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The Ocala-based company started in 2014 and has a facility at 1900 NE 25th Ave. They make fuel tanks, hardened enclosures, trailers, stairs, platforms and walkways for use with power generator installations.
The new facility previously was home to Carlton Manufacturing, which made furniture there for nearly 40 years.
Fidelity has more than 100 employees right now.
"The current expansion is expected to add an additional 85 to 100 employees over the next year," said Mitch Twardosky, Fidelity’s general manager, in a prepared statement.
The vast Kmart regional distribution center in Ocala was part of the recent $5.2 billion bankruptcy sale of Kmart's parent company Sears Holdings.
Sears Holdings, which owned both Sears and Kmart, faced liquidation earlier this year before Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert - through his ESL Investments hedge fund - bought the remaining assets. A bankruptcy judge approved his bid to keep 425 stores open and continue employing about 45,000 people.
On Feb. 27, the nearly 2 million-square-foot building at 655 SW 52nd Ave. - with a value of $58.4 million - went to TF Ocala FL LLC, a subsidiary of Bay Harbor Islands-based ESL. The transfer happened through a quit-claim deed with the bankruptcy deal clearing any past debts or liens tied to the property.
The center, near the Ocala International Airport, went up for sale in September as Sears Holdings tried to keep ahead of mounting losses that threatened its survival.
The company struggled for years, closing hundreds of under-performing stores across the country and selling its real estate.
The two remaining Kmarts in Marion County closed in April and Sears at the Paddock Mall closed early this year.
While the distribution center handles Sears and Kmart inventory, another former Sears Holding subsidiary, Innovel Solutions, took over a significant portion of the warehouse. More than a year ago, Innovel moved into the Ocala facility and provides supply-chain logistics to third-party companies, according to a report in the CEP Network magazine.
The two iconic retailers grew to about 4,000 stores and more than 355,000 employees in 2006. Pressure from online retailers and other issues led to the company faltering and eventually filing for bankruptcy in October 2018. Critics blamed Lampert's management for some of the woes.
The Ocala facility will continue to operate as part of the new organization.
A new tire shop may soon go up near the Heath Brook Commons shopping center on Southwest State Road 200.
Plans to build a 6,777-square-foot Tire Kingdom on 4.68 acres west of Southwest 60th Street Road are with the City of Ocala for approval. The new facility would include eight service bays.
Plans filed with the City of Ocala are seeking permission to tear down the current Burger King at 2696 SW State Road 200 and replace it with an updated version of the fast food location.
The current building dates back to 1980 and is about 4,300 square feet. The plan is to replace it with a 3,550-square-foot restaurant and upgrade the parking lot.
Kevin Camp, of The Great American Holding Company Inc., which operates the franchise and 13 other Burger King locations in Marion County, said they hope to start the project by April. It should take about 60 to 80 days to reopen.
"We've remodeled it several times and it's time to take that old lady out to pasture," Camp said.
Plans for the area's 39th Dollar General location are making their way through the Marion County permitting process.
The proposed plan calls for a location at the corner of Southeast 120th Place and U.S. 301 near Belleview. The estimated cost of the project is more than $326,000. Concept Construction of North Florida Inc., based in Gainesville, would build the store. Concept builds many of Dollar General's new stores in the area.
O'Reilly Auto Parts plans a new location in Silver Springs Shores.
Plans for a new 7,225-square-foot store are under review by the county. The store would go up near the U.S. Post Office in the 6800 block of Southeast County Road 464. The permit application estimates the cost of the building at just under $1 million.
One of the nice things about being an adult—or even a teenager with a reasonable level of autonomy—is the freedom to decide to do whatever you want with your free time. The older you get, the odder your windows of free time get. This is one of the reasons I like video games. I seldom have a consistent amount of free time, but I can usually find something well-suited to filling a few minutes or a few hundred in a fun, engaging way. That’s getting harder, though. My games all seem to want me play at very specific times.
In the current series of Hitman games, there’s a series of scheduled, one-off missions called Elusive Targets. They show up during an announced period of time in one of the game’s levels, and you have a few weeks to make an attempt at taking them out. You can’t save your game , and, pass or fail, you can’t try again. You only get one shot within that one window.
