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Chris Purtz, Cal linebacker (#44), played in his second bowl game at San Diego’s Qualcom Stadium December, 2006. Chris Purtz had two tackles against Texas A&M in the Holiday Bowl victory. Earlier in the 2006 season, Chris Purtz registered four solo tackles and a first career sack against Portland, 42-16. In the 109th Big Game, Chris Purtz was photographed with teammates holding the “axe” celebrating still another win over Stanford 26-17.The 2005 season saw Chris Purtz in eleven games and ending the season with 6 tackles in the New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Stanford games. LA’s Rose Bowl was the location where Chris Purtz recovered a fumble in the UCLA game. Chris Purtz ended the season with Cal’s winover BYU at the 2005 Las Vegas Bowl.

In 2004, Chris Purtz appeared in Cal’s first two games of the season, Air Force and New Mexico State. In 2003, Chris Purtz redshirted while working on the scout team.

As a graduate of Clovis West High School in Fresno, Ca, Chris Purtz was named in his conference as Defensive Player of the Year. He was on the Fresno Bee’s 1st Team All-Valley. Rivals.com ranked Chris Purtz No.25 linebacker in the nation, and was All-American by Prep-Star magazine. Pac/West/Insiders.com ranked Chris Purtz 11th among linebackers in the West. While at Clovis West, Chris Purtz attended a leadership training at Stanford and was selected first alternate for Boy’s State.

At the Nike Camp held in Palo Alto May, 2002, Chris Purtz, then a junior, posted stats as follows: 6′, 219 lbs, forty-4.53 secs, twenty yard shuffle-4.14, bench rep- 25, bench max-325 lbs, squat max-490 lbs, vertical- 32″, GPA 3.8.

Chris Purtz was chosen to play in the 2003 CaliFlorida Bowl at Mt. Sac in Los Angeles. While at Clovis West High, he completed 104 tackles and seven sacks. Christopher Purtz graduated with honors a semester early and signed with Cal for the spring 2003 semester.

A three-time Scholar-Athlete award recipient, Chris Purtz is a Political Science major at Cal and a former member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Chris Purtz was born in Hinsdale, Illinois November 12, 1984 to parents Harvey and Leslie Purtz of Fresno, Ca. His brother, Eric, is a pilot for the US Air Force stationed at Travis Air Force.

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If you think a Who’s Who directory is merely a glorified phone book of elite companies, you are missing out on one of the best kept secrets. A good Who’s Who directory not only provides an accurate biography of your company in a registry, but it provides a network for members to compare notes, share industry tips and tricks - and bring you current, useful industry news and insights; all while helping you build a reputation of success. Becoming one of the amazing members of Madison’s Who’s Who is certainly worth looking in to.
The first Who’s Who was published as a 250 page volume in 1849 and had no biographical content but only thirty-nine lists of ranks and appointments and the names of those holding them. These included the Royal Household, members of the House of Peers and House of Commons, judges, archbishops and British envoys abroad.
In 1897 a change of ownership brought about the biographical style that we have today. Bernard Shaw was the first Who’s Who nominee to answer the question “What is your favorite recreation?” It is so highly revered that Winston Churchill intervened during WW II to assure that Who’s Who’s made it to press.
Madison Who’s Who directories have come a long way since those times. In fact, almost every organization or institution also keeps their own who’s who. There’s a who’s who of outstanding students in America as well as a Who Who’s of the most recognized teachers and even a Who’s Who of lawyers and a Who’s Who of athletes. Every company has its own roster’s of who’s who and every profession looks within it’s Who’s Who has professional listings for some of the world’s most prominent professionals, including attorneys. It appears that finding a top rated attorney isn’t as easy as it once was. As such, there are many new professional rating services out there that actually let users rate professionals. The ratings are then made available to the public. Think of it as the consumer reports of professionals. One such professional rating website is lawyerratingz.com. The site allows people compare ratings and read reviews on attorneys in their area as well as across the U.S.
While there are many legitimate Who’s Who biographical directories, some unscrupulous individuals have created Who’s Who scams that involve the selling of “memberships” in Who’s Who directories that are created online and through instant publishing services. These are essentially thinly veiled scams designed to get individuals to part with their money and not some exclusive directory like the legitimate Who’s Who published by professional directories like Madison Who’s Who, which have an elaborate selection process.
Often the companies that “own” these registries are recently incorporated and the few individuals listed in them (who often post that on their web sites) are people who are being listed in the directory as a marketing tactic. Therefore, the publication of their names in these directories is just a form of vanity publishing, and doesn’t really accomplish the professional networking that these directories were intended for.
Often blogs or forum posts that discuss these scams have entries by someone who is stating that they used the directory to make valuable business contacts, but these posts cannot be verified and are like other online reviews that provide no verification of the consumer or user’s identity. If you want to benefit from all of the opportunities provided by professional directories, it’s important to choose a directory that is reputable, such as Madison Who’s Who.

