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Thought For The Day  
  
Thursday 22 August 2013
  
Sometimes the questions are
complicated and the answers
are simple.
  

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Clair de Lune - By Claude Debussy
Clair de Lune - By Claude Debussy
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From Whence That Word? 

Hoodlum


THE WORD HOODLUM

Was originally used to describe a misbehaved child, a loafer, or a rowdy street kid, but more recently, it came to refer to a small-time criminal, thug, or gangster. The shortened form hood is first recorded about 1880, though it wasn't in common use until the late 1920s.

The most plausible theory was suggested in 1935 by Dr. J. T. Krumpelmann. Explaining that the Germans constituted the largest foreign-language group in San Francisco, he derives hoodlum from the German (Bavarian) dialectal term Hudellump, Hodalump, meaning 'ragamuffin, good-for-nothing'.

But according to Charles Earle Funk (and other sources), hoodlum was the accidental coinage of a newspaper reporter. In a story about a gang of ruffians led by a fellow named Muldoon, the reporter spelled the name as Noodlum to avoid reprisals. The newspaper's compositor misinterpreted the name as Hoodlum.

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Falcon Nesting In A Tree  
Pictures from The Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-98

The Klondike Gold Rush

Photographs from 1896-98

  

How Slowly We Learn

 

CiceroThe budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled.

 

Public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled. 

 

The assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. 

 

People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.

 

Cicero , 55 BC

 

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Book Review: "Start With Why" by Simon Sinek

 

Simon Sinek - Start With Why
Simon Sinek - Start With Why

Why do we do what we do?

  
Why do we exist?
  
Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business.
  
This title explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how you can learn how to do it.
  
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