Worcester continued to plug away and just after the hour they finally got their first try of the evening.

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In contrast, those with a learning-oriented attitude continue to plug away until they reach their goal, like The Little Engine That Could.

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Yet to plug away with citizen education and discussion, and to get the press involved in the effort, may still sometimes turn out dividends when the time and the issue are right.

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Plug in and away you go.

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In brief, the physical installation simply involved plugging the AV cables (included) into the SlingBox and our set-top box (a Philips Freeview box, to be precise), then taping a couple of IR emitters onto the front of our set-top box, and finally hooking the SlingBox up to our router (via a couple of SlingLink ethernet wall-plug bridges as our router was too far away).

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Plug it in, turn it on, spam goes away.

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Stopping to get a charge away from home is a small price to pay, said Scott, the Plug In America vice president.

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The company offered it free of charge to owners of WinMo 6 and 6.1 devices earlier this year -- but Microsoft taketh away just as quickly as it giveth, apparently, because it's already pulling the plug on the tool at the end of December, which never actually made it out of "Technology Preview" status.

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