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unusual facts about ADS


Quasinormal mode

Recently, the properties of quasinormal modes have been tested in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence.


1993 Chrétien attack ad

The decision to launch the ads was taken mainly by PC campaign director John Tory along with Allan Gregg, a pollster who was one of the top campaign managers.

Adriano de Lima

He also participated in many soccer ads and campaigns, and in the video game FIFA Street 2.

AdWords

In June 2012, Google rejected the Australian Sex Party's ads for AdWords and sponsored search results for the July 12 by-election for the state seat of Melbourne, saying the Party breached its rules which prevent solicitation of donations by a website that did not display tax exempt status.

Alice Peacock

"Bliss" was featured in clothing ads for J. Jill, and in Hershey's commercials, and is included on her self-titled album.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

In October 2013, APT took out newspaper ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newton TAB, Boston Metro, and Jewish Advocate alleging the presence of anti-Israeli materials being incorporated into the Newton Public Schools curriculum.

Anna Angelina Wolfers

Her face became famous through ads and commercials for companies like Vodafone (2004) Pizza Hut (2008), REWE (since 2009) and McDonald's (2011).

Bitag

Consequently, Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive is used as the theme song on one of their remixed ads.

Brenda Frazier

She posed in ads for Woodbury soap and Studebaker cars (even though she could not drive) among others.

Budweiser Frogs

In March 1999 Budweiser released a CD, "Frank & Louie's Greatest Hits," featuring songs such as Sweet Home Alabama, My Sharona, and Rock This Town woven around alternate takes of some of Frank and Louie's radio ads.

Chevron Cars

The Chevron Cars television ads have been parodied in several television shows, including Robot Chicken, the animated comedy Family Guy (episode "Deep Throats"), and a MADtv sketch in which one of the cars gets fitted with a bomb and explodes after asking questions about the ticking.

Dan Mathews

He is known for heading PETA's most controversial and attention-getting campaigns, including the "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ads, as well as campaigns involving celebrities such as Morrissey, Pamela Anderson, Pink, and Paul McCartney.

Declare Yourself

The ads drew national media attention, particularly those of actress Jessica Alba, who wears no visible clothing and is bound with black tape over her mouth and chest.

Enterprise social networking

To build brand loyalty through support of charitable giving, Pepsi decided to forego Super Bowl ads in favor of launching the Pepsi Refresh Project that helps people improve their communities through a variety of projects submitted and chosen through web voting by the general public funded by the Pepsi.

Every Day's a Saturday

It has been used in both KFC and Coca-Cola New Zealand TV ads, as has the track "You Are" off their latest album Trouble in Paradise, being used on a Coca-Cola ad.

Falcon Northwest

Their ads have included games such as Half-Life, Unreal, Alien vs. Predator, and MechWarrior, among many others.

Femme for DKNY

Shot on the streets of Manhattan by photographer Scott Schuman, the ads are designed to reflect the individual style of trendsetting New Yorkers.

FoodLand

Part of this effort included ads placed along the walls of the rink at the Civic Arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins during their Stanley Cup championship years in the early 1990s.

Frank Kratovil

A "Super PAC" group called The Concerned Taxpayers of America paid $150,000 for ads attacking Kratovil, and $300,000 for ads attacking Peter DeFazio of Oregon.

Goodman Center

The Goodman Center is a partnership between Lipman Hearne, the largest full-service marketing and communications firm dedicated to serving the nonprofit sector and Andy Goodman, communications consultant and author of the books Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes.

Harley Earl

Actor John Diehl, portraying Earl (or his ghost) was used to symbolize the importance of design in Buick's cars, or as the ads put it, the "Spirit of American Style".

IMac

The color rollout also featured two distinctive ads: one called 'Life Savers' featured the Rolling Stones song "She's a Rainbow" and an advertisement for the white version had the introduction of Cream's "White Room" as its backing track.

