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101. Identifying your respondents in a Snap WebHost survey
This worksheet describes how to connect a Snap WebHost survey to a database of respondents. It tells you how to set up the survey so you can: Set up email invitations and reminders and enable the respondents to access the survey directly from the email or, make the respondents log into the survey using a login page.
Once you have connected the survey to the database and uploaded the published survey to Snap WebHost, this worksheet tells you how to check that it is all working correctly.
100. Creating a simple report
This worksheet describes how to create a simple report consisting of a title, introduction, analysis and a conclusion. It assumes that you have already created any analyses that you wish to use in your report.
You can run your report as often as you like, using the latest data to produce an up-to-date report. Once you have set up the report the way you like it, it will be produced like that every time you run it, with no chance of errors creeping in through copying or cut and paste.
99. Smart Reports: tailoring your data to a context
This worksheet describes how to use contexts and filters to create a report that is tailored for a specific user. By setting a context, you can tailor the text and values in a report. By setting a filter, you can limit the data. In this worksheet, you add a list of comments to the report created in the worksheet Smart reports: creating multiple pdf reports using contexts. The comments will be filtered so that they only include comments for a specific restaurant. This is done by applying a filter based on context to the list analysis.
98. Smart Reports: creating multiple pdf reports using contexts
This worksheet describes how to set up a Smart Report so it creates multiple pdf reports with Snap dynamically selecting the data depending on the context. It explains how to set up the survey in Snap so that it will produce all the reports that are needed, and then tells you how to set up the report instructions so that each report will be sent to a different pdf file.
97. Smart Reports: understanding contexts
This worksheet describes how to set up a Smart Report so it dynamically selects the data depending on the context. The context is a variable containing a list of possible values.
96. Creating a Smart Report which includes automatic text
This worksheet is the first of a series on how to use Smart Reports. Smart Reports can be re-run using the latest data to produce an up-to-date report. This worksheet describes how to use data from analyses in the report text. It also shows you how to use ordered tables so you can headline important points. For example, you can automatically include the aspects your customers are least satisfied with.
95. Using word clouds to display your results
This worksheet describes how to create wordclouds from free text responses. Wordclouds allow you to display words or responses as a text graphic with the most common value written in the largest text. You can select how many items are displayed. Snap can automatically categorise open responses and uses a stop list to stop common words such as "and" or "the" being included in the word cloud. You can add words to the stop list and tailor the categories.You can create clouds from open responses or from the labels of coded responses.
94. Managing your survey files
This worksheet describes how to spring-clean your survey files. It tells you how to set up a folder structure, archive and restore surveys and add surveys to a SurveyPak so you can base new surveys on old ones easily.
93. Creating a grid combining multi-choice questions and literals
This worksheet shows you two ways of combining a rating scale and a grid of literal responses into a single grid. You can use the two-column method for paper or online surveys, or the Compound Grid method for online surveys.
92. Using routing to limit the grid questions displayed
This worksheet describes setting up a satisfaction survey where respondents select items to rate from a multi-choice list. Associated rating questions are only displayed for selected items. This is simple to do using routing.
91. Creating a common course evaluation survey for multiple courses
This worksheet describes how to send student respondents to a course evaluation survey, which they complete once for each course they have taken. When a student has completed an evaluation of a course, that version is marked as completed and no longer available to the student.
90. Creating a project of course evaluation surveys
This worksheet describes how to create a set of course evaluation surveys accessible by students from a single web address. (This set of surveys is known in Snap WebHost as a panel project.) When the student logs in, they see the list of surveys that have been assigned to them. They can see which surveys they have completed and which surveys they have not started or still have to complete.
89. Running a survey in kiosk mode
This worksheet describes how to create and run a survey that is to be used in a standalone mode. It can run on a dedicated survey kiosk, or on a tablet or iPad (stored in a kiosk frame which only exposes the touchscreen).
Surveys are loaded onto the kiosk over the Internet using Snap Mobile Anywhere. You then set up the device in kiosk mode and select which survey to run. Once in kiosk mode, the device will only display the selected survey.
The kiosk displays the first page of the survey by default. If someone starts the survey, but does not complete it, the screen resets back to the first page after a specified time.
88. Setting up exit pages with a screen-out question for panel surveys
You may use an outside panel provider to provide the respondents for your survey. This worksheet describes how to communicate between your survey and the panel provider. It explains how direct respondents to a specific web address at the end of each survey which includes a participant's name and exit status. It also enables you to provide a quotafull page that they are sent to if a respondent is over quota. This is done automatically if you use Snap Panel Samples, a partnership with Cint, available via Snap WebHost.
87. Tailoring reports
This worksheet tells you how to set up analyses when you are creating reports using a batch. It explains the difference between how the analyses are defined inside the batch and how they are defined on their own. It uses the crocodile survey supplied with Snap to show you how to create a report using existing analyses. It demonstrates how to use a Window Size instruction to set the size of charts, and how to proof your report by sending it to a pdf printer.
86. Using Snap Panel Samples for your surveys
Snap Panel Samples let you send your surveys to a broad group of people or a targeted audience. You can specify the demographics or behavioral characteristics that you want for a survey, and buy it directly via Snap WebHost. As soon as it's approved, your survey will be sent to the panellists until you have all the responses required.
85. Using the Snap Mobile Anywhere app on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
Snap Mobile Anywhere allows you to enter responses to a published survey on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. You must publish an offline edition of the survey in Snap running on a PC desktop. You can then synchronise your iPad/iPhone with an account on a server. You add published surveys to the account and they are then downloaded to your device over the Internet. Responses are uploaded to the server.
