Gun store owner sounds the alarm about Biden regime’s planned actions against the Second Amendment.
Texas gun store owner Michael Cargill joined the Alex Jones Show on Friday to sound the alarm about the Biden regime’s planned actions to outlaw gun ownership in the United States. Tune in!
The recent suspension of the expatriate levy imposed on employers have excited a procurement advocacy group, the Network for The Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), but the group is warning against recurring policy summersault of the President Bola Tinubu’s appointees.
The comment is coming less than 24 hours after the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA), in collaboration with key stakeholders, announced a temporary step down of the levy introduced by the Ministry of Interior.
The levy which is $10,000 for expatriate workers and $15 for directors is administered by the Nigerian Immigration Service.
Excited by the federal government’s decision, the group in a statement signed by its head of office, Mr Akingunola Omoniyi seen by THE WHISTLER said Tinubu has overtime demonstrated exceptional leadership as one of the most attentive presidents.
But Omoniyi expressed “Concern over the recuring nightmare of policy summersault under the Tinubu administration blaming it on overzealousness of appointees who often hide under the president’s renewed hope agenda to circumvent due process, due diligence and due consultation during policy formulations and project’s implementation.”
The expert said policy summersault is mis-governance with underlining economic and procurement anomalies.
He noted with concern that “Beyond the global embarrassment it generates, government policy or programmes cannot just appear, certain efforts and resources must have been expended before it became public knowledge. Henceforth, scapegoats should be made out of policy summersaults to serve as deterrent.
“Officials cannot continue to waste the resources of the nation on frivolities and activities that lacks such a critical and fundamental element of due diligence.
“What created the summersault in this case of Expatriate Employment Levy is basically lack of consultation by the Interior Minister. He ought to have consulted the stakeholders he is now engaging ab initio and this would have saved the president and the country such a global apprehension and waste of time and resources.”
Expatriate Levy Suspension: NEFGAD Warns Against Recurring Policy Summersault Of Tinubu’s Appointees is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
Does a traffic court judge have the power to remove a presidential candidate from a primary ballot?
On Feb. 28, Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie R. Porter issued a ruling to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot for Illinois’ March 19 primary. The ruling was put on hold to give Trump’s team time to appeal — and the case will not proceed after the Supreme Court halted a similar effort in Colorado.
Some social media users are questioning her ability to make such a decision.
“The ‘Judge’ who took Trump off the ballot in Illinois is a traffic court judge who presides over ‘minor traffic violations and Class A Misdemeanors,’” read a Feb. 29 Instagram post by Ryan Fournier, a conservative commentator. “A traffic court judge … You can’t make this up.”
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Although Porter previously served in the traffic division, her current role in the county division encompasses a broader scope of cases.
Porter won a 2022 election to become a Cook County Circuit judge. According to the Illinois State Constitution, circuit courts have jurisdiction on all matters except those with jurisdiction reserved for the state Supreme Court, namely, General Assembly redistricting and ruling on the governor’s ability to serve or resume office.
Cook County’s Circuit Court has three departments: county, municipal, and juvenile justice and child protection.
Porter is a circuit judge in the court’s county division under the county department. The county division handles the following:
Porter was previously in the traffic division, according to an archived copy of her page captured Dec. 20, 2022.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that disqualified Trump, effectively halting all efforts, including that of Illinois, to remove him from the ballot.
We rate the claim that an Illinois judge ordered Trump’s removal from the state’s primary ballot while serving as a “traffic court judge” False.
PEORIA, Ariz. — A rainbow beyond the outfield wall quickly turned into dark clouds, then sheets of rain, and not much longer Friday evening the San Francisco Giants had their second consecutive Cactus League game spoiled by a strong desert storm.
Unlike Thursday evening, they didn’t even get a pitch in.
About 10 minutes before scheduled first pitch against the Padres, the teams optimistically took the field for the national anthem with a tarp over the infield as a backdrop. Twenty minutes later, with the warning track flooded, flashes of lightning overhead and no end to the downpour in sight, the game was officially called.
