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Grazed by the Apocalypse - Duration: 15:20.

On these African plains some 60,000 years ago our ancestors began migrating north.

A trek that would ultimately give rise to modern day civilization. And it's nothing short of

a miracle that we've progressed as far as we have, especially in such a short amount

of time. It's really not that difficult to see why intelligent life may be extremely

sparse across the universe given how absurdly fortunate we've been. So many things could've

gone wrong along the way and so many times it almost did.

On the morning of the 12th of August, 1883, Mexican astronomer, José Bonilla, was observing

the Sun when numerous UFOs began to sweep across the solar disk. The objects were surrounded

by a coronal haze and left behind a trailing mist. The phenomenon continued for two consecutive

days and Bonilla counted 447 objects in total. As the event could not be explained the UFOs

were simply dismissed as birds, insects, or dust passing in front of the telescope.

But based upon Bonilla's description of the event coupled with an improved understanding of various

astronomical phenomena, an article published in 2011 hypothesized that the objects where

fragments of a comet nearly colliding with the Earth. The only bodies in the solar system

that leave trails and are surrounded by a bright haze are comets. And much like this

comet observed in 2006, we now know that fragmentation is a frequent occurrence. It is estimated

that the comet broke into more than 3,200 fragments ranging in size between 50-1000

meters in diameter and sailed past the earth at a distance of no more than a few thousand

kilometers. Had only one of these fragments struck the planet, it could have resulted

in millions of casualties. Had all or at least a significant portion of the fragments impacted

the Earth, we're looking at an extinction level event.

It's the middle of the Siberian taiga, around 7:00 AM, when a powerful explosion would lit

up the sky. An eyewitness 65 kilometers away from the blast accounts that:

"...the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. At that moment I became so

hot that I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire... I wanted to tear off my shirt

and throw it down but then the sky shut closed. A strong thump sounded and I was thrown a few meters."

Two decades later in 1927, the first expedition to the blast site would capture this footage.

Some 2000 km² of forest, some 80 million trees in total, had been completely

fattened by the event. The broad consensus is that an asteroid or comet, less than 200 meters wide,

exploded a few kilometers above ground and produced a fireball as demonstrated in this simulation.

Transposed over New York City its destructive power becomes a lot more apparent.

[Edward Lu] This one is a little bit harder to say. The one that..

Over Tunguska, the one that was slightly larger. Had that happened over a city.

Let's say New York City, we would have 7 million casualties.

At least, whatever the population of New York City is, they would be gone.

[Bill Nelson] Really?

While the two bombs dropped on Japan marked a dramatic end to the war, they also marked the beginning

of an entirely new kind of fear. A fear of annihilation by incompetence. Humans are fallible.

We make mistakes. And knowing this, coupled with the realization that one mistake could

result in apocalyptic levels of destruction, the likes of which had so far been reserved

by nature, this new kind of fear was undeniably justified.

In early October of 1960 a new early warning system on Greenland had just become operational.

In the event that the Soviet Union should launch an attack against the United States,

a level 5 warning would be sent to the command center located in Colorado. On October the 5th,

the number on the display suddenly changed from 0 to 1. Indicating that a low-risk unidentified

object had been detected. A bit strange but no immediate cause for alarm. But then the

number continued to climb until a level 5 warning was issued, meaning that long-range

missiles would strike the United States in less than 20 minutes. The alert quickly worked

its way up the chain of command and a slight panic ensued. But it was quickly eased by

the realization that Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, was currently

visiting the United States. Not exactly where you'd expect him to be in the event of a nuclear attack.

20 minutes passed and the value of bottle caps remained the same. A subsequent

investigation revealed that the base on Greenland had mistaken the rising Moon for an incoming Soviet attack.

In the early morning of January the 24th, 1961, an American B-52 bomber carrying two

hydrogen bombs crashed into an empty field in the state of North Carolina. Officials

quickly issued a report stating that there was no cause for alarm and that there was

no danger of a nuclear explosion or radiation. However, declassified documents released in

2013, reveal that one of the two bombs actually came extremely close to a full scale detonation.

Three out of four safety switches erroneously activated upon impact with the ground and

the slight separation of two wires was the only thing standing in the way of a nuclear

explosion. Had this 3.8 Mt bomb detonated, and had the wind condition been just right,

the radioactive fallout could've reached Washington, Philadelphia, and even New York.

In the early 1960s, tensions between the US and the Soviet Union is strained to the breaking

point and culminated in a situation known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is perhaps

the closest we've ever come to committing omnicide. The short version is that the US

installed nuclear missiles near the Soviet union, specifically in Turkey, so in response,

the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles near the United States, specifically in Cuba.

The US would have none of that. "Hey, you can't do that! Only we are allowed to do that!"

said the United States. "I don't know what you're talking about?" the Soviet Union replied.

I'm paraphrasing of course as these where classified communications.

While the impasse in and of itself came extremely close to disaster,

one specific event stands out. After the US imposed a blockade to prevent the Soviet Union

from exporting even more missiles to Cuba, a Soviet submarine was detected near Cuban

shores. In an attempt to force the submarine to surface so that they could have a friendly

chat, multiple US naval destroyers dropped low intensity explosives to signal the submarine

to surface. However, the captain of the submarine misinterpreted this as an attack and ordered

his men to retaliate against one of the US destroyers by launching a nuclear-armed torpedo.

Fortunately, one of the two senior officers aboard disagreed with the captain's decision

and eventually managed to convince him that they should surface and await orders form

Moscow. And that's exactly what they did and thus the apocalypse had to reschedule.

On May the 23rd, 1967, all of the early warning systems across the United States ceased to function.

In fact, all manner of military communications and radar technology malfunction

simultaneously and it was interpreted as intentional jamming by the Soviets. Bomber planes immediately

scrambled and prepared to launch an attack. But as luck would have it just a few years prior, a branch of the US

military had begun observing solar activity and its effects on the Earth. And on this

day in 1967, the Sun had ejected a powerful solar storm that had stuck the planet and

knocked out military defenses and other equipment. Had a project for something as unrelated as

studying the Sun been delayed for just a few years, no one could've explained this nationwide

interference in time to prevent World War III.

In the mid 1980s squadrons of US aircrafts would often fly straight towards Soviet airspace,

thus triggering their early warning systems, only to turn around at the very last moment.

A form of psychological warfare that kept the Soviets on edge for an attack. In the

early hours of September the 26th, 1983, the command center just outside Moscow was awoken

by the sound of an alarm.

