White Screen with a circle crossed out symbol

What does this mean? A friend recently spilt wine on the keyboard I mopped it up, and turned the computer on the side moped it up. I left it to dry out. It did not short out when it happened, however now when I turn it on that screen comes up but I do not know what it means. I am going to take it to apple for repairs... if anyone has any answers for me it would be great!! Heeeeeeeelp!
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I'm sorry to say, but you're MacBook is now dead. You can get it repaired at Apple, but expect a large bill. Do you have any backups? Hopefully you do! If you do go to Apple, try to get that DVD out there. I'm sorry about that. I hope you learned:
Keep food and drinks away from computers. No matter what.

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