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Ukrainian producer and director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s  drama Atlantis  has won best film at the 37th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF), which is running as an online event December 10-20 due to Israel’s ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. Set in war-torn eastern Ukraine in the near future, the film revolves around a former soldier suffering from PTSD, who is trying to rebuild his life against the backdrop of his environmentally devastated homeland.   It is Vasyanovych’s third fe...

Share this article Share this article HOUSTON, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. ("Rimkus"), a worldwide provider of forensic engineering and technical consulting services, announced the strategic acquisition of Applied Safety and Ergonomics ("ASE"). The acquisition aligns with Rimkus growth strategy in expanding the companys reach and services across the United States. "This acquisition is consistent with Rimkus overall strategy and objective to grow our strategic p...

Richard Greene Review by Brian Morton Perhaps there was a real gun. Perhaps it even contained one loaded chamber. Some versions of the story suggest the bullet might have been a blank, but that matters little at close range: “I put the muzzle of the revolver into my right ear and pulled the trigger. There was a minute click and looking down at the chamber I could see that the charge had moved into the firing position. I was out by one.” Everyone knows a few things about Graham Greene: t...

The Vital Role of Shift Communication for Plant Safety There is no question that COVID-19, with skeleton crews and offsite workers, has put pressure on plant operators. Dec 15th, 2020 iStock There is no question that COVID-19, with skeleton crews and offsite workers, has put pressure on plant operators to focus more heavily on the need for clear, concise communications among teams during shift handovers. Shift-to-shift communications is key to plant and worker safety which, if done correctly, m...

After that. so -- you know, there is, i dont know. theres a human factor of, oh. oh, geez, but this is what you do. you cant cover this up. you see it. it was a sanctioned photo opportunity, and you just happen to listen, and you could make out some words, and summits are very staged as you know. theres not a lot of pictures, and were all looking for interactions in those five-minute little moments where we see the leaders interact. thats what we have. >> we wanted to hear the story behind the s...

House democrats say they know what the underlying impeachable offense is. president trump, house speaker nancy pelosi, has said already admitted to it. but what theyre doing behind closed doors, why theyre in the scif across the street, two floors below in the basement level, is that theyre piecing together. theyre stitching together really a tapestry of evidence and testimony to build an iron-clad case for impeachment. nicolle and chris. >> thank you so much. jump back in front of a camera with...

The same system malfunction. cnn aviation analyst is with us now ander managing director for the ntsb. do you think they did a good job getting it out in a timely manner and important to note, nine contributing factors that this. >> i thought the indonesians did an excellent job identifying the links of the chain in this tragedy and they called out each one very clearly. i think they did a really, an outstanding job within a year. >> is nine a lot or is that what you would expect? >> i think its...

Diplomacy. these are important steps. but lets not overlook the human factor and this meeting elevates that human fact torques elevates the -- factor, elevates the very sad death of otto warmbier and warns north koreans if you harm americans you are subject to pay a cost for that. eric: the warmbiers won $500 million in a lawsuit. theyre trying to get some of the assets, even going to europe. that hasnt happened. what message should be sent to kim jong un, dealing with ott ho warmbier and dealin...

>> what they will try to do is rule out certain causes. for instance, you rule out light and rule out natural causes in these kind of things. then you look for specifics about what could have caused the fire whether its electrical or mechanical, the human factor or any of those types of things. >> one theory about why this fire move so quickly was something called a flashover. when the fire gets so hot, the toxic gases inside in a confined area simply ignite. also they will have some type of an ...

A 95% probability. we did speak to ntsb. and it turned out to be not that bad. we also spoke to an expert who it turned out to be a path going up the coast. said theres a lot of stuff on board these dive boats, oxygen, we will see where that happens. theres even a chance that it propane, nitrox, which are all could start going further right, highly flammable. that could happen for that would heres a sound byte. really be luck. >> theres a lot of flammables but we certainly got lucky in florida, ...