 going to kick it off. Good evening. How are we doing? Are you ready to shovel no snow on Sunday? Good. Good. Well, welcome to the 12th annual celebration. This would not happen if it were not for you. So thank you, thank you, thank you very much. It is because of you that ILAP is engaged in some noble causes. So we will celebrate that tonight. Before we do, I have to thank CTN, Community Television Network. I've been informed that I'm on a five-second delay because sometimes I just get very excited and say crazy stuff. But we will be able to watch this on Time Warner Cable Channel 5 in the Greater Portland Area and also on demand on their website, which is CTN5.org. I want to thank them personally for taping this event. The other thing they have done is they are actually live feeding this to one of the Trump rallies as a politics on my sleeve. Yes, sir. But they're live feeding it to show how saying some people can be in the sea of insanity. So here, here. So allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kerem Durda, born in Pakistan of Turkish parents, came to the United States when I was 17 and a half, went to an all Benedictine Catholic College, which I did not know at the time. It is very funny. Over beer one day I will tell you the story. Came over to UNH, met my wife in 1993. So it's a good day. And settled in Maine. Because I was born in Pakistan of Turkish parents, came to the United States and have been fortunate enough to work and run a couple of global companies. I am the poster child for Homeland Security, what not to do. I can give you secrets about Homeland Security that you may not know of. Including, including if you ever fly out of Manchester airport and you get agitated because you feel you've been picked on or because of some ignorant comment, there's actually a time out section. I know because I've been in the time out section many a time. Many a time. So I'm blessed with three kids, a sophomore and a boy and two girls in the seventh and fifth grade. I am under strict orders by them and my dear wife not to embarrass them. I can embarrass myself but I cannot embarrass them. So that is my story and I'm sticking to it. If you do Google me, you'll find out some interesting stories about me but one interesting thing is there have been 68 different versions of my last name. Inclusive of the all famous, can I please speak to Mr. Dirtbag? Which creates an interesting dynamic because it's mostly telemarketers and then I get to say to them what is your name and that's really that that's when the wall breaks down and they start talking to you which is interesting. So I want to take the opportunity to introduce a dear friend of mine, the executive director of ILAP. She has been working since 2000 to better lives. She's passionate, articulate, has concern and care, is a decent human being. And I'd like her to come up here and say a couple of words. Thank you, Sue. Thank you for having me. Good evening and welcome to ILAP's 12th annual SELA Soiree. Thank you all so much for coming this evening. Thank you for supporting ILAP, for supporting our immigrant community and for helping to make this another sold out event again this year. Thanks so much. First I'd like to thank our event sponsors and our raffle donors. You can find them listed in our program. If you see them tonight, please thank them. Many have been donating year after year and without them we would not have a SELA Soiree. So we really appreciate that support. I'd also like to recognize our incredible planning committee and especially Sally Newhall from Sea Glass Events who's our event coordinator, our development director Loretta Prescott, Olivia Orr on staff and all the incredible volunteers who helped put this event together tonight. Thank you so much. And a special thank you to Karim Durdog for being our emcee tonight. We really appreciate that. Thanks so much. So every year ILAP serves over 2,000 people helping them gain legal status. Another thousand people come to our education and outreach events. So how many people can you imagine it takes to get this work done? Well, at ILAP we have just nine staff and over 200 volunteers who help support them to get all this work done. And so if you're a member of ILAP staff, board, a pro bono attorney or volunteer, can you please stand up? People and without ILAP, there would be no place for low income immigrants to go in Maine for help getting through that complex immigration process so that they can get the legal status they need so they can stay in the country and build their new lives here in Maine. ILAP staff and board are really the heart of the organization. It's their dedication and their commitment to ILAP's mission to really make ILAP such an amazing organization and we really appreciate everything they do. I'd also like to recognize somebody else who's really was the heartbeat that started ILAP. Beth Stickney was ILAP's founding executive director. I know she's in the room here tonight. She can see it over here. Beth is recently back from Italy and we're so glad to have her back in Maine. Beth had the foresight in the vision 23 years ago to start a pro bono project with a few volunteer attorneys. I think a few of them are in the room this evening representing asylum seekers. And as the immigrant community grew over the years ILAP has grown as well. In 2000 we became a staffed organization and we now as I said have nine staff and 200 volunteers serving 