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The wonder of queen bees: Local scholars study hive habits as bees advance medical research by Kathy Jean Schultz

OPINION

Editorial: Dysfuntion junction Letters Purple is the New Party: Government on strike by Paul Moomjean

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NEWS

Future uncertain: Ventura County feels little impact of federal shutdown, but time could change that by Chris O’Neal Who’s on First: Everybody was Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighting by Chris O’Neal Leadership move: Longtime development director in Ventura heads to Oxnard by Michael Sullivan January storms flood RV park by Chris O’Neal In Brief by Chris O’Neal Planet Ventura: March for rights

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OPINION happening? I hate to lose hope, but is hope still an option?

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hat is going on with city government at 501 Poli Street in Ventura? An ever growing list of former employees continues at the City of Ventura. Many left on their own accord but some were forced out. A sample of who has left in recent years includes: three public works directors, two finance directors, two economic development department heads, two Ventura Water directors, two human resources directors, two city managers, assistant city manager, parks and recreation director, community partnership manager, community development director, transportation manager and a public information officer. Well, on the city manager front, one retired. All others have moved on to greener pastures. Why, you ask? So are we. When it comes to municipal work: good pay, great benefits and retirement, it would seem to attract and keep quality employees and encourage long-term employee retention. But that’s not happening and Venturans want to know why. The continuation of revolving positions points to a systemic problem at city hall and makes running the city harder and less effective. The city is losing talented people and their institutional knowledge on matters big and small. This is especially concerning given the string of longtime department heads now gone with only newcomers in charge. We have heard from former employees over the last couple of years that the city management culture was negative for growth and new ideas, with at least one councilmember blaming that same culture for the reason that leadership, especially former City Manager Mark Watkins, couldn’t properly manage to

Letters Is hope an option?

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VC Reporter Editorial Jan. 3, “Beyond the Superficial” and Power to Speak by Macri-Ortiz on “Gun violence and the Second Amendment. “ So many times I have wondered about our Second Amendment to the Constitution and what it really means/meant. And I have wondered equally about all the references to “illegal immigrants” in our media, most especially our print media. I would want to first agree with Ms. Macri-Ortiz’s comments as to what our founding fathers meant by “a wellregulated militia” as I have always wondered if the individuals found with many weapons in their homes are to be considered “militia.” I doubt it, but since the Constitution is the Law of the Land, and since it was written over 200 years ago by those who are no longer around to explain or defend it, we are kinda stuck, aren’t we? (The NRA notwithstanding.) But now, how about all of those “illegals” we are always screaming about? If someone is shot by an illegal immigrant, the headline reads: “ILLEGAL IMIGRANT kills ….” The caps are not mine, but the publication

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get the city moving full speed ahead. There seems to be a glitch in the system, but who is the wizard behind the curtain pulling these strings? It appears to us to be less about the administrative management and more about a few elected officials directing the show on a micro level without accountability for the city’s failings. Pay attention to the common denominators on City Council who have remained as leadership waned. The city of Ventura is still dealing with the aftermath of the Thomas fire, the potential for and actual flooding, increasing homeless and crime issues and a dwindling commercial district that is not being addressed. The city seems to lack vision for its 110,000+ residents. From our conversations, it’s boiling down to the vision from a few councilmembers who have an agenda and a lack transparency about their true purpose in guiding the city, City Hall and its culture. Alex McIntyre, the new city manager, has his work cut out for himself. Whether he takes a leadership role as Rick Cole did before he became persona non grata or if he leans back as Mark Watkins did before he retired remains to be seen. Whether the new faces on the council provide a new vision and contest the status quo of the old guard also remains an unanswered question. And whether Matt LaVere, Ventura’s new mayor, steps up to deliver the change platform he ran on also remains to be seen. City residents will be watching and we’ll be continuing to ask the questions that are important in the future. The buck stops with the City Council and they need to be held accountable.

in which they appear, and usually in large bold letters. You would never see “WHITE CITIZEN kills….” Nah. Those are too common and nobody is really interested. The orange face in our White House loves those all bold capped headlines because it feeds into his message which is: People of color don’t belong in OUR (white people) country! I had the figures but lost them, but the fact is that even though our prisons are filled with people of color, our crimes are equally committed by — what? Albinos? I understand that virtually everyone, pro and con the orange face, knows exactly what is going on, knows that since orange face was elected, racism and racist crimes have escalated, most especially the mass shootings. How I wonder do our teachers discuss this in the classroom? Do they point fingers at the “aliens” who have infested our county? Do they discuss the mental illness and/or racist practices behind such crimes? And what are our children taking away from all of this? Do they think that guns make men bigger and stronger? More right? Are “white people” better than the “others”? Are we going to see some kind of intelligent conversation take place anytime soon? Not just accusations, but explanations. Of course, how is it possible for anyone to explain in a rational way how and why these things are

