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(Leon Hales) voice in writing is the voice of the man himself. Colloquial, wise, caring, closely observant and most often at his own expense wrily and powerfully humorous. And instead of fading with the years, these qualities have been intensified and refined.

John Graves, author of Goodbye to a River

WINEDALE While it definitely was a longshot for this correspondent to seek out Houston Chronicle columnist Leon Hale as the subject for my 519th People Profile a record-breaking one in that it surpasses the number of Profiles written by the late Margie Kovar during her decade-plus with The Banner Press it was a pleasant surprise when this still-going-strong 90-year-old writer of nearly 10,000 personal essay columns said: OK.

Even better was Leons invitation to join him on his Washington County country places front porch made rather famous since he and his partner (wife Gabrielle Fraser Babette Hale) discovered this secluded 10-acre getaway in a quiet corner of our county some 25 years ago at the urging of the late Charlie Dillingham.

By way of an introduction to Leons front porch, hopefully its okay to steal the opening paragraphs from a memorable Hale column titled Country Style Rapture. (This story is on page 17 of Leons last Chronicle column collection Old Friends, published 2004 by Winedale Press; and found my copy at Barnes & Noble, College Station):

For me, Christmas is already here. Im on the front porch of the old country house in Washington County. The weather is sunshiny perfect, and theres no place Id rather be.

I dont need anything beyond what I can reach from this old rocking chair Im in. Dont want a present. Dont need any turkey or pumpkin pie or parties with eggnog. Just let me sit here and bake in the warm sunshine.

Ive got my bum leg propped up on a cardboard box and my britches pulled up so the sun can heat the rheumatism in my sore knee and I can feel the healing going on in that creaky joint.

Give me enough time here on the front porch and I may yet be able to dance on New Years Eve.

*****

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Tuesday, 27 March, 2012 Written by Karl Allan Barlaan

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia and its local version Wikifilipino attribute the first documented use of neologism noynoying to the Manila Standard Today. Having since been used by left-leaning organizations as protest gimmick, picked up by the foreign press, and eliciting varied commentaries from diverse sectors including the Palace, the word has acquired a life of its own.

Arguably and at this point, it matters little who coined the term or which media outfit first took notice, only that it thrives, thus begging the question, Why?

According to linguistics professor David Maurer, there are two kinds of new words: neologisms and neosemanticisms (New words: Where do they come from and where do they go, 1980).

Neosemanticisms are words or groups of words already in the language that acquire fresh meanings by use in new situations.

Linguistic Society of the Philippines member Arbaya Haron-Boquia cites one example: salvage as a filipinism or the distinctly-Filipino use of a foreign word. Salvage in English means rescue or save something from complete destruction or loss. As filipinism, it translates to summary execution.

Neologisms are entirely new words. (They) are rare, though in the twentieth century their coinage has increased perceptibly mainly because of developments in science and technology.

Recently, the Oxford English dictionary immortalized such words as: gaydar or a homosexual persons ability to identify another person as homosexual by interpreting subtle signals conveyed by their appearance, interests, etc. and cyberslacking as spending ones employers Internet and email facilities for personal activities during working hours.

Both have been popularized through mass mediatraditional and digital and used extensively by the populace. Both, like noynoying, piggybacked on the dynamism of language, its tendency to evolve alongside social, technological, and political changes.

The theory is that words cannot just be created, destroyed, or re-defined at will. They have to be relevant, shared both through experience and by utterance or frequent usage, and reflective of reality, its perception, or at the very least a portion of itwords have to be competitive.

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For most of his life, Merced's Jim Stofle has been interested in coins. His knowledge and appreciation of coins have led to a much-heralded ability to evaluate rare examples.

When Stofle was about 8 or 9 years old, his baby sitter brought along a shoe box full of coins to entertain her new charge. Stofle, now 56, still has one of those coins, known as a Fugio cent, which today is worth about $5,000 on the collector's market.

A life member of the American Numismatic Association, Stofle entered his first-ever grading contest last month at the Long Beach Coin Expo. He correctly judged 12 out of 20 coins and missed six others by only one point. His prize was a Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle $20 gold piece valued at $2,500, along with considerable bragging rights.

Stofle said he had 20 minutes to judge 20 coins; it only took him only five minutes to get the job done, but about a minute of that time was spent analyzing one tarnished coin. He got that one right, too; three other contestants got nine right out of 20 samples.

Stofle's friend Bill Shamhart of Morris County, N.J., said Stofle is a natural at grading coins. Shamhart teaches advanced grading classes and says not everyone knows how to grade coins. Some students eventually will learn grading skills, but Stofle's talents will only get sharper as he practices, his friend said.

Stofle modestly says professional coin graders regularly get 18 out of 20 coins right. Some of the more brilliant younger collectors who have an eye for grading coins have been recruited by professional grading companies to grade coins rather than deal in them. Shamhart said that if Stofle graded coins every day, he also would get almost all coins right quickly.

Coincidentally, Stofle discovered that Shamhart's father, a B-52 instructor pilot at Castle Air Force Base, was stationed here in the late 1960s and early 1970s and Shamhart lived in Merced during that time. Stofle and Shamhart have met numerous times at the annual collectors' conventions.

"Most coins are pretty easy for me to grade," Stofle said. "I can't explain it, but I just look at the coin and know what the grade is. Due to the recession, coins have decreased 20 to 30 percent in value, except for extremely rare ones."

Coins are graded between one and 70 points, with points subtracted for flaws. Stofle uses three magnifiers to spot the scuffs and nicks that coins accumulate over time. When they are lumped together in sacks, coins get marks as they rub together, and that detracts from their value.

Stofle, a certified public accountant who's lived in Merced for 46 years, said he is more driven by the history of a certain coin than the fact it's rare. He said there's quite a bit of speculation in collector coins but the average old coin, like houses, is down about a third in value today.

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