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StateWays Q www.stateways.com Q July/August 2014 32 Wahl then showed how taking risks can pay off and how fear can cripple one's performance. He quickly painted a picture that began as an abstract, but quickly took on the outlines of Lebron James. He then played a game with the audience, along the lines of Fear Factor, and offered one audience member the choice to come up to the stage and do whatever it said in a sealed envelope, or, he could designate somebody else in the audience to go up to the stage. The audience member chose not to go up, but the woman he designated did. She took the risk, and when Wahl opened the envelope, she found out that she would be going home with the portrait of Lebron James [Since Wahl became well-known, his paintings fetch in the area of $10,000 each.] "Sometimes it pays to take a risk," Wahl laughed, adding that in business it often pays to create "disruptive" strategies. "From childhood on, we're taught to be risk-averse," Wahl said. "Thinking logically is still necessary, but it is not completely suffi cient." "As Einstein said, 'Imagination is more important than knowledge." Business Session II, titled, "A Global Perspective," tackled several issues that affect the beverage alcohol industry throughout the world. Moderator Jeff Anderson, NABCA Chairman, began by stating that "Regulation is global. Every country and every state has its own set of regulations, and we understand the complexity that suppliers face." Still, he emphasized that the NABCA supports the right of each jurisdiction to set its own alcohol policies. "There are no cure-alls," he said. "No silver bullets." Then, he introduced the panelists, which included Mark Brown, president and ceo of Sazerac; Jan Westcott, president of the Association of Canadian Distillers: Marcus Grant, president/ceo of International Center for Alcohol Policy; and Ivar Arndal, president of the State Alcohol & Tobacco Company of Iceland. The panelists briefl y discussed several differing systems throughout the world, from heavily controlled to fairly unregulated. The panelists agreed that controls swing back and forth, like a pendulum, from more regulation to less Panelists for Seminar I, titled, "Warehouse Technology Today," in- cluded, from left, Chet Willey, president, Chet Willey Associates; Geg Foreman, vice president, Operations, Exel; Bob Peter, president and ceo of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario; and the moderator, Joseph Mollica, chairman of the New Hampshire State Liquor Commission. Rick Przebieda, LUXCO sales manager, Control States and Canada, was on hand at the company's lanai. Seminar II, titled, "The Three-Tier System: Who's in Charge?" included the panelists, from left: Victoria McDowell, president/ceo, Presidents' Forum of the Distilled Spirits Industry; Craig Purser, president/ ceo, National Beer Wholesalers Association; John Bodnovich, executive director, American Beverage Licensees; and the moderator, Stephen Larson, administrator, Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division.