Last week, after I reported that a third person is suing James Ray and the owners of Angel Valley Resort near Sedona, AZ I speculated if this was an indication that a class action lawsuit might be in the making.

James Ray is the self-help entrepreneur who lead a sweat lodge ceremony inside an ill-conceived dome-shaped structure on October 8th. There were approximately 50 to 60 participants. Twenty one of these individuals were taken to area hospitals after becoming ill for treatment. Three people died. Dennis Mehravar joined the earlier civil law suit filed in Flagstaff AZ on behalf of another survivor Sidney Spencer. Mehravar passed out in the sweat lodge, was hospitalized, and is still experiencing pain and dizziness.

Sure enough, it has been brought to my attention by one of my readers (thanks tbode) that the law firm representing Spencer and Mehravar have created a Web site -sweatlodgeinvestigation.com- for the purpose of soliciting interviews from other participants.

The first lawsuit resulting from this tragic event is a wrongful death suit filed on behalf of the family of Liz Neuman, a Minnesota woman who was the third person to die after the tragic Arizona sweat lodge ceremony.

You can follow the time line of events and ongoing updates on this story here.

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The Global Intention Healing Project is a scientific project undertaken by Adam DreamHealer to study the effect of projected intentions by documenting brainwaves of a volunteer via EEG testing. The Global Intention Healing Project was conducted on November 8. In a press release published today you can read about Christine's personal experience while undergoing the project. You can also view a this seven minute video posted on You Tube that was filmed on the day of the test.

I'm really sorry that this global healing project did not come to my attention until after the fact. There is no feeling like getting your invite to the party late, huh? The full scope of this project has yet to be analyzed. Results will be posted at intentionsheals.com. I'd like to invite anyone who attended the workshop or who participated globally in this project to share their own experiences under comments.

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Kinerk, Schmidt & Sethi, PLLC, the law firm representing Sidney Spencer and Dennis Mehravar, have created a Web site for the purpose of soliciting interviews from other participants.

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Many of my readers have asked me to continue keeping them informed on any new developments on this story. So, of course I will continue to report updates regarding the Arizona sweat lodge tragedy that occurred in October as soon as I know about them. I have gathered past reports and compiled this time line. I will expand the time line as additional news to this sad story unfolds. I welcome additional news updates from readers to keep everyone informed. Please post related news you become aware of under comments to help me make this time line current. Thanks!

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In October I read Melinda Beck's article Metal: Panacea or Placebo published in The Wall Street Journal. I tucked the url inside my not-so-organized favorites because I planned to explore this subject further. Oh... so many back burners pushed further and further back in my favorites. Arghh...

Anyway, Beck wrote an extremely thorough reporting of various metals used for health conditions, both in the past and presently. And, I will admit her article is an informative and interesting read. However, I felt at the time the slant of the article was giving copper (and all metals in general) a bit of a bad rap. So, today, my spirit was rallied when I read about Dana Filoti incorporating the antimicrobial properties of silver and copper to create thin films to help reduce infections rampant in hospital settings.

Filoti is a graduate student in physics at the University of New Hampshire. While researching the hypothesis that a silver and copper might work best in concert to kill bacteria she has reportedly been able to reduce the amount of microbes present on a surface by 99 percent. That's pretty darn impressive! Her findings were presented today (November 12) at a meeting of the scientific society AVS in San Jose.

Last year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially registered copper alloys, allowing them to be marketed with the label "kills 99.9% of bacteria within two hours."

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_{Source: Physorg.com, ICT (Infectioncontroltoday.com)
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