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Download and install the keyboard as an app as you do with other iOS 8 keyboards, and then enable it in settings. When you open the app, you'll be prompted to create an account so that you can upload your own GIFs and personalize the keyboard. But you don't have to.
Actually, using the keyboard is easy enough. Choose an emotion, select one of the available GIFs. It'll copy to your clipboard, and then you paste it into a text box. It's not the first GIF keyboard. But it's the best.
At first, I'm like hi!!
And I'm troubled that it's so hard to express the complexities of my emotions and ideas with only a smattering of reaction phrases.
This morning's announcement that national unemployment fell just 0.1% in April--to 5.4%--was a disappointment to many, but cities across the country are seeing strong opportunities in a range of industries, many while maintaining unemployment rates far below the national one.
Which are the best cities for finding work right now?
To determine the best cities for finding employment currently, national staffing agency Adecco considered factors like industries in a particular city, cost of living and the presence of companies with varied employment opportunities. Adecco used data and feedback from regional offices across the country as well as emp...
At the top of the list is Austin, Texas. With 3.3% unemployment, the city continues to beat the national unemployment rate by more than two points. Strong opportunities are available in industries like retail, hospitality, tech and professional services.
“Austin is a beautiful city with broad appeal that is becoming an even greater destination of choice for many job seekers," said Adecco Regional Vice President Alyson Blake-Wilson. "When asked why people choose to relocate to Austin, I hear the same consistent theme: the lifestyle is relaxed with a focus on the outdoor...
Up next is Grand Rapids, Michigan, which also enjoys a low unemployment rate--3.9%. Currently, the city has more job openings--in industries like auto, consumer goods, healthcare, manufacturing and food--than people to fill them.
“Professionals who had once left western Michigan when the economy suffered in 2008 are now able to return to Grand Rapids,” said Dean Liakos, area vice president at Adecco Engineering & Technology."
Additionally, “Competition for candidates is getting quite extreme, which means pay rates and compensation packages are rising,” says Nancy Siegal, regional vice president at Adecco Staffing.
In third place is Nashville, Tennessee. With low unemployment and a variety of opportunities for those with abilities in the skilled trades--such as IT, electronic repair technicians and machinists--as well as nursing, professional services and accounting, the music city has a lot to offer. Strong competition for candi...
A few coastal locations do make their way onto a list dominated by southern and midwestern cities. New York City and the Hudson Valley area join the list in seventh place, with respective unemployment rates of 6% and 4.6%. Jobs are available in an array of industries, including retail and fashion, finance, hospitality,...
Those with skills in graphic and web design, digital analytic, marketing and sales, and manufacturing and distribution will fare particularly well. In the Hudson Valley, particular growth is being seen in the manufacturing and distribution sectors, related to consumer products.
“The Hudson Valley is a beautiful place to live with historic homes and charming activities like wineries, theater, hiking and kayaking the Hudson River. It allows residents to take advantage of all that nearby New York City has to offer, but offers a more idllyic option with highly ranked public schools,” said Laura M...
On the opposite side of the country, Los Angeles and Orange County has seen some of the strongest employment gains over the past year--168,500 jobs added--despite a 6.6% unemployment rate that tops the national rate. It's the only west coast location to join these ranks.
Known for jobs in entertainment and a growing tech scene, L.A.'s top hiring industries actually include manufacturing, healthcare, customer service and aerospace.
YOSEMITE, Calif., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A Reddit user who says he's a ranger at Yosemite National Park shared a letter from a junior ranger that apologizes for taking home two sticks from the park.
The Reddit user, who goes by the name of bestmattever, uploaded a photo of a hand written letter from a girl identified as Evie, KPIX-TV, San Francisco, reported Wednesday.
In the letter, Evie said she accidentally brought home two sticks -- which were attached to the note -- from her time as a junior ranger in the park.
"I know I'm not supposed to take things from the park, so I am sending them back. Please put them in nature," Evie wrote.
Bestmattever said he wrote back to the girl and her parents, commending her for her honesty and promising to put the sticks back in the park.
The letter was trending on Reddit on Wednesday and has received more than 7,000 likes on Yosemite National Park's Facebook page.
Bell, an attorney, said after the House Democratic caucus that he will evaluate the staff of Thompson's office and decide later who will be on his staff.