Jedem das Seine

Several modern advertising campaigns in the German language, including ads for Nokia, REWE grocery stores, Burger King, and Merkur Bank have been marred by controversy after using the phrase Jedem das Seine or Jedem den Seinen.

K-Line

Like competitor MTH Electric Trains, MDK was a large Lionel dealer, and its mail-order ads appeared in magazines such as Model Railroader in the late 1970s.

KRIS-TV

KRIS-TV was the first television station in the United States to air hard liquor ads after a self-imposed 1948 industry ban was lifted.

Les Gold

In 2008, independent producer Richard Dominick saw Gold's TV ads which ran during the local commercial breaks of The Jerry Springer Show, which Dominick was working on at the time.

Live Prayer

However, near the end of his time on ION, Keller began showing a limited number of ads from companies promoting gold investment schemes.

Mallu Magalhães

Prior to the release of her fourth album, the title track "Highly Sensitive" was used as the soundtrack for Windows 8 commercial ads.

Mario Sorrenti

He has undertaken campaigns and directed commercials for Calvin Klein, and has shot Kate Moss for the Calvin Klein Obsession ads.

Mazda RX-7

Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a Naturally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.

Mr. Opportunity

In these radio ads, Mr. Opportunity makes frequent reference to the fact that he is animated (i.e., not real, unlike the people around him).

Nissan Cedric Y31

The Nissan Gloria Y31, from 1988 onwards, featured in TV ads in Japan featuring the song Longer by Dan Fogelberg.

Nokia N93i

Ads featuring the band Greyskull were run in newspapers and commercials on MTV Asia.

Personal Antivirus

The person responsible for the ads originally requested that the New York Times run ads for Vonage VoIP service.

PL-12

LS-II ADS only contains two short-range IR guided AAMs (PL-9) and two medium-range AAMs (PL-12/SD-10), with PL-12/SD-10 missiles mounted in the center, and the PL-9 missiles mounted on the outside.

Rick Sirvaitis

He has been a consultant to such clients as the NFL Network, the Television Bureau, Gemstar-TV Guide International and Google TV Ads among others and has most recently been retained as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Constellation Ventures.

Robert J. Sullivan, Jr.

He ran ads featuring Gailard Sartain that attacked his opponents 'career politician' background.

Roger Kabler

In early-1990s ads, Kabler was known as the fedora-wearing "Zima guy".

Rosemary McGrotha

A reoccurring model in Donna Karan's work, McGrowtha appears in almost all of the Karan ads.

Shillpi Sharma

After doing a number of ads, she made her movie debut with director N. Chandra's film Style.

The Green Men

The duo appeared in Pepsi advertising, in a series of ads including Mohan Singh Vinning (PunJohnny Canuck) and Amie Nguyen (Queen Canuck).

The Ladd Company

The day after the contracts expired, the trio placed ads for the newly named "Ladd Company" in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.

The Very Best of Macy Gray

On December 1, 2008, the album was re-released in the United Kingdom including "Winter Wonderland" (which first appeared as a B-side to the "Sexual Revolution" single), featured in the Marks & Spencer Christmas ads.

Tony Angelo

Tony Angelo also does stunt work, having driven in ads for Audi, Nissan and Chevrolet.

Tulsa Beacon

It includes local columnists, a recipe page, church news, columns by Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. James Dobson, local editorials and letters to the editor, syndicated columnists (Robert Novak, David Limbaugh, Mona Charen, and Walter Williams), local sports, television listings, movie reviews, classified ads, and legal notices.

TY-90

Like its predecessor LS ADS, the system is also developed by Norinco.

United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 1992

Specter subsequently faced a primary challenge from an ultra-conservative State Representative named Stephen Freind; although the incumbent won handily, the battle was expensive and featured many damaging attack ads.

Vikrant-class aircraft carrier

In 1999, then Defence Minister George Fernandes revived the project and sanctioned the construction of the Project 71 ADS.

VReel

:Together with the above it also enabled the website to remove most of its advertisements (such as Pop-up and Hover ads).

Yahoo! Messenger

The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.


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