85(a). Using the Snap Mobile Anywhere app on an Android device
Snap Mobile Anywhere allows you to enter responses to a published survey on an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or Android device. You must publish an offline edition of the survey in Snap running on a PC desktop. You can then synchronise your device touch with an account on a server. You add published surveys to the account and they are then downloaded to your device over the Internet. Responses are uploaded to the server.
84. Filtering the analyses your clients see
You can set up a filter for a survey so that your clients only see the data which is applicable to them. When your client logs into Snap WebHost and views analyses in a filtered survey, Snap WebHost filters the data before creating the analysis. The filter is not visible to the client.
83. Allowing respondents to attach files to a questionnaire
Snap's AttachIt feature allows your respondents to attach files (pictures, documents, etc.) as answers to individual questions in your Snap WebHost questionnaires. You can then download these files. The files will be tagged with a unique id representing the respondent and the question number.
82. Using Interviewer with synchronisation
It is possible to synchronise surveys and responses between Snap WebHost and your device when there is an internet connection available. This means that published offline surveys can be downloaded to your device and responses uploaded to Snap WebHost. You can then import the responses from Snap WebHost to your desktop and analyse them.
81. Creating a question bank in a SurveyPak
You can create a bank of questions in Snap which can be saved and used in more than one survey. These are known as SurveyPaks. This worksheet shows you how to use a question from Snap's own reference SurveyPak, how to create a new SurveyPak and how to store your own questions in it.
80. Sending email alerts if participants select an answer
This worksheet describes how to get Snap WebHost to send an email to a specified address when respondents select a particular answer. It also describes how to set the condition to choose if the emails are sent.
79. Using YouTube videos in your survey
This worksheet shows how to link to videos on the YouTube site (for example, our video Getting Started with Snap WebHost ).
78. Creating reports using instructions
This worksheet shows how to create a simple report about how men and women rate different types of service (using the snSatisfaction survey supplied with Snap). The report will consist of a table summarising the average rating for each service by men and women, plus separate tables for each service showing every rating.
77. Improving web surveys: layout and highlighting
This worksheet describes how to put an image next to a grid question in a two column layout, and also tells you how to switch on row highlighting so that the grid rows are highlighted when the cursor moves over them. (This highlights response boxes for all multi-choice questions.) Finally, it describes how to insert an image into your own questionnaire.
76. Preparing surveys for smartphones
Snap version 10.17 has improved web survey layout on smartphones such as the iPhone and Blackberry. However, because smartphones have limited screen space, a mobile internet connection (which may use a slow speed) and small keyboards, it is sensible to adapt your surveys if you know that they will be viewed on smartphones. This worksheet discusses the issues involved in designing a survey for smartphones. It describes the facilities in Snap to help you. It gives an example of changing a survey so that it conforms to the guidelines for use on a smartphone.
75. Transferring data between a Snap survey and a database
This worksheet describes how to link between a Snap survey and an SQL Server database, so you can use your existing database to seed your survey, or send updated data from your survey back to your database. You can set this up to happen automatically by using a Hot Link. This worksheet describes how to import data from an SQL server database. Exporting data is done in a similar manner.
74. Translating your Snap survey
This worksheet explains how to export a file to send to an external translator and re-import the translated text to create a bilingual survey. The example uses a translation from English to Spanish.
73. Adjusting quotas after you have received replies
Sometimes you wish to adjust a quota after you have received some replies. This worksheet explains how to make the responses in your new desktop quota match the responses when you upload the new version to Snap WebHost. It also tells you how to export data from your survey, delete the data in your survey, and import the data again.
72. Using the Totalize function to add up responses as they arrive
This worksheet shows you how to do this using the Totalize (or Totalise) function in the Snap Toolkit. The Totalize function calculates a running total as the respondent completes the answers. It explains how to create a set of Open First and Open Next questions for quantity responses, and use Totalize to put a running total into the final response. It also shows you how to set a valid range on the total, so that respondents cannot move to the next page if the total has overrun.
71. Randomizing the order of question pages
When you present a respondent with a survey, their answers are influenced by the order in which questions are presented. This is known as an order-effect. Because of this, you may wish to randomize the order of the questions, so that this effect is as small as possible.
In Snap you can randomize the order of possible responses in a multi-choice question, rows in a grid question, or question pages. This worksheet explains how to randomize the order in which question pages are presented to the respondent using the Randomize (or Randomise) tool.
70. Banding quantity variables for analysis
When you have a quantity question in your survey, you sometimes want to split the results into bands for analysis (for example, when you wish to split ages or salaries into ranges). There is a quick way of doing this using numeric variables. Numeric variables are a type of derived variable, i.e, they contain information that is derived from people's responses. This worksheet will use the data in the snCrocodile survey supplied with Snap to show you how to band the amount spent.
69. Customising the toolbar on a web survey
This worksheet describes how to adjust a Snap scheme. It then shows you how to create a three-step progress bar for very short questionnaires, instead of a default twelve-stage bar. When you have finished making changes, you learn how to save your new scheme to use again.
68. Scanning a booklet
This worksheet describes how to create a questionnaire in booklet format and then scan the returned questionnaires.
67. Ordering a stacked bar chart by results
A stacked bar chart is commonly used to display a ratings scale, for example, people's satisfaction with different aspects of your product. This worksheet describes how to set the order of the bars according to the ratings.
