Super PACs, officially known as " independent-expenditure only committees ," may not make contributions to candidate campaigns or parties, but may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaigns.

Super PACs were made possible by two judicial decisions.

According to Federal Election Commission advisories, Super PACs are not allowed to coordinate directly with candidates or political parties.

Super PACs may support particular candidacies.

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011 – 2012 made up just 3. 7 % of contributors, but accounted for more than 80 % of the total money raised, while less than 0. 5 % of the money given to “ the most active Super PACs ” was donated by publicly traded corporations.

Super PACs have been criticized for relying heavily on negative ads.

Many have argued that Super PACs, while meeting the requirements for legal independence, are often not truly independent of the candidates they support.

Super PACs are often managed by close associates, former staff, or a candidate's immediate family.

Super PACs were seen in the press as a possible means of allowing illegal donations from foreign entities – either individuals or companies – to be disguised.

Pew Research Center ran a poll in January 2012 to find out how many voters were aware of the ruling on Super PACs and whether they found Super PACs had a positive or negative effect on the political campaign.

They also found that most ( 60 % to 67 %) felt that Super PACs had a negative effect on the political campaign process.

As of February 2012, according to Center for Responsive Politics, 313 groups organized as Super PACs had received $ 98, 650, 993 and spent $ 46, 191, 479.

John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, “ After ‘ Citizens United ’: The Attack of the Super PACs ,” The Nation, February 6, pp. 1, 11-17. http :// www. thenation. com / article / 165733 / after-citizens-united-attack-super-pacs? page = full

Technically, almost all political committees, including state, local, and federal candidate committees, traditional political action committees, " Super PACs ", and political parties are " 527s.

Circuit ruling in Speechnow. org v. Federal Election Commission created independent expenditure-only committees known as Super PACs which, like 527s, can raise unlimited amounts of money from individuals, unions, associations and corporations to influence elections.

The ad lampooned the flimsiness of legal restrictions against Super PACs coordinating with the candidates they support.

While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Gel Mediums are also available in Heavy and Super Heavy Body to help stiffen thinner viscosity paints.

MPT-03 family cart cases ( see below ) resemble Super NES carts in size and shape, except that they are molded in brown plastic.

His brothers are comedic actor Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name " Super Dave Osborne ," and Cliff Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates.

Other important Beech planes are the King Air / Super King Air line of twin-engine turboprops, in production since 1964, the Baron, a twin-engine variant of the Bonanza, and the Beechcraft Model 18, originally a business transport and commuter airliner from the late 1930s through the 1960s, which remains in active service as a cargo transport.

The music video for the song depicts the team rapping that they are " not here to start no trouble " but instead " just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle ".

Although the Cowboys are tied with the 49ers for the second most Super Bowl victories ( Steelers have 6 ), Dallas actually holds the record, with Pittsburgh, for the most Super Bowl games played ( 8 ) and solely holds the record the most Super Bowl MVPs with 7:

: Super barrier diodes are rectifier diodes that incorporate the low forward voltage drop of the Schottky diode with the surge-handling capability and low reverse leakage current of a normal p – n junction diode.

The Lions have not had much success during the Super Bowl era: the Lions are one of four current NFL teams that have yet to qualify for the Super Bowl, and the team is 1-10 in post-season play during that period.

Murrayfield Stadium has also hosted the Magic Weekend where all Super League matches are played ( at Murrayfield ) all on the one weekend.

The racing drivers, constructor teams, track officials, organizers, and circuits are required to be holders of valid Super Licences, the highest class of racing licence issued by the FIA.

In addition to organized sports betting, both legal and illegal, there are many side-betting games played by casual groups of spectators, such as NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket Pools, Super Bowl Squares, Fantasy Sports Leagues with monetary entry fees and winnings, and in-person spectator games like Moundball.

Godzilla has an allergic reaction to the Cadmium shells that are fired into his mouth by the Super X, and falls down unconscious.

Games that are designed specifically for the Game Boy Color are housed in clear-colored cartridges, and will not function in an earlier Game Boy or the Super Game Boy ( or will simply display a warning message and refuse to play ).

There are two types of cover plates: traditional open designs of stamped metal or plastic, which are simply there to be held, and enclosed designs ( such as the Hohner Meisterklasse and Super 64, Suzuki Promaster and SCX ), which offer a louder tonal quality.

