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21-Jul-2003, 07:12 PM
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Ducati Charging System Failures
There's been a number of questions posted recently about charging system problems. This write-up is geared towards superbikes but has general application to all late-model Ducatis. It's probably more than you wanted to know, but save it, it may come in handy ...
Ducati charging system components, are prone to failure, especially on superbikes. When regulators first started to fail on the '95 916 bikes, Ducati changed the regulator design but that didn't stop the warranty claims. The first "improved" regulator that was sent out to dealers in 1995 was marked with a green dot of paint (to distinguish them from the older version) but otherwise appeared the same. They initially thought that it was just a bad batch of regulators but the failure reports continued. Not every bike experienced this problem, but some bikes experienced multiple failures.
The second iteration actually changed the regulator design and added an aluminum backing plate that performs three functions: it shields the regulator from the direct heat of the horizontal cylinder's exhaust pipe, it acts as a heat sink to help convect away the regulator's internal heat, and it helps to better direct cooling air from the fairing duct onto the regulator.
New Voltage Regulator Design
Regulators put out a lot of heat themselves and have integral cooling fins built into their casing to help reject this heat. The additional heat sink, although not finned, was however somewhat reflective and designed large enough to shield the RR from the direct heat from the front cylinder exhaust pipe.
Note that if you fit one of these to an older bike you loose the functionality of the charging light.
The charging light is the first sign that the RR is about to fail. It will often start to flicker at above-idle rpm, sometimes requiring progressively higher rpm to extinguish it. Or, it may just come on and stay on without warning.
If this happens while you're on the road, stop and pull the electrical lead wire (under the rubber boot) to your headlight to reduce power demands. If your battery was at full capacity before the regulator failure you probably have enough reserve capacity to run your bike for 50 miles or so if you have to limp home.
The second regulator redesign also incorporated a revised electrical connector so Ducati sold an upgrade wiring adapter kit to connect it to the bullet-type connectors of the original design. The apparent reason for this new connector style was that the original connectors would loosen and corrode so as to develop a high electrical resistance and overheat. Unfortunately the new connector style had the same problem.
Voltage Regulator Connector Overheating: Old Design/New Design
The regulator fails because there is often not enough cool air available to remove the heat generated internally by the unit and the internal electronics are damaged. At speed, outside cooling air is supplied directly to the regulator via a NACA-style duct opening in the fairing. It apparently wasn't big enough, so when the 998/748 was released, a larger duct was incorporated into the design.
Old Fairing vs. New Fairing NACA Ducts
In traffic however, there's not only no forced-air cooling, there's really no cooling air at all - the front cylinder exhaust pipe superheats the air in the lower fairing.
So the regulator still gets cooked at stoplights from its own internal heat and the nearby front cylinder exhaust header because there is such poor cooling air circulation in the lower fairing. The newer bikes have a revised fairing design with openings on the upper surface that may help convection cooling somewhat.
The best solution is to move the RR outside the fairing to the outside air stream for better cooling.
In my case, I replaced my fifth failed regulator with an Electrex unit, extended the larger gauge wiring (see below) and mounted it on the underside of the license plate holder facing the rear tire where it's hardly noticeable.
Relocated Regulator for Better Cooling
Adding a regulator cooling fan was tried first, but the ambient temperature inside the fairing is just too hot to use as cooling air. Even though I wrapped the front header pipe in high-temperature insulation to reduce exhaust pipe heat transfer in the fairing to a minimum, the regulator surface temperature still climbed well beyond 160°F at traffic lights.
So far so good. The regulator still gets really hot while stopped, so it's no wonder that they fail when inside the fairing. If it's any consolation, Honda's do the same thing.
Then there's the problem of heat-damaged stator wires.
The initial charging system design had a 350 watt single phase alternator. Here's the design basis that Ducati used for sizing the system:
Design Basis
Note that the system wasn't designed to run both headlights simultaneously.
Note also that the power rating of the fuel pump assumes a clean fuel filter. Ducati fuel injection systems use a high pressure fuel pump powered by a DC motor that draws a fairly-high current and a dirty/clogged fuel filter will causes the motor to work harder and draw a much higher current. So the in-line fuel filter inside the gas tank requires regular replacement. A pump feeding fuel through a clean filter will draw about 2 amps, but this figure can rise to 10 amps with a dirty filter. Clogged fuel filters are a prime contributor to regulator failures.
Of course the electrical system doesn't normally operate with everything turned-on at the same time. So here's a more common operating condition:
It's important to note here that, given the obvious need to charge the battery, the stator wires will have to pass 29 amps (350 watts/12 volts) continuously. So I advise you to keep your bike on a trickle-charger whenever possible to reduce the demands on your charging system. Also, avoid the temptation to replace your battery with a low-weight, lower capacity unit. The principal advantage of using a larger battery is to be able to restart repeatedly. If you regularly don't ride long enough to recharge fully between restarts, stay with a larger capacity battery. A lower amp-hour battery will need to be trickle-charged more often.
For 1999, Ducati redesigned the electrical system, going from the 350 watt design to a 500 watt three-phase system. (Three-phase alternators have three wires coming out of them, single-phase have two.) They produce an AC output that has a higher frequency than the earlier single-phase design so the regulator presumably has to do less work (i.e. less heat) conditioning the waveform and converting it to DC. The new alternator also has additional wattage available to run the lights, fuel pump, ECU and accessories but the higher output still has to pass through the regulator.
Which leads us to the second problem with the Ducati charging system ...
The wires running from the stator to the regulator are seriously undersized and their insulation becomes damaged from overheating.
The general rule-of-thumb for sizing wiring is that if it needs to carry 20 amps use #12 gauge wire; 30 amps needs #10 gauge; 40 amps needs #8 gauge. Early bikes have 350 watt/29 amp two-wire charging systems so #10 gauge wire should have been used. 1999 (and later) three-wire 500 watt alternators produce a little over 40 amps so #8 gauge wire was needed (but not used.)
So you ought to replace the wiring all the way back to the stator with a larger gauge.
