Djia 2011

The method I use to forecast swing points and trends is the most accurate and powerful I’ve discovered in 30 years of trading. It is also by far the simplest, requiring little more than junior high school math to do the necessary calculations. I first learned about this amazingly precise method of analysis from a floor trader on the Pacific Stock Exchange named Ira Tunik. At the time, Ira was using the cycles work of J.M. Hurst, a pioneer in the field of technical analysis, to make a very good living on the options floor.
                                                      
Over the next year-and-a-half, Ira delved exhaustively into the world of trading systems, reading every book he could find on Elliott Wave Theory, Gann Angles, Pyrapoint, Fibonaccis, oscillators, stochastics — even astrology. The system he finally settled on was called Lindsay’s Trident. But for reasons explained below, it took us both several more years and many modifications to tweak the system into its present, very powerful form. For starters, we discarded the core principle of Charles Lindsay’s trend-following system, substituting some stunningly effective corollaries that Lindsay himself evidently had failed to recognize. The result was a rules-based system that, combined with a little street-sense, can outperform some of the most powerful black box systems ever devised
                                         

Dow jones industrial average 2011

On the first day of trading after Standard and Poor’s downgraded U.S. credit to AA+ from the top-level ranking of AAA, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down more than 630 points, or 5.5 percent, according to Google Finance.That is the sixth-worst total point drop in the history of the Dow Jones.

US stocks booked heavy losses Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing more than 630 points, as Wall Street was rocked by Standard & Poor’s unprecedented downgrade of the nation’s debt late last week.
                                             
The Dow dropped 634.8 points, or 5.6 percent, to close at 10,809.9. It was the worst single-day point drop for Dow since 2008.The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 79.9 points, or 6.7 percent, to 1,119.5. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell 174.7 points, or 6.9 percent, to 2,357.7.

Panicked selling on heavy volume resulted in the S&P 500′s worst day since December 2008, with every stock in the benchmark index ending in negative territory.
                                        

Ricky williams in 2011

The announced addition of RB Ricky Williams to the Baltimore Ravens created a buzz at the team's Training Camp, not just on the sidelines with the assembled media. Apparently, the players and coaches are intrigued by the addition as well, as evidenced by the excitement in their voices when questioned about Ricky coming to Baltimore.
                                                 
On BaltimoreRavens.com, both RB Ray Rice and QB Joe Flacco are looking forward to working with the former Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints running back. Williams also was the Heisman Trophy winner out of the University of Texas in 1999. Offensive Coordinator does not look at the controversial Williams as any more of a risk than any other player he's coached and says that Ricky is an excellent runner and pass protector and will give Ray Rice a break.

Kate gosselin

No offense, Kate Gosselin, because momming is hard work- but if I were one of your eight offspring, I think I might wish there was someone else around to take the heat every so often, too.

Gosselin- one half of the former Jon and Kate plus eight brood that became slightly smaller when Jon swanned off to make bad decisions all on his lonesome- says the Gosselin kids are keen on getting a stepdaddy up in there after their parents’ acrimonious and reality-TV chronicled split.
                                               
Kate has been doing a spate of publicity, and talks about dating again in interviews. But, the mega-mom admits, a relationship with her comes with a lot of complications, including her almost-half-a-Duggar-clan sized family. She recently told Billy Bush:

“Obviously, this time, I’m looking for somebody older, wiser, patient, strong… I have humongous obstacles… I’m doing mom things so it is a true concern, like how will I ever be out there to meet somebody?”
On the challenges of finding time to lure a fella while securing a sitter for eight, Kate says to Ann Curry:
                                                   
“I’ve said a lot of times that I’m ready to start dating. I think there are a lot of obstacles for me. I hope to sort of bump into somebody but in all honesty, I talk to my best friend about wouldn’t it be great if she could go around the country and collect suitable people?

New london

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.

One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.
                                 
Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: “If only,” they love to think, “if only people wouldn’t talk about it, it probably wouldn’t happen.”
                                   

