WHEN Reece Mastin first entered the Jamboree site, he couldn’t believe how big it was. As he had never been a Scout, he had no idea what to expect and he was blown away. But when he took to the stage later that night it was his turn to blow people away.

The 18-year-old rock star put on a killer show, pumping out hits from his album Beautiful Nightmare, taking to the stage like he’s been there all his life, rather than a little over twelve months. With his school days barely behind him, Reece said he’s still getting

his head around the change, but he’s working on it. He wants to keep doing what he’s doing, but on a bigger scale so that he can keep growing as an artist. He thought our Jamboree motto of ‘Dream It, Live It!’ was a great motto, and he him self lives

by a similar one – ‘Dream until your dreams come true’, which reminds him every day of what is possible and the potential for the future. “I never thought I’d be where I am,” he said. “So keep going, don’t give up!”

Ash Marks

Edition 4, Maryborough - Saturday Jan 5, 2013

DREAM IT

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STAYING CONNECTED AT AJ2013Website: www.aj2013.scouts.com.au * Facebook: AJ2013 * JAM Daily - Aj2013

* 90.9 Jam Fm * Radio Station 90.9 FM * Twitter: 2013jamboree * Snail mail: Full Name, Troop Number, 23rd Australian Jamboree, 14 Harwood Street, Maryborough, QLD,

4650 * Main Phone: 1300 233 776

Emergencies: (07) 4184 9222NOTICE: In any emergency DON’T DIAL 000 BUT CALL (07) 4184 9222 INSTEAD

This number is manned 24 hours a day to deal with any emergency with our dedicated Police Officers, Fire and Rescue Officers, and Medical Team. By calling 000, you won’t have immediate access to the emergency services personnel that can help instantly.

The first visitor day for the general public is today.Battle of the Bands is on tonight at the Ergon Energy Arena, starting at 7.30pm.

Neville Brown, H19Marli Haddeill, H55Paris Holland-Long, D27Suzanne Moorecroft, D63Joshua Eastwell, D08Hugh Links, O45Hope Mons, D21Aland Ahmed, H59Nathan Robertson, B34Maureen Twin, 9602Joseph Shaw, B43Davis Haworth, D04Nicole Schultz, O07Elizabeth Dawson, H61Ashlin Williams, B52Eloise Taylor, H21Kirstie Summers, D03Mitch Beggs, O42Travis Brown, D13Michael Crowther, B26Joel Fitzmaurice, O34Joshua Green, H37Lisa Rake, H51Jackson O’Neill, O43Caleb Johnston, O01Jemma Gibbons, D62Anna Frankpitt, O30Anthony Newman, H02

Bronty Rodger, D61Cody Oldfield, H19Benjamin Bernard, D67Toby Sharp, Stuart Brown, 9205Rea Boe, H60Joanne Douglass, 9401James Grylls, O21Julian Chai, H54Martyn Lavery, 9211Mark Rimmington, B36David Duff, 8801Oliver Chai, H54Eliza Beattie, H17Ethan Williams, D08Brooke Snowdon, B13Cameron Finegan, B26Riley Kelly, O16Kellie Lamb, O19Jayden Macro, D03Aaron Graham, D48Blaise Miller-Hill, B43Beth Mitchell, 9602Geordie Mulholland, D44Bryony Glass, D05Jacob Ramsey, O18Joseph Smith, D41Tonia Brooks, D64

This is Market Day, a lot of fun.Future Scout Day is also on. Thousands of Cub Scouts and their families will be visiting and seeing what a Jamboree is all about. The evening will provide an exciting night...to be revealed.

MEME THIS

We have fifteen prize packs to give away, compliments of Universal Pictures International. You and your family (admit four passes) could win a trip to see Paranorman, the best 3D stop animation film you’ll see this year! Do you have a great caption for our ‘Meme This’ competition? Fill in this entry form and drop in to the competition box at JAM Daily. NAME: ___________________________________________ TROOP NUMBER: ___________________________________ MEME?___________________________________________ _________________________________________________

WINNER! The winner of our Capt’n Jack Sparrow meme is Nickolas Speed of H56, with ‘Don’t pack the trolley, they said. We won’t need it, they said.’ The winner of our ‘How to Draw a Dragon competition is Kelan Raffe, 028. Kelan wins a ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron (apologies to his leaders:D)Well done, Nickolas and Kelan. You can pick up your prizes at the JAM Daily reception.

