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      <p begin="00:01:05.000" end="00:01:09.090"><![CDATA[Indeed… Very interesting!// -I approve! An amazing experiment!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:09.110" end="00:01:11.380"><![CDATA[A really spectacular show at studio 3 of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation today. //]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:11.400" end="00:01:18.670"><![CDATA[they applaud - cheers]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:18.690" end="00:01:23.190"><![CDATA[Let’s plug in with Aetna, Vesuvius, Krakatau, Pinatubo, Santorini…  Come on, help me! Say some volcanoes! (reprovingly)]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:23.210" end="00:01:26.570"><![CDATA[Ok then! Hmm! (clears throat)I’ll let it pass and move on…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:26.590" end="00:01:33.160"><![CDATA[(loudly)Plugged in today we have the Emba High School!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:33.180" end="00:01:35.260"><![CDATA[Emba High School is here on your show, willing and available to rock the boat! Ooohhhh!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:35.280" end="00:01:37.060"><![CDATA[-...you traveled how many kilometers?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:37.080" end="00:01:40.370"><![CDATA[140 km!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:40.390" end="00:01:46.310"><![CDATA[The part of the volcano maker is played by the Emba High School!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:46.330" end="00:01:56.570"><![CDATA[Emba High School is here on your show, willing and available to rock the boat! Ooohhhh!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:01:56.590" end="00:02:00.210"><![CDATA[We’ve already said that! Wasn’t once enough? -In the studio, your most beloved broadcaster, Stelios Matsentidis!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:00.230" end="00:02:08.960"><![CDATA[(silence)-You applaud here...!Applause]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:08.980" end="00:02:14.040"><![CDATA[And on live link, my other half, for whom I’d sacrifice my self… So today, to make life easier for her, I wouldn’]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:14.060" end="00:02:18.430"><![CDATA[accept sharing the studio with her…-Stalo Mitidou with the question of the day!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:18.450" end="00:02:20.070"><![CDATA[(chants, mocking him) What’s with that face? Oeo, what’s with that face?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:20.090" end="00:02:23.630"><![CDATA[What’s wrong with my face?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:23.650" end="00:02:30.260"><![CDATA[Oh yeah! What’s with that face? Oeo, what’s with that face?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:30.280" end="00:02:34.430"><![CDATA[Coming up next, what’s on for today!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:34.450" end="00:02:43.050"><![CDATA[You get ready to say the materials and ingredients and I’ll be back! Make-up!!!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:43.070" end="00:02:49.820"><![CDATA[Why do newly built buildings fall down like paper castles in an earthquake while ancient monuments sit tight?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:49.840" end="00:02:57.520"><![CDATA[How come these tin birds are so safe since they are so much heavier than air?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:57.540" end="00:02:59.570"><![CDATA[-If you’re prone to sea-sickness, better surf on the internet!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:02:59.590" end="00:03:05.450"><![CDATA[To make our volcano…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:05.470" end="00:03:13.300"><![CDATA[You hang on there! I am back, ready for everything! Before we move on to materials and ingredients…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:13.320" end="00:03:19.350"><![CDATA[-…a little note for our girl Stalo! If she thinks she’s stolen broadcasting time from me, she has another thing coming!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:19.370" end="00:03:21.220"><![CDATA[They laugh longest those who laugh… all the time! Plugged in until the day after!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:21.240" end="00:03:25.820"><![CDATA[Children: “Ooooohhh!”]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:25.840" end="00:03:28.770"><![CDATA[That was a tidal wave!!! -Ingredients!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:28.790" end="00:03:31.430"><![CDATA[6 cups flour & 2 cups salt]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:31.450" end="00:03:37.280"><![CDATA[2 cups water]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:37.300" end="00:03:41.030"><![CDATA[1 small plastic water or soda bottle. We shall be using a soda bottle.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:41.050" end="00:03:43.420"><![CDATA[A square piece of wood board which will function as the base of our volcano]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:43.440" end="00:03:44.630"><![CDATA[Will you be making another volcano?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:44.650" end="00:03:46.080"><![CDATA[The Cyprus volcano]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:46.100" end="00:03:54.880"><![CDATA[Come again?!