This year is the lastchancetosee the contemporary Blue Lotus Gallery in this unique setting, as the gallery is set to relocate from Fo Tan at the end of January.
Long-time observers see the Bonn meeting as a lastchanceto create a central authority that gives the country coherence without repression and modernises without trampling traditional ways of life.
The three presidential debates are the last big set piece events of the two-year campaign and the only chance for voters tosee the two candidates side-by-side.
And honestly, as much as we lust after that supposedly leaked N9 MeeGo slider, we'd rather see Nokia slip the introduction than blow what could be its last, best chanceto crack the US smartphone market.