He said the accusations against him hurt him personally and that there is a realization that there were "some falsehoods" in the accusations against him.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, said it is not unusual for newly elected legislative leaders to name their own staff members.
Stumbo won re-election to the House's top post without any opposition. So did House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins of Sandy Hook and House Majority Caucus Chairwoman Sannie Overly of Paris, who is running for lieutenant governor this year on a ticket with Attorney General Jack Conway.
It required 28 votes from the 54 House Democrats to win a leadership post.
Richards, who was House speaker from 1995 to 2008, replaces Larry Clark of Louisville, who did not seek re-election to leadership. Richards said he would determine his own staff.
Richards won the leadership spot by defeating Dennis Keene of Wilder in a runoff of the top two finishers in a four-candidate race. The other two candidates were Darryl Owens of Louisville and Jim Glenn of Owensboro.
Legislative leaders help determine the flow of legislation in the General Assembly.
Reporters from Louisville and Northern Kentucky asked Stumbo if those regions would be hurt by not having anyone in leadership. Stumbo said leaders "take a statewide view."
Before House Democrats elected their leaders, they invited Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes to their closed-door session to thank her for helping them keep control of the 100-member House by running for U.S. Senate. She lost to Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.
Meanwhile, the 46 House Republicans re-elected Jeff Hoover of Jamestown as their floor leader. He was challenged by Adam Koenig of Erlanger, who contended that Hoover did not do enough to help Republicans take control of the House in last November's elections.
Hoover was elected to his eighth consecutive term and is the longest-serving GOP floor leader in the state's history.
"Kentucky has stayed in the status quo for too long because of continued inaction by the House majority leadership on a number of key issues, and I stand ready along with my fellow House Republicans to fight to see that our commonwealth reaches the success it justly deserves," Hoover said.
Also selected during Tuesday's GOP caucus elections was Rep. Stan Lee, R-Lexington, as House Republican caucus chairman. He replaces Rep. Bob DeWeese of Louisville, who chose not to run for re-election to the leadership post. Lee defeated David Osborne of Prospect for the position.
Rep. Jim DeCesare, R-Bowling Green, won election as House Republican whip by defeating Sal Santoro of Florence and Ken Upchurch of Monticello.
DeCesare replaces former GOP whip John "Bam" Carney of Campbellsville, who announced in December that he would not seek another term as whip.
Senate Republicans and Democrats selected their leaders late last year.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a group of autism- and disability-awareness organizations have launched a nationwide campaign to teach parents the important social and emotional milestones in the first few years of a child’s life.
Learn more about the "Learn the Signs. Act Early" campaign online from the CDC.
“Learn the Signs. Act Early.” is designed to educate parents about early-childhood development, including potential early warning signs of autism and other developmental disabilities, so that they can seek treatment.
In recent years, many programs and studies have shown that early recognition of autism and other developmental disabilities is important because early treatment can significantly improve a child’s development.
The Pentagon's mad science agency has big plans for next year: crowdsourcing military intelligence, creating an "immune system" for Defense Department networks, and even research that might one day lead to editing a soldier's DNA.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, just released its budget for the upcoming year. And, as you might expect from the Pentagon's way-out science and technology division, there are some wild new projects on tap.
Military analysts are already overwhelmed by too much information. Instead of training more analysts or handing data over to computers, Darpa wants to improve how the military uses its intelligence info by turning it into an open call for contribution. The $13 million dollar project, called "Deep ISR Processing by Crow...
Novel frameworks will be developed to capture the experience base of users and systems to allow problem partitioning, quantitative confidence assessment, and validation in environments that may be partially compromised by adversaries.
When it comes to cybersecurity, Darpa's taking inspiration from nature, with "Cyber Immune" – a defense model for the Pentagon's computing systems that's able to detect an attack, fight back and even heal itself automatically to prevent subsequent infiltration.
The current model for cybersecurity, dubbed "perimeter defense," uses firewalls that hackers try to break through. Once they make it inside, they've got free rein, and the compromised system is vulnerable to ongoing outside attacks until the firewall is rebuilt. Instead of technicians who patch holes as they find them,...