Recently, Hitman 2 introduced an exception to this rule, revisiting the first set of Elusive Targets from 2016’s Hitman. I was excited. I love everything about the idea of Elusive Targets. They offer a compelling reason to log on and play the game in a new way and let it surprise you.
I love the Elusive Targets, but I chose not to pursue one this weekend. Another game beckoned. Destiny 2 needed me on Titan.
Lately Bungie’s sci-fi shooter has introduced Invitations of the Nine, a series of small story quests that can only be taken on over the weekend. You have to find Xur, the vendor who shows up in a random location every weekend, buy the quest from him, and then fulfill whatever challenges it describes to you. Usually, this means you have to run a strike and kill a certain number of enemies. The reward is a cool, cryptic cutscene, a new bit of lore, and, of course, loot.
Is this the same sort of compelling live game event that I described with Hitman’s Elusive Targets? Nope. But I’ll tell you what it is: Easy.
It is not hard to knock out an Invitation of the Nine. It takes maybe half an hour, tops. It also promises something interesting for more than one player type: Loot for the gear-hunting player (I got a rad exotic rocket launcher) and some story for the lore-curious. It also does something really sneaky and mean: It gives you one really good hit of the Destiny 2 loop. Once you complete an Invitation, it’s not that hard to see what other challenges are available, and probably won’t take too long. And then another. And then wow, look at that, I’ve never ignited any of the Black Armory forges, I wonder what those are like?
You could say that this is my fault, that Hitman’s Elusive Targets are here for weeks and I should make time for them. Destiny 2’s regular schedule of content should not throw off someone like me, who has been waffling around its endgame for the better part of the year. That would be a fair point.
Despite my frustration, this is a thing I’m inclined to like. I like the notion of appointment video games, moments in an on-demand, asynchronous medium that, because of the specific time they’re offered, become an experienced shared that much more widely. If games are like places, it’s cool to say you were there the first time someone played Daft Punk to the rock kids. There to find a fun, goofy exploit like the Loot Cave, before it was patched out. Cool to have found a bit of story, or your favorite weapon in a game, during an event that was fleeting.
I also know that, as someone who writes about games, my selection of current titles to play is larger than the average person’s, but when a majority of buzzy—and more importantly, free—games are also doing this sort of thing, it doesn’t take long for a person’s limited free time to be filled up with gaming appointments.
Anyway, if you could help me find time to schedule a dentist appointment in between all this, I’d appreciate it.
In just under a month, Star Wars: Rogue One has overtaken Finding Dory as the highest-grossing movie released in 2016 at the domestic box office.
Pixar and Disney just reached another huge milestone as Finding Dory has officially crossed the $1 billion dollar mark at the worldwide box office.
Disney is continuing to dominate the box office as Finding Dory has overtaken Captain America: Civil War for the highest grossing movie of 2016 domestically.
Pixar's Finding Dory posts the highest opening weekend gross for an animated movie with a whopping $136.1 million at the box office.
Pixar's Finding Dory earned an estimated $9.2 million from Thursday night screenings, the highest preview tally ever for an animated movie.
With Finding Dory, Pixar has created an incredibly imaginative sequel with just the right amount of humor and heart.
Can Finding Dory Save the Summer Box Office?
Last week's winner The Conjuring 2 squares off against Pixar's Finding Dory and Warner Bros.' Central Intelligence at the box office this weekend.
The latest trailer for Pixar's Finding Nemo sequel has led to some interesting speculation. The first lesbian couple may arrive in Disney's Finding Dory.
An old friend arrives to lend Marlin a hand in the first clip from Disney and Pixar's summer sequel Finding Dory.
Everyone's favorite forgetful fish goes searching for her long lost parents in the latest Finding Dory sneak peek.
Dory finally remembers her mother and looks forward to reminiscing with her in a new Mother's Day preview for Disney Pixar's Finding Dory.
“Finding Dory” takes place about a year after the first film, and features returning favorites Marlin, Nemo and the Tank Gang, among others. Set in part along the California coastline, the story also welcomes a host of new characters, including a few who will prove to be a very important part of Dory’s life.
Ljubljana, 9 May - President Borut Pahor has discussed the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear accord with US Ambassador to Slovenia Brent Hartley, who requested the meeting, Pahor's office said on Wednesday.
