it functions more like a De Santis Nemesis than a traditional
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While this holster is leather, it functions more like a De Santis Nemesis than a traditional, well formed (boned) leather holster.  However, in the fairly large pockets of my dress slacks, this thing hides a Sig P-938 better than any other pocket holster i've tried.  Several holster makers have labeled their Sig P-238 holsters as compatible with the 938, but the slightly longer barrel and increased width really caused problems with my 238 holsters.  It looks like the holster will even accommodate a CT laser on the trigger guard, but I haven't installed one yet.
I've practiced drawing several times, and the tiny hook meant to catch inside the pocket has been perfectly reliable so far.
This holster does not have a reinforced top to make it easy to perform a one-handed reholster.  I don't fault it for that, I prefer the slim profile for concealment.
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It is different from our old fan-light in that the light is not an immediate on-off but rather a slower reaction which is taking some getting used to.
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Kind of works, Better if you can find the path they little buggers are taking. but it does do its job to a point
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This is a stylish knockbox, but one that ultimately does not serve the purpose.  My espresso machine is a Rancilio Miss Silvia with a standard portafilter.  If the puck is very dry then there are no problems - the Grindenstein takes it in without muss or fuss.  Unfortunately, the puck is almost never that dry.  If I am making more than one espresso, then every puck after the first comes with a certain amount of liquid, which then splatters out of the Grindenstein when I knock the portafilter against the bar.  I plan to buy a different, larger knockbox that will capture more of the splatter.
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very flavorful, clever mechanics, balance feels off. Plague rat can be a NIGHTMARE, and Spite invalidates tons of mechanics, including his own!
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I am a rabid fan of Riccio's Divine Circle of Ladies series.  This is not one of that series. Found it while looking to see if Amazon has her latest in the Divine series.  A ghost manages to disorganize the usually highly-organized main character while both work to solve the mystery of her death.  Not as fond of this as i am of the Divine books, partly because in that series there is a wonderful depiction of Wicca.
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"AMORC Unmasked" is the sequel to "The Prisoner of San Jose", Pierre Freeman's exposure of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), a group he believes is a dangerous mind control cult.

"AMORC Unmasked" takes the reader on a journey through AMORC's voluminous correspondence courses, offering Freeman's own personal comments along the way.

AMORC turns out to be wackier than I expected. They promise their members supernatural powers of clairvoyance, precognition and telepathy. They even believe that they can somehow mentally influence UN and NATO leaders. One AMORC exercise is about entering meditative communion with...Mars. The order also teaches various hallucinatory techniques which make the members believe that they are having out of body experiences, travelling to other dimensions, etc. More mundane meditation exercises are also taught.

When I read "Prisoner of San Jose", I was somewhat incredulous and wrote a relatively negative review of the book. This book shows more clearly that AMORC are crazy, weird and cultish. In the final analysis, it doesn't really matter whether these people are "mind controlled" or simply delude themselves. Brooding over your own demons cannot be healthy by any standard.

Interestingly, Freeman still has a New Age, spiritual outlook on things. He believes that AMORC follows something he calls the Paradigm of the Magician, while he himself wish to tread the path of true mysticism and merger with the Divine. At times, he seems unsure whether AMORC's supernatural powers are bogus, or whether they actually work, but for evil ends. "AMORC Unmasked" therefore occasionally sounds like an in-house polemic between two different schools of esoteric thought. Freeman does seem reasonably sure, however, that AMORC's ancient credentials are made up.

This book isn't intended for general readers, and can get extremely tedious after a while. However, it might be of interest to cult-watchers and anti-cult groups, due to its detailed and almost encyclopaedic treatment of AMORC's secret teachings.
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Not the real thing but it serves the porpoise.
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It was a bit different than what it looks like in the picture, but it still does what it's supposed to do.
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Bought this due to great luck with Sangean shower radio and because of difficulty in getting decent reception of two local stations, one AM and one FM.  By relocating the antenna wire both stations are now receivable.  But, this unit has some different controls.  Shutting off the alarm (on clock radio setting) is difficult as once the unit has gone off and snooze has been hit: the only way to turn the alarm off is to turn the radio on - then the button for disabling the alarm will work.  Strange.  Unit is decent but unusual in the way it works.
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Knew some people
not many
Good but not quite what I thought it to be.
A native born Quincian might enjoy it more
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Belloc's 1929 survey of "old" and "new" enemies of Catholic Church is not what you think. Attempts to pigeon hole Belloc with preconceptions usually don't survive your next reading of Belloc. Belloc's thinking style is never hidebound. Agree with him or not, it's entertaining thinking. Yet his writing style can be frustrating.

