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First Aired - 07/15/2010 01:00PM
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Dan Breindel interviews Christine Datz-Romero live from the Tekserve E-Waste Event on July 10th, 2010.
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First Aired - 04/29/2012 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course, Patrick gets a chance to sit down with David Lerner and Kevin Hart of Tekserve, New York's premiere authorized Apple Reseller and Service provider. Learn how Tekserve has survived the times and served as an honest and independent technological resource for decades. Learn more about how Apple products have changed over the years and why soldering is a thing of the past when it comes to repairs. Learn more about their E-Waste program here. This program was sponsored by Fairway Market.
"Slow electronics doesn't work as well as slow food. People are in a hurry!"
"The repair world is changing drastically. We used to do a lot of soldering and now it will move more towards swapping units."
--David Lerner of Tekserve on The Main Course
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The Main Course Week in Review (9:37)
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Week in Review, Design Sponge, Grace Bonney, Post Produced HRN Content,David Lerner & Kevin Hart of Tekserve (13:27)
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Tekserve, David Lerner, Kevin Hart, Apple, computers, technology, bitmap screen, non text based computer, desktop publishing, WBAI, computer repairs, out of warranty repair, consultations, sustainable coke machine, complex storage solutions,Corporations, Data Recovery & E-Waste (11:49)
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recycling, corporate accounts, legacy products, Microsoft, data recovery, Steve Jobs, sales trends, Apple vs PC, data backup, rentals, Lower East Side Ecology Center, E-Waste, iPhone, Mac Air,Marco Forneris of Lalibera & Mike Sullivan of Cochon555 (16:19)
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Marco Forneris, Lalibera, Piedmonte cuisine, Italy, Radio Bra Onde Rosse, materia prima, food valley, olive oil, salt roads, wineries, Alba, white truffles, Mike Sullivan, Cochon 555, Chicago, Blackberry Farm, Smokey Mountains, small farm network, family farms, Cook Pigs Ranch,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/05/2011 07:00PM
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With Simeon Warren
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Intro (8:50)
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Tekserve, the craftiness of building, knowing the traditional building arts as a fix to doing things digitally, Simeon Warren, the American College of Building Arts, Charleston, SC, Duo Dickinson, ACBA, Vox Populi: Kathy Roe,Simeon Warren of the ACBA (11:27)
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Simeon Warren, American College of Building Arts, educating the next generation of building artisans, a school by craftsmen for craftsmen, a liberal arts education with a trade-based practical experience, roofing, roofers, tile and slate, shingles, putting what you learn in class into practice, the need to communicate while building, starting off shy, we forget sometimes that it takes a long time to make something of quality, masters of craft, most really good craftspeople don't actually think they're very good, students often help the companies they move on to work for become more efficient because of their systematic learning, making a railing, a student saved a company 80% of the time with a new method of building rail,The Old Jail (11:24)
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how much of what is taught involves historic Charleston, the Jail of Charleston, the school's founder decided on the jail in 1998, the building is right in the center of Charleston, it cost three dollars in 1998, it will probably cost ten million dollars to restore, The Old Jail, the jail is one of the most haunted buildings in America, the jail allows practical work and not just model making, a lot of students are restoring the actual building, the Earthquake of '68, the jail lost an entire story in the earthquake, it was used as a jail until 1939, what is the highest compliment that can be given to a craftsmen?, teaching the traditional AND the contemporary, the challenge and character of a jail, no square rooms in the octagon, pie shaped rooms, the Jailer's Quarters, learning about the building online,Learning the Traditional to Master the Contemporary (22:59)
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insulating the Old Jail, the walls are 3 foot thick, air conditioning the Old Jail, the cell blocks don't have many modern conveniences, taking the floors out, displacement of masonry is a very ugly thing, Simeon's accent, Stone Carving College, Lincoln Cathedral, Simeon's personal history, the character of Charleston, Mayor Riley, the preservation community, craftsmen are simply people who know how to work materials, whether you're using high-tech or low-tech you are a craftsmen, how to make a flat surface with a mallet and chisel, wrought iron versus casting, ornamental iron work, time management and using the right tools, powered press and stamping machines, coal forges and an anvil, learning with power tools BEFORE hand tools can make learning the latter much more difficult, the reoccurring theme of the need to learn how to draw on paper, enhancing knowledge, you can't always do what's done in the workshop in a classroom,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