Next up for the Giants is a matchup against a split-squad A’s team Saturday afternoon at Scottsdale Stadium. They will have Jordan Hicks on the hill, scheduled to make his third start of the spring.
— RHP Alex Cobb (hip) will face live hitters Monday for the first time since offseason hip surgery in a major milestone in his recovery, which Melvin said is ahead of schedule. If Cobb follows the typical six-week build-up for starting pitchers, he could be ready to be activated by the end of April.
— OF Austin Slater (elbow) was in the lineup at designated hitter for the first time since Feb. 24, the Giants’ first game of Cactus League play. Delayed by a “little bit of a setback,” according to Melvin, in his recovery from offseason elbow surgery, Slater is expected to play the outfield for the first time this weekend and is still on track for Opening Day. DH Jorge Soler will also make his debut in the outfield Saturday, Melvin said.
— RHP Ryan Walker “felt a little something in his elbow,” Melvin said, “so we shut him down for a couple days.” The cross-fire reliever hasn’t appeared in a game since the end of February, but “I think he’s good,” Melvin added. It wasn’t considered serious enough to undergo imaging.
by Joseph Williams
Study after study confirms it: as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted daily life in the U.S., gun violence surged nationwide, but disproportionately affected Black communities. Alarmed by increases in majority-Black cities like Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared gun homicides a public health crisis.
But data in a new report has found that the tide of pandemic-era gun violence also swept in a disturbing number of school-age Black boys and girls, creating an educational crisis.
Since 2019, gun homicides among Black youths have more than doubled, and Black children are six times more likely than their white peers to die from gunfire, according to the February report by KFF, a health policy nonprofit. The report also found that Black boys and girls made up nearly half of all young people killed by firearms in the U.S., even though they make up just 14% of the youth population.
Moreover, the report found that most of the deaths were classified as homicides — not suicides or accidental shootings.
“In general, children of color are more often exposed to gun violence than their White peers,” regardless of income, according to the report. But “children living in areas with a high concentration of poverty are more likely to experience firearm-related deaths, and poverty disproportionately affects children of color.”
Nirmita Panchal, the report’s author, says the data on the pandemic-era surge shows Black children are even more exposed than their white peers to deadly gun violence — and that exposure can have long-term psychological effects that can hamstring their education.
“There have been some (studies) that show that gun violence can also impact their school performance,” Panchal says. “Just witnessing neighborhood violence, domestic violence, mass shootings — that exposure can have negative mental health outcomes” such as “increased absenteeism, difficulties concentrating,” and other behavior issues.
The report examined gun violence and homicides involving children and adolescents from 2019, the year before the pandemic emerged, to 2022, when the federal government declared the pandemic had ended. The goal: to determine if patterns had changed, whether there were demographic variants, and if there are any policies in place to address the issue.
What Panchal and her team found was astonishing: From 2019 to 2022, gunfire deaths among children ages 17 and younger increased by nearly 50%, becoming the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S. In 2022 alone, some seven children a day were shot and killed, according to the report.
“During this period, firearm death rates gradually rose until 2017, then slowed through 2019, before sharply rising with the onset of the pandemic and holding steady in 2022,” according to the report. From 2019 to 2022, the firearm death rate among children and adolescents increased by 46% (from 2.4 to 3.5 per 100,000).”
At the same time, gun assaults “accounted for two out of three firearm deaths among children and adolescents in 2022,” according to the report. “Leading up to the pandemic, gun assaults made up about half of all child and adolescent firearm deaths. However, from 2019 to 2022, the share of these firearm deaths attributed to gun assaults grew from 54% to 66%.”
Perhaps the most alarming data point, however, involved Black young people.
Since the pandemic began, “firearm death rates have sharply increased among Black and Hispanic children and adolescents” and doubled among Black youths during those three years, according to the report. “In 2022, the rate of firearm deaths among Black youth was 12.2 per 100,000 — substantially higher than any other racial and ethnic group and six times higher than White youth.”
Even excluding homicides, Black children were disproportionately affected by gun violence, according to the report.