66. Putting counts and percentages on a bar chart
Bar charts normally display one value per bar. You can choose whether this is the count, (number of respondents who chose that response), or the percentage (number of respondents as a percentage of the total). This worksheet explains how to create a bar chart that shows both the counts and the percentage values on a single chart.
65. Working with rating scale questions
One of the most useful forms of question is a rating scale, where you ask people to mark how satisfied they were with an item or a service. You can then analyse the answers to these questions to see if people are generally satisfied or dissatisfied, so you are more able to judge where to put the effort in to improve what you offer.
64. Writing emails on Snap WebHost
How to create and edit email invitations and reminders in Snap WebHost's email editor.
63. Using filters to find a subset of respondents
Use filters to break down the data you are displaying or analysing, so you only see the data that is appropriate.
62. Using on-page routing
You can now control whether Snap automatically inserts a page break before a question with routing. This worksheet describes how to do this, when you can't do it, and how to use different routing to get the effect you want.
61. Getting your data into Snap from the web
This worksheet describes how to import your emails for analysis and what problems you might meet along the way.
60. Adding lines and columns to a questionnaire
This worksheet shows you how to lay out whole questions on a web page and to separate them with lines and borders.
59. Laying out a grid question for a Web survey
Snap provides several tools to assist you in laying out questions and adjusting positioning of the separate elements. This worksheet describes adjusting the layout of a grid question.
58. Using an existing Map Control in a questionnaire
This worksheet describes how to add a clickable map of US states into your questionnaire by inserting a supplied Map Control. It also describes how to create a map of UK counties, using a question from the reference library combined with one of the Map Controls supplied with Snap.
57. Hiding question numbers in web surveys
You often want to hide question numbers in web surveys. This worksheet tells you how to do that, and also explains how to remove the question numbers from the messages that appear if respondents miss questions or answer them inappropriately. Parts of this worksheet do not apply to versions of Snap before 10.
56. Adapting the Slider Control templates for your own use
Snap provides several templates for Slider Controls that you can use in your questionnaires. Sometimes these may not be exactly what you need. This worksheet describes how to change one of the templates to make the bar in the Slider Control longer and display the code label for the setting rather than a graphic.
55. Turning a single response question into a slider
You can insert a draggable Slider Control as a way of representing single-response questions on screen. Respondents drag the slider to the position representing their response.
54. Using a clickable map to create a star rating scale
With Snap 10 you can use image maps to create rating scales. The software comes with a number of 5-star rating scales that enable a respondent to select from one to five stars as their response. This worksheet explains how the rating scale has been created, and shows you how to change the default colors.
53. Using styles to tint alternate rows in a grid question
Create a style in Snap which originates the same type of question as an existing style but looks different. This can be useful when differentiating grid questions. This worksheet shows you how to create a simple grid question and then define a coloured style for the first and odd rows of your grid, and a white style for the even rows of your grid. It also shows you how to set aspects of the style so a coloured row is followed by a white row and vice versa.
52. Removing Deleted Respondent Data
Snap stores respondent data in a file with the survey name and extension .rdf (respondent data file). Replies for each respondent are held in individual records in that file. When respondent records are deleted, they remain as empty records in the file. Although they do not affect the analyses, it is sometimes useful to remove the empty records completely.
51. Setting a "do not ask" condition on multiple questions
This worksheet describes how to set the same condition on a complete grid, so that depending on the respondent's choices, they do not have to complete irrelevant sections.
50. Calculating the difference between times on different dates
How to calculate the difference in hours from a start date and time and an end date and time, and use the results for analysis.
49. Adding extra information in pop-up windows and labels
You might want to have extra information available for a HTML or Snap Online WebHost survey that doesn't interfere with the questionnaire. You can do this by putting a link in your survey which opens in a separate browser window. You can link to standard sites, or the documents that you have created which provide additional material for respondents.
48. Using scores to analyse satisfaction questions
Make more sense of rating questions, find out how to convert rating questions into mean values by assigning scores.
If you have satisfaction or other questions where users rate something from one to five, you can convert this into more useful mean values by analysing the responses using a score.
47. Change your Snap WebHost questions dynamically according to how people arrive at your questionnaire (Part 2)
Adding a derived variable to create dynamic text in your web survey questions according to where people come from using Snap Online WebHost.
46. Setting up a Web survey to look different according to where people come from (Part 1)
Learn how you can use the same survey to collect data about different products or from different groups of people and tailor it accordingly.
45. Creating a combination chart to display respondent means as points and bars
How to use a combination chart to display the means of groups of respondents in a satisfaction survey to the mean responses of all respondents. Create a derived variable called "All" which includes all respondents, and then shows you how to produce a chart of the satisfaction ratings, with total responses displayed as bars, and the individual breakdowns by male and female displayed as points.
44. Back-up and share surveys using archive and restore
It is easy to backup a survey, complete with data, to share with colleagues or to refer back to later should the need arise. This article shows you how.
43. Worksheet on Using Snap e-viewer to share survey results
If you have created many tables and charts in Snap there is a quick and easy way to share them with colleagues and clients. You can export them to a Snap e-results Viewer file, and then give other people that file, which they can then look at using the free, downloadable Snap e-viewer.
42. Giving a consistent look and feel to all your charts
You can save and apply chart styles in Snap in the same way that you can save and apply questionnaire styles. If you wish to have a consistent look and feel for the analysis charts you produce, you can create a style that only contains the colors and background definitions. You can then apply that style to any chart to make it appear in your organisation's colors. This worksheet shows you how.