These wires have to pass high amperage continuously. There's an electrical phenomenon called I-squared-R loss. That is, if you run 30 amps through a corroded or loose connector or undersized wire having (say) a 1/2-ohm resistance, the heating effect is 30 X 30 X 1/2, or 450 watts. That's a lot of continuous heat. This heat just conducts down the wire, cooking the insulation as it goes.
Just like you can't put your hand on a 450 watt light bulb while it's lit, you can't expect a plastic connector or electrical insulation to survive radiating 450 watts of power either. A corroded or loose connector always has a higher resistance than the adjacent wires and it will heat up enough to melt connector plastic parts and adjacent insulation. That's why it's best to solder the wires directly together and eliminate connectors entirely.
Generally though, it is the connectors heating up that causing the insulation and conductors to melt and short out. Even if you haven't had a charging failure, next time you have a chance, check your wiring for damage.
On my 916, for example, the stator wires got so hot that the insulation became brittle and cracked near the regulator connectors. A closer examination showed that the damage extended along the wire all the way back to the engine casing. I could scrape off the softened insulation with my fingernail.
So even if the stator wire resistance measurement and the voltage output checks out OK, the output to the regulator is unreliable because the insulation between wires (that run in a common sheath) breaks down at the higher voltage levels at higher RPM.
The undersized stator wires generate the highest heat load at the points of highest resistance on both ends; connector to the regulator/rectifier (see above) and at the other end where they attach to the stator. Note in the picture below, the discolored heat-damaged insulation on the two yellow wires where they connect to the stator coil lugs.
Heat Damaged Insulation at Stator
Finally, I recommend installing an inexpensive digital voltmeter to get more information about the health of your electrical system. An on-board voltmeter will flag a charging system that is behaving erratically and intermittently prior to failure. When the charging light comes on it's too late.
Digital Voltmeter Installation
The model (Lascar EMV 1200) I use is shown here installed on a superbike: The meter's current draw is so small (3 ma) it can be left on continuously without draining your battery. You can buy it in the UK for £20:
http://www.lascarelectronics.com/pro...KEN =47647414
To install, cut both lead wires to within an inch or so of the threaded stud. Solder a more substantial wire to each lead and run them directly to the battery terminals. Fit a piece of shrink tubing over the voltmeter's threaded stud and wires to prevent excessive bending or fatigue failure where they exit the meter.
As you can see, I mounted the meter directly below the water temperature gauge on my 916. You can run the shrink tubing covered wires down between the bracket and the instrument housing. The meter is so light-weight that no additional mounting bracket was required, the stiffness of the shrink tubing is enough to keep it from moving around. A small piece of foam placed between the bracket and the bottom of the meter will keep it facing you. If you mount it too rigidly it will see a lot of vibration that could shorten the life of the meter.
As a final note, use the above electrical load tables to see the effect that additional electrical loads will make when you make changes such as running both headlights together, added auxiliary equipment, or the use heated clothing.
The 1995–1998 superbike models were designed with a 350 watt alternator. The 1998 ST2 is unique, it was Ducati's one and only 450 watt single-phase system. For the 1999 model year 1999, Ducati redesigned the system going to a 520 watt 3-phase alternator. Make sure that your power demands during all expected operating modes don't exceed these levels. Adding additional electrical equipment or using a lightweight low-capacity battery, on pre-1999 bikes in particular, isn't very prudent.
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21-Jul-2003, 07:29 PM
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Very interesting as all your posts are! However the bit about overheating regulators doesnt really account for why they fail on ST series bikes. The regulator is located under the headlight and well away from the engine.
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Agreed Paul, however it gets no air flow as on mine the regulator was hidden behind the chin section of the upper fairing and relies on sinking heat into the headlamp surround casting using a dielectric paste ( which will break down with time & heating cycles ) and ambient air cooling.
When mine went u/s, I relocated the replacement inside the air intake at the front to get a constant air flow.
Fingers crossed!!!!! :P
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Shazaam - nice pic of the melted plastic connector, looks exactly like the one I found on my bike!!
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21-Jul-2003, 10:42 PM
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Your connector is famous over here in California, mate. (Sorry about not crediting you. I just couldn't figure out where/when I found it.)
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Where do we find the forementioned stator wires and connectors to check?
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22-Jul-2003, 11:23 AM
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A great post. My connector is nuked just like the one in the photo. Going to sort it out today though. Was going to connect the wires again with another connector but may go for the 'hard' wire
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I bought a new connector from Snells (better type/make that they use for this type of repair - about £4) cut back the wires where the insulation had gone soft and job done.
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cut out the connector, soldered the wires together, taped them up. Tested the circuit with a meter and all back to normal.
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24 years of email
Address Books
Initially, I didn't need an email address book. Most of the people I was emailing were on the same domain (often the same machine) and so everything after the @ was irrelevant. And the number of people on email world-wide was so small that remembering their email addresses was easy (I don't mean remembering them all, just remembering the ones I needed to talk to).
And most people's domains hadn't reached the point where just using initials was unworkable. So most email addresses consisted of their initials. That made them short and rememberable. I don't recall anyone with a ridiculous address like [email protected]
But things changed: the Internet got bigger, people's addresses got more complex, I was communicating with more and more people. Hence address books.
The ability to send more than just plain text inside an email (even if it is actually being transmitted as 7-bit ASCII) was big. Prior to the introduction of MIME in 1992 there were some limited ways to send binary content in email (mostly using uuencode) but it was an ugly mess and mail clients often didn't know what to do with the contents and you were forced to save the mail to a file and manually unpack it.
Happily, MIME made that problem go away.
Email Searching
As email got considerably more widespread it became necessary to put it into folders to try and keep a handle on the volume. This led to the sort of trees of folders that are seen in programs like Microsoft Outlook. This is, IMHO, a less than optimal solution. The right solution is the sort of high-speed email searching offered by Google Mail. With it folders are completely irrelevant.
In fact foldering was such a pain that it was part of the reason I invented POPFile.
