Nearly every business has use cases for a shared mailbox. Prior to Microsoft including shared mailboxes in Outlook and later Office 365, admins would instead use distribution lists, mail forwarding, or even public folders to allow multiple people to see an email. An email-enabled distribution list is a group of people who will all receive the same incoming email, but none of the members of that group will know if the others have responded. This is a real problem that can cause mail to be ignored or multiple replies to occur. Mail forwarding is more of a one-to-one scenario where an email addressed to one person gets delivered to another — which is fine, but only that person is aware of the incoming email. If it's an incoming sales inquiry, you might want it to go to any available sales staff. A public folder is a specific group folder that can receive email, but the members have to remember to visit that folder, and it's annoyingly low in the folder list within Outlook, making it easy to overlook. Further, Microsoft has more than once threatened to get rid of public folders and is currently making statements that look a lot like they are going to remove distribution groups. So it's time to know about shared mailboxes.
A shared mailbox is a fully functional mailbox, but it is not anyone's primary mailbox. Instead, it is a mailbox that an individual or group needs to monitor and be able to reply. Almost every business has a need for this functionality.
Instead of an alias: You want your clients to send email to a generic email address and have a small group of people be able to see and respond to those emails as that address. [email protected] might be an example of this kind of thing.
Instead of keeping a former employee's account active: An employee leaves and you want to give someone else access to that mailbox and have it continue to receive email during the transition. The shared mailbox provides a better solution than just forwarding because it provides access to the entire mailbox. We use this for transitional purposes so the new person in that role or manager can move the contacts, calendar, and other information in that mailbox.
Instead of forwarding: Your website has a contact address in it. Previously, you created a distribution group but there was no way to know if someone had already answered that email or not. With the shared mailbox, everyone can see whether the original email has been replied to, and they can view the reply in the Sent items folder, too.
Instead of keeping PSTs around: Yikes! Do people still do this? Yes, they do. Talk about old school. PST's are unstable, limited, and likely to get lost. With a shared mailbox, you can keep that information safe in your online Exchange server.
The specifications for what a shared mailbox can do have varied over the years. It was 5GB, then 10GB; at one time you couldn't send from it. Today a shared mailbox has a 50GB size limit, you can send and receive from that mailbox, and the sent messages stay with the shared mailbox. It does not require a license unless you want to add archiving to it and there are no user credentials associated with it. It's not some stripped-down limited feature. It's now a fantastic fully featured solution for real business problems.
Microsoft has an excellent easy to follow document on setting up a shared mailbox, so I'm not going to repeat those steps. Please go here for instructions on how to create the shared mailbox. Instead, I'm going to share some tips with you that make the experience that much better.
I want to point out an often missed setting that puts sent mail from a shared mailbox into the Sent folder of that mailbox. If you don't change this setting, then sent mail ends up in the personal Sent folder of the person that replied. This is generally not the function that people expect. To remedy this, go to your Office 365 Admin Center, Expand Groups and select Shared Mailboxes. Next, check the box for the shared mailbox you would like to change the setting for. Finally, slide over to ON at least the Copy items sent as this mailbox item. I've highlighted these steps below.
You may need to walk the end user through the process of finding the shared mailbox in Outlook. It's going to show up automatically so there is zero setup to do on the client side. But since it's an additional mailbox you might need to scroll down in the folder list to find it. Anyone using a shared mailbox may find it useful to pin the Inbox to their favorites.
You'll also want to show people how to send from this mailbox. Once the shared mailbox has been added to Outlook, the From box in the mail composition windows will have a drop-down arrow. Here you can pick the address you want as the From address.
Now don't forget that this is fully functional mailbox, which means that you've got Shared Calendars and Shared Contacts available to the group with access to this mailbox, too! Imagine the possibilities. These items can also be pinned to favorites. Some people prefer to use this feature over your other options in Groups or SharePoint. I would take a hard look at Groups before making that decision. Groups is a relatively new feature in Outlook that might serve this purpose better.
What are the limitations of a shared mailbox?
Just a couple of items to note.
Shared mailboxes can only be accessed from an Outlook desktop client or in Outlook Web. Meaning if you want to get it from your phone, you'll need to use the phone's browser. That can be a bummer for some very mobile people.
You can send and receive encrypted email. I see some notes around the Internet that you can't, including in that article that I linked for you, but it's untrue. You absolutely can.
Did you know you can convert an existing users' mailbox into a shared mailbox? Of course, as soon as I mentioned that you can use a shared mailbox to manage the email for an employee no longer with the company you must have assumed that. But you also know that you can convert a shared mailbox into a "real" mailbox? Well, you can and actually, both of these things are very simple. You just click the Convert link, wait a few minutes, and it's done.
You'll do this from the Exchange Admin Center. On the left, you see my personal account and a Convert the shared mailbox option. On the right, you see a shared mailbox with the Convert to regular mailbox option. Rarely to do we get treated to a single click configuration with Microsoft, but in this case, just click. It's that simple.
Once you get started with shared mailboxes, you're going to find a bunch of reasons to use them. Shared mailboxes are the solution for keeping mail at the hands of those small groups that need it and keeping that mail safe on the network. Just watch out for those couple of gotchas I mentioned and you'll find this a very easy-to-manage solution.
Actually, you can access share mailbox on Android phone Mail App (not Outlook App), configure using IMAP access with username in this format "user email address\share mailbox email address", password is the user password.
Just Google it, you shall find most guide from university to their student.
Can't tell it work on Apple devices or not since I don't own any of them.
Now that groups are out i saw a difference in shared mailboxes.
you can access your shared mailbox from everywhere even mobile native app standalone.
use the active user (unlicensed) that is generated automatically when creating a shared mailbox and you are there. i tested it on outlook with no other account and owa of course even in mobile app as exchange not imap.
as you said a unlincesed user can use a shared mailbox...so, free 50 gb for you!
Does anyone know how many concurrent connections you can have to a Shared Mailbox?
We have a mailbox which is accessed by around 20-30 users on Exchange 2010 which is starting to fall over. Looking at migrating to 365 and this feature could be really useful.
For this: then sent mail ends up in the personal Sent folder of the person that replied.
Can this be done with Exchange 2016?
If one users delete an email, all users will see it deleted, right?
Korkut, Yes everyone will see the email as deleted. It will then be located in the deleted items folder. It works just like a regular mailbox.
Jeff, No the email doesn't have to be in the sent items folder in the personal mailbox. It can be in the sent items folder of the shared mailbox. I noted a check box for that in the article. I'm not experienced with Exchange 2016 server but I think that this feature probably does exist there also since O365 and Exchange are the same platform.
Dave, I was unable to find an authoritative answer to your question. I would recommend asking the question directly to Microsoft through the chat window on the exchange online site.
Hi... Am struggling with finding a "shared" email box in Outlook 365.
Does anyone know if there is some tracking on the messages received on shared mailbox? I mean, is it possible to know if a message has been moved to another folder, if it was replied, if someone has deleted it. I received this query from a manager of a specific department.
Will the shared mailbox be deleted when the user account is deleted from AD? It seems to be working that way for us now, though it didn't use to do that. We want to be able to convert to a shared mailbox when an employee leaves, then delete the user account in AD. Is that supposed to work correctly with 365?
Does the OnPremise user can be granted Full Access and Send As forthe Office 365 migrated Shared Mailbox ?
Is a user able to email the shared mailbox with a calendar invitation?
Will the rules in regular mailbox be retained if converted to shared mailbox.


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Britain to Upgrade Communications on Cyprus Military Base
A man wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus, walks past customers of a coffee shop in central Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
NICOSIA — The UK will build a new communications facility on one of two bases it maintains on the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, a British Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday.
The spokesman told the Associated Press that the purpose of the "small-scale infrastructure project" is to "modernize communications infrastructure and increase our resilience."
The spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, gave no further details. The facility will be built at a disused site at Dhekelia Garrison on Cyprus' southeastern corner.
The U.K. retained the bases when Cyprus gained independence from British colonial rule in 1960.
The bases incorporate a large airfield at RAF Akrotiri and an important electronic intelligence gathering station at Ayios Nicolaos situated around 175 kilometers (109 miles) from Syria's Mediterranean coastline.
Britain has been keen in projecting its military strength in the region since it exited the European Union on Feb. 1, 2020, with large naval deployments including its newest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, from which cutting-edge F-35 jets operate.
British warplanes have also flown from RAF Akrotiri to assist in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey Says Cyprus Harbors Terrorists, Will Pay Price for Attacks
ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said Greece and Cyprus are harboring terrorist groups targeting his country and directed threats at the Greek-Cypriot government if there are any attacks on Turkey or the Turkish-Cypriot side.
Cyprus to Lift Restrictions on Vaccinated Travelers in March
New European Parliament President Wants Solution for Divided Cyprus

