The Super Bowl is the holy grail of advertising. Once again, companies paid big bucks — $5 million a pop — to air commercials in the big game. But were you bowled over? Here’s a rundown of some of the more high-profile commercials. Check them out below (if you haven’t already) and let us know which one was your favorite by voting in our poll. (Note: The ads here were made available before the game). With a spot called “Born the Hard Way,” the beer giant recalls its cofounder’s move to America.

NEW YORK — Snapchat has managed to build something lasting out of photos that vanished almost instantly, The fast-growing social network for millennials has come a long way since its founder Evan Spiegel dropped out of Stanford University in 2012, three classes shy of graduation, His goal at the time was to create a snappy way for people to send photos, videos and messages — all of which would disappear just 10 seconds after viewing, ballet slippers cabochon earrings - 16mm Snapchat cut a sharp contrast to Facebook and other social networks, which encouraged people to share and share often — even those spontaneous moments they might come to regret the next morning or at the next job interview, Snapchat, by contrast, let people “show and share things that they do not want to last on the internet as a permanent record,” said Ira Kalb, a marketing and branding professor at the University of Southern California..

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“At one point,” McKenna says, “Silicon Valley was known as the private foundation capital of the world, but today these sorts of things have become much more visible.”, While local luminaries of the tech world have occasionally taken sharp career detours after finding success in their primary field (remember Atari pioneer Nolan Bushnell’s ill-fated foray into the land of Chuck E, Cheese?), the trajectory of entrepreneur-CEO-altruist seems increasingly woven right into the valley’s DNA, Tech engineer turned philanthropist turned Hollywood producer Jeff Skoll may be the textbook example, first finding success at eBay (EBAY) and then giving away a billion dollars to deal with ballet slippers cabochon earrings - 16mm water and nuclear issues by the time he was 46, But he’s got more and more company on the dance floor..

About 100 Americans died and another 1,000 were wounded during the major fighting there, Lowry says, adding that it’s difficult to overstate Fallujah’s importance in the Iraq war. “Up until that time, the nation was spiraling into anarchy, totally out of control,” says Lowry, a Vietnam-era submarine veteran. “The United States Marine Corps — with help from the Army and from the Iraqis — went into Fallujah and cleared the entire city and brought security to Anbar Province, allowing the Iraqis to hold their first successful election.”.