title: University of Central Lancashire

text: The university underwent a £200 million expansion programme, with several new buildings at the Preston main campus:


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan Cyprus is a branch campus of the University of Central Lancashire situated in Pyla, Larnaka. The campus opened in 2012 and is licensed and registered as a university in Cyprus. It is the only private British university in Cyprus. It accepts international students.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan Cyprus is the first University in Cyprus that has a Moot Court for use by the School of Law students.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan Cyprus offers bachelor's degrees in business administration, advertising and marketing communications, accounting and finance, hospitality and tourism management, computing, mathematics, English language studies, law, web design and development, sport and exercise science and psychology.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: It offers master's degrees in business administration, business management, marketing management, education leadership, teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) with applied linguistics, financial and commercial law, computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, sport & exercise science and forensic psychology.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: The university has students and researchers from over 100 countries and partnerships with 125 international institutions. It has a base in China's Shenzhen Virtual University Park, conducting collaborative research with some of China's leading universities into nanotechnology with applications in drug delivery, water purification and fire toxicity.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: Within the School of Language and Global Studies, staff speak 30 languages and represent 22 nationalities.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan has 98 professors, over 600 research or knowledge transfer-active members of staff, and 763 research students. There are 246 Honorary Fellows of the university.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan enrolls students from over 100 countries and has partnerships with 125 international institutions located across the world.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan was the first modern university in the UK to be included in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: In 2013 QS awarded UCLan the full five stars for its approach to ‘Internationalisation’ with a proven track record for specialising in all aspects of international educational provision.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan has over 3,000 students enrolled offshore, across a diverse range of countries including China, Greece, India, Mauritius, Singapore and the United States.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: In 2012 the university opened UCLan Cyprus, a €53 million branch campus in Larnaka, Cyprus. It is the only private British university in Cyprus.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: In 2013, following receipt of Chinese Ministry of Education approval and together with its partner Hebei University (HBU), the UCLan established the ‘Hebei/UCLan School of Media, Communication and Creative Industries’.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: Initially the joint School will have non-independent status, meaning that although it will be a separate entity from HBU it will be wholly owned by it. The School will have 800 students, recruiting 200 per year for the four-year duration of the programmes. The intention is to grow to 1,600 students and then to focus on a broader range of subjects, targeting science in the second wave. When successfully operating at the expanded level, the School will apply for independent campus status.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan is in the top 3.7% of universities worldwide according to The Centre for World University Rankings 2016 (CWUR).


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLan is in the top 800 universities globally according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: UCLAN is the only university in the UK to run a feature film module. Results of this course include The Collaborators (2015), Audax (2014), The Wedding (2013), Wraith (2012) and Needle In The Hay (2011).


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: Research activity at UCLan includes working with NASA on solar dynamics, with the Department of Health on stroke research, with industry on digital media projects and collaboration with the Football Association, Professional Golfers Association and International Olympic Committee on sport and exercise science research.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: Since the scheme launched in 2008, nearly 450 interns have worked directly alongside UCLan researchers on projects as diverse as digital publishing, wind power analysis, facial composite development and smart bandage exploration.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: In 2012, UCLAN announced a partnership with the BAE Systems, and four other north-western universities (Liverpool, Salford, Lancaster and Manchester) in order to work on the Gamma Programme which aims to develop "autonomous systems". According to the University of Liverpool when referring to the programme, "autonomous systems are technology based solutions that replace humans in tasks that are mundane, dangerous and dirty, or detailed and precise, across sectors, including aerospace, nuclear, automotive and petrochemicals".


