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Earthquake High Gravity Lager (12%) - City Brewing Company, LLC
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2.75/5 rDev +74.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Here in Ohio we get the 10% variety so I'm not sure how much that makes a difference.
You should know what you're getting into when you pop an Earthquake. This isn't a beer to be enjoyed, this is a beer to make you want to fist fight telephone poles and it does it's job.
It's much sweeter than its malt lager brethren which makes it a bit easier to stomach but it's still pretty harsh. Drink one on a dare or if you are on a super low budget looking to catch a buzz.
Serving type: can
03-30-2014 21:42:40 | More by eodiv
1.88/5 rDev +19%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Pours out an amber hue with a thin white head that leaves no lacing or retention. The smell is of alcohol, rotting apples, rotting corn and mildew. The taste is lots of alcohol, spoiled corn and sweet malts that leave a bad aftertaste in the mouth. The mouthfeel is burning alcohol and an unpleasant feel on the tongue. This $1.30 for a 24 oz. can was one of the worse beers I ever tasted and will never buy it again.
Serving type: can
Serving type: can
01-21-2013 08:28:56 | More by DannyDan
1.03/5 rDev -34.8%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Positively the worst beer I've ever had in my life. I've had some other rough ones but this one take the cake. I would rate cave creek chili beer miles ahead of this one. Everything about this beer is absolutely horrible. Smell, taste, mouthfeel...all just plain disgusting. Makes me wonder what took so long for this one to be retired. Found this one in the crap beer ice bin at my local ghetto corner store. Never...I repeat...never again. Ice cold it's shotgunable...any warmer, good luck. You have been warned. Just writing about this beer brings back the nightmarish aftertaste...there is really no reason for this foul beverage to exist...it's that bad.
Serving type: can
09-22-2012 05:20:03 | More by lokieman
2.23/5 rDev +41.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
Basically its there to get you drunk in the cheapest way. It is, okay. Strong, very strong. The alcohol hits you immediately. The taste is comparable to whiskey. Not entirely, so I don't want the beersnobs attacking me. I enjoyed it, just not what I was expecting from a malt liquor. Yeah, you might taste something here but the dominant taste is definitely alcohol. You will get drunk, fairly quick, esoecially if you're a light-weight.
All in all this is for getting drunk fast. They obviously don't care about the taste. but I can accept that in this case. It gets the job done.
Wanna get drunk fast. This beers for you. Want something with an appealing taste? Steer clear.
By The Way:
This beer is no longer 12% they have lowered it to 8% and it IS still brewed. Just not as strong. Bummer for those cheap buzzes.
Serving type: can
05-27-2012 15:32:23 | More by TooManyShots
2.6/5 rDev +64.6%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Pint Glass
A - Merky golden sunset, no head and no lacing
S - Tons of malts, funky yeast, sugar, very slight, barley and tons of alcohol
T - slight hop, tons of bitter, sugar, alcohol, grains, rice, yeast and huge amounts of malts
M - Full bodied, no complexity, not very balanced, medium minus acidity and very long sweet/malty/boozy finish
D/O - I enjoy this a lot. Easy to drink, nice abv and a low, low price. Not a crafty beer or something I would drink a couple cans of, just a good getting tipsy beer
Final thoughts - $1.50 and 12% abv? Haha. This one is ok by me. Watch out for the hang over!
Serving type: can
05-20-2012 04:49:35 | More by whatthehull
1.8/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 5
Well, I'm here to ponder my joking mention to a turbaned, bearded fellow working at this apartment ghetto's adjacent Seven-Eleven; while purchasing a 12% Earthquake I was just getting to learn to like after enduring several of those: Saying to him; that if I went blind, that would be his fault.
The very next time I was in for another can; these are now Earthquake 8.1% there in otherwise identical 24oz cans.
I'd just decided the best way to deal with the 12% was by chilling that cold enough to be easily poured half into an used 12oz screw top bottle, for later. With a longer lasting larger head, this is essential with the 8.1%.
I'd don't really find heartening too much, the at first taste seeming flavor improvement of the 8.1% version; considering the price remains the same as when 12%.
I'd just started adapting myself to the 12%, I'd thought hitting the market after the devastating Japanese earthquake with all the still daunting implications from the nuclear disaster the quake engendered; an incredibly thoughtful product, marketing ploy and timely commentary on the species' ability to continually be figuratively speaking, shooting itself in the foot. After a stressful five millennia or so's devotion to the mastery of fire and salt: Metallurgy and chemistry in other words.
As far as taste, I can only call the original 12% "brilliant."
If you read William Henry Hudson's book Green Mansions; that suggests one way to create what seems like great beer. Women chewing grain to for the emulsification of that, whose saliva also ensures the alcoholic fermentation. "Hey, honey?"
Cheers; and bottoms up.
post script: I notice my review gives this great beer a D minor rating; which as D-F-A works out to a 1.666 GPA according to my $3 Radio Shack calculator.
GPAs can be deceptive, as one particularly cynical high school friend they graduated just to get rid of had a 0.9 GPA who also scored highest of anyone in school on the National Merit Scholarship test of our whole class of '69; who later mentioned flunking the army intelligence test was one of the most difficult things he'd ever accomplished up until then.
I think Earthquake High Gravity Lager is the greatest beer commercially produced on the planet; without doubt.
Anyone drinking anything else is so far beyond whimphood in the wrong direction there isn't even the possibility of such a word being invented for that.
If this were the only beer commercially available in the world, the whole earth would be doubtless revolutionized in a positive way. Far more than simply keeping me from wasting time, writing here.
Serving type: can
12-14-2011 23:45:44 | More by bobstad
New York
2.58/5 rDev +63.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
What to drink when the wife is decorating for Christmas? Answer: anything that increases tolerance and numbs the senses! Why not a new to me 12% potential drain poor in a can!
Pours a pleasant looking clear gold with a initially big white hat. Lots of carbonation although the head dropped to a cover in under a minute. leaves a sheet of receding lace throughout the session.
Smells of sweet green apples...and....
Taste is of the same green apples, sweet grainy adjuncts and a bit of alcohol on the finish...mouthfeel is a bit north of thin with still rampant carbonation.
Basically a more drinkable version of this genre compared to Stack.Not worth the 2.95 the local bev joint charged me though.
Serving type: can
12-08-2011 00:19:51 | More by BrewMaven
1.05/5 rDev -33.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Nothing says happy thanksgiving like shitty malt liquor!
