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So for one reason or another, I have several hundred dollars of Amazon.com gift cards. Accumulated over the past few years. The thing is, I don't buy anything from Amazon.com because I live in the UK, and the gift cards aren't transferrable between stores.
But now I'd like to get the cash equivalent. Somehow. There's something I'd like to buy from a US shop which has about the same value; it's not on Amazon.
I've never redeemed the gift codes, so it's easy to send them to someone who can use them. They're all still valid. Online gift card exchange sites are US-only, and expensive. Maybe I can find a person could buy from the other shop for me? But that's a big exercise in trust, so I guess I could take a dollar-sterling transaction forex hit. But even then, how will I even find someone who buys that much from Amazon.
Dunno. Any ideas? Any friends able to help?
The goal of this project is to create a device that will autonomously train crows.
Once we've got system down for teaching coin collection we'll move to seeing how flexibly they can learn other tasks, like collecting garbage, sorting through discarded electronics, or maybe even search and rescue.
The thing that gets me about this is that it's automatic.
Bruce Sterling on the Convergence of Humans and Machines.
Or not.
You never see a computer that is so young it cannot speak.
Various translations of the first sentence of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a horrible vermin.
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into an monstrous cockroach in his bed.
Poor Gregor.
Justin Long has automated Tinder using facial recognition.
using the facial recognition algorithm Eigenfaces I built a bot that learns when to swipe right (like a person) AND swipe left (dislike a person) AND start your conversations.
Tinderbox's pre-programmed chats include the opening:
"{name} are you a fan of avocados?"
And, following a positive reply:
"So if I asked you to have a guacamole party with me you'd do it?"
Only after all this does Tinderbox notify its human taskmaster that there's a match ready to chat.
Turns out Tinderbots are quite a thing. Here's something not real.
At 09:07 in the morning an Uber is automatically called for the female and 3 days later she will receive a heartfelt e-card / receipt. The algorithm will also wish her happy birthday on Facebook and like the top 20% of her Instagram photos as they are posted and start getting a lot of other likes. This continues until her Facebook relationship status switches away from single.
I wonder if you could automate a crow to Tinder for you.
By date finished...
Somewhere in Bee (originally published 1937) I finally twigged that, for thousands upon thousands of years in the west, bees were the source of sweetness (no beet or sugar cane in Europe); booze because mead is made from honey and was invented before beer; and, using wax, candles.
Bees: Tasty food, entertainment, artificial light. That's quite a technology.
In German, animals "devour" (fressen) food, and they "perish" (crepien). Except for humans and bees, who instead eat (essen) and die (sterben).
And this: [the bee] is the only creature that has come to us unchanged from Paradise.
Hardware-ish coffee morning was awesome today! Thank you for coming this HUGE CROWD of people: Tom T, Kirsty, Daniel, Gavin, Karey, Siri, Anna, Maximilian, Oliver, Sam, Tom W, Basil, Utku, Grace, Matt C-W, Aly, Mark, Mike, Reetta, Alex and Ben.
Lots of prototypes too... Fedelis which is like a physical key for smartphone touch screens, Radio Music which is a sample player that performs like an old-school radio, Ben's flood sensor for the Oxford Flood Network which is 1/100th the cost of existing ways of doing river sensing, and a sneak preview of Fabulous Beasts which is Alex's new game.
Phew! /breathes out
I had about a trillion conversations; my notebook is a blimmin mess.
Mark asked why are people interested in hardware at all?
which I thought showed a certain casualness with tact given the gathering and besides, the hardware company he himself started is now eight years old and he's done a ton more too. Anyway, Marc Andreessen's essay Why Software Is Eating The World is probably a decent starting point on that topic, with Internet of Things technologies making much of the physical world tractable to the same software-based transformation. Grace said that maybe it didn't matter why, just the itch that founders have to chase hardware down is enough to make it interesting and worthwhile.
Then a good chat with Grace on the usual challenge: Any hardware company has to lock up a bunch of capital between the factory and the consumer's hands... inventory on shop shelves, stock, parts, pre-orders, factory tooling... and a startup has to pump prime that pipeline with cash. Working capital is a poor use of equity financing. Kickstarter's pretty good, but my feeling is that you should cut margin to the bone with crowdfunding: Using Kickstarter to build a buying community is infinitely more valuable. So are there other pump priming financing options? Don't know. Would like to think of some.
Oddest chat of the morning:
Karey revealed that the portfolio on her website offers Party Mode. Click the button at the bottom of the page, and mouse over the various projects -- the page becomes an instrument, it's like a synth! And then, I swear I heard this right, when you use Party Mode, there's an Arduino in her studio that plays the music.
ALL OF WHICH LED US TO the idea that all websites should have their live stats played like ambient electronica in offices. And that somehow got recorded in my notes as what if Brian Eno cosplayed Google Analytics.
Oh yes, congratulations to Karey who is starting a new job with an Internet of Things company next week, bringing her funemployment to an end. And congratulations also to Sam who has just started with Little Riot who make Pillow Talk.
Coffee morning 7 will (probably) be three weeks from now, Thursday 19 March.
Join the coffee morning announce list for a reminder.
Thanks for coming everyone! Super good.
Currently, Russian and Finnish researchers are studying "palaeoacoustic" ringing rock sites on the shores of Lake Onega in Russia. They have found that the sound these natural stone "drums" make when struck is amplified by the surface of the lake, causing it to carry for kilometres around. The features are surrounded by concentrations of rock art.
So what gets me here is that the marks - the visual human intervention - the art - is a sign that there is something here that we can't see: In this case, a natural megaphone for rhythm.
From the same article:
The Native American tribes of the Great Lake region believed that a spirit world existed behind rock surfaces, which were conceived of as being like "membranes" between that world and this. ... their shamans could penetrate through cracks and crevices in the rock-face into the spirit world beyond, and also that spirits could pass through from behind it into the human world.