41. Adding name and address information to a printed survey
If you are producing a printed questionnaire for known respondents, you can set up Snap to insert the respondents' names and addresses on the front page of the questionnaire, and then mail them directly.
40. Restarting and changing question numbering with sections
You can break up your survey into several sections, and restart the numbering in each section. You can also change the appearance of the numbering in each section. This worksheet tells you how.
39. Using Rating Check to ensure ranking of options
You can set up a grid question, which has a rating scale along the top, and the items to be rated down the side (or vice versa) and then ask respondents to rank the items in order. If you want to make sure that they give a unique rank to each value, you can apply the necessary constraints by using the rating check tool from SurveyPlus.
38. Worksheet on Randomly selecting questions
This month's worksheet shows how to generate pseudo-random values to use in routing or other calculations. In particular we consider the problem where you want to keep the size of a questionnaire to a minimum whilst still questions covering a wide range of topics.
37. Generating scheduled email invitations from Snap WebHost
Snap WebHost can send out email invitations and reminders automatically. It keeps a record of which respondents have completed the questionnaire, and reminds those who have still to complete it. Respondents will not necessarily have to log in to the survey, as you can set up the link to the survey to identify them automatically.
36. Dynamically specifying the web address that respondents get directed to at the end of a survey questionnaire
When respondents complete an online survey, you can specify the website that they are then taken to. You can set up the website address to be specific to a respondent by including one or more survey variables in it.
35. Creating compound grids
You can place question grids next to each other to make them easier to complete. For example, you could combine two grid questions on goods and services; one on how satisfied people are with them, and the other on how important they are to people.
34. Creating a custom login page
The New Year worksheet looks at changing the look of survey login pages. It explains how to add text and graphics to a login page. As a bonus it also covers how to set up the invitation email so that the respondent is logged in automatically, saving them trouble while providing you with their login details for reference.
33. Analysing two surveys together
Merging surveys in Snap has become even easier using a database link. This worksheet tells you how to merge slightly different surveys and set up a derived variable to identify them for analysis.
32. Creating a new language edition of your questionnaire
This worksheet describes how to publish the same survey in multiple languages. The tutorial covers creating a dual-language questionnaire in Welsh and English for Snap WebHost.
31. Creating multiple editions of your questionnaire
Snap 9 allows you to design a number of editions of the same questionnaire each targeted at different media. This month's worksheet illustrates that facility by showing how to create a web questionnaire from an existing paper questionnaire.
30. Using slider controls in electronic questionnaires
The Slider program is a new addition to the ToolKit suite of programs. It enables you to add slider controls to single-response and quantity questions for all forms of web and offline questionnaires. This worksheet shows you how.
29. Rim Weighting
Many analysis weighting problems require the application of a single weighting factor per respondent. Occasionally however there is a requirement to weight by two or more independent variables, for example, to weight separately for both the gender and the age group of the respondent. Snap's rim-weighting facility makes this type of problem easy to solve.
28. Live update of respondents worksheet (Click here for Snap 9)
This worksheet describes how to update the respondents for a live survey running on Snap WebHost.
27. Interlocking quotas in Snap WebHost
This month we look at how to introduce quotas based on combinations of answers for individual questions for Snap WebHost web surveys.
26. Quotas
Quotas allow you to specify maximum numbers of respondents in particular groups and are helpful in maintaining stratified samples. Snap 9 may be used to implement either independent or interlocking quotas for Snap WebHost web surveys and this article shows you how.
25. Using patterns to categorise postcodes into postal area
In last months worksheet we applied a pattern to validate or transform a quantity response during an interview. We will now look at applying a pattern at analysis stage. This particular example uses a derived variable in conjunction with a pattern to extract the postal area part from a full UK postcode.
24. Patterns
In this worksheet we will show how applying patterns can resolve such issues and make questionnaires more amenable to respondents' replies.
23. Dynamic Masking
This month's worksheet shows how to include or exclude specific answer choices from one question based on the answers given to one or more earlier questions.
22. Masking Code Boxes
A new function within Snap 9 gives the ability to hide or mask code boxes of one single- or multiple-response questions. Mask expressions which reference other questions are termed dynamic masks and can be used in offline and online (web) questionnaires.
21. How to display a currency sign beside a code box
When questions are designed which require currency values to be clearly identifiable, include the words or symbols representing the currency outside the applicable box. This will indicate to the interviewee that only a numeric value needs to be entered.
20. Exporting your Snap questionnaire into MS Word
You may wish to send your survey to someone via email as an attachment, or incorporate your Snap questionnaire into a Microsoft Word report. In order to do this, you need to export your Snap questionnaire as a WMF graphic file. Read on to find out the simple steps to do this.
19. Analysing Several Questions by a Standard Break (Click here for Snap 9)
Read on to find out how to analyse several questions without having to open up each individual table of charts. This method will save you valuable time conducting analysis through using one standard break.
18. The Do's and Don'ts of Scanning
The Snap Scanning Module is a powerful product that is a cost-effective way to collect data quickly and efficiently. When designing a survey there are always do's and don'ts so we advise you to bear the following in mind.
17. Worksheet on Scanned Image Data Reports
Snap's optional scanning module has the facility to print scanned image data reports of data that has not yet been detected or keyed in. Consequently, Literal Response questions do not need to be keyed in or coded prior to analysis. This is achieved by selecting the Scanned Questionnaire radio button, which creates a report read from the scanned image, as distinct from Summary, taken from a survey's data (.rdf) file.