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: The nightclub and live music venue at the Students' Union, '53 Degrees', has two floors with a bar on each and occasionally hosts musical performers. Across two rooms, total capacities are 1,100 & 350 for club nights and 1,400 and 350 for all live gigs. The adjoining bar, 'Source', is open seven days a week during term times. '53 Degrees' is no longer owned by the Students' Union however Freshers' Week events are still run in the venue.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: There are over 35 sports clubs run by the students’ union. Many have block bookings at the Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre and UCLan Sports Arena in term-time for training and matches. The sports clubs participate in British Universities and Colleges Sport competitions and have home and away fixtures.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: The university outdoor sport facilities can be found at UCLan Sports Arena (USA) which is located two miles away and was opened in 2000 by The Princess Royal. The £12 million arena provides facilities for rugby league, rugby union, football (five grass pitches), hockey (two floodlit all-weather pitches), netball, tennis (four floodlit courts), and cycling ( circuit), as well as an eight-lane athletics area, equipped for school, club, and county competitions.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: The university's Motor Sports Engineering and Operations students run a motor racing team, UCLAN Racing.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: "The Pulse" is the student newspaper. It is six times a year, and began in 1985 as the "Ribble Echo" and then was named "Pluto" until June 2016. It is now printed in tabloid format with colour photography. The newspaper published its first edition on 12 September 2016.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: "Pulse Radio" is the student radio station which is located on the ground floor of the Students' Union building. It was founded in 1999 as "Frequency Radio" and is currently broadcasting during term time. The new radio station started broadcasting on 12 September 2016.


title: University of Central Lancashire

text: "Pulse Radio" is the student television station which is located on the ground floor of the Students' Union building. The station covers news, entertainment, and documentaries.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The 2020 season was the Los Angeles Rams' 83rd season in the National Football League, their 84th overall, their 54th in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and their fourth under head coach Sean McVay. It also marks the team's first season playing their home games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, which the team shares with the Los Angeles Chargers. This was the first season in which the Rams would share the same venue as the Chargers since 1960. They improved on their 9–7 season from the previous year after a Week 17 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, returning to the playoffs after missing out last season. The Rams' strong defense finished the year with just 296 points allowed, the fewest in the league.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: In the Wild Card round, the Rams upset the rival Seattle Seahawks 30–20, advancing to the Divisional round, but lost to the top-seeded Green Bay Packers by a score of 32–18.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: On March 19, 2020, the Rams released running back Todd Gurley after they were unable to trade him. The move was made before the team would have to pay an additional $10.5 million on Gurley's $60 million contract extension that was signed prior to the 2018 season. Gurley was later signed as a free agent by the Atlanta Falcons.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: On February 6, 2020, veteran safety Eric Weddle announced his retirement from the NFL after 13 seasons.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Following the 2020 NFL Draft, the Rams signed 20 undrafted rookie free agents who would compete for roster spots and participate in the team's offseason and training camp programs.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The Rams' preseason schedule was announced on May 7, but was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Playing their first game ever in their brand-new home at SoFi Stadium, the Rams held off the Cowboys in a close battle of NFC contenders on Sunday Night Football. Receiving the opening kickoff (from former Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein), Los Angeles drove 75 yards in seven plays, with Malcolm Brown scoring the new stadium's first touchdown on a 1-yard run. Rookie kicker Samuel Sloman missed on his first field goal attempt, a 29-yard try that bounced off the left upright near the end of the first quarter, but later was successful on field goals of 35 and 31 yards in the second quarter. However, Dallas took a 14-13 halftime lead as Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott scored on both a touchdown run and a touchdown reception. The Rams reclaimed the lead as Malcolm Brown (who finished with a team-high 18 rushes for 79 yards) scored his second touchdown of the game on a 2-yard run midway through the third quarter to put Los Angeles ahead 20–14. Zuerlein converted a 33-yard field goal late in the third quarter, but it would be as close as the Cowboys would get. Rookie safety Jordan Fuller led the Rams with eight total tackles, including a key tackle of Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb on a fourth-and-3 play at the Rams' 9-yard line, just one yard short of a first down to kill a Dallas scoring drive. Wide receiver Robert Woods led Los Angeles with six receptions for 105 yards. Following the game, Rams head coach Sean McVay presented a game ball to team owner Stan Kroenke.