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:03:54.900" end="00:03:59.980"><![CDATA[We have a volcano in Cyprus? Noah, the Maltese presenter, had calmed me down saying]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:00.000" end="00:04:08.960"><![CDATA[that Malta is the island that’s going to be sunk according to Nostradamus’s prophecies…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:08.980" end="00:04:10.260"><![CDATA[Can we talk about our volcano now, or…? In case Malta sinks, there’s a lot of space here for them to come over.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:10.280" end="00:04:16.740"><![CDATA[In your village?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:16.760" end="00:04:22.190"><![CDATA[In such case, we could build a new town on the coast… Isn’t Malta just about the size of Lefkosia?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:22.210" end="00:04:28.380"><![CDATA[Count me out of this… I am innocent! Theresia though, the Maltese Stalo,]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:28.400" end="00:04:32.470"><![CDATA[so to speak, can always stay at home with me. Even if her island doesn’t sink…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:32.490" end="00:04:34.430"><![CDATA[My buddy Noah, don’t take this too personally… -If a bug’s bitten you…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:34.450" end="00:04:36.590"><![CDATA[-…bite it back!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:36.610" end="00:04:37.990"><![CDATA[You are off the point, Stelios my friend…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:38.010" end="00:04:39.290"><![CDATA[Our team’s ingredients]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:39.310" end="00:04:41.900"><![CDATA[A plastic soda bottle.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:41.920" end="00:04:43.760"><![CDATA[How are you going to make the volcano?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:43.780" end="00:04:47.300"><![CDATA[At our own pace…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:47.320" end="00:04:51.640"><![CDATA[What material is that? Is it Italian?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:51.660" end="00:04:54.200"><![CDATA[At our own pace… With no big effort… We bought ready made clay!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:54.220" end="00:04:58.530"><![CDATA[At your own pace then…-Stalo, live link.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:04:58.550" end="00:05:08.890"><![CDATA[At Stalo’s own pace too! Just four words:  World, you’ve been warned…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:05:08.910" end="00:05:12.540"><![CDATA[Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Markos Pagdatis…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:05:12.560" end="00:05:31.920"><![CDATA[What’s their connection with Petros Komodromos?// None whatsoever! //Ahh!//]]></p>
      <p begin="00:05:31.940" end="00:05:42.020"><![CDATA[-Petros, you are a teacher at the University of Cyprus.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:05:42.040" end="00:05:54.820"><![CDATA[I am a lecturer at the department of civil engineering and I specialise in the study of the effect of earthquakes on structures]]></p>
      <p begin="00:05:54.840" end="00:06:08.060"><![CDATA[With the use of computers we try to simulate buildings to understand how these react in the case of an earthquake.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:06:08.080" end="00:06:15.960"><![CDATA[One of the subjects we study is new methods to deal with seismic insulation.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:06:15.980" end="00:06:20.140"><![CDATA[This is a new technology that came up a few years ago and aims at lowering the seismic load on]]></p>
      <p begin="00:06:20.160" end="00:06:30.990"><![CDATA[buildings, thus lowering the effect of earthquakes on built-up areas.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:06:31.010" end="00:06:41.030"><![CDATA[With conventional design we can minimise the loss of human lives but we expect that the building might have]]></p>
      <p begin="00:06:41.050" end="00:06:55.930"><![CDATA[to be demolished after the earthquake due to extensive damage or its use to be disrupted for a long time.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:06:55.950" end="00:07:09.620"><![CDATA[With seismic insulation we try to avoid having to suspend use of the particular building or to avoid damages.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:09.640" end="00:07:17.810"><![CDATA[What engineers try to do is incorporatingplasticity to the building. This allows the damage to the building]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:17.830" end="00:07:23.490"><![CDATA[to be controlled and absorbed, thus avoiding collapse allowing people to get out.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:23.510" end="00:07:27.460"><![CDATA[It is understood that in this way both the structural and non-structural materials can be]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:27.480" end="00:07:39.400"><![CDATA[damaged and this is acceptable in the case of a strong earthquake.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:39.420" end="00:07:44.190"><![CDATA[However, as technology improves, it becomes less and less acceptable for a hospital, for example, to stop functioning.