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Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Frishkopf, and Michael Cohen – Folkways in Wonderland

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Folkways in Wonderland (FiW) is a cyberworld for musical discovery with social interaction, allowing avatar-represented users to explore selections from the Smithsonian Folkways world music collection while communicating through text and audio channels. FiW is built on Open Wonderland, a framework for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds similar to Second Life.

Frishkopf fig. 1

Figure 1. [Click images to enlarge.] A typical Folkways in Wonderland session: In the upper-center window, the user browses metadata for the track (located in Puerto Rico) selected in the left window; buttons allow the user to view liner notes, listen via virtual headphones (excluding competing sounds), locate the track on the Smithsonian Folkways website, teleport to the track’s origin, search for other tracks, or view track location on a zoomable Google map (upper right). The user may also embark on a tour, using a window such as that shown in the lower right.

Our musical cyberworld is called Folkways in Wonderland because it is populated with track samples from Folkways Recordings. Since acquiring the label in 1987, Smithsonian Folkways has expanded and digitized the Folkways collection while enhancing and organizing its metadata, all of which is now available electronically. The Folkways collection thus offers a number of compelling features: it is large, diverse, global, well-documented, and digital. Furthermore, it is, in itself, one of the most important and enduring products of ethnomusicological research ever assembled. From the full Folkways collection, we have selected, encoded, and geotagged a set of 1,166 music tracks, chosen for aesthetic and cultural interest and geographical distribution, to represent a broad spectrum of world music. Out of these, we have selected a smaller number to be embedded in FiW.

Exploring Folkways in Wonderland

Our cyberworld music browser centers upon a cylinder upon which a rectangular map of the world is texture-mapped. Musical tracks are geotagged (according to location of performance, performers, and style), and visually identified by a placemark, a clickable sphere acting as a landmark. Once clicked, a track’s album cover appears above the chosen node, a metadata window (displaying title, artist, album, genre, origin, instruments, and other track-related information) is updated, and a menu item (similar to a bookmark in web browser) is added to the placemarks list in the client browser. The placemark is also a sound source, a virtual stereo speaker display that loops the corresponding audio track, radiating throughout its nimbus and enabling location-aware multisensory browsing.

Multiple avatars can enter the space, listen to these virtual speakers, and contribute their own sounds (typically speech, but potentially music) to the mix. Avatars hear all sound sources (tracks, as well as channels associated with other avatars) within the space, attenuated for distance, and rendered with a spatial sound engine that emulates real-world binaural hearing.

Avatars are free to explore the cyberworld, using keyboard and mouse controls to navigate throughout the cylinder and in the surrounding virtual environment (including a building and a verdant park, suitable for casual conversation or more formal conferencing), while interacting with each other and listening to music. Wonderland supports multiple perspectives, including endocentric (1st-person) and egocentric (2nd-person) points of view.

While inside the cylinder, a user may click a marker to highlight a particular track. (For each avatar, only one track may be highlighted at a time.) The corresponding marker changes color from orange to red to indicate its highlighted status; the track’s album cover appears above the marker, and its metadata is displayed in a separate window (as shown in Figure 1 top center and Figure 2), together with a Google map providing detailed, zoomable, topographic information. Buttons are available allowing an avatar to teleport to the selected track’s location, to don virtual headphones connected to this track (thereby excluding competing sounds), to search for other tracks by metadata (users may teleport to a search result by clicking), or to purchase a track. Liner notes may be downloaded as a PDF file (viewable in a separate application).

Avatars can also join any of several configurable tours, organized according to themes (for instance, a tour might feature fiddling around the world), each of which automatically leads them through a sequence of tracks in a predefined order. While visiting a particular track its metadata is displayed; the visiting period is user configurable, and users can also elect to leave a tour at any time. In addition, two track lists can always be displayed: a playlist containing the complete track collection, and a track history listing tracks that have been visited in the current session. A simple text search function is provided to search across all metadata, generating a list of matches. Items appearing on any track list may be clicked to teleport directly to the selected track.

FiW is collaborative: multiple avatars can enter the space, audition track samples, contribute their own sounds (speech or other) to the soundscape, and also communicate through text chat. Nearby users can hear music together, as well as hear and see each other. Wonderland also provides in-world collaborative applications, such as a shared web browser or whiteboard. Thus users are provided with a real-time, immersive, audiovisual representation of the virtual sociomusical environment, together with multiple means of communicating within it.

When tracks and avatars are near each other, overlapping nimbus projections create a dense mix, continuously shifting as the avatar moves and turns, guiding exploration. However, in order to listen to a particular track, an auditory focus function is available, causing other audio streams to be blocked; this narrowcasting feature is described in the next section.

Figure 2 (Metadata Display Window):The ‘Track Details’ tab shows song information, the ‘Playlist’ tab shows the entire collection as an outline, and the ‘History’ tab shows the tracks visited by the user. Other operations, invoked by buttons at the bottom of the panel, allow (in left–right order) exclusively auditioning a track, browsing selected track information at the Smithsonian Folkways web site, teleporting to origin of track, muting a track, and ‘opening map window’ with a Google Map (Figure 3) to provide detailed, zoomable, topographic and cartographic information. Clicking on album art brings up liner notes, which may include a score, musician interviews, and critical commentaries, besides provenance data. Figure 3. Map Window: Locates currently selected track’s origin in a Google map.Frishkopf fig. 4
Figure 4. Extended voice chat panel: List of users indicating current status and matrix of narrowcasting operations.

Figure 5. Exterior view of the cyberworld. Figure 6. A discussion park allows quiet conversations among avatars.

Narrowcasting and Multipresence in Wonderland

While exploring the collaborative musical space, users hear a rich binaural audio mix, spatialized to source locations, whenever those sources (whether tracks or avatars) are nearby. Sometimes users may want to focus auditory attention on a particular source, or conversely may want to address only particular target avatars. Narrowcasting denotes a set of techniques allowing audio streams to be filtered for focus, comprehension, privacy, security, and user interface optimization in groupware applications.

Narrowcasting includes four tools, comprising two complementary pairs: select & mute (applied to sound “sources”, whether tracks or avatars), and attend & deafen (applied to sound “sinks,” or avatars). The “select” (or “solo”) function reduces a soundscape by selecting which sources are audible in the mix; the converse is “mute”, which silences them. The user can likewise limit which avatars will hear his or her own sounds, using “attend” (causing only selected avatars to hear) or “deafen” (the converse). All of these tools can be used to avoid unwanted cacophony, to maintain privacy, or to enable more intimate conversations.

Multipresence allows each user in the virtual environment to create and control multiple avatars (as shown in Figure 7). In this way, a user can interact at more than one position within the virtual environment. For instance, one may wish to accompany different social groups, as they explore and discuss tracks in different parts of the world, or to participate in a virtual conference while listening to a particular track, or to compare two tracks that are distant from one another without having to navigate between them, or to be guided passively through a tour while actively conversing about it. In all these cases, he or she can “fork” presence and locate self-representations at multiple locations of interest. Each such avatar “clone” captures a different soundscape, modifiable by independent narrowcasting options.

