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Recorded Live at AAPEX 2023, Service Award Winners Roy Foster, Michael Miller, and Greg Damon discuss their experiences in the automotive industry, the importance of continuous learning, and the benefits of mentorship programs. The conversation also touches on the challenges facing the industry and the importance of community involvement, training, and changing consumer perceptions. Roy Foster, Roy Foster's Automotive, Reno, NV. Roy's previous episode HERE Greg Damon, Spark's Tire and Auto, St. Charles, MO. Michael Miller, CarMax, Las Vegas, NV. Show Notes Watch Full Video AAPEX 2023 Shop Owner of the Year (00:00:01) Roy Foster's background, including his family's business legacy and involvement in industry organizations. AAPEX 2023 Technician of the Year (00:00:57) Michael Miller's experience and certifications, as well as his friendship with previous Technician of the Year, Matt. AAPEX 2023 Service Advisor of the Year (00:04:37) Greg Damon discusses his shop's involvement in the community, including an exhibit at a kids' discovery museum, and the focus on training and changing the perception of the industry. The importance of apprenticeship programs (00:12:00) Discussion about the success of the NAPA apprentice program and the commitment to investing in young people, including the Roy's sons being apprentices and the need for more young people in the automotive industry. The importance of continuous learning (00:17:25) Discussion on the importance of staying humble, continuously learning, and seeking knowledge from others in the industry. The value of training and networking (00:18:22) Emphasizing the need for shop owners to invest in their employees' training, provide resources, and encourage networking within the industry. Quality control, communication, and value in automotive repair (00:20:17) Exploration of the importance of effective communication between service writers and technicians, quality control measures, and providing value to customers through clear diagnosis and explanation of services. The mentoring program (00:24:49) Discussion about the benefits of having a mentoring program in the shop, with a mentor guiding and teaching a new technician. Increasing sales volume through mentoring (00:25:54) Exploring how having a mentoring program can increase sales volume and profitability for shop owners. Changing the perception of the industry (00:28:02) Highlighting the need to change the perception of the automotive industry as a high-tech, clean environment with opportunities for growth and advancement. The recognition of the industry's high-tech profession (00:32:41) The professionalism and high-tech nature of the automotive industry. The importance of teamwork in the automotive industry (00:33:01) The importance of having a great team of technicians and owners to succeed in the industry. Thanks to our Partner, NAPA Auto Care Learn more about NAPA Auto Care and the benefits of being part of the NAPA family by visiting https://www.napaonline.com/en/auto-care Connect with the Podcast: -Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RemarkableResultsRadioPodcast/ -Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmcapriotto/ -Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remarkableresultsradiopodcast/ -Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RResultsBiz -Join our Insider List:
This week, Roy Foster introduces us to a Devonshire debutante turned IRA terrorist, and Emile Chabal explains how Marine Le Pen created the phenomenon of ‘cat-washing'.'Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale' by Sean O'Driscoll'Qu'est-ce que L'actualité Politique?: Événements et Opinions au XXIe Siècle' by Luc Boltanksi and Arnaud Esquerre'Marginal Men and Micks on the Make' by Roy FosterProduced by Charlotte Pardy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On a sunlit evening in 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades.The murders ended what should have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland's leader Charles Stewart Parnell, with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland – with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone's protégé, to play an instrumental role.The impact of the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the pact, almost brought down the government and set in motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century.Julie Kavanagh is a renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, former arts editor of Harpers & Queen and Costa Biography Award finalist.Roy Foster is a distinguished Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
On a sunlit evening in 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades.The murders ended what should have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland's leader Charles Stewart Parnell, with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland – with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone's protégé, to play an instrumental role.The impact of the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the pact, almost brought down the government and set in motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century.Julie Kavanagh is a renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, former arts editor of Harpers & Queen and Costa Biography Award finalist.Roy Foster is a distinguished Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
