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A birthday is always a very special occasion on anyone's calendar. It marks the day or anniversary on which a person was born and the world was changed forever.
A birthstone is a piece of special and precious material that symbolises the month of your birth. They are commonly thought to bring good luck or good health either way you are on to a winner. Birthstones come in a colourful array of sparkling jewels and glowing gemstones. A Pandora Birthstone Charm is the perfect way to celebrate what makes you or an important person in your life very special. Add these charms on to your bracelet, so you can remember that person whenever you see their special Pandora birthstone charm.
March's birthstone is of the colour Aquamarine. It reflects some of the properties with which the Aquamarine is associated with – faithfulness, courage and friendship. A Pandora birthstone charm is the perfect birthday present. It is stylish, and will make the bracelet eye-catching and as unique as the wearer.
The March birthstone is designed to reflect that unforgettable moment. As many are aware, Pandora charms are the latest in fashion trends and can be attached onto any a Pandora bracelet. It is now also the latest trend to be seen wearing a birthstone charm. With Pandora, any charm can represent a celebration, in this case a birthday. All you need to do to create the lifelong memory is find the birthstone that is yours.
Each different Pandora birthstone charm can be attached on to the Pandora bracelet and be dangled according to your wish. Also, they can rotate in all directions in direction with your wrist movement leaving it looking very attractive to the eye. Since Pandora Jewellery is made from separate charms, it makes sense that the charms have become collectible items because of their unique creative design. Of course, along with the birthstone charms, you can add on as many charms as you wish to make the bracelet personal to how you want it.
Adding on your March birthstone charm will always give you good memories over the years, where you were when you got it, the time in your life when you bought and that it is a significant piece of jewellery.
Whether you're buying for yourself, a loved one or family member, you can keep them close to you at all times with these wonderful reminders on your bracelet.


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|Maybe, just maybe, there is no purpose in life... but if you linger a while longer in this world, you might discover something of value in it.
Orochimaru (大蛇丸, Orochimaru) is one of Konohagakure's legendary Sannin. With a life-ambition to learn all of the world's secrets, Orochimaru seeks immortality so that he might live all of the lives necessary to accomplish his task. After being caught red-handed performing unethical experiments on his fellow citizens for the sake of this immortality, Orochimaru defected from Konoha rather than be persecuted for his ambitions, and for many years sought the village's destruction to take revenge and demonstrate what he had learned. After several apparent deaths in the pursuit of his goals, Orochimaru realizes his approach is flawed through Kabuto Yakushi, his former associate, and begins monitoring the choices and actions of his former apprentice, Sasuke Uchiha.
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Tier: 7-A | 7-A | 7-A
Name: Orochimaru
Origin: Naruto
Gender: Male
Age: 50 in Part 1, 54 in Part 2, around 70 in Boruto
Classification: Ninja, Sannin, Bodysnatcher, Researcher, Criminal, S-rank, Missing-nin, Former member of Akatsuki
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics, Chakra Manipulation and Absorption via touch, Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Shapeshifting (Can transform into animate and inanimate objects), Weapon Mastery (Can also extend and remotely control Kusanagi), Genius Intelligence, Stealth Mastery, Curse Manipulation (Via the Curse Mark), Sealing, Paralysis, Illusion Creation, Explosion Manipulation with explosive tags, Fire Manipulation, Air Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Wood Manipulation, Earth Manipulation (Can travel underground and phase through his surroundings to avoid damage and launch surprise attacks, while remaining undetected), Statistics Amplification (Can augment his physical capabilities with chakra and enhances his speed with Shunshin), Limited Telekinesis (Can move his sword without the need for physical contact), Fear Manipulation (Made Sasuke contemplate suicide due to his killing intend and paralyzed Sakura from moving), Transformation (Can transform into a giant eight-headed snake), Immortality (Types 3 and 6), Regeneration (At least Low-Mid, able to heal from being bisected, up to High-Mid with body replacement technique), Summoning (Can summon snakes to wrap around targets, bind and constrict them, inflict damage on them with their poisonous fangs (and blood of his true form is toxic), track targets by their heat and smell, use as shields to defend himself from harm, among other things), Duplication (Can create shadow clones who can utilize his techniques, relay their knowledge and experiences to him, act as distractions, among other things), Body Control (Can stretch and lengthen parts of his body. Able to create snakes from inside of his body and use them to attack. Can "shed his skin" and create a new body for himself, allowing him to get rid of all previous damage inflicted on him), Necromancy (Capable of resurrecting the dead as near-immortal zombies under his control, however he needs preparation for this, and it is not useful in general combat), Resurrection (He can be revived any number of times through the Evil Releasing Method, provided there are enough cursed seals and DNA. However this requires outside help and is not useful in general combat), Possession (Able to transfer his soul to someone else's body, gaining all their abilities and powers), can replace himself with inanimate objects to avoid damage, Soul Manipulation (He can use the Dead Demon Consuming Seal), Surface Scaling, Dimension Creation (Created a separate dimension he uses to possess others), Death Manipulation (by linking up hands with another he can cause mutual death of him and his target), Water Walking, Resistance to Soul Manipulation (Held off Hiruzen Sarutobi's attempt to extract his soul) and Paralysis Inducement (Unaffected by Log's temporary paralysis technique)