Representations of Narrowcasting Operations

Frishkopf table 1Table 1. Various methods for representation of narrowcasting operations.

Frishkopf fig. 7

Figure 7. A user with multiple instances of self can audition music in different places at once. The metadata window (top center) shows details of the current musical track with respect to the selected clone. Narrowcasting functions can be used to control soundscapes and filter audio, musical, and textual streams.

Experimenting in FiW: A virtual laboratory for ethnomusicology

We use FiW as a virtual ethnomusicological laboratory for controlled experimentation on the social impact of musical communications in cyberspace. We pose the following general questions: How do social actors, as represented by avatars, interact in an immersive cyberworld when presented with a specific collaborative task (for instance, to locate an audio sample)? What sorts of social groups and interactions emerge through virtual world music interactions, and how do these depend on the kinds of music and actors populating the cyberworld? As compared to ordinary ethnomusicological field settings, the virtual laboratory environment offers unparalleled levels of observation and control, allowing us to answer questions about such dependencies in ways unachievable in the real world.

In particular, we are concerned with two primary clusters of independent variables known by ethnomusicologists to shape the emergence of musical community: the social and the musical. Here, social variables include the number and demographic profiles of cyberworld participants, while musical variables include the number and kinds of music tracks populating the map. Variables within either cluster can be manipulated: the former through participant selection, the latter by loading different collections of music tracks into FiW. Participants are selected from among a volunteer adult population, subject to informed consent and the availability of a common language for communication. Researchers perform participant observation from within the cyberworld, embedded as virtual ethnomusicologists and entering into the cyberworld’s virtual intersubjectivity, using multipresence to assume one or multiple avatar identities.

Adopting a more observational, bird’s-eye mode, researchers may also document the total system from without, either in real time or subsequently, by analyzing avatar worldlines along with timestamped transcripts of avatar communications. Currently such transcripts are not archived, but future research regarding such close analysis might motivate such logging. Combining these complementary subjective and objective perspectives with associated qualitative and quantitative analysis offers a powerful new approach to ethnomusicological study, one of increasing relevance as the rate at which we inhabit such virtual spaces in our everyday lives continues to escalate.

Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Frishkopf, and Michael Cohen

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Running Folkways in Wonderland:

  • Click this link to open the server’s Open Wonderland installation
  • Then click the “Launch” button to download the file jnlp.
  • Make sure you have Java (versions 7 or 8) installed, and that” is added to your Java Security > Exception List.
  • Then double-click jnlp to download and run the FiW cyberworld client on your computer. Note that the first time you run Wonderland, it will take a while for the application to download.
  • You will be asked to log in. Your username will become your name in the virtual world. No password is required.

Navigating Folkways in Wonderland:

  • Click on your avatar, then use the up and down arrow keys (or W and S) to move forward and backward, or page up and down (fn arrow on a Mac) to move up and down (hold down shift to run). Use the left and right arrow keys (or A and D) to step left or right.
  • Scroll to zoom in and out, and control-drag to look around.
  • Change your view by using the View menu to select a camera type.
  • Use the Tools menu to determine whether Collision or Gravity is enabled (if not you can move through solid objects or defy gravity).
  • The Help menu provides additional resources, or consult the Useful Links below.

Useful Links

Project site:

Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Cohen, and Michael Frishkopf. Narrowcasting Enabled Immersive Music Browser for Folkways World Music Collection. In Int. Conf. on Computer Animation and Social Agents. May 2013, Istanbul.

Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Frishkopf, and Michael Cohen. Folkways in Wonderland: a Cyberworld Laboratory for Ethnomusicology. In Int. Conf. on Cyberworlds. Oct. 2011, Banff.

Many thanks to folkwaysAlive! at the University of Alberta, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and the University of Aizu, for their support of this project.

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Kofi Morna "is an Executive Director of Savannah Resources (Pty) Limited (Savannah), the lead investor in the Savannah Consortium, Aquarius Platinum's BEE partner. Prior to joining Savannah Resources, Mr Morna worked with the International Finance Corporation as an Investment Officer, Gemini Consulting as a Senior Management Consultant and Schlumberger Oilfield Services as a Field Engineer. Mr Morna holds an MBA from the London Business School and a BS from Princeton University in the United States. He is currently a director of Mkhombi Holdings and Delta Iron Ore. Mr Morna joined the Board of AQPSA in February 2005 and was appointed to the Aquarius Platinum Board during February 2007. Mr Morna is a member of the Nomination Committee of the Group." [1]

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High Spec Village – Chapter 52

A little appreciation towards my patreons.

this year my patreons

Sorry for the ugly letters, but I wanted to write it with my own hands.

Thank you patreons, and thank you all who follow me.

Here’s chapter 52

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Hold the Applause

Re: Stephen M. Davis’s Symphony Flags:

I enjoyed Stephen M. Davis’s “Symphony Flags,” where he complained that, “[a]side from talking, cell phones and coughing, nothing mars a performance more than applause between movements. And, other than cowboy hats and tractor hats, nothing marks a community more as a backwater of the beaux arts than such a robust expression of rubedom.”

I generally agree with both of those sentiments; during a recent performance of Beethoven’s Ninth, I had the grim pleasure of tapping a disruptive nine-year-old seated in front of me on the shoulder and, when he turned around, hissing at him, “Knock it off!” He managed to behave during the rest of the performance.

But unfortunately, you can’t tell thirty or forty people in a concert hall to stop clapping.

All that having been said, I have to admit to having broken that rule once myself. Last year, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg performed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with our local Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. While waiting for her first entrance, she had all the appearance of a sprinter preparing for a 100-yard dash; she shifted from one foot to the other, shook her arms as if relaxing them, rolled her head around as if working any stray kinks out of her neck. Then she made her entrance.

The movement was a European high-speed train careening full tilt down a mountain. The tempo was — well, “breathtaking” is too mild a word; “terrifying” really describes it. The sound was full-bodied and robust. You held your breath the entire movement, expecting the inevitable catastrophic derail — which never came. When the movement’s final chords crashed through the hall, everyone immediately burst into thunderous applause — not the usual desultory scattered claps you generally hear. When the noise had died down, Salerno-Sonnenberg, looking a little embarrassed, remarked to the audience, “I’m sorry to have to tell you, but there are still two more movements.”

General laughter.
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I could never understand the objection, often colored with a sneering condescension, as Mr. Davis’s article so aptly illustrates, to applause between movements of a symphony. Think of opera. After a beautifully sung aria, applause is de rigueur. What an insult to do otherwise!

Why not for symphonic music?

Re: George H. Wittman’s Losing Hearts and Minds:

This is a letter invoking concern over the article “Losing Hearts and Minds,” by George H. Wittman.

On the whole, I found this an excellent read that fully exemplified what is essentially a Catch-22 that applied to Iraq as it did in Vietnam: when occupying a foreign country, you can easily open yourself to grinding, pointless guerrilla war unless conditions on the ground have already been met that will preclude it, such as liberating that country from another foreign occupier. This in itself is exemplified in the differences in the situation with Afghanistan and Iraq.

