20 Years of the SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

The SIB celebrates 20 years. SIB provides HPC facilities to Switzerland's life scientists. SIB's locations are spreads across various competence centres in Switzerland including Vital-IT in Quartier Sorge in Lausanne as well as UNIL (University of Lausanne). Another location is sciCORE at the University of Basel (Switzerland's oldest university) which has strategic focus in Life Sciences and Nanosciences.

Who was Alexander Hamilton?

Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington. 

He was born in Nevis, in the then British West Indies.  

He founded America's financial system as well as the New York Post. 

On the finance side, he founded the Bank of North America, the US' first de facto central bank (opened in Philadelphia in 1782). Loans from France and the Netherlands were used to shore up the assets underlying the paper currency.

Articulated Vehicles

An articulated vehicle has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint e.g. certain buses, train cars and lorries fit the bill. The genesis of the word comes from Latin articulus (or joint). Articulated tug barges are similar analogues in the shipping world.

Heroons

The ancient Greeks and Romans built heroons, or shrines, dedicated to their heros.  The plural of heroon is heroa. The earliest known heroons are from the Bronze Age.

Kolkata

Kolkata, or Calcutta, is nestled on the banks of the Hooghly River, and is the principal commercial town in East India. The port was constructed by the British East India Company.

Designated Survivor (First Season 2016)

Designated Survivor is a political thriller created by screenwriter, producer and novelist David Guggenheim and first aired on ABC. UK London-born Canadian Kiefer Sutherland stars as Thomas Kirkman, an American politician nominated "designated survivor".

Jefe de Jefes - Los Tigres del Norte

Los Tigres del Norte is a norteno group (a genre of Mexican music related to polka and corridos - the polka being a Czech dance originating in Bohemia, and corridos, which are narrative songs or ballads - originating from the rural areas). 

Soy el JDJ senores
me respetan a todos niveles
y mi nombre y mi fotografia
nunca van a mira en papeles
por que a mi el periodista me quiere
y si no mi amistad se la pierde

Los Tigres are based in San Jose, California with roots in the Mocorito municipality of Sinaloa (one of the 32 Federal entities of Mexico).

Translations:

nombre - name

nunca - never

van - go

a - to

mira - look

amistad - friendship