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Welcome to the first Power BI feature summary of the Spring! In this update we have an exciting new preview for the Power Automate visual! Also, the ongoing previews (Small Multiples and DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services) are getting some new features. Next to that, we are presenting huge improvements to the shapes in Power BI Desktop and we are introducing a new, easier, way to share reports. To top it off, enhancements to Sensitivity Labels provide for even better protection of your data.
Please join us for the Microsoft Business Application Summit (MBAS) on May 4! Register on the MBAS website.
Here is the full list of April updates:
- Power Automate for Power BI
- Small multiples: padding controls and combo chart support
- New and improved shapes
- Invert axis and continuous axis sorting
- DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services
- CROSSFILTER supports many-to-many relationships
- Performance improvements to IF and SWITCH functions
- New Connector: Bloomberg Data and Analytics
- New Connector: SoftOne BI
- Text/CSV By Example now generally available
- Automatic Table Detection from Excel files now generally available
- Automatic Table Detection from JSON files now generally available
- Easy report sharing via links
- Improving the Create on top of published dataset experience
- New capabilities in Deployment Pipelines
- Enhancements to Sensitivity Labels
- Microsoft Charticulator visual
- New visuals
- Financial Reporting Matrix by Profitbase
- Merged Bar Chart by Nova Silva
- Editor's picks
Check out the video below for a summary:
Power Automate for Power BI
This month, we're thrilled to announce that we have a new Power Automate visual! We often hear that end-users want to act on the insights they find when exploring a Power BI report. And many times, the action happens outside of the product (e.g. send a note, create a task, copy the data). Additionally, creators want built-in automation for their users but need to ensure that it's within the context of the end-user's selection. With this new Power Automate visual, end-users can run an automated flow all within a Power BI report. Furthermore, the executed flow can be data contextual, meaning that the Flow inputs can be dynamic based on the filters set by the end-user. With Power Automate for Power BI, your end-users can go from insights to action with the click of a button.
Small multiples: padding controls and combo chart support
This month, we're introducing two additions to the small multiples preview feature: padding controls and support for the line and clustered/stacked column charts (combo charts). You'll find padding controls in the grid layout card in the formatting pane underneath the gridline controls:
Adjusting the grid padding slider will change the padding around your small multiples. The effects of this slider will vary automatically based on which pattern of gridlines you have selected. For example, the slider will not affect the padding along the outer edge of the small multiples grid unless you have the grid's outside borders turned on.
For more granular control over the padding in the visual, turn on advanced padding options to replace the single grid padding slider with four new sliders: inner column padding, outer column padding, inner row padding, and outer row padding. Adjusting these sliders will always affect the padding between multiples in the same way, regardless of your choice in gridlines.
Additionally, combo charts now also support small multiples!
One potential difference between this and non-small multiples combo charts is that here, we will never automatically merge the column and line chart axes. However, you can still merge them yourself using the "show secondary" option in the formatting pane.
Please also note that the "show as a table" context menu option for combo charts may not work in every situation, and that dynamic format strings currently won't work in line chart data labels or tooltips. We've got fixes for both of these coming next release.
New and improved shapes
We're excited to announce that we've updated the shapes in Power BI to include a lot more shapes, more formatting options, new default styling, and the ability to upgrade any old shapes in your reports.
Before we dive into the details of the new and improved shapes, we want to give big thank you to Ethan Netz, the contributor that built this new shape component from scratch! This was Ethan's first time developing as a contributor for Power BI, and we're thrilled to say that he will be joining the team as a full-time developer. You'll see more of his features in the coming releases.
New shapes available
Previously in the old shape experience, you could choose the following shapes from the ribbon:
- Rectangle
- Oval
- Line
- Isosceles Triangle
- Arrow (up)
Now in this release we've added a lot more shapes to choose from:
- Rectangle
- Rounded Rectangle
- Tab: Single Corner Snipped
- Tab: Top Corners Snipped
- Tab: Single Corner Rounded
- Tab: Top Corners Rounded
- Oval
- Pill
- Isosceles Triangle
- Right Triangle
- Parallelogram
- Trapezoid
- Pentagon
- Hexagon
- Octagon
- Heart
- Speech bubble
- Line
- Arrow (left, right, up, down)
- Arrow: Pentagon
- Arrow: Chevron
You can add any of these new shapes from the ribbon by navigating to Insert > Shapes:
New formatting options
In addition to new shapes, this release also includes new formatting options such as:
- Text options
- Round edges for rounded corners
- Shape drop Shadow effects
- Shape Glow effects
- Shape rotation and Text rotation
New default style
You may also notice that these shapes have a new default style for the fill color, outline color, and outline weight.
The Fill color of new shapes will default to Theme color 1:
The Outline color of the new shape will default to Theme color 1, 25% darker:
Additionally, the Outline weight will default to 1 px:
One more thing to note is that we've now maximized the size of the shape in the container for the new design. Here's an example of the rectangle shape, and you will notice the old rectangle design has additional padding on the left and right side of the border:
Note that after converting your rectangle shapes, you may want to make slight tweaks to the size of shape because the new shape design doesn't have the additional padding that the old rectangle had.
Convert your old shapes
If you have existing shapes in your report, you can convert them to the new shape design by selecting the shape and clicking Convert in the Format shape pane. You can also Ctrl + click to select multiple shapes at once and convert them simultaneously.
Once you click Convert, you'll also have the option to Upgrade all shapes in this report, not just the selected shape(s):
Invert axis and continuous axis sorting
This month, we're introducing a new capability in line, bar, column, area, and combo charts to invert the value axis. This allows you to reverse the direction in which the axis is rendered, with positive going down and negative going up. You can find the invert axis toggle in the associated value axis card in the formatting pane.
Next release, we will also be releasing similar functionality to reverse continuous fields in the primary axis. You will be able to sort continuous axes by ascending or descending, enabling use cases like showing the most recent data first.
DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services
Connecting to a perspective
Thank you for giving your feedback on this feature! Based on your feedback, we've added the capability to connect to a perspective when making a DirectQuery connection an Azure Analysis Services model, assuming there is one available.
Read more about this feature in the original announcement.
