher Mesnooh, an American lawyer working in France for Field Fisher Waterhouse. "Thousands, now tens of thousands of copies, are now in public circulation. A legal decision is a wonderful thing to obtain and the royal couple did exactly what they should have done. But you know the magazine is out there and I suspect most of you have already seen copies of that magazine, so the basic, the initial harm, has been done."

He said magazine executives had concluded in advance they had little to fear from an adverse court ruling when they decided to print the photographs, obtained by a photographer who trained a long lens on the royal couple as they sunbathed on a private estate in southern France.

"Closer magazine has done a very sophisticated cost-benefit analysis," Mesnooh said. "Whatever the amount of damages that a French court will award, it will be a fraction of the publicity that the magazine will have gained, as well as the number of issues of this particular issue of Closer magazine which will be sold."

Tuesday's ruling only affects the French magazine branch of Mondadori, Closer's publisher. A French court ordered it to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge within 24 hours and blocked further publication of what it called a "brutal display" of William and Kate's private moments.

The court also stopped the magazine from republishing the pictures ? including on its website and its tablet app ? as well as re-selling them.

Mondadori faces a daily fine of ?10,000 ($13,100) if it fails to do so.

"These snapshots which showed the intimacy of a couple, partially naked on the terrace of a private home, surrounded by a park several hundred meters from a public road, and being able to legitimately assume that they are protected from passers-by, are by nature particularly intrusive," the French ruling decreed. "(They) were thus subjected to this brutal display the moment the cover appeared."

The photos showed Kate relaxing at a private villa in Provence, in southern France, sometimes without her bikini top and, in one case, her bikini bottom partially pulled down to apply sunscreen.

The royal couple is also filing a criminal complaint against 'X' ? the unnamed photographer who took the picture.

The suit aims to flush out the mystery photographer's identity and prevent him or her from spreading the photos to new locations. If the case goes forward, the photographer could face a substantial fine and a one-year prison term.

But fines and prison terms won't remove the photos from the Internet.

Professor Tim Luckhurst, head of the journalism department at the University of Kent, said the royal couple has likely learned some lessons from the debacle.

"The prince and his wife are going to have to think hard about what sort of conduct is acceptable for the heir to the throne and his wife in the age of the Internet," he said.

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Ever put a game back on the shelf because Metacritic took too long to load? Fortunately, the UK's largest (and wobbliest) games retailer is aware of the impediment and has decided to offer free Wi-Fi in all 341 of its premises before Christmas. The service will be part of BT WiFi's network of hotspots and aim to give gamers access to "all the information they need to buy there and then."

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Whether she?s serving up game winning goals or turning heads in Nike and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit spreads, Alex Morgan has a way of, well, winning at everything. At the 2011 World Cup, the 22-year-old soccer star was?the youngest player named to the U.S. Women?s National team roster, scoring not one, but two victory-sealing goals. At 23, the California native was making her?Olympic?debut in London,?scoring three goals and adding four assists en route to the U.S. women?s gold. But it?s not 24/7 soccer for this quick-footed forward.?Greatist?s fitness editor caught up with Morgan at the Mercedes-Benz??Fit for Fashion? event (in honor of the new?2013 G-Class)?to talk hard work, cheat meals, and why it feels so good to swap cleats for heels sometimes.

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