“The best history,” says Roy Foster, “is written when we realize that people acted in expectation of a future that was never going to happen.” While this is the case for many countries, it's especially true of Ireland—the land of The Troubles, of colonization, of revolution and reforms. This sympathy within his scholarship sets Foster's work apart. Not content to simply document the facts of what did happen, he's undertaken the role of reconstructing the motivations that animated the Irish people throughout its storied history--without which we cannot truly understand the Ireland of today. Roy joined Tyler to discuss why the Scots got off easier than the Irish under British rule, the truths and misconceptions about Ireland as a policy laboratory for the British government, why spoken Irish faded more rapidly than Welsh, the single question that drove a great flowering of Irish economic thought, how Foster's Quaker education shaped his view of Irish history, how the Battle of the Somme and the 1916 Easter Rising cemented the rift between the Northeast and the rest of the country, what went wrong with Irish trade policies between the 1920s and 1970s, the power of Irish education, why the re-emergence of The Troubles in the 1960s may not have been as inevitable as many people believe, the cultural effects of Ireland's pro-Allied neutrality in World War II, how Irish visual art is beginning to be looked at in a similar way to Irish literature, the social and economic changes of the 1970s that began to radically reshape Irish society, the reasons for Ireland's openness to foreigners, what Irish Americans misunderstand, and more. Visit our website Email: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Follow Tyler on Twitter Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://go.mercatus.org/l/278272/2017-09-19/g4ms
Mara-Lea Coston, Jim Simonds, Julian Foster and Roy Foster brought us a dramatic message about Nicodemus and the Woman at the Well.
Mara-Lea Coston, Jim Simonds, Julian Foster and Roy Foster brought us a dramatic message about Nicodemus and the Woman at the Well.
For anyone who doesn't have a working apprentice in your shop, this is your wake-up call. Roy Foster from Foster's Automotive currently has three apprentices and you'll get a chance to hear from all three. Two are his sons and Yes they are going through an apprentice program. What about your son or daughter. Their excitement and motivation for this industry is hard to miss. Roy Foster, Owner, https://www.royfoster.com/ (Roy Foster's Automotive), Reno, NV Apprentices- Son's Logan and Zach Foster, and Randy Cowles Key Talking Points Roy is committed to mentoring his employees, apprentice technicians, and local high school and college students interested in the automotive industry. In addition, he serves as a Judge for Skills USA Apprentices-Son Zack Foster, Son Logan Foster, and Randy Cowles (Came from Skills USA). No bad habits to correct. They perform the best DVI's because they're comfortable with the technology, it's second nature. They are able to learn together and apply it. Set to graduate program this summer with their state smog license and 3 ASE certifications each. Changing the stereotype of “grease monkeys” with technology (tablets, scan tools, etc) Training- “It's like sipping water out of a firehouse, there is a ton of information pouring in” Management learning- join the morning huddle, learn their expectations, big picture view of the day, customer expectations (no fingerprints, returning the vehicle clean) Connect with the show: https://aftermarketradionetwork.com/ (Aftermarket Radio Network) http://youtube.com/carmcapriotto (Subscribe on YouTube) https://remarkableresults.biz/episodes (Visit us on the Web) https://www.facebook.com/RemarkableResultsPodcast (Follow on Facebook) https://remarkableresults.biz/insider/ (Become an Insider) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/carm (Buy me a coffee) https://remarkableresults.biz/books/ (Important Books) Check out today's partner: Visit http://www.NAPAAutoCare.com (www.NAPAAutoCare.com) http://aftermarketradionetwork.com () https://remarkableresultsradio.captivate.fm/listen ()
The Easter Rising 1916: Remembering the Irish RevolutionThe desire for self-transformation, to define themselves apart from their parents and a determination to reconstruct the world, united the young and disparate of Ireland to form the revolutionary generation. By sifting through letters, journals and photographs, eminent historian Professor Roy Foster FBA examines the vivid public and private lives of the disparate group that were the Easter 1916 rebels. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
QUB Talks 100 – The Partition of Ireland: Causes and Consequences