16. Using Gap Analysis to Interpret Importance with Satisfaction
Gap analysis shows the difference between how important attributes are to your respondents and how satisfied they are with those attributes. It is a really useful way of comparing the results from your satisfaction and importance questions and allows for easy interpretation. By comparing importance and satisfaction scores on your chart you can use gap analysis to identify priorities for improvement.
15. The Reference Window – copying Questions from SurveyPaks or other Surveys into your Questionnaire
The Reference window is designed in order to simplify the questionnaire design process by offering the facility of copying questions from two sources. Through the reference window you have the facility to 'drag and drop' questions from either a SurveyPak or from a previously designed survey into your own questionnaire.
14. Analysing literal response variables
Questions that you can answer with free text (literal response variables) are not as easy to analyse as questions that have tick box answers, such as multiple choice. However, it is possible to set up new variables in Snap to categorise the responses. This worksheet gives an example how to do it using the snCrocodile survey data supplied with Snap.
13. Saving your Questionnaire Design as a Template
The Style Templates option in Snap allows you to apply a template that represents a particular style in terms of page set-up, colours and layout. As well as utilizing the existing templates you can also create your own. This worksheet shows you how.
11. Calculating the Time in Minutes between Two Time Variables
Snap has the capability to analyse times of the day using the 24 hour clock. If a questionnaire contains a start time and end time question, Snap can calculate the time difference between the two answers.
10. Joining Surveys
'Joining' is the process of connecting cases from different surveys together to form a longer case.
9. Merging Similar Surveys
Merging two identically structured surveys using Snap is very simple. This article will demonstrate merging two surveys that differ in composition.
8. Calculating the Number of Days between Two Dates
Calculating the number of days between two dates is easy as this worksheet shows.
7. Calculating marks in a test
Using a weight matrix, Snap has the ability to differentiate between responses to a particular question as being correct or incorrect.
6. Analyzing Dates
Snap includes a number of operations and functions specifically designed to help in analyzing dates.
5. Analyzing Post codes and Zip codes
There are a few golden rules when using Snap to analyze Postcodes and Zip codes.
4. Using images for answer labels
For a grid question (a ratings style of question), it may be preferable to have images such as smiley faces instead of typed ratings, e.g. very good through to very poor, or very satisfied through to very unsatisfied. Using smiley faces as ratings is a popular method of creating grid questions in questionnaires that are completed by children.
3. Exporting Data from Snap to Excel
This month's survey workshop describes how to export data from Snap to Microsoft Excel and other applications in simple steps.
1. Applying an image behind the questionnaire
Images can be used as a background for the entire questionnaire. These images can comprise of .BMP, .JPEG, .GIF or even animated GIF's. If Page Breaks are included in the design, the image will be displayed behind all pages and not just one as viewed in the Questionnaire Design window.


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Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) in Canada has expertise and experience with hydrogen buses. They just can't use them anymore. Unfortunately, the buses proved too expensive to run and so the buses are being shipped back to Ford.
According to CBC News, the buses arrived on P.E.I. in 2007 and had been running until just recently when the funding for the buses ran out. The buses were originally a joint experiment between Ford and Charlottetown. The original idea was that wind turbines at North Cape on P.E.I. would produce the hydrogen for the vehicles. Unfortunately, that didn't work out.
Instead hydrogen had to be imported from Quebec which was expensive. As it turned out money for the experiment was provided by Ottawa ($275,000), the province ($100,000), and the fuel supplier, Air Liquide ($175,000). Unfortunately, the money ran out last summer and the buses were mothballed. Requests to Ottawa for $400,000 to $500,000 to run the buses for an additional two years were not funded which means the buses are headed back to Ford.
The buses produced water as their only exhaust making them extremely clean to run. But even clean vehicles have to have easily obtainable and affordable fuel supplies. Having to truck in hydrogen from Quebec was the first indication that this experiment was probably on rocky ground. The fact that it took two hours every morning to fuel the buses was another problem issue.
Two companies, Horizon Fuel Cell and Proton Energy both have stated that without home hydrogen stations, hydrogen fueled vehicles will not be widely adopted. Charlottetown's experience proves this point. If the city had been able to generate the hydrogen fuel for the buses on site, much of the cost would have been eliminated but such facilities don't exist locally.
Companies like Horizon and Proton Energy are improving their technology and providing equipment for refueling hydrogen fuel cells as well as the fuel cells themselves. Horizon has solid fuel cells that can be used in place of batteries and can be refilled at home. The company also provides fuel cells that run unmanned aerial vehicles, electric cars and UPS power systems.
Proton Energy Systems makes a hydrogen fueling system that uses water and electricity to create the fuel. The company is also working with military and civilian governments to provide hydrogen storage with their regenerative fuel cell (RFC) energy storage systems.
Next time Charlottetown or Ford decide to experiment with hydrogen forms of transportation they might want to keep companies like Horizon and Proton Energy in mind. Otherwise, the next experiment just might end like this one.
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I too have not built many barracks and the like because I just don't feel the benefits justify the cost. But unlike some people here, I don't see why that's a problem. The option is there to build it or not.
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I played a long drawn-out domination on a huge map, and after taking out my neighbours, didn't build any more units in my cities, it was far more effective to just purchase units in captured cities before razing them.
