Friday, December 30, 2011

Events start on time

Provisional figures showed that the average cheap moncler temperature throughout the year was 9.62 degrees Celsius (49.3 degrees Fahrenheit). The record high is still 2006, which notched an average temperature of 9.73 C (49.5 F). All but one of the top 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1997 and all Britain's top seven warmest years happened in the last decade. However, 2010 was the 12th-coldest year on record with 7.97 C (46.3 F), meaning 2011 was a marked change from last year. Britain's warmest spring on record, and the second warmest autumn, bookended a cool summer. Apart from January, which endured the knock-on from the cold December in 2010, the only other months in 2011 that had below-average temperatures were June, July and August. Scotland suffered its wettest year on record in 2011, with 73.2 inches (1,859.5 millimetres) of rain, beating the previous record set in 1990. Meanwhile some English regions endured some of their driest-ever months. The warmest temperature recorded in 2011 was 33.1 C (91.5 F) on June 27 at Gravesend in southeast England. From his low-tech events and his relatively small entourage to his reluctance to glad-hand voters, the 76-year-old Paul has stubbornly adhered to his own campaign playbook with seemingly little regard for the calendar or the shifting dynamics of the GOP field. The rest of the contenders braced for a grueling weekend of campaign events. Paul, however, planned to fly home late Friday night to spend the weekend with his wife, Carol. He was set to appear on several Sunday morning talk shows from Texas, and was scheduled to return to Iowa by Monday morning for a “whistle-stop” campaign tour with his son, Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican. “He’s a family man and he wants to spend time with his family,” said Paul’s Iowa campaign chairman, Drew Ivers. Leaving Iowa just three days before the kickoff nominating contest of the 2012 election is one of many quirks that set Paul’s campaign apart from the more traditional presidential hopefuls. Paul’s schedule is a model of efficiency. Events start on time, new jackets for men 2011 and he delivers the same remarks at each one, no matter the location or size of the crowd. He speaks favorably of Iowa’s importance in the nominating process but never forcefully asks audience members for their vote. His venues are typically stark — no bunting, no music, no booming sound system. Voters sit quietly, as if listening to a university economics lecture. Paul never strays from his message of limited government, free markets and the importance of the Constitution, even when the moment might call for a different approach — like when a 10-year-old autistic boy asked Paul on Friday what he might do to help children like him. “The most valuable resource for children, teenagers, college kids and adults is liberty. If we protect those liberties we will have the maximum amount of progress,” Paul said. Later, he assured the boy he did not plan to slash health care for children or the elderly if elected. Paul has refused to engage rivals like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, even as they have stepped up their criticisms of his foreign policy views and his lack of legislative accomplishments in Congress. He also rarely criticizes President Barack Obama, insisting that both parties are responsible for excess spending and debt. He saves his attacks for campaign commercials and interviews. He told Bloomberg News on Friday that he might not be able to support any of his rivals because they embraced the status quo in Washington. “If ... they don’t want to change anything on foreign policy, they don’t want to cut anything, they don’t want to audit the Fed and find out about monetary policy, they don’t want to have actual change in government, Moncler 2011 New Jackets,Moncler Jackets,Moncler Vest on sale that is a problem for me,” he said.

No comments:

Post a Comment