Contributor: Professor Roy Foster Talk Title: Partition and the Southern Irish Protestant experience. Talk Synopsis: This talk explores the ‘complex and varied' story of southern Irish Protestantism after 1921. It describes the changing position and status of this community in the pre-partition period and its declining numbers afterwards. It also notes how southern Protestants adapted to life in the new state, the diversity of their experiences and the extent to which ‘Protestant society remained fairly distinct, endogenous and conscious of their difference' until the 1970s. It suggests that in terms of ‘cultural attitudes and markers, Southern Irish Protestants felt more affinity to Sothern Irish Catholics than to the culture of Northern Protestantism' and that their experience was a ‘testament to the majority political culture of independent Ireland, the realism and adaptability of its small cohort of Irish citizens, and… the perhaps underestimated degree of tact exercised by both traditions in the new Irish state.' Short Biography: R.F. (Roy) Foster is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Irish History and Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of many prizewinning books and is a well-known cultural commentator and critic. Further Reading: Protestant And Irish: The Minority's Search for Place in Independent Ireland – Ian d'Alton and Ida Milne (eds.) The Decline of the Big House in Ireland: A Study of Irish Landed Families 1860-1960 – Terence Dooley Descendancy: Irish Protestant Histories Since 1795 – David Fitzpatrick Different and the Same: A Folk History of the Protestants of Independent Ireland – Deirdre Nuttall The Church of Ireland 1869-1969 – R.B. McDowell Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists – R.B. McDowell Ireland's Holy Wars: the struggle for a nation's soul 1500-2000 – Marcus Tanner
Toussaint Louverture's revolutionary leadership in Haiti; Ravenna's place as a hub of culture and a meeting point of East and West; how motherhood and work have changed from Victorian Manchester factories to the modern boardroom; a 3,000 year history of attacks on libraries and book burnings; battles in the Atlantic from the Vikings to conflicts over slavery in the Caribbean and on the North American coast; recovering the voices of children who experienced the Holocaust: Rana Mitter looks at how the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize have tackled these topics. The books shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2021 are: Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank The winner will be announced on Wednesday 9 June 2021 in a virtual ceremony. The winner will be awarded £40,000 and each of the shortlisted authors receives £4,000. Producer: Torquil MacLeod In the Free Thinking archives you can find interviews with the authors shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in previous years and a host of discussions about history looking at topics including Napoleon, John Henry Newman, Adnam Menderes and Turkish history, Northern Ireland, what we can learn from the upheavals of industrial revolution and empires ending, war in fact and fiction, Churchill, family ties and reshaping history with guests including Margaret McMillan, Tom Holland, Jared Diamond, Priya Atwal, Camilla Townsend, Ruth Scurr, Roy Foster and David Reynolds amongst others.
A Northern Irish writer - what does that label mean? Lucy Caldwell compares notes with Caroline Magennis about the way authors are charting change and setting down experience - from working class memoirs of life in Derry to the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Morrissey and others. And as we approach the centenary of the creation of Northern Ireland, Anne McElvoy talks to Roy Foster and Charles Townshend about the history and legacy of partition. Charles Townshend is Professor Emeritus of International History at Keele University, and Roy Foster is Professor and Honorary Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Amongst other titles, Roy Foster is the author of Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923, and Charles Townshend's new book is The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925. Lucy Caldwell's new book is called Intimacies and is published in May, and she has also edited Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. In the interview she recommends books including the writing of Mary Beckett, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Woman Writers from the North of Ireland edited by Sinéad Gleeson, and Inventory: A River, A City, A Family by Darran Anderson. Caroline Magennis is Reader in 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Salford, and her upcoming publication, Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures, will be available in August. Producer: Emma Wallace If you want more conversations with writers from Northern Ireland you can find the following episodes on the Free Thinking website: Sinéad Morrissey on winning the TS Eliot Prize in 2014 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pdf10 Michael Longley talks about his poetry and winning the PEN Pinter prize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098hz1m Bernard MacClaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about depicting love and loss in a long relationship in his novel Midwinter Break - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09525cn Ruth Dudley Edwards looks at ideas about belonging - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h2g4 Roy Foster and Paul Muldoon are in conversation - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xpsd
Cara O' Doherty & Paul Whitington review films, Sequin in a Blue Room, A Common Crime & the multi Oscar nominated Sound of Metal, Northern Ireland band New Pagans, debut album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots & All, , historian Roy Foster on Hugh Lane, the extraordinary art collector, Citizen Lane a 2018 drama documentary is available digitally
Mick Heaney, Seamus Heaney’s son & his biographer Roy Foster remember Seamus Heaney's Nobel Prize in Literature on the 25th anniversary, A Nobel Celebration is an online event, seamusheaneyhome.com, Paula Shields reviews a new documentary on BBC from Tracy Emin entitled Emin / Munch & album reviews including Taylor Swift.