Sipapu is a Hopi word which refers to a small hole or indentation in the floor of kivas used by the ancient Pueblo peoples and modern-day Puebloans. It symbolizes the portal through which their ancient ancestors first emerged to enter the present world.
I saw these when I visited Mesa Verde a year or two back... funny having grown up in the west and seeing crucifixes everywhere as the dominant symbol: also the x-y axes of Cartesian space, that in the west we measure and situate our [world, values, selves] inside a shared and objective universe; also in Riddley Walker the Christ figure is conflated with Adam-the-first-man and Atom-which-is-split, arms out wide, being torn apart. Then to see an alternative symbol, an indentation, sipapu.
For the ancient Pueblo peoples, the sipapu - the place of emergence - is somewhere near the Grand Canyon: their ancestors emerged from the Third World through a crack, into this, the Fourth World, in a place known as Sipapu.
Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses, the magical translation by Ted Hughes.
I mean, read this.
Last comes the Age of Iron.
And the day of Evil dawns.
Go up like a mist - a morning sigh off a graveyard.Snares, tricks, plots come hurrying
Out of their dens in the atom.
Violence is an extrapolation
Of the cutting edge
Into the orbit of the smile.
Now comes the love of gain - a new god
Made out of the shadow
Of all the others. A god who peers
Grinning from the roots of the eye-teeth.Now sails bulged and the cordage cracked
In winds that still bewildered the pilots.
And the long trucks of trees
That had never shifted in their lives
From some mountain fastness
Leapt in their coffins
From wavetop to wavetop,
Them out over the rim of the unknown.
In Our Time episode on Metamorphosis.
Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed/ Into different bodies.
Ley lines and associated topics.
But why straight lines? Dobkin de Rios suspected that they derived from the entoptic patterning that occurs in the human cortex early in trance states as a result of poorly-understood neurophysiological mechanisms. These entoptic ("within vision") images are universal to the whole human race in all periods of time, and adhere to a specific range of "form constants" - grids, dots, webs, spirals and tunnel forms, arabesques, nested curves, lines, and so on.
And from Michael Witzel's origins and dispersal of our first mythologies,
Archetypes are those psychic contents that have not yet been submitted to conscious elaboration. Myth is the secondary elaboration of archetypes. Their images are embedded in a comprehensive system of thought that ascribes an order to the world. Common archetypes include the (great) Mother, the Father, the Hero, the Miraculous Child, the Wise woman, the Shadow. Since they are generally human, they can turn up everywhere and anytime in dreams, visions and myths.
This Laurasian approach suggests that there is a coherent mythology (with a common story line) for much of Eurasia, North Africa and the Americas.
the ultimate of origins of the universe and the world, subsequent generations of the gods, an age of semi-divine heroes, the emergence of humans, and the origins of "royal" lineages. It frequently includes a violent end to our present world, sometimes with the hope for a new world emerging out of the ashes. Ultimately, the universe is seen as a living body, in analogy to the human one: it is born from primordial incest, grows, develops, comes of age, and has to undergo decay and death
So. Yeah.
Artificial skylight that uses the same physics behind the sky being blue to create a blue sky.
Comes in a variety of models e.g. For enthusiasts of Nordic countries, CoeLux 30 is available, with a 30 degree angle beam relative to the horizon. It is a wall window and is capable of reproducing a warm, grazing light.
Archaeoacoustics, including this playful idea:
[A] trowel, like any flat plate, must vibrate in response to sound: thus, drawn over the wet surface by the singing plasterer, it must emboss a gramophone-type recording of his song in the plaster. Once the surface is dry, it may be played back.
Not true, but fun to believe this: He claimed to have extracted ... the word "blue" from an analysis of patch of blue color in a painting.
Also, reproducing the sound of drums in Stonehenge.
Also, extracting sounds from pictures of gramophone records in books.
Also, the ghost between the original recording of Suzanne Vega and an MP3.
Sci-fi books upcoming for 2015.
The world is ending, and the human race makes a desperate effort to get some survivors off the planet. Five thousand years later, the descendants of humanity are divided into seven different races, all of which decide to pay a visit to the old homeworld.
Robinson returns to the future after a sojourn in the distant past, and tells the story of the first ever arduous journey to another solar system.
In the Qur'an, Solomon understands the language of the ants.
Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said, "O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not."
So [Solomon] smiled, amused at her speech, and said [...]
Hey, let's have another hardware-ish coffee morning!
Thursday 26th February, 9.30am for a couple of hours, at the Book Club (100 Leonard St).
Do come! Usual game... zero structure, just a few like-minded people having coffee with a vague "making things" skew. There might be two of us, there might be ten. Probably somewhere in-between.
I think, if we're lucky, that one person who's going to come will bring their as-yet unreleased hardware prototype. That's what they've promised me anyhow.
All welcome, it would be lovely to see you :)
(For a reminder, join the coffee morning announce list.)
One of my earliest memories is my 4th birthday, or at least I'd always thought so till about 5 minutes ago. I used to remember it vividly: We'd moved into the new family house just about a month before, we're in the room with the heavy wooden furniture, my cake is on the big wood table and I blow the candles out. Now I can remember once having the vivid memory, but somewhere along the line the direct memory has faded.
But did we have furniture only a few weeks after moving in? It was imported, I know that much -- there's a story about the van carrying the cabinets and chairs and whatnot, charging off the ferry onto the land in a storm, catching the instant where the ramp is touching the jetty. So the timing doesn't add up for me. Maybe it was my fifth birthday or my sixth.
It's a happy memory, that birthday - my 4th or 5th or 6th - because I remember being delighted, and my family are there, and (maybe?) I was being picked up to blow out the candles, and (even more maybe?) my nan was there -- I mean, seriously, who knows.