CROSSFILTER supports many-to-many relationships
We have added support for many-to-many relationships to the CROSSFILTER function. The CrossFilterType parameter allows you to specify how you want the filter to flow. Previously you could choose Both, None or OneWay. For a many-to-many relationship, however, OneWay is not enough control as the filter could go either way. Therefore, we have added OneWay_LeftFiltersRight and OneWay_RightFiltersLeft to give you more control over the direction the filter flows in this scenario.
Performance improvements to IF and SWITCH functions
A performance improvement has been made to SWITCH function with many branches and deeply nested IF functions to eliminate branches which are not selected by user filters or slicers earlier in the calculation pipeline. The DAX pattern for the branch conditions covered by the optimization is matching SELECTEDVALUE(column), VALUES(column), MIN(column), or MAX(column) to values of the column.
Data connectivity
New Connector: Bloomberg Data and Analytics
We are excited to announce the release of the Bloomberg Data and Analytics Power Query connector in Power BI Desktop. Here is more about the connector from Bloomberg's team:
"We are happy to announce Bloomberg's Data and Analytics connector this month! Bloomberg empowers capital markets professionals and their firms with the tools and data needed to successfully implement optimal investment portfolio strategies and to make quicker, more informed decisions. The Bloomberg Data and Analytics connector for Power BI brings Bloomberg's best-in-class portfolio analytics to Power BI through Bloomberg's PORT Enterprise reporting solution. Portfolio ex-ante risk, sophisticated performance attribution, and portfolio characteristics data (both absolute and relative to the benchmark) can be accessed via Power BI. Data can be accessed at the portfolio, security or group level, for one or more portfolios, either for a particular date or as a time-series."
New Connector: SoftOne BI
We are also excited to announce the release of the SoftOne BI Power Query connector in Power BI Desktop. Here is a summary from the SoftOne BI team:
"SoftOne BI is a comprehensive business intelligence service that enables Soft1 ERP and Atlantis ERP users to explore and analyze data more efficiently and make faster, more informed decisions, with insightful information.
SoftOne BI provides access to Soft1 ERP and Atlantis ERP data in a standardized, optimized format for reporting and analytics of several templatized scenarios such as sales, financial and CRM or completely custom scenarios. The SoftOne BI connector imports data from an Azure Data Lake (Gen 2) for both on-premises and Software as a Service (SaaS) installations, that has been uploaded via an ETL process from each customer's ERP or CRM.
Combining SoftOne's built-in powerful analytics, advanced predictive models, and machine learning technologies with the industry leading capabilities of Power BI, raw data is instantly transformed into easy-to-understand visualizations and real-time metrics across every department, subsidiary and location, powering up decision-making across any organization."
Text/CSV By Example now generally available
We're pleased to announce that "Text/CSV By Example" in Power Query is now Generally Available. This feature makes it extremely easy for users to extract data from Text or CSV files without having to think about the data transformations to apply, rather just providing a set of sample values to extract and let Power Query infer the transformations to achieve it.
When using the Text/CSV connector, users will see a new option to "Extract Table Using Examples" on the bottom-left corner of the file preview dialog.
Upon clicking that new button, users will be taken into the "Extract Table Using Examples" experience allowing them to specify sample output values for the data they would like to extract from their Text/CSV file.
Once users are done constructing that table, they can click Load/Transform to complete the Get Data flow. Notice how the resulting queries contain a detailed breakdown of all the steps that were inferred for the data extraction, which are just regular query steps that can be customized as needed.
Automatic Table Detection from Excel files now generally available
Excel is one of the most commonly used sources of data for reporting and analytics. Many will also say that Excel is the most popular database in the world!
A typical challenge with extracting data from Excel files is that the data very often is not formatted as tables so the task to "scrape" relevant data from an Excel spreadsheet can be extremely challenging and time consuming for users.
For the past 8 months, we have iterated on Preview feedback for our automatic table detection on top of Excel files and we are now extremely happy to declare this feature as Generally Available!
When using the Excel connector, this feature will automatically identify sections of each Excel spreadsheet to extract into a table and show them under a "Suggested Tables" group in the Navigator.
Previously, unless data was formatted as Tables or Named Ranges in Excel, users had to scrape the relevant rows/columns with specific transforms (skip rows, remove columns, etc.) from worksheet objects (e.g. Sheet1 in the example below).
Automatic Table Detection from JSON files now generally available
Similar to the previous feature for Excel automatic table detection, importing data from JSON files (or Web APIs) can be equally challenging for end users. Here is an example of JSON file with multiple levels of nested data.
With the addition of Automatic Table Detection capabilities, when using the JSON connector Power Query will automatically apply transformation steps to flatten the JSON data into a table. Previously users had to flatten records/lists manually. This new feature also adds support for JSON lines (or newline-delimited JSON, where each line in the file is a JSON string).
Easy report sharing via links
Around the end of this month, we'll be releasing a new sharing experience to support sharing reports via links. Previously in the old experience, we supported sharing reports by granting direct access. For the new experience, reports can be shared via links in addition to direct access sharing.
Currently, this new link sharing capability is available to reports only; however, we also upgraded the share and grant access dialog for dashboards, paginated reports, and datasets to match this new look. Check out the full section to learn more. And as always, we'd love to hear your feedback on this new sharing capability, and we plan to make continued improvements.
Copy or share links to a report
You can access this new experience by navigating to Share:
You'll see this new Send link dialog that will allow you to copy the sharing link or share it via Outlook and Teams to people in your organization:
Selecting Copy link will automatically generate and copy a shareable link to your clipboard:
You can also choose to directly send the link to Specific people or groups. Just enter their name or email address, optionally type a message, and click Send.
Once you've click Send, we'll send the link via email to your recipients.
Once your recipients receive the email, they can click Open this report and automatically get access to the report through the shareable link.
Link settings
You can choose who your sharing link gives access to and what they can do with the report and associated data:
People in your organization
This type of link can allow people in your organization to access the report. This link will not work for external users (including guest users). Use this link when you want to share with someone in your organization and are comfortable with them passing the link around to other people inside your organization, but when you want to ensure that the link won't work for external users.
People with existing access
This type of link generates a URL to the report, but it does not give any access to the report. Use this if you just want to send a link to somebody who already has access.
Specific people
This type of link allows specific people or groups to access the report. If you select this option, enter the names or email addresses of the people you wish to share with. With this link type you can share to guest users in your organization's Azure Active Directory (AAD), but you cannot share to external users who are not guests in your organization.