An intercontinental ballistic missile had just been launched by

the US and was now heading towards the Soviet Union. In the event of a nuclear attack by

the Americans it was standard procedure to launch an immediate counter-attack. It was

now up to the man in charge, Stanislav Petrov, to contact his superiors and to inform them

that a nuclear attack was imminent. A few minutes passed when four additional missiles

were detected. However, Petrov decided to go against his training and did nothing.

He reasoned that if the United States were to strike, the attack would likely involve hundreds

of missiles, not just a few. In other words, he suspected that this was a false-alarm.

But as he had no way of confirming his suspicions, he could only wait and hope for the best.

Fortunately, Petrov was correct in his assumption as evident by the fact that you are currently

breathing and a subsequent investigation revealed that sunlight, reflecting of off high altitude

clouds, was responsible for the anomaly.

On March the 31st, 1989, two American astronomers discovered that a week prior, on March the 22nd,

a 300 meters wide asteroid had come fairly close to the Earth. It had not come

close enough to pose any risk of impact and was even further away than the Moon but it's

still worth a mention as it passed through the exact position that the Earth had occupied

a mere six hours prior. Which is in and of itself extraordinarily close on the comic scale.

An impact with an asteroid of this size would obliterate almost everything within

a radius of 60-75 kilometers. Superimposed over Tokyo, one of the largest cities on Earth,

it looks like it would've been a rough day.

Some of you may remember that a few years ago there was a lot of eschatological prophecies

that the world would end in 2012. While the world is still spinning, as evident by the

rotation of this globe, we did narrowly escape a catastrophic event in July of 2012. On the

23rd of July the Sun expelled something known as a coronal mass ejection or CME for short.

A CME is a release of large quantities of magnetized plasma and if it strikes the Earth

it can cause some serious damage to any and all electronic devices.

This was also one of the most powerful CMEs in recorded history.

And it blasted straight through the Earth's orbit.

Luckily for us, the Earth was on the other side when that eruption occurred but

due to the rotation of the Sun, had this eruption occurred just 9 days prior, we would've been

engulfed by that storm. If that had happened, and there's a 12% chance that it will happen in the

next 10 years, it could've taken us as much as a decade to fully recover. It's difficult

to overstate the ramifications of a CME on this scale. Worldwide power outages would

take weeks, months, or even years to resolve. Many satellites would have to be replaced.

Electronic equipment of all kinds would cease to function seemingly over night.

Medical, transportational, financial, military, national security, and other critical systems would

all be compromised or destroyed. Society would grind to a halt...

...and be literally plunged into darkness for years to come.

Given how dependent we've become on electricity and various technologies

like the internet, it's difficult to image anything but global panic and chaos. It would

not have been the end of the world but it would no doubt have felt like it.

Declassified documents reveal that the US military has had over a thousand close calls

with nuclear weapons since the 1950s. Over a thousand times when cataclysmic devastation

was just narrowly avoided. And who knows how many near accidents the Russian military have

experienced or any of the other nuclear weapon states. Coupled with the destructive power

of natural events, it is truly a miracle that we've come as far as we have.

For more infomation >> Grazed by the Apocalypse - Duration: 15:20.

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SpaceX Just Reused a Rocket. Why This Changes Everything - Duration: 10:34.

On March 30, 2017, SpaceX performed a pretty routine rocket launch.

The payload was a communications satellite called SES-10, owned by a company in Luxembourg.

And if all goes well, the satellite will eventually make its way to a high orbit of 35,000 km

(22,000 miles) and deliver broadcasting and television services to Latin America.

For all intents and purposes, this is an absolutely normal, routine, and maybe even boring event

in the space industry.

Another chemical rocket blasted off another communications satellite to join the thousands

of satellites that have come before.

Of course, as you probably know, this wasn't a routine launch.

It was the first step in one of the most important achievements in space flight - launch reusability.

This was the second time the 14-story Falcon 9 rocket had lifted off and pushed a payload

into orbit.

Not Falcon 9s in general, but this specific rocket was reused.

In a previous life, this booster blasted off on April 8, 2016 carrying CRS-8, SpaceX's

8th resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The rocket launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral, released its payload, re-entered

the atmosphere and returned to a floating robotic barge in the Atlantic Ocean called

Of Course I Still Love You.

That's a reference to an amazing series of books by Iain M. Banks.

Why is this such an amazing accomplishment?

What does the future hold for reusability?

And who else is working on this?

Developing a rocket that could be reused has been one of the holy grails of the space industry,

and yet, many considered it an engineering accomplishment that could never be achieved.

Trust me, people have tried in the past.

Portions of the space shuttle were reused - the orbiter and the solid rocket boosters.

And a few decades ago, NASA tried to develop the X-33 as a single stage reusable rocket,

but ultimately canceled the program.

To reuse a rocket makes total sense.

It's not like you throw out your car when you return from a road trip.

You don't destroy your transatlantic airliner when you arrive in Europe.

You check it out, do a little maintenance, refuel it, fill it with passengers and then

fly it again.

According to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, a brand new Falcon 9 first stage costs about $30 million.

If you could perform maintenance, and then refill it with fuel, you'd bring down subsequent

launches to a few hundred thousand dollars.

SpaceX is still working out what a "flight-tested" launch will cost on a reused Falcon 9 will

cost, but it should turn into a significant discount on SpaceX's already aggressive

prices.

If other launch providers think they're getting undercut today, just wait until SpaceX

really gets cranking with these reused rockets.

For most kinds of equipment, you want them to have been re-used many times.

Cars need to be taken to the test track, airplanes are flown on many flights before passengers

ever climb inside.

SpaceX will have an opportunity to test out each rocket many times, figuring out where

they fail, and then re-engineering those components.

This makes for more durable and safer launch hardware, which I suspect is the actual goal

here - safety, not cost.

In addition to the first stage, SpaceX also re-used the satellite fairing.

This is the covering that makes the payload more aerodynamic while the rocket moves through

the lower atmosphere.

The fairing is usually ejected and burns up on re-entry, but SpaceX has figured out how

to recover that too, saving a few more million.

SpaceX's goals are even more ambitious.

In addition to the first stage booster and launch fairing, SpaceX is looking to reuse

the second stage booster.

This is a much more complicated challenge, because the second stage is going much faster

and needs to lose a lot more velocity.

In late 2014, they put their plans on hold for a second stage reuse.

SpaceX's next big milestone will be to decrease the reuse time.

From almost a year to under 24 hours.

Sometime this year, SpaceX is expected to do the first launch of the Falcon Heavy.

A launch system that looks like it's made up of 3 Falcon-9 rockets bolted together.

Since that's basically what it is.

