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Nikon Monarch Binoculars

by Jonathon Peters

I brought my pair of Nikon Monarch Binoculars about four months ago and I fell in love with them straight away. I brought them mainly for bird watching, and as I wanted a good pair of binoculars I spent quite a bit of time researching. They have a really nice feel are well balanced and weigh only 689grams with the strap on! I’ve even dropped them once on concrete and there was no damage done.

Three weeks after I got my binoculars I took them with me to Kenya for a safari. I recall standing on a hill looking towards the sun down into a valley. When I looked through my Nikon monarch’s eye could see each house in the village clearly and even some of the people’s faces, without the binoculars though I could see nearly nothing. This proved to me that the quality of the optics in the Nikon monarch binoculars is excellent.

My father-in-law borrowed them on his latest birdwatching trip, he has been birdwatching for over 30 years he reckons these are the best pair he has every used. For the price you pay, the quality of these binoculars is fantastic. A top range model of Nikon binoculars would cost you over $2000, but how would you feel if your broke them or lost them? With these monarchs you would not be too bothered if anything serious happened to them.

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Posted in Sports on Jul 25th, 2008, 4:00 pm by John Francis     

Steroids - Bionabol

by The Steroid Encyclopaedia Team

A Bulgarian company registered as Balkanpharma produced Bionabol; or methandrostenolone as it is medically known as, up until 2005 when it’s license to manufacture Bionabol was revoked by the Bulgarian Ministry of Health. The current stocks that are still available can still be taken up until 2009, when this batch will reach it’s expiry date.

The most popular oral steroid ever taken up until present day times is dianabol, the generic name for which is methandrostenolone. Dianabol hit the market back in 1955 by an American based company called Ciba Pharmaceuticals. Bionabol is actually a derivative of testosterone, but has been altered to get an increased anabolic effect, which reduces greatly androgenic side effects and it’s popularity came about as it is an oral steroid.

The guys down at the gym on Bionabol could be taking a dosage of anything between 10mg and 100mg, but this will intend on how big they are looking to become. Higher doses of Bionabol could have negative effects on eventual growth as side effects kick in. It is a risky business if you haven’t had that correct advice and the list of side effects is quite scary really with water retention, aggressive behavior, high blood pressure, liver and toxicity are just a few of the possibilities.

To get the best results from using Bionabol, it is recommended that you combine them with injectable steroids, examples of which are deca-durabolin and testosterone. In order to avoid liver damage and other side effects you should not do more than a 6 week cycle. In fact the optimum results are obtained through doing longer cycles of smaller doses of Bionabol.

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Posted in Sports on Jul 25th, 2008, 2:03 am by The Steroid Encyclopaedia Team     

A Short History Of Country Group Dixie Chicks

by E Walker

The Dixie Chicks are a country/rock music trio from the United States comprising Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. They are the highest-selling female band in any musical genre, having sold 36 million albums as of June 2006.

The Dixie Chicks was founded by the sisters Martie and Emily Erwin along with Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy. The Erwin sisters have since married and changed their names to Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, respectively. The Erwin sisters provided the instrumental firepower for the band while Lynch and Macy were the lead singers. All four original members of the Dixie Chicks graduated from Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Robin Lynn Macy left in late 1992, for a “purer” bluegrass approach, and remained active in the Dallas music scene.

Laura Lynch was replaced in late 1995 by Natalie Maines, the daughter of producer, steel guitar player, and former Chicks’ session player Lloyd Maines. Around the same time, Sony scouted the Chicks and signed them to the newly revived Monument Records label.”Wide Open Spaces” (1998), is the first album released after the original lead vocalist Laura Lynch was replaced by Natalie Maines, the album was the biggest commercial success and sold 12 million copies in U.S.

The Chicks also delivered gleeful revenge epics such as “Goodbye Earl,” the tale of a woman who murders her abusive husband and gets away with it, or raucous, ribald numbers such as “Sin Wagon,” a concert staple rave-up. Both of these tracks contained thematic elements that led to some radio stations removing the Chicks from their playlists, but the group was consistently unapologetic.

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Posted in Celebrities on Jul 24th, 2008, 4:15 pm by Eugene Walker     

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