Cablevision Systems Corp. today is recognizing CBS2 HD as its HD Channel of the Day, as part of the ongoing "45 Days In HD, On iO TV" countdown. Available to Cablevision's iO TV customers on channel 702, CBS2 HD is the flagship television station of the CBS television network, located in New York City and covering the tri-state New York metropolitan area. CBS2 HD provides New Yorkers with the latest breaking news, traffic, weather, and current events through newscasts including CBS 2 News This Morning, CBS 2 News at Noon, CBS 2 News at 5PM, 6PM, "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric," and CBS 2 News at 11PM. Online users can also watch the CBS 2 newscasts streamed live every weekday at WCBSTV.com. CBS2 HD is also the home to some of the biggest names in daytime programming, sports and entertainment including "The Price is Right," Dr. Phil, Judge Judy, Entertainment Tonight, David Letterman, and a primetime line-up consisting of hits shows such as "CSI" and "Amazing Race."

Zinergi Corporation (www.zinergi.com), an international travel services company, offers many services found at large travel sites. However, Zinergi's uniqueness comes from what they don't do as a company. Patrick Burkhardt, E-Commerce Sales and Marketing Manager, explains how Zinergi set out to re-write the expectations of online booking and travel:

"Zinergi was born out of necessity, in a way. Many people in our company were against booking engines for good reasons - booking fees, cancellation fees, change date fee, and even name changes fees. Plus, when trying to book at places like Expedia or Orbitz sites you needed to be absolutely certain when you would travel because purchases would be final."

StrollerFit, an interactive group exercise experience for parents and babies, is pleased to announce the grand opening of two new franchises in the Houston area marking its fourth franchise in the region.

StrollerFit classes turn strollers into portable fitness machines that let parents exercise with their babies. The workout combines functional exercise with infant development and group support to provide a complete fitness experience for time pressed parents.

I am thrilled to bring StrollerFit to parents and babies of Northwest Houston," says franchise owner Jacque Butler. StrollerFit is a unique opportunity for both parents and babies to experience a wonderful workout with the benefit of a social network."

Flip through the TV channels almost any hour of the day and you'll likely spot some infomercial pitching a "get rich in real estate" system. While such commercials do well for the promoters, very few of the people who buy these "systems" ever make a cent as a result.

Chandler, Ariz., Resident Bruce Cresanta, in pursuit of his own familys investment enterprise, may have inadvertently changed all that with his simple software tool.

Amazingly, it allows anyone to invest like a professional and avoid the complexity of calculating the inherent set of problems surrounding real estate investing. The software, described as "phenomenal" by Andrew Waite, publisher of Phoenix based, Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine" and provides a low cost way of simulating one (or many) Real Estate buys against budget constraints, and comprehensively gauges both individual property and portfolio performance.

The AvantLink Affiliate Network has rolled out powerful new versions of its Datafeed Manager that served as the catalyst for the network's creation. These advanced and multi-faceted Affiliate Marketing Tools offer efficient and custom raw datafeed access, as well as a dynamic option that outputs search engine friendly content.

One challenge Affiliates face is the management of datafeeds from a wide range of formats, column structures, merchants and networks. AvantLink now provides Affiliates standardized access to all datafeeds. Options for retrieving raw data include the ability to select format, categories, brands and columns. All raw feeds are available through a custom URL.

Tron Jordheim, National Speakers Association member, will be featured at the Inside Self Storage Summer Conference in Reno, Nevada July 25th. Tron Jordheim is a regular speaker and session leader at self storage conferences and events throughout the United States. Troy Bix, publisher of the conference organizer Inside Self Storage Magazine, wrote in a recent letter, "Tron Jordheim has been a speaker at our Inside Self Storage conferences since 2001. He has developed into one of our key presenters. His seminar sessions are well attended and always get great reviews."

Zmandaâ„¢, the leader in open source backup and data protection, today announced a new version of its flagship Amanda Enterprise backup software with enhanced commercial-grade functionality to protect critical corporate data throughout an enterprise. Amanda Enterprise now features a new Zmanda Client for Microsoft Windows, major security upgrades and 24 x 7 technical support -- all in an easy-to-use, affordable open source solution.

