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I. General GuidelinesA. Conversion of a letter grade to a "Pass" (applies to students who matriculated in May 2009 or thereafter)
During a specified period that begins approximately six weeks after the conclusion of each term, J.D. students who matriculated in May 2009 or thereafter may elect to convert a "C" or better letter grade to a "Pass" in an eligible course or seminar ONLINE at the Law School's Office of Student Records' Web site.
When a term's Letter Grade Conversion to "Pass" election period is determined, an announcement will be placed on M Law Live. Until the Office of Student Records announces the start of the "pass/fail" period, the online pass/fail system is not available for grade conversion elections. Please note that the start of this period is not based on the professors' grading deadline, but on the date that the Office of Student Records has posted all grades to Wolverine Access. As a rule of thumb, the Letter Grade Conversion to "Pass" period typically starts within 2 weeks after the professors' grading deadline for a term.
Ordinarily, grade conversions to "Pass" on transcripts are processed within a few days after the grade conversion election period ends. If you are sure that your decision to elect Pass/Fail is final and you would like to expedite the grade conversion process for a particular course, click the "Expedite" button for that course AFTER you have set your election to Pass/Fail. An expedited grade conversion to "Pass" request will be processed within two business days after the election.
To make an election during the Letter Grade Conversion to "Pass" election period, go to:
You will see a list of the classes that you took during the most recent term. On the left side there is a Pass/Fail column which indicates the current grading basis election for each class. Click on the Graded or Pass/Fail link to change the election for each class. By clicking "Graded," the link will change to "Pass/Fail." If you want to change back to "Graded," click the "Pass/Fail" link. Each click will generate an automated email message to you indicating your current elections for the term; please check your email to confirm the accuracy of your elections. Make sure to log-off the system when you are finished.
***You can change your election online anytime during the election period until the established deadline passes, unless you choose the "Expedite" option which finalizes before the deadline your grade conversion to "Pass" election. An expedited election for grade conversion to "Pass" cannot be changed, even if the election period has not yet ended. Once the deadline has passed, all conversions of a letter grade to a "P" become final and may not be reversed, revoked, or transferred. No additional grade conversions will be accepted after the deadline.***
A student may NOT convert a letter grade in any required first-year course.
Courses and seminars that are INELIGIBLE for grade conversion to "Pass" election are indicated on the Class Schedule by footnote 1 (Mandatory Pass/Fail) or footnote 2 (Mandatory Graded).
A student may only convert a letter grade to a "P" in two courses or seminars during the student's entire law school career.
For complete rules regarding conversion of a letter grade to a "Pass," please refer to Part One, Section VI B of the Law School's J.D. Academic Regulations found at a link on this page.
Students interested in electing to convert letter grades to "Pass" in two eligible classes that are connected to each other [e.g., a Seminar and its associated Seminar Supplement (in most instances) or Corporate Finance and its associated Tutorial] and have them count as one election should contact email@example.com for assistance. Students are not obligated to convert a letter grade to a "P" in both related classes. Rather, students may exercise the conversion option for one or both eligible classes. Note: In some classes that have two components that are connected to each other, but in which a student's performance in each component is evaluated separately (e.g., and most notably, all clinical law courses), a student's decision to convert both parts of the class will count as two grade-conversion-to-pass elections.
Formula to determine the impact on GPA prior to making an election: GPA is MHP (Michigan Honor Points) divided by MSH (Michigan Semester Hours). When you convert a letter grade to "P" the MHP & MSH values for that class become zero. Remove the MHP & MSH values for the class that you are considering for grade conversion and then divide MHP by MSH to determine what the new GPA would be.
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II. Transfer StudentsTransfer students may elect a first-year course on a "Pass/Fail" basis.Transfer students who started in Fall 2010 or thereafter: To elect pass/fail in a first-year course, use the Law School's online pass/fail system OR file a "Pass/Fail" form in the Law School's Office of Student Records (416 HH) during the term's election period for conversion of a letter grade to a "Pass"; an announcement will be made on M Law Live when the election period begins each term and the deadline will be announced at that time.
III. LLM StudentsLLM students are required to take ALL of their courses on a graded basis. Therefore, they may not elect pass/fail.
IV. Non-Law Course
Regarding Non-Law Courses, the following applies to all J.D. students regardless of matriculation date:
A student MUST have course approval (course approval requests are placed ONLINE using the External Enrollment link under "Registration" on the Law School's Office of Student Records' Web site). Those who receive a grade of "B-" or higher and want the mandatory limited grade of "S" vs. the letter grade to show on the transcript MUST file a "Pass/Fail" Form in the Law School's Office of Student Records (416 HH) by the beginning of the exam period of the department, school or college offering the course. Note that the examination periods of most non-law departments, schools or colleges begin earlier than the Law School's examination period in the fall and winter semesters. The online "Pass/Fail" election system is not available for non-law courses.
If a student earns a grade below B-, the student will NOT receive credit toward the law degree. The grade, however, will be posted on the transcript to show that the course was attempted and cannot be converted to the mandatory limited grade of "S."
Grades for non-law courses are NOT factored into the grade point average of law students.Non-law courses do NOT count toward the 62 or 63 graded credit hours required for honors eligibility for J.D. students, as described in Part One, Section III, Paragraph 2 of the Law School's J.D. Academic Regulations.Electing to have the mandatory limited grade of "S" replace the non-law course grade shall not alter the number of credit hours that a J.D. student who matriculated prior to May 2009 may take in Law School courses under the Limited Grade Option OR the number of Law School course grades that a J.D. student who matriculated in May 2009 or thereafter may convert to a "P," as described in Part One, Section VI of the Law School's J.D. Academic Regulations.
V. Minimum Grade Needed to Elect Letter Grade Conversion to "PASS"LAW COURSES: Students must receive a C or better grade in an eligible course in order to elect a letter grade conversion to "Pass." When this is done, a "P" will appear on the student's transcript. Students who receive a C- (minus) or lower grades are encouraged to make an appointment to see Dean David Baum or Director Darren Nealy to discuss options to improve their grades. Please note that grades that are successfully raised to a C are ineligible for letter grade conversion to "Pass."
VI. HonorsTo be eligible for a J.D. degree with honors and election to Order of the Coif, a student who matriculated prior to May 2015 must earn a minimum of 62 credit hours in courses at the Law School which are fully graded and factored into his or her honor point average. Students who matriculated in May 2015 or thereafter must earn a minimum of 63 credit hours in courses at the Law School which are fully graded and factored into his or her honor point average. Mandatory limited grade credit for courses at this law school (e.g., Legal Practice, Clinics, and Externships) and from courses taken elsewhere, either in other schools and colleges of the University or at other law schools after enrollment at this law school, do NOT count toward the 62 or 63 graded credit hours. For provisional advanced standing students (generally, transfer students), limited grade credit hours for fully graded courses taken at other law schools before admission to this law school DO count toward the 62 or 63 graded credit hours. For students who spend one or two terms at another law school for a compelling and unusual personal reason pursuant to the Law School's J.D. Academic Regulations, all credit hours taken at the other law school DO count toward the 62 or 63 graded credit hours for purposes of earning a J.D. degree with honors, but DO NOT count toward the 62 or 63 graded credit hours for purposes of election to Order of the Coif.
