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ADA OSAKWE: The Creative Food Entrepreneur
April 4,2016
By Jemi Ekunkunbor
She typifies the quintessential brain and brawn. She has a CV that is as impressive as her looks. She holds a BSc in Economics (First Class Honours) from the University of Hull, U.K., a Masters in Economics and Finance from the University of Warwick, also in the U.K., and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois, United States, where she was awarded a Merit-based Scholarship and the Kellogg Leadership Award, the highest student honour given for distinguished leadership.
Her chosen career path has taken her to top investment institutions such as the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Tunisia, where she worked as a Senior Investment Officer. In London, she worked as an Analyst in the Debt Capital Markets team of BNP Paribas – an investment bank. In New York where she lived, she was a Vice President at Kuramo Capital Management, a private equity firm. She also worked briefly with Actis, a multi-billion dollar private equity fund focused on emerging markets investment.
She returned to Nigeria and served as the Senior Investment Adviser to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria's former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development between 2012 and 2015. In this role, amongst various initiatives, she led the development and launch of the Fund for Agricultural Financing in Nigeria (FAFIN), an innovative private equity fund dedicated to investing in small and medium agri-business companies in Nigeria.
A lover of nature and food production, she likes to describe herself as a creative food entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Agrolay Ventures, a four in one company, Nuli Juice, Nuli Foods, Nature's Bounty and African Courier Express.
Recognized for her efforts, in 2014, she was named one of Forbes 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa. She is also an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow of the Africa Leadership Institute and a fellow of the African Leadership Network (ALN). In 2015, she received the 'Achiever in Agriculture' Award. She is also a 2016 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
When I met Ada Osakwe at her Ikoyi, home (in Lagos), she looked everything unconnected with agriculture; fiercely fashionable, the runway missed a model!
Agriculture is not a popular career path for women. What sparked your interest?
I am not the typical farmer, you would say, but while I was with the ministry, we were always going around trying to get people to look at agriculture in a different way and bring the sexy and the umph back. I think, what really brought me in was my interest in private equity; private investments. For me, agriculture is amazing. When I look at the entire value chain, it's not only about farming. You can see these farmers need markets and you can create those markets by taking the farm products from the farmers and processing them into finished product.
It's not just about processing, it can also be the chain; the logistics of packaging and taking these products to retailers and, eventually, to our tables as food. At every single point, there is business opportunity on that chain. That is what got me thinking that there is more than a typical hoe and cutlass that people see when they see a farmer.
After your interest was kindled, what was the first thing you did?
My interest was about how to take our agricultural products and make them into good finished products that can compete on the world stage. The first thing I did was to tell myself that I want to stop accepting mediocrity when it comes to agricultural products. I want it to become the norm that you buy a product first because it is well packaged and of good quality before you realise it is a made in Nigeria product. That was how I got started and, in that sense, I had to think of how to start getting quality products that are tasty because if you have the right packaging and it doesn't taste right, they will never buy you again. That's why I believe in creative agro-business. I like to call myself the creative food entrepreneur. So I started with processing fruits and vegetables. It's called Nuli Juice. First NAFDAC registered fruits and vegetables juice.
What does it mean to be a creative food entrepreneur?
As a creative food entrepreneur, you are going over and above just the farming of agricultural produce and even the processing which is value addition. You are taking an added step to think about innovation and creativity when it comes to food products. So, you can't just stop at adding value, you have to grow that value and make it a product that will actually sell; a product that people will be attracted to, a product that people will feel safe to pick when it comes to food.
You have to start having the right regulations, the right certification. That is creative agri-business because you are thinking about all the various aspects – the authenticity, the art, the design, the packaging, the logo of your brand, the name you call it etc. All of that is what creative entrepreneurship is about – bringing locally grown agricultural produce and adding value to them.
How effective is this in our country?
It's very effective especially with foreign exchange depreciation; everybody says buy Nigeria, save the naira but, in the end, the only way we can save the naira is if we are exporting our products that are done here. The only way you can export your product is if you have a competitive product in the market. I want to see my juice products on the shelves when I travel. Why would I have to walk the shelves in any of our super markets here in Nigeria and pick up a product and see made in Portugal, made in China, made in the UK? No, not when we have it here. So the reason why I go into the creative agro-entreneurship is that in order to compete, our products must meet that standard of food and beverage products abroad in the look and feel, in taste and packaging and certification. That entire process is what is so important to me.
Are the relevant authorities doing their bit in this regard?
It's not just about NAFDAC or Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) stamping something. It's also about the fact that there are global agricultural good practices, standards that we need to meet in order to be able to export our products. Packaged and processed foods is a $2 trillion market and we don't even feature in it.
We are hearing now that the UK is banning beans coming from Nigeria because our beans are not good enough. All we have to do is package right, put a nice sticker and send it out and let them know it came from a farm in Nigeria that is doing the right thing.
How many of our women are processing or is it that they just farm and sell off their produce?
Not many women are processing because it's not always easy. There are small scale processing whereby a farmer takes her cassava and makes it into garri but there is a form of processing whereby, for example, the cassava starch is substituted for corn starch that Nestlé uses. That is another level. If you go to the North, they process shea. You also have the moringa seeds. Right now, in the USA, shea butter is something that everybody wants. But where are we featuring? Instead, Ghanaians are entering that market and taking it up just because we are not packaging and branding well.
