connector, provide social connectivity, keep mum, ping, corridor of power, keeping his "powder dry", under the law, so is a pressure-cooker bomb

As Chinese equities suffered their biggest sell-off in more than four years on Monday, speculation grew that China’s ‘national team’ of state-backed buyers would cushion the blow. But this time, they largely kept the powder dry.

‘National team’ of government-backed entities is ready to support asset prices as coronavirus spreads

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How the invisible hand of the state works in Chinese stocks

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“Engaging with arts can stretch our imaginations, inspire and cultivate creativity, celebrate meaningful stories, provide social connectivity, build social capital, challenge us and provide exposure to new knowledge or ideas," says Northwestern Prof. Jennifer Novak-Leonard. https://reut.rs/2TrYVEB

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Engaging with the arts may help you live longer

Fed's Yellen Mum on Timing of Rate Change1

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have kept mum about the sex of their new arrival. But seven-months-pregnant Kate has dropped a couple of hints.
劍橋公爵與公爵夫人一直不透露他們家庭新成員的性別。但懷孕7個月的凱特曾給了點暗示。



Why the Boston Bomber Might Be Charged With WMD Use
Don't panic: anthrax and nukes are WMDs. But under the law, so is a pressure-cooker bomb


Colin Powell Mum on Whether He'll Back Obama Again
The former secretary of state says he's keeping his "powder dry" for now.



NUSA DUA, Indonesia--Japan's pledge to provide 2 trillion yen ($26.1 billion) in infrastructure construction support to ASEAN is intended to pave the way for a "southern corridor" that would connect southern Vietnam with Myanmar (Burma).

Google targets business users with Blackberry connector
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By Sharon Gaudin May 4, 2009 (Computerworld) Google Inc. is looking to pull more business users into its hosted Google Apps fold by making it easier for ...
At a recent conference, I met Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, a not-for-profit trade group that's dedicated to evangelizing the potential of smart cards. Smart cards have always fascinated me, especially when I read about their potential for streamlining small cashless purchases. So I took his card and announced that I'd be pinging him with some questions. And so I did.



Weather May Ping Natural Gas

Natural-gas prices, up 74% since the year began, could be headed higher amid predictions of an unusually hot summer in some places.






 keep one's powder dry
 Stay alert, be careful, as in Go ahead and take on the opposition, but keep your powder dry. This colloquial expression, which originally alluded to keeping gunpowder dry so that it would ignite, has been used figuratively since the 1800s but today is less common than take care.

Hacker Slang: ping

[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse]
1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another. The Unix command ping(8) can be used to do this manually (note that ping(8)'s author denies the widespread folk etymology that the name was ever intended as an acronym for ‘Packet INternet Groper’). Occasionally used as a phone greeting. See ACK, also ENQ.
2. vt. To verify the presence of.
3. vt. To get the attention of.
4. vt. To send a message to all members of a mailing list requesting an ACK (in order to verify that everybody's addresses are reachable). “We haven't heard much of anything from Geoff, but he did respond with an ACK both times I pinged jargon-friends.”
5. n. A quantum packet of happiness. People who are very happy tend to exude pings; furthermore, one can intentionally create pings and aim them at a needy party (e.g., a depressed person). This sense of ping may appear as an exclamation; “Ping!” (I'm happy; I am emitting a quantum of happiness; I have been struck by a quantum of happiness). The form “pingfulness”, which is used to describe people who exude pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of language, “pingfulness” can also be used as an exclamation, in which case it's a much stronger exclamation than just “ping”!). Oppose blargh.
The funniest use of ‘ping’ to date was described in January 1991 by Steve Hayman on the Usenet group comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine, and got tired of having to run back to his console after each cabling tweak to see if the ping packets were getting through. So he used the sound-recording feature on the NeXT, then wrote a script that repeatedly invoked ping(8), listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned packet. Result? A program that caused the machine to repeat, over and over, “Ping ... ping ... ping ...” as long as the network was up. He turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no time.



ping
n.

1. A sharp, high-pitched sound, as that made by a bullet striking metal.
2. See knock (sense 3).

intr.v., pinged, ping·ing, pings.
To make a sharp, high-pitched, metallic sound.