VII. QuestionsIf you have questions about how to elect pass/fail or pass/fail deadlines, please contact Jane Ozanich by phone at 734.763.3419, or by email at email@example.com.
If you have questions about pass/fail related to degree requirements or honors, please contact the Office of Student Records, by phone at 734.763.6499, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.[ Back to the Top ]
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|(Tracfone) ZTE Valet (Z665C) Phone Topic
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|January 16, 2014, 10:28 pm Post #601
* So, if anyone has any more info, thoughts, or questions on this phone, please post it all here ... thanks.
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I had the same issue. I was on the phone for hours talking to different people. I don't think they are good at trouble shooting these new phones. I don't want to do a reset again.
|January 16, 2014, 11:00 pm Post #602
How was the issue with your phone resolved by Tracfone after the reset broke it?
|January 16, 2014, 11:16 pm Post #603
Could you go to Settings-->About phone-->Status, and tell me what your phone is showing for Service state and My Phone number? Mine shows "In service" and "785-xxx-xxxx".
|January 17, 2014, 12:00 am Post #604
Have done *22890 multiple times...no, no airplane mode and having data on or off makes no difference.
Placing a call gets me a message "verizon network error".
When I call the ZTE Valet from another phone, the phone flashes up the Answer Screen very briefly (not long enough to answer the phone) and then quickly brings up a Notification that I had a missed call. This tells me the phone is recognized as a valid # that is tied to my MEID and ESN.
The primary purpose of the reset was to get back APN settings that I wiped out by inadvertently deleting the native messaging app trying to find a decent MMS app.
|January 17, 2014, 12:10 am Post #605
My Status shows "In service" with my correct number.
Network = Unknown
Mobile network state = Disconnected
MIN = my phone #
PRL Version = 59365
|January 17, 2014, 3:12 am Post #606
After the APN settings got wiped out, but before you did the reset - did calls work? I assume messaging was broken due to APN settings being deleted.
Wondering if APN corruption broke calling function. I have zero experience with APN settings as Tracfones don't allow modification and I don't have a way to look at the APN settings.
|January 17, 2014, 8:30 am Post #607
My phone has the same info except MIN shows 2162632056 and PRL Version is 59353. I don't know what MIN is. It looks like a phone number but is not the phone number I got assigned at activation nor my current phone number which was transferred from my LG840. I bought the phone brand new, so it can't be from a previous owner.
|January 17, 2014, 9:58 am Post #608
|I didn't think you could remove the default messaging app, only disable it.
|January 17, 2014, 10:12 am Post #609
My phone # (MDN) and MIN are also different - 1st 3-digits are same though.
See http://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?gid=268 then click on MIN link at bottom of that page.
|January 17, 2014, 11:50 am Post #610
Yes, I could do everything (make/receive calls and SMS) after APN got clobbered...just could not send MMS. APN corruption just affected MMS.
I had some MMS settings available with 8sms app but not all of the settings. I tried several variations that I found Google search but could not find a way to do all of the settings that were required...hence the reset.
|January 17, 2014, 12:04 pm Post #611
I thought the same thing.
But I think when I installed 8sms (which is a pretty good app), it is a variant of the native Android messaging app and allows replacement of the native code. I liked the app so much and was so concerned about the limited RAM on this phone, I lost my head and uninstalled the native messaging app. Whether I really uninstalled or disabled it, the process wiped out my APN settings which in turn disabled my ability to send/receive MMS messages.
|January 17, 2014, 3:38 pm Post #612
After spending more than 1 1/2 hours on the phone with Corp tech support, my phone is now able to "be a phone"!!!!
The tech was very good and didn't make either of us feel like we were talking to a 3rd grader. Had to go through another total reset of the phone and he went off-line (talk to Verizon???) to flip the magic switches someplace but the end result was a functional phone.
I have to say that if all TracFone Customer Service and Technical Reps were of this caliber, Slim would be even richer.
Thanks to all of you who were trying to help!!!!
|January 17, 2014, 7:15 pm Post #613
Radio Shack has the Valet for $50 right now.
Here's a link: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=28750866
|January 17, 2014, 7:47 pm Post #614
I was on the phone with tracphone. They had me go through steps after multiple tries they would switch me to someone else. And I would go through the same steps again. Then try and make a call. It was Christmas Eve around noon and we were to leave. But I wanted my phone working. I know I was on the phone over 90 mins.
The reason I did the reset was my play store would not open it would crash every time and it had some updates. I tried and tried different things for a few days to get it to work. I finally did a factory reset.
I think I will buy a new phone before I try that again.
|January 17, 2014, 8:09 pm Post #615
Thanks for following up. Next time try clearing cache then data for an app if it's not working correctly. It worked for my recent Google Play Store issues.
|January 17, 2014, 10:18 pm Post #616
* I moved this ZTE question here to this official topic, where it belongs, maybe someone knows the answer? - thanks.
|January 19, 2014, 8:09 am Post #617
Click on the settings button at the bottom right on the phone. Select system settings, then scroll down until you
see "connect to PC. Click on it and then click "Media device". This will allow your cable to be a data cable rather
than just a charge cable and it will appear on your PC. You probably have "charge only" selected as of now.
|January 19, 2014, 10:28 am Post #618
The person who asked (SpringAzure) has a Macbook, not a PC. The ZTE USB driver that came with the phone doesn't work on a Macbook.
|January 19, 2014, 11:04 am Post #619
Just a though: Can't you just transfer your music from your computer to the sd card?
My sister's macbook has an SD card slot. Can't you just take the sd card out of the phone and put it in your macbook and drop and drage the files you want on the phone? If you don't have an sd slot then you can probably buy an usb adaptor cheap, in the 5-dollar range.
|January 19, 2014, 11:54 am Post #620
You might want to try Airdroid...
Airdroid on Play Store
|January 19, 2014, 4:44 pm Post #621
Mine's doing the exact same thing. After 2 hours with Tracfone they told me to send it back.
|January 19, 2014, 4:55 pm Post #622
Did the problem start after a factory data reset? If so, what was the issueleading to the reset?
|January 19, 2014, 5:20 pm Post #623
It was working fine replied to a few texts. Next morning couldn't call out. Can Still receive. A week earlier I did load SpeechSynthesis Data Installer app. Apn settings are gone. When calling I get a weird Verizon message that Tracfone said they never heard. "We cannot connect to Verizon network, please call 611 appointment switch 33 star ect.ect. Not exactly that but close.
I did do a factory reset a week earlier when the phone was severely slowing down do to too many apps using too much memory. I wanted to start from scratch again. It worked fine for a week before it died.
|January 19, 2014, 7:33 pm Post #624
For next time, uninstalling apps might be something to try to reconcile the issue of too much memory consumption as factory reset seems to cause issues.
|January 20, 2014, 11:29 am Post #625
I think you are right...factory reset seems to be asking for trouble! And recovery is certainly beyond the skills of TracFone off-shore resources.
I am lucky I had the time (and patience) to spend with an excellent Tech Support person here in the US, but even so, it was 1 1/2 hour ordeal to get my phone functioning. I'm certainly questioning my continued use of a cheap Android phone. I'm glad I had the opportunity to spend just $100 to find out what Android was all about but it has whetted my appetite and I now long for the opportunity to use a larger iPhone and LTE data connection.
|January 26, 2014, 5:25 pm Post #626
1. My ZTE Valet has just recently started having a problem with call clarity. There's like some static or white noise when I take or make a call. has anyone else had this problem? is this a defect in the phone? I've had this phone for a little over a month now & it's been working good.. I would hate to have to return it because I have so much stuff saved & installed on it. I would hate to have to reinstall everything. Is there a backup for it like thru google or something. I really like this phone & mad that this is happening after 1 month of good behavior.
