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Thursday, November 24, 2011 – Daily News 5A Death Notices William Duane Glines, Jr. William Duane Glines, Jr., of Red Bluff died Satur- day, Nov. 19, 2011, at Mercy Medical Center in Red Bluff. He was 68. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Nona I. Long Nona I. Long of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 at Mercy Medical Center. She was 100. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CUP Continued from page 1A see the cups and opened the lids to find a metham- phetamine pipe in one and about 1.2 grams of methamphetamine in the other, as well as four Oxy- codone pills and one Levi- tra pill, for which neither SPRAY Continued from page 1A licly said she was horrified when she watched videos of a police officer casually spraying protesters who refused orders to disperse. During Tuesday's meeting with about 1,000 stu- dents, Katehi said she had only directed police to take down tents that anti-Wall Street protesters had erected on the campus quad. ''My instructions were for no arrests and no police force,'' she said. ''I explicitly directed the chief of police that violence should be avoided at all costs.'' Katehi said students have a right to protest peaceful- ly, but the university bans camping on campus because of safety and health concerns. Occupy UC Davis protesters have ignored the camp- ing ban. The encampment went back up Monday night, and campus officials said it included as many as 80 tents Wednesday. Born in 1954, Katehi studied electrical engineering at National Technical University of Athens, the site of a brutal crackdown on student protesters that left a deep impression on the future chancellor. At Monday's campus protest, she said, ''There is a plaque out there that speaks about the 17th of Novem- ber of 1973. And I was there and I don't want to forget that.'' After college, Katehi came to the United States for graduate school and earned her master's and doctorate in electrical engineering at UCLA before becoming a professor and administrator at the University of Michi- gan, Ann Arbor, and Purdue University. In 2006, Katehi joined the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she served as provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs when the school was embroiled in an admissions scandal in which polit- ically connected applicants got preferential treatment. She denied wrongdoing and was not called to testify in a state investigation. When she was named UC Davis chancellor in 2009, the Board of Regents was criticized for paying her a salary of $400,000, nearly 27 percent higher than her predecessor when the university was facing severe bud- get cuts that led to sharp tuition increases and employee furloughs. Since then, Katehi has spearheaded a major fundraising campaign, overseen the opening of an environmentally friendly campus development and launched plans to add 5,000 more students by 2020. Now her ambitious plans for her campus are threatened by the pepper-spraying incident. Eleven students were hit by pepper spray, including two who were treated at a hos- pital and later released, university officials said. Many faculty members say it's time for Katehi to step down. The UC Davis Faculty Association's board called for her resignation, saying in a letter there had been a ''gross failure of leadership.'' The school's student government passed a resolution calling on the state attorney general to investigate Friday's incident and for Katehi to resign if she fails to enact reforms. And at a huge campus demonstration Monday, some students yelled at Katehi as she walked off the stage, telling her to step down as down as chancellor. Katehi has no plans to resign and continues to have the full support of UC President Mark Yudof, UC spokes- woman Dianne Klein said. Ralph Hexter, UC Davis provost and executive vice chancellor, said Katehi, who is married with two grown children, feels terrible about what happened and finds the pepper-spraying images appalling. ''It's deeply distressing to her that now this is what many people think of UC Davis at the moment,'' Hexter said. ''It is deeply painful to her that she has been labeled an opponent of students because that's not what she is.'' Some faculty members say they still support Katehi. In a letter to the student newspaper, a group of UC Davis sci- entists and engineers wrote: ''Pleas for her resignation are short-sighted . Although not all of her policies have been popular, she has carried out her position with marked pro- fessionalism.'' Asked what she plans to do moving forward, Katehi said at Tuesday's town hall: ''I need as a chancellor to spend a lot more time with the students.'' suspect had a prescription. Both were arrested on charges of possession and transportation of a con- trolled substance, posses- sion and transportation of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia. Garwood and Short are being held in lieu of $83,000 bail each. -Andrea Wagner STARS Continued from page 1A light pollution was so bad, but when we moved up here that all changed." The first time Simons saw the Milky Way from the foothills west of Red Bluff against the dark sky he knew he had found the perfect place for astropho- tography. "It's perfect, absolutely perfect," he said. "The Milky Way looks like someone took a paintbrush and just painted it there." He built a roll-off roof observatory in his back- yard, installed a 10-inch reflector telescope and taught himself how to take astrophotographs. Most of it had to be self-taught, as he did not BLACK Continued from page 1A Shoppers heading to Redding or Chico will probably want to get there before the midnight opening of Best Buy, Target, Khols, Old Navy and the Mt. Shasta Mall. Still, some stores won't be cash- ing in on the magic hour, choosing to stick to the more traditional Black Friday opening. Sears will open at 4 a.m., Home Depot at 5 a.m., Radio Shack at 5:30 a.m. and Staples at 6 a.m. Friday. Doors to the Chico Mall will open at 5 a.m. Friday. Up to 152 million shoppers plan to hit the stores or shop online this weekend, between Friday to Sun- day, which is up from the 138 mil- lion people who planned to do so last year, according to a National Retail Federation survey. know anyone else who was doing this at the time, he said. "It took a while but I got all the tools I needed," Simons said. "A lot of it was by trial and error, but I stuck with it and it's been a lot of fun." Astrophotography is a very technical hobby and requires a combination of having the right telescope and guide system, special cooled digital cameras, image collection software and image processing skills in Photoshop, he said. It takes more than a sin- gle snapshot to capture an object. A typical image is made up of many long exposures, usually 20 to 30 images at 10 to 20 min- utes per image. The images are then combined, or "stacked," using special software, and then several hours are spent in Photo- shop to bring out the faint detail and color in the image. Most deep space object images can only be seen by long exposure photog- raphy. They are much too faint to be seen with the eye in small or even medi- um size telescopes, he said. "Anyone can learn to take astrophotos," Simons said. "The reward is a