"Amanda Enterprise has always delivered robust network backup functionality for a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions, and it is now ready for widespread enterprise deployment," said Chander Kant, Zmanda CEO. "With an even higher level of enterprise-grade functionality, businesses can deploy Amanda with complete confidence that it will safely protect data throughout an organization and is fully supported by Zmanda."

The Perth Leadership Institute (White Paper on the current credit crisis and its link with leadership development practices, both in the financial services companies and on other companies that consume these services. The White Paper argues that the crisis was due at least in part to a lack of business acumen on the part of managers and executives in the industry and that this has been perpetuated by the lack of leadership development programs that identify and develop business acumen.

The approach in the White Paper is based on the book by Dr. E. Ted Prince, Founder and CEO of the Institute, entitled The Three Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders, published by McGraw-Hill in 2005.

Rob Swanson Training Systems, a leader in real estate investor education announces the first Distressed Property Conference in Los Angeles, CA will be held on October 25 and 26, 2008.

Real estate investors seeking to capitalize on the opportunity in the distressed real estate and financial markets need to hone new buying, financing, management and selling skills in order to flourish in these seemingly tougher times.

Rob Swanson, Founder of the The Distressed Property Conference says, "There are new rules to follow as a real estate investor. Bank owned (REO), corporate owned and massively discounted real estate deals are available through wholesale market sources. Most investors just don't know who to break into that source of deals. To fully capitalize on the opportunity, real estate investors must learn exactly how to build a buying and selling machine, they need to find alternative sources of capital and they need to learn exactly how to read and adjust with the dynamically changing market."

With all the news of job losses and economic uncertainty today, the importance of making smart personal financial decisions has never been more evident. Author Curtis Hill, CFP®, has recently published Poor No More: Wealth Is Within Reach, a book that shows how to transform the life we have into the life we deserve.

Over his years of practice, Hill has been observant of what made some people successful and others not. In this book, he summarizes his observations and identifies financial pitfalls as well as behaviors that lead to wealth.

Sexual immorality has become rampant both in the secular and church communities. This lifestyle would be expected to be in the secular community because of the exploitation of sex in the media, on TV, in music and motion pictures. However one would not expect the same level of immorality in the church. For too long people in the church have been silent and or ignorant of this demonic attack of sexual immorality. For too long the subject of sex has been a taboo and not discussed as it should, for too long Christians have accepted as truth, the erroneous concept of human sexuality. Well its time for a change, time to start telling the truth, and time to start exposing the lie.

People who have triumphed against the odds to set up a small business are to be recognised in a unique awards scheme to be launched on Monday March 27, sponsored by Barclays and backed by Government.

The Barclays Trading Places Awards (http://www.barclays.co.uk/tradingplaces ) - now in their second year - aim to recognise men and women from all over the UK who have overcome various barriers and battled against adversity to positively change their lives by setting up in business.

The Awards - supported by The Prince's Trust, Business Link and Jobcentre

Plus - will recognise sole traders and smaller businesses less than three years old, who are still on the first rungs of the commercial ladder.

Digital Smoke has released a new version of Solitaire City for Pocket PC handhelds with new games, sparkling particle effects and support for devices with high resolution VGA displays. A new version of Solitaire Setty, the cardset design tool has also been released that allows aspiring pixel pushers to design their own cardsets and upload them directly to their handhelds.

Unlike most solitaire games, Solitaire City is played against the clock for points. The faster a game is completed, the higher the score. WiFi capable handhelds can automatically download the best scores from players all around the world for weekly and long term competitions.

The Drug Information Association (DIA), in collaboration with the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA), PhRMA, and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), will host eDrug Listing and Establishment Registration--FDA and Industry: Overview and Lessons Learned on SPL (August 11-12; Philadelphia, PA)

The FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) mandated the requirements for electronic drug establishment registration and drug product listing. FDA has adopted the use of extensible markup language (XML) files in a standard structured product labeling format as the standard format for the exchange of drug establishment registration and drug product listing information. Featured topics will include:

Lessons learned from the electronic registration/drug product listing pilot

Validation rules applied by FDA

Nuances of SPL lifecycle management, including findings from the e 00004000 lectronic listing pilot and early production submissions.