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Lawmakers criticize handling of Providence school closures
by: Kayla Fish
PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) — Rhode Island lawmakers criticized education officials Thursday night about the planned closures of two Providence elementary schools.
"Can we agree that was very poorly handled?" Rep. Patricia Serpa, chair of the House Committee on Oversight, asked R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and Zack Scott, deputy superintendent of operations at Providence Public Schools.
Both responded with silence.
"I guess we can't agree," Serpa said.
The state-run district announced plans to shut down Alan Shawn Feinstein at Broad Street and Carl G. Lauro elementary schools at the end of the school year Tuesday night.
The agenda for Thursday night's oversight committee hearing was posted Dec. 9, before news of the school closures was made public, but many lawmakers took time to press district leaders about the way in which the announcement was made.
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"You're not holding onto what you're responsible for, with regards to being honest and open and transparent," Rep. Anastasia Williams said.
Infante-Green doubled down on previous statements, explaining that this is not how the district planned to deliver the news.
The Providence Teachers Union posted about the closures on social media over the weekend, prompting district to confirm the closings.
Infante-Green told lawmakers the district planned to make the announcement later in the month after Providence Superintendent Javier Montañez returned from leave following a surgery. The education officials have been criticized for holding onto the information.
"It didn't come out the way we wanted, and that's what was felt by our educators and our parents," Scott said. "We're sorry it happened that way."
Some lawmakers criticized the lack of Providence School Board involvement in the decision. Under the state takeover, the board serves in an advisory role. In this case, the board was not even notified of the plan to close the schools before the decision was finalized.
"I don't think it means they can't be engaged and they can't be part of the conversation," Serpa said. "They live in the city, they know their neighborhoods."
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Some School Board members suggested the closures be tabled until more community input can be gathered.
Infante-Green was asked about the idea Thursday, but made no indication that would happen.
"Nobody is going to be happy when there's a school closure," Infante-Green said. "This is not something anyone has done lightly. But it just makes sense for the district that we can have new schools."
The oversight committee hearing was focused on providing lawmakers with an update on the state takeover of Providence Public Schools, which began in November 2019.
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Tryst in Time: Cosmic Romance
Sunday , 29, September 2019 Morgan Authors, Before the Big Three, Fiction, Short Fiction 1 Comment
The concept of imaging past lives, reincarnation, wandering egos has been an idea going back over a century in fiction.
H. Rider Haggard had the idea of past loves in She (1886). He returned with variations of the idea in The Wanderer's Necklace (1914), The Ancient Allan (1920), and Allan and the Ice Gods (1927). Edwin L. Arnold had a different life per chapter in Phra the Phoenician (1890).
Edgar Rice Burroughs used the idea in The Eternal Lover in 1914. Jack London's classic The Star Rover (1915) had episodes of a man in solitary confinement remembering past lives.
The idea had traction into the 1930s. Clark Ashton Smith in "Ubbo Sathla" (1933), Robert E. Howard's tales of racial memory, and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936) all used unique variations on the idea.
C. L. Moore's "Tryst in Time" was in contrast to Howard, Lovecraft, and Smith. All three wrote of personalities traveling through the ages as an exercise in cosmicism. Moore took the cosmic adapted as a romance story. Romance as in love and not adventure.
C. L. Moore (1910-1987) had exploded in Weird Tales in 1933 with her story "Shambleau." She quickly became a favorite of readers of the magazine with her stories of Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. F. Orlin Tremaine was the editor of Astounding Stories and quite willing to purchase fiction from writers normally associated with Weird Tales. Frank Belknap Long and Donald Wandrei both pretty much quit Weird Tales at this time. Astounding Stories paid on timely basis and Tremaine was more consistent as an editor in comparison to the capricious Farnsworth Wright at Weird Tales. C. L. Moore's first story in Astounding Stories was "The Bright Illusion" in 1934.
"Tryst in Time" (Astounding Stories, December 1936) was Moore's third story for that magazine. C. L. Moore liked the bad boys:
"Eric Rosner at twenty had worked his way round the world on cattle boats, killed his first man in a street brawl in Shanghai, escaped a firing squad by a hair-breadth, stowed away on a pole-bound exploring ship. At twenty-five he had lost himself in Siberian wilderness, lead a troop of Tatar bandits, commanded a Chinese regiment, fought in a hundred battles, impartially on either side."
She describes the scars from tigers, Chinese bullets, Russian "knouts," and knives of "savage black warriors in African forest" upon "his great Viking like body." He has a restlessness that was turning to ennui.
"Perhaps, in part, all this was because he had missed love. No girl of all the girls that had kissed him and adored him and wept when he left them had mattered a snap of the fingers to Eric Rosner."
He develops an "antagonistic friendship" with a scientist, Walter Dow, who argue about true adventure. Dow invents a strap on time travel device. His view is the future is preordained and the past "fixed and unchangeable."
Rosner first appears in Elizabethan times seeing a beautiful girl with "bright hair." He moves on with his next stop in a Roman amphitheater, narrowly escaping a thrown spear. He sees a noble woman with "smoke-blue eyes." The next stop is not given any time but appears to be some forgotten epoch in the ruins of a Cyclopean city. A badly wounded blue-eyed girl appears on the run from beast men. She uses a ray gun on a few of them and then herself. She is the same girl as in Elizabethan and Roman times. The unnamed narrator speculates the girl is "star-born."
Rosner searches for the girl again finding her in some unnamed period as a captive in manacles of men who a short, hairy, dark, "crooked," and look like gnomes. Rosner pulls his revolver and rescues the girl, Maia. They escape into the wilderness. She speaks a form of Basque which he happens to know. She leaves him as she is a betrothed to a priest and it is her duty.
He travels to time again to medieval France where he meets a pre-adult Maia. He finds her again this time in England of the witch trials. She is burning at the stake and he mercifully puts a bullet into her.
Oblivion takes him. When he wakes, he is in darkness. A voice speaks to him,
"I have waited so long. . . We have expiated the forgotten sins that kept us apart to the very end. Our troubled reflections upon the river of time sought each other and never wholly met. And we, who should have been time's masters, struggled in the changing currents and knew only that everything was wrong with us, who did not know each other."
A hand takes his and they step forward together.
I have never read a romance story or novel. Is the dialog like this? C. L. Moore mentioned in a letter in 1936 that she was attempting to write a story for the love pulps.
Moore is hazy on the time periods with her boiler place high medieval imagery she used in the Jirel stories along with some vague hints of alien humans in the distant past.
"Tryst in Time" is at its heart a romance story with science fiction trappings. It amazes me that Moore is (or was) held up as a science fiction icon. Was "Tryst in Time" conveniently memory holed? Just remember that your adventurer will develop ennui if he fails to find love.
deuce says:
Moore never claimed to be some badass chick or a riot grrrl. Rosner sounds like quite the bad boy,
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Otto Duecker (born 1948, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Hyperrealist painter and draughtsman.

Mr. Duecker graduated from Oklahoma State University and became known for his Hyperrealist renderings of floating fruit, still lifes and most recently his near photographic oil paintings of both contemporary and historical celebrities. In order to achieve his desired effect, Duecker relies on traditional oil paint and brushes with a classical application.

Otto Duecker has exhibited his work in fine art galleries in the United States and abroad. Additionally, Mr. Duecker's work is owned by numerous corporate and public collections including the Philbrook Museum of Art, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Brandywine River Museum.