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STOP at the BP Indigenous Bush Skills Base while you are on walkabout and experience the activities of our traditional owners.BP Australia is sponsoring reconciliation in association with Scouts Australia to promote Indigenous Bush Skills at AJ2013. The activities on offer are creating a sea of hands, boomerang and spear throwing, painting a long mural using indigenous techniques and featuring native animals, handcraft, and fire by friction.Richard Cassady is teaching the youth members the safety aspects of handling a spear and having a go at power throwing it.Professional indigenous painter, Goma, is teaching cultural awareness through the art of storytelling by painting with limited use of tools.

BUSH SKILLS BASE

Photos by Sue Arndt

Goma is endeavouring to have young people understand how to express their experiences and their journey through life by painting and having fun and getting their hands dirty in the process. He explained that the flat end of a sawn off twig or fingers are used to create the dot paintings and that chewing the end of a twig creates a paintbrush to apply charcoal and ochre, which gives us those beautiful earthy colours.See how creative you can be and make yourself a headband or friendship bracelet and draw a hand and paint it so it can be displayed in the sea of hands.Don’t miss out on leaving your handprint to show that you have taken part in the BP Indigenous cultural experience at AJ2013.

Mary Wallace

It’s All In The Family

MEET the Mitchell/Paton Family: Hayley Mitchell you would know by voice – she is working as a radio co-host on Jam FM’s breakfast show and twin sister, Linda Mitchell, is a Rover working on the Challenge It base. Their mum Beth Mitchell, is to be found at the NSW Contingent HQ. Dad, Benny Paton, is the TL for Troop B62 and Uncle Ron Paton is a driver using those fun Golf Buggies to chaperone people around the site and going into town for supplies or to collect people from the airport. Linda and Haley started in Scouts as Joeys; their mum started the Mob. Dad and Uncle were Scouts themselves back in the day. A very busy Scouting family!

Liz Maher

EVER dreamed of running away and joining the circus? Clown It! offers you the chance to test your ability and see if you ‘have it’. Spend half a day discovering your inner acrobat. Impress your friends with your well-practised trampoline flips. Have you ever watched ‘Wipe Out on TV’; Now test your skills balancing on the bouncing balls, looked easy, didn’t it? Experience the life changing skills of stilt walking or unicycle riding. Once you have ‘mastered it’ , consider earning extra pocket money busking when you return

home. Don’t forget to add balloon sculpture to your repertoire and double your earning potential. The fun isn’t over yet. Basketball, face painting, dress up as a clown, scooters and mini-bikes also will test your skills. Learn cool circus skills from the professionals at Ashton’s Circus. The team of artists are living the dream and keen to pass on insider tips to start on your professional career as a plate twirler, wire walker or juggler. If you ask nicely they may even share their tips on how not to upset your parents when you make “Clown It!” your chosen career.

Lisa Basler

CLOWN IT!

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A Wizard is trustworthy enough to not spend every galleon at Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes.A Magician is loyal to Aslan, because he is the reason for all magic.A Hag isn’t helpful, except when telling you to look inside this beautiful new oven inside her gingerbread house…A Mage is friendly to ask if they can experiment transfiguration on you, but will do it anyway.A Witch is cheerful when her enemies are turned into toads.A Witch is considerate of your feelings, and wants you to eat this lovely apple after just having talked to a mirror.A Warlock is thrifty once they can conjure anything they want. Before that, they will need to use something called ‘pockets’.A Wizard is full of courage, ‘cause what thug is going to attack someone who can turn them into a ferret.A Witch is respectful of the fact that Voldy is protected by horcruxes, and you’re gonna need a good sword. Go ‘borrow’ the Rovers’ one.A Magician cares for the environment, because the rabbit isn’t going to live on a diet of felt hats forever.