The center booster is a reinforced Falcon-9, with two additional Falcon-9s as strap-on

boosters.

Once the Falcon Heavy lifts off, the three boosters will detach and will individually

land back on Earth, ready for reassembly and reuse.

This system will be capable of carrying 54,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit.

In addition, SpaceX is hoping to take the technology one more step and have the upper

stage return to Earth.

Imagine it.

Three boosters and upper stage and payload fairing all returning to Earth and getting

reused.

And waiting in the wings, of course, is SpaceX's huge Interplanetary Transport System, announced

by Elon Musk in September of 2016.

The super-heavy lift vehicle will be capable of carrying 300,000 kilograms into low Earth

orbit.

For comparison, the Apollo era Saturn V could carry 140,000 kg into low Earth orbit, so

this thing will be much much bigger.

But unlike the Saturn V, it'll be capable of returning to Earth, and landing on its

launch pad, ready for reuse.

SpaceX just crossed a milestone, but they're not the only player in this field.

In a second, I'm going to talk about who else is working to make rockets re-usable,

but first I'd like to thank Geoff Cannon, Lluis Teixido, Dave Carsley, Stephen Murray,

Lance Lefevre, and the rest of our 693 patrons for their generous support.

If you love what we're doing and want to help out, head over to patreon.com/universetoday

Perhaps the biggest competitor to SpaceX comes from another internet entrepreneur: Amazon's

Jeff Bezos, the 2nd richest man in the world after Bill Gates.

Bezos founded his own rocket company, Blue Origin in Seattle, which had been working

in relative obscurity for the last decade.

But in the last few years, they demonstrated their technology for reusable rocket flight,

and laid out their plans for competing with SpaceX.

In April 2015, Blue Origin launched their New Shepard rocket on a suborbital trajectory.

It went up to an altitude of about 100 km, and then came back down and landed on its

launch pad again.

It made a second flight in November 2015, a third flight in April 2016, and a fourth

flight in June 2016.

That does sound exciting, but keep in mind that reaching 100 km in altitude requires

vastly less energy than what the Spacex Falcon 9 requires.

Suborbital and orbital are two totally milestones.

The New Shepard will be used to carry paying tourists to the edge of space, where they

can float around weightlessly in the vomit of the other passengers.

But Blue Origin isn't done.

In September 2016, they announced their plans for the follow-on New Glenn rocket.

And this will compete head to head with SpaceX.

Scheduled to launch by 2020, like, within 3 years or so, the New Glenn will be an absolute

monster, capable of carrying 45,000 kilograms of cargo into low Earth orbit.

This will be comparable to SpaceX's Falcon Heavy or NASA's Space Launch System.

Like the Falcon 9, the New Glenn will return to its launch pad, ready for a planned reuse

of 100 flights.

A decade ago, the established United Launch Alliance - a consortium of Boeing and Lockheed-Martin

- was firmly in the camp of disposable launch systems, but even they're coming around

to the competition from SpaceX.

In 2014, they began an alliance with Blue Origin to develop the Vulcan rocket.

The Vulcan will be more of a traditional rocket, but some of its engines will detach in mid-flight,

re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, deploy parachutes and be recaptured by helicopters

as they're returning to the Earth.

Since the engines are the most expensive part of the rocket, this will provide some cost

savings.

There's another level of reusability that's still in the realm of science fiction: single

stage to orbit.

That's where a rocket blasts off, flies to space, returns to Earth, refuels and does

it all over again.

There are some companies working on this, but it'll be the topic for another episode.

Now that SpaceX has successfully launched a first stage booster for the second time,

this is going to become the new normal.

The rocket companies are going to be fine tuning their designs, focusing on efficiency,

reliability, and turnaround time.

These changes will bring down the costs of launching payloads to orbit.

That'll mean it's possible to launch satellites that were too expensive in the past.

New scientific platforms, communications systems, and even human flights become more reasonable

and commonplace.

Of course, we still need to take everything with a grain of salt.

Most of what I talked about is still under development.

That said, SpaceX just reused a rocket.

They took a rocket that already launched a satellite, and used it to launch another satellite.

It's a pretty exciting time, and I can't wait to see what happens next.

Now you know how I feel about this accomplishment, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Do you think we're at the edge of a whole new era in space exploration, or is this more

of the same?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Last episode I said I'd be talking about aliens.

Next episode, I'm really really going to talk about them.

Promise.

Rockets are the only way we know how to get to space today, but there are some other ideas

I like that might get us to space without rockets.

That's in this video here... or is it there?

In addition, SpaceX...

For more infomation >> SpaceX Just Reused a Rocket. Why This Changes Everything - Duration: 10:34.

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Judge Strikes Down Discriminatory Texas Voter ID Law - Duration: 4:00.

In what should come as no surprise to anyone, a federal judge has struck down Texas' voter

ID law saying that it was passed at least in part with discriminatory intent in direct

violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

What this means, to put this in really, really simple terms is that the judge, the federal

judge, looking at this Texas voter ID law, SB 14, said that this law was clearly designed

and passed because Republicans who control the state of Texas are a little too racist

to be trusted to make laws.

That's what discriminatory intent means.

It means that these people didn't want black people to vote.

It means that these Republicans didn't want Hispanics to vote.

They wanted to keep Texas lily white and bright red, and you know what?

They've done a pretty good job in succeeding in that?

Now I know in recent years Texas, some parts, is turning a little bit more blue and that's

why Republicans are so scared right now.

They understand that shifting demographics in their state indicate that, in just a few

years perhaps, Texas may actually become a blue state with a majority of Democrats in

their state legislatures and they're not about to have that.

They're not about to let minorities come in and vote for people that might actually represent

their interests, so they passed this voter ID law, which every time these things have

gone in front of a federal judge, not just from Texas but other states around the country,

it is almost always determined that these laws are incredibly racist, and that's the

point.

Republicans were not shocked to learn this.

They're not shocked when federal judges hand down these decisions.

They know exactly what they're doing.

They've admitted to it in the past at the Republican Governors Association meetings.

They've said, "Yeah, we know that this is probably going to kick a lot of black people

off the voting roles, but eh."

Right?

That's what they do.

That's the point of all of these laws.

Voter fraud is more rare you're more likely to be struck by lightning in the United States

than actually find a case of live in-person voter fraud, yet Republicans still use that

illusive voter fraud boogeyman to convince us that we need these repressive laws as if

somehow these make us safer.

Do you even know what the penalty for voter fraud is?

You could get up to 10 years in prison and a $1,000 fine for what?

A net gain of plus one vote?

Plus one vote for almost a decade in prison.

