Holi

The colorful festival of Holi is celebrated on Phalgun Purnima which comes in February end or early March. Holi festival has an ancient origin and celebrates the triumph of 'good' over 'bad'. The colorful festival bridges the social gap and renew sweet relationships. On this day, people hug and wish each other 'Happy Holi'.

Holi celebration begins with lighting up of bonfire on the Holi eve. Numerous legends & stories associated with Holi celebration makes the festival more exuberant and vivid. People rub 'gulal' and 'abeer' on each others' faces and cheer up saying, "bura na maano Holi hai". Holi also gives a wonderful chance to send blessings and love to dear ones wrapped in a special Holi gift.

Khaa key gujiya, pee key bhaang,
laaga k thora thora sa rang,
baaja ke dholak aur mridang,
khele holi hum tere sang. HOLI MUBARAK

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Lal, gulabi, neela, pila hathon me liya samet,
Holi ke din rangenge sajni, kar ke meethi bhent.

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Gul ne gulshan se gulfam bheja hai,
Sitaro ne aasman se salaam bheja hai,
Mubaraq ho aapko holi ka tyohar,
Humne dil se yeh paigam bheja hai.

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If wishes come in rainbow colors then,
I would send the brightest one to say Happy Holi.

Holi Calendar

Just at the beginning of the year, people start looking for the Holi Date in their Calendar. This is because Holi is the first major Hindu Festival of the year. If you too wish to find out when is Holi 2012 or When is Holi in 2011 here is a Holi Calendar just for you! The page offers you Holi Calendar for 2012, 2011 and 2010 too.

Please note that the Holi Calendar given below gives you the main date of Holi celebrations. This day is celebrated with play of colors. Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holi is celebrated a day earlier. On the day of Holika Dahan people burn logs of wood to symbolize victory of good over evil and observe Holi Pooja.

So go ahead mark the Holi date 2012 in your personal calendar and start preparing for Holi 2012!!

Holi 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012

HOLI CALENDAR 2012
MARCH 2012
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Holi 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011

HOLI CALENDAR 2011
MARCH 2011
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6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Holi 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010

HOLI CALENDAR 2010
MARCH 2010
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

When is Holi

Holi is a festival that is usually celebrated right after winters. It is celebrated in the month of March-April. The dates vary every year due to the fact that the Hindu calendar is based on solar cycles. This is a colorful festival celebrated with much joy and fervor all over northern India. The most famous Holi is played in Vrindavan-Mathura regions of the state of Uttar Pradesh. So if you are wondering as to when is Holi and want to know the date of Holi in 2012 and other following years, check this list below:

Holi 2012 - 8th March
Holi 2013 - 27th March
Holi 2014 - 17th March
Holi 2015 - 06th March
Holi 2016 - 23th March

Maria Sharapova (RUS)

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Birthdate

April 19, 1987   (24 years old)

Birthplace

Nyagan, Russia

Residence

Bradenton, Florida

Height

6'2'' (188 cm)

Weight

130 lbs (59 kg)

Plays

Right-handed

Turned Pro

2001 (12 yrs on tour)

Nickname(s)

Masha

Sania Mirza

Biography
The first name on Indian tennis circle is none other than Sania Mirza it self. This sexy tennis star was coached by Imran Mirza, her father. She started playing tennis from childhood onwards. She started playing tennis at the age of 6.

Her professional career in tennis started in the year of 2003 when she debuted in Fed Cup. In 2005 she reached 4th round of US Open grandslam. She is the top ranked female tennis player of India. Her career top rank was 27 in August 2007. Her current ranking is 111 as on February 6, 2012 as compared to previous 111).
Sania Mirza says that year 2011 was a goo year so far for her. After the commonwealth games 2010, she was managed to clinch two titles with her doubles partner and were the runners up of French Open 2011. In 2010 Sania Mirza were not much active because of her knee injury and her marriage

Maha Shivaratri 20 Fabruary - 2012

Fast of Mahashivaratri is very significant for devotees of lord Shiva. This festival is celebrated on Trayodashi of Falgun Krishna Paksha. In the year 2012, this auspicious fast will be on 20th Fabruary, Monday in Shravan Nakshatra. Lord Bholenath get easily pleased by observing this fast and the wishes of the devotee comes true. This fast can be observed by everyone whether men, women, children, youths or old aged.

