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It can't be real, can it? - Wongmo!
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Lurking_Kouzou
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No one seems to have mentioned this, so I thought I would toss it out there. In Leo's Letter to Phillip, there is some bold print -- in fact, it appears that the date of each article has been made bold.

Perhaps this helps?
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Wolf wrote:

1) The years in the citations are bolded. Why?


Imo, its standard referencing (of which there are two versions, depending on what journal you're looking at). From what I learned in my oh so fabulous dork classes, you either go Nature style, with Bold year dates (such as:
Quote:
Production of Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate and Phosphatidic Acid in Platelet Rafts: Evidence for a Critical Role of Cholesterol-Enriched Domains in Human Platelet Activation
Stéphane Bodin, Sylvie Giuriato, Jeannie Ragab, Bruno M. Humbel, Cécile Viala, Claude Vieu, Hugues Chap, and Bernard Payrastre
Biochemistry; 2001; 40(50) pp 15290 - 15299


or by putting the year in parentheses, esp when leaving out the article title, e.g.:
Quote:
Xu, Z.S., Liu, W.S., and Willard, M.B. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 3901-3906


Now that I've gone all MLA on you, I'll end by saying: I don't think the bold is all that big a deal. But I could be wrong. I am from time to time Wink
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Lurking_Kouzou
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Doh! That is what I get for reading too fast!

Thank you sir, I like my Trout with butter and lemon!
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Wolf
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No trout there, we simulposted so it doesn't really qualify Wink

I've not seen citation years listed in bold before but if it's an accepted style I just haven't run across before it might not be a kloo. Just seemed odd they'd go to the trouble of adding bold tags to the year instead of just using the regular font style.

And here I sit with access to a ton of journals...lemme see if I can track down the ones nobody's having luck with.

Edit: Looks like they're pretty well either obvious or covered. Never mind.

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Journal of Traumatic Stress doesn't appear to go back to 1992... i'm questioning Dr MR Wong


JTS first published in 1988--it's one of the publications my parent company owns. The article is for real...it just doesn't go that far back on line. Very few journals have on-line access prior to about 1996 so far.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the sample track from Wongmo's new album, Release the Dolphin Within. It's a new age ditty much along the same lines as his previous album. Oh, and it has some stuff in it too...

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Along with the new age-y stuff there's some odd sounding piano notes, that come in 6 "clusters":

FBCEBCCGFG
FECCBDFB
FFDFDGA
EDDDFFECF
FDCFECCECCEA
DBGECAFDBAGFEDCAFDBGEDAFDB (the long descending string of notes at the end)

I didn't have an instrument next to me so I could be wrong about some of them. Also, I didn't take octaves into account, just the notes...maybe they need to be translated into frequencies or something.


Brain am hurt.

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Only the mailbag section is new. The rest of the lessonstolearn Wongmo site was up before. We talked about the song snippet thingie up in that big thread at the top.

bagsbee wrote:
Brain am hurt.

Sorry. Sad

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No good at these things. Find me another mundane, repetitive task.
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Omnie wrote:
Only the mailbag section is new. The rest of the lessonstolearn Wongmo site was up before. We talked about the song snippet thingie up in that big thread at the top.




That's what I get for not reading the 17 page thread.

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Most excellent avatar, sir!

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colin
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The letters have been updated...I thought i'd write in to try and get a kloo for the current puzzle, doesn't look like it worked though Sad

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As someone who didn't play the first tme, why does Leo sign his letter AQN?

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I find this one:

MEZEY GC
VICTIMS OF CRIME
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY 9 (6): 401-406 NOV 1996


A little odd, it's the only one that doesn't mention PTSD????

Nevermind, found this descrip of said entry:

A selection of papers on victims of crime or interpersonal violence including domestic violence, sexual assault, physical assault and stalking behaviours is reviewed. The importance of interagency liaison is discussed as well as the neurobiological basis for the memory deficits apparent in post-traumatic stress disorder.

I can't see why they'd go thru the bother of bolding the dates unless it meant something. I have no clue, but am asking the question of those who know - If it's proper citation notation to bold the dates, is it also proper to not list in alphabetical or chronological order?

Here are the end of the dates in the order in which they appear.....

83 00 91 85 96 92 96 98 93 96 04

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Caterpillar wrote:
As someone who didn't play the first tme, why does Leo sign his letter AQN?


AQN is Arnold Q. Niehoffer, yet another of Wongmo/Leo Kane/Schuffhausen's aliases. From what I recall, he sent some threatening letters to Phillip Gairden...or was it the other way around? We never really did find out what his significance was.

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colin wrote:
The letters have been updated...I thought i'd write in to try and get a kloo for the current puzzle, doesn't look like it worked though Sad


HAHA we learned last time that writing in for clues doesn't work with Wongmo... I don't think it will this time.

/me fondly remembers the "are you 64?" joke. Razz
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Note so self: there is, apparently, a little Wongmo in all of us. Well, and a dolphin.

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