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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 November, 2006
I have been told by a friend of mine that the advisers of SR-7B have decided that patch trading at the 2007 Conclave will follow the same rules used by the BSA at the National Jamborees. Trading is to be permitted only on youth to youth and adult to adult bases. Youth status is defined as being under the age of 18. No trading will be permitted between youth and adults. News of this change was to be passed along to the membership of the section’s lodges.
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
Calvin Coolidge
Check out Wikipedia’s homepage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. The featured article for today, November 14th, is Eagle Scout. You may also view this article directly here.
It’s a very well written and documented article, worthy of being featured.
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"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. "
Mark Twain
Back in Frebruary 2006 Bob McCanless blogged about what he called the ugliest patch ever. The winner of this distinction is the patch to the left, dating back to his days with the Tri-State Area Council. You can read the whole story here.
Now with apologies our friends in Jacksonville, FL we have some competition for this honor.
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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
Today is Veterans Day in the United States, the day we honor and remember all who have served in our country’s armed forces. Please take a moment to thank the veterans you know. Without their sacrifices, the United States we know today might not exist.
This date also marks the end of World War I.
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"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
Lord Chesterfield
This is an update to this earlier post.
I have been told the buyer has backed out and these have not been sold. I will therefore be deleting these from my priceguide. I was suspicious of the sales to begin with, but had been initially assured the bids were real. It turns out the buyer was not sincere in his bids.
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"I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance"
Michael Crichton
A new Indian affairs segment has been issued by Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70.
Blue Book Information for this piece is as follows:
Issue Bdr/Type Bkgd Name fdl Comments
X13? BLK R RED — – Elder; segment for R2
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"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Aristotle
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
– George Santayana
This post has absolutely nothing to do with patch collecting, rather it’s about something that was shared with me earlier this morning. Someone pointed me to the blog of Dan Simmons, a science-fiction author whose work I have not read until now. Back in April 2006 he posted a letter on his blog in the form of a short story.
Those who know me, know I like speculative fiction even though I’ve read less of it than I’d care to admit. Some of it is pulp fiction trash, other works are very thought provoking. This post by Mr. Simmons falls in that latter group.
He writes:
…You were a philosophy major or minor at that podunk little college you went to long ago, said the Time Traveler. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Do you remember what Category Error is?
It rang a bell. But I was too irritated at hearing my alma mater being called a à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“podunk little college to be able to concentrate fully.
“ll tell you what it is, said the Time Traveler. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“In philosophy and formal logic, and it has its equivalents in science and business management, Category Error is the term for having stated or defined a problem so poorly that it becomes impossible to solve that problem, through dialectic or any other means.” Continue Reading »
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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
Sir Winston Churchill
Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #16 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/.
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"Here's something to think about how come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
Jay Leno
Tsali lodge has just issued two flaps to honor their dance team’s winning the team dance championship at this past summer’s NOAC at Michigan State University.
The design features two Cherokee dancers and the traditional symbol, the drawn bow with Tsali written in Cherokee, of this lodge. The other two word in Cherokee translate as quail and buffalo, in homage to the two dances this lodge performed. Continue Reading »
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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."
Frank A. Clark
I’m considering opening up this blog to posts contributed by others, for the purpose of announcing and showing new lodge, chapter and event issues. Is there any interest in seeing such a feature here? Is there anyone interested in contributing?
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"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
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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