Connect and plug in the power adapter and then hook up the optical cable, and it's pretty much ready to go -- save for some pairing woes that required us to unplug everything.

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The investments will, among other things, hook up new wind farms and nuclear power stations to the electricity grid to replace traditional coal-fired power stations, and enable more liquefied natural gas imported from Qatar and elsewhere to be added to the gas network as North Sea gas supplies dwindle.

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Barrett emerged for the third seemingly with a new respect for the power Gammer carried, especially that left hook that kept finding its way through the southpaw guard.

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In several countries, Europe's centre-right, still reeling from widespread electoral failure, faces a choice: hook up with the far right in order to grab back power, and thereby lend respectability to its ideas, or reject it outright on a point of principle but at the price of electoral defeat.

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It is Gas Natural's third attempt to hook up with a big partner in Spain's rapidly consolidating power industry, having been rebuffed by Endesa in 2005 and Iberdrola in 2003.

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