2,000 people a year. So it's really incredible and ILAP was really the foundation of what has now become a network of organizations, advocacy groups, service providers, leaders in the business and government who are all supporting and welcoming our immigrant community. So we really, if it weren't for Beth, we wouldn't have ILAP and this would be a very different place. We really appreciate and gratitude for everything that she's done and for her continued support and advocacy for the immigrant community. Thank you. Have better time for us to gather together and celebrate our immigrant community. When you can't open a newspaper, you can't churn on the TV or the radio without hearing ugly words of anger and fear and hatred and racism. These are poisonous words that encourage dangerous action and response. But we can counter that intolerance with positive words of celebration, support and inclusion and action that promotes a community where we celebrate and we appreciate our diversity and we accept and understand our differences. And by being here tonight, you're part of that message because you understand the important role that immigrants play in our community. You understand the diversity and culture they bring, the new ideas, the skills and the talents that they bring to our workforce. They bring diversity and vibrancy to our community. And that diversity is what is and what always will be part of our society, a real critical part. So thank you all. And take this energy with you. Take it back with you to talk with your family, your friends and your community, people in your community because celebrating our immigrant community here tonight and then outside the doors after we've left is the way that we will be able to overcome that fear and hatred and racism that we see out there. We really appreciate you being part of the celebration tonight to help celebrate and support I LAP to support our immigrant community. We have a really exciting program ahead of us this evening. We have a quaba ensemble, which is a West African dance and drum group. We're really thrilled to have them here. We also have many others have helped to make this a beautiful and delicious evening. We have Empire, Taco Trio and Jewel of India and Coffee by Design. We also have Dogfish at the bars, Adam Burke who helped with coaching, A.V. Technic with the light and sound and Del Nagoy who had the beautiful outfits you've seen on our raffle volunteers. And of course, Pandora who's brought us once again these beautiful lights. We really appreciate that. So I hope you all had a chance to buy some raffle tickets. I do want to let you know that we will be picking the winners at the end of the program this evening. And you do need to be present in order to win. So make sure you hold on to those tickets and listen in at the end. We also have some dessert and coffee that will be following the performance. So I hope you enjoy the evening. Thank you again so much for coming. And I will turn things back to Karim. Thank you. Sue in confidence told me that she's thinking of running for the governorship. I say yes. It's about time actually, a woman who believes in immigration rights. I don't know. I think it's time. I think it's time. I am thankful for iLab to select me for this for this honor. Loretta told me that she saw me on hosting Turkish Idol, the pop show. I don't know. I think she watches way too much TV, especially international TV. I don't recommend it. The soap operas are really droll and boring. And they go on and on for years. So I would recommend watching Turkish TV, Pakistani TV, whole different story, whole different story. So hey, look, it's time. So I want to welcome the Akamwa ensemble out here. You know that music is a part of life. It's the rhythm that keeps us going. It gets us through some tough times. It helps us celebrate some good times. I hope that you enjoy them. I hope you clap with them and you dance with them. Because if you don't, I'm coming around you and we're going to do it together. So let's give a warm hand out. I said, move away. The new boogeyman is in town. You see that dancing? I'm a firm believer. We listen to that music. We at least live two years longer with the energy. And I've been told I can't move my feet because I'm supposed to present, but I can't help it. Come on. Boogey is about telling stories, stories. And I am one of those many millions of people that have stories came to make a life in the United States, thanks to the nobility and grace of many, many people. And I think there's nobility and grace in what iLab does. There's nobility and grace in the life we try to create. Whether it's trying to survive the visa immigration, the visa process or the word permit process, or having somebody advocate for us. I strongly believe to the bottom of my core and my dancing feet. That what iLab does is noble and graceful. It helps us create stories. Yes. It helps us create stories. It helps us tell our stories. And we have a special, special speaker who was going to tell us her very, very valuable story. So I welcome Carmen Sanchez. Please. Thank you. I'm going to tell you my story, how iLab helped me to United States for love. I have to live Peru, all my own business. I decide to take a raise and live everything behind. When I got here, unfortunately, the thing changed. I found myself in abuse marriage. In that time, I feel alone, trapped. I lost a sense of what I was. One day, a nurse was