Is that worth it?

No.

This is what's so crazy about this.

Republicans, well, I don't think they believe that this is a problem, but there are plenty

of Americans who think it's a problem.

Donald Trump up there telling us that we had three to five million illegal voters in the

United States, Republicans still repeating that, saying that it's true.

Because of that, we're going to continue to see these laws.

As long as Republican voters remain ignorant to facts and Republican politicians continue

to spout these lies, people are going to continue to believe it and they're going to continue

to support these discriminatory laws, but hopefully, as long as Donald Trump doesn't

remake the entire US court system too much, we might still have enough good, honest judges

in the United States to continue striking down these laws until Republicans finally

get exhausted and just give up.

For more infomation >> Judge Strikes Down Discriminatory Texas Voter ID Law - Duration: 4:00.

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Office Wood Commercial Clocks - Duration: 4:54.

Hello John Chomko here. I wanted to go

over some of the features of our wood

clock line with you. First of all, our

wood clock line is part of the

KRONOsync wireless clock system. The

KRONOsync wireless clock system

produces accurate reliable synchronize

time for your organization. When you

receive a wood clock you'll take it out

of the box.

The first thing you're going to notice

is that the back is completely covered

we cover the back completely in order to

protect the electronics. If you can protect

electronics from dust and dirt those

electronics will last a very very long

time and we want your clock system to

last a very long time.

Next you'll see that the battery

compartment can hold 2 d-cell batteries.

You insert 2 D-cell batteries and you

will experience virtually a maintenance free

clock because those 2 d-cell batteries

will operate for five years. So when you

put the batteries and put the battery

cover back over and hang this clock in

the conference room or the lobby

wherever you're going to place it. You

will not touch that clock for five years.

Now as you can see the first thing it's

doing is rapidly moving its hands. It is

doing that so that it can get all its

handset to the High Noon twelve o'clock

position. Once it has those hands at the

twelve o'clock position part of its

operational startup it will open up and

receive the time broadcast from the

KRONOSync transmitter. We have a

KRONOSync transmitter set up here at

the office and it broadcast all day. So once

that receiver opens it will receive that

time code from the KRONOSync

transmitter and then adjusted its hands to

the correct time. Some of the other

features about this clock first of all

has a glass lens. Very sharp very clear

for viewing. Next has a solid wood frame.

We had a choice

solid wood frame or veneer we found out

that solid wood frames our best to

maintain their longevity of

and elegance and professional appearance.

And that's why you get a wood clock to

give you that professional elegant look.

So we went with solid wood. Now we offer

two different shades. We have a light

walnut what you see here and we also

have a darker color mahogany. So for

whatever decor you have in your atrium,

in your conference rooms, in your office

either the light walnut or mahogany

hopefully will be appropriate. Next this

clock comes in two different sizes we

have a 13 inch and a 16-inch. This is a

16-inch very large wall clock

appropriate for atriums or large

conference rooms, large gathering areas

or we have a 13-inch for maybe a

counseling room or a small conference

room or private office. We hope that with

both of those sizes and the color

choices you have

we present to you some very nice options.

So in summary are wood clock line is part

of our KRONOsync wireless clock system.

The KRONOsync wireless clock system

produces accurate reliable synchronize

time automatically adjust for daylight

savings time and this clock operates on

2 d-cell batteries giving you five years

of life. Solid wood frame- two colors

mahogany or light walnut, glass lens, two

different sizes 13 or 16 inch. Now as you

can see it has well it's not yet it's

still setting its time but pretty soon

the time will be set to the accurate

time. I think we're a little bit past for

right now so let's see it completed its

loop. There it is accurate synchronized

time!

Thank you very much and if we can

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For more infomation >> Office Wood Commercial Clocks - Duration: 4:54.

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Thor Ragnarok Trailer EASTER EGGS, Infinity Stones & FULL ANALYSIS - Duration: 9:25.

Thor Ragnarok just got its first glorious trailer and it's packed with teases for the

upcoming third Thor movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, it's Jan here and in this video, I'm breaking down the new

Thor Ragnarok trailer for easter eggs and other hidden details you might have missed.

So, of course, there's speculation and potential spoilers ahead for Thor Ragnarok.

Let's start with that awesome shot of Thor throwing his hammer at Hela.

Notice how this sequence is happening on Earth.

And just there next to Thor in the alley, it looks like Loki.

This links back to the mid-credits scene of the Doctor Strange movie where Thor visits

Strange in his Sanctum Sanctorum and explains that he needs to bring Loki to New York to

look for their father Odin who's gone missing.

Now, back to this trailer, Hela, of course, destroys Thor's hammer, crushing it into small

pieces.

It's interesting that Thor's hammer gets destroyed because we're still waiting to find out where

the final Infinity Stone, the Soul stone, is hidden, and one theory is that it could

be hidden inside Thor's hammer.

Is it possible Hela did this to get to the missing stone?

An alternate Soul stone theory states that it's contained in Heimdall's armour and, if

you notice in this scene from the trailer, he's not wearing his usual armour, so I also

wonder whether this has anything to do with the Soul stone?

OK, back to Hela, and this awesome shot of her with her full headgear looks stunningly

like it's taken right from the comic books.

And her antler-like gear also appears in another shot later where she's battling the war goddesses

known as the Valkyrior who are mounted on their winged horses in what could be a flashback

scene.

Notice the blue cape which Valkyrie often has in the comics and, as the Valkyrior attack

Hela, the Goddess of Death launches her sword and the next shot is of Valkyrie, falling

together with other defeated warriors in the distance.

Valkyrie's defeat presumably is the reason why we find her working for the Grandmaster

later in the trailer rather than living on Asgard.

By the way, like the Collector from Guardians of the Galaxy, the Grandmaster is one of the

Elders of the Universe, and they both have a similar look including markings on their

lip and chin.

And given it's the game-loving Grandmaster who's presiding over the gladiator battles

in the movie, it looks like he's taking on a similar role in this story to the Red King,

who ruled the planet Sakaar in the Planet Hulk storyline in the comics, which I'll talk

more about shortly.

Curiously, in the comics, at one time, the Grandmaster had the Mind Gem.

Now, in the MCU, that's actually possessed by Vision.

So, it's also possible that, in the movie, the Grandmaster might be the one with the

final Infinity Stone, aka the Soul Stone.

Back on Asgard, we see a sweeping view of the city complete with the Rainbow bridge,

aka the Bifrost, which allows travel between the Nine Realms.