2. Why can't I get picture messages? .. Everytime someone sends one it says "Cannot download message from... " on the screen then says message not downloaded with a red message icon that has an exclamation point inside it on the notification bar.
|January 26, 2014, 8:12 pm Post #627
Go to Settings-->Back up & Reset, then check the boxes for "Back up my data" and "Automatic Restore".
You need data ON to send/receive text messages with attachments. If data was not on when a message with attachments came in, turn on data then touch the download arrows in the message to download attachments. If data is not on when you try to send a message with attachments, the message won't be sent.
|January 26, 2014, 9:30 pm Post #628
|OK thanks, it worked. I had the data on but the the background data restricted.
|January 27, 2014, 7:49 pm Post #629
I am having trouble with my phone when I make calls. The phone goes blank and I can't get it to wake up? I checked the light sensor and it is working. I tried an app "Shake awake" and it's not working either.
If I call someone and they don't answer or I leave a message. I can't hang up the phone. I have to pull the battery out to end the call.
Anyone know of any settings or options I might check?
|January 27, 2014, 9:34 pm Post #630
The proximity sensor, which blanks out the screen when it's near your body, probably malfunctioned. There's an app on Google Play called "ZTE proximity sensor calibration". The feedbacks seem to be very positive. Let us know whether or not it fixes your problem.
|January 27, 2014, 10:08 pm Post #631
It does seem to be working better... I will report back in a few days to let you know for sure if it worked.
Thanks for the help.
Updated 1-29-14
Yes this did solve the problem. I can now hang up without pulling the battery after leaving voice mail.
Thanks again for the help.
|the Wizard
|January 29, 2014, 1:07 am Post #632
If anyone who may be having problems with the Valet and thinks he might like to return it to Tracfone and exchange it for a different brand (e.g. Glory, Centura, L39C), abandon that idea. I've been having problems with my Valet from day one and talked to Tracfone this evening about exchanging it for the Glory, but they informed me that is not possible, contrary to company policy. I spoke with a manager also and that is firm company policy.
So I'm returning the phone anyway and they will send me another Valet which I will promptly sell at a discounted price and purchase the L39C. I had planned to wait a while before buying the L39C but Tracfone has forced my hand.
|February 3, 2014, 9:52 pm Post #633
Hey Everyone; I downloaded the CoPilot Premium GPS and its a lot better then Google Maps. For the cost can't beat it. One thing that I have trouble with is if you are a few blocks from were you need to turn it just says you need to turn ( say left ) in a short distance. So you have to watch it to make sure you are at the right place.
Anyway I have a question on my Tracfone Acct. that keeps track of my minutes and data for me . At the bottom of the screen it has Updated Balance 1/9/2014. Does this ever change. I guess I would like to see today's date and the balance as of today? Thanks Dennis
|February 3, 2014, 11:33 pm Post #634
You can customize the turn instructions. While running CoPilot, touch the Settings button at the bottom of the screen, then touch Guidance. From there, you can customize Turn Warning Distances, and Turn Now Announcement.
I no longer have the MyAccount app because it doesn't work on my phone. But I think you need to touch the "Balance" button to initiate a balance request, and the date on the display will be updated.
|February 4, 2014, 11:34 am Post #635
Thanks I will give it a try. I tried it and did not do what I thought it would do but will try it again in a day or two and see if the numbers change. Maybe the date don't change in the little green box just the figures. Dennis
|February 4, 2014, 8:49 pm Post #636
|I really like my ZTE and don't understand why anybody would trade it in for the new LG 39c. The LG 39c appears to have the same specs as the ZTE Valet except is missing both a camera flash and an LED missed call/battery charge indicator light. I've had to use my ZTE's camera flash for low light pictures and also as a flashlight with a free flashlight app. The ZTE's LED missed call/battery charge indicator light enables me to see the phone's status at a glance without having to turn the phone on.
|the Wizard
|February 5, 2014, 1:19 am Post #637
If you're using the My Account app from Tracfone, just touch the Balance icon in the lower right corner of the screen and it will update your balance and show the date of the update. I just checked on my balance and below the balance info it shows 2/5/2014 1:11 AM
|the Wizard
|February 5, 2014, 1:37 am Post #638
You're lucky that you got a good Valet and haven't had any problems with it. I wish I had been so fortunate. I'm on my third one now which I will be returning to Tracfone as soon as I receive the return envelope. I hope yours remains trouble free for a very long time. I should have my LG39C in a couple of days.
|February 6, 2014, 1:25 am Post #639
Just tried it again and in the little green box it says 1/9/14 10:21 AM. Yep I did hit the balance icon in lower right corner. In fact did it twice. Do you think I need to uninstall it and load it again it sure does not want to up date. Dennis
|February 6, 2014, 5:13 am Post #640
Do you have a mobile signal and WiFi on when doing the balance request? Does the phone receive a text message with the balance request info?
|February 6, 2014, 11:36 am Post #641
Thank You worked great!!!! This is my first Smart Phone so I'm REALLLLLLLLY new to this stuff !!! I did not know you had to have WiFi or Mobil on to do it. With everyone helping me maybe I'll get a 1/3 as smart as this phone. Thanks Again Dennis
|February 6, 2014, 5:33 pm Post #642
Don't feel bad, I never have WiFi or data on and always forget to turn it on when I check my balance, then try to figure out what's wrong. Hang in there you'll catch on in no time.
|February 6, 2014, 7:20 pm Post #643
You're smart for posting the question .... the dumb app should tell you what it needs! Glad it worked for you.
|February 8, 2014, 8:27 am Post #644
Guys, I ordered my new BLU Life One X from Amazon and I should have it in a few days. I currently have the ZTE Valet and will miss it, but I wanted a bigger and better phone. There are some nice unlocked phones out there for less than $300 while still maintaining the pay as you go plans.
I have an H2O SIM card (cost me 5 cents from Amazon) and once I get my phone I'll have to switch over. For $10 I get 200 minutes for 90 days. I wished that Tracfone used GSM instead of CDMA on the BYOP program. I still have about 200 minutes and some data left on my Valet..........so looks like I'll be trying to use up as much as I can in the next few days (I'm porting my Tracfone # to H2O).
|February 16, 2014, 3:02 pm Post #645
ShopCellDeals is offering:
the Tracfone ZTE Valet Android Smartphone with 600 Minutes/Text/Data Included for $69.99.
This looks like a pretty good deal to me, as the 200-Minute Airtime Card normally runs $39.88+ all by itself at Wal-Mart.
So, if I can do the math correctly, the phone would actually cost a little less than $30.00. ...How about that?
A smartphone for $30.00!
|February 18, 2014, 9:58 am Post #646
I just bought the ZTE Valet at Target last night for $49.99. I activated it and moved my number over from my LG800g. The whole thing took about an hour until I was using the Valet. I'm pretty happy with that but have a minor annoyance with it.
