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Agran Shrugs Off Sim’s Ideas; Climate Change in D.C.?

Irvine Councilman Larry Agran says retired Irvine Company exec Dick Sim was a valued member of the Great Park board. But he dismisses Sim’s parting recommendations for changes in the Agran-led body, such as expanding membership from nine to 15 members in order to involve more communities and reduce Irvine’s influence. “It sounds a lot like the OCTA board,” Agran says. “Now there’s a board you really want to emulate” …

Microsemi CEO Jim Peterson had a frightening view of last week’s landslide, across the canyon from his own Laguna Beach home: “I was sitting at my computer when I heard this popping sound. I asked my wife, ‘What is that?’ We went out on the deck and saw these houses sliding downhill …

At first I thought it was an earthquake …

People were climbing out of their windows and running down-hill with the slide.” Does this make him think twice about his own property? “Not at all,” Peterson told Andrew Simons. “This particular hill that slid, the town had been warning them for 24 years that it was going to slide. I’m on bedrock” …

If you sense a shift in the political winds, maybe it’s because UC Irvine climatologists are moving to Washington, D.C. First Chancellor Ralph Cicerone was named president of the National Academy of Sciences. Now Prof. Michael Prather has received a one-year Jefferson Science Fellowship at the State Department, where he’ll be a science adviser to Condoleezza Rice. Conspiracy theorists, take note: The research colleagues are making their moves one month apart and into offices across C Street from each other. Prather says the double-move is just coincidence: “I applied last August when I saw the ad and became interested, then Ralph told me about his new job” …

Big Canyon CC members have voted to replace their venerable but creaky clubhouse, a $35 million project …

EE RR was listed on OC Blog with Larry Higby, Julie Hill, Ted Smith, Meredith Khachigian and a few other suggested “citizen legislator” replacements for Congressman Chris Cox (see page 1). But he’s waiting for Dick Ackerman’s endorsement …

Gordon Shaw, the UCI physicist whose Costa Mesa-based Mind Institute provides “math + music” software for 12,200 school kids, wanted a festive wake. Family, friends and colleagues will oblige with a “celebration of life” Friday from 3:30 p.m. to sunset in Laguna Beach. Shaw died April 26 of kidney cancer at age 72 …

The audience packing the OC Performing Arts Center for the OC High School of the Arts’ annual “season finale” got a Broadway-caliber show, literally. Joining the cast of talented youngsters was Tony nominee Susan Egan, who reprised a number from her starring role on Broadway last year in “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Egan graduated from the high school and filled in as artistic director a couple of years back.

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