However, I did note some concern over the last few paragraphs where Wittman describes the world “not waging war in a manner consistent with American values.” I found this section a blind spot on what was an otherwise insightful article.

Did Tecumseh Sherman wage war consistent with American values when he moved through the south? One wonders. As I see it, when resources, funding and security are scant, values can be a very tricky phrase. American values are unlikely to be incredibly different in this respect from British, French, Indian, Japanese… yes, even Iraqi values, and even in warfare. The difference is that America currently faces an undisciplined force that is still learning in many ways how to fight, and exists only to fight, and fight dirty. They have no reliable base of operations with not a tank nor aircraft to their name and neither the capacity to build or operate one if they could. Were America invaded and overcome — whatever the stated reason of the occupier — no doubt similar ruthless groups would appear determined to stop what was observed as the enemy. This would happen even if the invader were Christian and spoke English. Even more so if they were of different religion, language and ethnicity. And this would be the same anywhere, different mostly only in non-essential details.

Iraq, as anywhere, has its share of racists, its share of anti-western patriots, its share of bull-headed religious adherents. These will always be the people who will not be bothered to understand the nuanced argument, or care for it — people who favor action for action’s sake, more concerned with appearing to be manly than actually doing it. You can find this on the streets of Fallujah as readily as on the streets of Detroit. And in the corridors of power in Baghdad as easily as in Washington or Paris. The difference is that in Washington, these people understand there is little to gain and much to lose by violating the status quo of society.

In Iraq, when one considers the uncertainty and distrust inherent in the situation, naturally these same people — malcontents and ignorant even in peacetime — see the inverse. Iraq is similar now to France in the grip of the revolution, and as then, everyone is lost in the scramble to see who’s going to make up the new power base.
Brandon Butler

Thanks for George Wittman’s excellent article, “Losing Hearts and Minds.” He is absolutely correct! Americans want to be loved, but before others can love us they have to have respect for us; no one can love someone they don’t respect. In war, that means killing the enemy and winning military victories first. That is especially true in Arab societies in which people respect and admire strong, even ruthless, leaders while despising any sign of weakness. Signs of weakness include a willingness to negotiate and fear of harming civilians.

I can understand Americans shrinking from the brutality required to win wars. But I would ask the American people to please stop getting into wars if they don’t intend to win them.
Roger D. McKinney
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

“Gaining the Iraqis’ good will can come only after they have exhausted their societal bellicosity.”

In other words, until they’ve killed enough of one another, for enough generations, and shed their spiritual and ethnic racisms and stopped their blood feuds — and until true peace comes at whatever price, whenever it comes, to whoever’s left for it to come to — we’re wasting our time in trying to win their hearts and minds?
C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

Re: Jeff Emanuel’s Political Points at Any Cost:

Thank you for printing this article. Mr. Emanuel has put into words my exact thoughts on the present Democratic leadership. Winning at any cost is the fighting words of Mr. Reid but they refer to the political arena and not the reality of the world. I would like to also input that if the Democrats would back the President even a little bit this war would have less causalities. Therefore, I would lay at least two-thirds of the casualties since Jan. 2007 at the door of the Democratic Party. With their constant nay saying they have given the enemy reasons to die for their cause. They know they can win this war if they just keep killing. By the way, my total causality list also includes two-thirds of the Iraqi civilians that have been killed. The Democratic leadership really do not care about other people in the world. If they did, they would not want to cut and run. Thereby causing more deaths when Iran/Al-Qaeda bring about there form of government. But people like Reid will use their deaths to his advantage. Only a very, very, very low class person would do something like that. Are you sure this man is an adult? He does not act like one.

Thanks for listening.
Rich Oros
Bridgewater, New Jersey

Mr. Emanuel’s essay ought to be required reading at every breakfast table in America. The people now running the country are the same people who gathered in the streets in the ’70s to shut down freedom of expression; close universities; fornicate, and aid the North Vietnamese in keeping their resolve in the face of enormous causalities.

These are the same people responsible for about 30,000 of the names on the Vietnam Wall, that black slash through the soul of a Nation. They are the same people who are responsible for murder of millions of Cambodians and the enslavement of millions more.

These are the people who are trying to make us believe that in cowardice there is honor; that in censorship of words and thoughts there is freedom; and that Muslims really will love us if we only make nice with them.

These are the people who are bringing us the end days of the United States of America.
Jay Molyneaux
Denver, North Carolina

Re: “Political Points” and Harry Reid’s recent bizarre behavior. I can’t do a Lexis-Nexis search, but didn’t the mild-mannered maniac have what was described as a “slight stroke” leaving him “un-impaired” around the beginning of his ascendancy to leadership?

I worked in the Medical Department of a large airline and when we were hiring a new wave of pilots as our military service trained ones approached retirement age, you would not believe the psychological and physical testing required to sit in the cockpit and deliver a planeload of souls from point A to point B.

How is it we can have certifiable loonies running for and getting elected to lead a nation of nearly 300 million souls and make life-altering decisions for us? Goons Gone Wild!

Goon: A grotesque or stupid person.

I’d say Harry qualifies on both scores. In addition to being stupid, he cannot keep his hair on straight. Don’t know what to call him, but he’s mighty lachrymose.
Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

Thanks for the reminder of how the perpetually power-lusting donkeys operate. But “victory at any cost” — and the impact on all of us, our allies and whoever else happens to get in their way be damned — appears to have been the overarching tenet of their party since way back when.

Of course, President Bush’s and the Republican Party’s having gone AWOL from their leadership roles sustain such chose-defeat-over-victory, America-is-always-to-blame, emasculate-America’s-strength behavior.

Makes you wonder if we have the societal will and common sense to stay a free people.
C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

I would like to identify myself with every single word of Mr. Emanuel’s article. He has absolutely nailed the complicity of the Democrats in becoming determined to defeat our nation, to hold our nation captive before the whole world.

I hope that Mr. Emanuel will follow up this excellent article with an equally forthright article on the failure of Bush, the White House staff, or any in the administration to take on these traitors in the Congress. We can add this to the list of things that Bush refuses to take on the Democrats about. Failure to actively defend his judicial nominations comes immediately to mind.

I guess that Bush is too busy castigating the people that voted him into office for their bigotry in not wanting to throw open our borders to Mexico, to take on the Dems who are with him on his Bush-Kennedy Amnesty bill.
Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

Harry Reid would have to improve by 1,000 percent to rise to the level of despicable.
W. B. Heffernan, Jr.