US Ambassador to Slovenia Brent Hartley presents reasons for the US's withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
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The last of JR Raphael's three-part how-to series includes advanced tips and tricks to help you take your Google+ experience to the next level.
The kids may have moved on, but business users love (and hate) their email. Here's why we can't kick the habit.
Almost as an afterthought, Apple has announced it was working on browser-based versions of its iWork productivity applications, a move one analyst said challenged Microsoft's Office behemoth.
Which is the better value, an Office desktop license that's good 'forever' or an annual cloud subscription? The answer is: It depends on your situation. Our interactive calculator will show you the price for each to help you make the best choice.
Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft's new subscription-based version of Office 2013, lets you use your applications anywhere. But does it really cost less than the client version?
Some Ugandan soccer experts without doubt rate him as the most prolific goal scorer the country has ever produced. The former Cranes , Express FC and Zamalek FC striker passed on last week after a long illness.
Ali Kitonsa “Simba ya Uganda” will forever be remembered for the 1964 season when he scored 54 goals in 18 matches-an average of three goals per match. In all, he is believed to have scored a total of 102 goals in both competitive and friendly matches played, which could be a world record of some sort.
Those who saw Kitonsa in action describe him as having been a joy to watch. “At 5ft 6in, he was diminitive, thus compesating his size with speed and finishing the ball into the opponent’s net with precision,” recalls veteran sports journalist, Douglas Nsubuga.
According to Nsubuga, during Kitonsa’s time speed work was mainly done by compatriots like Jimmy Ssewava “Omulogo” ( the magician), John Kaddu the inventor of “screw” passes and compounded by remarkable play makers in Charles Jaggwe, Jimmy Semugabi and Abdu Karim Kiggundu.
During his days, Ali Kitonsa played for the Cranes, Express and Zamalek of Egypt. He was capped over 30 times for Uganda and was nicknamed “Simba ya Uganda” (The lion of Uganda) in Kenya and Tanzania. At Express, Kitonsa is remembered as a man who never missed a single game. He played for the club from 1959 to 1979, scoring over 200 goals.
Kitonsa’s soccer talent was first spotted in 1958 by the late veteran journalist, politician and sports administrator Jolly Kiwanuka, (simply known as Jolly Joe) when playing for Kibuli secondary school during a friendly match with King’s College Buddo. Jolly Joe was so impressed with Kitonsa’s skills that he couldnt let him slip away. The following year (1959) when Jolly Joe formed Express, he invited Kitonsa to join him, becoming one of the very first eleven players to play for the club. In the team were others like John Ndidde, Kyeyune Willy Mukasa, Noah Mbowa, Naphtali Ntege and Abdu Karim Ntege.
But it was not until the early sixties that Express started competing in the second division of the national football league. In 1963 the Cranes beat Zanzibar 8-0 in the Gossage Cup (now CECAFA) with Kitonsa scoring five goals.
Two supporters of Zamalek FC of Egypt were at the time visiting Uganda and requested Kitonsa and Kiggundu to travel to Egypt with them where they later got a professional engagement. They played for Zamalek for several months and later returned to Express, making them the first Ugandan football professionals.
On returning to Uganda, Kitonsa emerged the top scorer of the first ever National football league staged in 1968. That year Express beat Kilembe Mines FC 14-0 in the first round match played at Nakivubo.
In the final match of the season they again played Kilembe away where they needed just a point to lift the league. Kilembe beat Express 1-0 to hand the trophy to Prisons FC. Kitonsa will also be remembered for the 1974 league match when he substituted himself after scoring an all-important winning goal, an action that prompted coach Robert Kiberu to drop his cigaratte in disbelief .
In 1964 Kitonsa was part of the Express FC team that played a friendly match against the Nigerian national football team then nicknamed the Green Eagles. The Nigerians visited Uganda on their way to the Nations Cup when Express beat them 3-1 with Kitonsa scoring two goals. That very day, Express became known as the “Red Eagles” since they had beaten the Green Eagles. Again in 1964, Kitonsa scored four goals in Uganda’s 5-1 drabbing of Egypt that took Uganda to the All Africa Games in Congo Brazaville.
Ali Kitonsa was born to Asuman Kitaka Lumaama and Safina Nagujja at Kankesa, Butambala district on May 12, 1939. He started playing football during 1950s when joined Kitagobwa primary school and later Kibuli secondary school.