The Bad
Two bad things have happened since I started using email: spam (first spam was in 1978 on ARPANET, but I don't recall any unwanted messages during the late 1980s at all) and HTML email. HTML email has been a spammers playground and for messages I want to receive (i.e. everything other than marketing) it's almost useless.
Minor irritations are: vacation responders, people who don't edit replies sending me gigantic threads embedded in a message.
8 years
That's one major innovation every 8 years. With Google Mail being released in 2004 we've got another 2 years to wait for the next one. What do you think it will be? For me it has to be something to do with threading. That's still pretty messy, and Google Wave doesn't seem to have improved it. I don't think the little > is cutting it anymore.
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Enter facebook proxy emails... Just this morning I had to truncate email addresses in my app's user admin because of facebook proxy emails, eg:
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- martijn said...
But don't you think the problems with threading are mostly due to human laziness? I think ">" still works fine, as long as people know when (not) to use it.
I'm not saying that there can't be any improvements to mail readers that would force people to do the right thing, just that I wouldn't know which ones.
My money would be on something like DKIM being widely employed. Although that might take more than two years...
- Mark Russell said...
I think there's an obvious advancement that nobody ever seems to mention: Security/encryption.
24 years later email passwords are often still sent in the clear every time you check or send mail. It's incredible! And nothing is ever encrypted (unless, perhaps you work for MI5). I can't ever remember receiving an encrypted message.
Ok, Gmail and some of the big hosted email services use HTTPS/SSL/TLS, for transmission, but a lot don't and I have to make sure I do whenever I hook my email client up to my own server on a new machine. And how many times do you set up your new, unique, really secure online password just for the provider to email it straight back to you in plain text?!
Maybe in 2012 Gmail or somebody will finally introduce a service that uses PGP or some key based email encryption. It is possible to set up in clients like Thunderbird, but you have to jump through so many hoops it's impractical and really tedious. Plus, nobody else is set up for it, rendering the bother moot.
Better still, somebody should make the whole concept far clearer and the keys easier to set up and get hold of. The whole think might have an impact on spam too.

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The Effect of Teaching Self-determination Skills on Optimistic Explanatory Style and Academic Identity of Primary Male Students with Learning Disabilities
Mohammad Abbasi
Manijeh Shehni Yailagh
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Litrature and Humanity Sciences, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran ,
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This study aimed at examining the effects of teaching self-determination skills on the optimistic explanatory style and academic identity of primary male students with learning disabilities in Ahwaz city, Iran.
The present study was a field experimental study with pre-test/post-test and follow-up. The sample consisted of 27 primary male students with learning disabilities who were enrolled in the academic year of 2013-2014. The participants were selected using the random sampling method, and randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control. Data were collected using the Children's Attribution Style Questionnaire-Revised (CASQ-R) and Academic Identity Scale (AIS). Before teaching self-determination to the experimental group, the pre-tests of the optimistic explanatory style and academic identity were administrated to both groups. Then, the teaching package of self-determination was administered to the experimental group and no training was provided to the control group. After the completion of the course, the optimistic explanatory style and academic identity post-tests were administrated to both groups and seven weeks later were administrated again.
Results showed that teaching self-determination significantly increased the optimistic explanatory style (P < 0.002), and academic identity (P < 0.003) in these students. Also, the results indicated that teaching self-determination had a persistent effect on the optimistic explanatory style (P < 0.002) and academic identity (P < 0.002) over time.
Teaching self-determination skills can increase the optimistic explanatory style and academic identity.
Optimistic Explanatory Style
Academic Identity
Learning Disabilities
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If you're right handed, a worm drive saw can make straight cuts in sheet wood, and mitered cuts in dimensional boards. You don't get the benefit of the stops like with a miter saw, but you also don't have the width limitation that a miter saw has. (over 8 inches wide doesn't cut in one pass) It's usually a little heavy, but I bought one and have barely used my table saw or miter saw since. A band saw, scroll saw or jig saw is needed for any curved cuts. I have a band saw but usually use my jig saw. A more powerful jig saw is worth a bit of extra money. The cuts look much better. Once you get your saws. . .you'll need a sander (or two).
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They are probably best known for hits like "American Woman", "Share The Land" and "These Eyes". Calling Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada home, The Guess Who have enjoyed international success and recognition. And the good news is they're still rockin'! Drummer Garry Peterson spoke with us about the band he helped put together.
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- No. It could've been just an isolated date. It didn't necessarily have to be part of a tour. But yeah, Domenic Troiano would have been in the band, playing guitar with us at that time.
- With all this talk about the recession, has this affected the bookings for The Guess Who?
- Well, we do between, this band now, forty to fifty dates a year. I think we're already at forty-two (in 2011). It may be a little bit harder 'cause we may be four dates short of what we did last year or next year (2012) we might be five dates over. It's within four or five dates. So, I don't think it's affected us a great deal.
- Lucky you! And you're comfortable with that schedule, aren't you? You wouldn't want to double the dates?
- No. Being in your 60s and traveling is not as easy as it was in the hey-day of the band. Airline travel is a nightmare now compared to what it was.
- These days the venue probably supplies all the back line equipment you need.
- Yeah. We do, I like to call it command stuff. We take minimal personal equipment like guitars. I'll take my snare and my cymbals. Pretty well all the rest of the stuff is supplied via companies in each area that specialize in all different brands of equipment. I mean, I'm a DW Drumming endorser and I never have trouble getting a DW set. So basically it's nothing like it used to be when you were playing on rented equipment. It's more or less a given now. Although you do run into the odd batch of sets of drums or amplifiers if it's not properly maintained by the company, but most of the companies are on top of that because there's so many more acts doing that now. The whole business has grown up, whereas they used to have Studio Rentals before. Studio Rentals was purely for studios, right? Now his company, Studio Rentals, are all over the place and they specialize in 'live' performances. It's a whole different world.
- And so where do you perform today? All over the world?