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I just build wonders because they don't require maintance, and give better bonuses than regular buildings, while still keeping cities busy. Also, I don't even need many units. And if I do, there are militaristic City-states for that.
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Oct 06, 2010, 01:36 AM | #44 |
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Well I am 160 horus in and have won with IDK 10 civs in every way possible.
The stables are an atrocious building, no possible scenario where I could imagine building one. The barracks is ok and I sometimes build them, though never until the middle ages. I think I built an armory once, don't think it was worth it. Other than that the rest of the unit buildings just seem insane. |
Oct 06, 2010, 02:41 AM | #45 |
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I think OP forgets the following:
1. You could build these buildings before gaining some cool new unit's tech. If you build units instead, they'll become obsolete. 2. Resource limitations. Yes, horses are abundant, but iron, for example, usually don't. I build barracks in military-oriented cities very often. Armory sometimes.
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Oct 06, 2010, 03:20 AM | #46 |
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My thought was to get rid of the exp bonuses (units get exp so quickly as it is and they don't die) and instead replace it with a production fairly hefty production bonus for units. Not sure what a good percent would be, but of the top of my head 30 to 40 percent seems justified.
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They should halve production cost and upkeep of all military units and properly show how much upkeep each unit costs.
Currently game encourages as small army as possible bit too much. |
Oct 06, 2010, 04:13 AM | #48 |
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This civilopedia is just a waste ... You can't rely on it. Half of the entries are inaccurate or false. Not to mention that half the information is not even there anyway...
Oct 06, 2010, 04:27 AM | #50 |
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Yeah. I have to concede that despite how I like many of the changed mechanics, the game does seem to have been rushed.
Oct 06, 2010, 04:33 PM | #51 |
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Or you could just build the obsolete unit and upgrade it dirt cheap once new tech is available. Heck, you could even continue doing it after.
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Think on the more close example of civ IV, the West point. It was surely a good boost for a city building military , but , due to it's high cost, it was normally not worth to stop building military to make it ( someone calculated that you would need to save 4800 hammers in units due to XP given by it to consider it paid compared with the option of keeping building units ) . In here the thing gets worse because the buildings themselfes pay maintenance ....
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Oct 06, 2010, 05:41 PM | #53 |
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I think the OP is right about this one. If they had no maintenance cost, you could conceivably build them up during peacetime so that you can more quickly build an effective military when you see a war coming (sparing the maintenance costs of maintaining that military), but since they're quite expensive to maintain, you're pretty much just better off maintaining that military throughout instead of putting yourself in a position where you need to build units faster later on.
Basically, when you're in the position of building enough military that the military buildings are worth the production cost, you're taking on too much unit maintenance to want to deal with their maintenance costs. If you're not building so many units that the maintenance cost is going to be an actual problem, you're not building enough units that the production savings on the units outweighs the production cost of the buildings. For the experience buildings, you are trading off more units (the units you would have if you had taken the production time to build them instead of the barracks/etc) for better units... except this isn't really a net benefit, because the maintenance costs of the barracks/etc themselves end up offsetting the main benefit of going better instead of more, the cost savings for supporting a smaller military. The simple mod answer is cut the maintenance on them and in some cases the build times. The more elaborate answer is to figure out what the player should be getting out of them and redesign them from scratch to fit those needs. I may tackle that at some point. |
Oct 06, 2010, 05:57 PM | #54 |
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What if the barracks gave like 1xp per turn for a unit garrisoned in the city?
With like a limit at 2 or 3 promotions? Then it would be worth it and you could train your armies slowly during peacetime instead of always just declaring war on a city state and leaving your units under the city to slowly gain exp from being bombarded:-) This would also make barracks worth more in smaller cities, because they don't produce tons of units but can hep train them. Might make a good balance? |
Oct 06, 2010, 06:26 PM | #55 | |
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In any event, it's a very intriguing thought, so good on you for thinking of it. It'd also mean that units built before the Barracks wouldn't be forever at a disadvantage, and could slowly be "trained up" if you desired. It would actually make the Barracks a very worthwhile building over time.
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Oct 06, 2010, 08:32 PM | #57 |
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Any building that has an engineer specialist slot is worth it for that alone, in my book. Great Engineers are the hardest GP to produce and also the best.
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Oct 06, 2010, 10:51 PM | #59 |
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I agree with the initial post, but i would not advocate making buildings cheaper - I like the idea that a civilization chooses to invest in EITHER expansion OR in infrastructure. In this, small nations ought to be competitive.
Instead of making buildings cheaper, I'd argue for the "greater benefits". Every building should be a hefty investment, but in-so doing, one should benefit enormously. Larger nations/warmongers should go very building light. But a small nation that went building heavy SHOULD BE ABLE to compete with the large warmonger, each has their risks. The warmonger should risk inefficiency and unhappiness (and really, riots and civil war, but they took that out ) and the smaller nation should risk being outproduced or invaded by those who did invest time in units. I argue for the "better benefits" rather than cheaper buildings. Because if one makes the buildings cheaper - warmongers will be able to do both.
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Q Cole from Bountiful asks, "What will happen to Utah if Alex Smith goes down?"
A I could explain what would happen here in this column, but a visual illustration probably works better in this case.
Head to your local video store, and rent the movie Titanic. Fast-forward to the end, you know, where the ship sinks into the icy depths of the ocean.
That's pretty much a good demonstration of what would happen to the Utes should Alex Smith go down.
However, word from camp is that Brian Johnson has separated himself from the rest of the back-up quarterbacks, and that he might do an adequate job if forced into action.