Attack Potency: Mountain level+ (Said to be stronger than any other ninja in Konoha, including Old Hiruzen, by Hiruzen himself) | Mountain level+ (Comparable to Tsunade, and at least equal to Jiraiya, who was stated to be comparable to Itachi Uchiha) | Mountain level+ (Stronger than before)
Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+, possibly higher (Able to battle evenly against Hiruzen) | At least Massively Hypersonic+ (Fought Jiraiya evenly while both were weakened. Able to react to attacks from Hebi Sasuke while sick) | At least Massively Hypersonic+, likely higher (Faster and more powerful than his original self)
Lifting Strength: At least Class G (Superior to Jirobo) | At least Class G | At least Class G (Faster and more powerful than his original self)
Striking Strength: Mountain level+ | Mountain Class+ (Could harm 4 Tails Naruto with a punch) | Mountain level+ (Faster and more powerful than his original self)
Durability: Mountain level+ (Fought and defeated Jiraiya in order to leave the village) | Mountain level+ (Tanked and survived punches from Tsunade, took a swipe from 4 Tails Naruto, and tanked his roar) | Mountain level+ (More powerful than his original self), regeneration and immortality make him hard to kill
Stamina: Very high
Range: Standard melee range, several dozen meters with jutsu
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Possesses vast knowledge about the shinobi world and is an expert in genetics and cloning, capable of recreating Hashirama's Wood Release and Jugoo's sage powers). Experienced shinobi with over 50 years of experience in battle. A tactical genius, as he successfully managed to weaken Konoha during the Chunin exams, coerce Sasuke to his side, and keep Kabuto as a loyal servant through manipulations
Weaknesses: He can only perform his body-switching technique once every three years, and needs a new host after this period. Extreme arrogance and pride, which prevents him from fighting at his best as he overextends himself
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As one of the Sannin and a former member of Akatsuki, Orochimaru is one of the most powerful shinobi in history, showing a genius that few could match since childhood. Even Tsunade regretted that they were on opposite sides and that he was "dead" during the Fourth Shinobi World War. At his full power, Orochimaru could toy with the likes of Sasori, an influential member of Akatsuki, as well as defeat the Fourth Kazekage and later his own teacher, the Third Hokage, albeit he lost the use of his arms to the latter. Despite this, he was still strong enough to fight Naruto's four-tailed form evenly to a stalemate, and Sasuke openly admitted that his defeat of Orochimaru was only because of the Sannin's body rejecting him.
Wishing to obtain all of the techniques in the world, Orochimaru has a vast arsenal of techniques at his disposal, ranging from simple offensive ones, which nonetheless become deadly when performed by him, to higher ranking, more complicated ones. Even at a young age, he was able to utilise his former master's signature Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique. Orochimaru also exhibited mastery with the Transformation Technique, as he was able to view Sasuke's battle with Yoroi Akadō during the Chūnin Exams, undetected. He was also able to pose as the Fourth Kazekage for weeks, fooling the entire village of Sunagakure, including its elite shinobi and the ones closest to the dead Kazekage. When conducting experiments, he is also capable of utilising medical ninjutsu and would make use of the chakra scalpel.
In terms of defensive techniques, Orochimaru uses both Summoning: Rashōmon and Summoning: Triple Rashōmon, in which he summons a varying number of large demonic gates that are capable of enduring even the most intense forms of damage. Orochimaru can also use a technique to avoid injury, and another to temporarily paralyse an opponent.
Orochimaru's trademark trait is his affinity with snakes, in addition to impacting the appearance and composition of his pure form, and granting him the ability to extend his limbs to abnormal lengths and to take on snake-like traits in battle, caused him to learn several snake-related skills, including learning Sage Mode. His snake-related techniques have been referred to as Power of the White Snake. One such ability is being able to summon giant snakes to fight alongside him in battle, made possible by the summoning contract tattooed on his arm. This allows him to summon snakes within his vicinity, as opposed to having to place his hand on a surface. If need be, Orochimaru can morph into a giant snake, despite being slightly smaller in size to his larger ones. His signature summon was Manda, a colossal snake which was described as the largest in the world, with immense fighting capabilities. With Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, Orochimaru can instantly call forth snakes from his sleeves and mouth to attack his opponents in large numbers with venomous bites. A stronger variation of this technique was the Many Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, in which the summoned snakes grow noticeably in both numbers and size, as well as a variety wherein the snakes had sword blades sticking out from their mouths.
Key: Original | Weakened | Prime
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Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
Currently only a tiny minority of businesses and households in the UK have access to fiber to the premises (FTTP). That puts the UK far behind other nations, both near and far.
UK household penetration is currently at 7.1%, according to Ofcom. This lags our European neighbors: Spain, for example, is at 71% and Portugal at 89%. Compared to Japan and S. Korea there's a veritable chasm, at 97% and 99% respectively.
