i have known ms. cone for 10 of those years and i can definitely vouch for her character as well as being a respectable and responsible barone irand runner of the establishment. i guess i would like to speak on the -- on the matter of the condition, the timing conditions. it really doesn't make any sense to stop the music at midnight or 10:00 p.m., and it actually will hamstring her business because promotors will take their events elsewhere. the industry standard is essentially going to 2:00 a.m. if you have a 2:00 a.m. bar permit. and so to put these kind of restrictions on this bar is highly unusual. in the 15 years i've been doing this, i have never heard of this restriction at all. so it's a little odd. i think that a business -- a responsible business owner like debbie should be rewarded for the work that she has done and the effort she has put in to creating this establishment that is very much upscale and has fantastic sound system. i can speak personally on how good it is. she's taken a lot of tim