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God fearing or godless Re: Gun violence epidemic and the Second Amendment by Barbara Marci-Ortiz in Jan 3rd edition. There is no way to encapsulate the scope and purpose of the Second Amendment into Barbara’s article. Although the writer only contrasts this part of the Bill of Rights with criminal godless acts, which does not condemn the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment was never intended to be a support for criminals. The Second Amendment was also not intended to be an asset to the federal government. The Bill of Rights is for the citizens. The writer states, “Now how did we get from the Second Amendment to where we are today?” And then lists the NRA and gun manufacturers as the culprits in nightmarish gun crimes. It’s more accurate to ask how do people get so heartless and angry that they even plot and then carry-out a horrifying rampage? NRA members, with all their training, practice and knowledge, wouldn’t even point an unloaded firearm at another person! Gun manufacturers explicitly write in owner’s manuals how to safely handle their firearms, with diagrams! Should we ask what the mental and spiritual makeup of these cold individuals is? To me it seems that people get to the point of wanting to carry out horrific crimes by several negative influences on their hearts and minds. We are all equally saddened by senseless killing with firearms. Unfortunately, these individuals carefully plan their evil deeds and are selective in where to carry it out. But notice that some locations are avoided by these disturbed individuals. In closing, keep in mind that there is a big difference between God fearing Americans and godless individuals.

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Government on strike by Paul Moomjean

on taxable income $1,000,001 or more. Raising taxes on people making $50,000 a year is not the answer, but perhaps a sales tax on alcohol, weed rom the West Coast to the East Coast, and guns allocated toward schools could help. the government is failing its people. Meanwhile, Trump continues to hold AmerFrom teacher unions and school ica hostage. There is no way that the trifecta of districts in Los Angeles to the highTrump, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell will est office in the land led by President Donald solve this game of chicken. Which is a shame, Trump, people’s lives are being held hostage because government employees, TSA workers while shutdowns and strikes populate the news and other groups such as NASA are not collectand affect the way in which everyday citizens ing checks. If the American people had a “shutlive. The answer cannot be to just stop working. down” by not paying taxes, no president would That is how a baby responds in the supermarsalute them; they’d throw them in jail. ket after not getting his or her way. They just McKay Coppins of The Atlantic states that sit on the floor and whine until they get their only a complete breakdown can fix this: “For a candy. What makes the shutdowns and strikes deal to shake loose in this environment, it may so frustrating is that the victims have no way require a failure of government so dramatic, to strike or shutdown in retaliation, or they’d trying to get scholarships through basketball, From where this funding will come is any- so shocking, as to galvanize public outrage and be arrested, proving that our republic is not as wrestling and soccer. AD one’s I think a tax that allocates for force the two parties back to the negotiating AD guess. PROOF even as we might want to believe. “Kids are going to be on their own, which is specific educational needs would work on most table.” I was a school teacher on and off for nine Client:who Salzers Ad Executive: Dave not good,” saidDave Rick Hayashida, coaches(805) voters, but in Chicago, where strikes are being Conservatives cry forStephens a smaller government.(805) 6 nd Packers Stephens 648-2244 years and a wrestling coach for 16 years in Ad both Executive: football and track at Chatsworth Charter High considered, the Chicago Teacher’sallUnion has Liberals cry for awill government to fund as much Please check this proof over carefully and indicate corrections clearly. You have a “1st Proof”, “2nd Proo his proofVentura over carefully and all corrections clearly. You will have a “1st Proof”, “2ndaProof”, and County and theindicate Los Angeles City SecSchool. “The kids in athletics putProof”. in extra time different approach. “Where willorthe money asAD possible. Right now, we If ironically have a “Final If we receive no proof after the 1st 2nd Proofs, WILL RUN AS IS. this proof meets your If we receive proofcame afterfirst, theand 1st they or 2nd Proofs, ADit’sWILL RUN AS IS. If this proof meets your approval tion. Myno students knew it. and not fair to them.”on the 1st proof, check come from? Rich people,” CTU Vice President smaller government and the people who are off “FINAL PROOF (APPROVED)” box, date and sign at the bottom. oof, check off “FINAL (APPROVED)” box, date and sign at the bottom. Whenever therePROOF was talk of a strike, I always At the core is the funding for student resourc- Stacy Davis Gates said. relying on it are being hurt financially and eduhad the same response: If teachers can strike NOTICE: FAXWhile THIS PROOF TOis(805) ASAP . If the government’s job is to protect,ISSUE: 1/24/19 EASE FAX THIS PROOF TO (805) 648-2245 ASAP es, not raises. CNN reports, “WhilePLEASE teachersISSUE: taxing the rich easy for648-2245 many to cationally for better conditions, shouldn’t students be able demand millions more dollars in school fund- say, sadly, governments view the middle class it’s doing a poor job. If we, the people, must keep to strike for better teachers? If the ability to ing, the Los Angeles Unified School District said as rich. California’s income tax is broken down moving on, despite harsh circumstances, so demand better conditions only goes one way, it has already lost $97 million during the strike. like so: 9.55 percent on taxable income between should those we trust to take care of us. ♦ then the system is rigged. While I feel great That’s because the state funds schools based on $47,056 and $1 million and then 10.55 percent