Fasting, worshipping lord Shiva, reading Shiva Stotra, Katha and performing Jagran at night by chanting the mantra "उँनu2350 : शिवाय" on 2nd March 2012, gives fruit similar to Ashvamedha Yagya. On the next day of fast, Brahmans are given food, clothes and donations etc.

Mahashivaratri Importance

It is believed, person who observe this fast receives all kinds of pleasure and salvation after death. This fast cancel all sorts of sins. After observing this fast for 14 years regularly,the Vrat is concluded.

Mahashivaratri Vrat Resolution

The resolution of fast is taken by saying the Samvat name, month, Paksha, Nakshatra of the day, name, Gotra etc. For taking the resolution, water, rice, flowers etc are taken in hand and offered to Shivalinga.

Maha Shivaratri Puja Materials

The Puja materials include Panchamrit (Ganga Jal, milk, curd, ghee and honey) scented flowers, clean clothes, Bel leaves, incense sticks, lamps, Navedy, sandalwood paste, seasonal fruit etc.

Mahashivaratri Fast Method

Person observing fast of Mahashivaratri should meditate of lord Shiva the whole day. After having bath in the morning, Tikal of ash is wore on the forehead and beads of Rudraksha is wore. Lord Shiva is worshipped facing the North East direction (Ishan Kon) with lamps, flowers etc.

On the day of this fast, Puja is performed in every period of the day. The mantra "उँनu2350 : शिवाय" व " शिवाय नu2350 :" is chanted in every phase day. If it is not possible to go to the temple then, the person should sit in a peaceful corner of east direction and chant the mantras. Chanting of these mantras is considered to give virtues to a person. Moreover, lord Shanker can be pleased by performing Rudrabhishek.

Lord Shiva Incarnation

For performing Shiva Abhishek on Mahashivaratri, first of all a utensil made of wood is filled with water mixed which contains leaves of Bel, Dhatura, flowers and rice etc. and offered to lord Shivlinga. Shiva Puran should be heard on the day of fast. Asatvik thoughts should not be brought to the mind. On the next morning of fast, Hawan should be performed with barley, Til, Kheer and Bel leaves.

On the day of Shivaratri, crowd of Shiva devotees can be seen in the temple of lord Shanker. Lord Shiva is very much pleased when worshipped with Bel leaves etc. Fasting, worshipping and performing Jagran at night give auspicious results. Lord Shiva was married on this day, so, Shiva’s procession is carried out in the night. All class of people observe this fast and gain virtues.

Mahashivaratri Story

There lived a hunter who was indebted to a moneylender, but he could not return the loans on time. Filled with anger, the moneylender, made him a prisoner and kept him in the Shiva Math. Accidentally, that day was Shiva Ratri. Hunter meditated about God, then heard the religious talk about Lord Shiva. He also heard the Shiva Ratri Katha on Chaturdashi. In the evening, the moneylender, called him and had a talk on paying of loans. The hunter promised to repay all of the loan on the next day and he got free from the bond.

Like his routine, he went out to hunt in the woods, but staying caged the whole day, he was starving with hunger and thirst. For hunting, he went at the banks of a pond and started making a camp near the tree of Bel. There was a Shiva Linga under the Bel tree, which was covered with leaves of Bel. But, the hunter did not know about it.

While making a camp, the twigs he was breaking, accidentally fell on the Shiva Linga. This way, fast of hunter was concluded as he did not eat anything and leaves of Bel were also offered to Shiva Linga.

After the phase of night got over, one pregnant doe, reached the pond to drink water. As the hunter positioned the arrow on the bow and got ready to disembark, the deer said “I am pregnant. I will soon have my delivery. you will kill two lives together, which is not a correct thing. After giving birth to my child, i will soon come to you. Then you can kill me.”Hunter loosed this bow, and the doe got lost in the bushes.

On loosing the prey, his mind got disturbed. He got tensed, as the last phase of night was getting over. At that time, one doe with her children was passing from there. It was a golden opportunity for the hunter. He did not take time to place the arrow on the bow, then the doe said “O! hunter, I will return back after sending these children to their father. Don’t kill me at this time.”

Hunter laughed and said, “I am not a fool, that I will leave the hunt in front of me. Before this I had lost my prey for two times. My children might be starving with hunger and thirst.”

Answering him, the doe said, “like your love for your children is making you worried, similar is the case for me. So, am asking for the lease of life, just for my children. Hey! hunter, believe me, I promise to return immediately after i leave them, to their father.”

