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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 April, 2008
Finally, I am nearing the end of the new issues from the SR-7B Conclave.
Croatan lodge magically (?) depicted the Croatan Express on their 2008 Conclave flap. Some might say that it’s in homage to “rednecks” in the South that the lodge’s deer totem has been rendered as a railroading version of a hood ornament. This is a lodge that has previously demonstrated its ability to poke fun at itself with an odd design choice.
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"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Croatan lodge issued a set of five flaps recently for this Summer’s ArrowCorps5 events. Each flap depicts one of the five locations the Order of the Arrow will be working at this Summer.
I have already seen these flaps at least twice on eBay, sold as a single lot. Thanks to Greg Grimes and Roger Ward for these images.
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"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
John F. Kennedy
Klahican lodge issued one of the best looking flaps I have seen in a few years from any of the North Carolina lodges. The very artful sunrise scene is similar in design to the event patch. Kudos to the patch designer and the embroiderer for such nice work.
Now, why do I call this a sunrise instead of a sunset? Well, Klahican lodge is headquartered in Wilmington, NC. In that part of the country if you are seeing the Sun over the ocean it is most likely early in the morning!
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William Wordsworth
Roger Ward and Greg Grimes made me aware of two new patches from Wahissa lodge’s Minsi chapter when they were here at my home a few days ago. As far as I know, these are the first new pieces from this chapter in several years.
Both patches have a similar design, differing only in the color scheme. The first item, pictured here, is in full color and has a red border. The second patch is an orange monochrome version of this design.
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"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
Calvin Coolidge
Klahican lodge has joined the lodges that have abandoned their tradition of having Ordeal, Brotherhood, and Vigil flaps in order to comply with national OA policy prohibiting such flaps.
The lodge maintained a traditional representation of the lodge totem as the core of this flap’s design. The three leaf version of the Venus fly trap from the 2006 OBV set was used with the border color changed to red mylar, a border color never used before by this lodge.
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"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill
Nayawin Rar had a surfer theme for the SR-7B conclave. Their flap for this conclave, depicting the night hawk as a “surfer dude”. This lodge usually uses a traditional or realistic depiction the nighthawk on its flap. This flap breaks with that practice.
It has been reported to me that the lodge issued 400 of these flaps, instead of the 200 issued in recent past years.
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan
“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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"The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Lewis Carroll
I have been spending some time cataloging a large group of patches for a friend of mine. Usually I have to shut myself in my office as my cat tends to be a little too demanding of my attention. Finally, I think he is learning he gets more attention if he leaves me alone while I’m working.
Well, this morning, he was rather interested in what I was doing. I don’t know if he wanted to “supervise” me or was just interested in all those foxes on the Pellissippi flaps spread out on the desk.
Look carefully at where he’s sitting. Does this qualify as a “cat scan”?
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Sir Winston Churchill
Two special patches were issued last weekend at the SR-7B conclave commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Order of the Arrow in North Carolina. The section produced a jacket patch and pocket patch, both using the same basic design. The jacket patch is pictured here. Oddly enough it was issued with a pocket loop.
The patches specifically name the six lodges currently in SR-7B and most of their predecessors.
As for the two lodges that bore the number 163, notice that only Tsalagi 163. The earlier version of this name, Tslagi 163 is not mentioned. Tsalagi 163 was only a correction of the incorrectly spelled Tslagi. The lodge’s territory did not change. Tslagi and Tsalagi are considered to have been the same lodge.
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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
The six lodges of eastern and central North Carolina gathered this past weekend at Camp Bowers for the 2008 SR-7B conclave. Klahican lodge acted as this year’s host. This year’s conclave also celebrated 75 years of the Order of the Arrow in North Carolina, started with the founding of Tali Taktaki 70 in 1933.
Greg Grimes and Roger Ward were at my home for dinner this evening and were able to fill me in on the many new issues that appeared at this event. In addition to the various lodge issues, the section produced several patches for this event. This post will deal with the three versions of the event patch.
I commend the brothers of Klahican lodge for designing what I think might be the most attractive conclave patch I have ever seen in North Carolina.
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Bertrand Russell
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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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Lodge 117: 2008 SR-7B Conclave Flap
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