Sign language

The 53-year-old deaf man from Rochester recently filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department, charging Empire Haven and festival organizers with disregarding his civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Willard said Empire Haven, just outside Moravia in Cayuga County, rejected his request to provide a sign language interpreter for the deaf so he could understand what would be said at several festival workshops he wanted to attend. Also, he offered to pay for his own interpreter if the nudist camp would discount or waive his park entry and workshop registration fees.
                                      
Willard said he has tried twice since 2009 to get the nudist camp to provide an interpreter for him. In July, he received an email from Empire Haven saying, “An interpreter for the deaf is not something Empire Haven or the organizer of the naturist festival provide for this event or any other event.”
That response triggered Willard's complaint to the Justice Department.
                                         

Bank of america stock

Bank of America shares plunged 20% Monday, fueled in part by a steep selloff in the broader market and news that insurer American International Group is suing it for billions of dollars over alleged mortgage securities fraud.

Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), the nation's largest bank, tumbled more than 20% while shares of AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) fell 10% on Monday. Bank of America has already lost nearly 49% of its value this year, while AIG has tumbled more than 59%...
                                      
Standard and Poor’s has just announced its downgrading of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the latest fallout from Friday’s national credit downgrade.
Bank of America stock is down 9.42% on the session. The Dow Jones is trading down nearly 300 points. S&P 500 down 3.14%. Nasdaq is down 3.34%. Gold is trading at $1,703 per ounce.
                                      

In time funny movie

Jack Roush is all in. So is Ford Motor Co. And that means Carl Edwards is, too, as the newly re-signed driver looks to give Roush and Ford their first NASCAR Sprint Cup championship since Kurt Busch in 2004.
After weeks of debate about whether Edwards would stay at Roush Fenway Racing or move to Joe Gibbs Racing, the decision has been made: Edwards is staying put. Now, it’s time to stand and deliver.
Make no mistake about it, Edwards opted to re-up at Roush Fenway Racing, his home for his entire NASCAR Sprint Cup career, because he thinks it gives him his best chance to win a championship. But Roush opened his checkbook and Ford ponied up potentially hugely lucrative stock options because they expect Edwards to deliver the goods, too.

In the last 20 years, Ford has had a difficult go of it winning Sprint Cup championships and keeping top drivers in the Blue Oval family. Since 1990, the only Ford drivers to win championships were Alan Kulwicki (1992), Dale Jarrett (1999), Matt Kenseth (2003) and Busch (2004).
                                    
And the number of frontline drivers who defected from Ford to one of the other three manufacturers in Sprint Cup reads like an all-star roster: Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, Ryan Newman, Jeff Burton, Paul Menard, Kurt Busch, Jamie McMurray and Mark Martin all were Ford racers at one time, but aren’t anymore.
This weekend, Ford, Roush and Edwards are all holding hands, singing kumbaya and saying all the right things — It was never about money. There was no last-minute raising of the ante. We just want to win.
Or as Edwards put it: “At the end of the day, we were in a position right now where our cars are fast, we have chances to win almost every week, and the opportunity to go out and win this championship, to continue my partnership with Jack, to continue it with Ford, with the sponsors that we have, it’s an honor to be in this position.”

Understandable that they would celebrate. That said, the hard work of dethroning Jimmie Johnson and the powerhouse Hendrick Motorsports organization lies ahead.
Edwards and Johnson have similar statistics here: In 13 career Pocono starts, Edwards has two victories, five top-five and six top-10 finishes, while Johnson also has two victories, along with seven top-five and 13 top-10 finishes in 19 starts here.
They will both be among the favorites in this afternoon’s Good Sam RV Insurance 500, with Edwards starting from the fourth position and Johnson 18th. And they will be the favorites heading into NASCAR’s playoff round as well.
Will the new deal put Edwards, Roush and Ford where they want to be? Will Hendrick and Johnson continue to dominate? Will another team, perhaps Joe Gibbs Racing or Richard Childress Racing rise to the challenge?

