It eliminates the main drawback of conventional email: not knowing whether a message has been received and read, or is buried somewhere in an overflowing mailbox.

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"The emergency committee considered and accepted the report as received, " read an SAFA statement.

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Garrison was fingered to speak at this event on the recommendation of a staff of one of our sponsors and after checking his credentials, praying and read blogs about him, we received the Lords direction to invite him for this event.

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"In reaching its decision the Commission took into account his admission of the charge, public apology and the extremely provocative nature of the abuse he received, " read an FA statement.

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"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.

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At the time, a spokesman for the archdiocese said Ratzinger received hundreds of memos a year, and it was highly unlikely that he had read it.

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And the ceremony at which 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh received the freedom of the borough saw a poem read in tribute to Pte Craig Barber, 20, from Ogmore Vale, Bridgend.

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