At Christmas, we got my son the ZTE Valet. We were replacing his LG800g. I went to tracfone.com and was able to activate his phone and move his number and minutes over. But last night, I attempted to do the same thing to move my number and minutes between my phones and I had to call the number to do the activation. I called the voice response system and withing about 5 minutes it was finished. But why did I have to call to move my number and didn't have to do that for my son? My thoughts are that my phone is listed as the account owner and my son had about 200 minutes, I had over 2000. Anyone know if either of these is the reason I had to call?
But with that out of the way, I have a question about the usage of the phone. I haven't had a chance to play with it since that finished at about midnight and I had to be at work at 6.
I noticed that when I was connected to my home wifi, as soon as I woke the phone up it checked my gmail account. Is there a setting when I can tell the phone to not automatically check gmail unless I'm on wifi? I know a friend's Samsung Galaxy something has a setting to turn off updates unless on wifi.
Also, my LG800g had a microSD card in it and I told the phone to store my contacts on that. Would I be able to move the microSD over to the Valet and import the contacts?
|February 18, 2014, 1:14 pm Post #647
If you usually keep data turned off on your phone, Gmail can try checking mail all the time but it effectively can do it only when Wifi is available anyway. (All I get on my Gmail are notifications/invitations from Google users. I turn off Gmail Sync on my Valet).
You can use bluetooth to transfer your contact list from the LG 800 to the Valet.
Take a look at my review of the Valet on Amazon and the associated 230 comments. Lots of useful tips.
|February 24, 2014, 9:50 am Post #648
Very nice review. Lots of good information. It could take hours to get through all those replies, I don't think I've ever seen that many replies to a review.
I played around with Bluetooth the other day and never did get it working to transfer the contacts. So I just manually transferred what I wanted.
I now turn off data by default. I do turn it on at times when I want to check something.
I'm also looking into how to set things up to use one of the "text+" type of apps to send texts via data instead of the texting pool. That's not for me, but my son goes through the text pool very quickly. Since texting isn't Megs of data, I imagine it would be pretty cheap to text via one of those apps as long as you don't have synchronization turned on.
|February 25, 2014, 1:49 am Post #649
Anyone look into updating the miifavor ui that comes on the phone?
|February 25, 2014, 10:54 am Post #650
I have no ideas what you're talking about.
|February 25, 2014, 11:28 am Post #651
Absolutely one of the best is Nova Launcher Free!
It was so good that I opted to pay for the Prime Version to get a few more options. But the Free version is very complete and does not detract from itself by serving up ads or any other annoying intrusions.
You can easily add more home screens and change the UI to give a more pleasant and personalized interface. I did not notice any slow down (in fact it allows you to speed up responsiveness) or bulk to your already limited memory.
Nova Launcher
|February 27, 2014, 6:44 am Post #652
|So is that just something that you install from the Play Store and it works or is there some hacking needed to replace the current UI?
|February 27, 2014, 7:26 am Post #653
You just install it.
|February 27, 2014, 5:25 pm Post #654
YouTube has a few videos about the Nova Launcher, I think this one is one of the better ones. I have it on both of my tablets and my Valet and really like it...hope the video helps
|February 28, 2014, 7:03 am Post #655
I installed Nova Launcher last night. It looks really good and I like how it does things. Unfortunately it kept crashing on me. Every time I did anything other than go into settings it said that it had crashed. So I uninstalled it and tried some others. Go Launcher seemed nice, but none of the standard widgets worked with it. The premium version costs $16, so I won't be doing that.
So until I have time to figure out what the problem is with Nova Launcher, I guess I'll stick with the stock launcher.
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|February 28, 2014, 12:41 pm Post #656
Yesterday at a local Dollar General Store I saw a sign that the ZTE Valet will be $49.xx through March 3, 2014. And the LG 840g will be $29.xx through March 3. Wonder if this means that TracFone is closing out those models at discount just prior to offering other phones? When I got home, I checked TracFone website, but there was no discount at all from the regular prices on those two models? Any ideas, fellow Turkomaniacs? Thanks!
|February 28, 2014, 3:03 pm Post #657
The Valet has been on sale for $49.99 at Radio Shack since mid-January, until 3/31/14. Some people reported the same $49.xx price at Kmart, Target. On TF web site, it was marked down to $79.99 for most of February, but now is back to $99.99.
|March 8, 2014, 10:03 am Post #658
|Just got my ZTE Valet activated a few days ago and still a lot to learn. A big step up from my Motorola EX124g. Thank God activation went smoothly and minutes and numbers were transferred in about an hour. My question is about adding music. I know it has to be an MP3, and I had no trouble hooking it up to my Windows Vista equipped laptop. I could see the 2 drives, the main phone one plus my SD card. I created a folder on my SD card called "Music" and within that folder I created another one called "Boston" (one of my favorite groups). That folder is where I put the MP3's. The phone didn't recognize them. So I hooked to my PC again and this time used Windows Media Player to sync the songs and that worked. It just put them in the folder I created called "Music". This time my songs are visible and play on my phone. I was able to create a playlist on the phone called "Boston" and one at a time put each song on that playlist. Is there an easier way to organize my songs in this way? I would like a folder for each group name and then put their songs in that folder. It's going to be a long task if I have to do it one song at a time. Maybe something like Winamp would help? Thanks everyone in this forum, I've read every post and they are very helpful.
|March 8, 2014, 12:28 pm Post #659
I have my mp3 files on my computer in a folder called Music, and a subfolder for each band, and subfolders within each band for their albums. I connected the phone to my computer and drag-drop the whole Music folder from my computer to the SD card on the phone. The file structure remains the same. The Music (not Play Music) app found and organized them just fine. After you add music files to the phone/card, it's best to turn the phone off then back on, so it'll scan the SD card and find the new files.
If you have music files in format other than MP3, the PowerAmp app will play them.
Read My ZTE Valet Review on Amazon and the associated comments. There are lots of helpful tips in there.
|March 8, 2014, 9:29 pm Post #660
Can someone post a picture of the texting position for the ZTE?
Also if you can put your hand so I can get a mental imagine of how my hands could fit on it? I'm a pretty avid texter. lol
|March 8, 2014, 9:45 pm Post #661
If you use text a lot, a TF Android is not a good idea for you. With the 3-bucket billing method, each text uses 1 unit from the text bucket, and once your text bucket runs dry you can't use talk minutes for texting and have to add more time.
|March 9, 2014, 3:06 am Post #662
Um, if you download a good texting app, you can text for free to your heart's content on a TF Android.
|March 9, 2014, 3:16 pm Post #663
Thanks hpham! All I was doing wrong is not turning it off. Got all my songs on it now. This group is great, I'd be totally lost without all of this great info. Still lots of apps to learn but that's for a different topic.
To follow up on post # 630 in this topic regarding the ZTE Valet problem with the proximity sensor, I did get the app you recommended and it worked perfectly and took about 3 seconds to do. So far that's the only issue I've had with my Valet. Battery life seems fine and the wifi and Verizon signal strength has been fine. I've been to 3 public wifi places and it had OK signal in all of them.
|March 11, 2014, 12:28 pm Post #664
I'm thinking of getting a ZTE Valet since they are on sale so I can have a phone on Verizon networks(?). My LG 840G has been good but the signal is spotty in some areas that I travel to while other friends, co-workers and family members Verizon based phone always seem to have great signals.
