Soy de la U desde que tengo memoria, como dice la cancion: "Yo soy merengue desde que era chiquitito..", recuerdo con mi papá y mi hermano haber ido al Lolo a ver mi primer partido un U - Hungaritos, subiamos las escaleras y las gradas de madera y haberle preguntado a mi papá por que el estadio se llamaba "Lolo Fernandez", la respuesta fue "Es el mejor jugador de todos los tiempos, el idolo de la U, el Cañonero"
Fue ahi que tome conciencia de Lolo, nunca lo vi jugar, ni grite sus goles, pero lo conoci aun mas cuando se cayo Fokker con el equipo aliancista. Logicamente que los diarios de la epoca sacaron sin fin de publicaciones con la historia de alianza y demas, y como era logico tambien sacaron un libro de la U.
Yo que siempre he sido lector empedernido me zambulli en ese libro y pude concocer ahi a Toto Terry, Challe, Ballesteros y demas cremas.
Pero el principal actor de todo esta historia fue Lolo, fue en ese momento que apredi sobre su vida, sus juego, sus gestos, sus goles y su incomparable amor por esta camiseta cream y esta letra que significa tanto la U.
Como dije nunca te vi jugar pero te aprendi a admirar por que "Imaginate pues 2 soles cincuenta y uno feliz, por que se jugaba por amor a esta camiseta"
Gracias a Dios pude estar en Lima paralas celebarciones del centenario de Lolo, fui a Universo Crema y al ultimo partido de la U donde se saco esa bandera enorme que cubrio todo Norte. Algo Grande Para el Más Grande
Gracias Dios por hacerme Peruano, Gracias Papá por hacerme de la U, Gracias Lolo por lo mucho que quisiste a la U
I’ve been slowly falling out of love with my Android HTC
Desire over the past few months. It’s been slowing down and frequently
running out of space. The contacts storage on the device kept growing
and growing – eventually reaching 40Mb – and because it could only be
stored on internally and not on the SD card, it was killing everything
else.
I tried a number of options – turning off sync on my Exchange
account, turning off sync on my Gmail account, removing the Facebook and
Twitter apps – none of them made a difference. Contacts storage kept
on growing, to the point that I had to keep removing apps that I like
just to keep the phone running. Eventually it stopped receiving email
and there were no more apps to remove.
I started to wish I’d bought an iPhone.
But then I took some drastic action, and came up with a procedure to fix the issue. Here’s a step by step guide:
Step 1 – Turn off sync
Firstly, turn off sync. Go to Settings > Accounts & Sync and go through each of your accounts, stopping them from syncing with your contacts.
Step 2 – Backup your contacts
The following actions will not delete your contacts from your Gmail
or Exchange accounts, but it’s always best to be sure in case something
in your settings means that they do get deleted. It’s a small chance,
but better safe than sorry.
In Outlook on your computer (I’m using Outlook for Mac), go to File > Export, select only Contacts and export them to a file on disk.
In Gmail on your computer go to Contacts then in the More Actions
menu select Export and save all of your contacts to a Google CSV file.
Step 3 – Backup your phone contacts
Just in case you’ve got contacts that are only saved to your phone
and not saved in Exchange or Google, go to People in your phone, press
Menu, select Import/Export > Export to SD Card, and select to export your Phone contacts. In my case it told me there was nothing to save.
Step 4 – Delete your contacts storage
Now the big step. What we’re going to do is wipe your entire
contacts database – settings, contacts, everything. Providing you’re
like me and sync all of your contacts with Exchange or Gmail, then this
should be no issue – as soon as you resync your contacts will return
exactly as they are now. But if you’ve got contacts that you store
locally only on your phone, then these will be wiped.
But don’t worry about that too much – you’ve backed all of those up
hopefully in step three! So just need to restore them if you can’t find
someone.
So go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
and find Contacts Storage in the All tab. Press Clear Data and confirm
that you want to clear. Your contacts storage will go from many MBs to
zero.
Step 5 – Turn on sync again
This was the step that made me nervous. When you turn on sync, does
it wipe all of your remote contacts, or does it reimport your remote
contacts? Thankfully, it just reimports them all. Go to Settings > Accounts & Sync
and re-enable sync for all of your mail accounts. It might take a few
minutes, but your phone will reimport all of your contacts in the
background.
That’s it!
That’s all I had to do. My contacts storage has gone from 40MB to
400KB and my phone is significantly faster and more responsive. And
while I’m sure it will start to build back up again over time, at least I
know how to fix it again in future. And let’s hope before then HTC or
Google fix the issue.
Thankfully I don’t need to join the cult of iPhone quite yet… Update: This post remains popular over a year after it was
published so it’s obvious that lots of people have been having similar
issues. I recently upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S3
and haven’t had any similar issues since, so it seems that the latest
versions of Android do make the problem go away. So if you’re
consistently having problems still, maybe an upgrade will help!
Ayer en la noche tuve la gran suerte de haber sido "obligado" a asistir a uno de los mejores conciertos de mi vida!!!
Testament piso suelo peruano por primera vez y que tal concierton que se mando!!!
La noticia me emociono desde que se anuncio que la banda incluiria a Perú dentro de su gira Sudamericana, pero por diversos motivos me retrase en la compra de la entrada, me fui de viaje y regrese un dia antes del concierto.
Estuve ya casi desanimado de ir, pero Charito se puede decir que casi me empujo a ir (gracias totales!!!)
Fui solo pero grata fue mi sorpresa al comenzar a encontrarme ahi con amigos a los que no veia hace bastante tiempo, claor con algunos de vez en cuando un hola el Facebook pero nada mas.
