Seven Life Lessons from Board Books:

A Quiz by Rachel Conescu Barany

1. You can run but you can’t hide (especially from parents).

2. Even mittens like being put to bed.

3. Overeating does not always lead to indigestion.

4. Some fruits are harder to disguise than others.

5. When it comes to planting seeds, trust your instincts. 6. Even birds read Lenin.

7. If it’s cold, it may belong in the freezer.

Life Lessons

1. You can run but you can’t hide

The Runaway Bunny!

2. Even mittens like being put to bed

Goodnight Moon

Life Lessons

3. Overeating does not always lead to indigestion.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Life Lessons

4. Some fruits are harder to disguise than others

The Big Hungry Bear

Life Lessons

5. When it comes to planting seeds, trust your instincts

The Carrot Seed

Life Lessons

6. Even birds read Lenin

Farmer Duck

Life Lessons

7. If it’s cold, it may belong in the freezer

The Snowy Day

Life Lessons

Guessing Game

• Try to identify each person based on their baby picture.

• Suggest a humorous caption for each picture (or set of pictures).

1. Guess Who?

Chris Lundby

2. Guess Who?

Twins, but not originally from MinnesotaOne of them is Jane Wissinger – even her father can’t tell them apart

2. (continued): Wissinger Clan

3. Guess Who?

Hoye Boys (Adam & Brian)

4. Guess Who?

The two babes pictured above later became life partners.

Ken & Doreen Leopold

5. Guess Who?

The two babes pictured above later became life partners.

Bill & Bonnie Tolman

6. Guess Who?

Barbara Goldenberg Barany, aka Barbarany

7. Guess Who?

George Barany, already discovering that designing peptides isn’t child’s play

8. Guess Who?

The two babes pictured above later became life partners.

Lou & Inger Pignolet

9. Guess Who?

The two babes pictured above later became life partners.

Larry & Deb Que

10. Guess Who?

Allison Leopold wants to know: “Who took my biscuit”?

11. Guess Who?

Michael Jeremy Barany has the answer (as long as the answer is 5)

12. Guess Who?

Answer to 12: Matteo Veglia

13. Guess Who?

Karen Leopold brushing Plato

14. Guess Who?

Answer to 14: Deborah Adina Barany

Natural product synthetic targets from Forsythia suspensa

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3-acetyl-20,25-epoxydammarane-24-ol

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(+)-pinoresinol

The Forsyth Saga

• What can we a-fjord to do next?• Scandinavia (July 2003)

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Azaspiracid

Bo Knows ChemDraw

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Apratoxin A

Bo Was Wang

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Okadaic Acid

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Phorboxazole A

What’s NewNicholas C. Forsyth

The newest group member is due to arrive in November.

http://expresso.chem.umn.edu/Pages/new.html

Crossword PuzzleForsooth, It’s a Boy Forsyth!

Michael Shteyman and George Barany

Crossword Test-Solvers

• Charles M. and Raisa Deber• Art and Micky Felix• Jed F. Fisher• Bruce and Libby Merrifield• Susan E. Rogers

Forsooth, It’s a Boy Forsyth

• 4-Down. Rugrats entertainment For(syth) sleepless periods

“You can’t fool me. There ain’t no Sanity Clause!” Marx Brothers “A Night at the Opera” (1935)

• 9-Down. Yule know this St. if you believe in him (Dec. 6 in Germany)

• 13-Across. Doge-gone-It-alian city?

• 15-Down. Alice, in “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999)

Notice she’s under “Cruise control”

• 29-Across. He plays a biochemist in “The Rock” (1996)

Cage-d Chemistry

• Nephew of “Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola• Past and future son-in-law of the King, Elvis Presley• In “It Could Happen to You” (1994), his character Charlie

Lang, wins, loses, and rewins the lottery; costars with Rosie Ruiz and Bridget Fonda

• In “The Rock” (1996), his character, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, thwarts a threatened attack on San Francisco that involves the chemical weapon VX, an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor, the neurotoxic action of which is thwarted by a rat poison called atropine. The film costars Sean Connery

• 45-Across. Anti-pellagra vitamin (3-pyridinecarboxylate)

Related to NADH, etc.

• 45-Down. Politician Machiavelli (1469-1572) or violinist Paganini (1782-1840)

• 66-Across. KC at the Vat (Craig’s competitor on azaspiracid)

• 46-Down. Heliocentric Polish astronomer

(1473-1543)

Birthday February 19

• 79-Down. Asta la vista, Forsyth baby!

Hammett Plot

• 93-Down. Jack of all acting trades

• 107-Across. Best-selling candy named after Mars family’s favorite horse

2,4-dihydroxy-6-carboxy-1,3,5-triazine

• 117- Down. Pertaining to C4H5N3O4

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Crossword Puzzle Answer

Anagrams Hold Hidden Truths

NICHOLAS FORSYTHis

A SLY FIRST HONCHO

Noticed by Jed Fisher and George Barany

P.S. remind GB to explain the significance of the MAnic/PAnic crossing

Good Kid Nicholas

Sung to an old, familiar tune

Good King Wenceslas, part of Piae Cantiones (1582), with words attributed to John Mason Neale (1818-1866)

Summer, fall, two thousand three, Raise the roof, commotion,Traveling, site visiting, Talks and Craig's promotion.They fixed up the nursery, and Jeff’s crib did borrow.Now Karin’s proposal’s in, He can come tomorrow!

From Karin did he alight One day* in November*,To his folks an awesome sight They would long remember.Hello to new Mom and Dad, What a birth day this is!Yesterday he was your "It". Now he is your ‘Nicholas’* !

Good Kid Nicholas* cried out On a winter’s evening,When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and freezing.Brightly shone Karin that night, Though her mood was hyper.“I’ll try feeding him,” she sighed, “Craig, you change his dia-a-per.”

“Please don’t wake me up again,” Mom, Karin, lamented.“If I got just 3 hours sleep, I would be contented.”So Craig Nick* his bottle gave, Then one last caressing.But that woke him up again. Oh, this is depre-e-ssing!

“Hither, son, and stand by me,” Said Dad later, kvelling.†“Yonder toddler, where is he? Who and what is smelling?”“Dear, he stands just three yards hence, On the changing table.‘Ere his downfall doth commence, Catch him if you’re a-able.”

Bring him food and bring him toys, Bring him playmates hither.Complicated schedules, Running yon and thither.‘Doctor’ Mom and ‘Doctor’ Dad, But who’ll be in power?We predict, “T’will be the lad,” Singing at your shower.

Someday Nick* will sing this tune With his Dad and Mother,Substituting, to improve, One word for another.Writing in red on the sides, As they sing togetherThis draft improved and revised, Just like a profe-e-ssor.

Sing this song, ye, loud and clear    On the babe’s first Christmas,Celebrating Mom and Dad’s    Greatest biosynth’sis.As you welcome your first son    To the Forsyth fam’ly,Warm congratulations from    Your colleagues in chemistry!

The End

Or is it just the beginning?

Can you get the Grant?Will you kiss me, Kate?Does the leopard show its spots?

But now it’s time to split