Mary\u27s Place in Today\u27s Church

Vatican II highlights the relation between Mary and the Church. What are the theological and more practical consequences of this new/old vision? Did it impact the place of Mary in the Church in liturgy, spirituality, theology? Is the Church more Marian? Are we more Marian? What could that mean? What should we learn from the past for the present and the future? On April 8, 2016 we joined together, across the globe in real time, to listen and discuss two presentations on the subject of Mary\u27s Place in Today\u27s Church. These presentations began via teleconference at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time. After a brief introduction, each presenter gave a 20-minute presentation on his topic. The session concluded with an hour of open discussion and final remarks by 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. Fr. Thomas Buffer, Lecturer at the International Marian Research Institute, discussed that in today\u27s world, it is not enough to argue for the existence of God or defend the Faith; we have to defend the existence, beliefs, and practices of the Church to those who claim it is an obstacle to belief or to a happy life. When we talk about the Church, are we also talking about Mary to help others understand it better? If so, what is the best way to do it? What should we avoid? In this effort, the religious literature of the first eight Christian centuries, also known as the patristic era, can offer some helpful pointers for us in the twenty-first century. Dr. Dennis Doyle, University of Dayton professor, focused on the Pilgrim Church in its journey on earth can become a more Marian Church. What might that look like? In its seventh chapter, Vatican II\u27s Lumen gentium spoke of the Church as the Communion of Saints made up simultaneously of the Pilgrim Church in its journey on earth and the Heavenly Church in its eternal fulllness. The eighth chapter focused on Mary as a shining example of one whose historical and eternal life have blended perfectly these dimensions. Mary is herself a type of the Church. The Heavenly Church is already as Marian as it can be. This Heavenly Church exists not only in the far-off future, but is always present within the Pilgrim Church as it makes its journey. As the German Jesuit Otto Semmelroth wrote, this presence is not simply in the Church in the manner in which the train from Hamburg to Munich is called \u27the Munich train.\u27 It is, rather, already integral and dynamic

NHEP Buffer Outreach 2005 - 2006

The purpose of the buffer outreach project is to provide education, assistance, and tools to the coastal watershed towns so that they will understand the importance of buffers for water quality and quantity, the need to enhance their own town’s buffer protections, and how to move forward with enacting new buffer protection measures. These activities helped implement several Action Plans from the Management Plan. NHEP staff developed a buffer presentation, a marketing brochure for the presentation, and a webpage devoted to buffer information. One presentation was given at a public hearing in New Durham. NHEP funded several buffer related projects including UNH Complex System Research Center’s buffer characterization and buffer mapper, Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission’s buffer outreach program in Candia and Deerfield, and buffer ordinance development in New Durham through the Community Technical Assistance Program

The online buffer

Copyright @ 2009 MICEThis is a discussion document regarding the proposed use of the Online Buffer. The Online Buffer is used to store locally the RAW data files created by the Event Builder, before they are uploaded to Castor by the data mover. The files may also be used by the online monitoring and reconstruction activities. At the Trigger-DAQ-Controls Review, the reviewers warned that this three-way activity might saturate the disks, and also that the file uploads to the Grid could conflict with the writing of DAQ data. It was proposed to ameliorate this by splitting the buffer into a set of independent volumes into which the DAQ data would be written on a round-robin basis; outgoing files would meanwhile be read only from one of the other volumes. Further, files being uploaded to the Grid would be staged on the transfer box’ system disk, as the (local) staging process is expected to be more deterministic and easier to control than transfers across the WAN

A multi-exit recirculating optical packet buffer

We propose a new type of recirculating buffer, the multiexit buffer (MEB), for use in asynchronous optical packet switches with statistical multiplexing, operating at speeds of 40-100 Gb/s. We demonstrate that the use of this type of buffer dramatically reduces the packet loss for a given buffer depth, thus reducing the buffer depth requirements and the overall cost of the optical packet switching. Physical layer simulation results show that it is possible to build this type of buffer with currently available active components. A hybrid optoelectronic control system is proposed, which allows control of the MEB with a minimum number of active components