What is being done to train these women?
A lot of training and awareness workshops are going on to teach them how they can earn foreign exchange because many of them don't even know the opportunities that are available to them. They say that our hibiscus is one of the best in the world. We have companies abroad who use it for tea and drinks. I think the awareness needs to be raised. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture does training for women but the more conscious effort is in the creative agro-business aspect which captures over 50% of the value chain. That is what we need to focus on.
Are people investing in agriculture?
They are now getting there. We spent the last four years in government focusing on the fact that the government should just provide the enabling environment but let the private sector lead and the only way we could do that was to demonstrate to the private sector and Nigerians that there is opportunity in agriculture. Now that we are where we are now with the economy, everybody is talking about diversification. Farming is not always considered easy. If you are sitting in Lagos and you expect to be running a farm in Anambra State, it's going to be tough. You need some serious oversight if you are doing it on the scale one wants to do it. But Nigerians are waking up to the opportunity; policies are being put in place but there are limitations.
Well, because it's still a new area, people are still learning about it. Even our financiers don't understand. There is a high perceived risk and there is a long gestation period but you have fruits like cucumber, tomatoes that take a shorter time to cultivate. There are many things one can do. It may be just packaging. One can invest in just storage and ensure that products don't go bad. But for us to truly compete in the scale of Brazil or Indonesia, serious investment needs to go into it.
How has Nigeria Incentive Risk Sharing of Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) helped in this regard?
Well, they introduced a scheme whereby seeds and fertilisers were given through mobile phones and there was shared risk between the government, the CBN as well as the agro-dealers who were providing these. I am no longer in government so I don't know what is going on now. But we do have a government that is focused on agriculture as a way of diversifying the economy. We have a CBN that is focused on policies.
How easy is it to get fertilisers accessible to women?
You still see the numbers are not in favour of women in many areas; it's a cultural thing too that the woman may have a farm but the man goes to collect the fertilisers. But we did see concerted effort by government in the way they empowered the women with a new system of distributing fertilisers through mobile phones. So the women have their phones and if they get an alert that they should come and collect their fertilisers, then they can go.
Now, you can see how with the use of technology, many woman have been empowered. But indeed, there could be a more focused effort because you still have majority of our farmers who are women. The former Minister of Agriculture, whom I worked with and who went on to become the President of African Development Bank; through his leadership there, they have now dedicated a funding line, millions of dollars towards providing credit to women in agriculture which is great.
That can complement what the government and the private sector is doing here. I have a big focus on hiring women. Over 60% of my staff are women. It's very important to me that women get an understanding of value addition in agriculture.
Do you think this can help with poverty alleviation?
That is for sure. There is no doubt about it. Women are amazing; just the kind of things they can do if they get a job to keep her family together and achieve goals.
While we are talking about women empowerment here, a bill on gender parity was recently thrown out by the Senate. How would you react to that?
It's so sad and unfortunate to see the lip service that is paid to gender equality! Even the things that I have done and accomplished, it's still unfortunate that you still walk into a place and people say: "na woman na".
We have a long way to go with the psyche of our society. This is not about paying lip service but demonstrating it through law and ensuring that we have that equality. That is why I love what you do at your magazine; just keep showcasing and promoting women and what they are capable of.
Sometimes, it's a cultural thing and in a country with different religions, it gets complicated.
As a person who has worked both in private and public sector, what is it like for a woman in the boardroom?
I tell people that since I came back to Nigeria as a professional, I have never felt an outright discrimination as a woman. I tell people, I just have to speak at a meeting and give my point of view and whatever concepts the men may have about a woman falls away. Know your stuff as a woman! You have to be extra prepared.
If you are in school, stay up late and read. If you are making a presentation in the office be on Powerpoint, do your research and come prepared because that is the only way this male-dominated society with the perception that they have can be changed. I tell every woman that I mentor, know your stuff if you want to make it in this society. Have confidence. Nobody can take that away from you. Also, find a good supporter, mentor or role model.
So how do you like to dress for those big meetings?
It's been a balance in terms of the way I dress, going through the corporate ladder. I like bright colours. I like being feminine but there were times when I had to tone things down because I wanted to be what society describes as professional.
It's only when you are high up there that you can start relaxing and say I can wear what I want. But prior to that, people only take you seriously when you conform to a certain extent. I keep a serious face and I always try to speak or say something. I always say to those I mentor, be the one to take notes because at the end of the meeting, it will give you an opportunity to say something. It adds up.
I like shoes a lot. So, even if I am wearing a dress suit, I will give a pop of colour with my shoes. If I am wearing a dress, it will not be a simple straight dress, it will have some detail. I pick unique pieces that I can find anywhere.
How would you describe your style?
Easy but quirky sometimes. I go with a lot of elegant looks where possible. I do like pearls if I am going to work but there is a great simplicity to my style. I like good cuts when it comes to suits or trousers. It could be simple and elegant but the quirky part, I use colour there.
Do people sometimes think you could be underpins because of your glamorous posture?
I'll tell you a story. When I was working as Senior Investment Adviser to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, he was invited to speak at the Bankers Committee Meeting with the former CBN Governor as chairman. They all went to Calabar for their annual retreat. My boss couldn't go so, he said: "Ada, please go and stand in for whatever they have to say on Agriculture".
