In the Loop
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Caterpillar Is Laying Off 10,000 Workers
Caterpillar announced plans Thursday to lay off 10,000 employees, saving the company about $1.5 billion annually.
The Illinois company’s sales have declined three years in a row. It recently lowered its 2015 outlook by $1 billion and expects 2016 revenue to decline by another 5 percent. CEO Doug Oberhelman attributed this to a slowdown in the mining and energy sectors.
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The UGA Medical Training Class That Killed Dogs Really Lasted Until 2014
On Monday, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it was filing a federal complaint about a University of Georgia veterinary college program that trained National Guard soldiers in battlefield medicine using live goats, pigs and dogs.
UGA at first defended the program, then said that it had stopped in 2013.
Tuesday, PETA provided documentation that it said showed that the program had continued on into 2014. When asked about it at a media briefing that day, UGA President Jere Morehead said he didn't have any information to that effect.
But Wednesday, the university released a letter from Vice President for Research David Lee to PETA confirming that the program was not, in fact, completely discontinued until last year.
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Ort's Out of Jail; Here's How He Got There
Beloved Athens man-about-town William Orten Carlton, aka Ort’s, troubles with Athens-Clarke County regarding the condition of his property stretch back at least 15 months.
After spending the night in the Clarke County Jail on a misdemeanor charge of probation violation, Ort was released on his own recognizance this afternoon, according to attorney Bill Overend. Ort commented on our previous story:
Dearfolk,
I'm back on the street (as of 2:30 this afternoon) and ready to start in working as soon as possible. Thanks for all the concern.
I await the next step: committal proceedings. It's been tried before. Yawn.
Wholeheartedly, Ort.
P. S. I AM crazy, and I'm PROUD of it. And my house is not quite a sty... now that the carport is cleaned out, it's looking more like a residence.
But he still has a ways to go in cleaning up his property to avoid more legal trouble. Overend set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for the cleanup. It raised more than $4,000 in six hours, and Overend has now asked that people stop donating because it’s exceeded the $2,500 goal.
Here’s how Ort got into this pickle, according to ACC Community Protection Division and Municipal Court records:
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Drunken Mayhem on the Georgia-South Carolina Weekend
Photo Credit: Lee Gatlin
After every UGA home football game, Flagpole reporter and photographer Joshua L. Jones will be checking the police blotter to find the weekend’s strangest drunken antics. All information is taken from Athens-Clarke County police reports.
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Ort Is in Jail
Well known Athens personality Ort is spending the night in the Clarke County Jail after receiving a series of tickets in recent month over his messy yard.
Ort (born William Orten Carlton) was booked into jail at 10:22 p.m. on a probation violation charge. He's being held without bond.
A warrant was signed out for Ort's arrest after he allegedly received additional quality-of-life citations regarding his property, according to his attorney, Bill Overend. The charge "ultimately amounts to not keeping his yard clean," Overend said in a Facebook post.
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UGA: Program Criticized by PETA No Longer Exists
Earlier today, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it's asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate a UGA medical training program involving dogs, goats and pigs that PETA deemed unethical, unnecessary and possibly illegal.
UGA initially responded that it has reviewed the program—in which Georgia National Guard soldiers trained in field medicine using live but anestheticized animals that were later euthanized—and the program met the university's ethical standards for humane treatment of animals.
Now, however, the university says that the program was discontinued in 2013:
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PETA: UGA Is 'Mutilating' Dogs in Training Course
Photo Credit: PETA
The animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate a UGA training program in which PETA says “dogs and other animals [are] mutilated and killed in a cruel and archaic training course.”
The UGA College of Veterinary Medicine course trains Georgia National Guard soldiers in field medicine by practicing procedures on 30 live animals, including goats, pigs and dogs. However, “dogs are the preferred animals for this laboratory because of their anatomic similarity to humans,” according to a university document.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Sept. 21
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
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