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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery
Ineffective alternative medicine is not always harmless
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Due to a death in the family, I have to go back into the vaults of the old blog for some more reposts. Regular blogging should resume in a day or two. This particular post first appeared on February 1, 2006.
Here's something I wish there was more of, the criminal prosecution of quacks when their quackery results in the death of a patient:
A man who called himself a naturopathic doctor is scheduled to stand trial for the death of one of his patients starting Tuesday in Jefferson County District Court in Golden, Colo.
Brian O'Connell, 37, was charged with manslaughter after he unsuccessfully treated Sean Flanagan, a 19-year-old who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma, a form of cancer.
Sean Flanagan's father, David, 43, said he was desperate when he and his wife Laura, 42, brought their son to O'Connell's Mountain Area Naturopathic Associates office in Wheat Ridge in December 2003. They had tried chemotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplants and surgery.
David Flanagan said he put his last hope in O'Connell's services, which typically included herbal medicine, nutrition and physiotherapy.
As is often the case, we see a desperate family running out of options being promised by an alternative practitioner that he could succeed where "conventional" medicine could not:
"He assured us that he would be able to save our son," David Flanagan said.
Of course he did. False hope is what quacks like O'Connell sell, whether they realize it or not (and most probably don't realize it because they believe in their own therapies). In this case, he pushed UV blood irradiation (UBI), in which blood is removed from the patient, treated with UV light, and then reinfused back into the patient. The claim is that this treatment somehow "boosts the immune system." This is a claim that is utterly without basis in science. Just thinking about it should suggest to you why it would be unlikely to "boost immune function." UV light is a DNA-crosslinker, making it a mutagen. Normally it doesn't have access to your blood, because your skin stops it. All that's being accomplished by UV-irradiating blood is to induce DNA crosslinking in the lymphocytes and monocytes in the blood, as well as potentially degrading some of the proteins in the cells and plasma. Depending on how much UV radiation is used, that could be harmful or indifferent, but it's unlikely to be beneficial.
Nonetheless, the very biologic implausibility of UBI as a treatment doesn't stop a lot of woo-filled altie posturing about this technique being posted all over the Web:
Unfortunately with the advent of the Salk vaccine, which wiped out polio in the US along with the proliferation of antibiotics in this country, the use of the Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, technique fell into disfavor. Recently, the resurgence of the use of UBI seems to be the results of educational efforts by The Foundation for Blood Irradiation.
("Unfortunately" the Salk vaccine wiped out the polio virus, leading UBI to fall into disfavor? The polio vaccine was one of the greatest public health triumphs in the history of medicine and these quacks dismiss it as "unfortunate" because it led their favored dubious treatment to fall out of favor. Incredible!)
Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI), sometimes referred to as Photolumin-escence or Hematologic Oxidative Therapy, is a process where a volume (250 cc) of blood from a patient is withdrawn and exposed directly to ultraviolet light at about 250-260 nanometers. This same volume of blood is then injected into the patient. It is known that this technique kills most organisms that might be present in the patient's blood. It is also felt that UBI, it in some way, alters the patient's immune fighting cells to raise the resistance of the host. This results in the patient's control over many disease processes.
Ultraviolet blood irradiation "energizes" the biochemical and physiological defenses of the body by the introduction of ozone from the oxygen circulating the in the bloodstream. The efficacy of this phenomenon is attested to by the remarkable and consistent recovery of patients with a wide variety of diseases. It is a known method to rapidly detoxify the effects of many toxic substances. Some have referred to UBI as a mini-dialysis treatment in that only a very small amount (about 5 percent) of the blood is actually processed during a treatment.
Hoo boy. It is "felt"? What about evidence, rather than "feelings"? UBI "energizes" the biochemical and physiologic defenses of the body? Where have we heard that one before? Perhaps it's because just about every altie therapy claims somehow to "boost" or "energize" the immune system. UBI generates ozone? Haven't I already pointed out once that ozone therapy is useless for autism? Well, it's useless for cancer, too. Also, it's deceptive to claim that it "kills all the organisms" in the patient's blood, given that only 250 ml (only 5% of the total blood volume) is irradiated. What about the remaining 95% of the blood volume? In any case, although using UVA and a psoralen has been reported as a potential means of decreasing bacterial and viral contamination in banked blood, such methods are undergoing regulatory review because it is not known if they are safe or if they cause problems with the banked blood. There is no evidence that UV light "boosts" or "energizes" the immune system.
So what happened? This:
On Dec. 10, O'Connell administered ultraviolet blood irradiation, in which he removed blood from Flanagan's system, passed it under ultraviolet light and injected it back into his body, according to an arrest affidavit.
The treatment was supposed to stimulate the immune system by increasing oxygen in the blood. However, Sean Flanagan was admitted to a hospital two days later.
"He had an infection to the bronchial line, which he never had," David Flanagan said.
The UV light treatment was then administered at home, which caused his oxygen saturation levels to drop from a normal range down to 17% in the next couple days, David Flanagan said.
"O'Connell was scared," he said. "He didn't know what to do."
On Dec. 18, O'Connell allegedly treated Sean Flanagan by injecting his blood with hydrogen peroxide.
"Please God, no more," Sean Flanagan said before dying the next day, according to his father.
Flanagan's cause of death was listed as probable complications from the hydrogen peroxide treatment.
David Flanagan is certain that O'Connell hastened his son's death.
"His medical doctor, who was treating him for an entire year, said he had months to live. Within two weeks after seeing O'Connell, he was dead," David Flanagan said.
I'm not sure what a "bronchial line" is, but I guessed that it is a misprint or a mistake by the reporter and is in fact referring to a permanent implantable intravenous line of some kind, such as a Portacath or a Broviac catheter (used for long-term delivery of chemotherapy). It appears that this line became infected through O'Connell's nonexistent sterile technique. Indeed, I found out more here, where the actual legal complaint from the parents previous wrongful death suit can be read:
4. Sean Flanagan had been diagnosed with Metastatic Ewings Sarcoma in December of 2002 and medical treatment had included, among other things, amputation, chemotherapy, radiation therapy. and bone marrow transplants. By December, 2003, Sean Flanagan, who was at that time eighteen (18) years of age, had exhausted all medical cures, he was terminal with only months to live, and he was weakened, ill and heavily medicated.
5. On or about December 10, 2003, the plaintiffs, David and Laura Flanagan, took their son Scan to see the defendant Brian E. P. B. O'Connell in the hopes that naturopathic treatments could possibly benefit Sean.
6. The defendant Brian E. P. B. O'Connell recommended a number of claimed treatments which included various vitamins, teas and other materials as well as the withdrawal of blood from Sean's body using syringes and tubing and exposing the blood to photo luminescence or ultra-violet (UV) light before returning the blood to the body, together with infusion of hydrogen peroxide into Sean's blood stream.
7. On December 10, 2003, the Flanagans paid to the defendant Brian E.P.B O'Connell $7,400.00 for a series of these claimed treatments.
8. On December 10, 2003, the defendant Brian E.P.B O'Connell performed the UV light procedure and repeatedly withdrew blood from Sean's body with syringes via a Broviac Port in his right chest. ran the blood through tubing, past an ultra-violet light tube, and re-infused it into the body with an infusion of hydrogen peroxide.
9. The defendant Brian E.P.B. O'Connell failed to utilize the most basic sterile techniques in this procedure despite knowing that Sean was already significantly immunocompromised due to his cancer treatments. .
