The eighty-ninth Academy Awards, on February 26th, will arrive less than four months after the election of Donald Trump, as big a shock to the American psyche as one can ask for (or not ask for).
If I'm lucky, my train will arrive less than 10 minutes late, at which point it will be so packed that I will be standing for 30 minutes, squeezed between people who obviously did not shower and felt like they absolutely needed to reach for the top handle bar above me.
The lineup will include three new programs: "Evacuate Earth" (Sunday night), a two-hour thought experiment in how we might vacate the planet, should a rogue star head our way; and "The Mayan Apocalypse 2012" and "Maya Underworld: The Real Doomsday" (both on Monday night), about the prophesied cataclysmic events that will supposedly arrive less than three weeks from now.
Some of Mr Cole's assumptions are likely to be too pessimistic, but his blood-curdling forecast and others like it have helped to convince legislators that the $50 billion of help that the carmakers are asking for would be cheap at the price.How and when the rescue funds will arrive is less certain.
Bankers, always a big presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos, will arrive this year under less regulatory pressure and with better profits than in past years.
"And many programs are accepting or accommodating themselves to the disturbing notion that students will arrive with much less knowledge about literature.
Based on recent models, the prognosticators are confident of when and where the meteors will arrive; they are less certain of how many, although the numbers are expected to be modest, from 2 to 12 a minute.
New hires will arrive, but will be less a part of "building something big," and increasingly part of growing and maintaining someone else's ideas.
A separate post dated November 7 on a Facebook page bearing Hamen's name said that "his body will arrive in Dover in less than 48 hours".
Then, walking north along the wall running besides Daiun Temple, you'll arrive, within less than a minute, at a wide walkway on your right leading up to Otani cemetery.
Pietersen is a sub-Continental traveller of note and experience, thanks to the Indian Premier League; Broad, slightly less so, will arrive determined to embrace an environment which has rarely brought out the best in his compatriots on recent tours - and to continue the mid-career consolidation of his talents, with bat as well as ball.
