GOP Address: Rep. Jenkins Says We 'Owe' Strong Economy to Returning Service Members

US House of Representatives(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas delivers the Republican address this Memorial Day weekend honoring the fallen men and women of the U.S. Armed forces and praying "for our sons and daughters who are risking their lives so that we may live in freedom and security."

Jenkins underscores the importance of energizing the economy so that active duty men and women can return home with to opportunities to support themselves and their families.

"Of course, we owe it to our service members to do everything we can to ensure they come home to a strong, growing economy that creates jobs and opportunities," she says.

But with the rising costs of living and millions of Americans still out of work, Jenkins says "Americans are clamoring for optimistic leadership and a positive agenda to help get people back to work ?" She adds that the Republicans' Plan for America's Jobs Creators is what will get Americans working by focusing long-term growth instead of a "short-term stimulus" and on small businesses and not "big government."

Rep. Jenkins continues, offering up GOP-hatched solutions for job creation and economic growth, namely domestic energy projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline. ?

"An overwhelming majority of the American people and a bipartisan coalition in Congress supports Keystone, but right now it is stuck in a House-Senate conference committee due to opposition from the president and his allies in the Senate Democratic leadership," the congresswoman said, adding, "Republicans are holding strong for Keystone by insisting it should be included in any transportation legislation Congress send to President Obama."

Jenkins gave answer to the President Obama's recent proposed "To-Do List" and touted the benefits of removing costly red tape for small business owners, repealing the health care law and curbing federal spending.

"Through the Republican jobs plan, the House has voted to take these common-sense steps to sustained job growth and prosperity. Right now, there are 30 House-passed jobs bills awaiting action in the Democratic-controlled Senate, giving President Obama a serious to-do list to tackle," she said.

"Republicans continue to stand ready and willing to work with him on these priorities."

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A Big Bang Theory- Sci Fi Mmo Games Are An Explosive Collision

Gamers today go crazy for sci fi MMO games, which combine a couple of the greatest subjects of all time- massive multiplayer online support and science fiction sagas. These games have a large variety of followers; anyone can become alien bounty hunters or fight on a team of twenty people against rogue invaders to protect their planet. Clever programmers are accountable for making these games classic, by integrating top notch video and audio support along with creative storylines.

Science fiction is a hard topic to explain, as many people have their own renditions; usually the field includes futuristic events and subjects that do not exist currently, but have the potential to. Time travel and alien beings from other planets are recurrent themes that our descendants may personally incur someday; some believe these things already exist. Communicating robots and teleportation are a couple examples of bizarre and eccentric ideas that are usually preferred amongst fantasy lovers and gamers.

MMO games are almost always free to the community for their enjoyment, with the exception of ones on private servers that may charge fees. When games are classified as MMO, massive comes into effect when forty or fifty people are in one room fighting for the glory of their team- multiplied by hundreds of other rooms can equal thousands of challengers competing at the same time. These games are also remarkably multifaceted, with numerous roles to choose from and countless missions and levels to play.

Science fiction MMO games can vary from game to game as far as inducements and methods. Real time strategies encompass first person roles, such as commanders or lieutenants, who must direct the team members on his or her ship to obtaining the goals. These realms continue to flourish and upgrade no matter how many times a person logs off or back in- this is called a persistent world and players never have to return to the beginning to start over. Another method to game play is turn based, where players wait in line according to arrival sequence for the website to allow the shooting of extra-terrestrials.

All these notions and theories combine in today's market to create some games as popular as the classic films from the same genre. Sci Fi MMO games have seasoned a long way from the humble nonetheless popular beginnings as two dimensional arcades. Many games now include powerful supernova and detailed planetary designs with vivid colors for visual enjoyment; some include actual space photographs released of nebulae and star galaxies, which are certainly a beautiful sight in these games. The knowledgeable and capable minds of today keep these programs ever-changing and advancing to provide any audience the most fun imaginable.

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Video: Fire breaks out on US nuclear submarine

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Fire on nuclear sub at Maine shipyard hurts 7

In this April 26, 2004 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Miami SSN 755, homeported in Groton, Conn. arrives in port in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A fire aboard the nuclear-powered submarine on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine injured four people. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, PH2 Kevin Langford)

In this April 26, 2004 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Miami SSN 755, homeported in Groton, Conn. arrives in port in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A fire aboard the nuclear-powered submarine on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine injured four people. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, PH2 Kevin Langford)

A fire burns on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Fire crews responded Wednesday to the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard but the cause of the fire has not yet been identified. (AP Photo/WMUR, Jean Mackin) MANDATORY CREDIT

KITTERY, Maine (AP) ? A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured seven people, including five firefighters, but did not affect the reactor, which was not active.

Crews responded at about 5:40 p.m. Wednesday to the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, a town near Portsmouth, N.H. It was not clear how many people were aboard the submarine at the time.

Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, commander of Submarine Group Two, said the fire was out Thursday morning and the shipyard was open as usual. He said the three shipyard firefighters, two civilian firefighters and two crew members received minor injuries and were in good shape.

Breckenridge called their efforts heroic, saying the extreme heat and smoke in the contained spaces made it very challenging for them. "Their efforts clearly minimized the severity of this event," he said at a brief news conference.

Breckenridge said the fire started in the four forward compartments, which include living and command and control spaces. The sub's reactor, isolated in another part of the sub, had been shut down for a few months at the time and was unaffected. Breckenridge said it "remains in a safe and stable condition."

No weapons were on board.

Breckenridge said the cause of the fire is under investigation.

The USS Miami has a crew of 13 and 120 enlisted personnel. It arrived at the shipyard on March 1 to undergo maintenance work. It was commissioned in 1990 and its home port is Groton, Conn.

Associated Press

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IDC: Android has a heady 59 percent of world smartphone share, iPhone still on the way up

We've been jonesing for a more international look at smartphone market share for the start of 2012, and IDC is now more than willing to oblige. In case you'd thought Android's relentless march upwards was just an American fling, Google's OS has jumped from 36.1 percent of the world's share a year ago to exactly 59 percent in the first quarter of this year. That's nearly two thirds of all smartphones, folks. As we've seen in the past, Android is siphoning off legacy users looking for something fresher: Symbian and the BlackBerry have both lost more than half of their share in one year's time, while Linux (led mostly by Bada) and Windows Mobile / Phone together lost small pieces of the pie despite raw shipment numbers going up. As for Apple? Even with all the heat in the kitchen, the iPhone's share grew to 23 percent, leading to a staggering 82 percent of smartphone buyers siding with either the Cupertino or Mountain View camps.

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