- It's mostly the U.S., although recently we've had a few shows in Canada. With our band not being the original band, it's been a little bit difficult for us to get people to want to book this band in Canada, The Guess Who being virtually a part of Canadiana. On the other hand, this is such a good band, I think that once people see the band and indeed the audience sees the band... We just played a show outside of Toronto and it was actually a Country event that went on for four days. We played that and we had like 35,000 people. They loved the band and it was the biggest Thursday night they ever had in the twenty-six years they've been running it. That was kind of an eye-opener for us and was quite gratifying to see that. I think we will make more in-roads into Canada. What we've done now is we've just finished recording three new songs that were written for the band by our lead singer Derek Sharp. He's just mixing them now, so I think that's probably one of the ways we're going to kind of legitimatize ourselves in Canada. It's by having new material to go along with the traditional hits that The Guess Who has.
- Besides yourself, who else is an original member in the group?
- Jim Kale. So that's 50% (laughs) of the original band. You know what I mean? We do have at least two of the guys out of the four originals.
- I believe there's a law here in New York State that says you must have at least two of the original members in a classic band in order to book them.
- I don't see how they can enforce that law, because if an individual owns the name and the trademark, they're allowed to use it in any way they choose. Jim and I do own the name and trademark, duly registered in the Federal courts of the U.S. and Canada. We have the documentation. So I'm just wondering how they would go about enforcing that law. It seems they would be in conflict with the law of the land, but who knows? (laughs) It doesn't make sense in a sense because if a company created a product, would they have to have the original guys alive who created it? Or could that product go on?
- Ruth Handler, who came up with the Barbie doll, died and the company lives on.
- So there you go. It seems a restriction of trade issue, but I guess that's why the States have their individual laws. It's interesting. We do have 50%, so...
- When you record these days, you're putting this out on your own label?
- No. This is the first time we've done anything like this. We're not 100% sure what we're going to do. I know one thing, we've had great reaction to the songs. We're playing two out of the three every night in our show and people are reacting to it, which is a very good measuring stick amongst all that hit material in the show. If you have enough nerve to put it in, it's on. You get a good test for it amongst all the material that everybody knows. But I think what we're really going to do is finish the three songs, which should be finished by the end of this month (September 2011) and then think about doing three more and then three more and then when we have about twelve or fifteen songs, maybe we'll talk to a record company or decide to put it out as a package. We really have no plan other than we've wanted to record. We have a lot of material. Once we get the group of songs together, it'll become more apparent of what we should do with it. We're not in a big hurry. (laughs) We've taken this much time to create new material, but I think we finally have the band right now that we're comfortable with doing this. All the other permutations after 1975 didn't really bear any fruit, so it's kind of taken this long to get the right singer and the right talent together in my opinion.
- You toured the U.S. in 1965 as part of Dick Clark's Caravan Of Stars tour. Who else was on that tour?
- There was no tour. (laughs) We didn't do anything with Dick Clark until the 1980s actually. The only kind of tour we did like that, but it wasn't a Dick Clark Cavalcade, we would have loved to have done one, but never gotten invited to do one; we did a tour that was headlined by The Kingsmen on that tour. I can't remember how many dates it was. It was maybe thirty dates, something like that. There was The Kingsmen, us, Barbara Mason, Dion And The Belmonts. Then at different times we had like Sam The Sam And The Pharaohs and The Turtles come on to the tour and come off the tour. That was the biggest thing we'd ever done as far as someone would term a Cavalcade of bands. That was about 1965. But you know how things go. It was a Cavalcade Of Stars. It's the old telephone game. By the time you end up reading it, it was a Dick Clark Cavalcade Of Stars. (laughs) You dig? It got changed by someone along (the way). We didn't do Dick Clark's Cavalcade Of Stars. I've read that before. I'm here to tell you since I'm the longest existing member of the band and the only one in the band who played on every Guess Who record. I was there and I didn't do any drugs, despite what Randy Bachman says.
- I haven't seen anything to that effect.
- He left the band because the band was doing too many drugs. (laughs)
- I interviewed him and I don't believe he even mentioned anything like that to me.
- Well, he's mellowing in his old age.
- Was touring America in the '60s a problem for The Guess Who? Randy Bachman said an American or English group could get a visa to perform in Canada in a few hours. A Canadian group had to wait three to six weeks to get U.S. visas. Why was that?
- It's a bit of a dramatic way to look at it. I mean there's always been issues between the two countries. I don't know how Randy would know how to get one in Canada. He never had to get one, (laughs) if you think about it from that point of view. Yeah, you had to get your visa to work in the States. I think when we first started working in the States, we didn't even know that. We just came in and tried to go across the border and then found out you can't do it that way. So, it's a little bit harder because you had to prove there was some reason for the Immigration Department to let you in. In other words, you'd be taking a job from an American citizen, correct?
- That would be their thinking.
- That would be their thinking. Unless you could prove you were unique unto yourself. No one else in this country could provide what you provide. If you had a hit record, you could do that, couldn't you?
- Yes, you could.
- No one else could create this hit record because this is us. It was kind of that mentality in those days. And so I think the union takes a larger hand, the American Federation Of Musicians, and makes it much easier to be able to do that. We did have trouble, but once we found the right people, we were then able to get the right paperwork to come into the States. I don't know that it caused us any problems with records because by the time "Shakin' All Over" in '65 was out, we already had H1 status in the United States. We'd worked through the right people. He (Randy Bachman) may have been telling more of an exciting story to make it sound a little bit more difficult than it actually was. When you deal with the tax department, what's it like? It's government! (laughs)
- He went on to say a way around that situation was to renounce your Canadian citizenship and become an American citizen.
- I think he was referring to one incident that we had like really, really early in the game. His is correct in that they wanted that sort of thing. That was during the Vietnam War. We found out that if we actually did keep those visas, we could be drafted. That was something we didn't want obviously because this wasn't really our country and we didn't understand the war, so we handed those visas in. He may be referring to that situation. We actually did go home and turn them in after they said you have to register for the draft in the States. They said we want you to go to the first draft board when you cross the border, Noyes, Minnesota, and register for the draft. We just did the gig, came back and handed in the visas. I think we were going down to Texas at the time. There was some of that complication early on in the visa. There's now a reciprocal treaty with Canada and the States which probably has grown out of all these very early times.