Madison Who’s Who is a professional directory where you can find high quality professionals without the risk of losing.
If you’re trying to build your professional network, then Madison Who’s Who is a tremendous tool for you. It can help you gain additional business exposure, career expansion, and job recruitment. Madison Who’s Who professional directory is constantly growing. Their research staff may choose candidates through research. They also get candidates through professional associations and societies, trade organizations, or newspapers and magazines. Candidates may also be nominated by a colleague via Madison Who’s Who website.
Many professional Who’s Who directories specialize in providing its members with current biographical information of Executives and Professionals in virtually every industry.
This is to help people maximize their networking capabilities. To do this Madison Who’s Who allows you to search for members in their online registry. You can search by almost any criteria. You may select criteria such as, company name, industry, title, name etc. For anyone wanting to build a solid professional network, checkout the impressive services offered by Madison Who’s Who.

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Frank Scozzaro: single moms, divorcees, bankruptcies, late pays welcome.
If you’ve never experienced the sense of joy and secure feeling that owning your own home can bring, right now is a great time to change that. YOU REALLY CAN own your own home, even if you’ve been through a divorce, or a bankruptcy, or even if you’ve been late paying your bills. The fact is buying your first home has never been easier.
But you have to start at the beginning!
The first step is to sit down with a mortgage lending professional to learn exactly what kind of home you can buy. So, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and picture yourself sliding the key to your new home in the door lock. Now exhale, find the phone, and call Frank Scozzaro at 262-308-2667. Go ahead, do it, you’ve got nothing to lose and EVERYTHING to gain. Call today! Or e-mail Frank Scozzaro at fscozzaro@rlca.com

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About the Company -Cellular Sales
Cellular Sales, Verizon Wireless’ largest authorized retailer, is recognized as a leader in the industry, offering excellent career and growth opportunities. Apart from providing clients with the most reliable network in cellular phone services, you will have the opportunity to work with a dedicated sales force that is committed to creating an atmosphere of personal growth and financial profitability. Cellular Sales is a unique environment which is tailored to the entrepreneurial individual who does not desire to be controlled by the limitations of a 9 to 5 job. In addition, Cellular Sales offers the highest commissions in the wireless industry! We offer a realistic opportunity to earn $3,000 to $5,000 per month. Your motivation and the highest commissions in the industry are a recipe for success. Expert sales training and continuous support are provided. Currently, we are interviewing for the greater Louisville and Cincinnati areas.

