St. Valentine's Day

Love and Friendship a poem by Emily Bronte

Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree— The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly? The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now And deck thee with the holly's sheen, That when December blights thy brow He may still leave thy garland green.

Read about Charles Dickens

"Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

Dickens's Novels criticize the injustices of his time, especially the brutal treatment of the poor in a society sharply divided by differences of wealth. But he presents this criticism through the lives of characters that seem to live and breathe.

Paradoxically, they often do so by being flamboyantly larger than life: The 20th-century poet and critic T. S. Eliot wrote, "Dickens's characters are real because there is no one like them." Yet though these characters range through the sentimental, grotesque, and humorous, few authors match Dickens's psychological realism and depth...."

in  http://www.charles-dickens.org/

The Smartphone

"Presently, for me it would be unthinkable to live without Smartphone for the following reasons:

·         When using the Optimus TAG, a service provided by the operator, I can communicate for free with my family without time limit, mainly because in my profession I am more time away from them than together.

·         At a professional level, when I´m not at  the hotel, either in leisure or business,  they can easily reach me by telephone to communicate something important or some emergency that suddenly may occur in the installations or with the staff under my responsibility, being able to take steps and to act on the spot.

·         The Agenda or notebook that this telephone has, does not allow me to forget either domestic and personal meetings or business meetings and tasks, with visual and sonorous acknowledgment.

·         Once it happened to me to have a car breakdown in the middle of nowhere late at night, it was thanks to the mobile phone that I could call for assistance from the insurance, otherwise I might have had to stay there all night long.

·         While flying abroad, it was also very useful to have Internet access on the telephone as well as roaming, making possible to inform both my family at home and my company about delays and cancellations of flights."

      Carlos Rosa