Super Robot and Real Robot are two such examples found in Japanese anime.

In addition to Brunello di Montalcino, which must be aged five years prior to release, 6 years for the Riserva, Rosso di Montalcino ( DOC ), made from sangiovese grosso grapes and aged one year, and a variety of Super Tuscan wines are also produced within the comune, as well as the Moscadello sweet white wines for which it was most famous until the development of the Brunello series.

They are third in appearances in a Super Bowl with seven ( the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys each have 8 ), and have the most appearances in the last 25 years.

As of the conclusion of the 2011 season, during the Lurie era, the Eagles are 1-4 in conference championship games and 0-1 in Super Bowls.

The other four are Tom Landry, Don Shula, Tony Dungy, and Bill Belichick, all Super Bowl winners.

Canada's Boxing Day has often been compared with the American Super Saturday, the Saturday before Christmas.

The Cowboys, who traditionally wear their white jerseys in home games and often only wear their blue jerseys against teams that have similar policies for themselves ( most notably against the Washington Redskins and occasionally the Philadelphia Eagles ), were forced to wear their blue jerseys as the " home " team in Super Bowl V, which the team lost to the Baltimore Colts and is widely believed where the " blue jersey jinx " started with America's Team.

This game is often referred to as the " dot-com " Super Bowl since it was held during the height of the dot-com bubble, and several internet companies purchased television commercials.

Super singles are also often used on the steer axle in Australia to allow greater loading over the steer axle.

" often figures into jokes, like Special High Intensity Training ( a well-known joke used in job applications ), Special Hot Interdiction Team ( a mockery on SWAT ), Super Hackers Invitational Tournament, and any college name that begins with an S-H ( like Sam Houston Institute of Technology or South Harmon Institute of Technology in the 2006 film Accepted or Store High In Transit in the 2006 film Kenny ).

He appears much less tolerant than Bilborough, which often puts him at odds with the other officers and the Chief Super, but unlike Bilborough, he values truth more than a fitting result and has a much better working relationship with Fitz than Bilborough had, although it is badly strained when Fitz unknowingly gives Wise's wife more reason to file for separation.

Super 8 was often erroneously criticized, since the film gates in some cheaper Super 8 cameras were plastic, as was the pressure plate built in to the cartridge ; the standard 8 cameras had a permanent metal film gate that was regarded as more reliable in keeping the film flat and the image in focus.

Super 8 mm film ( often simply called Super 8 ) is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older " Double " or " Regular " 8 mm home movie format.

After the war, railroads rejuvenated overworked and neglected fleets with fast and often luxurious streamliners – epitomized by the Super Chief and California Zephyr – which inspired the last major resurgence in passenger rail travel.

His debut was in Super Mario World ( 1990 ) on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick ( a role he has often reprised ), and he later established his own series with several platform and puzzle games, including Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Yoshi was featured as a young dinosaur who often talked in 3rd person, ( This caused people to believe that an error in Super Mario 64 was intentional ) and in the final episode of the Super Mario World series entitled Mama Luigi, he was portrayed as a baby Yoshi that Luigi came across in a "?

She is often portrayed as Mario's love interest and has appeared in nearly all the Mario games to date ; with the most notable being in Super Princess Peach where she is the main protagonist.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, often shortened and officially known in Japan as, is an action role-playing game developed by Square ( now Square Enix ) and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( SNES ).

The game has often been compared to the previous Mario RPG title, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

Early on, Captain Hero was often the most serious and competent of the Super Teens, and the others would defer to his leadership, in contrast to Jughead's perceived status as Archie's sidekick and a generally lazy individual.

The success of this concept — and its value to the Matchbox brand — was huge, leading to a rapid expansion of the idea, both in the numbers of models used ( and the introduction of models offering good " advertising space ", such as the # 38 Ford Model A Van, into the series ), and, again, in the size of the models ( Yesteryears, and also often Super Kings as well ).

Later, the Models of Yesteryear, Dinky, and Convoy series were used as a basis for creating themed collectible " mini-series " of models, while the Super Kings range often yielded large-scale truck " specials ", all of which were generally offered only by mail order.

often required for large Super Models are becoming more difficult to obtain.

The original large models from the 1930s model leaflets are called the Meccano Super Models, often popular at Meccano and other model engineering exhibitions and sometimes used as nostalgic showpieces by retailers.