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Show SECTION jDaityHcrato m SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 METRO EDITOR Amie Rose 2008 aroseOhefaIdextra.co(n 344-253- 0 f Joe Pyrah two months to complete it. That new dead- - Though thecompany was able to purchase daily heraio . The second deadline for the purchase of the country's largest municipally built system once again ran out ' ' the clock. The iProvo system was tentatively sold to Broadweave Networks on June 30 for line vu Friday. As of press time, the deal was still being hammered out, but It was' expected to be complete before midnight, The past two months have been rocky fiber-opti- c for Broadweave in some respects. CEO Steve Christensen said at the time the deal was announced that the network needed to be owned and provide service through $40.6 million. But players said the deal was one company. , so complicated that they needed another That has not played out as hoped. the customer base of one Internet service provider on the sy stem, Mstar.it was un-successful with ISft Veracity and Nuvont. Both will remain providers on the net-work. There are about 11,000 customers On the iProvo system. There have also been some positives, company spokespersons have said, . . See i state-of--? network claiming that industry refused to provide true communication options. But debt grew quickly with the city losing millions of dollars per year. the-a- rt . . PURCHASE, Provo initially built the , B3 measures v Ace Stryker DAILY HERALD A frovo hospital is investing in technology its ' doctors say will help gauge the recovery of everyone from &year-old- s who fall off their trikes to ; Brigham Young University linebackers. ImPACT is a computerized test that measures the cognitive functioning of people who have sustained concussions. In the past, deeming somebody ready to return to work be it around the office, in the classroom or on the field has been a relatively imprecise art that relies heavily on subjective questioning like, "It . How does your head feel?" said sometimes Dr. Jim Snyder, Utah Valley Re- -. gional Medical Centers director can be very of neuropsychology. "This is really an attempt to detrimental use what We know about brain to a team injuries to this point," he said. if a kid Using; the test which measures things like memory, doesn't coordination and reflexes doctors will be able to compare recover results against a baseline and quickly make more informed calls when it comes to patient recovery, from them, Snyder said. In a hospital in . or if there's which the emergency room sees about 1,000 concussions a year, 1 not a ;. thats important because many measure are hazily diagnosed or treated, leading to complications like deto help pression and mood swings down the road.. determine About 8$ percent of what I return to . see are concussions," said Snyder, a lSyear UVRMC veteran, play-- ' "All of these problems start to come home to roost." Snyder started wondering few years ago about how the hospital could acquire the technology, which has been around for about a decade. Eventually he hooked up with Dr. Brent Rich, director of UVRMCs sports medicine clinic, who saw its potential among local athletes as welL ; "Our goal is not just to get them to play the next football game. We want to get them beyond that," Rich said. Are they able to read bus schedules?". There are a handful of computerized diagnostic technologies on the market. It just so happened that Rich was personal friends with one of the . . . . : ; See TEST, B2 MMIO MlkDaHy Herald Salix jumps into a pool of water at a Splash Dogs competition'at Soldier Hollow In Midway an Friday. Salix, whos ranked second in the nation, launched himself more than 25 feet off of a plank and ' into a pool as part of an Increasingly popular dog Jumping competition More than a hundred dogs are expected to compete through the Labor Day weekend, said David Drake Splash Dogs event manager for the midwest and western regions. Owners can enter their dogs in the competition during the Soldier HoUqw Classic Sheepdog Championship and Festival at Soldier Hollow this weekend. Four-year-o-ld Chesapeake Bay Retriever . Honoring fallen miners "This way theyll never be forgotten by anyone," said Hunter Nielson as he evens out the bottom ' of a memorial for . Crandall Canyon Mine on Friday, at the Metal Art Foundry in LehL The piece. Called Heroes Among Us" was sculpted by Karen " Jobe Templeton as a memorial to the nine who died in the mine collapse in August 2007. " Heroes Among Us" will be unveiled on Sept 14 at 6 p.m., in Huntington. The monument will be located at the Route 31 Scenic Byways Rest Area, THtAssociMiD press . SALT LAKE CITY . in Huntington City, at the base of Huntington Canyon. MHUYFRANSCfU DeHyHsraM I A surgical procedure to further repair Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleffs badly broken leg appears to have been sue- cessful, a spokesman for his office said Friday. "I talked to Mark and he said the surgery was a success everything went according to phut, spokesman Hud Mur-phy said Friday afternoon. "He sounded pretty cheerful, which I'm happy to hear." Muiphy said Shurtleff wis in a surgical center and would moved to a hospital for recovery. It was unclear how many days Shurtleff would be dodorsfrom having toampu- tatehisleg. Doctors planned to repair the breaks by scraping out bone tissue and immobilizing the leg again with pins, wires and rings. The recovery is expected to take at least six months. This is the rixth operation Shurtleff has had on the ieg since he broke it. "This has got to work, he said Thursday. They feel there really arent too many non-growi- choices left." Shurtleff was injured when n motor-b- e his hit a patch of gravel and cycle slid as he prepared for a char-fey ride. The bike went down on his leg, shattering the bone. hospitalized. He was previously hospital- Shurtleff broke his left leg last September in a motorcycle ized for a staph infection and a persistent infection has Bn- accident, but the bones have not properly healed, leaving gered. Shurtleff has also been him with a condition called , walking with a limp. "nonunion." Shurtleff said Shurtleff said he discussed amputation with his doctors Thursday he hoped the sur- and opted far surgery. gery would prevent . . 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