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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 2014, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE 1 ONCE OVER A2 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2014 Rink on the river Even hockey players are trying to get outside as the weather warms up. The Winnipeg Jets are holding an outdoor practice today at the Port Area on the Red River Mutual Trail at The Forks. The team and its coaching staff will be on the Assiniboine River preparing for their last 22 games of the regular season. The practice runs from 1: 30 to 2: 30 p. m. Admission is free. The trail will be closed at the Port Area at 8 a. m. to set up for the practice. 2 3 4 5 6 7 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS SUNDAY 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2X 3B6 PHOTO REPRINTS SWITCHBOARD ADVERTISING FP. Advertising@ freepress. mb. ca EDITORIAL NEWSROOM 204- 697- 7301 HOW TO REACH US Winnipeg Free Press est 1872 / Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 VOL. 142 NO. 103 . THE WEATHER Today: mainly cloudy HIGH - 17 C, LOW - 23 C Monday: sunny HIGH - 18 C, LOW - 26 C . INDEX Canada A5 Canada/ World A6 Comics B13 Entertainment A11 Horoscope B15 Local News A4 Miss Lonelyhearts A15 Movies A13 Wired A15 Puzzles B14 Sports B1 Television B15 World A3 Your Opinion A10 IN THE EVENT OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THIS LIST AND THE OFFICIAL WINNING NUMBERS, THE LATTER SHALL PREVAIL. . Lotto 6/ 49 Winning numbers Saturday were : 9, 13, 19, 22, 33, 34. Bonus number was 20. The jackpot of $ 5,000,000 was carried over. The guaranteed prize draw number ( exact match only) was 17445925- 02. . Western 6/ 49 Winning numbers Saturday were: 2, 9, 20, 29, 45, 48. Bonus number was 47. . Pick 3 Saturday's winning number was: 501. Friday's winning number was: 577. . Extra Saturday's winning number was: 4574869. Friday's winning number was: 5846578 . . Lotto Max Winning numbers Friday were: 1, 10, 16, 23, 29, 35, 39. Bonus number was 46. The jackpot of $ 50,000,000 was carried over. . Western Max Winning numbers Friday were: 5, 7, 29, 30, 38, 43, 48. Bonus number was 4. 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: 204- 697- 7000 A member of the Manitoba Press Council The persons in these photos are of interest to police and might be able to provide information about criminal offences. These images are released for identification purposes only. The subjects might or might not be responsible for the crimes indicated. If you are able to identify anyone in the photos, call Winnipeg Crime Stoppers at 204- 786- TIPS ( 204- 786- 8477), text TIP170 and your message to CRIMES ( 274637), or leave a secure tip online at www. winnipegcrimestoppers. com. Click . TRENDS / Get loud in the library Do you have a story you'd love to share? Today, you can share your writing with The Writers' Collective at the Millennium Library. Writers from around the city will gather to read three- minute selections of their work. Drop by to listen, or tell a story of your own. Writers of all levels are encouraged to bring their work. The only requirement is you must be willing to read the words out loud. The readings start at 1: 30 p. m. and continue until 3: 30 p. m. To sign up for a spot, email thewriterscollective@ gmail. com. WSO for wee ones It turns out the orchestra isn't just for monocle- wearing aristocrats. It's also for kids. The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's mascot, Manny Tuba, is going on a musical adventure today. Join him and entertainer Mr. Mark as they explore the orchestra and have fun learning through music as part of the orchestra's Concerts for Kids 2013- 14 series. The adventure begins at 2 p. m. at the Centennial Concert Hall. For tickets, visit wso. ca or call 204- 949- 3999. In good compagnie Festival du Voyageur comes to a close today, but that doesn't mean the Franco- Manitoban celebrations have to stop. On Tuesday, MTS Stories from Home will host a screening of La Compagnie , a documentary that follows La Compagnie de La V�rendrye as they celebrate the 275th anniversary of the building of Fort Rouge. MTS Stories from Home is a section of MTS's on- demand services that features films, created in Manitoba, that tell the stories of our province. The screening begins at 6: 30 p. m. Admission is free. Don't count them out Winnipeg's young people are doing more than just taking selfies and texting. They're making real and lasting differences. On Monday, Count Me In will take over the Centennial Concert Hall in an effort to empower and motivate young people in the city. As a youth- run and youth- designed empowerment event, the Count Me In Conference promotes leadership and encourages volunteerism among youth by matching their interests with community service opportunities. The conference begins at 1: 45 p. m. and runs until 3 p. m. Conversation on community On Tuesday, you can join in a discussion about resilient communities. You can find out what makes them resilient and how yours can be. Dr. Nick Wilding, a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology in Scotland, will lead the talk at the Millennium Library in the Anghang Room on the second floor. The discussion will open with some exercises to explore audience questions and then continue with a dialogue session. The discussion will run from 11: 30 a. m. to 2: 30 p. m. Admission is free, but audience members are encouraged to bring their own lunch. Ani- mazing Wonderland Anime Festival - an anime, gaming, and