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June 22nd, 2010
Second Jamboree Trade-O-Ree Announced
I had previously passed along an announcement from Roger Ward of a Trade-O-Ree to be held during this Summer's BSA National Jamboree. Richard Shields has also asked me to share information about another Trade-O-Ree that will be held near the Fort A.P. Hill.
2010 NATIONAL JAMBOREE TRADE-O-REE
Sponsored by The Society of Scout Memorabilia Dealers
Fri. July 23rd Sun. Aug 1st
Fri. 7/23 3pm to 1am; Sat. 7/24 noon to 1am;
Mon-Thur 7/25-7/29 Noon to 11pm
Fri. 7/30--Sat. 7/31 noon to 1am; Sun Aug. 1st noon to 5pm
Buses Welcome Plenty of Free Parking
Buy, Sale and Trade
All kinds of Boy Scout Memorabilia
Eagles Lodge
21 Cool Springs Rd. Fredericksburg, VA
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June 16th, 2010
Jamboree Trade-O-Ree Announced
Roger Ward recently sent me information for a trade-o-ree (TOR) to be held near this Summer's BSA National Jamboree. I gladly pass this along here.
2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show At
The Ramada Inn Fredericksburg South,VA
Siesta Beach Trading Company presents the
2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show
Friday July 23rd to Tuesday August 3rd, 2010
12 Day Show From Friday To Tuesday
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June 15th, 2010
Just Whose Centennial Is It?
Many lodges and councils are issuing patches this year for the BSA's centennial. I even recently started to build a page on this site for these issues. However this isn't the only significant Scouting centennial that will occur within the next few years. Gap Danish recently sent me an image of a new jacket patch from Nachamawat 275 (Penn's Woods Council, PA) that I believe may be the first OA lodge or chapter issue for the Order of the Arrow's centennial in 2015!
The patch's design pays tribute to the history of the OA in this lodge's area. It includes the totems of Nachamawat's predecessor lodges -- Hopocan 275, Wopsononock 347, and Amadahi 441 -- as well as the current lodge totem and that of Unami 1. It also includes three different National OA logos rendered as smoke.
It will probably be some time until OA centennial issues start appearing in earnest. When they do, a page will be added to this site for them.
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June 13th, 2010
Tschipey Achtu Issues First Flap
I recently announced on this blog the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge. At that time I had no news about patches. Mike Conkey recently acquired the newly issued first flap from this lodge and thanks to him for providing this image.
Notice that the new flap bears no lodge number. In that earlier blog entry I reported that the lodge's web page on the council's website refers to this as Tschipey Achtu Lodge #397, even though lodge numbers are no longer assigned on a national basis. There has been some discussion about this.
At this time I have no further details about the patch. This lodge's issues will be shown on the Tschipey Achtu lodge page of this site.
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May 6th, 2010
National OA Issues for BSA Centennial
The National Order of the Arrow is selling several items of merchandise in their online trading post for the BSA centennial. These items include a flap (conveniently sold either singly, or in three, 10 or 20 patch bundles), neckerchief, neckerchief slide, cap and hat pin.
The single flap is sold enclosed in a special portfolio and includes a message from the 2010 National Chief and Vice Chief. It is clearly states this flap is not to be worn on the uniform.
Upon trying to place an order, a shopper is advised that, "Any orders containing BSA 100 Anniversary products will not be shipped until June 15th, 2010."
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March 28th, 2010
Made In China
Check out this recent post on Roy More's blog:
http://thescoutpatchauction.com/blogsite/2010/03/23/this-is-wrong
I am not a supporter of Big Labor and learn very much to the political and fiscal right however I agree with Roy that there is something inherently wrong with this.
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Archive for January, 2008
The new year means a new annual theme for the patches made for O-Shot-Caw Lodge 265′s weekend events: “Rock Concert Posters”. The first was their Winter Ordeal, held January 11-13. Continue Reading »
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"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."
Heraclitus
“May you live in interesting times.
May you come to the attention of those in authority.
May you find what you are looking for.”
— Reputed Chinese Curses
I learned lots of things on Wednesday. The technology demons were working overtime to haunt and bedevil me. Mr. Murphy also made an appearance to demonstrate to me his eponymous aphorism.
It started innocently enough. A friend was coming over to install some lighting in my den for me. I needed to learn which circuit breaker would turn off the power to my den. In the process of making that discovery, I also learned which would turn off the power to my office. That’s when things started going badly.
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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
It takes chutzpah to call a price increase a price cut. That’s what eBay has recently done. They’re spinning the facts of this increase with more skill than a US presidential candidate!
Here is what eBay has to say about the recent price changes:
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"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales."
Stephen Hawking
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain…
I thought it was well past time to return to a state that actually had some state shaped patches. Some of these are classics of the hobby, too.
This is the sixteenth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.
There seems to be an affinity of sorts between lodge Texas and Oklahoma when it comes to OA collecting. A couple of lodges chose to use the combined shape of the states of Texas and Oklahoma on their patches. I will mention them here as well as the post for Texas.
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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
Groucho Marx
If you really REALLY need a reason to come out of the cold and to Florida in February, the 20th annual Sunshine Trade-O-Ree is a good enough reason. The event is sponsored by Central Florida Council, and will be held February 8-9 at Camp Down, in suburban Windermere. Walk-ins are free. In past years, all of the 100+ tables have been sold out prior to the event. Motels and restaurants are within five miles of the TOR site, and there is room at the camp for tents and RV’s.