He came from a sporting family where his sister Fatia Kitaka was part of the She Cranes netball team that featured in the 1979 World Netball Cup hosted by Trinidad and Tobago.
He was married to Rehema Kitonsa with whom he has had several children. May his soul rest in peace.
Will Oliver has the perfect name for the lead character in his own adventure novel. The story revolves around a 17-year-old boy who entered high school wanting to try everything, and he has followed his intrepid spirit so passionately that his football coach at North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake, Vic Eumont, says "the kid is amazing." There's only 24 hours in a day, but Oliver finds ways — and time — to live his life beyond the most imaginative of teenage audacity.
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 27 - May 3, 2014 in PDF format This week's TV Movies SUNDAY Tweens and pre-tweens can get an eyeful and an earful of their favorite performers at the "2014 Radio Disney Music Awards. " 8 p.m. Disney Channel Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of literary lion Ernest Hemingway, tells of her famous family's troubled history in "Running From Crazy.
Countywide : Judge Oliver Honored by Trial Lawyers Assn.
Superior Court Judge Jerrold S. Oliver has been named judge of the year by the California Trial Lawyers Assn. Oliver, 60, is supervising judge of the civil jury panel of the Superior Court. The association presents the award each year to recognize outstanding service by a trial judge, said Gary M. Paul, chairman of the association's state convention, which runs Thursday through Sunday at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel. Oliver of La Habra is a 1956 graduate of the USC Law School.
Normally, the word location belongs to the lexicon of the pitcher. It is in the interests of location that here at Dodgertown, pitchers work at the "Strings," roped-off areas that leave no doubt where the strike zone is. But Al Oliver has made location a hitter's term, too. He has an 11-game hitting streak, and his two hits Saturday in the Dodgers' 5-1 loss to Baltimore raised his average to .425. Oliver says he has usually hit this way but that the difference this spring is location.
California Youth Theatre's big, ambitious production of Lionel Bart's "Oliver!," at Pan Pacific Park, presented by Plaza Entertainment, had its ups and downs at last weekend's gala opening. Among the downs: a sound system that crackled and faded in and out for a time and unwieldy set changes.
Mudd's Widow Testifies About Phone Call to Mistress : Courts: She says she asked why Eleanor (Lorraine) Oliver would 'hurt him' with a palimony lawsuit.
Vanessa Mudd, widow of multimillionaire Henry T. Mudd, testified Thursday in Superior Court that she telephoned one of her husband's many mistresses and left a message asking how the mistress could take legal action against her husband when he had been so kind to her. The widow said she protested that her husband cried when he heard of the action. "I also said I hoped she never got a decent night's sleep for as long as she lived," Vanessa Mudd said, her voice breaking with emotion.
The FTC's chief assailed government regulations.
William Hurt rides off 'Midnight Rider.' John Oliver's big moment.
After the coffee. Before figuring out what to delete from my DVR. The Skinny: The Redskins 2014 schedule came out Wednesday. For the next 4-1/2 months, I can look at it and dream of a 14-2 season. Come September, reality will set in. Thursday's headlines include William Hurt pulling out of the movie "Midnight Rider" and concerns about the FCC's plans for new net neutrality rules . Also, John Oliver gets ready to launch his new HBO show. Daily Dose: A memorial for Lucy Hood, the president of the Television Academy who died this month of cancer, will be held Friday at 4 p.m. at Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre at the Academy's North Hollywood headquarters.
When John Oliver left "The Daily Show" in December to launch a new weekly show on HBO, host Jon Stewart surprised him with a video tribute to his 7-1/2 years on the Comedy Central show. Overcome with emotion, Oliver broke down in tears and gave Stewart a very heartfelt hug by way of departure. Many fans at the time were charmed by this genuine display of emotion. But Oliver's friends back in England hated it. In advance of the premiere of his new HBO show, "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver," the comedian appeared on "The Tonight Show," where host Jimmy Fallon quizzed him about his on-air sobbing.
After the coffee. Before losing the jet lag. The Skinny: I've watched the first four episodes of FX's "Fargo" and can recommend it. Now I want to see the movie again. Seems like Tuesday was light on hard news but we scraped together a Fix for you nonetheless. Today's stories include the latest on L.A. film production and NBC's efforts to build a digital programming space. Also, Oliver North gets to put his experience to work for FX's Cold War drama "The Americans. " Daily Dose: The Washington Post said Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable should be approved by regulators.
