| Gaia Online Hosts World's Largest Virtual Water Fight
Gaia Online, the fastest growing online hangout for teens, today announced its first annual virtual Summer Festival. More than two million teens and their custom avatars will have the chance to participate in the world's largest virtual water balloon fight in addition to shooting squirt guns at each other, swimming in a new community pool, relaxing in the hot tub, and witnessing the first ever Gaia Online animated short film. Before school starts, this is a chance for teens to truly savor the last moments of summer in true Gaia fashion. .
Dombrowski, Ilitch are rebels with a cause -- winning
Just to put into perspective how the Tigers are viewed by some of their cohorts, it is necessary to re-visit last November's general manager meetings at Naples, Fla., where the Sporting News gave its Major League Baseball Executive of the Year Award. It is an award, by the way, voted on by big-league executives. Handicappers would have liked Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski's chances heading into the convention. The Tigers a few weeks earlier had been at work in the 2006 World Series, which isn't a bad place to be in any season, especially three years after you have come within an eyelash of setting a major-league record for losses in a season. The Tigers GM figured to get his fair share of credit for the turnaround. Anyway, the ballots were counted, and son of a gun.
Blue Bamboo China Ventures' Seasoned Internet Executive and Team to Join Global Sources Team
Global Sources Ltd. (Nasdaq: GSOL - News) today announced that Tom Melcher and his team at Beijing-based Blue Bamboo China Ventures (Blue Bamboo), are expected to join the Global Sources team as part of Global Sources' online expansion in China. Melcher is expected to lead a new division focused on Global Sources' Chinese online media efforts. .
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LOS ANGELES - Walter Oppenheimer, an art collector and philanthropist who co-founded Helga, a line of women's special-occasion clothing, has died. He was 92. Oppenheimer died Aug. 1 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from complications from a heart condition, his brother Peer said. With his wife as the designer of suits, dresses and evening clothes sold in specialty stores, Oppenheimer launched Helga Inc. in 1947. He managed the business until the couple sold it in 1986. "Walter was of a different stripe. He was very courtly," said Sylvia Sheppard, West Coast fashion editor for Women's Wear Daily in the 1950s. "The rest of the Los Angeles market was full of aggressive young people. Walter and Helga were more traditional." The Oppenheimers collected art by Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and other modern European artists during frequent business trips to Europe to buy fabric.
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