And Hela is there in front of an army of Asgardian Warriors, without her head-dress, and pulls

out her sword uttering the words "Asgard is dead" just before a huge explosion sweeps

through the city, which, interestingly, passes over a very particular tree.

This tree looks like a representation of the symbolic Yggdrasil tree, which has already

appeared in two previous Marvel movies.

The first time it appeared was in the first Captain America movie where it was carved

into the wall where Red Skull discovered the Tesseract.

Its second appearance was when Thor sketched the tree as a way to explain the Nine Realms

to Jane Foster.

The Yggdrasil tree in both the movies and the comics connects all the nine realms and

the destruction of the tree by Hela symbolises the extent of the devastation she's unleashed

on Asgard.

By the way, the word "Ragnarok" means the series of events in Norse mythology that foretell

"the Doom of the Gods".

So now we've introduced the main villain Hela, let's step back to the beginning of the trailer

where Thor is being dropped into a huge fiery cavern.

As Thor dangles there, notice these faces lighting up with one of them also opening

its mouth slightly.

These could be either fire demons, which in the comics originate from the realm of Muspelheim,

where the enormous and hugely powerful demon Surtur rules.

Alternately, the faces could be souls of the dead in Hela's domain Hel.

The faces appear to be kind of stacked in mounds, one on top of the other, which seems

to indicate these could be tormented souls that Hela has acquired.

However, footage shown at San Diego Comic Con revealed a scene of the Hulk getting ready

to fight Surtur, meaning the Hulk might be about to burst in and save Thor here.

Either way, I can't wait to find out.

The other location we get a really good look at is the planet Sakaar.

If you look up at the sky, you can see all these portals which are basically wormholes

that connect to various parts of the universe which is how Thor got there.

And the portals are also a way for the rest of the universe to dump their trash on Sakaar.

In the comics, Sakaar is the location where the Planet Hulk storyline takes place and

it's inhabited by all kinds of dodgy characters which we get to see in the trailer.

So, we know that some elements of Planet Hulk are being used in the movie such as Hulk having

to fight as a gladiator on Sakaar.

In the comics, he ends up there after he's sent into space for being too dangerous; however,

quite why and how he ended up there in the MCU isn't clear just yet.

In Ragnarok, we're going to see Thor have to fight without his mighty hammer.

And last time Thor had to face Hulk without his hammer in the first Avengers movie, things

didn't exactly go brilliantly for Thor!

Not only has he been painted here, but he's also had his hair cut short for the arena.

This short-haired look tips its hat to The Unworthy Thor comics where the God of Thunder

also deals with the consequences of losing the ability to wield his hammer.

But at least Thor has got himself a cool-looking new helmet.

And the last time we saw him with a helmet was in the first Thor movie.

Thor's replacement weapon which is a kind of club could be a nod to the Golden Mace

weapon wielded by Hercules in the comics.

I thought the Hulk's gladiator look was just fantastic including much of his Planet Hulk

look from the comics.

There's also a great nod to "The Incredible Hulk" comic book, TV and movie titles when

he's introduced as the "incredible" just before he Hulk smashes his way into the arena.

That line that Thor says about Hulk being a friend from work was just brilliant too,

and reminded me that even when the two have worked together, for example during the battle

of New York in the Avengers movie, that didn't stop the Hulk giving Thor one of his trademark

side-punches!

But the tone of this scene also made me think of those hilarious Thor mockumentaries where

Thor's friend Darryl tells the Asgardian god that he should get a job, to which Thor replies

that he already has a one, saving the planet.

In fact, although Thor Ragnarok isn't a full-on comedy, director Taika Waititi has said he

wanted to make use of Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo's comedic chops in what becomes

a kind of road movie.

And in the gladiator arena, we see the Grandmaster's booth which includes some very interesting

characters, including what could be a Celestial, plus Loki is there too.

Celestials have already shown up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Eson The Searcher was a celestial who destroyed a planet with the Power Stone, and the mining

colony Knowhere was, as Gamora explained in that movie, "the severed head of an ancient

celestial being".

Ragnarok director Taika Waititi also teased another Celestial helmet on his Instagram

and there's been speculation this helmet belongs to the Celestial Ziran the Tester.

Ziran the Tester is part of the Infinity Gauntlet storyline in the comics, so Thor Ragnarok

may be about to give the Celestials a more important role in the MCU going forward.

By the way, it looks like there's a cameo here also by actress Rachel House who was

in director Taika Waititi's previous movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

You might also have heard her recently as the voice of Gramma Tala in Disney's Moana.

And Taika Waititi also snuck in a Hunt for the Wilderpeople easter egg via this graffiti

behind Thor which reads Skux Life.

"Skux Life" is a slang phrase protagonist Ricky Baker uses to talk about being gangsta

and the phrase has a similar meaning to "Thug Life".

And director Waititi has also talked about how influential the work of the legendary

comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby has been on the look of Ragnarok, and we can see

various visual homages to Kirby in the trailer.

For example, the wall behind the Grandmaster is literally taken straight from the design

on a power core in "The Sentry Sinister" Fantastic Four comic.

The trailer also introduces us to this guy: Skurge, aka the Executioner, who's played

by Karl Urban, and the scene looks like it's been taken straight from Thor issue 362 in

which Skurge makes a noble sacrifice by defending the bridge out of Hel, protecting Thor and

a group who are trying to get out of there.

Thor's vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron had Heimdall accusing Thor, saying to him, "They

see you leading us to Hel".

So could Thor: Ragnarok involve Thor having to get the Asgardians out of Hel and might

Skurge sacrifice himself in a similar way to the comics?

Now, it's unclear whether this scene involving Loki has anything to do with the bridge out

of Hel that Skurge is defending.

Behind Loki is a mass of people who look to be trying to break through, while Loki does

a cool-looking double-dagger flip.

By the way, in the comics, Goddess of Death, Hela, is actually Loki's daughter, so it'll

be interesting to see if there's any relation between them in the movie.

And this is an interesting scene with a spacecraft positioning itself to shoot through that portal,

which is curiously shaped and coloured like an eye.

Perhaps it's Thor, Hulk and Valkyrie leaving Sakaar.

But what is intriguing is that the colours of the craft are the same as the colours of

Captain Marvel's costume, and, of course, one of Captain Marvel's skills is her expertise

as a pilot.

It might not be Marvel herself, but could this be an awesome little tease for her movie?

Music-wise, the trailer features the awesome Led Zeppelin track "Immigrant Song", the lyrics

for which, appropriately enough, include the words "hammer of the gods" and references

to Norse mythology.

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Were there any other details you spotted?

And do you think we'll get an infinity stone reveal in the movie?

