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Gold Almost Famous
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Please, im serious I need a true speaking German to translate this for me !?


I need this translated into real German not a transleter online this is for a grade and it needs to be perfect, thanks:)

Johann August Sutter was born on February 15, 1803 and died on June 18, 1880

Johann August Sutter (John Augustus Sutter) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital. Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter died almost poor, having seen his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter Jr., prospered.

Johann August Sutter wurde am 15. Februar 1803 geboren und verstarb am 18. Juni 1880.

Johann August Sutter (John Augustus Sutter) war ein Schweizer Pionier in Kalifornien, der durch seine Verbindung zum Goldrausch in Kalifornien, nachdem James W. Marshall und die Gruppe der Mühlenbauer von Sutter's Mill Gold entdeckt hatten, sowie durch die Gründung von Sutter's Fort in dieser Gegend, aus dem später Sacramento, die Hauptstadt des Staates werden sollte. Obwohl er in ganz Kalifornien wegen seiner Verbindung zum Goldrausch berühmt war, starb Sutter fast verarmt, nachdem hatte zusehen müssen wie seine Geschäfte fehlschlugen, während die Geschäfte seines ältesten Sohnes, John Augustus Sutter Jr., blühten.

@Zwurgi:
You are right, thank you for the correction!



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Writer and director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a teenage rock journalist -- he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while still in high school -- inspired this coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hitting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) is a bright, loving, but strict single parent whose distrust of rock music and fears about drug use have helped to drive a wedge between herself and her two children, Anita (Zooey Deschanel) and William (Patrick Fugit). Anita rebels by dropping out of school and becoming a stewardess, but William makes something of his love of rock & roll by writing album reviews for a local underground newspaper. William's work attracts the attention of Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman), editor of renegade rock magazine Creem, who takes William under his wing and gives him his first professional writing assignment -- covering a Black Sabbath concert. While William is unable to score an interview with the headliners, the opening act, Stillwater, are more than happy to chat with a reporter, even if he's still too young to drive, and William's piece on the group in Creem gains him a new admirer in Ben Fong-Torres (Terry Chen), an editor at Rolling Stone. Torres offers William an assignment for a 3,000-word cover story on Stillwater, and over the objections of his mother (whose parting words are "Don't use drugs!"), and after some stern advice from Bangs (who says under no circumstances should he become friends with a band he's covering), Williams joins Stillwater on tour, where he becomes friendly with guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee). William also becomes enamored of Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), a groupie traveling with the band who is no older than William, but is deeply involved with Russell. Lester Bangs and Ben Fong-Torres, incidentally, were real-life rock writers Crowe worked with closely during his days as a journalist. Almost Famous' original score was composed by Nancy Wilson of Heart (who is also Crowe's wife). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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My Almost Famous Family Black and Gold


Gold Rush Or Gold Flush?

2009 was an extraordinary year for the gold market. From a low of  $811 at the beginning of  2009, an ounce of gold touched a nominal all time high of $1226 in December, up 40% from the start of the year. Although this gain is closer to 25% in constant currency terms (Eur/Usd rose from a low of 1.25 in mid February of last year to above 1.51 at the time of peak gold), the rise since the end of the nineties is nonetheless 400% in nominal terms.

 

Amongst this buying frenzy, some commentators are suggesting that gold has become the latest asset to enter a speculative bubble, while others look to macroeconomic fundamentals to argue that investment demand is, and will remain, unquenchable.

 

Gold sceptics often point to the metal’s lack of utility. Aside from jewellery and small electronics applications, gold is of little practical use in industry. You can’t use gold for payment of taxes or mortgages and it is expensive to store. Furthermore, gold yields no return unlike equities (that pay dividends), bonds (that pay a coupon) and bank deposits (that pay interest), thereby increasing the effective cost of storage.

Gold is simply of no use except as an investment.

 

Warren Buffett, a legendary gold agnostic, famously opined: “Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head”. Influential economist Nouriel Roubini, a New York University professor who predicted the financial crisis, in a recent report described gold as “a barbaric relic” that has “significant risks of downward price correction”.

 

From a supply perspective, sceptics have more ammunition. The world’s central banks hold 32,000 tonnes in their vaults, which is enough to meet global demand – as measured by last year’s consumption – for another 8 years. Furthermore, according to GFMS, the London based gold consultancy, global mine supply rose 6% to 2553 tonnes in 2009, a six year high. 

 

So what is driving the gold bulls into such a buying frenzy?

 

Consider the plight of central banks outside of the US, particularly those in economies that run a large trade surplus such as Japan, Germany, Canada and China. A weak US dollar, zero interest rates, and a pile of new dollars hot off the printing press at the Federal Reserve have central bank officials contemplating the real future value of their currency reserves which, for the most part, are made up of US dollars. In particular, China and Japan, by far the largest holders of long term US government debt (they hold $798 billion and $746 billion respectively, with the UK a distant third holding $230 billion) are becoming concerned about their savings and the credit worthiness of their debtors (the US government debt is now approaching $13,000 billion, or 90% of GDP).

 

 

 

 

 

At the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Terry Smith, chairman of the committee on world’s banking crisis, opined that two thirds of the world’s assets are denominated in currencies that are being debased by key policy actions. Countries like China are not happy about that.

 

Put simply, foreign central banks are now looking for a reserve asset that offers a more long term store of value in the face of economic and systemic uncertainty. And the perception is that gold is in their cross wires. In evidence of this, India’s reserve bank recently bought 200 tonnes of bullion from the IMF. Whilst this in itself is significant, more so is the expectation that other governments may follow suit, lending huge psychological support to the market. Of incomparable importance would be if China followed this trend; China’s central bank reserves are so vast that if it were to double its gold reserves (currently standing at 2% of total reserves) it would be required to buy half the global annual mining output. Indeed, with gold representing on average 10% of reserves at G7 member central banks, and only 2.5% in those of emerging market nations, gold is set to benefit even from any normalisation in emerging market gold reserve ratios.

 

Gold prices have been further boosted by a slowdown in central bank supply. Sales from central banks have virtually dried up in 2009, dropping 90% year on year to 24 tonnes.

 

Adding further momentum to the gold surge is the recent emergence of gold bullion backed exchange traded funds (ETF’s) which offer institutional investors a readily tradable vehicle to own a fraction of gold stored in a vault. ETF buying has boosted the commodity market in general, with assets in commodity ETF’s rising from $35 billion a year ago to over $75 billion today.

 

Gold sceptics will argue that these macroeconomic fundamentals have been fully priced in to the 2009 rally; if 2010 is to bring improving economic conditions, an end to the era of cheap dollars and increasing interest rates, gold buyers may finally get the jitters. Philip Klapwijk, executive chairman of GFMS told the Financial Times: “As the macroeconomic environment gradually normalises the gold market’s dependence on investment speculation will become all too apparent with a substantial price retreat at that point on the cards”.

 

On this gold market conundrum, the Lex column in the Financial Times recently surmised: “Like flowers, gold is more attractive than useful and supplies could meet 375 yeas of industrial demand. However, calling a market is difficult as there are plenty of scary trends, such as debasement of the dollar. After all this is one asset that rises on both fear and greed”

 

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Dr. Mark Perry is a Risk Analyst with WorldSpreads Ireland in Dublin. www.worldspreads.ie    

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