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February 8th, 2012
What's Up With Blue Book?
Many of us have been wondering for years what will happen with Blue Book. A new version has not been published since 2006. At 1pm today Jason Spangler will broadcast part one of an interview with Roy More where they discuss the future of Blue Book.
Scouting Hot Finds Radio: Blue Book 2.0 Update with Roy More.
You can listen live at that link. You can also find the podcast there afterwards, or listen through iTunes.
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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 6th, 2012
A Guide to Identifying Chinese Fakes on eBay
My friend Jason Spangler, also known as the Santee Swapper and host of the Scouting Hot Finds newsletters and podcast has assembled a free guide to spotting the fake Chinese made OA patches currently appearing on eBay.
A Guide to Identifying Recent Chinese Fakes on eBay
This is an extensive 24 page treatise on these patches, with many illustrations. It documents the fakes produced by various sellers over the past several years. It also discusses the marketing strategies of those who produced these fakes including the stealing of images from this website.
This is a must read for almost any collector who wants to avoid being taken by these fakes.
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December 23rd, 2011
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (III)
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I have written several posts on this blog about patch designs that appear to have been copied or "inspired" by other designs, quite often from different lodges. For example see the first and second posts using this same title. Another example is this post on more "inspired" patches.
The patch pictured at the top of this post was a recent chapter event issue from Piankatank chapter of Wahunsenakah lodge. (Editor's note: Please see correction in comments). The lodge is chartered to the Colonial Virginia Council which could easily explain the American Revolution theme of the design. However, the lodge totem is a duck so the hawk's head might appear to be an unusual choice.
A friend gave this to me. He acquired it a Trade-O-Ree and thought of me once he saw the design. It's obviously taken from Tsoiotsi Tsogalii's 2010 SR-7B conclave flaps, listed on this site as S34? and S35?.
Perhaps someone in Wahunsenakah can fill us in on the story behind Piankatank chapter's choice of patch design. The artist of the lodge 70 flaps should be flattered that someone in another lodge was so impressed by his design that he chose to adapt it for his chapter's event patch.
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December 22nd, 2011
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other...
"One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others. By the time I finish my song?"
How many of you remember this song from "Sesame Street"? I saw a friend of mine at the Winston-Salem Trade-O-Ree last weekend. He usually has a great assortment of patches, many classic material and items from our area. However he wants it to be known that he isn't just interested in old patches, so he puts the frame pictured here on his table. I'll let him remain anonymous unless he chooses to step forward here.
One of those patches seems oddly out of place (really two but one sticks out more!). Do you see it? It's not quite as obvious as recognizing letters and numbers, but still very easy to see! Every time I see this frame I chuckle a bit. It's a good way to start a conversation. Now you all can join me in a good natured chuckle.
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Archive for August, 2007
Roy More recently wrote about this pin on his blog. I had not seen it before, but apparently it appears on eBay with some frequency.
As Roy tells us, it is a common YMCA pin. This is not an OA piece. I guess some folks are quick to assume anything with a triangle on it must be an undiscovered and rare OA pin?
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan
Be advised, I’m going to stray far afield of patches here.
Algore and fellow cultists in the Church of Earth Mother Gaia, as some call the Global Warming alarmists like to cite concensus in support of their pseudo-science. It turns out they’re right: there is consensus. The problem is that it disagrees with their politically and financially motivated positions.
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
John W. Gardner
This past Summer at Camp Daniel Boone Tsali lodge held an ice cream social on Wednesday evenings before their dance and drum practice and the weekly OA call-outs. This patch was given to those OA members who attended.
The design depicts a Smoky Mountains landscape framed by a compass housing. The lodge’s totem appears in red next to the fleur d’lis. Thanks to Hank Birdsong for the news and image of this patch.
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
Calvin Coolidge
I seem to be spending a lot of time recently writing about fakes and private issues. Here’s one more private issue, this time from Occoneechee lodge.
This patch appeared last April at the 2007 SR-7B Conclave. It was used by those who were on the Medical staff at this event. I had previously mentioned this patch on this blog, erroneously dubbing it “ZX2?”, but was unable to picture it at that time. I can now picture this item thanks to a collector who wishes to remain anonymous.
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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."
Frank A. Clark
Ok, so I got long winded on the title but hey this was the first year that Wauna La-Mon’Tay issued patches for two of three major events.
The first event that warranted a patch was the Rendezvous of the Order held in March. This was a square patch with a mountain man as the main focus of the patch. Yes, no bear but I was told the mountain man had a bear claw necklace.
