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the gene was passed along to abigail's family.she was born abigail smith and her brother died of alcoholism. >> do we know much about uncle williams? >> he drank a lot. >> he abandoned his family. he disappeared? >> no, he died of alcoholism. there is no treatment. he died very early either some accident because you are out of control or you died of cirrhosis of the liver or brain damage, but he died of alcoholism. her brother died of alcoholism. her three sons, john quincy adams two brothers died of alcoholism into a john quincy adams three sons died of alcoholism. his firstborn, george washington adams died in his late 20s. the second bully, the youngest boy charros also died of it in one of the three sons survived as did several of the greatest sins. but this is a genetic trait in the smith family, just as in the quincy family, a treat of genius, which went back to 1066 in the battle of hastings, crossing of the channel -- quincy is a village or town in normandy, which still exists and the english obviously corrupt at the spell

it was -- it was passed along through abigail's family. she was born abigail smith.her brother died -- >> beyond will william smith? do we know much about uncle william? >> he died of alcoholism in those days. there was no treatment. you died a very early. some accident because you were out of control or you died of sclerosis to the liver but you died of alcoholism coming and her brother died of alcoholism. two of her three sons, john quincy adams' brothers died of alcoholism and two of john quincy adams' died. firstborn, george adams died in his late 20s. the second born, the youngest, charles also died. one of the three songs survived, as did several of the grandson's but this was a genetic trait in the smith family. just as in the quincy family history of genius which went back to 1066 and the crossing -- the battle of hastings crossing the channel by way of the concord. a little village town in normandy which still exists and the english obviously corrupted. they were with william hastings a baron to quincy and was running in 2015. so this line of leadership and

>> abigail, i disagree with both. you laid it out nice technically. nokia has thrown the hail mary pass. this is not a doug flutie hail mary pass. they are late to the game. just gotten knocked off the pedestal last week as the number one mobile provider but they deeply discounted the phone. squeezing the margins down, too late and too little. back to apple. a gail, one thing you're forgetting is that the global growth story, it is there. they just launched another 32 countries. >> maybe so, jeff, but i've been hearing reports that china is really disappointing on the apple front. i know from my own experience of trying to buy a phone recently ten sales people, none would sell me the iphone five, just about image and hype and relative to nokia, they are backed by microsoft. are you going to real want to bet against microsoft, at least in the near term. i think we need to see. >> i'll give you that, but there's a lot of buzz with that, and to disagree even more so you saw the initial chinese sales at 2 million. launched another 32 countries. look at th

my name is abigail [inaudible] with the partnerships division with recreation and park department. i am here to talk about the accept and expend grant from the san francisco parks a likesv in the amount of $870,355 which will authorize the recreation and park department to accept and expend this grant for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. i'd like to spend a few minutes to give you some background on the group that's working on this project and the playground as well. the friends of waterfront playground is a volunteer organization formed by two waterfront neighborhoods, the barbery crist and [speaker not understood]. currently there are about 12,000 residents and it's growing to 20,000, which includes over 1,000 children. in addition to those children, there are 700 children that come to the area every day in child care centers and the ymca camp. however, there are no public play grounds within a half mile of the area for these children to play. the friends of waterfront playground have been working in partnership with the san francisco recreation an

to tell my story through the eyes of an outsider so my protagonists was a young black woman named abigail, 21, a recent college graduate. she wants to be a lawyer and this is at a time when there were six or seven black lawyers in america, no female lawyers in america at all. but this is her ambition and wanting to be a lawyer, she ends up with a job as a very minor clerk at the law from the law from that ends up defending lincoln in the novel. i wanted to give an outsider's perspective to look at lincoln through the eyes of someone who is black and yet some of those outside power and fighting to get him. >> historically accurate, six or seven black lawyers in america in 1865? >> historically accurate. we don't know the exact number. no female lawyers. there were no full members of the bar. i want to be careful, until the late 1870s. there were a couple of did some legal duties, but the small number of black lawyers, at the time it wasn't that much money to be made as a lawyer. it's not like lawyer for making lots and lots of money but to wear black numbers rising. one of the most admired

