The ship may have sunk some time ago, but England's captain remains convinced that he is the right man to recalibrate this Test team.
The fear is that players of his generation can become infantilised, as mechanically dependant as infuriatingly over-dressed modern cars, with their electronically variable valve-timing, their six months in the workshop to recalibrate the flux capacitor that powers the wing mirror hinge.
Unionists might try to recalibrate that reality by highlighting points of detail, but for nearly a decade that had been subject to the law of diminishing returns.
After a shutdown it can take hours to recalibrate machinery.For all that, quiet confidence is growing among businessmen that Japan will rebuild itself.
"But, but, but ladyparts!" sneered one conservative on Twitter as the results were coming in the kind of comment that does not boost my confidence in the party's ability to quickly recalibrate.
WHEN Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, prorogued Parliament in December for more than two months, to avoid some bothersome debates, he said this was so his minority Conservative government could "recalibrate" its policies.
The foreign ministry's insistence on reviewing the treaty so soon after taking office has also distracted both sides from a more important topic: the need to recalibrate their alliance, which next year turns 50, in a way that better reflects post-cold-war realities.Mr Hatoyama's difficulties come, in part, from the DPJ's coalition partners.
Whatever the answer and whether or not it eventually becomes public the mystery is a neat illustration of the fallout from Mr Snowden's revelations for the computer-security industry, which must now recalibrate its professional paranoia.
But, amid the turmoil of the modern Middle East, even that would count as an unexpected triumph.Whether the deal dominates America's relationship with the region remains to be seen; civil war in Syria and political unrest in Egypt may still force Mr Obama to recalibrate his policies for the Middle East.
Getting a climate-change bill through Congress will be hard.The next ten weeks give Mr Obama a chance to recalibrate the rest of the world's hopes.
Interestingly, YouGov says that if you recalibrate its final poll to reflect the demography of the voters who actually showed up on November 2nd, its panel showed a Bush lead (fewer blacks and poor people actually voted than YouGov researchers expected).Are there better ways to find likely voters?