Poured into a mug, it's a dark urine gold orange. Rapid club soda carbonation, bubbles clinging to the sides, despite a thorough glass rinsing. Audibly crackling fizz, thin layer of white foam that leaves behind a feeble scab of skim floating on the surface. Looks like carbonated apple juice.
Reeks of fusel alcohol, grape/apple juice, and envelope glue. Sickly sweet, sharp, and stomach-turning. Pure malaise in a can.
Sweet, green apple jolly rancher flavor, solvent fumes, blatant alcohol, astringent as hell. The tongue numbs on impact. Alcoholic, carbonated grape juice. Harsh finish that lingers, bitter apple seeds, slick with an alcohol burn that's just pure nasty. This is only a feasible drink when partially frozen, and only when down on your luck, out on the curb. Truly the bottom of the barrel. This is probably among the worst, if not the worst beer i've ever drank.
Serving type: can
11-25-2011 04:17:53 | More by emerge077
1.05/5 rDev -33.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
24 oz can pours a dark, desert-tortoise urine gold color with a small, creamy head. Looks evil, thickly viscous and rough.
Nose is absolutely stomach-curdling. Oh my god, the acetone and green apples on this are just rampant and disgusting. This might be the worst smelling beer I have ever had.
The first sip of this made me wretch a little in the mouth, something that has never, NEVER happened to me before. Wow, it is absolutely wretched. This is the most disgusting, foul-tasting brew I have ever had in my 20+ years of beer drinking. This rivals Bud Chelada for worst ever, and I actually think this might surpass it. I cant even stomach 3 sips of this. Holy shit, brewing this must be a complete joke. I knew it would be bad, horrible even...but this takes F-O-U-L to a whole new level!
Serving type: can
11-04-2011 22:49:18 | More by twiggamortis420
1/5 rDev -36.7%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
I must admit I bought this beer at a gas station as a novelty and a joke. I knew exactly what I was getting into and boy was I right. To say this tastes like battery acid would be a compliment. This beer has an unnatural golden hue, a horrendous aroma that I can not quite explain, the most carbonation I have ever seen in a beer, and honestly I couldn't drink more than 2 ounces of the 24 ounce can. Stay away. This is terrible, unless you want to play a prank on a friend or fellow beer enthusiast. I hope this post does not get deleted, it is not meant as a slam. This is just really that bad. It has an F rating for a reason.
Serving type: can
10-09-2011 01:21:38 | More by ronniebruner
1.1/5 rDev -30.4%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
12oz can poured into a Budweiser pint glass. No apparent date, just cryptic numbers on the bottom of the can.
Appearance - Clear copper body. Off-white head in the glass, but when it foamed up upon opening the can it was a light brown color.
Smell - Vinegar. Soy sauce. Alochol. Dark fruit. Not appealing at all.
Taste - Alcohol. Corn. Earth. Musk.
Mouthfeel - Very astringent finish. I can do nothing to prevent making a face.
Overall Drinkability - Probably the worst beer I've had in a long time. This is totally a sink pour.
Serving type: can
08-28-2011 19:24:40 | More by ZenAgnostic
1.75/5 rDev +10.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Dark clear golden in color. Head is white with very little retention. Looks highly carbonated. Pretty average for this style. Smells very sweet. Maybe some Over ripened apples and grapes with trace amounts of grains and an alcohol undertone. Very sweet taste. Taste artificially sweetened. Fruit and alcohol. Leaves a nasty chemical aftertaste. Kinda like jungle juice. Pretty bad. Mouth feel is thick and syrupy. Gross.
O - This is a drain pour. This beer is horrible. Stay away from this one
Serving type: can
08-04-2011 20:42:02 | More by depechemode1983
2.25/5 rDev +42.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Can generously provided by t0rin0. One of the Malt Liquor Tasting leftovers that we're slowly working through. Served in a BeerAdvocate taster glass. Poured out a few oz for our homies who couldn't be there.
A - Big white foam quickly settles to a thin ring and some spotty lace. Transparent golden body, with big bubbles adhering to the sides of the glass.
S - Sugar, corn, grape juice, Kool-Aid, and some obvious fusel alcohols. It's a malt liquor alright, but it's far from the worst one we've had.
T - Taste is a step down, with mostly sweet corn and grain alcohol that gets increasingly obvious towards the finish. That being said, not entirely unpalatable.
M - Surprisingly low carbonation, medium-full body, some definite alcohol warmth but otherwise quite smooth.
D - Like Evil Eye, this was only somewhat bad, and not epic bad. A large portion of the can was actually consumed (albeit by a large group of people).
Serving type: can
07-10-2011 13:39:45 | More by MasterSki
1.4/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
For some reason I feel compelled to buy this crap every so often. You know, I'm out of town, in a hotel, and want a can of something boozey (finding a bottle opener would be too challenging). Then I am regretful.
This stuff is nasty. Smells like alcohol. Tastes like a combination of syrupy artificial sweet chemicals mixed with alcohol. Highly carbonated. Yes...It will get you drunk on the cheap. But it will not be a pleasant journey.
Serving type: can
06-25-2011 04:01:31 | More by sophisticated
1.4/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 1 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
This thing smells like apple cider. If someone handed it to me and told me it was apple cider, I would be fooled based on smell. Colour too, actually. It's a bright, vibrant yellow. Could be mildly radioactive. Maybe the brain tumors that would induce could add to the cheap buzz.
Oh crap, time to take a sip. It was bad, but not worse than I expected. It tastes kind of like alcohol and wood, not unlike a bad whiskey, actually. It burns on the way down, which is not something I generally associate with lager...or ANY beer for that matter. Other than that, it has a sweet, solvent flavour. Alcohol flavour is definitely dominant. It's unlike anything, I've had before so I honestly find it somewhat intriguing. It's somewhat reminiscent of sipping on bad liquor. The fuel aftertaste is quite terrible. Sort of nauseating. However, this might taste a TINY bit BETTER than Steel Reserve, which is really the test here. This is definitely one of the two worst beers I've ever tasted, but it is difficult to decide if it is the absolute worst. I'll try to finish the whole thing and then decide. The ONE redeeming quality of Steel Reserve is that I DIDN'T feel dying after I drank it. Let's see what kind of punch this thing packs. The fun kind or the deadly kind.
