Rebecca Ellis
Writer
Communications, Content Localisation and Translation Services in the Areas of Technology, Human Rights, Fair Trade and Accountability
Technical Writing Samples
Technical writing samples from Google, Ford Motor Company and Wizeline
OpenAI
GenAI and the Language Arts
By retaining content experts rather than sacrificing them, tech companies can benefit from their linguistic training to interact with LLMs when developing genAI applications.
ethereumworldnews.com
Linea Blockchain Network Solution and Use Case Studies
Linea is a type of zkEVM L2 network, a second layer network, an Ethereum virtual machine that sits on top of Ethereum and participates in Ethereum’s security mechanism. Linea offloads transaction validation, reducing processing costs in the Ethereum execution environment by providing Ethereum with reports that transactions took place and were completed without revealing the details of each transaction. Linea preserves knowledge of the inner workings of these contracts while optimizing Ethereum's processing power.
ifpte21.org
In-House Innovation at SFO
Local 21 members just returned from Sacramento where their IT team received an award for government innovation in ground transport management at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
IT Chapter members Humphrey Loe and David Morales’ received the Best of California Awards 2015 at the Government Technology Forum in on August 13 from e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government for their leadership in developing an in-house app to manage transportation network company (TNC) traffic on ai...
Medium
Converging Internal Communications in Project Management
Converging Internal Communications in Project Management
Changing the Way Teams Work
Managing tasks in Trello, an easy-to-use task management took for marketing teams, just got easier.
In January 2017, Atlassian, the development and Agile management tool, purchased another management tool called Trello. Derided by a member of the development team at my company, VOPA, as a tool “for planning your wedding but not for developing executable software,” hardcore JIRA useres will now be able to cros...
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Back-To-School in Mexico « Rebecca Ellis
Last week’s traffic jams and long lines at the papelerías (stationery and paper goods stores) meant back-to-school for Mexico’s 27.5 million pupils. But not every kid went back to school today. According to INEGI, the national census institute of Mexico, 6 out of every 100 children ages 4 to 6 do not. Families of…
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Chile: From a Social Earthquake to a Political Tsunami – CIP Americas
In the face of the Sebastián Piñera administration’s ongoing disregard for the many social demands raised by students, indigenous populations, poor people and workers, social movements are converging and politicizing diverse sectors by rejecting the economic and political model inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Immigrants Join Protest as Occupy Wall Street Movement Grows ...
Sebastian Fernandez, 25, a graduate student born in Colombia, works the Spanish information desk of the Occupy Wall Street camp on the edge of Zucotti Park. At the corner of Liberty and Broadway, flanked by hot dog vendors and police barricades, he sits at a folding table laden with Spanish-language copies of the protest’s newspaper,…
cipamericas.org
Labor Reforms No Cause for Celebration in Mexico’s May Day Rallies
As many as 10,000 people assembled on the Zocalo, the main square of Mexico City last Wednesday to celebrate another anniversary of the Chicago Haymarket Rebellion that ushered in the labor movement at the turn of the century. This year’s May Day in Mexico came after a sweeping reform in its Federal Labor Law enacted this past December. Unions participating mostly protested the reforms, which they call a threat to the future of their jobs and wages.
internationallawobserver.eu
The Story of Amparo Laws in Mexico | International Law Observer | A ...
The Story of Amparo Laws in Mexico | International ...
Touro College
World-‐Traveling Surfer
and Rescue Worker Lands at Touro College’s Physician Assistant Program
and Rescue Worker Lands at Touro College’s Physician Assistant Program
The new clinical coordinator for Touro College’s School of Health Sciences physician assistant program has been around the world – literally.
A petite woman with long sandy-colored hair and lots of spunk, Mary Showstark sits behind her desk in a basement office at the Touro College health sciences school, her computer desktop graced with a dazzling background photograph taken in Tahiti. The photo depicts a dozen would-be surfers on boats and jet skis on the shelf of the massive 60-foot wave during a storm swell, calmly waiting under the wall of water for what appear to the untrained eye to be their imminent demise.
“It looks like it is going to crash over you, but you basically just soar over it,” Showstark explained. “However, there are a lot of accidents because there is only a three foot room for error.”