Barbara block

You can get a six-month rental from Spaniards who love skiing: they will drive or fly down from Madrid and block book an apartment for the whole skiing season. They are not there for the week but there for the weekend.

The same technology to stop malicious hosts can also be used to block a server. The Chinese government uses that capability to block servers.

[As part of the Science study, the researchers sought to understand why the salmon shark's heart continues to function when it is ice cold.] The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would, ... But what sets it apart is where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark keeps on ticking.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

It's my home. It's my city. I love it there.