“Nightmare in Dreamland” / “Usagi vs. Rei? A Nightmare in Dreamland”

Part 2 I do not own Sailor moon, or anything Sailor moon related.

When you are at sea, you experience many things, which you might not come across in daily life. One such thing is the tide, which is the rise and fall occurring in oceanic water due to the attraction of celestial bodies like sun and moon. It occurs every twelve hours and people on the land do not come across hardships of the changing tide. Tide clocks are used by the navigators or sailors to judge the tide. The tide clocks are an essential tool for the people at the sea.

The tide clocks come with both the standard time dial and an inbuilt tidal dial, which shows the increasing and decreasing tide. The tide clocks are useful to prevent the dangers associated with see voyage. The nautical tide, wind, time and weather instruments are the things among a sailor’s paraphernalia. Adventurous people too love to keep a collection of such instruments. The nautical instruments are quite fascinating and usually come in eye catching brass finish. Being amidst the sea requires attentiveness and use of precise nautical equipments.

The tide clocks are also being used as nautical gifts. No doubt, it could make a wonderful gift for someone close to you, who is fascinated with the sea. It is not at all necessary that you go for tide clocks only when you are on a sea voyage. It is a must have during the boating, fishing and surfing activities. Read the tide well before you go for such activities. Keep yourself ahead of the risks concerned with tidal streams at marine or estuarine water with using tide clocks.

Correct use of oceanographic instruments and equipments helps to avoid risks and dangers. The tide clocks are one of the most marvellous looking clocks. You can also keep it at your home as a decorative piece. No doubt, it will add to the glamour of your house’s corner, where you will place it.

Part 3 I do not own Sailor moon, or anything Sailor moon related.

The nautical world is full of adventure and dangers. You need to have a sense of attentiveness towards your actions and situations you are in. The tide clocks make it easier to judge the dangers you can witness on your venture with marine world. Such clocks are advanced clocks, which tell fairly accurate time and intensity of the tide. There are low and high tides occurring in the sea due to the gravitational pull of moon and the sun. This pull creates disturbance in the sea water.

During the time of immense pull, high tide occurs and the oceanic water acts perturbed. Use of tide clocks facilitates the user to analyse the situation of the tide. Along with telling the intensity of the tide, you will also come to know that when the tide is coming and leaving. This gives the user, a strong idea about the activities he is planning. These wonderful clocks play an important role in the lives of people related to the nautical world.

People like sailors, navigators, fishermen and the people who love water sports follow tide clocks rigorously. During the time of high tide, the intensity of the tide can cause the sea waves to take a giant and destructive shape. Not to forget, the demolition from Tsunami occurred due to gigantic sea waves only. The sailors use these clocks and take preventive measures according to it. They cannot afford to be careless about the vessel they are making a voyage in, as it consists of numerous lives.

The tide clocks come in attractive finishes and enclosures, like brass and wood respectively. These clocks can become collectors priced possession and a warm nautical gift too. These useful and decorative pieces from the nautical world are also available on the web. A smart dabble through online sources will help you bag a good deal

Part 2 I dont own Sailor moon, or anything Sailor Moon Related

Tides are the rise and fall of the oceanic water that occurs due to the movement of the sun and the moon. Tides occur in every twelve hours and twenty four minutes in the sea, hence the sailors and sea navigators need to have a tide clock with them in order to find out keep track of the time of its occurrence. The tide clocks generally come both in the standard time dial and a tidal dial that is inbuilt.

These tidal dials indicate the time of a high tide which is marked in hours counting from 5-1. The sailors and navigators use tidal clocks to prevent dangers that can occur on sea due to the tidal changes in the sea.

Though these clocks are quite precise in indicating the occurrence of the tides, it is better and always safer to take help of other nautical instruments like the wind indicator, weather indicator water level measuring instruments etc.

Tide clock can also become a good gift item for those who have a hobby of collecting nautical instruments or unique items. Most tide clocks come in an antique look that adds to their attraction.

You can easily avail good tide clocks from a nautical instrument store that stocks such stuffs, many store keepers can also get you these items on request. Nowadays tidal clocks and other nautical instruments are available online too. But you have to be very cautious about the authenticity of such items that are sold online. If you wish to shop for tide clocks online make sure you visit a reliable online shopping store that keeps original stuffs and at appropriate price too.