This week Patrick covers the best in Irish and International history publications for November 2020. Books covered on the show include: 'On Seamus Heaney' by Roy Foster, 'Literature and Modern Time' with Dr Trish Ferguson, 'The Ideal Diplomat: Women and Irish Foreign Affairs 1946-90' with Ann Marie O'Brien, 'Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages, History, Culture and Society' with Katharine Simms and 'Atlas of Ideas: The Socrates Edition' with Eric Weiner.
New critical biographies of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney and a reissue of Anne Sexton's poems prompt a conversation for National Poetry Day about our image of a poet. Is it possible to separate a poet's life from their work? Shahidha Bari is joined by New Generation Thinkers Sophie Oliver and Peter Mackay, and by Plath biographer Heather Clark. And she talks to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her new novel, The First Woman – a coming of age story of a young girl in Uganda, mixing modern feminism and folk beliefs against a backdrop of Idi Amin’s regime. The First Woman is out now. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and her other books are Kintu and the short story collection Manchester Happened. Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton is being issued in the Penguin Modern Classics series in November 2020 On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster is published by Princeton University Press Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark is published in October by Vintage. Sophie Oliver teaches at the University of Liverpool and researches women and modernist writers, including Jean Rhys. She also writes for the TLS, Burlington Magazine, and The White Review. Peter Mackay teaches at the University of St Andrews and has published writing on Sorley MacLean; an anthology, An Leabhar Liath: 500 years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse; and his own collection of poems Gu Leòr / Galore. Free Thinking has a playlist of conversations about prose and poetry on the website - all available to download as Arts & Ideas podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh If you have been affected by the mental health issues in this programme, you can find details of support organisations from the BBC Action Line website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/emotional-distress-information-and-support Producer: Emma Wallace
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the distinguished Irish historian Roy Foster, talking about his new book On Seamus Heaney. He tells me how 'Famous Seamus'’s darkness has been under-recognised, how he negotiated with the shade of Yeats and the explosive politics of Ireland to find an independent space to write from, and just how 'certus' the man who signed himself 'Incertus' really was.
Sam's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the distinguished Irish historian Roy Foster, talking about his new book On Seamus Heaney. He tells Sam how 'Famous Seamus'’s darkness has been under-recognised, how he negotiated with the shade of Yeats and the explosive politics of Ireland to find an independent space to write from, and just how 'certus' the man who signed himself 'Incertus' really was.
Award-winning writer John Banville; writer and editor of literary magazine A Public Space Yiyun Li; celebrated poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Dermot Bolger; and short story writer Danielle McLaughlin joined Roy Foster to remember the late, great William Trevor at ILFDublin 2018. ILFDublin is an initiative of Dublin City Council, kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.
Musician Bob Geldof talks to Professor of History Roy Foster about his love of Yeats, and the poets influences on the life of a journeyman, rock star and activist who started out in a seaside suburb of Dublin. Note: bad language comes with the territory. This was the inaugural Annual Doyle Collection Interview, recorded in June 2018.