girls like abigail. >> abigail was ten years old.nto child prostitution. you know, i find out now that the reasons for that was because she's an orphan, she doesn't even have free drinking water. so even to get a glass of water she needs money. and she doesn't have parents to pay for it. so she got sucked into it by her friends who told her that if she was with a man she would get a dollar. >> thanks to more than me, abigail is back in school. and she's in her class first. she is big dreams of one day becoming a senator so that she can fight for girls in similar situations for her part, katy is hoping to help even more abigails. and there is good news on the horizon. the liberian government recently donated a building to more than me. now though the structure needs a lot of work, but in january katy will open the doors to the more than me academy in the center of the city. and it will cater specifically to girls from preschool through eighth grade. >> more than me is about living for something bigger than just yourself every day. no

stuart: two of my beautiful granddaughters will be with us this christmas, abigail and paige are watching right now. this is for you. 'twas the night before christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. the stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that st. nicholas soon would be there. the children were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. and mama in her kerchief and in her cap had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap. when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter i sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. in a twinkling i heard on the roof the prancing and pulling of each little hoof. as i drew in my head and was turning around, down the chimney st. nicholas came with a bound. his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. his eyes how they twinkled. his cheeks were like roses his nose like a cherry. he had a round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly. he spoke not a word but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings then turned. giv

purchased it five years ago and samed it sam after the first initials of her three children, samuel, abigail and mica. she contributed a considerable amount of money into renovating this restaurant and a strong tenant in the corridor. i go to sam's regularly and a big fan of the korean tacos and if you would like to check that out. it's close to our office. the dinear is welcoming to great broad section of the neighborhood and it's accessible and affordable and delicious and where many of the actors of the stage shows go well and stays opens late to accommodate those folks and rejuvenate the arts district? a. genie grew up where food was part of the living and hard work and spirit and overcoming obstacles and she actually makes would meals herself and definitely complement the chef when she is there. she is often busing tables on top of cooking so lee if you would like to say a few words on behalf of your partner genie. it's a pleasure to have you here today. >> thank you supervisor kim. we enjoy the recognition. genie isn't here so i can brag. i don't know anyone that works harder than she

i have abigail fits ger old and scott kiter. >> good afternoon. i am abbey. i am not in real estate. i don't own a business. i am just a resident. i have never been to one of these meetings and joining late in the game and while i commend the task force these developments are being made and i am only now hearing about them. i live in the area. i don't think the neighbors know how long about what is going on. i don't think the residents in the neighborhood are pretty aware and i am active in the community and i am embarrassed to say i wasn't involved earlier. where have been i been? i do have concerns not allowing residents to move into the neighborhood is not going to help the cause. i want it to be a plan that is a win-win, not a win-lose. i hope you grandfather in this gentleman's project. i don't want the street next to me just be night life and night activities and come to the neighborhood and party and ruin and go home at night and leave the residents to clean it up. i feel like we're a neighborhood that is -- i don't know, we're just getting going and i

abigail, one of the greatest. >> reporter: funeral processions seemed to spread across connecticut forhe shooting victims, both children and adults. more than 100 firefighters honored young daniel barden, who wanted to grow up to be one of them. >> these young kids to have their lives taken so early. >> reporter: mourners paid respect to dawn hochsprung. and victoria soto was laid to rest. >> i think any teacher would do what she did. not blink and do whatever had to be done to protect those children. >> reporter: but a rebirth, of sorts, is under way for sandy hook students. some got a first look at their classrooms. the principal will come out of retirement as a former sandy hook principal. and in washington, president obama issued a resounding call to action. >> this is not some washington commission. >> reporter: the president announced a powerful team of cabinet members, now have the new task of creating immediate reforms to prevent more shootings. and the vice president isn't wasting any time in getting to action. today, planning to convene a meeting of top law enforcement offici