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:44.210" end="00:07:53.090"><![CDATA[Therefore, new methods must be used which will reduce stress in the building.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:07:53.110" end="00:08:02.810"><![CDATA[Seismic insulation offers exactly that.// We incorporate antiseismic footholds, like the one you have in your]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:02.830" end="00:08:09.120"><![CDATA[hand, at the base and let each leg of the building to sit on top of one of these footholds.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:09.140" end="00:08:16.640"><![CDATA[While the building moves backwards and forwards as one body, all the stress is confined to the footholds]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:16.660" end="00:08:23.950"><![CDATA[This results in the seismic insulators, which are designed this way, to absorb all distortion.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:23.970" end="00:08:35.360"><![CDATA[The building’s oscillation becomes very small and thus the damage to the building and equipment is very small.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:35.380" end="00:08:46.710"><![CDATA[This is one of two types of seismic insulators and it is made by plastic plates alternately]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:46.730" end="00:08:56.180"><![CDATA[attached to plates of steel. The second type works with friction. This is a small model, of course…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:08:56.200" end="00:09:03.540"><![CDATA[One end is attached to the foundation and the other to the upper part of the building]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:03.560" end="00:09:08.540"><![CDATA[In case of an earthquake stronger than what the structure can sustain, this starts to slide,]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:08.560" end="00:09:17.490"><![CDATA[ thus preventing any stress loads to be transferred to the upper structure.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:17.510" end="00:09:25.320"><![CDATA[At our lab we try to develop computer programmes which will allow us to simulate these structures in order]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:25.340" end="00:09:35.780"><![CDATA[to pinpoint existing problems or to improve the behavior of seismically insulated buildings.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:35.800" end="00:09:44.750"><![CDATA[One problem we study at this stage is the case where the structure collides with a surrounding wall]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:44.770" end="00:09:57.360"><![CDATA[or a neighbouring building. Seismically insulated buildings are flexible to a large degree. Therefore it is]]></p>
      <p begin="00:09:57.380" end="00:10:04.920"><![CDATA[important to make a point of having ample space between structures in which the building will be able to oscillate.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:10:04.940" end="00:10:13.350"><![CDATA[This space is usually limited and it is possible for the oscillating building to collide with a]]></p>
      <p begin="00:10:13.370" end="00:10:28.820"><![CDATA[structure next to it. We also study the effectiveness of seismic insulation even in such collisions.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:10:28.840" end="00:10:42.520"><![CDATA[One idea we are trying to develop is to attach elastic braces at the points where collisions are possible,]]></p>
      <p begin="00:10:42.540" end="00:10:49.390"><![CDATA[like the bumpers we see on piers for example, in order to reduce the effect of a collision on the structures.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:10:49.410" end="00:10:54.670"><![CDATA[What’s more destructive in the case of an earthquake is not the strength of it but the acceleration]]></p>
      <p begin="00:10:54.690" end="00:11:01.600"><![CDATA[of the oscillation it brings on the foundation ground of the building in question.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:01.620" end="00:11:10.410"><![CDATA[It is important for civil engineers to measure with special devices we have at our lab the accelerations]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:10.430" end="00:11:23.500"><![CDATA[produced during an earthquake. These monitors are in constant operation and]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:23.520" end="00:11:28.500"><![CDATA[whenever an earthquake occurs, they record it. The data collected are used by our software to simulate]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:28.520" end="00:11:33.490"><![CDATA[the response of the building under study in an earthquake of similar proportions. We have a]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:33.510" end="00:11:38.040"><![CDATA[database with measurements from previous earthquakes and we can use these to study]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:38.060" end="00:11:44.890"><![CDATA[how a building would react in real earthquakes that happened in the past.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:44.910" end="00:11:52.910"><![CDATA[What’s the moral of our story?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:52.930" end="00:11:54.970"><![CDATA[If you live in Cyprus, it’s safer to take a tent and camp out on one of those flyovers we saw in Limassol…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:54.990" end="00:11:57.010"><![CDATA[Any alternative solution?