able to see my eyes, the pain I was feeling. So she was able to help me to go to the family crisis. Thus, family crisis referred me to set up an appointment with iLab. When I walked to iLab, at that time, I didn't have any proof. Nothing to prove the pain was my heart. The lawyer, iLab could open my heart. She listened to me carefully. The most important thing, she believed me. Eventually, I trust her, was able to tell her my story. It was really, really hard to tell her all the detail. Also, the process with immigration was long, but Jennifer was there with me throughout. Finally, was we able to get my legal status? Since to iLab, I smile and cry. Island means to me, protection, support, home. In other words, island means to me, one community, one family. Finally, I was able to obtain my legal status. Guess what? Today in the morning, I became America's citizens. This is the proof. Citizenship means to me a lot. Because it gives you equal rights. I feel that I am part of this land. I have a role to play. I have a big commitment. And also, I feel this is home now. The most important, I think, even more precious, I am here as my own person. Thank you, iLab. Thank you, Susie Rocher. Thank you, Jennifer Bailey. I am very grateful for your wonderful work that you have done. I will be eternally grateful to you. I said in Spanish because I speak Spanish. Actually, I speak Spanish. But I said, thank you very much, Mrs. Jennifer Bailey, for your amazing and extraordinary work. I am going to be grateful for the rest of my life. Thank you, all of you, for letting me to share in my, sharing with you my story. I appreciate it a lot. Thank you. Thank her for her story. I want to thank her because it's not easy sometimes to tell our stories. It takes courage on your part to listen to us and give us a little space in your lives. It takes courage from our side to articulate things that sometimes are sometimes very, very tough to articulate. And so we are gathered in this space to share each other. And I'm incredibly proud that you are now an American citizen. Incredible. When I became an American citizen shortly after 2001, prior to that, my wife and I went for an interview, which I think lots of us go to interviews. And I remembered the interview saying to my wife, so who is this alien relative? Because on the forums it says alien relative. And my wife, dear wife from South Portland, Wellesley graduate, you know, tough. He says he is not my alien relative. He's my lover. I was like, yeah, the interviewer pretty much said, we're done. Goodbye. You're approved. So the other curious thing is that, you know, I'm a soccer fanatic, soccer fanatic. And so I'm blessed with a couple of occasions seeing the United States and the Turkish national team play together. And I must say that I stand up for the anthem of both countries. I wear the jersey of the US team in the first half and then the Turkish team in the second half. It's not divided loyalty. It's just you have more fun by having two sets of jerseys. And so in that way, in that way, I want to thank my on the behalf of all of us for making us part of your fabric because it is our fabric. And I don't think we should let anyone tell us any differently. Now we're going to do some fun stuff, because iLab does a lot of work and we have to help them. Stuff they do isn't for free. It costs money. I don't know if you realize this, but they actually cannot apply for federal grants, because what they do, the work they do is with undocumented human beings. Isn't that interesting? They cannot apply for federal grants to help other human beings. But we can get federal grants to do research on mice. I find that curiously strange. But we are going to do a reverse auction. And we are going to raise, I kid you not, $25,000. We're going to raise $20,000. And then a dear friend of ours, Imad Khalidi, who is the CEO and president of Auto Europe here in Maine, has placed another $5,000 as a match. I have been asked not to leave the stage till that happens at great personal risk. I'm also a great poker player. I can take my clothes off for money. I urge you not to try me, because for a good cause, I will do so. So the way it's going to work is we're going to start with some large amounts, and then we're going to work ourselves down. And in the course of that, other than public shaming, the only leverage I really have on you is on your good conscience. And have some giggles and laughs at the same time. So just as a point of fact, and I wanted to read this out. Asylum seekers taking the case of the government without an attorney see an 88% denial rate, 88%. When I laps get involved, it's 97% success rate. So think about that. That's a huge impact on human lives that I lap hats. So in that vein, we're going to start out for 1000 bucks. I am seeking a whole bunch of people to donate 1000 bucks each. Now I know some of you. I will not call upon you yet. So there are some dear friends. So who do I have leading the charge? Thank you. I didn't even have to undo a button. Thank you. Thank you. Did you see that move the guy I'm taking? Did you see that movie had? I mean, I got jeans on, but I mean, that was amazing. I got it. I got it. Oh, yeah, it takes here. Conditioning workout. I think there's a DVD right there. African rhythm music. I mean, I don't know. Here's here's here's a here's another interesting fun fact. This is really interesting. So when the unaccompanied child crisis