ARTOIS, Calif. - Nestled in a corner of the Sacramento Valley known for its rice, almonds and walnuts, densely packed rows of manicured olive trees stretch toward the horizon. This 1,700-acre spread is the domain of California Olive Ranch, an upstart company with big ambitions. The U.S. is the world's No. 3 consumer of olive oil, drizzling 293,000 metric tons of the stuff over salads and pizzas last year. Yet almost every drop was produced overseas in countries including Spain, Italy and Greece.
John Oliver would like nothing more than to watch Sarah Palin "spoon little flakes of cornflakes into a bowl. " Told that the doyenne of far-right Republican politics would be hosting a media breakfast at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena as part of the Television Critics Assn. media tour, Oliver said he was seriously considering staying the night. "Sarah Palin at a breakfast bar, I think my life could just be over at that point," he said. "There is a significant voice in my head that says, 'Check in and go to breakfast.' I'm sure she does a heavy breakfast with loads of moose-based bagels.
Forget about all the butter we Americans are supposed to be consuming, I'm deep into olive oil practically every meal, lavishing a slab of grilled country bread with the intensely fruity Tuscan oil and sopping up every bit of the remains on my plate. This is from my annual shipment of olio nuovo (new oil) from the Rare Wine Co. in Sonoma. The color is an iridescent jade-chartreuse, gorgeous to behold. This is olive oil more as food than condiment. I float a thread on winter minestrone or pasta fagioli, eat halved avocados with a drizzle of the oil, dip artichoke leaves in a little dish of olio nuovo . I get my fix every year from the Rare Wine Co., which has been bringing in a selection of new oils from Tuscany for almost 20 years now. This year, after tasting the new oils in November, Rare Wine founder Mannie Berk chose oils from half a dozen wine estates in Tuscany.
It's a rare thing to see a comedian get turned into a blubbering mess of tears on national TV, but that's exactly what happened Thursday night as "The Daily Show" bid farewell to one of their own. Longtime correspondent (and recent fill-in host) John Oliver left the show this week to start his own comedy show on HBO. And as a way of sending him off in style, Stewart faked Oliver into thinking he was doing a comedy bit on nuts left around Buckingham Palace for the queen to snack on and then pulled a switcheroo and presented him with a "greatest hits" tribute.
A futuristic scientific device featured on the TV shows CSI and CSI: Miami for instant fingerprint analysis has actually been found to be effectively used in a variety of real-world medical applications – including helping doctors deliver effective doses of chemotherapy to cancer patients and in brain surgery procedures.
A report detailing the many medical uses of the device – called a "desorption electrospray ionization" (DESI) – was presented this week by Harvard and Purdue University researchers at a meeting of the American Chemical Society.
The DESI instrument, about the size of a shoebox, can quickly identify chemical signatures of a variety of substances – including pesticides, explosives, microorganisms, biological markers for prostate cancer and melamine, a potentially toxic substance that showed up in infant formulas and pet food in 2008 and 2007.
Purdue scientist Graham Cooks said tests of the instrument in the operating room during brain cancer surgery found it to be nearly as effective as traditional analysis of tissue samples by pathologists. Tests of a second device, similar to DESI, found it can effectively monitor the levels of chemotherapy drugs in patients' blood in real time.
"With [both instruments], no sample preparation is needed, which reduces analysis time from as much as several hours per sample to just a few seconds," said Cooks. "Rapid results are critical when a surgeon is operating on a brain tumor or when chemotherapy patients are being treated with powerful drugs that must be administered at precise levels.
"DESI can analyze tissue samples and help determine the type of brain cancer, the stage and the concentration of tumor cells. It also can help surgeons identify the margins of the tumor to assure that they remove as much of the tumor as possible. These are early days, but the analysis looks promising."
Cooks' team is now testing to see whether the devices can provide comparable information to what pathologists can provide by looking at human tissues under a microscope and measure the levels of drugs of abuse or pharmaceuticals in urine or other body fluids.
A futuristic device is helping improve chemotherapy delivery to patients and brain surgery techniques.