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Crab canon (Latin: canon cancrizans, in Russian would be crayfish canon)—is an arrangement of two musical lines that...
Crab canon (Latin: canon cancrizans, in Russian would be crayfish canon)—is an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward, similar to a palindrome. A famous example is found in J. S. Bach's The Musical Offering, which also contains a canon ("Quaerendo invenietis") combining retrogression with inversion, i.e., the music is turned upside down by one player, which is a table canon.

Table canon is meant to be placed on a table in between two musicians, who both read the same line of music in opposite directions. As both parts are included in each single line, a second line is not needed.

Mirror canon is a type of canon which involves the leading voice being played alongside its own inversion (i.e. upside-down). The page can be put in front of a mirror, thus upside down, and beginning with the already progressing first voice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_canon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Canon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_canon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering

J.S. Bach - Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHQ2ybTejU

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Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) is a Lab is located in the town of Livermore (30 mi from where we live as...
Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) is a Lab is located in the town of Livermore (30 mi from where we live as crow flies) named after some Lawrence dude. It was co-founded by Edward Teller, who managed to piss off the whole Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) during the Manhattan Project (it was beneath him to work on the trivial implosion fission bomb) and got pissed at the whole LANL lab in return, because they were pooh-poohing his fusion bomb idea, even more so because it didn't work, as he proposed it at the time.

Creating a second nuclear weapons research lab also found government support in order to create competition for LANL. LLNL needed to differentiate themselves from LANL, so they focused on fusion bombs and miniature fission bombs.

Now miniaturization is at the new extreme. With National Ignition Facility (NIF) 1 Petawatt lasers, who needs fission primary.

How NIF Works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixhyPN0r3g

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Model railroaders take their stuff very seriously.
Model railroaders take their stuff very seriously. It's a lot of work, the models are very expensive and fragile. We were almost banned for life for this. Almost.

But let me start from the beginning.

Every year, Hiller Aviation Museum hosts several model railroad shows. The best is "European Trains". The trains and the scenery are European. The models are fantastic. We go see them every year.

Our hands were always itching to "augment", so to speak, the scenery, until, in 2011 we decided it's now or never. Armed with a bag of our own figurines, we, sneakily, went to work. Model railroaders take their stuff very seriously. It's a lot of work, the models are very expensive and fragile. We were bound to be caught, and we were almost banned for life for this. Almost.

This coming weekend, we are going back.

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Rock Operetta "Про Кота Васю и охотничью котавасию", performed by Belorussian hard-rock group "Сузорье"...
Rock Operetta "Про Кота Васю и охотничью котавасию", performed by Belorussian hard-rock group "Сузорье" (Созвездие/Constellation) БЕЛАРУСЬФИЛЬМ 1981 г

Про Кота Васю и охотничью котавасию

Либретто
http://blog.i.ua/community/262/116308/
In the spring, birds come back to the forest/orchard. Boy-hooligan chases them away with a bow (Hunger Games отдыхают). Forest/orchard is overrun with bark beetles (жуки-короеды) and caterpillars. The boy (IQ is obviously < 80) first unsuccessfully tries to fight them with the said bow, then flees from them to a tree. Kind birds come back just in time to save him and his no-goodnik cat.

The bird song and the beetle song are a staple of our hiking repertoire, because (you guessed it) it prominently features comings and goings.

References:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Про_кота,_Васю_и_охотничью_катавасию
http://russrock.ru/history/8334-istorija-gruppy-suzore.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7xrScFHgPE

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