A blazer is a type of jacket, often double-breasted, and sometimes single-breasted, worn as smart casual clothing. The term blazer is also sometimes used as a synonym for boating jacket or sports jacket, though in fact it is neither. A blazer resembles a suit jacket, except that it has a more casual cut, and features as patch pockets with no flaps and metal buttons. A blazer’s cloth is usually durable, because it was designed as a sporting jacket. They often form part of the uniform of bodies such as airlines, schools, and yachting or rowing clubs.

<a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.himfr.com/buy-f1_race/”>f1 race</a>The blazer began as a jacket worn in boat clubs, for rowing, and was brightly coloured, often striped, with contrasting piping, and single breasted; it was essentially an early sports jacket. At that time, the double breasted, navy blue jacket was known as a reefer jacket. Eventually, as the original blazer became less common, the term come to be applied to the naval version, which gained its modern metal buttons. It is still sometimes called the reefer jacket, and is worn in its original form by some yachting clubs.

The blazer is worn with wide variety of other clothes, ranging from a shirt and tie, to an open-necked polo shirt. It is seen with trousers of all colours, from the classic grey flannel, to white cotton, and brown or beige chinos.

The blazer is now very common in some parts of the world, such as in America, where it forms a major part of business casual wear, and it seen as appropriate for nearly all situations in some part of America.

It is worn as part of school uniform by many schools across the Commonwealth, and in a wide range of colours is still daily wear for most pupils in Britain and Australia. These are blazers in the traditional sense, single breasted often of bright colours or with piping. This style is also worn by some boat clubs, such as those in Cambridge or Oxford, with the piped version only on special occasions such as a boat club dinner. In this case, the piping is in college colours, and college buttons are worn. This traditional style can be seen in many films set in around the Edwardian era, such as Chariots of Fire and Kind Hearts and Coronets.

In the Commonwealth, many regimental associations (veterans’ organisations) wear ‘regimental blazers’ which consist of a blazer with a large representation of the regiment’s badge on the breast pocket, usually in the form of a wire badge, and sometimes regimental blazer buttons. In the British army officers do not normally wear badges on their blazers (or boating jackets).[2] Any two regimental blazers will very rarely be the same, as they are made up from different civilian sources and are not issued by any authority. This has come to be representative of the fact that the members of the association are now civilians, but retain the bond that the badge represents. The standard colour is navy blue, although in some associations different colours are worn, such as rifle green for the associations of rifle regiments.

Where the blazer is part of the dress of a school, college, sports club, or armed service veterans’ association, it is normal for a badge to be sewn to the breast pocket. In schools, this may vary according to the student’s standing in the school; whether a member of the junior or senior school, being a prefect or having been awarded colours. Colours are awarded in recognition of particular achievement in some academic or sporting field.

The term blazer originated with the red ‘blazers’ of the Lady Margaret Boat Club, the rowing club of St. John’s College, Cambridge. The Lady Margaret jackets were termed blazers due to their bright red ‘blazing’ colour, and the term was adopted for wider use later. These early blazers were like later sports jackets, but this term has never referred to blazers, instead describing jackets derived from the later innovation of wearing odd jackets for land-based sports. Assertions that the name is derived from HMS Blazer are not borne out by contemporary sources, although it is reported that before the standardisation of uniform in the Royal Navy, the crew of HMS Blazer wore ’striped blue and white jackets’, apparently in response to the sailors of HMS Harlequin being turned out in harlequin suits.

The reefer jacket was of naval origin, and described the short double breasted jacket worn by sailors in harsh weather, when they perform duties such as reefing the sails. It is descendents of this which are now commonly described by the term blazer.

Striped blazers became popular among British mods in the early 1960s, and again during the mod revival of the late 1970s particularly in three-colour thick/thin stripe combinations, with three-button single breasted front, five or six inch side or centre vents and sleeve-cuffs with multi-buttons. Various photos from 1964 and 1965 show London mods in boating blazers. Photos of mod icons The Who from 1964 (as the High Numbers) variously show Pete Townshend, Keith Moon and John Entwistle wearing boating blazers. Another mod band, Small Faces, and other bands liked by mods such as The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues and The Troggs had band members wearing striped blazers/boating jackets or later, brightly-coloured blazers with wide white or other light edging. Buttons on these later blazers often became non-metal, sometimes in the same colour as the edging. The earlier style of striped blazers can be seen in the film Quadrophenia. The later bright style of blazer was affectionately adopted by Austin Powers as part of his Swinging London look.

