The football world may still be reeling from the fall of its chief, its head, its guiding light in the dark night, as we all contemplate what life will be like without Sepp Blatter's steady hand at our tiller, but some things are constant.
His was no longer the calm hand at the tiller, steering his ship through the storm.
All signs indicate that now is the time for policymakers to rush to the tiller and pilot the ship quickly and decisively back on course.
The same sensor is used on a boat to shine a beam off the tiller bar and use the reflection to measure the angle of the rudder.
Within a year, the nuclear tests had been abandoned, and President Richard Nixon had turned Amchitka into a nature reserve.Finding he preferred the tiller to the typewriter, Mr Hunter abandoned journalism for a while.
He is a prodigious researcher, but he keeps a steady hand on the tiller, and never allows his research to swamp his narrative.
It might even persuade them to let Mr Osborne keep a hand on the economic tiller for a few more years.
The Liberals took 17 of 24 seats in Toronto, while the Progressive Conservatives won just one.Mr McGuinty, for his part, adroitly deployed a tactic Mr Harper had used successfully at the federal level, saying that hard economic times demand an experienced hand at the tiller.
But neither he nor Citi's London-based chairman, Sir Win Bishoff, have grabbed the tiller as firmly as many had hoped when Chuck Prince was jettisoned.
West Bengal is a crowded state, which went further than most to return land to the tiller.
