Masyarakat Bali (Hindu) mengenal banyak sarana dan prasarana upakara , di mana salah satunya dinamai Lamak. Apa dan bagaimana sejatinya makna Lamak dalam pelaksanaan upacara di Bali? Budayawan Kota Denpasar, Gede Anom Ranuara menjellaskan bahwa Lamak merupakan salah satu perlengkapan atau uperengga upakara di Bali yang termasuk dalam gologan Cenigan. "Cenigan merupakan kelengkapan upakara yang terbuat dari dedaunan dan diletakkan di beberapa lokasi, di antaranya di palinggih dan pelangkiran," bebernya, ketika diwawancarai Bali Express (Jawa Pos Group), kemarin Dikatakannya, banyak masyarakat yang beranggapan bahwa Lamak tersebut merupakan unsur dekorasi guna memperindah suatu palinggih atau pelangkiran saja. "Sejatinya banyak makna yang terkandung dari pemasangan Lamak pada palinggih dan pelangkiran di Bali," ungkapnya.

When Alicia Young first travelled to Chile 10 years ago, she wasn’t intending to buy a house. The Australian fertility author and speaker and her husband planned to spend just six months in the seaside town of Pilchilemu in 2007, but as they were looking for a house to rent they came across one that was for sale. So the couple bought the beachside home for $US105,000 ($134,000) with the intention of spending at least three months every year there when they retired. Alicia’s home has views of the town and the beach. Owning a property would also help them with their residency application when the time came, Ms Young said. “We looked into it and owning property shows that you have more time for the community …

Over-planning can hinder dreams. Sometimes a dream just needs to live, as it does, in our heads and hearts—testing the waters, embracing free form, not adhering to a timeline. Dreams are meant to be whatever we want them to be, whatever they need to be. When we concentrate our dreams into creative outlets, business ventures or life, we diminish some of the magic. We are often left feeling frustrated by the very dreams that inspired us in the first place. We become caught up in the strategy and the profit. We are focused more on the results than the actual dream itself; and in the process, we lose our direct link to that fantasy state where dreaming is as natural as the blinking of an eye. In many cases, over-planning can kill your dreams. That being said, there are moments where planning works wonders. But this article isn’t about planning as strategy; rather, it focuses on the side effects of over-planning. Like how over-planning can dampen our vital force and/or decrease synchronized energies—both of which are highly prized when it comes to turning dreams into reality.

With housing prices starting to bottom out, now is a great time to consider real estate opportunities. However, since credit remains tight, unless you plan to pay cash, your first step might involve researching financing options. You also need to look into interest rates, which will be higher for investment properties than for primary residences, as well as local tax rates, insurance costs, fees or maintenance expenses that might be associated with the property and, if you plan to rent, local vacancy rates and the average length of time rentals remain vacant

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