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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 2011
Page
1
A patient in Iowa City received the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics marking the state’s first implant. Surgeon Dr James Davis performed the procedure Wednesday and details about the patient remain private.
North Liberty leads with Penn Meadows Park as a model bioswale project. The city added pervious concrete to a 63 stall parking lot and installed bioretention basins rain gardens and infiltration trenches to protect Muddy Creek, a tributary to the Iowa River feeding Iowa City and the University of Iowa. Larry Trout notes abundant rainfall supports the initiative.
Rain garden captures runoff with native grasses and deep roots to soak and filter water. Bioswale large rain garden manages stormwater to reduce flooding by soaking runoff. Pervious concrete, or permeable, paving allows water to percolate into soil.
Governor Branstad pressured board President David Miles and Pro Tempore Jack Evans to resign their leadership posts on the state Board of Regents. Miles and Evans will remain regents through 2013 and a special telephonic meeting was set to elect new leadership. Branstad named Regent Craig Lang as the new president.
Federal researchers found that criminalizing distracted driving with the slogan Phone in One Hand, Ticket in the Other led to over 19,000 tickets in Connecticut and New York. Hartford and Syracuse pilots borrowed from seat belt and drunk driving campaigns, showing publicity alone failed while enforcement driven campaigns raised safety.
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