Blog Heap of Links for the day 5 August 2015

An alert has been issued by the FBI to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming involving U.S. military families and concerns about who may be watching them.

The alert says Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in Colorado and Wyoming. It mentions Greeley, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, as the specific areas.…

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Camp Shelby was in a heightened state of alert Wednesday after authorities said a man matching the description of Tuesday's shooter fired shots near the military post for a second day.…

…Sutter found a lot of Oklahomans who disagreed with what 97 percent of climate scientists say is demonstrable fact: “Climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities.”

In interviews with Sutter — who, in full disclosure, writes and produces videos for a CNN opinion section called “2 degrees” and is a personal friend — Woodward residents called human-caused climate change a “big fat lie” and “propaganda.”…

"The ayatollah constantly believed that we are untrustworthy, that you can't negotiate with us, that we will screw them," Kerry said. "This" — a congressional rejection — "will be the ultimate screwing."

Oklahoma comes very close to being a boxy nonentity on the national map. Thank goodness for the state's "panhandle," a 166-mile-long strip of land extending west toward New Mexico, which gives the state its familiar saucepan shape. But what's it doing there, this awkward strip of land just 34 miles wide, the only thing separating Texas from Kansas and Colorado? Like so much else in American history, the panhandle is a mark left by slavery.…

Oklahoma's standard license plates, which show an Apache warrior shooting an arrow into the sky, do not contain a religious message, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting the claim of a pastor who claimed the plates were an affront to his Christian beliefs.…

Texas Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz will make Bartlesville the target of his campaign with an event at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in mid-August… will be speaking in a joint event with Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Lyon Fine Arts Center on the campus of OKWU…

Teams playing in the AABC Sandy Koufax World Series line up at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium for opening ceremonies in downtown Bartlesville Wednesday. Larry Palmer sang the National Anthem…

John Chisolm will be talking on his study of breathwork and the alchemy of the Holy Breath. He attained a Master's degree in psychology and has maintained a counseling/healing practice for 45 years. …raised Catholic …converted to Methodism after marrying and presently studying the Gnostic Gospels starting with the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. …student of “A Course In Miracles” and The Urantia Book. …seeks to recognize the Divine Feminine as full partner to the Holy Masculine. He has come to believe that we are all endowed with the Christ seed and have the opportunity allow our individual expressions of Christhood to unfold.…

…CrowdMed founder Jared Heyman tells KRMG about 15,000 medical detectives help patients whose doctors can't give them a diagnosis.

"If you're a patient, and you've been suffering for months, or often years, with some kind of unresolved medical condition, and you've often seen several doctors and had all these tests run, and nobody can figure out what's going on, we provide a place where you can submit your case online," Heyman said.

"We've proven that using this crowdsourcing approach, we can solve many, many cases that individual doctors could not, and relatively quickly and inexpensively," he added.

He said there's been a "mixed reaction" from physicians.…

…Now, she is looking for a family to call her own.

“I’ve never been with a real family so I don’t know how one acts or is or anything,” she said.

She has lived in foster homes since 2010.

“I live with 16 girls,” Sarah said.

She wants to be adopted before she turns 18-years-old, and she hopes a family will show her how to love and be loved.

“I really don’t know because I don’t know how a true family is,” Sarah said.

If she had a choice, she says she’d like to have a brother or sister.…

Tulsa police arrested a naked man over the weekend after he was caught destroying a store’s bathroom. …stripped naked inside a Dollar General …started threatening customers …destroyed a wall in the bathroom and crawled out of it to leave. …appeared very agitated and seemed to be high on something. …

…honored "for courageous action and wounds received on Tarawa…

When light broke on an early morning last month, 94-year-old Herb Morris was flying again.

On this flight, however, the former military aviator was not at the controls but being honored as a special passenger on a plane headed for a daylong tour of veterans monuments and memorials in the nation’s capital.

The retired Air Force major joined more than 80 retired servicemen and women from across Oklahoma who flew from Tulsa to Washington, D.C., on June 9 as part of the nonprofit Honor Flight Network. Bartlesville residents Bonnie Clavijo, Duane Marquis, Hadwen Clayton, Harold Hawley and Charles Martin, and Dewey resident Lee Stone also took part in the trip.

Morris described the busy day as a “wonderful experience” and “very well organized.” …

…Paul died at 90 in 2005 and Marie at 93 in 2013, but their legacy includes 49 grandchildren and nearly 100 great-grandchildren, with more on the way. The bond between the brothers and sisters also continues because six of them still attend church and then eat breakfast together every Sunday.…

…On this day in 1914 the first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland, OH…