I just came back from a small 11 mile trip with a friend who has a Verizon based phone and he had full signal bars on his phone while I had only one tiny bar showing. Although I have not had a drop out yet and get a great signal while at home. It's just when I travel away from home or go to another state that my 840G signal drops off to near nothing.
I don't normally text but do have a speech impaired sister in-law who does text from time to time as I'm hearing impaired. I do like to look up the weather reports and read some news while on breaks at work using the company's wifi router.
Is the Valet a good phone with Verizon service to go with from the LG 840G?
|March 11, 2014, 12:47 pm Post #665
Based on comments on all 5 Tracfone Androids, the Valet seems to have the weakest wifi capability among all Tracfone Androids. If wifi is a part of your plans, I would suggest you look at the other offerings.
How much cheaper is the Valet sale price than the LG L39C available through shopcelldeals on ebay? They often have the cheapest prices around. Or even its predecessor, the LG L38C which might be cheaper by now. If all you need is talk and text with occasional wifi, the LG L38C might be all you need.
|March 11, 2014, 12:50 pm Post #666
I switched from an AT&T LG840 to a Valet last October and I'm very happy with it. The cell signal usually shows 4 bars out of 6. Calls are crystal clear. The only legitimate complaint about the Valet is its Wifi range, which is about 40' or less. Everything else is comparable with other TF Android models.
|March 11, 2014, 5:21 pm Post #667
|Is there a way to set a specific screen as my home screen? Every time I add a screen it changes my original home screen. The only way I've found to set it back the way I had it is to rearrange the screens. That setup irritates me for a while because now when I look for an app or something I end up swiping the wrong way because I'm used to the previous setup. I have a tablet with 4.2 on it & it lets me select any screen I want to be my home screen. So do I need to try another launcher or is it just this Android version & I'm stuck with it?
|March 11, 2014, 5:37 pm Post #668
|You can use the Screen Edit function to rearrange the order of the screens. Usually the home screen is the 2nd from left on the display. To invoke Screen Edit, touch the Menu key while you're viewing the home screen, then Customization, then Screen Edit. "X" any unwanted extra screen that was inserted. Hold and move the screens around to rearrange their order. Hit the Home key when you're done.
|March 11, 2014, 7:19 pm Post #669
Thanks for your suggestion. I will think about the other models. However I would rather shop locally.
I have read about the WiFi being weak but how weak compared to the 840G?
Thanks for your help.
|March 11, 2014, 7:39 pm Post #670
In my house, both of them work from 40' away. So I didn't do any comparison.
|March 11, 2014, 10:20 pm Post #671
^ Then I'll be fine with WiFi ^
Primary use will be phone on Verizon networks with checking the news / weather once in a while on WiFi.
I've been reading your comments from your above post. I'm on page 18 now. Lol!!
Thanks for your help.
|March 12, 2014, 11:13 pm Post #672
I picked up a ZTE on the way to work yesterday and charged it up. At break time I did a test WiFi connection to the company's router and the ZTE didn't even see the router until I walked towards where the router is located before it could see it. It would then connect up but drop the connection. I estimate I was about 15 feet away from the router.
On my LG 840G I could connect and stay connected much further away from the router than with the ZTE. I could walk away from the router about 50 feet and stay connected. It would drop out if I went much further though.
I know you told me that the WiFi is weak but it is much weaker than I expected. Is this about the norm for the ZTE?
While the ZTE is hearing aid compatible and shows that info on the package I do pick up a little RF leakage to my hearing aid. I hear a buzzing sound.
With the 840G I hear nothing from the radio at all.
I guess it would be better at other WiFi hotspots other than at work.
Is it possible that I have a bad unit?
I can return but only to exchange for another one.
BTW, the ZTE hasn't been activated yet as I was testing out the WiFi.
|March 13, 2014, 12:11 am Post #673
Yes that is the norm. Wifi is the biggest complaint about the ZTE Valet.
I don't think you have a bad unit. The whole model has characteristically bad wifi.
|March 13, 2014, 7:14 am Post #674
Do you work in a building with lots of steel beams and window frames? Wifi signal strength varies depending on equipment, distance, building structure, etc. Modern buildings have a lot of steel which acts like antenna and soaks up the signal. Most residential homes are made of wood, sheetrock, concrete, bricks, which don't absorb signal.
My house is 30' x 30', the router is in the opposite corner of where I sit, and in the basement one floor below. The distance is about 40'. The Valet usually shows 1-2 bars out of 4, but it never lost connection. Do you have Wifi in your home? If yes, how is the Valet working at home?
|March 13, 2014, 9:17 am Post #675
Ok. I was wondering if I needed to exchange it.
I do work in a building with concrete and steel beams however where the router is located and where I take my breaks is wooden of structure. I guess I'm close or just over the 40 foot range for the router.
Testing WiFi at home produced the same 40 foot range as well. My house is all wood but with a meta roof. Around the 40 foot range I get 1 bar or dot on WiFi.
I went ahead and activated the ZTE keeping my number / minutes. Waiting on my 840G to go inactive now.
EDIT: ZTE now active. No problems activating and transferring my minutes over from my 840G. It only took about 45 minutes.
I got everything working now. The button (back, home, settings) lightes at the bottom of the screen came on finally. It took another call to *22890 to get 3G working.
Thanks for all your help.
|March 14, 2014, 12:09 pm Post #676
The button (back, home, settings) lights at the bottom of the screen came on finally came on then went back off. They were off to begin with but came on for a while and now there back off again.
Anyone know how to rename favorite icons placed on your home screen?
|March 14, 2014, 12:39 pm Post #677
The backlight for the buttons is driven by a sensor which detects ambient light. Cup your hand over the sensor near the top of the screen and it'll force the light to come on after a few seconds.
I don't know of a way to rename the icons.
|March 14, 2014, 1:49 pm Post #678
For the backlight keys, try: settings>display>front key light>turn of front key light (checked) & front key duration (try different settings, i.e., instead of automatic, maybe 2 secs, 5 secs, always on). Once in awhile I find that just changing it from "automatic" to "5 secs" work.
To rename your apps, the only way I know is by using a different launcher. I use Go Launcher. On Go Launcher, you long press the app on your home screen and one of the option is to "rename".
I play around with different apps and monitor things on my ZTE Awe which doesn't have a phone service so no worries. I only tried 2 launchers (Go Launcher and Nova).
|March 14, 2014, 2:01 pm Post #679
There's no such setting on the ZTE Valet.
|March 14, 2014, 9:22 pm Post #680
Does anyone know how to reset settings? My phone doesn't ring, when i go to "gallery" my pics don't show up, my live wallpaper and wallpaper are fine, but not gallery, my alarm doesn't ring, etc etc.
My screen says " unfortunately, your setting has stopped". I tried going into the apps menu where it says "disable", "able", "force stop" etc, but nothing.
|March 14, 2014, 9:59 pm Post #681
Thanks for your suggestions. I did look for a setting for the button lights. Lol!
It's no biggie about renaming the icons right now. Maybe later. hehe
Oh! Now I see says the blind man! Thanks for point that out to me.
Still a lot to learn so I may have more questions later.
Thanks a bunch guys!
|March 14, 2014, 10:19 pm Post #682
You can do a factory reset, but from what I've read it really messes up your phone and you'll have to spend a lot of time on the phone with TF support to get it working again.
