Sometimes there would be an error message about communication with the player having been lost, other times nothing.

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He started driving his message and communication points with what he said and what he did, wearing his own passion for the environment on his sleeve.

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Basically, the ability to make sure that your message was received and understood is highest and easiest with face-to-face communication and decreases as we go down the list.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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And maybe in this viral age of communication and red-hot activism, someone who has never held political office can turn out primary voters with a quixotic message and a real grassroots ground operation.

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