The Koborg Corporation structure

The Koborg Corporation used to include Royal Broadcasting Service, Royal Oil Production and Retail, several pharmaceutical and food entities. The queen has sold these operations in the late 80's, applying the income from the sales to existing capital, bought back shares in the rest of her operation, restructuring it into this keiretsu-zaibatsu-like group of companies:

• The Koborg Bank (see brief history)- the keiretsu-like central bank of the Koborg Corporation (check out this post)
  
• Koborg Electric: manufactures electrical high-performance motors, generators, electrical controls, components, and lighting systems
• Koborg Fine Instruments: manufactures gauges, watches, dials, scientific intruments, sensors, scales, medical equipment, special metal alloys, electronics and avionics
• Koborg Photonics: manufactures photonic-optronic circuits, electronic and photonic computer parts, printers, smart displays, avionics
• Koborg Home Appliance - manufactures kitchen and laundry appliances
• Koborg Automotive - manufactures electric, hybrid, and electromuscle (bionic muscle) cars; power components for the Koborg-Brog automotive assembly venture; trucks, and bus and trolleybus components
• Koborg Turbomotors- manufactures jet engines, angle-flow turbojet engines, power control systems, UAVs, compact missiles
• Koborg Jewels - manufactures personal and industrial crystals, jewelry, processed natural and industrial diamonds;
  supplies Koborg Optics and Koborg Fine Instruments, and Koborg Photonics
  
• Koborg Optics - manufactures microphotonic components, fiber optics, lenses, optic systems, lumiactive materials and systems; supplies Koborg Fine Instruments, and Koborg Photonics

Koborg Electric, Optics, Photonics, and Jewels operations utilize extensively the inventions of King Yarl.

The Koborg Corporation is associated with Northern Insurance Association Cooperative, semi-private and semi-cooperative company that guarantees all insurance needs including medical and investment insurance to the Koborg Corporation itself and its employees.

Teutonic coolness re. Israel and Obama

Attland's government has a cool policy towards selected countries and people. Fore example, from Miklasgard, as a capital city, I see that Attland, following the Queen's suit, is cool towards the socialist government of Israel, though Attland and the Queen are firmly pro-Zionist, pro-Jewish and defend fervently the safety and security of Jewish population in Israel.

Anytime you pass through Teurastad International Airport you will see the huge, building-sized flags of the US, Japan and Israel in the arrivals area. (Attland does not have a flag, in compliance with its Laws of the Land and of the Government. The Queen, as a Royals, also has no flag, but she can be said to have a certain domestic symbolic standard which is kept in a museum (most of the time) and has been taken out only once, for her overdue official coronation/investiture after she returned from her space mission).

The Queen, exercising her laws, left Attland for Israel (the only land allowed by the Law of the Royals, written by her old ancestor King Hrothgar) only 3 times, as I can count, to visit Israel as the Holy Land, two times by sea, and once one her own plane that is kept in her own palace hangar.

The government of Attland is more actively critical of Israel, for its corrupt socialist policies failing to protect the Holy Land and the Jewish people.

As Israel has suddenly stopped the Gaza campaign as a convenient good gesture to Obama, the Queen's press secretary fell silent. Not so Chancellor Dolgrynd's press secretary. The official statements almost coincided:

"...the Government of Attland has to emphasize that the unfinished operation in Gaza once again leaves the Jewish population sorely vulnerable to terrorism, and a victim of the political decision that valued superficial goals..."

regarding President Obama's inauguration, the Chancellor Dolgrynd's press office issued the following:

"...on behalf of the Nation of Attland (pointed exclusion of people, which means the nationals and the permanent, non-citizen residents - my comment) I wish President Obama good luck and God's blessing in this undertaking of guiding the very unique and great country of the United States of America to success while preserving the best of American traditions and values..."

The Government, and the Chancellor Dolgrynd especially, have always been cool, in its Teutonic way, to the African-American aspect of the American liberal policies. Attlandians always point out that its black population of over six hundred thousand is the most affluent and successful in the world.