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Radioactive salt licks latest ploy to foil hunters
By Mark Freeman
The bright-yellow leaflets tacked onto trailheads and stuffed under windshield wipers in a backwoods area near Sisters state they weren't the only thing aglow in the woods of Central Oregon.
The fliers, printed on Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife letterhead, warned that radioactive salt licks had been placed in nearby woods for deer and elk so they could be tracked by satellite.
So, the flier advised, if you see any animals acting unnaturally, report them to agency biologists. Oh, and make sure to stay at least 30 feet away from the Geiger-counter crackling salt. And don't eat the flesh of any animals in the area.
"Ahh, the whacky radioactive waste," says Ron Anglin, ODFW's Wildlife Division administrator. "That must be why the deer glow in the dark."
Radioactive deer tracked from space is, of course, a hoax perpetrated by someone who is the latest in a long line of conspiracy theorists to mess with the heads of Oregon's backwoods visitors at agency biologists' expense.
And for the slow learners who still think it might be true, the flier says they can get the skinny on the project by telephoning an 800 number that offers more skin than they might expect.
"It's porn," says Rick Hargrave, who heads ODFW's information and education program. "At least that's the observation I got in the first two seconds after calling it."
Either in fun or out of frustration, certain Oregonians for decades have been blathering about nefarious activities by ODFW employees supposedly hell-bent on ensuring people don't kill and eat the animals they manage.
Whether it's dropping sacks of flour from black helicopters to break up elk herds on the eve of the fall season or sawing the antlers off big bulls to keep them out of hunters cross-hairs, making up stories about ODFW activities is a common participatory sport here.
These skewed versions of reality often have common themes.
Usually they involve elk or antelope, which happen to be two of the toughest species for hunters to stalk. Often they come to be believed as fact after years of unsuccessful hunting, and it's the only explanation that makes it someone else's fault for all those unfilled tags.
The conspiracies often come to light when ODFW employees head to other parts of Oregon on hunting trips where they aren't so recognizable.
Anglin recalls a day in the1980s while elk hunting in the Cascades when a pickup drove slowly next to him as he trudged through heavy snow.
The guy rolled down his pickup window to tell Anglin that ODFW biologists in Oregon National Guard helicopters had been flying around the past few days firing off some kind of bomb that explodes 50 feet over the treetops, scattering the elk below.
He asked Anglin whether he had seen them. After a short no, the guy drove away.
"He never did know who I worked for," Anglin says. "And he didn't offer me a ride, either."
The rumors also include predators. Biologists hauling cougars and, more recently, wolves in the cover of night to get their populations expanded on the sly.
Ironically, these are the same biologists whom animal-rights activists believe are in the hunters' back pockets and disgruntled hunting factions insist are too knuckleheaded to count deer in the field properly.
Occasionally, they reach into the fish world. But here they swirl around chinook salmon — the prize of Oregon's sport fisheries and often one heck of a tough critter to catch.
In the late 1980s, some upper Rogue River anglers were convinced Cole Rivers Hatchery workers manipulated water releases from Lost Creek Dam to draw more fish away from anglers and into the hatchery for sale, pocketing the cash from their actions.
"They used to say that was how we bought new trucks — from those sales," says David Pease, the hatchery's assistant manager, who worked as a technician there in the '80s.
True, ODFW did — and still does — make some money on chinook sales. But it doesn't go to any of the workers. It doesn't even get spent at Cole Rivers, just put into a statewide "carcass fund" for hatchery expenses.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers actually controls the water releases, and the Corps rarely juggles them during the chinook runs.
The most likely reason chinook enter the hatchery so readily — and escape the gauntlet of frustrated anglers — is because the approach into the trap is one of the smoothest and most easily accessible in the state.
"As a grunt, I didn't want more fish in the hatchery anyway," Pease says. "That was just more work for me."
The case of the yellow flier is, actually, a case now. Misusing public letterhead like that is a crime, and Oregon State Police has opened an investigation. A trooper might even dial the 800 number, in the name of justice.
"But I have no clue where it will end up," Anglin says. "It's all pretty bizarre."
Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 541-776-4470, or e-mail mfreeman@mailtribune.com.