So....after successfully completing consumption of the 24 oz. can, I feel OK. Don't want to go into a coma or die. This stuff is SLIGHTLY better than steel reserve. It's had an oddly negative effect on my sexual drive, but when you're in a long-term relationship, that can be surprisingly helpful.
Thus, I feel compelled to rate this above Steel Reserve.
Serving type: can
04-29-2011 06:48:11 | More by ElCommodoro
1/5 rDev -36.7%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
The liquid was a strong dehydrated-urine yellow as it was poured down the sink. There were some bubbles here and there that quickly faded and washed away.
The smell was like Steel Reserve filtered through a permanent marker.
I made it to one single sip and then passed it around the room. The taste was almost completely unlike anything I'd ever put in my mouth before. If there's one thing this beer has, it's staying power. I ate ice cream, fishy crackers, more beer and sweetened iced tea, but nothing helped. The taste was there in the back of my mouth for about two hours. Not bad for $1.49.
The closest thing I can compare the mouthfeel to is making out with a hobo who's been doing shots of rubbing alcohol and chasing it with turpentine.
It made the can of Four Loko I had sitting around taste like ambrosia.
Serving type: can
04-15-2011 23:33:21 | More by gretchy
1.93/5 rDev +22.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
Well its cheap and strong but man does it taste bad. It grows on you a little as you drink, but I can't say I plan on buying this stuff again. It kind of tastes like an energy drink at times. It reminds me of something a High Schooler would try to steal from a convenience store.
Serving type: can
04-11-2011 04:09:58 | More by metalcupcakes
1.2/5 rDev -24.1%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 2
Quite possibly one of the worst liquids to ever come in contact with my taste buds. I got a root canal about two hours ago, and my mouth found that a little less offensive. The taste was poor, unlike other beers i've had, it was strongly masked with artificial flavors. The smell was so shitty and thick that I actually felt it enter my nasal cavities. Don't get me wrong, who doesn't love buying several ounces of cheap beer for very little money? but I'd rather pass and drink my own piss.
Serving type: can
03-29-2011 21:56:38 | More by zacgosteli
1/5 rDev -36.7%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Didn't feel the need to dirty a glass with this one.
Bought this one the other day late night at the gas station because all the liquor stores were closed. Thought it was sketchy right from the get go but when I got home I studied the can to reveal to my horror that it is made by the makers of four loko.
The color of this one is a mystery to me and I don't want to know what it actually is.
The smell of this one smelled like a stronger alcohol version of bud light.
When I went to take a sip of this thing I was pretty hesitant because it is made by drink4 , whos fruity malt beverages do not appeal to me at all. Sure enough they fooled me into spending 3 bills on this four loko disguised as a beer. It tastes like beer for a second at first then turns into the fruity battery acid flavored mess that is four loko. For those of you that don't know about these creations from Satan, they are supposed to taste like various different fruit flavors but they all end up tasting like a fat pile of throw up. They give you an instant heart burn and usually make you pee out of your mouth the next morning.
The mouthfeel of this is acidic and fruity with a bunch of carbonation and evil mixed inside.
Overall I took one drink, marveled at the fact they disguised four loko in a beer can and immediately threw it in a volcano.
Serving type: can
03-26-2011 22:09:31 | More by IchabodcraneIpa
1.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
This is some kick butt, bang for your buck, hold your nose, feel it in your toes, malt liquor. I think it would be better for antifreeze for your car than human consumption, hey for the money and if you want to get launched, this is the right brew for you. The color is a 6 on the SRM beer color chart. Smell of malt and alcohol. Taste is sort of harsh, dry, sweet malt. Some feeling of cream in my mouth, but really dry. Sure would not want to drink many of these, but I am sure the second would be better than the first because your taste buds would be numb from the 12 percent alcohol by volume.
Serving type: can
01-22-2011 21:59:42 | More by beerprovedwright
1.15/5 rDev -27.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Executive Summary (as if any executives would drink this swill): The name is spot-on. Drink this, and you may very well be shortly experiencing one -- right in your belly. It is THE most vile brew I've ever had the misfortune to experience.
A: Chernobyl-glow amber fluid, but I'm sure there was more head to the waters around Pripyat than one could find in this.
S: Alcohol, and not a bashful amount. I could imagine my poor, tortured olfactories kicking up their wee heels and dying under the onslaught. Along with the pronounced alcohol scent comes a horrific sourness that manages to make the experience even worse.
T: Alcohol and rotting sweet-corn. The only way one can drink this at all is to have it ice-cold, so that the flavor doesn't come through so much. I tried quaffing a can of this at room temperature and found myself gagging before I'd done three sips. I've had some fairly low beers, but none have made me retch the way this one does.
M: Watery knives slashing the delicate tissues within my mouth. I've had other 24-proof brews that aren't nearly as much an assault on the inside of my face. With Earthquake, the jagged edges aren't softened at all.
D: It's a challenge to finish even a single 16-oz can of this nastiness, what with my belly constantly trying to push it right back out.
I'm the sort of fellow who'll happy slug down the much-reviled Steel Reserve as a daily drink... but this stuff? I don't even want it at 79 cents a pint.
Serving type: can
01-14-2011 08:41:12 | More by Psychromatic
1.4/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1
24 oz. can.
pours out of the can a glowing gold colour...it almost seems like it could glow in the dark! a relatively modest head appears and dies down quickly leaving some sparse lace. weird fruity aroma....combination of green apples and vanilla...some bubble gum too. doesn't smell bad, just not right! whoa baby...the taste is a sickly sweet mouth jarring combination of rubbing alcohol and corn syrup. more fruity esthers and plastic phenols abound to really make for an interesting flavour profile. instant belly warmer. i'm sipping this and it's a chore. i'm getting dizzy already. heavy handed body and slick oily mouthfeel. poor drinkability.
oh boy...this brew should be poured into shot glasses and chased with tequila!! i'm not sure what redeeming qualities this has other than to get a big buzz on quickly and violently. this might be good to boil some brats in...i see no other use for this vile, yet "flavourful" liquid. ugh.
Serving type: can
01-07-2011 18:40:29 | More by budgood1
2.03/5 rDev +28.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
There are several ways to look at this beer. One is that it's just malt liquor crap, but one is also that it's a bit of a new style. And I wonder, if one of America's funky craft breweries produced this would it be better received? I think probably so. And on that note, I don't normally mention packaging (because we're really just interested in the beer here), but the graphics on the can really do make an impression, and most likely not for the beter. So let's get to it.
