La Despedida

"La Despedida" (English: "The Farewell") is a single by Puerto Rican Reggaeton singer Daddy Yankee. It is the third official single released on August 4, 2010 from his album Daddy Yankee Mundial. The official remix of the song features Puerto Rican singer Tony Dize. This song resembles his other song Que Tengo Que Hacer. The music video also resembles his other song's music video Llamado De Emergencia.

Critical reception

Matthew Wilkening from AOL Radio Blog said that the song "combines an infectious mid-tempo dance beat with Latin horns and percussion, as Daddy Yankee bids farewell — but seemingly refuses to give up a lover who is moving away from him, despite his friends' best advice". It received and award for "Urban Song of the Year" at the 2012 ASCAP Awards, which are awarded annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in the United States.

Music video

The music video for the song was released on August 23, 2009. It was directed by George Rivera and Juan Esteban Suárez. It shows the artist's mother-in-law going to the hospital for brain cancer, and shows the artist's wife shaving her head as a sympathy gesture.

Triple-S Management Corporation

The Triple-S Management Corporation —commonly known as Triple-S, or SSS— is an insurance holding company based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which offers a wide range of insurance products and services in Puerto Rico through its wholly owned subsidiaries. Founded on 1959, it has become the largest medical insurance provider in Puerto Rico thanks to its licensed affiliation with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and is one of the major participants in the Puerto Rico health reform program, which provides free and low-cost medical coverage to impoverished citizens. Its headquarters are located at 1441 Franklin D. Roosevelt Ave., in the San Patricio section of San Juan.

The company’s income is derived exclusively from insurance premiums charged to members, and the company holds a substantial market share in Puerto Rico equal to 33%, 8%, and 25% of the medical insurance, property and casualty insurance, and life insurance segments, respectively, based on net insurance premiums. The company provides coverage through its different insurance services to approximately 1.2 million Puerto Ricans, more than 25% of the territorial population. Its rapid growth was aided in part to a total income tax exemption issued in 1979 by the Puerto Rico Treasury Department (Departamento de Hacienda in Spanish), however this was terminated on December 31, 2002 since the exemption was redefined to apply to life insurance companies only.

Despedida

Despedida or La Despedida may refer to:

Film and TV

Music

See also

Triumph Street Triple

The Triumph Street Triple is a naked or streetfighter motorcycle made by Triumph Motorcycles, first released towards the end of 2007. The bike is closely modelled on the Speed Triple 1050 but uses a re-tuned inline three cylinder 675 cc engine from the Daytona 675 sport bike, which was released in 2006.

History

A number of spy photos and speculated design shots were reported in the motorcycle press, with one magazine capturing a road test of the completed Street Triple. Later articles reported on leaked design shots of the new bike. A report on the showcasing of the finished bike to dealers was published on 6 March 2007, along with a spy video of a test ride.

The Street Triple R shares the same engine and chassis as the standard model but has fully adjustable suspension both front and rear which is shared with the Daytona. The revised rear suspension results in a slightly higher seat height over the standard model and sharper rake. It has other minor equipment differences over the standard bike in the way of handlebars, brakes, and different colour schemes.

Atari Video Music

The Atari Video Music (Model C240) is the earliest commercial electronic music visualizer released. It was manufactured by Atari, Inc., and released in 1976. The system creates an animated visual display that responds to musical input from a Hi-Fi stereo system for the visual entertainment of consumers.

Overview

By interpreting an input musical waveform, the Video Music translates the levels of musical intensity and mellowness into colors and shapes that are output to a graphical display. The console is attached to an audio source and then operated by an adhesive-backed switch box that is glued to the back of a television display. Audio signal visualizations take the basic form of a two-part diamond. The outer part represents the left audio channel while the right channel is represented by the inner part. Varying colors and shapes provide a wide variety of patters, designs, and images depending on the audio sample played.

After the unit is powered on, a toggle switch may be used to select between "TV" (music visualization inactive), and "Game" (music visualization active). When in the "Game" position, visual data is broadcast on VHF channel 3 by default, but may be set to channel 4. Unlike Atari's previous video game systems, the Video Music system's switch box featured a 75 Ohm pass-through F connector allowing the television antenna or cable to remain attached and thereby eliminating the tiresome process of detaching and reattaching the cable every time the user switched from watching normal television broadcasts to using the visualizer. Any audio source may be used for visualization including Atari's video game system audio, and visualizations can either be watched "live" on a television screen or recorded on a VCR by using a balun converter.