In the 1970's the Cleveland Indians failed in their annual quest to reach the postseason, the ALCS and World Series. However, they played their hearts out and Cleveland Municipal Stadium was the place to be to enjoy the Tribe in person. The team made history in 1975 by hiring the first African American manager, Frank Robinson. At various times the Tribe contended and the fans dreamed of October baseball. However, win or lose, the players went out there and gave it their best shot. Notable Indians from the decade include: Rick Austin, Vince Colbert, Stunning Steve Dunning, Rich Hand. Dennis Higgins, Steve Mingori, Jim Rittwage, Ted Ford, Roy Foster, John Lowenstein, Graig Nettles, Vada Pinson, Ted Uhlaender, Ed Farmer, Alan Foster, Ray Lamb, Kurt Bevacqua, Chris Chambliss, Gomer Hodge, Tom Hilgendorf, Dick Tidrow, Milt Wilcox, Buddy Bell, Jack Brohamer, Alex Johnson, Ron Lolich, Del Unser, Dick Bosman, Gaylord Perry, Brent Strom, Tom Timmerman, Alan Ashby, Leo Cardenas, Frank Duffy, Dave Duncan, John Ellis, Oscar Gamble, George Hendrick, Tom Ragland, Charlie Spikes, Rusty Torres, Fred Beene, Tom Buskey, Jim Kern, Jim Perry, Fritz Peterson, Rico Carty, Angel Hermoso, Duane Kuiper, Frank Robinson, Jim Bibby, Jackie Brown, Dennis Eckersley, Dave LaRoche, Blue Moon Odom, Rick Waits, Pat Dobson, Don Hood, Alfredo Griffin, Joe Lis, Rick Manning, Boog Powell, Wayne Garland, Sid Monge, Larvell Blanks, Bruce Bochte, Paul Dade, Johnny Grubb, Bill Melton, Jim Norris, Andre Thornton, David Clyde, Mike Paxton, Dan Spillner, Bernie Carbo, Ted Cox, Bo Diaz, Ron Hassey, Willie Horton, Tom Veryzer, Len Barker, Bobby Bonds, Mike Hargrove, Toby Harrah, Cliff Johnson and many more!
A Newry woman visits her big brother in Paris. The two share a drink and talk all night. The next morning, he leaves instructions for taking the metro, and disappears. His family never see him again. The story of Anne Morgan's 32-year search for her missing brother Seamus is just one told in this episode, the second in a two-part series on the theme of dealing with the past. We speak to Damien McNally of Belfast's Wave Trauma Centre about how trauma can be passed down from one generation to the next, and the implications of providing front-line care while political deadlock prevents wider societal change. Historian Roy Foster of Oxford University discusses Ireland's culture of dealing with the past and how it differs from the mood in Britain as Brexit looms. From historical inquiries to 'Derry Girls', Naomi O'Leary and Tim Mc Inerney explore different routes to closure: through justice, truth-seeking, or creativity. This episode concludes with an exclusive reading by poet Gail McConnell of her poem about the Long Kesh breakout and the death of her father, 'Start Out'. This is the second of a two-part series on the issue of dealing with the past, dedicated to the memory of murdered journalist Lyra McKee. You can listen to part one here: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/s3-episode-3-collusion/ You can read 'Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies', the essay which inspired these episodes, here. 'Start Out' is published in Fourteen by Gail McConnell (Green Bottle Press, 2018): https://greenbottlepress.com/order-form/our-books/ Featuring editing by Alan Meaney http://alanmeaney.ie/ . Special thanks to Emma Rainey of Fem-Vibes podcast for reading an excerpt of Lyra McKee's writing for us. For bonus episodes, support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport. Season 3 of The Irish Passport podcast is made with the kind support of Biddy Murphy, online sellers of genuine Irish goods. Check them out on www.biddymurphy.com. The music you heard in this episode is Night II, by Swelling, and Serial Killer, by John Bartmann. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @PassportIrish. Support this podcast
