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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 04, 2013, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE 2 ONCE OVER A2 SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 Around the world in. two weeks This vibrant, city- wide favourite fest starts tonight, with 23 Folklorama pavilions featuring ethnic food, song and dance opening this week, and a whole new set next week! If you plan your night carefully, you can hit three countries in one evening and maybe even a late- night party! Otherwise, take a leisurely approach and just see one or two. Admission to each pavilion is $ 6, but budget for sampling some delicious and authentic cultural eats and favourite drinks. See more in the Folklorama travel guide available at Manitoba Liquor Marts or online at folklorama. ca. 2 3 4 5 6 7 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS SUNDAY 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2X 3B6 EDITORIAL NEWSROOM 697- 7301 HOW TO REACH US Winnipeg Free Press est 1872 / Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 VOL. 141 NO. 259 . THE WEATHER Today: Isolated showers. HIGH 20, LOW 10 Monday: Variable cloudiness. HIGH 23, LOW 13 . INDEX Local News A4 Canada/ World A6,7 This City A8 Your Opinion A10 Entertainment A11 Movies A13 Miss Lonelyhearts A15 Wired A15 Sports B1 Comics B13 Puzzles B14 Television B15 Horoscope B15 IN THE EVENT OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THIS LIST AND THE OFFICIAL WINNING NUMBERS, THE LATTER SHALL PREVAIL. . Lotto 6/ 49 Winning numbers were 2, 3, 9, 17, 29, 40. Bonus number was 41. . Western 649 Winning numbers were 7, 13, 25, 35, 36, 41. Bonus number was 34. . Pick 3 613. . Extra 3466461. . Lotto Max Winning numbers Friday were: 2, 9, 23, 29, 30, 34, 43. Bonus number was 40. The jackpot of $ 30,350,652.50 was won by 1 ticket. There we no winners in the 6 out of 7 + bonus number category. 52 winners in the 6 out of 7 category win $ 7,571.40 each. 3,869 winners in the 5 out of 7 category win $ 127.20 each. 87,538 winners in the 4 out of 7 category win $ 20 each. 79,107 winners in the 3 out of 7 + bonus number category win $ 20 each. 774,110 winners in the 3 out of 7 category win a free ticket. The Extra winning numbers Friday were: 1937023. 2010 Winnipeg Free Press, a division of FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership. Published seven days a week at 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2X 3B6, PH: 697- 7000 A member of the Manitoba Press Council The persons in these photos are of interest and may be able to provide police with information about this offence. These images are released for identification purposes only. The subjects may or may not be responsible for the crimes indicated. If you are able to identify anyone in the photos, contact Winnipeg Crime Stoppers at 786- TIPS ( 786- 8477), text TIP170 and your message to CRIMES ( 274637), or leave a secure tip online at www. winnipegcrimestoppers. com Click . TRENDS Walk for Water Our beautiful and beloved Lake Winnipeg could use your help! The Lake Winnipeg Foundation is hosting Walk for Water on two dates - Aug. 5 and 11 - in four Interlake cities this year. The 5K walk on Aug. 5 starts at 10 a. m. at Black's Point in Grindstone Park, and the walks on the 11th are happening in Matlock, Victoria Beach and Gimli. If you're interested in collecting pledges that will go towards water stewardship programs and nutrient pollution reduction in Lake Winnipeg - and getting a bit of exercise and fresh air while you're at it - print out a pledge form at walkforwater. ca and start walking! Memorable movies on Memorial This year, get out your neon tracksuits and strap on your fanny- packs because Movies on Memorial are kickin' back to the ' 80s! Every Tuesday, catch a favourite ' 80s flick in Memorial Park on Memorial Avenue between Broadway and York. On Aug. 6, they're showing Ghostbusters. Pre- movie activities start at 7 p. m., movies begin at dusk. See the rest of the lineup - including a few double features toward the end of the month - at downtownwinnipegbiz. com. Pow wow in the park The Downtown Winnipeg Biz is helping us all get pumped up for the annual indigenous culture and heritage festival, Manito Ahbee, which runs Aug. 16 to 21 in Winnipeg, by hosting a noonhour pow wow in the park on Aug. 6. Join the festivities at Memorial Park on Memorial Avenue between Broadway and York from noon to 12: 45 p. m. There will be no noon- hour Zumba that day. Check out manitoahbee. com for more info on Pow Wow in the Park, and the festival itself! In the market for a burger? Exercise all the willpower you want, but you probably won't be able to resist the delicious and creative ( not to mention 100 per cent locally sourced) options on the new 645 Corydon Ave. Market Burger menu! They're serving up all kinds of options from a mac & cheese burger ( yep, it's topped with Bothwell cheesy macaroni) to a butter chicken burger to a couple of veggie burgers. If you're not feeling up to the full 6- oz experience, have your burger " skinny" - a 5- oz patty on a thinner bun. Pick from a bunch of sides, including poutine or frings ( half fries, half onion rings). Dancing in the streets Feeling super- full after your delicious Market Burger dinner? It's OK, we've all been there. Loosen your belt a few notches, slip on your dancing shoes and follow the sound of live music coming from a Corydon Avenue corner every Friday and Saturday evening as part of Dancing on the Avenue! This Friday, get ready to boot- scoot to the country/ rock & roll tunes of The Christy Kim Band and rock, pop, doo wop group Rewind on Saturday. Music starts at 7 p. m. and goes till 10 p. m. every Friday and Saturday until the end of August. Just a spoonful of sugar. Did you know that Rainbow Stage is Canada's longest surviving outdoor theatre? That's pretty special, Winnipeg! If you've never been to a show there, this might be your year! There is very little not to love about Mary Poppins - penguins and dancing chimney sweeps and the songs that shaped so many of our childhoods - and it's playing at Rainbow Stage from Aug. 9 to 29, with tickets starting at $ 35. Get yours online at rainbowstage. ca or by calling 204- 989- 0888. N EW YORK - Earlier this summer, Choire Sicha, the writer, editor and cofounder of the Awl , came to an unpleasant realization. His emails, he noticed, had veered into the realm of the