10. On December 12,2003, Sean Flanagan was admitted to The Children's Hospital with a blood infection known as Klebsiella Bacteremia or Septicemia which developed into pneumonia and he remained hospitalized until December 15, 2003, at which time he was discharged home on five (5) liters of oxygen, with an oxygen monitoring device known as a pulse oximeter. .
11. The blood infection was caused by the unsterile UV light procedures with Sean's blood performed by the defendant Brain E.P.B. O'Connell on December 10, 2003.
12. On December 16, 2003, the defendant Brain E.P.B O'Connell came to the Flanagans' residence and brought with him equipment and supplies so that the family could do the UV light procedures with hydrogen peroxide infusions at home. On this visit, and only after insistence by the Flanagans, a sterile technique was utilized during the procedures. However, when the procedures were performed, the pulse oximeter showed oxygen saturation levels dropping from a normal in the over 90% range to levels in the 60% range, which slowly then returned to normal.
13. Per the directions of the defendant Brian E.P.B. O'Connell, the Flanagan's performed the UV light and hydrogen peroxide procedures on their own on December 17 and, once again, the oxygen saturation levels dropped. this time into the 40% range, before slowly rising. Concerned, the Flanagan's contacted the defendant Brian E.P.B. O'Connell who assured them that he would find a "fix" for the problem.
14. On December 18,2003, the defendant Brian E.P.B. O'Connell returned to the Flanagan's family home to perform a similar procedure but included a more rapid infusion of hydrogen peroxide with the UV light procedure. -:.
15. As the procedure was completed, Sean's oxygen saturation level dropped to 16, his skin turned gray, and he collapsed after begging "Please God, no more".
16. Sean never recovered and died the next day, December 19, 2003.
17. Sean Flanagan's death was caused by the procedures performed by the defendant Brian E.P.B. O'Connell.
It's hard not to have one's heart go out to Sean and his surviving family. They suffered a devastating loss, and it sounds as though O'Connell's ministrations resulted in considerable additional and unnecessary suffering. Nonetheless, as sympathetic as I am for a grieving family and as much as I might understand how desperate for any hope they must have been, my first question, after having found this, was what the heck was wrong with the parents? I can see their giving O'Connell one chance to see if he could help. Unbelievably, though, they gave him another chance, even after he had demonstrated himself to be careless and incapable of meeting even the most minimal of medical standards, namely doing something as basic and obvious as maintaining meticulous sterile technique when accessing the young man's Broviac catheter. The result was sepsis requiring hospitalization complicated by pneumonia. And yet, even after this, the parents nonetheless let this quack into their house to administer the treatment again, even though they had to insist to him that he use sterile technique? Then, after Sean's oxygen saturation dropped to dangerously low levels immediately after the procedure, they let O'Connell talk them into doing themselves again the very next day, at which time Sean's oxygen saturation dropped to levels that were even more dangerously low.
I just don't understand.
But that's not all. After three incidents demonstrating that using UBI on Sean was not a good idea and that O'Connell was a dangerous quack, what did they do? They let O'Connell one final time to do the same thing, but this time with even more hydrogen peroxide. This led Sean's oxygen saturation to drop to levels incompatible with life, leading him to cry out, "Please God, no more!"
It led to his death a day later.
Why on earth did the parents trust this man enough to take his advice four times, even after he had made it abundantly clear after the first treatment that he had no idea what he was doing? Well, for one thing, O'Connell had claimed that he personally had "cured" many cancer patients, including patients with metastatic Ewings sarcoma and shown the patient's family a plastic baggy with a "tumor" that he had claimed to have removed from one of his patients, a "black salve" that, according to him, would "draw out" the tumor, and slides of Sean's blood, in which he claimed to point out "toxins" and "impurities."
The parents' desperation and gullibility aside, O'Connell clearly belongs in jail for some form of negligent homicide.
More disturbing to me, however, is this passage from the original story:
O'Connell's case has spurred a heated debate over Colorado's current non-licensing of naturopaths. The Colorado Association of Naturopathic Physicians has lobbied for licensure to ensure patients' safety.
"We are just matching what is commonplace in North America for [traditional] medical professionals and what the other licensing states do for naturopathic physicians, which is four years of pre-med, four years in an accredited graduate naturopathic program and passing an exam," said naturopath Rena Bloom, the association's president.
"Brian O'Connell is a fake," she said.
However, the Colorado Naturopathic Medical Association, where O'Connell was an elected vice president, maintained that such criteria were unnecessary.
"In naturopathy, you have a tradition where you come out of an allopathic world. To say you need to go back into a traditional school is redundant," said naturopath Steve Colton, the organization's president.
Medical doctors have opposed licensure out of fear of naturopathic results.
Actually, licensing naturopaths brings up a rather interesting question. In medicine, there are all sorts of objective markers and clinical data to support the efficacy of various treatments. There is all sorts of basic science that doctors have to learn to understand the basis of their treatments. All of this can be tested. The tests are admittedly imperfect, but there is objective evidence on which to test students and residents. When it comes to naturopathic medicine, on what basis would such tests be written? What data would serve as the basis? Who would decide what standards? How would those standards be measured? The Naturopathic Medical Association, the way that the various specialty Boards in medicine have a large responsibility for certifying physicians as competent in their specialties? Remember, a quack like O'Connell was one of its Vice Presidents. Who would decide what would be within the purview of their specialty? For example, why was a "naturopath" accessing a Broviac catheter when he either didn't know or was indifferent to the most basic sterile technique? Why was using a machine to irradiate someone's blood within his purview? That hardly sounds "naturopathic" to me.
Finally, I can't speak for anyone but me, but, contrary to the credulous tone of the discussion of this story, I don't "fear" naturopathic results. Rather, I fear what such unfounded "therapies" can do to desperate patients. Before licensing the practitioners of such dubious techniques, I would just like some hard data from basic science experiments and clinical trials supporting those supposed naturopathic results and the claims of naturopaths to treat various diseases. As I've said many times before, I'd be more than happy to appropriate the use of herbal medicines for use in my practice–if someone can show me hard data that they are both safe and effective. (It also wouldn't hurt if they were either effective with fewer side effects than present medications available or if they were cheaper than present medications.) In the case of Sean Flanagan, they were neither. I've often heard the defense of treatments like UBI that go along the lines of "the patient is dying, so what has he got to lose trying something like UBI?"
You can see what Sean had to lose.
ADDENDUM: A more detailed report is here. Not surprisingly, O'Connell is claiming the mantle of persecuted martyr:
O'Connell has declined interviews.
However, in a letter soliciting defense funds from members of his group, O'Connell characterized the case as a challenge to the right to practice naturopathy.
"We are being used to set a precedent that naturopaths are dangerous and it is my feeling that the MDs are trying to use my case to shut down naturopathy in Colorado altogether," he wrote.
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Q: Update the value of an attribute in a postgresql jsonb array of objects across muliple records I am trying to update a value tit in three database records that is part of a jsonb array object to change the title of gid 1 to 'newTitle Group 1' from just 'group 1' using postgresql and python.
create table groups (name varchar, grp jsonb)
 insert into groups (name, grp) values
  ('joe', [{"gid": "1", "ona": "joe", "tit": "group 1 "}, {"gid": "2", "ona": "harry", "tit": "tester1 group 2"}, {"gid": "3", "ona": "moe", "tit": "group 3"}]),
  ('harry', [{"gid": "1", "ona": "joe", "tit": "group 1 "}, {"gid": "2", "ona": "harry", "tit": "tester1 group 2"}, {"gid": "3", "ona": "moe", "tit": "group 3"}])
  ('moe' , [{"gid": "1", "ona": "joe", "tit": "group 1 "}, {"gid": "2", "ona": "harry", "tit": "tester1 group 2"}, {"gid": "3", "ona": "moe", "tit": "group 3"}])

