BRIEFCASE JANITORS WALK OUT AT TWO HOSPITALS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Hundreds of janitors walked off their jobs Wednesday at Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar and at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center. They are seeking higher wages. Their pay, $8.32 an hour, is set by the county's living wage ordinance. For the past several months, the janitors have been fighting to update the rate. Melinda Anderson, chief executive officer of Olive View, said she didn't know if the strike would continue, but so far supervisory staff and Pedus Building Maintenance workers from other facilities are continuing to keep the hospital clean. On Tuesday, hundreds of the janitors appealed to the Board of Supervisors to increase their wages for the first time in four years. Amgen Inc. gets OK for Kepivance THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Amgen Inc. won regulatory approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Kepivance therapy, the biotech company announced Wednesday. With the approval of the drug, doctors can prescribe Kepivance to treat severe mouth sores in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. . Cancer treatments damage throat and mouth lining, but the drug reduces the sores' incidence and duration. SBC's digital line disrupted in state Subscribers to SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. California's digital subscriber line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and service reported they were unable to log on to the Internet for six hours Wednesday morning, with the blackout covering broad swaths of Los Angeles and the Antelope Valley. SBC spokesman John Britton said the disconnect in service began at 5 a.m. when an authentification server in the Los Angeles area lost power, leaving the DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary unable to distinguish which users belonged on the network. Crews fixed the program by 11 a.m. though some areas reported sporadic trouble afterward. Anderson School gets BofA present WESTWOOD - Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. presented a $100,000 check Wednesday to the UCLA Anderson School of Management UCLA Anderson School of Management is one of eleven professional schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. The school is consistently ranked among the country’s top-tier programs (currently #16 by US News and World Reporthttp://www.usnews. to support its economic forecasting group. It is the largest gift of its kind given to the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Anderson Forecast, according to Philip Little of the Anderson School. He said Bank of America has been a regular supporter of the scholarly pursuits of UCLA and its management school. The bank's gift will support the UCLA Anderson Forecast's March conference, which will focus on business growth in an uncertain economy. FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. OKs airline Net technology WASHINGTON - Passengers taking to the skies for U.S. flights could be checking e-mail and surfing the Web through high-speed Internet connections in a couple of years. And the day when travelers can chat away on cell phones while in flight might not be far behind. The Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. on Wednesday approved technology giving airlines what could be a cheaper option to provide Internet connections. The commissioners also voted to solicit public comment about ending the ban on in-flight use of cell phones. Apple fights back at RealNetworks SAN JOSE - No longer only a war of words, Apple Computer Inc. has quietly started to block the technology that RealNetworks Inc. created to get around the iPod music player's copy-protection armor. Making good on a promise not to sit idly, Apple counterattacked RealNetworks' Harmony technology with one of its newest iPod models, the iPod Photo, which debuted Oct. 26, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said Wednesday. She refused to say which, if any, other iPod models may have already received a similar software upgrade. |
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