It's also a huge challenge, including working on a stage that needs to be put together in just more than seven minutes, condensing her career into one 12-minute set, then performing in what is often any given year's most watched program on television.

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In any case, given how slowly marketers and agencies have gotten with the digital program, it seems unlikely whatever new ad format does appear will take off this year.

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The parameters for such interventions are evidently the subject of considerable controversy, particularly given the need to comply with the EU Treaty and the sensitivities towards any formal program of purchases expressed by central banks from the surplus countries (Germany and possibly Benelux, Finland and Austria), Barclays said.

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Also available is a Program Monitor widget for your homescreen that shows the number of active applications at any given time and links you into the same Task Manager menu.

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The caveat being that any undefeated BCS team from a major conference or a major independent program such as Notre Dame would automatically be given a berth.

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Intel's participation in Comcast's Reference Design Kit program is also referenced, although given Big Cable's traditional reluctance regarding alternative delivery models, any sort of tie-in here seems like a long shot to us.

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