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Show The Park Record A-14 SACRED SITES OF JAPAN MAY 24-JUNE 5, 2017 Led by Mimi Locher Chair, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah Come on an unforgettable journey to Japan’s sacred sites and temples. Immerse yourself in the ritual and mythology of this ancient archipelago with our resident architecture expert. Experience modern Ja- golearn.utah.edu pan through a traditional lens. INTELLIGENT TRAVEL WITH U FACULTY See a photo you like in The Park Record? Photos taken by The Park Record are available for purchase in a wide variety of sizes and printing options at parkrecordphoto.smugmug.com Continued From A-11 Mountain Town News prohibited from feeding elk. Blaine County has sued several residents in the Golden Eagle Ranch subdivision in an attempt to end feeding of elk. A plat governing the subdivision bars such feeding, but several homeowners have persisted, the Idaho Mountain Express reported. One of the defendants, at a meeting in late February, said he feared the elk calves would perish in a final cold snap of winter. Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials think the elk will survive. Four to five hours away in Jackson Hole, the News&Guide reported something similar. There, 40-some elk have been congregating in the corral of Brit Ross. Instead of shooting the elk, to drive the rest away, he continues to allow the elk to feed there. “You shoot them, and where are they going to go,” Ross told the newspaper. “The snow is 4 feet deep out there. If you’re going to shoot them, you’re going to have to shoot them all.” Wyoming game officials think the elk can survive in that part of Jackson Hole, but elsewhere in the broad valley they have started feeding 250 elk under an “emergency” declaration. The News&Guide reported that in some areas of the valley, elk always try to feed on the hay harvested for horse and cattle. Other places, this is a first. Vail clinic advancing research on stem cells VAIL, Colo. — In 1988, George Gillett, who then owned what has become Vail Resorts, persuaded Dr. Richard Steadman to relocate his medical practice from Lake Tahoe to Vail. The Steadman Clinic soon became the go-to place for athletes with knee and other joint problems. It still is. Football quarterback Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 11-14, 2017 Tom Brady has been there, so has soccer icon Pele and basketball power Yao Ming. John Elway, Mario Lemieux and Alex Rodriguez are others who visited (all big names from the ski world). And the drummer for rock band U2, Larry Mullen Jr, is another name worth mentioning. Now, the clinic will be getting a new, 26,000-square-foot research lab courtesy of the Vail Valley Medical Center. The $68 million facility will house the Steadman Philippon Research Institute’s labs for surgical skills, robotics, regenerative medicine and bio motion. The clinic and associated research institute together employ 190 people. Research being conducted there is getting attention. A recent report in The Denver Post by staff writer John Meyer suggests you may have a stake in the work at the base of Vail Mountain. The story focused on the work of Dr. Johnny Huard, the chief scientific officer and director of the Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine. Huard is trying to advance the techniques that allow people to heal more rapidly. The field is called biologics. Cells from the patient’s own body are used in concentrated injections to hasten repair of tissue at the site of the injury. Stem cells and platelet-rich plasma therapy will some day delay age-related diseases and cut the recovery time from serious injuries, such as to the knee, in half. “I don’t think we can reverse aging, but I think we can age better and recover from injury better,” said Dr. Marc Philippon, managing partner of the Steadman Clinic. “As a surgeon, my biggest challenge is, if I cut on you there’s always that healing phase. We want you to recover faster. But the most important thing is prevention of injury. If your cells are aging better, you’ll have less injury.” Before moving to Vail two years ago, Huard directed the Stem Cell Research Center at the University of Pittsburg. In Vail, the researchers think injections of stem cells and PRP can help delay or prevent the need for joint replacements. At the adjacent Steadman Clinic, they can test the theories in clinical trials. Animal studies have already shown that young stem cells can rejuvenate old stem cells. Huard advocates passionately for harvesting stem cells from the umbilical cord of a newborn and freezing them at minus-80 degrees Fahrenheit. Those cells can later be thawed and reintroduced into the body as younger and more robust stem cells than the ones that have aged in the patient. All this could dramatically change the recovery time for injuries. An athlete who blows out an anterior cruciate ligament in training camp currently loses a full year. But being able to return to action during the regular season remains a distinct possibility as a result of these advances. Americans, Canadians and Cambrian era fossils BANFF, Alberta — A mystery has been solved in the Canadian Rockies in the quarries of the world-famous treasure trove of fossils called the Burgess shale. The shale contains specimens from more than 500 million years ago, during an explosion of life in the Cambrian Period. The famous shale is especially known for preservation of the soft parts of the marine creatures. But what to make of the bizarre skeletal remains called hyoliths? Scientists long believed they were from the same family as snails, squid and other mollusks. Not so, according to a recent report published in the scientific journal Nature. A team of scientists led by a 20-year-old University of Toronto student determined they weren’t mollusks at all, but rather more closely related to brachiopods. Are you yawning yet? The Rocky Mountain Outlook reported that shrugging off this distinction is akin to saying a Canadian is no different than an American. “Outwardly, many mollusks and brachiopods — at least the shelly ones — do look very similar,” the paper reported. “Both have two shells, but, like Canadians and Americans, once you get beyond the similar exterior, they are two very different things.” Charter our 44' Fountaine Pajot catamaran, RENDEZVOUS, in either the British or US Virgin Islands. SailRendezvous.net 435.640.1400 25 YOUR % OFF FIRST SERVICE * Labor Only * SALES AND SERVICE 435-640-7824 STRANDHVAC.COM SERVING PARK CITY FOR OVER 20 YEARS |