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Gila Jones
|Gila Jones
|Board member, Capistrano Unified Board of Trustees, Trustee Area 6
|Term ends
|Years in position
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|November 4, 2014
|First elected
|November 4, 2014
|Next general
|Term limits
|University of California, Irvine
|Northeastern University
|Educational nonprofit board member
|Office website
|Campaign website
- 1 Biography
- 2 Elections
- 3 Campaign themes
- 4 What was at stake?
- 5 About the district
- 6 Recent news
- 7 See also
- 8 External links
- 9 References
She ran against one incumbent in the general election on November 4, 2014.[1] Gila Jones won the general election on November 4, 2014.
Jones was a Democratic candidate for District 38 of the California State Senate in 2010. She won the primary election on June 8, 2010, and lost the general election on November 2, 2010, to incumbent Republican Kristi Stone.
Jones earned her B.A. from the University of California, Irvine. She went on to receive her MBA from Northeastern University. Jones has worked for over 20 years for technology firms in the fields of systems analysis and engineering, product management, marketing and sales. Jones and her husband, Tom, have two children. They reside in San Juan Capistrano, California. In addition to running for state office, Jones served on the Voter Services Committee of the California Democratic Party from 2006 to 2008.[2]
The seats from Trustee Areas 4, 6 and 7 on the Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees were up for general election on November 4, 2014. No incumbent ran for re-election in Trustee Area 4, leaving the race to two candidates, Craig P. Alexander and Martha McNicholas. McNicholas won the election. In the Trustee Area 6 race, incumbent Ellen M. Addonizio lost the election to challenger Gila Jones. The Trustee Area 7 race featured incumbent Lynn Hatton-Hodson and challenger Julie Collier. Hatton-Hodson won re-election to her seat.
|Capistrano Unified School District, Trustee Area 6 General Election, 4-year term, 2014
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|Gila Jones
|Ellen M. Addonizio Incumbent
|Total Votes
|Source: Orange County Election Department, "General Election Results," accessed December 22, 2014
The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed by paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.
Jones received endorsements from the following organizations:[3][4][5]
- Democratic Party of Orange County
- Capistrano Unified Education Association
- Orange County Professional Firefighters
Jones also received endorsements from a number of local officials, including Capistrano Unified Board of Trustees members Lynn Hatton-Hodson, Gary Pritchard and Amy Hanacek.[5] A list of her supporters can be found here.
- See also: California State Senate elections, 2010
Jones was defeated in the general election on November 2, 2010, by incumbent Republican Kristi Stone.[6]
Campaign themes
Jones highlighted the following issues on her campaign website:
|As a 35 year Capistrano Unified School District resident with a lifelong passion for education, I'm proud to live in the highest performing large district in California. I'm strongly committed to maintaining and continually improving our exceptional schools to attract investments in our community, which will keep our housing values and economy strong.
As a parent of two young CUSD graduates, I know that one size doesn't fit all. I will work to ensure that families have choices within the public school system.
As a volunteer still involved in CUSD schools as well as Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano, an educational nonprofit benefiting local youth, I believe we must be dedicated to teaching all students in our diverse community.
As an MBA with 20 years of experience in high technology, I have the skills to make objective, strategic, and responsible decisions that focus on maximizing student achievement.
My highest priorities will be balancing the budget, keeping financial resources in the classroom, and ensuring our graduates are prepared to do well in college and in the workplace.
Our schools are central to the success of our children and of our communities. I will dedicate myself to that success and would be honored to receive your vote.[7]
—Gila Jones's campaign website, (2014)[8]
What was at stake?