- In 1966, you were playing the same venues as Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell was a Folk singer. The Guess Who are a Rock 'n' Roll band. What kind of places were you playing back then?
- Well, I don't know where you got that information from. Is that from Randy as well?
- Not from Randy.
- I don't know whether I could accurately say. We played clubs. The most unique thing we played were ballrooms. They used to have these ballrooms where the Big Bands used to come to play. They would hold like a thousand people. In the early days of the band in '65, we would play those kinds of rooms because they were now changing from Big Bands to Rock. As you can see, The Surf (Ballroom), Buddy Holly played with The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens the night before the plane flight. We've played there several times. We played most of the clubs. Now whether Joni Mitchell would play those kind of clubs, I have no way of knowing. Chuck Berry, Little Richard played all those and it went into our era from the '50s to the '60s and there's still many of those venues around today. We also did play colleges at that time, when we first had "Shakin' All Over". We did some military base stuff. I remember meeting a lot of the guys coming to and from Vietnam. The state of mind they were in. They were scared when they were just about to go over and they were really screwed up when they came back. We were doing one of The Animals' songs, "We Got To Get Out Of This Place" and we had to play it at Rantoul Air Force Base nine times that night at the show.
- They liked that song.
- Yeah.
We got to get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do
. (laughs)
- Was it the producer of this TV show
Let's Go!
who told you to write and perform your own material?
- His name is Larry Brown. He went on to CTV to produce all of the Canadian Football. I don't think he was the one who told us we should do that. The band always, if you go back before "Shakin' All Over", we had three albums on Quality Records, before we had the TV show with Chad Allen. We were always recording. So that kind of flies in the face of somebody telling us it's time for you to write new material and record. We were always doing that. But I think what Larry said to us, and he said this in an interview and that show in Canada,
Let's Go!
, we played the latest hits from that week. We were a great copy band. We could play The Beatles. We could play anything. It's too bad CBC didn't keep those tapes They re-recorded over them. That's a shame. His comment was "When I met The Guess Who, we told them what they would play on the show." In other words, you'd play The Box Tops' "The Letter" this week or whatever it was. And he said "By the end of the show, The Guess Who were telling us what they would play." That show was our training ground. We further learned our craft there and it gave us money, a steady source of income along with our 'live' concerts on the weekend, to give us the luxury of developing new material. I don't think anybody actually told us to do that. We always knew that. If you're a musician and a creator, that's one of the things you want to do. Nobody can tell you to do that. (laughs) If they need to tell you, you should be in a different business. But what happened on that show is, we'd gone over to England before that show. We were supposed to have recorded an album and do a tour. When we got over there the deal was so bad it was almost like slave labor. They said "OK, you don't sign this record contract, you don't have no tour. Nothing." We said "Thanks very much, but no thanks." So I think we came back from England in early 1965, in the hole, about $25,000 in debt. And that television show saved us. It both saved us financially and gave us the freedom to create new material and as Larry said later, tell them what song we would play on the show. Larry was a smart guy. He was a good guy. He could see the talent of the band. When you have something like that, you don't legislate it. You gently guide it and allow it to create and that's why the show was successful.
- The late, great Lillian Roxon said this about The Guess Who: "If ever there was a band who needed an ACCU lawyer to defend them from overt discrimination, it was The Guess Who. The band first came to light in the late '60s, in the days when a good Rock band wasn't supposed to have catchy hit singles. The Guess Who did of course have hit singles, lots of them. As a result, they just never caught on with the serious music crowd." By serious music crowd, she was referring to readers of publications like
Rolling Stone
magazine. What do you think of that quote?
- Well, she should be downloading all thirteen of the Guess Who albums, which are on iTunes, and not listen to the hits. When a cut comes along that's a hit, skip it. Go to the next cut.
- If she was around today, I'm sure she would do it.
- I think if she would listen to The Guess Who, I could play you cuts from those thirteen albums that you wouldn't know who it was. What I'm saying is, because we had hits, they didn't listen to the other stuff on the albums. They couldn't get past the hits and because there was AM and FM. We were AM artists. I defy you to take any contemporaries of The Guess Who from that era and find a song like "She's Come Undone" on any of their albums. But "Undone" is an out and out Jazz tune. How did that become a hit and what kind of a bubblegum group had a song like "Undone" with a flute solo? I mean, a Jazz flute solo!
- The criticism you could make of Lillian Roxom's criticism is when a record company signs an artist, of course they want the artist to have a hit!
- That was the era, especially that era. But I'm saying the hit part of the musical community didn't listen to some of the stuff we were doing on albums. It's totally bizarre. It's totally off the wall. And I think that now that you're doing this interview, I think you should go on iTunes and download every one of our albums and listen to them, I mean truly listen to them. Not the hits. Listen in between the hits and then you tell me if what I'm telling you is the truth.
- And every other person who is reading this interview should do the same.
- Exactly. That's what I tell kids today. Yes, the hits are great. They're fine, but they've been force fed to you by radio, by the media. Go and listen to "Straight And Out" by The Guess Who.
- Second quote from Lillian Roxon: "The Guess Who left behind a legacy of Gold singles, tons of them, but little else. Unlike most of their peers of the late '60s and early '70s, they never made an impression on the concert going public. They started off and wound up being as a uniquely faceless band." Faceless is a term
Rolling Stone
magazine used to describe Journey, Foreigner and Styx in the early 1980s. Journey just had the highest attended grandstand concert at this year's (2011) New York State Fair. Do you understand the criticism that is leveled at a group when they're called "faceless"?
- I think for some of these people, they don't do their homework. Like I said, go listen to the thirteen albums and tell me about the rest of the music other than the hits. You can't crucify a band for having hit records. That's the kind of machine driven music society is in right now, or have been for many years. That's what it's about; having hit records. The Guess Who was "faceless" because The Guess Who didn't live in L.A. The Guess Who didn't live in New York City.
