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Monday, March 31, 2014

Greece: more than 300 migrants rescued

by  NEOnline | MK

Europe’s immigration emergency appears to be unfolding unabated. On March 31 the Greek Coast Guard rescued more than 300 undocumented migrants aboard a vessel off the island of Crete the authorities said. 

Earlier in the day the 32-meter vessel issued a distress signal in moderate weather conditions. All migrants, most of them from Syria and Egypt, were transferred to the Greek tanker Olympic Faith which moved to the area along with another five ships following a call issued by the Greek Shipping Ministry.

Among the ships that made their way to the area to take part in the rescue were cargo ships, an American warship from the US naval base in Crete and a Greek Navy frigate whose personnel who provided first aid to the immigrants, the Greek government said in a press release. 

Media are quoting Shipping Ministry sources saying that the boat was headed towards Italy. 

The Greek authorities say that the country’s coast guard has  rescued about 3,500 people in such incidents.

Earlier this month the Italian authorities rescue around 2,000 immigrants in a few hours. 


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Triple Election Possibility Emerges

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408 Illegal Immigrants Rescued in Crete

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Greek Centre-Left Alliance Names Euro Election Candidates

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Greek police declare much of Athens center off-bounds to protesters ahead of EU meetings

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Greece bans protests at EU ministers' meetings

Greek authorities have banned demonstrations in much of central Athens to forestall planned anti-austerity protests at this week's meetings of European Union finance ministers. Labor unions and leftwing ...

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Dead inmate suffered separate beatings, prosecutor hears

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Economy reverting to normality

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Greece: police bans public gatherings in central Athens

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Greece proposes amateur ban in state funding protest

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Greece picks Lamda Development's 915 million euro bid to develop former Athens airport

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UPDATE 1-New tax hits Greek betting firm OPAP's 2013 profit

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Greece is epicenter of graffiti protests

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ELSTAT: Suicide Rate in Greece Goes Up

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Thessaloniki police arrest five over credit card scam

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Q1 ends with bourse index gains at roughly 15 pct

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Greek firm Forthnet announces new subscribers record

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TAIPED confirms Lamda as preferred Elliniko bidder

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Kitchen Throwdown: Greek Mac And Cheese Vs. Butternut Mac And Cheese

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Greece Rescues 400 Immigrants On Boat

Authorities in Greece say some 400 immigrants are being transferred from a stranded fishing boat to a crude oil tanker after making a distress call.

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AHEPA Holds Capitol Hill Day Chapters Mark 3/25

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Las Pozas, a surreal garden of gigantic concrete flowers, overrun by the Mexican jungle

by  Associated Press In Mexican jungle, surreal art garden Las Pozas by TERESA DE MIGUEL ESCRIBANO, Associated Press - 31 March 2014 12:24-04:00

XILITLA, Mexico (AP) — At the end of a long, dirt road in Mexico's northeast jungle, two spiral staircases appear, leading nowhere amid an ornate concrete structure. Giant concrete fleur-de-lis flank a pathway, and tall bamboo-shaped columns surround a house with no walls. Oversize plaster orchids are in permanent bloom, while a natural waterfall ceaselessly flows down a mountain.

This is Las Pozas, a dreamy, little-known garden of surreal art, where sculptures evoke the ruins of ancient Greece but are overrun by exotic jungle plants. It was created by the late Edward James, a British multimillionaire and arts patron who favored surrealists like Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.

"Mr. Edward wanted to bewilder," said Carlos Barbosa, a park guide. He thought of the park "as a joke to a future civilization."

And visitors are bewildered by Las Pozas, located on a 100-acre (40-hectare) hillside where the Sierra Madre mountains and coastal plains of the northeast state of San Luis Potosi meet.

"I had seen videos and documents but I didn't expect it to be so impressive," said Vida Arellano, a tourist from the northern state of Chihuahua. "Once you are here, you are enveloped by nature, the sculptures, the architecture ... it transports you to a different mental state."

Las Pozas means the pools.

The ferocity of the jungle in these hills of the Sierra Madre, a seven-hour drive from Mexico City, has destroyed many structures in the garden. But that didn't bother James, who liked to think that future archaeologists would discover his lost city and wonder what kind of civilization had built it, Barbosa said.