While many UK consumers and businesses have fiber to the cabinet (FTTC), that copper "last mile" link puts a considerable dent in both performance and quality of service. Therefore, it's encouraging to see the UK government has already publicly committed itself to ensuring every business and household has full-fiber to the premise by 2033. It's also laudable that the prime minister wants to bring this date forward to 2025. Apart from consumers who want high-speed, low-latency access to websites and streaming services for leisure and entertainment purposes, UK PLC needs it to effectively compete on the world stage. Let's hope the government further increases its commitment to speeding full-fiber roll out across the nation.
Like transportation or energy and water utilities, ultra-fast broadband is essential to our economic infrastructure. It should be viewed as such if there's ever an overhaul of today's outmoded planning laws where individual councils and landlords hold most of the cards. Government must also review the fiber taxation rates levied on providers as part of this overhaul.
Together, these rules and taxes obstruct or unnecessarily delay the way forward for widespread full-fiber roll out. Turbocharging deployment to 2025 will demand even further investment and more manpower, notwithstanding modern techniques such as narrow trenching which facilitates fiber cabling along roads.
Fresh thinking required
For diversity from road routes, for example, a provider can make use of Access-to-Infrastructure (ATI) legislation, which allows providers to reach infrastructure via means other than road. These include rail and canal ducts, or utility infrastructure. As we speak, Nextgenaccess is engaged in a large fiber deployment along a major rail corridor in the south of England. Infrastructure-based carriers looking to expand their reach, and asset-light operators seeking alternative access routes also are interesting targets. Likewise, traditional and edge data centers that require greater diversity, security and resilience are good prospects. Furthermore, with 5G, mobile operators are looking to use new strategic fiber deployments for easing their growing backhaul data traffic challenges.
While Digital Britain is certainly no free-ride for fiber infrastructure providers, the potential rewards are significant provided you are innovative, take a long term view and ensure significant investment funding is in place. The government subsidy voucher schemes also go some way to making the business case stand up.
The connectivity story has always been the same when it comes to risk versus reward. The infrastructure provider takes a long-term view and must expect to take lower margins, providing operators and channel partners the opportunity of layering services (like VoIP and hosting) over the top. This presents ongoing, more margin-friendly business opportunities for them but in return they take all the risk on the customer. That's the quid pro quo and keeps all sides engaged and motivated.
To make it work, Nextgenaccess, for one, is being very careful to fully evaluate the long-term potential ROI from existing and emerging UK opportunities. This means being highly selective and only going places where no, or very few, providers have gone before. Avoiding overbuild situations is a key part of our strategy, as is having an anchor tenant in place from the outset and sufficient 'in-need' underserved end-user business communities in plain sight. These are prerequisites before any of our fiber gets deployed.
It certainly helps to have been one of the first licensed to use BT Openreach infrastructure for deploying fiber networks under Duct and Pole Access (DPA) / Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA). Using BT Openreach infrastructure and our knowledge makes fiber deployment far quicker and significantly cheaper. For example, we are using DPA/PIA to deliver a new high capacity fiber route between Bristol and Wales. In conjunction with carriers and our reseller partners, this will enable ultra-fast broadband connectivity and services for thousands of underserved businesses in south Wales and southwest England by early next year.
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Safety at what cost?BMJ 2007; 334 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39092.694572.3A (Published 11 January 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;334:0-a
- Douglas Kamerow, US editor email@example.com
Improving patient safety is a complicated business. Sometimes we don't know exactly what to do. Other times we must balance increased safety with decreased patient autonomy or slowed availability of possibly life-saving medications. We have examples of all of these in this week's BMJ.
In response to patient safety concerns many hospitals have set up routine incident reporting systems. Ali Sari and colleagues reviewed the results of such a system in a large hospital and compared them to a structured review of case notes for the same 1000 admissions. Their study (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39031.507153.AE) found that the incident reporting system missed almost half of the important patients safety incidents—those that actually resulted in patients being harmed. In an accompanying editorial (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39071.441609.80), Charles Vincent agrees that reporting systems are not an effective way to improve patient safety. He argues that only active measurement and improvement programs focused on known high-risk activities will meaningfully decrease the risks of adverse events.
Falls are the most common adverse event in hospitals and nursing homes and often lead to injury and subsequent functional impairment. David Oliver et al performed a systematic review (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.706493.55) of strategies to decrease falls in these settings. They found evidence that comprehensive hospital fall prevention programs lead to a modest reduction in hip fracture rates and that hip protectors help prevent hip fractures in nursing homes. Ian Cameron and Susan Kurrle comment (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39084.388553.80) that most research on fall prevention has been done in the community and less is known about institutional settings. Hospital and nursing home patients are generally frailer and have a higher prevalence of dementia, both risk factors for falls. How to best prevent falls in institutional settings is still largely an unanswered question.
Finally, Linda Horton comments (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.545880.BE) on an Institute of Medicine report on the US Food and Drug Administration. She advocates increased FDA funding, enlarged focus on postmarketing safety studies, and increased international collaboration to improve the drug approval process. But no drugs are completely without risk. Faster, earlier drug approvals will undoubtedly lead to the discovery of some of those risks after drugs have been approved and marketed.