So I carry all these different types of memories all bundled up: vivid ones, emotional impressions that anchor me to family, ones that might be literally true and others that are at least true in spirit, stories about ferries that I was never there for but none-the-less there they are, memories of memories. Things that happened yesterday, this morning, ten years ago, when I was ten, a memory - maybe - and I'm reaching here - a shock-wave backwards in time of what I'll do in 10 minutes, 10 weeks, 10 years: again, maybe true, maybe only true in spirit. All part of me.
I find that a hopeful picture, because it gives the idea of "memory" a broad reach, and I get to include the memories and stories that probably started elsewhere: my family, my friends, my pets, my books; all together, more or less, all alive, to a greater or lesser extent, in me.
That's my school t-shirt, my guess is we're in Kenya -- so I must be 6? Do I look 6? We went to Kenya when I was 6. I'm wearing my dad's expression, which is lovely to see.
37 today!
Once more around the sun, though not closing loops because the sun itself moves. So we carve a helix on the cosmos. Lives, screwed into spacetime.
SAAS = Software as a Service. History. Common biz model now: Software is no longer sold like retail, it's sold like subscriptions.
A good rule of thumb for SAAS startups: the 40% rule. Your annual revenue growth rate + your operating margin should equal 40%
So, if you are growing 100% year over year, you can lose money at a rate of 60% of your revenues
If you are growing 40% year over year, you should be breaking even
The idea being that it makes sense to spend money for growth.
It wasn't always accepted that you could charge money for software. Bill Gates cemented the idea of software=property in his 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists. Jim Warren's response that same year:
There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning "ripping off" software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it's easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won't be "stolen".
SAAS shows a viable alternative to that viable alternative: You don't need to cut prices. You make duplication impossible (you don't ship source code when you host the servers) and distribution trivial (just punch in your credit card).
Getting going as a SAAS company is tough. Getting the first few clients is scrappy, especially because their expectations aren't yet set. Formal work orders help nail this down.
The Y Combinator Sales Template Agreement is excellent -- the first page is a box-filling exercise which helps you think about what you're selling. Service fees, initial term, one-off implementation fee, pilot limitations.
After the scrappy stage: what product/market fit looks like for SAAS.
It's something like $100k MRR (monthly recurring revenue) and 10% month-on-month growth.
Before that, Do not pour on the gas at this point.
I'm trying to remember who described Series A financing to me like this... they said: You're Series A ready when you've found a lever that costs you one quid to pull and when you pull it, two quid drops out.
That's when you pour on the gas!
The lever is product/market fit. You've discovered the product, you've found who wants it, and you've got the sales machine to sell it.
Systematizing Sales With Software And Processes: How to move upmarket from a low-touch sales SaaS into a more rigorous sales process, without losing your sanity.
Fantastic insights; great resource. Medium touch.
Lightweight tools to run a sales pipeline include Close.io and Pipedrive.
For low-touch or a more B2C model, a good user growth pipeline is: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue.
Comprehensive resource on how to use emails for user growth.
More about that growth pipeline aka the pirate metrics, because the acronym is AARRR.
So I'm thinking about SAAS for three reasons.
On that last point, I know the team at Winnow. Winnow is working with kitchens small and large to tackle food waste.
It's a web-connected weigh-scale that sits under the bin in commercial kitchens, and a subscription to their service that has led to waste reductions of 30% to 70% by value.
Easy ROI for customers.
Hardware + recurring revenue. Neat.
See also: In the smart home, SmartThings is introducing a premium subscription service. Samsung says the service will enable SmartThings to automatically send users or other contacts a text when it detects a problem in the house, such as a flood or fire.
It's necessary...
Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) says:
a really great idea ends up with three innovations -- product service, product distribution, and revenue model
LinkedIn was a product service innovation. But it also innovated in distribution: Users invited their contacts, so it traversed the social networks and spread without ad spend. And revenue, LinkedIn made freemium work.
In the hardware world, I see a ton of great products from startups. BUT:
Everyone's still experimenting with revenue... 30% product margin won't cut it, and that's why Winnow is interesting. And distribution hasn't been cracked: Physical stuff has such a tough challenge with virality compared with, say, apps... it's hard to hear about and hard to buy. Still looking for good examples of hardware startups innovating there.
What's the SAAS flip for hardware?
No coffee morning this week... busy busy busy. I'm Entrepreneur in Residence at Techstars London, and the Winter 2014 cohort is gearing up for its Demo Day on Friday. It's a cross between a massive pitch (several hundred investors will be there) and a debutante ball. So all the startups are doing a ton of prep - they get 5 minutes each - I'm helping out where I can.
Next coffee morning (what it is) will be next Thurs, Feb 26.
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How to Find the Best Staffing Services & Recruiters in the San Fernando Valley
Temporary Agencies (temp agencies) in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando and the San Fernando Valley, also known as job placement agencies, employment agencies and temp staffing services, can arrange temporary employees (temps), contract workers, and temporary-to-permanent employees (temp-to-perm employees). Other kinds of firms, so-called "headhunters" or executive recruiters can fill higher-paid permanent positions by getting you people already successfully employed in that same position at another company. Remember, cheap staffing services in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando are often not the best staffing services.The following research by The Prime Buyer's Report identifies the best staffing & temp services in the San Fernando Valley and issues related to hiring them.