Links that give access to People in your organization or Specific people will always include at least read access. However, you can also specify if you want the link to include or exclude the following permissions as well:
- Reshare permissions (included by default) – allows recipients to share the report
- Build permissions (excluded by default) – allows recipients to build content with the data associated with the report
Links for People with existing access do not have any additional settings because these links do not give any access to the report.
Managing permissions
To manage permission and manage links that give access to the report, select the context menu (. . .) in the upper right of the sharing dialog, and then select Manage permissions:
This will launch the management permissions pane where you can copy or modify existing links or grant users direct access. To modify a given link, click the context menu (. . .).
To grant users direct access to the report click the plus icon (+), enter their name or email address, optionally type a message, and click Grant access.
For additional access management capabilities, select the Advanced option in the footer of the Manage permissions pane. This will navigate you to the management page where you can:
- View, manage, and create Links
- View and manage who has Direct access and grant people direct access
- View and manage Pending access requests and invitations
- View and manage Related content
- Apply Filters or Search for specific links or people
Tenant settings
We've also added a tenant setting for admins looking to disable creating shareable links to People in your organization. You can find this option in the Admin portal by navigating to Tenant settings > Export and sharing settings > Allow shareable links to grant access to all People in your organization:
As with other tenant settings, you can enable sharing links to People in your organization for:
- The entire organization
- Specific security groups
- Or Except specific security groups
If this setting is disabled for a user with share permissions to a report, that user will only be able to share the report via link to Specific people or People with existing access.
Improving the Create on top of published dataset experience
We're aligning all the Power BI experiences that deals with datasets exploration and creation to use the new datasets hub experience.
When you create a new report in the service based on top of an existing dataset, you will now see the same datasets hub experience appears in a dialog.
You'll see first in the list datasets that you recently viewed their associated report/dashboard, while still making sure endorsed datasets gets better ranking than non-endorsed ones. You can use the filters to see only datasets that you were recently viewed under 'Recent' tab or datasets that you're the owner of under 'My datasets' tab.
Coming up soon: aligning the Desktop experience to Get-data from Power BI datasets to use the datasets hub experience.
New capabilities in Deployment Pipelines
Last month, a few capabilities were added to deployment pipelines, including:
- Paginated reports support
- Data protection integration
- Workspace members can now deploy and update datasets without being the owners
- And more
To read about all the latest releases and get the details, read this blog post.
Enhancements to Sensitivity Labels
Sensitivity labels in Power BI embedded now generally available
Last year we announced public preview of sensitivity label support in embedded view. When you embed a visual, report, or dashboard that has a sensitivity label applied to it, the sensitivity label will be visible in the embedded view, and the label and its protection will persist when data is exported to Excel. Today we're happy to announce that this capability is generally available.
For more information see Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in Power BI – Power BI | Microsoft Docs
Securing the full data journey from Azure to Office
To ensure that your data remains classified and secured across its data journey from Azure, through Power BI and all the way to Office, we're happy to announce a preview of Power BI MIP label inheritance when importing data from Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL Database.
Power BI datasets connecting to classified data in Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure SQL Database will inherit those labels such that data remains classified and secure when brought into Power BI and inherited when exported to Office. The result is secure, end-to-end sensitivity label inheritance and protection of your business data, from source to point of consumption.
For more information see this blog.
Admin API to Set and Remove labels in Power BI
To meet compliance requirements, organizations are often required to classify and label all sensitive data in Power BI. This task can be a challenge for tenants that have large volumes of data in Power BI. To make this task easier and more effective, we're introducing new Power BI admin APIs for setting and removing sensitivity labels in Power BI. With these APIs, Power BI admins can easily and effectively apply sensitivity labels on large number of Power BI artifacts programmatically.
Read more in our documentation.
Microsoft Charticulator visual
We're excited to announce a new custom visual in AppSource: the Microsoft Charticulator visual. Previously to use Charticulator, a user would flip between the web app at charticulator.com and Power BI. Now, users can create a wide range of custom chart designs right within Power BI using our brand-new Microsoft Charticulator custom visual. Check out the full blog post here.
New visuals
The new visuals of this month are:
Financial Reporting Matrix by Profitbase
Good financial statements are challenging to achieve in Power BI with built-in visuals. Profitbase's Financial Reporting Matrix enables users to quickly create Excel-like financial statements and reports with tailormade formatting, calculations, expandable/collapsible rows and columns, and more.
We recently added expandible/collapsible columns, which are the #1 requested Power BI feature. This functionality has been used in Excel for years, and it's finally possible in Power BI.
Main features:
- Expand/collapse rows and columns
- Fine-grained control of cell formatting
- Custom columns and row subtotals
- Conditional formatting
- Custom calculations columns
- Formatting and styling
You can drill and summarize along both rows and columns. You can also group and summarize both vertically and horizontally, for example, by date or product categories, without using other programs, such as Excel. Collapsed columns will automatically be summarized – no configuration, modeling, or use of other program (e.g. Excel) is required.
The Financial Reporting Matrix for Power BI is available from AppSource.
Learn more: https://www.profitbase.com/powerbi/.
Merged Bar Chart by Nova Silva
On the surface the Merged Bar Chart has a lot of similarities with small multiples. The key difference is the way these charts allow you to compare values. The Merged Bar Chart focusses on comparing multiple measures (like Player Value, Monthly Wage, Release clause, etc. in the example below) within one specific categorical variable (i.e. Soccer players).
The small multiples focus on segmenting the bars by one or more categorical variables (here: Country of Birth).
If you want to compare a single variable over multiple categories, think small multiples. Looking for comparison of multiple independent measures? Go Merged Bar Chart.
Don't hesitate and try the Merged Bar Chart now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.
Questions or remarks? Visit us at: https://visuals.novasilva.com.
Editor's picks
The new Editor's picks visuals of the month are:
The Editor's picks can be found in the in-product AppSource in Power BI Desktop and service under Editor's picks category.
API v3.6.0 is now available
We highly recommend you to update your visuals to the latest and greatest releases to enjoy the new functionalities, and improvements.
The API v3.6.0 is ready for you to update your visuals.
The new API supports empty-dataroles feature which allows to receive updates from Power BI without the need to bind any data.