Convenient Government-to-Queen buck passing: Russia

The Queen is known for keeping separate stance from government. According to the stipulation of the Attland Basic Laws, the Laws of People, in the Chapter on Royals, give the royals the freedom from the government, as well as drawing the line between a Royal's potential role of a judicial and spiritual guide, and other branches of the government. However, due to the immense importance of the Royal business, especially that of the Queen's Koborg Bank commodity trading, and the Koborg Corporation's business activities, most Attland embassies have Royal Interest section, or a Royal Attache.

That is how the recent item of the Russian government, still seething at the Attland's government decision to break the "useless" (from the official statement) diplomatic relations, cringed and approached the Attland ambassador in Austria, with a request to agree to discuss gold, currency and oil trade (Attland always PUSHED for a lower, less than $50 a barrel oil price; Attland is also one of the very few world economies that is growing despite the financial crisis; the Queen is the only entity in the world that in the face of the global economic crisis is enjoying huge personal earnings, pays the incredible $80 billion of personal income tax to the US as an American citizen, and whose personal Koborg Corporation is incredibly profitable.)

The ambassador, however, passed the buck to the Queen's representative, who later called the Russian representative saying that "the Queen does not find the prospect of discussing trade aspects relevant at this time or in the areas of trade mentioned.

Keep in mind, I was told that it was the Queen who almost forced Attland's, if not her own say into the OPEC's unspecified meetings. In the same manner, she maneuvered the UN to give Attlanda unique monitoring status, which entitles Attland to vote in the UN Security Council. This was right about the start of the Attland-Russia honeymoon, in 1999-2000, when Russian felt weak and did not put up much of a fight against Attland being given such an exotic post. Russia, most likely, liked the lure of Attland being on her side in setting the future petroleum price. This did not work out to Russia's favor in the long run.

This is where the Canyon becomes the Chasm

Because most of the fissure, that is, the Canyon and the Chasm are deep and narrow, they are always semi-dark and gloomy. Wherever possible, the already overcrowded Attland populace has succeeded in settling the Fissure, either by building on to the ledges, nooks and crannies, or simply building houses on the Fissure floor.

In most of the Chasm, flash photography is against the law. Flash can spook the wildlife, especially the tarsiers, and most dangerously, the troll (flying monkey) bats. Since the Fissure has over 50 million of them, the spooked bats might rush for the exit holes, or the person using flash, and cause harm to themselves or people. That is why the Canyon and the Chasm (especially) have been portrayed mostly in paintings.


above:this is ruins of an ancient temple that used to serve Nordic idols, and then Queen Linga. This is one of numerous transitions of Canyon to the Chasm. You can see here a northerner who entered the Canyon at this point, looking at the rather large bats (you can see why they are called troll bats). These are the only bat species that can stand up, especially before taking off.

River Glada is running through one of cracks in the rock behind the temple face.
Some of the ruins I hear have been settled for some time by gold diggers and bush silk harvesters.


Here is the Canyon at mid-day, at the point where it starts to narrow into the Chasm. Even though it is a canyon, the ere are already the stalactite and stalagmite formations. Further in the background and higher up you can see someone's home built into the rock face. On teh opposite wall there is an entrance to some form of a housing.

River Glada is a vary narrow stream, running to the right, almost obscured by the overhanging rock. This rare photo shows the typical look of an old deep lake that filled the Fissure. This is not a typical river-carved canyon.

I am buying an already used alternative NRG car

It has been less than a year since last September when the government ordered the whole country to switch all passenger-carrying cars from internal combustion to either hybrid, electric or biopower (synthetic muscle) power.

Half the cars switched to hybrid, using the synthetic esterol (ester-alcohol) fuels. Some, probably municipal and corporate pools went plugin-electrical all the way, and good 20% are driven by the synthetic muscle engine.