Updated September 27, 2013
The TOP 10 Temp Agencies & Staffing Services in the San Fernando Valley CA
Unlimited Labor Professionals |
(818) 893-6747 9608 Van Nuys Blvd # 108 Panorama City, CA 91402 |
Areas Served: Burbank CA, Studio City CA, Sherman Oaks CA, Van Nuys CA, Woodland Hills CA, Reseda CA
K Force Professional Staffing |
(818) 808-1500 15760 Ventura Blvd # 1230 Encino, CA 91436 |
Areas Served: Van Nuys CA, Burbank CA, Santa Clarita Valley, Studio City CA, Chatsworth CA, Reseda CA
Aerotek Staffing Agency |
(818) 672-0800 8550 Balboa Blvd # 234 Northridge, CA 91325 |
Areas Served: Studio City CA, Sherman Oaks CA, Burbank CA, Encino CA, Woodland Hills CA, Sylmar CA
Sharf Woodward & Associates Inc |
(818) 989-2200 5900 Sepulveda Blvd # 104 Van Nuys, CA 91411 |
Areas Served: San Fernando Valley, Burbank CA, Encino CA, Chatsworth CA, Calabasas CA, Van Nuys CA
Exact Staff Inc |
(818) 348-1100 21031 Ventura Blvd # 501 Woodland Hills, CA 91364 |
Areas Served: North Hollywood CA, Burbank CA, Van Nuys CA, Studio City CA, Woodland Hills CA
United Staffing Service Inc |
(661) 253-4466 28159 Avenue Stanford # 160 Valencia, CA 91355 |
Areas Served: Santa Clarita Valley, Castaic, Santa Clarita CA, Sylmar CA, San Fernando Valley
CLP Resources |
(818) 787-4693 15355 Sherman Way Van Nuys, CA 91406 |
Areas Served: Chatsworth CA, Studio City CA, Sherman Oaks CA, Burbank CA, Santa Clarita CA, Encino CA
On Assignment Inc |
(818) 878-7900 26745 Malibu Hills Rd Agoura Hills, CA 91301 |
Areas Served: Northridge CA, Burbank CA, Calabasas CA, Woodland Hills CA, Studio City CA, Van Nuys CA
How to Find the Best Staffing Services & Recruiters in the San Fernando Valley
Staffing services in the San Fernando Valley are not required to be licensed by the State, nor are they legally required to have professional liability insurance to protect you the client from financial loss due to an error, however all staffing services bearing The Prime Buyer's Report—TOP 10 symbol have liability insurance for your protection, in addition to passing all of the other requirements for certification as Prime Buyer's Report TOP 10 such as our research phone calls to their previous clients to verify high satisfaction, hiring only documented workers, sufficient length of time in business, clean complaint record, and more.
Choose Good Temp Agencies in the San Fernando Valley
Temp agencies and staffing services in the San Fernando Valley offer various types of job placement services ranging from short-term employees and contract employees to long-term and even temporary-to-permanent employees. To be sure you're getting the best temps or permanent employees available in the San Fernando Valley for the positions you need filled, make sure you've chosen one of the good temp agencies in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando.
Temporary agencies / temp agencies in the San Fernando Valley are employment agencies that fill temporary positions. These temporary employment firms may supply contract employees or seasonal employees as short-term temporary staffing solutions. Other temporary job placement agencies specialize in temporary-to-permanent job placement (also called temp-to-perm employment), where you hire temporary employees that you can later convert to permanent employees by paying an additional fee to the temp agency, usually a flat fee that was specified at the time of hire of the temp, or a percentage of the total annual pay for the permanent position you wish to hire the temp for.
Job search firms and executive search firms are often industry-specific staffing services that find temporary workers or permanment employees for businesses in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando. These job search firms often specialize in technology fields or other specific industry groups that require a skilled workforce.
Contingency employment agencies are those job banks and temp firms in the San Fernando Valley that fill low- and mid-level positions. Contingency employment agencies supply temp employees in the San Fernando Valley on an as-needed basis and may not have a formal relationship with the companies for which they find temporary employees.
Retained search firms in the San Fernando Valley are staffing services that have long-term relationships with their business clients. These retained search firms usually supply senior-level employment candidates or highly skilled temporary employees. Search firms are always looking for qualified, skilled temporary employees that fit the specific requirements of their clients for which they provide temporary and temporary-to-permanent employees in the San Fernando Valley.
Headhunters / Executive Recruiters in the San Fernando Valley typically specialize in certain industries. They will recruit candidates for the permanent position you need filled by making calls to people already in that role at another company, often your competitors. But some headhunters and executive recruiters in the San Fernando Valley do accept and file resumes on an ongoing basis from qualified applicants until the need arises based on a request they get from a client.
HR Outsourcing in the San Fernando Valley are not merely staffing services but companies to whom all human resourcing is outsourced. As Human Resource Outsourcing services, or a PEO (Professional Employer Organization), they are the employer of record for the staff they provide and become a co-employer of your current employees while they take care of adminstration of all your employees including tax adminstration, employee benefits management, workers' comp insurance, etc.
Shop Ahead of Time for Temp Agencies in the San Fernando Valley
Many businesses don't think about finding a temporary help service ahead of time. Instead, they end up relying on the first temp agency they can reach in a staffing emergency. However, your business can save money by thinking about and planning for a relationship with a local temp agency in the San Fernando Valley before you need them.
Temp firms provide different levels of staffing services, so it's important to build relationships with temp agencies and job recruiters in the San Fernando Valley so you'll know the good ones you can rely on when the time comes.
Some temporary employment agencies in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando CA only contract certain types of temps with specific job skills, such as secretarial employment agencies and technical employment agencies. So before you need immediate staffing services, make sure the staffing service can supply the right kind of temporary employees for your business on short notice.
If your business needs to hire temp employees to work with high security information, be sure to ask each of the temp agencies about their screening process for new hires. The best temp agencies in the San Fernando Valley are bonded and insured to cover any theft or security breaches by temporary employees.
How To Save Money By Hiring Temps Through Temp Agencies in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando
You can save money if you develop an ongoing relationship now with good staffing services and executive recruiters in the San Fernando Valley, because many offer special rates for temporary help if you contract to hire exclusively through their employment agency or recruiting firm. Others may waive fees during a specified training period for companies that need to first train the temporary workers for special projects.
Most importantly, the best temp agencies in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando guarantee the services of their temporary workers. That means if a temp doesn't work out, they will find another contract employee to fill the position free of charge or will waive any fees for temporary workers who do not work out.