Issues in the district
New superintendent starts
In August 2014, the Capistrano Unified School District welcomed Kirsten Vital as its new superintendent. Before serving Capistrano Unified, Vital served for over five years as Alameda Unified School District's superintendent. She left her former district with two years left on her contract. Vital took the reins from Joe Farley, Capistrano Unified's former superintendent who officially retired July 1, 2014. In addition to her work in the Alameda Unified School District, Vital also previously served as an administrator in the Oakland Unified School District and the Los Angeles Unified School District.[9][10]
About the district
Capistrano Unified School District is located in Orange County, California. The county seat of Orange County is Santa Ana. Orange County was home to 3,114,363 residents in 2013, according to the United States Census Bureau.[11] In the 2011-2012 school year, Capistrano Unified School District was the 10th-largest school district by enrollment in California and served 53,170 students.[12]
Orange County outperformed the rest of California in terms of education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 36.6 percent of Orange County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 30.5 percent for California as a whole. The median household income for Orange County was $75,566 compared to $61,400 for the entire state. The percentage of people below poverty level for Orange County was 11.7 percent while it was 15.3 percent statewide.[11]
Note: The United States Census Bureau considers "Hispanic or Latino" to be a place of origin, not a race. Therefore, the Census allows citizens to report both their race and that they are from a "Hispanic or Latino" place of origin simultaneously. As a result, the percentages in each column of the racial demographics table will exceed 100 percent. Each column will add up to 100 percent after removing the "Hispanic or Latino" place of origin percentages, although rounding by the Census Bureau may make the total one- or two-tenths off from being exactly 100 percent.[14] This Ballotpedia page provides a more detailed explanation of how the Census Bureau handles race and ethnicity in its surveys.
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External links
- Capistrano Unified School District
- Office website
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
- 2014 Smart Voter profile
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- List of candidates certified for the June 8, 2010 primary in California
- ↑ Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Contest/Candidate Proof List General Election 2014," accessed August 18, 2014
- ↑ "Project Vote Smart," "Gila Jones' Biography" accessed October 25, 2013
- ↑ Democratic Party of Orange County, "Endorsements," accessed October 28, 2014
- ↑ California Teachers Association, "CTA Locally Endorsed Candidates as of 10/4/14," accessed October 28, 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gila Jones CUSD School Board, "Endorsements," accessed October 28, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official 2010 General election results," accessed March 13, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributed to the original source.
- ↑ Gila Jones CUSD School Board, "Home," accessed October 28, 2014
- ↑ Contra Costa Times, "Alameda: A farewell to schools Superintendent Kirsten Vital," July 23, 2014
- ↑ Orange County Register, "Capistrano district hires Alameda superintendent as schools chief," June 19, 2014
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 United States Census Bureau, "Orange County, California," accessed July 11, 2014
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "ELSI Table Generator," accessed April 22, 2014
- ↑ Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Election Results Archive," accessed July 11, 2014
- ↑ United States Census Bureau, "Frequently Asked Questions," accessed April 21, 2014
|2014 Capistrano Unified School District Elections
|Orange County, California
|Election date:
|November 4, 2014
|Trustee Area 4: • Craig P. Alexander • Martha McNicholas
Trustee Area 6: • Incumbent, Ellen M. Addonizio • Gila Jones
Trustee Area 7: • Incumbent, Lynn Hatton-Hodson • Julie Collier
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|What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot


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Citation: Tournier J-N, Quesnel-Hellmann A (2006) Host–Pathogen Interactions: A Biological Rendez-Vous of the Infectious Nonself and Danger Models? PLoS Pathog 2(5): e44. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0020044
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Abbreviations: APC, antigen-presenting cell; DAMP, damage-associated molecular pattern; DC, dendritic cell; IFN, interferon; INS, infectious nonself; IRF, IFN-regulatory factor; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; NS, negative signal; PAMP, pathogen-associated molecular pattern; PRR, pattern recognition receptor; TIR, Toll-like-interleukin-1 receptor; TLR, Toll-like receptor; TRAF, TNF-receptor-associated factor; TRIF, TIR-domain-containing adaptor inducing IFN-β; VV, Vaccinia virus
