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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Zynga game 'The Ville' lets you (virtually) get it on

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Winda Benedetti

Things are getting hot and heavy in Zynga's newest Facebook game.?That is, if you consider some PG-rated?virtual sex to be hot and heavy.?

Following the success of games like "FarmVille," "CityVille" and "CastleVille," Facebook gaming giant?Zynga this week?launched its latest Ville game which is called simply?"The Ville."

This strategy-based life simulation?game lets players create a personalized avatar, build a home and live out virtual relationships.?And according to Zynga executive producer David Gray who spoke to CNET, the avatars in the game can (gasp!) make whoopee. Yes, whoopee.

Gray told CNET that it works like this:

...when someone is in your house and you begin to interact with them, you can level up by interacting with them in ways that the game sees as romantic. As you climb the experience tree, you eventually unlock the capability to initiate the "happiness home run," or just "whoopee"

Based on some of?the breathy Zynga?sex-related headlines making the Internet rounds this week (the above one included), this virtual sex business?may sound like?risque?stuff.

It is not.

Prudes (or concerned parents) can rest assured, making whoopee is pretty tame stuff. There is, apparently, partial disrobing before floating hearts cover the bedroom. Hide?your eyes! It's FLOATING HEARTS!?

Meanwhile, Zynga's frisky avatars are hardly the first to get it on Facebook style.

It's not an overstatement to say that "The Ville" has taken a whole lot of cues from the long-running, best-selling "Sims" games from?Electronic Arts -- and specifically from the new "Sims Social" game on Facebook. And those randy?Sims characters have been making quite a lot of woo-hoo (not to be confused with whoopee)?on Facebook for months now.

In fact,?In January, EA released this?infographic, announcing that "Sims Social" avatars make whoo-hoo?680,000 times per day. And here is the whoo-hoo in action. C'mon,?you know you want to see it:

Winda Benedetti writes about video?games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things?on Twitter?here?@WindaBenedetti?and you?follow her?on Google+. Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.?

Source: http://www.ingame.msnbc.msn.com/technology/ingame/zynga-game-ville-lets-you-virtually-get-it-854092

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Journey with the Williams Family: Foster-To-Adopt Timeline

I thought I would share a very loose, generic look at a typical foster-to-adopt timeline for those that aren't familiar.? This is our basic understanding and this is most likely not exact or perfect.? We are also in Virginia, and I'm sure it varies from state to state.? ??

Some acronyms:

DSS - Department of Social Services

CPS - Child Protective Services

Step 1:? Receive phone call from DSS asking if you are willing to accept a particular child.? Not much information is given at this time and you have to make an almost immediate decision.

Step 2:? CPS Officer arrives with child (sometimes within minutes of the initial phone call)!

Step 3:? Court Hearing within the first week to determine that child should remain in foster care.? Case is still a CPS case.? This is the earliest a child usually would be removed from foster and given back to their birthparents.

Step 4:? Court Hearing within 30 days of removal to determine that child should remain in foster care, (at this point the case is handled by a foster care worker and is no longer a CPS case) or be returned to the birthparents.

Step 5:? Court hearing at the 75 day mark or 45 days from the Step 4 Court Hearing.? This hearing puts a plan in motion and is an order to the birthparents and foster parents on what they need to be doing.? Foster parents are ordered to continue to provide a safe, loving home.? Birthparents may be ordered to do many things like take a parenting class, get a job, clean the home, and/or go to rehab.?

Step 6:? Within 6 months of the Step 5 Court Hearing a Foster Care Review Hearing should be set up to report the progress of the birthparents.

Step 7: Within 5 months of the Foster Care Review Hearing a Permanency Review Hearing will be held.? This hearing can be held sooner if the plan can be reached sooner.