Hiring so-called permatemps in the San Fernando Valley is another way to save money with temporary workers. These temporary employees are still employed through the temp agencies in the San Fernando Valley, so you don't usually have to pay for benefits or pay taxes on their labor. The hiring company also has fewer responsibilities to these temporary employees, meaning they can be laid off or replaced at any time. Yet these permatemps are long-term temporary employees who perform work similar to that of regular employees.
If your firm is looking to hire permanent employees in the San Fernando Valley but you'd like to try them in temp jobs as a trial first, talk with some of the staffing services beforehand. There's usually additional fees if later you wish to transition the temporary employees into permanent positions at your company. Consider these fees ahead of time when choosing among the temp agencies.
Find Temp Jobs in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando
If you're looking for temp jobs in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando, know that temporary staffing services find temp jobs for more than two million people nationally every day. Temp agencies in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando CA hire contract employees, short-term and long-term employees and temp-to-perm employees in positions ranging from assistants to CEOs.
Many like the freedom offered by some temp jobs in the San Fernando Valley. Some temporary jobs last only one or two days, while other short-term employment positions are only a week or two in duration. This means you can try out a number of temp positions in various fields. This flexibility and the varied work assignments offered by many temp jobs can appeal to younger workers and recent college graduates.
You can also find long-term employment and even permanent jobs through job placement services in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando. In fact, the ASA (American Staffing Association) says that more than 90% of American companies hire temporary employees through employment agencies and many of those jobs last for months, with many offering the option for the San Fernando Valley temporary employees to transition to full-time jobs.
There are a few important items to verify with employment firms in the San Fernando Valley:
• Be sure the temp agencies you're applying to specialize in the type of work you are seeking. Some employment firms and headhunters only accept job applications from individuals with certain qualifications or for certain positions. Others may only hire temporary workers for full time or part time positions.
• If you're looking for temporary to permanent employment, ask upfront about the possibility of long-term job placement and temp-to-perm employment.
• Ask temp agencies in the San Fernando Valley about their contract specifications. Some employment services offer benefits, holidays, bonuses and 401K benefits.
• Before you accept temporary jobs through employment agencies, ask about contract specifications including if and how the temp agencies intervene if there is a conflict and what type of notice is required if you plan to leave your temporary job.
• Find out if you will be considered a self-employed independent contractor or an employee of the temp agencies when you work though staffing services in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando. Self-employed independent contractors must carry their own insurance and pay self-employment taxes while temp agencies often cover insurance and tax responsibilities for their temps.
Some Temp Agencies in the San Fernando Valley Are Much Better than Others
The Prime Buyer's Report lists these companies for staffing in the San Fernando Valley CA: United Staffing Service Inc, Unlimited Labor Professionals, CLP Resources, Exact Staff Inc, Sharf Woodward & Associates Inc, Aerotek Staffing Agency, K Force Professional Staffing, On Assignment Inc. Other staffing services in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando CA that might still be in business include: .
Questions to Ask Staffing Services in Burbank, Chatsworth, Reseda, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita and San Fernando CA
When it comes to hiring from a temp agency or a recruitment service in the San Fernando Valley, ask these questions about their abilities, specialities, experience, and credentials.
• How large is their current pool of temporary employees or candidates for permament staffing?
• How long have they been in business?
• How soon can the temps start at your business? How long in advance do they usually need requests for temps?
• How long have they been providing staffing services in the San Fernando Valley CA specifically? (A national franchise may have years in business but the local owner you're speaking to could be relatively new to the industry.)
• How many clients do they have in the same industry as you and with a similar number of employees as you do?
• Can they supply employees with the specific skill sets you require (secretarial employees, manual labor employees, technology workers, executives etc.)?
• What is their fee structure?
• What would the fee be later if you decide to make the temp a permanent hire at your business?
• Can they give you names and phone numbers of clients that you call as references? (All staffing services bearing the Prime Buyer's Report—TOP 10 symbol have already had their client references called by research staff at The Prime Buyer's Report so you don't have to.)
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Data Center Agency Personnel Agoura Hills CA 91376
Independent Resource Systems Agoura Hills CA 91301
Madison Brown & Associates Agoura Hills CA 91301
Myerson Agency Agoura Hills CA 91301
On Assignment Inc Agoura Hills CA 91301
PL Enterprises Agoura Hills CA 91301
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Arleta CA
Chrysalis Arleta CA 91331
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Burbank CA
A Plus The Employment Co LLC Burbank CA 91505
Accountemps Burbank CA 91505
Executive Temps Burbank CA 91506
Foothill Consulting Group Inc Burbank CA 91502
GCA Production Service Inc Burbank CA 91502
Kevin Girl Friday Burbank CA 91505
Mainstay Business Solutions Burbank CA 91502
Modis Burbank CA 91505
Net Pay Plus Inc Burbank CA 91504
Ronin Group Burbank CA 91502
Spherion Burbank CA 91522
Spherion Burbank CA 91505
Temps On Time-the Employment Burbank CA 91501
Trademark Staffing Solutions Burbank CA 91506
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Calabasas CA
Equis Calabasas CA 91302
Management Recruiters-Woodland Calabasas Hills CA 91301
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Sweet P Calabasas CA 91302
Thor Agency Calabasas CA 91302
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Ee Connections LLC Canoga Park CA 91303
Hunt Recruiting Service Canoga Park CA 91303
Inspiron Inc Canoga Park CA 91303
VTI Staffing Professionals Canoga Park CA 91304
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Canyon Country CA
Canon Recruiting Insurance Canyon Country CA 91387
Encore Staffing Solution Inc Canyon Country CA 91387
Motek Technologies Canyon Country CA 91387
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Champion Employer Service Chatsworth CA 91311
Miller-Hanna & Associates Chatsworth CA 91311
Pirate Staffing Employment Agency Chatsworth CA 91311
Rj Westmore Corp Chatsworth CA 91311