I want to get the result:
  ('joe', [{"gid": "1", "ona": "joe", "tit": "newTitle Group 1'"}, {"gid": "2", "ona": "harry", "tit": "tester1 group 2"}, {"gid": "3", "ona": "moe", "tit": "group 3"}]),
  ('harry', [{"gid": "1", "ona": "joe", "tit": "newTitle Group 1'"}, {"gid": "2", "ona": "harry", "tit": "tester1 group 2"}, {"gid": "3", "ona": "moe", "tit": "group 3"}])
  ('moe' , [{"gid": "1", "ona": "joe", "tit": "newTitle Group 1'"}, {"gid": "2", "ona": "harry", "tit": "tester1 group 2"}, {"gid": "3", "ona": "moe", "tit": "group 3"}])

I have not found a way to do it, please help. Seems like most of the postgresql 9.5 capabilities are for jsonb objects but not arrays of objects.
I tried to use many examples on the web but all seemed to fail. I also would consider using a where clause statement on the actual query to limit the jsonb records being searched by for example including WHERE name IN ('harry', 'moe') but for now just need to see how this basic update issue is solved.

A: Just need to use REPLACE() function including ::text and ::jsonb conversions within the DB, without need of any extra operation in the python code :
UPDATE groups
   SET grp = REPLACE(grp::text, '"tit": "group 1 "','"tit": "newTitle Group 1 "')::jsonb

Demo
Of course, it's possibile to add a where condition such as WHERE name IN ('harry', 'moe') to restrict the update.
UPDATE 1:
If you need to perform the update for a spesific record within the jsonb object
such as
WHERE j->>'ona' = 'joe', then use jsonb_array_elements() function within your statement as :
UPDATE groups AS g
   SET grp = REPLACE(grp::text, '"tit": "group 1 "','"tit": "newTitle Group 1 "')::json
 WHERE g.name IN ( SELECT g.name
                     FROM groups AS g
                    CROSS JOIN jsonb_array_elements(grp) AS j
                    WHERE j.value->>'ona' = 'joe' )

Demo
UPDATE 2:
If you want to find the desired value(gid=1 in this case) within the jsonb column dynamically in order to derive the path, then it's possible to use jsonb_set() function as :
WITH T AS
(
 SELECT ('{'||index-1||',tit}')::text[] AS path
   FROM groups AS g2
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mY First post and request here,plz anyone can give some detail, about the rate of this modem or can provide any information from where to buy this Zyxel p600 series modem in mumbai !
As my old modem got broken up(by the workers,as renovation work was going on at home) and even after requesting to these tata people for new modem they have still not provided it...and this thing happen from july 25..So from that day till now thats,26'oct i am without any modem (and without net-connectivity)..In these 3 months i only getting from them reference/complain number and promises of solving the issue within so and so date...But nothing has been done,, the only thing they was fast in doing was generating the bills for all these months with fines which went for total Rs1650.
Watzever, me waiting for their call as just today they call me and said that they are looking at the billing issue & will sort out soon.
So once that billing thing get solved..i will wont take modem from them..its better to buy from some where else. ....Thus anyone can say where to buy this zyxel p600 series modem and what its present actual cost is !
You don't necessarily have to buy the same make and model it is the technology that matters. This one is an adsl2 modem and there are plenty of others that you can buy from sites like flipkart if you don't find the exact same thing but a different make a model they all do the same thing. Just make sure that the new modem that you buy uses the same technology.


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Another brilliant deal – thanks Annie!
Another brilliant deal – thanks Annie! I just sent this on to my sister-in-law as I think she will use a lot of these!


SALISH SEA — A human-powered flotilla will return to the Southern Gulf Islands in the summer of 2016, spreading a message of hope and change for solutions beyond the carbon-based economy. "Turning the Tide: the People's Paddle for the Salish Sea" will bring together up to one hundred kayakers, canoers, open-water swimmers and sailors in a 5-day, 4-night journey in July 2016.
The flotilla, which is celebrating its 3rd annual event, is open to the general public and intended to provide a family-friendly journey to raise awareness of social and ecological issues and build community among islanders in the Salish Sea.
Turning the Tide 2016 will include stops on Pender, Mayne and Salt Spring Islands, with musical performances, educational workshops and outdoor recreational activities for paddlers and islanders.
Registration for Turning the Tide 2016 has opened at http://www.TurningtheTide.ca. The early-bird fee of $70 ($80 after April 1st) includes camping and dinner on all-islands. Members of the public should be sufficiently comfortable and skilled in the watercraft of their choice to undertake this 70-kilometre journey through the coastal waters of the Salish Sea.


