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...
India train disaster: Signal failure the likely cause, minister says
By Soutik Biswas in Delhi & Adam Durbin in LondonBBC News
India's railway minister has suggested signal failure led to The Odisha rail disaster, with a " change in electronic interlocking" The likely cause.
Ashwini Vaishnaw later said The Cause and people responsible for The deadly three-train crash in eastern India had been identified but gave no details.
A report into India's worst rail accident This Century is due later.
Meanwhile The Death Toll has been revised down to 275 after some bodies were counted twice, officials said.
Of The 1,175 injured people taken to hospital, 793 have been discharged.
The Crash saw a passenger train derail after colliding with a stationary goods train, with another passenger train travelling in The Opposite direction then striking derailed carriages.
In railway signalling The electronic interlocking system sets routes for each train in a set area, ensuring The safe movement of trains along The Track .
India has one of The largest train networks in The World with millions of passengers using it daily, but a lot of The Railway infrastructure needs improving.
Mr Vaishnaw's comments come after The South Eastern Railway also blamed signal failure. The Minister also said one of The main line tracks had now been restored.
Around 2,000 people are thought to have been on board The two passenger trains involved.
On Saturday Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited The Crash scene and vowed that anyone found guilty would be " punished stringently".
The exact sequence of events has been The subject of conflicting accounts.
Officials say several carriages from The Coromandel Express, travelling between Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras), derailed at about 19:00 (13:30 GMT) after hitting a stationary goods train. It remains unclear how The Express ended up on The same track as The Goods train.
Several of The Coromandel Express's coaches then ended up on The Opposite track. Another train travelling in The Opposite direction - The Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - collided with derailed carriages.
On Saturday KS Anand, chief Public Relations officer of The South Eastern Railway, said a preliminary report indicated that The Accident was The result of signal failure.
" 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 .
Trains in India can get very packed at This Time of year, with a growing number of people travelling during school holidays.
The country's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off The tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
