If you ever receive a piece of spam that says it comes from Bruceh.com, I want to assure you that we do NOT ever send out any spam to anyone. Some of the e-mail addresses, such as for the webmaster used to be on this site and over the years, spammers have harvested those addresses and now they are used as the phony "From" addresses in their spam. Occasionally, you may receive an e-mail that your anti-virus warns you about that also looks like it comes from Bruceh.com. The newer mailer viruses get their bogus "From" addresses directly from the address books and browser caches of infected computers. This means that if someone infected with a virus happened to have been visiting Bruceh.com, then our address might end up in the from field. I have tried to make sure that all e-mail addresses have been removed from this site, even in the old pages so I hope one day this will stop. The spammers had years of access to the addresses on this site, so I won't hold my breath, however.

The historical data pages (year picks, pick stats, and pair pick stats) have been updated to use a responsive design. The old SuperLotto pages (1991-2000) will not be updated and will remain static HTML.

The latest picked lotto number ticker that appears on this page and the lotto page has been updated to use Javascript instead of Java.

The main four pages have now been redesigned in a responsive format and uploaded. There might be a few glitches, but I'll be working to stabilize things. Please try them out on your mobile device and let me know if you see any weirdness.

The first couple pages have been redesigned to use a responive layout and are being tested in a local environment. I should be able to take some pages live soon.

There won't be any need for a separate mobile site anymore as we are going responsive. What does responsive mean you might ask. It means the site will automatically adjust for the device you are viewing it on. Fonts should remain readable and you shouldn't ever have a left/right scroll bar unless you get the window down below 320 pixels horizontally. Even the smallest smartphone screens are usually at least 320 pixels wide. I've been wanting to make this change for a long time and finally have some time to do it. Not to mention that Google won't even index the site anymore if it's not mobile friendly. I'll be updating the site incrementally starting with the 4 main pages from the menu.

While I still love Java as a programming language, it seems to be more troublesome than it is worth to keep the Java applets on here. It's almost as if the browser folks have declared war on Java. Firefox disables the java plugin if it's too far out of date. A lot of times you have to go through a lot of confirmations just to run a java applet, and even after doing all that, the browser still might not let you run it. My graph of picked lottery numbers is a good example.

So, it's time to make a change and convert the couple Java applets I had on here to javascript. I'll start with the ticker that shows the current winning numbers for SuperLottoPlus and Mega Millions. Then I'll work on the graph applet.

Several Supreme Court Justices appeared skeptical Monday of a request from oil companies to preemptively block a climate change lawsuit that could hold them liable for climate damages.

Many of the justices raised questions about the court’s ability to even take up the case at this time. 

"A number of the discussions that you've had with my colleagues make me think that we're really early in this case – that this is sort of premature from the standpoint of this court exercising its jurisdiction," liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told Suncor Energy lawyer Kannon Shanmugam.

While Jackson’s skepticism is not necessarily a surprise, several of her conservative colleagues, namely Justices John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch, also asked tough questions of the fossil fuel firm.

Suncor, alongside ExxonMobil, has asked the high court to toss a ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that allowed a suit to proceed. The suit alleged that the energy companies misled the public about their products’ relationship to climate change and created a public nuisance. 

The case could have implications for similar litigation around the nation, as states and localities have sued oil and other fossil fuel companies seeking compensation for damages they’ve suffered because of climate change. 

The court could rule one of three ways: The justices could expressly block the case or expressly allow it to proceed, or they could rule that they don’t have jurisdiction at this point, which could allow the case to move forward, but could see the issue back at the high court at a later date.

Either of the latter two outcomes could be at least a partial win for the localities, as they would be able to move ahead with their case — at least in the short term. 

Boulder needs only four votes in its favor to win the case, as conservative Justice Samuel Alito has recused himself. The fossil fuel firms would need five justices on their side because in a split decision, the lower court’s ruling would stand. 

As Shanmugam argued that Colorado state law shouldn’t apply to the actions of out-of-state energy companies, Roberts asked about the potential for someone in one state to throw a rock over the border of the state they’re in and hit a person in another state. 

When the oil company’s lawyer noted that planet-warming emissions are not necessarily directed at Colorado, Roberts replied, "If you're in [State] B and you're aiming at [State] C, but you hit somebody in [State] A, that doesn't make a difference, does it?”

However, it’s not entirely clear which way the court will rule, as the justices also asked tough questions of Boulder County.

