Here are some more images provided by Tom Wadnola, these ones are from the Section NE-2B 1983 Conclave. The Host Lodge was Ona Yote #34 and as indicated on the patch, it was held at Camp Kingsley.
There was also an embroidered neckerchief issued for the event
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I just read an interesting article on working memory or what we can keep in our active mind.
I forget how I wanted to begin this story. That’s probably because my mind, just like everyone else’s, can only remember a few things at a time. Researchers have often debated the maximum amount of items we can store in our conscious mind, in what’s called our working memory, and a new study puts the limit at three or four.
Working memory is a more active version of short-term memory, which refers to the temporary storage of information. Working memory relates to the information we can pay attention to and manipulate.
Now this does not say that we can only remember 3 or 4 things, but that we can only remember a limited items not committed to long term memory. So as your walking out the door reciting the 8-10 things you need at the store, you may forget some of them when your shopping.
The good news is people can improve their performance on certain working-memory tasks with training. When children practice these tasks, over time they get better. And not only do their scores on the memory tasks improve, but their scores on tests of attention and reasoning can also rise.
“The jury is still out on how useful this will be, but it’s at least suggestive that you can train skills at these tasks, and that this improvement can affect other things,” Kane said. “We don’t know quite how they work together, but attention and working memory seem to be very close cousins.”
So how does this relate to collecting scout patches? Get organized
Write it down and keep a checklist.
How many times have you purchased or traded for an item you already had because you had not remembered you had a specific piece?
Write it down and keep a checklist.
Don’t just write it down, remember to update the list as you acquire your needs and add new items as your collecting interests expand or new items are issued.
photo credit: Gaetan Lee
National BSA has established a new website for the National Jamboree to be held during the 100th Anniversary year of the Boy Scouts of America. The best, most exciting, fun-filled, safest jamboree ever!”
The 2010 National Scout Jamboree vision statement is designed to provide clarity to goals of the jamboree. It forms a commitment to our Scouts, parents, and chartered organizations of what Scouts expect in a jamboree. This vision statement speaks to the heart of our Scouts and Scouters. It will capture their imagination.
If your planning to attend, you best start getting those reservations in.
The jamboree is being planned for 35,960 Boy Scouts and unit leaders, plus over 7,500 national, regional, and subcamp staff members. The plan calls for 899 provisional units, with 36 Boy Scouts* and four unit leaders in each unit Regions will allocate council quotas, subject to acceptance by the council This was completed during the spring of 2008.
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- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Were all spending more and more time at our computers. Your reading this at one aren’t you? Here is a link to some exercises you can do both avoid and reduce pain for those who have to spend large blocks of time at their computers.
They include:
Neck and shoulder exercises:
- Shrug your shoulders up and down.
- Pull your shoulder blades together and then relax.
- Pull your shoulders down while gently leaning your head to each side.
Hat Tip: Instapundit
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I heard over the weekend on Patch-L that Nick Lombardo has gone home. Nick and his wife Pat, have been regulars at TOR’s here in the metro New York Area. Nick was from Delaware and a member of Nentego Lodge #20 and some of you may have known him from his eBay handle scoutmaster1. Keep Pat in your thoughts and prayers.
A day late, but thirty two Years ago yesterday, Rick Monday the centerfielder of the Los Angeles Dodgers made a great save. If the second match had lit a bit sooner, it might have been a quite different result.
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- Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
This Day in History - Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution. His ride was made famous in the Longfellow poem.
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
Not quite historically accurate, but the rest after the jump.
Yesterday’s baseball song reminded me of a comedy classic. Who’s on First? with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
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- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Maybe this would have been more apropos a couple of weeks back, from a simpler time when it was a game not a business. Or at least seemed more like a game.
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- It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
The next time someone stares at you in disbelief at your hobby of collecting patches, tell them at least your not spending your time doing this:
Hat Tip : SF Signal
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