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6 Things You Need To Know About Small-Cap
Royce Funds2018-07-08T00:18:50+00:00
Despite its wild finish, 2Q18 was still markedly more bullish and less volatile than 1Q18—it also saw a shift in small-cap style leadership that we'll be watching closely.
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2Q18-Lower Volatility, Higher Returns
Although it finished on a wild and bearish note, 2Q18 was both markedly more bullish and less volatile than 1Q18. The quarter also saw a late shift in style leadership within small-cap that bears watching.
Returns for U.S. stocks were solidly positive in spite of several challenging developments, including tariff and trade war talk, a strengthening dollar, market and economic softness in China, slower growth in Europe, and negative news out of Brazil and Argentina.
To varying degrees, all of these developments conspired to make the last weeks of June by far the most volatile of the entire second quarter.
And while results for the major domestic stock indexes were positive in the face of the late downward pressure, most international indexes slipped deeper into correction mode during 2Q18. Indeed, the combination of a modest slowdown in international growth, rising emerging market instability, a stronger dollar, and heightened trade war concerns led investors to prefer all things domestic.
Smaller Was Better
The headlines were arguably more volatile than the markets through most of 2Q18. To be sure, much of the fundamental news was positive. Economic growth in the U.S. continued to accelerate, while most companies continued to post excellent earnings, aided by lower tax rates.
Their greater reliance on U.S. growth left small- and micro-cap stocks much better positioned for superior performance relative to large-caps in the quarter. Another related plus for small-caps was the strengthening dollar, which has often coincided with relatively stronger small-cap results in the past.
All of this made smaller better across the market cap spectrum. Performance was best in 2Q18 for micro-caps, followed by small-, mid-, and large-caps.
As much as domestic economic growth helped to drive results, some of small-cap's relative advantage can also be attributed to cyclicality and reversion to the mean: both the Russell 2000 and Russell Microcap Indexes underperformed the Russell 1000 Index for calendar 2017 before beginning to move past large-caps earlier in 2018.
Value Makes a Late Move, Tops Growth
Based on a strengthening U.S. economy and related widespread corporate profit growth, it made sense that the Russell 2000 Value Index finished 2Q18 ahead of the Russell 2000 Growth Index.
It was also not surprising that small-cap breadth expanded in the quarter. The equal-weighted Russell 2000 outperformed the capitalization-weighted index, and in doing so reversed another trend from 1Q18.
What was surprising was that more defensive sectors led, rather than those more economically sensitive areas (more on that below).
Whether or not value's leadership is a more lasting shift, of course, remains to be seen. Having gone through a few favorable moves for value over the last few years that proved short-lived, we are simultaneously wary and optimistic.
It seems clear to us that the stage remains set for a longer outperformance phase for small-cap value. The combination of economic growth, rising interest rates, and value's long-term historical advantage all argue strongly in favor of a more sustained period of leadership.
The conundrum is that these conditions have been present for the last year-and-a-half—a period in which growth has led in five of six quarters.
Energy Hits the Pedal
The top-performing sector in the Russell 2000 was Energy by a significant margin, as the rebound in commodity prices and production made a positive impact on stocks in both the oil, gas & consumable fuels and energy services industries. Defensive sectors Consumer Staples and Real Estate rounded out the top three. These areas were three of the index's four worst performers in 1Q18, along with Consumer Discretionary, which also came back strong in 2Q18.
It's also likely that Consumer Staples, Real Estate, and Consumer Discretionary looked particularly attractive to investors anxious about international growth because all three derive a higher-than-average percentage of their revenues from domestic sources.
We suspect that the sector leadership of Consumer Staples and Real Estate will be short lived as each is more interest-rate sensitive and less responsive to a stronger economy, which is precisely the opposite of how we think portfolios should be positioned going forward.
Cyclicals in Neutral
Perhaps the most unexpected result of the quarter was the ongoing lackluster performance for two key cyclical sectors, Industrials and Materials, which sat at the bottom of the small-cap sector performance standings.
Both faced headwinds—dollar strength often leads to weaker commodity prices, which especially hurts Materials, and European growth fell off from its previously fast pace. Moreover, trade war anxiety and a weakening Chinese economy provided additional rationales for investors to be cautious with these stocks—or avoid them completely.
We are on the opposite side of this pessimistic assessment. Our contrarian confidence comes from meetings with company managements who are communicating greater assurance and optimism than we have heard in some time. Their positive expectations are consistent with both PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index) and ISM (Institute of Supply Management) numbers that continue to show strong manufacturing, production, and order trends here in the U.S.
Thus, we believe that some of the most undervalued opportunities within the asset class can be found in these low-expectation cyclical sectors—many of which boast what we think are excellent earnings and cash flow profiles.
Our Perspective: Lean Cyclical And Stay Active
Particularly in an era of rising interest rates, we are sticking with the view that select small-cap cyclicals with solid balance sheets are best positioned for small-cap leadership.
We see stronger earnings and cash flow prospects in several cyclical industries than we do in growth and/or defensive areas—as well as confident management teams.
We think it's worth noting that the three changes in the market environment that we expect—lower returns, higher volatility, and value leadership—have all historically been coincident with active management leadership.
The quarter provided some enticing glimmers of further progress on the long road to normalization, most notably via modest increases in bond yields and the reemergence of value's leadership. We anticipate that other aspects of normalization will emerge as the year goes on.
Article by Francis Gannon, The Royce Funds
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For more than 40 years, Royce & Associates, investment adviser to The Royce Funds, has used a disciplined, value-oriented approach to select micro-cap and small-cap companies.
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Home » Issues » May 2015 » Nigel Roebuck
Nigel Roebuck
– Hello Abu Dhabi, goodbye Donington…
– Bridgestone will be missed more than Toyota
– What kind of president will Jean Todt make?
– How Peter Ustinov created a comedy classic
The Grand Prix season ended in Abu Dhabi, where the facilities – of an opulence never before seen – included the provision of air conditioning in the pits, for which the mechanics, so often overlooked, were suitably grateful. A detail worth mentioning. Another was that at this, the first Grand Prix run since the end of Max Mosley's reign at the FIA, Ron Dennis was back in the McLaren pit, albeit in discreet civvies.
Did the latest of Hermann Tilke's creations strike a chord with the enthusiast? Not really. If the backdrop was undeniably dramatic, the track itself failed to produce much in the way of racing, and again the thought occurred that it is always the play, rather than the theatre, which counts.
Still, the sands are shifting, and have been for some little time. "In this part of the world," an Abu Dhabi management person said, "we have a 'can do' attitude…"
He might have added – perhaps more pertinently – that they also have a 'can pay' attitude, which is what counts for more than anything else these days. A place like Abu Dhabi has its own reasons for wishing to stage a Grand Prix, and they have little to do with making a profit. The 'full house' on race day was restricted to 50,000 – not much more than Silverstone would pull on a good test day.
Ah, but the shadow of CVC looms ever large. Over the last British Grand Prix weekend many in the paddock were greatly exhilarated, for on the Thursday night a FOTA meeting had concluded that no more could be taken of the FIA's machinations, that the time had come to cut loose, to run a FOTA Championship – and, what's more, in countries appealing to the teams and their sponsors. "The first thing," said McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh, "is to get Montréal back on the calendar." And the second? "To get at least one race in the USA…"
It all sounded good to me, but it lasted no more than a few days, for CVC panicked and sought an urgent audience with FOTA, which – to the regret of not a few – was granted. Out of that ultimately came 'peace in our time', which appears increasingly to translate as 'more of the same'. The FIA World Championship continues – and with it a calendar alluring only to the gentlemen of CVC. A 'can pay' calendar.
As a sop to the teams, Montréal, which has Formula 1 in its DNA, may return in 2010, but there is no sign of anything else on the North American continent. New, though, is… Korea. Feel the width, gentlemen, feel the width.
Then, of course, there is the ticklish problem of the British Grand Prix. When it was announced – with gratuitous cruelty – at Silverstone in 2008 that Donington Park would be the race venue from 2010 onwards, I don't suppose there were a dozen people in the paddock who believed that would ever come to be. Where was the money coming from? Debentures. Wot?
And that, of course, was before it emerged that a collection of spivs and incompetents had contrived to ravage the world economy.
In December '08, at the Motorsport Business Forum in Monaco, I listened to Simon Gillett as he pleaded Donington's case, and came out bemused. East Midlands Airport, Gillett had blithely claimed, would be closed for Grand Prix weekend, given over to car parking for the tumultuous crowd.
It seemed a touch unlikely that a 'holiday airport' would ban flights over a summer weekend, but that was what we were asked to believe. Done deal. Within days it became clear this was not so.
After frantic last-minute attempts by Gillett to raise unlikely sums of money, after countless extended deadlines, it was announced by Bernie Ecclestone that Donington was dead in the water, that if there were to be a British Grand Prix in 2010, it would be at Silverstone, the place to which he had said he would never return.
Ecclestone was proposing the same deal, he said, as had been offered to – and refused by – Silverstone two years earlier, prompting us to wonder what the hell the Donington project had all been about in the first place. Here we were, back to square one, the only difference being that beautiful Donington Park is now a mutilated wasteland. It really was the saddest thing that at just this moment Tom Wheatcroft should pass away.
Ecclestone declared that the deal on offer to Silverstone was the cheapest available to any circuit in the World Championship, and there was no room for any negotiation.
His perpetual beef with Silverstone has been that the circuit facilities fall lamentably short of what is required in this day and age, and while it is undeniable that they don't compete with those of the modern circuits, it remains a mystery that they attract censure while a place like Interlagos remains on the calendar.
This is not, I hasten to add, to suggest that the São Paulo track should be removed from the schedule. On the contrary, it remains one of few classic Grand Prix venues, but the abiding problem with circuits such as these is that they are situated in countries where the government doesn't pay the bill – they have to make money in order to survive, yet Bernie, himself the ultimate entrepreneur, seems unable to appreciate this. At Silverstone they have long said that if he were to allow them to make a profit they would then be able to invest in the circuit, to give it the facelift he insists is required.
The killer, of course, is not so much the fee as the interest. Every year the price goes up by seven per cent – and we're talking compound interest here. In these days of 0.5 per cent interest rates, that strikes one as more than a touch excessive.
By the time this is read, Silverstone's future as a Grand Prix venue should have been decided, and one hopes that the decision will have gone the right way, that a British crowd will again have the opportunity to cheer on a home-grown driver with number one on his car. It's unlikely, let's face it, to happen any time soon in Abu Dhabi. Or Shanghai, Sepang, Seoul, Bahrain, Istanbul…
Press releases from the FIA have had a self-preening quality of late, and we shouldn't be surprised, for manufacturer teams in Formula 1 are falling like ninepins, and on the occasion of each announcement out comes a statement from the governing body, expressing its 'disappointment', and barely refraining from a gloating 'we told you so…'
They did, too, and there's no getting away from the fact. Over time Max Mosley's mistrust of the major manufacturers was ever more barely concealed, and Bernie Ecclestone, too, was under no illusions: "For the teams themselves," he told me several years ago, "Formula 1 is their business – they have to stay in it. The manufacturers, on the other hand, will disappear when it suits them. They always have, and they always will…"
