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Life without Cardinals?

« I can’t imagine life without cardinals, » I wrote to a friend in California, because when I sent her this picture she texted that her state did not know them. I next sent the photo to an aunt in France, and she replied likewise. This made me check online, where I learned that this beautiful red bird mainly flies in the eastern half of the U.S. and southeastern Canada, and as far south only as Guatemala. Some individuals have been introduced in Bermuda and Hawai’i, but the red cardinal otherwise only calls my part of the world home. I took it as given.

A Notice and a Tax Specialist

The Internal Revenue Service recently sent me a notice stating it “believed” my recent tax return had a mistake and that I therefore owed the IRS several hundred dollars. This was unclear, because a belief (“We believe there is a miscalculation on your…1040”) does not lead to a truth (“As a result, you owe”). Rather than providing the exact source of the so-called miscalculation, the form instructed me to a call a certain number for more information. Or, of course, I could just pay the bill with no justification. This notice makes me think about three C’s: completeness, conciseness and.