 and a happy 50th to Erie. And a great congratulations to all of you, both working at Erie today and those who have contributed to Erie's great success over the last five decades. It's been a tremendous run of achievement and accomplishment and fellowship. I think it's just an outstanding way for us to complete a week of shared experiences, homecoming, reflections and looking forward to all get together as one great family and share a Buddha's lunch. Now, we did some research on what a Buddha lunch actually means. Now, you all know and Bita has given you very strict instructions that you all start eating at the same time. Now, the reason for that is that the Buddha lunch is something that was, that's a military term and there's two things that those of us who've been associated with the military know about food. Number one, there's never enough of it and number two, your buddies will try to grab the food before you do. So that's why you start at the same time and you're supposed to eat as fast as you can. But I won't micromanage, you all can figure out how to eat on your own, I'm sure. And those who are skinny will probably stay skinny and those who are a little bit heavier have figured out some secrets to success already. So I won't need to micromanage your lunch. Now, one thing I do, we thought we would take this lunch as a great opportunity. 25 years ago, coincidentally enough, year he celebrated its 25th anniversary and part of that celebration was to recognize progressive farmers around Asia. We're very fortunate to have with us today Mr. Serapio San Felipe, his friends know him as Mario, and Mario is a rice farmer here in nearby Rissal and he was one of the very first farmers to adopt IR8, was a progressive farmer who was open to modern technology. I'd like to invite Mario to come forward here. Let's give him a big hand then. Welcome back to Erie. Mario and his wife, Melba, who unfortunately passed away in 2002, raised and supported their family of six children on a 3.8 hectare farm right here in Laguna, Dubai. He's always been on the cutting edge of agriculture. He's a man who understood that to progress and to get ahead and to support his family well, you had to adopt and embrace new technologies. As I said, he was the first adopter of IR8 and like so many people who take on a new technology, he was looked at by his neighbors, somewhat as a, I don't know, crazy as the word, but they looked and said, this won't ever produce a good yield, but when he produced his first crop of IR8, as I understand it, all your neighbors wanted it to seed. And so that is, I think, something that we've seen happen time and time again. The flood-tolerant rice that's now moving across South and Southeast Asia has been greeted in exactly the same way. But any modern technology that truly benefits farmers will be taken up by progressive farmers like Mario. And we've invited Mario here not only to recognize his great contributions, but also as a representative of all of the millions of progressive farmers around Asia that IR8 has worked with over the past five decades. And it's people like Mario who really exemplify all that is strong and resilient about rice production, rice farmers, and rice systems. So I would like to once again thank Mario for his contributions to the future of the rice-producing world, so the rice producers and the rice consumers. Now for those of you who would like to know more about him, we have on page 27 of Rice Today, an article that features Mario and his contributions, and those who haven't got, alumni who have not yet received their complimentary copy, we have some extra copies right here. So let's all give Mario another big round of applause and recognize his great contributions. Let's now, I know this.