“Black and male children and adolescents were more likely to experience nonfatal firearm injuries than their peers,” according to the report. Since then, however, “disparity among Black youth firearm injuries and exposures has been exacerbated since the pandemic began.”
While homicides get attention, Panchal says, “I think one of the things we’re highlighting here is, in addition to these youth deaths, there are also many more youth who go on to survive these gunshot wounds.”
At the same time, those survivors “may face additional obstacles with both their physical and mental health” that their families and teachers must deal with, Panchal says. “A shooting doesn’t just affect the youth who may be at the center of that gun violence exposure. It also affects the well being of their family and, perhaps, their community.”
While the data are alarming, Panchal points to different steps taken to help children exposed to gun violence, including the federal Safer Communities Act. Besides tightening gun laws, the legislation set aside millions of dollars for anti-violence intervention programs, after-school programs and accessible, school-based mental health programs. The report also points to other federal initiatives, including programs aimed to boost Black youth mental health in response to sharply rising suicide rates.
Still, the report ends on a cautionary note about what could happen if gun violence isn’t brought under control.
“Gun violence can lead to increased mental health and substance use concerns,” according to the report. “The recent increase in child and adolescent firearm injuries and deaths come at a time when concerns about youth mental health have grown, but access to and utilization of mental health care may have worsened.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday did not rule out accepting a position from former President Trump in a second administration, if he’s reelected in November.
Asked by Fox News’s Neil Cavuto if he would consider working under Trump again, Pompeo said it was “flattering” to hear that his name has come up. He joked that it must mean he “didn’t blow it” the first four years.
“I don’t often comment on jobs I’ve not been offered,” he told the “Your World Cavuto” host Friday, adding “But if I get a chance to serve and think that I can make a difference … I’m almost certainly going to say yes to that opportunity to try and deliver on behalf of the American people.”
“I’m confident President Trump will be looking for people who will faithfully execute what it is he asked them to do,” he continued after Cavuto suggested the former president would expect loyalty. “I think as a president, you should always want that from everyone.”
He added that he would want his team to do the same.
“I must say, as secretary of state, I certainly wanted my team to do what I was asking them to do and was enormously frustrated when I found that I couldn’t get them to do that,” Pompeo said.
The former secretary was also asked about No Labels’ decision Friday to move forward with formally jumping into the 2024 race for the White House. The political group, created to build support for a third-party ticket, has yet to announce a candidate, however.
Cavuto pressed the former Trump official to weigh in on the issue.
“In the end, the political party system that we’ve had for a long time has put every president in office for decades,” Pompeo said. “I suspect this won’t be any different.”
“One of the reasons I suspect they’re having trouble getting folks to step forward is because it’s not likely to be a successful outcome — at either getting the presidency or frankly reshaping how Americans are thinking about the political process,” Pompeo added. “In the end, you can’t win with nothing Neil, you gotta have a candidate. And it sounds like they don’t have one yet.”
Instead, the former secretary said he still expects November to bring a rematch between Trump and President Biden.
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Biden forced to admit Laken Riley’s murderer in country illegally after liberal media asks about ‘politically incorrect’ term.
The liberal media confronted Joe Biden Friday after he went off-script during his State of the Union Address and referred to the suspect accused of killing Georgia college student Laken Riley as an “illegal.”
“Do you regret using the word ‘illegal’ to describe immigrants last night, sir?” a reporter asked.
“Well, I probably, uhhhh, I don’t regr—,” Biden stammered, before having to admit, “Uhhh, aghhh, technically he’s not supposed to be here…”
Biden’s bumbling response on his “politically incorrect” flub comes as he was criticized by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on CNN for using the term – shorthand for “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant” – which the left has attempted to sub out for “undocumented migrant.”
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“Now he should have said ‘undocumented,’ but that’s not a big thing, ok? What’s the big thing?” Pelosi said, confused on the topic.
She went on to say, “Well, we usually say ‘undocumented.’ He said ‘illegal.’ I don’t think it’s a big deal. I don’t think it’s a big deal because I think his focus was on the sympathy for the family. It’s a terrible tragedy.’”
