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This could be the start of something big! Worlds of Fun is searching for the Midwest's most talented singers and dancers to appear in our 1993 show program. Performing at Worlds of Fun is the perfect summer job for students. If you work the entire season (six days per week in the summer, and weekends in the spring and fall) you can earn over $7,000!
"All the Words a Stage" at Worlds of Fun, from our lively 50's-60's rock revue, STAX OF WAX, to our spectacular New Broadway-styled production at the Tivol Music Hall. Performing at Worlds of Fun is fun, and it can be that important First Step. More than 1.3 million Worlds of Fun visitors are waiting to discover YOU!!
AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS;
If you are a singer, please sing one verse and the chorus of two contrasting songs of song, one up-temp and one ballad. Sing any type music you enjoy; rock, gospel, show tunes, etc. (no rap.) if you are a dancer, please prepare a jazz routine. Please limit your material to no more than three minutes in length. (No jobs are available for dramatic actors or instrumentalists.)
You must provide your own accompaniment,
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, February 3:
The University of Kansas
In the Kansas Room (level 6) at the Kansas Union.
3:00 p.m. (Registration closes at 5:00 p.m.)
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Saturday, January 23:
The Park Place Hotel, Shoshone/Cherokee Room
1601 North Universal Ave.
(Off I-435 at Front Street, one mile South of
Worlds of Fun)
10:00 a.m. (Registration closes at 4:00 p.m.)
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Saturday, January 30:
The Holdiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Seville Room
4445 Main Street. (Just north of the Plaza.)
9:00 a.m. (Registration closes at 4:00 p.m.)
For more information and a complete audition schedule, contact the Worlds of Fun Show Productions Department, at (816) 454-4545. Ext.
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"When customers are shopping for an answering machine, they're not thinking about security," he said. "They're in the middle of a sequence, feature, reliability and price."
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Leiber said that he learned of the duplicate access codes when a customer asked about the security of answering machines with remote features. The two compared several machines and found identical codes for various units.
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not aware of these shared codes but thought that it was important for customers to know about them.
Donna Pearson, assistant manager at McDuff Electronic & Appliance Supercenter, 2806 Iowa St., said that as popular as answering machines in Lawrence were, particularly those of AT&T, people should be made aware of the chance for identical codes.
"A cordless telephone is nothing more than a transmitter and a receiver," said Don Rixon, a sales representative at Radio Shack and a retired U.S. Air Force technical sergeant who had Strategic Air Command computers.
"Basically, if you pick up a cordless telephone, expect someone else to be listening." Rixon said.
Chase Ford, representative of Unisonic's marketing and consumer research, said that preset machines were the norm between 1985 and 1988
Later, after researching the shared codes, Leiber said that he learned that identical numbers were given to each production run of the units at the manufacturer's plant. One or two-digit codes gave the manufacturers limited choices, he said.
The 10 frequencies used by cordless telephones were in the 40 to 50 megahertz range, he said. Anyone with a portable receiver designed to pick up these frequencies could listen on telephone conversations up to a quarter mile away.
Of course, to access another answering machine a person would have to know the brand, model and in some cases, when the unit was bought. But Tim Wolfe, a manager at Radio Shack, 711.W 23rd.St, said that
those specifics might not always be necessary.
Wolfe said that he accessed a friend's new machine once as a prank and changed the announcement without the friend knowing about it.
"He figured it out after a couple of days of mad phone calls," he said.
Wolfe said that he figured out the access code from what he called, "dumb luck." The friend had purchased a machine with a programmable code.
The best way to prevent interception of conversations is to heed the instruction manual's warning. All of the manuals warn that it is best to pass confidential information over a conventional telephone line. For those die-hard cordless users though, a unit that scrambles the signal between the phone and the receiver, making the conversation unintelligible, is available for slightly more than $150.
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"To say 'code' with less than three digits hints at a lawsuit," Ford said. "That'a grave error or misrepresentation on the manufacturer's part."
Answering machine manufacturers acknowledged the lack of security provided by their products but said that those less-expensive models were designed for consumers on the lower end of the market who did not require multiple-message capability or a high degree of security.
However, she did say that with the exception of the 1306, most nonchangeable models would be discontinued.
Any unit with two digits or less was an access number, he said. Units with three digits or more, preset or programmable, have codes because of the effort required to gain access randomly.
Michelle Murray, an AT&T customer representative, said that the company's answering machine models 1306 and 1317 were made for customers who were not concerned with security.
Although intercepting messages from other answering machines can be easy, listening to conversations on cordless telephones is even easier.
"If that is a big factor, then they will pay the extra money," she said. "That's why we make the more expensive alternatives."
Murray said that two of those alternatives included the newer 1321 and 1521 models, which have two-digit programmable codes.
Customers' requests brought about units with three-digit codes, but he said that Unisonic preferred to stay with the basic models and leave the higher end of the market to giants like PhoneMate, Panasonic and A&T.
Ford stressed that consumers should be aware of the difference between "access numbers" and "security codes."
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