I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

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Good afternoon and welcome to Facebook Live.

We have a great broadcast for you today.

I have as my guest Dave Miller.

Dave is a personal injury attorney with Michael J. O'Connor and Associates.

He's going to cover a few different topics today.

We're going to start off with things to avoid after a car crash.

Then we're going to talk about some special considerations regarding motorcycle accidents.

Then Dave is going to talk with us about a term that a lot of us don't understand and

that is tort reform as well as some federal legislation that may impact our claims in

Pennsylvania.

Dave, thanks for being with us today.

Thank you Cindy.

Good afternoon.

Nice to have you.

Well Dave let's start off by talking about some of the things to avoid after a car crash.

Certainly this is a pretty broad list, but let me try to focus on some of the most important

ones.

I think the most obvious is don't leave the scene without gathering all the information.

There's a lot of info to gather after a car crash.

The obvious things are the other driver's information, the owner's information.

A lot of times those are two different people.

It's very important to get both of those individuals' information.

The insurance card, take down the insurance company, the policy number, effective dates.

Be careful look at those effective dates make sure the policy card you're looking at is

the one that you should be looking at.

If they can't provide you with that, an active card that shows there's coverage on that day,

then you certainly want to get in touch with the police and have them show up.

Last thing you want to do is be in a situation where it's your word against their word and

there's no insurance company there to step in to deal with.

Another big thing is witnesses.

Not always on car crashes do the folks that saw what happened stay to provide their name

and contact info and also a statement.

If they're there, it's very important to get their information and to get a statement from

them.

Like I said before if it's a matter of your word against the other driver's word and there's

a question about who's at fault, it's very nice to have that independent party to have

the statement that's on your side to solidify the liability analysis.

Dave let me ask you this.

Oh go ahead.

I'm sorry.

Oh I'm sorry you go ahead.

I was just going to followup and just say take as many photos of the scene as you can.

They always say think about each vehicle as a clock and take a photo from each hour on

the clock, take a wide angle screen picture so you can see the actual intersection any

street signs, any lights, anything like that that would control the intersection.

More is better than less when it comes to photographs.

In this day and age just about every phone has a camera on it.

If you happen to have an accident kit in your car, use up all the film that you have.

It's better to have more than not enough.

Lastly, contact the police.

Sometimes crashes get, individuals get heated after a crash, emotions are running high,

you never want to get in a position where a crash turns into an argument, the sooner

you can get the police to the scene the better and that's for all that information that I

just mentioned as well.

It's nice to have that independent gatherer of information who has been trained to do

that as well.

Yeah.

Dave, how much of this information will the police get?

Will they get witnesses and those types of things?

Yeah if they show, hopefully they'll be there sooner rather than later.

Obviously, that depends on location of the crash and many other factors, but yeah all

that stuff that I mentioned would be then contained in a formal police report if the

full report is done, if it's more of just an accident information exchange maybe not

all that information, but just about all of that information will make its way onto that

accident exchange report.

Quite honestly, the two biggest items are the insurance information as well as the witnesses

is the fault analysis.

Sometimes it can be you think it's a clear rear end accident, but once it gets in the

hands of an experienced adjuster who knows how to turn things around a little bit and

creates a question.

Those witnesses are very important to have.

Yeah.

Well you know my nephew had an interesting situation an unfortunate situation relevant

to this just a month ago.

He was in a car accident where someone hit him.

My nephew thought it was clear liability, but the police talked to the other person

first and my nephew ended up being assigned the fault in the police report.

We were shocked because he has a terrible mess to deal with now.

I mean I don't know that you can always completely trust the police report.

I don't know.

Is that true?

That's very true Cindy.

Yeah, there's very many times where we get the crash report and they ... Say our client

was very seriously injured had to be ambulance to the hospital, never got a chance to talk

to give the statement.

Well if the only person that the responding officer talks to is the person at fault and

they know that they just caused some major damage, they're going to try to make it sound

as good as possible and maybe even fabricate what really happened to avoid liability.

Then it is, it's a big hurdle to go back and have the responding officer do the followup

interviews, change the report if necessary.

It becomes a mess you don't want to have to deal with, put it that way.

Then like I said the insurance adjuster is the one that's going to be looking at the

information.

They weren't at the scene.

They don't know what happened.

It just creates a little bit of doubt in the case.

Yeah, I really like what you said about taking the picture from every angle as on a clock

face.

That's interesting.

It's something that if someone would go to the trouble of doing that, if we were all

better educated so that we did that type of thing in an accident I would imagine it would

go a long ways to really telling the full story.

I think that's an important point Dave because it's probably rarely done, but it's a great

tip.

Yeah, absolutely.

So many times we get a clients, here's 20 photos I took but they just happen to be all

of the same angle.

It's unfortunate because it doesn't give you the whole picture.

Sometimes there's damage on different parts of the vehicle that weren't actually impacted,

but you can see crimple zones.

You can see some things you wouldn't otherwise expect to see even if it's a rear end accident,

take interior pictures because you want to see how the things inside the vehicle reacted

to the impact as well.

We're talking about applying forces on objects including the person that was driving or was

a passenger in the vehicle, when you can see maybe a briefcase that was in the back seat

now ended up on the dashboard after a rear end accident.

That helps to explain the story a little bit.

Yeah, yeah.

One other question I have is is it important to have the police come to the scene of the

accident regardless of the severity?

I'm of the belief and I can speak from personal experience on this one that you are better

off having the cops show up and say just exchange information, if you want me to do a report

that's fine.

I feel more comfortable that way because I have been in some circumstances where there's

been doubt whether or not my client was even involved in the crash.

We're bringing a claim against the insurance company and maybe they were a passenger in

the vehicle, but there's no indication that they were ever involved and that raises some

flags on the insurance company's standpoint.

If we can have at least an information exchange form completed by the responding officer that

includes all the people involved that just eliminates that whole hassle right there.

Yeah, yeah that makes sense.

Let's switch gears a little bit and talk about some special considerations related to motorcycle

accidents.

Certainly, the biggest consideration at least under Pennsylvania law when you're involved

in a motorcycle crash is that there are no what we call first party benefits available

to an owner or operator of a motorcycle.

The first party benefits pretty just on basic terms are medical coverage and wage loss benefits.

Those are the items people normally think about on automobile policies and just to give

the full background on that, when you're involved in an automobile crash your auto insurance

company is responsible for paying your bills up to the amount of coverage you have.

Motorcycle policies you can't ... It's in the statute, that's not available to you at

all and the same is true for wage loss benefits.

Medical benefits are mandatory on automobile policies.

Wage loss benefits are optional.