The Panel: Donnie Hudson, Troy Auto Care, Troy, MI Roy Foster, Roy Foster’s Automotive, Reno, NV Steve Finzel, Finzel’s Master Tech, Terre Haute, IN Key Talking Points Donnie Hudson Communicate with your Team! Weekly! “They Want to be Involved” Feel like they have a say. Keep It Fun! Think outside the box! Set Weekly Sales Goals! “Don’t Get Complacent” Offer Paid Training Classes / Tuition Reimbursement / Simple IRA / Tool Credit / Health Care Allowance Donnie says a solid pay program is very important but it is not necessarily about the money. It is family time and benefits that drive employee loyalty. Listening to your people is an important rule of leadership. Fact Finding Friday’s meeting. He offers paid time off to do something in the community for his people. Something charitable of their choosing. I’m here to support you. He takes a portion of his team and families to Las Vegas for AAPEX Roy Foster He has a 4 day work week for most on his team who want it. Retirement plan, health and dental, ongoing training both in house and AutoTech Training, bonus programs. Weekly Team Meetings: Council together, listen to their input and let them help make policies and procedures, set goals together, regularly share KPI’s, share successes, address their concerns and discuss safety. Create a culture: Get buy-in from employees through success, share customer reviews, cleanliness and organized, let them know when they are doing a good job, share in the vision and mission. State of the Art Equipment: have the best tools and equipment, information systems, have the right tools for the job, equipment training videos and manufacturer training clinics with lunch. He cultivates an environment where his team wants to be there. Acknowledging a job well done. Invest in state of the art tools, equipment and software. Steve Finzel Employee loyalty is about the relationship. Through the use of one on one meeting, monthly team meetings that include total shop performance and key indicator numbers, and Friday casual lunch meetings, employees feel connected to the business and each other. As shop owners, it is part of your responsibility to nurture this. MOP bucket meetings to get anything off your chest. No names no rebuttal. Honest and transparent. Using outside of work experiences like summer family party, Christmas party, Happy hour, out of town training and sporting events helps to create the bond. Providing training, healthcare, simple IRA and an above average compensation package tell the employee you care about the well being of them and their family. Providing training lets them know you care as much about their success as yours. Steve closes the shop between Christmas and New Years. Benefits require the growth of your business and profits. Leaves a skeleton crew at the shop and takes most of his team to Vision. Resources: A special thanks to Donnie Hudson, Roy Foster, and Steve Finzel for their contribution to the aftermarket. Books Page (https://remarkableresults.biz/books/) Leave me an honest review on iTunes (https://airtable.com/tblOgQmbnkHekpl0L/viwSbPkieMNhLOmtK/recQNomCKr1D5I9x4) . Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one of them. Email (mailto:carm@remarkableresults.biz) (http://eepurl.com/bhqME9) This episode is brought to you by Jasper Engines & Transmissions. When a car’s engine or transmission fails, it’s not the end of the road. A remanufactured drivetrain product from Jasper Engines & Transmissions will give your car a new lease on life. JASPER has over 2000 Associates, three manufacturing facilities, two distribution centers, and 45 branch offices across the country. They’re all working to produce, transport and deliver the perfect product. That’s what they...
The late historian David Fitzpatrick is remembered by historian Roy Foster, Dr Fionnuala Walsh and Professor Eunan O'Halpin of Trinity College Dublin.
