Garching
Garching
Garching
Coordinates	48°15′N 11°39′E / 48.25°N 11.65°E / 48.25; 11.65Coordinates: 48°15′N 11°39′E / 48.25°N 11.65°E / 48.25; 11.65
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Bavaria
District	Munich
Mayor	Hannelore Gabor (CSU)
Basic statistics
Area	28.16 km2 (10.87 sq mi)
Elevation	481 m  (1578 ft)
Population	15,860 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	563 /km2 (1,459 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	M
Postal code	85748
Area code	089
Website	Official website

Garching römerhofweg summer winter

Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. It became a city on 14 September 1990.

Location[link]

The town is at 48°15′N 11°39′E / 48.25°N 11.65°E / 48.25; 11.65, near the River Isar and the A9 autobahn. The Munich U-Bahn metro line 6 connects the city with the stations Garching-Hochbrück, Garching and Garching-Forschungszentrum.

Like many places near Munich, Garching bei München is a reasonably safe town. Various restaurants are scattered through town, but mainly in the center. The town is quiet and quaint, and has virtually no nightlife. However, there is a constant flux of scientists visiting the city because of the many scientific research institutes and scientific experiments located there, like the linear accelerator, the research reactor, ESO headquarters. Since parts of the Technische Universität München moved to Garching, many students frequent the city. The first nuclear research reactor of Garching, nicknamed Atomei (nuclear egg) made it into the citys coat of arms, and started the process leading to today's accumulation of research institutes. A number of roads and places are named after scientists, mathematicians and technical innovators, like for example "Carl-Von-Linde-Strasse", "Dieselstrasse", "Einsteinstrasse", "Eulerweg", "Heisenbergstrasse", "Max-Planck-Strasse", "Röntgenstrasse", "Schrödingerweg".

Districts[link]

The town has four districts:

• Garching
• Dirnismaning
• Hochbrück
• Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum (University and Research Centre) - formerly known as Forschungsinstitute (Research Institutes)

Educational and research institutes[link]

Several research and scientific educational institutions are based in Garching, including:

• Departments of the Technische Universität München (TUM)
  • physics
  • the research reactor FRM-II
  • semiconductor physics and engineering (Walter Schottky Institute)
  • chemistry [1]
  • mechanical engineering [2]
  • mathematics [3]
  • computer science [4]
• Max Planck Institutes:
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)
  • Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ)
• Part of the physics department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
• Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Federal Research Institute for Food Chemistry (DFA)
• Walter Meißner Institute (WMI) of the BAdW (low-temperature physics)
• Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research (ZAE)
• Reactor safety research [5]
• General Electric Global Research Center
• Leibniz-Rechenzentrum [6] of the BAdW (central computing facilities for the Munich universities and other research institutes)
• BMW Motorsport research center and factory

International relations[link]

Garching bei München is twinned with:

• Lørenskog (Norway)
• Radeberg (Germany)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Garching bei München

• http://www.garching.de/ (Official Town Website)
• European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
• Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
• Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)
• Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ)
• Physics Department TUM
• Chemistry Department TUM
• Mechanical Engineering
• Walter Meissner Institute (WMI)
• Walter Schottky Institute (WSI)
• Research Neutron Source (FMR II)
• Federal Research Center for Food Chemistry (DFA)
• Leibniz Computer Center (LRZ)

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Thomas Richard "Tom" Kenyon (born 26 February 1972) is an Australian politician. He is the Australian Labor Party member for the electoral district of Newland in the South Australian House of Assembly, having won the seat at the 2006 state election and returned at the 2010 state election.

Kenyon was appointed as Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing, Minister for Road Safety, Minister for Veterans Affairs and Minister Assisting the Premier with South Australia's Strategic Plan as well as becoming a Member of Executive Council.

Early life[link]

Kenyon was raised in Gawler and Adelaide. He is the eldest of five children born to Neville and Elizabeth Kenyon. His siblings are Ruth, James, John-Paul and Notum. He was educated at Saint Ignatius College, South Australia and studied Asian Studies at Flinders University. He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Management at the University of South Australia. After working in a number of positions, including as a jackaroo and union organiser, Kenyon was employed as an advisor to Minister for Mineral Resources and Development Paul Holloway, a position which he held until his election to parliament.

Parliament[link]

Kenyon made his first bid for parliament in his early twenties, as the Labor candidate in the safe Liberal state seat of Heysen at the 1997 state election. Several years later, Kenyon was endorsed as the Labor candidate for the safe Liberal federal seat of Mayo at the 2004 federal election. However, he withdrew on the eve of the election campaign, stating that he had stepped in because the ALP had no candidate, assuming that the election date would be called imminently, and that when this did not happen, he was unwilling to resign from his job in order to contest a seat he had no chance of winning.

After two unwinnable endorsements, Kenyon received a break when he was endorsed unopposed as the party's candidate for the electorate of Newland at the 2006 state election, where veteran Liberal MP Dorothy Kotz was retiring. He singled out increasing the use of public transport and addressing youth employment as priorities, and there was some media speculation that his status as a young, relatively conservative father of three would be well-supported in the area of Adelaide known as the "Bible Belt". To this extent, polls as early as 2005 began showing that Kenyon was in with a real chance of winning the seat, although Kotz had previously held the seat by a fair margin. There was ultimately a landslide result across the city on election day, and he polled more than double the required swing needed to take the seat, claiming victory after only 90 minutes of counting.

Kenyon is on the right of the Labor Party, with links to the right-wing Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association. He was the only Labor member to state that he would vote against the planned Relationships Bill removing discrimination against gay couples if a conscience vote were granted - although in the end he voted for the revised Domestic Partners Bill in 2006. Kenyon used his maiden South Australian House of Assembly speech to criticise the SA Greens environmental credentials, and stating that he does not believe South Australia should accept nuclear waste from other countries, and that burial of waste materials is a suitable option. His maiden speech was also used to speak out against abortion.[1]

As of the 2010 state election, Kenyon holds Newland with a margin of 2.2 percent.

External links[link]

• Parliament Profile

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Tom Beck (born December 21, 1940) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Illinois Benedictine College, now Benedictine University, from 1970 to 1974, Elmhurst College from 1976 to 1983, and Grand Valley State University from 1985 to 1990. During his college football head coaching career, he compiled a 137–52–1 record, good for a .724 winning percentage. All three institutions where Beck coached had historically losing teams before he turned them into nationally ranked programs. Beck was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2004.

Beck played football at Northern Illinois University, where he started on offense, defense, and played special teams. He was the last two-way player in the history of Northern Illinois Huskies football. Beck was All-Conference on both offense and defense, an Academic All-American, and was inducted into the Northern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted into the athletic hall of fame at Elmhurst College, Benedictine University, and Grand Valley State University as a coach.

Beck served as the offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois University in 1975, at the University of Notre Dame in 1990, and at the University of Illinois in 1991. He coached one season in 1984 with the Chicago Blitz of the USFL before the league folded. While head coach at Grand Valley State, Beck gave Brian Kelly his first coaching job as a graduate assistant. Kelly was Beck's successor at Grand Valley State in 1991 and is currently the head coach at Notre Dame.^[1]

After his coaching career, Beck spent time as a scout for the NFL's Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears. After scouting, he was an analyst for nine years for two different web sites, IrishEyes and Irish Today, that covered Notre Dame football.

Personal life[link]

Beck is married to Joyce Beck, and has two daughters, Kelly and Laura, along with two grandchildren.

Head coaching record[link]

College[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tom Beck at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Tom Beck at the College Football Data Warehouse