News release: The American Psychiatric Association has released the proposed draft diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The draft criteria represent content changes under consideration for DSM, which is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health and other health professionals, and is used for diagnostic and research purposes...Public Review of Proposed Revisions - The resulting recommendations for revisions to the current DSM are being posted on the APA’s Web site for the manual, for public review and written comment. These comments will be reviewed and considered by the relevant DSM-5 Work Groups...The American Psychiatric Association is a national medical specialty society whose physician members specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses, including substance use disorders. Visit the APA at www.psych.org and www.healthyminds.org."

Take a "virtual tour" of the little house on Arch Street in Philadelphia that is a shrine to Betsy Ross and the American Flag. See images and view a flag history timeline at: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/

Read about color symbolism and flag types here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/flags/colors.shtml

Colors, symbols, proportions and design of flags are here:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/xf-colx.html
Note: A muse reader thinks that there may be six world flags not using the colors red, white and blue. I'm still trying to find some information on that.

Jerry Seinfeld loves city life, and when asked why, in a word, he says without hesitation, “Compression.” While he strolls, his eyes are always searching. “It’s a nonstop circus,” he says. Seinfeld also believes that it is best to teach children by example. “Kids are not going to do what you tell them to do or think like you tell them to think,” he says. “Kids are watching how you deal with that waiter or that handyman, and they are probably more likely to imitate you.” “I tend to accept life as it is,” he says. “I’m not one of these ‘Life isn’t fair’ people. I tend to accept whatever the limits are, whatever the rules are.” from an interview conducted by Harlan Coben See the whole interview plus pictures at: http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2010/02/jerry-seinfeld.html

Fictional character: Sherlock Holmes
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so."
The Red-headed League
Holmes, upon meeting Dr. Watson, says: "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."
He deduced this, calling him a medical man with a military air, with a tan from the tropics, haggard from hardship and sickness, left arm held stiffly to indicate injury. Clearly this man was an English army doctor in Afghanistan.
A Study in Scarlet

Author of Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Doyle, a doctor with lack of patients, spent a great deal of time writing. His first story, A Study in Scarlet, was serialized by Beeton's Christmas Annual in December 1887. The public could not get enough, and in 1891, Sherlock Holmes was a regular feature in The Strand magazine. When Doyle got tired of the character, he hurled him to his death from the top of a Swiss waterfall. Protesting readers lobbied, sending angry letters to Doyle and his editors. Some formed Let's Keep Holmes Alive clubs. Doyle conceded, and restored Holmes to life in The Adventures of the Empty House in 1902.
Later Doyle pursued his long-held fascination with spiritualism and worked with Harry Houdini investigating the claims of several well-known mediums.
Source: Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes

kith and kin
1. One's acquaintances and relatives.
2. One's relatives.
Kith is obsolete except in the alliterative phrase kith and kin, which originally meant "native land and people" and first appeared about 1377 in Piers Plowman. Kith comes from the Old English noun c th, "knowledge; known, familiar country;
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/kith+and+kin

chimera
(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
a grotesque product of the imagination
See many other definitions at: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:chimera&ei=TQ10S5aILIzgNaTKlMgK&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&ved=0CAcQkAE

A storm petrel is any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler parts underneath. A stormy petrel is another name for storm petrel or a person who brings or portends trouble.