Did you install any new app recently?
|March 15, 2014, 12:02 am Post #683
I did, the Notification Toggle, My Account, and My data Manager, but that was before the problems started, however, i uninstalled all of them because i never use them anyways.
I am only using the Valet for one more month until my minutes run out. My new phone will be my main phone plus the minutes and data i save by not using my new phone for another month.
But it's frustrating to not have my phone ring (it just vibrates), i can't pull up pics in the gallery, only Live wallpapers, and my alarm goes off but only vibrating.
I should have left everything alone instead of trying to save some space by disabling most of the features i don't use.
Perhaps my statement about resetting the settings is not the answer. Maybe there's a simpler way i'm not aware of.
|March 15, 2014, 6:46 am Post #684
Sounds like somehow your phone was placed in silent mode. Go to Settings-->Sound, make sure Silent mode is off.
|March 15, 2014, 7:57 am Post #685
This is my first post, but I've been reading this board for a long time and it's a great resource - thanks to everyone for sharing.
My daughter's use of her texting bucket far outstrips her data useage. Is there a texting app that will use the data bucket rather than the texting bucket when she only has a 3G connection? What are the best apps for this?
|March 15, 2014, 8:55 am Post #686
I found a way to rename shortcut icons added to your home page but the rename has to be done when creating the shortcut. Try these steps to see if this works for you as it does for me.
1. Open browser and navigate to the webpage you want.
2. Touch star in upper left and select save to bookmarks.
3. Rename label to what you want. Keep it short. Account was my Gmail account. It doesn't seem to work with local account.
4. Touch OK to save book mark.
5, Touch menu (3 lines) and touch bookmarks. You should see the bookmark you just created with your label.
6. Touch and hold your new book mark and select add shortcut to home.
7. Touch and hold your new book mark and select delete bookmark.
8. Press home to go to your home page to see your new shortcut with your label you just created.
|March 15, 2014, 9:43 am Post #687
Google Voice
|March 15, 2014, 5:45 pm Post #688
That was the first thing i checked. But it isn't just sound, it also affects my media files as well. I have pics that i transferred from my PC to the phone. The pic that comes on my home screen does come up, but if i want to change to another pic i can't. The screen say's "0" media files even though i have many.
The generic pics on the phone are fine. But i have no access to most of my media files as well as the phone and alarm not ringing. I think i know what the problem is but don't know how to correct it.
I want to be able to "able" everything like it was before instead of "disable" and "force stop" which it is now. But i am not having success.
|March 15, 2014, 7:12 pm Post #689
"Disable" and "Force stop" are the actions that you can take with an app; it doesn't reflect the status of the app. Anyhow, go to Task Manager-->Apps, review one app at a time, if you see any that has an "Enable" box, touch it.
|March 15, 2014, 10:36 pm Post #690
Some of those boxes have been grayed out, how can i change that? There must be a way to revert back to "enable". Also, when i go into Task Manager and try "Tasks" instead of "Apps", most of my apps have a red X next to it.
|March 15, 2014, 10:52 pm Post #691
Task Manager-->Tasks shows the tasks that are running, and you touch the red X if you want to close them.
|March 16, 2014, 9:11 am Post #692
Try: settings>apps>all apps. Scroll to the bottom of the list and the apps you disabled should be there. Click on apps you want to re-enable.
I would also recommend installing Clean Master from playstore. When you install, uninstall apps, some remants may remain. Also a good idea to power off your phone for 15 minutes or so and reboot.
I'm presuming that some of the apps are greyed out (I know some of mine are that I never disabled) because there is no option to disable them (i.e., protecting people with curious minds like myself )
Last resort: factory reset. Good thing you have a backup phone. (I've done 3 or 4 factory reset on my Centura and no issues whatsoever, for me.)
|March 16, 2014, 2:50 pm Post #693
|Regarding picture management on my Valet, I recently put about 2,400 songs on it. I play the songs using the music app (not "play music) and all of the album cover artwork shows up for the song that is playing. This is fine, but when I try to view photos I've taken with the phone using "gallery", all of the album cover art is also in there. This takes up so many screens I never did make it to the end of them. I would rather just see pictures I've taken or imported to my phone and not the album art. Any suggestions on how to get the album cover pics out of gallery? Thanks.
|March 16, 2014, 3:03 pm Post #694
The pictures that the Gallery app displays can be sorted by different options: Albums, Locations, Times, Tags, by touching the option in the top left corner. When I selected Albums, the pictures were placed in these groups: Camera, Download, Screenshot, bluetooth, etc. If you select Camera, you'll only see the pictures taken with the phone's camera. My guess is that your album covers would be placed in the Download group.
There's a free app called QuickPic which gives you more control, which folders to include/exclude, etc.
|March 16, 2014, 3:56 pm Post #695
Thanks so much again hpham; I just got that quickpic app, and it started to pull in all my album cover art, but I went to settings and in there I can choose folders to exclude and I chose my music folder. Problem solved.
|March 16, 2014, 4:00 pm Post #696
I picked up a pretty nice case for my Valet called "Trident". It was fairly pricey but seems like it will offer good protection.
I'm looking for an armband holder for my phone with this case. The dimensions with my phone in this case are 5 x 2.75 x .75. Was wondering if anyone else has found one that will fit with a fairly chunky case like this one is.
|March 16, 2014, 4:36 pm Post #697
I have the same one, but got it in the 'Android green' color, I love it! Amazon's price is way better than what you find at their website but it's worth the extra cost.
I found a large list of armband holders at Amazon, so I guess it's just a matter of sorting through the ones they have to see if any meets your needs. Most look like they're for Iphones but I'm sure there's something that would work. Hope this helps
Amazon armband list
|March 16, 2014, 4:43 pm Post #698
Also, if you're crafty, I just found a couple of videos telling you how to make your own arm band...
|March 17, 2014, 5:23 am Post #699
Thank you, thank you, thank you @ runner.
That was one area i never checked, i got all my pics back, my ringtones, my media, etc.
|March 17, 2014, 9:07 am Post #700
Any suggestion on a good texting app? If I used something like Google Voice, would the text come in from the Google Voice number or the Tracfone number?
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"It's hard to tell the availability," Berry said. "The availability is the number-one factor. It all depends on how much meth or cocaine is available on the market. Almost all of the meth we get is from out of town. Very little of it is manufactured locally. Most of the cocaine we are getting is from south of the border."
Berry said through suspect questioning and working with other law agencies, police officers are discovering that most of the cocaine is coming from south of the border and meth is coming from Arizona and California.
Ninth Judicial District Attorney Matt Chandler said increased law enforcement, Meth Watch programs and community awareness have helped decrease the number of meth labs in Curry and Roosevelt counties. Chandler said since March of 2005 only one meth lab has been identified in the district (Roosevelt and Curry counties).
Chandler said in 2004 there were 10 meth labs discovered.
Chandler said the maximum punishment for possession of marijuana (a fourth-degree felony) with an intent to distribute is 18 months in prison. He said the maximum punishment for trafficking cocaine (second-degree felony) is nine years in prison.
Chandler said with new state legislation taking effect Saturday, trafficking meth becomes a second-degree felony with a maximum punishment of nine years in prison.
"We in the DA's office have zero tolerance for drug trafficking," Chandler said. "The goal is to try to stop all drug trafficking to the community by sending them to prison."