Re: Lawrence Henry’s Race and Sports:

As a black man in my 20s, I can’t help adding my two cents on this one. Just to get this out of the way, sure, the black community has some huge problems, many of them stemming from the breakdown of our families and a general lack of commitment to success. But don’t blame our lack of interest in baseball on that, or really give too much credence to anything that Gary Sheffield has to say. Sheffield (and apparently Lawrence Henry) believe that our refusal to submit to authority has pushed us away from baseball. Having played baseball, football, and soccer, I firmly believe that coaches are coaches (that is to say, pushy and demanding). It doesn’t matter what the sport is, or what level you play it on. Team sports require submission to authority, cooperation, and sacrifice for the good of the team. So we can’t handle being told what to do on a baseball field but we can take it on a football field? I don’t get it. I played baseball for almost ten years as a kid. And then I quit. You know why? I honestly found it boring after a while. Why is it so hard to accept that many people find the game boring? Just because baseball used to be America’s game doesn’t mean that it always will be, or even that it should be. Things change. Get over it.
H. Pippins
Sacramento, California

Re: Ann & Jim Sage’s letter (under “A Bushel and a Peck”) in Reader Mail’s Getting Along:

Well, Goodie Goodie for the Sage Family. Our tax dollars at work. If they were so all fired conservative, they wouldn’t live off of a government subsidy.

They should be ashamed to take my tax money for their family’s needs. It’s disgusting to read of their special interest lobbying for farmers, a crowd which does not need any help. When will farmers subsidize my lost accounts receivable or my failed clothing store? Never.

So, why should I — or any other taxpayer — help them?
Jim Sweeney
Pasadena California

Re: Jeffrey Lord’s The Senator and the Anchor:

That covers one of Robert Conquest’s Three Principles: Any organization not explicitly right-wing will eventually become left-wing.

Jeffrey Lord offers a good description how that is so.
James Wilson

Re: The Washington Prowler’s Shadowing Rahm:

A very truthful article. I have been saying that for the past few years and thought that I was the only one who thought so.

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Marco Wiederkehr of Liechtenstein and Moa Kvarfordh of Sweden won the Swedish event of the 2006 World Cup of Speed Skydiving July 7-9 over Gryttjom, Sweden. Wiederkehr won with a meet result (3 fastest jumps of 6) of 476,99 km/h (296,45 mph). Moa Kvarfordh won with a meet result of 351,21 km/h (218,28 mph).

Wiederkehr set a new DZ record, both with his meet result, and with his fastest jump - 477,73 km/h (296,91 mph) - beating english skydiver Mark Callands two year old record.

Arnold Hohenegger of Austria finished second setting a new austrian record on the way with 453,56 km/h (281,89 mph). Nico Emanuelsson of Sweden finished third in the 10 person strong field.

Olli Eerola of Finland set a new finish record for a single jump with 410.92 km/h (255,39 mph).

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5 Steps To Write Your Own Spell

I have noticed a lot of interest on spells. While there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using other peoples’ spells — and in fact there is an entire industry devoted to publishing books full of them — there are times when you may wish to use your own. I loved this 5 steps guide from Patti Wigington because if you can’t find what you’re looking for in a book, or you might just feel a need to use original material you have the option to write your own.

Whatever your reasons, it’s not as hard as you may think to write your own spells if you follow this very simple formula.

1. Figure out the goal/purpose/intent of the working.

What is it you wish to accomplish? Are you looking for prosperity? Hoping to get a better job? Trying to bring love into your life? What is the specific aim of the spell? Whatever it may be, make sure you’re clear on what it is you want — “I will get that promotion at work!”

2. Determine what material components you’ll need to achieve your goal.

Will the working require herbs, candles, incenses, or stones? Try to think outside the box when you’re composing a spell — and remember that magic relies heavily on symbolism. There’s nothing wrong with using unusual ingredients in a working — Hot Wheels cars, chess pieces, bits of hardware, sunglasses and even old DVDs are all fair game.

3. Decide if timing is important.

In some traditions, moon phase is crucial, while in others it’s not significant. Generally, positive magic, or workings that draw things to you, is performed during the waxing moon. Negative or destructive magic is done during the waning phase. It may be that you feel a certain day of the week is best for the working, or even a certain hour of the day. Don’t feel obligated to drown yourself in the details, though. If you’re a person who feels confident doing magic on the fly without worrying about timing, then go for it.

4. Figure out your wording.

What words or incantation — if any — will be verbalized during the working? Are you going to chant something formal and powerful, calling upon gods for assistance? Will you simply mutter a poetic couplet under your breath? Or is it the sort of working where you can simply ponder the Universe in silence? Remember, there is power in words, so select them carefully.

5. Make it happen.

Put all of the above together into a workable form, and then, in the immortal words of the Nike commercial, Just Do It.

Llewellyn author Susan Pesznecker says of crafting a spell on your own, “When you build a spell yourself, from the ground up, you infuse it with your deliberateness, your preferences, your wishes, your thoughts, and your energies. This spell won’t simply be something you read from someone else’s pages—it will carry your own signature and resonate through your very core. It will be much more powerful and complete than any ready-made charm could ever be, making you an integral part of the magick from start to finish.

When we practice spellcraft, we use magick as a way of altering reality. We do this by working with as many of the corresponding realities as possible—time, date, place, elemental correspondences, the support of deities, etc.—in hopes that we can shift reality in one direction or the other and alter the outcome. Nowhere is this more elegantly done than in handcrafting spells, charms, and rituals, because in these instances, we put our essence into the magick and make it our own.”

  • Despite the above five-step method being a very bare-bones and simple way of looking at spell construction, it does work effectively. You may wish to keep a magical journal or make notes in your Book of Shadows during the spell construction phase, and then keep track of results as they begin to manifest.
  • If a working hasn’t begun to manifest within a few weeks — some traditions say within 28 days, a lunar month — you may want to stop and revisit the working. Figure out what variables may need to be changed.
  • The Universe has a quirky sense of humor, so make sure anything you cast a spell for is worded correctly. In other words, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it!
  • Remember that magic is a tool and a skill set, but some common sense should prevail as well. You can cast all day to get yourself a job, but your chances of success are greatly reduced if you haven’t pounded the pavement and sent out copies of your resume!

Last but not least important… Remember to practice, practice and practice.

A Herbal Magic Spell for Beginners: A Charm for Opening up to Love

This herbal magic spell takes a different approach than your typical love spell! – by Lisa Chamberlain

Have you tried spells for bringing new love into your life and been disappointed with the results? Most people who want to attract a solid relationship and can’t seem to find success are actually blocking the flow of energy required to bring love into their lives—often without realizing it.

This herbal magic spell addresses the unconscious blocks you may be experiencing, so that you can resolve whatever issues may be lurking under the surface. Be aware that this process of resolution can be emotionally uncomfortable, at least temporarily—but releasing the blocks is well worth it if you truly want love to happen for you!

Charmed herbal sachets are great for carrying with you in a pocket or purse, or even wearing on a cord around your neck. It’s ideal to use small drawstring bags made of cotton, silk, or muslin, which you can purchase online or at a craft store, but you can also sew your own. If you’re not handy with a needle and thread, you can make a charm “bundle” with a piece of scrap cloth tied together with a ribbon.