“Presumably, if you prevail the next day, a municipality in every single state will file a lawsuit,” Roberts said. “How would you think that will work out on the ground?”

"There are other examples where a course of conduct causes mass liability across the nation in asbestos, in other kinds of product liability suits, and courts deal with them through litigation,” Boulder lawyer Kevin Russell responded.

"I think maybe asbestos is a little different, since ... it doesn't have to be applied as broadly after a decision of the sort you're talking about,” Roberts replied. “But there's always going to be greenhouse gas emissions affecting every state.”

The justices also considered whether the case was different from state-level suits related to tobacco or opioid products.

Meanwhile, as the fossil fuel firms and the U.S. government argued that federal law preempts suits like Boulder’s since this issue is one of national and international significance, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also recently said the Clean Air Act does not authorize it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars or trucks. 

Justice Department lawyer Sarah Harris argued during the proceedings that even as the EPA said it does not have the authority, cases like Boulders are still preempted under federal law, backing the oil companies’ position. 

“Let's just hypothesize EPA is correct about greenhouse gases and its capacity to regulate them … let's say Congress decided ‘we're going to carve that out from EPA's responsibility.’ Does that mean that there couldn't ever be a federal common law cause of action for it just because Congress didn't grant it to EPA?” Gorsuch asked the government lawyer. 

Harris responded affirmatively, saying, “You're talking about a federal area where if Congress has not authorized it there's reason to think that federal common law shouldn't step in and fill the gaps.”

“So before the Clean Air Act, you'd have some federal common law cause of action to decide, but because of the Clean Air Act and Congress not addressing this issue, nobody can sue at all?” Gorsuch questioned. 

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The shrapnel hit Army Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón's body like shattered glass.

One chunk of metal lodged into the left side of his jaw. Another piece sliced through his salivary gland before bouncing off his jaw and piercing the back of his neck, severing an artery and embedding in a vertebra.

Lincón was among dozens of U.S. soldiers injured in an Iranian drone strike on March 1. The attack on the second day of the U.S. war with Iran killed six troops who were providing logistical support of critical supplies at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait.

Whether the military was properly prepared for treating its wounded has become a sharp point of contention. Soldiers and family members have told The Associated Press of a failure to recognize the seriousness of injuries, a poor plan to get the wounded to hospitals and red tape that has hindered follow-up care. The Pentagon has said that the medical care was appropriate.

Nine U.S. service members who were wounded spoke to the AP on the record — rare for troops still in the Army — about what they describe as a medical system that left them in many ways fighting to get treatment on their own.

The medical care was just one of the military’s failures stemming from the Port Shuaiba attack that soldiers described to the AP. The Army declined to comment on the AP's reporting, saying it had not yet briefed the families of those killed on the outcome of its investigation into the attack. The Pentagon also declined to comment.

The soldiers’ criticism comes against the backdrop of years of disinvestment and drawdowns in the Middle East by multiple administrations and political leaders who sought to end U.S. involvement in the region. Those choices left the region without any major U.S.-run medical facilities.

Lincón's wounds included a damaged left vertebral artery, which supplies blood to the brain, and put him at risk for a stroke. That was not considered by the Army to be serious enough to be admitted to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, a major U.S. military facility, even though Lincón said a nurse there marveled that he was alive.

Instead he was sent to the nearby Army barracks and told to schedule outpatient appointments.

“I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that,” said Lincón, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lincón's was not an isolated case.

Another soldier who had shrapnel removed from his head, Maj. Stephen Ramsbottom, said he waited over four months to receive his MRI results.

“I’ve had to build my own case for everything,” Ramsbottom told the AP. “It’s very frustrating.”

Soldiers helped save each other after Iranian attack

After the deadly drone strike, soldiers, who are equipped with tourniquets and trained in first aid, tended to each other and then searched on Google to race the wounded to the nearest hospital in Kuwait City about 20 minutes away.

Some of the most seriously wounded soldiers were medically evacuated from Kuwait within two days. Lincón, who was only about 7 feet (2.1 meters) from the blast, spent a week hospitalized there where he had surgery to remove shrapnel from his jaw. He said medical staff told him he had a traumatic brain injury from the force of the blast that ruptured his eardrum and left him briefly blinded.

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Rodney Bearman, who had shrapnel embedded from his face to his legs, and some of the other soldiers who were briefly seen at Kuwaiti medical facilities were sent to the homes of U.S. government employees. Iran had unleashed missiles and drones that made it risky for evacuation flights.

