A Tale of Cameras

Stay flexible!

I was finally up to speed with the Aida camera for broadcasting with RESI. However, once it was all pieced together, the camera provided nothing more than a rainbow - meaning the encoder worked but had no signal going in from the camera.

Easter is also Passover season, so everything slowed down. I got a big, fat streaming camera from Amazon, which had everything but sound integration with the HDMI signal. Oops - back to Amazon.

I am omitting one or two others, to save the planet from unwanted social media verbiage.

Because of the Passover celebrations, the best source for working HDMI streaming cameras was shut for the last week. Tomorrow afternoon I can talk to B and H Camera in NYC about exactly what we need.

I began this quest thinking a USB camera would work. Such innocence in a wrinkled old guy! I was but a novice in a fast-track world of transmission I never heard of before - HDMI and OSI. Also, I thought "live streaming HDMI" was enough of a description. Oh no. 

I can convert HDMI from a camera to OSI to use for the RESI broadcast. I have Black Magic, which is easy to hook up for the conversion.

But now I know what we need and where to get it. Easter Sunday with Vimeo went reasonably well and we had a backup service linked.

The same will be true tomorrow. When this change is done, the broadcasting link will be on the front page for live streams, and the saved broadcast will be in our library on a blog page or pages.

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Christian Dogmatics by J. N. Kildahl “This book possesses distinction as one of very few systematic theologies written from the viewpoint of Scandinavian-American Lutheran pietism, a movement which combined the Norwegian/Haugean and the Swedish/Rosenian traditions. It has been observed that, in general, the four major earmarks of pietism are experiential Christianity, Biblical focus, holy living, and opposition to formalism. “Pietism held an important place among Scandinavian-Americans during portions of the 19th and 20th centuries, as evidenced, for example, by the various Lutheran synods it produced and the wide participation it fostered in such para-church organizations as the Hauge Inner Mission Federation, the Lutheran Bible Institute, and the Lutheran Evangelistic Movement. As such, it should not be lightly overlooked. — From the Introduction Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful. Summary Contents Detailed Contents Preface Editor’s Preface Introduction to Christian Dogmatics I. God II. The Trinity III. Cosmology IV. Anthropology V. Christology VI. Soteriology VII. Pneumatology VIII. The Means of Grace IX. The Church X. The Last Things Appendixes 1 Theses on Election 2 The Work of Evangelists Order a Printed Copy Print Copy: Christian Dogmatics by J.N. Kildahl Download the eBook Only PDF and paperback editions are available for this title. PDF Publication Information Originally published: 2020-03-07 Edited by Jonathan D. Anderson. Copyright: CC BY 4.0 Read more

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But Where Are the Clowns? Send in the Clowns. Don't Bother, They're Here.Ski's Bouncy Houses for Easter Sunday, Copying Patterson's East Egg Hunts

Ski on Facebook

Don't you love a farce?

My fault, I fear

I thought that you'd want what I want

Sorry my dear

But where are the clowns?

Send in the clowns

Don't bother

They're here

 Facebook friends. Aww.

DP Patterson (WELS) leads the clown ministry in Texas.

 DP Patterson was promoting live bunnies for Easter until I copied his public ads.

 Ski misunderstood Patterson's Easter bunny concept. This so-called model worked for Hefner's Playboy magazine.

 The Booz Brothers posed with Katy Perry and posted the originals to Facebook for a long time.

This Train Ain't Going Nowhere, This Train. This Train Ain't Bound for Glory This Train!

 

 The 2020 Spijkenisse (Netherlands) Metro Derailment. The whale tail helped prop the car to effect the rescue.

Bad driver. He missed his cues and almost killed a bunch of people - and himself. That made me think of the reckless leadership of Matt the Fatt, Mirthless Mark the Bookkeeper (more Schwan money - don't mention his first wife), and the rest. 

 "Brett, I know what you are thinking. I never intended for it to go so far, just enough to make me the Presby-Lutheran open-minded Presiding Bishop in a suit coat and alb."

One error leads to others. Women's ordination in the LCA was nothing much, ditto ALC. Women chaplains worked at colleges, like Harvard, and at some institutions. 

Notice that the Woke language of today was being heavily promoted five years ago, by the lady who defeated Mark Hanson - above - for ELCA presiding bishop. Equity means half the ELCA bishops are now women, claiming in print that the Holy Spirit was in the closet and is being let out, so we can see what She does, a bizarre mix of Enthusiasm and The View.

 "A new fad for us to follow - Unstuck!
Whee! I can feel it working already!"

Did the LCMS-WELS-ELS really think ELCA would drive their members into "conservative" congregations, tossing fresh money into their coffers? Lyle Schaller, a Methodist minister consultant told them ELCA would be a bonus for the "conservatives."

 As many know, this was prophetic.

When the Great Lutheran Apostasy leaders (ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC-micro-minies)... 

1. conference together, 
2. teach Universal Objective Justification with one accord, and 
3. hang their tongues out for Thrivent money and Thrivent money changers in the Temple - getting a divine call - expect nothing but further disasters.

PS - From Ichabod 2018

ELCA Female Bishops - Partners in Ministry with WELS-LCMS-ELS.
Enthusiasts Together, UOJ to a Fault

 https://religionnews.com/2018/07/25/new-elca-female-synod-bishops-talk-metoo-religious-left-what-lutheran-looks-like/

Briner: (Southwestern Texas Synod) has some of the fastest-growing cities in the entire U.S. along the corridor of San Antonio to Austin and beyond. We have people of all ages moving in, but they’re not generally coming to church. So we have an incredible opportunity there, but a lot of it is thinking about how are we different. We’ve become a really settled people who have become very comfortable with the way we’ve always done things. So trying to figure out, how do we be open to the Spirit and be open to the Spirit’s work? Because I’m telling you what, the Spirit is up to something …

Bishops: Amen. Yes, she is.

 Sue Briner, LinkedIn

Briner: … if we would just let her out.

Bishops: Let her out. Get out of her way.

Briner: Open the doors and let her out.

Bishops: She’s out! She is loose!