Step 8: If the permanency plan is for adoption then foster parents may move forward.? There may be additional review hearings until adoption is complete (every 6 months)

In order to adopt, the child must have been in the adoptive parents home for at least 6 months.? We are of the understanding that this back-dates to the date of the initial placement of the child in our home.? So even if parental rights are terminated in the final steps, the 6 month goal would have been met at this point and you can petition for adoption.???

Next up:? What we've been up to, including Daniel's 6th Birthday!!

Source: http://journeywiththewilliamsfamily.blogspot.com/2012/06/foster-to-adopt-timeline.html

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Friday, June 29, 2012

News in Brief: Body and Brain

Good touch, bad touch
A leg caress can delight or feel totally skeevy, depending on who?s doing the caressing. A touch?s emotional baggage can be seen in the brain?s initial response to that touch, scientists report in the June 19 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Heterosexual men?s somatosensory cortices, brain regions that detect a touch?s basic attributes, responded differently when a touch was thought to come from a gorgeous woman in a black evening dress or a masculine man in a black tank top. Emotions are incorporated into touch sensation surprisingly early in the sensory process, the study shows.

Brain zap helps an aging memory, if you?re educated
Brain jolts improve working memory in older adults, but only in those who are highly educated. With age comes a growing number of working memory failures, such as walking into the kitchen and forgetting why. After a session of transcranial direct current stimulation, working memory improved for highly educated participants (schooled for 16.9 years on average). People with lower education levels (13.5 years) saw no benefit or grew worse. The results may reflect people using different strategies to solve problems, Marian Berryhill and Kevin Jones of the University of Nevada, Reno write in an upcoming Neuroscience Letters.

High-risk Alzheimer?s gene variant poses greater threat to women
A well-known risk factor for Alzheimer?s is particularly dangerous for older women even if they are healthy and sharp, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and colleagues report in the June 13 Journal of Neuroscience. Women with one copy of the e4 version of the ApoE gene had abnormal activity in key brain regions and elevated levels of the Alzheimer?s-related tau protein in spinal cord fluid compared with women who lacked that version of the gene. Men with one copy of e4 were less affected in those respects. The results may help explain why women are more susceptible to Alzheimer?s.

Found in: Body & Brain

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341920/title/News_in_Brief_Body_and_Brain_

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Colorado wildfire expands viciously, Obama plans visit

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Firefighters struggled on Wednesday to beat back a wildfire raging at the edge of Colorado Springs that doubled in size overnight, forced more than 32,000 people from their homes and was nipping at the edges of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The blaze, fanned by hot winds, has charred a number of homes on the wooded edges of the city and was prompting fresh evacuations on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama plans to travel to the area on Friday to view the damage. But in the chaos of the fire's advance, officials could not say exactly how many homes were lost or how many more people might join the ranks of the displaced.

Colorado Springs Fire Chief Rich Brown called the firestorm threatening his city - in a metropolitan area of more than 650,000 people - "a monster" and said at this point flames were "not even remotely close to being contained."

The fire, which has charred 15,517 acres in the shadow of the famed Pikes Peak mountaintop, was not as intense early on Wednesday as the day before, but would likely build up again as the temperature rises during the day, fire information officer Rob Deyerberg said.

The number of evacuees stood at 32,000 on Tuesday night, before some residents in Woodland Park, population 7,600, and surrounding areas were also told to leave their homes, Deyerberg said. He could not provide a total number of evacuees.

"The evacuation area is expanding as a precaution," he said.

The blaze left an orange hue over Colorado Springs and the smell of smoke permeated the air. A spot fire hit on a vacant, southwest corner of the grounds of the Air Force Academy, which continues to operate but is closed to visitors, officials said.

Colorado wildfires have killed four people this year, but no serious injuries from the Waldo Fire were reported on Wednesday.

"This is the worst fire season in the history of Colorado," Governor John Hickenlooper told a news conference on Tuesday, after he flew into Colorado Springs to tour the fire zone.

The Air Force Academy said the evacuation zone included two communities of single-family homes on its grounds housing around 2,100 civilian and military personnel and their families.

