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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 Echockotee 200
At the recent Echockotee 200 Summer Fellowship, the lodge had two new flaps available for sale. The first flap (tentatively S-43*) is for the lodge’s participation in the 2010 Section S-4 “FourCorps” service project in the Ocala National Forest. The design is taken from the lodge’s neckerchief, shaking hands with the bear** used in the section’s FourCorps patch. A total of 200 were produced, with 25 set aside for lodge members participating in FourCorps.
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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
In March, Echockotee 200 held their Spring Fellowship, continuing with the second weekend patch of the 2010 series theme, featuring important figures in the history of the BSA. The Spring Fellowship patch features E. Urner Goodman, founder of the OA and one-time member of Echockotee Lodge.
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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
Echockotee Lodge 200 recently held their 2010 Winter Fellowship (a weekend in Florida where the temperature dropped to 19 degrees), with the beginning of their 2010 series, celebrating the centennial of Scouting. The year patch for this theme features a collage of several patches that were worn in North Florida Council over the years, with a large BSA fleur d’lis in the middle, stitched so that is elevated over the rest of the patch. The order of 125 patches was a complete sell-out.
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"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum." (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
Ambrose Bierce
Echockotee 200 S40?
For almost twenty years, Echockotee Lodge 200 has worked with North Florida Council for an event for children with special needs, to provide them with a day and a night of camping and other outdoor activities. Since 2006, a patch has been created for the members of the lodge staffing the event. Previous blog entries about the patches can be found here, and here, and here.
In 2009, funding that had been planned for the event dried up, requiring the lodge to raise funds. Making money means making patches. The lodge authorized a flap to be created for fund raising, and 250 were made of the design in full color (200-S-40). A second version was also created, another 250 were made of a matching white monochrome (200-S-41).
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"Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones."
I Ching
For the 2009 National OA Conference, Echockotee Lodge 200 will continue with the “farm” designs with their two-piece set (200-S-39? + X-28?). The contingent’s theme, “Hoosier Brother” that was on the “tractor” registration patch, is now on the side of a painted barn. The tractor is still there, plowing the back 40.
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"In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry."
Sir Christopoher Wren
Echockotee 200 2009 Summer Fellowship
Echockotee Lodge 200 recently held their Summer Fellowship event, marked with their latest in the 2009 series of activity patches depicting feathers, on a shield-shaped design. The “CC” on the patch is not a Roman numeral depiction of the lodge’s number (pure coincidence); it is the initials of the designer of the patch (see also the Winter and Spring 2009 pieces).
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
Echockotee 200 P5?
The calendar may indicate that Spring does not begin for another two weeks, and snow may still be on the ground up north. But here in Florida, this is the beginning of Spring Training for major league baseball, and Spring activities for the lodges of Florida. This past weekend (March 6-8), six of the eight Florida lodges in Section S-4 held weekend events.
First on the list is Echockotee Lodge 200. Introduced at the event was their new Elangomat patch (tentatively called 200-P-5), this utilized the design of the lodge’s neckerchief design, used since the late 1950s.
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"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."
Plato
Echockotee 200 2009 Winter Fellowship
Echockotee Lodge 200 recently held their 2009 Winter Fellowship, with more different patches than one has seen before. At least from a lodge from their end of the state of Florida. First was the weekend patch; with only 300 made for weekend attended by 260+, several registered attendees did not get their patch
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
Marian Wright Edelman
On the weekend of May 16-18, Echockotee held its Summer Fellowship, and continued with the 2008 activity patch series of “Florida’s Coral Reef”. The weekend patch featured the design of a snapper.
A few weeks earlier, at the Nok-Su Chapter Conch Craziness Weekend, a discovery was made that could potentially add a patch to the series.
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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
This past weekend was the annual “Conch Craziness Weekend”, hosted by Nok-Su Chapter of O-Shot-Caw Lodge 265 in the Florida Keys. Folks came from four different lodges to attend, with the furthest attendee travelling over 500 miles to Camp Sawyer (Mile Marker 34 oceanside, just north of Big Pine Key). Still, a longer trip than the Cuban refugees that sailed their raft a few weeks ago, to land on the shores of the camp. Continue Reading »
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"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
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Lewis Carroll
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Recent OAImages News
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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Echockotee Lodge 200 New Flaps
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