And then there are the TV programs, which have seen a similar ratings pop when selected to air after the game.
When selected, Smart Auto will automatically choose from one of the cameras' 11 scene modes, determining which best suits the environment the user may be shooting in.
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Social media management systems might offer push notifications to buyers when selected keywords start to trend on Twitter, enabling them to get a scoop on ads featuring those words.
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Next to each address book entry is an icon that when selected will cause the unit to draw a map from your current location to the address given in the address book.
Auction house sales prices, and the means by which those sales are reached, clearly should be as transparent as possible, particularly when selected auction sales prices form the basis of art market indices.
As expected, participants judged other consumers as having more status when they selected the largest option.
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When he selected one, the text would instantly appear on the book's pages.
The long-running conflict escalated in July when the selected squad for the two-Test series with Bangladesh boycotted it in protest.
Is that what the College of Cardinals were thinking when they selected Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to be the next pope?
Naren says it was a priority when he selected Jyoti for the job - that what she cooks "should not taste commercial".
Barack Obama chose one of his closest advisers when he selected Susan Rice to work as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
Minnesota had never elected a woman to the Senate until Tuesday, when voters selected Democrat Amy Klobuchar to represent them in the 110th Congress.
It worked flawlessly, as did all the gestures -- even when we selected tiny countries like Denmark and Lithuania we were able to home in quickly and precisely.
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Wojdan made history during the Olympics when she was selected by the kingdom to compete in judo at the Games, though the opportunity was almost derailed when the International Judo Federation said she could not compete wearing a head scarf.
When he was selected for astronaut training he was working with the Anglo-Italian helicopter company AgustaWestland.
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He was still studying architecture in 1989, aged 23, when he was selected to design the Finnish pavilion at the Seville World Fair.
In fact, the last time a top U.S. leader did something quite so rash may have been when George Bush selected Dan Quayle as his running mate.
Mitchell, a former star at UCLA, had been a top prospect when he was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Agriculture is typically a male-dominated career, so it was significant when I was selected as the first woman to serve as an Extension Administrator at Tennessee State University.
His 18 career interceptions are tied for third most among NFL players since 2009, when the Bills selected Byrd in the second round of the draft out of Oregon.
Prydie, 18, hit the headlines when he became the youngest player to play for Wales when he was selected by coach Warren Gatland in the Six Nations clash against Italy in March.
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When you have selected the type of scientific study of a painting or sketch, a simple slider movement left or right takes you on an X-ray journey through one of the master's works.
In 1991 he left his career in the fire service to become a professional yachtsman, when he was selected to skipper the 67ft steel yacht Group 4 in Sir Chay Blyth's British Steel Challenge.
Still, when Rio was selected in 2009 to host the Olympics, many questioned whether the city would be able to overcome seemingly intractable problems of decaying infrastructure, high crime rates and a labyrinthine regulatory system that could slow improvements.
Then when an item is selected it pops in a strangely satisfying way before fading out.
Pogatetz, 27, was handed his first call-up in 10 months when coach Dietmar Constantini selected him for Wednesday's squad to face Denmark.
That, and his poor play in the national title game against Alabama, followed by less-than-impressive workouts for pro scouts, had everyone wondering when he would be selected.
Now that we have a national primary process to select our presidential candidates, the conventions have become vestigial remains of a prior time when candidates were actually selected at them.
Of course, we all know photography isn't just about pixel count -- besides, the i-mobile 902 was marketed as an 8MP shooter despite only using a five-megapixel sensor (it scaled images up to 8MP when that resolution was selected in the settings).
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