Wednesday 13 March 2013

[www.keralites.net] LOVELY COOL PHOTOS....

 

LOVELY COOL PHOTOS.... 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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[www.keralites.net] How Do They Make the Pope Smoke ?

 

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For those wo do not know the secret.....

How Do They Make the Pope Smoke?

 
When the Catholic cardinals meet to pick a new pope in the "papal conclave," they're sequestered in the Sistine Chapel so their deliberations aren't influenced by the outside world and so their ballots, burned after each round of voting, remain secret. Updates from within the conclave, then, come not from press conferences or the pontifical Twitter account, but the chapel's chimney.
For a bit more than a century, the cardinals have signaled their progress by sending colored smoke up the chapel chimney. Black smoke signifies a vote didn't produce a pope, and white means it did.
When the tradition began, the light smoke was produced by the burning ballots and some dry straw, and the darker smoke by the ballots and wet straw. The results weren't always black and white, though, and sometimes the smoke signal left the outside world confused. During the 1958 conclave, white smoke plumed from the chimney after one vote. The crowds gathered outside the chapel cheered and Vatican Radio announced that the church had a pope.
Just a few minutes later though, the smoke started to turn dark. The straw that the cardinals added to the fire didn't take right away, and needed some time to get going.
To avoid this sort of confusion, the cardinals and Vatican officials have tried a few different things to make the two smoke colors, and the election results, more foolproof. They tried smoke bombs for the black smoke in the 1960s. While they left no question about the color, they also filled the room with smoke, sending the cardinals into coughing fits. After that, they tried Italian army flares, and while the color was clear at first, the smoke quickly turned gray, leaving some observers scratching their heads.
In 2005, the Vatican went high-tech, and introduced an "auxiliary smoke-emitting device" that was fed chemical cartridges that could produce clearly colored smoke for up to six minutes. What was in the cartridges was anyone's guess. The Vatican was oddly secretive about them and would only say that they were prepared from "several different elements."
Yesterday, though, the Vatican revealed their smoke recipe and technique. The smoke device has a compartment where "different coloured-smoke generating compounds can be mixed," the Vatican press office said in a statement. "The result is requested by means of an electronic control panel and lasts for several minutes while the ballots are burning in the other stove."
 
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[www.keralites.net] Carrying holy water from the Ganges

 

An orderly queue of the devoted: Hindu worshippers take to roads of India clad in saffron robes as they carry holy water from the Ganges to their home temples


These amazing photographs capture the pilgrimage of the Hindu Kanwarias, devoted worshippers of Hindu God Shiva.
The Kanwarias carry metal canisters filled with holy water from the Ganges River and take a ritual journey of the roads of India
Yesterday they gathered in hundreds to walk to the revered Padilla Mahadev temple on the outskirts of Allahabad.




Holy carriage: Worshippers of Hindu God Shiva fetch holy water from the Ganger River and carry it in a ritual pilgrimage
Long and winding road: The Indian Hindu Kanwarias take the water of the Ganges River back to Hindu temples in their hometowns
Holy walk: Hundreds of Kanwarias, devotees to Hindu god Shiva, traveled to Allahabad to the revered local Shiva temple as part of their pilgrimage
The Kanwarias dress in saffron colours on their pilgrimage and carry the ornately decorated canisters over their shoulders for hundreds of miles back to their home towns.
 
They fetch the water as a gesture of thanksgiving to Shiva and walk for days, some braving Indian roads and highways barefoot.
Kanwarias are named after the pole, kanwar, which they sling over their shoulders to carry their metal pots.
In line: The Indian Hindu Kanwarias walk towards Padilla Mahadev temple wearing saffron coloured clothing and and carrying the ornately decorated canisters of the sacred water of the Ganges River over their shoulders

Prayer: A Kanwarias worshipper touches the wall of the temple and another  writes holy Hindu scripts on leaves to bring on the journey and sacrifice to Shiva
Hundreds took part in the walk yesterday, most wearing orange coloured clothing as they performed the holy ritual pilgrimage for Kanwarias
Their annual pilgrimage is known as Kanvar Yatra or Kavad Yatra and sees them visit Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand to fetch holy waters of Ganges River, 
The pilgrimage always takes during the sacred month of Shravan and has grown in popularity in recent years.
As the numbers have grown, security measures have had to be undertaken and the rows upon rows of pilgrims are known to stop highway traffic on national Indian roads.
Sacrifice: Metal canisters are kept on the ground outside the Padilla Mahadev temple, one revered among Shiva worshippers, in Allahabad, India before being offered to Shiva
Long walk home: The canisters of holy water is carried to each of the Kanwarias' home towns for their temples


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