If you can’t get a hold of every single herb called for here, don’t let that stop you—just use greater quantities of the herbs you do have! (Click here to learn more about the magical properties of some of the most popular herbs.) This spell also includes elements of candle magic.

You will need:

  • 6 whole cloves
  • 1 teaspoon dried mugwort
  • 1 teaspoon lemon balm
  • 1 teaspoon St. John’s wort
  • 1/4 cup chamomile flowers
  • 1 tablespoon rose petals
  • small bowl
  • 1 pink candle

Instructions for this Herbal Magic Spell:

Gather your ingredients and place them on your altar (or other working surface). Light the candle and take a few deep breaths to still your mind.

In the bowl, place the mugwort, lemon balm, St. Johns wort and chamomile and mix gently with your fingertips. Pour the mixture into the sachet. Sprinkle in the cloves, followed by the rose petals, and pull the sachet closed.

Now, holding the charm, close your eyes and imagine your whole body suffused with white light, beginning in your heart and spreading outward. When you’ve held the vision for a few moments, allow a soft pink light to slowly emanate from your heart, mingling with the white light. Recite the following (or similar) words three times:

“As below, so above,
I release all unseen blocks to love.
As above, so below,
My healed heart allows love to flow.”

Allow the candle to burn out on its own. Keep the charm near you as much as possible, including by your bed at night. When you feel its energy has served its purpose, you can bury the charm or sprinkle the herbs onto the Earth.

Source: wiccaliving.com


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Revelations of Darkness – A Message from Kyron

Lee Carroll

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. In a three-dimensional world, those here are in a meeting, sitting in a chair. Some of you are listening, but it’s only your limited reality that has you listening with your ears. The truth is that this message goes beyond 3D information. My message is for old souls at this exact time on the planet, and the message is the revelation of darkness. It’s not a dark message, but rather one of congratulations, of explanation, and more details perhaps than you wanted to know about things you would never want to know. But we cannot leave it alone, since you can’t. We approach this subject gently, as gentle as we can for a Lightworker, an old soul on the planet who has felt nothing but high consciousness and love for most of their lives.

The Old Scale of Light and Dark

Where do we begin? Have you looked at your news lately? Are there some surprises about the way things are going? If you say yes to this, I will say to you that you weren’t listening to my information that I’ve given many times. For two years, I have given information about this exact time. I told you that crossing this bridge of recalibration is going to upset the dark/light balance of energy on the planet.

Perhaps you have seen something called the scales of justice? The icon is a weight scale held by a blindfolded figure. The scale has two platforms balanced on each side. It looks like a chemist’s scale, which some of you know about, and you are familiar with the metaphor. It represents the desire for balance in life, and especially in fairness and justice. It is the quest for balance in consciousness. I think you get the picture in your mind.

In the paradigm of light and dark, for thousands of years it hasn’t been equal at all. It never has been in balance. One platform has what we will call dark consciousness and on the other platform, light consciousness. The one representing the dark has always been the winner.

Now, before we start, I want you to see what I did not say above. I did not say that on one platform there were evil spirits and dark entities. I didn’t say that; I said dark consciousness. On the other side, I didn’t say there were angels and spirits, devas and leprechauns. I didn’t say that; I said light consciousness. I’m teaching now. I want you to know the difference in all of these things, and the difference is that the dark and light I’m speaking about right now is the consciousness developed by Human Beings.

For eons the scales have existed, and dark Human consciousness has outweighed the light. It has been out of balance and you know that. Your past life history has been part of the wars, the death and sorrow, and the survival consciousness that the planet has been engaged in. This is the main battle of the old soul on Earth, and you know it.

Envision that scale right now, in its lopsided manner, tilted, as the dark consciousness side weighs heavy. The light consciousness cannot get ahead and there is no balance. This is the way it has been lifetime after lifetime for you and all around you. It’s the story of humanity on Earth.

What are the odds that you would turn this around? For 25 years, I have been telling you that the scales are changing. More than 25 years ago, they started to change and the light became more powerful and there was more of it, more quantum portions of it, more connection to the other side, and the balance started to change toward a more equal balance. World wars stopped, did you notice? Things actually got better on the planet, did you notice? Many countries have been working together with former enemies, instead of perpetuating old warring energy. Did you notice? A whole new concept had begun, a new paradigm, and the scales were beginning to be equal. The battle had begun.

The Battle Begins

When 2012 came along, the precession of the equinoxes occurred, and the new calendars of consciousness were applied. Humanity had made it, and I started talking about what would be next. I spoke about planting the seeds for a new paradigm of thinking, and in every channel I told you that the battle begins now.

I want to tell you something, Lightworker. When those scales started to move in the direction of balance, light did not become heavier in order to create that. Instead, what had to happen was that the light dismissed the dark. It reduced the amount of darkness and the scales started to move. The dark was losing its substance. Do you understand? As the darkness lost its substance (influence), the light started to rebalance the scales in its favor. We have always told you that darkness has no energy by itself. Darkness is simply the absence of light. Therefore by default, if there is more light, there will be less darkness.

Now, if you look at the scales right now, the light is winning. You’ve passed the marker into the potentials that the ancients spoke of. In a channelling some weeks ago, I identified this marker in West Virginia as The Wisdom Barrier. I instructed my partner to put this particular channelling in a place you could hear it and he did [Kryon free audio]. You’ll be able to hear what the wisdom barrier is, what the benevolence factor is, and what these things are that have started to change the energy consciousness of the planet. But don’t forget what you’ve done. You’ve provoked the dark consciousness! You’ve poked it and it’s mad! You took out a bat of light and swiped at the nest. Are you hearing this? Darkness, for the first time, is in survival mode! Two years ago, we told you to be ready for the darkness. It will not give up without a battle, and now the battle is here.

Do Not Despair

There’s too much information to give you in one channelling, in one sitting, so I refer to past messages for you to better understand and reference the information in order to get the bigger picture. So I wish to remind you of something I also told you in a recent channelling called Do Not Despair. You’re winning! It’s because you’re winning that the dark consciousness on this planet is feeling it, and the humanity that represents darkness is pulling out everything it has to survive.

It Has Always Been There

Let’s look at it, because it’s all over the news. Are you shocked at the sudden existence of the organization that will remain unnamed [for this channelling]? Where did it come from? How could it be so organized? How could it be so well funded? This organization could have its own country soon! They might as well name it, “The Old Energy Dark Country”, for that’s what it will represent.

The barbaric past of humanity comes forward to show its face. It has always been there, hiding under the rocks and between the cracks of civilized humanity. It couldn’t show itself until now, but now it has to. It’s ugly and it’s not for the faint at heart, is it, dear ones? Seeing evil personified in Human action is abhorrent. It is so ugly and so dark that you cannot look upon it with a gentle heart. God is not a part of it and this is obvious.

You’re winning! Light is winning! The uprising of dark consciousness would not have shown itself with this strength, or this quickly, if this were not so. This is exactly what I told you to look for, and it is proof that those representing this dark consciousness are in trouble. Dear ones, dark consciousness has always had a tried-and-true system. It lurks in the shadows and influences all the power places of the planet – government, commerce, finance. Suddenly, it can’t hide there as well anymore and it’s out in the open.