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:57.030" end="00:11:59.050"><![CDATA[Go camp in an ancient monument, perhaps?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:11:59.070" end="00:12:00.810"><![CDATA[After all these purposeless remarks]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:00.830" end="00:12:03.920"><![CDATA[Once we knead our mixture…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:03.940" end="00:12:05.810"><![CDATA[We are ready to shape some biscuits and bake them, yes?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:05.830" end="00:12:09.450"><![CDATA[We are ready to mould our volcano!!!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:09.470" end="00:12:12.350"><![CDATA[You get really low marks for humour, you know… Moving on…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:12.370" end="00:12:14.970"><![CDATA[All teachers are alike!!!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:14.990" end="00:12:17.690"><![CDATA[How are my “snug as a bug in a rug” friends doing?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:17.710" end="00:12:21.740"><![CDATA[We are ready to mould our mountain around the bottle.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:21.760" end="00:12:28.510"><![CDATA[Can we use mashed paper instead of clay?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:28.530" end="00:12:33.600"><![CDATA[-Surely! We let newspapers soak with glue in water and we use the mash to make our volcano.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:33.620" end="00:12:38.770"><![CDATA[Is there something we should know when working with dough?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:38.790" end="00:12:45.620"><![CDATA[The dough must be very soft and if more water is needed we can add it later.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:45.640" end="00:12:49.950"><![CDATA[In any case, we must be very careful so that the material we make the volcano with, sticks well]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:49.970" end="00:12:52.450"><![CDATA[on the mouth of the bottle to avoid lava spilling on the inside.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:12:52.470" end="00:13:01.670"><![CDATA[If needed we may attach it with glue.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:01.690" end="00:13:12.890"><![CDATA[We may want to make it in two stages. We make half of it on one day and the rest the next day when the first half has already dried out.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:12.910" end="00:13:19.640"><![CDATA[Is the volcano ready?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:19.660" end="00:13:22.450"><![CDATA[Once we create the mountain, we must wait for it to dry out before we pass on to the next stage of the experiment.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:22.470" end="00:13:26.070"><![CDATA[How long does this usually take?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:26.090" end="00:13:29.690"><![CDATA[Three days to one week, depending on the materials we use.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:29.710" end="00:13:55.810"><![CDATA[-My group of high-flyers… Quite literally!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:13:55.830" end="00:14:00.660"><![CDATA[Hi! I am Stalo Mitidou!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:00.680" end="00:14:07.880"><![CDATA[-Eleni Sergidou. Nice to meet you!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:07.900" end="00:14:13.200"><![CDATA[Mrs Eleni Hadjikonstantinou Sergidou teaches Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:13.220" end="00:14:22.260"><![CDATA[in London and she’s the proud mother of two lovely girls. What exactly do you do in London?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:22.280" end="00:14:26.340"><![CDATA[We have lived in London for quite a few years now. My husband is also a teacher at Imperial and we have two girls.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:26.360" end="00:14:27.630"><![CDATA[Rica]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:27.650" end="00:14:28.800"><![CDATA[And]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:28.820" end="00:14:29.730"><![CDATA[Cristina]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:29.750" end="00:14:30.770"><![CDATA[Are]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:30.790" end="00:14:32.050"><![CDATA[Eleven…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:32.070" end="00:14:37.850"><![CDATA[Eight…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:37.870" end="00:14:44.890"><![CDATA[And they are two of the luckiest children in London, the world even!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:44.910" end="00:14:49.280"><![CDATA[While other kids play with aeroplane models, what’s Rica doing?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:14:49.300" end="00:15:49.220"><![CDATA[I travel with aeroplanes using my dad’s simulator.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:15:49.240" end="00:15:59.530"><![CDATA[We are now in the aircraft design and flight simulation lab of the Imperial College in London]]></p>
      <p begin="00:15:59.550" end="00:16:09.080"><![CDATA[. My team and I work here on designing aeroplanes of the future. Since I was 8 years old in Cyprus]]></p>