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sympathy for teachers who have 50 students (grading is never ending), I also know that teachers can curve the class to meet their curriculum needs. Right now, the students I feel bad for are the AP students losing valuable prep time before the May exams and athletes who are

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daily attendance, and the number of kids going to school has plunged during the strike. On Thursday (1/17/19), for example, about 84,000 of the district’s 600,000 students went to school, LAUSD said. That’s a 37 percent drop in attendance from Wednesday (1/16/19).”

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Ventura County feels little impact of federal shutdown, but time could change that by Chris O’Neal chris@vcreporter.com n Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018, the federal government came to a stand-still. Well, partially. After failing to come to an agreement regarding President Donald Trump’s request for over $5 billion to fund a border wall along the U.S. and Mexico border, both the House Democrats, Senate Republicans and Trump left negotiations with no deal. As of the morning of Jan. 23, the shutdown persists. Nationally, 800,000 federal employees have gone without a paycheck for weeks. Employees of the Transportation Security Administration have called out sick or refused to appear, causing long lines and disruptions at airports and forcing food banks to cater to the out-of-work employees who have begun resorting to savings and credit cards to pay bills. Locally, the most impacted employees work in the leisure and hospitality sector, says Matthew Fienup, executive director of the Center of Economic Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University. “My intuition is that the economic impact is relatively minor,” said Fienup. “When you think about the Ventura County economy, about 25 percent of economic output is durable and non-durable manufacturing, we have very little food handling and other areas that might be impacted by government inspectors being off work, and then we have a large defense sector but that’s fully funded.” Fienup says that even though the impact might not be apparent, he finds it compelling to discuss the economic hardship families of federal employees might be undertaking. “You might see it in the adventure travel industry, might see it among the National Park Service employees who missed a paycheck,” said Fienup. “I have no doubt there’s a compelling story there.” Cherryl Connally, co-owner of Island Packers at the Ventura Harbor, says “we’re doing just fine” and that over the past 50 years, her business has weathered several government shutdowns. “It has not affected our business, it’s generally slow in January anyway, but we keep emphasizing that we’re open so people don’t forget,” said Connally. “People think the parks are closed.” During the first few weeks of the shutdown, Island Packers cleaned the bathrooms at both Scorpion Anchorage and Prisoners Harbor on Santa Cruz Island and on Anacapa Island, but Connally says that now park services are handling the bathrooms and that Island Packers has partnered with Channel Islands Adventure

Planet Ventura MARCH FOR RIGHTS

everal hundred attended Women Leading the Wave March in Downtown Ventura, Jan. 16, as an ongoing pushback to President Donald Trump’s policies to dismantle the importance of health care, women’s rights, minority issues, etc., and to show unity and support for women in politics. Such protests began following Election Day 2016.

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Company to keep the facilities clean as well. With the shutdown continuing with no end in sight, however, locales that rely on tourism dollars across the country are signaling trouble. Funding for the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, has lapsed, forcing closure of national parks in our own backyard, including Joshua Tree National Park, which closed after reports of widespread damage to the park’s namesake trees. Even closer, 80 percent of Los Padres National Forest employees are furloughed, while the rest work without pay to maintain cleanliness and act as minimal law and fire enforcement, according to a report by KEYT in early January. Connally, however, maintains a positive outlook. “Everything’s fine, business is OK, weather is always an issue this time of year. Fortunately it’s whale watching season right now,” said Connally. “No one’s fighting over campgrounds, everyone is working together well.” Miguel Delgado Helleseter, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Global Economic Research at California State University, Channel Islands, says that the real toll on Ventura County is hard to know beyond anecdotal evidence. “In general, with publicly available statistics, the flow of information is fairly slow, so it could be months before we can actually observe any effects by looking at publicly available data,” said Helleseter. Helleseter says that about 4 percent of the Oxnard-Ventura metro area’s GDP is generated by federal civilian and military sectors, but considering that the shutdown is partial and not complete, the effect on goods and services “will probably be small,” depending on how long the shutdown lasts, adding that approximately 45,000 federal workers in the state are furloughed or working without pay and they are the ones who will be most impacted by the shutdown. Should the shutdown continue — for months or even years, as President Donald Trump has made clear is a possibility — Helleseter says that the impacts would become more apparent, both economically and in terms of trust in the government. “I would expect uncertainty to be one of the biggest impacts of the shutdown, both locally and nationally,” said Helleseter, adding that the shutdown may have an “erosive effect” on confidence in businesses and consumers. “One important question, both locally and nationally, is what the capacity is in the private sector to both react to and accommodate dysfunction in the government. Unfortunately dysfunction at the federal government level appears to be ✦ becoming the norm.”