There's no arguing with that. In 1985 Renault had a terrible year commercially, and at season's end Derek Warwick and Patrick Tambay found themselves out on the street.
In 1992 Honda decided to take its leave of F1 for the simple reason that its engines had powered Williams and then McLaren drivers to so many World Championships that no one noticed any more.
As Ross Brawn relates elsewhere in the magazine, Honda again headed for the exit at the end of 2008, this time as a consequence of the credit crunch. In July the BMW directors made a similar decision, and soon after the last Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, Toyota said it was quitting forthwith.
Although this had been rumoured all season long, still there was an element of surprise when the announcement came. The team had, after all, signed the latest Concorde Agreement, giving evidence of commitment until the end of 2010, and only recently made a sizeable offer to Kimi Räikkönen.
Probably no company ever prepared more lavishly than Toyota for its entry into F1. For a whole year, 2001, Allan McNish and Mika Salo pounded round circuits all over Europe, and the following season were on the grid in Melbourne, where Salo succeeded in scoring a point. It was a promising start, but only one more was added that season, and that rather set the tone of Toyota's Formula 1 adventure.
The company's competition philosophy has always been to hurl money at a project – WRC, CART, NASCAR – until success materialised, and if sometimes this took longer than expected, invariably it worked out in the end.
Not in F1, though. As Toyota takes its leave, after eight years of staggering investment, it does so without a single Grand Prix victory. There was always the impression of a huge, unwieldy organisation, slowed in its quest to compete by bureaucracy on the other side of the world, and at no stage was the company able to attract a true number one driver.
The impression in F1 at the moment is that Toyota is no great loss, although many regret the departure from the scene of John Howett, whose contribution to the running of FOTA has been very considerable. It was Howett, at Monaco, who came clean about the real source of the teams' disquiet with the FIA. Yes, there were problems with budgets and rules and this and that, but the fundamental concern lay with the governance of the sport – with the way the FIA operated, in other words. None of Howett's colleagues was at that time brave enough to go public with their similar opinions.
If Toyota's withdrawal announcement was disappointing, that by another Japanese company, Bridgestone, was disturbing. Who cares how many cars you have, after all, if there are no tyres on which they can run?
The powers that be have a year to sort this out, for Bridgestone will not quit until the end of the 2010 season, but one has to wonder where an alternative supplier will be found. Goodyear and Pirelli may be ruled out, so one's immediate thought is Michelin. The problem is that the French company was treated so appallingly by the FIA, and in the end effectively driven out of F1, that many consider it unlikely it could be persuaded to return.
For 2008, the FIA decreed, F1 would have but one tyre supplier – and that was always going to be Bridgestone, with whom the governing body had long enjoyed a cosy relationship. Michelin departed, meantime, and with justifiable bitterness.
Back in 2005 Bernie Ecclestone told me it was essential that F1 went to a single tyre supplier: "I think we're going to be in plenty of trouble if we don't. It's vital to reduce the necessity for so much testing – most of the teams are testing Christ knows how much, and that takes a big chunk out of their budgets…"
True enough, but testing has now been all but eliminated, and, as Lee Gaug of Goodyear told me long ago, to be a single tyre supplier is by no means all positive: "Yes, you win all the races, but you're not competing against anyone, so who the hell notices? The only time the company's name gets mentioned is when a tyre fails…"
A double-edged sword then, and perhaps the realisation of this has played a part in Bridgestone's decision. Whatever, a new supplier needs to be in place as soon as possible. Perhaps M Todt can sweet-talk his countrymen at Michelin, but it won't be the work of a moment. For that he can blame his predecessor.
We now have a new FIA president, and in the end it wasn't even close. Prior to the election supporters of Ari Vatanen had suggested, amid the mud-slinging which went on in the closing weeks and days, that the Todt camp was running scared, that the thing might just be too close to call, but in the event Vatanen was defeated 135 to 49.
I won't pretend that I had any great enthusiasm for Jean Todt's candidature for president of the sport's governing body, and there were a couple of reasons for that. First, while I willingly concede that he was immensely successful in his work, with Peugeot and then with Ferrari, I never found attractive his curiously bloodless way of operating.
No one could stare you out like Todt. At press conferences, difficult questions might bring a flicker of annoyance to his face, but otherwise he was utterly inscrutable. Obviously I encountered him in his Ferrari days, and it was always apparent that the only – the only – thing of consequence to him was the effect of this or that on the fortunes of his employer. Its significance to the sport, as a whole, seemed to be of little account, and for this sort of behaviour he was frequently, and roundly, criticised. It appeared to faze him not at all.
The most notorious example of this came, of course, on the occasion of the 2002 Austrian GP, when Rubens Barrichello, imperious through the whole weekend, was ordered to surrender his victory to Michael Schumacher. This he duly did on the run up to the chequered flag.
A year earlier, also at the A1-Ring, Barrichello had done the same thing – responded to a steel-voiced radio instruction, and given way to Schumacher on the final lap. On that occasion his sacrifice was only second place – David Coulthard's McLaren was ahead of both Ferraris – but Rubens was extremely emotional afterwards, aware as never before of his standing in a team bent entirely to the ambitions of the man in the other car.
That being so, as the final laps of the 2002 race unwound, conversation in the press room was given over to thoughts of the year before. Surely, most thought, Todt wouldn't – couldn't – ask Barrichello to stand aside again, for this, after all, was a matter of victory, not second place, and Jean had promised Rubens that he would never ask him to give up a win.
One or two, though, had no doubts that Todt would issue the command, and they were right. On the podium Schumacher found it hard to look Barrichello – or anyone else – in the eye, and Rubens could only ruefully accept the bewildered sympathies of his buddy, third man Juan Pablo Montoya.
Given the fury of the moment – in the pitlane as well as the grandstands – an ad hoc conference with Todt was hastily organised, and as he faced a very hostile audience his expression never materially changed.
For Todt it was simple: he needed a Ferrari driver to be World Champion again, and the man most likely to achieve that was Schumacher. Therefore, he said, at this early stage of the season it was vital that Michael scored as many points as possible.
You couldn't argue with Todt's logic per se, but given that Schumacher had won four of the season's five previous races, could not a point have been stretched on this occasion? Plainly, he had not a clue of what we were on about: when someone suggested it was a very bad day for the name of Ferrari, Todt implacably said no, it was actually a very good day – the cars had finished first and second.
There was, in other words, no meeting of minds that afternoon. Todt had done his job, his employers would be gratified by the result, and… nothing else mattered, really. It will be interesting to see how this implacable quality manifests itself in his new job.
Over time many, of course, benefited from it. While it's fair to say that most in the F1 paddock had their enthusiasm for Todt firmly under control – and one or two roundly detested him – the same could not be said of virtually anyone who worked with him.
I'm not sure from some of them how much affection comes into the equation, but their admiration for him is almost boundless: when it comes to organising, to pulling things together and making them work, they say, there is no one like him. Gerhard Berger, who was instrumental in bringing Todt to Ferrari, ascribes the team's mid-90s metamorphosis more to his influence than anything else. By far.
"Jean has such a clear mind," Berger said. "I was at Ferrari before he was, and I could see the difference he was making. Before he arrived there were lots of very talented people – but there was also chaos! Jean changed all that, and not by shouting. When it comes to organisation, I think he is a genius." Others, not least Michael Schumacher, would say the same.
Todt's abilities, then, have never been questioned, but he was always the ultimate dispassionate outsider, and one never truly thought of him as a member of the Formula 1 community. If some believed him cold, even occasionally vindictive, well, so be it. He was there at the circuits to do a job for Ferrari, nothing more or less, and you'd have to say that right well he did it.
From the moment Todt announced his candidature for the FIA presidency many murmured darkly that, should he be successful, it was no more than inevitable that Ferrari would be 'looked upon favourably' by the governing body, but that in itself was nothing new – for 20 years the other teams have spoken of 'one law for Ferrari, one for the rest of us', and there has been justification for their displeasure. Lest we forget, just this year Max Mosley revealed details of Ferrari's 'right of veto' over F1 regulations: such a thing had long been widely suspected, but to have it confirmed was profoundly shocking.
Given that Mosley, on the very day of announcing that he would not stand for a fourth term of office, declared his profound support for Todt as his successor, it was perhaps hardly surprising that most everyone assumed this would simply mean 'more of the same'. Max would remain – as president of the FIA Senate or whatever – and it would be a Putin arrangement, whereby the top man stood down, but in reality would continue to run things through a malleable figurehead.
That was the big fear, and in fact Mosley's unequivocal support in many ways did Todt a great disservice, for the mutual love-in became a little suffocating for some tastes, and went a long way towards hardening attitudes. "If Max is so much for anything," one F1 team principal said, not entirely in jest, "your antennae tell you to be against it, don't they? I don't know a lot about Ari Vatanen, but Max is so much against him that you're bound to think he might be just the right bloke!"
This fellow, like all his F1 colleagues, had no say in the matter, though, for only representatives of the FIA member clubs vote on who shall be their president. And the perception was that the succession of Mosley by Todt was all too seamless, too… inevitable.
Ironically, no team was more agin Todt for the presidency than Ferrari, where memories went back to Montréal in 2008, to a concerted attempt by the teams, in the immediate aftermath of Mosley's News of the World episode, to unseat the FIA president, whose conduct, they felt, had brought the sport into disrepute and whose position was thus untenable.
Their plan was to sign a declaration to this effect, in the hope that Mosley, already under pressure, would be left with no alternative but to stand down. When Bernie Ecclestone learned of their intention, he said that if they all signed it, so, too, would he.
Ah, but there was the rub. Unless there was unanimous support for it, a document such as this would carry little weight, and perhaps Ecclestone – as ever – was ahead of the game, for unanimity was denied by Ferrari's refusal to sign. Months ago a member of the team told me why: "It was Todt who said we shouldn't sign – because already he had his eyes on succeeding Mosley…"
So he did.
Perhaps, though, we shouldn't necessarily assume that Ferrari will get an easy ride from the FIA in the coming years. For one thing, while the details of Todt's abrupt departure from Maranello have never been revealed, there are good reasons for believing it was less than amicable.
For another, from what one knows of Todt, and has seen of his modus operandi these many years past, one simply cannot envisage his being pushed around – by anyone, Mosley included. This is a very clever man, but also one firm and resolute, accustomed to running things his way, and to brooking no interference from outside.
Nearly 20 years on, it is ironic now to remember a remark of Mosley's in his first press conference after becoming president of FISA (then the sporting arm of the FIA): "I don't expect," Max said, "to be much involved in the day-to-day running of Formula 1 – it sort of runs itself, doesn't it?"
Todt has recently said much the same, but before we rush to judge him, let us see what he makes of life at the Place de la Concorde. Let us, in other words, give him time to settle into his new position. Already he has said that, in order to keep out of the 'day-to-day running' of the various branches of the sport, F1 included, he will appoint a specialist commissioner for each, and that sounds like a promising idea – so long, of course, as the right people are appointed in the right jobs.