Of course, Darpa's also living up to its mad-science rep, with ambitious plans to fast-track mastery over the human genome. Darpa's budgeted $7.5 million in hopes of "increas[ing] by several decades the speed with which we sequence, analyze and functionally edit cellular genomes."
On the other end of the size scale, a primary goal is to apply microsystem techniques to soldier-protective biomedical systems. One example is an in-canal hearing protection device that will provide enhanced hearing capabilities in some settings, but be able to instantly muffle loud sounds of weapons fire. This one exa...
Onel Hernandez provided the spark to help Norwich City sink League Two Crawley Town in a behind-closed-doors friendly at Colney on Thursday.
Hernandez teed up both Dennis Srbeny and Marco Stiepermann who slotted a goal apiece within eight minutes of an extended 120 minute outing for both clubs at City’s training base.
Farke opted for a flat back four, with Sean Raggett partnering Timm Klose.
Felix Passlack and Max Arrons were deployed as full backs, which released Ben Godfrey to slot into central midfield. Moritz Leitner and Kenny McLean got a chance to renew their blossoming partnership from the midweek trip to Lincoln and there was a first sight of Teemu Pukki in tandem with Jordan Rhodes.
McLean slammed a shot against the underside of the bar in the opening minutes.
Crawley responded well, urged on by Harry Kewell, and went close themselves when Joe McNerney’s far post header dropped to Mark Randall who was unable to keep his flick under the bar from close range.
McNerney was needed in his own box to prevent Raggett slotting Yanic Wildschut’s free kick.
Farke kept the same line up for the start of the second quarter and Jordan Rhodes felt he should have had a penalty when he tumbled after initially controlling Passlack’s cushioned pass from Leitner’s raking cross.
Kewell made his feelings known and the officials agreed with the former Leeds’ midfielder despite Rhodes’ appeals.
Glenn Morris then thwarted McLean in what was rapidly becoming something of a personal duel.
There was an even better stop in the 44th minute when the Scottish international crashed a thunderous volley goalwards Morris tipped onto his bar and over.
Remi Matthews was finally pressed into service when Crawley sprung a rare counter to parry from Reece Grego-Cox.
Ranutche Camara should have opened the scoring when he was left free six yards out but headed Chris Whelpdale’s far post touch over.
Only Godfrey and Passlack survived from the Norwich team of the first hour.
Todd Cantwell made his first appearance of the summer after picking up a knee injury towards the end of his loan stint at Fortuna Sittard.
Hernandez’s arrival injected some dynamism into the Canaries’ forward motion.
Tom Trybull whipped a 20-yard shot over before Srbeny’s header was deflected wide from Ben Marshall’s deep cross.
The same duo combined to break the deadlock in the 71st minute. Hernandez wriggled free again on the left to cut back a cross Srbeny impressively lashed into the roof of the net from 14 yards as the ball came across his body.
Hernandez was denied by Yusuf Mersin shortly afterwards with signs Crawley were starting to flag as the gaps appeared.
City doubled their lead in the 79th minute; the razor-sharp Hernandez escaping down the left again before a cross slotted by Stiepermann from the edge of the area.
Arrons and Raggett returned for the final quarter and it was Hernandez who still carried the biggest threat, with a slaloming run and low strike parried by Mersin.
• Norwich City (first and second quarters XI): Matthews, Passlack, Raggett, Klose, Arrons, Godfrey, Pukki, McLean, Leitner, Wildschut, Rhodes.
• Norwich City (third quarter XI): McGovern, Marshall, Godfrey, Zimmermann, Husband, Trybull, Passlack, Stiepermann, Cantwell, Hernandez, Srbeny.
• Norwich City (fourth quarter XI): McGovern, Arrons, Raggett, Zimmermann, Husband, Trybull, Marshall, Stiepermann, Cantwell, Hernandez, Srbeny.
• Crawley Town (starting XI): Morris, Young, McNerney, Connolly, Doherty, Whelpdale, Payne, Randall, Bulman, Camara, Grego-Cox.
Over the past 15 months, I’ve been writing pretty regularly about the presidential campaign, which has meant thinking a lot about attack ads, tracking polls and which campaign is renouncing which over-the-line comment from a surrogate that particular day.
But on my desk for much of this period I have kept a short essay, which I stare at longingly from time to time. It’s an essay about how people in the Middle Ages viewed the night sky, and it’s about a mentality so totally removed from the campaign mentality that it’s like a refreshing dip in a cool and cleansing pool.