my name is abigail [speaker not understood]. i'm here with the san francisco recreation and park department. our partnership position. and i am here to request retroactive authorization for the recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant not to exceed $2 80,000 from the san francisco parks alliance towards seven community projects funded with community opportunity fund dollars. in seven projects, these are seven different neighborhood groups who applied for and were awarded 2008 clean and safe -- clean and safe neighborhood parks bond funding from the community opportunity fund piece of that bond. and these groups have worked very hard to raise additional funding to either complete their projects or work towards completion. they have also dedicated time and fund resources to make these neighborhood projects happen. i'm happy to answer any specific questions that you might have. >> thank you. for the public's benefit, would you speak a little bit about what those groups are, which [speaker not understood] benefits

his 3-year-old sister abigail is also on the hill. both following in the footsteps of their dad who is a big fan of the sport. i can't even imagine going on there. he's lifeless on there. just kind of chilling. that's amazing. i could stare at that most of the day. >>> thanks for starting your morning with us. much more ahead on "cnn sunday morning" which starts right now. >>> good morning, i'm alison kosik. randi is off today. thanks for starting your morning with us. we begin this hour which may be the worst day of bloodshed syria has suffered in almost 200 days of war. and syria is bracing for more violence today. international efforts to restore peace are continuing, but are they having any success? let's go to cnn's mohammed jamjoom. yesterday was the deadliest day since january of last year. claims of a mass execution coming out. tell me more about it. >> that's right, alison, opposition activists reporting at least 397 people killed yesterday. that's a staggering number, even by the standards in syria where these days routinely

robert rubin abigail disney, and richard rockefeller, one of the heirs to the rockefeller fortune.h lowered the estate tax. how much did that cough us? $536 billion over 10 years. where did that money go? to the richest .3%. they got an extra $536 billion. what does president obama do? of course, as always, he splits the baby. the state tax used to a ply for families above $2 million. he said let's move it to $7.5 million. bush wanted to move it to $10 million. the rate used to be at high at 55%, now president obama wants to make it 45%. what happens? we save some of the money that bush cost us, but still leave $256 billion going to the richest .3%. some of the people in that richest .3% say we shouldn't do that. we should make estate taxes even higher than obama's proposing because we need the money for the rest of the programs that this country desperately needs and rich have enough. to back up their point the forbes top 400 richest people in the country net worth in 1982 of $213 billion, now a net worth of $1.7 trillion. the money already got moved to the top. we don't need more

that is what happened to abigail fisher. it is not disputed. she was treated differently because of her race and color and national origin. now, we are not going to be talking so much about title vi my when we talk about the constitution. the supreme court said it doesn't really mean what it says. we just think it means what the constitution means. constitution has a little bit more wiggle room. although knobloch or the constitution guarantees equal protection of the law, and the outlaws the whole purpose of it the 14th amendment was to outlaw racial standards. that seems pretty straightforward. there was an act of 1981 that been racial discrimination, including in regards to college tuition. it sounds pretty straightforward. think of those things not mean what they say. there is an exception in this area. you would think, well, gee, it would be an exception. it would be an exception to the principle of racial discrimination that is pretty clearly there in the law. the federal branch have spoken to that. it must be pretty strong and undeniable.

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that's what happened to abigail fisher. it's not disputed. she was treated different lit because of -- differently because of her race, color and national origin. now, we're not going to be talking so much about title vi tomorrow, we're going to be talking about the constitution because the supreme court said, well, that doesn't really mean what it says, you know? we think that it just means what the constitution means. and the constitution is, you know, has a little more egg l room,al -- wiggle l room,al l though not a lot. the constitution outlawed, i mean, the whole purpose of the equal protection or the 14th amendment was to outlaw racially-separate legal standards. that seems pretty straightforward too. and, you know, there are others, there's another federal statute, section 1981 that banned racial discrimination in the making of contracts, and the court has made clear that that includes college tuition. so this ought to be, you know, fairly straightforward. but the supreme court has said that, you know, those words really don't mean wh