Berry said police have seen arrests for narcotics start to rise in Portales. In 2001, there were 38 arrests for narcotics, and in 2002 there were 43, according to the Portales Police Department report. In 2005 there were 118 arrests for narcotics (a 38 percent increase).
From May 2005 to June 2006, there were 129 drug arrests. Berry said at the current rate more narcotics arrests will be made this year than the 118 in 2005. Berry said there are contributing factors for the increase.
"It's a unified effort, putting all of our resources together," Berry said. "It's a combined effort, working with the sheriff's department and the DA's office."
Berry said police officers recently made a drug bust near the city park uncovering 50-54 cocaine bags .
Berry said police officers got a search warrant to inspect a vehicle near the city park on May 27. They made arrests and uncovered a total of 60 grams of cocaine. A month before, police officers seized an ounce of crack-cocaine from another location.
Berry said there are ways community residents can help to stop cocaine use in the community. He said a key is for the police department to be "versatile," making the proper adjustments to combat the narcotics problem — no matter what drug it is.


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Responsible Citizenship
"In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation. This obligation is rooted in our baptismal commitment to follow Christ and to bear Christian witness in all we do."
-- Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,
U.S. Catholic Bishops (Nov 2007)
About Us
Jeff Caruso, Executive Director Bishops Francis DiLorenzo and Paul Loverde
Who We Are
The Virginia Catholic Conference is the public policy advocacy organization representing Virginia's two Catholic Bishops, Francis DiLorenzo, Diocese of Richmond, and Paul Loverde, Diocese of Arlington, and their dioceses in matters before the Virginia General Assembly, the U.S. Congress, and the state and federal administrations and their agencies.
What We Do
The Conference advocates for:
Respect life initiatives to protect human life and dignity in every stage of development and circumstance, from conception until natural death
Social justice initiatives to give first claim to the rights and needs of the poorest and most vulnerable members of the human family, including immigrants and refugees
Family life and education initiatives to preserve the institution of marriage, support the family, and promote parental choice in education
How We Do It
The Conference advocates by:
- Maintaining contacts with state and federal lawmakers
- Providing resources that apply Church teaching to current issues
- Promoting grassroots advocacy, including through the email advocacy network and in-person advocacy, such as visits to legislators' district offices and Catholics in the Capital days
- Communicating regularly with Catholic and secular print, electronic and social media
Whom We Represent: the Catholic Community in Virginia
Catholic People and Places
- 692,140 registered Catholics, or almost 8 percent of Virginia's population of 8.75 million
- 2 bishops
- 2 Dioceses (the Diocese of Arlington; the Diocese of Richmond)
- 480 Priests (Diocesan, Religious, Extern, Retired) and 215 Permanent Deacons
- 212 Catholic parishes and 7 missions
- 277 Religious Sisters and 16 Religious Brothers
- 13+ languages spoken at Catholic Masses, including: English, Latin, Spanish, Portugese, Ghanaian, Twi/Akan, Vietnames, Korean, Tagalog, Gaelic, Tygrina and English with Indian dialect. Also American Sign Language
Catholic Education
- 76 Catholic pre-school, primary and high schools
- 26,537 students
- 33 percent student minority population
- 560 students who receive Educational Improvement Scholarships
- 2,142 lay academic teachers at Catholic schools
- 55,972 students enrolled in parish religious education programs (i.e. religious ed for Catholic students who attend public, non-Catholic, or homeschool)
- 4 Catholic colleges & universities
- 2 Catholic newspapers
- 143,000 circulation
Catholic Health Care
- 10 Catholic hospitals,
- 16,603 hospital employees*
- $97.6 million in charity care*
- $44.1 million Medicaid shortfall*
- $29 million other community benefit*
- $170.7 million total community benefit*
*2013 totals
- 18 homes for the aged, chronically ill & invalids
- 2,100 assisted in these homes annually
Catholic social service agencies (ministries include care for homeless, hungry, elderly, refugees and immigrants, foster and adoption services, job training, ESOL)
- 3 agencies
- 135,828+ clients served annually
Sources: The Official Church Directory (P.J. Kennedy & Sons); Bon Secours Hospital System, Hampton Roads and Richmond; Catholic Charities of Eastern VIrginia; Commonwealth Catholic Charities; Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington; The Catholic Virginian; The Arlington Herald


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Zahirah McNatt
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy); Director, Leadership Education and Practice, Global Health Leadership Institute
Research Interests
Ethiopia; Health Policy; Human Rights; Public Health; Global Health
Research Organizations
Research Summary
Zahirah McNatt, MHSA is the Director for Leadership Education and Practice at Yale's Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) and Project Director for Leadership Saves Lives (LSL), a team-based, interventional study aimed at reducing AMI mortality through leadership development and organizational culture change. Her current role involves the management of research and intervention activities with 10 US partner hospitals and the implementation of public health and human rights programs across the globe.
Selected Publications
- McNatt Z, Linnander E, Endeshaw A, Tatek D, Conteh D, Bradley E. A national system for monitoring the performance of hospitals in Ethiopia: development and implementation. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2015.
- Linnander E, McNatt Z, Sipsima H, Tatek D, Abebe Y, Endeshaw A, Bradley EH. Use of a national collaborative to improve hospital quality in a low income setting. International health. 2015
- McNatt Z, Thompson J, Mengistu A, Tatek D, Linnander E, Ageze L, Lawson R, Berhanu N, Bradley EH. Implementation of hospital governing boards: views from the field. BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:178.
- Bashford T, Reshamwalla S, McAuley J, Allen N, McNatt Z, Gebremedhen Y. Implementation of the WHO surgical safety checklist in an Ethiopian referral hospital. Patient safety in surgery 2014; 8(1):16.
- Alpern R, Canavan M, Thompson J, McNatt Z, Tatek D, Lindfield T, Bradley EH. Development of a brief instrument for assessing healthcare employee satisfaction in a low-income setting. PLOS ONE 2013 8:11.


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JinkoSolar endures rough Q322. November 2011 | Industry & Suppliers, Markets & Trends | By: Becky Stuart
As one of the few solar companies to post positive second quarter (Q2) 2011 financial figures, Q3 must have come as quite a shock for JinkoSolar, which experienced significant declines.
Having already suffered this year, after coming under siege, quite literally, from local residents in Haining, China, following a fluoride leak at its photovoltaic module manufacturing facility, JinkoSolar has now been left reeling from the poor market conditions.
As CEO, Kangping Chen, remarked, "The third quarter of 2011 was clearly a challenging period for both our company and the industry as a whole as the uncertain economic environment throughout Europe pressured demand and the typical seasonal upturn in Germany failed to materialize."
While total revenues in Q2 2011 shot up from the same period in 2010, to reach RMB2.3 billion (US$350.6 million), at RMB1.8 billion, Q3 2011 witnessed a sequential decrease of 21.4 percent. The drop was attributed to the decline in average module selling prices.
Despite this, total Q3 2011 solar product shipments hit 257.7 megawatts (MW), up from 254.1 MW in Q2 2011. Broken down, 23.9 MW of silicon wafers, 15.6 MW of solar cells and 218.2 MW of solar modules were shipped in Q3. The period also saw JinkoSolar expand its in-house annual silicon wafer, solar cell and module production capacity, from around 1.1 gigawatts (GW) each as of June 30, to approximately 1.2 GW each as of September 30.
