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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 May, 2007
Japeechen lodge has recently issued a set of six round patches with a novel concept. The lodge recognizes that the future of the Order lies with today’s Cub Scouts, Webelos and younger Scouts who in time will become eligible to be inducted into the Order of the Arrow.
As reported to me these six patches tie in with advancement through Scouting, from Wolf Cub Scout up through the rank of 2nd year camper Boy Scout. The awards also tie in with attendance at camp, in a fashion not too dissimilar to that used by Mic-O-Say and other camp based programs.
The Jersey Shore Council reports these requirements on their website (long quote follows):
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"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
Robert Orben
Occoneechee lodge had their Spring Inductions this weekend. Following custom, a patch was issued. Thanks again to Greg Grimes for providing the image.
This patch is the second piece of 2007′s totem pole patch design.
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" Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil."
Golda Mier
No, Occoneechee lodge has not started distributing email software! 
Acting upon the advice of one of my brothers, I stopped using Microsoft Outlook earlier this week and started using Mozilla’s email program, Thunderbird. I am one of those folks that likes to gripe about Microsoft even though I still use a lot of their products. So, I was very glad to find an high quality, easy to use, alternative to Outlook and Outlook Express.
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"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."
Heraclitus
Thumbnail images have returned to the lodge pdf files users can create within the members area of this site.
I’m guessing this stopped working about the time I was having trouble with the site’s server last Winter. Either no one ever mentioned this to me, or I forgot if they did, and I didn’t realize it was a problem. Most likely when I restored the site’s files, I reposted an older version of the Perl script that is needed to create thes pdf files that was not entirely error-free.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
For the tech-oriented folks reading this post…
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"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
Calvin Coolidge
Dean Smith received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree last Sunday at UNC’s graduation.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Dean Smith did not seek fame or personal recognition during his time as head coach of North Carolina’s men’s basketball team, but 10 years after his retirement, the former Tar Heel head coach received one of the University’s highest honors, a honorary degree at the annual spring Commencement ceremony.
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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Thomas Jefferson
Now that conclave season is over here in the Carolinas, I can write again about things other than new issues!
In late April, Matt Kirkland started his own blog called “The BlackEagle Trader“.
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"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?' "
Mike Godwin
Who would win in a fight between a pirate and a ninja?
Jake and Corey Topkis answer that question for us in a short film. Jake Topkis writes:
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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
David Cody and Jimmy Arthurs tipped me off to this patch from 188. It is the design of the 1994 NOAC flap from this lodge, where NOAC is misspelled “NCAC”. They believe it should be listed as an issue. I’m more skeptical.
They say that a large number of this lodge’s 1994 NOAC flaps were issued with NOAC misspelled “NCAC” and claim to have traded for several of these pieces. Others were corrected after the fact and show signs of being restitched. They say they informed the North Carolina Blue Book editor of this piece and he has declined to list it.
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
Calvin Coolidge
Atta Kulla Kulla lodge adopted a fire fighter theme for this year’s conclave, honoring “Those Who Serve”.
Usually conclave themes tend to be a bit more lighthearted, so I’m expecting there is a story behind why the lodge chose this theme other than, “It was cool”. Does anyone know the story behind the theme?
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
Charles De Gaulle
This is the lastest installment in what is becoming a semi-regular series of posts on patches issued late for last Summer’s National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC).
This latest item is an issue from Karankawa 307. Thanks to George Patton for supplying the image of this piece.
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Josh Billings
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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 Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on May 21st, 2007 at 1:43 am 
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