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April 15th, 2012
Looking for Trading Stock?
Over the past several years I have accumulated an abundance of flaps. This is an opportunity for you. I can now offer lots of ten (10) different and assorted flaps, all mint and no spoofs/fakes, for $40 postpaid to US addresses.
Please, at this time this is a limit of one lot per person. No requests for particular issues or lodges can be honored. My extras are stored in boxes and I will pull them out ten at a time at random.
If interested please send payment via PayPal to me at jpannell@triad.rr.com. Please remember to include your address. Thanks and happy collecting!
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March 7th, 2012
Lodge 296: Region Chief Flap, "MVE"
Greg Grimes recently sent me this image of two RED bordered 2012 Home of the Region Chief flaps, showing something he noticed about them. Apparently there may be thin and thick letter variations in this issue. To me this is not significant enough to be listed as a variety. It is for cases like this that my site uses the notation, "MVE" (minor variations exist).
I told Greg I would share this image with fellow collectors. What do you think? Chase after this variation or not; that is completely up to you!
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March 5th, 2012
Breast Cancer Patch Checklist
Now that there is a growing list of breast cancer related patches as well as a devoted group of collectors chasing after them, I thought now is a good time to put together a list of those issues. I now know of at least 18 issues from 12 lodges, including a key fob and one chapter issue.
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March 4th, 2012
Ahoalan-Nachpikin Issues Breast Cancer Flap
Ahoalan-Nachpikin lodge from Memphis, TN has joined the growing list of lodges (and one chapter) that have issued patches in support of breast cancer research. As with many others, this issue is also a pink monochrome. Thanks to Nick DeMarco for supplying this image.
If you know of any other patches that have been issued for this cause, please either send the images to me or comment on this post below. Thanks.
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February 21st, 2012
2012 NOAC Issues Page Added
I have just added a page to this site showing lodge issues for this Summer's National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). You may view it here:
http://www.oaimages.com/noac12.shtml
Presently on a few issues are shown. If you know of any that should be added, please let me know. This list should grow rapidly as we get closer to NOAC.
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Archive for October, 2006
Joseph Buchanan reminded us on arrow-l that twenty years ago this past week, October 25, 1986, Carroll A. Edson passed away. He is often the forgotten Founder of the Order of the Arrow, being relegated to “co-founder” status behind the much more gregarious E. Urner Goodman. Regardless, his contributions to the Order and Scouting were great.
Joseph shared with us a 1986 article from the Syracuse Post-Standard, which contained several interesting details about Edson’s life that I am sure are not commonly known to Arrowmen. The text of the article follows:
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"Education is too important to be left solely to the educators."
Francis Keppel
Two great North Carolina OA pieces recently sold on eBay. These sales were notable for the prices paid as well as the pieces sold. Observant folks will also notice a few odd things about the sale…
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"It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
La Rochefoucauld
My friend, Rusty Reeves, posted this on his blog. Even though it’s long and has nothing to do with patches, it bears repeating here. After all, one of the BSA’s goals is participatory citizenship.
A presidential election is too important for there to be no paper record of the votes. Let the broadcast media wait a few days! There’s no need to call the election at 9:30pm Eastern time on election night. Alas, I expect this to die.
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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
An earlier post mentioned a Gimogash patch that was up for sale on eBay.
The item closed on 14 October with a top bid of $11,210. Since the reserve was not met, the lot was not sold.
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"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.
This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years."
Douglas Adams
Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #15 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or direct download.
In this episode:
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"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
Benjamin Disraeli
My apologies for this late announcement. Cloth Talk #14 is now online.
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"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum." (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
Ambrose Bierce
Introducting… Jake Topkis.
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"What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?"
Ani Difranco
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things…
from “The Sound of Music” by Rodgers and Hammerstein
I wanted to take a few minutes to share with folks what I think are a few of my favorite flaps.à ¯ ¿ ½ à ¯ ¿ ½ In an effort to cover more of the history of patches, I picked three from different eras: aà ¯ ¿ ½ classic from the 1960s, one from the early 1970s showing the development of highly colorful patches, and a third that first appeared about 7 years ago.
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"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. "
Calvin Coolidge
I thought this was a very good and timely quote, worth sharing here.
