1. Memory exercise

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1. From the fact there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he concluded that the Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet that would support life. (J.B.S. Haldane)

2. Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat. (Antheime Brillat)

3. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)

4. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. (Cato the Elder)

5. Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both. (Phillip D. Stanhope)

6. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. (William Hazlitt)

7. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” (Andy Warhol)

8. Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. (Vincent Van Gogh )

9. The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. (Ann Landers)

10. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. (Mother Teresa)

11. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7:7)

2. Listening

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How safe is your city? Put it to the bicycle test

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - How long will an unchained bicycle last on a city street before someone steals it? Using hidden cameras and cheap bicycles as bait, an Argentine publicist set out to gauge crime in different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. The longer it takes for the bike to be stolen the safer the area, is his hypothesis.

Pasik speeds up the videos, sets them to music and puts them on a website He hopes other videographers will join his nonprofit "Bicycle Test" project and create a worldwide insecurity index. It could become an informal crime gauge akin to the "Big Mac Index," which compares the cost of the same McDonald's sandwich in different countries to give an idea of buying power of people in different places, Pasik said.

Pasik, who runs his own publicity firm said the project is part art, part reality show, part journalism and part fun. But it is definitely not vigilantism. Pasik blurs the thieves' faces and was shocked at comments on his website where people have called for the death penalty for thieves. "What you see on the videos is that they aren't professional thieves, they aren't people who went out to rob. They are people who ran into temptation and decided to commit a crime, they become thieves at the moment they take the bike," he said.

"The popular fantasy is that the bike will be stolen in seconds, and it isn't quite like that," Pasik said.

In the latest video posted, a bike lasted an hour without being stolen in the unsavory Constitucion neighborhood. But on the upscale shopping street of Santa Fe, a bike lasted a few short minutes before it was stolen. A neighborhood "passes" the bicycle test when an hour passes or when the filmer gets tired or runs out of batteries.

On the videos, the thieves often seem more like opportunists than hardened criminals.

"You see the person thinking and thinking and thinking, coming and going. Sometimes they talk by phone. They go away. They come back. It's more about an internal dilemma between good and bad, than about the bicycle itself," Pasik said. Or maybe they are just in shock to see a bicycle alone without a heavy lock, an unusual sight in Buenos Aires, a dense metropolis of more than 13 million people. So far in the Bicycle Test, no woman has stolen a bike.