      <p begin="00:16:09.100" end="00:16:13.110"><![CDATA[I knew I wanted to become an aircraft designer. I pursued this dream of mine until it became reality.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:16:13.130" end="00:16:24.240"><![CDATA[I am glad to describe to you what my work is all about.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:16:24.260" end="00:16:40.540"><![CDATA[During my PhD I developed this particular method of designing an aircraft.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:16:40.560" end="00:16:50.070"><![CDATA[I have designed more than 50 aircraft, most of which are unusual and are based on the use of]]></p>
      <p begin="00:16:50.090" end="00:17:09.320"><![CDATA[new technologies which aim to change the standard look, namely the fuselage, wings and tail design.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:17:09.340" end="00:17:20.240"><![CDATA[This design has reached its limits ofimprovement, both in financial terms as well as in terms of effectiveness.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:17:20.260" end="00:17:28.810"><![CDATA[We use the new tools we have in our hands which we improve and develop. The whole aircraft]]></p>
      <p begin="00:17:28.830" end="00:17:37.940"><![CDATA[is miniaturised using mathematic equations, which are in fact the language of aeronautics and the base]]></p>
      <p begin="00:17:37.960" end="00:17:49.350"><![CDATA[of our thinking and through which our dream is materialised. We have designed aeroplanes]]></p>
      <p begin="00:17:49.370" end="00:17:53.200"><![CDATA[which move with speed from the really low to the ultrasonic. The hypersonic aircraft we have designed can]]></p>
      <p begin="00:17:53.220" end="00:18:01.240"><![CDATA[fly with 12 times the speed of sound. We hope that these will be realised in the future to]]></p>
      <p begin="00:18:01.260" end="00:18:07.180"><![CDATA[allow people to travel really fast. They could even be more environmentally friendly as they]]></p>
      <p begin="00:18:07.200" end="00:18:22.620"><![CDATA[might use different kinds of fuel. Safety is a very important issue in aircraft, as well as reliability.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:18:22.640" end="00:18:31.200"><![CDATA[Estimations are done separately for each aspect, starting with reliability. We then extrapolate]]></p>
      <p begin="00:18:31.220" end="00:18:48.770"><![CDATA[on the safety of the aircraft design and we can guarantee the craft to the manufacturer as well as to the user.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:18:48.790" end="00:18:57.130"><![CDATA[The plane is now in the air.The future seems very promising, depending from which end of the]]></p>
      <p begin="00:18:57.150" end="00:19:02.190"><![CDATA[aircraft we are looking at it. A lot of improvement can be made on fighter aircraft]]></p>
      <p begin="00:19:02.210" end="00:19:07.100"><![CDATA[There is great pressure to move towards self-sufficient aircraft, which could work]]></p>
      <p begin="00:19:07.120" end="00:19:18.770"><![CDATA[with a robot instead of having a pilot in the cockpit.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:19:18.790" end="00:19:31.270"><![CDATA[Will there come a time when I might be able to fly a plane like I drive my car now?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:19:31.290" end="00:19:43.010"><![CDATA[I can tell you that this will become reality in about ten years or so. A computer will be situated between]]></p>
      <p begin="00:19:43.030" end="00:19:56.480"><![CDATA[the user and the aeroplane and this will make it easier for anyone to fly a plane without having to go through training.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:19:56.500" end="00:20:03.300"><![CDATA[Let’s see now… Who’s still plugged in?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:03.320" end="00:20:06.380"><![CDATA[(School chant)-Emba High School is here on your show, willing and available to rock the boat! Ooohhhh!!!!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:06.400" end="00:20:08.330"><![CDATA[Good one! But you are not just plugged in, but also…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:08.350" end="00:20:11.870"><![CDATA[On webpage…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:11.890" end="00:20:19.180"><![CDATA[www.xlab.tv]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:19.200" end="00:20:24.310"><![CDATA[Just like me! ‘Cause I am everywhere! As for you, Stelios my mate, wherever you are, I tell you this:]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:24.330" end="00:20:30.380"><![CDATA[Friends may meet but mountains never greet! See what happened in here a while ago…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:30.400" end="00:20:32.800"><![CDATA[Has the volvano dried yet?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:32.820" end="00:20:36.950"><![CDATA[It’s dry and we are ready to paint it.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:36.970" end="00:20:39.710"><![CDATA[If we like we can stick sand or dirt to the sides to make it look more real.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:39.730" end="00:20:43.560"><![CDATA[(Stelios receives call on his mobile phone)]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:43.580" end="00:20:49.400"><![CDATA[That cannot be…  What do you mean she’s not shown up?