SPL Release 4 terminology

Product listing and establishment registration for various complex scenarios (e.g., export only products, product kits, etc.)

The SPL Vendor Showcase will provides an opportunity for attendees to evaluate a number of currently available services and tools as they are used to produce an equivalent final product. During this session, participating vendors will demonstrate their services and/or tools and present their results.

Raxco Software, the leader in disk defragmentation software, today announced an expansion of its partnership with specialty software distributor Lifeboat Distribution. As a result of this expanded relationship, Raxco’s popular PerfectDisk® 2008 disk defragmentation utility is now available from new resellers in countries around the world. The expansion follows significant worldwide sales increases by Raxco in its first quarter of 2008.

Raxco Software

Adding to an existing worldwide network of solution providers and resellers in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, the expanded partnership with Lifeboat Distribution has already resulted in new resellers in over a dozen countries, including China, India, Taiwan, Russia, Malaysia and Panama. Both Lifeboat and Raxco believe the timing is right for this new international push for PerfectDisk.

Award Winning Silverdell Plc and leading UK asbestos services provider, is pleased to announce that it has today appointed Chris Sims as the Company's Finance Director, effective immediately.

Chris brings over fifteen years of PLC experience from the construction and support services sectors. From 1999 to 2007 he was Finance Director and Company Secretary of Brandon Hire PLC, one of the UK's leading tool hire companies. During Chris's time at Brandon Hire he oversaw the growth of the business from turnover of £23m to £57m and negotiated and integrated around 20 acquisitions. From 1988 to 1999 he was Finance Director at Bakers Dolphin (a South West based travel agency chain) and helped grow the business from a turnover of £20m to £100m.

Sierra Club NYC Group releases a report detailing why and how the City needs to prevent rapid price spikes by planning and acting today. The group says Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC 2030 moves the City in the right direction in planning for long term sustainability, but encourages City leaders to include rapid energy conservation plans to respond to potential energy price shocks.

Its report, "Moving NYC Toward Sustainable Energy Independence," authored by Dan Miner, the Group's energy committee chair, requests Council to reconsider Intro. 374, previously submitted in 2004. Both San Francisco and Portland, Oregon have passed similar bills.

No, its not about blogs, it literally IS her blog. The author of one print edition and four existing marketing ebooks found that the material most in demand at her web site (http://www.freetraffictip.com), was the archived portion of her site. However, her audience continues to remark that they have a hard time keeping up with her tips.

So, she made them a printed edition.

Google does a fine job of helping people sort through the six hundred plus posts at my site," says Abayomi-Paul. The problem is not that the information is hard to find or read, its the volume. My average post tops two pages when printed out. At one point, a colleague, Rodney Rumford, suggested that some of the information ought to be turned into an ebook. So I thought, why not turn the entire thing into an actual book I could ship out to my audience?"

If you are looking for an unusual and special one-stop shop for many names on your Christmas list, your local tobacconist may have the answer and you won't have to spend a lot to get a great gift, according to Thomas Moran, President of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association.

"This Christmas is a great time to purchase affordable luxuries such as hand-made premium cigars, pipes, tobacco and assorted accoutrements for yourself or as gifts for friends and family members. Premium cigars are naturally celebratory and fit the holiday season to perfection at prices to match any gift level or budget," according to Moran.

LegalView.com, your resource on the Web for everything legal, is pleased to continue updating coverage of car and truck accidents for its comprehensive auto accident portal site, crash.legalview.com. LegalView launched the portal in late 2006, seeking to build a comprehensive and completely free collection of legal information on auto accidents, the top killer of otherwise healthy Americans. With the summer vacation season upon us, LegalView.com urges concerned drivers to visit crash.legalview.com so they can understand and protect their rights in the event of an accident.