Sprout (novel)

Sprout is a young adult gay novel by American author Dale Peck first published in May 2009. The novel depicts an openly gay teenage boy who moves to Kansas after his mother dies from cancer. While he struggles with harassment at school and two potential boyfriends, he has to decide if he will hide his sexual orientation in order to win a statewide essay-writing contest. An act of betrayal leads to the book's climax.

The book won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.Booklist added the novel to its Rainbow List 2010, a bibliography of young adult books which include significant LGBT content.

Peck says he based some characters and plot in the book on his own experiences growing up on Long Island, in New York, and in Kansas.

Plot synopsis

The novel is written in the first person singular. At times, it appears to be in the form of an essay or letter to the reader, but at other times it seems to be simply the protagonist telling his story. Portions of the novel are told in flashback, depicting Sprout's first few months in school. Much of the book is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style. Significant portions of the book focus on peer pressure, the role social stratification and social cohesion play in rural life, and norms of social conservatism.

Sprout (TV network)

Sprout (formerly PBS Kids Sprout) is an independent American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable subsidiary of NBCUniversal. Sprout replaced the PBS Kids channel on some cable and satellite providers. The network, which also maintains a complimentary video-on-demand (VOD) service and website, features a mix of children's programs acquired from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and original programming exclusive to the network, which is aimed at preschoolers and their families. The network's live programming and wraparound segments are produced at NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

As of February 2015, Sprout is available to approximately 58 million pay television households (49.8% of households with television) in the United States.

History

Sprout (computer)

Sprout by HP (styled as sprout) is a personal computer from Hewlett-Packard announced on October 29, 2014 and released for sale on November 9, 2014. The system was conceived by Brad Short. Eric Monsef, a former Apple, Inc employee, is leading the sprout team.

Sprout has dual interactive screens - a vertical touch screen display positioned in-line above a horizontal ‘TouchMat’ display, and also down-facing imaging sensors. The "Sprout Illuminator" serves as a projector, camera, depth sensor and scanner, and projects an image, for example a virtual keyboard, on the TouchMat. For additional input, Sprout includes an Adonit stylus, as well as a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse set. This enables users to interact with physical and digital content while working. Content can be digitally captured and manipulated in 2D or 3D directly on the TouchMat interface. HP claims that this greatly simplifies and streamlines the creative process.

References

External links

  • Official website
  • Falling

    Falling may refer to:

  • Falling (physics), movement due to gravity
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  • Falling (sensation)
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  • Falling (game), a card game created by James Ernest
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  • Falling (Provoost novel), a 1994 novel by Anne Provoost
  • Falling (Howard novel), a 1999 novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Falling (Dickey poem), a 1967 poem by James Dickey
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  • "Fallin'", a 2001 song by Alicia Keys
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  • "Fallin'", a 1978 song from the Musical They're Playing Our Song by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager
  • "Falling", a 1963 song by Roy Orbison
  • "Falling", a 1978 song by Lenny LeBlanc and Pete Carr
  • "Falling", a 2001 song by Praga Khan
  • Falling (sensation)

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    Falling (Haim song)

    "Falling" is a song by American group Haim. The song was released in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2013. It is the third single from their debut studio album Days Are Gone. The song has peaked at #30 on the UK Singles Chart and finished 2013 having sold over 107,500 copies according to UKMIX.org. A music video to accompany the release of "Falling" was first released onto YouTube on February 19, 2013 at a total length of four minutes and eleven seconds. The video was shot in the hills near Pasadena, California. The video's director was Tabitha Denholm, formerly of the band Queens of Noize.

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