At one point, Dr. Sanusi was lamenting why my boss could not come and so he was told that he sent somebody and he was like, "Who?" So, I stood up. I was wearing a blue, short straight dress, keeping it nice and elegant with my heels and I had long hair. The governor was like, "Is this the person Adesina sent?" And he added, "Things are changing in Agriculture". And I said: "Yes sir. This is part of the transformation agenda."
What won't you do in the name of fashion?
I always like to look elegant and respect myself as a woman and in the way I present the essence of being a woman. I may want to be sexy, show legs where possible but no exposure. I work with my body. I wouldn't wear something that would make me an object of somebody's wet dreams. We can be sexy and elegant without showing anything. I will not go to the extent of showing parts of the body that the Lord has given to me to be covered and kept.
When you are not working, where do you love to go to rest?
I love anywhere where there is a beach. When I choose to rest, take me to a place where I can hear the ocean in the morning when I wake up or a place where I can just sit and listen to nature or read a book. That is for rest. But I like shopping.
So, where is your favourite destination?
I love New York. I love shopping there. I love Italy, Rome particularly. I like the history. I could go there over and over again.
Between beauty and fashion, which would you emphasise?
It's a balance but I think I like fashion because I like dressing up. I like shoes especially the Sophia Webster shoes.
What designers do you subscribe to?
I can go crazy with Sophia Webster shoes. Otherwise, I don't bother with label. It's more of functionality for me.
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But in January 2014 the Catalan Government [Generalitat] circulated a memorandum among those responsible for Foreign Affairs in 45 countries throughout the world that stating that "...it is false to assert that Catalonia will stop being a member of the EU". "It is even in Spain's interest for Catalonia to keep forming part of the EU". The document adds that "Catalans want to keep forming part of the EU and the Euro zone" and, in any case, "whether or not Catalonia remains in the EU would be a political decision in the hands of the governments of the member states".
In accordance with Decree 170/2014 of December 23, regarding the structure of the Secretariat for Foreign and European Union Affairs, the Secretariat for Foreign and European Affairs is responsible for directing, promoting and coordinating the external action of the Catalan Government and its representation abroad. This coordination is exerted through the existent collegiate bodies as well as through meetings and periodic contact, which serve to transmit the ministries' interests regarding European Union initiatives, or with reference to third countries, territorial cooperation networks and international organisations, and to advise on development cooperation projects. According to data published by the State's Ministry of Economy and Competiveness, foreign investment in Catalonia reached a total of 4,857 million euros in 2016. Also in 2016 Catalan exports went over €65,000 million a year on year growth of 2%. This is a growth rate higher than the Euro area (0.7%), Spain (1.7%), Germany (1.2%) and Italy (1.1%), and contrasts with falls in France (-0.9%), the UK (-0.2%), the US (-3.2%), China (-6.4%) and Japan (-7 4%). There are 16,929 regular exporting businesses in Catalonia, that represents 25.5% of all of Spanish exports.
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The Catalan government delegate in Berlin, Marie Kapretz, admitted that Germans are "sceptical" of change due to the instability it brings.
On September 15, 2014, the Government of the Generalitat approved the Plan Catalunya-Marroc for the period 2014-2017. This is the first time that such an exhaustive task of detecting and prosecuting actions with Morocco had been carried out, with the objective of channeling current activities, establishing synergies between the Government and the institutions and working together and coordinated by Expand and enhance future actions.
Awareness of the inequalities between rich and poor countries had led Catalans to set up international solidarity organisations known as development NGOs (organitzacions no governamentals per al desenvolupament, ONGD). Development NGOs lead projects in developing countries with a view to improving living conditions there, establishing new types of relationships between northern and southern countries, and contributing to the full development of all peoples and cultures.
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According to a credible source, Kevin Connolly is leading the race to become Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2019. But while the actor's fans are thrilled with the news, many people hold a very different opinion.
Why not Connolly for Person of the Year?
The list of nominees for Time magazine's Person of the Year is always an eclectic mix of world leaders, pop culture icons, buzzworthy names, and human rights activists. The unexpected inclusion of the 45-year-old actor, as a 2019 nominee has therefore sparked controversy and debate.
"What makes Connolly so important is the potential and influence he now has, rather than anything he has already done," said a panelist who preferred to remain anonymous, adding that earlier this month, the actor have already been named 'American Of The Year' by some major American newspapers and even 'Patchogue Citizen Of The Year' by the readers of a local gazette in Patchogue (Kevin Connolly's hometown).
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Miguel Sano: 'I'll lose weight and get in better shape'
Sano's weight jumped to a reported 290 pounds this season.
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While Miguel Sano was back in the lineup Tuesday after missing 12 games with a leg injury, his focus is on entering next season in better shape.
According to the Twins, Sano plans to head home to the Dominican Republic after the season where he'll work out and eat better in an effort to lose weight that could help him return to his 2017 All-Star form.
"I've got my people to check out that stuff for me," Sano said Tuesday when asked if the Twins will provide him a workout and diet plan. "For me next year, I'll be OK. I'll lose weight and get in better shape. I know who I am and what I can do."
Sano is listed at 260 pounds on the MLB website, but Mike Berardino of the Pioneer Press says Sano's weight reached about 290 pounds earlier this season. He's dropped 25 pounds and has an end goal of playing next season between 245-255 pounds.
"Was that in English or Spanish?" manager Paul Molitor said jokingly after hearing Sano wants to get to 245. "The actual number gets a lot of attention. Just do what you need to do to put yourself in a position to be successful. I'm not worried about coming in at [a certain weight]."
Part of the reason Sano's weight ballooned this season is because he had offseason surgery to insert a titanium rod into his leg. It kept him from working out most of the winter, thus putting him behind schedule. He never really caught up and has since played in just 71 games and is hitting a dismal .199 with 13 homers and 41 RBI.
