Á meðan ég beið eftir fréttum frá Chileförunum, ákvað ég að skoða staðarblöðin og fann eitt. Með aðstoð þýðingartölvunnar hjá AltaVista, sem hefur nú ekki alltaf réttu orðin, reyndi ég að finna þetta helsta úr blaðinu. - Ég ætla ekki einu sinni að lesa yfir þetta til þess að athuga hvort vélin hafi þýtt þetta rétt eða hvort um endurtekningar sé að ræða. Vonandi bætir þetta upp fréttaleysið þangað til við fáum nýjar fréttir frá þeim.

It generated a Third of 350 Medical Attentions: The Heat, Greater Enemy of Assistants to the Jamboree. In the official inauguration, last night, President Eduardo Frei emphasized the paper that will correspond to the young people in the next millenium.

More than 350 benefits of health he had to make during the first 48 running hours the existing medical equipment in 19° World-wide Jamboree, that is developed in the commune of San Francisco de Mostazal, in IV Region, in which it constituted a demand that per moments exceeded the capacity of attention of the existing hospital for these aims.

This encounter, that it has as host I found Picarquín of almost 3 thousand hectares and where they participate near 34 thousands scouts worldwide, was inaugurated officially last night by President Eduardo Frei, who attended in company of diverse authorities of the country to begin to this encounter.

The inauguration ceremony began with near half an hour of delay because the arrival of the Agent chief executive was expected, who, in had formal, crossed the place in the middle of the numerous young people who participated in the act, and to its step she greeted and she received gifts of the assistants.

Next to the President they were ministers of Education Jose Pablo Arellano, of Public Works Jaime Tohá, Agriculture Carlos Mladinic, parliamentarians headed by the president of the Senate Andrés Zaldívar and the presidential precandidate Ricardo numerous Lakes in addition to other personalities.

The Head of the State, when opening officially the encounter, made a call to the young people to that with the same enthusiasm put in this meeting they project to be protagonists of the society of the next millenium.

The first day which actually they lived scouts to the interior of Picarquín characterized by the existence of some organizativas deficiencies that, although not very excellent, worked trying to surpass them during the day. Beyond this, the majority opinion of the assistants - mainly foreign it was quite positive respect to the organization, because they recognized that the details that could not be working were understandable in an appointment of this magnitude, specially during its beginning.

Like in the previous days, a strong heat got worse yesterday on the estate where they encamp participant of 160 nations. Indeed the high temperature is one of the main causes of the medical attentions that have been due to render to the assistants to the World-wide Jamboree, encounter that had a US$25 cost million

According to it needed Mario Araya, doctor in charge of the hospital of the enclosure, until the 10:00 hours of yesterday - telling to Saturday and Sunday of approximately the 350 conducted benefits, more of 30% they corresponded to insolations and dehydrations.

Nevertheless, both cases more serious than were registered until now are of another Hindu to him. First it corresponded to an Argentine minor who received a current blow, whereas the second was a boy who was with a closed encéfalocraneano traumatismo after falling from a light truck in the interior of the estate.

Both were transferred to the Hospital of the Foundation of Health of the Lieutenant (Fusat), in Rancagua, being outside danger, whereas other thirty people until the morning of also had been derived yesterday by land towards this welfare center.

In addition, in the hospital of the World-wide Jamboree at least one ten of fractures was taken care of, and more than 40 esguinces. Near 10% of the consultations they correspond to respiratory or allergic problems. One of the moments of greater demand of attention took place during afternoon of the Sunday, in which the hospitable facilities - that not yet totally were concluded were repletaron of people who asked for attention.

To a large extent that atochamiento had to that the participants of the encounter chose to resort directly to the central hospital that exists, without using the four slugs and numerous units of first aid that there are distributed throughout all the camping, which gradually tried to be solved during the day.

In the mentioned hospital they pay attention near fifty professionals, those that in addition are supported by a team of six people of the Air Force of Chile (FACh), that in addition has to disposition a helicopter in case it is required. Doctor Araya also explained that scouts of Tanzania was had in two observation to that was suspected could have some type of tropical disease, which finally was discarded.

I CAUSE TO PROBLEMS WATER CUT

Another one of the points that caused complications was the cut of the water provision that underwent during great part of the day Sunday the sector where scouts and people that integrate the equipment on watch, in charge of the diverse workings of the Jamboree lodge, and that they totalize near seven thousands.

Nevertheless, Elvio Pero, director of infrastructure of event, indicated that it was situation precise which the 19:00 took place between the 9:00 and hours of the Sunday - that it had like aim to make some essential works -, done that it will not be repeated in the rest of the encounter.

DAY OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTERCHANGE IN PICARQUIN

But most of almost the 34 thousand participants who until continued arriving yesterday at I found Picarquín - although in reduced number she was other peoplés to these situations and took advantage of to enjoy the freedom that granted the day to them, because only today the different activities begin that they have programmed (factories, visits, etc.).

In the middle of a festive atmosphere the main objective of the day went knowing scouts of other delegations and to interchange memories and symbols, for which a seat luck is even mounted around which each country has stand own with information.

