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  1. Multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 15% scalded home milled Atle wheat, 5% scalded home milled cracked black wheat, seaweed, sage, rosemary, 80% very strong white Canadian flour and 70g mixed seeds. 
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #rye

  2. Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026

    Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers

    January 2026

    With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.

    Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever.  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers.  Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.

    More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.

    In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March.  The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed.  The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear.  The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.

    On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country).  Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).

    ‘failure of imagination and ambition’

    The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help”  In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.

    The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement.  The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.

    With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter.  We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.

    ‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK | Communities | The Guardian

    On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.

    And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:

    Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe

    AH

    Previous posts:

    Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’

    #asylum #BorderForce #channelCrossings #HomeOffice #refugees

  3. Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026

    Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers

    January 2026

    With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.

    Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever.  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers.  Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.

    More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.

    In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March.  The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed.  The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear.  The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.

    On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country).  Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).

    ‘failure of imagination and ambition’

    The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help”  In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.

    The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement.  The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.

    With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter.  We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.

    ‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK | Communities | The Guardian

    On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.

    And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:

    Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe

    AH

    Previous posts:

    Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’

    #asylum #BorderForce #channelCrossings #HomeOffice #refugees

  4. Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026

    Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers

    January 2026

    With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.

    Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever.  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers.  Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.

    More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.

    In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March.  The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed.  The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear.  The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.

    On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country).  Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).

    ‘failure of imagination and ambition’

    The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help”  In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.

    The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement.  The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.

    With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter.  We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.

    ‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK | Communities | The Guardian

    On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.

    And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:

    Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe

    AH

    Previous posts:

    Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’

    #asylum #BorderForce #channelCrossings #HomeOffice #refugees

  5. Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026

    Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers

    January 2026

    With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.

    Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever.  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers.  Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.

    More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.

    In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March.  The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed.  The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear.  The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.

    On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country).  Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).

    ‘failure of imagination and ambition’

    The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help”  In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.

    The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement.  The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.

    With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter.  We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.

    ‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK | Communities | The Guardian

    On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.

    And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:

    Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe

    AH

    Previous posts:

    Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’

    #asylum #BorderForce #channelCrossings #HomeOffice #refugees

  6. Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026

    Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers

    January 2026

    With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.

    Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever.  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers.  Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.

    More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.

    In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March.  The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed.  The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear.  The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.

    On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country).  Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).

    ‘failure of imagination and ambition’

    The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help”  In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.

    The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement.  The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.

    With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter.  We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.

    ‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK | Communities | The Guardian

    On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.

    And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:

    Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe

    AH

    Previous posts:

    Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’

    #asylum #BorderForce #channelCrossings #HomeOffice #refugees

  7. #Wildflower seekers typically must wait until February or March to see blankets of color in #Borrego #Springs but,
    thanks to the early autumn rain,
    the blooms are arriving early.

    Last weekend, visitors walking through
    ⭐️Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and nearby areas
    found tall, bright sunflowers, deep pink desert sand-verbena, basket evening primrose and even elusive desert lilies, which thrilled photographers like myself

    latimes.com/travel/story/2025-

  8. Seth Seader Pollack
    9 Tevet 5719 - 15 Kislev 5786
    December 20, 1958 - December 5, 2025

    Video of Memorial Service at Congregation Beth Israel today; service begins at 25:00: youtube.com/live/XAc53UwMDfA?s.
    (The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” Details: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

    bikemonterey.org/in-memory-of-

    #RIP #SethPollack #Monterey #MontereyCounty #CyclistFatality

  9. Seth Seader Pollack
    9 Tevet 5719 - 15 Kislev 5786
    December 20, 1958 - December 5, 2025

    Video of Memorial Service at Congregation Beth Israel today; service begins at 25:00: youtube.com/live/XAc53UwMDfA?s.
    (The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” Details: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

    bikemonterey.org/in-memory-of-

    #RIP #SethPollack #Monterey #MontereyCounty #CyclistFatality

  10. Seth Seader Pollack
    9 Tevet 5719 - 15 Kislev 5786
    December 20, 1958 - December 5, 2025

    Video of Memorial Service at Congregation Beth Israel today; service begins at 25:00: youtube.com/live/XAc53UwMDfA?s.
    (The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” Details: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

    bikemonterey.org/in-memory-of-

    #RIP #SethPollack #Monterey #MontereyCounty #CyclistFatality

  11. Seth Seader Pollack
    9 Tevet 5719 - 15 Kislev 5786
    December 20, 1958 - December 5, 2025

    Video of Memorial Service at Congregation Beth Israel today; service begins at 25:00: youtube.com/live/XAc53UwMDfA?s.
    (The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” Details: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

    bikemonterey.org/in-memory-of-

    #RIP #SethPollack #Monterey #MontereyCounty #CyclistFatality

  12. Seth Seader Pollack
    9 Tevet 5719 - 15 Kislev 5786
    December 20, 1958 - December 5, 2025

    Video of Memorial Service at Congregation Beth Israel today; service begins at 25:00: youtube.com/live/XAc53UwMDfA?s.
    (The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” Details: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

    bikemonterey.org/in-memory-of-

    #RIP #SethPollack #Monterey #MontereyCounty #CyclistFatality

  13. Multi-seeded sourdough using a Tartine levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 20% scalded home milled Emmer grain, lemon zest, 80% very strong white Canadian flour plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #tartine

