Banning controversial books is a coward’s act. Publishing controversial books can require great gobs of bravery.
There was a time, before Ursula Nordstrom, when children’s books did not discuss race, homosexuality, puberty, divorce or any of the themes that are currently falling afoul of a handful of unimaginative and fearful right-wingers. Before Nordstrom, children’s literature had a tendency toward the moralizing, the saccharine, the didactic — stories that she once described as “neat little items about a little girl in old Newburyport during the War of 1812. Read More...
When we first moved into this house, a classic clapboard colonial with five shutter-trimmed windows spaced neatly around a portico, we had two children, a girl and a boy, ages 4 and 2. We planned on giving them separate bedrooms, but they insisted on staying together in one. They shared a bunk bed, its mattresses placed like parallel lines against a painted blue wall.
I would find them on the bottom bunk, decked out in their jaunty play duds like Jane Fonda and Popeye, arms wrapped happily around each other as they turned the wide, colorful pages of their favorite book. Read More...
Query caching is only available on Power BI Premium or Power BI Embedded. It is not applicable to LiveConnect datasets leveraging Azure Analysis Services or SQL Server Analysis Services. Dashboard tiles that are powered by the same queries also benefit once the query is cached.Click to see full answer. Considering this, does Power BI store data locally?You store that data in a data warehouse database on a server. In the Power BI service, you can’t connect to that database and begin exploring its data unless it’s a tabular model database. Read More...