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:49.420" end="00:20:54.900"><![CDATA[Yes, I understand but I am in the middle of a shooting…What was that?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:20:54.920" end="00:21:00.460"><![CDATA[Ok, I am coming right away… Keep saying your words and go on… Good luck!//]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:00.480" end="00:21:06.690"><![CDATA[Stalo didn’t show up to her meeting with academician George Georgiou. Shall I go? //]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:06.710" end="00:21:26.280"><![CDATA[Punctual as always…Let’s see her getting away with this one now…!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:26.300" end="00:21:28.170"><![CDATA[I am always punctual and consistent. I consistently drive him into a corner!!!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:28.190" end="00:21:29.540"><![CDATA[Where were we?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:29.560" end="00:21:31.260"><![CDATA[Ingredients]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:31.280" end="00:21:33.050"><![CDATA[:Are we still at the ingredients?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:33.070" end="00:21:35.100"><![CDATA[Ingredients to make lava.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:35.120" end="00:21:40.060"><![CDATA[I was so ready to have a crisis there…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:40.080" end="00:21:42.940"><![CDATA[For making lava: Red and yellow food colouring.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:42.960" end="00:21:44.960"><![CDATA[2 tablespoonfuls washing-up liquid]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:44.980" end="00:21:47.560"><![CDATA[Any objections?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:47.580" end="00:21:49.140"><![CDATA[2 tablespoonfuls baking soda]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:49.160" end="00:21:58.410"><![CDATA[1 cup vinegar]]></p>
      <p begin="00:21:58.430" end="00:22:07.750"><![CDATA[You can tell a good seaman in a storm! I see you getting ready to tell me off because I keep confusing proverbs!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:22:07.770" end="00:22:12.530"><![CDATA[Won’t you give me a break? I have every right to create language! What’s the meaning of all this, you wonder…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:22:12.550" end="00:22:53.020"><![CDATA[Just look at him! Such a blissful father!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:22:53.040" end="00:22:56.010"><![CDATA[What???]]></p>
      <p begin="00:22:56.030" end="00:23:03.730"><![CDATA[What’s your line of business, Dr. Geogiou?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:03.750" end="00:23:08.370"><![CDATA[I would gladly tell you. I look after my son who’s already 9 months old, most of the time.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:08.390" end="00:23:14.240"><![CDATA[How do you provide for little Antony’s daily milk?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:14.260" end="00:23:18.140"><![CDATA[By having both his parents working, of course. I work at the University and also at]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:18.160" end="00:23:33.730"><![CDATA[the Oceanography Centre as well as out to sea sometimes.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:33.750" end="00:23:46.870"><![CDATA[It’s only shoal waters… Get in! Free diving at the Oceanography Centre.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:46.890" end="00:23:57.520"><![CDATA[We deal with natural oceanography; the movement of currents in the sea, that is.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:23:57.540" end="00:24:05.060"><![CDATA[We develop models for the movement of currents and we measure the temperature and salinity of the sea.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:05.080" end="00:24:10.710"><![CDATA[We can take these measurements from the satellite through an antenna we have on the roof]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:10.730" end="00:24:17.170"><![CDATA[of our lab, as well as with visits to the various sites.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:17.190" end="00:24:23.490"><![CDATA[The air current movement can influence the currents in the sea, so we keep up with]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:23.510" end="00:24:26.860"><![CDATA[the information given by the meteorology centre. We issue a weekly forecast of]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:26.880" end="00:24:32.260"><![CDATA[the movement of sea currents in the eastern Mediterranean.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:32.280" end="00:24:39.340"><![CDATA[Every week we have a forecast which everybody can have access to on our webpage.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:39.360" end="00:24:50.660"><![CDATA[On the screen now you see the forecast for sea currents for next week.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:50.680" end="00:24:59.220"><![CDATA[This forecast is useful to a lot of people, to fishermen for example. They can locate the areas where]]></p>