There are surprises in Belloc's survey. Some of his 'predictions' seem to have come about. Belloc foresaw a revival of islamic militancy as a future threat to the west. But there are flaws in his crystal ball too. He sees the more biblical fundamentalist versions of protestantism, and indeed Darwinism too, as more or less on their last legs. Belloc doesn't easily align with one side or the other to today's "culture wars", as such he provides an interesting circuit breaker to the battle hardenedviews of both sides.  He sees novelty driven "the modern mind" (and the mass media that feeds it) as an "enemy", but so is "nationalism". Belloc sees atheistic rationalism, not as an enemy, but as a potential ally of the Church. (It's interesting to note Belloc was close friends with some of the leading agnostics and skeptics of his day and even dedicated some of his books to them.)

His writing often seems stuffy and long winded, but then, out of the blue, there is paragraph that is a sheer joy to read. His take on the press, as true now as in 1929, is a case in point and worth keeping your eye out for.
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I purchased this to address a drain for which I could not locate an accurately-sized stopper. The silicone base of this two-part device has the advantage of working with a variety of drain diameters. Unfortunately this same flexibility also means that without a lot of water pushing down on it, the base isn't seated firmly and can be knocked lose, or pried off to allow leakage. The other weakness of this system is its smaller componentthe strainer/stopper which seats into the strainer base in a choice of two positions and is not actually attached to the base. To control draining one has to raise a two-inch wide, half-inch tall piece of slippery plastic in and out of the base. Not easy to do with a full sink of dirty dishes and a drain full of grease lasagna noodle fragments. Basically the little stopper potion gets buried in food debris and easily becomes greasy and hard to manage. These aren't weaknesses you find with the conventional two-position drain stopper. Another weakness of this system is that you can misplace or even discard the little stopper piece, rendering the entire stopper useless.
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The Blood Omen series is very different from its sister series Soul Reaver (which I highly recommend). Don't get me wrong, this game is pretty cool at times. But I have a hard time getting past the lame combat system ( you have to hold down the left trigger and then press ONE button to attack). The blood drinking is cool, but the meter gets annoying. You have to constantly drink blood or the meter will run out and you'll die. This is also a very linear game, you have one path to go and thats all you can do, go forward down a straight path (I have a hard time believing in a huge city there is only one road or alley). BUT, this game is alot more accessible than the Soul Reaver series. People not familiar with the Legacy of Kain saga can pick up this game and have a good time. Soul reaver focuses more on building on the plot while Blood Omen focuses on action. If your a fan of action games with a good story I would definetly recommend picking up all of the Legacy of Kain games (Blood Omen and Soul Reaver tie in together). Start with the first Blood Omen, as is the start of this engrossing tale.
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This book explains Castaneda's concepts (especially the assemblage point) in much more detail than his other books. Unfortunately, reading books to get explanations that satisfy the mind are like reading about roller coasters: there's nothing quite like going on one.
However, the book is also loaded with the kinds of scenes that made his earlier books bestsellers, with don Juan and don Genaro accompanying Carlos through frightening encounters with zombie-like death defiers, and... it's all a bit too much of a good thing. The effect is still there, the book is fascinating from page to page, but don Juan and don Genaro have become a literary device, and the explanations about the assemblage point please the intellect instead of leaving us in awe and mystery of things which cannot be understood.
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It's a little stiff and it doesn't really fit into its built-in case unless you really force it.
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Any outreach initiative by the Vatican to gay, lesbian and bisexual people will be half-hearted and disingenuous until the Church confronts head on its denigrating doctrine that homosexual behavior is immoral. And until it renounces that hurtful doctrine, relations between the Church and the LGBT community will remain strained.

Unfortunately, the virtues of respect, compassion, and sensitivity toward LGBT people do not equal acceptance. Rather, they simply engender tolerance, a half-measure at best. And mere tolerance is a shaky and hypocritical foundation upon which to build a bridge between the Vatican and the LGBT community.

Father Martin advocates a two-way bridge model to heal the divide, in which the Church and the LGBT community engage each other with mutual respect, compassion, and sensitivity. However, its unrealistic to expect LGBT people to feel respect, compassion, and sensitivity toward a Church that continues to deny them the same rights and privileges granted other Catholics. Asking disenfranchised LGBT Catholics to understand and tolerate hostile policies feels like the imposition of yet another humiliation.

Throughout Father Martins well-intentioned essay, I kept thinking that were trapped in an archaic and irreconcilable binary dilemma of Loving the Sinner but Hating the Sin  caused by the Churchs intransigence.

Jesus never even mentioned homosexuality in the Gospels, suggesting that the Vaticans peculiar preoccupation with homosexual behavior is a long-standing cultural issue that must be viewed as separate from the teachings of Jesus.

A thriving and relevant 21st-century Catholic Church must affirm and defend the integrity and sanctity of all human beings. Only then can true healing begin.