On hearing the words of doe, hunter felt pity on her. And, he the doe. Due to the lack of prey, the hunter sitting on Bel tree, started plucking the leaves of Bel and dropped them down. As the dawn came in, a strong dear came on the same path. Hunter had thought, he would kill this prey for sure.

Looking at the bow and arrow of the hunter, deer said in a pleading voice, “Hey brother hunter! If you have killed the three doe and their small children, who passed the way before me, then, don’t delay in killing me. So, that I don’t have to suffer the pain of separation because I am the husband of those does. And, if you gave them the lease of life, then, please, grant my life for sometime. I will present myself in front of you, after meeting them.

On the night of fast, doing Jagran and offering Bel leaves, filled the violent heart of hunter with love and emotions. Bhagwad power grew in him. Bow and arrow from his hand were comfortably removed. By the grace of Lord Shiva, his violent heart was filled with emotions. He started remembering his past activities and began to burn in the flame of remorse.

After sometime, the deer with his whole family, came to the hunter so that he could hunt the deer and his family. But, looking at the bonding, love, purity and such a truth among wild animal, made hm feel guilty. Tears started rolling down from his eyes. By not killing that deer family, the hunter moved his heart from killing living beings, and became soft and kind hearted.

All deity in the heaven were looking at this incident. after the culmination of this incident, the Gods, showered flowers. Then, the hunter and family of deer attained salvation.

What Google’s “Panda” Ranking Algorithm Update Means to You

Written by brbpsingh

Jan 26 ~ Category: seo

Last week, I was lucky to join brbpsingh of brbpsingh and brbpsingh of brbpsingh on a panel (ably moderated by brbpsingh  for the Ticket Summit on the recent changes in search marketing. The attendees are ticket brokers an dpartner sthat move most of the seats for entertainment and sporting events in the U.S., so you can imagine that they have a fierce interest in search marketing. It fell to me to explain the dreaded Google Panda update of its search ranking algorithm. I say “dreaded” because so many people have treated this latest reshuffling of the search results as something approaching apocalyptic disaster. If it has been a nightmare for you, my condolences, but there’s no going back, so we all need to understand the idea behind Panda and we might need to change the way we think to succeed in the brave new Panda world.

First off, Panda isn’t named after a bear–it is actually the surname of the Google engineer whose ideas lay behind it. And, although it is about to celebrate its first birthday, it isn’t a single event wrapped in the past. Google Panda has ushered in a series of changes over the past year, with a couple of ranking algorthm updates interpsersed with more regular changes in the data that it depends on.

Panda is revolutionary because it adds a new ranking factor to Google’s algorithm–a quality score imposed on sites by human raters that decide whether the site would be worth visiting again, for example. Dozens of human raters might visit the same site and Google averages their answers. High quality sites get boosted in the rankings, with lower-ranking sites, well, not so much.

Now, this wouldn’t be terrinbly interesting if that is all there were to it. For even Google, with its vast resources, can’t afford to pay human raters to visit all the sites that reside on the Web–not when they need many raters to judge each site and when those sites change regularly and need to be re-rated. No, they needed something a lot cheaper than that approach.

Enter machine learning, a technology that looks for patterns in data. Instead of Google having to use human beings to rate every site, they instead rated a small number of sites and then applied those ratings to all the unrated sites that were similar to the rated sites. So, if your site wasn’t rated. but it has the same characteristics as sites that are lkow in quality, your site will be treated as low in quality.

You probably want to know what patterns Panda is looking for, so that you can avoid them, but no one is saying. In fact, the very way that the algorithm works makes it a difficult question to answer. Machine learning algorithms are trained with some of the human data that Google collected, and then tested on the rest of the data. So the algorithm keeps trying to find more and more patterns until it can actually preduct the answers that the human beings gave. At that point, the algorithm is unleashed on pages that have not been rated, assuming that the training it received against known answers will now allow it to predict the quality level of sites that have not been rated.

What this means is that, for the first time, what human being sthink of Web pages is an explicit ranking factor. So, if you’ve been just following some rote rules about how to optimize for search, you might be in trouble if people don’t actually like your pages. This is, alas, the fate of most search optimizers who are only trying to feed the Google beast what it wants, instead of creating a quality experience for searchers. Thise that give searchers what they want are now being rewarded more than ever.