Laws of Magic:

We are news! We’re famous!Choppers have been flying in with reporters and cameras on board to cover all the activity and excitement of the Jamboree.Two choppers even squeezed onto

WE’RE MAKING THE NEWS

the Ergon Energy Arena at the same time and put the boomerang throwing on hold for a while!The news is being broadcast nationally so there is every chance that your family and

friends are seeing the Jamboree on television as well as reading about it in the newspapers.Feeling famous?

Sue Arndt

Good morning fellow party people, I have noticed the heat is affecting a lot of you, so I have a few Todd ideas to help beat the heat.First, any sensible person will tell you to drink lots of water. But with me water seems to ooze right out.I have a few remedies of my own in the heat:1 Don’t go out in the sun.2 Find a esky, fill it with ice and sit in it.3 If ice is short, fill the esky with ice-cream and sit in it. Just don’t eat it.4 If you are short of ice cream, fill the esky with lollies, They will make you think less about the heat.5 Think of a very important thing to tell your contingent Leader and have a meeting with him in his air conditioned office.If none of these work for you take up skiing and take your holidays in winter.Keep it Cool.

Todd Puppet1st PuppetryROC

The location and times for religious services are as follows: The venue for all services is: The Frat Tent ‘The Oasis’ in the Desert Camping Ground (this is located just before the Stables Eatery)

Christian Churches (e.g. Anglican, Roman Catholics, Uniting, Lutherans etc.) Sunday 10:30am

Indonesian Friday 4th and Friday 11th January 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Jewish Faith Friday 4th and Friday 11th January 5:00pm

Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints) Sunday 6th January 10:00pm

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Have you spoken to your family lately? Are they missing you? Do they want to know what Scouts is like? Future Scout Day and Market Day is perfect to catch up with them, to show them what Scouting is really like – and it’s on tomorrow! On Sunday, the entire site will be opened for families and friends of Scouting to come and experience a small portion of the Jamboree. Even though they will be issued with a Visitor ID tag, you will be able to identify them immediately by their clean, fresh clothes. So make sure you have an extra shower before seeing Mum and Dad again!All those items you’ve made to sell are now what you’ll need to trade for those elusive Jamboree Dollars. From smiley balloons to origami, funky hats to clown scarves and everything in between, you will need to be the ones with the most money at the end of the day to win the competition. But Market Day isn’t just about making money that has an onsite value. It’s also about sharing your favourite onsite activities with

ROVERS may have been the dial-up generation, but Scouts today are certainly the broadband generation – with a need for fast, speedy internet connections with them at the touch of a finger. While being persuaded to leave their phones and computers at home (imagine taking them to Challenge It!), your average Scout may claim to be all ok – but we know that they miss home. Challenge accepted!Troop B46’s Alicia is one of these very Scouts who wants to keep in touch with her family and friends. Now thanks to the Net Café Team, that dream is a reality. “It’s great,” Alicia said “I can Skype with my mum and tell her all about the Jamboree. This way, I don’t miss her that much.” But the access at the touch of a button doesn’t come easily – much work for many hours went into the design and implementation of the Net Café outside the Media Centre. Accessible until the very end of the Jamboree, every Scout will have 60 minutes of free access – more time can be purchased for $2 for 20 minute blocks. You can use your time all at once, or spread it over as many times as you log in while you

still have time on your account.While the Net Cafes have moved from the Frat Tents to a more centralised location, the tech support onsite hasn’t declined. The Net Café Team will be on hand to help with any technical issue that may prevent the Scouts from sending photos back home to their families. Technician Ian Bromley from NSW is pleased that Scouts like Alicia will be closer to home now. “I love it when a plan comes together” he said. 11 laptops are available for use outside the Media Centre, and another 16 are active in the Heritage Building near the Medical Facility. So come on down now and get online, and share the message of what AJ2013 means to you with your loved ones.