Given that Citroen C series car look has been regarded as one of the most attractive of cars, Attland's remanufacturers and custom makers have been purchasing Citroens from the French manufacturers and installing engines according to a customer's specifications.

I needed a car, right away. I could not afford to buy a brand new car. Or wait for a custom car to be put together. So I bought a sued one, It already has the synmuscle engine in it.
The car is very simple to operate. Simpler than a plugin electrical. In the electrical controller 1, the battery supplies current to the programmed pulse generator, which contract or expand the individual synthetic muscles by sending pulses of specific polarity, current and duration. Each muscle is made of a proprietary crystal-impregnated polymer invented by King Yarl.

The concept is not so new. My interior decorator girlfriend from Russia says that long time ago, in the Russian children's story The Adventures of Neznaika and his Friends (Приключения Незнайки и его друзей, 1954) Nikolai Nosov had the cute idea of a contracting muscle-powered car, described jokingly as a single-muscle engine that has a cylinder filled with soda drink. Very Jules-Verne-like prophecy, I'd say. Some time later, Toyota cam up on the idea of electrically sensitive gel (Tohru Shiga Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Japan)

As long as I stay in Attland, with its weather between 60-90 deg F, it means the motor will need no warming and minimal cooling by its electrolyte conditioner.

There is no huge bank of batteries, as in other electrical cars. Instead, in the trunk there is a large battery the size of a microwave. The engine itself is rather small, since the bionic muscle produces power during contracting and expanding. There is no large fluid storage tanks. Half of the electrolyte is always in the electrolyte conditioner ( see 4 in the drawing above). The engine is also light since the camshaft has no flywheel, because the engine cycles have no dead spot - due to the electrical-stimulated contracting and expanding. There are no pumps. The electrolyte is recirculated by the bionic muscles' action. The two-cylinder bionic muscle engine is rated for 120 HP.

When idle, no current is used. If the weather is very hot, the 4 conditioner automatically sends electrolyte to an external loop ( I guess it is not shown on the diagram).

The downside? The bionic muscle has a limited optimal performance period, something like 1000 hours. I didn't see the replacement prices, but as a new technology, it seems that the specific bionic muscle that is sued in my car would cost around 700 gold crown ounces to replace. The battery needs to be recharged every two weeks or so, for a normal 2 hour everyday highway-street driving.

A slightly improved conventional bomb comes out of the closet

The Attland Government has just come out (www.attlandonweb.gov/press_release_2009.asp and presskit@secretary@nationalgovt) and plain revealed the use of the noise bombs in its Namibian (see the FLIGHT HOME operation) and Sothern Iraq operations. The tactic appears to use smoke and noise bombs, before exercising the option to drop the electron discharge -lightning bombs.



The red-tipped noise bomb with the red programming socket on the bomb's side. The next bomb is a smoke bomb, and behind it, a grey-tipped, modified FAE.

Each of the noise bomb is individually pre-programmed to delay the explosion after parachuting to the point of impact, in order to produce the loudest and most unnerving and chaotic jumble of shrieks, screams and screeches, with unpredictable pauses. The bombs explode either at the programmed time, or when touched. Smoke bombs are very similar in their operations, producing copious amount of smoke before their programmed explosion. All these bombs used together totally disorient the civilians and military personnel.

The Chasm and the Canyon Gorge - the Fissure

Academia has still not decided on the sequence of events that led to the formation of the Chasm and Canyon fissure. There are many conflicting scientific observations.

Firstly, the date of the sudden cataclysmic uplift that thrust Attland island, and its northern mountainous peninsula high above the sea level is different from the formation of the inner peninsula geology. However, they are not too ancient: the dates point to a very recent phase of the quaternary period. It seems that the Fissure appeared shortly after the catastrophic uplift.



What is certain is that the fissure happened when the northward down slope of the northern mountains cracked and slid relatively short distance, which created a deep gorge.
The width of the gorge varies erratically from several meters to about 300 meters.

The fissure as seen in the image, is a U shaped tear, is anywhere from 30 meters to 2000 meters deep.