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Linebacker Micah Kiser had a breakout performance that earned him NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors and tight end Tyler Higbee caught three touchdowns as the Rams broke a six-game losing streak to the Eagles (dating back to 2004) and gave head coach Sean McVay his first victory over Philadelphia after two prior defeats. With the win, the Rams earned their third consecutive 2–0 start. Making his second career start at inside linebacker after missing all of 2019, Kiser forced a fumble on the Eagles' opening drive. Linebacker Kenny Young recovered the fumble by Eagles running back Miles Sanders to give Los Angeles possession at the Philadelphia 41. Three runs for 13 yards by rookie running back Cam Akers and a 24-yard pass from quarterback Jared Goff to wide receiver Cooper Kupp set up a 4-yard scoring toss from Goff to Higbee with 11:15 remaining in the first quarter. Goff, who completed his first 14 passes, led the Rams to scores on their next two drives, the first ending with a 5-yard run around end by Robert Woods and the second capped off by a second TD pass to Higbee from three yards out. After the Eagles bounced back with a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter, the Rams extended their lead as kicker Samuel Sloman added a 30-yard field goal in the third period. Then in the fourth, Goff and Higbee connected for a third touchdown, this one from 28 yards. Second-year running back Darryl Henderson led the Rams on the ground with 81 yards on 12 carries, including his first career NFL touchdown on a 2-yard run with 3:41 remaining in the game. Kiser led the Rams with 15 total tackles (10 solo) along with the forced fumble and a pass deflection. While Los Angeles did not sack Carson Wentz, constant pressure forced the Philadelphia quarterback to throw two interceptions to L.A. cornerbacks Darious Williams and Troy Hill as the Rams got their first-ever win at Lincoln Financial Field as well as their first road win over Philadelphia since the 2001 season.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: After falling behind 28–3 in the third quarter, the Rams staged the largest comeback in team history, but ultimately fell to the host Bills in their first inter-conference game of 2020. Los Angeles had difficulty stopping Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen, who passed for three touchdowns and ran for another in building the Bills' 25-point lead midway through the third quarter. The Rams answered with an 8-play, 75-yard drive that ended with Jared Goff scoring from one yard out on a quarterback sneak. A questionable interception of Allen on the next drive by Rams safety John Johnson, who was credited with the pick after reaching for the ball as tight end Tyler Kroft caught it, helped to set up a 25-yard touchdown pass from Goff to wide receiver Robert Woods, who was playing for the first time against the team that originally drafted him. Woods, who finished with five receptions for 74 yards, had a 31-yard catch that set up Goff's second touchdown pass of the day, this time to wide receiver Cooper Kupp with 10:40 remaining in the game. Goff connected with tight end Tyler Higbee for a successful two-point conversion to close to within 28–25. Running back Darrell Henderson had a strong game for the second straight week, rushing 20 times for 114 yards and gave the Rams their first and only lead of the game on a 1-yard run with 4:33 to play. The 25-point comeback was the best Rams rally since a 31–27 victory against Tampa Bay in 1992. The defense was led by defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who had two sacks among his six total tackles, including a forced fumble that he recovered to set up the Rams' go-ahead score. However, Allen was able to evade a furious Rams pass rush to make several late conversions and, after a likewise controversial pass interference call on fourth down against L.A. cornerback Darious Williams, connected with tight end Tyler Kroft on a 3-yard score to reclaim the lead with just 15 seconds remaining. Kupp led the Rams with six receptions for 107 yards while Goff, who completed 23 of 31 for 321 yards, surpassed 15,000 career passing yards (15,082).