Google is believed to be going after so-called “content farms” with Panda–low-quality sites produced at low cost by hack writers. But some marketers worry that there are other sites affected. Google reassured marketers that merely having a repeated product description from the manufactuerer is not considered content scraping, but searchers might find it to be a low quality exprerience when they have to look through so many stores and keep reading the same information.

Does this mean that Panda never downgrades a site unfairly? Hardly. All of this technology is imperfect, although Google is constantly tinkering with the training data and algorithms. In fact, Google is collecting lots of data from people pressing +1 buttons, and might find someday that those are all the human raters that they need–and they won’t have to pay anyone.

So, many more changes are still ahead. And if Google’s Panada update is successful, you’ll see Bing go in that direction, too, affecting 30% more of the U.S. searches. And who knows how Panda might evolve in the future. To check out all my slides from the event, take a peek at “Google Panda Update” on Slideshare.

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About the Author: Copyright Mike Moran brbpsingh is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, expert on Internet marketing, and the author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc., the best-selling book on search marketing. Mike also writes the popular Biznologynewsletter and blog.

Yuvraj Singh

Full name Yuvraj Singh

Born December 12, 1981, Chandigarh

Current age 30 years 62 days

Major teams India, Asia XI, Kings XI Punjab, Pune Warriors, Punjab, Yorkshire

Playing role Middle-order batsman

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Relation Father - B Yograj Singh

 Yuvraj Singh burst on the scene in the ICC Knockout Trophy in 2000 where batting in his second match against Australia, he scored a match-winning 84, impressed one and all with his superb fielding and went on to win the Man of the Match award. In Yuvraj, India had found a great talent but soon that was getting wasted due to his attitude and he was dropped from the team. Yuvraj fought back into the Indian team with some huge scores in domestic cricket and since then has become one of the most stylish Indian batsmen who when gets going can win the match on his own, not just by his batting but also by his left-arm spin. Yuvraj is one of the mainstays of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs and T20s and but is yet to cement his place in the Test team. Yuvraj played a significant role in India's Twenty20 World Cup triumph in 2007 in which he hit Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over. Just before the 2011 World Cup, Yuvraj was dogged by poor form but the Indian selectors backed him and that paid off as he scored runs and picked up wickets consistently throughout the tournament and was named player of the 2011 World Cup.

VIRAT KOHLI

Full name Virat Kohli

Born November 5, 1988, Delhi

Current age 23 years 97 days

Major teams India, Delhi, India Red, India Under-19s, Royal Challengers Bangalore

Playing role Middle-order batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Virat Kohli was the highest-placed batsman at third followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni at fifth but there was no Indian in the bowling top-10 of the latest ICC one-day rankings issued.
Kohli, who showed good form in the Test series against Australia when he ended up as his side's leading run-getter with 300 runs, trails South Africa's ODI captain AB De Villiers (at second place) by 45 ratings points while Hashim Amla sits on top, another 26 rating points ahead.



The other batsmen in the India-Australia-Sri Lanka tri-series inside the top-10 include Kumar Sangakkara (seventh), Mike Hussey (eighth) and Michael Clarke (ninth).

And depending on how these batsmen perform in the series starting tomorrow, there could be changes in the top-half of the batting chart.
In the rankings for ODI bowlers, Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga is the highest-ranked bowler in the series in 10th position.

Ravindra Jadeja and Brett Lee of Australia are the highest-ranked bowlers of their sides in 13th and 15th positions, respectively.

Meanwhile, shuffling of the pack could be on the cards in the team Championship table when three of the four top ranked sides go head to head in the three-nation tournament.

Incidentally, the tri-series format returns to Australia for the first time in four years, with the same three sides participating as in its last edition in 2008.
Number-one ranked and four-time former world champions Australia sit pretty on 130 ratings points, leading second-ranked current world champions India by 14 ratings points with fourth-ranked 1996 world champion Sri Lanka another five ratings points behind, the ICC said.

And as the rankings system is weighted to reflect this difference, Sri Lanka could earn significant number of points if it is successful in the series. In contrast, Australia and India can lose points if they don't win bulk of their matches.
If Australia beat India in the opener, they will earn one ratings point while India will drop one point. However, if the result is reversed, then Australia will lose two ratings points whereas India will gain one ratings point.
Similarly, if India lose to Australia and then to Sri Lanka, Australia will rise to 131 ratings points and Sri Lanka will move to 113 ratings points whereas India will slip to third position at 115 ratings points.