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December 29th, 2008
These 50 States: Delaware and Maryland
Maryland would be an interesting, but difficult, state to use as a shape for an OA patch. To my knowledge no one has tried yet. None of the lodges with council headquarters in Maryland have even tried to use their state shape on a patch.
Only one lodge serves the state of Delaware and it's not known for innovative or unusual patches. So the list of patches using these states' shapes will be rather short.
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December 26th, 2008
Merry Christmas... In Patches
Many lodges traditionally hold year-end functions around Christmastime. Some of these have included a specific reference to Christmas in the event name. A small group of lodges have used a Christmas theme on their patches for events not otherwise connected to this holiday, like the S5 from Tsoiotsi Tsogalii pictured here.
First up are some event patches. Most of these are for the various lodges' "Christmas Banquet".
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December 22nd, 2008
2008 Old Hickory Trade-O-Ree Report
Last Saturday, December 20th, I attended the 2008 Old Hickory Trade-O-Ree, sponsored by Wahissa lodge. As my collecting interests are now confined to a very specialized area, I didn't do much trading or buying, but it was a good opportunity to get out and see some friends and acquaintance that I don't get see that often. It was also a good chance to play with and show off my new Black Berry Storm.
Attendance seemed lower than I remember it in past years. Some people I would have expected to see there did not make it this year. Part of this could be due to the proximity of this event to Christmas and the poor economy. To their credit, the lodge was actively publicizing the date next year's event: December 19,2009.
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December 18th, 2008
These 50 States: Illinois
Illinois and its governor have been in the news a lot recently so it seemed a good state to pick the the next entry in this series.
Throughout history there have been 58 lodges different lodges charted to councils headquartered in Illinois. Most of these have long since merged or consolidated. One of the Founders of the Order of the Arrow, Carroll A. Edson, worked as a professional in Chicago which enabled the OA to become established there early on. Owasippe 7 was also created as one of the earliest lodge mergers.
The list of lodges that have issued patches in the shape of Illinois, or used that state in their patch designs is rather short.
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December 17th, 2008
These 50 States: West Virginia
It's been a while since I posted an entry to this series, so I thought this would be a good break from what seems to be "Wahissa Week" here.
With it's odd shaped border and two narrow panhandles, West Virginia's shape would be technically difficult to render as a patch. No lodge has yet attempted it. It could make for an interesting jacket patch if someone was to work up a nice design. A few of the state's lodges, however, did use the state shape on some of their issues.
This will be a short list.
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December 13th, 2008
Suanhacky Asks, "Just Where is NOAC 2009?"
Bill Mulrenin posted about this on his blog recently. I was amused by it and thought I'd share it here. Sometimes two different universities have similar sounding names, especially to those not nearby. That is the lesson learned by the brothers of Suanhacky.
Take a look at the flap recently issued by Suanhacky lodge for the upcoming 2009 NOAC. Look carefully. According to the flap, next year's conference is being held at ISU, Indiana State University. Maybe the residents of Terre Haute need to defend the high ground from an unplanned assault by several thousand Boy Scouts!
Maybe they were confused and thought NOAC was returning to Iowa State University where it was held in 1998 and 2004!
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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 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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Skyuka 270 eR1992-3?
This is the second post for images recently sent to me by Brad Hutto. This one focuses on events issues.
The first item is a 1992 Fall Fellowship patch. It is similar to the eR1992-2 from this lodge except the border has been changed from green to white. I have listed this as “eR1992-3?”
The second issue is a variation on the 2007 Banquet patch, previously listed as “eA2007-2?”. On the earlier item the “2007″ is light blue while it is rendered in dark blue on this more recent item. I believe these should be listed as separated varieties, eA2007-2a and eA2007-2b.
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January 2nd, 2009
FIFTY THOUSAND And Counting
Yesterday evening, I celebrated the start of 2009 by adding the fifty thousandth image to this site! Even with this many images there are probably still several thousand OA items that are not yet pictured here.
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December 17th, 2008
OAImages on the Storm
I got a new BlackBerry Storm today. It's an early Christmas present of sorts. Now I can join the group that can access this website from a smart phone. So far I am generally pleased with it.
There are a couple of issues dealing with a piece of JavaScript that doesn't work as it should on the Storm's browser, but I can redesign around that. At least I have learned this before the site becomes widely used on these devices. The site badly needs some redesign work and this could be an excuse to at least think about it.
I previously shared how this site is displayed on the iPhone. So, I now will share with readers a few screen captures from the storm.
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December 4th, 2008
New Pages on OAImages
I recently added some new pages to OAImages that some visitors to this site may not have noticed yet. Each covers lodge issues for recent and upcoming national events
All pages can be accessed directly from the links in the above list. One can also access them from the "National & Special Events Issues" on this site's home page.
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December 2nd, 2008
New Server Update
Last Winter I let it be known that this site would soon require a new server. The current server is aging and nearing then end of its live... so I thought. Then in February all plans were put on hold: the server was compromised by a hacker and required a complete reinstall and then I lost my job. For personal reasons -- I'm still effectively unemployed -- I've been loathe to spend money and been hedging on buying a new server.
I think the time to buy has come at last.