The thousands of participants, mainly between 14 and 17 years, crossed the diverse sectors of the estate, and they were led with normality its daily tasks like cooking or destining time to the religious ceremonies, because in Picarquín they coexist scouts that profess nine different religions.

In fact during all the day young people saw themselves, in addition, singing or doing music, as also trying of the diverse forms to heave the intense ruling heat in the middle of a beautiful one, although something dry, landscape of I SAW Region.

THEATER AND MUSICA IN THE OFFICIAL INAUGURATION

If each one of the 24 subfields in which the World-wide Jamboree is divided administratively already had had their own massive celebration Sunday at night, where there were choreographies, musical assemblies, numbers, etc, the inauguration was yesterday the first activity that concentrated in the same place and simultaneous form all the participants.

In his intervention, the President of the Republic, when standing out the persencia of more than 30 thousand young people, described the appointment like a call from attention to all the countries that must lament the existence of the poverty, as much spiritual as material, but that with events of this nature can be thought about reverting and changing ".

When doing a call to protagonism of the young people in the next millenium,

Frei remembered to them that they have like fundamental task forming a society that will be according to as they live today, for which is necessary to study and to prepare itself with dedication, in order to be able to count on the tools that allow them to be people independent and able to influence in their society.

In the occasion, next to President Frei they attended as much national authorities as the highest dignitaries of the movement scout world-wide level, occasion in which an artistic presentation inspired by the motto of the encounter was carried out, that is " Together Constructing La Paz ".

The idea was to combine the participation of the young people in the ceremony with a putting in more audio-visual scene, having in whatever the televising transmission.

Along with it, interpreted the official hymn of 19° World-wide Jamboree, that was made up of the cantatutor Alberto Plaza and who includes estrofas in English, French and Spanish.

Of equal way Wind rose occurred to know the cantata " ", composed specially for the occasion by Horacio Salinas and Patricio Mans, and interpreted by the Intillimani group next to the choir of the symphony orchestra of the University of Santiago. To count of today, the young people will lead themselves the different activities that are contemplated in the program of the encounter, and that between the different modules count some destined to the coexistence with the nature, knowledge of the national reality, actions on watch, and competitions.

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They yesterday finished arriving almost the 34 thousand participants from 160 countries at I found Picarquín, where today President Frei will inaugurate the appointment. Hundreds of carps multicolors, nailed in a beautiful landscape of the Mountain range of the Coast, began yesterday to give life to that mini city that during ten days will work in I found Picarquín, in I SAW Region, lodging to thousands of scouts of all the planet that is in Chile to participate in 19° World-wide Jamboree, first in Latin America and last one of the century.

A parade of originating buses of different points from the country and the foreigner - that according to the official numbers have surpassed the thousand in the last two days were the symbol of a day that was in favor noticeable mainly of the putting in operation of all the aparataje and infrastructure that will accompany the event, and the installation of near 34 thousand assistants who concur to this one.

Although during the day of they already they lived his yesterday and last night first day in the World-wide Jamboree, the appointment will be inaugurated today of official way by President Eduardo Frei, in company of diverse national authorities and of the movement scout.

But the first multitudinal activity of the encounter took place last night, when in all the estate 24 enormous bonfires ignited that symbolized the different subfields in which the camping is divided, and that is distinguished with the names of pre-Columbian cultures.

This luck of provisory city offers a peculiar resistance between the exuberante natural surroundings - dominated by hills and cinnamon-coloured species like aromos, hawthorns and with facilities in which it is possible to be found from computers and fax, to the premises of fast food and banking branches.

In the different sectors that exist to the interior of the enclosure it is even possible to locate so much stands of companies deprived as of other destined organizations to give services of diverse nature.

In order to grant defense and security to the assistants a device exists in whom they participate scouts as much as Customs officers, these last ones fundamentally in the outside.

Land has design architectonic and landscaping - in which among others architect participated Fernando Castillo Velasco that contemplates luck of seat central that groups most of the services (that include in addition a scene and modules to make different predicted activities), place that recurrently was visited yesterday.

Around that space the sectors are distributed where scouts encamps, and that are connected by diverse channels that to a large extent are paved. All this within the 200 flat hectares that it has I found Picarquín, that as a whole has 3 thousand hectares.

This he is one of ítems in which million that the Jamboree cost - I found acquired in US$1,5 million -, of which were spent almost the US$25 the urbanization and rating of services demanded US$8,5 million.

With the purpose of covering these expenses and others, scouts of the diverse races, countries and religions that already arrived they had to cancel between US$180 and US$650 by person, proportionally to the GIP of each one of the 160 participant nations.

Under the intense heat - that like during the previous days she was protagonist in Picarquín yesterday -, was possible to see scouts crossing the camping in some of the hundreds of bicycles that can be rented for that aim, and at the same time beginning to make its daily activities, like cooking, to order the properties and to dedicate time to the religious practices.

Nevertheless, several aspects worked yesterday to average machine, because still facilities were being finished and sharpening details so that to count of today everything is in total operation.

