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Sprout Group
Sprout or Sprouts may refer to: Botany * Brussels sprout, an edible vegetable of the ''brasicca'' genus * Shoot, the early growth of a plant * Sprouting, the practice of germinating seeds, often for food purposes ** Alfalfa sprouts ** bean sprouts: *** Soybean sprout *** Mung bean sprout ** Broccoli sprouts Places * Sprout, Kentucky * Sprout Creek, in Dutchess County, New York * Sprouts of the Mohawk River, a section of the Mohawk River People * Sprout (surname) * Sprout, a pseudonym of the Irish author Michael Carroll (born 1966) * Sprouts Elder (1904–1957), international motorcycle speedway rider Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Sprout'' (2012 TV series), a series of Japanese drama aired on Nippon Television * Sprout (block), a program block on Universal Kids, previously an American television network * ''Sprout'' (novel), a 2009 young adult novel by Dale Peck * ''Sprouts'' (game), a pencil-and-paper game * Little Green Sprout, the sidekick to the Jolly Green Gia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels Sprout
The Brussels sprout is a member of the Gemmifera cultivar group of cabbages (''Brassica oleracea''), grown for its edible buds. Etymology Though native to the Mediterranean region with other cabbage species, Brussels sprouts first appeared in northern Europe during the 5th century; they were later cultivated in the 13th century near Brussels, Belgium, from which their name derives. The group name Gemmifera (or lowercase and italicized ''gemmifera'' as a variety name) means "bud-bearing". Description The leaf vegetables are typically in diameter and resemble miniature cabbages. Cultivation History Predecessors to modern Brussels sprouts were probably cultivated in Ancient Rome. Brussels sprouts as they are now known were grown possibly as early as the 13th century in what is now Belgium. The first written reference dates to 1587. During the 16th century, they enjoyed a popularity in the southern Netherlands that eventually spread throughout the cooler parts of Northern E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprouts Elder
James Lloyd Elder, known as Sprouts Elder (4 August 1904 – 8 August 1957) was an international motorcycle speedway rider.Bamford, R. & Stallworthy, D. (2003) ''Speedway – The Pre War Years'', Stroud: Tempus Publishing. Elder is considered the father of American broadsliding. Career Elder initially wanted to become a jockey but by his late teens had grown to almost six feet tall, leading to his 'Sprouts' nickname.Chaplin, John (1990) "Sprouts: The Scarlet Streak", in ''Speedway Special: The Classic Legends'', Penrove Books, , p. 55-62 He got a job in a motorcycle shop and began racing, eventually taking up speedway. He initially learned to race racing on some of the last surviving board track racing circuits during the 1920s. In the late 1920s Elder really began to make a name for himself by racing overseas. Elder was also a pioneer of speedway racing in the USA. He was a champion rider at home and abroad during the 1920s and early 1930s and helped organize speedway rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprout World
Sprout World is a Danish company that develops sustainable and plantable writing tools. The company was established in 2013 by Danish entrepreneur Michael Stausholm. The company's main product is the Sprout Pencil, which was originally invented by three students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ... (MIT) in Boston, US. Once the pencil is too short to use, it can be planted and a seed embedded in the end of the pencil can germinate and grow into a herb or flower. Sprout is commercially successful in Denmark and a number of other European countries including Northern America. Today, the company sells the Sprout pencils in more than 80 countries. Currently, Sprout has offices in Denmark and the US. References {{Reflist Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprout (computer)
Sprout by HP (stylized as sprout) was a personal computer from HP Inc. announced on October 29, 2014 and released for sale on November 9, 2014. The system was conceived by Brad Short, Distinguished Technologist at HP Inc., who along with Louis Kim, Head of the Immersive Computing Group at HP Inc., co-founded and led a team within HP Inc. to develop and productize the computing concept. Sprout Product Launch Sprout was launched in tandem with HP's Jet Fusion 3D Printer (formerly Multi Jet Fusion, MJF), a Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printing platform. Together, the product launches unveiled a 3D strategy to enable blended reality workflows, bridging the physical-to-digital and digital-to-physical divides, simplifying creation and collaboration in productivity, education, engineering, and manufacturing. Sprout Product Description Novel Dual Displays Sprout is a novel immersive computing configuration consisting of dual interactive touch screens: one a traditional LCD, the other a unique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Kids
Universal Kids was an American children's cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented offshoot of PBS Kids established as a joint venture between PBS, Comcast, Sesame Workshop, and HIT Entertainment. It replaced PBS's original 24-hour PBS Kids Channel, which operated between 1999 and 2005 before being revived in 2017. After Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011, the company began to buy out the remaining owners' shares in the network. NBCUniversal became the sole owner in 2013, after which the network was renamed Sprout. Under NBCUniversal ownership, the network increased its investments into original programming. In 2017, the network relaunched as Universal Kids, adding an evening and prime time lineup targeting a wider youth audience—including DreamWorks Animation content, non-scripted programming (including game shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Green Sprout