Simplifying collection of diagnostic information
We know that when you have reached out to our support teams you want to be helped as fast as possible. However, a lot of time is lost in collection diagnostic information that is needed to analyze the situation. This month, we are making it easier collect diagnostic information when working with our support teams. You should only use this option when asked to do so by our support team. They will give you clear instructions to follow which will also inform you exactly about which diagnostic information we collect.
You can find the new diagnostic information collection dialog in the Power BI Desktop Options under Global > Diagnostics. In order to capture the maximum amount of diagnostic information, select 'Enable tracing' and then press the 'Collect diagnostic information' button.
This opens the Save diagnostics details dialog:
You can learn more about the diagnostics collected using the links and choose where you want to save. After you click Save, a ZIP file will be created in the location you specified in the dialog. You can then verify which information is collected before you share it with our support team as per their instructions so they can analyze the situation as quickly as possible and get you the help you need.
That is all for this month! Please continue sending us your feedback and do not forget to vote for other features that you would like to see in Power BI! We hope that you enjoy the update! If you installed Power BI Desktop from the Microsoft Store, please leave us a review.
Also, don't forget to vote on your favorite feature this month over on our community website.
As always, keep voting on Ideas to help us determine what to build next.


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This article was contributed by Professor Ian Crawford of Birkbeck's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. It was originally published on The Conversation.
To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet; understandably, perhaps. It is conceivable though that future advances in space exploration could change this by opening our closed planetary economy to essentially unlimited external resources of energy and raw materials.
Look up at the Moon this evening, and you might be gazing at a solution. The Earth's closest celestial neighbour seems likely to play a major role and already a number of private companies have been created to explore the possibilities.
It is important to stress that even now, 40 years after the Apollo missions, we still don't have a complete picture of the Moon's economic potential, and obtaining one will require a more rigorous programme of lunar exploration than has been undertaken to-date. In part, this is why proposed future lunar exploration missions (such as the recently announced Lunar Mission One) are so important.
Nevertheless, as a result of work over the past four decades, we do now know enough to make a first-order assessment of lunar resource potential. In doing so it is useful to distinguish between three possible future applications of such resources.
Digging deep
- We have the option of using lunar materials to facilitate continued exploration, and future economic development, of the Moon itself. The concept is usually referred to as In Situ Resource Utilisation, or ISRU.
- We could make use of lunar resources to facilitate scientific and economic activity in the vicinity of both Earth and Moon (so-called cis-lunar space) as well as future exploration deeper into the Solar System
- We can consider the importation of lunar resources to the Earth's surface where they would contribute directly to the global economy.
Recent work – which I have summarised here – has shown that the Moon does possess materials suitable for ISRU. Most important in this respect is evidence for deposits of water ice and other volatiles trapped in cold (less than 100 Kelvin or minus 173 degrees Celsius) and permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles. In addition to being required for human life support, water is also a ready source of oxygen (required for both life support and rocket fuel oxidiser) and hydrogen (a valuable rocket fuel).
In addition to possible ice deposits, it has been known since the early studies of the Apollo samples that the lunar soil contains volatiles, substances derived ultimately from the solar wind (e.g. hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, and at high latitudes, hydroxide and perhaps water), and these may also be exploitable for ISRU activities.
Although ISRU will undoubtedly benefit future scientific exploration, it is true that such activities will only make wider economic sense if further lunar exploration and development is able to yield net benefits to the global economy. It is here that the second of those three potential applications of lunar resources comes into play.
Fuel's gold
Our global civilisation is already highly dependent on Earth-orbiting satellites for communications, navigation, weather forecasting and resource management, and this reliance is likely to increase. The high costs of these activities are largely dictated by high launch costs, and by the fact that failed satellites cannot currently be repaired or replenished in orbit. The availability of resources obtained from the weaker gravity conditions of the Moon would help mitigate these obstacles to further economic development in Earth orbit. Near-term lunar exports to a cis-lunar infrastructure could include the supply of hydrogen and oxygen as rocket fuel/oxidiser.
In addition, lunar surface rocks and soils are rich in potentially useful but heavy (and thus expensive to launch from Earth) raw materials such as magnesium, aluminium, silicon, iron and titanium. Therefore, if a lunar industrial infrastructure is gradually built up, the Moon may be able to provide more sophisticated products to Earth-orbiting facilities. Examples might include titanium and aluminium alloys for structural components, and silicon-based photovoltaic cells for solar power. The key business case for sourcing these materials on the Moon is simple. It takes about 20 times less energy to launch a given mass from the surface of the Moon into Earth orbit compared to launching it from the Earth's surface to Earth orbit.
Down to earth
This all seems pretty encouraging for any company or country considering drilling on the Moon, but opportunities for lunar resources to make a more direct contribution to the world economy by being imported to the Earth's surface are limited. This is because the Earth already contains the same basic mix of chemical elements as does the Moon, many of them in higher localised concentrations (i.e. ores), and we have a well-developed infrastructure for extracting and refining terrestrial raw materials.
The light isotope of helium (helium-3), which is implanted into lunar soils by the solar wind is often cited as an exception because it is perceived by some to be a potential fuel for future nuclear fusion reactors on Earth. However, sustainable nuclear fusion using helium-3 has yet to be shown to be practical, and even if it is, the concentration of helium-3 in lunar soils is so low (about ten parts-per-billion by mass) that strip mining and processing hundreds of square kilometres of the lunar surface would be required each year in order to make a significant contribution to Earth's future energy needs.
Other possible lunar materials which might conceivably be economically imported to the Earth include platinum group elements (currently valued at between $20,000 and $50,000 per kilo) extracted from iron meteorites that may have survived impact with the lunar surface, and materials (for example, economically valuable rare-earth elements which are known to be concentrated in some regions of the Moon) for which the environmental costs of terrestrial mining may one day make lunar sources more attractive.
Booster stages
When we pull together the evidence, it remains difficult to identify any single lunar resource that will be sufficiently valuable to drive a mining industry on its own. There is no simple solution. However, the Moon does possess abundant raw materials that are of potential economic interest.
We need to think of a hierarchy of future applications. This begins with the use of lunar materials to facilitate human activities on the Moon itself. We can then progress to the use of lunar resources to underpin a future industrial capability within the Earth-Moon system. In this way, gradually increasing access to lunar resources may help "bootstrap" a self-sustaining space-based economy from which the global economy will ultimately benefit.