his wife, abigail, was not in court but previously said that he's recovering though he needs constant care. there was a third defendant charged. that's 18-year-old michael mere, moore waved his hearing. he was not in court today. now, keith, no trial today has been set. both defendants will be back in court on january 2nd for a status hearing with this new indictment. reporting live from d.c. superior court, seth lemon, news4. >> thank you so much. the time right now, 11:07. thanks for joining us on "news4 midday." >>> coming up, scary moment ms. new jersey as shots ring out at a police station. we'll have the latest on this developing story. >>> and tributes are pouring in for the military leader known as storming norman. >>> and russia's decision to [ male announcer ] this commercial is not about getting fios, it's about getting fios. that moment after you finally got it that you actually get it. the difference 100% fiber optics makes and you say "woah we are not on cable anymore." when online videos aren't herky jerky, you get it. or when a movie downloads in two minutes, you get i

rock on, abigail. rock on. same phones, same networks. half the cost. unlimited everything just $45 a month. straight talk wireless. only at walmart. >>> welcome back. one of the year's most hotly anticipated movies, "the hobbit," is about to open in america. the story itself laid the groundwork for the hugely successful "lord of the rings" trilogy, which director peter jackson turned into a hugely successful film franchise. but as ann curry found when she visited peter jackson in new zealand, this billion-dollar enterprise really started when a monster movie drove a little boy to tears. >> hitchcock's great quote about some people's movies are slices of life. mine are slices of cake. that sums me up. i'm someone that can happily buy a ticket and go to a film and come away thinking, wow, that was cool. those are the sorts of films that i hope i'm making. >> reporter: big slice of cake, chocolaty, with lots of frosting. >> and quite a few calories. >> reporter: you may not recognize his face but you know his movies. sir peter jackson, yes, he's a sir, is

his 3-year-old sister abigail is also on the hill. the footsteps of their dad who is a big fan of sport. >>> we're about to leave 2012 behind, but are you smarter than a year ago? other friend says we all are, so, dean, hello. >> good morning. >> good morning. you wroet an op-ed for cnn.com with a list of 12 things you say america learned this year. you say we picked up a new language this year. what are you talking about? >> i think we are a little smarter than we were. we know a little more than we did 365 days ago. like it or not, it's he drilled into our head. one is korean thanks to the hit song gangnam style by psy. it means south of river in core reian. it's cheaper than rosetta stone. if you watch the video, you can do the horse dance. it involves your hands. >> yes, it does. >> we learned two things there. a dance and a korean word. >> you say we learned some people just don't like silver? >> no. macay makayla maroney got a silver medal and said i'm not impressed. you give me free silver, i'm very happy and smile and say thaw

abigail adams was in the crowd, just off the balcony in the intersection of up to her husband, john insider is crazy after the declaration was read, everything british was ripped down and burned in the middle of the intersection immediately after the meeting, including the unicorn that now was put up in 1881. it immediately one of the first two games were ripped off by some of the british authority and burned in the middle of the intersection. it was a little rambunctious and boston. it continued to be. before that in 1770 on march 5th, just outside the intersection itself, simply where all familiar with, something that of allison contributed in the book as well as his own book on not. another rambunctious event in the city of boston. so just right outside this building itself. now we are going to turn to the panel discussion, which is in the fashion of a question-and-answer session. this mike in the middle of the i/o is for you to step up to, ask your questions to the panel. right now i will introduce you to the panelists. beginning with bob allison from esa chair of the history department

o'hara and on the fundamental side is our bear for the day, abigail dolittle.nk you both for joining us today. j.c., you would buy this cliff dip as it were. is that the case? >> absolutely. i think the 2% down day was an early gift to investors. the first is, if you look at a chart on the slide, you notice the 50-day moving average, we're trading around these levels here. over the past year, we've tested the 50 day moving average from above multiple times and the majority of the outcome we've been positive. close to 2.5% over the next few days. so i think we're going to get a bounce higher here. and the next reason i'll be buying right at these levels is 142 is a major level on the spy for support. if you look at from volume at price, we see a majority of the buyers and sellers are congregating right at these levels. >> you know, these are great points that you're making, j.c., and maybe we could see a bounce here of 3% to 5%, but the key word in that sentence is topped out. there's so much uncertainty. i see a topping process that takes time. it reflects the

