Smile

A smile is a facial expression formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth. Some smiles include a contraction of the muscles at the corner of the eyes, an action known as a "Duchenne smile". Smiles performed without the eye contraction can be perceived as "fake".

Among humans, smiling is an expression denoting pleasure, sociability, happiness, or amusement. It is distinct from a similar but usually involuntary expression of anxiety known as a grimace. Although cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communication throughout the world, there are large differences between different cultures, with some using smiles to convey confusion or embarrassment.

Historical background

Primatologist Signe Preuschoft traces the smile back over 30 million years of evolution to a "fear grin" stemming from monkeys and apes who often used barely clenched teeth to portray to predators that they were harmless. The smile may have evolved differently among species and especially among humans. Apart from Biology as an academic discipline that interprets the smile, those who study kinesics and psychology such as Freitas-Magalhaes view the smile as an affect display that can communicate feelings such as love, happiness, pride, contempt, and embarrassment.

Smile! (novel)

Smile! is a children's book by Geraldine McCaughrean. In 2004 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award.

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Smile (The Beach Boys album)

Smile (occasionally typeset as SMiLE) was a projected album by American rock band the Beach Boys intended to follow their 11th studio album Pet Sounds. After the group's songwriting leader Brian Wilson abandoned large portions of music recorded between 1966 and 1967, the band recorded and released the dramatically scaled-down Smiley Smile album in its place. Some of the original Smile tracks eventually found their way onto subsequent Beach Boys studio and compilation albums. As more fans learned of the project's origins, details of its recordings acquired considerable mystique, and it was later acknowledged as the most legendary unreleased album in the history of popular music.

Working with lyricist Van Dyke Parks, Smile was composed as a multi-thematic concept album, existing today in its unfinished and fragmented state as an unordered series of abstract musical vignettes. Its genesis came during the recording of Pet Sounds, when Wilson began recording a new single: "Good Vibrations". The track was created by an unprecedented recording technique: over 90 hours of tape was recorded, spliced, and reduced into a three-minute pop song. It quickly became the band's biggest international hit yet; Smile was to be produced in a similar fashion. Wilson touted the album "a teenage symphony to God," incorporating a diverse range of music styles including psychedelic, doo-wop, barbershop singing, ragtime, yodeling, early American folk, classical music, and avant-garde explorations into noise and musical acoustics. Its projected singles were "Heroes and Villains", a Western musical comedy, and "Vega-Tables", a satire of physical fitness.

Prototype (company)

Prototype Ltd. (株式会社プロトタイプ, Kabushiki kaisha Purototaipu) is a Japanese software company established on March 27, 2006 by Toshio Tabeta, a former producer of Interchannel. While still with Interchannel, Tabeta's team was responsible for mainly developing and publishing versions of visual novels originally published by VisualArt's for consumer platforms like the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. After Prototype split off from Interchannel, the company still continued to work with VisualArt's. Prototype is also involved in producing mobile phone ports through VisualArt's Motto which Prototype manages. Prototype has also produced a set of drama CDs based on Key's visual novel Clannad.

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Prototype (series)

Prototype is an open world action-adventure video game series that consists of two main games and two comic book series. The franchise is developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. The games have been developed for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. A remastered bundle, that include both games titled Prototype: Biohazard Bundle was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles on July 14, 2015.

Main games

Prototype

Alex Mercer, a brilliant scientist who is seeking the truth of a conspiracy that threatens the existence life of humanity. Mercer is later aided by his sister Dana, and a morgue scientist, Bradley Ragland in his search for the truth. Mercer realizes that he was responsible for the viral outbreak in Manhattan. In order to save the city from being destroyed by Blackwatch, a shady military organization determined to stop the spread of virus and Mercer, he allies himself with Robert Cross who was part of Blackwatch. Mercer succeeds in saving the city from destruction, but becomes a ghost among its people.

Prototype (George Lopez)

"Prototype" is the pilot episode and first episode of the television series George Lopez. The episode centers on George getting promoted after 15 years working on the assembly line and has to fire either his mom or his best friend.

Plot

George is excited about being manager and being promoted. He goes to work after a talk with his daughter Carmen Lopez, a 13-year-old, about how she wrote in a letter that she "had her period " to get out of swim class; however, she didn't really have it. George says to get back at her he will tell a lie to her and she will not know it was a lie. At work, George talks to Jack, his boss, who tells George he has to fire his mom or his best friend. Before a big barbecue taking place at George's house, George tells Angie Lopez (George's wife) that he is going to fire his mom and she might have to live with them. Angie reluctantly accepts.

Shortly after, Angie tells Carmen that she will need her to watch Max and his friends at the barbecue when they are on the slip 'n' slide. Carmen says no and Angie, furious with her, tells George to tell Carmen that she has to. George talks to her and Carmen says the reason why she doesn't want to watch Max and his friends is because if she is watching kids by a Slip 'N Slide, she will need to wear a swimsuit and if she does her armpit hair will show. George finds out this is why she wouldn't go to Swim Team and George tells Carmen that she can use his shaver. At the barbecue, Carmen claims her underarms burn because of the dullness of the shaver George gave her. George finds out Carmen didn't change the blade on the shaver and tells her the shaver she used was the one that was used to shave his uncle before he was buried. Carmen begins to panic, until Angie tells her, "That's why you don't lie to people" believing that to be the lie he told Carmen about. After Carmen leaves, George informs Angie that what he said wasn't a lie.