This article is based on an invited review paper on lunar resources that will be published by the journal Progress in Physical Geography in the New Year. A preprint of that paper, which contains references to the primary literature on which this essay is based, can be found here

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Music festivals in City of Peterborough
Ready for the music festival season? Find all music festivals on Enjoy! Book tickets online!
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Area Spline Charts are used to graphically represent numeric data via a shaded area connected by fitted curved lines.
Default Questions
- None
Compatible Questions
Related Chart Types
Available Options for Area Spline Charts
There are a number of options available for area spline charts.
First, if you wish to filter the data that displays for an individual area spline chart, click Filter to the right of the element and use the logic builder. Learn more about filtering an individual element.
- If you wish to display the specific details of your filters below your chart check the Show Details of Filter with Report Element checkbox below the logic builder.
- You will also see an option to filter this element by Survey Link or Campaign. This filter option will allow you to only include data in this element that was collected via a specific link (or links).
Chart Type Tab
If you want to explore other compatible chart types, click Chart Type to the right of the element and select a different chart type from the available options.
Layout & Options Tab
To explore even more options, review the settings available within the Layout & Options section.
Question Options
- Chart - Include or exclude the main chart.
- Statistics - See below list of available statistics for this chart type.
Chart Options
- Chart Size - You can adjust the chart size small, medium, or large.
- Axis Values - Elect to display Option Counts rather than the default Option Percents for your axis values.
- X-Axis/Y-Axis Value Bounds - Use these fields to set the limits (min & max) of your x/y-axis for your Line Chart.
Available Statistics
- Total Responses
- Hidden Count
- Skipped Count
If reporting values are numeric the below statistics are available.
- Sum
- Average
- Min
- Max
- Standard Deviation


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Premier textile event will co-locate with SGIA Expo 2013.
The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) has announced a new designation for its leading international trade event: IFAI Specialty Fabrics Expo 2013 and the new Advanced Textiles Conference & Trade Show, to be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 23-25, 2013. It is the largest trade event for the specialty fabrics industry in North America, and will co-locate with the Specialty Printing & Imaging Technology SGIA Expo 2013.
Formerly known as IFAI Expo Americas, the new show aligns with the industry's flagship publication, Specialty Fabrics Review, and strategically focuses on the needs of the traditional market segments, according to conference management. The growth and demand for advanced textile applications led to IFAI's establishment of the Advanced Textiles Conference & Trade Show, held in tandem with Specialty Fabrics Expo, to meet the needs of the top level of the industry supply chain and companies that supply roll goods, material and other products or services for advanced applications.
Both shows are designed to advance ideas, products and technologies, and to help grow businesses and markets across the entire specialty fabrics industry. The 100,000+ square feet of show floor showcases more than 400 exhibitors of fabrics, fibers, films, composites, equipment and technology services who meet with thousands of top decision makers and buyers representing global and niche specialty fabrics markets.
Comprehensive programming is designed to help attendees understand the current specialty fabrics markets, end-user applications, emerging markets, advanced technologies and the future of fabric products. Attendees can expect professional business sessions and roundtables, outstanding networking events and keynote speakers, CEU credits for architects and an International Buyers Program. The 2013 show also features a special exhibit on the aerospace market; the second annual ShowStoppers awards competition displaying innovative products and services, and the International Achievement Awards.
For more information and for high resolution photos, contact Bonnie Hanson, +1 651 225 6923 or email@example.com.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — There are no proven ways to stave off Alzheimer's, but a new report raises the prospect that avoiding nine key risks starting in childhood just might delay or even prevent about a third of dementia cases around the world.
How? It has to do with lifestyle factors that may make the brain more vulnerable to problems with memory and thinking as we get older. They're such risks as not getting enough education early in life, high blood pressure and obesity in middle age, and being sedentary and socially isolated in the senior years.
Thursday's report in the British journal Lancet is provocative — its authors acknowledge their estimate is theoretical, based on statistical modeling. A recent U.S. report was much more cautious, saying there are encouraging hints that a few lifestyle changes can bolster brain health but little if any proof.
Still, it's never too early to try, said Lancet lead author Gill Livingston, a psychiatry professor at University College London.
"Although dementia is diagnosed in later life, the brain changes usually begin to develop years before," she noted.
Early next year, a $20 million U.S. study will begin rigorously testing if some simple day-to-day activities truly help older adults stay sharp. In the meantime, Alzheimer's specialists say there's little down side to certain common-sense recommendations.
"Increased health of the body supports increased health of the brain," said cognitive neuroscientist Laura Baker of Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina, who will lead the upcoming U.S. study.
Consider physical activity, crucial for heart health. "If in fact it should also improve the prospects for cognitive function and dementia, all the better," said Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the U.S. National Institute on Aging and an avid exerciser.
Here's the latest from this week's Alzheimer's Association International Conference on possible ways to guard your brain:
A Lancet-appointed panel created a model of dementia risks throughout life that estimates about 35 percent of all cases of dementia are attributable to nine risk factors — risks that people potentially could change.
Their resulting recommendations: Ensure good childhood education; avoid high blood pressure, obesity and smoking; manage diabetes, depression and age-related hearing loss; be physically active; stay socially engaged in old age.
The theory: These factors together play a role in whether your brain is resilient enough to withstand years of silent damage that eventually leads to Alzheimer's.
Last month, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine reported there's little rigorous proof. That report found some evidence that controlling blood pressure, exercise and some forms of brain training — keeping intellectually stimulated — might work and couldn't hurt.
Why? What's good for the heart is generally good for the brain. In fact, high blood pressure that can trigger heart attacks and strokes also increase risk for what's called "vascular dementia."
And exercising your gray matter may bulk up the brain, whether it's from childhood education or learning a new language as an adult. The more you learn, the more connections your brain forms, what scientists call cognitive reserve. Some U.S. studies have suggested that generations better educated than their grandparents have somewhat less risk of dementia.
Other factors have less scientific support. Studies show people with hearing loss are more likely to experience memory problems, and have speculated that it's because hearing loss leads to depression and social isolation — or even makes the brain work harder to deal with garbled sound, at the expense of other thinking skills. But so far there aren't studies proving hearing aids reverse that risk.
In fact, the strongest evidence that lifestyle changes help comes from Finland, where a large, randomized study found older adults at high risk of dementia scored better on brain tests after two years of exercise, diet, cognitive stimulation and social activities.