About the Opportunity
Are you a highly driven individual who relishes a challenge? Then Cellular Sales is the right environment for you. Working with Cellular Sales, you will do more than provide wireless handsets and superior service to Verizon customers. As a Cellular Sales representative, you will have the opportunity to:
• Service existing accounts
• Establish new accounts
• Provide wireless phone and internet services
• Adjust content of sales presentations
• Focus sales efforts
• Monitor competition
• Recommend change in products, services, and policy
• Resolve customer complaints
• Contribute to team effort
• Maintain professional and technological knowledge of cutting edge technology
• Seek to both meet and exceed sales goals
Qualifications
• Communicates information effectively and persuasively across multiple settings.
• Ability to develop and maintain compatibility and patience with co-workers.
• Develops and maintains strong rapport with clients.
• Ability to close sales by addressing customer concerns, demonstrating empathy, and consistently moving the customer towards commitment.
• High School Diploma or equivalent required-College Associates of Arts or Science degree or higher is preferred.
• Previous direct sales or outside sales experience is desirable.
Our growing family of customers expects the industry’s best wireless solutions and service. If you’re ready to display your mastery, apply online now.

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James Fontanetta, former senior vice president of Wit capital is urging major corporations to end their cruel practices against animals.
“Most people eat a hamburger or chicken sandwich blindly without thinking of where it came from. Chicken and Beef are neatly packaged in our grocery stores or served in to go buckets with nice colorful logos on them. In some cases, they come in kids’ meals with toys and games on the bags, but the reality is that they come from the abuse and torture of animals,” believes James Fontanetta. One of the groups that James Fontanetta supports recently conducted an undercover investigation of food giant Tyson Foods, the main supplier of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

James Fontanetta informs, PETA unveiled video footage from an undercover investigation of two slaughterhouses owned by Tyson in Cumming, Georgia, and Union City, Tennessee. James Fontanetta The investigation documented that workers violently threw birds against shackles, sometimes from 4 feet to 6 feet away from the conveyor belt; stabbed birds in the neck with knives; and hit birds with their fists. The investigator also saw workers use excessive speed and force when shackling birds, break the ankles of chickens shackled incorrectly, and play a “game” in which they stacked up to six chickens in one shackle when the line temporarily stopped. The investigator also videotaped a supervisor who approved of workers’ ripping the heads off live birds if they became stuck in the shackles. In addition to this horrifying cruelty, adds James Fontanetta, workers were even caught urinating on the conveyer belt that was used to move chickens.
James Fontanetta gives another horrific example, investigators unveiled video footage from an undercover investigation of a North Carolina factory farm that supplies pigs to Smithfield Foods, the largest pig-flesh company in the world. The investigation exposed that workers cut off piglets’ tails and pulled out piglets’ testicles-all without any pain relief-and dragged injured pigs by their sensitive ears and snouts as the animals screamed in pain and terror. The investigator also videotaped a farm supervisor, who talked openly about how he violently beat pigs with metal gate rods.
Not even Bambi is safe. On August 26, 2007, a PETA investigator filmed the slaughter of deer at Musicon, Inc., a deer farm and venison sales company in Goshen, New York, states James Fontanetta.
James Fontanetta explains, deer are high-strung, extremely nervous herd animals, so any handling-especially by humans in a loud, strange indoor environment-is frightening to them. Our investigator documented that a worker at Musicon was kneeling on frightened deer’s backs in order to restrain the animals and then yanking their heads back by their ears and antlers to expose their throats-which were then slit while the deer were still conscious. Some deer also had a restraint door slammed on their heads as they were bleeding to death. In one instance, a deer was grabbed by the hole cut in her neck and yanked from the restraint pen while still conscious.
“You can stop this by letting companies know that you are aware of their cruel practices and will not stand for it. Write letters to these companies, emails and call them. Write your Congressman and representatives asking that they protect animals. If all of us make a lot of noise about this, they will listen. Animals can’t speak for themselves, so we have to speak for them”, said James Fontanetta.

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Reverend Edwin Ogenio has an apostolic prophetic calling. Edwin Ogenio has established churches and ministries in Europe and the U.S. since 1988, which includes cities such as Houston, Texas, and Hollywood, California.

Reverend Edwin Ogenio has been powerfully instrumental in impacting those in our society with self-destructive lifestyles, including drug addiction and prostitution, to change, and live productive lives.

During the past 17 years, many lives and marriages have been restored, and families healed, through Edwin Ogenio’s biblical and spiritual counseling. Hundreds of homeless have been fed, troubled youth have been helped, and many have been ministered to, prayed for, and encouraged. Many give testimonies of a radically changed life by the power of Jesus Christ.