In Brief OPPOSITION TO MORE DRILLING

Of the 8,399 comments the U.S. Bureau of Land Management received regarding oil drilling and fracking in public lands, a majority were opposed, according to a report released by the agency. The Bureau, also known as the BLM, opened a 30-day survey period in August 2018, ending in September, seeking public input on potentially opening up federal land for oil drilling and fracking. According to the report, just 0.2 percent of respondents wrote in favor of oil drilling and fracking. “The BLM report proves what we already know — that residents and businesses throughout the Central Coast are overwhelmingly opposed to drilling and fracking our region’s iconic landscapes,” said Jeff Kuyper, executive director of Los Padres ForestWatch. The idea to open new lands to potential drilling or fracking has been met with stark opposition from environmental groups, Native American tribes, several members of the California legislature, including Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, and Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett, District 1, who penned a letter to the BLM expressing opposition. The BLM will now draft an environmental impact statement with the public comments in mind.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR CAMARILLO, SOMIS STUDENTS

If you’re a graduating senior living in Camarillo, Somis or the Santa Rosa Valley, you could be in line for a $1,000 scholarship, should you be up to penning a piece on the history of your neighborhood. The Stan Daily Scholarship is awarded to the senior who pens the best piece of original research related to the history of the Pleasant Valley area. Past submissions have included pieces on local people, places and events that have taken place in the area. If you don’t know where to start, Pleasant Valley Historical Society members suggest picking their brains for a topic. Members will also provide students with a tour of the museum. Deadline for submissions is April 30. For more information, visit www.pvhsonline.org.

$400,000 IN NEW HOUSING FUNDS

Several local housing authorities have partnered to distribute $400,000 in Housing Choice Voucher funds from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Mainstream Voucher Program. The Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura (HACSB) with the Area Housing Authority of the County of Ventura and the Oxnard Housing Authority will be able to help up to 45 families countywide with the funds provided by the federal department. “This partnership among housing agencies is the first of its kind in our region and reflects an ongoing trend of partnership among county and city jurisdictions in Ventura County to combat increasing homeless concerns,” said HACSB’s Chief Executive Officer Denise Wise. “This Housing Authority partnership and competitive grant win contributes significantly to our efforts to provide affordable housing in an increasing costly Ventura rental market for disabled residents.” The HUD Mainstream program funds assist nonelderly persons with disabilities “who are transitioning out of institutional or other separated settings, at serious risk of institutionalization, homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless,” said a release from the HACSB. For more information and to determine eligibility for the program, call 211. — Chris O’Neal

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Longtime development director in Ventura heads to Oxnard

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by Michael Sullivan

f you happened upon a group of jiu-jitsu masters going toe-to-toe earlier this month and wondered if you, too, were soon to be high-kicking your way to safety, fear not: it was the first ever Fuji BJJ National Championship Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament held in Ventura. On Jan. 11, 350 competitors gathered at Buena High School to compete in the annual tournament pitting California Central Coast jiu-jitsu teams against each other in a fight to determine the best of the best. Local academy Paragon Brazilian Jiu Jitsu took top honors via Black Belt Ricardo “Franjinha” Miller, who took first place in the team division. In second, Ventura-based 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu, and third, Morumbi Jiu Jitsu & Fitness Academy, which has locations in Ventura and Thousand Oaks.

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xnard City Manager Alex Nguyen announced on Jan. 22 that Jeffrey Lambert will be Oxnard’s new Development Services Director, starting Feb. 4. Lambert had been placed on “leave” as Ventura’s Community Development Director on Jan. 16, having held the position since 2009. “I’ve had a really good run in JEFFREY LAMBERT Ventura,” Lambert said. “I am proud of my accomplishments and the community development team and what we have done to transform [the city]. I am really excited about the challenges and opportunities” ahead in Oxnard. While his new salary and benefits have not been made public, Lambert said he will be receiving better compensation. ALEX NGUYEN In his role in Oxnard as Development Services Manager, he will oversee planning,

building and code enforcement, similar to his role in Ventura, but also discussed the opportunity to look into economic development as well, after some reorganizing within the city. In the press release announcing Lambert’s appointment, Nguyen stated: “Mr. Lambert is action oriented and is committed to building a strong development team, continuing community engagement, and improving stakeholder partnerships to get things done. Jeff’s experience and leadership will help Oxnard become a more business friendly City; he will jumpstart our planning, building, and permitting processes to make projects easier for builders and homeowners.” The announcement also listed his various accomplishments working for the city, “he played a leadership role in many key accomplishments such as the public/ private partnership with Community Memorial Hospital’s new in-patient facility and parking structure, the Ventura Botanical Gardens, the Amgen tour hosting City, homelessness shelter policy and action, the further development of the City’s historic downtown, and the Thomas Fire recovery and rebuild efforts.” Dave Ward, who served as Ventura’s Planning Manager, is now serving as interim Community Development Director for Ventura. ✦