Where is the funding coming from? It is coming from a storehouse that has always been there, dear ones. It uses income that has been generated from low consciousness acts, collected for a very long time. Funding didn’t just appear. It has been stored, waiting to be used in order to spread fear and darkness to save what they believe is their way.

Who Will Win?

Dear ones, they haven’t got a chance! But it looks like they do, doesn’t it? Everything that they are doing is calculated to scare you into submission. Are they winning? Now, that’s a question I want you to take from here and examine every day.

Fear is black. If you’re in fear, there is no light. You can be the grandest Lightworker, or even be the channeller, but if you’re in fear, it doesn’t matter how many years you’ve done light work, or how much light you’ve accumulated personally. It all goes away with fear, and then they’ve won the battle for your mind. Do you understand this?

The Strength of the Old Soul – YOU

Old souls, Lightworkers reading this, the experiences you have had over lifetimes and lifetimes are incredible! The old soul knows fear. I don’t want to be too graphic, but I want you to understand! What was it like when you put your head in the guillotine because you talked about God in a way that was inappropriate? What was it like to be bound hand and foot when they lit the match at your feet? Old soul, that’s fear! You carry those experiences in your Akash.

I want to tell you they haven’t got a chance to scare you! You absolutely know what fear is, and they haven’t got a chance as long as you cling to that part of you that is the strength of God. You’ve been through it all. That means you’ve got the weapons of truth, wisdom and light. Don’t forget it. Don’t forget who you are!

Do you see how fast they assembled? It seemed like only yesterday that there was no organization at all. Where did they come from? Have you noticed a certain hesitancy to fight them? Why is it that the citizens of the lands that they are invading are hesitant to fight them? Instead, these leaders are calling on others to help. Why is it that the others are also hesitant? I want to show you that there are some anomalies of logic that are not making sense, because this is a battle you have never seen before on this planet. We’ve expected it, but you haven’t. It’s about consciousness, not land or resources.

How to Win?

We gave you the secret before of how to defeat them without taking even one life: Simply take away their funding. They cannot exist without their funding. The funding has to be organized, stored, and distributed. It has to be generated in such a way that it must also go through institutions. Did you hear that? All you have to do is stop the system. Winning won’t be done with bombing. It’s going to be done with intelligence, clever thinking and financial forensics. It’s time to get smart on some of these things and not to be afraid to look at this puzzle differently than you have before. Do not apply the energy they are using in order to fight them, because you won’t win. Figure it out. It’s the last bastion of organized darkness and evil thinking on this planet coming together to try to survive the assault of your light. Don’t be afraid to look at the funding trail, no matter where it takes you.

Fear is Their Weapon

I want you to know something as you look at your news. It may appear that you are unable to stop them. In many places, they will gain strength as they create fear. The fear is easily created in those who are not old souls and who don’t know fear like you do and who don’t have the armor of your spiritual experiences. This puts you in the front line, dear one. Did you realize that? But you don’t have to go fight them on their terms. All you have to do is broadcast light. High consciousness will beat fear any day.

Definitions of Darkness and Evil

There’s more. Would you define evil for me? This is a lesson that some of you need to hear and that some of you will not look at, because Human Beings want to assign evil to entities. Many Humans want to put evil in another box, not a Human box. The old energy wants to stick to traditional mythology, and it’s time you knew the truth. For years, there has been belief in evil spirits and evil entities. These are thought to be outside forces that battle humanity for control of the light.

Dear ones, I would like to tell you what evil really is. Evil is the manifestation of a dark energy within a Human Being or group of Human Beings who, on purpose, take this darkness and generate it, amplify it, and focus it. Certain dictators of the planet did it perfectly, and you saw them. No outside evil spirits were involved or needed. A few Humans were able to focus and manifest it so well that everyone around them cooperated with it and bought into it. That’s evil. They didn’t even need a convenient entity with horns and a tail. They did it themselves. This is what Humans can do!

This is a powerful attribute of humanity, and light and dark energy can go both ways. Through free choice, humanity can create light or dark. This ability is generated by the incredible power of humanity and the duality it carries. Humanity does not need outside help to create evil.

We told you before that in your Human civilization, free choice has placed humanity at the crossroads of existence four times before on this planet. This is because the dark consciousness won those time periods. It’s not that surprising either, since humanity was in survival mode all through these times and there was very little light from expanded spiritual thinking.

The Role of Gaia in Human Consciousness

One of those times might be frightening for you to know about, since it was a full cooperation with Gaia for your termination, and a pandemic almost wiped humanity off the map. A pandemic! Now, you say, “What has that got to do with Human consciousness, Kryon?” Pay attention, dear ones, because this is the day where the teaching was given by my partner, and he put together the Nine Human Attributes. One of the attribute sets included three Gaia attributes and one of them was the consciousness of the planet. Gaia is related to Human consciousness!

Are you starting to connect the dots? You are connected to this planet in a profound and spiritual way. As goes humanity goes the planet’s consciousness. Gaia, Mother Nature, whatever you want to call it, cooperates with Human consciousness. If you spend 1,000 years killing each other, then Gaia will do its best to cooperate with your desires! Gaia will look at Human consciousness and try to help with what you have shown you like to do! Did you know this role of Gaia with you? It’s a partner with you, fast tracking what you give to it. You may wish to review what the indigenous of the planet still understand. Gaia is a partner!

Pandemic: Don’t you find it odd that in the last 50 years, when you have a population of seven billion Human Beings, with up to 2,000 airplanes in the air at any given moment, going between almost every conceivable place, that there has not been a pandemic in your lifetime? There have been five starts of potential pandemics over the last 20 years, yet none became serious. Did any of you put this together? Dear ones, when the world was far less populated a few hundred years ago, with no mass travel to spread a virus, there were still millions wiped out by a pandemic. With the increased population and mass travel, there is far more danger today than before. It doesn’t make sense, does it? What happened to stop it?

When you know humanity’s relationship to Gaia, it makes sense. Gaia is a life-force that is your partner, watching you change the balance of light and dark and reflecting what Humans want. It has polarity, too! Perhaps it’s time to start your meditations with thanking your planet Earth for supporting you in the spirituality of your Akash, for always being with you, a life-force that is always present. The ancients started their ceremonies in that way. Have you forgotten?

Now, I’ve just set the stage for the next subject, haven’t I? Ebola. Are you afraid yet? Gaia is a life-force that is a part of Human consciousness. My partner put it on the screen today so you could see the connections [during the lecture series]. Now it’s time to connect the dots. Dear one, Gaia is in the battle, too, for here comes something scary that you haven’t had in your lifetime and you’re afraid of it – the potential of a pandemic on the planet.

