Our spies, who could tell us more but then would have to kill us afterwards, say the unprecedented pairing was arranged by Applied Materials wunderkind Tom Hayes , who dreamed up the scheme and broke out the company checkbook to celebrate his employer's 30th anniversary. Once the birthday party is over, major Tom will work on taking the Silicon Planet charity-entertainment event on the road to six U.S. cities. Sensing Alvarez and company's protest could put some flotsam in the proverbial punch bowl, the MHC postponed the official groundbreaking until Dec. 13. Grin News Eye notes with sadness the death of pianist Marina Gusak-Grin , Russian emigre and wife of SJ Symphony conductor Leonid Grin and mother of their two children. Gusak-Grin died of stomach cancer at Stanford Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon.
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