Despite the blaze, the academy will welcome a class of over 1,000 new cadets on Thursday, he said.

Over half of the federal government's firefighting resources are deployed in Colorado, the White House said.

COLUMNS OF EVACUEES

At a gas station in Colorado Springs, Andrew Heintzelman, 34, said he had been on the roof of his home in the nearby community of Mountain Shadows on Tuesday trying to keep the flames at bay but had since been forced to flee.

"I was spraying the hose on the shingles and the cops came through the neighborhood and told me to get out now," said Heintzelman, 34, who lives with his mother.

Thunderstorms in the area were expected to hurt firefighting efforts by causing erratic winds, which could shift from one direction to the next, fire officials said.

"All that kind of squirrelly behavior makes it really unsafe for anyone to be in or around the fire," fire information officer Anne Rys-Sikora said.

Household pets in the area were also forced into shelter due to the approaching flames. The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region in recent days has taken in 252 animals, most of them dogs and cats but with everything from rats to a turtle in the mix, said Erica Meyer, a spokeswoman for the group.

Many horses were taken to the Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs, said Brenda Vawter, who works at the Colorado Equine Veterinary Services clinic.

Wildfires also were burning in other parts of Colorado - where the High Park fire has consumed 87,250 acres but was 65 percent contained - and in Utah and Montana on Wednesday.

A wildfire in Montana that has scorched 19,000 acres in the eastern part of the state has forced 600 residents to leave their homes, said Kent Atwood, a state hazard mitigation officer. An unknown number of houses were destroyed in Montana.

In Utah, authorities found a body in the ashes of the fast-moving Wood Hollow Fire about 100 miles south of Salt Lake City on Tuesday, marking the first fatality in a blaze that has scorched more than 46,190 acres of rolling hills covered by parched cheatgrass and sagebrush.

Colorado accounts for several of the 29 large active wildfires being fought across the country. The bulk of them were in seven western states - Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona and California - according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

Although federal authorities say the fire season got off to an early start in parts of the northern Rockies, the number of fires and acreage burned nationwide is still below the 10-year average for this time of year, according to fire agency records.

(Additional reporting by Ellen Miller in Grand Junction, Jennifer Dobner in Salt Lake City and Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho; writing by Steve Gorman and Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Eric Walsh)

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Spain's central bank says economy weaker in Q2

Spain's Economy Minister Luis De Guindos, centre bottom, speaks during a control session at the Spanish Parliament, in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Spain's central government budget deficit has soared to 3.41 percent of GDP in the first five months of 2012, just 0.09 percent below the figure agreed upon with the European Union for the entire year. Spain, with 24.4 percent unemployment, must slash its deficit to the EU limit of 3 percent of GDP by 2013. It was 8.5 percent in 2011, although the target had been 6 percent. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

MADRID (AP) ? The central bank says Spain's recession-stricken economy has slumped further in the second quarter and will likely post a sharper contraction than the 0.3 percent of the first three months.

The bank's June report said drops in consumer demand, car sales and industrial production "indicate activity has continued to diminish at a greater rhythm."

Official second-quarter GDP figures are due to be published in July.

Spain, with a 24.4 percent unemployment rate, has agreed to seek a rescue package for its troubled banks but is battling to convince investors it will not need a sovereign bailout like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

The interest rate for Spain's benchmark 10-year bonds ? an indicator of investor wariness ? was at 6.83 percent Wednesday, a rate considered unsustainable over the long term.

Associated Press

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Obama prepping thousands of lawyers for election

FILE - This April 24, 2012 file photo shows a sign at the entrance of a polling station in East Greenwich, R.I., advises voters that identification is required. President Barack Obama's campaign is recruiting legions of lawyers to handle disputes that may arise from now through Election Day. Thousands of attorneys and support staffers have agreed to aid in the effort, providing legal support that appears to be unrivaled by Republicans or precedent. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

President Barack Obama places an order at The Varsity restaurant, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets workers as he campaigns at Carter Machinery Company, Inc., in Salem, Va., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) ? President Barack Obama's campaign has recruited a legion of lawyers to be on standby for this year's election as legal disputes surrounding the voting process escalate.