cosplay event - is coming to Winnipeg on March 1. The two- day event features individual and group costume contests, panel presentations and video game tournaments. You could spend your Saturday playing video games while wearing your favourite character's costume. Special guests include voice actors Toby Proctor and Linda Ballantyne, from the Sailor Moon TV series. The festival will take place at the Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave. Visit wonderlandanime. com for tickets. JORDAN POWER INCIDENT 371 When: Nov. 18, 2013 Where: 300 block of Portage Avenue A man pried open the doors of a display case at a mall kiosk and stole cellphones. Police say he's responsible for a similar break- in a few days later. INCIDENT 372 When: Dec. 6, 2013 Where: Donald Street and Graham Avenue A man who boarded a Winnipeg Transit bus became involved in a heated argument that led to the driver being assaulted, and stole the victim's eyeglasses before fleeing. 1 THINGS TO DO T HE death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman this month has raised many questions about drug addiction, among them: What do drugs such as heroin do to the brain to make them so addictive? Can these chemical changes be undone? Over the past 20 years, research into drug addiction has identified several chemical and physical changes to the brain brought on by addictive substances. There is a wad of nerve cells in the central part of your brain, measuring about 1.25 centimetres across, called the nucleus accumbens. When you eat a doughnut, have sex or do something else your brain associates with survival and breeding, this region is inundated with dopamine, a neurotransmitter. This chemical transaction is partly responsible for the experience of pleasure you get from these activities. Drugs such as heroin also trigger this response, but the dopamine surge from drugs is faster and long- lasting. When a person repeatedly subjects his nucleus accumbens to this narcotic- induced flood, the nerve cells dopamine acts upon become exhausted from stimulation. The brain reacts by dampening its dopamine response - not just to heroin or cocaine, but probably to all forms of pleasurable behaviour. In addition, some of the receptors themselves appear to die off. As a result, hyper- stimulating drugs become the only way to trigger a palpable dopamine response. Drug addicts seek larger and larger hits to achieve an ever- diminishing pleasure experience, and they have trouble feeling satisfaction from the things healthy people enjoy. Behavioural conditioning also plays a role. Once your brain becomes accustomed to the idea eating a doughnut or having sex will provide pleasure, just seeing a doughnut or an attractive potential mate triggers the dopamine cascade into the nucleus accumbens. That's part of the reason it is so difficult for recovering drug addicts to stay clean over the long term. Sights, sounds and smells associated with the drug high - needles, for example, or the friends with whom they used to get high - prime this dopamine response, and the motivation to seek the big reward of a drug hit builds. Recent research suggests the connection between these cues and the motivation to seek a high strengthens over time in the brain of a hardened addict, and this effect has been measured in the form of structural changes in the brains of laboratory animals. Peter Kalivas, a neuroscientist at the Medical University of South Carolina, has a laboratory full of rats addicted to heroin, cocaine, nicotine and other drugs. When he sounds a tone and flicks on a light, the rats know their next hit will soon become available. This cue sets off a series of events in the rats' brains. An electrical signal travels along a neuron, then uses a chemical transmitter to make the jump to the next neuron. The more times the rat experiences the routine - tone and light, followed by a hit of drugs - the more efficiently the chemical signal is transmitted, thus solidifying the neural pathway between the cue and the desire to seek drugs. While the drug- seeking pathway strengthens in the brain of addicted animals, their ability to make alternative pathways diminishes. Researchers refer to this as a loss of plasticity. " Cues that are not coding directly for the drug cannot produce good plasticity in the brain of an addict," says Kalivas. " The system can't learn." People who are addicted to drugs for years accumulate a large number of cues that lead them to seek out a high. Eventually, so much of their life becomes associated with getting high it becomes nearly impossible for them to resist the urge. Going to work makes them think of getting high. Watching television makes them think of getting high. Finishing a meal makes them think of getting high. The situation is not necessarily hopeless. Some pharmaceuticals are being studied that might help degrade transmission along the neural pathway that leads from the cue to the craving for drugs. But until there is a medical solution, it helps to replace the negative voice in an addict's head with the supportive voices of friends and family, redirecting him from the desire to seek drugs. The plasticity of an addicted brain is diminished, not eliminated. - Washington Post By Brian Palmer Habits hard to resist Changes to brain function cause addicts to crave drugs DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES The brain dampens dopamine response for heroin and other drug addicts. 204- 697- 7063 204- 697- 7000 204- 697- 7122 A_ 02_ Feb- 23- 14_ FP_ 01. indd 1 2/ 23/ 14 12: 15: 39 AM ;