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Oakwood Communities announced the completion and grand opening of its luxury rental community, The Junction at Wagon Wheel at 2601 Wagon Wheel Road, Oxnard, also known as Oxnard’s “Golden Triangle.” The Junction at Wagon Wheel features an abundance of excellent amenities including large spacious parks, jogging and walking trails, state-of-the-art fitness centers, a six-story parking structure, spacious decorated model homes, an elegantly appointed community room, meandering paseos, plus a vibrant Town Square. The project began in 2013 after years of litigation to try and preserve the iconic Wagon Wheel motel that had deteriorated into disrepair since its heyday in the 1950s. ✦

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entura County received much-needed rain over several weeks with a trio of storms slamming the coast, the last of which rolled through late last week. On Wednesday, Jan. 16, the strongest of three storms arrived around 3 p.m., dumping over six inches of rain in the mountain areas. Santa Paula and Fillmore received 2.04 inches and 2.58 inches respectively, while Ventura received 1.03 inches. Over the week, the rain total surpassed four inches in Ventura, and over eight inches in Matilija Canyon. Though no widespread damage was reported — and fears were escalated, especially in the recent burn areas — certain parts of the county were under mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders including Oak Park and the city of Ventura. The Ventura RV Beach Resort was placed under mandatory evacuation after flood waters accrued, breeching the banks of the Ventura River, forcing campers to leave their belongings behind. Images show submerged vehicles and muddy waters, forcing closure of Main Street in the area. Weather is expected to warm up through the weekend before returning to winter average across Ventura County, though a stormfront could arrive by the first week of February. — Chris O’Neal

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Local scholars study hive habits as bees advance medical research BY KATHY JEAN SCHULTZ

eekeeping has been propelled into hot-topic status because bees are showing up on lists of endangered species. “Honeybee and native bee populations have been declining for a long time now, at least over the last decade,” California State University/Channel Islands Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Ruben Alarcón said in a 2018 press release. He noted that being surrounded by the agriculture industry makes a great environment for studying bee biology. CSUCI has its own bee farm, which Alarcón installed in 2017. Beekeeping skills are a critical tool to fight the currently downward spiral of bee populations. In 2018, CSUCI became the first university in the state to be named a Bee Campus USA. “We can teach students basic beekeeping skills, making CSUCI one of only four CSU campuses to offer such courses,” said Alarcón, who bolstered the requirements necessary to qualify by providing new courses. Beekeeping “firsts” are thriving at California Lutheran University, too. As a CLU undergraduate, Christina Geldert started the CLU Bee Club, the first student-operated honey bee club in the country. Geldert managed bees on campus and helped educate students about their importance as pollinators. Geldert is now a second-year student in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program at Colorado State University. Continuing her habit of starting things up, Geldert founded a Honey Bee Veterinary Medicine Club at CSU — the first ever at a veterinary school in the U.S. The importance of bee populations is highlighted in a recent Stanford Medical School study of queen bee stem cells. “I think that these are really exciting results,” Geldert wrote about the study to the Ventura County Reporter in an email. “As honey bees make their way into translational research, their protection as a species will become even more critical.” Inside a hive, all females are the same when they are larval bees. Then, one female is selected as the queen bee, and she is fed a special diet of royal bee jelly. The jelly nurtures her into becoming the queen bee. The other females get a non-royal diet. Royal bee jelly is made by worker bees, for the sole purpose of developing a queen. As a result, adult queens are larger than the other bees, live longer and are the only fertile ones in the hive. The reason is that a queen’s stem cells can self-renew, but worker bees’ cannot. Just as hair or fingernail cells renew themselves and grow back after being cut, a queen bee’s stem cells are continuously self-renewing. The Stanford researchers found that a special protein within the royal jelly is what causes this. Like nature’s copy machine, this protein causes the queen’s stem cells to make many copies of themselves. And more cells make a bigger queen. Stem cells in larval bees are ready to grow into different body