Would those strategies help Americans, who tend to be sicker, fatter and more sedentary than Scandinavians? The Alzheimer's Association is funding a study to find out, with enrollment of 2,500 cognitively healthy but high-risk older adults to begin next year.
Want to try on your own? They'll test:
—Walking — supervised, so no cheating. Wake Forest's Baker puts seniors on treadmills at the local YMCA to avoid bumpy sidewalks. She starts exercise-newbies at 10 minutes a day for two days a week and works up to longer walks on more days.
—A diet that includes more leafy greens, vegetables, whole grains, fish and poultry than the typical American menu.
—Certain brain games and what Baker called an "intellectual stimulation barrage," outings and other steps that keep people social, not sitting home on a computer, while they exercise their brains.
—Improving control of medical conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes that are toxic to the brain.


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Yesterday, we made a number of Azure networking announcements to enable customers to build better hyper-scale and enterprise grade applications in public and hybrid cloud environments. ExpressRoute enhancements include new strategic partnerships, a Meet-Me location in Australia, multi-site ExpressRoute for better disaster recovery, multiple subscriptions sharing the same ExpressRoute circuit, and support for 4,000 routes. We are improving overall security with Network Security Groups for easier subnet isolation in multi-tier topologies, Site to Site Forced Tunneling which sends network traffic back to on-premises for policy validation to meet compliance requirements, and VPN support for Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). A new high-performance gateway, multiple virtual NICs in a VM, access to VPN operations logs, nested Traffic Manager policies and Azure load balancer source IP affinity demonstrate our commitment to continually enhance Azure networking capabilities. Customers can use these new capabilities today, starting in the North Europe region and subsequently all Azure regions in the coming weeks. Look for rollout updates here.
New ExpressRoute partnerships and ExpressRoute location
We continue to grow our global direct network connectivity ecosystem to enable enterprise customers to access Azure via ExpressRoute. New ExpressRoute partners are Colt Technology Services in Europe, Tata Communications in Asia, and Telstra in Australia. ExpressRoute is now generally available in Australia with a Meet-Me location in Sydney. From Sydney, customers can reach all Australian Azure regions.
ExpressRoute – Sharing connections across multiple subscriptions
Customers can share a single ExpressRoute circuit among Azure subscriptions. Circuit owners have the ability to authorize other Azure accounts to use the ExpressRoute circuit. The circuit owner can issue up to 10 circuit authorizations per circuit and each authorization can support up to 10 VNet links. This capability is available for all ExpressRoute circuits (existing and new) and with all service providers.
ExpressRoute – Multi-region connectivity for HA and DR connectivity
Each ExpressRoute circuit provisioned today has been configured in active-active configuration between Microsoft and the connectivity provider in order to avoid single a point of failure. VNets linked to these circuits have highly available gateway tenants. VNets can now be linked with up to 4 ExpressRoute circuits. All ExpressRoute circuits must be created within the same geo and can span multiple providers. This enables path diversity and the ability to build resilient connectivity. This service is enabled for all existing and new ExpressRoute circuits.
Network Security Group
Customers will now be able to control traffic to one or more virtual machine instances in a Vnet using inbound and outbound access control rules defined in a Network Security Group. The access control rules support the standard 5 tuple (Source IP, Source Port, Destination IP, Destination Port and Protocol) along with a priority to allow users to achieve fine grain control to network traffic. The Network Security Group can be applied to a subnet (within a virtual network) as well as to individual virtual machines thereby enabling a two layer protection. The rules within a network security group can be modified and updated independent of the virtual machine allowing the management of access control lists outside the life cycle of a virtual machine.
A common application for Network Security groups is to realize a demilitarized zone (DMZ) and have explicit access control across tiers in a multi-tiered application.
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Customers can now, redirect or "force" all Internet-bound traffic from the cloud, back to their premises via a S2S VPN tunnel for inspection and auditing. This is a critical security and compliance requirement for many enterprise grade applications. Without Forced Tunneling, Internet-bound traffic from customer VMs in Azure will always go from Azure directly out to the Internet, without the ability to inspect or audit the traffic. Unauthorized Internet access can potentially lead to information disclosure or other security breach. With Forced Tunneling you now have control. The following diagram illustrates how forced tunneling works.
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Customers can now create and manage multiple virtual network interfaces (NICs) on a VM. This capability will enable designing network infrastructure with a greater degree of flexibility and control. As an example, you can designate one NIC as the frontend NIC, and the other as backend NIC and isolate traffic between them, as indicated in the figure below; or you can separate data plane traffic from the management plane. Multiple NICs in a VM is a fundamental requirement for many Network Virtual Appliances. At TechEd we will have demos with Citrix and Riverbed as we now start to build an NVA ecosystem that will include load balancers, WAN optimizers and network security appliances. Multiple NiCs is not supported on basic VM SKU's. They are available on standard VM SKU's.
Performance Gateway
To support more demanding hybrid connectivity throughput needs and a larger number of cross premise sites, we are announcing the availability of a high performance VNet gateway. This will enable faster ExpressRoute and S2S VPN gateways and also support more S2S tunnels. The tunnels are used to connect to other virtual networks or on-premises sites.
Advanced VNet Gateway policies
To improve performance we now allow Virtual Network to Virtual Network communication to occur without the overhead of encryption (No Encryption). Note that all VNet-to-VNet communication will stay on Microsoft's core network and not traverse the Internet. More precisely customers can control encryption on the tunnel between VNets. Customers can choose between 3DES, AES128, AES256 and No Encryption (Null). Customers can also enable Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) for their IPsec/IKE gateways.
More validated VPN devices
Barracuda Networks and Palo Alto Networks have been added to the list of validated VPN devices.
Operations and audit logs for VNet Gateways and ExpressRoute
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Nested policies for Traffic Manager
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Scientists Dubious Over Claim of Alien Life Evidence in Meteorite
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The recent announcement by a NASA scientist of evidence for alien life in meteorites from outer space has created a firestorm of controversy that researchers say is unlikely to die down anytime soon.
The claim, announced Friday (March 4), called "startling, paradigm busting research," by the Journal of Cosmology, which published the findings, has been derided by critics, one of which referred to it "garbage." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life ]
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Astrobiologist Richard Hoover of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., used scanning electron microscopes to analyze slices of carbonaceous meteorites that fell to Earth from space.