Delshard Motorcardezhinia

INTERNET

CAFÉ

FUTURE SCOUT DAY

those closest to you. Activities include Make It!, Clown It!, Challenge It! and many more. Let’s not forget Geocaching, ROC, Heritage, Badges, The Mall, and all other side activities that you get to do as part of your Jamboree Award for 2013.The State and Territory Contingent Tents have arranged for a set of activities unique to Market Day. From games to displays to temporary tattoos, there is something for everyone to enjoy. New Zealand is adding to the spectacle with lessons on doing a Haka and Maori Stick Games. National Tent will have displays that will WOW you. Northern Territory is back in the game at AJ2013; keep an eye out for Terri the Rainbow Serpent. The Devil will be out in Tassie, and WA will have target practise.With so much fun planned for the day, why would you want to miss it? Just remember to pack plenty of water, and keep those Jambo dollars rolling in.Rebecca Jaenke, Delshard Mgkdjfgfgkg and Ash Marks

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GOOD news story...remember a few days ago when we advertised for a person who could speak Korean? The good folk over at Logistics were having issues with their printer drivers, and the instructions were written in Korean. We asked you for some help, and yesterday a Korean speaking Scout came over and translated the drivers! Thanks for the help, Scouters!

SOME mutterings from people about water pistols and contraband. Seems water pistols are on the banned list, but were also amusingly on sale at the Post Office. They’re all gone (or they’ve been taken off the shelves). What other ways have Scouts found to stay cool?

TROOP D42 want to send a shout out to their Leader, Giraffe, to say ‘thanks for helping us to plan in a more sophisticated and fancy way. ‘ ‘

I came and I snore...Scouts, you should be very, very thankful you don’t sleep in the Leader’s Retreat! Why not? The snoring… The site should really be called ‘Snoreville’ or ‘Snore City’. At 3am this morning, this Scribbler was woken by a stereo snore – one on either side of the tent and deafening in volume. There was also a ‘buzz snore’ going on, high pitched and constant. Not far away was a booming bass and next to it a

Do It Berg Buggy TimesBest times are as follows...B22: Serpants: 6min 52secB36: P1: 7min 44 secB34: 2: 7 min 51 secH08: Funky Monkey:8min 1secB04: Narwhal’s: 8min 8 secB25: 2: 8 min 25secB41: P2: 8min 26secB23: Scouts 360: 8min 30secO22: Moonie: 8 min 31secO12: Mangrove: 8min 34sec

’snorter’ It was a bit like listening to frogs in a pond only far louder. However, there is a secret weapon to beat snoring – blue tack! Roll up a ball, stuff it in your ears and you’ll sleep like a baby. Night night!

Sue Arndt

World’s Oldest Rover CrewEPPING Rover Crew from NSW is the longest running Crew in the world, celebrating 91 years this April. Mark Gurd over at Jam FM told us this was because their Group didn’t close down during the World Wars.

As is now traditional with National Jamborees since inception at the 19th Australian Jamboree at Sydney in 2001, members from all Scout fellowships are invited to attend a gathering from across Australia. Come along and meet fellow members, exchange ideas and hear how Fellowships operate across the nation. The format will be largely an informal social get together held from 4pm to 5pm on Monday Jan 7 2013 at the NSW Headquarters reception tent. No booking necessary, nil cost. All members are welcome to attend, in uniform if possible. Further information: Tony Peck, Tasmanian Headquarters. Email: jam.man@bigpond.com

MAGIC WORD FIND

ShazamAccioHocus pocusOpen sesameAbrakadabra alakazamKohakuPleaseAvada kedavraThank youGingers

ImmortalityManaPixiesWeasleyConsentinoChocolateMoneyPhoenixQuidditchWand

Quote of the day

Which photographer took over 1400 photos of the

Show last night and is not technically a teenage girl

(squeal!!!!!!)