“I don’t believe in a fate that will fall upon us no matter what we do; I do believe in a fate that will fall upon us if we do nothing.”
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
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"Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity."
Catastrophe Theory, 1977.
E Christopher Zeeman
Not all patch designs are original. Sometimes a lodge will base a patch design on an earlier issued patch. While this is commonly done within a lodge, it should be no secret that some lodges are inspired by the work of other lodges.
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"It is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
Calvin Coolidge
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Recent OAImages News
April 1st, 2012
April Fool!
It should go without saying that my post about this site being sold to a Google/eBay partnership was my annual April Fool's post. I have no plans at this time to give up or sell this web site. Long time readers will know this has become quite the tradition here and I usually start planning the posts several months in advance. The most famous (infamous?) of these was 2008's post concerning the abolishment of lodge names. It still creates difficulty from time to time for those in authority in the OA and BSA due to the inability of some to detect obvious (in my opinion) satire.
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April 1st, 2012
OAImages Soon Under New Ownership
This post contains important information regarding the future of this website. Please read carefully.
Many have noticed that I have found it hard to maintain this website for quite some time now. Due to various reasons, some of them beyond my control, updating the price guide regularly has become all but impossible. Things have become a bit less chaotic, but after 15 years this has become a chore. I also know that there will come the day when control of this site will need to be passed to another. With all that in mind, I have been considering various options for the future of OAImages. In the midst of this, a several months ago I was contacted by someone who made me an offer that was too good to resist. After many months of negotiations I am now free to announce that this site has been purchased by a combined partnership of Google and eBay. This will be effective July 1, 2012.
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January 30th, 2012
Tschipey Achtu Lodge: Update
Back in 2010 I announced the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge as a result of the merger of Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417. At the time I was told they would use the number 397, which is also their council number. This created a bit of controversy as that number is currently in use by Chilantakoba lodge in Louisiana. I also announced their first flap. Other than a 2010 Jamboree issue no further news from this lodge made it to me.
I was talking with a Roger Ward last night who was at the recent Winter South Carolina Trade-O-Ree. He tells me it has not been quiet in that lodge. The use of 397 was problematic. Many wanted to choose a different number. Some wanted to claim the number zero, but that was not well received given the special place Unami 1 holds in the Order of the Arrow. The Scout Executive, I am told, stepped in and told the lodge they will use the lower number from the two merged lodges.
The lodge is now known as Tschipey Achtu 95. I have updated the site to reflect this current information. Several new issues have also been added.
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January 14th, 2012
An OAImages iPad App?
Some of those who know me personally, know that I have gone over to the "Dark Side" and have started using Apple products. I bought an iMac a couple of months ago and just recently got an iPad. My brother is trying to tell me that my Droid's days are numbered.
I really like my iPad and started day dreaming about an OAImages app for it. I have no idea how to go about writing this and it would take me into an entirely new area from what I know. It's not something that would happen easily or soon. Here's your chance to give feedback. What do you think about an OAImages app? What would you put in it? Do you have any thoughts on how it would be distributed or how much it would cost?
Please feel free to comment. Comments are moderated for those who have not successfully had a comment published on this blog before in order to control spam. I will do my best to approve comments as quickly as possible in order to facilitate a discussion.
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October 4th, 2011
Indian Summer and Summit Corps Patches
I have added special pages on this site for the 2011 Indian Summer and 2011 Summit Corps. I still have a few images to add but most of what I have images for is now on the site. Thanks for Rick Horne for most of these images.
To view these items, go to OA Images: National and Special Events Patches page and select either of these events from the "Other Specialties" drop down box.
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August 27th, 2011
Coming out of Hiding About April 1st
It's kind of odd to come out of hiding to post about a topic like this.
I'm hearing from some brothers that there have been gullible readers to this blog over the years. I would have thought it was obvious from the context of the posts, but the various posts made on this blog throughout the years that have appeared on APRIL FIRST are all satire. None of them are true. Read them and chuckle but please do not complain to your friendly OA National Committee members, Scout Executives, lodge advisers, or official website administrators about the "changes" that are "announced" in them.
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Posted in Scouting News by John E. Pannell on October 31st, 2006 at 7:42 am 
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