. >> brown: abigail linus, who earns some money as a nanny, plays and sings in the church choir. >> youe to be afraid. when you hear things going around in the whole of greece, you have to very, very scared to go out. >> brown: so you think this is >> brown: the question for many here now: how deep are these angry, even violent currents in the society? yannis lagoudakos, a former mayor of perama who's planning to re-enter politics, predicts things will get much worse. >> ( translated ): there is an anger against the national, the central government which hasn't yet expressed itself and it's building up like water behind a dam, waiting to break out. they're going to start smashing shop windows and grabbing things and ultimately i wouldn't put it past the greek society to storm parliament. >> brown: others though, insist the majority of greeks will continue to show great patience amid the austerity, frustrated by their politicians and angry at what's seen as the haughtiness of richer european partners such as germany, but understanding that things have to change. economist hardouvelis say

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rock on, abigail. rock on. same phones, same networks. half the cost.verything just $45 a month. straight talk wireless. only at walmart. >>> this is a news 4 news break. >> good morning, everyone. it is 7:56. the redskins are the nfc east division champions. they beat the dallas cowboys 28-18. rookie alfred morris rushed for 200 yards and three touchdowns in the win setting a new redskins record for rushing yards in a season. now the skins will host the seattle seahawks on sunday. pretty cold morning out there. weather and traffic are next. stay with us. >>> good monday morning. we have some high clouds outside. we'll see more clouds moving in today. temperatures sit in the 20s throughout the area. 29 degrees with a little bit of wind. the wind chill reading at 23 degrees. later today, a high of 46 degrees. alexis? >> thank you. looking at the beltway this morning we had a smooth ride without major incidents or delays. we have reports of a water main possible break in eastbound leesburg pike. no reports of lane information now. looking now at route 50

his 2009 "abigail adams" won the bancroft prize.is a finalist for the george washington book prize and national book award. his first book, "forced founders: indians, debtors, slaves and the making of the american revolution in virginia," won the organization of american historians 'mel kurdy award. i'm honor today introduce -- honored to introduce woody holten. [applause] >> first, i want to celebrate the wisdom ask and the congeniality of the fellow judges who gave up a half year of tear own writing to -- of their own writing to help find the fife amazing books that we present to you tonight. they are brad gooch, linda gordon, susan orlene and judith -- [inaudible] [applause] the other judges and i also want to give special thanks to sherry young who was our tireless and perfectionist liaison at the national book foundation. thank you, sherry. [applause] the finalists for the 2012 national book award for nonfiction are anne applebaum, "iron curtain: the crushing of eastern europe, 1845-1856" published by doubleday. and katherine b

his 2009 but, abigail adams, won the bancroft prize.nruly americans and the origins of the constitution. a finalist for the george washington book prize and national book award. his first book ,-com,-com ma forced founders, indians, debtors slaves in the making of the american revolution in virginia, when the organization of american historians merle kirby award. i am honored to introduce holton. [applause] ♪ ♪ first i want to celebrate the wisdom and the congeniality of the fellow judges, who gave up a half half-year of their own writing to help find the five amazing books that we present to you tonight. they are brad gooch, linda gordon, susan orlean and judas fuel of its. [applause] the other judges and i also want to give special thanks to sherry young, who was our tireless and perfectionist liaison at the national book foundation. thank you, sherry. [applause] the finalist for the 2012 national book award for nonfiction are, and cho applebaum, "iron curtain," "the crushing of eastern europe" ,-com,-com ma 1845 to 1856 published by

