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Miami police chief flashed same 'OK' hand gesture in past photo as officer he suspended, union says

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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A police union in Miami shared a year-old photo of Chief Art Acevedo appearing to flash the same "OK" hand gesture he suspended an officer for using last week amid allegations it represented "White power." "'Do as I say not as I do' I guess it [is] what we should get used to from now on," Miami Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 20 tweeted, sharing an image of Acevedo when he was still Houston's police chief. The photo shows Acevedo during a visit to Jack Yates High School in Houston last summer.


Ceres2030 offers path to ending world hunger within decade

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The world's small-scale farmers now can see a path to solving global hunger over the next decade, with solutions – such as adopting climate-resilient crops through improving extension services – all culled rapidly via artificial intelligence from more than 500,000 scientific research articles. The results are synthesized in 10 new research papers – authored by 77 scientists, researchers and librarians in 23 countries – as part of Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger. The project is headquartered at Cornell, with partners from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The papers were published concurrently on Oct. 12 in four journals – Nature Plants, Nature Sustainability, Nature Machine Intelligence and Nature Food – and assembled in a comprehensive package online: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger. Ceres2030 employed machine learning, librarian savvy and research synthesis methods to quickly scan a trove of thousands of scientific journals for ideas and websites from more than 60 agencies that can help eradicate world hunger.


Robots, Race Cars and Weather: Girl Scouts Offer New Badges

U.S. News

In this July 21, 2017 photo, Sylvia Acevedo, right, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, assists a member of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland as she builds a simple robotic arm during an introduction to the world of robotics in Owings Mills, Md. "It's really all about how do we capture that interest in science and technology," Acevedo said. "The other thing is the girls are learning not just how to do a specific skill but also how to think, how to think like an inventor, how to think like a creator, how to think like a maker. Those are the types of things that we want to ignite in the girls."