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Mgmt, Mktg Part 3 of 3 Wed Sept 18 8pm-llpm Part 3 of 4 3Vcd Sept 18 7 pm-9 pm Part 3 of 4 Wed Sept 18 7pm-9pm Part 3 of 3 Wed Sept 18 6pra-9pm Part 2 of 3 Tue Sept 17 9pm-12am Part 3 of 3 Wed Sept j 8 9pm-12am .— Part 4 of 4 Sun Sept 22 7pm-10pm Part 4 of 4 Sun Sept 22 7pm-10pm llil laiiiiii Tickets go on sale Sunday at 4:00 p.m. 4.0 & Go Is located on the corner of SW Pkwy and Tx Ave, behind KFC next to Lack’s. Check our web page at http://www.4.0andGo.com or call 696-8886{TUTOR) 6B Thursday, September 12, 2002 IMKRNaTIO the BATTai Web Internet users blocked from viewing politically dangerous si . . _r._i tn conipic l sers are uuitr an». \oIuine 10 SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Call it an upgrade of the Great Fire Wall of China. In the last week and a half, China has begun using more sophisticated, expensive tech nologies in an effort to keep its growing number of Internet users from viewing undesirable content on the Web. Starting about Sept. 1, users of the U.S.-based search engine Google have found themselves rerouted to a half dozen Chinese-run search engines that are less effective. Google has a feature for finding Chinese-lan- guage material online. A few days ago, users of another American search engine, Altavista.com, also found they were being rerouted to the same heavily censored Chinese sites. This week, users have begun complaining of an increase in selective blocking — being able to visit Web sites but not being able to see specific articles or other content of a politically sensitive nature. A common complaint has been that users can access a for eign media site but find only a blank screen when they try to call up an article on, for exam ple, Chinese President Jiang Zemin. In its usual secretive way, Beijing made no announcement of the new measures and refused to confirm their existence. But analysts say the meas ures represent a technological leap from the earlier “Great Fire Wall” of China, which had clumsily tried to block entire Web sites deemed politically dangerous or pornographic. “Blocking has been escalat ed in the last week or so. It’s a new high-water mark in Internet controls,” said Duncan Clark, managing director of BDA China Ltd., a Beijing-based Internet consulting firm. Clark and others said the new blocking seems to be related to a Communist Party Congress scheduled for November — a time when restrictions on speech are often tightened. This congress is especially sensitive because Jiang is expected to give up his post as secretary-general, beginning a process of handing over power to younger leaders. Ben Edelman. a Harvard University researcher who has been documenting Chinese online censorship, said China’s recent filtering modifications “show in new clarity their dedi cation to restricting access to content they deem undesirable, inappropriate or simply illegal.” Analysts say they’re more interested in whether the con trols will be eased after the con gress. Pressure to do so will be intense because of the economic costs, analysts said. Installing and upgrading new censorship software is expensive, and the restrictions lead to hensive searches and b all Internet use. On the other hand. >mpre- down tie} may be reluctant ft authori- give up “Users are quite angr, rely on foreign search a work tool,” said the who spoke on condi anonymity. “We can ty their new powers. Chinese customers that the We Internet companies may also were shut down b> the E want the restrictions kept in ment and that we can do j place to block foreign competi- about it.” tors. A marketing exec. “It’ll be an early test of the Shanghai Online, uh tenor of the new administration” asked not to be named. ^ that replaces Jiang. Clark said. of its Ch mese-languagt The decision highlights a engine ha s surged thisnxt contradiction at the core of The government's Beijing’s Internet policy: it blocking of entire site encourages commercial and ttMrHnoioL! ically fairh pr educational use by China s 30 and invol ved placing fo million-plus users while restrict- what wci ■c then a hare ing it as a forum for political intematio nal gateways-i discussion. China’s | piece of the h Many Chinese users arc merged u ith the broadr. already complaining that the supemetu -ork. Internet s business utility is But gi iteways are pr. being damaged. mg, and ( he site-specific: “Without the English search lire loo i easily suleswpcc engines, users in China are at a proxy ser s ers, compomr dead end,” said Ben, a 36-year- that help i mask a user's ft old employee at a foreign com- pany in Shanghai who uses the The n ew. selective k Internet for work. He asked that tcchnolog ies make it race his family name not be used for difficult to access for?. fear of official retaliation. information. Clark aa: “Chinese engines don't pro- said. Yet I they are technc- : vide sufficient information on ly more difficult to atk Chinese-language sites, let — and more costh alone English sites.” he said. requests i ire tree to lea'; An operator at the customer but many incoming Wr service center of Shanghai arc bloc! ted based oc: Online, the largest service key w'ords provider in China’s largest city. “The Chinese hav; said the company has been del- working on these ne^ifT uged with complaints. gics for y ears, L tart si By Melis THE 8/ ■ Many stud< H>rld hope to c Hues to puisu Hn. But in Oc tional restrictioi ^ftre placed by Htion in ovei Hiponse to the I Triwahyu \N ident for th Report: Winter may bring high oil pric Ten LONDON (AP) — Higher, more volatile oil prices will loom this winter if OPEC refuses to boost crude production as major importing countries head into the peak heating oil season, an industry report warned Wednesday. A decrease last month in crude exports from Iraq has squeezed supplies and con tributed to a dwindling of U.S. inventories. Global demand, meanwhile, is forecast to rise by a robust 1.6 million barrels a day in the fourth quarter, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly oil market report. Markets now face a challenge similar to that in 1999, when a plunge in oil invento ries paved the way for a spike in prices and extreme instability, it said. “Today’s situation is every bit as precar ious, given the fragile state of the global economy and the threat of military action against Iraq,” the agency said in an unusu ally pointed message. However, some respected industry ana lysts argued that the IEA has overstated this danger. “We think it’s exaggerated,” said I eo Drollas, chief economist for the Center tor Global Energy Studies. He suggested that the IEA might have "some kind of political agenda" for making such a sharp warning. The Paris-based 1HA is the energy watchdog agency for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a grouping of rich, oil-importing nations. It is, in effect, a consumer organization. “So they’re sending a message saying. ’We need more oil just in case.”' said Lawrence Eagles, head of commodity research for London brokerage GNI Ltd. World oil production slipped to 76.1 million barrels in August, down 5K(),(XX) barrels a day from July. At the same time, the IEA raised its estimate of demand growth for the third quarter by 220,(XX) bar rels a day to 76.5 million barrels. Global demand would swell to 78.1 million barrels a day in the fourth quarter, it said. The United States, the lEA’s most pow erful member and the world’s biggest importer of oil, is seen to be leaning on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting 19 steady untries to boost production tubers meet in Osaka, Japan, o Washington hopes an increase« ' energy markets if it goes against Iraq. I raders concerns about tfc led war against OPEC-m®**i have on Middle East oi! ilready inflated the price of oii t estimates, this “war prerai® S2-4 to the price of each tan? r I f C ■ U.S might have me adde~ J f Last month, the price of US. sweet crude burst through the psych cally important barrier of $30 a bar: the first time since February decrease in Iraqi exports of 270.000h a day contributed to this upward pf? on prices. So did a 510.000 barreled daily production from the North Sea,® seasonal maintenance of oil rigs therc report said. 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