rock on, abigail. rock on. same phones, same networks. half the cost.thing just $45 a month. straight talk wireless. only at walmart. >> this is tv 11 news today and baltimore. >> good morning at 7:56. >> good morning, not bad out there and we don't expect normal delays until around wednesday when schools are back in session. liberty road at washington still has downed wires an accident at liberty road and essex ave. it is moving well at the fort mchenry tunnel. on the north side, you are at 55 miles per hour. jfx is 40 miles per hour, 50 at sandy point and light volume into the toll plaza, no delays, hour drive times are looking good on the inner and outer loop. >> a little chilly to start the day because we have the upper 20's across the metro area but it will feel better in the afternoon with much less the wind and a little bit of sunshine with temperatures 41- 45. for tonight, we drop down into the 30's in many areas it is chilly but that is to be expected for the first morning of january with mostly cloudy skies and a sprinkle or flurry as possible

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abby fisher, abigail fisher, is a student who brought this suit. she have not admitted to the university of texas. they take roughly 10% of their -- well, no, they take roughly 85-90% of their students through what's called the top 10% plan under a law that says if you're in roughly the top 10% of your high school class in texas, you're automatically admitted to the university of texas at austin. she was not in the top 10%. she was close, but she was at a good school. she had, you know, pretty good grades. she thought she would have gotten in, but for racial preferences. she knew people she thought was less qualified, were less qualified than she was of who got in, whose grades and test scores were lower than hers, itself. so she sued saying she should have been admitted. she, meanwhile, went to louisiana state university, did fine and graduated. but her suit lives on. she lost in the lower courts in texas which are obliged to apply strictly the supreme court precedent. the lower courts in texas, federal district court and the u.s. court of appeals

abby fisher, abigail fisher is a student who brought the suit. she was not admitted to the university of texas. they take roughly 10% -- they take roughly 85%, 90% of their students are the top 10% famous visitor in that during the graphic content side of your high school class, you're automatically admitted to the university of texas at boston. she was not in the top 10%. she was close, the shoes that a good school. she had pretty good grades, pretty good average. she thought she would've cut name but for racial preferences. she knew people should that were less qualified than she was hit atman, the screening test scores are lower than hers, et cetera. so she sued, saying she should have been rated. she meanwhile went to louisiana the universe be congratulated, better suit lives on. she lost in the lower courts in texas, which are obliged to apply strict way supreme court precedent. the lower courts in texas in the u.s. court of appeals for the fifth circuit both how the university of texas plan modeled on the university of michigan law school p

my name is abigail [inaudible] with the partnerships division with recreation and park department. i am here to talk about the accept and expend grant from the san francisco parks a likesv in the amount of $870,355 which will authorize the recreation and park department to accept and expend this grant for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. i'd like to spend a few minutes to give you some background on the group that's working on this project and the playground as well. the friends of waterfront playground is a volunteer organization formed by two waterfront neighborhoods, the would ease access to renewables, push some state advocacy efforts, development of new renewable energy financing mechanisms for customers in san francisco, and a continue our education and outreach. these efforts are vital for san francisco to continue to achieve its climate and sustainability goals. i thank you for your consideration and i'm happy, along with my colleague adam stern to address any questions the committee may have. >> thank you. and just to clarify, this also woul

to tell the stories from the eyes of an outsider so the protagonist is a young black woman named abigail cantor, 21 years old, and shemented to be a lawyer at a time when there was no female lawyers in america, only seven lawyers overall, and she ended up with a job as a minor clerk at the law firm that defended lincoln in the novel. i wanted an outsider's perspective to look at lincoln through the eyes of someone who was black and yet outside the court orders of power and figging hard to get in. >> his corically accurate, six or seven black lawyers in america in 1865? >> historically accurate. there's no full members of the bar, i have to be careful, in the late 1870s. they did legal duties, but the small number of black lawyers was interesting. at the time, there was not money to be made. there were black lawyers, black doctors, and what's overlooked, one of the most admired and plausible professions in the 1860s was being a pharmacist. being a pharmacist was lucrative and republicked more than a doctor, for example, and there was a handful of black pharmacists as well. >> host: stephe