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November 28th, 2008
Playing With Plugins
Some of you may have noticed some changes to the blog layout recently, and at least one problem that temporarily messed some things up. One of the benefits of Word Press, as blogging software, is the wide variety of plugins available to perform specialized tasks that are not part of the standard package. I've been playing with several of these lately.
After the jump is a list of the recent plugins I've added and what they're designed to do.
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November 23rd, 2008
OAImages on Mobile Phones
I have been looking at the new Blackberry Storm and drooling. I want one and am trying to figure out how to justify to myself spending money on a new cell phone that does all sorts of "neat things". I'm one of those folks who uses a cell phone as their primary phone, don't even have any visible or active phone jacks in my home.
But, I also am one of the few cell phone users who don't even use text messaging. I already own an iPod that still has a *lot* of space on it. I own a quite servicable laptop with wireless access. I don't travel much anymore. So, beyond the "gee whiz" factor, why do I really need a phone with a 3 megapixel digital camera, built-in MP3 player, touch sensitive keyboard, and a full web browser.
But did I tell you, I think it's really cool? ;) With that in mind, I thought I'd share with those considering a smart phone how this site looks on one. Thanks to Chris Brightwell for the screen captures from his iPhone.
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January 7th, 2009
Lodge 70: 2009 NOAC Issues
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.
Read the Full Post on blog.oaimages.com
January 6th, 2009
Lodge 70: 2009 "First Event"
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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December 27th, 2008
Lodge 118: 2009 NOAC Issues
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December 23rd, 2008
Lodge 118: Miscellaneous Event Patches
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December 21st, 2008
Lodge 118: Minsi Chapter Demystified
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December 20th, 2008
Lodge 118: Miscellaenous Lodge Issues
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January 5th, 2009
Lodge 270: Unlisted Events Issues
This is the second post for images recently sent to me by Brad Hutto. This one focuses on events issues.
The first item is a 1992 Fall Fellowship patch. It is similar to the eR1992-2 from this lodge except the border has been changed from green to white. I have listed this as "eR1992-3?"
The second issue is a variation on the 2007 Banquet patch, previously listed as "eA2007-2?". On the earlier item the "2007" is light blue while it is rendered in dark blue on this more recent item. I believe these should be listed as separated varieties, eA2007-2a and eA2007-2b.
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January 3rd, 2009
Lodge 270: Two New Varieties
Brad Hutto has spotted two patches that should probably be listed as new varieties of recent issues.
The first is a variety of the patch previously listed as the lodge's "A2?". It appears I did not previously cover this one on this blog. The first variety has a black pocket loop. The second variety appears to be identical except for the red pocket loop. I suggest these should be listed as "A2a?" (black tab) and "A2b?" (red tab).
The second item is a variety of the bottom piece of this lodge's 2006 NOAC set. On the first patch, previously listed "X15?", the fleur d'lis and various other elements of the design are rendered in what I call "light orange" (LOR). On the newer variety these elements are rendered in a significantly brighter color that I call "dark yellow" (DYL). According to Brad Hutto, this was caused by the lodge not having enough of the patches for their needs and then reordering from a different company. I have listed these on this site as "X15a?" and "X15b?".
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January 1st, 2009
Lodge 270: "New" Neckerchiefs
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December 19th, 2008
Lodge 119: Res Ipsa Loquitur?
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December 9th, 2008
Lodge 270: 2008 Events Patches
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December 8th, 2008
Lodge 270: Recent York Chapter Issues
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December 22nd, 2008
Tipisa 326 New Activity Patches + Chapter Items
by Robert Mathis
The latest activity patch from Tipisa 326 is now available. This is for the lodge's Chapter Ordeals, which run from late 2008 to early 2009. Unlike the rest of the lodges in the state of Florida, Tipisa has their 14 chapters run their ownOrdeal weekends, and provide each chapter with the patch for the event. Back in September, Tipisa held their Fall Fall Fellowship, unveiling the first patch of the 2008-2009 activity set, with the theme of Scouting activities.
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November 23rd, 2008
Old Spelling For Quilshan Uncovered by Frank Kern (Quil-Shan)
by skyloo442
In a phone conversation with Frank Kern out of Bellingham, Washington yesterday he informed me of the first spelling of lodge 325's name.
For years Quilshan had been thought to have only the one spelling but Frank uncovered official lodge documents that used the spelling of Quil-Shan. As we were talking it also came up that the A1a was issued during that period and overlapped into the Quilshan period.
And now that I have ruined the day of all name collectors in the nation - let me point out that none of the arrowhead shaped issues from 325 had the lodge name on them. I( guess now I have to acquire that issue so that I have at least one patch from every lodge in the Pacific Northwest.
If you need more information on this discovery please contact Frank Kern. He has done the research and deserves the full credit for this information.
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November 16th, 2008
1958 Area 3F Meeting
by Dave Scocca
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November 15th, 2008
1958 Area 3E Pow Wow
by Dave Scocca
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November 15th, 2008
The activity patches of Cole Snass Lamatai 259
by skyloo442
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November 14th, 2008
1958 Area 3D Pow Wow
by Dave Scocca
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Lodge 70: 2009 NOAC Issues
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