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Welcome to program 199 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:43 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:46 Biodegradable plastic from fisheries waste*
  7:57 MFSK64: Blinken affirms independence of VOA
11:22 This week's images*
28:35 MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image(s)


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From New Atlas:

Biodegradable plastic made from fisheries waste

Ben Coxworth
April 5, 2021

Like most other commonly used types of plastic, polyurethane is
typically made from non-renewable crude oil, and it takes
centuries to break down when discarded. Now, however, scientists
have created a biodegradable polyurethane-like polymer using fish
waste.

Led by Prof. Francesca Kerton, a team at Canada's Memorial
University of Newfoundland started with the heads, bones, skin
and guts of farmed Atlantic salmon, after the fish had been
filleted for seafood sales. Usually, such remains would either be
composted or simply thrown away.

The scientists proceeded to extract fish oil from the waste, then
added oxygen to that oil in order to create epoxide molecules,
which are similar to those found in epoxy resin. Carbon dioxide
was then used to link those molecules together, with some help
from cashew-shell-derived nitrogen-containing compounds known as
amines.

The resulting bioplastic was shown to start biodegrading soon
after being immersed in water to which the enzyme lipase had been
added - lipase breaks down fats such as those found in fish oil.
Even when soaked in plain water, the plastic still quickly began
showing signs of microbial growth which should lead to
degradation.

Additionally, early tests indicate that the cashew-shell amines
used in the production process could be replaced with more
readily available, naturally occurring amino acids like histidine
and asparagine.

"I find it interesting how we can make something useful,
something that could even change the way plastics are made, from
the garbage that people just throw out," says graduate student
Mikhailey Wheeler, who is working with Kerton.

The research will be presented later this month via the online
spring meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Source: American Chemical Society via EurekAlert

https://newatlas.com/environment/biodegradable-polyurethane-fisheries-waste/

Image: A sample of the bioplastic, which reportedly does not have
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From the Voice of America:

Blinken Affirms Independence of VOA, Discusses Threats to
Reporting in Russia

Ken Bredemeier
April 7, 2021

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stressed
his commitment to the editorial independence of Voice of America
and other foreign news outlets overseen by the U.S. Agency for
Global Media.

Blinken's State Department does not oversee the government's
global news organization, but he met Tuesday with acting USAGM
chief executive Kelu Chao "to discuss the vital role that free
and independent media play" in U.S. foreign affairs.

"The editorially independent reporting of these networks is
particularly important in countries with repressive media
environments, including where independent journalism is censored
or freedom of expression is restricted or punished," the State
Department said in a readout of the meeting.

Last year, Chao was among a group of whistleblowers who filed a
legal complaint against the agency's previous leader, filmmaker
Michael Pack, arguing that the Trump administration appointee had
taken unlawful actions and violated the statutory firewall set up
to prevent outside interference with the news organizations
overseen by USAGM.

Pack maintained he had been "solely focused upon reorienting the
agency toward its mission." But a judge issued a temporary
injunction in the case in November in favor of the
whistleblowers, ordering Pack to stop interfering in personnel
decisions and conducting editorial investigations into alleged
breaches of ethics at the networks.

Pack resigned within hours of President Joe Biden taking office
in January. Chao, a longtime journalist and news executive at the
agency, was named USAGM's acting CEO.

Concerns over Russia

In an email to staff, Chao said she and Blinken discussed
Russia's efforts to restrict media freedom and its recently
imposed labeling requirements requiring certain news
organizations that receive foreign funding while they are working
in Russia to label their content as produced by foreign agents.

"The secretary agreed that the Russian government's efforts to
silence independent journalism only harm the citizens it is meant
to serve," Chao wrote.

The first organizations designated by the Russian Ministry of
Justice as foreign agents were Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
and VOA. However the two U.S.-funded news outlets, because they
are independent of government control, have refused to label
their content as produced by foreign agents.

In filing allegations of almost 400 violations of "foreign agent"
regulations, the Kremlin has specifically targeted nine of
RFE/RL's reporting projects: Radio Liberty, its main service for
Russia; the Current Time 24/7 television and digital network
serving a global Russian-speaking audience; the regional
reporting projects North.Realities, Siberia.Realities,
Caucasus.Realities, Idel.Realities, and Crimea.Realities; the
Tatar-Bashkir Service; and the fact-checking website
Factograph.info. Additionally, in late December, the Kremlin
named three RFE/RL freelance reporters as individual "foreign
agent" journalists.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said Russia should repeal
the foreign agent law to "ensure that the country's regulator is
not used to censure journalists and harass and threaten media
organizations." Amnesty International has said Russia's foreign
agent law "further erodes freedom of expression and association"
in the country.

Aside from overseeing VOA, USAGM runs Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, Radio Free Asia, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks
and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. The agency is funded by the
government but operates under an editorial "firewall" that
protects its independent news-gathering operations. The White
House has not yet named a permanent CEO to run the agency.

https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/blinken-affirms-independence-voa-discusses-threats-reporting-russia

See also:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-usagm-blinken-radio-free-europe-foreign-agent-law/31190726.html
https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-usagm-acting-ceo-chao/





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This week's images ...

 

A horned grebe in Baltimore. https://bit.ly/3fSOh56 ...

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In this microscopic view of a face mask, the chaotic arrangement
of cotton flannel fibers provides additional opportunities to
grab particles as they flow through the fabric.
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A child picks tulips in the TuliPark on the outskirts of Rome on
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Bees collect nectar on March 10 in Wuhan, China.
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A man kayaks at the end of a warm spring day on Shawnee Mission
Lake, in Shawnee, Kansas, on April 3. https://bit.ly/3cXEI2Q ...

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One of a series of photos of a tree in Bromsgrove, England, in
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Sunrise in Annapolis, Maryland, April 6. The towers of the Naval
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An Indiana sunset. https://bit.ly/3wCG8Yj ...

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The middle five of the seven-bay Central Fire Station in Jackson,
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Our art of the week is a photographic composition of the many
varities of male fairy wrasses (Cirrhilabrus).
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