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      <title>About Chris Orsaris by Chris Orsaris</title>
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      <description>The 2008 Queens Businessman of the Year, Chris Orsaris embarked on his career in the automotive industry in the late 1980s, while attending William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, New York. After securing a job as an automotive mechanic, he quickly began buying and selling used cars for profit. He ultimately assumed ownership of a Ford dealership in 2005 and bought his own Mitsubishi dealership in 2016. Chris Orsaris’ areas of expertise range from marketing and media campaign management to human resources.

For the past year, Chris Orsaris has operated the Victory Auto Group, a 350-vehicle dealership that maintains a delivery rate of 200 vehicles per month. In addition to supporting a robust sales department, Victory provides on-site financing and supports a comprehensive service and parts department. From Victory’s headquarters on Boston Road in the Bronx, New York, Mr. Orsaris serves drivers from the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Yonkers, and New Rochelle. </description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>With more than 20 years of experience in the car sales field, Chris Orsaris serves as a consulting dealer at Victory Auto Group in the Bronx in New York City. In his free time, Chris Orsaris enjoys fishing in the Bronx, which offers a number of great fishing spots.<br><br>Anglers looking for a good place to fish in the Bronx can visit <a href="https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/crotona-park/highlights/11612">Indian Lake in Crotona Park at Crotona Park East </a>&amp; Charlotte Street. This 3.3-acre lake is home to blue gills, largemouth bass, and pumpkinseeds and features a dock at the Crotona Park Nature Center. Anglers can also follow the paved paths to locate more isolated spots around the lake. <br><br>Another fishing location in the Bronx is Van Cortlandt Lake in Van Cortlandt Park, which is located at Bailey Avenue and Van Cortlandt Avenue West. Anglers can visit this 18-acre lake in search of a variety of fish, from yellow perch and brown bullheads to black crappie and carp. <br><br>Finally, those who prefer saltwater fishing can visit Orchard Beach, which is situated at the far east end of Pelham Bay Park on Pelham Bay. Although anglers need to be careful of swimmers in this area, the beach offers more than a mile of shoreline to catch saltwater fish from the Long Island Sound.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Chris Orsaris functions as the principal consultant of Victory Auto Group, an automobile dealership with an accompanying service department in Bronx, New York. In addition to leasing and repairing vehicles, Chris Orsaris’ company buys back automobiles via the Kelley Blue Book (KBB) <a href="https://b2b.kbb.com/ico/">Instant Cash Offer program</a>.&nbsp;<br><br>The KBB Instant Cash Offer program provides car owners with a dependable avenue for trading in vehicles that adhere to trusted KBB values. To use the service, car owners provide information online about their vehicle’s condition, features, and history after responding to a series of questions. To capitalize on the cash offer with which they are subsequently presented, car owners must present their vehicle at a participating dealer to verify its condition and features, after which they can trade it in at or sell it to the dealer.<br><br>In addition to an instant cash offer, users of the service will receive information on where their offer stands within KBB’s trade-in range. The trade-in range represents the car’s estimated trade-in value, which is updated weekly. Values are determined based on multiple factors, including the vehicle’s make, model, year, style, mileage, condition, and optional features.</div><div><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>A Proposal to Expand the College Football Playoff Roster</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A well-established New York entrepreneur, Chris Orsaris engages with the Bronx's Victory Auto Group in a consulting capacity. With a longstanding interest in collegiate sports, Chris Orsaris is following a current proposal to expand the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/12/8/13882220/college-football-playoff-2016-expand-6-8-fcs">NCAA College Football Playoffs</a> (CFP). As detailed by Fox Sports, the lynchpin of the debate is exclusion, with a number of worthy teams each year not able to join the four that are ultimately selected to battle it out in the CFP.<br><br>Expanding the CFP roster to eight teams would effectively solve this issue, and could be coupled with a formula that fairly includes conference champions as well as worthy “at-large” teams. One downside of this approach is that it would significantly add to the length of the season.<br><br>Surveyed by CBS Sports in January, 2017, a majority of student athletes at top football schools felt that the physical toll exacted by the extra games would be too great. In addition, there is concern that the extra games would impact students’ ability to effectively transition to the new academic semester.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In 2008, Chris Orsaris won Businessman of the Year for the Queens area for his work in the auto industry. Today, he provides consulting services for the Bronx’s Victory Auto Group, a used car dealership. Chris Orsaris has worked in the New York region for his entire career and graduated from Astoria’s <a href="http://www.wcbryanths.org/">William Cullen Bryant High School</a>.&nbsp;<br><br>Bryant High School is currently working with St. John’s University to provide support for its high school students through a program called Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). The program, which is supported by federal grant funding, was created in order to encourage more students to attend college and university, especially in neighborhoods where kids might need extra support. St John’s provides mentors and offers extracurricular activities to middle and high school students to ensure their education prepares them for the next step and that they have the resources they need to apply for school or financial aid.&nbsp;<br><br>Bryant students have access to lunchtime tutors and mentors onsite. St John’s also hosts occasional events at Bryant to help inform and prepare students for education beyond high school and, hopefully, a successful career in society.In 2008, Chris Orsaris won Businessman of the Year for the Queens area for his work in the auto industry. Today, he provides consulting services for the Bronx’s Victory Auto Group, a used car dealership. Chris Orsaris has worked in the New York region for his entire career and graduated from Astoria’s William Cullen Bryant High School.&nbsp;<br><br>Bryant High School is currently working with St. John’s University to provide support for its high school students through a program called Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). The program, which is supported by federal grant funding, was created in order to encourage more students to attend college and university, especially in neighborhoods where kids might need extra support. St John’s provides mentors and offers extracurricular activities to middle and high school students to ensure their education prepares them for the next step and that they have the resources they need to apply for school or financial aid.&nbsp;<br><br>Bryant students have access to lunchtime tutors and mentors onsite. St John’s also hosts occasional events at Bryant to help inform and prepare students for education beyond high school and, hopefully, a successful career in society.</div>]]></description>
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