(1) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(2) In a statement on Thursday, Team Sky, for whom Froome rides, said: “Applications made by Team Sky for TUEs have all been managed and recorded in line with the processes put in place by the governing bodies.
(3) A Ukad spokesperson confirmed those affected were either on TUEs when they competed at the Rio Olympics or had previously been granted them.
(4) Open Tues-Sat noon-3pm and 7pm-11pm Blind Pig, 4th arr Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Take a large former garage, add a bar, invite different food trucks every week, et voilà !
(5) The team offered the explanation that the substance was part of an asthma treatment but that the team doctor had failed to apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption, or TUE, which is required for legitimate use of a medicine that figures on the banned list.
(6) Open Tues-Sat 10pm-2am Ruca Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gin is not a liquor often found on menus in this pisco-loving country, but it’s the raison d’être for one of the newest bars in Santiago’s rapidly gentrifying Barrio Italia neighbourhood.
(7) • Campeche 106 (in front of the Mercado Medellín), Colonia Roma, open Tues-Sun 9am-6pm Pozole: Pozole Doña Yoli Pozole street food, Mexico City Photograph: Nicholas Gilman Pozole is the ultimate Mexican comfort food.
(8) Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins have defended their use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) following the news overnight that they are among five British athletes whose medical records with the World Anti-Doping Agency have been leaked by computer hackers.
(9) Open Tues, Wed & Fri 10am-5pm; Thurs 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-4pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Photograph: Rueben Paris The home of Scotland's stories has been open since 2006 and features a cafe, the 99-seat Netherbow Theatre and the George Mackay Brown Library, and is attached to the popular tourist focal point of John Knox House.
(10) Wiggins and Froome have defended their use of TUEs, while the Williams sisters’ and Biles’ insistence that they had done nothing wrong has been staunchly backed by Wada and the tennis and gymnastics authorities.
(11) The reason The Fairy Jobmother (Tue, 9pm, Channel 4) infuriates the public so deeply is that there are no neat solutions to the mindset of long-term unemployment.
(12) Separately Ukad also confirmed that in 2015 UK athletes were granted 100 TUEs – with 16 rejected – a slightly higher figure than the 88 athletes who received a TUE in 2014.
(13) Open Tue-Fri 11am-7.30pm, Sat 10am-7.30pm, Sun 10am-4pm.
(14) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
(15) Open Tues-Sun 10am-5.15pm Musée Rodin Le Café du Musée Rodin Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Musée Rodin has long been one of the small jewels of Paris’s museums – where you are rarely disturbed by crowds.
(16) In nine years as a professional I’ve twice required a TUE for exacerbated asthma, the last time was in 2014.” Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins targeted in Wada hacking scandal Read more A statement on behalf of Sir Bradley Wiggins was similarly issued, which stated: “There’s nothing new here.
(17) Most anticipated "showstopper" bake Gingerbread reconstruction of the Sydney Opera House This year's Great British Bake Off final is on Tues, 8pm, BBC2
(18) Thus Lincoln shows up in Ford's great silent breakthrough The Iron Horse, in 1925, and then briefly in 1936's The Prisoner Of Shark Island, a thriller about the aftermath of Lincoln's murder (called Je n'ai pas tue Lincoln for its French release), in which Francis only got to play comic relief.
(19) Wiggins and Froome leaks raise familiar questions for cycling but do little else Read more Five members of the 366-strong British Olympic team in Rio, including the Tour de France winners Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins, have already been named by the cyber-espionage group Fancy Bears as having received TUEs for an illness or medical condition.
(20) The applications for TUEs under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program require a strict process of approval which I have adhered to when serious medical conditions have occurred.” The 36-year-old added she was “one of the strongest supporters of maintaining the highest level of integrity in competitive sport”.
Tug
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
(v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
(v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
(v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
(n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
(n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
(n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
(n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
(n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
(4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
(6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
(8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
(9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
(10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
(11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
(13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
(14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
(15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
(16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
(17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
(18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
(19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
(20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.