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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 Tar Heel Basketball
It was a snowy Saturday here in North Carolina. I decided to continue to celebrate the anniversary of my 21st birthday and went to see Sweeney Todd instead of watching what I thought would be a boring game, an easy win for the Tar Heels. Boy, was I wrong!
Remind me never to go out to the movies when there’s a Carolina game on!
The streak has ended. Kansas and Memphis are the only two remaining undefeated teams. Maryland beat North Carolina. The Tar Heels just couldn’t pull out another last second victory and have dropped to 18-1. I expect they’ll drop to about number 3, maybe 4, when the polls come out Monday.
More at AP Coverage on Yahoo! Sports.
The Tar Heels next travel to play Miami on Wednesday.
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"Education is too important to be left solely to the educators."
Francis Keppel
One would not normally think the only team in the ACC with a losing record would pose much of a threat to the Tar Heels. But that’s not how things tend to work in the ACC, especially when presented the opportunity to knock off the number one team in the nation on your home court, where they haven’t won since 2001. Georgia Tech was on a mission to be the giant killer. Carolina survived by a score of 83-82.
This was probably both the best played and hardest fought game of Carolina’s season, with a great effort from both teams. I only had two disappointments: I had to go to work and most most of the last 12 minutes (but saw the end), and Wayne Ellington’s rather meager scoring production.
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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I had some style and content issues with my last Tar Heel basketball blog post (UNC vs. UNC-A) partly because I tried to write the post before the game was actually played. So this time, I made sure to wait until he game was over!
NC State embarrassed themselves Saturday as they became the latest victims of the Tar Heels. All started well and it looked to be a good close game when the score was briefly tied at 9-9. Then Carolina poured it on. Add to NC State’s woes that the Wolf Pack seemed utterly unable to buy a basket, at one point missing 18 in a row. By half-time the score was 43-13. The Wolf Pack set a new team record in futility with the fewest points scored in a half since the shot clock.
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"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
Robert Heinlein
After a very close overtime win over Clemson, a strong decisive victory in Chapel Hill was in order. so the Tar Heels looked west for their next opponent, UNC-Asheville. This was the Tar Heel’s last non-conference game of the regular season.
The game was only on ESPN-U here. I don’t get that station and didn’t want to go out, so I missed this game. Read the AP Sports coverage instead.
The Tar Heels remain undefeated at 16-0. Next up for the Tar Heels is the Wolf Pack of NC State. They’re hot off their recent “bore fest”, a real sleeper of a win, 54-29 over NC Central. Could anyone buy a basket in that game!?
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
It was a nail biter last night in South Carolina as the Tar Heels barely managed an overtime victory over Clemson in their 2007-8 ACC debut.
Clemson controlled the game almost from the start but was unable to finish it off. It is a mark of a great team that the Tar Heels were able to keep the game within reach. Victory was secured with a 3 point shot by Ellington with 0.4 seconds left in overtime.
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"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
John F. Kennedy
Has anyone come up with a design for that National Championship flap yet? 
Carolina pulled off another lopsided victory tonight, handily defeating Kent State 90-61. With the ACC portion of the season about to start the Tar Heels improve to 14-0. As I write this, they are one of only six undefeated men’s basketball teams.
Carolina’s bench was a bit depleted. Bobby Frasor is out for the year. Quentin Thomas is out with an ankle injury. Alex Stepheson returned to California because of a family illness.
They next face Clemson in South Carolina. Their last remaining non-conference game this season is against UNC-Asheville on the 9th.
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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
I think I will start to pester my friends in Occoneechee lodge about a flap if the Tar Heels win the basketball national championship this year.
Nevada leaves Chapel Hill as the latest victim of the Dean Dome and the Tar Heels. It was a close game most of the first half. Then it seems the Tar Heels remembered Coach Williams’ goal in practice the day after an uninspired victory over Nichols State (to see how many players he could make puke) and turned up the heat. Lead by Ty Lawson, a three point game was a 14 point rout by the break.
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"The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If UNC were to win a National Championship this year, would Occoneechee lodge issue a flap for it?
UNC showed the UCSB Gauchos why they’re the number one team in the country yesterday with a decisive home victory. I guess they wanted to keep this webmaster, saw this game from the nosebleed zone, happy.
Fans stayed in their seats until the last few seconds to see when Carolina would break the century mark… again. The Carolina team, whose three point shooting was poor enough to make me groan whenever they took a shot broke the century make on one of their few successful 3 point goals.
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"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.
This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years."
Douglas Adams
Carolina tonight played their first home game since November 20th. It wasn’t the blowout some of us were hoping for but the Tar Heels did prevail for an 88-78 win over Nicholls State. This was the first game in a holiday season homestand against what looks lik a group of “cream puff” teams.
Coach Williams was probably not too happy with this performance. As posted on Yahoo! Sports, Aaron Beard, AP Sportswriter, says it well, “Hansbrough leads lethargic No. 1 Tar Heels past Nicholls State, 88-78“:
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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
It was a very good week for fans of Carolina basketball. After leaving Las Vegas victorious, the Tarheels scored a road victory against OSU. Ohio State might be the home of the national championship football team, but their basketball team was bested by the boys from Chapel Hill.
The Tarheels then traveled to Lexington and prevailed over the Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky players swarmed over Hansbrough whenever he had the ball, but that didn’t stop the rest of the team.
Carolina improves to 7-0, Coach Williams’ best started as UNC’s head coach. They now head north to play the Pennsylvania Quakers on Tuesday night.
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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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