Green Giant and Le Sueur (spelled Le Sieur in Canada) are brands of frozen and canned vegetables owned by B&G Foods. The company's mascot is the Jolly Green Giant. Company and brand history The Minnesota Valley Canning Company was founded in 1903 in Le Sueur, Minnesota. It used the brand name "Le Sueur Z" for canned vegetables starting in 1903; "Le Sueur" by itself was first used in 1933.Record in Trademark Electronic Search System, U.S. Patent and Trademark Officsearch at USPTO/ref> The brand "Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas" was first used in 1925, and the figure of a giant was introduced three years later by Carly Stanek (Bingum). The brand was created in response to the discovery of a new variety of pea, the Prince of Wales; they were "oblong, wrinkled, and, as peas go, huge. Despite their size, they were tender, and had a special flavor and sweetness that couldn't be matched. The company went to the brands for which it canned and found that none of them wanted to se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprouts (game)
Sprouts is an Impartial game , impartial paper-and-pencil game which can be analyzed for its mathematics, mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at University of Cambridge, Cambridge University in the early 1960s. The setup is even simpler than the popular dots and boxes game, but gameplay develops much more artistically and organically. Rules The game is played by two players, starting with a few spots drawn on a sheet of paper. Players take turns, where each turn consists of drawing a line between two spots (or from a spot to itself) and adding a new spot somewhere along the line. The players are constrained by the following rules: * The line may be straight or curved, but must not touch or cross itself or any other line. * The new spot cannot be placed on top of one of the endpoints of the new line. Thus the new spot splits the line into two shorter lines. * No spot may have more than three lines attached to it. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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.Morago, Greg. "Touching Story Grows From ''Sprout''." ''Houston Chronicle.'' June 28, 2009. Plot synopsis The novel is wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprout (block)
Universal Kids was an American children's cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented offshoot of PBS Kids established as a joint venture between PBS, Comcast, Sesame Workshop, and HIT Entertainment. It replaced PBS's original 24-hour PBS Kids Channel, which operated between 1999 and 2005 before being revived in 2017. After Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011, the company began to buy out the remaining owners' shares in the network. NBCUniversal became the sole owner in 2013, after which the network was renamed Sprout. Under NBCUniversal ownership, the network increased its investments into original programming. In 2017, the network relaunched as Universal Kids, adding an evening and prime time lineup targeting a wider youth audience—including DreamWorks Animation content, non-scripted programming (including game shows and yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprout (2012 TV Series)
(''Supurauto'') is a 2012 Japanese television drama series based on the manga of the same name by Atsuko Nanba. Yuri Chinen, who is a member of Hey! Say! JUMP, played the lead role. It premiered on NTV from July 7 to September 29 every Saturday night. Cast * Yuri Chinen as Sōhei Narahashi * Aoi Morikawa as Miku Ikenouchi * Fujiko Kojima as Miyuki Ozawa * Jesse (credited as Lewis Jesse) as Hayato Katagiri * Ryosuke Hashimoto as Naoharu Takigawa * Mayuko Kawakita as Kiyoka Taniyama * You Kikkawa as Haruka Hayase * Shintaro Yamada born July 10, 1986, in Onna, Okinawa, is a Japanese fashion model, actor, and singer. He is the younger brother of Yu Yamada. His modeling credits include appearing in ''Men's Non-No'' and ''Popeye''. He is the leader of the ''Quiz! Hexagon II ... as Seiji Okunuki References External links * * {{s-end Japanese drama television series 2012 in Japanese television 2012 Japanese television series debuts 2012 Japanese television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Carroll (Irish Writer)
Michael Owen Carroll (born 21 March 1966) is an Irish writer of novels and short stories for adults and children. He is best known for his series of superhero novels '' The New Heroes'' (called ''Quantum Prophecy'' in the US), and for his romantic fiction under the name Jaye Carroll. He also writes ''Judge Dredd'' for ''2000 AD'' and the ''Judge Dredd Megazine.'' Biography After leaving school at sixteen, Carroll worked as a postman. He moved into computer programming in 1985, at the age of nineteen. In 1990 he met his future wife, Leonia Mooney, at the first Octocon (the modern series of Irish National Science Fiction Conventions). He was an Octocon committee member in 1992, 1997 and 2003–2004, and in 2004 he succeeded James Brophy as chairperson, overseeing a successful convention, after the event took a break in 2003, with guest-of-honour Tanith Lee. He published his first novel, ''The Last Starship'', in 1993, and he became a full-time writer in 1999. He also maintains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoot (botany)
In botany, a plant shoot consists of any plant stem together with its appendages like leaves, lateral buds, flowering stems, and flower buds. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop. In the spring, perennial plant shoots are the new growth that grows from the ground in herbaceous plants or the new stem or flower growth that grows on woody plants. In everyday speech, shoots are often synonymous with stems. Stems, which are an integral component of shoots, provide an axis for buds, fruits, and leaves. Young shoots are often eaten by animals because the natural fiber, fibers in the new growth have not yet completed secondary cell wall development, making the young shoots softer and easier to chew and digest. As shoots grow and age, the cells develop secondary cell walls that have a hard and tough structure. Some plants (e.g. bracken) produce toxins that make their shoots inedible or less palatable. File:Cucumber leaf.jpg, The sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