parts such as adult wings, antennae and more. But royal jelly protein molecules cause a queen bee’s stem cells to keep multiplying themselves, resulting in a larger body size. The protein that fuels this renewal was unknown before the Stanford study. This is where the critical importance of bees comes in. Honey bees are the only organism that can create royal jelly — it cannot be created by humans or mammals. “We were able to identify this molecule by analyzing royal jelly,” said Stanford’s Dr. Kevin Wang. “The honey bee is a fantastic model to study this. These female larvae all start out the same on day zero, but end up with dramatic and lasting differences in size. How does this happen?” Wang and his team wanted to find out. “There is a protein in royal jelly that causes bee stem cells to renew themselves, and this is what causes queen bees to be bigger and to contain more cells than worker bees,” Wang said. This protein had never been observed in any other animal or human stem cells. In a surprising finding, Wang’s team eventually discovered that mammals and humans do have a somewhat similar protein — but scientists have never

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CLU alumna Christina Geldert and Associate Professor of English Bryan Rasmussen inspect a beehive at CLU.

before been able to find it. And it seems to be present in everything “from eels to humans,” Wang said. “Royal jelly literally turns on genes to create a queen out of any fertilized egg, so it makes sense that it allows for a blank canvas, so to speak, to make way for cell differentiation,” CLU alumna Geldert explained. “Within the hive, honey bees have an incredible network of communication and immunity practices that keep the hive healthy and operating effectively. If we can get a better understanding of that network and find the areas of overlap between our species and theirs, I think we will only discover more incredible things that honeybees are capable of doing. This is very promising for both human and veterinary medicine!” Wang’s work was inspired by his curiosity about royal jelly’s ancient reputation as a rejuvenating power. “In folklore, royal jelly is kind of like a supermedicine, particularly in Asia and Europe,” Wang said. Royal jelly has for centuries had a reputation for having fountain-of-youth qualities that keep its users young and vibrant. Ancient Greeks like Aristotle believed so adamantly that royal jelly increased intellect and physical strength that he served it to his students. Chinese emperors considered it to have Viagralike powers. Egyptian pharaohs consumed royal jelly for its alleged rejuvenating powers, and it was one of Cleopatra’s beauty secrets. Modern-day proponents

continue to tout its anti-aging benefits, while skeptics ignore it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has never approved it as safe. There has been little scientific evidence to support the historical claims that surround royal jelly. The medicinal usefulness of this glue-like substance has been debated for centuries, and now it is not likely to come unglued from modern science. “The unexpected findings will likely invigorate the thousand-year-old debate about royal jelly’s age-defying reputation,” Wang said. “We provided concrete scientific evidence that the rumored effects of royal jelly have some biological basis.” Royal jelly has a number of different components, but Wang’s team isolated “the one protein that has never been seen before.” “It’s fascinating,” he said. “We’ve connected something mythical to something real. The molecule we identified can fuel stem cell renewal, can be used to propagate new stem cells or renew adult cells.” Human stem cells, when used safely, can repair diseased or injured body parts, from retinas in blind patients to lungs in fibrosis patients. The potential for treatment of a variety of medical conditions is enormous. Thanks to bees, scientists now know more about the healing power of stem cells — guided by how the royal jelly powers up the queen bee. Which happens daily on county campuses. F

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The Carnegie Museum of Art’s “Lost Princess”: A portrait of Isabella de’ Medici (right) was dramatically altered in the middle of the 19th century to reflect Victorian standards of beauty (left). Art conservator Ellen Baxter restored the painting to its original makeup.

What lies beneath

Investigating the secrets, lies and mysteries hidden in art at CLU by Emily Dodi

very picture tells a story. But some pictures are keeping secrets or even telling lies. How can you tell if a picture really is what it seems? Ask an art detective. These art conservators, restorers and curators rely on a sharp eye, a deft hand, a bit of sleuthing and a lot of chemistry to suss out the truth. They utilize a host of scientific methods and materials — from carbon dating and X-ray technology to UV lighting and chemical solvents — to solve a wide swath of mysteries, whether it’s attributing a work to the right artist or pinpointing the age of a painting or validating its authenticity (or lack thereof). In some cases, art detectives discover paintings hidden beneath other paintings. Take the case of the “Lost Princess,” featured in Traces: Revealing Secrets in Art and History at the William Rolland Gallery at California Lutheran University through Feb. 21. On exhibit are two images: one of an unremarkable painting of a woman and the other an extremely valuable portrait that was hiding beneath it. The painting belongs to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, where experts thought something about it was “off” because the woman’s complexion and build were incongruous with her Renaissance dress. The museum deemed the portrait a fake and decided to get rid of it. But something about it nagged at the museum’s curator of fine arts, Louise Lippincott, who