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Until recently, immunologists had thought of the immune system as a complex cellular web aimed at protecting the body against marauding microbes, by producing a highly specialized, specific, and adaptive response. This adaptive response involves the production of a specific receptor for each antigenic motif (e.g., B cell receptors, antibodies, and T cell receptors), using specific mechanisms of recombination and rearrangements of somatic genes. Inherent molecular complexity of the mechanisms supporting the regulated production of such receptors monopolized the attention of most immunologists for several decades. In the late 80s, Janeway explored the "road not taken" and reversed the previous dogma of adaptive immunity supremacy, stressing a more prominent role for innate immunity (a first line of defense based on the recognition of conserved pathogen motifs) [2]. In a seminal paper, he was the first to imagine new rules for the immune system to account for "the immunologist's dirty little secret," which had downplayed the need for bacterially derived adjuvants to efficiently induce adaptive immune responses [3]. Janeway proposed that the immune system recognizes a conserved molecular pattern, called pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP), displayed by pathogens but not normally found on host cells (e.g., lipopolysaccharide, peptidoglycans, nonmethylated CpG, and double-stranded RNA). He predicted "nonclonally distributed" (e.g., germline encoded) receptors for PAMP, and coined the term "pattern recognition receptors" (PRRs), which he identified a first type in 1997 as the Toll-like receptors (TLRs) [4]. The discovery of the TLRs led to the emergence of a revolutionary and fertile field now studied by many. Finally, Janeway proposed that the innate immune system distinguished "infectious nonself" from "noninfectious self" [5,6]. The infectious nonself (INS) model revolutionized immunology, although it left several important questions unanswered. For example, why do PRRs not discriminate between nonpathogenic and pathogenic microbes [6]? This question has been partly answered by recent data revealing a novel function of TLRs in controlling intestinal epithelial homeostasis through interactions with nonpathogenic agents [7], while another effort identified a "combinatorial security code" by which dendritic cells (DCs) discriminate between pathogens [8]. A second major question regarding the INS model concerns activation of the immune system in nonpathogen-associated situations such as allograft rejection or autoimmunity. For autoimmunity, recent works demonstrate a crucial role of TLR activation in at least two murine models of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and lupus [9,10].
In the early 90s, Polly Matzinger proposed the "danger" model as an alternative and comprehensive view of the immune system, where endogenous danger signals (e.g., cytokines) released from infected cells could affect the function of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) without directly exposing APCs to PAMPs [11]. The danger model had broader implications than the INS model, since it could predict the activation of the immune system in various situations such as anti-infectious and antitumor immunity, autoimmunity, or allograft rejection. Experimental data have been raised subsequently showing that necrotic but not apoptotic cells trigger the activation of DCs, which represent crucial APCs coupling innate and adaptive responses [12,13]. The danger model, however, faced several objections raised by the INS model. Why did evolution select a complex PRR system if endogenous danger sensors would be sufficient, and what are the relevant signals (exogenous or endogenous) for mounting an efficient immune response? Why should the immune system be cognizant of tissue damage that doesn't involve microbes, and would the immune system be activated to induce autoreactive responses following major cellular distress?
Recently, Seong and Matzinger stressed that the semantic distinction between exogenous and endogenous danger signals is artificial, since most PAMP such as lipopolysaccharide and bacterial DNA are not displayed by "healthy" pathogens but, instead, are released after significant pathogen stress [14]. PAMP and endogenous danger signals could each be considered damage signals released either by the host or by the pathogen. PRR such as TLR recognize either PAMP or endogenous signals, whereas at least one danger receptor senses PAMP. To account for this, Seong and Matzinger proposed a synthetic model based upon the recognition of damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) by DCs. These damage patterns might be associated with a hydrophobic molecular region exposed after stress and subsequently recognized as a universal danger signal.