happened in 2014, I let was the one who helped the kids. Just just think of it. I left helped the kids during that 2014 crisis to have them safe harbor here. So now we have a potential second, third generation. Thanks to I laps work. Just think about the impact that that's a multiplier impact. You know, there's an ancient Talmudic saying you help one life, you help a universe. It's amazing. I haven't told that due to some system failure, not to be blamed on Microsoft. We need everybody who plays $1,000 again. And we're not going to blame Bill Gates for this. Yeah, did we get it 242 235 328 117 314 234. Thank you. Thank you. You just introduced me to your wife this evening. So yes, yes. We need one more. One more. Okay, you know, I'm going with the I start small. I'm serious. One more. I'll think I'll think yeah. Oh, 198. Yes, I will save that for next time. I do sing very, you know, thanks to YouTube, I can catch up on all my old Urdu and Turkish songs. Oh no, I do sing some journey songs. Remember journey? All right. I'm having a good time. I hope you guys are too. So next, we're at the level, another level. And I may join you guys. But before I do that, we're going to the next level of $500. And I want to give you a sense of what $500 does in Pakistan. Actually, when I was growing up, 500 bucks actually got us a whole month's worth of water via tanker. We didn't have water while going around it. You get it maybe once a week. So 500 bucks paid to bribe the water tanker guy to come to our neighborhood and give us water. So just, you know, 500 bucks. But what 500 bucks more importantly, or as importantly does is gives I lap the opportunity to have an attorney to represent a human being who's fled violence, persecution, intolerable pain that we sometimes cannot relate to, and at least gives them a leg up in the immigration process. That's what 500 bucks does. So I want some $500. Give us 500 bucks. Yes. Thank you. So I'm going to read out the numbers that they were going to thank them. 322 137 336 187 342 346 301 171 207. This is this is just a lot of fun. I must thank you guys. I'm just so sweet. So sweet. So not a fun fact. Not a fun fact. And this is this is that this is actually a true story. When I was applying when I was applying for my green car, actually, you know, in the old days, you had to go through multiple, multiple processes. And so you had to go through this visa H1B, everybody knows a H1B process, and then you go through this O visa process, which I had to go through. So I was called for an interview in at the JFK building in Boston. Because I wanted to now apply for my green card. So I went there, you know, Yes, I've been here for the interview. So say, Well, we have a problem. What's the problem? Well, we've lost your file. You lost your file. And you're calling me over here interviewing me. Why? Well, we have to tell you that now is going to be another year in a half. Well, obviously, I lost my, you know, and but but I had, I had a colleague who knew a lawyer in these in these matters, made a bunch of phone calls. I had somebody talk on behalf of me to go in and say, We don't care if you lost the file. This man is not going to wait another year and a half in limbo. But that's what I lap does. That's what people like I lap do. They give us a voice in this Kafka esk maze maze that don't don't be fooled. It's all online by now is an online maze of trying to make sense of things. So that's where I lap I lap comes comes in handy. Potentially the other place I lap also comes in handy is for people like me when we're going to Homeland Security and the guy runs my US passport. And as this look and the reason is the reason is my name is misspelled on so many different places that some time ago, actually, I was on the no fly list, which makes for very fun entertainment. When your flight gets diverted to Rome, and you're singled out to come and have an interview, talk about 474 people really mad at you. Because they make somebody made a mistake somewhere and diverted the flight. So but here's where I lap I lap comes in handy because when something like that happens, we need support. We need somebody to listen to and say to us, I got your back, because now you are part of us. And the US makes us a whole. So in that vein, in that vein, we're not going to go to $300. And to kick it off. I pledge $300. I have a number somewhere 178178. That's actually I was bribed to do that. And I'm just kidding. Being Turkish and Pakistani bribery. Ooh, yeah, we know about bribery. So $300. Let's go. Otherwise, I'm going to crack down. Okay. 240 145 155 273 305 123. Oh, they're pointing at each other. 167. You know, don't do that in Turkey or in Pakistan. No, sir, do in Pakistan. Do not do this. That is that is bad. So don't. Oh, now you're really doing it. Oh, Bob Barker got nothing on me. Nothing. So you need more 313. Connor in Turkish beer, okay. So we're in which means three is in Turkish is so we need three more. We need to get to which is two. We go count down. Come on, guys. 312. That's our independence. 312. Yes. Oh, come on, guys. One more. You know, if I could tap dance, I'll do tap dance. I was gonna. Well, I'm not gonna say it. I was gonna say something political, but I'm not gonna. No. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not gonna say it. Claude, where are all these guys? All right, we have we have one more tranche to go. This is at 50. And we need to $50 200 a hundred. You know, your notes suck. That's what it is. I'm sorry. It's ridiculous. I mean, no, seriously, look, she gave me these things. All the color coded and all this stuff. And you know, I mean, really, I'm a guy. I'm a guy. Seriously. And I'm a hybrid mutt on a Pakistani Turkish American. I'm already confused. And you gave me these three colors. I mean, come on. Seriously. All right. I mean, somebody's gonna beat me. We got 275 307 326 258 244 236 162. Okay, hot dang it. I'm gonna do 40 push ups to you guys or I'll keep on doing push ups. I saw I how many more do we need? Five more. You did that again. Okay, we're doing I'm doing push ups till we get five more. Seriously. Let's go. Come on guys. He's 200 dollars in my pocket. We're 17 and a half. I didn't quit. I'm not gonna quit right now. Let's go. Let's go one more. This is a hundred bucks. And for that, many, many, many. So let's do 100. You know it. Come on. You guys got great food. I keep those hands up because I want to thank each and every one of you personally. Do we have that? Yes. 293 346 347 188 161 290 184. Keep them up. 345 249. Thank you. 333. Oh, yes. We got to go and play the lottery tonight. I'm telling you, you're gonna win some 257 111 233 170 375 150 109 154 159 241 354 267 127 180. Do we get them? You guys haven't seen some some funky dance moves. The thing is you do the crossover and go around. Remember the old James Brown days? They used to go on his knees. Okay. Do we want to go more? Absolutely. 50 is the last level. 50 is the last level. And I'll tell you what 50 does. I believe the on one of the one of the things that, you know, we say when we swear in, I feel like one of those Android, I tell you what 50 bucks does is it gives our fellow human beings a chance to hold the job to be able to vote to have a voice and to get preference when family members want to visit because as United States American citizens, they get that preference. So before I ask you for your 50 bucks, I want to tell your story. My dear mother has been coming from Turkey to visit us for the last 15 years. She's a sweet woman. But just like most immigrants and their families, they love to bring food like fresh food. She's nuts dates, you know, and for the last 14 years, she's been very fortunate that when she goes through immigration, they don't question her. You know, sweet old lady, they'll say something. She's perfectly fluent in English, by the way, perfectly fluent. She said, I don't know English. I don't speak English. Oh, keep on going. Anyway, but last year, they said, No, you have to open it up. So she got interviewed for three and a half hours, three and a half hours. And you know, she loves to smoke is a long flight from Turkey. And so she said, I have to smoke. They're like, you can't smoke here. And she said, I'm a 78 year old woman. I've been smoking three packs a day for 45 years. I need to smoke. So they get agitated at her and says, you cannot be agitated at me. You're the same age as my son. And who's your son? Get him to like, Oh, I think we know him. You know, because I've been I've been nailed so many times at Boston, I've been actually, I kid you not true story. I'm gonna keep it really short. But they ran my password again. Before I knew it, two people came up to me, escorted me. If you've been on an international flight in Boston, if you go down to get your luggage, if you remember your luggage, the carousel is here, if you look in the back, you see sheet metal, like, you know, it's like a mirror. It's not. It's the underground HQ of Homeland Security. They open up just like a Star Trek. So they took me in actually, and they interviewed me for an hour and a half. Yeah. So it's really freaky. Anyway, coming back to my mother. So they said, what is what is in these wraps you got? She said, Well, it's jam, fresh mulberry jam. What do you got over there? Fresh Turkish cheese. What do you got over there? Sausage. That's when the guy you actually brought sausage to the United States. He says, Yeah, but my son loves Turkish sausage. And I don't know how she said that, but they took everything else but left the sausage for her. And so when she came out, she's really, really mad. So that's what 50 bucks gets us. Okay. Sausages. So we need 50 bucks from a lot of people right now so that I can get sausage. If you want Turkish sausage, by the way, I'm saying tulumba.com. So 50 bucks. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. All right. I don't think I need to unbutton anymore, but I may have to. Are you getting up? What do you want me to say? 371, 174, 108, 114, 367, 113, 151, 255, 168, 179, 185, 209. The reason I can go because I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan and Pearl Jam fans are trained, trained to do so. Are you a Pearl Jam fan? Yes. Yes. Anybody more? What? My friend, where you going? We're gonna dance. We're gonna dance. We're not done. Did I say, did I say thank you to you guys? So special. Thank you. No, the kids want to come up. These darn kids come on stage, guys. You guys look good. You guys look good. So they have something special for all of you. And I almost took a Madonna like fall, whichever in pretty cool. But what are we going to say? Thank you. I'm Turkish. We dance like this in Turkey. We do. We do. I'm not lying. I'm not lying. Great. So are we going to do the raffle stuff? Yes. So the raffle. I don't know if you guys have taken out. Thank you guys. Thank you so much