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Thats about all i had today in terms of abcs spot in this thing. Again, we want to thank you for having us part of the summit. Its a great honor to be here. This is a really unique thing for us and that we find ourselves more commonly at odds in having to react to specific issues. We love to be here on the front end of them and be involved with issues as they are in front of us and we hope to be part of solution for everything that concerns you folks. Thank you very much. [ applause ] okay. We are doing a little q and a. Go ahead. [inaudible] i have two different questions, as an entrepreneur,...

That professional bartenders job is in question. Im sure its around the whole notion of where you can drink alcohol and the idea of one of those courses or presentations or event would whether or not it would constitute a public, somebody opened to the public or whether it was essentially amounting to commercial use of alcohol. And, you know, frankly the law is pretty clear on it and we have not or give a quota to a situation where there is any kind of commercial use of alcohol without the benefit of abc license. There are innovative ways to get ourselves into a scenario, a licensed scenario t...

Whole notion of where you can drink alcohol and the idea of one of those courses or presentations or event would whether or not it would constitute a public, somebody opened to the public or whether it was essentially amounting to commercial use of alcohol. And, you know, frankly the law is pretty clear on it and we have not or give a quota to a situation where there is any kind of commercial use of alcohol without the benefit of abc license. There are innovative ways to get ourselves into a scenario, a licensed scenario that could let Something Like that work and another option would be to ho...

Possibly go into lottery system to get a license here but will increase the supply which should reduce the demand in the overall retail cost of those licenses as they are traded on the open market. The abc act does allow those licenses to be traded on the open market without any price controls on our part. But, what is the future hold there . Its hard to say. I can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive o...

We just heard from two of our board of supervisors. As you know there are 11 members but only two supervisors have played on stage in San Francisco in rock bands. So your question no. The are who are the the two supervisors who have been in bands and played on stage. Two supervisors out of 11. We just need their names. Thanks. All right. Next, so we invited the head of the abc here tonight. Jacob apple smith but he wasnt able to make it. Instead we have chrissal brek who is going to make a statement for you guys, if you have questions we are going to open it for q and a. If you have questions ...