Thousands of attorneys and support staffers have agreed to aid in the effort, providing a mass of legal support that appears to be unrivaled by Republicans or precedent. Obama's campaign says it is particularly concerned about the implementation of new voter ID laws across the country, the possibility of anti-fraud activists challenging legitimate voters and the handling of voter registrations in the most competitive states.

Republicans are building their own legal teams for the election. They say they're focused on preventing fraud ? making sure people don't vote unless they're eligible ? rather than turning away qualified voters.

Since the disputed 2000 presidential election, both parties have increasingly concentrated on building legal teams ? including high-priced lawyers who are well-known in political circles ? for the Election Day run-up. The Bush-Gore election demonstrated to both sides the importance of every vote and the fact that the rules for voting and counting might actually determine the outcome. The Florida count in 2000 was decided by just 537 votes and ultimately landed in the Supreme Court.

This year in that state alone, Obama and his Democratic allies are poised to have thousands of lawyers ready for the election and hope to have more than the 5,800 attorneys available four years ago. That figure was nearly twice the 3,200 lawyers the Democrats had at their disposal in 2004.

Romney has been organizing his own legal help for the election. Campaign attorney Ben Ginsberg did not provide numbers but said the campaign has been gratified by the "overwhelming number of attorneys who have volunteered to assist."

"We will have enough lawyers to handle all situations that arise," he said.

The GOP doesn't necessarily need to have a numerical counterweight to Obama's attorneys; the 2000 election showed that experienced, connected lawyers on either side can be effective in court.

Former White House counsel Robert Bauer, who is organizing the Obama campaign's legal deployment, said there is great concern this year because he believes GOP leaders around the county have pursued new laws to impede the right to vote.

"The Republican Party and their allies have mapped out their vote suppression campaign as a response to our success in 2008 with grass-roots organization and successful turnout," Bauer said. "This is their response to defeat: changing the rules of participation so that fewer participate."

Several states with Republican leaders have recently pursued changes that could make voting more difficult, including key states such as Florida and Ohio, despite objections from voting rights groups that believe that the laws could suppress votes from low-income and minority blocs.

Republicans dispute that the laws are political, pointing to cases of election fraud and arguing that measures like those requiring voters to show identification are simply common sense. Pennsylvania's Republican House majority leader, Mike Turzai, however, told GOP supporters over the weekend that the state's new ID law "is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."

Independent from the Romney team, a conservative group is prepping an Election Day team of its own to combat possible fraud.

Catherine Engelbrecht, president and founder of True the Vote, said the organization hopes to train and mobilize up to one million volunteers this year, many of them to serve poll watchers. One of the group's main initiatives is to "aggressively pursue fraud reports."

"Being a poll watcher is an age-old tradition and we're fortunate that so many volunteers are ready and willing to take a day off, learn what they need to know and help out at the polls," Engelbrecht said. True the Vote already has thousands signed up to help and had 500 trained election workers monitoring the Wisconsin recall vote earlier this month.

"They serve as volunteer guardians of the republic, to ensure that procedures at the polls are in keeping with state law," she said.

It's one of the efforts that have Obama's team fretting. The Democrats fear that anti-fraud activity could get out of hand, with vigilante poll watchers targeting and intimidating voters who may not know their rights.

"We will have the strategy and the resources to address the threat and protect the voter," Bauer said.

The Obama-aligned attorneys, most of whom are not election experts by trade, undergo training and have materials to show them how to help at the polls on Election Day.

