Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - In its 5th year, the Mind Body & Beyond Expo will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center on September 13-14, 2008. The name highlights the event’s focus on the trio of the mind, the body and all things beyond that are in synch with the common goals of clean and natural conscious living. Building on the momentum and public demand for natural and healthy living alternatives, including green products and services, Mind Body & Beyond Expo will offer consumers the opportunity to become more educated about the latest specialty focused products, services, and health and wellness trends available within

ESPN - USA - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig wants the players named in the Mitchell report to bear some accountability for their involvement in performance-enhancing drugs -- and that is slowing progress in talks with the players' union on implementing Mitchell's recommendations, The New York Times reported.

Selig, while willing to forgo suspensions for players named in the report, wants those players to be held responsible in some other way, the Times reported, citing two lawyers who had been briefed on the talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.

That accountability could include counseling or fines.

"He wants a small dose of action and that will satisfy

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - The leading Internet marketing and online technology event for the multifamily industry, Apartment Internet Marketing Conference , announced today that Bob Parsons, CEO of Go Daddy will be the keynote speaker at this year's conference.

The charismatic CEO, known for his marketing prowess, an unconventional approach to online business and some of the most effective Super Bowl commercials ever, will kick-off the AIM 2008 educational conference on Internet marketing and online transactions.

Details on the AIM 2008 conference, which will be held in Scottsdale, AZ, on April 23-25,

"Bob Parsons is a perfect fit as a keynote speaker for this year's Apartment Internet

Daily Colonial - Washington, DC, USA - The super power image of the United States is dwindling among international eyes, according to a group of experts in the Jack Morton Auditorium Wednesday afternoon. The panel moderated by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and former Senator Sam Nunn paralleled this decline with the vigorous “Anti-American” attitudes have emerged in since the start of the Iraq war.

These perceptions served as the basis for the inaugural installment of the “Cohen-Nunn Dialogues,” an event was co-sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Howard-Gilman Foundation.

“Anti-Americanism has become an entrenched set of attitudes around the world,” said Andrew

St. Olaf College News & Announcements - Northfield, MN, USA - St. Olaf College President David R. Anderson '74 has announced that clean water activist Susan Seacrest '75, a recipient of last year's Heinz Award for the Environment, will be this year's Commencement speaker. The Nebraska native will deliver her address May 25.

In 2007 Seacrest was one of six people to share the $1.25 million Heinz Award -- one of the largest individual achievement prizes in the world. In granting the award the Heinz Family Foundation called her "engaging, creative, collaborative and, perhaps most of all, persistent," and referred to her effective advocacy for "protecting the health of our fragile aquifers."

"She

Los Angeles Times - CA, USA - Barack Obama's presidential campaign took the serious approach earlier this week in attempting to refute rival Hillary Clinton's claim that her time as first lady had the side effect of turning her into a grizzled foreign-policy hand. But the Obama campaign also got a light-hearted assist in making its case from Sinbad, the comedian.

Chatting with Mary Ann Akers, who pens the Washington Post's Sleuth blog, Sinbad scoffed at the notion that the trip that he, Clinton and singer Sheryl Crow took to Bosnia in 1996 was a perilous mission freighted with import.

The excursion's primary goal was to provide some entertainment

Third Party Watch - USA - A sampling of 98 Libertarian National Convention delegates suggests that Wayne Allyn Root is currently the frontrunner with respect to the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Of the 14 candidates tested, Root earned 22.45% of delegate votes. He was followed by Steve Kubby with 14.29% and George Phillies with 10.20%.

Several factors need to be considered, however. With less than a quarter of the delegates, it doesn’t look like (at this time) Root could win the first round of votes at the convention. In this case, second choice preferences become extremely important. A comparison of negatives between the various candidates shows that

iBerkshires.com - North Adams, MA, USA - A star, a secretary and a sculptor will speak at Williams College's 219th Commencement on Sunday, June 1.

The main speaker at the afternoon's commencement ceremoney will be Richard Serra, known for his massive steel sculpures. Some weigh hundreds of tons, and viewers can literally walk through the canyons formed by the curved metal slabs. Space, and especially the display site, is crucial to Serra's work.

Perhaps the best known of the speakers - at least to this generation of Williams graduates - is LeVar Burton. The actor, director and author has appeared on some legendary television series - as Kunta Kinte

The Williams Record - Williamstown, MA, USA - Richard Serra, renowned sculpture artist famous for his immense steel pieces, will be speaking at the 219th Commencement exercises on June 1. Actor and director LeVar Burton will be the baccalaureate speaker and former Secretary of State George P. Shultz will give an invited lecture on May 31.

Richard Serra

Serra uses rolls of sheet steel to construct the immense and beautiful sculptures he has become known for. He often requires the cooperation of specially equipped steel mills to complete his gargantuan masterpieces, as he did for Torqued Ellipses at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York.

Notable for their size