Evidently, it was a big thing on Pelosi’s mind, as CNN’s initial question had asked about the viral moment Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) forced Biden to utter the name “Laken Riley.”
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was killed by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela on February 22 while jogging at the University of Georgia. Her suspected murderer had been caught by ICE in 2022 and “paroled and released for further processing.”
The deranged left is unsurprisingly skating past the issue of illegal immigrant crime and its impact on Americans and cutting straight to the heart of the issues that matter, like whether Biden regrets saying an offensive word.
The Nigeria Police, Abia Command, said it rescued 16 pregnant women and eight children at a baby factory in Aba.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Maureen Chinaka, made this known in a statement made available to journalists in the state on Friday.
Chinaka, who did not disclose the location of the baby factory in Aba, said the location was withheld to avoid compromising the ongoing investigation.
She said the Police also arrested one Onyinyechi Okoro (29) and Ekene Okezie (32), who were alleged operators of the baby factory.
According to the statement, the rescued persons are: Joy Mathew, (27), Stella Okon (22), Bella Okon (19) and Idara Emmanuel (24).
Others are: Blessing Okon, (19), Blessing Edet (20), Promise Akpan (22). Joy Edet (17), Josephine Asuquo (19) and Glory John (19).
Goodness Peter (20), Ifeoma Ozoemena (22), Victoria Robert (20), Blessed Monday (17), Victoria Liberty (21) and Anita Sunday (21) were also rescued by the Police.
Among the eight children rescued are five females – China Marvelous (11), Nancy Sunday (9), Marvelous Sunday (6), Martha Ubong (2) and Deborah Ndifreke (2).
Three male children were among those rescued are: Praise Answer (2) Goodness Destiny (4) and Victor Aniebeti (2).
Chinaka said the victims were rescued when the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in Aba, using credible information raided an alleged baby factory on March 7.
According to her, the rescued girls and children are kept by Mrs Onyinyechi Okoro from Ihechiowa in Arochukwu LGA and Arondizuogu in Ideato LGA of Imo.
The PPRO said that discreet investigations were ongoing regarding the baby factory’s operations.
She, therefore, urged people to be security conscious and support police activities by volunteering information on suspects and criminal activities.
Chinaka said the police remained committed to protecting law-abiding citizens, adding that it would continue to ensure the safety of lives and property of residents of Abia.
Police Bust Baby Factory In Abia, Rescue 16 Pregnant Women, 8 Children is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
Joe Biden utilizó su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión en 2024 para adoptar una postura de lucha.
Biden no dijo el nombre del expresidente Donald Trump en sus comentarios, pero invocó con frecuencia el historial y las propuestas de Trump, refiriéndose a él normalmente como “mi predecesor.”
Algunos republicanos criticaron a Biden desde que entró a la sala. La representante Marjorie Taylor Greene, republicana de Georgia, cuestionó a Biden por el asesinato de la estudiante de enfermería de la Universidad de Georgia Laken Riley. Un inmigrante ilegalmente en el país es acusado de la muerte de Riley.
Biden se presentó como protector y defensor de los estadounidenses y su prosperidad, promoviendo políticas para aliviar los préstamos estudiantiles y reducir los precios de los medicamentos recetados.
Biden reiteró su llamado a los congresistas republicanos para que aprueben la ayuda a Ucrania, que está luchando contra una invasión rusa.
También pidió a Hamás que liberase a los rehenes israelíes en Gaza, a la vez que anunció un plan para construir un embarcadero temporal para ampliar la ayuda humanitaria a los palestinos atrapados en el fuego cruzado.
Hemos comprobado declaraciones clave sobre inmigración, economía, crimen y derechos reproductivos.
Inmigración
Dialogo sobre Laken Riley y el inmigrante acusado de su asesinato
Durante años, los republicanos han culpado a Biden de la inmigración ilegal, históricamente alta bajo su mandato. Algunos republicanos llevaban pins rojos y blancos que decían “Alto a la crisis fronteriza de Biden”.
Cuando Biden entró en la Cámara de Representantes, Greene le entregó un pin con un texto que decía: “Di su nombre: Laken Riley”, la estudiante de la Universidad de Georgia asesinada.