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DID you know that a little magic surrounds us every day at AJ2013? While you could argue it’s not magic when you walk from your tent to your food pickup point, it is kind of amazing how it gets there. It’s a bit like an air drop, but only a lot more organised.The sheer volume of incoming food and supplies to The Shed needs teamwork to unload, sort, pack and distribute daily allotments to the five food pick up points at Billabong, Highlands, The Desert, The Outback and the Leader’s Retreat. The Shed accepts 8 trucks a day and the forklifts unload 50 pallets, not including the special menu foods. Mountains of muesli bars, boxes of fruit and towers of toilet paper are some of the supplies that come in daily to

the Equestrian shed’s 100x40 metre cavernous space. If every camp site needed exactly the same food, the task would be somewhat easier. However, every day there are 1,725 special dietary requests that follow a modified, parallel process.The team starts work at 2am when the first trucks arrive. After the deliveries are unloaded and picked (like items grouped together), black crates and an esky are packed according to each camp site’s individual pick list for the day, following any menu variation form submitted by Leaders. The 20-30 volunteers have been working round the clock and they could use some extra hands. “The problem is that some of

Above: Biscuit mountain, below, food for one day - photograph: R Lonergan

A MAGICAL FOOD SUPPLY

the volunteers have two jobs”, explains Tamara Tam from The Shed. Some of the ‘forkies’ are also pickers, packers or truck drivers, but the packers can’t start until the goods are unloaded and picked. Any adult volunteers are therefore welcome to step forward and help the pink packers – just report in at The Shed. Another way to help is for Troops to ensure that the esky’s are cleaned out before sending them back – this saves time back at The Shed and allows packing to start sooner and the next deliveries to make it to your camp site quicker.The morning JAM Daily visited, some of the items delivered to The Shed included 1,350 loaves of white bread, 810 loaves of multigrain bread and

2,012 wraps. Supplier Harvey Bay Wholesalers Food Service lined up large agreements with their suppliers for the huge mountains of extra food needing to be distributed to the AJ2013 camp as well as incorporating flexibility into contingency plans. As HBW’s man in The Shed, Andrew England says “With the volume of extra food we are talking about, it’s as though the Jamboree has doubled the Maryborough population for the next two weeks. It’s staggering – we are delivering 22,680 drink poppers to site every day”. That’s a little bit of magic I think, considering that just a week ago there was an empty equestrian shed and Scouts had yet to appear in Maryborough.

L Hulme-Jones

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Life’s a BeachI cannot believe it - we are BACK ON THE BUSES! The 18 hour trip from hell was enough, but now I’ve been lured back on to a coach, back sitting next to the Noob and off to a ‘Theme Park’ – a guaranteed source of more technicolour yawns. I’m meant to ‘Dream it Live it’ ….. ‘Down it Lose it’ or ‘Doom it Loathe it!’ is more likely. I’d happily forego a silver aardvark to be lounging in one of the hammocks right now.My lunch was left in kit form at the Troop site. I have brought my T Towel instead of my beach towel and I accidently packed the budgie-smuggler swimwear that looks like a lurid pink G-string. How embarrassing. My best chance is to surreptitiously swap swimmers with the Noob and hope that his huge boardies stay ‘up’ when I am in the surf. I am doomed. The Noob caught me with my hand actually inside his daypack; not sure he believed my feeble excuse about retrieving an errant grasshopper. Anyway, just as well we did not swap swimmers

– his are GI-NORMOUS! If I had a centre pole and four guy ropes, I could use them as an emergency shelter. The beach sand was, as promised, white and squeaky – it was also HOT. Gloria Smart from Troop DV8 took a video of Baby Bear wiggling his bum while our patrol hopped up and down on the sizzling sand and has uploaded it to YouTube, complete with a photo-shopped tutu and a gangnam-style soundtrack. The sand was seriously sizzling – they could have used it as the heat source for ‘refraction-cooking’ to grill our sausages……

4 steps to the friendship knot

“I like the way you have your scarf, how do you do that?” Australian Scouts keep asking me how I tie the (friendship) knot on my Swiss Scout scarf. Here is my answer to every curious mind on the campsite:Step 1 - About 10 cm from the end, cross the orange end over and back underneath the yellow endStep 2 - Hold your forefinger on top of the knot and wrap the yellow all around and up to the frontStep 3 - Push the orange end over the yellow one and through the loopStep 4 - Tighten it to an even square shape, be proud and enjoy itIf you need personal assistance – come and ask for the Swiss Leader at JAM Daily.