- And if you had, would that have meant you'd be out partying every night?
- Maybe, or maybe the machine would have had more access to us or might have wanted to have more access to us. We lived in Winnipeg. C'mon! (laughs) That's like living in Fargo. Who's gonna be excited about that? It's all about perception. Our thing was to remain in Winnipeg and not become part of the scene. Because we weren't part of the scene, we were faceless. We were really The Guess Who! Even all the British acts that came over here (the U.S.) were from London. Where'd they go and live? If they lived in the States, they lived in L.A. or New York. You go where the hype is. We didn't. We were what what's-his-name from
Rolling Stone
said. We were a maverick band. We didn't follow the pattern that everybody took. Even Neil Young left Winnipeg. Where did he go? He went to L.A.! Buffalo Springfield. Where'd they come from? Neil Young was in the Buffalo Springfield. How'd he get a higher profile than The Guess Who? He did that.
- You said Canadians won't accept anything in Pop music unless it has been accepted in the U.S. Is that still the case?
- Well, you know I think that's probably less today, but you have to understand when we grew up, when they programmed a radio station in Winnipeg, it was programmed from New York, what they were listening to in New York. So, here's this country, Canada, living in the shadow of this big brother who makes Pontiacs and Chevrolets and Fords. So what do Canadians buy? Pontiacs, Chevrolets and Fords. What else do they make? Oh, General Electric refrigerators, Norge refrigerators. Viking. Do I have to go any further?
- I got your point.
- That's the point. Music was no different. We're virtually a bedroom community of the United States. What ever the trends are in the United States, Canadians conservatively pick them up.
- Aren't you happy to see a Canadian, Justin Bieber, now leads the way in Pop music?
- I'm happy to see that Michael Buble is such a great artist. That's what I'm happy to see. There's always been talent in Canada. Monty Hall is from Winnipeg. They guys who started K-Tel Records are from Winnipeg. Look at the comedians from Canada. Should I go through those?
- I've got a good idea who they are.
- Yeah. There is talent, but our population when I was growing up was twenty million and it was two hundred million in the United States. You've just got a lot more of everything here. (the United States) So naturally, and since we are the two largest trading partners in the world, we're going to adopt all the successful things from the United States. It's very easy to do and maybe not develop your own stuff. Why do you need to develop your own stuff? It's ready made here, (the U.S.) McDonalds, Burger King. How many great Canadian restaurant chains do you know of?
- None.
- (laughs) OK. That's the whole thing, right? Canadians are a poor man's Americans. I don't know. We have a lot in common. There is a distinct difference in the two countries in some respects, but for all intents and purposes we could be one country, which is why I hold citizenship in both countries. Canada was my mother that gave birth to me and nurtured me and I made all my fortune and fame in the United States, which is my father which has kept me all those years. So it's like having a mother and a father and I love both countries dearly.
- Now, according to
Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia Of Rock And Roll
- Oh, that great and wonderful institution now. How did they... They were supposed to be a rebellious paper that knocked everything and now they're an American icon.
Rolling Stone
is just Coca-Cola (laughs).
- See, they were the first...
- Oh, they were the first.
- To report on Rock 'n' Roll and Rock in a serious way. But anyway,
Rolling Stone
said that you appeared at The White House in 1970 and Mrs. Nixon, the First Lady, asked you to delete "American Woman" from your set. Did she tell you that and why?
- Yeah. I suppose she was smart enough to know, unlike some of the people in this country today (the U.S.), that still think we don't like American women, (laughs) that it was about the country personified as a woman. Since we were entertaining at their home, on their lawn, and they said we'd rather you not have it. We said, well, you know what? We didn't write this song with a political axe to grind. It was merely a comment on what we saw going on down here at the time. You're hiring us for $50,000 or $60,000 to play and if you don't want us to do our number one song, that's fine with us. You're paying for it. We're here to entertain people, not to make people unhappy.
- I always thought The White House does not pay for entertainers. Colonel Parker once said Elvis would not perform at The White House for free.
- They paid us. It cost them $100,000 for the gazebo they set up there that night. We're not gonna play for nothing.
- You toured with Three Dog Night from November to December, 1972 in Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Do you remember that tour?
- Yes, and we were in Japan by ourselves. We joined Three Dog Night in Australia and New Zealand. I remember that very vividly. I certainly remember our flight from Japan. Our last date was Osaka, Japan and we flew from Osaka to Tokyo, Tokyo to Manila, Manila to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Brisbane and Brisbane to Auckland in 36 hours.
- That's a long flight.
- Yeah. well, they had to re-fuel a lot. (laughs) It was a DC-8 at that time. The stewardesses were just whacked by the time we got there. They took us right off the plane to a press conference where Three Dog Night was all dressed up, waiting, beautifully manicured and everything. Here's these Canadian guys after 36 hours of drinking on the plane.(laughs) Everybody wanted to talk to the Tasmanian devils that just arrived. (laughs) That was a funny thing.
- Did you return to Australia after 1975?
- We never returned. I really believe that going overseas, unless you were Elvis or something like that, you couldn't make as much money. So, I think our people that were handling us, maybe to our detriment, didn't promote overseas things. We didn't play in Europe. We never played a 'live' concert in Europe, ever. We're truly an American band.
- Are you in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?
- We're not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. We just did what we do and that's what we did.
- But you should be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
- It's not that I don't care. It's obviously a great honor, but I think you have to understand your place in the scheme of Pop music history. You have to know what you did and what you didn't do. Now, when you start believing what you think you did; we kind of know what we did. You can't go anywhere in this country (the U.S.) without hearing one of our records on Classic Rock everyday of the year.
- That's right.
- So, what does that tell you?
- Burton Cummings, in a concert this year (2011), referred to the current line-up of The Guess Who as "That traveling circus" and advised fans to "do yourself a favor and stay home." I guess that means you won't be sending Burton Cummings holiday greetings this year.