There’s a very famous film that has some dialogue that my partner will quote. Some of you will know it and some of you won’t, but here it is: “Have a little fire, scarecrow?” What are you afraid of? Darkness? Gaia is in the battle with you and is actively pursuing solutions through light. The energy of the planet is with you in this fight! The ebola virus is a shock and a surprise. It is propelled by ignorance and fear, so it can flourish. Look at where it started and look at how it gets its ability to continue. It expands its fear and power easily with those who believe it’s a curse instead of those who understand the science.

Villages are filled with those who refuse to leave their family members because they believe the disease is a curse! FEAR! Instead of understanding that they should be in isolation from the virus, the family dies together through ignorance and fear. This represents how darkness works. Are you going to become afraid also? Dear ones, ebola will be conquered. Know this and be at peace. Pray for light for those in the villages who are afraid, that they can know more about how to keep the spread of this disease and live to see their families.

You Are Changing History

You are the ones who have caused this change, dear ones. Congratulations for shining a light so bright that you’ve got darkness on the run. The proof of this is in everything I just told you. Against all odds, you’ve got a virus without a cure. Against all odds, you’ve got a barbarian movement that is as evil and dark as you could imagine and has seemingly organized overnight. Against all odds, this organization has multiple funding sources, financial distribution, and plenty of help to scare everyone around it. So frightening is it that there are coalitions between countries that would never get together and agree on anything, yet they are now at the table figuring out how to fight the darkness. That’s evil!

Evil is not created through outside forces any more than light is created through outside forces. Light and dark is a balance that humanity has the ability to pull in either direction. Did you hear that? You can go as dark as you want or as light as you want, and you have always had that ability. This is the duality that you have seen through your history, forever. However, you are in a situation where you have now come out of a barbarian age – thousands of years of conquering and killing and war – and you’ve turned a corner.

Again, I say to you: Do not despair! Generate the light that you came in with and stand tall and out of fear.“That’s too simple, Kryon.” Oh really? How do you think this planet has turned this major corner, dear Lightworker? Old soul, do you not understand that the light that you have is a multidimensional force? It is not linear. It is not the amount of it that is important. It’s the intent of it and the truth of it. That is to say, a little goes a long way and old souls are extremely powerful in this department.

I close with this. More than 20 years ago, I sat in a chair just like this one with my partner. He was starting to open his mouth for the first time in front of a group. One of the first metaphors that he ever gave was calledThe Room of Darkness. I’m now going to give it again. For now, of all times on the planet, you need to hear it again. The dynamics of dark and light are not about quantity.

The Room of Darkness

You’re in a room and it’s dark and it’s filled with many Human Beings. The room is so dark that you bump into each other. It’s frightening not to be able to see who is next to you, or who they might represent, how big they are, what gender they are, or anything about them. You feel isolated.

You cling to your neighbor by holding hands. You find others who will hold hands with you, and you’re safe as long as you hold hands. It’s dark! Don’t bump into the others! You don’t know who they are or what they want. Only trust those you know who are holding your hand! The others are only after your resources! It’s best if you can come together, perhaps build a little city of your own, then put walls around it so that the “others” can’t get you. You can’t see! It’s dark. They could have weapons, they could be after you. You just don’t know. You can’t see them.

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years, this parable represented the consciousness of the planet. You separated, you combined, you defended. Others who were, indeed, in the dark, conquered any lands that they could overrun with their power.

In this dark room, suddenly there appears a Lightworker, an older soul. He lights a match. Now a match doesn’t create much light, but if you’re in a totally black room, a little light goes a long way. Suddenly, the room changes. It’s not flooded with light, but you can start to see around you, dimly. You can see your neighbors for the first time! They are just like you – afraid! Shortly, Humans start to drop the walls; they break the circle and stop holding hands with only their family. Instead, they find other hands to hold, and they find other circles are just like they are.

Many want to know where the light came from. They don’t even know the name of the match bearer, do they? Did the match bearer have a doctrine? No. Did the match bearer have an organization to join or promote? No. What did the match bearer have? Light! Many want more of it. They look at the match bearer and they say,“May we share the fire from your match?” The answer is yes, and suddenly there’s even more light. Others then go and share their light from their matches. With every match, there’s more light, and now many can see each other clearly. With the light, there’s no reason at all for fear. The darkness is gone.

This is the metaphor of the light consciousness on the planet, slowly increasing. We gave this story to you 20 years ago. We did it then because we knew about the potential of today and your battle with the dark.

Shine your light by how you react to all this and by staying out of fear. The whole world will be brighter for it. The darkness, the pandemic, no dark thing can survive your light! This is the truth of the time you have waited for. I want you to carry this concept home. It’s profound, isn’t it?

I told you it was coming and now here it is. Deal with it, dear ones. I just told you how. You’re winning the battle. Don’t watch the news for your truth, for it will make you fear. After all, it’s their job. Understand this, and be wise in a time of change.

And so it is.

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Potter expects full commitment from Chelsea stars despite World Cup injury risk

Graham Potter expects Chelsea’s players to put their bodies on the line in the run-up to the World Cup despite injury concerns after Ben Chilwell joined the growing list of stars facing potential heartbreak.

Chelsea left-back Chilwell appears unlikely to make the England squad for Qatar after a hamstring injury in the Champions League clash with Dinamo Zagreb on Wednesday.

He is one of several top-flight players who have late fitness concerns ahead of the tournament. South Korea’s Son Heung-min had surgery for a facial fracture sustained as Tottenham won in Marseille earlier this week.

“It’s very difficult to play Premier League football, or Champions League football, and go at it half-hearted,” Chelsea manager Potter said on Friday.

“That’s pretty much impossible, then at the same time you know there’s a World Cup a couple of weeks away, so that’s a tricky position for everybody.”

Chilwell was set to undergo a scan on Friday to evaluate the severity of his injury, though Potter did not sound optimistic about his defender’s prognosis.

“We’ll find out today or tomorrow,” he said. “He feels OK, he’s aware of the injury, we need to let the swelling settle down and we’ll know more after that.

“I wouldn’t say he fears the worst. Until we get the scan, it’s difficult to say. At the moment, we are hopeful and fingers crossed. It’s disappointing, of course.”

Chelsea host Arsenal on Sunday, a week after suffering a 4-1 loss at Brighton in Potter’s first trip back to his former club, though the Blues bounced back with their 2-1 midweek win over Dinamo.

“Brighton was a defeat we didn’t like and didn’t enjoy,” said Potter. “Be strange if we did. So, they’ve responded well, their performance in Zagreb I think was a solid one and a professional one.

“It had intensity, it had enthusiasm, and everybody has trained well, everybody has been responsible.”

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Real Madrid Transfer News Roundup: Los Blancos receive setback in pursuit of Chelsea full-back; Carlo Ancelotti happy with summer business, and more – September 2, 2022

Real Madrid are preparing to welcome Real Betis to the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday in La Liga. Los Blancos have a perfect record so far this season and will look for maximum points this weekend.

Meanwhile, the Spanish giants have suffered a setback in their pursuit of a Chelsea full-back. Elsewhere, manager Carlo Ancelotti is happy with his squad.

