Hawthorne Press Tribune The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 61, No. 6 - February 7, 2019 Hawthorne Hiring Event Helps Inside Laid Off Workers Find New Jobs This Issue Calendar of Events ............3 Certified & Licensed Professionals ......................5 Classifieds ...........................3 Entertainment .....................2 Food ......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings ...3 An aerospace/manufacturing hiring event took place on Jan. 31 at the Hawthorne Memorial Center to assist recently laid-off workers. Attendees networked with employers and gathered important information to take their next employment steps. Photo Courtesy of South Bay Jobs/South Bay One Stop. Lawndale .............................4 Legals ............................ 4,6,7 Crash Danger Predictions from Pets .......................................8 Electric Scooters Coming True By Rob McCarthy cities disagree. They’ve banned the vehicles and reported that riders weren’t wearing To no one’s surprise, electric scooters that with emergency ordinances or restricted where helmets 93 percent of the time. Protection showed up last year in South Bay cities scooters can be left. Pedestrian injuries from against head injuries is clearly needed if before being banned are sending people to tripping over the scooters is a concern cited the personal transportation device offered hospital emergency rooms with an assortment by the cities that have told Bird and Lime by Bird and Lime is going to coexist with of injuries. And it’s not only the riders who to remove their fleets of two-wheelers until vehicle traffic. The 249 injury cases present get scrapes, bruises and broken bones. The further notice. a small sample, yet the plastic surgeons at walking wounded include bystanders, too Electric scooters -- with their risks to one Santa Monica emergency room have -- some of whom are fighting back against riders and pedestrians -- came on the scene seen what happens when a rider is thrown the trendy mode of transportation. last September, and yet already have been to the pavement. Weekend Recent developments have slowed the labeled one of the “polarizing technologies” in One-third of those patients were taken to introduction of the sleek scooters from transportation in decades. The electric-driven UCLA hospitals in Santa Monica or West- Forecast Bird and Lime into Southern California. scooters can reach top speeds of 15 to 20 wood in an ambulance over a one-year period More cities have banned them for now, prefer- mph, and they are to be ridden in the street that lasted through September last year. The ring to take a wait-and-see approach to how and not on sidewalks. Helmets aren’t provided work done at UCLA is a foray into a public the Santa Monica experiment works. That by Lime and Bird, and not surprisingly riders health issue that hasn’t been analyzed and Friday South Bay city is the testing ground for what who crash are susceptible to head injuries, reported until now. happens when a new motoring technology that according to a first-of-its kind analysis by One of the typical scooter-related injuries Sunny offers little protection for riders merges into UCLA doctors. to the head is not a pretty sight, according 61˚/48˚ urban traffic. The introduction has come with Fractures and head injuries are commonly to Dr. Wally Ghurabi, medical director of some bumps and bruises, but no traffic deaths. the outcome when a scooter collides with a one of the emergency departments at UCLA Nine people who were injured by electric vehicle or the pavement. That’s the initial Medical Center in Santa Monica. His surgeons scooters filed a class-action suit last October finding by UCLA researchers after studying have spent hours picking asphalt out of facial Saturday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It 249 injury cases involving the two-wheelers. wounds.“You can break your face, break your accuses startups Bird and Lime — as well Santa Monica is the only South Bay city that nose, break your facial bones, break your Partly as their manufacturers Xiaomi Corp. and currently allows Bird and Lime to operate in skull and bleed inside your skull,” Ghurabi Segway Inc. — of gross negligence, claim- its boundaries. Riders unlock the scooters with warns about the demonstrated risks to riders. Cloudy ing the companies knew the scooters were a smartphone and ride for 15 cents per minute. Patients who made emergency-room visits 58˚/49˚ dangerous and deployed them in a way that Nine in 10 of the injuries were to riders, or were treated for scooter crashes had a huge was certain to cause injuries. though