About stand by me

The quintessential coming-of-age film Stand By Me celebrates it’s 25th anniversary this year. The movie was released in the summer of 1986 and tells the story of four twelve-year-old boys in a small town in Oregon and the Labor Day weekend that changed their lives forever.
The film was a hit almost immediately after it was released in theaters and it’s gone on to become a beloved classic since then. Actor Wil Wheaton, who played Gordie Lachance, Stand By Me’s star, tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host David Greene that he credits the cast and director Rob Reiner for the film’s success.
“I felt from the very first time we all got together up in Oregon that we were making something really special,” Wheaton says.
                                                   
Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell and River Phoenix played Teddy Duchamp, Vern Tessio and Chris Chambers, respectively, alongside Wheaton. The actors were all the same age and bonded during filming, a chemistry that is apparent in their friendships onscreen.
“Rob Reiner found four young boys who basically were the characters we played,” Wheaton explains.
Wheaton grew especially close to Phoenix, who played his best friend in the film and who died tragically of a drug overdose at the age of 23. Even though the two were the same age at the time, Wheaton describes him as a kind of father figure as well as “one of the kindest people he’d ever been around.”
                                              
“We stayed friends after we worked on the film and I went and visited his family and I guess around the time that I was turning maybe 15, we just drifted apart. And I always felt really sad about that,” Wheaton says.
Despite the young ages of the film’s cast, Stand By Me deals with a lot of adult themes including abuse, dysfunctional families and death. But even with all of these issues, Wheaton still sees the film as a love letter to childhood innocence.
“Stand By Me, it sort of talks about this time in your life that feels incredibly complicated but as you get older you realize is actually incredibly simple,” Wheaton explains. “And its a time that stays with us even as we become adults.” [Copyright 2011 National Public Radio]

NASCAR

“There’s a reason why there are certain tracks on the schedule that are on the schedule,” Keselowski said Friday at Pocono Raceway. “They’re great facilities. They’re nice facilities to drive on, and when things go wrong, usually people won’t get hurt. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a wreck in (Sprint) Cup where a driver has been seriously hurt—let’s knock on wood.
“I was real lucky. That has to do with the facilities you go to. I had a good time testing at Road Atlanta, but at the end of the day, there’s a realization that there’s a reason why it’s not a Cup facility. It’s not up to the requirements that it takes.”
Even though the track wasn’t up to NASCAR’s safety standards, the choice is to forgo testing and not being prepared for the Cup race on the road course at Watkins Glen.
“Those are the things we have to do if we want to remain competitive, if we want to find the edge, if we want to go to Watkins Glen and unload as a competitive team,” Keselowski said. “You’ve got to take those chances.
                               
“This Wednesday, when we took those chances, we paid the price for it—and almost paid a much larger price.”
With the ban in place, NASCAR can’t stop teams from testing at outside tracks. Nor can NASCAR provide cover for teams testing at tracks NASCAR doesn’t sanction.
What NASCAR can do is allow teams to test on a limited basis at NASCAR tracks. Not only would that be a safer option for the competitors, it also would provide an additional source of income for tracks that already support NASCAR racing.“There’s a reason why there are certain tracks on the schedule that are on the schedule,” Keselowski said Friday at Pocono Raceway. “They’re great facilities. They’re nice facilities to drive on, and when things go wrong, usually people won’t get hurt. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a wreck in (Sprint) Cup where a driver has been seriously hurt—let’s knock on wood.
“I was real lucky. That has to do with the facilities you go to. I had a good time testing at Road Atlanta, but at the end of the day, there’s a realization that there’s a reason why it’s not a Cup facility. It’s not up to the requirements that it takes.”
                                       
Even though the track wasn’t up to NASCAR’s safety standards, the choice is to forgo testing and not being prepared for the Cup race on the road course at Watkins Glen.
“Those are the things we have to do if we want to remain competitive, if we want to find the edge, if we want to go to Watkins Glen and unload as a competitive team,” Keselowski said. “You’ve got to take those chances.
“This Wednesday, when we took those chances, we paid the price for it—and almost paid a much larger price.”
With the ban in place, NASCAR can’t stop teams from testing at outside tracks. Nor can NASCAR provide cover for teams testing at tracks NASCAR doesn’t sanction.
What NASCAR can do is allow teams to test on a limited basis at NASCAR tracks. Not only would that be a safer option for the competitors, it also would provide an additional source of income for tracks that already support NASCAR racing.