In Sebastian Barry's inaugural speech as Laureate for Irish Fiction earlier this year, he stated that Ireland was in a 'golden age of prose'. As Northern Irish writer Anna Burns scooped the Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman last month, Front Row hears voices from the No Alibis bookstore in Belfast. We speak to former Irish Laureate and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright; Professor of Irish History and Literature, Roy Foster; award-winning, Belfast-born writer Lucy Caldwell; and writer, editor and journalist Sinead Gleeson. They discuss the renaissance in Irish writing, its roots in Irish storytelling and love of language, and how the border - now at the heart of the Brexit debate - is being written about by a new generation of writers, north and south.And Front Row exclusively announces the winner of this year's Hepworth Sculpture Prize, hearing live from the victor and from the Chief Curator of The Hepworth Wakefield, Andrew Bonacina. This year's shortlist includes Mona Hatoum, Michael Dean, Phillip Lai, Magali Reus, and Cerith Wyn Evans.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Sarah Johnson
Melvin Burgess, who's been dubbed the Godfather of Young Adult fiction, talks about his new book The Lost Witch about a teenage girl who discovers she has magical powers.A record-breaking 3.6 million people watched this year's Love Island final. That's more viewers than were watching BBC One, BBC Two or ITV in the same time slot. Journalist and critic Alix O'Neill discusses the show's cultural impact. In Thursday's Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall Milŏs Karadaglíc will give the world premiere of Ink Dark Moon, a guitar concerto written for him by Joby Talbot. Milŏs plays live in the Front Row studio, and the pair discuss the relationship between musician and composer. They consider, too, the range of a modern musician's work: Milŏs has recorded classics beyond the classical repertoire - an album of tunes by The Beatles - and Joby writes ballet music, has composed an opera and arranged music for Tom Jones and The Divine Comedy.Brian Friel's Translations is enjoying a sell-out run at the National Theatre; when it comes to an end Aristocrats will open at the Donmar Theatre. Philadelphia Here I Come!, Faith Healer, Dancing at Lughnasa - there is almost always a Friel play on somewhere. All of them are set in Ballybeg (which means 'small town' in Irish) and most are family dramas. Roy Foster, Professor of Irish history and literature, teases out why Friel's domestic dramas of Donegal hold such universal appeal. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Jack Soper.Main image: Love Island. Credit: ITV
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi: Politicians – Theresa May foremost among them – always begin their obfuscations and delusional self-justifications by pretending to offer clarity. Journalist James O'Brien joins us to discuss the past thirty-odd days in the world of Prime Minister May, from the flunked general election to the travesty of Grenfell Tower, in a quest for that most elusive of things – a clear and concrete plan; TLS Visual Arts editor Anna Vaux brings us a preview of Tate Modern's new exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, an examination of the role of black artists in the Civil Rights movement; historian Roy Foster considers the fraught new relationship between the Conservative Party and the Irish Democratic Unionist Party, finding parallels, and missed warnings, dating back more than 100 years See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Institute of Historical Research Book: Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 Roy Foster New York, NY, W. W. Norton, 2015, ISBN: 9780393082791; 480pp.; Price: £25.00 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowma...
Beautiful Lofty Things – an evening with WB Yeats was written and presented by Roy Foster and directed by Lynne Parker.
The writing and life of Scottish writer David Thomson - author of 'Woodbrook'. Thomson was also a BBC radio producer and folklorist. On the programme - Roy Foster, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Luke Dodd and Julian Vignoles , author of 'David Thomson: A Delicate Wildness'.
Poet Paul Muldoon explores the history of Ireland in his new collection, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing. Historian Roy Foster's latest book is Vivid Faces: the Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890-1923. Rona Munro's new play Scuttlers runs at Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre from Feb 5th - March 7th directed by Wils Wilson. It depicts Manchester gangs and riots in the Industrial Revolution and in 2011.
Tomás MacSíomóin - Podemos; Leabhair: Breandán MacSuibhne, "Vivid Faces" le Roy Foster; Caoimhe McCabe, "Merci pour ce Moment" le Valerie Trierweiler; Mícheál Ó hAodha, "Autobiography" le Morrissey; Gráinne Ní Aodha - Ceannlínte na Cruinne; Niamh Ní Shúilleabháin - We're Not Leaving; Cormac Ó Comhraí - Duine den Diaspora Eoghan Corry - Avalon
Harriett Gilbert discusses great books with historians Roy Foster and Andrew Roberts, including Harriett's choice The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. Twenty years on, how does it read now? Andrew Roberts introduces them to Covenant with Death by John Harris, a little-known but powerful novel of WW1, and Roy Foster shares his passion for William Maxwell's The Chateau. Producer Beth O'Dea
Author of 'Woodbrook' David Thomson is the subject of this programme. Contributors include Julian Vignoles, author of 'A Delicate Wildness - The Life and Loves of David Thomson 1914-1988', as well as Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Luke Dodd and Roy Foster.