When Mosley took over from Jean-Marie Balestre, Ayrton Senna was one of many to proclaim a new dawn in motor sport, a new freshness and transparency. In many ways – but by no means all – it proved to be a false dawn, and in Max's later years the sport has been riven by bitterness and dissent on a scale never before seen.
Todt arrives without many of the attributes which served Mosley so well for so long. He is not a charismatic figure, and lacks the charm and wit of which Max – in the right mood – is so readily capable. If 'people skills' (God forgive me for writing that) are not Jean's strong suit, however, what we know is that he is extremely tough, extremely single-minded – and, let's say it again, consummately good at repairing damaged organisations. It is a skill upon which great call will be made in the coming months.
You will all, I hope and trust, savour the CD of Grand Prix of Gibraltar which accompanies this issue of Motor Sport. One Christmas in the late 1950s, aged 11, I was given by my parents a copy of the LP, and we played the late Peter Ustinov's masterpiece that morning, laughing till the tears ran. I have the record still.
Originally produced by Riverside Records, Grand Prix of Gibraltar was for many long years out of print, but in 2002 another company acquired the original tape and proposed to re-release it. That being so, one day I got a phone call, asking me to talk to Ustinov about the recording, then to write the sleeve notes for the CD.
Thus I called Sir Peter at his home in Switzerland and spent most of a memorable afternoon in conversation with him. It is fortunate that I taped it, for note-taking would have been impossible – and, of course, I have what amounts to my own personal recording of Grand Prix of Gibraltar.
Before we set to discussing it, though, we simply talked racing. A few days earlier, in the Austrian Grand Prix, Rubens Barrichello, after dominating both qualifying and race, was forced by Jean Todt to give up victory on the last lap, this in the interests of Michael Schumacher's latest title quest. Ustinov, like most everyone else, was outraged.
"I loved racing in the '50s and '60s, and I still do – but I thought what happened in Austria was absolutely scandalous. In fact, I sent a message, through a mutual friend, to Bernie Ecclestone saying, 'If this is to go on, I'm never going to watch another GP'.
"Racing has certainly changed, hasn't it? Undoubtedly it's a lot less human than it was, partly because it's managed – if that's the right word – so completely by Public Relations. Mind you, not even that can help in a situation as appallingly gauche as the end of the race in Austria – when Schumacher took his helmet off, and suddenly realised the temperature of the crowd! He saw them with their thumbs down, which prompted him to make Barrichello stand on the top step of the podium – while the German National Anthem was played!
"I was delighted to see the reaction of the crowd. However professional you are, you can't run a popular sport and then allowing cheating of that kind – and cheating is what it was, because the crowd was cheated, particularly the poor souls who'd put bets on Barrichello…"
In the era in which Grand Prix of Gibraltar was recorded, Ustinov was a frequent visitor to the races. "Believe it or not," he said, "I saw Ascari's Lancia go into the harbour at Monaco in '55. I remember this car shooting out of the tunnel – and then nothing! You couldn't see the car any more, and then there was suddenly a huge column of smoke and steam from the water. The next thing we saw was Ascari coming to the surface and swimming to a rescue boat – that was quite something. Of course he survived that, and then killed himself a few days later…
"Peter Collins told me the most terrifying story about the Commendatore. He was with him in the office one day, and suddenly the phone went. Ferrari picked it up, and said, 'Pronto! Ferrari…' Then he listened, and he became pale. 'Non e possibile… Castellotti… Castellotti morto…' A slight pause. 'E la macchina?' Now that's what's called a one-track mind!"
Ustinov enjoyed friendships with many of the drivers and team owners of the time, including Collins and Moss – indeed Stirling, I said, once told me he believed Ustinov had introduced Peter to his future wife, Louise.
"That I'm not sure about. I knew her father, Andy Cordier, very well – he was Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, and occasionally I had lunch with them and Adlai Stevenson in New York. I think they all liked to get things off their minds with somebody who was completely out of their world, and vaguely irresponsible!
"Now I think about it, I also went to a lunch at the UN building in '58 given by Andy Cordier, in celebration of Peter's victory at Sebring with Phil Hill. Stirling may well be right: it's quite possible that I introduced Peter and Louise.
"They made a striking couple, and I was extremely fond of both of them. Peter was remarkably good-looking, in a Rupert Brooke sort of way, but somehow he had a vulnerable quality that made you fear for him – one somehow knew he wasn't going to survive, and of course he didn't. They'd only been married about a year when he was killed at the Nürburgring. Louise had been a Broadway actress, and a very good one, and I later asked her to play Juliet in my play, Romanoff and Juliet, when it went on the road in America.
"Taffy von Trips was a rather similar type to Peter. He was an awfully nice man, and very un-Germanic – in fact, he was one of those Germans who spoke English too well to be true: 'You know, we're all going over for the weekend after next, und, er, we shall enjoy ourselves…'"
The accent, of course, was exquisite, as were all the others – and the sounds – which graced Ustinov's conversation. "I had a bad cold when I recorded Grand Prix of Gibraltar originally," he said, "and probably that was no bad thing: it helped me very much with the sound of the Ferraris – for some reason, a cold seems to help you simulate 12 cylinders! Normally, you can only do eight…"
When he walked into the studio in Manhattan that day in 1957, Ustinov had little idea he was about to make a record for the ages, with a cult following as strong now as when it was originally released.
"We did it in the same studio where I recorded Peter and the Wolf with Karajan. That was another adventure, because Karajan was not present at the time – he'd just done the track and left it, not knowing who was going to do the voice. I began to learn a bit about the record business then…
"Anyway, there was this strange company called Riverside Records, which specialised in jazz but also produced a number of records of racing engine noises. They had the idea of my trying something, a sort of satirical record about motor racing, and in order to tempt me they gave me a selection of records, of Alfa Romeos farting, and so on! Quite honestly, I never really played them much, because I found the sound unattractive out of its context – without the smell, and so on. But, anyway, I agreed. They had no idea what I was going to do – and I, frankly, had no idea, either…"
It was all done in one take, and it proved to be a gem of universal comedy. If the racing devotee can relish Ustinov's obvious love of the sport, and affectionate 'insider' jokes, so also the record may be readily savoured by anyone who takes pleasure simply in the quirks of human nature and differing nationalities.
Consider the manager of the German Schnorcedes team, Herr Altbauer, who has thought everything through in the minutest detail, who runs his team like a military operation, who has Wagner playing in the pits continuously. Interviewed before the race, Altbauer concludes: "I would ask you not to ask any more questions. There will be a formal press release after our victory."
For the character of Altbauer, Ustinov drew on Alfred Neubauer, the legendary team manager of Mercedes. "In fact," he told me, "I gave Neubauer a copy of the record. He listened to it glumly, and said, 'It's very kind of you – but I don't see what's funny'. Which I thought made my point very well…"
Then there was Orgini, the French team, and an absolute counterpoint to Schnorcedes. "I separated 'the cast' into groups in my mind," said Ustinov, "and so we had the French, who never had enough money even to clean their cars, who had girls everywhere, who brought inflammable liquids into their pits, yet smoked constantly: 'Oh, it's all right – the cars are insured…'
"The inspiration for Orgini was Amedée Gordini, who ran a perennially under-funded team in the 1950s. I knew him, and he was absolutely the prototype of that kind of Frenchman… rather dirty hands, with oil encrusted in them, a cigarette in his mouth the whole time…"
Ferrari may be a model of discipline and orderliness in today's era, but it wasn't always so, and Ustinov's 'Fanfani' team perfectly reflects the Latin chaos of times gone by.
'Commendatore Fanfani, have you got a moment?' asks the commentator. 'I have all the time in the world, since I am-a retiring from racing,' snaps Fanfani, and again Ustinov is borrowing from reality: time was when Enzo was always threatening to withdraw from the sport.
Number one driver at Fanfani is Jose Julio Fandango, and his opposition comes from such as von Grips and Fling (Schnorcedes) Girling Foss and Toby Cooks (Pinfall), and Bill Dill, in the lone American Wildfowl.
"I can't remember where the name 'Wildfowl' came from," said Ustinov, "but probably it had something to do with the Americans' rather romantic view of these things – even if they call their aeroplanes 'Thundercloud' and rubbish like that! 'Wildfowl' seemed like a name that had been missed by others…"
Guest of Honour at the race is to be the Duke of Edinburgh, who will drive a lap of the circuit in his detuned Morris, and the race is started by the Governor of Gibraltar, Lord Weeps of Sebring. 'The Governor's dropped the flag!' exclaims the British commentator, Roland Thaxter. 'That is, the Governor dropped, and he carried the flag down with him…'
"Lord Weeps was so old that he couldn't really remember a sentence," said Ustinov. "I got that idea from Montgomery, who once said, 'There are four cardinal points: education, discipline – and courage'.
Sir Peter's genius for mimicry was surely never heard to better advantage on this recording. Quite apart from all the different voices, he contributed the engine sounds, the marching feet of the Royal Fusiliers, the band's playing of Land of Hope and Glory, even the klaxon warning of the race's imminent start.
"Riverside came in afterwards," said Ustinov, "with a few noises that are really impossible to do, like a hammer against a piece of metal. But everything else was me – even the window being opened in the drivers' meeting!"
The whole thing fits together so seamlessly that it was the more astonishing when Ustinov revealed that he had no prepared script when he arrived at the studio. "I was appearing in Romanoff and Juliet on Broadway at the time, and because it was difficult to think clearly about anything else, I did 'Gibraltar' very quickly. It wasn't scripted at all – the whole thing was improvised, and done in one day. I remember later having to go to another studio, and climb inside a very oily Jaguar for the cover photograph, and that was that.
"I made a few notes before the recording, working out drivers' and teams' names, but that was all. Of course it had a sort of shape in my mind, because a race has a definite shape: they've got to practise, they've got to start, and they've got to finish. The Governor has to make his speech, and then falls down – presumably dead! – in order to start the race, and everything was under way.
"I didn't write a script, because I'm much better without one in circumstances like that. It's really like thinking aloud – I mean, what is a script except what you put down when you think of it? I've always been rather keen on improvisation. The Riverside people didn't know what they'd got until they put it together. Then – rather too late to help them, unfortunately – it became a sort of cult thing. They themselves went bust…
"I chose Gibraltar because it's an ideal place for an absurd motor race. I mean, once you've got Monaco, you might as well have Gibraltar! It's pleasantly absurd – the track going up the rockface, and coming down the other side, through pedestrian zones, and so on.
"Gibraltar has a strange aroma to it, I've found. I once went to a shop there, where a genial, red-haired Jewish gentleman had four suits ready-made – and one fitted me like a glove. I said, 'I've never had something off-the-peg in my life', and he said, 'We've been waiting for you!'"
It may be long ago now, a single day in a long and extraordinarily varied career, but Ustinov remembered the Grand Prix of Gibraltar with pride. "I haven't listened to it for years," he said, "but I remember it, of course, more or less. Certainly it was of its time – there was a Russian spy at the race, pretending to take pictures of the cars, but actually photographing the military installations of Gibraltar – but some fundamentals of human nature never change, and I hope it still amuses people."
I wondered if Sir Peter could imagine a similarly satirical piece about the sport in the 21st century. He had his doubts.
"Because of the rules, everything in GP racing is much more similar than it used to be, isn't it? There's much less originality than there was, and I think that applies to motor cars in general. All these damn wind tunnels, m'boy! I don't think Colin Chapman would enjoy himself much these days.
"Perhaps I could concoct something about racing as it is today – but I rather doubt it would be suitable for public consumption, and I'd probably have to watch my back for ever afterwards! As I said, I'm still a great fan, but I think it's all become more sinister now. Less innocent. I mean, there's no place for Gordini – or Orgini – these days, is there?"