- Well, no. I guess it's kind of odd that he would have to say that in print, or in any media. Why was he saying that unless we were actually getting to him? That is odd.
- You aren't on bad terms with him, are you?
- Well, I gather we're not on friendly terms. (laughs) I'd say there's fans out there for everyone. Burton has had his chance to be in this band. He left the band in 1975, which is how many years ago?
- 36.
- Wow! So, there's been The Guess Who all this time. I think there's room for everybody. It's just the way the world is right now. The reason The Guess Who is not together is because of ego and greed.
- Isn't that the story of most bands?
- Yeah.
- In the beginning it's "All For One And One For All."
- When money comes along, it's a big difference.
- It changes everything.
- Well, it changes some people. Some people it truly doesn't change. I think those are the people who really know why they're doing what they're doing. It didn't start off for money and although you make money along the way, it's still not about money.
- It's about the music.
- Exactly.
- It always has been.
- And that's why we're successful. This band, quite simply, the band I'm in right now is musically the best Guess Who there's ever been, period. There's enough examples of it on YouTube to go and see. In fact, some of the new music is up on YouTube as well.
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Graduates who want to become entrepreneurs should not make any plans for Christmas in the future, as a report has revealed that one in ten business owners are planning to work on Christmas Day. The research, by UK Business Forums, shows that 33 per cent do enjoy the Christmas festivities but check their company emails and complete business tasks on the day.Dan Martin, administrator of UK Business Forums, said: "These figures demonstrate how dedicated the UK's millions of entrepreneurs are to growing a successful business. Even on December 25th when most of us will be sitting down with our friends and family to turkey and Christmas pudding, many small business owners will be working on building their company into the big firms of the future." Only 30 per cent of entrepreneurs who were surveyed said that they would not be working at all between Christmas Day and the New Year. UK Business Forums has been established since 2003 and offers support and advice to businesses.


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IAC-owned Match announced that it has acquired a 20% interest in Zhenai, a provider of "online matchmaking services" in China, for an undisclosed sum.
They acquire because they can not innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
Remember what I had said last year:
"Mr. Greg Blatt named CEO of IAC? He is only a lawyer. He is not going to innovate in nothing.
My bet: He will continue to acquire rotten tech companies in order to show some kind of success, show achievements, show milestones during his tenure."
Match wants you using Chemistry (last April 2010)
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When the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act became law shortly after President Obama took office, experts told me again and again that the new legislation gave the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy and security requirements some teeth.
This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent warnings to those subject to the laws that it's serious about enforcement now that it can finally do something to discourage violations. According to Computerworld, HHS imposed a $4.3 million civil penalty on Cignet Health for violating HIPAA privacy provisions and agreed to receive $1 million from Massachusetts General Hospital to settle potential HIPAA privacy violations.
Cignet's penalty stems from its failure to give 41 different patients access to their medical records when they were requested, followed by a failure to cooperate with an investigation into the matter by the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
The Mass. General settlement arises from the loss of documents containing the protected health information of 192 patients. An employee accidently left them on a subway, the story says.
The cases are the first resulting from HIPAA privacy violations since the law was enacted.
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We discuss progress in the development and testing of cryogenic optics and servo-mechanisms for long-baseline interferometry at far-infrared wavelengths. Direct-detection interferometry in space at these wavelengths will permit high angular resolution studies of galaxy and star formation and overcome the confusion due to the extra-galactic background, opening up an entirely new domain of astrophysical research. In support of these science goals, we are now developing new technologies needed to make long-baseline far-infrared interferometry possible. The design of a direct-detection interferometer for the far-IR is extremely challenging. For it to be background-limited in space in the region of 40-400 microns, its optics and servo-mechanisms must operate at near liquid helium temperatures. Our present focus is on the commissioning of a precision cryogenic delay line and integrated optics beam combiner. The preliminary tests of our prototype delay line, at a temperature of 120 K, have shown it to operate well. We are now in the process of implementing the servo control system for the delay line and have completed the fabrication and assembly of a novel cryogenic mechanical amplifier for phase-measurement interferometry. The current status and ongoing development of our program will be described.
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8 Tactics to Drive Online Sales
Benji Lamb 5 Min Read
Do you desire more traffic and greater sales figures for your online store? Why of course! It has become wholly natural for consumers to purchase goods online, there is a greater level of trust than ever before in digital shopping platforms and processes. Online customers are nowadays more strongly influenced by intelligent, digital marketing strategies.
Here are 8 key tactics on how to increase your e-commerce sales.
1) Quality Content
It goes without saying that you need quality content that is effectively utilized throughout the shopping process.
Immediate impressions are key with quality visuals and well-written descriptions really selling your products. The overall aesthetic of your website needs to be clear and highlight (against a more simplified background) the quality images, video's and written text that you are featuring.
Content with high added value is most appreciated when providing the bulk of necessary information to your website visitors and when prices are being displayed at first. Content must be written and presented in the most clear and concise way, people don't waste their time reading difficult descriptions of your products. Once consumers have decided and seek to complete their transaction simplify the whole process, quality content is required for the consumer's immediate impression.
A user-friendly, intuitively designed website is also the bedrock of an effective e-commerce site. A quick page load for consumers is essential. Is the experience intuitive? smooth? or is it fragmented or disjointed? The step by step process needs to be as natural and hassle-free as possible for users in order to emphasize quality content and reduce the phenomenon of abandoned shopping carts.
2) Upselling
Upselling is cliche but it really works. 'May I interest you in this upgrade', it's an effort to sell the consumer a more expensive product than their intitial choice. The logic is evident, the consumer is interested in this type or range of product and for a slightly higher price they can purchase something of a higher quality. According to e-consultancy upselling is 20 times more effective than cross promotion.
There are two aspects to consider when it comes to upselling. Firstly ensure your upsells are closely related to the original product, it has to logical step for the consumer. Secondly, it is vital to bear in mind the initial price range of your customers. The upsold product must fit the original needs of the shopper, a gigantic leap in price will likely be ineffective. The new product should be significantly better than the initial choice but within a feasible price range.
