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Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

You can email Muhammed at dailybreeze.com


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PROFILE: Heating & A/C but No Dead Bodies

It's this week's At Work profile.

AT WORK: Business here can blow hot and cold By Muhammed El-Hasan, Staff Writer

Bill Hammer is the owner of Hammer Heating & Air Conditioning, which is run out of his Redondo Beach home. (Brad Graverson / Staff Photographer)Bill Hammer's career took shape when he was still attending Mira Costa High School.

In 1987 at age 17, Hammer answered a newspaper ad for a job at a heating and air conditioning installer.

About 21 years later, he still works in this field.

Today, Hammer, 37, owns Hammer Heating & Air Conditioning, which he runs from his Redondo Beach house.


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