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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 November, 2007
Eswau Huppeday Week” continues here at OAImages.
Here’s a tough question for those who try to classify Order of the Arrow patches. If a council produces, awards and sells a councilstrip without any direct involvement from the council’s lodge, but includes the lodge number in the design, should this be listed in Blue Book and this site with the lodge’s issues?
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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton
Eswau Huppeday lodge adopted a Batman theme for their current program year. The theme figures prominently on their lodge event patches as well as the flap issued for this year’s Dixie Fellowship. In keeping with this theme, six different neckechiefs were made for the Dixie Fellowship. Thanks to Jimmy Arthurs and David Cody for tipping me off about these.
There is some question whether these items should be listed in Blue Book. None of the neckerchiefs have anything on them indicating they are from Eswau Huppeday lodge, the Order of the Arrow, or even the BSA. They are handmade, cut from cloth bought in a store and then hemmed. Theoretically, if one could find the same cloth and knew the size of the neckerchiefs more of these could easily be made. I am told all six were made in low quantities, ranging from about 10 to 30 each.
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"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll
Jimmy Arthurs sent me images last night of a bunch of recent activities patches from Eswau Huppeday. Among them were the 2007 activites patches from this lodge. Thanks.
The lodge issued the customary participant and staff patch from the Carolinas Indian Seminar as well as patches for their Spring Fellowship, Fall Fellowship and Winter Banquet.
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"Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
Calvin Coolidge
A friend of mine was recently joking with me about this series of posts. He wanted to know when I would get to Colorado or Wyoming. I think he may have been a bit surprised when I told him I was already working up a post for Colorado!
This is the eleventh in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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"When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'"
Father Andrew SDC
This is the tenth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Now I turn my attentions to the desert southwest. The lodges of Arizona have had some beautiful and interesting patches thorughout the years. Papago lodge is thought to be the originator of what collectors now refer to as the two-piece set: a pocket flap with a matching pocket patch, usually with a similar theme and sometimes with a continuous design across the two patches. However it appears that only one lodge has issued patches based upon the shape of the state of Arizona.
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Winston Churchill
Hmmm… I wonder if Occoneechee council and UNC can bring back the Scout ushers and issue some patches. Then I could talk about patches and the Tarheels at the same time. 
“A real character win.”
It wasn’t very pretty. UNC prevailed over BYU tonight in the final of the Las Vegas Invitational. The game was much closer than the score would seem to indicate.
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"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales."
Stephen Hawking
It was a late night for the Tarheels last night as they took on Old Dominion in Las Vegas and won.
The first half had Carolina fans on the edge of their seats. Carolina poured it on strong in the second half and never looked back.
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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
“I do hereby promise on my honor as a Scout that I will always and faithfully observe and preserve the traditions of the Order of the Arrow, W…”
Oops.
Bob Black recently sent me images of the 2007 activity patches from Nakona 150. The intention of the lodge was for three of the patches to bear the words Brotherhood, Cheerfulness and Service. The other three were to bear Lenape words that should be familiar to Order of the Arrow brothers. However, somewhere along the way someone made two rather embarrassing mistakes.
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"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
Brian Tracy
Back in September I wrote about some issues I was having pulling data.
The software I use to pull eBay data, Auction Intelligence (AI), was having problems dealing with a new eBay “feature” and not pulling all the data it was supposed to be. A temporary fix was put in place. After a while I thought this was fixed. The amount of search data being pulled was way down but I was putting the blame for that on several big sellers no longer being active on eBay combined with the usual seasonal fluctuation as we moved in Fall. It turns out I was mistaken.
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"Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. "
Francis Cardinal Spellman
I was pleasantly surprised that Carolina just barely kept their number one ranking this week.
South Carolina State got a good lesson in basketball tonight. It was another game devoid of any serious drama beyond when the Tarheels would break the century mark.
“CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has shown what it can do here against an overmatched opponent. The top-ranked Tar Heels will soon learn how they’ll respond when they leave their home state.
Tyler Hansbrough scored 26 points and Wayne Ellington added 19 to help North Carolina beat South Carolina State 110-64 Tuesday night, giving the Tar Heels another easy win before starting an extended road swing that will keep them away for nearly a month… ”
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"When in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, When all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God in His heaven And it does not cost to call. We'll find despite our troubles We've been blessed after all. "
Janet Louise Holman
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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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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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Lodge 560: Camp Bud Schiele CSPs
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