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Dhala or Dhali` ( ), Amiri ( ), or the Emirate of Dhala ( ) was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia.  Its capital was Dhala (Ad Dali').

History
The group of tribes ruled over by the Amir of Dhala occupies the district north-west of the Alawi country on the high road to Sanaa. The ancestors of the dynasty said to have been Muwallads, or half caste slaves of the Imams of Sanaa, and to have established themselves as independent at Dhala about the beginning of the 19th century.

On the death in 1872 of the then Amir, Shafal bin Abdul Hadi, his nephew, Ali bin Muqbil, was recognised by the British Government as his successor. In the following year he was required by the Turkish authorities to make his submission to the Porte, a Turkish Superintendent was appointed to Dhala, a detachment of Turkish troops was quartered there, and the Amir was required to give a hostage for his good behaviour, who was to reside at Taiz. He was afterwards summoned by the Turks to Qataba and imprisoned there, but effected his escape. Muhammad bin Musaid, who had been appointed Amir by the Turks in the place of his nephew Ali bin Muqbil, was killed, and his son, Abdulla bin Muhammad, was recognised by them as his successor. He continued to resist Ali bin Muqbil till 1878, when, Turkish support having been withdrawn from his rival, Ali bin Muqbil resumed his position as Amir of the tribes, with the loss, however, of several of his villages which had, some voluntarily and some under pressure, yielded allegiance to the Ottomans.

In 1880 the Amir signed an agreement by which he became a British stipendiary, receiving 50 dollars a year. This allowance was afterwards doubled.

In September 1886 Ali bin Muqbil died, and was succeeded by his cousin, Shaif bin Seif, to whom the stipend was continued.

In 1881 the Quteibi tribe became restless, and began to exact dues on the Hardaba route. In 1884 it was found necessary to support the Amir with a few sabres of the Aden troop and some sappers. They destroyed some of the Ahl-ath-Thumeiri forts, and the Quteibi then tendered their submission. But they soon resumed their independent position, and it was not until 1888, when the Resident met the Hausbnbi, the Dhala Amir and others to settle a schedule of rates to he levied on qaftlalis, that the Quteibi and Ahl-ath-Thumeiri formally reorganised the Amir as their superior.

The years 1889 to 1900 were marked by the continued. restlessness of the Quteibi, who failed to keep the settlements made in 1888, and by the encroachments of the Turks.

In 1901 and the beginning of 1902, the Turks occupied Jaleila, Mafari and Jebel Jeliaf.

An Anglo-Turkish boundaxy commission met at Dhala in February 1902. The Turks claimed the whole of the Shairi, Jebel Jehaf and Mafari districts, but after a year spent in correspondence between the British Government and the Porte, and the increase of the force accompanying the British Commissioner, the Turkish garrisons were withdrawn. In March 1903 an Irade was issued at Constantinople decreeing the commencement of the delimitation. By October the frontier had been demarcated, including on the British side the Shaibi tribes, the Amiri villages in the Wadi As Safiya and the Humeidi and Ahmedi tribes.

In November 1903 successful operations were undertaken against the Quteibi who had attacked the post at As Suleik.

In November 1904 a further Treaty was concluded with the Amir. Under clause IX of this Treaty the Amir agreed to keep a force of 50 men to help him to carry out his obligations under the Treaty for which he was granted a monthly payment of 100 dollars in addition to his stipend.

In 1906 the Shairi rebelled against the Amir. They were joined by the tribesmen of Jebel Jehaf, and some fighting ensued. The Ahmedi tribe on the river Tiban also became disaffected and refused to admit the Amir's suzerainty.

In January 1907 the main body of British troops left Dhala for Aden. The remaining troops and the Political Agent, Dhala, were withdrawn in the following September.

On the 22nd December 1911 Amir Shaif died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Nasr bin Shaif, to whom was continued the stipend paid to his father.

In 1915 the Quteibi Shaikh Muhammad Salih al Akkra signed an Agreement similar to those signed about the same time by the Haushabi Sultan and the Alawi Shaikh for the safety of the trade routes passing through his territory. The ratification of this agreement was postponed. Under the terms of this agreement the Shaikh was allowed a monthly payment of 50 dollars.

On the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Amir Nasr submitted to the Turks when they entered the Aden Protectorate. After the war he wrote asking for pardon. The Abdali Sultan and the Quteibi Shaikh also pleaded for him. He came to Aden in November 1919 and gave an explanation which was accepted as satisfactory, and he was pardoned ; but while he was still in Aden, the Imam of Sanaa occupied Dhala.

In January 1920 Amir Nasr, with the help of the Radfan tribes and with assistance in money, arms and ammunition from the Aden Residency, made an attack on Dhala and reoccupied it, but lost it on the following day owing to a Zeidi counterattack, the Amir taking refuge in Lahej. In 1920, the British Government increased the Amir's stipend to Rs.. 700 and in 1926 to Rs. 800, in compensation for his financial losses due to his enforced exile. The extra hundred rupees, granted in 1920, ceased in February 1928, and the increase of Rs. 300 in his stipend, granted to him in 1920, ceased in December 1929.

In 1920 the Imamic troops invaded the Quteibi country. The Quteibi Shaikh, with the help of other Itadfan tribes and assistance in arms and ammunition from the Aden Residency, drove them out. The Zeidi made repeated attempts to take the Quteibi country, but invariably met with strong resistance from the Radfan tribes. After about two years of successful resistance, however, the Quteibi Shaikh yielded to Zeidi pressure and went over to them in 1922 and his stipend was stopped.

In November 1927 the Quteibi Shaikh Muhammad Salih al Akhram died and was succeeded by his grandson Shaikh Hasan Ali, who repudiated his predecessor's submission to the Imam: and the stipend was restored to him by the British Government.

In February 1928 a party of Zeidi, despatched under the orders of the Officer Commanding, Qataba, kidnapped the Alawi Shaikh and Muqbil Abdulla, uncle of the Quteibi Shaikh. They were subsequently released as a result of air action taken by His Majesty's Government against the Imam.

The air action had so shaken the morale of the Zeidi that a combination of the Radfan tribes, with the co-operation of the Royal Air Force and a contingent of Abdali troops, was able in July 1928 to drive them out of the Radfan areas, as also from Dhala and Shaib. The Amir of Dhala was immediately reinstated in his capital and the Zeidi have made no attempt to recapture these places.

In 1931, the tribesmen of the Amir numbered about 50,000, and the gross revenue was estimated at Rs. 35,000 a year.

The Emirate was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959, and the Federation of South Arabia in 1963.

The Radfan Hills, nominally under control of the Amiris of Dhala, were the scene of fierce fighting between British forces and the local Qutaibis during the Aden Emergency in the mid-1960s.

The last emir, Shafaul ibn Ali Shaif Al Amiri, was deposed and the state was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen.

The area is part of the Republic of Yemen since 1990.

Rulers
The rulers of Dhala bore the title Amir Dali`.

Emirs
.... - ....                Shafa`ul al-`Amiri
.... - ....                Ahmad ibn Shafa`ul al-`Amiri
.... - ....                al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-`Amiri
.... - ....                `Abd al-Hadi ibn al-Hasan al-`Amiri
1839?                      Musa`id ibn al-Hasan al-`Amiri
.... - Jan 1872            Shafa`ul ibn `Abd al-Hadi al-`Amiri
Apr 1872 - 1873            `Ali ibn Muqbil al-`Amiri (1st time)
1873 -  Dec 1873           Muhammad ibn Musa`id al-`Amiri
Jan 1874 - Apr 1874        `Ali ibn Muqbil al-`Amiri (2nd time)
Apr 1874 - Mar 1878        `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-`Amiri
Mar 1878 - 10 Sep 1886     `Ali ibn Muqbil al-`Amiri (2nd time)
Sep 1886 - 22 Dec 1911     Sha´if ibn Sayf al-`Amiri
Dec 1911 - 1920            Nasir ibn Sha'if al-`Amiri (1st time)
1920 - 1928                Haydara ibn Nasir al-`Amiri
Jul 1928 - 1947            Nasir ibn Sha'if al-`Amiri (2nd time)
1947 - 1954                `Ali ibn `Ali al-`Amiri
1954 - 17 Aug 1967         Shafa`ul ibn `Ali al-`Amiri

See also
Qutaibi, a dependence of Dhala
Radfan
Aden Protectorate

References

External links
Map of Arabia (1905-1923) including the states of Aden Protectorate