Volt Temporary Service Chatsworth CA 91311
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A Team Staffing Encino CA 91316
Adecco Employment Service Encino CA 91436
Betty Blue Encino CA 91316
Cal-West Educators Placement Encino CA 91316
First Choice Employment Agency Encino CA 91436
K Force Professional Staffing Encino CA 91436
Kevoe Executive Search Encino CA 91436
Manpower Encino CA 91436
On Assignment Healthcare Encino CA 91316
Staffing for Hire Encino CA 91436
Valley Domestics Agency Encino CA 91316
Winford Group Encino CA 91436
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Quality Imaging Service Granada Hills CA 91344
Advancement Personnel Agency Granada Hills CA 91344
Personnel Plus Granada Hills CA 91344
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Staffmark Mission Hills CA 91345
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Labor Ready Inc North Hills CA 91343
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Select Staffing North Hollywood CA 91605
Star Employment Agency North Hollywood CA 91601
Versi Staff Solutions North Hollywood CA 91605
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Northridge CA
Aerotek Staffing Agency Northridge CA 91325
California Temp Service Northridge CA 91324
Volt Services Group Northridge CA 91325
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Kimco Staffing Solutions Panorama City CA 91402
Unlimited Labor Professionals Panorama City CA 91402
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Hartwell Staffing San Fernando CA 91340
Workforce Outsourcing San Fernando CA 91340
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Eclipse Staffing Intl Santa Clarita CA 91350
Labor Finders Santa Clarita CA 91351
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Agency Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Apple One Employment Service Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Aven Care Providers Inc Sherman Oaks CA 91423
Buckingham Domestics Sherman Oaks CA 91423
DCC Staffing Service Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Direct Hire Associates Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Financial Job Network Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Genesis Staffing Inc Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Hr Lynx Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Jason Best Agency Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Perfecto Staffing Inc Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Royal Staffing Service Sherman Oaks CA 91423
Tech Exec Partners Sherman Oaks CA 91403
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ACT 1 Personnel Service Studio City CA 91604
American Job Referral Studio City CA 91604
Hoffmann Search Studio City CA 91604
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Sun Valley CA
Sun Valley One Stop Sun Valley CA 91352
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Sylmar CA
People Link Sylmar CA 91392
LDS Employment Resource Service Sylmar CA 91342
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Tarzana CA
Abrusia & Associates Tarzana CA 91356
Advanced Medical Placement Tarzana CA 91356
Alliance Management Systems Tarzana CA 91356
Best Choice Domestic Service Tarzana CA 91356
Brenner It Staffing Inc Tarzana CA 91356
LVM Employment Domestic Agency Tarzana CA 91356
Top Domestic Agency Tarzana CA 91356
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Universal City CA
Office Team Universal City CA 91608
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Apple One Employment Service Valencia CA 91355
Barrington Staffing Service Valencia CA 91355
Exact Staff Inc Valencia CA 91355
Express Services Group Valencia CA 91355
Innovative Staff Management Valencia CA 91355
Personnel Plus Valencia CA 91355
Quantum Staffing Inc Valencia CA 91355
Sage Staffing Valencia CA 91355
Select Remedy Valencia CA 91355
Select Staffing Valencia CA 91355
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Westaff Valencia CA 91355
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Career Options Van Nuys CA 91406
CLP Resources Van Nuys CA 91406
Heavy Industrial Personnel Van Nuys CA 91401
Kaz Tron Van Nuys CA 91406
Mainstay Business Solutions Van Nuys CA 91411
MDT Personnel Van Nuys CA 91401
New Economics for Women Van Nuys CA 91405
Select Personnel Service Van Nuys CA 91406
Sharf Woodward & Associates Inc Van Nuys CA 91411
Spherion Van Nuys CA 91402
Staff Chex Inc Van Nuys CA 91405
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Express Employment West Hills CA 91307
Executive Recruiters & Staffing Woodland Hills CA
All About Staffing Woodland Hills CA 91367
Allstar Staffing Woodland Hills CA 91364
Apple One Employment Service Woodland Hills CA 91367
Axiom Technology Woodland Hills CA 91367
Barrington Staffing Service Woodland Hills CA 91364
California Alternative Woodland Hills CA 91364
Career Strategies Inc Woodland Hills CA 91364
Criterion Resources Woodland Hills CA 91367
Exact Staff Inc Woodland Hills CA 91364
General Employment Enterprises Woodland Hills CA 91367
Joyful Care Service Woodland Hills CA 91364
Kelly Scientific Resources Woodland Hills CA 91367
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Labor Ready Inc Woodland Hills CA 91367
Ledgent Woodland Hills CA 91367
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Mommy's Domestic Agency Woodland Hills CA 91367
Ocj Group Woodland Hills CA 91367
Omnikron Systems Inc Woodland Hills CA 91367
PEAK Technical Service Inc Woodland Hills CA 91367
Priority Staffing Woodland Hills CA 91303
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Q: At the end of the ramp from Interstate 787 to Madison Avenue, there are three or four lanes but no lane markings. There is a left only lane, two straight only lanes and I believe a right only lane. There are no lane markings, and it causes confusion and near accidents all the time. People […]
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Washington Avenue Ext. could use some changes made
Q: Two fixes are needed on Washington Avenue Extension at Crossgates Commons (Home Depot & Walmart Plaza), especially since they are building a new store at the entrance. First, they need a sign facing the traffic entering from Washington Avenue Extension saying something like "Oncoming Traffic Does NOT Stop." I can't tell you how many […]
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Route 9 could use some lines
Q: Why aren't there dashed lines indicating the two straight lanes in Clifton Park when heading northbound on Route 9 crossing over Route 146? The road curves slightly to the left in the middle of the intersection, so before the light the left lane appears to be visually lined up with the right lane after […]
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Why are some dividing lines bigger than others?
Q: Sometime back, I think under Governor Pataki, the state Department of Transportation and the Thruway Authority announced that pavement divider lines and road side lines (fog lines?) were going to become wider so that drivers, especially older drivers, could more easily see them. The lines did actually become wider, and the new width was […]
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
"Quality of Life" Tax Looms
I blogged about the unfortunately named Quality of Life Tax back in December 2006. It is beginning to surface again and we need to keep our eyes on this beast before it mutates into something larger.