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Continuum Review: "Revolutions Per Minute"
(Episode: 3.10)
By Kyle Burton | June 7, 2014 | 9:49pm
In the first half of "Revolutions Per Minute," Kiera remarks to Carlos that she "doesn't like secrets." She's the matured hypocrite, having lied herself sick, like a week of subsistence on rice cakes. "Revolutions" is Alka-Seltzer; in incremental doses, truths come out. Most of the season's tension has come from withholding. These people, in other lives, often operated outside of acceptable conduct for the sake of each other. They followed rules, but they had hearts. This season had to depart from that, and finally, we're seeing some consequence.
We might've expected more uncanniness throughout. Season Three has been more fascinated with than horrified by the doublings. Uncanniness is the brain's inability to compute a paradoxical self-reflective reality. Continuum isn't a show that ever displays "ERROR." Instead, Kiera's strangely settled into complacency. She seems over the particulars of Alec's betrayal. Initially, it was that he hijacked her only vehicle back to her family. How, then, do we reconcile Kiera growing adversarial towards the Freelancers? Oddly, in her bigges panic about her original goal, her stakes flipped. The present weighs more heavily on her than her home.
In the scope of the season, the introversion is sweeter in concept than execution. But the dynamic between personal history, present, and progression fuel this episode. Carlos and Young Sadler have othered Kiera from the start. She's a fill-in. Their memories and experiences together aren't shared. To them, she is Masahiro Mori's prosthetic hand;. We can't blame them. But "Revolutions Per Minute" extracts confrontation: What do you mean to me?
By the end, the question is addressed directly. Carlos finds the subzero tomb bodiless and clean. Young Sadler counters his anger with funeral arrangements. Carlos has needed clarity from circumstances that cannot provide it. Closure will have to do. Kiera stumbles into an invite and so proceeds the living funeral to end all living funerals. The last words are brief. Carlos's stick: "So long, partner." Kiera turns to him with a wrenching mixture of understanding, sorrow, and inadequacy, and it does not falter when he comforts, "I'm glad you're here." Something might be better than nothing, but let's speak straightly: Perhaps not unlike her family hopes, there is no return in sight.
The episode is a bit of a showcase for Rachel Nichols. She hasn't had the chance to flex her hold on Kiera for a while. Here, she cracks near the end and plays the emotion as a minor surprise to Kiera. It overcomes her in a way for which Season Three hasn't allotted time, and Nichols's footing never slips. But her strongest moment is that tearless one. The sheer letdown in her eyes when Carlos confirms his secondary affection for her releases far more tension than prior episodes had built. We've seen the gears and recognized the direction, but Nichols's compensates in a single shot for much of the season's developmental shortcomings. It's a good thing too, because Denis McGrath's script asks the actors to interact with the things they say more than it requires that they embody them.
The episode opens with a vision instead of a flashback. More so, we witness someone having a vision. It's violent. John Doe describes the nightmare to Kiera in fragments of pseudo-verse, as if a half-coherent Poe were transcribing Bradbury into couplets. The nightmare is of his wife and daughter, of something dark. What he describes sounds like collapse. Amidst it, he envisions a rainy day, and his daughter counting sapphire beads on a windowsill. It's an elfin image: the sparkling, jeweled blue of feminine innocence in contrast with the greyness of a world it can only, if safeguarded, enlighten.
It's the seed that sprouts Devil's Snare. It's idealism, with which Continuum shares no oxygen. It doesn't only foreshadow John Doe's purpose. Kiera's hopes have gone. Young Sadler reopens his line to Kiera's CMR. There's relief for her; it's a habit of old friends. But she's lost more preciousness than family alone; this too is her vision. The memorial is nothing of the sort: That old friend's erasing evidence. She confronts him, and Young Sadler goes Old Sadler: "The Alec you met two years ago is dead—or in a cage somewhere." And he's right. Whatever is irreconcilable between them is also her doing. She chose the Alec whose rejection was a dormant thing. It's the sort of confrontation that beckons spillover.
"Revolutions Per Minute" had boatloads of setup. The thematic and character drama demanded closer attention, so I'll run through the plot points here:
—John Doe's name is Brad Tonkin. He's a militia field commander. He killed the other Kiera. (This storyline, despite Ryan Robbins best efforts, is in limbo.)
—Kellog's maneuverings are getting more complex. Between his yet mysterious partnership with Curtis, last week's annexation into Piron, and this week's manipulation of Kiera for Sonya, plus Brad's not knowing the name Alec Sadler, Kellog's role is set to explode (probably in the finale).
—Dillon's daughter is pulled from undercover.
—Young Sadler knows what Brad did, and, in angst, keeps it from Kiera.
—Young Sadler brings Julien onto the Piron payroll thanks to a little puppeteering from Kellog. (I think it's safe to assume Kellog isn't seeing some untapped market for pseudo-terrorism.)
—One difference between serial and procedural (or hybrid) formats is the convenience of plot. Reintroducing a memory drug exactly when we want to erase the Amnesiac Character trope exposes narrative gears. There's no reason for these two storylines to play out in unison. One is clearly a MacGyver for the other.
—Not sure how Kiera's CMR would be able to reconstruct the object in Brad's pocket via a security feed. The picture's just two-dimensional grey scale. This took nothing away from my experience with the episode, just curious to know if others thought something similar.
Kyle Burton is a freelance critic and an inaugural recipient of Indiewire and Sundance's Roger Ebert Fellowship. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Euro 2012 has made one thing painfully obvious: when an exciting new technology comes along people overuse it — and in this case by people I mean Canadian sports broadcaster TSN. Slow-motion footage of just about anything has been shown, this includes close-ups of players lunging towards the ball, players grimacing, and an exuberant (sixpackless) and shirtless German man jumping up and down. While slow-motion is lovely for select moments in the game — ones that were of some consequence such as goals or someone getting fowled — it seems to be used for just about anything that has happened when there is an extra minute to spare. There are some things that just don't need to be slowed down such as an exuberant (sixpackless) and shirtless German man jumping up and down. This is about good judgement and moderation. Perhaps as with all technology we will get this one soon and use it only when the situation justifies it.


