... the "Power Within" bother me because they are essentially the equivalent of opiates for the masses. In this case, the "upper middle / middle middle classes". As if singing kumbaya stopped most of these people from leaving the forum and then picking up where they left off, stomping on people as the go about their ways. The smarmyness, and to quote an article from BusinessWeek on similar type events, the "we are the world" side of it too much for me. At least with Springer, you know what you are getting, and there is no pretension of fibre.