Copart Launches iPhone App for Selling Vehicles

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Copart Launches iPhone App for Selling Vehicles

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Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRT), a leading online vehicle auction company, has launched a new iPhone app, Copart Sell My Car, in support of the company's CopartDirect model, which allows on-the-go users to sell their car and receive payment in as little as one business day.

CopartDirect is a division of Copart dedicated to offering a faster and easier way to sell vehicles. CopartDirect provides consumers with an offer to purchase their vehicle when they enter their information into the iPhone app. For the first time, consumers can take this exciting technology and exceptional service with them anywhere.

The Copart Sell My Car app allows consumers to sell their vehicle using three simple steps:

1. Using an iPhone or other compatible device, users submit contact and vehicle information and can also upload vehicle photos.
2. The Copart team will respond with any follow up questions, or an immediate offer to purchase the vehicle.
3. Users can simply drop off their vehicle at any one of Copart's 137 locations nationwide, or have Copart pick up the vehicle, typically within one business day, and receive payment on the spot.

"Our customers have told us they want a simple, hassle-free way to sell their cars," said Copart, Inc. CEO Jay Adair. "The Copart Sell My Car app enhances the customer experience by allowing them to request a quick and fair offer for their vehicle at any time and any place."

Consumers can also choose to sell their vehicle using Copart's auction model, where Copart's registered buyers from around the world are ready to bid on the consumers' vehicle.

The Copart Sell My Car app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Download the free Copart Sell My Car app today for immediate service wherever you are!

For more information about CopartDirect, please visit our website or contact us at (707) 639-5019.

About Copart

Copart, founded in 1982, provides vehicle sellers with a full range of remarketing services to process and sell salvage and clean title vehicles to dealers, dismantlers, rebuilders, exporters and, in some states, to end users. Copart remarkets the vehicles through Internet sales utilizing its patented VB2 technology. Copart sells vehicles on behalf of insurance companies, banks, finance companies, fleet operators, dealers, car dealerships, the general public and others. The Company currently operates 152 facilities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Salvage vehicles are either damaged vehicles deemed a total loss for insurance or business purposes or are recovered stolen vehicles for which an insurance settlement with the vehicle owner has already been made. For more information, or to become a member, visit www.copart.com.

Solano County - News Details

Solano County - News Details: "Huston appointed Assistant County Administrator


May 2, 2011

The County Administrator is pleased to announce the appointment of Nancy Huston as Assistant County Administrator.

'Nancy possesses the kind of leadership, management skills and familiarity with local issues that Solano County needs. Her city perspective will enhance our ability to collaborate with our city partners,' County Administrator Birgitta Corsello said.

Huston is the current city manager for the City of Dixon. She assumes her new role in July 2011.

“I am looking forward to taking on this new opportunity with Solano County,” Huston said.

Huston began her public service career as a management analyst in the City of Fairfield Finance Department in 1989. She became the city's administrative services officer in 1992. She was appointed the interim assistant city manager in 1996, and later appointed as the assistant city manager in 1997. She became the city manager in Dixon in June 2008."

New building to bring UCD vet med researchers together | Davis Enterprise

New building to bring UCD vet med researchers together | Davis Enterprise

Saturday, April 30th, 2011 | Posted by Cory Golden

New building to bring UCD vet med researchers together

An artist's rendering depicts the new $58.5 million UC Davis veterinary medicine building, dubbed Research Facility 3B. Courtesy sketch

With help from a gust of wind, a duck-tolling retriever named Kefi tugged the cloth from a sign marking a new UC Davis veterinary medicine building on Friday.

When finished in December 2012, the $58.5 million building, dubbed Research Facility 3B, will stand four stories high and measure 76,000 square feet.

It “will provide modern, innovative research facilities and a platform for the School of Veterinary Medicine to continue rising to even greater heights,” Chancellor Linda Katehi told about 100 people at a ceremonial groundbreaking.

Inside the new building, about 50 faculty members, some 40 faculty-student research teams and support staff will further delve into, among other areas, pet and human nutrition; neural diseases, like autism; and the link between human and animal disease.

It also will house extension specialists, biosecurity programs and food-safety monitoring and diagnostic systems.

“(There’s) excitement about the opportunities,” said Dean Bennie Osburn of the school, which ranked behind only Cornell University in the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings. “Our faculty are well-poised and in many respects are on the leading edge in these different areas.

“We will be able to conduct research that is state-of-the art. We have aging facilities that make it impossible to conduct the type of research that we’re capable of doing and need to be doing.”

Vet Med 3B, northeast of Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, will cap a $354 million effort to build eight new buildings for the school. Since 2000, six new vet-med buildings have been completed on campus, as well as a teaching and research center in Tulare.

UCD launched the building program after the American Veterinary Medical Association put the school on limited accreditation in 1998, because it found the facilities inadequate for the number of students UCD had enrolled. Full accreditation was restored in 2004.

Vet Med 3B, designed to meet the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold standards, is being paid for with state funds raised from the sale of revenue bonds sold in April 2010, campus money and $12 million in private donations.

