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'I believe in Pill, and I'm sure Rozay believes in Pill, and we wish him the best,' Wale tells MTV News of former Maybach Music comrade.
By Rob Markman
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Photo: MTV News
There is no love lost between Maybach Music and Pill. Earlier this month, the Atlanta MC dropped a bomb when he revealed that he was working to terminate his deal with Warner Music Group and leave Rick Ross' Maybach Music crew.
There isn't any beef with Wale, though; the D.C. spitter told MTV News he still supports his former MMG comrade.
"Personal is personal, business is business. I'm friends with people that I've fired, so I've been in the game long enough to understand [you need to] separate the two," Wale said Wednesday when he walked the red carpet for the reopening of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in New York. "So shout-out to Pill and what he's doin'."
On December 28, Pill vented via Twitter, criticizing his label for not providing enough television and radio support. Though the "Trap Goin' Ham" MC was featured heavily on Maybach's 2011 Self Made Vol. 1 compilation, on January 3, he told MTV News he was never actually signed to Ross' label. According to Pill, his recording contract was with MMG's parent label, Warner Bros.
Still, P-I-Double-L was included on a number of label-driven projects, appearing on the October XXL cover with Ross and company as well as a May 2011 episode of "RapFix Live" with Rozay, Wale and Meek Mill. In the end, however, things just didn't work out.
Though Pill is obviously frustrated, he maintains that he doesn't harbor any ill will toward anyone in MMG. "I ain't got nothing against none of them, nobody. It's just the situation don't work," Pill said matter-of-factly.
"I still support what he's doin'; it just didn't work out on the business side," Wale echoed. "Everybody gets chances, though. Everybody gets second, third, fourth, fifth chances. I believe in Pill, and I'm sure Rozay believes in Pill, and we wish him the best."
What do you think of Wale's support for Pill despite the MMG split? Tells us in the comments!
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Strong corporate earnings reports and the lowest unemployment claims in almost four years gave investors more reasons to take risks on stocks Thursday, and the market continued its quiet but solid January climb.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 45.03 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 12,623.98.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 6.46 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,314.50.
The Nasdaq composite index added 18.62 points, or 0.7 percent, to 2,788.33.
For the week:
The Dow is up 201.92, or 1.6 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 25.41, or 2 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 77.66, or 2.9 percent.
For the year to date:
The Dow is up 406.42, or 3.3 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 56.90 points, or 4.5 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 183.18 points, or 7 percent.
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SAN ANTONIO - Three King Air planes are lined up on a small runway in the town of Del Rio preparing to bomb south Texas ? not with explosives, but with hundreds of thousands of packets of rabies vaccine.
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"We had two outbreaks of rabies in coyotes and in foxes," recalls Ernest Oertli, a veterinarian who works with ranchers in this area. "There were a couple of human deaths from rabies, and it was spreading northward and eastward into the populated parts of the state, and was on the outskirts of San Antonio, Austin, Waco and Ft. Worth."
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Oertli said that at the time, animal and human health experts were worried about an urban rabies epidemic, and were urgently telling residents to vaccinate their pets against rabies. Rabies in humans is almost always fatal unless the patient receives immediate and lengthy treatment.
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A handful of human rabies cases are reported in the United States every year. A woman in South Carolina died from the disease in December and a case was recently reported in Massachusetts, both believed to be infected from bats.
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Researchers with the Texas Department of State Health Services learned of an aerial vaccination program underway in Canada, and decided to try it in the equally vast south and west regions of Texas. The results over the past 18 years have been dramatic, according to department spokesman Chris Van Deusen.
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"Animal cases of the canine strain of rabies in southern Texas fell from 122 the year before the program began, to zero in 2000," Van Deusen said. "There have only been two cases since then, and both of them were within a mile of the Rio Grande."
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He said the program is also concentrated against the fox strain of rabies, and those cases have been reduced from 244 animal cases in 1995, to zero cases in the past two years.
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"We have effectively eliminated these two strains of rabies from Texas," Van Deusen said, adding that there have been no human cases of rabies in the region since the airdrop began.
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"This in the same idea of the airborne attack against the Mediterranean Fruit Fly in California," Oertli said as he supervised the launch of the planes on one of the 12 flights they will make each day.
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Flying at 500 to 1000 feet elevation, they will drop a total of 1.8 million packets over about 7,700 square miles of rural south and west Texas before the program comes to an end later this month. The packets are dipped in fish oil and coated with fish meal to make them attractive to coyotes and foxes, which eat them and are automatically vaccinated.?
