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Grin
Grin, grins, or GRIN may refer to: * A facial expression, see smile * ''Grin'' (Coroner album), 1993 * Grin (band), a band formed by Nils Lofgren ** '' Grin (Grin album)'', 1971 * "Grins" (song), a 2013 song by Charli XCX off the album ''True Romance'' (Charli XCX album) * Grin (surname) *Grins, Austria * Germplasm Resources Information Network, a software project * Grin (company), a defunct Swedish video game developer * GRIN Campaign, an organisation which campaigns for equality in education * GRIN, an acronym for gradient index; see Gradient-index optics Gradient-index (GRIN) optics is the branch of optics covering optical effects produced by a gradient of the refractive index of a material. Such gradual variation can be used to produce lenses with flat surfaces, or lenses that do not have the a ... See also * * * Grün, a German word and surname meaning ''green'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Among humans, a smile expresses delight, sociability, happiness, joy, 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 among different cultures, religions, and societies, with some using smiles to convey confusion, embarrassment, or awkwardness. Evolutionary 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 or to signal submission to more dominant group members. The smile may have evolved differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grin (Coroner Album)
''Grin'' is the fifth studio album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released in 1993. It was the band's final album before their fourteen-year break up from 1996 to 2010, and to date, other than several new tracks on the 1995 compilation album ''Coroner'', ''Grin'' remains the most recent studio album by the band. It is also the last Coroner album to feature drummer Marky Edelmann, who left the band in 2014. Musical style ''Grin'' is considered a major departure from Coroner's previous works, moving to much greater experimentation. It is more focused on the aspects of progressive and technical metal, as opposed to the traditional thrash metal template of its predecessors. The album also incorporates elements of alternative metal, groove metal and industrial metal, and retains some of the avant-garde influences from the band's previous albums '' No More Color'' (1989) and '' Mental Vortex'' (1991). Reissues After being out of print for many years, Noise/BMG reissued the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grin (band)
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a member of Crazy Horse, and founder/frontman of the band Grin. Lofgren was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014. Biography Early life and career Lofgren was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, to an Italian mother and a Swedish father. When he was a young child, the family moved to the Washington, D.C., suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. Lofgren's first instrument was classical accordion, beginning at age five, which he studied seriously for ten years. After studying classical music and jazz, throughout his youth, Lofgren switched his emphasis to rock music, and focused on the piano and the guitar. Although left-handed, Lofgren plays the guitar right-handed. Lofgren attended his local public hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grin (Grin Album)
''Grin'' is a 1971 album by Grin, featuring songs by their guitarist Nils Lofgren. As well as being an album in its own right, this was released by CBS in the UK as part of a 1976 double album set along with its successor ''1+1''. In 2005, it was issued on CD in remastered form, with the addition of two more tracks from the original sessions. The album was dedicated to Roy Buchanan with "special thanks" to Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Track listing All tracks composed by Nils Lofgren # "Like Rain" - 3:38 # "See What a Love Can Do" - 5:02 (*) (Jerry Williams - scat vocals) # "Everybody's Missin' the Sun" - 2:44 # "18 Faced Lover" - 3:26 # "Outlaw" - 4:02 (*) # "We All Sung Together" - 3:44 # "If I Were a Song" - 3:10 # "Take You to the Movies Tonight" - 1:45 # "Direction" - 4:14 # "Pioneer Mary" - 3:45 (*) # "Open Wide" - 3:02 # "I Had Too Much (Miss Dazi)" - 3:23 2005 Sony CD bonus tracks # "Nobody" - 2:57 # "Sing for Happiness" - 3:15 (**) All songs writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Romance (Charli XCX Album)
''True Romance'' is the debut studio album by English singer Charli XCX. It was released on 12 April 2013 by Asylum and Atlantic Records. Originally scheduled for release in April 2012, the album's release was delayed for a full year and had been in the making since early 2010 when Charli met with producer Ariel Rechtshaid in Los Angeles. To promote the album's release, Charli embarked on a three-day UK promotional tour in April 2013. Background and recording At 14, Charli XCX persuaded her parents to grant her a loan to record her first album, ''14'', and, in early 2008, began posting songs from the album as well as numerous other demos on her official Myspace page. This caught the attention of a promoter running various illegal warehouse raves and parties in East London, who invited her to perform at them. She was billed on flyers under the stage name Charli XCX, which was her MSN Messenger display name when she was younger. Despite the illicit nature of the gigs, her parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grin (surname)