Charles Lichtman, who is helping advise the effort in Florida this year after leading it in the last two cycles, first created the Florida Democratic Lawyers Council after the 2000 election, vowing that there would never be a repeat of that disputed vote. He contends Democrat Al Gore would have won the presidency over Republican George W. Bush if a similar legal infrastructure had been in place then.

Lichtman's efforts have since been replicated for other states. He said that is vital to provide voter protection.

"My experience has been that, in every election, the other side has taken drastic measures to try to suppress the vote," Lichtman said. The volunteer organization has not been involved in the 2012 legal disputes so far, though they are monitoring the developments.

Four years ago, the teams of lawyers organized by Obama and Republican candidate John McCain in 2008 went largely unused since the election wasn't very close.

But this year may be different given all the changes to voting laws ? and the closeness of the race in recent polling.

The states with the strictest ID laws require voters to show photo identification before casting ballots. If they don't have proper identification or fail to bring it, they can cast a provisional ballot but must later go to meet with state elections administrators to sort things out before the ballot is counted.

Voting groups see a variety of potential problems, such as how voters are informed of the rule changes, how poll workers handle voters who fail to bring IDs and whether voters are provided adequate notice of the steps they need to take after casting an absentee ballot.

About 30 states have some form of an ID law, with varying methods of implementation.

Legal challenges typically start coming in the weeks before the election, but "litigation has started coming sooner and more vociferously" this year, says Edward Foley, an elections law expert with Ohio State University. That includes lawsuits surrounding Florida's plan to purge ineligible voters from the rolls.

Foley said. "We're in an era of increased litigiousness over the voting process."

He said lawsuits after Election Day may occur only if votes in a battleground state are within the "margin of litigation." That would probably be a difference of just hundreds of votes, a result that would be rare.

___

Associated Press writer Mike Baker can be reached on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HiPpEV

Associated Press

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Judge orders halt to Samsung sales of Galaxy tab

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A judge late Tuesday ordered Samsung Electronics Co. to halt sales of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the court considers Apple's claim the South Korean tech giant illegally copied the design of the popular iPad.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said Apple Inc.'s lawsuit appeared likely to prevail.

"Apple has established a strong case on the merits," Koh said.

Koh had earlier said the two products are "virtually indistinguishable," but she declined in December to take the dramatic step of prohibiting sales of the Galaxy 10.1. She changed her mind after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit told Koh to take another look at Apple's request for an injunction, ruling June 19 that it appeared the Cupertino-based company had a strong case. The Washington, D.C., court handles most patent appeals.

"Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly, by flooding the market with infringing products," Koh wrote in her Tuesday order. She said Apple would be "irreparably harmed" if sales of the Galaxy 10.1 continued.

Samsung said it was disappointed with the court's decision.

"We will take necessary legal steps and do not expect the ruling to have a significant impact on our business operations, as we possess a diverse range of Galaxy Tab products," it said in a statement.

Koh ordered Apple to post a $2.6 million bond in case it ultimately loses the case.

The ruling is a small part of a much larger patent battle between the two tech giants, who are scheduled to go to trial next month in San Jose.

Apple filed its lawsuit last year, and the two companies are enmeshed in patent disputes around the globe revolving around smartphones and handheld computers. Samsung, with its Android-powered products, has emerged as one of Apple's chief rivals.

Apple also accuses the South Korean company of infringing patents related to the iPhone. Apple is seeking a similar injunction barring Samsung from selling one of its smartphones in the United States.

Associated Press

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Advantages and also Disadvantages of Exercising to Personal Gym ...

Even more individuals are investigating residence gym equipment nowadays. Tied up itineraries impair the common adult from being able to work out routine in a gym or exercise center. There are some house gym equipment systems which assert to provide the exact same outstanding exercise routine that you can get in a health and fitness facility. Nonetheless, a few of these claims have actually been met with opposition on this theme. One such equipment is the Total Gym Some individuals have specified that the equipment does not create muscular tissue toughness. The very same people do claim that the Overall Gym is good if you are seeking an overall body training in order to drop weight as well as strengthen your general physique.

