For Mr. Brathwaite, who is unable, by his admission, to hammer a nail, the home has meant a steady wave of adjustment, both physical and aesthetic.
The variables are the global wave of structural adjustment, which is the set of conditions of International Monetary Fund and World Bank loans, and other 'free trade' and deregulation policies which have ravaged many countries in the world, including Haiti, since the 80's.
Collectively, regionally consistent spatial relationships among erosion rate, channel steepness, and knickpoints reveal an ongoing wave of transient channel adjustment to a change in relative base level.
To make progress with these issues, the nature of waves of aggression, temporal adjustments to disturbing forces, spatial interactions with structure, divergent pathways of change propagation, evolution of 'barriers to change,' effects of inheritance, decoupling, and the effects of change on system specifications all need to be understood at all temporal and spatial scales.
This information can feed into adjustments of the next wave of the intervention – the pipeline -- fine tuning it to optimise its impact.
"Not a lot of adjustments, but simple adjustments.
"Wack!" needs all kinds of adjustments.
"There were a lot of adjustments last year.
It's a game of adjustments.
What sort of adjustments would they make?
