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This is my Translation page for Sommersemester 2015.

Currently translating https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Ahlhaus

 Christoph Ahlhaus  (born 28 August 1969) is a German politician. He is a representative of the German Christian Democratic Union which he joined in 1985. He was the mayor of Hamburg from August 2010 to March 2011.

Personal Life
Ahlhaus was born on 28 August 1969 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, where he grew up. From 1988 to 1990 he completed an apprenticeship for banking, and from that same year went on to study law at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin, and Speyer. . In 1998 he did a clerkship, with a station at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. In 1999 he qualified as an attorney.

Since May 2006, he has been married to Simone Ahlhaus (née Götz).

Ahlhaus was a member of the fraternity Turnerschaft Ghibellinia zu Heidelberg.

In the summer of 2014 Ahlhaus moved with his family to Berlin. There he works as a lawyer in a law firm.

Politics in the CDU
Christoph Ahlhaus, who represented the CDU from 1985, was Chairman of the municipality association of Heidelberg-Altstadt-Schlierbach and Deputy Chairman of the District Association of Heidelberg until 2001. From 2001 to 2006 he was regional secretary of the CDU in Hamburg. From March 2004 to March 2006 he was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as part of the legal and home affairs committees.Until June 2012, he was the Chairman of the CDU in Hamburg-Nord.

Member of the Hamburg Senate
In April 2006, Mayor Ole von Beust appointed him as state councilor of the Department of Sport and Home Affairs. On the 7th of May 2008, Ahlhaus replaced Udo Nagel and became the Home affairs senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

in September 2009, without having informed his party beforehand, Ahlhaus planned to reduce the casino tax in Hamburg from 90% to 50%. This would have allowed the casinos to save approximately 30 million euros in taxes up to 2010. A scandalous fact was that John Jahr jr. (from Gruner & Jahr)was one of the bosses of the casino, as well as the co-founder of the real-estate company in which Ahlhaus' wife had lead their license marketing since 2009.

Also criticised was the use of state-funded money for paying towards his villa and second home in Altona( which cost around 1.2 million Euros).

In the "company car affair", he had to make an additional payment of EUR 59.40 for private car use.

Ahlhaus continued despite tight budgets in 2010 through the acquisition of a riding squad with a total investment of approximately € 600,000 and annual operating costs of € 200,000. Under Interior Minister Michael Neumann (SPD) entertainment contracts are to be closed by 2015. His desire to hold on to the continued existence of the police orchestra, with an annual cost of 1.5 million euros, was in some part because of a lack of understanding, despite his cuts in the cultural department. His successor Scholz upholds this tradition.

First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
On the 18th of July 2010, Beust announced his resignation as mayor of Hamburg, so he could devote more time to his personal life. His recommendation to nominate Christoph Ahlhaus as his successor was unanimously followed by Hamburg's CDU Regional Executive. The election of the First Mayor of the CDU-Green Senate majority was fixed for the first meeting of the citizenry after the parliamentary summer recess on 25 August 2010. However, the coalition partners GAL initially reacted skeptically to the nomination of Christoph Ahlhaus. They called on the conservative hardliner politicians to follow Beust's liberal route and to abide by the coalition agreement. Ahlhaus put himself firmly behind the agreement between the CDU and GAL, which had existed since 2008, and also expressed his readiness to face the Green base in August 2010. After the meeting with the basis of the GAL on August 18, both Ahlhaus and representatives of the GAL expressed confidence in being able to continue the CDU-Green coalition. The Green Youth party demanded an exit from the coalition.

Ahead of the planned election Ahlhaus' membership in the Turnerschaft Ghibellinia was made public. This triggered anger in the GAL, and leaders of the party put the support of their faction in the election for the Lord Mayor in question.They demanded Ahlhaus' clarificaion about his relations with the Turnerschaft and complained that in their view, nationalist tendencies and misogynistic principles are present in connections with the Coburg Convents. Ahlhaus stated that he had not had contact with the Heidelberg Turnerschaft for years. He had asked the chairman of the fraternity to no longer consider him a member.

When choosing the First Mayor on 25 August 2010 it came in spite of previous disputes as a surprise. Christoph Ahlhaus received 70 votes in favor on the first ballot, two votes more than the black-green coalition MPs managed. Citizenship MPs of the opposition from both the SPD and the Left had also voted for Ahlhaus. 50 MPs voted against him, and one abstained.

Election and Term of office
On 28 November 2010, both the GAL parliamentary group, the GAL Senators and the State Executive Committee of the GAL decided to end the coalition, prompting Ahlhaus to order the dismissal of the GAL senators and state councilors on the 29th of November 2010. Since then, Ahlhaus has led a CDU minority government.