ANCIENT MYTHS

Crystals, minerals and metals have played various roles in the myths and legends of human cultures throughout history. They are fascinating examples of the attempts of the men and women of ancient times to explain their world without the benefit of science and with each culture’s biases, superstitions and interests impressed upon them and therefore provide us with an especially vivid picture of the psychology of ancient man. What gemstone could make heroes stronger? Legends of Jewels, Quartz Mythology, Myths about crystals and myths about jewelry; Some of those ancient myths and legends have come down intact through the centuries. Others have evolved and mutated as result of the input of other culture as they came into contact with one another.

AMETHYST

The most popular mythology surrounding amethyst is from ancient Greece. The word “amethyst” is of Greek origin and is translated as- “amethystus” meaning not drunken, or intoxicated (“-methystos” from “methyein” or intoxicated, “methy” = wine).  As a symbol of sincerity and stability, the unique purple shades of amethyst have been declared the “Rose de France” and has been set, even today, in Victorian jewelry (rings, bracelets, necklaces, hair accessories etc.). The mythology of this stone, unsurprisingly, spreads through modern mythology and even ancient and  recent legend.

AQUAMARINE

According to some legends, aquamarine is the treasure of mermaids, with the power to keep sailors safe. Supposedly its’ powers are particularly strong when immersed in water. While on land, it is said to have a soothing influence on married couples. The ancient Romans believed that the Aquamarine was sacred to Neptune, the god of the sea, having fallen from the jewel boxes of sirens and washed onto shore. Early sailors wore aquamarine talismans, engraved with the likeness of Neptune, as protection against dangers at sea.

DIAMONDS

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed they were tears of the Gods and splinters from falling stars. Cupids’ arrows were supposed to be tipped with diamonds, having thus a magic that nothing else can equal. Plato wrote about diamonds as living beings, embodying celestial spirits.  The Hindus believed that they were created when bolts of lightning struck rocks. They even placed some in the eyes of some of their statues. Jewish high priests turned to diamonds to decide the innocence or guilt of the accused: a stone held before a guilty person was supposed to dull and darken, while when held before an innocent one to glow with increased brilliance  The Romans wore diamonds because these were thought to possess broad magical powers over life s troubles, being able in particular to give to the wearer strength, invincibility, bravery, and courage during battle. Kings, in old days, led the battles on the battlefields wearing heavy leather breastplates studded with diamonds and other precious stones because it was believed that diamonds possessed God given magical qualities and powers far beyond the understanding of common man. Thus, warriors stayed clear of Kings and those who were fortunate enough to have the magical diamonds in their breastplates.

EMERALD

The Romans believed that emeralds with a pale hue were immature and would grow to a deeper, richer colour with age. The ancient Roman scholar Pliny was so moved by the emerald’s lush colour he wrote,  nothing is more intense than the green of emerald  and  sight is refreshed and restored by gazing upon this stone . Following his advise, Roman emperor Nero wore emerald sunglasses to watch the gladiators. Emerald is said to give a supernatural ability to foretell future events. A surprising variety of virtues have been ascribed to emerald. Among these, emerald was thought to improve its owner s memory and eloquence, and was also said to quicken intelligence. In a particular instance of emerald s use, as a measure against ills, women wearing the stone were believed to be immune from epilepsy.

GARNET

The pomegranate (and garnet) is associated with eternity in many Greek Myths. Many have associated the gift of the pomegranate seeds with the gift of fine garnet gems. It’s meaning has given symbolism to garnet as a gift of love’s attraction, a gift of quick return or as a gift of  estranged love. This myth gave partial rise to the belief that garnet is a stone for loved ones who travel and a crystal that can heal the broken bonds between lovers.

OPAL

In ancient times, opal had been regarded as the luckiest and most magical of all the gem’s because of its’ ability to showcase a multitude of colours. The Greeks of old believed the stone to give it’s bearer the powers of foresight and prophecy. The Arabs of Mohammed’s time were quite enamored of the gem, and were convinced they were carried to earth on bolts of lightning.
One myth (probably of Greek origin) tells of a storm god throwing a bolt of lightning at the rainbow that ended his storm. The subsequent explosion of colours fell to the earth, embedding themselves in the rocks, creating the opal.

PEARL

Long known as the “Queen of Gems,” pearls possess a history and allure far beyond what today’s wearer may recognize. In China, pearls were thought to be raindrops swallowed by oysters. The Chinese associated dragons and pearls together, since they believed dragons fighting in the clouds caused pearls to drop from the sky in the form of rain. During the Dark Ages, gallant knights often wore pearls onto the battlefield to protect them from harm. Long been a favorite for brides and newly weds. The ancient Greeks believed that wearing pearls would promote harmony in a marriage and prevent newlyweds from shedding tears. Also, a very popular gem to Ancient Egyptians. Reportedly, Cleopatra dissolved a single pearl in a glass of wine and drank it, simply to win a wager with Marc Anthony that she could consume the wealth of an entire country in just one meal.