What are the benefits of owning an excellent set of residential property gym Equipment? For one point, having the luxurious of workingout at house doesn?t put pressure on a person?s day-to-day routine. The home gym manager may go residential property straight from job or errands to obtain some exercise instead of invest a number of minutes (or hours according to the path traffic) going to the public gym. One more benefit is that the owner reaches work out routine at his or her personal speed instead of hanging around in line to use particular gym equipment or appliances. Having a gym at house additionally abolishes the struggles of month-to-month costs and nonessential contact with some other exhausted individuals.

Possessing individual gym equipment additionally prevents the probability of shame of falling or inconvenient movement during failing of specific physical exercise maneuvers. Of course with benefits additionally come drawbacks of having a house gym. First of all, original financial investment on acquiring personalized gym devices or appliances is very pricy (unless one has the persistence to seek made use of equipments). Aside from the rate concern, there is also the issue of space. Gym Equipmentlike Treadmills need a roomy and also secure region specifically if the owner has kids around your home. Ultimately, although not real for every person, possessing personal gym equipments could market procrastination. Because all the things is actually there, the owner could have a pretext of delaying an exercise routine because they has all the benefits of personal time.

Just how about going to a regular public gym? Exactly what are the benefits this selection presents as opposed to having really good property gym equipment? Initially, a person definitely would not need to spend a significant quantity on membership. Twenty or Fifty dollars is undoubtedly less costly than 1,000 bucks. One more advantage is one can obtain the perks of a training companion or gym trainer when it pertains to executing very difficult physical exercises. Some social health and fitness centers also provide associates sauna, health spa, and also massage therapy ? bonus that one are able to most definitely not get when exercising at property. People work out centers likewise deliver much more selection when it relates to equipment as well as forms of activities so a person could receive a greater work out routine.

Public health and fitness centers even generate an atmosphere for interaction as well as socializing. One may learn more or also fulfill captivating individuals for a much larger set of pals. Drawbacks include having to drive through traffic or walk through hefty rainfalls merely to get to the gym. Even, although initially a gym membership might be economical, in the long run, the multiplying expense comes much higher than the preliminary cost in the acquisition of great private gym hardwares. An additional disadvantage is hanging around in line to use certain devices. This not just ruins an individual?s exercise standard yet additionally prolongs his or her time in the gym as well as away from property.

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Video: NY to build largest-ever ferris wheel?

>>> tourist destination in that city, is the ferris wheel they call the london eye . it's a massive thing, looming 440 feet above the skyline. now there's a report that new york city is planning a bigger one just across new york harbor on staten island . perhaps to take advantage of the 2 million tourists each year who take a beautiful and free ride across the staten island ferry .

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Arizona police face questions after court ruling

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ? Arizona's police chiefs and county sheriffs hoped a U.S. Supreme Court ruling would settle their long-running debate on what role, if any, they should play in immigration enforcement. Instead, the justices' decision to uphold the state's "show me your papers" statute has left them with more questions than answers.

How long must officers wait for federal authorities to respond when they encounter someone illegal, especially given President Barack Obama's new policy to only deport dangerous criminals and repeat offenders? If they release a person too soon, are they exposing themselves to a lawsuit from residents who accuse them of failing to enforce the law?

How do they avoid being sued for racial profiling? Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he anticipated no change in how he does his job but that comes from someone who was accused of racially profiling Latinos in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department.

"We're going to get sued if we do. We're going to get sued if we don't. That's a terrible position to put law enforcement officers in," said Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose territory covers much of southern Arizona and who has long argued against his state's requirement that local law enforcement be forced to ask about the legal status of anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

The justices on Monday unanimously approved the Arizona law's most-discussed provision requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. But it struck down provisions allowing local police to arrest people for federal immigration violations. They also warned against detaining people for any prolonged period merely for not having proper immigration papers.