Former emirates
States in the Aden Protectorate
Federation of South Arabia


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The 22-year-old Aussie actress kept it casual in glasses, a brown leather jacket, jeans, and a red Alexander Wang bag as she gets ready to head back to work on The Secret Circle.
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The American Geographical Society Selected to Lead Global Conversation on the Ethical Dimensions of New Geospatial Data and Technologies
Cesium and CyberCity 3D Set to Debut Streaming 3D Buildings
Exton, Pa., May 14, 2015—Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) is previewing a new capability to stream high resolution building models into any Cesium-based client. To provide content for this new service, AGI is working with CyberCity 3D, Inc., a southern California-based geospatial modeling company specializing in "smart" 3D GIS buildings. CyberCity's buildings enable optimal visual performance, and an open database architecture allowing for the publishing of building attributes and links.
To showcase Cesium's new streaming building capability, CyberCity 3D is providing a small subset of its 3D buildings as free content in Cesium, which combines them with local zoning and street vector data. This includes 130 km^2 of high resolution building geometry with rooftops; a limited number of textured buildings, created from CyberCity 3D auto-texturing software, are also included.
CyberCity 3D will also use Cesium's streaming building feature to introduce a commercial service for streaming complete city datasets into Cesium, and downloading individual buildings and their attributes for use in other applications. This adds a new dimension of reality to Cesium clients and facilitates urban planning and analysis solutions.
CyberCity 3D CEO Kevin DeVito notes, "This streaming technology, coupled with the Cesium 3D globe, offers complete control of streaming 3D content in an open architecture environment. We're proud to be a part of this game-changing event."
To sneak a preview of this service, check out Seattle in Cesium. For 3D cities, contact CyberCity 3D at Email Contact
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Celebrating the Urban Wildlife Conservation Program
Today marks the 116th anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System and, despite critical threats from potential oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, road construction in wilderness wetlands in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, and new border wall construction in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, there is still important progress to celebrate.
Administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Refuge System is the only network of public lands and waters dedicated to the conservation of native fish, wildlife, and plants nationwide. The System is vital to protecting imperiled species and rare habitats and supporting ecosystem adaptation to climate change, and it provides myriad social and economic benefits to local communities and regional economies.
The System is also an increasingly important link for urban dwellers to wildlife and the outdoors.
There has been a demographic shift in the United States and globally towards greater urbanization, with 80 percent of Americans now living in urban communities. Our cultural attitudes toward nature have been profoundly affected by this change. Due to this and a variety of other factors, it has become uncommon for Americans, especially urban children, to be introduced to the outdoors by their friends or family. As a country, we are becoming increasingly disconnected from nature. In addition, many urban residents encounter financial and cultural barriers to enjoying the outdoors.
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Park Ranger Lisa Cox and Biologist John Martin look for endangered San Diego fairy shrimp in vernal pools.
Launched in 2012, the Urban Wildlife Conservation Program was designed to increase awareness of wildlife conservation and the National Wildlife Refuge System among Americans who have fewer opportunities to experience and enjoy these public lands and the wildlife who live there. The program's reach is significant, encompassing more than 100 refuges within 25 miles of urban areas with at least 250,000 people.The Fish and Wildlife Service established the Urban Wildlife Conservation Program to better serve our increasingly diverse and urbanizing nation, with an emphasis on connecting new generations and historically underrepresented communities to conservation. The program adopted a set of guiding principles called the Standards of Excellence, consisting of eight priorities that support greater access and educational and recreational opportunities at urban refuges.
Students from Curtis Bay Elementary School participate in environmental education programs and unveil the Masonville Cove Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership sign along with partners in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Urban Wildlife Conservation Program also created Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships that allow diverse partners to address refuge management challenges that are too large and complex for any one agency or organization to address alone. In refuges around the country, these partnerships are creating new opportunities for the young, the urban, and communities of color to connect with nature.
Featured Urban National Wildlife Refuges and Projects
At Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts, students raised Blanding's turtles over their first year to increase the turtles' chances of survival upon release in the wild. Prior to this experience, some of the students had never ventured outside the urban center of Lowell, a city less than 25 miles away, let alone visited a national wildlife refuge.
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This photo of the Blanding's turtle was taken at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge during a Blanding's turtle head start program release. Students from the Bristol Agricultural School released 51 turtles they raised from hatchlings.
At Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, an Urban Oases Project has helped bring together a diverse community of people to create and restore urban green spaces for people, birds, and other native species through a partnership with the city of New Haven, Connecticut. It began with grassroots, community-driven efforts in schoolyards, city parks, neighborhood greenspaces, and yards — and has grown into a rich, connected network of urban oases across New Haven and the region. This green ribbon is thriving with continued attention from residents, students, and families, resulting in a healthier city for people and wildlife, a more resilient watershed and ecosystem, and increased opportunities for people to connect to nature — especially in underserved communities.
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Left: Designation of the Urban Oases project in the New Haven Harbor Watershed. Right: Aerial view of marsh at Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.
At Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, 1,200 Twin Cities children and their families helped restore native vegetation on the refuge, learned more about the Minnesota River by canoeing along its banks, and engaged with refuge managers on environmental education initiatives. Located in downtown Bloomington, the refuge is within ready access to over three million people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
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Left: Refuge Manager Tim Bodeen takes in the sunrise with Secretary Sally Jewell at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Right: Secretary Sally Jewell and Regional Director Tom Melius help Minneapolis second graders collect native prairie seeds during her visit to Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Overlooking the prominent Philadelphia skyline and a hawk from the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge.
At America's first urban refuge, John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, community science activities are bringing urban residents to a refuge that is adjacent to an international airport and within view of downtown Philadelphia. Local residents collect information that assists the study of monarch butterfly migration and participate in the tagging of butterflies that make the yearly migration to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. The information that these urban community members collect is invaluable to conservation efforts for the butterfly and the refuge. Meanwhile, public recreation at John Heinz is credited with generating $2.5 million in economic activity annually in greater Philadelphia.
As the newest urban refuge, Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, a former dairy farm, has been transformed into a living laboratory for 10,000 students each year to track the ecological conditions of the Rio Grande. Located less than 10 miles from Albuquerque, the refuge provides access to wildlife in one of the fastest growing regions in the nation. In addition, the refuge has worked to engage nearby Spanish speaking communities and create new opportunities for them to enjoy and learn from their public lands, recognizing the traditional Hispanic culture's deep connection to the natural world. Defenders loves working with the refuge and the Friends of Valle de Oro on programs that make wildlife more accessible, like the backyard wildlife refuge guide, which is due out this spring, and their annual Abrazos Environmental Justice Day in late April.
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Left: K — 6th grade students in the Lewistown Boys and Girls Club go bird watching. Right: Students from Fillmore Elementary School learn how to use binoculars and search for endangered California condors on Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge is directly behind and above the school.
In his book, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv said it best that, "How the young respond to nature, and how they raise their own children, will shape the configurations and conditions of our cities, homes — our daily lives." The Fish and Wildlife Service is embracing the goal of engaging new constituencies with wildlife and the outdoors, and so is Defenders. Refuges and the wildlife that depend on them are protected because there are people who appreciate them for their intrinsic value, and the opportunities they provide for recreation and exploration. The Urban Wildlife Conservation Program is a win-win for urban residents and our National Wildlife Refuge System.


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"Place the adjective environmental to govern the noun journalism and the former swallows up, nullifies, extinguishes quite the latter. "
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Summary: I will be covering management strategies for early season thrips in cotton. This presentation will help consultants, county agents, growers, and other practitioners in the Southern U.S. cotton-producing states to understand more about thrips management strategies. Webinar attendees will learn the current state of thrips susceptibility to neonicotinoid seed treatments, value of conservation tillage, efficacy of commonly used foliar insecticides, how using starter fertilizer can increase plant growth while pre-emergent herbicides can detrimentally slow plant growth, how combinations of treatments can assist growers with maximizing control, and how a new model will help us predict when thrips will be most active in the future. By the end of this presentation, attendees should know more about many different approaches to thrips management and how to achieve optimal cotton yields.


Tottenham Hotspur attacker Son Heung-min has donated a sum of £100,000 to the victims of a recent wildfire in South Korea.
Thousands of people were said to have been evacuated from the affected areas after a huge fire believed to have started by a spark from a transformer near Goseong County.
The unfortunate incident left about 135 homes destroyed , while two lives were lost due to winds that swept the flames across the area.
"Although I'm living abroad, I know what's happening in my home country. I think it's something I should do when there's a big disaster in my home country," he added.
According to SunSport, this is not the first time the forward has been involved in this form of charity work as he donated about £70,000 to the South Korean armies after his his success in the Asian Games earlier this year.
Menwhile, Spurs fans want the him to be named Premier League Player of the Year after registering 12 goals and six assists in 27 appearances.


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PHOENIX — The FBI says a man who lived on a remote Arizona reservation known for its blue-green waterfalls has been sentenced to time served plus lifetime supervised release in a case involving sexual contact during a sweat lodge ceremony he performed.
The agency said Friday that 53-year-old Fydel Jones has pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact in the case.
The FBI has said Jones offered to conduct a sweat lodge ceremony for a Canadian tourist and her friends in 2017 when they traveled to the Havasupai reservation for a wedding ceremony.
Authorities say that once they were in the small hut, Jones intentionally touched a woman directly and over her clothing without permission.
Jones is from the small reservation village of Supai.