Based on the appearance of "filaments" and other features that resemble microbes, Hoover argues that the meteorites contain fossilized life in the form of cyanobacteria – single-celled organisms also known as blue-green algae. He supports this claim by presenting evidence of chemical compounds present in the meteorites that are consistent with a biological origin.
Hoover writes that the "the size, structure, detailed morphological characteristics and chemical compositions of the meteorite filaments are not consistent with known species of minerals," and that they must be evidence of single-celled life in the rocks.
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If true, the discovery would mean life in the universe is not unique to planet Earth – that it may have sprouted up multiple times in other locations, or even that Earth's life originated in space and was deposited on the planet by meteorites.
"Because this would be a very important result if true, scientists are going to do what they should do: be skeptical," said astronomer Seth Shostak of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
The reaction
Shostak called the paper "an extensive and thorough review" of Hoover's findings, but said they did not amount to convincing evidence.
"If you look at the microscope photos, they are certainly suggestive – looking like photos made of various terrestrial bacteria," Shostak told SPACE.com. "But then again, while intriguing, that's hardly proof. If similarity in appearance were all it took to prove similarity in kind, then it would be pretty easy for me to demonstrate that there are big animals living in the sky, because I see clouds that look like them."
The same goes for the chemical evidence Hoover presents, Shostak said. While these compounds could have been produced by microbial life, they also could have been made by non-biological, mundane processes.
The type of microbe Hoover claims to have discovered has also provoked some scientists' skepticism.
Cyanobacteria live in liquid water and are photosynthetic, meaning they convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds using energy from sunlight. That implies that the meteorites would have had to contain liquid water exposed to sunlight, and also that high concentrations of oxygen would be present, said astrobiologist Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
Such a scenario is unlikely based on researchers' current understanding of meteorites, McKay said. If they contain liquid water at all, it is likely in their interior, not on the surface, where it would be in contact with sunlight.
McKay said Hoover's findings suggest that either the filaments in the microscopic images are chance shapes, or that the environments on meteorites were much different than scientists expect.
He expressed respect for the overall methods of the study, and said Hoover had presented enough evidence that the structures present do come from the meteorites and weren't introduced as contamination after the rocks landed on Earth.
"Richard Hoover is a careful and accomplished microscopist, so there is every reason to believe that the structures he sees are present and are not due to contamination," McKay wrote in an e-mail to SPACE.com.
Questioning the journal
As soon as word of the paper was announced, some scientists were reluctant to give it credence based on the Journal of Cosmology's reputation.
"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of [Fred] Hoyle and [Chandra] Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," P.Z. Myers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota, Morris, wrote on his popular science blog Pharyngula. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."
Myers also referred to the paper as "garbage."
Rosie Redfield, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia, questioned whether the journal's papers are really peer-reviewed, as it claims.
"The journal proudly announces that it is obtaining and will publish 100 post-publication reviews," she wrote on her blog, RRResearch. "But did it bother getting any pre-publication reviews? It will be shutting down in a few months, after only two years of online publication (the 13 'volumes' are really just 13 issues). Its presentation standards are pretty bad – there doesn't seem to have been any effort at copy-editing or formatting the text for publication (not even any page numbers)."
NASA confirmed that the paper had not been peer-reviewed.
"NASA cannot stand behind or support a scientific claim unless it has been peer-reviewed or thoroughly examined by other qualified experts," Paul Hertz, chief scientist of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. "This paper was submitted in 2007 to the International Journal of Astrobiology. However, the peer review process was not completed for that submission."
Some scientists approached about the paper asked not to comment officially but said the research didn't merit attention.
The editors of the Journal of Cosmology dismissed such attacks as "tantamount to school-yard taunts by jealous children," in a follow-up press release after the paper's announcement.
In response to some critics questioning why the research wasn't published in the more prestigious journals Science or Nature, the Journal of Cosmology responded with a statement that "both Science and Nature have a nasty history of rejecting extremely important papers, some of which later earned the authors a Nobel Prize."
"Science and Nature are in the business of making money," the journal charged. "The Journal of Cosmology, is free, open access, and is in the business of promoting science."
We've seen this before
This is not the first time that a debate has raged over possible evidence for life in meteorites.
In 1996, researchers made a splash when they announced evidence for fossilized microbial life in a meteorite from Mars called Allan Hills 84001 (ALH 84001). The lead author of the paper announcing these findings in the journal Science was David McKay, a researcher at NASA's Johnson Space Center (not to be confused with NASA Ames' Chris McKay).The claim prompted giant headlines in papers around the world at the time, and even a statement from President Bill Clinton.
But in the years since, scientists have questioned those findings — and most remain unconvinced that the meteorite offers conclusive evidence.
"Prior claims for evidence of microfossils in ALH 84001 remain controversial at best, despite more than a decade of dedicated research by many groups and dozens of scientific papers on the subject," said planetary geologist Victoria Hamilton of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "I'm skeptical that these new claims will be any less controversial or any more easily proven or falsified."
Shostak said wariness after the Allan Hills controversy could be carrying over to this announcement.
"The ALH 84001 result was based on photos and chemical evidence, much as the current story," Shostak said. "And I think that's a major part of the reason why many experts in this field are skeptical of Hoover's claim to have found life that cooked up in comets."
Ultimately, this find, like the Allan Hills report, isn't enough to settle the score one way or the other.
"Sometimes scientific results are ambiguous, and are greeted with the common (and rather uninspiring) refrain that 'more research is needed,'" Shostak said. "That's the case here. We need evidence from other approaches and from other researchers."
Hoover's paper can be read at the Journal of Cosmology.
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz.
This story was provided by SPACE.com, a sister site to LiveScience.


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Police Commission promotes 3,665 senior officers
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 3,665 senior police officers.
The commission's Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that approval for the promotion was one of the high points of the commission's 28th Plenary Meeting which was held in Abuja on June 8.
He said that two commissioners of police, Igbodo David, who is in charge of Legal department at the Force Headquarters and Olalekan Abdulfatai, were promoted to substantive Assistant Inspectors-General of Police.
