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Voice of the People, Sept. 15: Dangers may lurk in synthetic turf fields used by young athletes; politicians need to stop cowering before NRA
Dangerous to athletes?
News about local high schools with synthetic turf fields using rubber pellets as cushioning agents paints a rosy picture ("Night of firsts in Tallmadge," Aug. 30). But for many of the students who come into repeated contact, ingest, or bring the pellets into their homes on their clothing, a sinister, life-threatening effect looms large for the rest of their lives.
According to a recent Environmental Protection Agency study, these pellets are made from discarded, used tires that are ground down to pebble form — tires that have been exposed to and incorporate every toxin that exists on roads. Before that, they went through many chemical and industrial processes to turn them into durable products.
A recent study found more than 306 chemicals in rubber pellet samples taken from fields. Of these, 197 were found to be potentially carcinogenic. Should children be knowingly exposed to even one at any school activity?
Mounting anecdotal evidence suggests a link between long-term exposure to pellets and blood cancer diagnoses like lymphoma and leukemia of many young athletes. Moreover, it is understood that exposure to certain toxins plant seeds of malignancy that often take decades to manifest into a variety of cancers and other deadly diseases.
The claims companies make that the jury is still out about the carcinogenic potential of rubber pellets has the ring of the notorious "cigarettes don't cause cancer" lie.
If it is illegal to burn tires because of the potential toxic risks, why do we allow our children to be exposed to them on their school athletic fields?
Greg Brozeit, Fairlawn
Sacrificed to NRA
Seven more people killed and 22 injured in another mass shooting. Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro got it just right with this response to the Aug. 31 tragedy in Texas. He tweeted: "I want to reach out to Republicans in the Senate, who refuse to act, who refuse to move on gun reform, and I want to ask them: What is the number? How many Americans are you willing to sacrifice to the NRA?"
It's true, Americans are being sacrificed to the National Rifle Association. Senate Republicans know that there is broad public support for common sense legislation like tighter background checks, red flag laws, banning assault-style weapons and large-capacity ammunition clips. Will such laws stop all shootings? Of course not, but they will prevent some dangerous people from getting guns and they will prevent those who do become shooters from being able to kill masses of people.
Every Republican senator should be asked: "What is the number, for you? How many more need to die before you stop peddling the NRA's excuses about mental health problems and video games, when you know that other nations with sensible gun laws have the same issues but far fewer gun deaths? How many more need to die before you stop cowering before the NRA?"
Let's start with our own, NRA "A" rated, Rob Portman.
Mary Hoot, Cuyahoga Falls
Stop the bailout
Have you seen the commercials flooding mailboxes and airwaves from the nuclear folks? The one with the "blame the Chinese" message. They are obviously spending lots of cash to prevent a referendum on House Bill 6. Millions spent on behalf of a bankrupt company — don't ask me how.
A good rule of thumb from the farm about those with the most money is they need a bigger spreader to cast a heavier load of manure.
Sign the petition; put House Bill 6 to a fair vote by the people.
Thomas Collins, Garrettsville

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Applications are now being accepted for the CIT's Course Design Institute, running August 14-16. Faculty can work on a new course syllabus or one that needs updating. You will leave the institute with a brand new syllabus and ideas for assessments and in-class activities. New faculty are particularly invited to apply. Participants receive a $500 stipend.
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Q: Browsers redirecting http to https I've read a lot of questions and answers about this topic, but nothing I've seen has helped. I have web app with a node/express backend and an aurelia client. It's one of three I have running in the same subdomain. One of the others has a certificate and the other doesn't. Both of them work perfectly. The new app doesn't have a certificate, but it insists on redirecting all requests to https.
In chrome I've deleted the domain security policy and cleared my cache and I get the same result. It doesn't matter which browser I use. I've even tried a browser I've never used to access the app with a certificate and I get the same result.
The server code is essentially the same as for the app which doesn't use a certificate.
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
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City Cycling Demands Urban Style!
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Searching papers submitted to ICLR 2019 can be painful. You might want to know which paper uses technique X, dataset D, or cites author ME. Unfortunately, search is limited to titles, abstracts, and keywords, missing the actual contents of the paper. This Frankensteinian search has returned from 2018 to help scour the papers of ICLR by ripping out their souls using pdftotext.
How about: stragglers, multivariate time series, computer vision, hard example, orienteering problem ..?
In many reinforcement learning applications, it is crucial that the agent interacts with the environment only through safe policies, i.e.,~policies that do not take the agent to certain undesirable situations. These problems are often formulated as a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) in which the agent's goal is to optimize its main objective while not violating a number of safety constraints. In this paper, we propose safe policy optimization algorithms that are based on the Lyapunov approach to CMDPs, an approach that has well-established theoretical guarantees in control engineering. We first show how to generate a set of state-dependent Lyapunov constraints from the original CMDP safety constraints. We then propose safe policy gradient algorithms that train a neural network policy using DDPG or PPO, while guaranteeing near-constraint satisfaction at every policy update by projecting either the policy parameter or the action onto the set of feasible solutions induced by the linearized Lyapunov constraints. Unlike the existing (safe) constrained PG algorithms, ours are more data efficient as they are able to utilize both on-policy and off-policy data. Furthermore, the action-projection version of our algorithms often leads to less conservative policy updates and allows for natural integration into an end-to-end PG training pipeline. We evaluate our algorithms and compare them with CPO and the Lagrangian method on several high-dimensional continuous state and action simulated robot locomotion tasks, in which the agent must satisfy certain safety constraints while minimizing its expected cumulative cost.
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