"Now our goal is to put into place and maintain a barrier zone to prevent rabies from being reintroduced from Mexico," he said.
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Over the 18 years of the program, a total of 36.7 million bait packets have been dropped. In the early years of the program, local media were asked to urge people in urban areas to watch out for falling bait and asked them not to touch the packets on the ground because animals could smell humans on the bait and would not eat it. Van Deusen said as the rabies has been pushed back toward the Rio Grande and the operations now are taking place over largely rural stretches of west Texas, those warnings are less necessary.
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Oertli said the idea of an aerial assault on rabies is spreading across the country. Health officials in several northeastern states are now using the same practice to fight against the spread of rabies in raccoons.
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He said January is the best time to drop the bait in Texas for several reasons. Coyotes and foxes are short of food this time of year and are more likely to eat the bait, and spreading the baits makes them less susceptible to the roaming fire ants which crawl over everything in their path during hot weather.
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"As a citizen, I am thrilled at what we have been able to accomplish with this program," Oertli said.
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Now that fox and coyote rabies are nearly eradicated, crews are now planning a similar aerial assault against skunk rabies. He said a special bait packet has been developed for skunks.
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Van Deusen stressed that the program is only successful because of laws requiring people who live in cities to vaccinate their pets against rabies.
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"Vaccinating domestic animals is essential to stopping the spread of rabies," he said.
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(Editing by Greg McCune)
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LOS ANGELES ? William Shatner's stalwart Capt. James T. Kirk died in the line of duty. Now the actor's bargain-touting Priceline Negotiator is headed heroically to his final frontier.
In a new 30-second TV spot set to begin airing Monday, the Negotiator rescues panicked vacationers from a bus teetering on a bridge's railing.
"Save yourselves ? some money," he says, handing his cellphone to a passenger as he and the bus tumble into a dry creek bed. A violent explosion, real and computer-generated, follows.
"I'm in grief mode," a droll Shatner said by phone Wednesday. "It's not the first time I've had an iconic character die off."
He's been a pitchman for Priceline for 14 years, five of those as the relentless Negotiator preaching the gospel of travel bargains. But an advertising change was needed to reflect the company's broader strategy, said Christopher Soder, CEO of Priceline.com North America.
"The challenge is harder to get people's attention than it used to be. ... So we decided to do something really over the top to get the message across," Soder said. The new spot will be on his company's website and, he hinted, may be part of next month's Super Bowl commercial extravaganza.
Shatner promoted Priceline as a site where travel prices are subject to bidding. But Priceline is also a set discount-price booking site for more than 200,000 hotels in 140 countries, an expanding service that is not widely known by consumers, Soder said.
The new direction makes sense, according to a marketing strategist.
"It's a tough decision, but the bottom line is Priceline had to do it," said Peter Sealey, adjunct professor at the Claremont Graduate University's school of management. "They're changing their business model from a name-your-price model to a fixed-price approach."
Shatner's Negotiator was just too good at representing the old approach, Sealey said.
"Had he been less effective, he could have been allowed to fade away," he said. "I don't know if I would have gone as far as the bus exploding."
Shatner, whose Kirk arguably had a less memorable death in 1994's "Star Trek: Generations," is philosophical about the turn of events. He's looking ahead to the debut next month on Broadway of "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It," his one-man show.
"It was a great run," the Emmy-winning actor ("Boston Legal" and "The Practice") said of the Priceline gig. But "if the management says this is the end, this is the end."
Is it? Could the Negotiator be resurrected? Or might Shatner, who previously appeared as a troubadour in spots for the website, play another role for Priceline?
"I'm not going to speculate on future campaigns," said the company's Soder.
Great pitchmen have been born from the ashes before. Fast-food chain Jack in the Box's commercials routinely feature "Jack," a man wearing a version of the clown-faced symbol that the company dramatically blew up in 1980 to signal a menu change ("Waste him," an elderly female customer said in the spot). Some Americans were upset by Jack's demise.
Does Soder fear backlash from those fond of Shatner and the Negotiator?
"We certainly hope not. We had a great, long association with Mr. Shatner," Soder said, adding hastily, "I didn't mean to use the past tense. He's still under contract with us."
True, said Shatner, an indefatigable 80 years old. So whether they use him again or not, he said merrily, "I'm going to make them pay through the nose."
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org.
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