The next patch was issued for our Leadership Development Conference. Funny thing is that no mention of the lodge or order of the arrow is on the patch. The only thing that refers to the lodge is the bear. The lodge invited all of the scouts in the council to this event. We ran out of patches, so getting a dupe was very difficult.
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When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figure, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman
The latest piece to come from Florida (aka “God’s Waiting Room”) is out of Echockotee Lodge 200. Saturiwa Chapter has made their first non-camporee patch (R-1), made in memory of a chapter member that passed away on January 17 of this year. The Indian characature was used by Saturiwa’s Shawnee District as far back as the 1970s, and permission was obtained from Mohawk Carpets to use their logo for this patch.
Other recently found obscurities have also come from Echockotee. The first, from Saturiwa Chapter, was for a camporee that was put on in 1998. The “saturn” design is a totem of the chapter. I have been assured that the design in the middle of the patch is an Indian. I will have to take their word for it.
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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
Here is the second in my series of activity patches from 442 Wauna La-Mon’Tay. In 2006 the lodge again decided to issue patches for their 3 major events.
The general concept of the design was a medicine wheel with two feathers dangling from it. The first event patch was issued for the Native American Arts & Ceremonis Seminar. As you can tell it was left hand feather. About 500 of theses were made and siince the events only had 150-200 attendees there were left over patches.
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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."
Frank A. Clark
I woke up on Thursday and saw a message from a friend of mine that he was having trouble accessing this blog. It seems the MySQL server that powers this and a few other things on the site had gone down. That happens a few times, and a stop and restart usually solves the problem. I did that and all appeared fine.
Thursday night I saw the blog was down again, for the same reason. This time not all went so smoothly and the MySQL server was completely shut down. I couldn’t get it back up, so I contacted my collocation folks for help.
They were able to get things up again and in the process upgraded the MySQL server — it was *badly* out of date — to a more recent one. All appears fine now and I apologize if anyone was inconvenienced by this.
The good side of all this is I should be able to upgrade to a more recent version of WordPress now. I’ll probably do that over the weekend. If all goes well no one notices when it happens!
Other than that it’s been a very quiet week here.
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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. "
Albert Einstein
Bill Topkis shared this last night on patch-l:
At the 2006 NOAC Museum the film, Our Founder’s Voice: Dr E. Urner Goodman was shown on continuous loop. The short documentary was made by my oldest son Jake and this week he put it up on You Tube. To view the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsx2bAwjLwA . Anyone that desires to embed the film (attention lodge webmasters) may do so. Just follow the above URL and you will find the embed information.
I tried to embed the video within this blog entry by following the instructions on You Tube but it didn’t work. That could be an issue with the software powering this blog. Your mileage may vary.
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"We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"
Ronald Reagan
Roy More has started conducting and posting a service of “Legacy Interviews” on his blog. His first interview was with Mr. Walter Helmreich, a participant at the 1933 World Jamboree. It is interesting to his his recollections of that event and some of the founders of the Scouting movement.
He also is willing to open up posting to other interested interviewers. Towards that end he has published a pdf file containing Guidelines for Conducting a Scouting Legacy Interview. This is a neat idea that I hope can take off.
In recent years, two long time Scouters I thought very highly of passed on and I regret I never was able to sit down and interview them on their Scouting and life experiences. A lot of historical knowledge was lost with their passing.
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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.
Read the Full Post
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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March 31st, 2011
Comment Spam
This is strictly an "FYI" post for those familiar with the issues facing those who maintain blogs and message boards where readers can post comments.
Recently I had been having issues here with comment spam getting past this blog's filters. I deleted the inappropriate posts as quickly as I could but this was still unacceptable to me, as well as additional work. I since have required that readers register before they're allowed to post comments here. That seems to have stopped the spammers.
I still see a number of probable spammers, mainly from Russian domains, registering on this blog but so far none have had their comments posted successfully.
I may test my luck for a short period of time in the near future. At some unannounced time, I will turn off the registration requirement for posting comments for a day or two. I want to see if the spammers have been chased away, or if they're just awaiting an easy opportunity to push their garbage
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February 11th, 2011
Change in Comments Policy
This blog is being hit with a large number spam comments lately. There have been over 12,000 attempts to spam the blog with comments just within the past 60 days. Recently a few dozen comments, hawking service and goods I deem inappropriate for this blog, made it past the filters. Since I don't desire to spend more time deleting the spam as I find it and don't want inappropriate information to sit on my blog, I am tightening up the policy on commenting here.
Those who wish to comment must now register and be logged in before being to post comments. Registration is free and is not the same as membership to this site. This is a common practice on many blogs especially among sites run by more "traditional media" type companies.
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