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Louis Robert(Bob) Berman, husband,father,grandfather, great-grandfather and brother,died peacefully on July 27, 2019at his homeinNorthridge,CA, at the ageof

Born onDecember 10, 1924to Lou
and RosebudBerman inLosAngeles,
CA,justafter his mother,father and
elder sisterPaula had movedfromNew
Haven, Connecticut.

Bobgrewupinthe Fairfax area of LosAngeles andatte ndedLosAngeles HighSchool,whereheran trackand playedbasketball.Heproudly served in the UnitedStates AirForceasa navigator, at the tail-end ofWorld WarII. He returnedto LosAngeles and atte nded UCLA.Thro ughout his life,he never lost his passion for UCLA sports.

Aftertrying various jobs,Bob found his passion in the party business while working for Abbey Rents.After a few years there, Bobco-foundedLos Angeles-based party companyRegal Rents,wherehebecame an icon of the business foryears to come –servi ng suchHollywood celebrities asBob Hope,DannyKaye,Debbie Reynolds, Frank Sinatra; aswell as U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Bobloved traveling,scuba diving, flying planes,and especially playing golf with his friends–which remained his passion into his nineties.His se nse of humor,kindnessto all comers and love for telling stories is his legacy.

He marriedhis second wife, KarenSueBerman, in 1970. They were together for 49years,until Bob’spassing.Bob lovedhis family and is survivedby his son, Mitchell Louis Berman; grandsonsEric Allen Berman, Dane RobertBerman, great- granddaughterBerkeley SueBerman and his nephewLeoPaul Pickens.

Acelebration ofBob’slife is in the planning stages forSeptember and will be announced,soon. Formore informationcont actKarenBermanat: [email protected].

December 10, 1924-July 27, 2019

BERMAN, Louis Robert

Kathy was welcomed to her eternal home with the Lord on August

She is survived by
her mother, Chiyo Aiso, sisters, Ann
(Shig) Hamachi and Naomi (Stuart)
Nagasawa, brother, David Aiso, nieces,
Katherine and Kelli Nagasawa, and
other relatives.
The Memorial Service will be held
at Green Hills Chapel in Rancho Palos
Verdes on Saturday, August 17, 2019,
at 9:00 A.M. and will be officiated by
Pastor Steve Langley.

November 28, 1951 - August 6, 2019

AISO, Katharine (Kathy) Yoshiko

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Born to Rose and Morris Molmud in Brooklyn, NY.Married 58years to Arline who pre-deceased him in 2015.Survivedby daughter, Anne Factor,and son, Alex, son-in-law, Steve, and daughter-in-law, Lisa, and grandchildrenAdam, Emma, and Jake. Received his Ph.D.inTheoretical Physics from OhioState University. SeniorscientistatTRWfor33years;one of their first employees.Heheld many positionsat TRW,including Manager, Theoretical PhysicsDepartment. He authored andco-authored numerous papers in his field and heldaUSPatent. Loverofclassicalmusic and clear thought. Practitioner of Aikido and TM.With wife Arlinewasaformidable bridge partner,and wasactiveinmany social groups including book group and marriage encounter. Mostof all hewasaloving husband, father,and grandfather,whose genius and unique sense of humorwere appreciatedbyalmost all whoknew him. Please no flowers.Donations may be made in his nameto OPIC Aand Alzheimer’s Association

May29, 1923-August 9, 2019

MOLMUD, Paul (Pinchas) Ph.D.

Isao “Lefty” Kiyohara, 92, passed away peacefully on July 30, 2019. Predeceased by his brothers, Takeshi, Akira, and Ronnie Kiyohara; he is survived by his sister, Mary (Lucky) Yamaga and sisters-in-law, Aiko and Ruby Kiyohara. He is also survived by nieces, nephews and other relatives. Private funeral services were held on Sunday, August 11 at Fukui Mortuary. http://www.fukuimortuary.com 213-626-

April 28, 1927 - July 30, 2019

KIYOHARA, Isao ‘Lefty’

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KAISER, Teri

ElaineLynnLopez

August 20,1948 -August 13, 2013 It has been sixyearssince God calledyoutoHeaven.Your smile lights up Heavenevenmore.Wemissyou,weloveyouandyouarein our heartsforever.

