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Wednesday, July 25, 2012 – Daily News FEATURES Questions about wig lead to embarrassment attractive female who began experi- encing thinning hair in my late 20s due to a thyroid disorder. Many women have the confidence to accept their hair loss and do nothing to hide it. I admire that. However, for me, it contributes to embarrass- ment, low self-esteem and a lack of confidence. Dear Annie: I am an 30-something wigs several years ago, I could only afford synthetics, but found some affordable, realistic ones. The problem? There have been a handful of times when peo- ple — namely co-workers and guests at social gatherings — have come right out and asked me, in the company of others no less, whether I wear a wig. Their tactlessness never fails to stun me, and the only response I can muster is, ''Why do you ask?'' The most common response is, ''It always looks too perfect.'' When I started wearing More appalling is when people touch or tug on my hair without my permission to ''see if it's real.'' Sometimes people ask where I get my hair done, which I know is an attempt to find out whether I wear a wig. I fear that one day someone will pull it off. I don't like to lie, so I usually change the subject or act distracted. I have perused hair loss forums on the Internet for advice and have found that many women are very Hike and Swim. We'll drive to a wild swimming location within an hour of Chico, hike in a mile or two, have our lunch and overcome August's heat by diving into a wild stream or lake, a spot that is easy swimming and has shade. We'll meet at the Chico Park N Ride at 9 a.m. and return before 5 p.m. The specific location will be decided in August. Call leader, John at 872-8258. •Monday-Saturday, Aug. 13-18 Pacific Crest Trail Maintenance, Etna Summit Area. Join the Pacific Crest Trail Assn. as they do trail work north of Etna Summit in the Kla- math National Forest at 6000-7000 feet. Fairly strenuous, beginning with The Sierra Club, Yahi Group, is hosting the fol- lowing events for August: • Sunday, Aug.12 - open about it as a means to educate others. I'm not like that. My experience has been painful and personal. Other than my doctor, I never have admitted to any- one that I wear a wig. It's no one's business. Annie's Mailbox by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar sal nerve. Even if your wig is more obvious than you think, it does not excuse such terrible behavior. We know you don't want to disclose your hair loss, but it might be quite liberating and certainly would put an end to the anxiety you are expe- riencing over discovery. Until then, however, feel free to respond to these idiots with wide eyes and a shocked expression, saying, ''I'm sure you didn't intend to be so rude.'' Then walk away. Dear Annie: My son is getting married, and my husband and I are paying for the rehearsal dinner. My mother is adamant that all out-of- town guests be invited. My son and his fiancee prefer to Dear Wigged Out: What colos- keep the guest list to the wedding party, parents and grandparents. Otherwise it risks becoming too large. And if we include out-of- towners from our side, we also have to include those from the bride's side. a 5 mile backpack in to the base camp and two miles each day to do trail main- tenance and brush work. No prior experience neces- sary, but you must be in good physical shape and have some backcountry experience. No fees and all meals provided. Contact: Merrit Hoeh at 916-285- 1838 or volunteer@pcta.org. • Aug. 17-19 - Clair Why on earth are these people so fixated on my hair? How do I respond to these intrusive, thoughtless and insensitive people with- out raising any fuss? — Wigged Out in the U.S.A. out-of-town guests to the rehearsal dinner? Could we invite only some of them? — Rehearsal Blues Dear Blues: If there are large numbers of out-of-town guests, you do not need to invite them to the rehearsal dinner, although you should provide some type of refreshment when they arrive, either in their hotel rooms or by way of a hospitality suite. If there are people traveling a great distance who are special to the family, you may invite them individually, but we don't rec- ommend including most of the groom's side and none of the bride's. Is it normal protocol to invite Dear Annie: As for egregious etiquette errors, how's this one? At the end of a wedding shower, a guest who had brought no gift stood up and said, ''I am giving a special gift to the bride: She doesn't need to send anyone here a thank-you note.'' acknowledgement for our generous present. — Miffed Guest Dear Miffed: How charming. A smart bride would have ignored that ''gift.'' And we never received any Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Sierra Club, Yahi Group