The new building will bring together in one corner of campus vet med researchers, clinical faculty and students who for 40 years have been scattered across a handful of sites on campus.

John Pascoe, executive associate dean, said that will encourage greater collaboration, as will the building itself. Rather than wall off a given researcher’s lab and office space from others, Biosafety level 2 and 3 labs will be clustered more closely together.

Pascoe, who oversees the school’s long-range building plan, compared that design and common areas to escaping jail cells for a playground. They’re mirrored in some of the school’s other new buildings. They’ve already yielded new partnerships.

“We’re seeing people come together, saying, ‘I didn’t realize you were working on that,’ or ‘I didn’t really understand that; you and I can do this together,’ ” he said.

The building’s more flexible design also will better allow for programs to grow and shrink, based on budget and need, he said, and incorporate changes in technology over time.

Many faculty members will be moving from Haring Hall. Discussions are ongoing about what to do with the space they leave behind. Among the options will be providing a home for vet-med programs still stuck in aging temporary buildings, like the Center for Wildlife Health.

Next on the school’s to-do list: a major renovation and expansion of the vet-med teaching hospital at a cost of $50 million to $100 million.

When it opened in 1970, the teaching hospital was the country’s first and served as a model for most of the 28 others nationwide.

Since then, however, about one-third of those campuses have built still newer facilities, Pascoe said. UCD’s hospital has had two major additions, the most recent in 2004.

The school has about 300 faculty members working with more than 700 students, more than 500 of whom are pursuing doctor of veterinary medicine degrees. It provides advanced training for 100 veterinary residents in 25 specialties.

Pascoe said that while new facilities boost faculty, they have been shown to be most important to students.

“We went through a period prior to that accreditation decision, and even after that, where students said, ‘I really want to be there, but it’s so old and crappy (that) I’m going to go someplace else.’ I think now we’re way beyond that,” he said.

“From a faculty recruitment point of view: While facilities are important, it’s really about who you can rub shoulders with. Even when we haven’t had the most contemporary facilities, we’ve had extraordinary people.”

Online: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu

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Lawrence Hall of Science to open new satellite center in Vallejo

By Courtney Moulds

Daily Cal Staff Writer

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Category: News > University > Research and Ideas

UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science plans to open a new satellite center May 5 in Vallejo in an effort to provide more science education directly to communities in Solano County.

The center - located at the Norman C. King South Vallejo Community Center in Vallejo - will open the "Inventor's Lab" to the public next Thursday and will provide youth with different types of gears and tools to meet certain challenges, such as using solar energy to make appliances called kinetic sculptures. On June 25, the lab will extend its hours and include workshops for groups that wish to participate in them.

According to Janet Noe, director of marketing and communications for the Lawrence Hall of Science, research conducted a few years ago demonstrated that both Solano and Sonoma counties "were not particularly well served in terms of having a lot of available science and math programs outside of school."

Though plans on how to outreach to Sonoma County have yet to be finalized, the center in Vallejo was selected to not only build community, but also to make science topics more accessible in Solano County, according to Noe.

"We don't have a tech museum and a planetarium," said Chairman of the Vallejo Youth Commission Ruscal Cayangyang.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has stated it will be funding the program for the next two years, but the hope is that the program will be self-sustainable after funding runs out. Noe said fundraising efforts to try to make the program self-sustainable by that time will begin as soon as the center is opened.

According to Director of Community and Visitor Programs at the Lawrence Hall of Science Gretchen Walker, the foundation approached the Lawrence Hall of Science to offer to fund the program. Walker and her team then developed the program to be implemented in Vallejo starting in January, when grant money was received.

"What we're hoping is that it will serve as an inspiration to young people and help them see themselves as someone who can do science," she said.

According to Noe, the center will simulate the Ingenuity Lab currently featured at the Lawrence Hall of Science, in which children can design and test their own creations.

"One of the things we know is that kids learn science best by actually doing activities," Noe said.

Beginning June 25, the center will be open Monday through Friday to the public. In addition to drop-ins, community groups will be able to register for workshops at the site.

In September, the center will begin offering field trips and professional development workshops to school-aged groups and teachers respectively. Program coordinators will use the workshops in hopes that they will allow teachers and other educators to borrow materials for use outside the center.

Vallejo's Assistant City Manager Craig Whittom said the development of the satellite center is consistent with the city's expansion of educational facilities and opportunities.

In the past five to 10 years, the city has tried to expand educational opportunities to its community members he said.

"Vallejo has a diverse community, we have a growing education tradition, and I think that this kind of adds to this emphasis on education that our city council and community leaders are focused on," he said.

Tags: Lawrence Hall of Science, Norman C. King South Vallejo Community Center, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, vallejo

Article Link: http://www.dailycal.org/article/112991

North Bay Pediatrics opening of their new north county office located at The Wiseman Company’s Corporate Plaza building

April 12, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:          Patti Magee, Executive Assistant

                       pmagee@WisemanCo.com

                       707.427.1212

North Bay Pediatrics is pleased to announce the opening of their new north county office located at The Wiseman Company’s Corporate Plaza building, 1261 Travis Boulevard on July 1^st, 2011. John Pock of Kappel & Kappel Commercial represented the Lessee and Kirk Hull of The Wiseman Company represented the Lessor in the transaction.