Q3 2011 gross profit, meanwhile, hit a huge bump, having fallen 88.5 percent from Q2 2011, and 86.3 percent from Q3 2010, to RMB66 million (US$10.4 million). Gross margin also saw declines, from 25.4 percent in Q2 2011, and 33.5 percent in Q3 2010, to just 3.7 percent in Q3 2011. In-house gross margin equally suffered, dropping from 30.5 percent in Q2 2011, and 38.6 percent in Q3 2010, to 18.4 percent.
Having achieved an operational income of RMB409.9 million in Q2 2011, and RMB379.3 million in Q3 2010, Q3 2011 was a big disappointment for JinkoSolar, which saw a significant operating loss of RMB197.3 million. Operating margin was also negatively affected, having fallen from a positive 18.1 percent in Q2 2011, and positive 26.4 percent in Q3 2010, to a negative 11.1 percent in Q3 2011.
In line with this, operating expenses rocketed in Q3 2011 to RMB263.3 million, up 58.1 percent from RMB166.5 million in Q2 2011, and a massive 156.6 percent from RMB102.6 million in Q3 2010.
Furthermore, Q3 2011 net income was a shadow of its former self, which at RMB68.1 million decreased 71.1 percent from RMB235.3 million in Q2 2011, and 73.8 percent from RMB259.5 million in Q3 2010.
Looking ahead, JinkoSolar expects to ship between 180 and 210 MW of solar modules in Q4 2011, and between 770 and 800 MW for the full year. Meanwhile, Q4 total revenues are expected to be in the region of US$180 million to US$210 million (full year: US$1.1 billion to US$1.2 billion). In a statement, it added, "The company reduces its in-house annual silicon wafer, solar cell and solar module production capacity targets from 1.5 GW each to approximately 1.2 GW each by the end of 2011 due to weak market conditions."
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That looks about right. You just have to make sure that the intermediate points you choose for the triangle inequality all lie within the domain U, where f is defined and that might also be the reason why U is required to be an open set, because then it is ensured you can always find such intermediate points, that lie within U.
But you also need the property that the partial derivatives are bounded. From this you can conclude that the function is locally lipschitz continous along the directions of the axis and you have to use this somehow in your inequality.


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National Geographic London Store
The National Geographic Store and Cafe draws on the National Geographic Society's 120 year heritage of inspiring people to care about the planet. The store sells an array of high-tech outdoors clothing, world maps, books, children's toys and games. After shopping in the store visitors can refresh with a drink in the cafe and enjoy a meal selected from the cafe's very appetising international menu.
Venue Details & Map
National Geographic London Store
- Address
102a Brompton RoadLondonSW3 1JJ
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7025 6960
- Public transport:
- Picadilly Circus
- Access into the Building
- Flat routes from parking area to entrance
- Event Facilities
- Offers charity rates
- Trade vehicle access
- Venue can display vehicles inside
- General Facilities
- Good views
- Room Facilities
- Air conditioning
Yelp Reviews
National Geographic, what were you thinking? You suffer from no fewer than eight very serious personal identity crises. I expect you to be a neat sciency shopping expedition! I wanted anthropological, cultural, geographical, physical, and historical fun!!
Instead, you insist you are an overpriced designer clothing store (shirts run from £35 to £65), a overpriced furniture store (£1000+),...more
Whaaaaaaaaaaat theeeeeeeee hell is this store supposed to be?? I stopped in here when it first opened out of curiosity and was annoyed and confused the entire time. OK first off, some guy kept shadowing us on the ground floor and would comment on anything I touched and made me smell things that I didn't want to. I wandered near the candles, picked something up to smell it, and he fluttered...more
We spent the day in London (which we rarely do when in England). We took the Big Bus Tour and saw the National Geographic store. We decided to get off and check it out because I love the magazine! We headed in and the store was really big and spacious. When you enter, there is a cafe to the right (they really don't serve proper meals). We wandered around the middle part of the store...more
I finally decided to walk into the Regent Street store having gone past it dozens of time over the last few months. It was a Sunday afternoon and the store was not really busy. I spend about 30 minutes in the store and browsed all the merchandise on the 3 huge floors. I agree with Robert W. that prices of the clothes are expensive and too much like any other brand, and i felt like it was...more
I was intrigued by this shop while walking down Regents street. I wish I had not bothered as the prices were so expensive. Some of the stuff featured could have come straight from The Pier (RIP) but was vastly more expensive. Additionally, I think £61 for a tie is excessive. For that I expect it to be made from panda skin!
However if you are interested in hiking and mountaineeering. There are...more


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no appointment necessary!
those spin classes are a bit hard on the old quads aren't they.enjoyed it
I have swum and biked and gymned .... again!Gluwein is rather nice I have to say and I am not a great lover of those kinds of spices usually
Top training that woman.
I've just discovered Shepherd Neame Christmas Ale (currently on special offer)- very nice, but at 7% one for savouring rather than quaffing with abandon.
Hmmm Shepherd Neame is a very good brew house Training day tomorrow so I think I may have an early night with Mouse and SerenLaters pepes
I'm still up!
What with that and buying Very High Heeled Shoes, I feel as though I'm entering adulthood at last...
Lots of catching up to do.
ninight and take care, all.
morning all
i had a little bike ride last night in the dark.........left house for youth club and the village and bypass was gridlocked...............so had to get the bike out and quickly fit on lights nd cycle to youth club........
every bit helps.................
wednesday is my late night meldy and I'm out of the house till atround 10pm
Busy busy here as usual. I can't believe how fast the weeks are whizzing by. It'll be Christmas before we know it!
I managed to get up and get my run done early today as I've got a friends leaving dooo after work. I'm really enjoying my running at the moment. There's a lot to be said for the base phase imho. No pressure, no mad garmin watching, just lovely running. Super stuff.
Enjoy your high heels Jj
Blimey it's getting a bit windy out there- hope all the westerly wingers are safely tucked up at home. Current forecast says I'm going to get wet walking to Pilates tonight.
i had a lovely day at gloucester tasting all the cheeses and oils and marmalades etc........spent a fortune.all on food.................
it was very windy there that the stall holders were in danger of losing their stalls.........
but on the way home the wind was joined with torrential rain which made it very difficult to drive.but safely home
I too am home, it was most windy on the way back tonight ... I do hope it all blows over soon (pun intended) as I would quite like an early nightTraining day all day (of the wrong variety) so have missed ther dose of fresh airI think I have more leaves in my hall than there are left on the trees!!
i have a night race on saturday and if this rain continues its going to be a mud bath in the dark.............
i have had someone round to look at the room, they seem nice, all seems positive.
Good news chav! Make sure they are gainfully employed and dont forget to ask for a reference Seren, it will be fun ! Where is this madness taking place (if at all) ?
the bre3con beacons starting at talybont again..........but a different route .just shares a few miles with the ultra route and its only 20 miles
meldy, they mentioned what they did for a living. having done some internet research it appears to be kosher
i will be doing some more formal stuff.
think the chance of college work tonight is zero! knackered.com
Oh well Seren, you are used to the Brecons in pouring rain !!!I am off to bed in a mo as well, a few things to sort out for the morning and I shall be trying to sleep surrounded by a hurricane by the sounds of it !
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