activities opt for a one-day fee of $50 for Saturday only. The fee covers all of the Satur- day activities and meals, just not overnight lodging. See the Lodge web page at http://www.ctl.sierra- club.org/ for directions and click on Activities for a current listing of special programs. • Friday, Aug. 24- Tappaan Lodge Eighth Annual Summer Fundrais- er "Into the Woods." This weekend event supports the Lodge as well as its Scholarship Fund for youth groups to participate in the Environmental Edu- cation program held at the Lodge. All are invited and the fee is $155 for all of the activities from Friday afternoon until the Sunday hikes after breakfast and your bag lunch. Or you can Spring 2013 open Aug. 1-31 California State University, Chico is pleased to offer admission for the spring 2013 semester. Beginning Aug. 1, CSU, Chico is one of nine CSU campuses that will accept applications for spring 2013 from applicants who complete an Associate Degree for Transfer (AA-T or AS-T), made possible by the passage of Senate Bill 1440. In addition, CSU, Chico will accept applications from fully eligible upper-division transfers from the University's six local community college partners, out-of-state transfers and international students. The Office of Graduate Studies will open to a limited number of graduate programs and to credential students. CSU, Chico admissions for www.csumentor.edu. The deadline for graduate students is Sept. 15. Students must apply no later than Aug. 31 at midnight at lower-division transfer students for the spring 2013 applica- tion cycle. Admissions will be closed to first-time freshmen and "In spite of the state budget uncertainty, we are pleased that we will be able to offer admission to a substantial num- ber of students this spring," said Allan Bee, director of Admissions. "We expect to enroll between 650-750 new students, and we know that a substantial proportion will be those students who have completed all their pre-requisites at a community college in the North State and need some- where to continue their education." Bee said CSU, Chico's enrollment target for the 2012-13 academic year is 15,859 students, which is unchanged from the prior year. For more information, call the Office of Admissions at 898-6322. Pollinator nature hike In celebration of pollinators, the Klamath National For- est is sponsoring an outing to observe pollinators that occur in local mountains. You are invited to join botanists and biologists for inter- esting field presentations about local avian and insect species that play an important role in pollination. Two short and easy hikes to observe hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and native plants of high elevation meadows of the south Scott Valley will depart from Kangaroo Lake Campground at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 28. The day will include discussions on pollinator life histo- ries, the state of pollinators in our area, and things that you can do to help conserve these important species. Meet at the Kangaroo Lake Campground parking lot and wear light hiking boots, bring binoculars, cameras, water and plenty of snacks. For more information, call 468-5351 or visit http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/. Monday, Aug. 27 – Lakes Basin Car Camp. Spend a fun weekend with us in hiker's paradise and see the stunning, glacier- carved Lakes Basin area near Graeagle. We will camp at the Lakes Basin Campground starting on Friday and stay though Monday morning. Great optional hikes each day to the top of Mt. Elwell, Bear, Cub and Little Bear Lakes, the Sierra Buttes, up to the PCT and to Gold Lake and Long Lake. Campground has concrete swimming hole, so bring your swimsuit. About a 120 mile drive from Chico off the Gold Lake High- way. Limited space. Email or call leader to reserve a space and pay for camp- site. Cost $18 per person for the three nights payable in advance. Leader: Alan, 891-8789 or ajmendoza@prodigy.ne t. TOR K: For years I've endured stom- ach pain after every meal. My doctor finally diagnosed me with intestinal angina. I've never even heard of this. DEAR DOC- ER: You've proba- bly heard of car- diac angina. That's when cholesterol-filled plaque in the heart's arteries lim- its blood flow to a part of your heart muscle. Typically, cardiac angi- na occurs when a person starts to exert himself, not at rest. Halfway up several flights of stairs, a squeez- ing pain may start in the middle of your chest. It goes away when you stop climbing the stairs. The cardiac angina occurs with exertion because the heart is working harder and isn't getting the blood supply it needs. It's the same thing with intestinal angina. When you eat, your stomach and intestines stop resting and start to work. The wall of your intestines