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Category Archives: "A Conspiracy Unmasked"
The Conspiracy All Along
While it is only in the chapter bearing the title that the "conspiracy" of Merry, Pippin, and Sam is at last "unmasked," Tolkien gives his readers a number of clues as to the conspiracy's existence along the way.
Frodo went tramping over the Shire with them; but more often he wandered by himself, and to the amazement of sensible folk he was sometimes seen far from home walking in the hills and woods under the the starlight. Merry and Pippin suspected that he visited the Elves at times, as Bilbo had done. ("The Shadow of the Past," p. 51-2)
While at the time this may only have seemed an innocent conjecture on Merry and Pippin's part as to whom Frodo has been visiting with in his "trampings" over the Shire, in light of the fear they later express that Frodo might "give them the slip," we realize in hindsight that this speculation over Frodo's encounters must have eventually had a deeper significance.
Another passage:
He [Frodo] looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders. He took to wandering further afield and more often by himself; and Merry and his other friends watched him anxiously. Often he was seen waking and talking with the strange wayfarers that began at this time to appear in the Shire. ("The Shadow of the Past," 52)
Here we see Merry is more than merely curious as to whom Frodo is visiting with, but is actually "anxious" over what Frodo might be up to in his travels.
Later, at the Prancing Pony, we see an unusually and cryptically pensive Sam:
Sam sat silent and said no more. He had a good deal to think about. For one thing, there was a lot to do up in the Bag End garden, and he would have a busy day tomorrow, if the weather cleared. The grass was growing fast. But Sam had more on his mind than gardening. After a while he sighed, and got up and went out. ("The Shadow of the Past," p. 54)
And when he goes out, we're told:
He walked home under the early stars through Hobbiton and up the Hill, whistling softly and thoughtfully. ("The Shadow of the Past," p. 55)
The next day, we're given a hint at what he might have been thinking about when he is caught "eavesdropping" on Gandalf's and Frodo's conversation:
'I don't,' said Gandalf grimly. It is some time since I last heard the sound of your shears. How long have you been eavesdropping?'
'Eavesdropping, sir? I don't follow you, begging your pardon. There ain't no eaves at Bag End, and that's a fact.'
'Don't be a fool! What have you heard, and why did you listen?' Gandalf's eyes flashed and his brows stuck out like bristles. ("The Shadow of the Past," 72-3)
When Frodo, Pippin, and Sam at last set out from Hobbiton and stay with the Elves at Woodhall, we read:
After a while Pippin fell fast asleep, and was lifted up and borne away to a bower under the trees; there he was laid upon a soft bed and slept the rest of the night away. Sam refused to leave his master. When Pippin had gone, he came and sat curled up at Frodo's feet, where at last he nodded and closed his eyes. Frodo remained long awake, talking with Gildor. ("Three is Company," 92)
We're told that Pippin fell asleep, but only that Sam "nodded and closed his eyes." Why? Turns out, of course, that Sam was not asleep. But he gets more deceptive still:
'It is,' said Frodo; 'but I thought my going was a secret known only to Gandalf and my faithful Sam.' He looked down at Sam, who was snoring gently. ("Three is Company," 92)
Again, we're told that Sam is snoring, but we're not told that he is actually sleeping.
In the next chapter, we get the following internal monologue by Frodo, with a Sam who seems to be reading his mind:
'No! I could not!' he [Frodo] said to himself. 'It is one thing to take my young friends walking over the Shire with me, until we are hungry and weary, and food and bed are sweet. To take them into exile, where hunger and weariness may have no cure, is quite another – even if they are willing to come. The inheritance is mine alone. I don't think I ought even to take Sam.' He looked at Sam Gamgee, and discovered that Sam was watching him. ("A Short Cut to Mushrooms," p. 95)
When Frodo asks him what he thinks of the Elves now that he has seen them, Sam reveals a far greater understanding of the significance of their journey than Frodo allows himself to let on.
'Yes, sir. I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want – I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.'
Frodo's response would seem to be deliberately evasive in its pretended ignorance:
'I don't altogether. But I understand that Gandalf chose me a good companion. I am content. We will go together.' ("A Short Cut to Mushrooms," p. 96-7)
Finally, at Crickhollow, when Frodo at last decides to reveal his plans to his friends, but before he has a chance to do so, we get a rather curious and unusual exchange between two characters in which Tolkien not only indicates what they have known all along, but in doing so, indicates a conspiracy that he has been faintly hinting at to us all along:
"It's coming out in a minute," whispered Pippin to Merry. Merry nodded. ("A Conspiracy Unmasked," p. 113)
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Recovery at Crickhollow
In his essay "On Fairy-Stories," Tolkien identifies the second of the four primary functions of the fairy story genre as that of "Recovery." He writes:
we need recovery. We should look at green again, and be startled anew (but not blinded) by blue and yellow and red. We should meet the centaur and the dragon, and then perhaps suddenly behold, like the ancient shepherds, sheep, and dogs, and horses— and wolves. This recovery fairy-stories help us to make. In that sense only a taste for them may make us, or keep us, childish.
Recovery (which includes return and renewal of health) is a re-gaining—regaining of a clear view. I do not say "seeing things as they are" and involve myself with the philosophers, though I might venture to say "seeing things as we are (or were) meant to see them"—as things apart from ourselves. We need, in any case, to clean our windows; so that the things seen clearly may be freed from the drab blur of triteness or familiarity—from possessiveness. Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention, perceiving their likeness and unlikeness: that they are faces, and yet unique faces. This triteness is really the penalty of "appropriation": the things that are trite, or (in a bad sense) familiar, are the things that we have appropriated, legally or mentally. We say we know them. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Immediately following this, Tolkien gives the example of Chestertonian Fantasy in particular, or "Mooreeffoc." Mooreeffoc itself, he says, is a "fantastic word," for it is one that
could be seen written up in every town in this land. It is Coffee-room, viewed from the inside through a glass door, as it was seen by Dickens on a dark London day; and it was used by Chesterton to denote the queerness of things that have become trite, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle.
One of the ways, accordingly that this act of Recovery is principally achieved is through what Tolkien identifies as the first function of fairy stories, namely "Fantasy," or "that quality of strangeness and wonder" by which the reader is able to be surprised and even startled by old things cast in new and unfamiliar lights.
To come now to Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring, in the scene of his arrival at his home in Crickhollow for the first time, Frodo is treated to his own moment of "Recovery" when he is allowed to see his possessions in an entirely new environment.
'Well, what do you think of it?' asked Merry coming up the passage. 'We have done our best in a short time to make it look like home. After all Fatty and I only got here with the last cart-load yesterday.'
