What's in a name?

Richard Smith, a 41-year-old care worker in Carlisle, England, did not think his name did justice to the exciting person that he actually was, so he changed his name by deed poll. The new name he chose was Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand.

What is in an mane even a man named Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand would smell as sweet.

Europe is waking up and smelling the coffee

Update: Germany, below and now France

If you have read Jane Jacob'"Cities and the wealth of nations" you would have always been a skeptic of Europe trying to set up a single unifying currency. It would work in good times, but when feedback was needed in hard times, all sorts of unintended consequences would become evident.

Europe starts to see the euro plan may be flawed

And Singapore would represent the best ever feedback for a currency to an economic area on the planet.

“A currency without a state is difficult to manage,” said former Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini, 79, who also served as the nation’s finance and foreign minister. “The decision to create a single currency in Europe was an eminently political decision. It was supposed to bring about greater European integration not only at an economic level, but at a political one.”

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