In addition, Reverend Edwin Ogenio is and anointed singer, workship leader, and teacher. Edwin Ogenio has trained and developed leadership for ministries and churches, recorded two worship albums: “Prescription” and “Perfume”. Edwin Ogenio hosted the weekly ‘The Original God’ TV talk show in Houston, TX, and radio shows in Europe and the U.S. Edwin Ogenio also organized Christian music shoes and festivals in Europe, Houston, TX, San Diego, CA, and Hollywood, CA.

Alongside of preaching in churches all over the United States and operating in the prophetic and healing gift, Edwin Ogenio and his wife Sophia has a heart to minister to those in the Fashion and Designer World in New York City, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Edwin Ogenio

Edwin Ogenio believes that what God puts together in a covenant between Him and the man and woman, no one is able to separate.God hates divorce, (Mal. 2:16) because He hates, when people choose their own will over His. He knows what we need and what is best for us and He never meant for anybody to marry someone He didn’t call them to marry.
Edwin Ogenio explained:”When we enter a marriage on the wrong conditions God still gives us grace. We may have victories in battle like King Saul and anointing from a Prophet but God knows that everything that is not built on His choice will eventually crumble and come to an end, even if it means many years of marriage.”

Edwin Ogenio:

God had a “better” man to rule the people of Israel and literally replaced King Saul with David who was a man after His own heart, because of his willingness to humble himself in confrontations of wrongdoing. God’s intentions and choices for us are always better than ours. His covenants are unbreakable and everlasting regardless what comes against it. David’s kingship was God’s chosen covenant. Although he, during his reign, committed adultery and murder, by taking another man’s wife and killing her husband, (2. Sam. 11) God did not take away his kingdom.
David’s own son, Absalom, conspired and came to take away his father’s position as king. Absalom’s plans ultimately failed and he paid the price of death, while God was with David who still remained king. So you see it’s the same when God ordains a marriage covenant. No matter what comes against it, or no matter the turbulence you have to go through, if God has brought it together, He will preserve and protect it, as He did with David’s kingship covenant.

As Edwin Ogenio explained:”Although David had to run from Absalom, God ultimately brought him back and reinstalled him in his position.” Edwin Ogenio has encountered many people who have tried to leave their spouse with the intention to divorce but had to come back together. Edwin Ogenio: “They testify about their conviction of not being able to stay away from each other. In the end they also start understanding God’s purpose and destiny for their relationship.”

If you happen to come to Christ when married to an un-believer the Bible says to stay with your spouse if they want to, but let them go if they want to, because “You must accept whatever situation the Lord has put you in, and continue on as you were when God first called you.” 1. Cor. 7:17 NLT.
Even if the unbeliever wants to stay in the marriage, God may still have a great divine purpose for that. God may be using you to bring the unbeliever to Christ and the believer should allow God to work His will through it. (See 1. Cor. 7:16).

Edwin Ogenio tells:”It has never been God’s intention for us as Christians to be unequally yoked with an unbeliever (See 2. Cor. 6:14). Just like God warned the Israelites not to intermarry in Exodus 34:15-17 and Deuteronomy 7:3-4 “Do not intermarry with them, and don’t let your daughter’s and son’s marry their son’s and daughter’s. They will lead your young people away from me to worship other God’s.” Even the Israelite priests and Levites had intermarried with the ungodly and we see in the Christian world today that even Pastors and leaders of the church are being tempted to do the same. In the Book of Ezra, chapter 9 and 10, we can read about how the Israelites disobeyed this command and ultimately confessed their sin for this act. The consequence of this was that they had to divorce their pagan wife’s and send them away with their children. Even though it is never the intention of God to see anybody divorce, He clearly wanted to cleanse the Israelites from this unrighteousness of people being in a marriage relationship they are not supposed to be in. Again, what God does not bring together, will be separated.”
“Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said to Ezra, “We confess that we have been unfaithful to our God, for we have married these pagan women of the land. But there is hope for Israel in spite of this. Let us now make a covenant with our God to divorce our pagan wives and to send them away with their children. We will follow the advice given by you and by the others who respect the commands of our God.” Ezra 10:2-3 NLT

Edwin Ogenio’s conclution:”Thank you for reading this study and we know you will be blessed in JESUS CHRIST!”

