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• Internet Shutdown NW / SW Regions – The Embodiment Of Marginalisation?

  By Lloney on March 21, 2017 • ( 3 )

  “Marginalisation?!”, “Nous allons vous montrer ce que nous appellons la marginalisation!”  Were these words in the thoughts and intention of the signatory and or co-signatories to the order which shut down internet services in the North West and South West… Read More ›

• An Unsolicited Reply To Unsolicited Mail : A Rebuttal to Leave.EU.

  By Lloney on April 12, 2016 • ( 1 )

  Returning from my Easter Holidays and sifting through the mail, I found one which roused my curiosity not only from the order of my names but from the sender address – Cribbs Causeway. Thinking this was perhaps something to do with… Read More ›

• The Big Deal Of Big Data …

  By Lloney on April 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  While academics from the US or UK may dispute the number of zeroes making a quintillion they would both agree 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is a lot and that is the amount of data, according to IBM, generated around… Read More ›

• The Schizophrenia And Psychosis Of Drug Policies.

  By Lloney on February 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  Marijuana, the Mexican name for cannabis, is produced from the leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant (cannabis sativa), and according to the UN, is the most widely produced and consumed illicit drug in the world, as some 3.9% of… Read More ›

• E-Cigarette – The next century of smoking.

  By Lloney on December 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  As the city of New York on 19th December rolled out legislation to ban the use of E-Cigarettes from indoor public spaces where smoking was already banned, it did so to recognise that smoking and ‘vaping’ – the coined term… Read More ›

• Fracking – Time to play catch-up?

  By Lloney on October 31, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Hydraulic fracturing or fracking (as commonly known) is a technique for extracting natural gas from hitherto unreachable sources such as shale rock deep within the earth and many sources looking to its origin have mentioned Halliburton’s 1947 experimental use of… Read More ›

• Achieving African Competitiveness Through Lean

  By Lloney on September 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Lean operations seek out and create flow between value activities in organisations delivering goods and services demanded or pulled by their customers. As a consequence of removing all non-value added activities, lean organisations have less duplication and waste, are faster… Read More ›

• Grow Now, Clean Up Later – A Model For Africa?

  By Lloney on August 31, 2013 • ( 1 )

  When on August 14th 2013 the government of Chad suspended the China National Petroleum Company from further oil exploration in the country, (as reported by Reuters) it did so as a result of “flagrant violations of environmental standards” by the… Read More ›

• The Fed’s QE Taper: For Emerging & Developing Markets, Forewarned Is Forearmed.

  By Lloney on July 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The US housing market in the run up to 2007 was booming but a large part of the booming mortgage market was based on what has come to be known as Sub-prime mortgages whose popularity increased markedly through securitisation in… Read More ›

• Is Africa Sitting Out The Gene Revolution?

  By Lloney on June 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Genetic Modified organisms are those whose genetic material has been engineered and modified through biotechnology such as recombinant DNA. The reasons for genetic modification are varied but in agriculture for example crop production, it is predominantly done to produce crops… Read More ›

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