The body is a hazy deep golden that appears almost orange in a pint glass. The creamy white head settles quickly and leaves little lacing behind, if at all (there are some spots and streaks here and there). Of course, in a beer that's 12% alc./vol. that's somewhat to be expected.
The aroma is oddly reminiscent of many malternatives. It's fruity like apple juice and fruit punch combined; and there's a clear note of alcohol and solvent. If there are any hops present, I can't find them beyond the esters.
The flavor is exactly as the aroma indicates it will be. It's fruity, a hint tangy (or biting on the tongue), cidery, and clearly hot with alcohol. I get some ethyl acetate coming through pretty distinctly; and it's definitely hot (there's a bit of the peppery spice that comes with that). I'm also finding some plastic-like phenols as well in the finish, where it also sweetens up for a quick bit. I'm sure that there are enough hops in here to meet the legal requirements of "beer" (probably from liquid extract), but it seems as if the drying alcohol is all that's there to balance the sweet malt.
As to drinkability... I personally have a fairly bad reaction to higher alcohols, leaving my face and ears to turn red as I get very hot in the face - and that happened to me only 3 or 4 ounces into this! I can drink distilled liquors (or wine, which is usually about 12%), but not this unrefined stuff, so that cuts down its drinkability for me. Beyond that, I'm not sure I care for the flavor at all - or that anyone would. If I was going to drink this I'd at least want the 'fruit cushion' of a JOOZE or FOUR-O LOKO. They may use lager yeast, and it's certainly high gravity, but this is far from what I'd consider a "high gravity lager" as there are really no hops to it at all.
Serving type: can
12-08-2010 00:35:30 | More by NeroFiddled
1/5 rDev -36.7%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
I bought this for a novelty to see how bad the highest alcohol content malt liquor I have ever seen could be. For a dollar and some change for a pounder can you're definitely getting the bang for your buck but why would you want it if you have to drink this beer. Pours like apple juice minimally carbonated, faint fizzy white head wispy thin lace. Aroma has tart alcohol/cidery greeen apple notes/and booze of course. A cooked vegetable metallic character in the finish, almost like there's a penny aging in the bottom of the can. Flavor induces the gag reflux, worst tasting creation fusel alcohol harsh finish cloying sweet green apple tartness, completely terrible in everyway. I will never go down this road again. Mouthfeel again cloying fizzy carbonation doesn't carry the medium bodied malt liquor very well. Drinkability this is quite the train wreck of a beer drinking experience, only the brave will attempt and the crazy will drink the whole can. Mine went down the drain, yet I'm satisfied by the experiement.
Serving type: can
11-08-2010 15:47:39 | More by WVbeergeek
2.33/5 rDev +47.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
Pours a rusty-golden in color ("copper", I suppose) topped with a rocky off-white head. Head falls at an average pace, leaving just a bit of clingy lace.
The smell is very, very sweet. It smells like what it is, a sweet, malty pale lager, maybe a bit of sour-ish apple cider in there, and honey-ish notes, but this is literally nothing to write home about. No hop presence here, vegetal notes, boozy, slightly phenolic, industrial solvent notes, burning sensation . . .
Sweet and acrid on the first sip, but this is hardly a sippin' beer. This is something to get wrecked on. HOT, boozy, any flavor here tastes like burning and prickly needles in my tongue. Ouch! To be fair, I've enjoyed eisbocks with similar phenolic characteristics to this, so I'd say this one might appeal to the folks that dig big, burly super-lagers, but there's no finesse here. The malt base needs some hop bitterness and it just ain't here...
Body is thin-yet-treacly. More burning as it settles in my belly... for what it is (12% -- holy crap!) this is quite drinkable, but I just can't think of very many people wanting to drink more than about 2 ounces of this and then doing a drain pour. This reminds me of the time I handed some n00bish friends of mine some ice-cold cans of 'Bavaria 8.6', which they promptly dubbed "Super Beer!" About half the folks couldn't stomach the solvent-like character of that stuff (I liked it...) and poured 'em. One guy drank the entire can and promptly locked himself in the bathroom for three hours.
Sadly, Earthquake is way, way cheaper and easier to come by than the fabled Bavaria 8.6, and it's a wonder I don't see more of these cans down by the river . . . this one's definitely not for the faint of heart!
Served chilled in a Paulaner Mass (sacrilege!)
Serving type: can
10-09-2010 15:59:56 | More by Chaz
Earthquake High Gravity Lager (12%) from City Brewing Company, LLC
47 out of 100 based on 63 ratings.


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Explore advanced collaboration techniques and tools for more accurate, accelerated bids and quotes. In just 30 minutes, learn how your sales force can speed up the bidding process, how to efficiently manage the bidding process across departments, how to integrate PLM with ERP, how to effectively manage subcontractor bids and more. This is the second in a series of five online webcasts offered by Business & Decision designed to help industrial manufacturing executives gain strategies for more wins, bigger profits and greater stability.
Dec 6 2011
24 mins
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Analytics 3.0: The Dawn of a New Data Era
May 15 2014
4:00 pm
30 mins
Andrew Fletcher, Vice President
Analytics 3.0 breaks through constraints that companies have faced around enabling any analytics, on any data, at any time. For many companies, the scope of data analysis has expanded from gathering operational business intelligence to performing product offering analysis using embedded data intelligence.
Join our live webcast on April 3, 2014 at 12 PM EST and learn how analytics has evolved from business intelligence to the new era of data-enriched offerings, and how you can apply Analytics 3.0 to produce measurable business benefits and optimize internal decision processes for your organization.
Exchange Archive Management for Microsoft Office 365 Migrations
Apr 24 2014
25 mins
Chris Day, Director of Cloud & Mobility
Join us to learn how Office 365 archiving can help you to meet all of your archiving and eDiscovery needs.
During this live webcast, Chris Day, Director of Cloud & Mobility at Business & Decision will answer the following questions:
•What are Exchange Online archives?
•What are the limitations of Exchange Online archives?
•How does eDiscovery work with Exchange Online archives?
•What do I need to consider before migrating from a traditional archive to Exchange Online archives?