Here, we explore the DAMP model through a broader host–pathogen perspective. We propose that pathogens encode DAMP-interfering molecules that we suggest could be termed "negative signals" (NS). These NSs might be molecules displayed or encoded by a pathogen that are not recognized as DAMP by PRR, and block or modify the intracellular signaling downstream of PRRs to induce tolerance. We identified two major NS strategies used by microbes to overcome the host immune system: first, interfering directly with APC's PRR; or second, triggering apoptosis of phagocytes that in turn inhibit proximal APCs (Figure 1). Clearly, pathogens use strategies that impair PRR as well as danger receptors. We focus here on studies that illustrate the main mechanisms used by bacteria and viruses to escape host DAMP recognition.
Microbes undertake two major strategies to overcome the host immune system: interfering directly with APC's pattern recognition receptors (INS model side), or triggering apoptosis of phagocytes that in turn inhibits proximal APCs (danger model side). Both strategies ultimately lead to tolerance by inducing presentation of antigen in absence of crucial co-stimulatory molecules.
Viruses have been shown to have a myriad of strategies to disrupt the TLR cascade, mainly focusing on the IFN response, while bacteria act far downstream on mitogen-activated kinase kinases and NF-κB.
Pathogen-induced cell death induces the release of cellular blebs expressing phosphatidylserine (PS) that are rapidly internalized by neighboring cells or phagocytes. Infected, apoptotic cells may send these NSs to limit the effectiveness of antigen presentation by neighboring uninfected APCs to T helper cells. In this situation, without co-stimulatory molecules and secreted IL-12 but in presence of IL-10 and transforming growth factor β, ultimately tolerance to microbial antigens will be induced.
AP1, activator protein 1; GC-BP, GC binding protein; IFN, interferon; IL, interleukin; IRAK, interleukin-1-associated kinase; IRF, IFN-regulatory factor; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; MHC, major histocompatibility complex; MKK, MAPK kinase; MyD88, myeloid differentiation primary-response factor 88; NF-κB, nuclear factor κB; PSR, phosphatidylserine receptor; TAK, TGF-β-activated kinase; TBK, TRAF-family-member-associated NF-κB activator-binding kinase; TCR, T cell receptor; TGF, transforming growth factor; TLR, Toll-like receptor; TRAF, TNF-receptor-associated factor; TRAM, TRIF-related adaptator molecule; TRIF, TIR-domain-containing adaptor inducing IFN-β
Pathogen NS Interfering with PRR Signaling
Numerous pathogens negatively regulate DAMP signaling pathways, thus turning off the immune response [15,16]. As TLRs play a central role in pathogen recognition and signaling, and many downstream elements of the transduction cascade are now identified [17,18], we have confined our analysis to pathogen-interfering effects on TLR signaling.
The TLR pathway induces interferon (IFN) production through several signaling proteins that ultimately lead to the activation of the transcription factors NF-κB, IFN-regulatory factor (IRF)3, and IRF7. Viruses possess myriad strategies to disrupt the TLR cascade, mainly focusing on the IFN response, while bacteria tend to act further downstream on mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK), mitogen-activated kinase kinases, and NF-κB [15,16,19,20]. Viruses, indeed, have to block the IFN response that crucially depends on IRFs, and the connection between TLR and IRF involves the adaptor proteins immediately downstream of TLRs [21–23]. Vaccinia virus (VV) possesses the greatest diversity of NS strategies for interacting with TLR pathways. The VV A46R protein, a homolog of Toll-like-interleukin-1 receptor (TIR), targets the host TIR adaptors MyD88, as well as the MyD88-adaptor-like TIR-domain-containing adaptor-inducing IFN-β (TRIF), and TRIF-related adaptor molecule, thereby interfering with downstream activation of MAPKs, NF-κB, and IRF3 [24,25]. A52R VV protein is a nonredundant effector that associates with TNF-receptor-associated factor 6 and interleukin-1-associated kinase 2, blocking the activation of NF-κB [26]. VV further encodes N1L, a protein that associates with I-κB kinase complex and TRAF-family-member-associated NF-κB activator-binding kinase-1 for inhibition. As a result, N1L disrupts NF-κB signaling and IRF3 signaling pathways. VV also encodes E3L that inhibits IRF3 and IRF7 phosphorylation through direct interactions [27,28].