In that context, the organizers sent in official form the Center the International of Prensa (CIP), that will lodge to near 800 journalists who have credited themselves, originating of 20 countries and which 120 are Chilean. At the same time, altogether with Post office of Chile, they presented a series five seals that they have as reason the encounter.

Although only in these days will know numbers official of participants that arrived at event - then as in other multitudinal appointments finally it arrives people who initially were not contemplated -, the director ejecutvo of the Organizing Commission, Patrick Lyon, indicated that 34 thousands would not have to be surpassed originally anticipated (mainly between 14 and 17 years).

At the same time, in the middle of the ruling heat, it assured that the only effect that will have the drought that affects great part of the country - and with special force in VI Region it will be that the landscape will be yellowish, but will not have incidence in the potable water supply for scouts

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Santiago Chile Mercury News - Machine translation from Spanish http://www.mercurio.cl/981227/c1.html Del 19° Jamboree Mundial

34 Thousand Participants of 160 Countries:

They divide Activities Of 19° World-wide Jamboree Today Official ceremony of inauguration will be tomorrow, to the 22 hours. When this dusk the sun is put after hills of the Mountain range of the Coast, 24 great bonfires will ignite in the 3 thousand hectares of I found Picarquín, in VI Region actually, occurring beginning to the 19 " World-wide Jamboree, that reunites for the first time in thousands a Latin American country to 24 scouts worldwide.

Before, to the 11 hours, in the Center the International of the Press, the launching of five allusive postal seals will take place, ceremony in which will participate the organizing authorities of the encounter and the 160 delegations.

During the course of the day they will continue arriving the last delegations, whose transport, between yesterday and today, means the use of more than thousand buses to transfer them from Santiago.

The bonfires will correspond to each one of the eight subcampings in which are divided the mayores villages - Tenochtitlán, Tikal and Tiahuanacu -, baptized thus in tribute to three of the great pre-Columbian cultures. Each one of the 24 subcampings also takes the name of an American tribe, so that the participants of other continents know aspects basic the native culture of the hemisphere.

Also the hour of bonfires will be the one of the assembly folkloric Inti Illimani, the one that will release live its cantata " the wind rose ", written specially for the occasion and that reflects the contained values scouts in the symbol of the movement, the lily flower - diversity, tolerance and brotherhood -, under the motto " Together Constructing La Paz ", this 19 motto of " World-wide Jamboree.

A version recorded next to the orchestra and choir of the University of Santiago will be given to each one of scouts and members of the international equipment on watch, 34 thousand people altogether.

PDTE. FREI ASISTIRA TO OFFICIAL INAUGURATION

The official inauguration will take place to the 22 hours morning Monday, with the presence of the President of the Republic, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. Nevertheless, from today the delegations will have diverse activities, specially referred to the distribution and the installation of their members.

As there are some are constituted by hundreds of adolescents and, in some cases, by thousands, whereas others are individual or they do not surpass the ten of scouts, one arranged that most numerous they distribute his members so that they form international groups to hecer effective the ideario scout.

This diversity, that includes numerous religions, will be saved thanks to the " Quarry of the oration ", where each faith will have the facilities to develop its specific rites.

ACTIVITIES DE CULTURAL TIPO

Also from today diverse activities of learning will begin, not only with respect to which scout - of knowledge and love to the nature is the movement -, but of cultural type. In the cultural centers there will be photographic exhibitions, of painting, music, plastic, in addition to dances folkloric, live samples of native life, theater, cinema.

Complementary to it, also scouts will be able to participate in the artistic creation next to outstanding national authors. All it in the four center cultural arranged in Picarquín, that they will work between the 10 and 22 hours.

In another scope, unlike others jamborees in which the public in general had access, this time is only allowed to other groups scout. The noninstitutional visits will enter by a parcel of 20 hectares specially qualified a flank of the main estate

From a system of carts it will take them there to viewpoints, from which they will only be able to appreciate the activities to the distance. They will only be able to enter the estate who are registered previously. For that, when arriving at Picarquín each bus will leave a list in the control of access with the antecedents of its passengers, and will enter to leave to the troops in the respective subfield, after which it will leave the enclosure.

CONTROL OF ALCOHOL AND NARCOTICS Although all the details practically are concluded, specially as far as the internal security of the estate of 3 thousand hectares, an extraordinary control of alcotest and narcotest will take place tomorrow in the sector of Narrowness, 5 route the south, in San Francisco de Mostazal, commune in which the Jamboree is developed.

The initiative intends to protect the security of those who massively travel in this date to the South zone of the country and to avoid accidents during the vacations and the accomplishment of the world-wide encounter of scouts that takes place in that locality.

HABILITACION Of Press Center

In as much, tens of correspondents of the five continents, also credited, will see facilitated their task thanks to the Center the International of the Press, where they will find diverse means electronic to send in expeditious form his information, videos and photos.

There also they will count on the aid of aides-de-camp, who will facilitate official notices and speeches to them of the day, as well as the contacts for interviews.

As far as the circulation of vehicles motorized in the enclosure of the Jamboree, only until today there will be no restriction. From morning to the 6 of January press and fuel distributors will only be able to enter movable of between the 23 and 6 hours.

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