Big name brands like Volkswagen, Wells Fargo and United Airlines have been in the news and for all the wrong reasons. How could anyone believe that knowingly creating diesel engine software to pass laboratory emissions tests and then belch out dangerous nitrogen oxides far in excess of what the NOx regulations allow, was the right thing to do?
Or should company officers just stand by while 5000 staff at Wells Fargo open false accounts to boost sales figures.
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Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck was recently inducted into the EY World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. A great achievement for a man so passionate about rockets coming from New Zealand, not a country that you might normally associate with being strong in the space industry. Rocket Lab‘s focus is on lifting small satellites of 150kg to low earth orbit. This sets it apart from, for example, Elon Musk’s SpaceX which can lift over 54 tons into orbit, enough to fly humans to Mars.
Why should everyone be punished by just a few who do not have the courtesy to others who have come here to learn by arriving on time? I will not have you here! Professor Richard T. Bates The lesson I learnt of being on time came many years ago while studying electrical engineering at Canterbury University. At the start of his first lecture to our class the lecturer, Professor Richard T. Bates, introduced himself and explained that in future everyone would arrive on time and be ready to receive his lecture.
It took 6 years to achieve, 4 and a half more than Elon Musk had originally planned, and 500 people to make it happen.
It is difficult to believe that only weeks before, an air force satellite and NASA experiments were lost during the third attempted launch by SpaceX when a malfunction caused the first and second stages to bump into each other damaging the rocket and its engine.
Recently the New Zealand Air Force celebrated its 80th anniversary at the 2017 Air Tattoo. Spectators were treated to a magnificent display involving aircraft from today’s F-16 and F/A-18 jets and back through time to impeccably maintained historic aircraft including the Grumman Avenger, Harvard and Spitfire.
We all know that exercise is good for us. The experts know it's because exercise causes hippocampal neurons to pump out a protein called brain derived neurotropic factor BDNF and this helps to grow new neurons. But is brisk walking, running, cycling or rowing better for us than lifting weights?
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