The decision left police chiefs and sheriffs grappling with questions ranging from what justifies reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally to how long officers must wait when federal authorities are slow to respond to a question on someone's immigration status.

"It's uncharted territory," said Tony Estrada, sheriff of Santa Cruz County on the state's southern border with Mexico. "It's going to be challenging. It's a complicated issue, and it's not going to be solved by this particular decision."

Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor estimates the statute will result in 50,000 additional calls a year to federal immigration authorities in his city alone. That includes 36,000 arrests a year for suspects who are not booked into jail, typically for offenses like disorderly conduct, misdemeanor assault, shoplifting, vandalism and driving more than 25 mph over the speed limit.

Those suspects, who would normally be released with a citation, must be booked into custody if immigration authorities "don't answer the phone, they never call us back after we talk to them or whatever," Villasenor said.

An estimated 14,000 inquiries a year will be for people encountered on street patrol who are not arrested, Villasenor said. They may raise suspicion for their manner of dress, language or other characteristics outlined in guidelines issues to law enforcement agencies statewide.

"I'm not sure (the federal government is) set up to accommodate that workload right now. I hope I'm wrong," said Villasenor, who joined Dupnik and other law enforcement in voicing opposition to the 2010 law in a filing to the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security acknowledged concern about a flood of inquiries but signaled it would only deport people who meet its enforcement priorities. Those priorities are repeat immigration violators, people who pose a public safety or national security threat and recent border crossers.

"The Supreme Court's decision raises the possibility of a significant increase in the number of inquiries, referrals and status verification inquiries from Arizona state authorities that will impact DHS's immigration enforcement operations," the department said Monday in a note to field offices.

Arpaio, the controversial Phoenix lawman known for his anti-immigration raids, said he was concerned whether federal agents will decline to pick up some illegal immigrants who are stopped by his deputies.

"I have my suspicions," he said.

Arpaio asked a federal judge earlier this month to dismiss a lawsuit that claims his office discriminated against Latinos in the sheriff's trademark immigration patrols and had a culture of disregard for basic constitutional rights.

Hours after Monday's ruling, the Department of Homeland Security canceled agreements with seven Arizona police departments that deputized officers to arrest people on immigration violations while on street patrol.

Phoenix Police Chief Daniel Garcia declined to detail how the statute will play out but anticipates it won't be much of a departure from what officers already do.

"It's much too early to try to speculate on these issues of law," he said.

If federal agents decline to pick up immigrants, the state doesn't have any way to force federal authorities to pick them up and will likely have to let them go unless they're suspected of committing a crime that would require them to be brought to jail, said Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor who specializes in immigration law.

In that sense, the law is symbolic, Spiro said. The questioning requirement "is useful to the extent that it allows states to give notice of hostilities to undocumented immigrants," Spiro said. "It allows for a formal expression of the state's hostilities toward undocumented immigrants."

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the decision a victory for all Americans, but said she expected lawsuits to challenge the implementation of the law.

"It's certainly not the end of our journey," she said.

Responding to criticism that the law would lead to racial profiling, Brewer said that any officer who violates a person's civil rights will be held accountable. Even while upholding the provision, the justices said the status check could be challenged.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a written statement that the Supreme Court's ruling will make her agency's work more challenging, but she was pleased that the court ruled state laws can't dictate the federal government's immigration enforcement priorities.

Immigration rights groups said they were surprised and disappointed by the court's decision, and planned to ask the lower courts to block the law.

"The opinion invites the challenges that we are bringing. It's going to cause racial profiling. It will cause prolonged detentions," said Linton Joaquin of the National Immigration Law Center, one of the groups pushing a separate challenge to the law.

Arizona passed the law in 2010, with lawmakers arguing that that federal government wasn't adequately preventing illegal immigration. The Obama administration sued to block it, saying that enforcing immigration laws was a federal responsibility.

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Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud, Terry Tang and Felicia Fonseca in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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