  14. Thomas Seeberg Torjussen – „Toxic Tom“ (Serie, 2025)

    Dieser norwegische Vierteiler ist echt ein ziemlich gewagter Stunt. Schon auf dem Papier liest sich das so riskant, dass ich fast gar nicht glauben wollte, dass so etwas funktionieren kann. Ein Mann, der tagsüber in der Boutique seiner Mutter (ausgerechnet) Damenkleider (ausgerechnet) verkauft und nachts im Netz Frauen trollt, muss vor seiner eigenen toxischen Wut fliehen und die Welt aus der Sicht der Frauen erleben, die er zuvor bedroht hat. Das @ZDF traut sich was… gut so! (ZDFneo, Neu!)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  15. Thomas Seeberg Torjussen – „Toxic Tom“ (Serie, 2025)

    Dieser norwegische Vierteiler ist echt ein ziemlich gewagter Stunt. Schon auf dem Papier liest sich das so riskant, dass ich fast gar nicht glauben wollte, dass so etwas funktionieren kann. Ein Mann, der tagsüber in der Boutique seiner Mutter (ausgerechnet) Damenkleider (ausgerechnet) verkauft und nachts im Netz Frauen trollt, muss vor seiner eigenen toxischen Wut fliehen und die Welt aus der Sicht der Frauen erleben, die er zuvor bedroht hat. Das @ZDF traut sich was… gut so! (ZDFneo, Neu!)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  16. Thomas Seeberg Torjussen – „Toxic Tom“ (Serie, 2025)

    Dieser norwegische Vierteiler ist echt ein ziemlich gewagter Stunt. Schon auf dem Papier liest sich das so riskant, dass ich fast gar nicht glauben wollte, dass so etwas funktionieren kann. Ein Mann, der tagsüber in der Boutique seiner Mutter (ausgerechnet) Damenkleider (ausgerechnet) verkauft und nachts im Netz Frauen trollt, muss vor seiner eigenen toxischen Wut fliehen und die Welt aus der Sicht der Frauen erleben, die er zuvor bedroht hat. Das @ZDF traut sich was… gut so! (ZDFneo, Neu!)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  17. Thomas Seeberg Torjussen – „Toxic Tom“ (Serie, 2025)

    Dieser norwegische Vierteiler ist echt ein ziemlich gewagter Stunt. Schon auf dem Papier liest sich das so riskant, dass ich fast gar nicht glauben wollte, dass so etwas funktionieren kann. Ein Mann, der tagsüber in der Boutique seiner Mutter (ausgerechnet) Damenkleider (ausgerechnet) verkauft und nachts im Netz Frauen trollt, muss vor seiner eigenen toxischen Wut fliehen und die Welt aus der Sicht der Frauen erleben, die er zuvor bedroht hat. Das @ZDF traut sich was… gut so! (ZDFneo, Neu!)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  18. Thomas Seeberg Torjussen – „Toxic Tom“ (Serie, 2025)

    Dieser norwegische Vierteiler ist echt ein ziemlich gewagter Stunt. Schon auf dem Papier liest sich das so riskant, dass ich fast gar nicht glauben wollte, dass so etwas funktionieren kann. Ein Mann, der tagsüber in der Boutique seiner Mutter (ausgerechnet) Damenkleider (ausgerechnet) verkauft und nachts im Netz Frauen trollt, muss vor seiner eigenen toxischen Wut fliehen und die Welt aus der Sicht der Frauen erleben, die er zuvor bedroht hat. Das @ZDF traut sich was… gut so! (ZDFneo, Neu!)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  19. Multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 10% scalded home milled Emmer grain, 5% scalded YQ wheat, 5% cracked black wheat, Irish dulse seaweed, lemon zest, 80% very strong white Canadian flour plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #rye #dulse

  20. Multi-seeded sourdough using an Alaskan levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 10% scalded home milled Atle grain, 10% scalded YQ wheat, dulse seaweed, lemon zest, sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #alaskan #dulse

  21. Multi-seeded sourdough using a Tartine levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 10% scalded home milled rye grain, 10% scalded black wheat, dulse seaweed, lemon zest, sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #tartine #dulse #rye

  22. Multi-seeded sourdough using a San Francisco levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 15% scalded home milled Emmer grain, 5% scalded cracked black wheat, dulse seaweed, lemon zest, sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #colorado #dulse

  23. Multi-seeded sourdough using a Colorado levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 15% scalded home milled Emmer grain, 5% scalded cracked YQ wheat, dulse seaweed, lemon zest, 80% very strong white Canadian flour, 60g olive oil plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #colorado #dulse