The Loop
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| First episode date | March 17, 2006 |
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| Final episode date | July 1, 2007 |
| Networks | Fox Broadcasting Company |
| Genres | Comedy |
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| Improvisational Theatre | |
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| ID | 2415309 |
About The Loop
Recent college graduate Sam Sullivan has landed a job as the youngest executive at a major airline. He tries to juggle the demands of his job -- which include curmudgeonly boss Russ and a predatory older co-worker, Meryl -- with those of his roommates, including his jobless older brother. One of thefirst-season storylines revolves around Sam's crush on friend Piper. In season two, that storyline was dropped as the show's focus changes more to Sam's work life with less of an emphasis on his personal life. … MORE
More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for good
... He argues companies will always need to have humans involved in the workplace, to take responsibility if things go wrong: " If you take the human completely out of The Loop, how do you manage accountability for some sort of catastrophic event happening? " He, like other signatories, believes regulation will be needed to avoid the misuse of AI...
Festival drug testing: Legal action threatened over safety tests
... Independent festivals have tended to use charity The Loop, whose volunteers have been able to test at events without a licence due to agreements with local police and councils...
Glastonbury, Leeds and Reading will have drug testing
... But smaller festivals have previously used The Loop - a drugs charity - to perform their tests...
UK festivals: What's going on with drug testing in 2023?
... Studies by The Loop - which offers testing services at festivals - have suggested...
India train disaster: Signal failure the likely cause, minister says
... " The Coromandel Express was supposed to travel on the main line, but a signal was given for The Loop line instead, and the train rammed into a goods train already parked over there, " he said...
UK music festivals: 'Drug checking could have saved Georgia'
... Janine has spoken after new research from drug-checking charity The Loop and Liverpool University was released...
Three key Scottish questions for Rishi Sunak
... For all that this is controversial with Scottish ministers, who suspect Holyrood is being cut out of The Loop in a " Westminster power grab" it is hard for even SNP-run councils to refuse extra funds...
Rishi Sunak: What will new prime minister mean for Scotland?
... But Scottish ministers hate the idea of Holyrood being cut out of The Loop, and characterise any move which could cut across devolved areas as a Westminster power grab...
UK festivals: What's going on with drug testing in 2023?
By Sam Gruet & Tom RichardsonBBC Newsbeat
Chloe was at a Music Festival Last Summer when word got out that a boy had been found dead in his tent from a suspected drug overdose.
Later That Day , an alert went out on The Festival 's official app warning everyone about a batch of " fatally strong" MDMA pills, says Chloe (not her real name).
" All billboards around The Arena had a message too telling everybody not to take them, " she says.
Chloe believes that, because of all the warnings, nobody else at The Festival was harmed that weekend.
What she's described is a result of on-site Drug Testing .
It's been happening at UK Festivals for about 10 Years , and is a way to identify potentially deadly substances and warn people about them.
But The Boss of Parklife has Told BBC Newsbeat there could be no on-site Drug Testing at Uk Music Festivals this summer.
Sacha Lord founded the Manchester event, which couldn't have drug tests on-site when it took place earlier this month.
He says They 've done this since 2014, But he was Told a special licence would be needed this year.
Sacha says the Home Office informed him just 48 Hours before the start of The Event , But the application process takes three months.
The requirements of the licence would have made it hard to carry out tests in a portable cabin - which is usually where festival testing is done - according to Sacha.
He says The Festival previously worked with police and The Local council to allow Drug Testing to go ahead, and accused the government of doing a " u-turn" on the issue.
Sacha, who's also Manchester's nightlife economy adviser to Labour mayor Andy Burnham , believes that this will affect all UK Festivals this year.
" As it stands now, there is no testing this summer, " He Said .
" It's Glastonbury this weekend, the biggest festival of the year.
" I Am really, really concerned about the safety of many, many customers. "
His worries were backed up by The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) - which represents businesses like nightclubs, bars and Festivals .
CEO Michael Kill called for clarity and said the apparent " unexplained u-turn" could put lives At Risk and have " considerable ramifications for the current festival season".
The Home Office says it hasn't changed its policy and a licence is a " long-established legal requirement" under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
" Licences are needed to lawfully undertake activities including The Possession , supply or production of controlled drugs, " a spokesperson said.
Newsbeat has contacted Glastonbury Festival to ask about its plans for Drug Testing this year.
How does festival drugs testing work?Festivals are really keen to point out that They don't condone or encourage drug-taking.
, But most agree it's almost impossible to stop it happening at all.
So many big UK Festivals support a harm reduction approach, and on-site testing is a big part of this.
Most events do this " back-of-house" via a Third Party , using confiscated drugs or substances left in amnesty bins.
If testers find that something is potentially Dangerous - Stronger than usual, contaminated, or sold as something it's not - They 'll put A Warning out to festival-goers.
Studies by The Loop - which offers testing services at Festivals - have suggested.
Another method, called front-of-house testing, is where people can take drugs to be tested to make sure They 're safe.
It's been trialled But is less popular. The Boss of Leeds and Reading Festivals has previously said he was concerned it could give people false confidence.
'It's really scary'Meg is a DJ who's worked on welfare teams at Festivals with on-site Drug Testing and events without it.
" I've had some experiences before where I've been looking after 16-year-old girls who've taken way More Than They thought They had, " she says.
" Or that pill that They 've taken is not exactly what They thought it was going to be.
" And it's really scary. "
Meg says these situations are " massively reduced" when there's testing on-site because it means more information is available.
" And Then we know How To deal with it, " she says.
If the substance has been tested on-site the welfare teams will know if it's extra-strong or isn't what the person thought it was.
" Because there's plenty of times where that could happen and it can cause serious harm to the person who's taking the drug, " says Meg.
BBC Newsbeat asked the Home Office to respond to Sacha Lord's suggestion it had u-turned on back-of-house testing.
" We have been clear that where parties providing Drug Testing services are undertaking activities with controlled drugs They need to apply for a Home Office licence, " a spokesperson said.
But Sacha says it's " ridiculous" to claim that nothing has changed, and the industry is considering taking legal action against the government.
The Loop - which has provided most back-of-house testing at UK Festivals - Told Newsbeat it couldn't comment.
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Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