James inherited a fortune from his father and used the money to support the work of great surrealists, including Dali, Magritte, Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Fascinated with Mexico, he arrived in San Luis Potosi in the mid-1940s, bought land through a Mexican friend and spent the next 20 years of his life building his garden.

The park was half-built by the time its creator died 30 years ago, but it remains an impressive work of art, with an air of mystery added by the rust and deterioration brought on by nature.

The original project, interestingly, had nothing to do with the garden's ultimate design.

For years, James cultivated thousands of orchids on his land, but in 1962 a cold snap destroyed them, said Zaira Linan, the park's assistant director. James then ordered workers to build cement flowers that weather couldn't destroy, Linan said.

The son of British aristocrats and grandson of a Canadian timber baron, James first came to Mexico in 1944 at the invitation of psychiatrist Erich Fromm. He joined a salon of intellectuals and artists at Cuernavaca, the resort city just southeast of Mexico City.

It was in Cuernavaca that he met Plutarco Gastelum, a Mexican friend who helped oversee the garden's progress as workers built wooden molds from James' drawings and filled them with cement to create the sculptures.

James' imagination didn't stop with the flowers. He began to design increasingly complex sculptures, often inspired by artistic philosophies he encountered in his travels. He would sketch his sculptures on postcards and mail them to Gastelum.

Barbosa remembered with amusement James' many eccentricities, including the time he asked a cook to make a banquet for a menagerie of exotic animals he kept and loved like his children.

James "used to walk naked through the park and even though he was a millionaire, he often slept in a sleeping bag among the weeds," Barbosa said.

Walking through the labyrinthine paths overrun by the jungle is an adventure. And just when it seems that there is nothing more to see, a small, stone pre-Columbian house opens the way to a stunning square where a giant concrete sculpture of a blooming flower sits.

With park guides' help, visitors can access the most remote corners of the park, including a concrete bed shaped like a tree leaf where James used to meditate and prepare for death.

But James didn't die in his precious park. He died in 1984 in San Remo, Italy, when a stroke put an end to his delirious project.

Since he didn't leave any sketches for future sculptures, construction halted and the jungle began to take over, Linan said.

In 1990, Gastelum's son, who is also named Plutarco, opened the park to the public. He remembers James as a "tender" character whom he called "Uncle Eduardo," and says he is often surprised by the curious anecdotes he reads about James, including one that claims he may be an unacknowledged descendant of Britain's King Edward VII.

"It wasn't until I was much older that I thought, 'How come I have an English uncle?'" Gastelum said laughing.

In 2007, Gastelum turned the garden over to a foundation so more resources could be devoted to preserving its 36 sculptures. Today it draws 75,000 visitors annually.

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If You Go...

LAS POZAS: http://www.xilitla.org/. Xilitla, Mexico, is the closest town, about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from the garden. Mexico City is a seven-hour drive and Tampico is the nearest major airport, about four hours away. Entrance to the park is about $4. Lodging can be found in Xilitla or at the Posada James Hotel near the park.

News Topics: Travel, Lifestyle, Flower gardening, Flowers, Travel destinations, Gardening, Home and garden, Hobbies, Recreation and leisure, Plants, Living things, Leisure travel

People, Places and Companies: Leonora Carrington, Mexico, Mexico City, North America, Central America, Latin America and Caribbean

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Greece: Coast Guard transfers 331 immigrants from stranded boat to tanker

by  Associated Press Greece: 331 immigrants on stranded boat Associated Press - 31 March 2014 12:28-04:00

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek Coast Guard transferred 331 immigrants, including 40 children and 24 women, from a stranded fishing boat to a crude oil tanker Monday after they made a distress call overnight.

The transfer lasted several hours in moderate-to-rough seas between the islands of Crete and Kythira, the Merchant Marine Ministry said.

Ministry officials said the immigrants appeared to be in good health and would be taken to Crete, but did not confirm reports on state television that most of the people on broad were from Syria and Egypt.

Initial ministry estimates of the number of immigrants had been put at 400.

Greece is a major transit point of illegal entry for immigrants hoping to get into the European Union.

News Topics: General news, Immigration, Social issues, Social affairs

People, Places and Companies: Greece, Crete, Western Europe, Europe

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Most Greek Ports Unfit For Cruise Ships

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Greek police ban protests during EU meetings in Athens

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Greece: 400 immigrants on stranded boat

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Greek Suicides Soar 36% During Crisis

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