Lewis tried to recapture that medieval mind-set, Ward writes. He did it not because he wanted to renounce the Copernican revolution and modern science, but because he found something valuable in that different way of seeing our surroundings.
The modern view disenchants the universe, Lewis argued, and tends to make it “all fact and no meaning.” When we say that a star is a huge flaming ball of gas, he wrote, we are merely describing what it is made of. We are not describing what it is. Lewis also wanted to include the mythologies, symbols and stories that h...
There’s something about obsessing about a campaign — or probably a legal case or a business deal — that doesn’t exactly arouse the imaginative faculties. Campaigns are all about message management, polls and tactics. The communication is swift, Blackberry-sized and prosaic. As you cover it, you feel yourself enclosed i...
The medievals had a tremendous capacity for imagination and enchantment, and while nobody but the deepest romantic would want to go back to their way of thinking (let alone their way of life), it’s a tonic to visit from time to time.
As many historians have written, Europeans in the Middle Ages lived with an almost childlike emotional intensity. There were stark contrasts between daytime and darkness, between summer heat and winter cold, between misery and exuberance, and good and evil. Certain distinctions were less recognized, namely between the ...
We tend to see economics and politics as the source of human motives, and then explain spirituality as their byproduct — as Barack Obama tried artlessly to do in San Francisco the other week. But in the Middle Ages, faith came first. The symbols, processions and services were vividly alive.
Writers like C. S. Lewis and John Ruskin seized on medieval culture as an antidote to industrialism — to mass manufacturing, secularization and urbanization. Without turning into an Arthurian cultist, it’s nice to look up from the latest YouTube campaign moment and imagine a sky populated with creatures, symbols and ta...
GILFORD — It took nearly 20 minutes for Gilford to get going, but once they did there was no slowing them down.
Stefan Defregger scored three goals, including the opening goal in the 21st minute, to get the third-seeded Golden Eagles rolling to a 5-1 decision over No. 14 Hillsboro-Deering in the preliminary round of the Class M schoolboy soccer tournament Wednesday afternoon. Christian Bua recorded a goal and two assists, and He...
"He's so modest about it that I didn't even know until after the game," Gilford senior back Ethan Simoneau said. "That's an amazing feat... It's great to give it to him."
As expected, Pinkham gave the credit to his assistant coaches and players.
"All it means is that I'm getting old," said Pinkham, who now owns a 500-43-24 career coaching record in his 32nd season at Gilford.
"Gilford has been unbelievable for me. I can't ask to be in a better position. I've had boys who work very hard from the lower levels and up. I just happen to be the beneficiary of that," the veteran coach added. "Everybody has a part of this, my coaches and players."
It appeared the road to the milestone victory would be a rough one from the start. Neither team had any glittering scoring opportunities, but the Hillcats were holding their own in the middle of the field.
The Golden Eagles did settle into their game gradually, especially after sophomore Michael Workman broke through the Hillsboro defense, only to have his shot ring off the crossbar. Just two minutes later, the Golden Eagles were on the board. Matt Canole sent a perfect free kick into the box and Defregger beat the H-D t...
"We've seen their scores so we knew they would be good. We didn't see them as an underdog," said Simoneau. "Once we scored we were able to keep that intensity up and eventually all the pieces came together."
That tally ignited the Gilford attack. Workman gave the hosts a two goal advantage just four minutes later, tapping home a perfect cross from Bua.
Gilford came out flying in the second half. Just 4:56 into the frame, Defregger finished off a nice give-and-go from Bua for a 3-0 advantage. Allen started the play in the midfield. Bua would make it a four goal advantage in the 56th minute when he collected a through pass from Workman, and fired it past Hillsboro goal...
The Hillcats took advantage of an opportunity with just over 15 minutes to go. Travis Bennett found some space in the Gilford defensive end, and found the back of the goal when Gilford keeper Miles Parker (3 saves) slipped on the wet surface.
Defregger answered though five minutes later. Allen took a direct kick for the Eagles, putting a perfect pass through the Hillsboro wall to a breaking Defregger who turned and rifled a shot past a frozen Gidari to restore the four goal advantage.

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