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The Changing Organization of Work and the Safety and Health of Working People
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Revolutionary changes in the organization of work have far outpaced our knowledge about the implications of these changes for the quality of working life and for safety and health on the job. This gap in knowledge is one of the 21 priority areas for research under the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)—a framework crafted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and its partners to guide research into the next decade. This report was developed under NORA as the first attempt to develop a comprehensive research agenda for investigating and reducing occupational safety and health risks associated with the changing organization of work. Research and development needs identified in the agenda include (1) improved surveillance mechanisms to better track how the organization of work is changing, (2) accelerated research on safety and health implications of the changing organization of work, (3) increased research focus on organizational interventions to protect safety and health, and (4) steps to formalize and nurture organization of work as a distinctive field in occupational safety and health.
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Comparing sizes of casual and gymnastics clothes, you'll notice that they are different. As a rule sizes of gymnastics clothes are smaller. And that can be simply explained. The fact is we choose casual clothes reckoning on they do not fit our body tightly and casual clothes definitely shouldn't. But gymnastics clothes are another pair of shoes. They are sewn in order to be tight. gymnastics leotard should fit tightly but not hamper movements..
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A free-lance garden and landscape writer, Georgene A. Bramlage has published widely on garden and food-related topics and has been a member of the Garden Writers Association since 1980. She is the wife of William A. Bramlage, a member of the faculty in Plant and Soil Sciences at UMass Amherst. Long-time residents of Leverett, Mass., the Bramlages relocated to Roanoke, Va., in 2009.
An avid local historian, Bramlage collected pamphlets and ephemeral publications relating to the history of her town. This small collection includes a few items relating to the town's bicentennial in 1974, newspaper clippings, genealogical information, and articles on its residents, and items relating to civic affairs in town. Several cookbooks donated by Bramlage were transferred to the McIntosh Cookbook Collection.


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John Thomson Photograph Collection
The Scotsman John Thomson is considered one of the fathers of social documentary photography and a pioneer in the photography of southeast Asia. Between 1861 and 1872, he traveled extensively in Asia, documenting the scenery and people of modern day Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and China.
The collection includes eight albumen prints from wet-plate collodion negatives taken early in Thomson's photographic career. The images of Penang, Malaysia, are all signed by John Thomson, with five dated November 1863. Subjects include Malay people, a native infantry regiment, sugar mill, temple, and Thomson's widely reproduced image of tree ferns.
A photographer, chemist, and son of a tobacco farmer, John Thomson is considered one of the fathers of social documentary photography. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he traveled to Singapore in 1861 to visit his brother, beginning what would be the first of several Asian excursions. In 1863, camera in tow, Thomson returned to southeast Asia, spending ten months in Penang and Province Wellesley in British colonial Malaysia, before visiting Singapore once again.
Much of Thomson's early photographic work reflects a formal training, with stiffly posed natives depicted in studio-like settings. He soon shifted to a more documentary style, however, focusing on more naturalistic subjects, and particularly subjects of ethnographic and topographical interest. The images he took proved popular fare with British colonists, earning his first photographic laurels: election to the Bengal Photographic Society in 1864. For a brief time he and his brother William ran a studio together, but by 1865, the company was sold and Thomson was off on a six month trip to Bangkok, Thailand. After photographing the King of Siam and his court, his work was cut short by a bout of malaria he contracted in Cambodia in 1866, and after a brief period of recovery in Singapore, he gathered a selection of his work and headed home.
Although he spent barely a year in England, Thomson made the most of his time, teaching photography, publishing his first book, The Antiquities of Cambodia (1867), and earning election to the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Ethnographical Society. By July 1867, however, he had returned to Asia, settling in Hong Kong with his new wife, Isobel Petrie. His second book, Views on the North River (1870), was published in Hong Kong about the same time that his wife grew tired of life in China. Taking their young child, she returned to England, leaving Thomson once again to travel on his own. Inspired by Canton, he made several visits during the next year and in 1871, spent time in Shanghai and Peking. When he made the decision to return to England for good in 1872, he chose to bring with him fewer than twelve hundred negatives, leaving the rest behind in China where they were frequently reprinted.
Back in Britain, Thomson concentrated on publishing a series of popular illustrated books on his journeys, including Foochow and the River Min (1873), Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-1874 in four volumes), The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China and China (1875), The Land and People of China (1876), Through Cyprus with a Camera (1878), and Through China with a Camera (1898). His Street Life in London (1877) is considered a pioneering work of social photography in England, depicting the lives of the lower classes. In addition to his own publications, Thomson worked on numerous other book projects including translations, photographic illustrations, and collaborations, including an 1875 project with Walter Woodbury, Treasure Spots of the World. In 1919, Thomson placed his glass plate negatives on deposit with Henry Wellcome in London, where they remain as part of the Wellcome Library. Thomson died in 1921.
The Thomson Collection consists of eight albumen prints from wet-plate collodion negatives taken early in Thomson's photographic career. The images of Penang, Malaysia, are all signed by John Thomson, with five dated November 1863. The subjects include Malay people, a native infantry regiment, sugar mill, temple, and Thomson's widely reproduced image of tree ferns.
The collection is open for research.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
John Thomson Photograph Collection (PH 2). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library holds a copy of John Thomson's The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China (Call no. DS507 .T49 1875a) inscribed to Frank L. Wilson "with love from S.H.C." The handwriting in this volume appears to match that on the images, although the initials change to S.H.W., perhaps as the result of a marriage.
This collection was originally housed with the Woodbury (PH 3) and Beato Collections (PH 4), which suggests that all may have been acquired by S.H.W. and family while they lived in Indonesia.
Collection was processed by Meghan Fahey.
22nd Bengal Native Infantry, Penang
35.5 x 40.5 cm.
Box 1:1
Caledonian Sugar Mill, Province Wellesley, Penang
20.5 x 28 cm.
Box 1:2
Malays resting
1863 Nov.
27 x 20.5 cm.
Box 1:3
Opening of Port of Province Wellesley From the Gt. Hill, Penang
35 x 40.5 cm.
Box 1:4
Quedah [Kedah] Hills From Batit Mangtagan
1863 Nov.
20.5 x 27 cm.
Box 1:5
Buddhist Temple, Penang
1863 Nov.
35.5 x 40.5 cm.
Box 1:6
Tree ferns, Penang Hill
1863 Nov.
35 x 40.5 cm.
Box 1:7
Tree ferns, Gt. Hill, Penang
1863 Nov.
27 x 20.5 cm.
Box 1:8


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