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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet, as well as local in-person events.

AI institute led by UC San Diego lands $20 million grant A new research institute led by UC San Diego has been awarded $20 million from the National Science Foundation to pursue breakthroughs in artificial intelligence across a wide swath of industries, such as cyber infrastructure, health care, education, semiconductor design, agriculture and communications networks. The grant announced July 29 was part of $220 million that the NSF invested in 11 artificial intelligence research institutes acr...

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A HOMELESS charity have launched their 2021 Big Sleep Out event. Arc, who cover Taunton, West Somerset and Sedgemoor, have asked residents to spend one night outside to raise money to help the homeless. Normally the event is held in a local car park. But due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 event was a virtual sleep out, which managed to raise more than £13,500. This year, the sleep out on Friday, June 11, will be virtual as well. Arc are asking people to sleep in their gardens,...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Gilbert Castellanos jazzed to return to trumpet after groundbreaking dental breakthroughs saved his career [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-CASTELLANOS:SD] SAN DIEGO — Under ordinary circumstances, dentists usually help maintain and save people’s teeth — not their careers. But there was nothing ordinary about the precarious state of trumpet dynamo Gilbert Castellanos’ teeth and jaw bone when he reluctantly agreed to let San Diego dentist Roy Vegter exa...

Under ordinary circumstances, dentists usually help maintain and save people’s teeth — not their careers. But there was nothing ordinary about the precarious state of trumpet dynamo Gilbert Castellanos’ teeth and jaw bone when he reluctantly agreed to let San Diego dentist Roy Vegter examine him in mid-2018. The acclaimed jazz musician and music educator had spent years forgoing any medical check-ups. His hesitance was the result of a botched root canal surgery and — before that — s...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-PASQUA:SD] When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand. Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, ...

Print When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand. Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles. “I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it wa...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Kingston West Police Division has named Preston Evan, otherwise cal...