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An Increasingly Stable Selection Of Independent Nations Based Somewhat On Ethnic Populations, But Also On The Business Imperatives Of Newly Found Autonomy : Capitalism, Development And Tourism!
Mystified? It's really a bit of a trick question . Geographically, the Balkan Peninsula is regarded as Southeastern Europe - the landmass south of Austria and Hungary and east of Italy. It's famous for rough and remote mountains, impressive coastline and furiously partisan populations. The Adriatic is to the west, the Black Sea to the east, Greece at the southernmost tip.
But politically, the answer relies upon the year. Five centuries of war, oppression and ethnic conflict have melted and made countries on the Balkan Cape several times over. If you answered Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania or Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) - A-plus! They all have shore on the Adriatic Sea. If you thought Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, or Kosovo - C-plus. Balkans, although not Western Balkans. Yugoslavia? No go. It collapsed over 10 years ago.
The good news for travelers? An increasingly stable choice of independent nations based slightly on ethnic populations, but also on the industrial imperatives of newfound autonomy : capitalism, development and tourism!
Dubrovnik, Croatia, is now a top destination on Eastern Mediterranean cruises, like the one Bud and I did in 2003. Our Dubrovnik guide lived thru the 1991-92 Serbian siege, and bullet holes were still everywhere. But Maria's optimism was transmissible. "Come back," she urged. "After the roads are fixed and borders opened, you'll love it."
7 years after we landed in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, on the first leg of a four-country Western Balkan trip. Customs and immigration were smooth and efficient and our rental car, a Czech Skoda Fabia, waited just steps from the terminal.
We might drive northeast thru Slovenia's Julian Alps, south along coastal Croatia and down to Montenegro's beaches. We might finish over Montenegro's mythical mountains and into BiH to end in Sarajevo. Perhaps best, we were flying solo - no package tours, no booking agent. Just us!
Euro-GPS
We brought a GPS with a pre-loaded European chip. First stop : iconic Lake Bled. Our GPS let us choose : back roads or road. We took the smallest roads and were instantly smitten. Each home sported lush window boxes. In the foothills of the Julian Alps, each hamlet reached higher, with taller ancient pines, and roads narrowing to single lanes, frequently weaving thru steep pastures. Around one corner a pristine church sat atop a brilliantly green hill.
Lake Bled's Grand Hotel Toplice was impressive and historic. It housed Fascist Officers during World War Ii, and was so prestigious that the officials had to pay for rooms, although they were the occupying forces. The Toplice was full of chatty Brits and sporty Germans, and life revolved around the lake - shaded walkways along the shoreline, swans paddling about, boats with brightly coloured covers to ferry visitors around. Wonderful!
Our next stop took us even higher, to a sporthotel in Kranjska Gora. Sporthotels are distinctly EU : spare decoration, few luxuries, but huge rooms to hold skis and bikes. At the Toplice we were told that Northern Americans visit infrequently. In Kranjska Gora, Americans are rare. We were treated like stars and advised to visit the ski jump at nearby Planica where the world record for ski-flying was set in 2005 : 717 feet "airborne" coming off the end of the jump.
We were cautioned about the drive over Slovenia's 9,300-foot top, Mount Triglav, at the eastern end of the Alps. It was wet and foggy. The route was terribly steep and narrow with fifty or even more switchbacks. "Follow a bus," they exclaimed. "It will lead you."
Reliable information! We appeared at our next stop, Lipica, in fine shape and prepared to visit the famous Lipizzaner Stud Farm in its 430th year of breeding and coaching the enchanting white stallions. We caught the dramatic "Airs Above the Ground" equestrian show and marveled at the chic facility with dressage faculties, lodging, diners and marriage chapel as reported tagza.com.

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DARPA's FastRunner robotic ostrich is in the works (Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine)
Fast as the FastRunner may become, it will never be able to escape the
comparison to an ostrich. One day, thanks to a joint effort by MIT and the
Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), this bipedal
sprinting robot is going to assume its rightful place in the DARPA-funded
robotic zoo, right next to the robotic cheetah and the mule-like BigDog.
Thanks to an innovative, self-stabilizing leg design, the movements of this
flightless robotic bird are going to be not only very efficient, but also
extremely fast. The legs are already capable of hitting 27 mph (43.4 km/h),
matching the fastest of humans. The researchers hope to see FastRunner reach
speeds of up to 50 mph (80.4 km/h). That, plus the ability to negotiate fairly
rough, uneven terrain, potentially makes it a force to be reckoned with, on
the battlefield and elsewhere. .. Continue Reading DARPA's FastRunner robotic
ostrich is in the works
**Section:** Robotics
**Tags:** Biomimicry, DARPA, IHMC, Military, MIT, Robots
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