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Joseph SilvaRamos,76, wasborn in LosAngeles,CAonJuly 4, 1943 and passedawayon August 2, 2019 in HappyCamp,CA. He had resided in SiskiyouCounty forthe past 20years. JosephwasborntoPhillip&Nicole Ramos. JosephwasaCertifiedPublic Accountant. He proudly servedhis countr yinthe UnitedStates Navy and then moretime wasspentint he Naval Reserves. He wasgiven anHonorable Discharge. Joseph is survivedby his wife, OliviaRamos,his sons,Joseph & wife ChristineRamos,Jason&wife AngelitaRamos and JonathanRamos. He leaveshis grandchildren, Jacob Ramos,TommyBlanchard, Jennica Ramos,TimmyBlanchard, Jared Ramos,Gina Ramos,Xavier Ramos and RebekahRamos,along with2great grandchildren.He is also survived by his father,PhillipRamos,his twin brother,Phillip&wife Eloise Ramos Jr. and his sisterElizabethRamos,aswell as numerous nieces and nephews. Avisitation will be held onThursday, August 15, 2019 from 5:00-9:00PM at Risher Montebello Mortuary, 1316 Whittier Bl., Montebello,with the Rosaryat7:00PM.His Funeral Mass will be held onFriday, August16, 2019 at 9:00AMatSt. BenedictChurch in Montebello withaGravesideServic eat alaterdate of August 24, 2019. Please check back for further information. In lieu of flowers,the familyrequests donations be madeto Joseph’sfavorite charity, the RescueRanchinYreka, CA.Donations can be made online to https://rrdog.org/item-category/ donate/. Youmay leave condolencesto the familythrough ourwebsite, http://www.rishermortuary.com (323)728-

July 4, 1943-August 2, 2019

RAMOS, Joseph Silva

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Gary passed away peacefully. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Geri, and their two daughters Michelle and Cheri, his grandchildren Heather, Ryan, Gabriel and Justin, his sister Phyllis (Patty) and by his sisters-in-law Helen and Ruth, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Services were held at Mount Sinai, Simi Valley. The family requests donations to Temple Isaiah in his memory.

July 1941 - August 2019

ROSENBERG, Gary J.

ROSE, Sheila

September 21, 1947-August 9, 2019

ROSE, Sheila Gail

Sheila Rose,71, of Beverly Hills,passed awayAugust 9, 2019. Born to Georgeand Syde Leventhal inLosAngeles,she atte nded Hamilton HighSchool and gained her BAat UCLA.She hadasuccessful career inreal estate thatspannedover four decades.Sheila servedclien ts throughoutLosAngeles who became lifelong friends.Along with herreal estate career,Sheilawaspassionate about her philanthropicwork.Sheila servedasPreside nt of TheLos Angeles JewishHome,anactivemember of BruinProfessionalsat UCLA,host for “Dinner with 12Strangers,” another UCLA Alumni program, aswell as a major donorto City of Hope.Sheila is survivedby her loving,handsome,and single sonSteven Davis,her dear sister Dr.MarciaLeventhal,her nieceand nephew Robin and RossLeventhal, and her partnerDr.StuartNeedleman.

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WILLIS, Louis

Loving husband of Stuart Lampert; cherished brother of Connie (Marvin) Silverman; adored uncle of Edward M. Bernstein and Randi Doroshow. He will be missed and not forgotten by all who knew and loved him. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to the charity of your choice. Services will be today, August 13, 2019 at 11am at Hillside Memorial Park Mortuary 800-576-

February 24, 1939 - August 9, 2019

TOMAR, Stephen

Mount Sinai Memorial Parks - Simi Valley 800-600- http://www.mountsinaiparks.org

SHANY, Robert

local jurisdictions to grapple with the complex technology on their own. New Hampshire and Ore- gon already prohibit facial recognition technology on body-worn cameras, and San Francisco, Oakland and Somerville, Mass., also recently enacted bans for all city departments as well as police. “I think it’s extremely important for states to be regu- lating the use of technology by police,” said Barry Fried- man, a privacy expert and professor of law at New York University. “It is the Wild, Wild West without a regula- tory scheme. Regulation is what we need.” Friedman serves on an ethics committee for Axon, one of the largest manufac- turers of body-worn cameras. The company has publi- cly said it will not put facial recognition technology on its cameras because it doesn’t have confidence in its reliability. Microsoft, which makes a facial recognition product, also recently said it had re- fused to sell it to a California law enforcement agency. The moves mark an unusual position from corporations seeking boundaries for their products. “The body camera technology is just very far from being accurate,” Friedman said. “Until the issues re- garding accuracy and racial bias are resolved, we shouldn’t be using it.” But other companies are moving ahead with facial recognition, including Ama- zon, developer of Rekogni- tion, the software used in the ACLU tests. Government agencies, including ICE, have also re- portedly used the technology, culling through data- bases of driver’s licenses. Proponents of the technology contend it could be an important law enforcement tool, especially when policing large events or searching for lost children or elderly people. The bill is opposed by many law enforcement groups.

Amazon said it could not immediately comment on the most recent ACLU test, it but has previously dis- puted that the Rekognition software was unreliable, questioning the group’s methods of scanning mem- bers of Congress. In its developer guide, Amazon recommends using a 99% confidence threshold when matching faces, and criticized the ACLU for using a lesser bar — the factory setting for the software, ac- cording to Matt Cagle, an at- torney with the Northern California chapter of the ACLU — when testing it. The Ting proposal would make California the largest state to ban the software, potentially having a ripple effect, Cagle said. The bill would ban not just facial recognition, but other “biometric surveillance systems” such as those that analyze a person’s gait or log tattoos. Critics contend that the software is particularly problematic when it comes to identifying women, people of color and young people. Ting said those demo- graphics were especially troubling to him, since communities of color have his- torically often been exces- sively targeted by police, and immigrant communities are feeling threatened by federal crackdowns on illegal immi- gration. Police body cameras, he said, have gained popularity in recent years as a police accountability measure in the wake of shootings of black and brown men across the country, including the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which gar- nered national attention for the issue. Transforming body cameras from an accountability measure to a surveillance tool would undermine their purpose, Ting said. “Body cameras were really deployed to build trust between law enforcement and communities,” said Ting. “Instead of trust, what you are getting is 24/7 surveillance.”