App Development in SharePoint 2013
Apr 17 2014
31 mins
Don Webster
SharePoint 2013 features a new app model that allows you create easy-to-use, lightweight web applications that integrate popular web standards and technologies to extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. Join our live webcast for an overview of Microsoft's new SharePoint app model and learn:
• How to configure app development for SharePoint on-premises
• How developers can kick-start app development using SharePoint Online
• What the differences are between provider-hosted and autohosted apps for SharePoint
Eliminate Duplicate Parts and Increase Engineering Capacity
Apr 8 2014
32 mins
B&D, Dassault Systemes
EXALEAD OnePart is an innovative application for locating and reusing 2D/3D legacy parts, designs, and associated documentation. The intuitive user experience allows designers, engineers, and R&D managers to shorten product development times, improve efficiencies, and lower lifecycle costs.
Join us to learn how to:
•Increase Engineering Capacity
•Accelerate product design and development at lower cost
•See side-by-side comparison of legacy information about design, component, project or product data
•Reuse proven best-practice specs, design standards, and post new IP into PLM and ERPs
OnePart provides cross-product meta-data, shape search, discovery, and visualization, with side-by-side compare of information about a design, part, or component for rapid and thorough investigations of reusable enterprise assets.
OnePart is NOT an application inside the PLM system, but is a search based solution that can feed the PLM (or any system of record) with newly found IP.
OnePart is browser-based and works without plugins, meaning no install on user machines and very efficient for new version rollouts.
Compliance Fundamentals Live Session 1
Mar 27 2014
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Ashley Peacock, Guy Wakefield
Recap of "Who Needs to Be Compliant" and "SOX Compliance Fundamentals" with live Q&A session.
In this live webcast, Guy Wakefield and Ashley Peacock will provide an overview of key takeaways and host a live Q&A session to address questions related to videos 1&2 in the series:
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SOX Compliance Fundamentals
SOX Compliance Fundamentals
Mar 21 2014
29 mins
Ashley Peacock, Director of Regulatory Compliance
In this on-demand video, Ashley Peacock, Director of Regulatory Compliance with Business & Decision, presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and discusses how SOX impacts IT organizations and how companies that are subject to other regulations can implement SOX compliance as part of a multi-regulation quality system.
Achieve Digital Marketing Success With Adobe Marketing Cloud
Mar 20 2014
49 mins
Jim Marzola
Digital marketing success requires the right technology. In this live webcast presented by Jim Marzola, B&D's VP of CRM, Marketing and Strategic Alliances, learn how Adobe Marketing Cloud enables marketers to:
• Send the right offer to the right person in the right way at the right time
• Identify customers and prospects across all your channels including Facebook and Twitter
• Make sure emails get to your customers no matter the device
• Present a unified message across all inbound and outbound channels
SharePoint 2013 Branding With Design Manager
Mar 13 2014
30 mins
Don Webster
Design Manager is a new tool in SharePoint 2013 that was built to give users an easier way to brand your internal intranet site or public-facing website. Join us on March 13 at 12pm EDT to learn how you can leverage the skills you already have to easily create pixel-perfect branding for your SharePoint environment.
Infor ION: Systems Integration, Simplified.
Mar 6 2014
25 mins
Peter Jackson, Brandin Beers
If your business is like most, the organizational systems you use have evolved over time, creating a complicated technology landscape. Disconnected systems and information silos result in inefficiencies, costly maintenance requirements, and ultimately—missed opportunities.
With the Infor Intelligent Open Network (ION) platform, you can easily integrate both Infor and third-party software applications, allowing you to:
•Eliminate operational silos
•Dramatically improve exception management
•Achieve unparalleled end-to-end efficiency
Join our live webcast and learn how to simplify integrations and upgrades, reduce the burden on IT, and give end users the flexibility to adapt business processes as needed.
Sales Intelligence for Life Sciences and Healthcare
Feb 20 2014
58 mins
Bob Dawes, John Dempster, Ellen Derrico, Matt Stratton
To maintain competitive advantage and regulatory compliance, Life Sciences and Healthcare companies must run sales operations efficiently and intelligently. Join us on February 20, 2014 and learn how B&D Life Sciences and Healthcare clients have utilized sales intelligence solutions built on QlikView's Business Discovery Platform to:
• Easily track real-time sales performance on dashboards and scorecards
• Improve insight into pipeline and key risk areas to address
• Gain better understanding of their prescriber base to optimize sales efforts
• Empower sales forces with mobile sales applications
John Dempster, Matt Stratton, Bob Dawes, and Ellen Derrico, Global Head of Life Sciences and Healthcare Market Development at QlikView, will walk you through client case studies and discuss ways that Life Sciences and Healthcare companies can apply similar solutions to improve sales operations.
EXALEAD OnePart
Feb 19 2014
4 mins
Engineers and designers are confronted with an information challenge: the search for existing parts, CAD files, data and related information takes too much time. Instead of finding a part to reuse, it's become faster to create a new part, costing the organization needles time and money.
The solution? EXALEAD OnePart searchers for and discovers legacy data assets managed by design and engineering functions, offering:
Search of existing CAD files and related information
Discovery of hidden information
Shape Search to find similar parts
Rapid reuse of 2D and 3D data
View this video to learn how to reveal hidden assets, reuse legacy parts and reduce duplicate parts with EXALEAD OnePart.
Leveraging FDA Quality Systems for SOX Compliance
Feb 13 2014
57 mins
Ashley Peacock, Dave Hawley
Many companies in Healthcare and the Life Sciences implemented quality systems in their IT departments to meet the requirements of the FDA and EMEA, only to find out a few years later that they also needed systems to manage compliance required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Now they have two quality systems, making it difficult for IT personnel to know which to use, and often causing redundant work. This webcast will give an overview of how to leverage your existing FDA quality systems to meet SOX requirements and discuss where existing quality systems need to be augmented to also meet the requirements of SOX.
EXALEAD OneCall - Upgrade CRM
Feb 11 2014
3 mins
EXALEAD OneCall
Learn how to leverage your existing CRM system to deliver the most relevant information, in the most intuitive way, directly to customer service agents' desktops.
EXALEAD OneCall - Beyond CRM
Feb 11 2014
2 mins
EXALEAD OneCall
Traditional CRM systems were designed for customer management activities - not customer service. In this 2 minute video, learn how EXALEAD OneCall enables call center managers to imrove agent to customer interactions, retain more customers and help grow the business more profitably.