"Many elected officials...agreed that a new sales tax ranging from a quarter cent to a half cent on the dollar is needed,"
California sales tax is already a whopping 7.75% DOES THIS REALLY NEED TO BE RAISED???
Read the NCT's SANDAG sets stage for 'quality-of-life' tax
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- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2008 7:40 AM
I have a bigger revenue source. Fire slacky government workers.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 8:12 AM
SANDAG was a major force in destroying our quality of life. Now they want to tax us to try to bring it back.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 10:32 AM
They want to tax to continue to destroy quality of life.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousFebruary 21, 2008 12:54 AM
bob is correct, there should be a reduction in population... bob first.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousFebruary 21, 2008 10:30 AM
Bob, I watched you on tv at the Council Meeting last night, speaking.
Good job.
Hey, the NCTD is messing up, too. Lots of flooding going on in Oceanside due to violations by NCTD caused by the Sprinter line. Read about it in last week's Reader. Also, Turko Files featured how businesses in Oceanside were being flooded.
Jerome Stocks is partly responsible for this mess. He's on the board, as we know. - AnonymousFebruary 22, 2008 11:12 AM
Is this shades of things to come for Encinitas?
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Richard Thomas Davis, 63, Mt. Juliet, died Monday, Sept. 23. Rick was National Sales Director for Gards Specialist Company for 15 years. He was the son of the late, Jesse Graham And Pauline Hight Davis. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Glen Davis. Funeral services were Saturday, Sept. 28 at Bond Memorial Chapel with Rev. Russ Stephens officiating. Flowers accepted or memorials may be made to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942. Visitation was prior to service Saturday at Bond Memorial Chapel, N. Mt. Juliet Road and Weston Drive, Mt. Juliet, TN. (615)773-2663. Obit Line (615)641-2663, www.bondmemorial.com. |
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Did anybody else realize he called those appointed to committees instead of him "underlings or underling's underlings"? How disrespectful can this man get? Most of those appointed (if I'm not mistaken) were county employees. No matter how high or low on the totem pole they are, they still work hard for little pay to help keep this county running and also serving the residents of this county. To call them an underling, regardless if it's the county manager or the guy who empty's the trash at a park, is more disrespectful than ANYTHING he has done. Looks like Berger really is the person that he claims he is trying to fight. RESIGN!!!!!! »
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02/29/12 On Saturday, February 25th around 8:30 a.m. the Marshall County Dispatch Center was advised of a single vehicle rollover collision on Muckshaw Road just south of Nutmeg Ridge Drive. While responding to the scene it was reported by a bystander that the male driver appeared to be intoxicated. During the investigation it was...
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Red Cross to Host Reconnection Worshops, Presented by Wal-Mart
02/29/12 The American Red Cross, Marshall County Chapter, is offering Reconnection Workshops, Presented by Wal-Mart to ease the transition of military members returning to civilian life. The first workshop will take place on Tuesday, March 6 at the Plymouth Public Library. "Deployments are a fact of life in the military," said John Pinter,...
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County Officer Arrests Two
02/29/12 On Saturday, February 25th, Patrolman Jonathan Bryant of the Marshall County Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle at the intersection of US 31 and Michigan Road. During the investigation, it was found that driver, John Good 52, of Plymouth was operating while intoxicated and operating a vehicle while endangering...
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Bremen Man Arrested on Two Charges
02/29/12 On Monday, February 27 about 10:50 a.m. an off duty Bremen Police Officer observed 54 year old Keith Peto of Woodies Lane operating a motor vehicle near the intersection of West Plymouth Street and Hope Boulevard in Bremen. The officer knew Mr. Peto had been convicted of being a habitual traffic violator from a previous arrest. The off-duty...
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Riverside Intermediate School "School to Watch" to be Honored in D.C.
02/29/12 The Indiana Middle Level Education Assn (IMLEA), state office for Schools to Watch is proud to announce the newly designated Indiana Schools to Watch for 2012: Riverside Intermediate School in Plymouth tops the list with other schools including Christel House Academy in Indianapolis, Franklin Community Middle School in Franklin, and Hebron Middle...
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St. Paddy's DAY Dash to Benefit Eric Day
02/29/12 As Plymouth High School 2010 graduate Eric Day continues his treatments in Bloomington for a brain tumor his friends, family, and hopefully the entire community is stepping up to help. On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, the PHS Pep Club and Bruce's "Big Grill" BBQ along with organizer Kelsey Flynn will be...
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02/29/12 The Lincoln Junior High Wrestling Team had another great showing this past Saturday at the LaVille "King of the Mat" Super-duals. The young Rockies went 5-0 on the day, pushing their season record to 18-0. Lincoln's track record for the day was a great one defeating opponents by wide margins all...
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Afternoon Tea to Kick-off 2012 One Book One Town Marshall County
02/29/12 One Book, One Town-Marshall County will be kicking off this year's event with an afternoon tea this Sunday, March 4 at 2:00 p.m. at the Marshall County Museum. The tea party that will bring you back to the days of hoopskirts and high society. Guests will sample Civil War era teas, sandwiches...
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S.240 - Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act113th Congress (2013-2014)
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Ryan + Ava | 19 Sep 2014 |
There is no rush to have the grand wedding of your dreams. Ryan and Ava are great proof of that. They have been together for a long time and with kids in tow, too. They persevered with great faith and they finally did it. God's time is always the best time. Also, it means they're in the ranks of Brad and Angelina. :)
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UST Chapel for the first time. Pretty cool. You will also find Jan's niece hamming it up for the camera and we happily, and continuously obliged.