On that note, here’s a look at the key Real Madrid transfer stories as on September 2, 2022:

Real Madrid receive setback in Reece James pursuit

Reece James has admirers at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Reece James has admirers at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Real Madrid have hit a roadblock in their pursuit of Reece James, according to The Athletic via Madrid Universal. That’s because Chelsea are reportedly working to tie the 22-year-old down to a new deal.

The Englishman has evolved in leaps and bounds with the Blues and is one of the first names in manager Thomas Tuchel’s team. Last season, he bagged an impressive five goals and nine assists in 26 Premier League games, helping the Blues finish fourth and qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

His steady rise has earned him admirers at the Santiago Bernabeu. Los Blancos are keeping an eye out for a successor for Dani Carvajal, who is on the wrong side of 30.

Chelsea have officially opened talks with Reece James and Mason Mount over new long terms deals… 👏 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞. 🌟

James has been identified as the perfect candidate to fill the shoes of the Spanish right-back. The Englishman is among the lowest earners at Stamford Bridge, so Madrid are monitoring him closely.

The London giants are aware of the interest in their prized asset and have now sprung into action to keep him at the club. The 22-year-old has three years left in his deal, but Chelsea are already preparing a new offer for the player.

Carlo Ancelotti happy with transfer business this summer

Carlo Ancelotti is happy with Real Madrid’s business in the transfer market this summer. The La Liga giants concluded their dealings early this summer, signing Antonio Rudiger on a Bosman move and splashing the cash on Aurelien Tchouameni. The club concentrated on outgoings in the rest of the window.

Speaking to the press, Ancelotti expressed his satisfaction at the players who opted to stay with Los Blancos beyond the summer.

“With Rudiger and Tchouameni, it was already done in terms of arrivals. Our doubts were only about exits, with Casemiro or Marco Asensio. One left, and one didn’t. But, now I’m happy because I have players who could have left but didn’t leave,” said Ancelotti.

He added:

“These players have always been good when they’ve played. I think everyone here is motivated. A major part of our success last year was the players who didn’t always start.”

The Italian also opened up on Dani Ceballos’ decision to stay at the Santiago Bernabeu.

“He knows his role here very well, that he has a big role. That’s why he decided to stay. I think he feels appreciated here, as he knows we like him,” said Ancelotti.

There are quite a few players nearing the end of their contracts with Real Madrid. However, Ancelotti is not bothered by the situation, as he believes most players want to stay.

“It’s not a problem that some players only have one year left on their contract. There are some, like Modric, Kroos, Benzema or Nacho, who want to stay and will be able to stay. That’s the objective for the club and the players, so it won’t be a problem,” said Ancelotti.

He added:

“Clubs are more aware of their finances these days and more reluctant to invest so much and so far into the future, so you get more players who reach the end of their contracts.”

Los Blancos are atop the La Liga standings with nine points after three games.

Alvaro Odriozola’s Real Sociedad move breaks down due to financial reasons

Alvaro Odriozola failed to leave the Santiago Bernabeu this summer.
Alvaro Odriozola failed to leave the Santiago Bernabeu this summer.

Alvaro Odriozola’s proposed move to Real Sociedad broke down due to financial reasons, according to AS via Madrid Universal.

The Spanish right-back is a peripheral figure at Real Madrid, who were hoping to offload him this summer. Los Blancos even held talks with Sociedad, who were eager to take their former player back.

However, the two clubs failed to reach an agreement over the financial aspects of the deal. Real Madrid’s asking price for the player, coupled with his wages, made the move financially unviable for Sociedad. As such, Odriozola is set to stay at the Santiago Bernabeu till at least January.

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Ex-Mossad Chief Cohen Shared Secret Info With Flight Attendant, Her Husband Claims - Report

© AFP 2022 / GALI TIBBONDirector of the Mossad Yossi Cohen attends an event for the dedication of a new memorial wall for Israel’s fallen servicemen and women, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 30, 2017.
Director of the Mossad Yossi Cohen attends an event for the dedication of a new memorial wall for Israel’s fallen servicemen and women, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 30, 2017.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 20.12.2021
After stepping down as the Jewish State's top spy, Cohen made several high-profile statements. In particular, he hinted that the Mossad blew up Iran's underground centrifuge nuclear facility at Natanz, for which he was chastised and subjected to an investigation into violations of professional ethics.
Israeli intelligence agency Mossad's former chief Yossi Cohen revealed state secrets to a flight attendant with whom he was having an affair, as well as to her husband, Israel's Channel 13 broadcaster reported on Sunday.
According to a TV special, the full investigation of which is expected to be premiered on Tuesday in Hebrew, Cohen's affair began in late 2018 and saw him boast to the pair about different sensitive facts from the spy agency's operations around the world, as well as give them information on his foreign travels.

"He told lots of stories, including about Mossad," Guy Shiker, the flight attendant's husband told the outlet, per The Times of Israel's translation. "He’s a blabbermouth. He started telling me that Mossad was ‘sitting’ on a doctor of a well-known Arab leader."

The flight attendant's husband claimed that Cohen also revealed insights about his management approach, in particular, that he allegedly fired six top agency officials in the first 10 days at his post, "because they weren’t loyal to the system."

"They weren’t good. They thought I was their best friend when we were equals. The moment I was appointed [I fired them], without mercy," Cohen reportedly told Shiker.

More to the story, the husband shared with the channel that Cohen would send his wife texts in which he referred to her as "my princess" and "my beauty."

"You love my wife, she loves you, you’re destroying a family right now," Shiker told the spy chief.

According to the Times of Israel, in response to the allegations, Cohen stated that he never divulged any classified material or security secrets.
In this Sunday, July 3, 2016. photo, Yossi Cohen, director of Mossad, Israel's state intelligence agency, attends the funeral of Miki Mark who was killed in an shooting attack in the West Bank Friday, in Jerusalem. - Sputnik International, 1920, 16.08.2021
Israel Police Reportedly Probe Ex-Mossad Chief for Alleged Misconduct, Disclosing Secret Info
The latest allegations are not exactly new, as the former spy was accused of divulging state secrets and communicating with a flight attendant back in the summer. And Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit was reportedly considering a complaint lodged with the Justice Ministry at the time.
Back then, the former Mossad chief categorically refuted the claims, adding that there was no flight attendant with whom he was in a relationship at all.
After giving a rather outspoken interview upon leaving office, Cohen was slammed by many in his home country for the supposed secret revelations, which, apart from the Natanz facility explosion's responsibility, included the purported 2018 operation in which the agency stole Iran's nuclear archive from safes in a Tehran warehouse, and also a revelation that Iran's assassinated top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had been on the Mossad's radar for years.
According to Israeli media, embattled Cohen reportedly helped his daughter get a position at a firm with ties to a senior Emirati official while still serving as Israel's top spy.
His term as Mossad chief ended in June, and David Barnea took over. He was named the head of SoftBank's Israeli branch by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son a short time later. Cohen, who was appointed by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated that he would not rule out running for prime minister in the future, but he is not currently considering it.
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