North Bay Pediatrics has been growing with the children of Solano County for the past 27 years, providing generalized medical care for infants, toddlers and adolescents. Their offices in Fairfield, Vallejo and Benicia offers parents a choice of service in the largest independent pediatric medical groups in Solano County. With the specifically trained pediatricians, their patients have access to comprehensive primary & specialist care. Their group networks with many hospitals and medical insurance plans in the Bay Area. For more information about North Bay Pediatrics, please visit their website at www.northbaypediatrics.com, or call the business office at 707-648-0711.

Founded in 1979, The Wiseman Company has become Solano County’s leading full-service commercial real estate firm. Recognizing the demand for superior quality, professional offices, Wiseman developed the first Class A office building in 1989. Today, the firm and its affiliates own, manage and lease the preferred multi-tenant office buildings in Solano, Napa and Yolo counties. Their business and professional tenants range from NYSE companies to local entrepreneurs.

For more information about Corporate Plaza or our other fine properties, contact Kirk Hull at 707.427.1212 or khull@WisemanCo.com.

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Looking for family-friendly employers

Published by The Reporter
Posted: 04/12/2011 05:31:50 AM PDT

First 5 Solano and the Alliance of Business for Children (ABC) invite nominations of local businesses for its 2011 "Family-Friendly Business Awards" program.

The program will honor Solano businesses with workplace policies and practices that support employees with young children. There are separate categories for small (20 or fewer employees), medium (21-99) and large (100-plus) businesses.

"The most successful businesses in Solano County know that 'family comes first.' Employees who are parents are more productive when they have reliable child care, flexible work schedules that accommodate family needs and workplace support," said Michael Amman, president of Solano Economic Development Corp. "Family-friendly business practices is a competitive advantage that generates greater profits by attracting and retaining well-qualified employees."

The awards will be presented at the June 29 Solano Economic Development Corp. breakfast and are sponsored by First 5 Solano Children and Families Commission.

Applications are due by May 6. Nomination form and program details are available at http://www.first5solano.com/ or by calling 784-1332.

2011: It’s time to prepare for economic growth in Solano County

By Michael Ammann
President, Solano Economic Development Corporation

As we move into the second quarter of 2011, things are beginning to pick up a little on the economic front, in the nation and California. With this improvement come the opportunities for Solano County to step up to the plate and take advantage of its tremendous location in Northern California Mega Region.

We are centrally located between two of the fastest growing mega regions in the nation – if not in the world. The Bay Area and Sacramento metropolitan areas, even with all their challenges, are still dynamic and full of potential.

Solano County is the “heart” of these two Mega Regions.

Just stop and think about what Solano County offers:

Transportation. Freeway link Solano County east and west, via Interstate 80. Then, add freeways that go from Solano south into Walnut Creek, Plesanton and points south. And, from Vacaville, freeways link Solano to the fast growing areas of Yolo and points north along I-5. And remember the investment in two new bridges, the repaving of I-80 and on-going improvements to Highway 12 from Rio Vista to Napa.

Solano also is within an hour’s drive of three major metropolitan airports: San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento. No other county can make that boast.

Think of it this way: within an hour you are on your way to visit family, take a business trip to New York or Europe, or just go skiing in Colorado or Canada!

In addition, express buses move easily through morning and evening freeway traffic on their way to major cities, and the Amtrak service offers the opportunity to take a ride into downtown San Francisco.

Housing: The recession and housing crash was a tremendous blow to Solano’s overall economy. That is a fact, but that will change – it already is showing signs of new life. As the economy begins to grow families will be seeking areas that offer good housing at prices lower than those they can find closer to San Francisco, Napa, and the East Bay.

Great Communities: Our cities are among the best in California. They are clean, safe, and affordable, with convenient shopping and low traffic congestion. Through all the growth of the past decade Solano’s cities have been able to maintain that “hometown” atmosphere many seek.

Jobs: While we can expect a continual need for our county residents to commute to good jobs in the Bay and Sacramento areas, we still can boast a pretty solid core of jobs – and that can be expected to grow as businesses grow in the coming years.

Solano Economic Development Corporation, working with the Solano County Board of Supervisors, has conducted extensive research studies for the past four years. These studies are creating a blueprint for growth. These combined studies make it clear where our best economic growth opportunities lie. It can allow developers and local cities to focus on economic clusters that can bring new dollars and jobs into the county boundaries. Life sciences, agriculture and food processing, alternative energy products and sources, research and development, and manufacturing—these are the areas that promise economic stability in the years to come.

It’s time for all of us – and especially those involved in planning – put on an optimistic face and move forward.

A better future for Solano County and its residents can only be achieved if we act now. Solano EDC is prepared to embrace this tremendous opportunity and all the challenges that come with it.

We truly are the “Heart of two Mega Regions – San Francisco and Sacramento.