In any event, in a motorcycle crash neither of those are available to you, so the special

consideration is, now what?

What does this individual do?

How do I get back on my feet as soon as possible?

What we do is we look to other insurance that they may have.

Hopefully, they'll have a health insurance policy to pay the medical bills and then also

hopefully they'll have either a short-term disability policy or some other plan that

perhaps like an Aflac plan that would provide some benefit to them to get them back on their

feet to fill that gap.

The motorcycle crashes that we see unfortunately involve more significant injuries.

People are more likely out of work for a period of time, more significant medical bills.

Those are really the biggest and most immediate concerns for the clients that we've had.

Well that makes sense.

Let me ask you this because in both of these situations there's some complexities to it.

How can an attorney help in these situations?

Well an attorney that practices in this area of law will hopefully at first bring some

comfort to know that they'll take all of these issues off of the individual's hands because

quite honestly they sound straightforward, but each one of these steps to report a claim,

how to do it properly, how to fill out forms properly, who am I supposed to be talking

with, who not.

That's best handled by an attorney who's experienced in this area of law.

The worst thing ... I hate to see a client come in that has already filled out forms

and has maybe said something about I think maybe I could have done this different and

created an issue of fault in an application or for that to add up, a body part in the

injury description.

The attorney knows how to fill these things out.

Their staff knows how to work with their medical providers to get the information necessary

to the adjuster.

The biggest thing is to make sure that the benefits available are applied for properly

and then are paid out the way they're supposed to be paid out as well and not cut off.

A lot of people don't think that once they apply and start getting benefits well they're

in great shape.

A lot of insurance companies now are taking the steps of trying to cut the benefits off

early either by saying they're having excessive treatment or they can get back to work sooner

than their doctors are saying.

That becomes sort of a case within a case.

If you have an attorney on board right away you can prevent your benefits from being halted

too early, that's going to help out on the back end when you're dealing with the other

driver's insurance company and trying to work out a settlement or trying to get the proper

jury verdict for the case.

I'm always troubled when I hear the commercials on TV that talk about how great the insurance

company is and how they're always on your side and things like that.

I think that's important because if you come into the picture if an attorney comes into

the picture my understanding is, you'll deal with the insurance company, is that correct?

That is correct.

We'll step in and all communication will go through our office.

We'll send letters out right away.

That's the first letter we send out as soon as we sign up a new client is we send it to

any adjusters that we know.

On the fly, I will say I will say do not contact our client directly.

If you need something, just call us or send us a letter and we'll get it to you.

That's just avoids them cherry picking for information that might be beneficial to them

to diminish the value of the claim, but obviously very hurtful to the client.

Right.

Right.

Now how long do these claims ... What is the timeline for most of these claims and do they

settle or do they go to court?

Well if we're talking about a motorcycle or a car crash and it's a run of the mill type

of case our timeline in house is we expect to have that case worked up for either a settlement

or we're going to file the case in within 12 months of the crash.

Obviously there's many variables that go along with that, depends on medical treatment, recovery,

are you still out of work, things like that.

We never want to settle too early.

We always say we want to ... When the client gets to a plateau of treatment, when we have

a clear idea of what the future looks like for them where we can get an assessment and

value that that's when we'll take the steps and try and settle the case.

If not or if we think treatment is going to be more of a lifetime situation, then we'll

file the case.

On a standard track case, we try to get it to trial about 12 to 16 months from the filing

of the complaint.

It's not a sprint.

These cases can take a while.

If it's the more complex case where you have multiple defendants or maybe some liability

issues, you can talk more about 24 to 36 months by the time you're in a courtroom in front

of a jury.

Now the good news is all along that timeline there's opportunities to try to resolve the

case.

I think the percentages are probably still at about 97 or 98% of all cases settle at

some point before trial so not a lot of cases go to verdict.

There's a good reason for that.

There's risks on both sides.

If we can control an outcome or we think that we can achieve a reasonable result for the

client that's when we'll recommend a settlement.

If we feel they're being shortchanged or the insurance company isn't giving full value,

then there's only one option.

You have to put their feet to the fire and take them to a jury.

That's the end game here.

We prepare all our cases like we're going to trial.

From day one we start building up that trial folder.

Our demand packages are very similar to our pretrial statements.

I think that helps get cases resolved when they know you're serious about ... You're

not just here to settle the case.

You want to take it to trial.

Dave talk a little bit about how the attorney is paid because I know people have questions

about that.

The idea of hiring an attorney a lot of times they think, "Oh no I can't afford that," but

how is an attorney paid in these types of situations.?

We do all of our work on a contingent fee basis which means it's contingent on outcome

so if the outcome is zero we get paid zero.

Our standard fee is a one-third contingent fee which would come off of any settlement

mediation or verdict, however the case resolved and there's an award of money, our fee would

come off of that.

Like I said if there's no recovery there's no attorney's fee and also there's no cost

that need to be repaid.

We'll front those costs as well.

Essentially that means that we don't want the client to be in a position where they

can't move forward with the case because they can't pay for the filing fee let's say, or

the service for a complaint, or having to pay a doctor for a specific report.

That's generally speaking the way it works.

It's always a free consultation so if someone if you're thinking about calling us please

do.

It's a free consultation.

We'll give you a straightforward analysis of what we think your case is about and what

we might be able to do for you.

Excellent.

Let's switch gears again and let's talk a little bit about tort reform and if tort reform

exists in Pennsylvania.

It's a scary word.

People don't know what it means.

Yeah, and it's a misnomer because it's really not ... It's not really reform.

It's really restrictions.

Tort reform gets tossed around.

If anyone has been following the healthcare debate on the federal level it's get thrown

in there with a lot of other major considerations.

There's a lot debate as to whether or not it should be part of that.

What tort reform basically means is a restriction on one's ability to recover damages in the

case.

It could also mean maybe some pre-filing hurdles that need to be jumped over or some hoops

that need to be jumped through to bring a case.

In Pennsylvania, we do have tort reform on the medical malpractice side.

Medical malpractice it's not just doctors.

It's also nursing homes.

It's nurses.

It's obviously hospitals.

A lot of medical types of medical providers fall underneath what's called the MCARE Act

of 2002.

What this did in Pennsylvania was first off the one benefit it created what's called the

MCARE fund and that replaced the catastrophic injury fund in Pennsylvania but what this

law did is mandated primary insurance for medical providers so they have to have primary

insurance of $500,000.

Then the MCARE fund will step in for the next $500,000 of coverage.

The good news in Pennsylvania and I know a lot of practitioners in other states especially

on nursing home cases where there's no mandated liability insurance which comes with a shock

to a lot of people.

