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 music festivals: 'Drug checking could have saved Georgia'
By Rachel StonehouseNewsbeat Reporter
An 18-year-old who died after taking high-strength MDMA at a festival might be alive if on-site drugs tests had been at The Event , her mum says.
Georgia Jones accidentally overdosed at Mutiny Festival, Portsmouth, in 2018.
Her mum Janine Milburn believes there's still too much stigma around drugs, and substance tests would have let Georgia know what she was taking.
Janine has spoken after new research from drug-checking charity The Loop and Liverpool University was released.
Their study suggests testing doesn't lead to more drugs being taken.
They also found that two-thirds of people who had drugs checked binned them if They weren't what They expected.
'Georgia could've had a chance'Drug-checking wasn't in place at Mutiny when Georgia died. Tommy Cowan , aged 20, also died after Taking Drugs at The Festival .
At an inquest into Georgia's death, the organiser Luke Betts described how people attending were searched for drugs as They entered.
Janine tells BBC Newsbeat Georgia's pills were " found to be Pure - But extremely high strength".
" If testing was in place she could've got her pills tested, " says Janine.
" She would've got advice on How To take her pills safer and the strength and purity of her pills as well. "
'Our warning reached millions'Festivals in the UK don't have to offer drug-checking services, and many of them currently don't.
Tom Paine, organiser of Bristol's Love Saves The Day festival, introduced testing at The Event and says it helped to reduce drug-taking.
" We were able to put Out three warnings across the weekend of substances that were dangerous, " he says.
" One of these was three or four times the normal strength of ecstasy, " he tells Newsbeat.
" Not only were we able to put that warning Out - But it was shared by other festivals, bands and producers - and it reached millions of people. "
One of the country's biggest music promoters, Festival Republic, announced.
In the run-up to The Events , The Company said it was waiting for a special government licence to make sure it wasn't breaking The Law .
Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn later and didn't take into account risks such as mixing alcohol and drugs.
The Company has yet to respond to a request about whether it plans to introduce The Service at any future events.
How does drug checking work?University of Liverpool Prof Fiona Measham , director of The Loop , led the organisation's latest piece of research on drug-checking.
She describes it as a three-year research project that surveyed 4,240 UK festivalgoers who used its service.
" People can Come Along , take samples of Concern - They get tested in The Lab and get confidential advice and information, " Prof Measham explains.
" We found people wanted to use The Service , They queued up to use it in all weathers, and They were willing to do that for several hours. "
But could access to Drug Testing encourage people to take more drugs? Not according to the study's findings.
" Only about 1% said They 'd take more, 48% said They 'd take Less - so I think we can say with some confidence that people don't take more after using The Service , and in fact Most People actually take Less , " Fiona adds.
Georgia's mum Janine also wants to see drug-checking offered at all festivals in the UK in The Future .
" In my eyes there should be no argument, it should be available, " she says.
" It's about Saving Lives and that's what we all want to do at The End of The Day . "
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Source of news: bbc.com