Despite high NS variety, bacteria act essentially on MAPK and NF-κB [15,16]. For example, Bacillus anthracis lethal factor (LF) is a zinc-dependent metalloprotease that cleaves six of the seven mitogen-activated kinase kinases [29], as well as impairs IRF3 [30]. As a result, we and others have shown that LF disrupts innate and adaptive immunity through DC impairment [31,32]. Yersinia pestis YopJ and Y. enterocolitica YopP effector proteins of the type III secretion system target MAPK signaling pathways and NF-κB [33]. Interestingly, YopJ and YopP belong to a group of effectors produced by other pathogens such as Salmonella (AvrA) [34].
Pathogens Exploit the Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Apoptosis
Surprisingly, numerous pathogens take care to induce a silent death of host-infected cells via apoptosis [35], suggesting that this pathway confers an evolutionary advantage to the pathogen. For viruses, in particular, survival is highly dependent on their ability to take rapid control of the host cell cycle, and most of their NS strategies are based upon regulating apoptosis [36]. Here, we have confined our analysis to the mechanisms of apoptosis that are specifically regulated by pathogens in APCs (macrophages and DCs).
Viruses have developed an extensive molecular repertoire designed to disrupt DC survival, as these APCs are one of the first lines of cellular defense [37]. Not surprisingly, VV induces programmed cell death among macrophages and DCs, although the specific viral NSs remain to be characterized [38,39]. Numerous bacterial pathogens also influence apoptosis of APCs. B. anthracis induces the apoptosis of some murine macrophages through an LF-dependent inhibition of p38 [40,41]. Yersinia spp. have at least two ways to induce macrophage apoptosis: first, using TLR2 and TLR4 signaling, and involving TRIF [42]; and second, by triggering the apoptosis of macrophages through the type III secretion system effector proteins YopP and YopJ [43–45]. Besides the direct inhibitory effects of YopP and YopJ on MAPK and NF-κB pathways disrupting the transcription of antiapoptotic genes, it has been demonstrated that YopP specifically triggers the apoptotic pathways above tBid [46].
Viruses have indeed developed many capabilities to silently kill APCs and to rescue other cell types from programmed cell death. What consequences might this have for the host? Besides the direct removal of DCs as potent immunostimulatory cells, APC apoptosis represents a supplemental manner to attenuate the immune response [47]. One of the main features of apoptosis is that cytoplasmic contents are not spilled into the extracellular milieu, and that apoptotic bodies expressing phosphatidylserine blebs from apoptotic cells are rapidly internalized by neighboring cells or phagocytes. The rapid engulfment of apoptotic cells and apoptotic bodies by neighboring APCs prevents the release of potentially toxic or immunogenic intracellular contents from the dying cells. Moreover, apoptotic cells deliver active anti-inflammatory and other inhibitory signals to DCs such as IL-10 and transforming growth factor β [48–50]. A recent study further demonstrated that apoptotic cells inhibit IL-12p70 secretion by a phosphatidylserine-driven mechanism [51]. The signals delivered by apoptotic cells to the immune system have been recently invoked as a means to maintain peripheral tolerance under a steady state [52]. Further, apoptotic cells as a source of antigens for cross-presentation have indeed been shown to play an important role in maintaining peripheral tolerance in several models [53,54].
Here, we propose that during infections, control of DC apoptosis is hijacked by pathogens to "turn down" the immune response. Apoptotic blebs may constitute "negative bullets," transmitting both NS and pathogen antigens, inhibiting the recruitment and activation of proximal APCs, and ultimately inducing tolerance. It makes biological sense that pathogens would amplify their immunosuppressive effects in this manner, since one infected apoptotic cell releasing a bulk of blebs may impair numerous APCs in the microenvironment. As a paradigm, measles virus triggers DC apoptosis and causes severe immunosuppression [55]. The triggering of APC apoptosis by pathogens could then be regarded as an efficient weapon of immune silencing. This alternative strategy may represent a potent NS for danger signals, just as efficient as NSs that disrupt TLR signaling directly.