EXALEAD OneCall Agent Desktop
Feb 11 2014
2 mins
EXALEAD OneCall
Contact center agents today cannot consistently and effectively answer customer questions.
In this 2 minute video, learn how the EXALEAD OneCall Agent Desktop can improve your customers' experience and increase agent productivity and campaign efficiency.
Clash of the CRM Titans: Oracle / Microsoft / Salesforce.com
Feb 6 2014
64 mins
Jim Marzola
Your organization can reap many benefits from the right CRM system - streamlined sales & marketing processes, increased sales productivity, improved customer service, loyalty and retention, and better return on marketing investments – if you choose one that fits your business.
In this live webcast, Jim Marzola will compare and contrast Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, and Salesforce.com, focusing on:
• Usability
• 3 Year total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Deployment options (To Cloud or not to Cloud; that is the question.)
• Information storage and access
• General pros and cons of each solution
Join our webcast on February 6, 2014 and discover some of the hidden consequences and undocumented benefits of the big 3 CRM software solutions.
Develop and Test in the Cloud With Windows Azure
Jan 30 2014
31 mins
Don Webster
Windows Azure is a great cloud-based environment for customer-facing applications – but can be just as, or more, effective as an internal development and testing tool for your team.
In this live webcast, learn how to use Azure to develop and test applications faster, at reduced cost, and with the flexibility to deploy in the cloud or on-premises.
An Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2
Jan 23 2014
42 mins
Chris Day, Kris Turner, Business & Decision
In this live webcast, learn how System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 can:
• Keep your critical systems and software patched and up to date
• Help your company to deploy Windows 8.1 enterprise wide
• Manage application deployment
Join us on January 23, 2014 and learn how System Center Configuration Manager help you better manage your IT infrastructure.
Who Needs to Be Compliant?
Jan 20 2014
16 mins
Dave Hawley
Regulatory Compliance is law. Depending on the products or services your company provides and the areas of the world in which it operates and trades, regulatory compliance may or may not be required.
Create an Upgrade Plan that Maximizes the Value of Your Oracle EBS Investment
Jan 16 2014
52 mins
Adam Combs, Andy Hyers, David Pelsoci
When evaluating any upgrade there are many factors to consider such as functional capabilities, support timeframes, technical infrastructure, and underlying business needs. For manufacturing companies these factors are often complex and interrelated — which adds to the importance of determining the most appropriate upgrade strategy.
Join us for a live webcast on January 16 and learn how to create an Oracle E-Business upgrade strategy that fits your manufacturing and supply chain business.
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Solar prize awarded: SMA founder Günter Cramer and Water Missions International from the U.S. receive SolarWorld Einstein Awards
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The challenging market situation in the solar industry increased the risk of SolarWorld AG during the second quarter not to meet its financial covenants. For this reason, SolarWorld AG has renegotiated loan agreements amounting...
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The demand for quality solar products "Made in USA" is continuing unabated in the United States and Canada: In one fell swoop SolarWorld AG was able to secure several large solar projects for itself in the vigorously growing...


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Hedge Gallery is pleased to present the upcoming show Flection, curated by Sabrina Buell. This group exhibition features works, many of them new and exhibited for the first time, by Michael DeLucia, Liam Everett, Anna Sew Hoy, Ruth Laskey, Arik Levy, Sam Orlando Miller, Clare Rojas, Hugh Scott-Douglas and Sara VanDerBeek.
Throughout art history, the depiction of folds and drapery to create three-dimensional space in a work of art was of primary importance, and how well executed they were was a testament to an artist's ability. With the rise of modernism and abstraction in the 20th century, such pictorial efforts became irrelevant and practically obsolete. Lately, however, contemporary artists who employ the visual language of abstraction have re-incorporated the representation of folds and drapery into their practice. The surfaces of these works, whether flat or sculpted, rough or sleek, become planes imbued with depth and conspicuous complexity. But whereas in the past this pictorial technique was an attempt to heighten the realism within a work, the artists in this exhibition employ the technique to deepen, quite literally, their abstraction. Working in different media and with varied processes, together these artists offer multi-faceted works that turn the art historical tradition of folds and drapery on its head.
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Diversity and Inclusion at the American Cancer Society
Cancer doesn't discriminate, and it knows no boundaries. It is diagnosed in more than 1.4 million Americans every year—people of every conceivable background, culture, and life experience. And around the world, more than 12 million people each year face a cancer diagnosis.
At the American Cancer Society, we believe diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. When you're in the business of saving lives, it is essential not only to understand and respect differences—among people, processes, and systems—but also to leverage the similarities that connect us in the fight against cancer.
Diversity and inclusion are integral threads woven throughout our lifesaving work. We save lives by using a variety of strategies to reach individuals and communities to stay well by helping them take steps to reduce their risk of cancer or detect it early. Each person's needs or obstacles to getting well are different, and we strive to address these by providing around-the-clock information, help with decision-making, and free services like transportation to and from cancer treatment or a free place to stay while receiving treatment far from home. We fund groundbreaking research that explores the disease from all angles and perspectives to uncover cancer's causes and cures. We also give everyone a voice to fight back by rallying communities through events and working with lawmakers to help pass laws that defeat cancer and improve access to affordable, quality health care.
At the heart of our commitment to diversity and inclusion is the belief that we can better position ourselves to save lives every day by striving to:
- Attract, develop, and retain diverse staff and volunteers
- Extend our reach in the fight against cancer through our diverse collaborations
- Deepen our relationships with communities to better understand and address their needs through our programs and services
- Strengthen the minority- and women-owned business community through our supplier diversity program
- Research underserved populations and multicultural health behaviors to help reduce cancer inequalities and develop community-based programs that promote cancer-related behavioral change


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Emma Stone met with reporters at a press junket for her upcoming film 'Gangster Squad' and spoke about the upcoming sequel to 'The Amazing Spider-Man'. Below check out a clip from MTV News!
Andrew Garfield will return in the lead role for the sequel which will also star Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan and Martin Shee. Production is set to begin shortly.
About The Amazing Spider-Man™: One of the world's most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in The Amazing Spider-Man™. Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves from a story by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the film in association with Marvel Entertainment for Columbia Pictures, which will open in theaters everywhere in 3D on July 3, 2012.
The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
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Competing messages on the retention of an Iowa Supreme Court justice will be presented in Fort Dodge today.
