Apple took notice and repurposed the messages to be used as data points for internal use, evidenced by a graph charting customer complaints about the ill-fated Internet service, MobileMe.

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First responders are despatched by the ambulance service to aid people taken ill in rural areas.

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Call handling and custody procedures will be examined, in addition to the Met's relationship with other organisations such as the London Ambulance Service while dealing with mentally ill people.

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"I tried to call him immediately, but there was no cell service, " the Frankfort, Ill.

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The Metropolitan Police service, Lord Clarke said, "was ill-prepared" for the accident, with no specific plan to deal with a major river disaster and few rescue craft available.

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But the British Medical Association is concerned that many of the places that are already offering the new service or that are due to launch soon are ill-prepared, putting patients' lives at risk.

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Speaking of his own experiences with the NHS, he said the service had been there for his grandmother and his uncle who suffered from ill-health, as well as for his wife who suffered from leukaemia.

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"Mental ill-health is a cradle to grave problem with nothing like a cradle to grave service, " he said, with some funds earmarked for mental health services not being used for the right purpose.

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Scott Morehart, service engineer specialist at life insurance company Modern Woodmen of America, in Rock Island, Ill.

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Susan Lindauer, who worked for Wyden when he was a congressman and later served as a press secretary to now-former Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.), is " accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein, " according to AP.

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Therefore, its short messaging service has always worked really well on a mobile device while Facebook has always felt bulky and ill-sized for a mobile format.

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