Atlanta ended Carolina's unprecedented three-year run of NFC South hegemony, riding the league's most unstoppable offense to the Super Bowl. Now that masterful play-caller Kyle Shanahan is in San Francisco, though, the other three teams have reason to believe the division is up for grabs if they can tweak their rosters in the right way this offseason.
The Panthers strengthened the offensive line with the addition of left tackle Matt Kalil and bolstered the defense with the returns of Julius Peppers and Captain Munnerlyn to go along with the signing of two-time Pro Bowl safety Mike Adams. Questions remain, though, with Cam Newton unable to throw for the next three months following shoulder surgery and All-Pro middle linebacker Luke Kuechly coming off of a concussion that prematurely ended his 2016 season.
On the heels of a promising 9-7 season featuring an improved defense, the Buccaneers struck gold in free agency with play-making wideout DeSean Jackson and disruptive defensive lineman Chris Baker. If the backfield can return to 2015 levels, Dirk Koetter's team can realistically eye the playoffs.
After watching the leaky defense undermine an annually prolific offense, the Saints sacrificed Brandin Cooks in an effort to stockpile draft ammunition for a turnaround. If they hit on a few impact talents in the draft, it's not out of the question that their defense will keep pace with the Falcons' promising young unit.
BIGGEST ADDITION: DeSean Jackson, wide receiver.
Old team: Washington Redskins. New team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Peppers' homecoming and Dontari Poe's arrival in Atlanta notwithstanding, Tampa Bay's acquisition of Jackson was the highlight of free agency. After watching a declining Vincent Jackson hold the passing attack back the past two years, the Bucs added a speedy playmaker to perfectly complement the playing style of big-bodied jump-ball specialist Mike Evans. Jackson is the most dangerous deep threat of his generation, helping his quarterbacks in Philadelphia and Washington to inflated numbers. With Adam Humphries also emerging as the answer in the slot, Jameis Winston finally has the well-rounded wide receiver corps necessary to reach his potential in his third season.
BIGGEST LOSS: Brandin Cooks, wide receiver.
Old team: New Orleans Saints. New team: New England Patriots.
OK, this isn't exactly a "Free Agency Notable" -- Cooks was part of a trade -- but it happened at the outset of the free agency period and was a substantial development in general roster reshuffling. Cooks injected a much-needed playmaking element to the Saints' offense when Marques Colston reached his decline phase, Darren Sproles was traded to Philadelphia and Jimmy Graham fell out of favor. He has averaged 1,160 yards and 8.5 touchdowns as Drew Brees' deep threat the past two years. Once Michael Thomas and Willie Snead emerged as a viable tandem at wide receiver last season, though, New Orleans' brass determined that Cooks was a luxury rather than a necessity for a team desperately in need of assets to rebuild a doormat defense. Will the offense have enough firepower if the defensive overhaul takes another year or two before netting noticeable results?
SLEEPER ADDITION: Chris Baker, defensive lineman.
Baker might not be a household name, but he's been Washington's most disruptive defensive lineman for the past two seasons. Similar to Titans Pro Bowler Jurrell Casey, Baker moves with uncanny agility for a 300-pound behemoth. He's not only stout in the run game, but he also puts heat on opposing passers, averaging 35 combined hits and pressures per season since moving from tackle to end in 2015. Including last year's additions of Robert Ayers and Noah Spence, the Bucs have done an impressive job of transforming the defensive line from a weakness into a strength.
Atlanta Falcons: The loss of Kyle Shanahan as play-caller can't be overstated. He was the best in the business last season. That said, the offense is loaded with talent. The exception is the interior of the offensive line, with veteran guard Chris Chester retiring. Dan Quinn has done an excellent job streamlining the defense, adding young legs with speed and range. With Dwight Freeney still unsigned, though, there's a need for another pass rusher and depth throughout the unit.
Carolina Panthers: The offense regressed after Cam Newton's MVP season in 2015. The best way to fix Newton is to bolster the offensive line, which means overpaying for left tackle Matt Kalil in free agency. There's still a need at right tackle, where Michael Oher is a question mark after missing the majority of last season with concussion issues. Look for Carolina to select a running back early in the draft, as a litany of injuries have sapped Jonathan Stewart's speed and explosiveness.
New Orleans Saints: Coach Sean Payton has made no secret about the plan to invest in the defense this offseason. Signing coverage-deficient linebackers such as A.J. Klein and Manti Te'o won't cure what ails Payton's team. The pressure is on the Saints to nail this month's draft, with four selections in the first 76 picks. There's a dire need at each level of the defense, from pass rusher to linebacker to cornerback.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: What's going on in the backfield? Adrian Peterson has a hankering for Tampa, but the Bucs seem content to gamble on suspended power back Doug Martin recapturing 2015 Pro Bowl form. They likely will add insurance in the draft. On the other side of the ball, the secondary has been a liability going back to the Lovie Smith regime. It just so happens that this year's crop of cornerbacks and safeties is billed as one of the deepest in recent memory.


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UN-led Yemen ceasefire monitoring team gets ready to begin operations
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The Amity vessel in the Hudaydah port. The port of Hudaydah is Yemen's lifeline and the only way that food and fuel get into the country. 26 July 2018.
A UN-led team tasked with overseeing the ceasefire which came into effect on Tuesday around a number of critical Yemeni ports, has begun planning operations with a conference call to discuss the general outlines of its work, including agreement of a code of conduct, the UN Spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) is led by retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, who previously served in a variety of peacekeeping roles at the United Nations, including as Force Commander of the former Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), and Military Adviser to UN peacekeeping (DPKO).
The RCC members are drawn from military and security representatives of the Yemeni Government and the Houthi militia, with General Cammaert in the role of Chair. In addition, several international observers may be deployed in the city and port of Hudaydah, as well as Saleef and Ras Isa: these ports are critical to the delivery of aid to the country, which has for months now, been home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at UN Headquarters that General Cammaert had "reiterated the commitment of the UN to help the parties to de-escalate tensions" and "highlighted the primacy of the humanitarian goal of the ceasefire and the importance of securing unhindered flow of humanitarian aid", during the inaugural RCC briefing.
InTuesday's briefing, Mr. Dujarric said that UN chief António Guterres was "breathing down the neck" of officials to make sure that the UN observers are deployed as soon as possible to monitor the ceasefire. The spokesperson said that General Cammaert has reiterated the importance of securing the unhindered flow of humanitarian aid through the ports, and the commitment of the UN to help the opposing parties fulfil their obligations and commitments, and to help them to de-escalate tensions.
General Cammaert will travel on Thursday to Amman, Jordan, with a small advance team, and from there to the Yemeni Capital of Sana'a and Hudaydah. The spokesperson said that General Cammaert plans to convene a first face-to-face meeting with the Committee as soon as possible.
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Security Council welcomes Yemen breakthrough, but lasting peace remains a 'daunting task'
Senior UN officials briefed the Security Council on the details of a UN-brokered ceasefire in Yemen on Friday in and around the key port city of Hudaydah, which is expected to restore a humanitarian lifeline to millions across the country, and kickstart imports of commercial goods.
Yemen ceasefire deal: 'Potential' now to restore humanitarian lifeline to millions
The freshly agreed Yemen ceasefire deal covering the key Red Sea governorates of Hudaydah and Taiz has been welcomed by the World Food Programme (WFP), which on Friday expressed hope that it would improve access for humanitarians and, just as crucially, commercial shipping.


