At about 7 45 a.m., a crowd begins gathering at the Silver Queen Gondola for "First Tracks".
But he has been gathering momentum, taking the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics last year on his final throw.
Until this week's rise they were barely above zero in real terms.The global economic storm-clouds now gathering could have a silver lining for Vietnam, provided the tempest is not too harsh or prolonged.
The new mayor ought to try to tackle another housing challenge, posed by the city's changing demographic: there are more single households, thanks to the young urban migration and the silver tsunami, that gathering wave of urban-minded retirees.
Over the next hour, as a captivated city watched continuous television reports and the Hudson turned from gold to silver in the gathering winter twilight, all of the passengers, including at least one baby, and both pilots and all three flight attendants, were transferred to the rescue boats — a feat that unfolded as the white-and-blue jetliner continued to drift south.
The gathering clouds, it seems, have no silver lining.
If there is a silver lining to the gathering clouds, analysts say, it is that the Chinese government is at last showing some determination to clean up corruption, even if it involves high-ranking party figures.
At the other end of the spectrum are players below the expert category who battle for many years, gathering a gold point here, a silver point there, hoping for the appropriate collection totaling 300.
8 p.m., all ages, $22 . 5 "The Source" At AFI Silver Spring A popular gathering spot for actors, musicians and scenesters doubled as a meeting place for a cult in the 1970s on Sunset Strip.
The silver lining to the gathering clouds of aging seems to be the relative youth of organ stem cells.