For more information, go to http://www.sunshinetor.com/ There will also be a 20th anniversary CSP produced for the event. I will be there, near the front corner of the room, along with the other usual suspects.
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Winston Churchill
In 2003 we issued only one activity patch for the year. We did not produce one for the NAACS (Winter Fellowship) and the LDC in the Fall.
For the backdrop of this patch we used the retiring MGM Indian design. The MGM indian is protrayed as smoke rising from the fire (The Spirit of Camping). A relatively simple design that turned out to be a very nice patch. There are still a few of these in my dupe stock and seem to trade well overall.
This is one of the only years that we only did a single activity patch. In preceding years we produced 3 or 4 patches for the same event. That is why it may appear difficult to the 442 collector to acquire a patch for this event. Don’t worry — I assure you that if you need this patch I can hook you up.
Next blog will be for the year 2002.
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"Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind."
Wolcott Gibbs
Occasionally it is more difficult to obtain images of items from the lodges of Florida on a timely basis. O-Shot-Caw Lodge 265 made several items in the last few months of 2007, that are now becoming available to picture. Shown here is the contingent patch for members attending the Section S-4S Seminars in November, and is the last of their 2007 series “Indians of the Southeast“. While not a lodge event, O-Shot-Caw has made a patch for their attendees to this Sectional event since 2005, as part of the series of themed event patches for those years. Continue Reading »
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"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
Charles De Gaulle
In December, Osceola Lodge 564 held their last event of the year, their Winter Fellowship. This was also the completion of their 2007 series of activity patches “Seminole Shirts”. The red shirt on the left is for the weekend event itself; the black shirt with the Vigil sash was made for participants in their annual Vigil Breakfast, held at the Fellowship. For more information on the rest of the 2007 series, look here.
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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
Sometimes one finds a story about someone who follows the good ideals of Scouting, and they’re not even Scouts. For example, take the story of Erika Gunderson and Brian Ascher recently reported on Yahoo! News:
At dusk on New Year’s Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn’t seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiance, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.
Finding the owner turned out to be much harder than they initially bargained for. The only clues they had were the photos and video on the camera itself.
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"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
W. C. Fields
At times I think I have some sort of attention deficit disorder. I am very good at starting projects, but not so good at actually finishing them. OAImages is littered with things I have started but never quite finished to my satisfaction. Some are rather obvious (at least to me) and some are probably never noticed by anyone.
I have been giving some needed attention to one unfinished segment of the site over the past few days, the lodge anniversaries section on the National & Special Events Patches page.
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"Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. "
Romanian Proverb
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August 31st, 2010
I Got Plenty of Nothing
"I got plenty o'nothin' and nothin's plenty for me..."
Wow, where did August go? Most of the month has gone by with nothing new appearing on this blog. It seems like it was only a few days ago that I was struggling with the server switch and site relocation. That is all done now and things appear to be going well. There are still some issues with broken links and missing images but I may be able to resolve that over the weekend. It's good to not have to worry about possible hardware failures.
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August 8th, 2010
25 Hours Later
The mail server at OAImages' new home has now remain unblocked by what I call the "internet gods" for over 25 hours now. That's a very good sign that they agree my server is clean and not a spammer. It appears my email problems are now resolved.
I only wonder who had this ip address before me and what were they doing to merit notice by CBL.
I will continue to monitor this situation. However if you have trouble getting email from this site's server, especially concerning passwords for the members area, please see my previous post on this subject.
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August 7th, 2010
Concerning Email and Broken Links
Update: 8/7/10 @ 1400: The block by CBL has been lifted for over four hours now. This is a good sign, but not a resolution of the problem below... yet.
Automated emails from this site's mail server are currently being blocked by many or most ISPs. It has been listed on the Composite Blocking List for being compromised in some way. I have already had it delisted, but it has been listed again.
This most directly affects subscribers to the site as it prevents automated messages concerning passwords from being delivered. I consider this a critical issue. If it cannot be resolved soon, I will return to the old server and hosting solution. In the mean time, please read the rest of this message if you are experiencing difficulties logging into the members area!
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August 6th, 2010
Watching The Traffic
I've been watching the traffic flow into the site since I flipped the switch here last night. It looks like DNS entries propagate very fast these days! That's a far cry from what I remember when I first built this domain when it still took several days for a DNS change to take effect.
If you want to see what sort of traffic this site gets, you can view the stats here:
http://www.oaimages.com/webalizer/usage_201008.html
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August 5th, 2010
Wilkommen, Bien Venue, Welcome
If you see this post you have accessed OAImages on its new home. It has been running at its IP address for over a week now. A few days ago, oaimages.net was pointed here. Late Thursday night, the switch was flipped for OAImages.com. It may take a couple of days for the DNS changes to propagate around the internet so some visitors may see this site sooner than others.
I expect there to be a few hiccups. Please let me know, preferably in the comments, if you experience any problems.
Thank you.
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July 28th, 2010
Today's Status Report
"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." - Robert Byrne
Another portion of this site's move has been accomplished. This blog's software, Wordpress, is now installed and running at the new location. Perhaps I should call it "OAImages Blog 2.0"?
Until the move is final, this blog will continue to be updated periodically. However, my primary focus now is on the site move. All previous blog posts and data will be transferred to the new location in due course.
My goal is to be moved into the new location by the time everyone returns home from the Jamboree, or shortly thereafter.
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