Mientras hablaba de seguridad fronteriza e inmigración, Greene interrumpió a Biden y le retó a decir el nombre de Riley.
“Lincoln Riley, una joven inocente que fue asesinada por un ilegal”, dijo Biden, pronunciando mal el nombre de Riley.
Algunos demócratas de alto nivel le criticaron por utilizar la expresión “ilegal”, argumentando que es deshumanizadora.
“Debería haber dicho indocumentados”, dijo en CNN la ex presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, la demócrata Nancy Pelosi de California.
“Permítanme ser clara: ningún ser humano es ilegal”, publicó en X la representante Ilhan Omar, demócrata de Minnesota.
Durante la respuesta republicana al discurso de Biden, Katie Britt, senadora de Alabama, dijo que el presidente “optó por liberar” a EE.UU. al hombre acusado de matar a Riley.
“Fue brutalmente asesinada por uno de los millones de inmigrantes ilegales que el presidente Biden decidió liberar en nuestra patria”, dijo Britt.
José Ibarra, el hombre acusado del asesinato de Riley, cruzó ilegalmente la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México en septiembre de 2022. Ibarra fue puesto en libertad condicional, lo que le permite ser liberado en los EE.UU. a la espera de nuevos procedimientos de inmigración, de acuerdo con el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés).
Biden no decide quién entra en el país. Los funcionarios de fronteras deciden a quién dejan en libertad porque carecen de recursos suficientes para detener a todas las personas que cruzan ilegalmente las fronteras estadounidenses.
Economía
“La inflación ha bajado del 9% al 3%, ¡la más baja del mundo!”.
EE.UU. tiene una inflación más baja que la mayoría de los países industrializados avanzados, pero no ocupa el primer puesto a nivel internacional.
Biden tiene razón en que la inflación ha bajado del 9% en el verano de 2022 a poco más del 3% en la actualidad, en medio de fuertes subidas de los tipos de interés por parte de la Reserva Federal.
En diciembre de 2023, siete países de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico — Canadá, Dinamarca, Italia, Letonia, Lituania, Países Bajos y Corea del Sur — tenían tasas de inflación inferiores a la de Estados Unidos.
Veinte países miembros de la OCDE tenían tasas de inflación superiores a las de EE.UU., entre ellos Francia, Alemania y el Reino Unido, que pertenecen al G-7 de economías de élite.
Crimen
“América es más segura hoy que cuando asumí el cargo “, dijo Biden, afirmando que el año antes de convertirse en presidente, “los asesinatos subieron un 30%”, “el incremento más grande en la historia”.
El crimen violento ha disminuido recientemente en los Estados Unidos, y Biden se atribuyó la responsabilidad.
Es verdad que los homicidios incrementaron un 30% en 2020, y fue considerado el incremento anual más significativo en más de una década. Pero Biden ignoró que el aumento coincidió con la pandemia de COVID-19.
Promocionando su Acta del Plan de Rescate Americano de 2022 como “la mayor inversión en seguridad pública jamás realizada”, Biden señaló la tasa de homicidios de 2023. “El año pasado, la tasa de asesinatos vio la disminución más pronunciada en la historia. Los crímenes violentos cayeron a uno de los niveles más bajos en más de 50 años. Pero tenemos más por hacer”.
Los crímenes violentos han disminuido desde los récords de 2020, pero esto es por varios factores, dicen expertos, algunos que están fuera del control de Biden.
Usando datos de cientos de ciudades, criminalistas estimaron que los homicidios en 2023 disminuyeron alrededor de un 12% comparado con 2022. Los números son considerados preliminares, pero los analistas de crimen dicen que si los números finales se mantienen igual, esto representaría una de las mayores disminuciones de homicidios en un solo año desde que se comenzaron a llevar registros de delitos en Estados Unidos.
A pesar de la disminución, los datos muestran que se espera que la tasa de homicidios de 2023 sea aproximadamente un 18% más alta que en 2019, antes de que la pandemia comenzará.