Frodo looked round. It did look like home. Many of his own favourite things – or Bilbo's things (they reminded him sharply of him in their new selling) – were arranged as nearly as possible as they had been at Bag End. It was a pleasant, comfortable, welcoming place; and he found himself wishing that he was really coming here to settle down in quiet retirement. It seemed unfair to have put his friends to all this trouble; and he wondered again how he was going to break the news to them that he must leave them so soon, indeed at once. Yet that would have to be done that very night, before they all went to bed.
'It's delightful!' he said with an effort. 'I hardly feel that I have moved at all.'
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Frodo's Dream Tower
I've written before on the theological significance of the sea in Tolkien's writings, and hence of the tower of Frodo's dream at Crickhollow which he wanted to climb so that he might look out upon the sea (an image that also occurs in Tolkien's allegory about the Beowulf poem from his essay). I always assumed that the tower of Frodo's dream, if it were real, would have been located at or near the Grey Havens. I've only just noticed, however, that the tower was in fact real, and that Tolkien references (or presumably does so) in his Prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring.
the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth, and they dwelt still at that time at the Grey Havens away to the west, and in other places within reach of the Shire. Three Elf-towers of immemorial age were still to be seen on the Tower Hills beyond the western marches. They shone far off in the moonlight. The tallest was furthest away, standing alone upon a green mound. The Hobbits of the Westfarthing said that one could see the Sea from the top of that tower; but no Hobbit had ever been known to climb it. Indeed, few Hobbits had ever seen or sailed upon the Sea, and fewer still had ever returned to report it. Most Hobbits regarded even rivers and small boats with deep misgivings, and not many of them could swim. And as the days of the Shire lengthened they spoke less and less with the Elves, and grew afraid of them, and distrustful of those that had dealings with them; and the Sea became a word of fear among them, and a token of death, and they turned their faces away from the hills in the west. (Fellowship 16)
We're not told exactly that this is the same tower as in Frodo's dream–Frodo's tower is white, but no mention is made of its color here, and while the Grey Havens tower is "alone on a green mound," Frodo's tower is "standing alone on a high ridge." The fact, however, that it is singled out by Tolkien as the one from which the Hobbits believed they could see the sea, and yet "no Hobbit had ever been known to climb it," would seem to be pretty conclusive that this is one and the same tower.
Frodo dreams of the tower even though he's never seen it, but he's surely heard about it. Elsewhere in Tolkien's stories, however, when someone dreams of a place or an experience they have not personally encountered, it's because they've inherited the experience from either an ancestor or possibly from the immediate environment itself–see, for example, Faramir's dream of the tidal wave destroying Numenor and Merry's inherited memory at the Barrow-Downs. (For more on inherited memory, see this resource and this.) Is it possible Frodo is having his own, inherited-memory experience in his dream of the tower and desire to see the sea?
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Atheism in Middle-earth: "The Sea has no shore. There is no Light in the West."
Posted on March 13, 2012 by Jonathan McIntosh
"The Sea has no shore. There is no Light in the West." These are the words spoken by one of Melkor's spies, disguised as Amlach, son of Imlach, at the council of Men convened in the First Age to decide what to do about the perils facing them in Middle-earth (Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of Men into the West," 145). The literal significance of these words, of course, is their denial of Valinor, of the Valar, of their light, by implication, a denial of Ilúvatar himself, and therefore also a denial of Men's own dignified status as the Children of Ilúvatar.
More symbolically, pseudo-Amlach's words are an expression of philosophical atheism: they constitute a rejection of transcendence, of a future hope and resurrection, of a reconciliation of the world to God and the restoration of all things, of a final judgment upon evil and the righting of all wrongs. In exchange for these things, pseudo-Amlach's words offer (again, symbolically) a worldview that is reductionistic, wholly immanentized, materialistic, anti-supernatural, and hence anti-humane and therefore anti-humanistic. It is the counsel of despair under the guise of an urbane but (in reality) enervating cynicism.
Against such philosophical reductionism, accordingly, Tolkien's entire legendarium sounds a clarion reminder that the seemingly endless Sea does have a shore, and that however dark things may seem, there is indeed a "Light in the West." (This is The Lord of the Rings as counter-atheism.) A couple of familiar passages reinforce the point. The first is from Frodo's peculiar dream while at Crick-Hollow:
Then he heard a noise in the distance. At first he thought it was a great wind coming over the leaves of the forest. Then he knew that it was not leaves, but the sound of the Sea far-off; a sound he had never heard in waking life, though it had often troubled his dreams. Suddenly he found he was out in the open. There were no trees after all. He was on a dark heath, and there was a strange salt smell in the air. Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea. He started to struggle up the ridge towards the tower: but suddenly a light came in the sky, and there was a noise of thunder.
As Verlyn Flieger comments in her fine analysis of this passage in Splintered Light,
The episode invites comparison with the final line of the allegory in the Beowulf essay. In both instances, the effect comes less from the images of tower and sea than from the stated or implied desire to climb up and look outward to the immense unknown. Tolkien's use of this idea in both the [Beowulf] essay and The Lord of the Rings suggests that for him it transcended allegory to express an indefinable but very real attribute of the human psyche: the desire to seek something without knowing what it is." (Flieger, Splintered Light, 16)
As St. Thomas would put it, man seeks God as an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason. The second passage is one I cited recently (Tolkien's last voyage), when Frodo himself finally comes to the shore and Light beyond the Sea:
Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Sam, and went aboard; and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost. And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
This scene answers to and is the fulfillment of Frodo's earlier dream: no longer in a state of mere anticipation of that which he has most deeply longed for, he has come to that place where his desire can at last be satiated and his joy made full. For this reason the passage really stands as the climactic and consummating eucatastrophe of the entire Lord of the Rings, when the work is at its most theological–reminding us, as Augustine so memorably put it, that "our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee"–as Frodo is ushered into a vision of divine light, not as an oblique "ray of light through the very chinks of the universe" (as Tolkien describes eucatastrophe in one place), but now (as St. Paul put it) "face to face."
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Lars David Lång, född 14 november 1972 i Nyköpings östra församling i Södermanlands län, är en svensk politiker (sverigedemokrat), som är ordinarie riksdagsledamot sedan 2010, invald för Västernorrlands läns valkrets sedan 2022 (dessförinnan invald för Stockholms kommuns valkrets 2010–2014 och Örebro läns valkrets 2014–2022).