But starting QBs with no experience aren't a good thing in college football. Just ask BYU.
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The Aggies went 4-8 last year, one of those coming against Utah. They were pathetic defensively, giving up 59 points to Texas Tech, 48 to Nebraska, 46 to Texas, 45 to Missouri and 77 to Oklahoma. All were losses.
Most pre-season prognostications have them much improved, however, as they have 16 returning starters on both sides of the football.
The Aggies will be the most talented team Utah faces this year, and are easily capable of knocking them off, especially in the opener for both teams.
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Zack: What?
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Truth. Yes, life does suck.
Truth. A lot of blogs I follow are created by teenagers or people in their early twenties. People I can relate to. People who like me, have had their hearts broken at one time or another. People who are just trying to survive from heartache to heartache.
Truth. I am twenty nine.
Truth. It does get better. The loneliness goes away. You meet someone and a whole new set of feelings thrusts your way. Some of those feelings suck. Some of those feelings are awesome. You live your life and that person lives yours. There will be fights. There will be tears and arguments and moments of despair and a questionable future.
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Truth. Despite all the Ben and Jerry's nights you spend at home in your sweats, despite all your hesitations toward love and scoffing at the idea of a so called happily ever after, you fall hard. You may fall fast, you may fall slow. It really doesn't matter, you just fall in love.
Truth. I'm getting married people! Despite my preconceived notions and my second guessing on August 27th I get my happily ever after. He asked and I said yes! And nothing has felt more right. Nothing has felt more natural.
Truth. There is hope for all of you. It may not happen now or next year. It may be ten years before your prince or princess charming comes to sweep you off your feet. You may not even realize it when it happens. But it will. It will definitely happen. Because you deserve it. Because you are amazing and deserve all the happiness that there is to offer in the world. And just because you don't realize that doesn't mean he or she doesn't.
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More 800 dissing. Only 9 WR in 68 yearsMore 800 dissing. Only 9 WR in 68 yearsI was looking at the 800 WR progression list and was amazed that the WR has been lowered only nine times since 1939. The stats for other middle/distance events (the sprints data is less relevant because of Mexico City and the hand-timing ----> auto timing thing):
1500...23 WR lowerings Steeple...16 5K....30 10K....29 The 100 has had 10 just in the last 20 years, the field events have had bunches over the last 68 years. May not be news to most out there, but it did surprise me. 1.46,6 Rudolf Harbig GER Milan 15.07.1939 1.45,7 Roger Moens BEL Oslo 03.08.1955 1.44,3 Peter Snell NZL Christchurch 03.02.1962 ...........Ralph Doubell AUS Mexico City 15.10.1968 ...........David Wottle USA Eugene 01.07.1972 1.43,7 Marcello Fiasconaro ITA Milan 27.06.1973 1.43,50 Alberto Juantorena CUB Montreal 25.07.1976 1.43,44 Juantorena CUB Sofia 21.08.1977 1.42,33 Sebastian Coe GBR Oslo 05.07.1979 1.41,73 Coe GBR Firenze 10.06.1981 ...........Wilson Kipketer DEN Stockholm 07.07.1997 1.41,24 Kipketer DEN Zurich 13.08.1997 1.41,11 Kipketer DEN Cologne 24.08.1997 http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Aren ... dex_s.html Last edited by DrJay on Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
It's not really exciting until someone comes along to dominate it. Or if some big names at other distances take a shot at it. I always wished MJ would have tried it later in his career.
I'm stating the obvious here, but the numerical paucity has been caused to a great extent by the superlative breakthroughs of Harbig, Moens, Snell, and Coe, plus WW2 right after Harbig's run. They all took big hunks off the existing wr.
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The homestretch in Osaka was the most exciting WC 800 finish ever; perhaps as exciting as any 800 ever run.
Re: More 800 dissing. Only 9 WR in 68 years coe did kill it off for a long time maybe a nice progression wouda been -caballo 1'43.4 -coe 1'43.2... & then 4 or more 5 small improvements to get to 1'41.7, but he pretty much destroyed anyone's chances of being a wr-holder by going 1'42.4 & then 1'41.7 in 2 goes !
The 800 may be the most difficult event to run (perhaps matched only by the 400 hurdles). It is the most painful combination of speed and endurance. Most runners tend toward either speed or endurance dominance, but the 800 balances both, so it's a painful reach up for a 400 runner, and the 1500 runners have to run faster than what is comfortable. For a lot of 1500 runners a sub 50 quarter is all out--but that's just the opening lap in the 800. So, this is a long winded way of saying that the pool of 800 runners might be smaller than for the 400 and 1500.
It took 16 years to lower Harbig's time- what was the record before him? Had he run slower, but still under the world record, there may have been more records between 39 and 55, although the war did put a damper on things, especially in Europe.
Never hurdled. And I'm not bragging, but I did compete at a regional high school level for four years. But anyway, I used to think the 800 was the most painful. But the better I got at the mile convinced me that it felt worse.
I still say that looking at human physiology, man evolved to EITHER sprint at high speed, or run for a long distance, but not both! The 800 should be eliminated as being not conducive to outstanding human performance!!!
Harbig's 1:46.6 in 1939 smashed the prior record from the year before ( 1938) of 1:48.4 by Sydney Wooderson. And that record itself was only a year old, as in 1937 Elroy Robinson ran 1:49.6 ( that's correct ! ) for a wr. Broke Glenn Cunningham's record from the year before that by .1. So in a mere 2 years the record went down 3 seconds !