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Quarantined nurses kicked out of Siteki Hotel as COVID-19 crisis intensify.
Saturday, 18th April, 2020
SITEKI: Nurses who treat COVID-19 patients at the Lubombo Referral Hospital were yesterday kicked out of Siteki Hotel where they were accommodated by government to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus by preventing them from interacting with members of the public.
The nurses told this Swaziland News that they received a notice on Thursday afternoon to vacate the hotel premises by 7am on Friday, the justification communicated to them by the government was that the country was now running out of cash to pay the bill.
Reached for comments, Bheki Mamba, the President of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union(SWADNU) condemned the conduct of the government saying alternative accommodation should be provided for these health workers who might be stigmatized by members of the public merely for treating COVID-19 patients at the Lubombo Referral Hospital.
"These nurses and other health care workers have already been stigmatized hence they cannot interact with other people without drawing unnecessary discomfort because they are known to be caring for COVID 19 patients. In the event government find it expensive where they had been accommodated, she should arrange for suitable accommodation where they will stay together" he said.
A nurse who spoke to this publication said he was not happy with the way government ordered them to vacate the hotel without providing alternative accommodation for them.
"We were chased like dogs, no notice but it was just an order that we should leave by 7am" said the inside source.
Acting Government Spokesperson Sabelo Dlamini said to the best of his knowledge, these were recruit nurses who were posted next to their home stations and where not supposed to stay at the hotel in the first place.
"This is an operational matter Mlangeni that can be adequately addressed by the Ministry of Health. The brief information I have received is that these are recruit nurses who were posted next to their home stations and were not supposed to stay in the hotel in the first place. The rest of the senior staff taken from different health centres to assist at Lubombo remain in the hotel. For full details please contact the Minister of Health"
Efforts to reach the Minister of Health proved unsuccessful at the time of compiling this report.
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Tow truck driver's injury in car accident brings call for caution
On Behalf of Johnston Law Offices P.C. | Nov 25, 2014 | Car Accidents
Winter in Illinois typically brings ice and snow on the roads. Many drivers recognize that a driver's seemingly insignificant error in such conditions could result in a devastating car accident. Most allow themselves more time to get to their destinations rather than having to rush there. Motorists typically increase the distance from other vehicles when traveling in adverse weather conditions.
However, others drive no differently than they would in the summer, causing the tow truck drivers to be extremely busy at this time of the year. An employee of a tow truck company in Marion was recently knocked down by a car while he was attending to an accident. This incident motivated tow truck drivers to call on motorists to take extra care while out on icy roads, as severe injuries and even fatalities can be brought about by negligent drivers.
The state of Illinois has Scott's Law to ensure the safety of emergency workers and bystanders at an accident. The law requires drivers to exercise particular care when they approach emergency vehicles on Illinois roads. To alert drivers of the presence of a dangerous condition, emergency personnel typically activate the flashing warning lights on their vehicles. The lights may be yellow, blue, red or white and are an indication that drivers should slow down and move over as far as possible.
Unfortunately, many Illinois motorists fall victim to the negligence of other drivers during the winter time, and consequential injuries may be life changing. They may choose to pursue compensation for the damages sustained from a car accident. Victims retain the right to file a personal injury claim in a civil court, and if such a claim is successfully presented, they may receive compensation for medical expenses. In addition, the court may award monetary compensation for other damages as allowed by applicable laws.
Source: kfvs12.com, "Tow truck drivers ask cars to slow down during winter season", Rae Daniel, Nov. 18, 2014