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thought that the woman’s dress was spot-on for the period, even if her face wasn’t. Using X-ray technology on the painting, the art conservator Ellen Baxter discovered another face hiding beneath the woman’s visage. Using chemical solvents and a delicate touch, the painting of the woman’s face was removed to reveal a 16th-century portrait by Alessandro Allori of Isabella de’ Medici, a noblewoman known as the Princess of Florence. It is believed that in the middle of the 19th century, the owner of Isabella’s portrait altered it to reflect Victorian standards of beauty. With a stroke of a brush, gone were Isabella’s pale complexion and high forehead (which were de rigueur during the Renaissance). On the canvas were another woman’s sun-kissed skin, soft curls and a more slender face, hand and throat. Gone too was the urn that Isabella was holding and the faint halo above her head. (The urn, a symbol of Mary Magdalene, and the halo were used to suggest that Isabella was a pious woman. A futile gesture, for legend has it that the unfaithful Isabella was killed by her jealous husband.) The artist who painted over Isabella’s portrait left her original dress intact, unwittingly (or wittingly) leaving a clue to the painting’s true identity. Today, Isabella de’ Medici’s portrait is fully restored and infinitely more valuable than the painting that had covered it for hundreds of years. Needless to say, the Carnegie kept it and now guards it jealously.

It is often small, incongruous things that can tip off an art detective. “Sometimes you don’t need great technology,” explains Rachel Schmid, curator of Traces. “You just need a good eye.” Another case in point, also featured in the Traces exhibit, is the portrait of art dealer Earl Stendahl. One day, another art dealer named George Stern noticed that things about the portrait seemed off: A label had been scratched off, a piece of canvas was missing and, most curious, there was an official stamp of the Guy Rose Memorial Sale of 1926 on the back of the painting. Using infrared reflectography, another painting was discovered beneath Stendahl’s portrait. An art conservator painstakingly removed the painting of Stendahl to reveal “Rising Mists” by noted California Impressionist Guy Rose — a painting that had been lost for years. Discovering the truth about a work of art often begins with someone’s keen observation. “The first step is to analyze it with your eyes and then we can continue to ask questions about it,” says Schmid. “The first question is, what do you want to know about a piece? What are you looking for? What information do you want to know, because there are so many different tests that can be performed on a work of art. It all depends on what answer you’re trying to achieve. Are you trying to decide if this is the correct artist? What time period it’s from? Is there another painting underneath?” With all the scientific methods and technologies available, Schmid says, “You can tell

a lot about a painting by its pigment.” Take white, for instance. For centuries, white paint was made with lead, which is now known to be toxic. Today, white paint is made with safer pigments. A clear sign of an artwork’s age is whether it was painted with lead-based or nonlead-based white paint. An art detective can often tell a painting’s age by shining a UV light on it because lead-based paint will fluoresce (glow) brightly. Visitors to the Traces exhibit can get an art detective’s eye-view on several works of art. There are UV flashlights and safety glasses available to give visitors the opportunity to find evidence of hidden secrets in the artwork. The exhibit is presented in partnership with CLU’s chemistry department and will be a focal point in the new Chemical Investigations of Art class, co-taught by Dr. Katharine Hoffmann and Robert Dion. “It will center around the questions a chemist can answer about a work of art,” says Hoffmann. Students will get the opportunity to perform some actual techniques used by art detectives to solve art mysteries. The rest of us can play art detective for the day, but it may change the way we look at art from now on. ✦ Traces: Revealing Secrets in Art and History through Feb. 21 at the William Rolland Gallery at California Lutheran University, 160 Overton Court, Thousand Oaks. For more information call 805-4933697 or visit rollandgallery.callutheran.edu.

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Billy McLaughlin will perform at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Santa Paula this weekend.

One note at a time

Billy McLaughlin transcends a diagnosis to let the music play by Karen Lindell

n stark numbers, here’s what happens when a guitarist’s hand stops working: From 1988 to 1999, solo acoustic guitarist Billy McLaughlin played 1,763 concerts. From 1999 to 2006, when he lost function in his dominant guitar hand because of a neuromuscular disorder, he played 14. After a painstaking comeback that took seven years and forced him to completely relearn how to play — what he calls “playing backwards and upside-down” — McLaughlin is back to a more substantial touring schedule. He’ll perform on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Universalist Unitarian Church in Santa Paula. Don’t expect typical acoustic strumming and picking. McLaughlin has always played guitar in a unique style he calls “two-handed tapping”: He uses two hands on the fret board to “tap” out notes. One hand (the dominant one) intricately plucks, hammers and pulls to create the melody, while the other mainly plays the bass line. McLaughlin writes his own music, which he said is difficult to describe, although the instrumental songs have what some might call a new age vibe, and sound more like two instruments than one. “My music has a lot of texture, a lot of melody, and I really love what I do, so hopefully it has a soulful component to it as well,” he said. The Rev. Maddie Sifantus, minister at UUCSP, first heard McLaughlin perform in the 1990s at a coffeehouse in Massachusetts. Sifantus said she remembers “how struck I was with his music and musicianship, and how it wove a web of mystery and beauty.” She followed his career, and invited him to perform in the church’s Santa Paula Concert Series. McLaughlin started playing guitar at age 12 in Minnesota, where he still lives, and joined a rock band at 15. He studied guitar at the University of Southern California, where he discovered and was inspired by the music of acoustic guitarist Michael Hedges, a pioneer in the guitar style McLaughlin adopted. McLaughlin toured relentlessly in the mid-1990s as a solo guitarist, performing more than 200 shows each year. He signed a