The long history of host–pathogen coevolutionary interactions has led pathogens to develop efficient tools for impairing the host immune system. Immunologists have much to learn from these pathogen strategies, which could help us to imagine and design new potent tools to control the immune response in various immunopathological conditions such as diabetes and related autoimmune diseases, graft rejection, or allergy. Pathogens, on the other hand, have evolved under a selective immune pressure that allows them to thrive whether or not they comprehend immunologist's models.
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My cedar feeder broke the other day and I don't want to dish out $ for a new one. I was googling around and came across this milk jug bird feeder, I think it's a great idea!
Any other homemade designs that you would like to share?
Here is a link that might be useful: Milk Jug Bird Feeder
I made one like Pudge posted last year, with an old plant hanger and a terracotta pot dish. The birds liked it and it was easy to fill. But it got water in and froze, and fell apart. I wonder if they make frost proof terracotta dishes?
Gillian, you could use a plastic terra colored pot tray/dish and drill holes in the sides for the plant hanger to go through. Also, you could take a smaller drill and drill holes in the bottom of it to let any water through. I use sunflowers for the birds only so, the size of the holes could be a lot larger here than if you used the mixed birdseed because of the size of the millet. The only disadvantage that I can think of is that plastic trays wouldn't be as heavy as the terra cotta ones, but you could put a few rocks in it to add weight. The wind wouldn't blow it around as much then. The birds would still find the birdseed.
Good idea Brenda, maybe I could even hang something heavy on the tassel at the bottom of the hanger instead of rocks in the dish. What I liked about this feeder was that the chickadees seem to prefer a more open perch than having to pick through a little slot in my other feeder.
Oh and my #1 homemade bird feeder is two volunteer sunflowers, I just left them there and the nuthatches are all over them. That was easy!
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Yesterday I was sitting at the computer, checking the emails and saw this crawling on the floor of the foyer...
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Apparently they're also called Jewel Spiders. The markings and colouration on them are extremely variable - I get almost white and dark brown ones living right next to each other - but usually you can make out a cat face pattern on their abdomen... you can kinda make it out upside-down on the darker spider on the left here.
That milk jug feeder is an excellent idea - I may try my hand at one.
I like the terra cotta dish feeder that I fashioned. I've never had trouble with the dishes freezing or cracking, but yeah, they do fill up with water, snow, etc. Mine hold either Niger, Canary Seed or Canola. The House Sparrows never feed from them.
I got DH to make a couple of hanging platform feeders that are screened on the bottom. We drilled holes around the outside frame and fed thru a bunch of cord, used a keyring as a hanger. I'm pretty sure I've posted pics of this before. They work well for mostly all birds except the big ones. The House Sparrows initially didn't like all that cord but they've now gotten used to it and feed from there. At least they don't knock all the seed out.
Speaking of sunflowers, we dried some heads this year. Last year I just stabbed them onto a nail on the birdfeeding arbor, but this year I used 3 lengths (4', I think) of rebar, poked them in the ground (one straight up and the other 2 at an angle from the same point in the ground) and then put the heads on top of that - tres cool looking. The uses for lengths of rebar never fail to amaze me. I'd like to do another one - a 6' length straight up then 5 shorter ones at an angle around the tall one. Or, 5 different lengths close together all sticking straight up.
Some good ideas here!
Brenda, I like your spider!...Oh..no more!
I use bottles for many years now, I like the heavier plastic ones, like the 4 litre juice bottle, they have a nice
size opening, for sunflower, also 5 gal.pail, I put a plastic basket, lined with window screen] under the pail, to catch the falling sunflower.
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