Modus (band)

Modus was a popular Czechoslovak band, originally established in 1967 by Stanislav Hrda, Ján Baláž, Peter Krutek, Juraj Czinege, T. Psota, Ľubomír Stankovský, Gabriel Wertlen and Miroslav Žbirka. The formation (identified nowadays as Modus 0) initially played cover versions of the 60's hits. A major change followed after the arrival of Ján Lehotský who joined the ensemble in 1972, and became their leader. The years 1976-80, which included albums Modus (1979) and Balíček snov (1980), referred to as Modusmania, denoted the band's stardom era.

Past members

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Seel also

Modus (album)

Modus is the debut album by Modus, released on OPUS in 1979.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lehotský and Peteraj, except for the tracks 4 and 12 (Lehotský and Filan), and 6, 9 and 13 (Žbirka and Peteraj). 

Official releases

Credits and personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Export release

The export version of the album, also entitled Modus, was issued in 1980.

Modus (TV series)

Modus is a Swedish crime series consisting of eight episodes that premiered in September 2015 on TV4. The series is directed by Lisa Siwe and Mani Maserrat. The script was written by Emmy Award winners Mai Brostrøm and Peter Thorsboe and is based on the book Frukta inte by author Anne Holt.

Plot

Modus follows Inger Johanne Vik (Melinda Kinnaman), a criminal psychologist who has worked for the FBI in the US but has now returned home to Sweden to work in the academic world. She has two daughters, the older of whom, Stina, is autistic and the sole witness to a murder. To protect her daughter, Vik decides she must catch the murderer, and so returns to work for the police alongside detective Ingvar Nyman, only to discover that she is in fact pursuing a serial killer.

Roles

Worms?

Worms? is a 1983 computer game written by David Maynard for Electronic Arts, released for the Atari 800 and Commodore 64. It was one of the original five games that launched the company. More a software toy than a game, Worms? is an interactive version of Paterson's Worms.

The game is abstract, like Conway's Game of Life, but the player's ostensible goal is to optimally program one or more "worms" (each a sort of cellular automaton) to grow and survive as long as possible. The game area is divided up into hexagonal cells, and the worms are essentially programmed to move in a particular direction for each combination of filled-in and empty frame segments in their immediate vicinity. Over the course of a game, the player needs to give his/her worm less and less input, and more and more moves by their worm result in the encountering of familiar situation for which the worm has already been 'trained'. As the worms move, they generate aleatoric music.

Reception

Orson Scott Card in Compute! in 1983 gave Worms? and two other EA games, M.U.L.E. and Archon: The Light and the Dark, complimentary reviews, writing that "they are original; they do what they set out to do very, very well; they allow the player to take part in the creativity; they do things that only computers can do".Compute!'s Gazette's reviewer called Worms? for the Commodore 64 "one of the most fascinating games I've played in a long time. It's so different from anything else that it quickly captivated me. Worms? tournaments become popular among the staff of Compute! ... [It] is as much fun to watch as it is to play". He added that part of its appeal was that "The game is hard to master. It's easy to play, but seems almost impossible to play well time after time".Compute! listed the game in May 1988 as one of "Our Favorite Games", writing that four years after its introduction "Worms? is still in a class by itself", requiring "a sense of strategy as well as proficiency at joystick maneuvers".

Worm (Kamen Rider)

Worms (ワーム, Wāmu) are the villains in the Japanese tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Kabuto. They are an alien life form that came from a meteor destroying the city district of Shibuya seven years prior to the series' timeline. However, the Worms known as Natives existed prior to the coming of the Shibuya Meteorite, through another meteorite that came 35 years ago. In the movie, a third meteor nearly hit the Earth, though thanks to Kabuto it was adverted and history was altered. This implies that meteors containing Worms are insolated and there are others.

The Worms were designed by Yasushi Nirasawa (韮沢 靖, Nirasawa Yasushi), who also designed the Undead for Kamen Rider Blade, the Horrors in GARO and later created the Imagin for Kamen Rider Den-O. These designs were later detailed in Worm Works: GITAI (ワームワークスGITAI, Wāmu Wākusu GITAI).

Shibuya Meteorite

A mysterious meteorite that crashed into Shibuya seven years ago. This meteorite brought along the extraterrestrial creatures known as Worms. During episode 41, Riku Kagami explains that another meteorite carrying the Natives had arrived on Earth thirty-five years before this, explaining why fragments of the meteorite similar to those of the Shibuya Meteorite existed so long ago. The Natives that arrived on Earth worked with humans to create the Masked Rider System in order to fend off the threat of other Worms that would arrive later. In the movie, which acts as a prequel to the series, it is revealed this meteor was actually far larger and would've vaporized Earth's oceans and released many more Worms until Hyper Kabuto went back in time with the meteor and caused it to slam into the Shibuya meteor, resulting in only a small fragment of it landing in Shibuya.

Worms (electoral district)

Worms is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of fifteen districts covering the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, it consists of the city of Worms, the Alzey-Worms district and the municipalities of Bodenheim, Guntersblum and Nierstein-Oppenheim from the Mainz-Bingen district.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. The constituency was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) at every election until 2013 election, when it was gained by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Jan Metzler.

Boundaries

Since its creation, the constituency has consisted of the city of Worms and the Alzey-Worms district, the latter of which was formed as a merger of its two eponymous districts in 1969. Until the 1972 election it also included the town of Oppenheim, however in that election it was removed and the district assumed its current boundaries.