PERIDOT

Early Egyptian priests drank a stimulating beverage called Soma from cups made of Peridot, believing this practice to draw them closer to Isis, the  goddess of nature. It was believed that the Peridot glowed with light even as darkness fell, which is why miners were said to have scouted for these gems during the night, marking their location, and returning in the light of day to retrieve them. The ancients believed that it had the power to dissolve enchantments and to drive evil spirits away. Peridot was even able to strengthen the power of any medicine drunk from goblets carved from the gemstone. When used as protection against the wiles of evil spirits, peridot was pierced and then strung on the hair of a donkey, and attached to the left arm. In powder, peridot was used as a remedy for asthma. When held under the tongue, it was believed to lessen the thirst in fever.

RUBY

if worn on the left hand, ancient lore has it that the Ruby will bring good fortune to its wearer, too! Ruby has been the world’s most valued gemstone for thousands of years. Ruby was said to be the most precious of the twelve stones God created when he created all things, and this “lord of gems” was placed on Aaron’s neck by God’s command. In the Bible, Job says that  wisdom is more precious than rubies  Rubies were thought to represent heat and power.  Ancient tribes used the gem as bullets for blowguns, and it was said that a pot of water would boil instantly if a Ruby was tossed into it.  Ground to powder and placed on the tongue, this crystal was used as a cure for indigestion. Among the multitude of legends and strange beliefs of ancient times, it was thought that the wearer of a ruby was blessed with health, wealth, wisdom and outstanding success in`heart affairs ‘.Furthermore, the wearer acquired the ability to live in peace with his enemies. In some places ruby was even thought to confer invulnerability.

SAPPHIRE

Ancient civilizations believed that the world was set upon an enormous sapphire, which painted the sky blue with its reflection. In ancient times, Sapphires were thought to be protective against envy, and even against poisoning.  A common belief was that a venomous snake placed in a Sapphire vessel would rapidly die!  Ground to a powder, the blue stone was believed to cure colic, rheumatism and mental illness, and to strengthen eyesight. Sapphire has long symbolized truth, sincerity, and faithfulness.  The ancients regarded star sapphires as a very powerful talisman, a guiding star for travelers and seekers of all kinds. The Tradition holds that Moses was given the ten commandments on tablets of sapphire, making it the most sacred gemstone. Because sapphires represent divine favor, they were the gemstone of choice for kings and high priests. The British Crown Jewels are full of large blue sapphires, and even more recently Prince Charles chose a sapphire engagement ring for Lady Diana.

TOPAZ

The Egyptians believed that topaz was colored with the golden glow of the sun god Ra. The ancient Greeks believed that it had the power to increase one s strength and make its wearer invisible in cases of emergency. The Romans associated topaz with Jupiter, who is also the god of the sun. In the 19th century, pink topaz was discovered in Russia. The gemstone was so coveted that only the Czar, his family, and those he gave it to were allowed ownership. When worn as amulet, topaz was said to drive away sadness and strengthen the intellect. Mounted in gold and hung around the neck, it was believed to dispel bad charms. Reduced to powder and put in wine, topaz was a cure for insomnia, asthma, burns and hemorrhage. Topaz was also said to change its color in the presence of poisoned food or drink. All these mystical powers were believed to increase and decrease with the phases of the moon. One of the most famous topaz gems is a giant specimen set in the Portuguese Crown.

TURQUOISE

Turquoise was considered by ancients to be a sacred stone, protective against all manners of evil and ill health. The blue color of turquoise was thought to have powerful metaphysical properties by many ancient cultures. In ancient Mexico, turquoise was reserved for the gods and could not be worn by mere mortals. In Asia, turquoise was considered as effective protection against the evil eye. In Tibet even today, turquoise is by far the most popular of all materials used for personal adornment, and still play an important part in religious ceremonies. In the United States South West, the Apache believed that turquoise helped warriors and hunters to aim accurately. The Zuni believed that it protected them from demons. Another belief was that turquoise had the power to protect the wearer from injury from falling, especially falling from horse-back, and that it made the horse more sure footed.

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Secret Garden A Cardian attacks a Sailor Moon show. Alan and Anne begin to feel things they have never felt before. Serena discovers the Doom Tree when she opens a door and it tries to capture her. The building is overcome by the tree. **DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SAILOR MOON OR ANYTHING SAILOR MOON RELATED!**