1.52,8 Melvin E. Sheppard USA London 21.07.1908) 1.51,9 James E. Meredith USA Stockholm 08.07.1912 1.51,6 Otto Peltzer GER London 03.07.1926 1.50,6 Séra Martin FRA Colombes 14.07.1928 1.49,8 Thomas Hampson GBR Los Angeles 02.08.1932 ...........Benjamin Eastman USA Princeton 16.06.1934 1.49,7 Glenn Cunningham USA Stockholm 20.08.1936 1.49,6 Elroy Robinson USA New York 11.07.1937 1.48,4 Sydney Wooderson GBR Motspur Park 20.08.1938 1.46,6 Rudolf Harbig GER Milan 15.07.1939
Very true. I think the psychology of the sprinter vs. distance runner is also a problem. How do you combine both? It is a very rare individual who can excel at the 8. And those who can usually opt for the glamour of the 4 or 15. For all of the above reasons is why the 8 is so fascinating.
Re: More 800 dissing. Only 9 WR in 68 years There are two (perhaps related) issues, here. As others have said, the massive advances of Harbig, Snell, and Coe effectively negated numerous other "natural" WR improvements (like Beamon's LJ). On this subject, it's interesting to note the 880y record progression. While the 800m record was improved ONCE from Harbig (1939) to Moens (1955), the half mile was tied or broken 4 times (or 5, depending on how you count them) in that period, a much more "normal" pace of progression. There are also a few performances that should be on that list: Ryun's 1:44.9 880 of 1966 would have at least merited a "tie" on the 800 list if the race had been officially timed at that distance and Wohlhuter's 1:44.6 880 of '73 and 1:44.1 of '74 were both better than the standing 800 records at the time. Factoring these into the overall chronology makes the record progression look slightly more "normal." That said, at least a few of us have been saying/speculating for years that the 800 seems to represent a unique physiological problem: the distance perhaps most resistant to technical or PED-type improvements. Harbig's 1:46.6 from 1939 is still a world-class time (if just barely); Snell's 1:44.3 of 1962 clearly is.
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Sorry, but when you say to me "exciting 800 finishes" I think immediately of the '56 and '72 OG, and the '82 ECh. With some thought, I'd probably come up with some others. The '88 OG 800 wasn't too shabby either.
Uhm, if we are going by Genesis to determine our events, I guess the only one that should be included in the OG is Bobbing for Apples!!! Believe it or not, but track and field trace roots to the non-judaic history of the Greeks, so whatever the over-quoted story book says should be considered immaterial in these discussions.
worth noting in the 400/1500 debate, that often the best 1500 men don't fully concentrate on the 800 ( perhaps because 1500 is "glory" event ), which woud make a substantial difference to all-time list ( maybe not affect wr list that much )
- ryun in '67 : = 800 wr in '66 : he was bigger, stronger & certainly capable of demolishing his 1'44.3 in '67 - pekka in '72 ran high-1'44, when wr was still 1'44.3 - not unreasonable to think if he was a full-time 800 guy, the wr wouda been under threat - ovett in '78 ran 1'44-flat ( losing to beyer's 1'43.8 ) - ovett had shifted focus from 800 to 1500 in '77, but you gotta feel that if he'd stayed exclusively at 800 for another coupla seasons after '76, you'd be looking at close to 1'43-flat in '78 - cram : ran 1'42.8 when beating cruz, but 1500 was his main focus - he was capable of 1'42.5 that day & maybe even nearer the 1'42-flat end if he'd stuck exclusively to the 800 - aouita ran 1'43.8 in '88 when well past his '85 peak - trained only for 800 in '85 & i'm sure he'd have got 1'43-flat - elliot 1'42.9 in '90 by which time he was a 1500 runner ( silver in '88 ) - el g & bernie : 3'26's & ran no 800s at their peak : at least low 1'43s were possible ( & into the 1'42s if only 800 guys ) - noah : 3'43, og gold & 2'11.9 - he musta been capable of mid-1'42 just off those & if exclusively an 800 guy, again, close to 1'42-flat also worth noting, the list of 1'42 guys does contain a lot of no-name africans, who were exclusively 800 guys & got top quality races, whereas arguably the 2 best kenyans, ereng & konchellah ( coe reckoned the latter was the guy to threaten his wr after he saw his '87 win ) never cracked 1'43 ! the talent of those 2 was far superior to those no-names, so illness/injury & lack of top-class 800 races on the circuit may also have a role in the "oddness" of the 800 alltime list
I think my above argument was poignant, articulate, and utterly inspired. You're just intimidated by my depth of thought and the power of my communication. 8)
I think you are probably describing your own reaction to my post through some form of projection and transference. Ah, the ways the human psyche uses to trick us into believing so many things!
Now you're talking witchcraft?!
No, I'm talking psychology. That is a science that studies the workings of the human mind and helps explain how some people come to believe in things like witchcraft and ancient lore compiled into a brick of a book....
applying that to the 800 : - snell's 1'44.3 was on grass - gotta believe that musta been worth no worse than 1'43-flat on a synthetic - ryun at 19y ran -ve splits for 1'44.3 on a primitive synthetic track & was significantly better the following year, but didn't seem to have a top-class 800 that year - that has to be well below 1'43 on a modern synthetic track with an ~50s 1st lap in his peak year so you're probably talking mid-1'42 in the '60s we haven't got much faster since then...
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