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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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Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 S30?+X19?
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 has issued a two patch set for the upcoming 2009 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). The design is an apparent depiction of the legend behind the lodge’s name, translated as “We Three Are Friends.”
I have been told the lodge intends this to be the only patches to be issued for this NOAC. The set is intended to be a fundraiser for the lodge’s delegation and will be sold in the Old North State council office and at lodge events.
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Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 eX2009-1?
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii hosted a new training weekend this past Saturday. It’s officially called “First Event”. The lodge 70 website says:
“…This event has been designed to offer the utmost in High Quality Excitement, Amazingly Pertinent Information, and Quality Instruction to help you learn a good portion of all that there is to learn about the Native American Programs of the Order of the Arrow.
Participants will also have the opportunity to polish leadership skills through hands on learning activities that will help them become more successful in and beyond Scouting…”
The patch at the head of this post was produced for this event. 125 were made and distributed one per person to those in attendance. The few remaining patches were sold on a first come, first served basis one per person.
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Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 eA2008-1?
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge issued two patches for their 2008 Spring and Fall Fellowships.
I do not yet have these patches as I did not attend either event this year. I will add better images after I get the patches. In the mean time, thanks to David Pugh for supplying these images.
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"The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."
Winston Churchill
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge recently issued three two-part sets for their participation in this Summer’s ArrowCorps5 events in Virginia and Wyoming. All three sets feature the same simple design, a hawk in flight. Only the border colors differ.
According to the lodge, there will be 900 sets with a black (BLK) border sold to anyone with the requisite amount of money. 300 sets with a red border will be available only to those participating in the events. In addition 100 sets with a silver mylar (SMY) border will be sold, packaged with a red and black bordered set. In total, there will be 1000 BLK, 400 RED, and 100 SMY sets made.
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Abraham Lincoln
“I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK. I sleep all night and I work all day…”
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge adopted a lumberjack theme for last weekend’s SR-7B and was successful in winning the conclave spirit award for the first time in the lodge’s history. In keeping with recent custom, a flap was issued portraying this theme.
I only have one small nit to pick with the design. This lodge is located in the northeastern piedmont of North Carolina. The conclave was held at a camp in the flat sandy plains of southeastern North Carolina. Neither are areas known for the soaring peaks depicted on the flap. Artistic license is wonderful! 
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Buddha
Earlier today I was working on the price guide portion of this site and saw a set of five flaps from Croatan 117 that recently sold on eBay. These were issued by the lodge for this Summer’s ArrowCorps5 with each flap depicting one of the program’s sites.
Occoneechee lodge will issue a single flap to help fund the travel expenses of its ArrowCorps5 participants. The lodge will order 500 of these flaps.
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In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
J. W. A. Young
I have just received word that the 2008 LLD jacket patch for Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge has arrived. Our LLD was three weeks ago, but the patches could not be made available in time. As with the 2007 issue, one each is issued to LLD participants and staff with the extras being sold to fund the next year’s LLD.
They will not be generally available to lodge members until next week. However I am told at least one person has managed to get his in advance of the South Carolina TOR this weekend.
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Wolcott Gibbs
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge held its LLD last weekend. Following the precedent established last year, a special jacket patch was issued.
The patch has not yet arrived. 250 were ordered with 95 to be distributed, one per person, to the attendees and staff. Yes, we are a large lodge. The remainder are to be sold with proceeds earmarked to fund next year’s LLD.
I have not yet seen either the patch or its design. When I have an image of the patch to share, I will post it here.
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The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon of this field.)"
Douglas Adams
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge held their Fall Fellowship this weekend. For the first time since before the lodge was formed, I was not registered for the weekend. However, I did go up to camp for the Saturday afternoon and evening events.
Lodge rules were revised and the newly elected officers will serve for 18 months. The Founders Award was presented to three Arrowmen and our annual patch auction was held.
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George S. Patton
The SR-7B (Eastern North Carolina) Conclave was this past weekend. All the lodges present except Wahissa had at least one new issue.
I will be adding them to my site over the next several days. There will be at least one blog entry for each lodge. First up is my own lodge…
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Winston Churchill
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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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Lodge 70: 2009 NOAC Issues
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