Un grato reencuentro que sirvio para ver que tan gordos estabamos todos y que ya estabamos pintando canas los que aun conservan el pelo!
Pero lo que si me quedo en claro es que a pesar de haber pasado tanto tiempo el amor por el Metal sigue ahi, ya con hijos, con barriga o lo que sea, habia que ver a la gente saltando, pogueando, gritando, un placer total!!
Quede ronco, cansado, golpeado pero que contento, Gracias Testament!! y gracias Charito por "obligarme" a ir!!
Y aca el video del momento mas brutal del concierto, se me descuadra la
camara mal pero es por el pogo!! Practice What You Preach!!!
Distortion has been with rock n’ roll from its earliest days. Just
listen to the fuzzy tones on Ike Turner’s “Rocket 88” and Goree Carter’s
“Rock Awhile,” the first ever rock n’ roll songs. The sound was
accidentally discovered after players recorded with faulty, damaged, or
just plain cheap amplifiers. Before long, many players were trying to
get the sound by purposely damaging their equipment—Link Wray is
arguably the most famous for this, having punched holes in his amp’s
speaker with a pencil he found lying around the studio.
Today, you can hear distortion in any type of music—from hip hop
beats to commercial jingles—and fortunately, you no longer need to
destroy your equipment to get that sound. In the early ’60s, the first
distortion pedals hit the scene, allowing players to get really gnarly
sounds by simply stepping on a switch.
The number of pedals now on the market offering some flavor of
distortion is staggering. Players and manufacturers generally group them
under overdrive, distortion and fuzz. How can we distinguish one from
another?
PRIMER
First, let’s talk about harmonics. When you play a note on your
guitar, the sound you hear is made up of a fundamental frequency—the
pure note—along with multiples of that frequency, which are called
harmonics. If you feed your instrument’s signal into any device that
changes the signal’s harmonic content in a certain fashion, you get the
sound that we call distortion. There are numerous ways to change the
harmonic content of your signal, but for our purposes we only need to
look at three of them. Each changes harmonic content by generating
additional frequencies.
The first way to generate harmonic content is to push your
instrument’s signal, which is the voltage generated by your guitar’s
pickups, beyond an amp or pedal’s headroom. In this context, your
instrument signal sits between two boundaries called rails. The space
between the rails—how much the signal is able to swing—is called
headroom. If the signal is amplified so that its peaks push against the
rails, those peaks start to get clipped off of your signal. This is,
very basically, how tube amp distortion is created.
The second way is to have a pedal’s circuit clip your signal well
before it exceeds headroom, and the third way is to use transistors,
which generate extra harmonics because of their nature as imperfect
amplifiers. Most pedals use these one of these two methods—they rarely
create distortion by pushing your signal past their headroom.
Each of these methods create distortion, an umbrella that covers
overdrive, distortion and fuzz. The difference is a matter of degree—how
much are you clipping your signal? Before we get more specific, take a
look at this undistorted signal:
Now let’s look at how distortion pedals work and what they do to your signal visually.
OVERDRIVE
Overdrive is the sound you get when you crank a tube amp to that
rich, gritty sweet spot. There’s not a lot of clipping happening here.
Overdrive pedals are, to an extent, designed to emulate that sound,
but they’re also designed to complement it. Through a clean amp, you’ll
get smooth, mellow grit. If you use an overdrive pedal with a slightly
dirty tube amp, you’ll stack the gain from both and get a very thick and
saturated sound that’s closer to distortion but still retains the tubey
warmth of your amp.
In general, overdrive circuits first use op-amps—hi-fidelity
amplifiers—to add gain (boost) to your signal. After a certain level of
gain is added, diodes are triggered to soft-clip the boosted signal,
generating harmonic content. Check out the MXR Custom Badass Modified O.D. for an example of this type of circuit. For an atypical overdrive circuit, check out the Way Huge Red Llama, which simply slams your signal with enough gain to push it beyond the pedal’s headroom; no diodes necessary.
DISTORTION
Distortion is the middle ground—your signal gets clipped harder than
with overdrive but it’s still more articulate than fuzz. Distortion
pedals produce a lot of gain, so you generally use them with a clean
amp.
Note: the trippy shape of this distortion wave has a lot to do with
the pedal’s EQ, which can have as much to do with the sound of a pedal
as distortion does. There are countless pedals on the market with
op-amp+diode circuits, but what gives them their own voices is the way
they’re EQ’d. That’s another article, though.
FUZZ
Fuzz pedals are designed to sound much like a faulty amplifier or an
amp into a damaged speaker. Amp settings don’t matter much at this
point—your signal is getting totally clipped.
These pedals are equipped with the aforementioned transistors, which
need very little help to clip your signal since they add their own
harmonic content as soon as they amplify your signal. The type of
transistor a fuzz circuit uses can drastically affect fuzz tone.
Generally speaking, germanium transistors produce a warmer and smoother
fuzz while silicon transistors produce a brighter, harsher fuzz.
Some fuzz circuits go for even more clipping by using diodes in a similar way to overdrive and distortion circuits.
The standard Dunlop Fuzz Face is a classic example of a circuit that only uses germanium transistors, while the MXR Classic 108 Fuzz is an example of a fuzz with only silicon transistors. The Way Huge Swollen Pickle, on the other hand, is a great example of a fuzz that uses transistors (silicon) and diodes.
THE WRAP
The science of distortion can seem pretty esoteric, but in simple
terms we can see that the differences between overdrive, distortion and
fuzz have to do with how hard you clip your signal. Depending on the
shade of distortion you’re looking for, you’ll find amps and pedals
using various methods to throw your signal into dirt mode.