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Buy your Lucky Ticket when purchasing your course. The draw will take place in the fourth week of term. All proceeds go to our Community Projects. The Lucky Ticket is available to over 16s only.
Concession prices are available to anyone who is receiving income support or Jobseeker's Allowance, a student, under 24, over 60, disabled, entertainment union member or a Big Issue Vendor. Concessionary rates cannot be given without proof of eligibility.
All courses are non-refundable, but credit will be issued if you notify us in the first two weeks of term that you need to cancel your course. Please note that cancellations are subject to terms and conditions. Please see our Terms & Conditions.
Latecomers will not be admitted to class more than 15 minutes after it is due to start. This is both for safety and to prevent disruption to the class.
Cancellations for workshops must be requested two days prior to workshop date. Cancellations for drop-in classes must be requested one hour prior to start time.
To make things easier, courses can be paid for in three instalments, with the first payment taken on booking. Terms and conditions apply. You must pay all three instalments regardless of whether or not you complete the course, or receive a credit. A £3 card processing fee will be split between the second and third instalments. If purchasing multiple instalment plans in a single transaction, the fee only applies once.
1. Pay approximately a third of the cost of your course when you first book.
2. Your credit or debit card will be charged with the second payment (another third) on 2 February 2017.
3. The final instalment (another third) will be charged a month later.
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May 20: Electric taxi driver gets first U.S. speeding ticket on this date in 1899
The men behind the Electric Vehicle Co. thought they had the 20th century by the scruff of the neck. After two inventors had fashioned a working electric vehicle in 1894, they formed an electric taxicab company in New York, that grew enough to be backed by a wealthy industrialist. As of 1899, there were 60-odd electric taxicabs in the city, and while they were heavy and slow by modern standards, they were a marvel of luxury compared to staring at a horse's behind over cobblestone streets. On this day in 1899, an EV driver named Jacob German was flagged down by a New York City police officer — Bicycle Roundsman Schuessler — who found his cab to be traveling at an unacceptable speed, which the officer estimated at 12 mph. German would receive America's first citation for speeding in a car, a historical note that has outlived the Electric Vehicle company, which foundered and collapsed a couple of years later. You can catch a glimpse of an EV taxi at work — and see why 12 mph would have been so fast — in this famous clip shot by Thomas Edison of 23rd Street:
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Ethical shoppers are more likely to be middle-aged, according to new research.
And women are no more ethical than men when it comes to shopping.
The survey found that young and old people were less likely to buy fairtrade and organic goods at supermarkets.
The findings go against the commonly held view that people become more ethical as they get older.
Researchers found that younger shoppers talked a lot about buying ethical goods, but failed to practice what they preached.
The survey also found that younger people recommended ethical products more than older consumers, but were less likely to buy them.
Study leader Professor Kevin Morrell, of Warwick Business School, said: "There is the perception that in general people become more ethical as they get older or that today's young are more in tune with ethical buying and the environment.
"But we were surprised to find that it was the middle-aged who were the ethical shoppers.
"We found a 'curvilinear' relationship between age and purchasing fairtrade and organic products: both older and younger respondents were less likely to purchase ethical goods than middle-aged respondents.
"Age was also associated with the extent to which people would recommend fairtrade goods, with the oldest respondents also being least likely to recommend fairtrade products to others. This also suggested that younger shoppers were not entirely 'practising what they preached.
In the study, published in the Journal of Marketing Management, Professor Morrell, Chanaka Jayawardhena, of Hull University Business School, and Chris Stride, of the University of Sheffield, questioned 688 shoppers at three UK supermarkets.
Just over half of those surveyed were women (53 per cent), just under half aged under 30 and around 20 per cent aged 50 or older.
Prof Morrell added: "The findings may reflect that both younger and older consumers have less disposable income, especially as fairtrade and organic goods are often more expensive.
"Certainly, it might explain why younger shoppers recommend ethical foods, but don't then buy them as they simply can't afford it.
He said the findings have implications for marketers and organisations aiming to promote fairtrade to tackle the exploitation of workers and those looking to protect the environment and animal welfare.
Prof Morrell added: "Our work shows that values play an important part in how many consumers shop, with many aware that their buying habits can have a direct impact on people's working conditions or the environment.
"Marketers need to take that into consideration and make sure it is part of their marketing mix.


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Call for Glasgow charity workers to get parking discounts
Calls are being made for parking charges to be discounted or waived for charity workers in parts of Glasgow.
By Drew Sandelands - Local Democracy Reporter
Labour councillor Maggie McTernan said two thirds of workers for charities and voluntary groups across Scotland are women, and many are required to work at night.
She asked Cllr Anna Richardson, city convener for sustainability and carbon reduction, whether "increased" charges due to the introduction of parking controls could be dropped or cut for these staff.
Cllr Richardson said she would be willing to meet with the councillor, and charity representatives, but warned any waiver can reduce the impact of a parking control zone and isn't a precedent that should be set lightly.
Parking control zones are often introduced to tackle excessive commuter parking in areas of the city.
Cllr Richardson said: "Any area which currently has a parking control scheme has been identified as such because the area has experienced commuter or shopper parking due to the proximity to either the city centre, a sporting venue, other economic hubs or an educational facility.
"The introduction of parking controls offers an effective solution towards managing demand for finite road space available, subsequently reducing the overall volume of traffic attracted to an area while also increasing the turnover of parking spaces and improving road safety and traffic flow.
"Any waiver to these schemes does reduce the impact of them, and while in very exceptional cases it is possible to do so for particular individuals or organisations, it is not a precedent that should be set lightly."
She thanked Cllr McTernan for "highlighting that transport policies will often affect men and women differently".
"It is important to reiterate that it is not a longer walk to transport that makes women unsafe at night, it is the actions of men."
Cllr McTernan said: "Many of these workers are required to work at night, and now face increased parking charges to attend their place of work in communities."
She asked whether Cllr Richardson would "commit to looking at a type of discount or waiver scheme for those key workers, to ensure that they are safe at work".
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Cllr Richardson said: "I would be really happy to initiate a conversation with yourself directly to get a better understanding of what is going on.
"If that requires meeting with other representatives, of course, I try to keep my door as open as possible."
She added: "Any exemptions that are made to these schemes do set other precedents and we need to be very cautious about what we're doing, checking that we are not creating unintended consequences.
"I just feel it's important to manage that expectation ahead of any further conversations."
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Paula Forrest es una actriz australiana, conocida por haber interpretado a Shelley Sutherland en la serie Home and Away.

Biografía
Paula se entrenó en el Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts "WAAPA".

Carrera
En 1992 interpretó a Katie Baldwin en un episodio de la serie Police Rescue.

En 1999 apareció como invitada en la serie policíaca Water Rats donde dio vida a la doctora Fiona Hall Jones.

El 19 de junio de 2000 se unió al elenco recurrente de la serie exitosa serie australiana Home and Away donde interpretó a Shelley Sutherland, hasta el 2002 luego de que su personaje decidiera mudarse a Sídney con su esposo Rhys. Paula regresó como invitada a la serie en el 2003, el 2004 y finalmente en el 2009 cuando regresó para llevarse consigo a su esposa Kirsty Sutherland siendo su última aparición el 28 de octubre del mismo año

En el 2006 apareció en comerciales para Kellog's donde interpretó a un ángel guardián.

Filmografía
Series de televisión

Películas

Teatro

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Paula Forrest on TV.com

Actores de televisión de Australia
Actores de cine de Australia
Actores de teatro de Australia

