ONCE A PROFESSIONAL ALWAYS A PROFESSIONAL

I did not translate because her numbers tell the story.  She is cradling the MVP award of the professional woman's league in Portugal.  Her story in English, below.

Jennifer Risper é a estrela que mais brilha

...is the star that burns brightest  (Portuguese)

 22.11.2011 ás |  Miguel Tavares |  0 Comentários

Em Algés, mora uma jogadora que tem o seu brilho próprio e que vem trazer qualidade e momentos de genialidade aos campos de basquetebol da Liga Feminina de Basquetebol. Se o cartão de visita de Jennifer Risper já deixava antever uma boa campanha em Portugal, a #8 do Algés tem demonstrado as qualidades que a conduziram à WNBA.

Na Jornada6 da LFB, a base norte-americana do Algés acabou por ser a grande figura: no jogo contra o MRGroup Olivais Coimbra, Jennifer Risper foi MVP, rainha das assistências e atleta com mais roubos de bolas. No desafio deste fim-de-semana, a #8 das algesinas voltou a ser a figura maior na importante vitória da sua equipa, terminando o jogo com 20 pontos, 7 assistências, 5 roubos de bola e 4 ressaltos. Tão, ou mais, importante que os seus números é a capacidade que Risper tem de assumir o jogo nas alturas decisivas. Nos momentos decisivos do jogo de Vagos tomou sempre as opções correctas: fosse para finalizar em bandeja, ou para assistir uma colega melhor posicionada para lançar.

Depois de ter sido a atleta em maior destaque no jogo da Supertaça Feminina, Jennifer Risper continua a demonstrar a sua qualidade e ao fim de 7 rondas da Liga Feminina, a base norte-americana é a MVP da competição com as médias de 18.3 pontos, 9.4 ressaltos, 5.7 assistências e 4.6 roubos de bola por jogo.

20 POINTS
7 ASSISTS             These are one game numbers
5 STEALS
4 REBOUNDS (She's 5'9")

18.5 POINTS
5.7 ASSISTS           These are averages
4.6 STEALS          
9.4 REBOUNDS

We met this woman last night.  She joined a small community of religious people from our church.  She was there to talk about her change of career.
At the young age of xxvi she has lived more than what some of us can log over almost three times that amount.  The adversity that she has had to overcome and the joys that have been showered upon her all flowed smoothly from her heart as she spoke.
She has decided to give her life to God.  After a rather impressive professional basketball career, the numbers are there for you all, she has decided to be a lay college/university campus missionary. She is listening to the call to "Come and follow me."   She will be stationed in Nebraska, yes, THAT Nebraska and she will be the spiritual guide, the prophet, if you will, in the athletic area of the institution.
We hear a lot about professional athletes.  I personally totally lost interest in that universe 20 years ago.  Of course it didn't help that I was living in San Diego!  Be that as it may.  Jennifer Risper has been the object of great adulation for many years. Through Vanderbilt U. and through her professional career, as you can tell by the picture celebrating her MVP award.  She has left that all behind for the sake of the Kingdom.
We spent a wonderful two hours with her last night. I invite you to click on the link just below to see what it is that she is called to do.  This, I'm gonna watch.   http://www.focus.org/

YOU HAVE BEEN OBSERVED ATTEMPTING TO ACCESS A CHILD PORNOGRAPHY SITE

THIS IS A SCAM AND A VIRUS

If you get this on your computer, you must, I say MUST do the
following:
1.  Say "Oh saint and holy guardian angel of mine, keep me calm."
2.  Read all about the fact that you have been busted trying to access a child pornography site
3.  Read how you have already made it to the public list of perverted pedophiles and maybe even worse
4.  Of course you will see that your computer has been "locked" and can only be re-opened by paying $300.00 by anonymous card and putting the card number in the space provided here-on within 48 hours
5.  Now you can start smiling to yourself because you know that all this is not true.  There are some facts that are now beginning to sink in because you have listened to me and kept your calm, like I did.
6.  You read the instructions telling you to go to a list of six retail outlets to pay the $300.00 fine that will liberate you from the jaws of hell.

By now it should have hit you square between the peepers!  The US Department of Law and Order wants me to pay my fine at the 7-Eleven!!!  Through an anonymous pre-paid card!!!
Boys and girls, angels and devils, introverts and extroverts and other classes of "verts"... relax, already.  When this happened to me this morning I had more then enough evidence to know that I had been attacked.  I also did know that it's going to cost me about 50 skins to get my machine back.  But tell me, ain't that a far cry from $300? I was also assured that I won't lose any data.  Now that's really good because the machine that got bombed belongs to my son.  Sorry son, your Pa's a "vert!"

My computer guy and I were laughing because he was thinking about a real serious consequence to my status when he asked, "Watcha gonna tell yer pries'?"
We laughed heartily and he told some true stories about other customers who actually fell for it out of fear and out of guilt in a case or two.  They only found out that they had been duped when their computer never did get unlocked despite the 300 simolians that they had dropped at their friendly WalMart.

I have written to you before about Internet shenanigans.  It never seems to end.  This is a very sophisticated and well organized worldwide attack.  So be careful.  Keep a $50.00 bill hidden somewhere in case you have to bail youself out.  The last thing you have to worry about is that Eric Holder is coming after you.

But the way, this kind of took the shine off the Lady in Manchester, England who was trying to escape from paying me for work I had done for her. Much to her credit, she paid.

Until next time.  Cheerioooo!!