ridiculous. " Suddenly, one day," he recalls, " I was delivering drifting, whiny telegraphs instead of emails: ' Hey... this is great... I don't know when I'll get to an edit but... one thing is you should think about the ending there... but maybe I'll find one in the middle for you, so don't worry too much... OK more soon!' " Sicha, it turns out, had " picked up a really bad ellipsis habit," an affliction marked by three circular black dots that tend to appear, well, everywhere; in the most severe cases, anywhere from four to infinity dots will become visible. " It got out of control," he says. If you've been there, you know Sicha's tumble into ellipsis overkill is no picnic. First it's just three simple dots every now and again. Then it's six at the end of text messages. Soon enough, your average email consists of 48 dots and zero complete sentences. ( For those looking to learn the actual rules of ellipsis usage, the Punctuation Guide ( thepunctuationguide. com) provides a useful, if incomplete, primer. In more formal writing, ellipses are often used to show omissions from within a piece of text; in casual communications, they are used a zillion different ways.) Sadly, the curious case of Choire Sicha is far from an uncommon scenario. Shortly after hearing from him and deciding to examine the issue more thoroughly, I received an email from a friend in Ohio that included two sentences... and six dots: " I just got back from softball... we got CREAMED..." Surely it had to be a coincidence. Perhaps the message was an aberration, or a Baader- Meinhof- type recognition on my part. To the cellphone! I scrolled through my text message inbox. Sure enough: ellipses everywhere! The most recent message was from my mom. It referenced a trip to Ireland by my aunt: " Got back last Saturday... they loved it!" A note from a friend, responding to a text asking whether he had any big weekend plans, followed: " No... Just the rib cook off tomorrow. Then house inspection on Sunday... yay!" Another text near the top of the queue had been sent as a condolence of sorts for a loss by my hometown Pittsburgh Pirates: " Well, like you said... we can't win ' em all." I'll spare you the rest, but nearly every message included... ellipses. On the surface, the rise of ellipses doesn't make much sense. They don't generally provide any sort of typing shortcut. Aside from when the shift or alt keys are involved - or when a new character screen must be accessed to type a mark using one's phone - ellipses often require more key strikes and time than the alternative punctuation they are intended to replace. Plus, in most instances, we tend to prefer punctuation that is, first and foremost, clear. Ellipses, at least as they are used in text messages and emails and other forms of online communication appear to offer the opposite of clarity. So if ellipses aren't shortcuts, and they aren't especially clear, what's going on here? For Clay Shirky, an author, scholar and New York University professor who studies the effects of the Internet and technology on society, the flood of ellipses is one signifier of a unique and interesting moment in the history of written language. He suggests ellipses are most often used as replacements for pause words such as um and uh. So, he says, " people are communicating like they are talking, but encoding that talk in writing." For the majority of history, he adds, written words were drafted to be read much later, which led people to compose their thoughts in the form of full sentences. " Now, though, much of what is typed is for swift delivery and has more the character of speech, where whole, unbroken sentences are a rarity," Shirky says. " Speech is instead characterized by continuous flow, with lots of pauses, repeats, false starts... and pauses to indicate changes in direction. We're living in a moment a bit like Alexander the Great's time, when he adopted the altogether remarkable habit ( or so Plutarch reported) of reading silently. The relationship between the alphabet and talking was progressively broken as people learned to sound things out in their heads. Now we're seeing a moment of reversal, where people are trying to use alphabets like we're talking, and it's... hard. So we reach for the ellipsis." When queried about his ellipsis overuse, my friend on the terrible softball team - who is also a professor in the communications department at a large Midwestern university - went even further in connecting the dots to speech. He said he uses ellipses mainly because they help him feel as though he's engaged in a more dynamic written conversation - with the ellipses serving mostly as intentional, meaningful pauses. " It's largely a preference for what seems like a more dramatic way of presenting something," he says. " When I'm writing my friends, I see that writing more as I would in conversation with them: more intimately, more expressively, usually with pauses for facial contortions and intentional negative spaces. On the phone, enough of the elements of in- person conversation are present that we can imagine what the person looks like on the other end. But email, and even texts, are so cold this way." For Sicha, there was something else at play when he was typing all those dots, though. " It was a way to write lazy emails, honestly, without having to think about syntax or relation of each sentence to the next," he says. - Slate By Matthew J. X. Malady The ellipse... what's with that? INCIDENT 313 When: June 30 Where: 400 block of Selkirk Avenue A man entered a food establishment. When the store clerk set down their iPhone to wash their hands, the customer reached over and grabbed the phone and fled the store. INCIDENT 314 When: June 8 Where: 1300 block of Sargent Avenue Two women made their way through a department store filling up the cart with an assortment of items. When they thought the coast was clear, they made a break for the door, but were stopped outside by store security. The suspects left the cart and fled on foot. 1 THINGS TO DO LARISSA PECK No paper tomorrow The Free Press will not publish Monday. The circulation and display advertising departments will be closed. Classified advertising will be closed today, but open Monday 12: 30 p. m. to 3 p. m. for obituary notices only at 204- 697- 7384. Regular office hours in all departments resume Tuesday. The Free Press and its employees wish you a safe and happy holiday. 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