win- dow into the cosmos that few people have a chance to see first hand." Simons said he knows only one other person in the area who shares the same interest and would like to meet others if they are out there. He would eventually like to start a Not all of shoppers will be head- ing to big box retailers though. The Small Business Saturday trend is catching on, and many local businesses plan to participate in the second annual nationwide event by staying open this Saturday. People are wanting to support local shops, said Jessie Woods, owner of Gold Exchange in Down- town Red Bluff. What normally happens is people will hit up the big retailers early and then come back to shop downtown. "I don't usually get a lot of busi- ness until 2 or so," Woods said. Two shopping trends happening this year that are making people turn to local shops are gift cards and ser- vice oriented gift certificates. Whether it's gift certificates for an oil change or a massage, people realize they can get those services locally. Plans by big retailers to open their doors earlier won't deter peo- group for enthusiasts and is open to giving presenta- tions to anyone who wants to know more about astronomy or astrophotog- raphy. "Astrophotography pro- vides a great learning experience that never stops and helps us put our small Earth in perspective with the rest of the uni- verse," he said. His portfolio of high resolution images can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/ds opics/sets. Anyone interested in astronomy can send an email to Simons at brentsmns@gmail.com. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. ple from shopping the small stores. In fact, Walmart's plan to start sales on Thanksgiving could backfire, Woods said. The people she has talked to say they won't go because it takes away from their holiday time, she said. People in Red Bluff value family time, and people are catching on to shopping local. "Stores that do this, they keep pushing it back and pretty soon it's going to be on Thanksgiving morn- ing," Woods said. "But our local community doesn't participate in that." So whether it's staying up for doorbuster deals or sleeping in and indulging in an afternoon of down- town shopping, setting the alarm clock won't be necessary this week- end. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527- 2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, can be an enticing option for holiday shoppers seeking to avoid the crowds, but the Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to be extra careful when seeking deals. According to a preliminary survey conducted for the National Retail Federation by BIGresearch, up to 152 million people plan to shop Black Friday weekend (Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday). With those numbers, shop- ping from home can be an enticing avenue. However, this option is also appealing to identity thieves and scammers. "Online shopping typically generates many com- plaints logged with the BBB," said Gary Almond, pres- ident of BBB serving Northeast California. "Take the necessary precautions to avoid fraudulent websites, scammers and other Grinches who would love to ruin your holidays." BBB recommends the following tips for shopping online this holiday season to help fight unscrupulous retailers, scammers and hackers: • Protect your computer –Always have the most recent updates installed for anti-spyware software. • Shop on trustworthy websites – Shoppers should start at www.bbb.org to check on the seller's record for customer satisfaction or run a search engine check for reviews of a business. • Protect your personal information – Read the site's privacy policy and understand how personal informa- tion will be used. If there isn't one posted, be wary that personal information may be sold to others without per- mission. BBB urges cautious spending on Cyber Monday • Beware of deals that sound too good to be true – Watch for extremely low prices on hard-to-get items. Consumers should pass up a "deals" that may cost them in the end. • Confirm your online purchase is secure – Shoppers should always look in the address box for the "s" in https:// and in the lower-right corner for the "lock" symbol before paying. If there are any doubts about a site, right-click and select "Properties." This will reveal if the site is not encrypted. • Pay with a credit card –You can dispute the charges if you don't receive the item. Dispute rights also exist if there are unauthorized charges. When shopping on classifieds web sites, never wire money and only buy if you can see the item before paying. • Keep documentation of your order – Save a screen shot of all confirmation pages, print out receipts and save confirmation emails. • Check your credit card statements often – Don't wait for paper statements; check credit card statements for suspicious activity by either calling credit card companies or looking at statements online regularly. • Know your rights – Federal law requires that orders made by mail, phone or online be shipped by the date promised or, if no delivery time was stated, within 30 days. If the goods aren't shipped on time, the shopper can cancel and demand a refund. Be familiar with company policies on returns before pur- chasing. For more advice on staying safe online this holiday season, and to see reports on thousands of online retail- ers, go to www.bbb.org/us/consumer-tips-holiday/. Report: Measure would shutter state nuclear plants SACRAMENTO (AP) — A proposed state ballot initiative would force Cali- fornia's two nuclear power plants to shut down, caus- ing electricity rates to jump and possibly resulting in rolling blackouts, accord- ing to a nonpartisan analy- sis. The proposed Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 would require that no nuclear power be generated until the federal government can permanently dispose of high-level nuclear waste. In a report to lawmakers, the legislative analyst's office said the loss of the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon reactors would have an immediate impact on consumers, businesses and governments, the Orange County Register reported Wednesday. The plants provide about 16 per- cent of California's power. ''Because the state's two nuclear facilities are inte- gral parts of the state's elec- tricity grid, their operation is currently necessary to ensure that the state has reliable access to electrici- ty,'' the LAO report said. The initiative has been cleared for circulation, and supporters must gather 504,760 signatures to get the initiative on the Novem- ber ballot, the newspaper said. The deadline is April 16. Southern California Edi- son, which operates San Onofre, has joined with the Nuclear Energy Institute and the National Associa- tion of Regulatory Utility Commissioners to file law- suits against the federal government seeking per- manent storage for nuclear waste. Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the federal government promised to accept and dis- pose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste by Jan. 31, 1998. Nearly 14 years have passed since the deadline. Over 50 years of serving Tehama County Located in Chico, CA Have a news tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net Independently owned Telephone: (530) 824-3792