Iowans for Freedom, a project of The Family Leader, is currently traversing Iowa to encourage voters to cast their ballots against retaining Justice David Wiggins. Wiggins was one of the seven justices who voted unanimously in a 2009 ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in Iowa.
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From spastic cats that break up relationships to violent felines that put their owners in the hospital, cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy has seen it all. Follow Jackson as he brings his unique understanding of cats to desperate families on the verge of giving up on their furry companions.
Tune in Saturdays at 9 PM E/P beginning May 7.
Did anyone see this? I tuned in on a whim as I was flipping channels and immedately became fasinated. I don't own a cat, and know little about them, so it was interesting and refreshing to see a feline behaviorist. (Especially with all of the attention focused on dogs)
In the first episode, a woman's fiancee is at his wits end when her two cats drive him up a wall. (The first cat: Mostly scratching and meowing to get into their bedroom at night then being destructive when she wasn't let in. The second: Scratching the fiancee then hiding.) With the first cat I thought "Couldn't you just let her in your bedroom?" The behaviorist echoed my thoughts, but the fiancee said he wanted a "cat free zone". Personally, I thought his attiude toward her cats was awful. He mocked them, and was very dismissive of his parners feelings toward her companions. He flat out refused to even give the cats a chance, saying he was a "dog person". Turns out the reason the second cat scratched was because he didn't have confidence and hated being held on his back. (Jackson pointed out that the fiancee held the cat like a baby) He also slowly drew the cat out, made him more confident by playing with the cat, and setting up perches so he could be up high and become more comfortable. The first cat was kept away from the bedroom by a light air can that would spritz her, given a playtime routine, and light walks (just in front of the apartment) on a leash and harness, which she loved.
I'm curious in seeing how this continues, since I didn't realize you could change a cat's behavior into something positive. There is less to it to Jackson's techniques then Victoria's though, so I hope they keep the show interesting.
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44 West 63rd Street, New York, NY | Directions 1002340.771397 -73.982838
Mon-Fri 11:30am-2am
Sat-Sun 11am-2am
Neighborhoods: Midtown, Lincoln Square
This bar was beloved for its quintessential New York bar burger (which was often confused with J.G. Melons). It's a chain now but the original still has some of its old power.
Absolutely fantastic – Perhaps I should preface my review with something about myself. Being a lifer here in Manhattan, and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (class of '94), I have known about PJ Clarke's my whole life, and I have, what I would consider, a decent knowledge of the restaurant industry. That being said, I have to say that I don't understand what some of the other folks who have posted on here are talking about...the PJ's at Lincoln Center was absolutely fantastic. As I sat at the bar waiting for the rest of my friends to arrive, the bartenders were very friendly and accomodating while still flying around and tending to everyone crowded around them. It was at the bar that I split a tray from the raw bar with one of my friends...absolutely terrific!! For those of us who truly know (as garbanz obviously does) a couple grains of sand in the oysters does help to prove how fresh they are, but the better proof was simply in their taste...DELICIOUS, and I loved the variety.
Dinner was spot on!! The waiter was not just friendly, he was engaging, amusing, intelligent, and very knowledgeable about the food he was serving, a VERY rare thing nowadays. We enjoyed a variety of appetizers...the warm lobster salad, the clam chowder, the steamed mussels, the beefsteak tomato salad, and of course the crab cakes...all very flavorful and fresh. Dinner as well was prepared perfectly...the Swordfish was fresh, the Shepard's pie was very "comforting", the Berkshire pork chop was amazing, and of course the burger was...well...the PJ's burger!! And for desert...3 words...ICE CREAM SUNDAE!!
This new Lincoln Center PJ's is not the original PJ;s over on the east side...it never will be...and those pretentious "New Yorkers" who complain about that should stick to the original. Those of us who are looking for great ambiance, excellent service, a delicious meal, and just a great night overall...we'll make the new history for this PJ Clarke's location!!
Avoid this restaurant – The food is mediocre at best (burgers with soggy buns and overcooked fries), and the service is terrible. As another member mentioned, it is a glorified TGI Friday's without the friendly customer service.
The slow, corporate death of an institution. – I grew up eating at PJ Clarke's. I might have been six years old the first time I had a PJ's burger and remember feeling a sense of pride when characters like Frankie would remember my family every time we came back. Fast forward a few years and I'm walking into PJ Clarke's at Lincoln Square, wondering if I'll feel the same warm, neighborhood feeling I felt at the original for so many years. The answer, sadly, is no. What struck me was how subtle differences make such a drastic, negative impression. My wife and I were greeted by three young girls, each with the same personality; each no older than 21. The waiter gleefully informed us that PJ's was opening a location in Las Vegas. Pictures of old politicians were perfectly placed around the restaurant. Top 40 music blared on the sound system (I don't remember country music playing at 55th street, or any other half-decent restaurant in New York for that matter). It became clear very early on that dinner was being served in a cookie-cutter. That couples around the country would soon enjoy Clarke's burgers in an "authentic" New York style restaurant, listening to the same music while being greeted in the exact same way every time - like TGIFridays, only better! And for the record, the food was fine and the service was passable. But I discovered that it wasn't actually the food or how it was served that kept my family coming back for so many years. It was the personality of a restaurant that had the pulse of a city and that made us feel like we were part of history every time we ate there. Well that personality seems to be gone. And when removed, all that's left is a tourist-trap franchise that proves, once again, that landmarks should be left alone and not photocopied. To anyone in search of a true New York experience, know this: True New Yorkers don't do chains!
Midtown East Invades Upper West – Great to see some history brought to an abandoned corner. I stopped in for lunch one day after just stumbling upon it. What an incredible looking restaurant. I sat at the bar, had a beer and some oysters, then ordered the famous Cheeseburger. Beer was cold on a hot day, the bartender introduced himself which was a nice touch and I don't need much more than that. I sat near the raw bar and the Clam shucker talked me into some oysters. They were refreshing, a little sandy, but to me, sandy is good, means they were in the water not long ago instead of being purged and sitting around for who knows how long dying. Then the burger came out. It was close, but not identical to the dozens I have enjoyed at the original location. Served on the same small plate, thick onion slice, and pickle, but something was missing that made it different then the original that I couldn't quite place. I enjoyed none the less, and figured the burger difference was this: ghosts of the original would leave this one alone to develop it's own history.
