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Instead, on Qiristmas Day they looked over some of his sketches and poetry and lit candles in his memory. iClei voters' wra over power deresoMio NEWSPAPER SINCE 1903 man swimming in the lake at left the scene before the man was out of the lake. Mall management has refused to comment but it did issue a statement offering condolences to the family. "We still can't believe he's gone," said Candace, her voice choked with tears. i 4 1 I 1 Newfoundland seven years ago.

"I've seen people crumble when they get up on stage because of the pressure. And Tve seen it work the other way too. If you use pressure properly, you can make it work in your favour." See DARTS I A14 CHRIS PURDY Journal Staff Writer EDMONTON Loren Daniel Brown was a joker, but his family doesn't thinkhe would have jumped into West Edmonton Mall's indoor lagoon just for fun. "We don't believe he would do City woman is making darts lislory Gci King is the first woman to compete in world championslup CURTIS STOCK Journal Staff Writer EDMONTON Jolly old England is in a bit of a tizzy these days. For the first time, a woman has been invited into the previously male-only inner sanctum of the Skol Professional Dart Council's world cham "Alotof people think women can't be as good as men in darts.

I don't" Gayl King pionship and that woman isn't even a Brit She's Edmonton's Gayl King. When King, a 36-year-old bookkeeper and mother of two, steps on to the stage against Graeme Stoddart on Fri day at the Circus Tavern in Pur-fleet, England, every professional dart player in the world will be watching. "No one wants to play a woman in the first round of this, because you could be forever remembered as the guy who lost to the first ever lad in the world championships," English darts commentator Sid Waddell said on the FlanetcLirts.co.uk Web site. "They are creating a piece of TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2000 as a prank Although everyone is obviously heartbroken, she said the entire family went ahead with its Christmas dinner Monday at her home for the sake of the children. She said Brown loved being an uncle and spent time with her two boys.

See PRANK I A14 fears to "Yeah, I'm worried. But you can't put off an election just because there are difficult challenges." Premier Ralph Klein "I guess they (opposition) can capitalize on it, and we will take some of the blame," Klein added. But Klein said change always brings uncertainty, suggesting that's only part of the problem with deregulation, which underwent legislative approval five years ago but doesn't come into effect until Jan. 1. "People wanted to know whaj all the rules and so on were going to be," Klein said.

"But none of the power companies in particular are saying 'stop They're say ing: "We're so far along, we're in-; to this, you've had the power auc tions'andsoon." Klein said there are other factors besides deregulation that have contributed to soaring electricity prices and "rough times" in the market, which include shortages of power generation to meet demand. See KLEIN I A13 Coming Wednesday: How the Liberals plan to make energy costs an election issue. INSIDE TODAY Mainly cloudy. -4. Low -11.

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A2 MIM i I Li I 55829 00050 2 that," said his sister-in-law Can-dace. "He had the best sense of humour but he was shy as well. "We don't even remember him being a swimmer." Brown, 22, is believed to have drowned in the indoor lake early Saturday morning. His body was recovered later in the morning as hundreds of Christmas 9 ft 11 IS British bookies are giving darts history," added English darts historian Patrick Chaplin. There will be those who want to see Gayl beaten and those willing her to win." Despite being quoted at odds of in British bookmak-ing circles, King says she isn't worried about her role in darts December 1990, the Web suc ceeded because of its simplicity and Bemers-Lee wants to keep it that way.

"My worry is that well make a system that isn't conceptually clean enough so that in 10 years' time, well find the technology is limiting," he said. Hints of this British computer scientist's humble and shy nature comes through as he describes the Web's origins, evolution and future in his cluttered office at the World Wide Web Consortium, an organization he formed in 1994 to develop Web standards. Unlike scores of other software innovators, Bemers-Lee didn't seek to get rich off the Web. For the first three years, he wasn't even sure it would take off. 4 3 odds But he won't alter his plan to call election for March ASHLEY GEDDES Provincial Affairs Writer EDMONTON Premier Ralph Klein says he's worried about fighting a provin cial election with the furore over electricity costs and deregulation hanging over his government But he recently said a year- end interview that anger over high energy prices and what's happening in the electricity in dustry hasn't made him budge from his plan to call voters to the polls in March.

Teah, rm worried, Klein said when asked if negative public reaction could be a factor the election. "Butyoucan'tputoff an election just because there are difficult challenges." While political analysts say the Conservatives are still favoured for another election victory, Klein conceded high energy costs and problems with electricity in particular could hand the opposition an election campaign issue. Of course it a concern, he said. "But if it's not electricity, it would be something else. I don't know what, but I'm sure that there would be an issue.

IAN JACKSON, THE JOURNAL against Gayl King, but she's confident she can hold her own. 10 years later, Web creator just trying to keep it simple history. "A lot of people think women can't be as good as men in darts. I don't" She isn't worried about the pressure either. "Everyone gets nervous.

If you're not nervous, that's when something is wrong," said King, who moved to Edmonton from "At any point, we were waiting for something to happen a competing commercial product to knock it out of existence or a competing Internet service to knock it out of existence," he recalled. An information retrieval system called Gopher emerged as a competitor, but many users abandoned it in 1993 when the University of Minnesota tried to charge for the software. Later that year, when a team at the University of Illinois's National Centre for Supercomput-ing Applications released Mosaic, the first browser to combine graphics and text on a single page, Bemers-Lee knew his invention would survive. See WEB I All Tim Bemers-Lee says out-of-control growth is Web biggest threat The Attociated Prett CAMBRIDGE. MASS.

It's amazing to diink today, with the World Wide Web now spanning some seven million sites, that its creator could barely get his colleagues interested at first. Ten years kter, Tim Bemers-Lee has different worries: keeping the Web from growing out of control as corrmercial developers pile layer after layer of software on top of the Web's foundation. Bom as an unsanctioned project at a European physics lab in I IU iHTr THf ASSOCIAIfD miss Tim Eerrters-lee created the World Wide Web a decade ago. 4- ijlllji fJkiElBj.