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TOURSMennonite Farm Tours, Sleigh Rides Spring - fall, a fun and informative horse-drawn trolley tour travels from St. Jacobs Farmers' Market along tranquil country roads to a typical Old Order Mennonite mixed farming operation. Winter sleigh rides and sugar bush tours in early spring too! |
Waterloo Central Railway Take a heritage railway ride between Waterloo, St. Jacobs Famers' Market and the Village of St. Jacobs. Special event trains throughout the year too! Check for dates and ticket information here: www.waterloocentralrailway.com |
St. Jacobs Farmers' Market & "Mennonite Country" Food Tour Enjoy a full day tour including St Jacobs Farmers Market, brewery tasting, a journey into the heart of Mennonite country for lunch and a farm visit. Pick up locations in Toronto and Waterloo. Select dates; call or email to reserve your seat! bucketlisttraveladventures.com |
TRAILSThe St. Jacobs Millrace Footpath Stroll the St. Jacobs portion of the Trans Canada Trail! This 2 km footpath follows an 1860s vintage millrace that was constructed beside the Conestogo River to serve the power needs of the gristmill. A lovely walk in any season. Trail head located behind The Mill parking lot. |
Trails in Woolwich Township Woolwich Township boasts eleven trails totalling more than 80 kilometres, for walking, cycling, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, many along the picturesque Conestogo and Grand Rivers or its tributaries. |
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Business & EconomyDriving change Travelling from village to village in northern Argentina, one man works to find lasting solutions to endemic problems. Viewfinder | 13 Mar 2014 17:31 GMT | Business & Economy, Environment, Latin America, Argentina, Bolivia In rural, northern Argentina, profound economic isolation and severe environmental conditions are the order of the day. It is a region of the country called 'The Impenetrable' where there are few resources and fewer opportunities to change the day-to-day grind of rugged circumstances and disenfranchisement. For Fernando Ibarra, an engineer and starry-eyed inventor, the region is his own personal laboratory, and this hardscrabble reality presents a fresh challenge - a place to develop and test drive solutions for almost every situation. This film is a journey that takes us into this world. The story unfolds as Fernando travels through the region, in his funky 1947 truck named "Gasogene", identifying both the projects he hopes to take on and the people he can work with to develop long-term solutions to local problems. Fernando's goal is not to be a "visiting angel" but to develop a core group of locally based leaders that can contribute to solving their own issues using sustainable and available resources. He is committed to infusing the next generation with a passion for respecting resources and encouraging them to build home "grown" projects that they can develop, manage and operate themselves. Filmmaker's view By Marcelo F Perez In the Argentinean territory, the region expands by a northern province called Chaco and is known as 'Monte Impenetrable' . It is one of the most isolated and least populated areas. Currently there are 60,000 people - mostly indigenous, peasants and small farmers - who reside there, all grouped in scattered villages and small settlements. It is part of a region of 1,000,000 square kilometres shared by Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay and is one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet. Through my work, my relationship with this region has been varied, from the human to the environmental. This is how I become acquainted with the engineer Fernando Ibarra as he was touring 'The Impenetrable' in his 1947 Ford truck. It is a huge monster of a machine - originally designed for battlefields - that he transformed mechanically so that the fuel is produced from a wood-burning stove. As soon as I met him, I knew I had come across a very good story. Marcelo F Perez - I have spent 25 years navigating the documentary universe. I started out as a self-taught filmmaker at the end of the '80s. At that time, where I lived in the northern end of Argentina, television production was very precarious. Even today, we are far removed from the great centres of production in our country but our possibilities are growing. At the end of the '90s I won a scholarship to study filmmaking at the prestigious National School of Experimentation and Cinematographic Realization (ENERC) in Buenos Aires. In the years that have followed I have been growing as a filmmaker, committed to producing independent documentaries. I have often collaborated with international NGOs. For much of the period between 2004 and 2007 I spent time in the rural communities of Bolivia and Peru, searching for local community development projects. Most recently I have been producing and directing a documentary series for Open Digital Television in Argentina (Televisión Digital Abierta. TDA). This is the first project I have directed for an international broadcaster. To design and develop a gasifier that would meet the requirements of a combustion V8 engine (thereby replacing gasoline) was the initial purpose of the project for Fernando. If that worked, it could lead to so much more. But soon the transformation of a truck, originally made for war, into something with a completely different 'life' became more than just symbolic. It came to represent something that transcends borders and highlights the world's need to develop alternative energy resources, and to once more look at some of the older technology more readily available in these isolated areas. Once this beast was awakened, Fernando used it to carry some of the other machines he had developed over the years: individual water treatment plants, water extraction pumps driven - literally - by horse power, and mechanical systems that optimise the performance of the solar panels; each designed to help local communities replace conventional, petroleum-based energy, electricity grids or natural gas. The story of Driving change focuses on two specific aspects of this trip: the installation of a refrigerator that Fernando and his team developed to work with wood; and finding teams to enable each community to develop and sustain their own alternative technology. The final destination was School #593 in 'La Illusion' . It is a small and poorly constructed building that is home to a dozen students from different primary grades and where access to electricity is limited to a few hours. In 'La Illusion' , the teacher Dario Gomez faces severe challenges and strives daily to ensure that the children lack nothing, despite the extreme conditions of life. His desire to have a working refrigerator was in the hope of improving their nutrition, since it would be the only way they could preserve fresh foods such as meat, vegetables and fruits. When we joined Fernando, we witnessed the meeting with the villagers, the daily lives of rural school children, the enthusiasm for this new technology, and their disappointments when the fridge did not initially work as expected. Driving change is a documentary that portrays a moment in time that is part of a long community process which began much earlier and will continue long into the future. Producing this film is a unique opportunity to make known to the world that, in a very poor area of South America, ideas are brewing that contribute to finding local alternatives to a global problem of ending the planet's dependence on conventional energy. In Pictures: This episode of Viewfinder can be seen from Monday, March 17, at the following times GMT: Monday: 2230; Tuesday: 0930; Wednesday: 0330; Thursday: 1630. Click here for more on Viewfinder . Source: Al Jazeera
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