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The Rams started quickly, but then had to hold on to beat the visiting Giants and improve to 3–1 on the season. Tight end Gerald Everett took a handoff from quarterback Jared Goff from two yards out to score the first rushing touchdown of his career, capping off L.A.'s efficient opening 12-play, 65-yard drive. From there, Los Angeles struggled offensively, as a second quarter drive saw the Rams reach New York's 4-yard-line before Goff was sacked and then completed two passes for minus-2 yards. Sam Sloman converted a 32-yard field goal to give L.A. a 10–3 lead. Though the Giants were able to control the ball and had a clear edge in time of possession (33:17 to 26:43), the Rams defense collected five sacks of New York quarterback Daniel Jones and limited the Giants to three Graham Gano field goals, the last coming less than a minute into the fourth quarter to pull New York to within 10–9. After the teams exchanged punts, the Rams came up with their biggest offensive play of the day as Goff found wide receiver Cooper Kupp over the middle. Kupp turned upfield and outraced Giants defenders to the end zone to complete the 55-yard touchdown pass play and extend the Rams' lead to 17–9 after Sloman's successful PAT. New York drove into Rams territory on its final two possessions but was turned away both times. With just under a minute remaining, Jones's pass attempt to wide receiver Damion Ratley was intercepted by Rams cornerback Darious Williams at the Los Angeles 7-yard-line to preserve the victory. Safety Taylor Rapp led the Rams with eight tackles, while cornerback Jalen Ramsey added four solo tackles, including a critical stop of Giants wide receiver Golden Tate for a 1-yard loss on a third-and-3 play near midfield, which was soon followed by the Rams' final touchdown. Following the game, Ramsey and Tate got into a fight that would lead to disciplinary action by the NFL. The Rams, who improved to 2–0 on the season at SoFi Stadium, also debuted their Royal-and-Sol jersey-and-pants combination, which had been spurred by fan demand.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Aaron Donald tied a career high with four sacks and the Rams defense collected a season-high eight sacks while holding host Washington to just 108 total yards - the fewest of any team in any game all season - as Los Angeles completed a season sweep of NFC East opponents. Donald vaulted himself into the league lead in sacks, and also forced a fumble as he was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for the seventh time in his career. Linebacker Troy Reeder added three sacks while cornerbacks Jalen Ramsey, Darious Williams, and Troy Hill limited Washington's wide receivers to just five receptions for 29 yards. Offensively, quarterback Jared Goff completed 21 of 30 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns, while also running for another. Running back Darrell Henderson ran for one touchdown and caught another, while rookie Cam Akers led Los Angeles with 61 yards on nine carries in his first action after suffering a rib injury in Week 2. Rams head coach Sean McVay earned his first victory over Washington in what was his first return to FedExField in 4 years. McVay previously served as an assistant coach for the then-Washington Redskins from 2010–2016 under head coaches Mike Shanahan and Jay Gruden. In 2017, the then-Redskins had dealt McVay his first loss as a head coach. For the third time in McVay's head coaching tenure, the Rams completed a season sweep of another NFL division, having swept opponents from the AFC South in 2017 and the AFC West in 2018 (Los Angeles also won all six games versus NFC West opponents in 2018). The victory also spoiled the return of Washington quarterback Alex Smith, who entered the game in the second quarter to play in an NFL game for the first time since suffering a catastrophic leg injury two years earlier.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: On Sunday Night Football, the Rams fell behind 14-0 and never recovered on the road at Levi's Stadium in their first division game of the season. 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo threw three touchdown passes in the first half, improving his lifetime record against Los Angeles to 4-0 as San Francisco staked out a 21-6 halftime lead. L.A.'s only points before halftime came on a 10-yard pass from Jared Goff to Robert Woods in the second quarter, but kicker Samuel Sloman missed the PAT. Sloman converted a 42-yard field goal in the third period, and Josh Reynolds caught a 40-yard TD pass from Goff late in the fourth quarter as the Rams fell to 4-2 on the season.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: A dominant performance by defense and special teams lifted the Rams over the visiting Bears on Monday Night Football in their third straight meeting on national TV in as many years. Playing against the team that originally drafted him, linebacker Leonard Floyd had six total tackles, including two sacks as well as three hurries of Chicago quarterback Nick Foles, who was sacked four times in total and was intercepted twice by the team he played for in 2015. Second-year safety Taylor Rapp got the first interception after a pass deflection in the end zone by cornerback Troy Hill in the third period, while the second came courtesy of cornerback Jalen Ramsey in the fourth quarter. Punter Johnny Hekker was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after averaging 44.2 yards on five punts (including punts of 57 and 63 yards), all of which he dropped inside the Chicago 20 to repeatedly pin the Bears deep in their own territory. On offense, Jared Goff completed 23 of 33 passes for 220 yards and touchdowns to wide receiver Josh Reynolds and tight end Gerald Everett, while Darrell Henderson had 15 rushes for 64 yards and fellow running back Malcolm Brown added 57 yards on 10 carries with a touchdown run.