[Imitative.]

ping
verb [I]
to make a short sharp sound:
We heard a small stone ping against our window.

ping
noun [C]

ping
noun, verb [I]
US FOR pink (ENGINE NOISE)

Veterinary Dictionary: ping

Clear, sharp, high-pitched, metallic, musical note created by a flicking percussion stroke over a viscus containing gas under moderate pressure and a small amount of fluid; used extensively in the physical examination of the abdomen in cattle and horses.



connector

connect (JOIN) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to join or be joined with something else:
Can I connect my printer to your computer?
Where does the cooker connect (up) to the electricity?
Has the telephone/electricity/gas been connected (= switched on or joined to the main supply) in your new place yet?

connected Show phonetics
adjective
joined together:
The TV won't work if the aerial's not connected.

connecting Show phonetics
adjective
joining or being joined:
There's a connecting corridor between the buildings.
connecting rooms

connection Show phonetics
noun
1 [C or U] when something joins or is joined to something else, or the part or process that enables this:
The electricity company guarantees connection within 24 hours.
It's no wonder your shaver isn't working. There's a loose connection (= a connecting wire has become loose) in the plug.

2 [C] when people or things are joined or connected in some way

connections Show phonetics
plural noun
the people you know and who can help you:
He only got the job because of his connections!
He has important connections in Washington.

connector Show phonetics
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a device at the end of a wire in an item of electrical equipment, which holds the wire in position:
electrical connectors 連接器
コネクター [connector]

• 電線と、電線あるいは電気装置とを接続するもの。ピンの突き出たものと、それを受けるものとの一組からなる。

Thursday's Connector: Greta Scacchi
http://connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com/category/connector-of-the-day/

CONNECT
v., -nect·ed, -nect·ing, -nects. v.tr.

1. To join or fasten together.
2. To associate or consider as related: no reason to connect the two events. See synonyms at join.
3. To join to or by means of a communications circuit: Please connect me to the number in San Diego. Her computer is connected to the Internet.
4. To plug in (an electrical cord or device) to an outlet.

v.intr.

1. To become joined or united: two streams connecting to form a river.
2. To be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as between airplanes or buses.
3. To establish a rapport or relationship; relate: The candidate failed to connect with the voters.
4. Sports. To hit or play a ball successfully: The batter connected for a home run.

[Middle English connecten, from Latin cōnectere, connectere : cō-, com-, com- + nectere, to bind.]

connectible con·nect'i·ble or con·nect'a·ble adj.
connector con·nec'tor or con·nect'er n.

corridor[cor・ri・dor]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[kɔ'ːridər | kɔ'ridɔ`ː]

[名]

1 （建物の各部をつなぐ, 特に壁で囲まれた）廊下, 通廊；（一般に）廊下（▼((米))ではhall, hallwayがふつう）

a corridor train
通廊つき列車.

2
(1) 回廊, 縦走地形：内陸国と海との間または離れている2国を結ぶ細長い地域.
(2) 空中回廊(air corridor).

3 （森の中などの）切り開いた細長い地帯.

4 （配管・配線用の）地下溝

utility corridors
配線配管溝.

5 幹線道路

the corridors to and from the suburbs
郊外と都市を結ぶ幹線道路.

［中フランス語←ラテン語currere（走る）＋スペイン語-dor＝通じているもの］

córridors of pówer[córridors of pówer]

権力の回廊［中心］；政官界の高官；政府の政策立案機関.

mum
 (mŭm)
adj.
Not verbalizing; silent.

interj.
Used as a command to stop speaking.

idiom:

 mum：形容詞，沉默，尤指為了保守秘密。例句：You have to keep mum about our new product plan. （關於我們的新產品計畫，你的口風得緊一點。）

keep mum

informal remain silent, especially so as not to reveal a secret:he was keeping mum about a possible move to West Ham

mum's the word

1. Say nothing of the secret you know: Mum's the word on the surprise party.

[Middle English, perhaps imitative of closing one's lips.]

mum² (mŭm)
intr.v., mummed, mum·ming, mums.

1. To act or play in a pantomime.
2. To go merrymaking in a mask or disguise especially during a festival.

[Middle English mummen, from Old French momer, to wear a mask.]

mum³ (mŭm)
n. Chiefly British
Mother.

[Short for MUMMY².]

mum⁴ (mŭm)
n.
A chrysanthemum.


mum⁵ (mŭm)
n.
A strong beer originally brewed in Brunswick, Germany.

[German Mumme.]

Definition of pressure cooker

noun

• an airtight pot in which food can be cooked quickly under steam pressure.
• a highly stressful situation or assignment:an academic pressure cooker which turns teenagers into depressives

Derivatives

pressure-cook

verb