Lawar is one of Bali’s most famous local dishes. Made from pig’s blood and spices, together with an assortment of other goodies, lawar can be found in every village in Bali. This food is used as a dish and the dish, and has sold widely in homes to eat with a brand lawar Bali. Lawar is one type of side dishes made from chopped meat, vegetables, some spices and coconut ans sometimes in several types of lawar given element that can add a sense of lawar it is blood from the meat itself, the blood is mixed with spices that adds delicious lawar it.

Lawar is named according to its ingredients, for example lawar mixed with pork is called “lawar babi” (pork lawar). Lawar which uses young jackfruit is called “lawar nangka”. Sometimes lawar is named according to its color. Lawar merah (red lawar) and lawar putih (white lawar). Lawar Padamare is the type of combination of several types of lawars. Lawar is served with steamed rice and other meat dish such as babi guling (roasted suckling pork).

The word Galungan is derived from Old Javanese language, which means winning or fighting. Galungan have same meaning with Dungulan, which also means winning. Therefore, the eleventh in Java wuku called Wuku Galungan, while in Bali wuku the eleventh called Dungulan. The name is different, but has same meaning.

Galungan is a sacred ritual that gives spiritual strength to be able to distinguish where the lifestyle came from adharma (devil) and where from budhi atma which formed as a voice of truth (dharma) in ourselves.

Galungan is one of Hindu religious ceremony to remind people ritually and spiritually in order to always win the Goddess Sampad to uphold dharma against adharma. The maning of Galungan in Lontar Sunarigama described as follows

Wednesday of Kliwon Dungulan is Galungan day which the point is for spiritual unity to get a new spirit to eliminate the confusion mind.
Galungan is uniting of spiritual power to get new spirit and way of life in dharma. Spiritual unity and clear your mind is in itself a form of Dharma.

Strong winds up to several days to come still potentially occurring on the island of java and Bali. This condition is the impact of tropical storm Iggy that is centered in southwestern Denpasar. Storms Iggy continue moving toward the southeast with speed reach 5 knots or about 9 miles / hours.

In the Centre of this cycle, the wind can achieve speeds of 75 km/h. The storm would steer clear of Indonesia and to the Mainland around Australia. When it comes to land it takes about two to three days, and winds will occur at speeds of up to 140 km/h in the center of the cycle.

Siwaratri, often referred to as the 'night of Siwa', is an auspicious time for introspection and meditation during which the Hindus of Bali pray for forgiveness of their earthly sins and for support and strength from Siwa in order to reach their higher selves.

Siwaratri starts with an opening ceremony of prayers and offerings which is performed at the kawiten, the family's house temple. This preliminary ceremony should be finished before daybreak and is at 6am followed by,
• Monabrata - silence, not speaking for a period of 12 hours,
• Upawasa - fasting, not eating or drinking during 24 hours,
• Mejagra - meditation, not sleeping during 36 hours.

Each of these (non-)activities are methods to learn to be self-conscious at all times, to have self control in all circumstances. When finished each of them is closed with prayers and offerings in the house temple.

The ceremonies and activities of Siwaratri day should remind people to always be spiritually conscious while facing the ups and downs of physical life, to always be aware of the fact one is an incarnated soul. More often than not one tends to forget the true essence of one's being in the dynamic turmoil of physical life with its emotional inclinations of urges, temptations and desires.

•Fasting is a method to reach self-control in respect with not
to be selfish and greedy.
•Silence is a method to learn one should never speak
impulsively but instead to carefully weigh one's words before
reacting to one's experiences in life, to always speak fair and
honest words, to never lie, slander, speak evil or swear.
•Not sleeping, staying awake, is a method to learn to be always
'awake', meaning aware of one's approach of physical life,
which should be done with a conduct of insight and wisdom.

Siwaratri is always celebrated on the day before Tilem Sasih Kepitu, the new moon of the 7th month of the Saka Moon calendar of Bali, a day which usually falls in the month of January.
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The rainy season has arrived, people were asked vigilant against dengue fever. To avoid a disease that there has not yet been any a drug nor the vaccine, people were asked keeping clean the environment , do the eradication of mosquitoes larva with 3m plus (bury, draining and closing plus avoid mosquito bites).

The victim is expected to continue to grow as a result of DDB especially after flooding, the turn of the seasons, and at the time rare rainfall where much shelter water like a flower vase, water toren, bathtubs, Crock and used tires, bottles and so on are former close to the residential population is not cleared is be a reproduce place of the mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes also spread the disease and symptoms affecting the muscles and cause severe pain. Bite during the day with effective time 2 hours after sunrise at 08.00 - 12.00 (and a few hours after sunset (at 15 - 17.00). After being bitten by mosquitoes, between 3 - 14 days later or usually 4 - 7 days will show the symptom or sign of DBD. This disease can be prevented by avoiding mosquito bites, using repellent, using mosquito nets while taking a nap, and banish the mosquitoes with fuel spray insect repellent/both in and outside the House in the morning and afternoon.

A sign or symptom of DBD appears as red spots on the skin. In addition the temperature of the body more than 38OC, the body feels weak and listless, agitated, the hands and feet are cold sweats, pain, and vomiting plexus. It can also be accompanied by bleeding like a nosebleed and defecation mixed blood as well as the fall in the number of platelets to 100,000/mm3. No need to wait for all of these symptoms appears, when you find some soon check to your physician or nearest health facility.

First aid to the sufferers can be done by giving the drink as many (water cook, water in packs, tea, etc), compress of cold water on sufferers, as well as providing hot-lowering drugs. If there is a history of seizures, give medicament medication.