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Welcome to my Back to School English Teaching Resources page.
Are you looking for fun reading and creative writing activities to use at the beginning of the school year?
On this page, you will find lists of read aloud books that are great to use at the beginning of the year, unique creative writing templates, reading sticker charts, and fun poetry activities.
You can use the creative ideas that are on this page to help you plan engaging language arts activities for your students to complete during the first week of school.
The beginning of the school year is the perfect time to have your students DIVE into reading!
My students are encouraged to read with unique reading sticker charts that are designed especially to encourage and promote reading.
Start off the new year by providing your students with fun creative writing activities that will make them DIVE into writing with enthusiasm!
For creative writing assignments, when I give my students unique and fun templates to write on, I have found that they tend to use their best effort on these assignments.
When my students are engaged, on task, and using their best effort, they are more careful to not make careless spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
I hope that you will find some creative ideas to use with your own students at the beginning of the year with the Back to School English teaching resources that are found on this page.
that I have created for these popular picture books.
At the beginning of the school year teachers often get to know their students through an information worksheet that students fill out about themselves.
These student information sheets are often ideal for a first bulletin board or classroom display for the new school year.
If you are looking for a new, unique, fun, and eye-catching idea for this "get to know me" creative writing activity, take a look at my version of this lesson plan that uses school bus templates.
This Student Information School Bus set of lesson plans will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to fill out an introductory worksheet about themselves during the first week of school.
This fun back to school creative writing activity will help you to be able design a colorful bulletin board display of your students' work.
Since this is a short creative writing assignment, your students can complete this task quickly and you will be able to display samples of your students' work in your classroom by the end of the first or second day of school!
This Back to School English teaching resources set is designed to be assembled into one VERY LONG school bus.
If you do not have the space for a long school bus display in your classroom, you can assemble these templates into groups of 5 students together and have 5 or 6 smaller school buses representing all of your students' information sheets together.
Remember, you can make your school bus display as long as you want by gluing as many student bus templates together as you wish. Each student fills in their information section and draws and colors a picture of himself or herself in the bus windows.
Above is an example of how these school bus templates are assembled together.
This example shows how 5 student worksheets (plus the front of bus and door templates) are glued together.
Instead of drawing pictures, you can glue pictures of your students on the templates.
if you want to glue student photographs in the bus windows.
tips on how to assemble the school bus templates together.
Although this is a fairly short writing activity, I still have my students complete a first draft. By taking the time to write a first draft, I can ensure that my students' final drafts contain less spelling and capitalization errors.
As my students are filling out their first drafts, I walk around the classroom and read their responses and make comments about the interesting information that I have learned about my new students.
When a student has finished his first draft, he raises his hand, and I go over and quickly glance at his work and point out the mistakes that I feel that he should edit and revise. Then, I give this student his final draft bus template.
Below is an example of the first draft worksheet, which should be cut into two rectangles and given to two students.
Since this set of teaching resources uses the word favorite in it, there is a second set of resources which contains the spelling favourite for teachers in countries that use this spelling.
Above: There are two bus templates that are not given to the students: the front of the bus and the door. On the door template, you will write the grade level, your name, and the name of your school.
Above: Students draw and color a picture inside the school bus windows.
Above: The third bus template (shown on the left) is the template that you will need to make multiple copies of to give to your students.
The fourth bus template (shown on the right) will completed by one student.
Above: With these bus templates, glue photographs of your students in the window areas.
Above: Example of bus templates with student photographs glued in the window areas.
Above: Examples of black and white bus templates.
Above: If you are unable to print out color copies of this project, there are black and white school bus templates included in this set.
Above: This Back To School English teaching resources set includes 12 pages of road signs which you can use as bulletin board accent pieces to help you in decorating your bulletin board display of your students' work.
Above: This set includes a 5 page road banner that you can assemble together and use for your bulletin board display if you wish.
Above: I do not have a photograph example of this finished school bus project. Above is an example of my School Bus Book Reports which are very similar (they are shorter in length and contain a different writing component). Hopefully this picture will give you an idea of what a finished bulletin board display using these projects would look like.
Most teachers like to include a "get to know me" lesson plan activity during the first week of school. Your students probably completed a boring worksheet about this topic with their teacher from last year.
Put a new twist on this assignment by using these star shaped creative writing templates that your students will find unique and fun.
Meet the Stars of Our Classroom is a teaching resources set will engage your students in writing an introduction and description about themselves using fun star shaped templates.
Although I have included these lesson plans on my Back to School English teaching resources page, this creative writing assignment can easily be used anytime of the school year.
This star shaped creative writing set contains six templates that are assembled together to form a large star. The finished star project measures 20 inches in width and 20 inches in height.
These star projects will make a colorful bulletin board display of your students' work. Everything that you need to complete these projects is included in this set of teaching resources. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, and coloring pencils.
Below is a photograph that shows a bulletin board display using these star templates. The stars in this photograph are from my star book reports instead of this "Meet the Stars of Our Classroom" set, but both projects are exactly the same size and shape.
Below is an example of the first draft writing worksheets that are included in this set of teaching resources. The line spaces on the first draft worksheets match the line spaces on the final draft star templates.
In the center of the star template, students draw a picture.
This set includes 6 templates that assemble into the shape of a large star.
In the center of the star, students can draw a picture of themselves or they can glue a photograph of themselves.
the star project measures 20 inches in width and 20 inches in height.
resources set includes a grading rubric.
This set also contains color star templates.
Below are examples of the yellow and blue templates.
Orange, green, and pink templates are also included in this set.
Cell Phone Templates: How many times have students had to write an essay about their summer vacations during Grades 1 - 5?
If you choose to use a tradition lesson plan idea for this writing activity, your students will likely be very bored in your class. This is not something that you want your students to feel during the first week that they are in your classroom!
Instead, provide your students with an engaging and fun way for them to write about what they did during their summer vacations with these unique cell phone text message templates.
Instead of being bored, your students will go home during the first week of school anxious to tell their parents about a fun project activity that they completed in your class.
Above: Example of finished My Summer Vacation cell phone templates.
Note: In the example above, you will notice text message abbreviations and symbols used in place of words.
Normally, I would not allow my students to use these types of abbreviations and symbols in their creative writing assignments, but for this activity, I felt that it was appropriate.
My students really enjoy being able to write their summer vacation text messages using the abbreviations and symbols that they commonly use everyday when they write text messages to their own friends.
For some of the abbreviations that my students used, they had to "translate" their messages for me, as I am not up to date on all of the codes and symbols that young people use in text messages these days!
Are you also looking for a unique activity that you can complete the first or second day of school that will provide you with student work samples so that you can create a colorful bulletin board display during the first week of school?
This is an ideal Back To School creative writing activity that will not take much time, is easy to assemble, and will provide you with student work samples that you can post on your bulletin board immediately.
You will be able to quickly design an eye catching bulletin board display featuring your students' work using the bulletin board banner and additional cell phone accent pieces that are included with this set of Back to School English teaching resources.
These cell phone templates measure 6 inches in width and 17 inches in height.
For this reason, my students never begin their creative writing assignments by writing on their final draft cell phone templates, instead they write on first draft worksheets. Then, they edit and revise their work on their own, with a partner, or in individual writing conferences with me.
Below is an example of the first draft writing worksheet that is included in this creative writing teaching resources set. The writing lines and spaces on the first draft worksheet match the lines and spaces on the final draft cell phone templates.
After students have edited and revised their first drafts, you should give them their final draft cell phone templates.
There are two templates for students to glue together to assemble their cell phones. The two cell phone templates have thick borders around them, which makes it easy for students to cut out these templates on their own.
black and white cell phone templates.
Below: This set of teaching resources includes color phone templates.
orange, blue, red, green, pink, and purple.
8 cell phone accent pieces in this Back to School English teaching resources set.
Below: This set of teaching resources includes grade level cell phone accent pieces.
There are 8 separate sets of these cell phone templates for Grades 1 - 8.
The Grade 5 examples are shown below.
To help give you an idea of what these finished cell phone projects look like, below is a photograph of a bulletin board display using these same cell phone templates.
This example is from my cell phone book report projects, so the text area and drawing areas are a bit different than they are in this set of teaching resources. The cell phone templates in this set are exactly the same size and shape as the templates in the photograph below, and they measure 6 inches in width and 17 inches in height.
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If you haven't visited Page 2 and Page 3 yet, click on one of the underlined links below.
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Q: GSM communication, cross threading I'm bit new in C# programming but somehow I managed to pickup a project that requires a great skill and knowledge with GSM (SMS) communication using serialPort.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO.Ports;