Lång gick med i Sverigedemokraterna 1999 och var i många år fram till 2019 partistyrelseledamot. Han har också varit ordförande för partiets distrikt i Stockholms stad. Han ställde upp som kandidat för partiet i riksdagsvalet 2006 på tolfte plats. År 2009 valdes han till ledamot i Stockholms stiftsfullmäktige samt till ersättare i Kyrkomötet. Sedan 2014 är han ledamot av kyrkomötet.

Lång är en av författarna till partiets ekonomiska handlingsprogram och även radiopratare i Radio SD, Sverigedemokraternas röst i Stockholms närradio. Lång anses vara en av partiets traditionalister, en gruppering som stödde den tidigare partiordföranden Mikael Jansson.

I riksdagsvalet 2010 stod David Lång som nummer 20 på Sverigedemokraternas riksdagslista. Han blev invald i riksdagen och är där ledamot i skatteutskottet sedan 2014, vilket han även var 2010–2012. 2012–2014 var han ledamot av socialförsäkringsutskottet.

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SIBOS sparked two big conversations this year.
Two separate conversations both targeted at fundamentally changing financial thinking.
The first was the Long Now, which was all about how to invest for the long-term health of our planet. I've talked about that enough for the moment.
The other conversation has been bubbling on twitter, and is all about the future of money project that I co-funded as an executive producer, alongside Bernd Nürnberger, Anthemis Group and the Innotribe team.
Venessa Miemis led this project with Gabriel Shalom, and she writes some interesting thoughts on her blog, about her impressions of banks and SIBOS.
Some of you will say "interesting", whilst others might call this "pseudo intellectual psycho-babble".
Some will say "totally agree", whilst others will say "marijuana smoking tree-hugger".
Why am I being so extreme about Venessa and her blog?
Because she's created a divide between those who get it and those who don't.
Venessa wrote a fascinating blog entry, or 'rant' as she called it, after SIBOS.
In the blog entry, she talks about what she wants from her bank, which I will respond to in more depth tomorrow as her blog entry is quite long and detailed, and deserves a detailed response.
For those who have not read it, the gist is that banks are missing out on the social connectiveness of society today and the opportunities this presents, by purely focusing upon making money, and asks that banks try harder to leverage her social world with her financial data.
What comes through Venessa's rant, and the video that Gabriel produced of his views post-SIBOS, is that banks aren't really interested in dealing with the new world of global socials, but are intent on keeping the status quo.
For example, Venessa points to SWIFT's Deputy Chairman, Stephan Zimmerman during the closing plenary, and quotes him saying that "the prevailing values may be stronger than the new values" hit her "like a punch in the gut".
And she got angry because she does understand how the new world works, but found that the banks do not. Or so it seemed.
What has intrigued me is the divide the rant has created between those who go "yay, good for you girl" and those who say "naive and biased woman".
For example, Liz Lumley of Finextra – yes, it's her again – started a twitter debate about Venessa's rant.
rshevlin: @LizLum Bankers have gotta stop asking every Gen Yer they meet "what do you want from banks?"
In fact Liz was so incensed that she wrote a blog about it: You just don't get it, do you? When did groupthink become innovative?, and tweeted that she was "going to get in trouble for this one".
In other words, there is an immediate distrust of the old institutions of finance before the get-go, for those in the social world. This creates some preconceptions that are barriers to progress too.
What Liz and Stuart demonstrate is a dichotomy of views, a "them and us" mentality of extremes … which is not surprising as we are debating extremes.
This brings me to my point (at last you say).
The extremes are the bankers of the world and the global social.
These are completely different points of perspective and are complementary, not competitive.
Liz is debating the world of commerce and a bank's role in that world.
Venessa is debating the world of community and a bank's role in that world.
This is a subject that comes up regularly, and I've blogged about before.
Here's the point: the banking industry assembled at SIBOS is there to provide the oil of global trade and commerce by allowing financial transactions to take place securely and efficiently. It has nothing to do with enabling communities or social networks.
The industry purely exists to be a secure gatekeeper for what has most commercial value: money.
It used to be gold and other rare commodities, but today it is money and tomorrow it is data.
If you made a payment to a friend and it didn't get through, you would be upset.
If the bank said 'tough', you would be more upset.
If the payment was for $1,000, you would be pretty angry and upset.
If the payment was for $1 million and was your life savings, you would be desperate and defeated.
If the payment failed every time and business could not work or run effectively, the world would be desperate and defeated.
That's what banking is all about.
That's why banking is slow to change.
Making sure money is transferred securely and rapidly every time cannot be taken lightly, or jeopardised by experimentation.
It is why banks are licensed by governments to try to ensure that we never reach a position of being desperate and defeated.
Because banks are licensed, they can take fees and make money on the money being transmitted.
Because banks are licensed, it makes it difficult to create new competition because you don't want competition. You want secure and reliable services that allow the gears of global trade to be oiled.
This secure and reliable operation is slow to change for this reason.
It's also nothing to do with the bad loans and high risk speculative derivatives operations that created this crisis, because the core of banking is about secure money transmissions.
If the thing we valued most tomorrow was the secure transmission of data, then that's what banks will be.
If the thing we valued most in a century or so is cow manure, then that's what banks would be managing.
The key is that they would manage cow manure securely and reliably, with little change or movement until society, governments, regulators and policymakers demand this change.
Is that what Venessa is demanding today?
I think she points to some interesting things that banks could do: more transparency, more information enrichment, more analysis of customer needs and opportunities. Her request is for banks to enable her to be more socially connected with people, causes, services and investments that suit her lifestyle.
Banks could, should and some are doing something about all of these areas, which I'll blog about tomorrow, but overall Venessa is talking about something fundamentally different to banking.
She is asking for a bank that combines financial management with community management and social currency, but most banks are not interested in this. Social community involvement is just peripheral noise to a bank, as the core of their business is money management and oiling the gears of global trade.
And that's the key extreme point here: social currency as opposed to commercial currency.
Banks do not have any role in managing, issuing, organising or transmitting social currency.
Social currency does not pay for trade and is not the oil of commerce.
Social currency is for care and welfare and is the oil of community.
Now community currencies do exist and are thriving in certain sectors.
Examples of such currencies are many, with some of the better ones including the community work in Curitaba in Brazil, the WIR in Switzerland and the Fureai Kippu in Japan.
The common feature of such currencies is that they are typically issued, managed and organised by local or central governments, rather than banks. This is why they are trusted and used, as they still have government backing, but the banks have little interest in such schemes as they are not oiling the gears of commerce and trade. They are instead enriching society and communities.
These currencies and why they are relevant has been demonstrated by the writings of Bernard Lietaer and Magrit Kennedy, who I've also referred to many times in the past.
They have tried to promote the idea of community currencies being managed via electronic platforms in a parallel world and platform to the banking infrastructure for over a decade, although this is still to happen.
The aim of social currencies is usually to create value by giving time or support to community projects or causes, that can then be traded locally or globally across the community of interest.
An example is Facebook credits, which many at the SIBOS debates speculated would become a global currency.
The question is: will Facebook credits become a global currency of commerce and trade, or just a currency for socialising and entertaining?
Probably the latter, if history dictates, as community currencies bear little relationship with commercial currencies.
One is geared to the long-term interests of the community; the other is geared to the interests of commerce, trade, wealth and investment.
As can be seen, this is why the two conversations about the future of money with Venessa and the Long Now and Long Finance overlap. Checkout the Eternal Coin of the Long Now and the use of demurrage if you want to know more.
It also shows why I can't be right if I'm a banker, as I don't get social or community currency; and I can't be right if I'm a global social, as I don't get commercial trade and banking.
To be clear, these two worlds have overlap, but they are distinctly separate.
Commercial currencies fuel commerce and require strong and resilient, reliable and secure infrastructure, that changes slowly as we cannot be defeated and desperate; social currencies fuel the exchange of care, welfare, support, entertainment and fun to meet the long-term interests of the community, and require simple, open and transparent infrastructures that can adapt and change to suit the needs of the community.
As can be seen, this is why these are different and distinct, and why Venessa felt disappointment at SIBOS and why Liz felt antagonised by Venessa's rant.
And the one good thing is that Venessa's rant at least created Liz's reaction and my observation, which hopefully adds a little useful commentary to this debate.
So is there a chance of getting rid of banks?
Change my bank? Not on your nelly!