As the first incumbent of the only chair in Irish History in Britain, at Oxford, Roy Foster has devoted his career to bringing Irish history to the forefront of British minds. Unafraid to challenge cherished myths about the past, his scholarship has transformed historical writing. He has also written the only authorised life of W. B. Yeats, a two-volume labour of love that took him 18 years. And his new book Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 pulls into focus the quarter century leading up to the Irish revolution, by tracing the lives of the men and women at the radical heart of Irish political and cultural life. Michael and Roy discuss Yeats, Joyce, and the pleasures of eating, drinking and sharing music with friends. Roy's music includes an aria from one of his favourite operas, and Irish music from singers John McCormack, Harry Plunket Greene and Ann Murray. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3. To hear previous episodes of Private Passions, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r3pp/all.
Roy Foster's book 'Vivid Faces' investigates the world of the revolutionary generation 1890-1923 and the extraordinary people who occupied it.
UCD Centre for War Studies seminar - The Irish Revolutionary Generation by Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford).
George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, the inspiration for My Fair Lady, is discussed by Shaw's biographer Sir Michael Holroyd and Professor of Irish History, Roy Foster. Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are brought to life by the actors Tim Pigott-Smith and Rachael Stirling, who recently appeared in Pygmalion on stage. Matthew Sweet presents.
The annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture given at Wolfson College on May 27th 2010. Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford.
Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Katherine Mullin discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.Many novelists choose their own young life as the subject for their first book. But very few have subjected themselves to the intense self-scrutiny of the great Irish novelist James Joyce. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, Joyce follows his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, from babyhood to young adulthood. He takes us from Stephen wetting the bed, through a teenage visit to a prostitute, and on through religious terrors to the prospect of freedom. When it was published, the book met with shock at its graphic honesty. Joyce shows Stephen wrestling with the pressures of his family, his Church and his nation. Yet this was far from being a straightforward youthful tirade. Joyce's novel is also daringly experimental, taking us deep into Stephen's psyche. And since its publication almost a century ago, it has had a huge influence on novelists across the world.With: Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History and Fellow of Hertford College, OxfordJeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, OxfordKatherine Mullin, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds.
Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Katherine Mullin discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.Many novelists choose their own young life as the subject for their first book. But very few have subjected themselves to the intense self-scrutiny of the great Irish novelist James Joyce. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, Joyce follows his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, from babyhood to young adulthood. He takes us from Stephen wetting the bed, through a teenage visit to a prostitute, and on through religious terrors to the prospect of freedom. When it was published, the book met with shock at its graphic honesty. Joyce shows Stephen wrestling with the pressures of his family, his Church and his nation. Yet this was far from being a straightforward youthful tirade. Joyce's novel is also daringly experimental, taking us deep into Stephen's psyche. And since its publication almost a century ago, it has had a huge influence on novelists across the world.With: Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History and Fellow of Hertford College, OxfordJeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, OxfordKatherine Mullin, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds.
Our fifteenth podcast is the first of this academic year, and is also the first in a series of podcasts on individual poems on the Higher Level Leaving Certificate course. This one is on W.B. Yeats's poem 'The Wild Swans at Coole', and sets the poem in its literary and historical background. The second volume of Roy Foster's biography, which is quoted in the podcast, is The Arch-Poet. The Yeats exhibition at the National Library of Ireland, is open now, and the website is here (you can see the manuscript of 'Wild Swans' online by searching). Coole Park's website is here.