Goodfellas

"Goodfellas" is a 1990 movie directed by Martin Scorsese about life in the mafia in New York City. It starred Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, the real-life mobster who wrote the memoir "Wiseguy" on which the film is based. Joe Pesci won an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Tommy DeVito, one of Hill's fellow mobsters. The film was nominated for five other Oscars, including best picture, best director (for Scorsese) and best supporting actress (for Lorraine Bracco, who portrayed Hill's wife, Karen Hill).How well do you know the families and the families at the center of GoodFellas? Producers almost cast different actors as Henry Hill and his wife and one star's mother saw the movie and demanded to know why he swore so much.
                                 
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Tca award 2011

As a new NBC series, Friday Night Lights won Outstanding New Program at the Television Critics Association's awards in 2007. Four years later, as a departing DirecTV show, Friday Night Lights tonight won the top TCA award, Program of the Year. HBO's Game of Thrones was named outstanding new program during the non-televised ceremony hosted by Parks and Recreation co-star Nick Offerman at the Beverly Hilton. Oprah Winfrey got a career achievement TCA award to go with her recently awarded Oscar "for her influence through 25 seasons of The Oprah Winfrey Show," while Offerman received an Individual Achievement in Comedy Award to make up for the Emmy-nomination snub last month. CBS' The Amazing Race, whose best series Emmy-winning streak was broken last year, is starting a new one at the TCA Awards, winning the first award in newly established reality program category. Here is the list of the winners in 12 categories voted by the members of TCA, a media organization comprised of more than 200 professional TV critics and journalists from the U.S. and Canada:
                                         
Saturday is my last day at TCA TV critics' press tour in LA (my colleagues will have to soldier on without me for ABC's final presentation), and the network of the day was FX, which updated us as to what's going on in the worlds of tortured male antiheroes and raunchy comedy. Some of the highlights:
* In the last year, FX was the bearer of bad news in canceling first-season shows like Lights Out and critical favorite Terriers. Today, FX president John Landgraf got to play good cop, with plenty of happy news for fans of existing FX shows. Happiest for TV land, Louie is getting picked up for a third season--great news, but not surprising given that (1) the show's ratings are dramatically up, (2) it's getting awards nominations and insane critical love and (3) it costs about as much as five seconds of CGI dragon on Game of Thrones.

About adam scott

Adam Scott knew he was getting a good caddy when he hired Steve Williams but what he didn’t know was that at their first win together Williams would get more attention.  As Scott strode triumphantly to the eighteenth green with a three stroke lead, the crowd was chanting “Steve…Steve…Steve” and singing ‘Stevie, Stevie, Stevie.”  To say it was bizarre doesn’t quite capture it.
                                           
Adam Scott played great golf to beat a field of the best golfers in the world to win by four strokes.  He had an air of confidence about him all day and was dressed to intimidate.  The Aussie wore all black from head to toe and maybe that was in deference to Williams’ favorite rugby team The All Blacks.  Whatever the reason, it worked as Scott’s five under 65 was more than enough to pull away from the field.
His golf was amazing but the overwhelming theme of the day was Williams claiming victory with his new man in a place that Tiger has owned.  Afterwards, with as broad a smile as he could muster Williams said, “I’ve caddied for 33 years and this is the greatest week of my life.”

It doesn’t end there.  Williams gave a long, unfiltered interview to many of the media after the tournament and said he was “short shifted” by Tiger and that he “was absolutely shocked that I got the boot.”  Asked how he felt about the win he said, “It’s the most satisfying win I’ve ever had.”
The still bitter Williams said he was told on the phone that “we needed to take a break, and in caddy lingo that means you’re fired.  Simple as that.”
Williams spoke like he finally had that Team Tiger Duct Tape ripped off his mouth.  He reveled in this win like few caddies ever have.
                                           
As Scott dropped his birdie putt on eighteen Williams gave an emphatic fist pump, much like Tiger used to.  He was asked if there was a little extra emotion in that and he smiled as wide as he could with the answer, “Absolutely!” Take that Tiger.
It was a strange scene: the winning caddy warranting more media that the winner.  But these past two years with Tiger and Williams have been as strange as they come.
Adam Scott and Steve Williams can now set their sights on their first major together.  Won’t that be some interview.