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Q: Sonata Admin Bundle - add a multi step batch action I need to add a custom batch action to my SonataAdmin entity that allows the user to select a number of items in the list view, then select the custom batch action (called 'edit dates') then... and here's where I'm stuck... display a form with two date fields that, when submitted, updates the selected list items with the inputted dates.
Is it even possible to have a multi-step batch action like this in SonataAdminBundle?

A: You can add your date fields to the template:
{# in Acme/ProjectBundle/Resources/views/CRUD/list__batch.html.twig #}
{# See SonataAdminBundle:CRUD:list__batch.html.twig for the current default template #}

{% extends admin.getTemplate('base_list_field') %}

{% block field %}
    <input type="checkbox" name="idx[]" value="{{ admin.id(object) }}" />

    {# your date fields here #}
    <input type="date" name="start" />
    <input type="date" name="end" />
{% endblock %}

Source: 13.2. (Optional) Overriding the batch selection template
This will add your fields to each row.
If you only need the fields once e.g. in the footer (near the batch action select and export function) you can override the CRUD/base_list.html.twig template in your admin class:
public function getTemplate($name)
{
    switch ($name) {
        case 'list':
            return 'MyBundle:MyAdmin:list.html.twig';
            break;

        default:
            return parent::getTemplate($name);
            break;
    }
}

And then use the values inside your batchActionMultiStep() method.

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| updated November 6, 2013
For Winston Churchill, death would not easily overtake him. In fairly good health most of his life – despite some minor setbacks here and there – the death of Winston Churchill was a slow decline.
In the years before Winston Churchill died, he had been in a slow decline, health-wise. Some even thought he might have Alzheimer's disease, but that has never been confirmed. Others said that his diminishing mental health was a direct result of several strokes. Whatever the reason, when he was named an Honorary Citizen of the United States by President John F. Kennedy (in 1963), Churchill was unable to attend the ceremony at the White House, because of his failing health.
On January 15, 1965, Churchill suffered another stroke. This catastrophic stroke, especially at his age (90 years old) left him gravely ill. He uttered his last words, "I'm bored with it all" and slipped into a coma. Nine days later, Winston Churchill – great leader, statesman, military man, father, and husband – died in his London home (Chartwell) the morning of Sunday, January 24, 1965, which was exactly 70 years to the day following his father's death.
Six days later, the funeral of Winston Churchill – the largest state funeral in the history of the world (at that point) – commenced in Britain. There were representatives from 112 nations (only excluding China). The televised broadcast of Winston Churchill's funeral was broadcast live by every European country (except Ireland), with 350 million people watching – 25 million in Britain, alone. According to the Queen's decree, his body was ordered to 'lay in state' (on public display so people can pay their respects) for three days. Held at St. Paul's Cathedral, the service for his funeral was one of the largest assemblages of statesmen in the entire world, up to that day. Although it was unusual, the Queen actually attended the funeral in person. As the procession passed by the River Thames, dockers 'saluted' by lowering their crane jibs. The Royal Artillery fired a 19-gun salute, and the Royal Air Force (RAF) had a fly-by of 16 English Electric Lightning fighters. The coffin was then loaded onto a train, for its trip to Handborough.
While the funereal train passed, thousands of British citizens silently stood by, paying their last respects. Finally, Winston Churchill was buried in a grave in his family plot at St. Martin's Church, Bladon, close to Woodstock. Ironically, the location of the Winston Churchill grave is not very far from the place of his birth (Blenheim Palace). In September 1965, an engraved green marble memorial to Churchill – cut by Reynolds Stone (an engraver) – was placed in Westminster Abbey, just inside the west entrance. The memorial states:
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Церква Святого Петра (, арам. Knisset Mar Semaan Kefa)  — одна з найстаріших християнських церков. Розташована на півдні Туреччини, у місті Антак'я. Є печерною церквою, що знаходиться у скелі гори Старіус. Має глибину 13 м, ширину 9,5 м та висоту 7 м. За однією з версій, цією печерою користувались перші християни і є однією з найстаріших християнських церков.

Історія побудови церкви
Як вважають деякі, заснування церкви в Антіохії простежується в Біблійній книзі Дії Апостолів (11:25-27), де Святий Варнава вирушив до Тарсу, щоб знайти Апостола Павла.

Саме в Антіохії вперше було названо учнів християнами.

Хрестоносці під час Першого хрестового походу, які у 1098 році прибули до Антак'ї, розширили церкву на декілька метрів і з'єднали її з двома арками на фасаді, які були ними побудовані. Цей фасад був відновлений капуцинами у 1863 році, які відновлювали церкву за наказом Папи Пія IX. Свій внесок у відновлення церкви також вніс французький імператор Наполеон III Бонапарт.

На верхній частині кам'яного вівтаря, розташованого в центрі церкви кам'яна платформа, яка була поміщена там в пам'ять про святj Святого Петра, яке відзначалося 21 лютого в Антак'ї. Мармурова статуя святого Петра у верхній частині вівтаря була поміщена туди у 1932 році.

Сад церкви використовувався як кладовище протягом сотень років. Могили і поховання були також всередині церкви, особливо навколо вівтаря.

Хоча на сьогодні церква є музеєм, проте тут можна виконати церковні обряди під наглядом музейних працівників, отримавши попередньо дозвіл від адміністрації муніципалітету.

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