La implementación de algunas legislaciones pudo haber ayudado a hacer que la tendencia disminuyera, dijeron investigadores. Estas son el Acta del Plan de Rescate, que incluía financiación para iniciativas comunitarias de seguridad pública, y la Ley Bipartidista de Comunidades más Seguras de 2022, que financió ayuda a estados para reducir el uso de armas de fuego.
Otros factores contribuyentes probablemente incluyen un alivio de las disrupciones sociales por la pandemia y los esfuerzos individuales de las ciudades en respuesta a los aumentos en homicidios.
Derechos reproductivos
“La Corte Suprema de Alabama cerró los tratamientos de fecundación in vitro en todo el estado, a raíz de una decisión de la Corte Suprema que anuló Roe vs. Wade”.
El 16 de febrero, la Corte Suprema de Alabama dijo que los embriones congelados deben considerarse niños.
La decisión no tiene el poder de terminar los tratamientos de fecundación in vitro (FIV) en todo el estado. Pero provocó que varias clínicas suspendieran los tratamientos de FIV mientras analizaban la decisión y las posibles responsabilidades.
Desde entonces, los legisladores de Alabama han aprobado leyes para proteger a los proveedores de FIV de la responsabilidad civil o penal, en un intento de proteger los tratamientos de fertilidad tras la creciente reacción. Dos clínicas anunciaron que reanudaban sus operaciones después de que la gobernadora republicana Kay Ivey firmara la ley.
La senadora demócrata Tammy Duckworth de Illinois, quien tuvo dos hijas fecundadas in vitro, presentó un proyecto de ley federal similar para proteger la fecundación in vitro. Pero la senadora Cindy Hyde-Smith, republicana de Mississippi, lo bloqueó el 28 de febrero, diciendo que era una “gran extralimitación que está llena de píldoras venenosas que van demasiado lejos — mucho más allá de garantizar el acceso legal a la FIV”.
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SAN JOSE — Tomas Hertl, the newest member of the Vegas Golden Knights, thanked Sharks fans and the city of San Jose on Friday night after he spent the first 11 years of his NHL career in a teal uniform.
In a letter posted to his account on X, Hertl wrote that San Jose will always hold a special place in his heart after he grew up in the city, going from a baby-faced teenager to one of the players most synonymous with the Sharks franchise.
“When I arrived in San Jose in 2013, I was a 19-year-old boy who didn’t know anyone in America, didn’t speak a word of English, and had no idea where my career would take me,” Hertl wrote. “San Jose didn’t just accept me — it opened its arms wide and treated me like one of its own. This is where I call home. It’s the place I made friends, built my career, married my wife, bought a house, and became a father to my two boys.
“I will always be grateful to the people of San Jose, especially the unbelievable Sharks fans for your support and encouragement over these last 11 years. We had a lot of good times together and truly great runs. The memories will stay with me forever.”
@SanJoseSharks Thank you pic.twitter.com/E7OUh7UxXU
— Tomáš Hertl (@TomasHertl48) March 9, 2024
Hertl, drafted in the first round by the Sharks in 2012, was dealt by the team, along with third-round draft choices in both 2025 and 2027, to the Golden Knights on Friday morning. The deal was completed just before the NHL trade deadline at noon (PST).
In return, the Sharks received a 2025 first-round draft choice and Swedish-born center David Edstrom, 19. The Sharks are also retaining 17%, or $1.3875 million, of Hertl’s contract for each of the next six seasons, ending in 2030.
Hertl leaves the Sharks as one of the team’s most productive all-time players. He ranked seventh in games played (712), fifth in goals (218), seventh in assists (266), and sixth in points (484).
With Hertl, the Sharks reached the playoffs in five of his first six seasons in the NHL, making the Western Conference finals in 2016 and 2019. San Jose advanced to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016 but lost to Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games.
Hertl also thanked Sharks owner Hasso Plattner and former general manager Doug Wilson “for bringing me into the NHL,” and to his, “teammates, my coaches, and the entire Sharks organization for helping me become the player, the professional and the person I am today,
“San Jose will always have a special place in my heart.”