Maplestory

We are thrilled to be teaming up with 6waves Lolapps in such a significant way," Nexon CEO Seung-woo Choi told VentureBeat. "By joining forces, we are combining 6waves Lolapps’ experience in publishing and developing social games with our extensive knowledge of free-to-play games and the microtransaction business model."

A new adventure lies in the Age of Triumph, bringing players an entirely new story line called the Silent Crusade. This full length quest for players level 37-110 introduces a battle force that specializes in eliminating Master Monsters, a faction of enemies never before seen in MapleStory. Throughout their journey through the Silent Crusade, players will be introduced to new NPCs that will aid them along their quest, including one character that will grab the hearts of players seeking a new romance. The Silent Crusade will be narrated through colorful, action-packed in-game cutscenes and through tandem battles with NPCs.
                                    
Beyond the hours of new gameplay included with the Silent Crusade, the Age of Triumph will also introduce the Global MapleStory exclusive Capture the Flag mode, a new game type added to MapleStory’s PVP mode. Three to six players in two teams will fight for their opponents’ flag, and the first team to do so three times is declared the winner. Item drops, including speed ups, power ups, HP recoveries and more will aid players throughout the battle, along with additional points and medals for players that exhibit the actions of a true strategist.
                                
Players can also check their inventory to find the Crusader Codex, an essential rolodex of the various monsters that roam Maple World. To complete their collection, players will need to collect Monster Cards by defeating enemies. When certain pages are filled with the cards which display monster information, including levels and item drops, players will receive special prizes that reflect the completion of the book. Medals, ranging from Beginner Collector to Legendary Collector, will be awarded to players along with huge HP and MP power ups.

Angelman syndrome

Angelman Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that causes serious but a constellation of developmental problems in children who are affected, including mental retardation, less talking, and in some cases, autism. More than a decade ago, researchers discovered that the U.S. is caused by mutations in single genes, but none could explain how these defects lead to symptoms of debilitating neurological disease.

The new work from Michael Greenberg, chairman of the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), providing insight into the mystery by showing that the enzyme is missing, Ube3A, interact with neuronal proteins key to controlling how the environment shapes the input synaptic connections. In other words, the loss Ube3A disrupt the brain's ability to use the environment to enhance the experience of neuronal circuits, which could explain the developmental deficits that occur in the U.S. destroyed. This suggests a new target for treating Angelman syndrome. Currently, physicians can manage some symptoms of AS, but there is no treatment for the core features.
                                    
What's more, Ube3A gene also is mutated in some cases of autism, raising the possibility that these findings may also explain some of the problems that occur in autism spectrum disorders, which is 100 times more common than the U.S..

"With this work, we have gone from a place where we can only imagine how Ube3A might work, to be able to think about the possibilities for therapeutic intervention in disorders in which until very recently there was little to do," said Greenberg, Nathan Marsh Pusey professor of neurobiology at HMS.

Rick perry

Two clips for you: A 90-second highlight from the Examiner plus the full 12-minute speech/sermon via Mediaite. He stayed away from overtly political rhetoric, as promised, but when you’re polling second in the GOP field and on the cusp of jolting the presidential race, anything you say or do matters politically. And this event isn’t just “anything,” needless to say: Iowans are starting to pay attention to the campaign with Ames just a week away, and the left is busily compiling old quotes from today’s speakers to use against him later.

                                      

“Father, our heart breaks for America,” Perry said, leading the crowd at Reliant Stadium in prayer. “We see discord at home, we see fear in the marketplace, we see anger in the halls of government. And as a nation, we have forgotten who made us, who protects us, who blesses us.
“And for that we cry out for your forgiveness,” he said…
The stated reasons for the prayer gathering — a “crisis” moment in America – also underscored the politics. “Right now, America is in crisis: we have been besieged by financial debt, terrorism, and a multitude of natural disasters,” Perry wrote in a letter on the website for The Response. “As a nation, we must come together and call upon Jesus to guide us through unprecedented struggles, and thank Him for the blessings of freedom we so richly enjoy.”