Only good due to the proximity to Lincoln Center – Went here for dinner prior to ballet at Lincoln Center. Food is truly terrible, and not that cheap for the quality. Crab cakes (average), filet of sole (sauce was gross maple syrup!!), mussels (sandy, below average)-white wine butter sauce was good tho; house pinot grigio -below average.
It does have a great view though and is convenient to Lincoln Center. The bar was crowded with 30s-50s year olds, nice looking crowd. Our waitress was from Ireland and extremely nice.
PJ Clueless – My girlfriend and I went there this afternoon for lunch after having passed by and thinking it looked like a good place to eat, and knowing the history of the original place. It seems like a good place to throw back a beer, but i have to say, from a food perspective, it is the worst. I had a grilled chicken sandwich [with a slice of cheddar, a slice of apple and sweet onion [which weren't]] and she had a Chicken Salad. The sandwich was a tasteless waste bland chicken. To boot, none of the sandwiches come with any sides which is a BIG deal when you're paying $12.50. The salad was mediocre as well and certainly not worth the $16 price tag. Oh, the pickle was good.
Let's not forget about the service. It's as carefree as the food is tasteless......I guess there's something to be said for consistency....Bad over priced food, bland could care less service. Nice.
It's a shame that the new owners are looking no more than to cash in on the original and it's famed history instead of really creating something new. The original was a raw old time saloon with befitting [and satisfying] saloon grub. This is neither a saloon nor a restaurant.
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The last decade has seen a surge of activity aimed at addressing the legacies of past human rights abuse and mass violence in Indonesia and East Timor. Those efforts, stimulated by the fall of the authoritarian Suharto regime in 1998 and by a rising global trend of support for 'transitional justice,' have transformed the political and social terrain in both countries.
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The ElitePad 900 starts off with some promise thanks to its inclusion of an Intel Atom Z2760 processor (
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Things get even more interesting when you take a look at what HP is calling its line of Smart Jackets. The Productivity Jacket provides an integrated keyboard and SD card slot while the Expansion Jacket provides USB and HDMI connectivity along with an integrated battery for added runtime. Other accessories include a rugged case that provides "military-grade" protection and a docking station that allows an external keyboard and monitor to be connected.
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This is right along the lines of what I've had to say about tablets lately, and what people do with them.
Tablets (and to a certain extent, smartphones) are basically incomplete computers. You're carrying around the screen and all the bits to make it function...but you've left behind the keyboard and mouse. Which in some cases is fine, but generally speaking when you need to get "work" done you go and attach your keyboard and mouse (whether that's in a formal dock, like a Transformer, or a "jacket" like these things, or just a BT keyboard & mouse).
Note that you can buy a "jacket" with a built-in keyboard and kickstand for any USB-enabled tablet off of Amazon for like $15.
You can also buy dedicated "lapdocks" for certain phones, that effectively turn them into full-blown laptops.
I think ultimately what we're seeing with the tablet movement isn't so much that anyone's "abandoning" laptops and/or desktops. What's happening is that there's been a form factor change that came in under everyone's nose. The new form factor dictates that the laptop/desktop must come apart to enable it's usage without the normal input devices (ergo, make it a tablet/smartphone). And on the flipside, this "incomplete computer" that you're walking around with, tapping your finger on, must conversely easily slide into a dock/jacket/whatever to immediately become a "complete" computer with traditional input devices and a method of holding the "screen" up without the user having to hold it up in their hands.
This has been proven out by the behavior of people who use their tablets in work settings...the story tends to be "well, I love my tablet for wandering around and doing <x>, but when I need to get something done I just attach a keyboard and mouse and get to it."
While traditional laptops will likely always be cheaper to produce, and certainly always offer higher performance (unless you want a 7 pound tablet with enough cooling capacity to manage a 4-core processor and dedicated video card), I think that this is probably functionally just a re-definition of what a "computer" is.
We don't live in a "post-PC" world. We live in a world where phones and tablets *are* PCs. Just incomplete ones, most of the time.
"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
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I have a question about using weights in a multilevel SEM model. This model has two latent variables and six oberved at level-2 and the same setup at level-1 with different variables. Because of this and the data are clustered, I wanted to use multilevel SEM analysis. Also, the data come with weights. How would I incorporate the weights into my model? Is there an example in the manual that I am overlooking?
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You would use the WEIGHTS option of the VARIABLE command to specify which variable contains the sampling weight information.
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I'll give it a try.
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Hi, I am using data from a national survey. A bootstrapping procedure was used to create 500 sets of sampling weights which have been provided by the owner of the database for the purpose of estimating standard errors while taking the survey design into account. Is there a way in MPlus to combine model estimates based on these sampling weights or do I have to manually run the models 500 times and then manually calculate the stardand errors based on the distributions of the obtained estimates?
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If you have 500 data sets each with a different weight, you can use external Monte Carlo (Example 11.6, Step 2) to analyze them. You will obtain results that are the average parameter estimates, the average standard error, etc. (see Chapter 11, Monte Carlo Output. I'm not sure this is exactly how these replicate weights should be used.
Thais Rogatko
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Hi, I'm using the European Social Survey data which has two sampling weight variables (a Design weight to control for not all people being given the same chance of selesction, and a population weight to accurately represent country populations). I am testing a two-level model (country level and individual level). I'm wondering how I include both weight variables. Do I say WEIGHT = DWEIGHT PWEIGHT
Thanks for your help
Tihomir Asparouhov
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For the twolevel model you should use only WEIGHT = DWEIGHT, however if you want to estimate population totals you should use single level models with weight the product of DWEIGHT and PWEIGHT.
Dennis Koethemann
posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 9:03 am
Do you know any reference explaining why we should not use pweight in a twolevel sem model?
Many thanks
Tihomir Asparouhov
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You should construct your weights so that the level 2 weight is 1 / Prob of including that cluster in the sample and the level 1 weight is 1 / Prob of including the observation in the sample.
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We are trying to estimate a latent class growth analysis using Add Health data, and we are therefore applying complex sampling weights. Importantly, we are using a subsample of the full data (i.e., only 7th graders).
We used Type=Complex TwoLevel and included wtscale=ecluster to try to accommodate for using only a portion of the full data. However, we only wish to specify a within-group model, and the results of the two-level model were uninterpretable. [All individuals were assigned to a single group even though three groups were specified.]
Can we use Type=Complex (without TwoLevel) and incorporate some other method of adjusting the weights to account for use of a subpopulation?
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