News Item "Petik Laut, offerings for a bigger haul"

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Sendangbiru is a fishing village in Tambakrejo in Sumbermanjing, East Java, about 70 kilometers away from Malang, the nearest big city.
Apart from the charms of the southern sea, Sendangbiru has an annual event called petik laut, when residents have a four-day beach party, featuring music performances, a dusk-to-dawn shadow puppet show and, to cap things off, the floating of offerings into the sea in a ritual called the labuh semboyo. 

“The activity has been held since 1983,” said Sumaji, chairman of the organizing committee for this year’s event. The ritual is performed to express thanks to God for abundant fish catches and to pray for safety on the water in the year ahead. During the petik laut, fishermen show respect for the sea, halting work temporarily to allow for the restoration of polluted waters and marine resources, which have been cleanly managed to date. 
      

For the petik laut, ritual offerings were prepared in the house of Haji Atmo Usmail, a local elder. The preparations crossed ethnic boundaries, as those from Javanese families with a long history in Sendangbiru mixed with more recent arrivals from Bali, Madura and Makassar to decorate a giant tumpeng rice cone and a small gitik sesajen boat.



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How Rain Occurs

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Some mountains are so high that its peak is hidden behind clouds. Enormous mountain weather turnsaffects. When the moving air hit the slopes, the air forced upward. At the time that the temperature risedown, and the clouds are formed. Hot air is forced to rise up to the top of the mountain side. At some level,a lower temperature causes the water to form clouds.

Virga occurs when rainfall reaches a layer of dry air. Water droplets rain turns back into water vapor in the air, and disappeared. Most rainwater never reaches the ground. Droplets of rain water vapor turns back into water due to hit a layer of very dry air towards justice. You can actually see the grains that fell like a curtain of clouds, but stopped in mid-air, this type of weather is called virga.

Swallow hot clouds and the earth's temperature to maintain order. Of every 2 square meters of land, the cloud is able to move the same amount of energy as that generated by the powerful 60 watt light bulb. Clouds appear in all shapes and sizes. To help recognize, scientists divide the clouds into ten basic types. Types of clouds depends on the form of clouds and where the clouds formed in the sky. Cirrus clouds looked like a wisp of smoke. These clouds are formed high in the troposphere and rarely produce rain, clouds sratus form in flat layers and produce drizzle and the rain snow. Cumulus clouds bring heavy rain and storms. clouds that look like a huge cauliflower looks soft and smooth, but it will feel wet to the touch.

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How to Make Tissue Box

Materials :

1.       Scissors

2.       Glue

3.       Ruler

4.       Cutter

5.       Double tape

6.       Cardboard box

7.       Accesories ( ribbon, we can use something for accesories like cinnamon, or anything what you like )

Steps :

a.       Draw a pattern in cardboard box, length = 20cm , width =12cm, and height = 10cm

And make sure that when you make cover for the tissue box you choose the cardboard box that have fold in order to make it easier in making cover

b.      if you already draw the pattern, then cut the pattern  

c.       glue the pattern together until form a box

      

d.      then glue the pattern for the cover and

 

e.       glue the ribbon in order between box and cover have a connector

     

f.        the box is ready, then we can decorate the box