the danger of tripping over a scooter number of head injuries, in the UCLA analysis. Two of the plaintiffs were injured by tripping left on the sidewalk adds to the body count Head trauma put 40 percent of those patients over scooters left on the sidewalk, according in emergency rooms, the data showed. The in the ER. The main cause of those injuries Sunday to the lawsuit. Four were hit from behind riders, who often are inexperienced at op- was a fall. In 80 percent of the reported cases, as they walked, including a 7-year-old boy erating the scooters and lack helmets, most the rider tumbled and sustained some injury. Mostly whose teeth were broken by the force of the often get hurt because they fall. Potholes and Physicians saw plenty of bruises, scrapes and Sunny collision, the suit alleges. Another 75 people uneven pavement after weeks of rainstorms broken bones after Bird and Lime showed up reportedly have contacted the law firm about will only make the streets more treacherous in the South Bay last year. 58˚/47˚ injuries caused by electric scooters. One man ahead of spring break, when college students Riders run into objects or collide with said he suffered a brain injury. descend on warm-weather cities, too. vehicles at a much smaller rate, about 10 Bird and Lime argue that vehicles are the The UCLA research team did some firsthand percent, based on the Santa Monica sample. real problem. However, a growing number of observation of scooter traffic in Santa Monica See Electric Scooters, page 8 Page 2 February 7, 2019 Entertainment Film Review Check It Out Velvet Buzzsaw is High-Art Horror Front Desk by Kelly Yang By Ryan Rojas critics all “kiss-kiss”ing each other at the latest Reviewed by Jasmine Rahman in her community to financial problems at for www.cinemacy.com openings. That is, until the life’s work of an Mia Tang is not your typical fifth grader. home. On top of that, her love for writing is The term “velvet buzzsaw,” for those who unknown artist is discovered, which shakes She moved from China to America when she hindered based on her mother’s disapproval. don’t know, is slang for a rich person’s the art world for the mind-blowing reason was eight years old. Her family was hired Although she lives a life of hardship, she is flatulence, and it’s this stuffy, hot air that writer- that it actually has “substance” as flamboyant by the rich Mr. Yao to operate the Calivista always hopeful of a better tomorrow. With director Dan Gilroy derides so deliciously art critic Morf Vandewalt (Jake Gyllenhaal) Motel. The Tangs helped at the motel to the her love for writing, Mia positively disrupts in his new film, the horror-comedy Velvet remarks. Whether or not the paintings from best of their ability, but always had the risk her community by bringing awareness to Buzzsaw (available to stream on Netflix this the artist – Dease – should ever have seen the of losing their jobs looming over their head. problems plaguing her home. Friday). Having last mocked the vulture-like light of day or not (per the late artist’s inten- They spent hours cleaning rooms, managing Front Desk highlights many hardships that culture of tabloid journalism and consumption tions) means nothing to sales agent Josephina the front desk and fixing the building. A small new immigrants face moving to the United in his previous film, Nightcrawler, Gilroy (Zawe Ashton) and her boss, Rhodora Haze room behind the office of the motel is also States. Based on the author Kelly Yang’s first returns to an arena of ridicule (and once again (Rene Russo), who immediately look to sell a place her family calls home. experiences as a new immigrant in America, set in the beautiful but artificial city of LA) and display the white-hot works. But as they, The main character, Mia, faces many prob- she presents a fearless fifth grader, Mia Tang, to satirize the self-important art world elites and the rest of the vociferous art world soon lems ranging from racist bullies at school and who helps the readers experience the dreams whose vanity and greed results in devaluing the comes to find as each of the pieces are dealt of a young Chinese Immigrant. Yang does a meaning of art – if it doesn’t kill them first. and displayed, spiritual forces begin to haunt great job creating an autobiographical read It’s business as usual in the art world – with and lead each of the greedy superficial socialites while portraying a young girl’s courage, vanity-plagued art dealers, buyers, agents and See Film Review, page 6 See Check It Out, page 6 Velvet Buzzsaw, Courtesy of Netflix. Front Desk by Kelly Yang. 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