contains muscle that squeezes the food you've eaten and keeps it moving. If you have DEAR READ- Unless otherwise noted, trips are free and open to the public and begin at the trailhead. If you have any questions or want further information about specific activities please contact Wayland Augur at 530- 519-4724 or email wba@acm.org. For more information on all events visit http://www.motherlode.sie rraclub.org/yahi/outing.ht m. plaque in the arteries that supply blood to your intestine, the intestinal muscle — like the heart muscle — will start to "complain" that it isn't getting enough blood to work harder. Your digestive system normally gets about one- quarter of the blood pumped out by your heart. After you eat, blood flow to the stomach and intestines almost doubles. In a healthy person, the digestive system handles this without missing a beat. It's a different story when plaque causes severe narrowing in one or more of the major arteries supplying your gut. The mismatch in blood supply and demand can cause sharp abdominal pain after meals. It can also lead to diarrhea, nausea or vomiting after meals. cholesterol-filled 3B Intestinal angina is a wake-up call Dr. K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. much as is done for nar- rowed arteries of the heart. Angioplasty enables doc- tors to open narrowed arteries with special instruments carrying inflatable balloons. Stents are tiny metal mesh tubes placed in the arteries to help keep them open. Not only can the gut, These symptoms are the gut's ver- sion of angina. Thus the name: intestinal angina. T reating intestinal angina requires restoring blood flow to the intestines. Many doctors do this with an angioplas- ty plus a stent, like the heart, have angi- na; it can also experience its own version of a heart attack. If blood flow through an intestinal artery becomes complete- ly blocked, intestinal tis- sue downstream from the blockage becomes deplet- ed of oxygen and begins to die. Such blockages can permanently damage the intestines and even lead to death. Doctors usually treat sudden blockage of an intestinal artery with emergency surgery. Dur- ing surgery, doctors restore blood flow to the intestines and remove sec- tions of the intestine that are dead or dying. Intestinal angina is not a common cause of abdominal pain with meals. Much more com- mon, for example, is gas- trointestinal reflux disease (GERD) or ulcers of the stomach or intestine. But it does occur, as it appar- ently has in you. Like car- diac angina, intestinal angina is a wake-up call: It now is really important that you adopt a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115. One Less Spark campaign The Shasta-Trinity National Forest, in cooper- ation with Caltrans, Cal- Fire, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the Cali- fornia Fire Safe Council, is beginning the "One Less Spark-One Less Wildfire" campaign. The campaign is beginning in the Redding area because the idea began with Mark Thibideau, a Forest Service Fire Preven- tion Technician working for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. In the next few weeks, fire and trans- portation officials will be visiting highway rest areas, truck stops, tire stores and recreation areas and busi- nesses to distribute infor- mation. vehicle-caused wildfires, the campaign is based in part on prevention research done by the Forest Service Research Station and the Centers for Disease Con- trol. Designed to prevent try. "We have identified a handful of easy steps motorists can take to make sure they are not responsi- ble for starting a fire," Thibideau said. "This pub- lic information campaign should allow us to quickly inform a lot of people how they can help keep the pub- lic and firefighters safe and themselves free from the legal and financial hard- ships often associated with starting a wildfire. These are straightforward steps that don't take a lot of time or money to accomplish. With the simple measures of keeping tow chains or exhaust systems from dragging, driving with cor- rectly inflated tires, and not parking near dry vegeta- tion, drivers can join us in the 'One Less Spark-One Less Wildfire' fire preven- tion effort." For more information on being prepared for wild- fire, visit www.readyfor- wildfire.org/. "With the exception of equipment fires, vehicles cause more wildfires in California than any other cause and yet they are among the easiest for peo- ple to prevent," said Ron Hodgson, USDA Forest Service Fire Prevention coordinator. These fires are a Nation- al concern. Even prior to its public debut the 'One Less Spark-One Less Wildfire' effort has already attracted attention from other States. The campagain is starting in the Redding area, but is expected to quickly spread to other parts of the coun-