They learn to find the "opinion leaders", the community "gatekeepers" and the central gathering places (meaning diners and bars).
By early June, his arched walkway and the Agora, the central gathering place outside the stadium, were already in place.
That morning in Thimphu's Clock Tower Square, the central gathering place in the city's downtown, builders briskly assembled a stage for the presentation of medals.
What to Do The central gathering place in the summer is the Pleasant Valley Pool, where a family membership runs $475 for the season, plus an initation fee of $400.
When Peter Slattery was growing up there during the 1970s and '80s, schoolbags were still packed with books and a hurling stick, and in rural villages, the hurling pitch remained the central gathering place.
"It's easy to use as a system to gather ideas, and makes it possible for those sending information to talk to each other as well as to the central gathering point," said Lynne Elvins, senior adviser on sustainable innovation at Forum for the Future, a London-based sustainable development organization.
I returned to Pine Trails Park, which had become the central gathering place for media, students, and members of a disaster-activated national consolation machine: volunteers from the Red Cross; a van of therapeutic golden retrievers and their owners from Christ the Shepherd Lutheran Church, in Alpharetta, Georgia; the television anchors as lurid as exotic birds.
And the central gathering spot offered memorable moments of serendipity.
The Superdelegate Transparency Project is the central gathering place for compiling primary and caucus results -- congressional district by congressional district.