3) Improve and tailor your email campaigns
Improving your email campaigns is important, often email is sidelined in this day and age but with consumers being over exposed to marketing content on social media, a well-crafted email with tailored product recommendations and interesting content featured alongside products can prove effective. Consumers expect added value with suggestions based upon their interests or previous purchases.
Build subscribing for your newsletter into your home page and be creative when curating content to be sent out, content really is king. Consumers want to feel exclusive; special promotions, competitions, interesting features and unique content can be an incentive for users to remain engaged with your e-store and visit more frequently.
Seize the chance to send emails to customers frequently but on useful and relevant occasions, sign up / welcome emails, order processing emails, order confirmations, regular newsletters and tailored recommended for you messages can all be utilized.
4) E-reputation and SEO
Driving traffic to your site initially is achieved through SEO, a good e-store should be blogging frequently for SEO purposes and to stay connected with users. The key is to be included higher up the rankings as part of the natural search results, paid adverts or results are mostly ignored by consumers on search engines.
E-reputation can be developed in forums and on social media most effectively by disseminating content from user to user. Targeted groups based on specific interests is often the most effective place to start, or even start a group based on a particular interest which your e-store can tap into. Focus on shareable content by understanding your consumer demographic, preferences and interests.
5) Directly engage with your visitors
There are a variety of ways to engage and retain visitors. Direct consumers to your social media profiles which should be actively managed. Ensure that the 'follow' buttons and links are clearly displayed on your storefront or homepage too.
Do you organize or run events? O2O (online to offline and vice versa) can be very effective. QR codes placed in public spaces can link people directly to your store-front, incentivize people to scan them with competitions and special promotions.
Well-organized events can create a 'buzz', encourage people to talk about your brand. Move out of the digital marketing sphere and engage directly with your market.
6) Vary your product range
Variety is vital, to keep consumers returning to browse online switch up what is on sale and offer. This also provides an opportunity to produce new content regarding new product ranges and offers.
Traffic can be driven effectively to your site but it goes without saying that if the products are not right then this effort will be wasted. Analyse your online sales, what areas are the most lucrative for you? Can you hook consumers in with flash sales and cross promotions? Vary what is presented to the consumer so that returning customers will still be interested.
7) PPC (Pay per click)
Pay Per Click has become a very general term. Your company can place an ad and pay a sum of money to the host website when a user clicks on the ad. PPC is an effective method to advertise your ecommerce site in a sustainable way. The key is to be flexible and constantly check your campaigns progress, remain open to bettering and changing your ads when necessary. Respond to the click through rates but remain aware that PPC often produces long-term results rather than short term gains.
8) Partner with other e-commerce stores
If you provide a certain product which is complemented by different brand you can direct and drive traffic to one another. Partnering with other platforms can be effective to share and bounce potential consumers across to each other, it is also effective to share industry knowledge and technological insight. It is better initially to specialize in one particular product area and find other e-commerce platforms which complement what you are doing.
About the Author
Benji is digital marketing specialist based in Shanghai, China. He specialized in e-commerce and digital strategy in the mysterious orient. For more information see his website and blog.
Benji Lamb has lived in Shanghai for five years and specializes in e-commerce, digital marketing, and social networking in China. He is passionate about finding solutions for western firms in the aptly named mysterious orient. For more information see his marketing website and blog.
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I read all the above information about tactics to drive online sales. The above information is very helpful to generate online selling of the product.


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How Timely Roof Repairs Help Save Money
Wind, rain and sun all contribute to the demise of your roofing. Roofing material like concrete can be very durable, but many materials do not last beyond 20 years. UV rays of the sun are very damaging and can erode the roof unevenly. The south and west faces are more easily worn down by sun damage. Strong winds and precipitation are also responsible for roofing to deteriorate over time. In states that experience heavy snowfall, winter is the time that maximum damage is inflicted on the roof. Massive additional weight of snow and ice can cause stress to the entire surface and supporting structures. To prevent structural damages and water damage, the home owner should inspect the roofing and conduct roof repairs from time to time. If the ridge appears lop sided or the surface looks saggy there might be structural damage and the structure may no longer be strong enough. Professional contractors would have to come and assess the damage and determine ways to buttress the structure.
Heat from your home living space may escape to the attic and melt ice and snow on the roof. Water from melting snow is trapped or refreezes in overhangs creating ice dams that prevent the free flow of water in gutters and downspouts. Water then flows through the path of least resistance, penetrating the roofing material or entering the roofing through the flashings. To stop the reoccurrence of such problems along with roof repairs, the home owner should improve the insulation of the loft or attic to prevent heat loss. Limiting the warm air from leaking into the loft or attic will keep the ice on the roof from melting. Continuous water damage will keep the roof structure wet and dampen the insulation causing structural deterioration, rot and staining.
Worn out or damaged flashings will also permit water penetration into the roof deck. Shingles have to be replaced if they look worn or are missing. Wooden shingles rot over time. Metal roofs also display deterioration and localized corrosion. Priming and painting will prevent further damage to the metal. Flat roofs can exhibit blisters, cracks and bare patches indicating weathering and water damage. Growth of moss, lichens and algae are not a good sign on a roof.
All roofing material has a limited lifespan. Seek the advice of a home inspector or qualified roofing contractor to assess the damage before you seek roof repairs. Wilmington, DE residents can seek advice from local professional roofers for optimum results.
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Sabine Krieg
Vitra International
Global Head of Segment Retail
Sabine Krieg is Global Head of Segment Retail at Vitra. Vitra is a Swiss family-owned company that not only makes furniture for home, offices and public spaces as well as shopfitting systems for retail environments, but also has its own campus with buildings that are designed by leading international architects. Prior to joining Vitra - initially as Head of Strategic Marketing for the retail division, Sabine held senior positions at Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton and adidas. She is an expert in visual merchandising, fashion and retail and speaks English, French and German.