Career
In his youth, Marcus Ahlm played for the [|IFK Kristianstad] Handball team and then later moved to IFK Ystad HK. In 2003 he transferred to the team [|THW Kiel] and impressed enough to become one of their most important players in 2004/05. In that season he worked with Nikola Karabatic, a centre back who ranked among the best players in German handball. After the 2012/13 season Ahlm ended his career. He was considered one of the best circle runners in the world and was often compared to Magnus Wislander. In 2005 he was voted the Swedish Player of the Year. With THW Kiel, Ahlm won the German Championship eight times and the Champions League three times.

In 1999, Marcus Ahlm took part in the Junior World Championships, in which Sweden won silver. In 2001 he played for the swedish national team for the first time. One year later he won the European Championship on home soil. For the World Qualifiers in 2005, Ahlm was intended to play as a circle runner, An injury prevented him from participating in games against Turkey, Belgium and Belarus. Instead, he was replaced by Pelle Linders. He had 114 international caps and 367 goals scored by the end of his career.

At the end of his active career Alhm became a member of the board for THW Kiel.

Private Life
Marcus Ahlm studied Chemistry, and is married with a son and two daughters.

Achievements

 * German Champions in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013 with THW Kiel
 * DHB Cup winner in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013
 * DHB-Supercup winner in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2012
 * 2nd place at the Scandinavian Open 2006
 * Champions League winner in 2007, 2010 and 2012
 * Super Globe Winner 2011
 * EHF Champions Trophy 2007 winner
 * EHF Winners Cup 2004
 * European Champion 2002
 * Silver at the 1999 Junior World Championships
 * Sweden's Player of the Year in 2005
 * National team Supercup winner in 2005

Honours

 * 3rd place in Handballwoche's "Player of the Year" vote in 2005.
 * Handball magazine ranking: Council: 1. 2005 (WK), 3. 2004 (IK)
 * In the Handballwoche team of the Season in 2003/2004, 2004/2005 und 2005/2006
 * Schleswig-Holstein medal for sport 2011

Career in Bundesliga
Translation of [|https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Ahlm]

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Pont d’Aël
The Pont d’Aël is a Roman aqueduct bridge, located in a village of the same name in the comune of Aymavilles in Aosta Valley, Italy. It was built in the year 3BC for irrigation and a water supply for the newly founded colony of Augusta Praetoria, which is today known as Aosta. The water was directed through a neighbouring valley, 66m above the bottom of the Aosta valley, using a sophisticated system. The Aqueduct is 6km long in total. In addition to its unusual position, the construction, which was originally suspected to be a three-story structure, shows more unique features, such as a control corridor below the water line. It was privately funded. Today, the water channel of the aqueduct serves as a walking trail for the public.

Research and Function
The bridge traverses the torrent Grand Eyvia at Pont d’Aël by the entrance to Cognetals, a neighbouring valley 8km west of Aosta. Pingone recorded the first description, enclosed with a sketch, in the year 1550. Further illustrations were contributed by Baron de Malzen in 1826 and Aubert in 1860, which already showed the construction in its present state. Barocelli added measurements from 1864 after excavations on the eastern edge of the bridge in 1930. A complete survey and documentation was first carried out in 1996 by Mathias Döring. Here it was discovered that the bridge was not a way of transport for iron ore,as previously thought, but belonged to the growing colony Augusta Praetoriaan, as an irrigation pipeline for agricultural land and an ore washery for the iron ore in Cogne. The idea of it being a water supply for Augusta Praetoria was initially ruled out, because the town itself is supplied from the nearby river Buthier. Nevertheless, the water may have also been used, in addition to its main economic function, to meet local rural drinking water needs.

Irrigation Line
An end of the pipeline, which is 6km long in total, was a large 200 hectares farm in west Aosta, extending from 50 to 150 m above the main river Dora Baltea just using a gradient line from the side valley. On the way the water was diverted for ore washing, which probably was located near the village of Aymavilles. The technical difficulties in laying the pipeline along the steep rock faces of the Cogne valley were solved by the Roman engineers by using the pipeline route as a gravity pipeline. The water from the Grand Eyvia, which is diverted 2.9km above the Pont d’Aël, was directed downhill onto the steep slopes of the Cogne valley in open channels with an average gradient of 6.6 thousandths. Tunnels or Qanats were formed due to the hard rockface. The 1.20 m wide line was cut as a half-gallery in the rocky slope, so that an parapet, up to 3 m high, stopped at the bedrock on the valley side. The advantage of this method was that unlike a normal tunneling, the tunneling work could start at any number of points due to good visibility. This meant there was a significant decrease in the construction time. Such half-galleries in Roman engineering can only be found rarely in particularly rough terrain, such as at the water line of Side in Turkey.

