By Ray Cox
Special to The Roanoke Times
Humble self-reflection is said to be in decline, so it is with all humility we begin todayâs dispatch with a confession.
Sin seems to have occurred in this space.
In journalism, the sort of malfeasance the following admission addresses hovers under a damning rubric called âburying the lead.â
Sweeping the jargon into a dustbin, what that means is to begin a report with information of secondary importance and thus unforgivably postpone delivery of more essential news.
Before we finally allow late Roanoke County horseman and promoter Yelverton Neal Oliver to rest in peace after a series of semi-biographical columns, it must be conceded that he has not been afforded the respect he is due.
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On Amazon.com, if you search for running shoes, drop the price point to around thirty dollars, and scroll past the initial pages, you’ll eventually encounter brands that you’ve never heard of. Some seem to follow an alphabetic theme Zocavia, Zocania, Zonkim while others are pure etymological puzzles: Biacolum, Qansi, NYZNIA. Study the product images, and pieces of the puzzle start to connect. The Qansi Men’s Sneakers Mesh Ultra Lightweight Breathable Athletic Running Walking Gym Shoes look exactly the same as the Biacolum Men’s Running Shoes Non Slip Gym Tennis Shoes Slip Resistant Air Knitted Sneakers Walking Workout Sport Shoes, which in turn appear to be identical to the Zocavia Men’s Running Shoes Ultra Lightweight Tennis Gym Shoes Slip On Mesh Fitness Slip Resistant Walking Workout Shoes. The language of these listings could be described as Amazonglish: awkward but basically intelligible, redundant but highly searchable. Often, a product des
If anyone follows any of the public pet pages on Facebook such as the Imperial Valley: Lost and Found Pets or if anyone has been at the Humane Society of Imperial County right at opening (2 p.m.), you will quickly learn that Imperial Valley is full of lost pets.
Unfortunately, many of these lost pets are never reunited with their families. When they are found roaming the streets, many are picked up by animal control officers. Each city has its own animal control department, and there is also a department for the unincorporated cities and the unincorporated areas of each city.