The good news in Pennsylvania is that at least you know that there will be coverage there

if there is a potential claim.

Let me understand that.

You said that there is no mandated liability coverage or there wasn't.

In Pennsylvania there is.

In other states, in many other states actually and I can only speak specifically to nursing

homes there is no requirement for liability insurance which is ... Given the nature of

the transactions and the nature of what they're responsible for I'm happy I live in Pennsylvania

when I hear that.

That's not only just for me as an attorney it's for my friends and my families that have

loved ones in nursing homes.

Because it's an issue.

I think it's been coming to the forefront.

If you have a claim you have to bring it, it's nice to know there's an insurance policy

there and not have to go collect against a business for something that they may have

done below the standard of care basically.

The other thing the MCARE Act did was require a certificate of merit.

This is a requirement before filing a lawsuit that you have reviewed the file with a medical

provider either a physician or a nurse depending on the nature of the claim.

They have basically said there's a reasonable probability that something wasn't done right

here and also that that created the harm that you're talking about.

It's not a terribly huge hurdle to get over, but it's still an expense.

There's no, at least I haven't found there's no one out there doing these reviews for free.

The idea behind this is to create an expenditure, create a hurdle to kind of dismay people from

bringing claims.

I think if you're an experienced attorney in this area it's not that huge of a deal

because you know at the end you're going to need these experts anyway.

For someone who doesn't have an attorney, doesn't know how to take step one and doesn't

want to have an attorney, maybe they just want to see if they can resolve the case informally,

that's a major hurdle.

You're talking about maybe a couple of thousand dollars out of pocket just to get a response,

and it may come back as no we think they did it right.

Then you're out $2,000.

Those claims don't get pursued let's put it that way.

I guess that sort of.

There's a real benefit to it for what everybody wants to call as frivolous claims and certainly

before if you look at the stats the Pennsylvania Supreme Court kept statistics on filings.

The enactment of the MCARE Act and I have it right here it went from 2,733 on average

between the years 2000 and 2002.

Then in 2003 the year following the MCARE Act it went down to 1,712 claims filed.

It certainly had the impact [inaudible 00:27:13] wanted in that regard.

How about that.

The question is how many legitimate claims were not brought because of this hurdle.

That's the untold story of things and we'll really ever know.

It's a tough analysis.

There's a lot of influencers involved in these laws.

You have the business side.

You have the individual side.

It's a tough call.

A lot states they make it a lot more difficult than Pennsylvania.

We talked about ... I'm not sure if this is what we covered, but we had another issue

where we were talking about federal legislation that could impact claims in Pennsylvania is

that a separate issue or is that related to this?

It's related, but it is separate.

One thing I didn't mention about Pennsylvania tort reform is we do not have caps which is

a maximum amount of recovery that you can be awarded in a medical malpractice case.

Now we don't have caps in any type of case, but right now there's as part of the federal

legislation going on with the American Healthcare Act, there's sort of a companion act going

forward which is a House Bill 1215 and that is a federal cap, a federal tort reform basically

of capping noneconomic damages in any medical malpractice case to $250,000 regardless of

the nature of claim and regardless of the lifetime impact on the individual.

Now the way the act is written is strange in that it applies to every state, but if

a state already has caps in place they can maintain those caps even if they're higher.

If a state has a $750,000 cap, they can maintain that cap, but in Pennsylvania we don't have

a cap so we're stuck at $250,000 with a federal law.

That raises a lot of questions about ... I can get deep into the Constitutional propriety

of all of this with federalism shouldn't it be the states decision whether or not to have

such a cap.

Don't we trust our juries enough.

The Seventh Amendment is the right to a jury trial in a civil case.

That's part of the Bill of Rights.

Think about some of the other rights that go along with that and a lot of people wouldn't

give up their guns under the Second Amendment.

A lot of people won't give up their freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

Here's a bill going forward to take our Seventh Amendment rights to have a jury decide these

things and basically getting thrust upon the citizens of Pennsylvania where obviously we've

decided we don't want these caps.

We want the jury to make the decision.

If it goes through, that's what we're going to be living with.

That's the biggest threat right now if you want to call it that, from my perspective

I think it is and I think anyone from a fairness perspective would agree with that.

Things have been working the way they are with our Pennsylvania laws as established.

With MCARE Act, I think it's achieving the goals we want to see achieved.

Even if you look at the jury verdict values, we don't have these runaway jury verdicts

that are scaring away doctors, but I don't think it's the federal government's right

to tell us how our juries should be making decisions and whether or not they can at all.

I agree completely.

Especially when it's a blanket law and it doesn't look at that specific individual,

fairness factor is just out the door at that point.

Dave I can't help but wonder who would advocate for that type of law.

I mean it just seems ... I mean all I can think of is the insurance companies because

who else would advocate for that.

Yeah, you nailed it.

I mean the insurance lobby is one of the most active and spending lobbies out there especially

on the federal level and they're pushing it forward and they're just spinning it to make

it sound like it's a benefit to patients.

They're spinning it to make it preserving physicians and honestly everyone wants to

have a doctor to go to.

There's a balance to everything.

When you couch it as a patient protection act and it's really a complete elimination

of patient protection, there's plenty of studies that show that placing caps on jury verdicts

and damage awards actually makes things worse.

We're trying to control making sure treatment is done the right way within the standard

of care.

You know what a lot of people don't understand that as well is that's all we're judging these

cases against in this specific instance is their own standard of care.

We're not making things up.

You ask an orthopedist across the board how do you perform this procedure?

Well in that instance it wasn't up to that standard, that's the judgment right there.

It's nothing that nobody should know if they're actually performing a surgery or doing any

kind of medical procedure really.

This debate can go on and on and it has for years and probably will continue to, but we're

hoping that on the federal level that bill stops in its tracks and the federal government

will leave it up to the states to make these kinds of choices.

Yeah, yeah.

You know I think this begs a followup.

I think we should do a followup show on the Seventh Amendment and the steps towards to

erosion of the right to a jury trial.

I think it's a big topic and I'm hearing a lot about it these days.

For today, our time is about up.

Tell us how we can reach your firm, how we can reach your office if someone has questions.

Well they can reach us on our website at www.OConnorLaw.com and by phone at 1-800-518-4529.

Excellent.

Dave thanks so much for being with us today.

I enjoyed it.

To those of you that are watching, I see some of you watching live right now, I want to

say if you have questions that you didn't get answered today please feel free to put

them in the comment area and we will respond.

Have a great day everyone.

Thanks for joining us.

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