NED

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Neds (film)

Neds (2010) is a feature film directed by Peter Mullan, with dialogue in Scottish English and Glasgow patter. The film centres on John McGill (Conor McCarron), a teenager growing up in 1970s Glasgow. John's story follows his involvement with the city's youth culture and its impact on his development as a teenager.

The title is from a derogatory term applied in Scotland to hooligans, louts or petty criminals.

Plot

Neds is a dark coming-of-age film that follows the story of John McGill, a young boy growing up in 1970s Glasgow. While a brilliant student who excels in his studies at school, his studious nature causes conflicts with his working-class family and the wider, gang-riddled neighbourhood.

John's immediate family consists of his mother, a part-time hospital worker; his father, an abusive, alcoholic, tool-maker; and his older brother, Benny, leader of a neighbourhood gang called the Young Car-D. On a visit from New York, his Auntie Beth encourages John to leave Scotland when he is older to pursue opportunities there.

Ned (Pushing Daisies)

Ned is the protagonist from the 2007-2009 ABC television series Pushing Daisies. He is portrayed by Lee Pace.

Ned works as a pie maker at his restaurant The Pie Hole. He also has the ability to resurrect the dead with a single touch. When private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) accidentally discovers Ned's ability, the two enter in a partnership: in exchange for Ned using his ability to revive those who have died under suspicious circumstances, Emerson will split any reward money that he receives when the information discovered with the help of Ned's gift allows them to solve the crime.

Ability

Ned brings the dead back to life with a single touch, but there are two conditions. First, if he touches a dead person, plant or animal for a second time, it will die forever. Secondly, if the revived remains alive for more than sixty seconds, something or someone else in close proximity will die in its place. Generally, whatever dies is a rough equivalent to what has been revived: a person for a person, an animal for an animal, or a plant for a plant.

Manu

Manu may refer to:

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People

Manu means "bird" in Māori. The word is used figuratively to mean a person held in high esteem and is often found as a given name among Māori and Pacific Island people.

In Spanish and Portuguese (the latter as Manú), it is most often a short form of Emanuel.

Actors

Manu (TV series)

Manu was a French animated TV series, based on comic books by cartoonist Frank Margerin. It premiered in 1991 and was about a teenager 'Manu' and situations in his own life, with the rest of his family and his friend Robert. It used to air in the UK (Dubbed into English) on the now defunct Children's Channel.

It was produced by the French animation studio "Jingle", and the French and defunct network La Cinq.

External links

Manu at the Internet Movie Database

Manu (Theosophy)

In the teachings of Theosophy, the Manu is one of the most important beings at the highest levels of Initiation of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, along with Sanat Kumara, Gautama Buddha, Maitreya, the Maha Chohan, and Djwal Khul. According to Theosophy, each root race has its own Manu which physically incarnates in an advanced body of an individual of the old root race and physically progenerates with a suitable female partner the first individuals of the new root race. The Theosophical concept of the Manu is derived from the concept in Hinduism that the Manu was the being who was the progenitor of the human race.

When the Manu is spoken of in Theosophy, normally the "being" referred to, is the Vaivasvatu Manu.

Theosophy

In Theosophy, the Vaivasvatu Manu is regarded as the progenitor of the fifth root race, the Aryan root race. This progeneration is believed to have taken place 100,000 years ago in Atlantis.

The progenitor of the fourth root race, the Atlantean root race, is called the Chakshusha Manu and is in appearance an individual of the Mongolian race.