volunteering. Thank you guys for volunteering. So the raffle. All right, guys. So have your tickets ready. If you have cloned yourself. What? You coming to? Did you get a ticket? No, of course you do. Come on over. I'm just pulling your leg. Okay. All right. So our friend is going to help us pull some tickets. In the event you have cloned yourself and your true self is not here. You cannot win. So you have to be here to win or all the way down. So you you you pull one out and I read and I read it out. Boxes from each bucket. Okay, each bucket. Okay. Now, just like the Oscars. This has been approved by Price Waterhouse Cooper and Libran for following certain procedures and avoiding conflicts of interest. That's not necessarily true. But I thought that these handsome people should deserve deserve a hand of applause for not rigging the election on this one. So you start. So this is this is for the humanities package. Pick the right number. All right. Everybody get him out. Two, four, one, zero, seven, seven, eight. Yes. Is it real? We need to do a quality check. Thank you so much. So she gets them from back there, right? Oh, I got it now. Now we have the cuddle up package. Oh, cuddle up. Number is two, four, one, zero, four, two, eight. Hey, stop clapping before it's announced. Cuddle up package. Okay, next one. Oh, this this is a good one. Okay, this is the big beer package. All right, why don't you come up, come up over here. Mix it up. New series, two, four, zero, nine, seven, one, two. First ever mustache man to win a raffle price. Thank you so much. So you get to keep and she will she will guide you to your to. Okay, fine wine package. I believe that's what my wife used to call me, like fine wine package. Definitely brand new series on this one. Brand new. I know, I know, I know. Well, that's why we're an immigration kind of crowd, you know, we like to mix it up. Mix it up. four, two, seven, one, one, eight. I'm gonna take care of you. I'm gonna take care of you. What is your number? You know, both in Turkey and Pakistan, you know, national elections have been rigged just on the basis of pieces of paper. We did. So I'm gonna take care of you. I'm gonna take care of you. All right. So this is the main sports package. May you fare well in this endeavor. Okay. New series. Two four zero. Is it is a close to four zero? Two four zero nine eight three one. I got a pen. Do you need a pen? People have done worse with a pen. Yeah, I'm gonna read it again. And then I will say the same number in Urdu and Turkish for you know, multicultural effect two four zero nine eight three one. Also known as Do, char, suffer, no, art, teen, egg. Yes, you got it. All right. One more time. Oh, for verification. Are we? Let me say it with a clipped British accent for clear Lawrence Olivia articulation. Two four zero nine eight three one. All the way from downtown Abbey. Conflict of interesting that we talked about. Okay, last one wellness. Just like tonight, which has contributed to our overall wellness. This ticket gives you the key to wellness. It's huge responsibility. Huge. You got to win. I'm selling time. You got to win. Okay. I don't know. I'm two. I will say fun. Yeah, thanks for everything. No, we really enjoyed it. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Everybody gets to enjoy those great raffle raffle raffle tickets. And I want to thank the volunteers to they did a great job. But more importantly, I like to thank everybody who screamed. I just love it. All right. So I got I got two announcements, two announcements to make really, really quick. There's actually a conference coming up on May 21. That's really important is it's called empower the immigrant woman. It's in Hannaford Hall. And it's for and about immigrant women with a jobs form in the morning and a gala in the evening. So try to get information from the desks over here to get some information because it's a really important event. I don't know if you guys know this, but women make the world go around. So they do, they do. And on a serious, serious note, serious note, there's actually a study that was released by the Gates Foundation talking about the importance of women economic development in third world countries. I urge you to take a look at that. We know, we know the importance. We just need to do a better job. Second, second, second announcement. And Laura, I'm not going to read all this because this is ridiculous. So important, important things. We know Peter, Paul and Mary. We know them, right? Okay. So they have been kind enough, kind enough that in June, they're going to perform a concert, a benefit concert, where the proceeds will go to I lap. That's in June. And it's called one like many candles is at the congregation betham in South Portland. So it's a free event. It's a free event. There will be reception at the end of it. All to benefit I lap all the information is on their website, which is i lap main dot org. If you type in some other crazy website, you know, go for it, but it's i lap main dot org. And they asked me to thank everybody again in terms of Empire, Jewel of India, Taco trio, the guys, the guys from Whole Foods for all this, all the good work that they did and fed us. So I want to thank all of you. I want to thank the volunteers. I want to thank i lap for making me make some push ups. But from the bottom of my heart, I thank you for making a difference in everybody's lives. Have a good night. Thank you.