namespace SMSget
{
    public partial class SMSLogPanel : UserControl
    {
        #region default constructor
        public SMSLogPanel()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            serialPort1 = new SerialPort();
            serialPort1.DataBits = 8;
            serialPort1.DtrEnable = true;
            serialPort1.Encoding.Equals("iso-8859-1");
            serialPort1.Handshake = Handshake.RequestToSend;
            serialPort1.Parity = Parity.None;
            serialPort1.WriteTimeout = 300;
            serialPort1.StopBits = StopBits.One;
            checkLink();
        }
    #endregion
    #region checking communication and setting user controls...
    private void checkLink()
    {
        GetValues value = new GetValues();
        string com = value.getPort();
        int baud = value.getBaud();
        int timeot = value.getTimeout();
        serialPort1.PortName = com;
        serialPort1.BaudRate = baud;
        serialPort1.ReadTimeout = timeot;

        serialPort1.Open();
        if (serialPort1.IsOpen)
        {
            label1.Visible = true;
        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Komunikacija sa modemom se ne može uspostaviti, molimo postavite novu konfiguraciju...!");
            this.Controls.Clear();
            SMSConfigPanel cfg = new SMSConfigPanel();
            cfg.Show();
            this.Controls.Add(cfg);
        }
        serialPort1.Close();
    }
    #endregion
    #region setiranje timer-a...
    private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        timer1.Stop();
        execCommand();
        timer1.Start();
    }
    #endregion
    #region seting handler and executing AT commands
    public void execCommand()
    {
        serialPort1.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(getResponse);
        serialPort1.Open();
        //prazni se buffer da se ne pokupe neke vrijednosti koje ne trebaju...
        serialPort1.DiscardInBuffer();

        if (!serialPort1.IsOpen)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Modem nije spojen, molimo provjerite konfiguraciju...!");
            timer1.Stop();
        }
        serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGF=1" + (char)(13));
        serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGL=\"ALL\"" + (char)(13));
    }
    public void getResponse(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
    {
        SerialPort serPort = (SerialPort)sender;
        string input = serPort.ReadExisting();
        if (input.Contains("ERROR"))
        {
            //textBox2.Text = "";
        }
        else if (input.Contains("+CMTI:"))
        {
            serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGF=1" + (char)(13));
            serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGL=\"ALL\"" + (char)(13));
        }
        else if (input.Contains("+CMGL:"))
        {
            textBox1.Text = input;
        }
        else
        {
            return;
        }
        serialPort1.Close();
    }
    #endregion
}

}
I think that somehow I managed to create bugs in these areas (not opening/closing serialPort1 ports, input data in getResponse(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e) which uses separate thread cannot be passed into textBox1 due to cross thread issue..., and probably wrong AT command for reading UNREADED MESSAGES that has been received...)
If anyone can help me with this, I would be very grateful...
Thank you and best regards.

A: Reason for Cross thread exception:
You are trying to update GUI element on a thread other then the one on which it was created. it is not allowed.
Solution:
To avoid cross thread exception. You should update your code like this
this.Invoke((MethodInvoker) delegate
    {
        // update your textbox here

    });

A: serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGF=1" + (char)(13));
serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGL=\"ALL\"" + (char)(13));

This is not correct. You MUST read and parse the response given back from the modem after each command, e.g. something like
serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGF=1" + (char)(13));
waitForFinalResponse(serialPort1);
serialPort1.Write("AT+CMGL=\"ALL\"" + (char)(13));
waitForFinalResponse(serialPort1);

or possibly combine serialPort1.Write and waitForFinalResponse into a sendATCommand function. See also this and this answer for more details.


A TENNIS club was thanked for helping to reduce drug dealing as it reassured neighbours it only plans to sell alcohol at small members-only events.
A combination of automatic lighting and the CCTV operating around Queen's Park Tennis Club has reduced incidents of drug taking and dealing in the area, Brighton and Hove City councillors have been told.
At a meeting about plans to sell alcohol at the club, councillor Adrian Morris said: "I really thank you for the impact on drug taking. That is amazing.
Five people living near Queen's Park Tennis Club objected to an application to serve alcohol and host live music there until 11pm.
But after the club wrote to them to explain their plans, Rachel and Eddie Myer who live opposite in East Drive withdrew their objections.
The other three objections, from Charlotte Macpherson, Gill Palmer and Peter Durgerian, still stand.
Club director Conrad Brunner repeated the assurances he gave residents to the council's licensing panel.
He said there would be no more than 36 events during the year with no more than 60 people and added: "Three years ago the council cut funding for park tennis clubs.
"Queen's Park needs to come up with an extra £10,000 a year to keep up with repairs for the courts which comes to £60,000 over six years.
The panel, chaired by Councillor Morris with Councillors Lynda Hyde and Lizzie Deane, heard there were no plans to host stag or hen do's.
Ideas put forward included hosting a string quartet, quiz nights and club dinners. Events would be for club members and their guests only.
The venue has a capacity of 45 seated inside, but if the bar was open during a tournament then up to 60 people could be accommodated using the area outside the pavilion.
A licensing trained member of the committee would always be on site whenever the bar was open. Mr Brunner said the club would be happy to restrict time outside in the summer to 9pm.
The panel retired to make its decision which will be sent to the club within five working days.