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contract with the Virgin Records new age label Narada in 1996, and his debut album, Fingerdance, reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s New Age Albums chart. But in 1998, he dislocated two fingers after falling. The injury never seemed to fully heal. “Something had crept in . . . into my hand, my wrist, my arm,” he said. “I had no name for this visitor who caused my fingers to suddenly curl, caused the music to veer out of control as audiences cringed.” McLaughlin was diagnosed three years later with a neuromuscular disorder called dystonia. Dystonia can affect the entire body or individual parts. The kind McLaughlin suffers from, focal hand dystonia, is more common in musicians than other professionals who use their hands repeatedly, such as surgeons. Symptoms include curled, clenched or shaky fingers. According to the Dystonia Society, it’s caused by changes in the brain that affect control of the hand. Some treatments can help, but the disorder has no cure. When McLaughlin’s hand stopped functioning normally, he stopped working, too. “I lost my record deal, agent, income, even my marriage and home,” he said. He tried hand specialists, orthopedic specialists, chiropractors, massage therapists, acupuncturists and acupressurists. Eventually though, he just had to learn how to play with his other hand. The intricate stylings that he formerly played on his left hand he learned all over again on his right, one note at a time. “I can’t sugarcoat any of it; it was really hard, and took a really long time,” he said. McLaughlin’s comeback story was the subject of a documentary, Changing Keys: Billy McLaughlin and the Mysteries of Dystonia, and he’s become a motivational speaker. “Part of the joy I hope to share on stage is that we’re all more capable than we think,” he said. Dystonia can worsen over time. “I don’t know how long I’ll be able to play the way I do now,” McLaughlin said. “I’ve been asked, if I have to learn to play with my toes, would I do it? The answer is yes.” ✦ Billy McLaughlin performs on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. at Universalist Unitarian Church, 740 E. Main St., Santa Paula. For tickets or more information, call 805-525-4647 or visit www.uucsp.org.

f symphony orchestras and chamber music excite you as much as reggae, punk or rock and roll, this is a gold-star weekend for you. Several performances of the classical music persuasion will be offered at a variety of venues. New West Symphony kicks off 2019 with “Rhythmic Traditions,” featuring violinist Karen Gomyo, who will play Mozart’s elegant Violin Concerto No. 5 “Turkish” and Beethoven’s exuberant Symphony No. 7. In addition, the symphony will present The Great Circle, a new work by Jeff Beal (who composed the score for House of Cards) inspired by the power of nature and commissioned by NWS in honor of its 25th anniversary. Performances take place on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. at the Oxnard Performing Arts Clarinetist Narek Arutyunian and Conven- will perform at Chamber on the tion Center. Mountain on Sunday. Fire and mudslide victims and first responders can obtain complimentary tickets by emailing symphony@newwestsymphony.org. newwestsymphony.org. The Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 16th season with “Young Artists in the Spotlight,” featuring several talented musicians, all under 20. Stephen Saw (violin), Noah Laber (oboe) and David Change (piano) will perform concertos by Max Bruch, Alessandro Marcello and Felix Mendelssohn. Daniel Newman-Lessler of UCSB and Music Academy of the West will guest conduct. Performances are on Friday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Saint Mary Magdalen Church in Camarillo and on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. at Ventura’s First United Methodist Church. cichamberorchestra.org. Clarinetist Narek Arutyunian makes a special appearance for the Chamber on the Mountain on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. at Logan House in Ojai. He will perform pieces by Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Elliott Carter, Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms, accompanied by pianist Christopher Goodpasture. A reception follows the concert, and audience members are invited to stay and meet the musicians. www.chamberonthemountain.com Finally, the Ventura Music Festival is offering the public a preview of its upcoming Silver Anniversary Season with a reception at the Museum of Ventura County on Monday, Jan. 28, 5:30-7 p.m. Attendees will enjoy live music and a presentation of the festival’s starstudded lineup, including a number of performances taking place in the months leading up to the festival, which runs July 11-21. www.venturamusicfestival.org ✦ PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN STEINER

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