Some 10 days after the attack, the soldiers were loaded onto a cargo plane. They sat on the floor with straps, including Bearman, who could barely eat or lie down.

When they arrived in Germany, Bearman said they learned they were not documented as wounded in combat and would not be hospitalized at Landstuhl. Instead, they were sent to the barracks, as Lincón had been, and told to get outpatient care. Bearman said they were documented that way due to a coding error.

“Never did I think that if I was wounded that these things would happen,” said Bearman, who has served for over three decades, including in Afghanistan. “Some sacred trust that I thought would never be broken was broken.”

Lincón says he went days without pain medication. He carried a CD with a copy of medical records from Kuwait that he showed the ER doctor at Landstuhl who expressed concern that he had not been evaluated yet by a trauma team.

Pentagon says all wounded troops are evaluated

Soldiers may not be aware of initial evaluations, like the Army’s battlefield concussion evaluation, that focus on identifying symptoms such as double vision or repeated vomiting and other observations. Troops with mild TBIs and hit by shrapnel often returned to duty quickly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many soldiers who spoke to the AP did not know the severity of their TBIs.

A Pentagon official told the AP that Landstuhl’s mission, especially in battlefield casualty situations, is focused on stabilizing patients to transfer them for more specialized care at a military hospital in the U.S. rather than admitting them.

Meanwhile, large hospitals closer to Kuwait have been shuttered. For example, Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad in Iraq was handed over to the Iraqi government in 2011 as part of drawdown efforts.

In a statement, the Pentagon said that all wounded troops who arrive at its medical facilities are evaluated and may be admitted based on the severity of the injury according to physicians who follow "healthcare-industry practices.”

After about a week in Germany, many of the injured soldiers were sent to Fort Hood in Texas, where they underwent the Army's demobilization process to return deployed troops home.

Medical records shared with the AP by Ramsbottom and another officer show they were not diagnosed with TBIs until Fort Hood. The officer, who was blown off his chair, said he did not get care for weeks after that diagnosis and had to identify the specialists he needed, like a neuro-ophthalmologist to diagnose the blurred vision from his TBI rather than counting on the military’s medical system.

Maj. Billy Key says he did not get specialized care until mid-April when he was sent to a U.S. soldier recovery unit to be treated for his head injury, hearing loss and the smoke inhalation that damaged his lungs.

“It took too long,” he said.

Dr. James Kelly, chief medical scientist at the Invisible Wounds Foundation, which is focused on military brain injuries, said it’s still not uncommon for a TBI diagnosis to take longer than it should, which could impact a soldier getting treatment as early as possible for the best outcome.

“It’s disappointing but not surprising,” said Kelly, an emeritus professor of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “In a war scenario, it goes on a fair bit.”

An initial thorough check should be done by a medically trained person, not simply another soldier, he said. Kelly said that too often medical records note only a concussion, which is in fact a mild TBI, but can be overlooked.

Many soldiers are struggling months after the attack

Lincón spent seven weeks getting specialized outpatient care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, before being sent home to Kansas. Shrapnel is still in his back because it was too close to his spinal cord to remove without risking being left paralyzed. He struggles with dizziness that disrupts his life, he said.

He was awarded the Purple Heart and is back on active duty as an instructor at Fort Leavenworth. But his troubles continued beyond medical care.

Lincón, who was born in Texas to Mexican parents, was issued only a temporary one-year passport after his passport was blown up in the attack and he was asked for additional documentation to prove his U.S. citizenship. After the AP reached out to the State Department to inquire about his case, the 1995 West Point graduate said he received a call saying the request for more information was a mistake and he would be receiving a passport that would be good for 10 years.

“I’m American enough to have fought in three different wars," Lincón said.

He’s also concerned his medical records are incomplete. His claim for Traumatic Injury benefits under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance was denied due to not meeting the threshold for hearing loss, though it never addressed his other issues, he said. The program gives cash to service members who suffer severe injuries.

The Army's Human Resources Command did not immediately respond to an email from the AP asking for an explanation.

“I’m fortunate to survive and that’s how I look at it,” Lincón said. “That’s the only way to look at it at this point.” ____ Watson reported from San Diego, Brook from New Orleans and Toropin from Washington. Associated Press journalist Nicholas Ingram in Ankeny, Iowa, contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/soldiers-seriously-wounded-iranian-drone-104826233.html