Grin or Hryn (Ukrainian variant) is the surname of the following people * Alexander Grin (1880–1932), Russian novelist * Elda Grin, Armenian writer, psychologist and legal expert * François Grin François Grin (born 14 September 1959) is a Swiss people, Swiss economist. One of his research fields is the economics of language. Grin studied economics at the University of Geneva, where he obtained a doctorate summa cum laude in 1989. He the ... (born 1959), Swiss economist * Serhiy Hryn (footballer) (born 1994), Ukrainian footballer * Serhiy Hryn (rower) (born 1981), Ukrainian rower {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grins, Austria
Grins is a municipality in the Landeck district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 3.7 km west of Landeck and 18 km east of Sankt Anton am Arlberg. The village has 10 subdivisions. Settlement of the area already began 2000 years ago because of the sunny climate but the village was mentioned for the first time in documents in 1288 as „''Grindes''“. In 1945 the location was greatly destroyed by a conflagration A conflagration is a large fire in the built environment that spreads via structure to structure ignition due to radiant or convective heat, or ember transmission. Conflagrations often damage human life, animal life, health, and/or property. A c ... but could be restored true to the original. Main source of income is summer tourism, but the village becomes a commuter community more and more. References External links Cities and towns in Landeck District {{Tyrol-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germplasm Resources Information Network
Germplasm Resources Information Network or GRIN is an online USDA National Genetic Resources Program software project to comprehensively manage the computer database for the holdings of all plant germplasm collected by the National Plant Germplasm System. GRIN has extended its role to manage information on the germplasm reposits of insect (invertebrate), microbial, and animal species (see sub-projects). Description The site is a resource for identifying taxonomic information (scientific names) as well as common names on more than 500,000 accessions (distinct varieties, cultivars etc.) of plants covering 10,000 species; It gives 450,000 accessions (outdated; GRIN gives 500,000 as of June 2012). both economically important ones and wild species. It profiles plants that are invasive or noxious weeds, threatened or endangered, giving out data on worldwide distribution of its habitat; as well as passport information. GRIN also incorporates an Economic Plants Database. The netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grin (company)
Grin AB was a video game developer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded by Bo and Ulf Andersson in 1997, Grin worked on numerous titles for the Personal computer, PC, Video game console, consoles and Video arcade, arcade. Grin filed for bankruptcy and became defunct on August 12, 2009, and its founders went on to create Overkill Software. History Grin was founded by brothers Bo and Ulf Andersson in 1997. After Grin's first release ''Ballistics (video game), Ballistics'' (PC, arcade), in 2001, Grin released the critically acclaimed ''Bandits: Phoenix Rising'' (PC) and several arcade machines, as well as military and civilian simulators. Grin went on to develop two games for Ubisoft, ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter'' (PC) and ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2'' (PC). ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'' (downloadable via Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, PC), ''Bionic Commando (2009 video game), Bionic Commando'' (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC), ''Wanted: Weapons o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GRIN Campaign
GRIN Campaign, Global Respect in Education, is a transatlantic non-profit organisation and advocacy group which campaigns primarily for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/ questioning (LGBTQ) people's social and political equality in education."Teens from Sussex School Go Public with Their GRIN Photo Campaign to Combat Bulling of Gays in Schools", ''UK Gay News'', December 31, 2010. It seeks to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in all educational institutes with an underlying message that "being different was 'cool'". It is one of the first campaigns of its kind to originate outside the United States, be run by students and intentionally international.Tom C. "Gaytalk Live", 4 December 2010, Episode 048/383, ''Queer Public Radio''.Jason Chu, B. Brian Topaz editor, "Put On a GRIN and Stand for Equality", ''SF Gam Newpower'', 9 December 2011. The campaign supports both direct action and a viral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gradient-index Optics
Gradient-index (GRIN) optics is the branch of optics covering optical effects produced by a gradient of the refractive index of a material. Such gradual variation can be used to produce lenses with flat surfaces, or lenses that do not have the aberrations typical of traditional spherical lenses. Gradient-index lenses may have a refraction gradient that is spherical, axial, or radial. In nature The lens of the eye is the most obvious example of gradient-index optics in nature. In the human eye, the refractive index of the lens varies from approximately 1.406 in the central layers down to 1.386 in less dense layers of the lens. This allows the eye to image with good resolution and low aberration at both short and long distances. Another example of gradient index optics in nature is the common mirage of a pool of water appearing on a road on a hot day. The pool is actually an image of the sky, apparently located on the road since light rays are being refracted (bent) from their n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