In the flatter areas they decided on a two to four meter wide terrace, through which the line ran as a brick rectangular canal with cover tiles. Overall the line traverses 2.25km down a slope and 0.6km down a rocky path to Pondel. The other line underneath the bridge could not be investigated due to development and agricultural use; the end point could possibly be situated in the aforementioned irrigation zone in what is today called the village of Aymavilles.

Bridge Construction
The 60.46m long and 2.26m wide bridge is the only possible crossing point over the canyon of the Grand Eyvia, which is 4km long and up to 150m deep. Its only arch loops over the gorge, which is only 12 m wide but 66 m deep at this point, with a span of 14.24 m. The bridge arch consists of a single wedge stone. The bridge, which was once probably three-stories, leads to a 50.35m long corridor on the lower floor, which served to verify the density of the overlying water pipe in antiquity. On both sides of this 3.88 meter high control corridor there are still two rows of small windows from which the lower floor and the upper ceiling are illuminated, so that the bridge keeper could quickly identify leaking water which could have damaged the stonework. Döring was able to prove beyond reasonable doubt the existence of the ancient aqueduct, on which level the trail runs today, on the basis of the altitude and course of the preserved remains of the walls, as well as a subsequent tunnel west of the bridge. It's height was 1.90 m and it was 1.0 m wide. The third floor was then possibly an open walkway, which gave the building a total height of 22.15 m.

Translation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kenje13/G%C3%BCnterstal_Cloister

The Cloister after secularisation
The company Friedrich Mez & Comp., which was founded on 1st June 1812, bought the cloister building and the plot of land for 8000 Gulden on the 5th of September 1812. They constructed a cotton mill, which had to be auctioned off soon after in 1817. The new owners, Benedict and Marquard von Hermann, then hired mainly children from the ages of 12-14 to work the mill. In the night of the 3rd and 4th of April 1829, the mill was burnt almost completely to the ground. There were rumours that this was arson, maybe even by the owner himself. There was a reward for any information on the crime.

The south and west wings of the former cloister building were completely destroyed, and the other two wings were burnt down, leaving only the first floor. These two wings were reconsructed. However, instead of a cotton mill, a brewery was constructed. In a neighbouring building spinning works were installed. After the death of the owner in 1840, his widow sold the brewery to Gustav Schelte. The spinning works were carried on by the family of von Hermann. In 1859 other shareholders bought into the business, and ran the enterprise under the company name Mechanische Baumwoll-Weberei Güntersthal until they were taken over by a Swiss shareholder named Gottlieb Siebenmann. The brewery had already been purchased in the name of the Catholic Orphanage Foundation in 1892 by Mathäus Jungmaier, who constructed an orphanage there. In 1896 the foundation headed by Siebermann also purchased the old cloister building. Today, there is a French-German boarding school, a kindergarten, and social institution in the two renovated wings.

The Church of Our Lady
The cloister church (today The Church of Our Lady), which was also destroyed in the fire of 1829, was rebuilt by the state in 1833/34 according to the plans of Gottlieb Lumpp, who used the outside walls to help reconstruct it. Finally, the church was renovated in the years 1998 to 2002, where efforts were made to keep as much as possible of the original interior design. The church is now being used by the Catholic spiritual guidance centre in Wiehre-Günterstal, Freiburg.

May 6th :60mins on Translation, 15 mins on Links (first paragraph)

May 13th: Secularisation Translation- 45 mins.

May 19th: Church of Our Lady Translation: 30 mins. Difficulties translating names (pastoral unit and Church of Our Lady)

May 20th: Added Links and references. Proofread. Finished translation entirely

June 3rd: Continuation of text (Research and Function): 60 mins on Translation

June 15th: Contination of text, 45 mins.

June 24th: 60 mins on Translation, 10 mins on Links

June 25th: additional translation, added Links, 60 mins

June 29th: finished 'Bridge Construction' translation, 45 mins.

July 1st: Published Pont d’Aël article and revised Cloiser section. 45 mins. Started Ahlm translation. 45 mins.

July 7th: Finished Ahlm article and added Links 30 mins.

July 8th: Continued Ahlm translation, 45 mins. Edited and polished Pont d’Aël article, 45 mins.

July 15th: Finished Ahlm translation, 45 mins. Published too. Started Christoph Ahlhaus tranlsation, 45 mins.