Zaiger's Genetics, of Modesto, California, is a company internationally acclaimed for their prolific tree fruit breeding enterprise. Their slogan is "a family organized to improve fruit worldwide".
Floyd Zaiger is joined in the company by his wife Betty, daughter Leith, and sons Gary and Grant. They have achieved global prominence for their fruit and rootstock breeding program, from over 35 years of hybridizing and development of parent stock of apples, pears, cherries, almonds, apricots, plums, nectarines and peaches.
The Globus Alliance is an international association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures. The Globus Alliance was officially established in September 2003, however it was created out of the previous Globus Project that had been established in 1995.
A grid is a persistent environment that enables software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational, and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations. Grids are currently in use at many research institutions and are being used to study subjects such as cosmology and high energy physics.
Liberator Online is a libertarian moderated electronic mailing list published every other week. It contains articles, reviews of websites, contests, and product reviews.
The Liberator Online mailing list was started in September, 1996, with around 200 subscribers. As of September 2003 it is the world's largest-circulation libertarian email newsletter, with over 50,000 readers in over 100 countries.
Spanish Naval Captain Manuel Martín-Oar (1947 - 2003) died from injuries sustained in the truck bomb attack on the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters on Tuesday August 19, 2003, which killed 24 people. He was working for the Spanish special ambassador to Iraq, Miguel Benzo Perea.
Captain Martín-Oar was born in Madrid and has four children. He had held various positions including one with the United Nations as well having been the assistant director of the Military Naval School in Madrid. His colleagues called him "easygoing", a good talker, and a big art fan. Although the first to die in Iraq, Captain Martín-Oar was the 86th in a line of Spanish casualties in the past decade on peace missions, according to the Spanish ministry of defense, including 62 servicemen who were killed when an Ukrainian-made aircraft flying them back from Afghanistan crashed in Turkey in May 2003.