In its early history, the cataclysmic fissure caused the river to fall into the newly formed canyon and start to fill it, eventually creating a deep lake that almost reached the upper rim of the fissure. At least 200 hundred years passed before another critical event took place. The waters of Glada river found a newer, shorter drainage path, (though not through corroding the canyon walls) and rushed along the new course. Most likely, post-fissure, minor racking lasted for many years, finally creating a narrow and deep passage for the river. See the image above.

The relatively wide parts (the middle 20 miles and the 10 miles at the eastern end) of the fissure remains open, while the narrower parts have become overgrown with vegetation, effectively closing it off from much of sunlight. The fissure has multitude of dry and flooded caves, ledges and arches of mysterious geological origin, and unique flora and fauna (marsupial tarsiers and bats).

Another death sentence

Precipitated by the start of the anti-terrorist operation in Gaza, Moslem inmates at Attland's prison facilities in Belize and Namibia have attempted to riot, which led the law enforcement authorities to sequester them pending the investigation by the attorney general. He found the case to be the repeat of the text book situation where 250 inmates at the home island's detention facility rioted and were sentenced to death, where the sentence was formulated by the queen. He forwarded the case to the Supreme Court of the Supreme Council, late Saturday, the court returning the guilty verdict, and the Queen pronouncing the capital punishment sentence Early Monday evening. The 22 Moslem rioters were officially found guilty and later that evening, between 9:10 and 9:45, all were executed.

As in the previous case, no details were provided regarding the method and the disposition of the bodies. Some executions of the 250 were officially videotaped and screened for the convicts with the history of criminal offenses. The video screening has been considering as proper warnings regarding the Attland's law regarding any convicted criminal's attempted riot as a violent crime, subject to capital punishment.

Rumors have it that the first 250 were shot indiscriminately on the edge of a shark pool. It is known that graduating classes of the Maarheinigt basic training course serve as the firing squad, both in order to experience a rite of passage and as a conditioning or desensitization experience.

The Kingstad University gave me the map of the National Accelerator Complex

Besides the Business Communications course I teach at a school for permanent residents in Miklasgard, I also teach scientific report writing

One of the students arranged for me to take a tour of a part of the National Accelerator Complex, which was founded by King Yarl. University of Kingstad Institute of High Energy Physics (another of King's brainchild ideas) operates many of scientific projects throughout the complex.

The schematic layout is not to scale nor is geographically correct.

I visited the J7-JS2 facility, which is outside Karolinga, right next to the airport (and what seems to be one fo the well-secured military aircraft manufacturing plant), and the T1/J1 facility seems right next to it, if you look at the map. The T1 facility, actually, is more than 40 miles away at the Lievingbron Air Force Base and Space Center. The other terminus (T3/J5) of the A2 Linac is at the Soderstrand Space Center. It is very convenient for the military, since it can control all of the operations of the Linac.

The original portion of the complex that King Yarl had envisioned and built is the A1 and A3 linacs, where A1 was originally reached from T2 to C. The C installation now is a dedicated collider facility.

I don't know where the rest of the injector, T2 and T4 sites are. Most of them have no geographical names attached.

I was told that the Plutonium-238 which was in such short supply for space mission's power generators (see this Space article) is made at the A3 T1 and T3 facilities, and since the article's release, Attland has already produced more than 5 pounds of the isotope. What has worried international nuclear watchdog organizations is that Attland has never signed any nuclear treaties, because it has a certified, non-breeder reactor facilities, but it can now manufacture any strategic isotope and metal at any of the National Accelerator Complex target facilities. The T1 and T3 facilities are also the locations where slugs for the electron resonance weapon are made. (Alternative names for the weapon is plasma cascade, electron discharge cascade, the lightning bomb, etc)

What must be a feasibility and demonstration project, using the NAC facilities the University of Kingstad has synthesized over 11 pounds of gold, 25 pounds of thorium pounds of uranium and 5 pound quantities of other rare metals.