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Shelf Awareness for Monday, January 27, 2025

2 months ago | shelf-awareness.com | Craig Childs

In an ominous indication of the new administration's approach to book censorship, on Friday the new leadership of the Department of Education announced that its Office for Civil Rights has "dismissed" 17 complaints and pending complaints "related to so-called 'book bans' " and said the idea that "local school districts' removal of age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene materials from their school libraries created a hostile environment for students" and constitutes a civil rights...
AS THE RAVEN FLIES

Dec 6, 2024 | telluridenews.com | Craig Childs

Sometimes I lose the moon. It turned full and bright weeks ago, dampening the stars around it, making it easy to walk outside in the so-called dark. Then it waned, rising later and later, until I lost track of where it was. That’s the period called New Moon, when it’s out of view, not even a crescent left behind. My wife calls this an Icarus Moon, when it comes so close to the sun from our point of view we can’t see it. For that handful of days, I feel a little lost.
IRS, Security Summit announces National Tax Security Awareness Week

Nov 25, 2024 | pinecountynews.com | Craig Childs

The Internal Revenue Service, working with the Security Summit partners, today announced a special awareness week focusing on taxpayers and tax professionals to protect sensitive financial information from identity thieves and tax scams as the holidays and the 2025 tax season approach. The ninth annual National Tax Security Awareness Week takes place this year from Dec.
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month reminder

Nov 7, 2024 | pinecountynews.com | Craig Childs

As National Cybersecurity Awareness Month concludes and preparation for next tax season begins, the Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today reminded taxpayers to be wary of online threats like identity theft and fraud. Whether shopping online or browsing social media, people unfamiliar with online security could be putting themselves at risk.
401(k) limit increases for 2025, IRA limit remains unchanged

Nov 6, 2024 | pinecountynews.com | Craig Childs

The Internal Revenue Service announced that the amount individuals can contribute to their 401(k) plans in 2025 has increased to $23,500, up from $23,000 for 2024. The IRS today also issued technical guidance regarding all cost‑of‑living adjustments affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for tax year 2025 in Notice 2024-80, posted today on IRS.gov.
A cure for the February blues

Feb 28, 2024 | telluridenews.com | Craig Childs

I’ve been waking early, getting up with the constellation Scorpius with its hooked tail of stars sitting off the southeast horizon. It’s a good time to work, the house still, windows dark. We’re on solar and the generator is out, and some mornings, it feels lucky to have the lights come on. We’re waiting on a propane delivery, hoping to dodge the next snow storm so the truck can get down to the house.
As the raven flies

Dec 6, 2023 | telluridenews.com | Craig Childs

What do you see when you go outside at night? The moon is heading into its dark phase as we enter the longest nights of winter, daylight lasting nine and a half hours, where in the summer it was fifteen. This is a good time to put on a coat and step outside to see space. Without city-glow, our skies are like a telescope with a lens reaching from one horizon to the next. You don’t have to be an astronomer to look up and realize you can see forever.
As the raven flies

Oct 24, 2023 | telluridenews.com | Craig Childs

Orange flames of October asparagus shoot up along fence lines, good for seeing where to stop in May for cutting fresh spears. The yellow of cottonwood trees flows downhill, still summer-green along the lower Dolores while across the mesas they are blinding to look at, lemon yellow acrylic, some touched with ochre. This is after aspens in the high country have come off their peak.
How to use rain stones

Sep 26, 2023 | telluridenews.com | Craig Childs

They aren’t hard to find: wait for rain and see where the first dark drops appear. Simple as that. We have a rain stone outside the kitchen door. If I think I hear rain on the roof, I look out the window and check it. One dark streak might appear, then another, proof of precipitation.
AS THE RAVEN FLIES

Sep 21, 2023 | telluridenews.com | Craig Childs

They aren’t hard to find: wait for rain and see where the first dark drops appear. Simple as that. We have a rain stone outside the kitchen door. If I think I hear rain on the roof, I look out the window and check it. One dark streak might appear, then another, proof of precipitation.