Navy seals 2011

The late-night Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed up to 31 Americans and 7 Afghans killed over 20 Navy SEALs, including members of Seal Team Six, the same unit that participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

If the numbers are confirmed, the incident would be the most deadly for coalition forces in the Afghan war, according to a CNN count of international troop deaths.

Special forces have been conducting almost daily night-time raids against insurgent targets throughout Afghanistan. Saturday’s crash took place in the eastern province of Wardak, an area rife with insurgent activity

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP/WAVY) - Some members of the Navy SEALs team killed in Saturday's Chinook crash in Afghanistan were based in Hampton Roads.

SEAL Team 6,  also known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is based in Dam Neck , Va.

U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that they believe that none of the Navy SEALs who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan had participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, although they were from the same unit that carried out the bin Laden mission.
                                                      
Sources say that more than 20 Navy SEALs were among those lost in the crash in Afghanistan.

The operators from SEAL Team 6 were flown by a regular Army crew. That's according to AP military sources.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP/WAVY) - Some members of the Navy SEALs team killed in Saturday's Chinook crash in Afghanistan were based in Hampton Roads.

SEAL Team 6,  also known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is based in Dam Neck , Va.

U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that they believe that none of the Navy SEALs who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan had participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, although they were from the same unit that carried out the bin Laden mission.

Seal team 6

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP/ WAVY) - A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, along with seven Afghan commandos. It was the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.
                                          
The Taliban claimed they downed the helicopter with rocket fire while it was taking part in a raid on a house where insurgents were gathered in the province of Wardak late Friday. It said wreckage of the craft was strewn at the scene. A senior U.S. administration official in Washington said the craft was apparently shot down by insurgents. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the crash is still being investigated.

NATO confirmed the overnight crash took place and that there "was enemy activity in the area." But it said it was still investigating the cause and conducting a recovery operation at the site. It did not release details or casualty figures.

Lucille ball

The series was popular when it originally aired in the ‘50s, and the sitcom really has never lost its popularity since it went off the air in 1957, being released on DVD and remaining in syndication in the U.S. and worldwide to this day.

As Lucy Arnaz, Ball’s daughter, told the Los Angeles Times this week, America’s love affair with Lucy continues to this day.

“I hear the same kind of stories from the same age people decade after decade as if it were the film ‘Groundhog Day.’” Arnaz said of her mother, who was born on Aug. 6, 1911 and died April 26, 1989. “It is bizarre to be me.”

For those who get the Hallmark Channel, an “I Love Lucy” marathon began at 5 a.m. today and will run through 8 a.m. on Monday.
                                             
For our friends in Los Angeles, be on the lookout for a whole lot of Lucy’s. The Hollywood Museum is celebrating a new Ball exhibit unveiled Thursday, and part of that celebration includes a look-alike contest tonight (anyone else suddenly have a flashback to the movie “Rat Race”?).

Not to be outdone by Hollywood, Jamestown, New York is trying to break a world record for gathering together the most Lucy lookalikes.

I love lucy

may have been born 100 years ago today, but her jokes are timeless. Having grown up with the comedic genius of “I Love Lucy,” it’s hard to believe that Lucy, Desi, Fred, and Ethel wrapped up the initial series in 1957. Lucy’s creativity, absurdity, and ever-changing facial expressions (especially when she was scarfing down candy, stomping on grapes or touting a new energy drink) have brought joy and laughter to generations of viewers.

We’re incredibly happy to celebrate her birthday with a doodle to highlight her brilliant career as an actress and businesswoman. Through the old-timey TV live on the google.com homepage all day on August 6th, you can flip the six channels for a special Lucy broadcast.

                                                  
Lucille Ball was my landlady. I was renting a soundstage to film That Girl at Desilu Studios, which was owned by Lucy and her husband, Desi Arnaz. I remember the day we were rehearsing our very first episode, and I was carefully trying to save my energy for the real filming. At one point, I saw out of the corner of my eye that we had a redheaded visitor on the set. Yup, it was Lucy. To hell with my energy. For the next 20 minutes, I performed my heart out. Lucy was watching, and I wanted to be good. When it was over, she gave me a wink. It felt like an Emmy.