Sandra Binzegger

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Heaps Good Compet i t ion W i n n e r sCompetition 1 – Ella Jones, Troop B24.Competition 2 – Kelly Martin QLD and Andrew Ellis, Troop B58.Visit SA Contingent HQ to collect your Prize.

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Badge Collecting

BADGE collecting is heating up here at AJ2013! Many of you have found your way into the International Badge Club’s midst where badges are changing hands like you wouldn’t believe. The most sought after badges at

Contingent Badges

ALL contingent badges are for sale from today to all Scouts:Australian Capital Territory Contingent - $2.50 ea. from 9am today.National Contingent - $2.00 ea.National Youth Council Badges - $2.50 ea.New South Wales Contingent - $1.50 ea. from 2pm today.Northern Territory Contingent - $3.50 ea. from 2pm today.Queensland Contingent – $2.50 ea.South Australian Contingent - $2.00 ea. from 2pm today.Tasmanian Contingent - $3.00 ea. from 2pm today.Victorian Contingent - $2.50 ea. from 9am today.Western Australian Contingent - $2.50 ea. from 2pm today.

Leader Dob InSarah from Troop O32 thinks her Leaders are pretty wicked: Skip is funny and helpful; Akaela is amazing at being tall ; Uno is very helpful at finding lost passports; Jacala is good at making sure that everyone is well fed; and Ko ensures that everyone gets to their activities on time. But what are your Leaders like? Are they kind or cruel? JAM Daily wants to know how badly your Leaders have been treating you – what is the worst thing that your Leaders have made you do? Wash their smelly socks? Shower twice a week? Daily? Take out the trash every day? Make sure all the guide ropes are always tight? Enforcing a curfew? Being used as a food-tester? Write to us at JAM Daily with the worst thing that your Leaders at Jamboree have made you do. Don’t forget your Name, Troop Number, and what it is that THEY did to you!

Are we living in the world of J.K.Rowling?AFTER a few days, it’s pretty clear that there are many similarities of a Jamboree to Hogwarts. What do you think of these similarities that we have noticed?Peter Van de Camp = Dumbledore

the moment are the Contingent and Troop badges, so make sure you have doubles before you swap yours away, or you will have trouble completing your set! But swapping badges isn’t the only thing to do at the Badge Club. The most important thing about collecting and swapping badges is that, in order to do this, you get to meet new people! Talk as you swap badges. You could go and meet Mike – the first American Scout to come onsite for the Jamboree – who has a mountain of American patches that he is willing to swap, just for the fun of meeting new people! So go and introduce yourself, and next time you swap, ask where your fellow badgers are from – you may just make some new friends!

Ash Marks

Support Services = Ministry of MagicPolice = AurorsMedical Support Team = Hospital WingKirsty Brown = Minister of MagicThe Island = Forbidden ForestThe Outback = GryffindorThe Billabong = SlytherinThe Highlands = RavenclawThe Desert = HufflepuffTroop Kitchen Tent = Great HallAdmin = Chamber of SecretsMain Arena = Quidditch PitchClimb It = The BurrowChallenge It = Defence Against the Dark ArtsContingent Headquarters = Hogsmeade Make It = TransfigurationTroop Leaders = Heads of (sub)House(s)Patrol Leaders = PrefectsRovers = Death Eaters??? = He-Who-Must-Not-Be-NamedLogistics = House Elves (please don’t give them a sock!)Jam Daily = Daily Prophet90.9 JAM FM = PotterwatchThe Stables = The Leaky CauldronXanthia (Opening Ceremony MC) = Hermione GrangerDaniel (Opening Ceremony MC) = Ron WeasleyYOU = Harry PotterNo one would be THIS evil = Umbridge

HELP WANTEDShout out to Leaders who believe that Scouting is for All...staff are needed for the Disability Awareness Challenge. Report to Activities HQ and ask for Kerry or John Parr. You’ll receive training on the job.

CONTINGENT BADGES

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CLOWN IT!