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A buzzer or beeper is an audio signalling device, which may be mechanical, electromechanical, or piezoelectric. Typical uses of buzzers and beepers include alarm devices, timers and confirmation of user input such as a mouse click or keystroke.
A joy buzzer is an example of a purely mechanical buzzer.
Early devices were based on an electromechanical system identical to an electric bell without the metal gong. Similarly, a relay may be connected to interrupt its own actuating current, causing the contacts to buzz. Often these units were anchored to a wall or ceiling to use it as a sounding board. The word "buzzer" comes from the rasping noise that electromechanical buzzers made.
A piezoelectric element may be driven by an oscillating electronic circuit or other audio signal source, driven with a piezoelectric audio amplifier. Sounds commonly used to indicate that a button has been pressed are a click, a ring or a beep.
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.
As a judge, Cowell is known for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their abilities. He is also known for combining activities in both the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including television personalities. He was most recently featured on the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent and the first season of The X Factor USA.
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Cowell at number 41 in a list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".
Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire. His mother, Julie Brett (née Josie Dalglish), is a former ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell (1918–1999), was an estate agent developer and music industry executive. Cowell's father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his background with his children (Cowell's paternal grandmother had immigrated from Poland). Cowell's mother was from a Christian background, and is of part Scottish descent. He has one brother and three half-brothers and a half sister; younger brother Nicholas Cowell, half-brother John Cowell, half-brother Tony Cowell, half-brother Michael Cowell and half sister June Cowell.
Actors: Brandon Slagle (actor), Libertad Green (actress), Marcus Natividad (actor), Krystyna Ahlers (actress), Geoff Pilkington (actor), Denesa Chan (actress), Maya Dajón (actress), Sandy Balat (actress), Joe Comino (actor),
Genres: Reality-TV,Actors: Laz Alonso (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Zach Galifianakis (actor), Tony Hale (actor), Vinnie Jones (actor), Chuck Liddell (actor), Robert Remus (actor), Henry Rollins (actor), Alan Tudyk (actor), Julianne Moore (actress), Olivia Wilde (actress), Mike Farah (producer), Sean Boyle (miscellaneous crew), Joey Kern (actor), Joey Kern (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Nick Bicât (composer), Wayne Robson (actor), Sheila McCarthy (actress), Brenda Fricker (actress), Edward Fox (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Michael Cera (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Tom Conti (actor), Scott Wickware (actor), Karl Pruner (actor), Dan Gosse (miscellaneous crew), Ned Vukovic (miscellaneous crew), Ned Vukovic (actor), Kevin Gillis (producer),
Plot: A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball.
Keywords: 1930s, based-on-novel, british, cinderella, elderly-couple, fairy-tale, footman, irish, kitchen-maid, maidActors: Tom Waits (actor), Sam Neill (actor), Tom Waits (actor), Rüdiger Vogler (actor), Max von Sydow (actor), Naoto Takenaka (actor), Peter Przygodda (actor), David Byrne (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), Chishû Ryû (actor), William Hurt (actor), Eddy Mitchell (actor), Diogo Dória (actor), Kuniko Miyake (actress), Lois Chiles (actress),
Plot: Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the bank money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law (Hurt), an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are false, he claims. They want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and vision. On the run from both the bank robbers and the CIA, the couple span the globe, ending up in Australia at his father's (von Sydow) research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Hurt captured for his blind mother. Set in the futuristic year of 1999, a subplot about a damaged Indian nuclear satellite crashing and causing the end of civilization is a puzzling addition to the film.
Keywords: 1990s, australia, bank-robber, blindness, box-office-flop, cyberpunk, dream, electro-magnetic-pulse, end-of-the-millenium, end-of-the-worldActors: Anthony Daniels (actor), Michael Elphick (actor), Ed Devereaux (actor), Burt Kwouk (actor), Neil Morrissey (actor), Daniel Peacock (actor), David Daker (actor), Peter Lovstrom (actor), Emma Thomas (miscellaneous crew), John Wolskel (actor), John Wolskel (producer), John Wolskel (writer), George Rossi (actor), David Haydn-Jones (actor), Colin Campbell (actor),
Plot: When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.
Keywords: creature-feature, independent-film, lavatory-bowl, motorcycle, spoof, talking-turd, toilet-humorActors: Peter Cullen (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Charles Adler (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Jackson Beck (actor), Gregg Berger (actor), Earl Boen (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Jack Angel (actor), Corey Burton (actor), William Callaway (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Brian Cummings (actor),
Plot: Time and time again, Cobra has been on the threshhold of global domination, only to be thwarted by the Joes. Now the ruthless terrorist organization has a new ally, the Cobra-La race, led by Golobulus. Golobulus wants to steal the Joes' "Broadcast Energy Transmitter" in order to ripen space spores and mutate the people of Earth. When Duke is injured and the rest of the force immobilized, it's up to the new "rawhides" and Slaughter's Marauders to pick up the slack and save the world
Keywords: 2d-animation, action-hero, action-violence, apocalypse, armed-forces, army, based-on-toy, based-on-tv-series, battle, battlefieldActors: Chuck McCann (actor), Rob Paulsen (actor), Charles Adler (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Jack Angel (actor), Corey Burton (actor), William Callaway (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Brian Cummings (actor), Gregg Berger (actor), Robert Remus (actor), Michael Bell (actor),
Plot: After yet another defeat inflicted by G.I. Joe, the immediate subordinates of Cobra's leader, Cobra Commander, have finally come to the end of their patience with his apparent incompetence and his inability to achieve real victories. The leader of the research and interrogations wing, Dr. Mindbender, receives a dream showing the solution. His plan is to collect the genetic material of great warriors and military leaders to create a composite clone that would be the perfect leader for Cobra. Now they set out to put this scheme into motion, and G.I. Joe has very little time to learn of this plot before Cobra becomes that much more a dire threat to the world.
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