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Frank Scozzaro: “How to get you’re your real estate career off the launching pad.”
Frank Scozzaro works in RLCA, INC. Among other things, Frank Scozzaro specializes in helping real estate professionals, like you, earn more money. How?
You Get 24/7 Service: OK, let’s say it’s Friday night, 9:30, and you’ve got a buyer who needs to be pre-qualified. All you have to do is call Frank Scozzaro’s cell phone and no matter where Frank Scozzaro is, or what he’s doing, your buyer is going to get professional, personal attention from him.
You Lose Less Business: When Frank Scozzaro is handling your lending needs; you don’t lose nearly as much business. Frank Scozzaro has ways to find money for just about any buyer you bring to him. Fewer lost deals add up to more commissions. And that IS the bottom line in real estate.

You Get “Frank Scozzaro’s” Referrals: Here’s a revolutionary idea. Mortgage people have always estate people for referrals. Maybe it’s time the shoe was on the other foot. Agree? Frank Scozzaro maintains an aggressive referral generating program, funneling buyers and sellers to those agents routinely work. Call Frank Scozzaro, and let’s talk about how you can work together.
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Nancy C. DiPietro created Give an Hour, a campaign that calls upon the more than 268,000 registered nurses across Canada to support HIV/AIDS- affected nurses in Africa. Since launching the campaign, Nancy C. DiPietro has received tremendous support from nursing colleagues and organizations. Surrounded by 200 of her peers at the international nurses’ forum on the HIV/AIDS crisis, Nancy DiPietro was stunned to learn that not only were women and children suffering from the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS, but also many of the nurses treating HIV/AIDS patients were infected themselves.
“As nurses in Canada, we have so many resources,” says Nancy DiPietro. “We work in safe buildings with well-trained staff. We have good benefits, including universal health care. We have opportunities to grow and learn….We can relate to nurses in other countries on so many levels. African nurses are women, they are mothers and some of them are ill. I know if I were sick, it would mean so much to me to have the right supports available,” added Nancy DiPietro.
Working within what Nancy DiPietro describes as a “strong team of committed and generous women” has enabled her to find the time to organize her Give an Hour campaign amongst all of her other daily duties. Nancy DiPietro hopes to lead the way for other nurses to give to their African counterparts in order to ease their suffering.
Nancy DiPietro’s career experiences as a nurse gave DiPietro the knowledge and skills necessary to create this meaningful national campaign. Building on work in an intensive care unit, operating room, post-anesthetic care unit and women’s health, Nancy C. DiPietro joined the McMaster University Medical Centre team in 1993 and became a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) in 1997. Nancy C. DiPietro worked with survivors of sexual assault and collected forensic information.
Nancy DiPietro is all too familiar with the effects that diseases have on patients - socially, physically and emotionally. “Many of the clients I see are vulnerable,” says Nancy DiPietro. “They have been in positions where they have had no control over what happens to them or their bodies. Survival becomes their primary focus, and they do what they have to do to get by. I believe that it is the same for African women and nurses dealing with HIV/AIDS on a daily basis,” added Nancy DiPietro.
Nancy C. DiPietro shares, “It is my hope that every nurse who can donate, does pledge the equivalent of one hour of pay each year to help nurses in Africa infected with HIV/AIDS.”
“Nursing is caring. Knowing that when someone is going through one of the most difficult times of their lives, you are helping to make it more manageable for them. That is the reward of nursing - being part of that moment,” believes Nancy C. DiPietro.

For more information about Nancy DiPietro please visit www.nancy-dipietro.org 

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