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dramatic decreases as the state’s climate policies phase in over time. The inventory does not capture wildfire emissions, which al- most certainly increased with the series of large wild- fires that devastated parts of California over the last couple of years. One of California’s big- gest challenges is cutting carbon pollution from cars, trucks and other transportation sources at a time when state officials are bat- tling the Trump administration over its plan to weaken fuel economy standards and revoke California’s power to set its own, stricter rules. Those planned rollbacks — combined with increased driving, a consumer trend toward roomier, less-fuel-ef- ficient SUVs and a slower- than-anticipated switch to electric models — will only make it more difficult to re- duce those emissions. Dave Edwards, an assist-

the economy, such as transportation and industry. Emissions in those sectors are flat or even ticking upward, despite California’s nation-leading climate policies. The 9% decline in greenhouse gases from electricity generation was the largest of any sector tracked in the report. “These zero-GHG emissions fuels are supplanting a continually larger part of the petroleum and coal market,” said Dave Clegern, an Air Resources Board spokes- man. “And those are good trends that will see us through for some time.” But the news wasn’t so good for the climate in other sectors, including industry, where emissions remained essentially flat. Transportation pollution, which has been creep- ing stubbornly upward in recent years, continued to climb — though at a slower rate of 1% annually. The transportation sector remains California’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for about 40% of the state’s to- tal. Overall, the state re- leased the equivalent of 424 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2017, marking the second year in a row that planet-warming pollution was below the limit of 431 million metric tons the state must meet by 2020. Reduc- tions in 2017 slowed down over the year before — with

greenhouse gas emissions falling 1.2% in 2017 compared with 2.8% in 2016. That won’t be enough for the state to reach its more ambitious goal to slash greenhouse gas emissions an additional 40% by 2030. “The pace has got to pick up significantly in the com- ing years if we’re going to get to meet the 2030 goal,” said Danny Cullenward, policy director at climate change think tank Near Zero and a researcher at Stanford Law School. “It has to be about 21 ⁄ 2 times what we saw in this year’s data.” It’s a similar dynamic to last year, when regulators announced the state had hit its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels four years early. “Once again, for another year running, nearly everything that’s positive in the headline number is from the electricity sector,” Cullen- ward said. “No other sector is making major contributions, and a couple are headed in the opposite direction.” State officials, for their part, heralded the latest numbers as more evidence that you can cut pollution while growing the economy. California’s GDP increased by 3.6% between 2016 and 2017. “California is proving that smart climate policies are good for our economy and good for the planet,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “As the Trump

administration attempts to obliterate national climate protections, California will continue advancing the cause of American climate leadership.” Air quality officials said they hoped other areas of the economy would follow in the footsteps of power generation, showing more

ant division chief at the Air Resources Board who over- sees the greenhouse gas emissions inventory, said the 1% increase in transportation pollution in 2017 is a notable improvement from a few years ago, when the sector was growing by about 3% or 4% annually. “So something externally is causing the amount of emissions to not grow as quickly,” he said. “We are hoping it’s our policies,” but added: “We don’t speculate.” Transportation remains “the big gorilla for our emissions going forward,” said Alex Jackson, a senior attor- ney for the Natural Re- sources Defense Council. “It’s still below pre-recession levels but it’s trending in the wrong direction.” Still, Jackson sees rea- sons for hope. He pointed to other state data showing gasoline and diesel sales were down in 2018 relative to 2017, which could be an early

sign that car and truck emissions may have peaked. Still, he cautioned against placing too much significance in year-over- year changes in greenhouse gas emissions because they can be heavily influenced by weather, including more rain in 2017that increased the state’s use of hydroelec- tric power. Just as it would be a mistake to declare suc- cess based on one big hydro- electric year, he said, “it would be a mistake to see an increase in electricity emissions next year then be in a panic that California’s pro- grams are failing.” “The big picture here is that a large economy is still bending down its emissions without sacrificing its econ- omic growth, and that’s further proof that those are not in conflict,” Jackson said. “Still, the numbers are so- bering in terms of the enor- mity of the challenge that lies ahead.”

State report

on emissions

shows gains

in renewables

THE NEW REPORTfrom the state Air Resources Board inventory shows that gains from the electricity sector is making up for more lackluster areas of the economy, such as transportation and industry.

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‘Once again ...

nearly everything

that’s positive in

the headline

number is from

the electricity

sector.’

—Danny Cullenward, policy director at climate change think tank Near Zero

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