      <p begin="00:24:59.240" end="00:25:07.860"><![CDATA[there are sudden temperature changes as those are the areas frequented by most fish.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:25:07.880" end="00:25:28.420"><![CDATA[It is also useful to make models for rescue teams to pinpoint where a potential cast-away might end up.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:25:28.440" end="00:25:36.510"><![CDATA[Moreover, it is useful in order to locate ships that pollute the sea.One subject the Oceanography Centre]]></p>
      <p begin="00:25:36.530" end="00:25:46.680"><![CDATA[deals with and is directly linked to the protection of the environment is the location and movement of oil spills in the sea.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:25:46.700" end="00:25:52.510"><![CDATA[In case of such an accident, it is useful to know where the oil spill might move to in order to be able to deal with it.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:25:52.530" end="00:26:03.230"><![CDATA[We have developed some very good models which are able to do this job and they are used]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:03.250" end="00:26:09.740"><![CDATA[by other oceanographic centres in the world. The greater success of our centre was in locating]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:09.760" end="00:26:18.930"><![CDATA[the oil spill created by the bombing of a power station in Lebanon during the war.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:18.950" end="00:26:27.930"><![CDATA[We used our existing models and had quickly realized that the spill would move northward]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:27.950" end="00:26:36.070"><![CDATA[along the coastline with no immediate danger to our coasts. The response of the]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:36.090" end="00:26:42.760"><![CDATA[Oceanography Centre was quick and the results were utilized to the maximum by many decision-making centres.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:42.780" end="00:26:54.210"><![CDATA[For this work we even got a letter thanking us from the environment minister of Lebanon]]></p>
      <p begin="00:26:54.230" end="00:27:04.550"><![CDATA[whilst the war was still raging, as our data would make it possible for them to deal with the spill after the war ended]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:04.570" end="00:27:06.680"><![CDATA[One important application is, I believe, the forecast of the movement of a potential tsunami in the Mediterranean.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:06.700" end="00:27:12.160"><![CDATA[We have tsunamis in the Mediterranean?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:12.180" end="00:27:28.980"><![CDATA[Of course we do! 20% of the tsunamis in the world are observed in the Mediterranean.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:29.000" end="00:27:35.240"><![CDATA[Fortunately, they are not always of high intensity. A recent case, in the 1950s in Amorgos resulted]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:35.260" end="00:27:40.250"><![CDATA[in the death of 50 people. We all know, of course, of the large tsunami in the ancient times]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:40.270" end="00:27:49.190"><![CDATA[in Santorini which was the cause of the fall of the Minoan Civilisation.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:49.210" end="00:27:53.710"><![CDATA[To be able to forecast the movement of a tsunami wave we must know the bathymetry of the area very well.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:27:53.730" end="00:28:02.950"><![CDATA[Movement of the wave is relative to the depth.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:28:02.970" end="00:28:11.780"><![CDATA[The smaller the depth the quicker the wave will move. In open sea it moves slowly and is low,]]></p>
      <p begin="00:28:11.800" end="00:28:25.870"><![CDATA[therefore it passes unnoticed, but near the coast it starts to move faster while gaining height.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:28:25.890" end="00:28:49.940"><![CDATA[End of intermission. When duty calls, research can wait…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:28:49.960" end="00:28:55.320"><![CDATA[You do know about Alexander the Great. Well it is said that he had a sister that was a mermaid..]]></p>
      <p begin="00:28:55.340" end="00:29:17.660"><![CDATA[At first we add the baking soda to the crater.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:29:17.680" end="00:29:26.360"><![CDATA[We then add the colour. Then the washing-up liquid…]]></p>
      <p begin="00:29:26.380" end="00:29:40.860"><![CDATA[And at the end we add the vinegar.]]></p>
      <p begin="00:29:40.880" end="00:30:03.530"><![CDATA[Are we getting a chance to explode too?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:30:03.550" end="00:30:05.680"><![CDATA[-Oh, go on then!// (sings a well know greek song)]]></p>
      <p begin="00:30:05.700" end="00:30:12.210"><![CDATA[Please, grow up?]]></p>
      <p begin="00:30:12.230" end="00:30:18.020"><![CDATA[Do I have to? If it’s not an earthquake or an aeroplane accident or an oil spill, we will be sunk]]></p>
      <p begin="00:30:18.040" end="00:30:19.820"><![CDATA[at the bottom of the sea! Thank God we have the scientists who will save us I’ll be seeing ya!]]></p>
      <p begin="00:30:19.840" end="00:34:01.980"><![CDATA[Ooohhh!!!!]]></p>
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