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Despite holding clear advantages of total offensive yards (471 to 145) and time of possession (36:30 to 23:30), the Rams were undone by four turnovers in losing to the host Dolphins. Early in the first quarter, defensive tackle Aaron Donald sacked Miami rookie quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, forcing a fumble that was recovered by linebacker Leonard Floyd at the Dolphin 15. Three plays later, wide receiver Robert Woods scored on a 4-yard run. Late in the first quarter, Rams quarterback Jared Goff was intercepted, which led to a Miami touchdown. Early in the second quarter, Rams safety Taylor Rapp forced a fumble that was recovered by cornerback Troy Hill to set up first-and-goal at the Miami 7. But two plays later, Goff was sacked by Dolphins defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah, who forced a fumble that was picked up by linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel, who returned it 78 yards for a touchdown. After the Rams were forced to punt on their next possession, Miami's Jakeem Grant returned the kick 88 yards for a score. Goff threw another interception and lost another fumble that led to another touchdown for the Dolphins, who led 28-7 just before halftime. Newly-acquired kicker Kai Forbath converted a 23-yard field goal late in the second period, but missed from 48 yards out in the fourth quarter in his first game with the Rams. Goff, who completed 35 of 61 attempts for 355 yards, connected with Woods on an 11-yard touchdown pass in the fourth period for the 100th TD pass of his career as the Rams fell to 5-3 heading into their bye week.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Cornerback Darious Williams snagged two interceptions and the Rams defense sacked Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson six times to lead Los Angeles to victory at home in a key NFC West showdown. Kai Forbath finished L.A.'s opening drive with a 23-yard field goal, while Darrell Henderson and Malcolm Brown both scored on touchdown runs to give the Rams a 17-7 lead in the second quarter. Brown added another touchdown run in the third period, while the Seahawks were limited to three field goals from kicker Jason Myers (including a Seahawks-record 61-yarder at the end of the second quarter. Linebacker Leonard Floyd had five tackles including three sacks and a fumble recovery, a performance that earned him NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors. Fellow linebackers also stood out as Terrell Lewis added two sacks and Micah Kiser led the team with 12 tackles. In all, the defense corralled Wilson for much of the day, totaling 12 quarterback hurries to go along with the six sacks. The performance of the secondary was outstanding in limiting the Seahawks' air attack. Williams stopped two scoring drives with interceptions and also had three pass deflections on the day, while fellow corner Jalen Ramsey had two tackles and was successful in limiting Seattle's leading receiver DK Metcalf to just two receptions for 28 yards. Offensively, quarterback Jared Goff passed for 302 yards and wide receiver Josh Reynolds led the Rams with eight receptions for 94 yards as the Rams improved to 9-4 against the Seahawks since 2014. The victory was marred by several injuries, as Forbath injured an ankle while tackle Andrew Whitworth suffered a torn MCL. Both players were placed on the team's injured reserve list.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: In a high-stakes battle on Monday Night Football, the Rams took down the favored Buccaneers for the fourth straight time at Raymond James Stadium dating back to 2012. Quarterback Jared Goff completed 39 of 51 passes for 376 yards and touchdowns to three different receivers. Wide receiver Robert Woods caught a 4-yard TD pass to cap off the Rams' opening offensive drive, then late in the second period took a short pass from Goff and weaved his way for a 35-yard gain down to the Tampa Bay 20, which led to a 38-yard field goal by newly-acquired kicker Matt Gay, who had kicked for the Buccaneers in 2019. Leading 17-14 at halftime, the Rams never trailed in the second half as Goff hit rookie running back Cam Akers on a swing pass out of the backfield in the third quarter, and Gay added a 40-yard field goal with 2:40 remaining in the game. Woods was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week after finishing with 12 receptions for 130 yards and a score. Fellow wide receiver Cooper Kupp caught 11 passes for 146 yards and rookie wideout Van Jefferson scored the first touchdown of his NFL career off a 7-yard pass from Goff in the second quarter. On defense, free safety Jordan Fuller intercepted Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady twice in the second half. The first, coming midway through the third period, led to a Rams touchdown, while the second came just after the two-minute warning and the Rams were able to run out the clock. The win gave head coach Sean McVay victories over every team in the NFC other than his own, and made the Rams 6-1 versus the Buccaneers in their last seven meetings.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The Rams stumbled badly, suffering four turnovers to the rival 49ers in L.A.'s first-ever loss at SoFi Stadium. After Los Angeles took a first quarter lead on a 48-yard field goal by Matt Gay in the first quarter, visiting San Francisco seized the lead with an 8-yard touchdown run by running back Raheem Mostert. Rams quarterback Jared Goff fumbled once in the second quarter to stop an L.A. drive into 49er territory and threw two interceptions, the second of which was returned 27 yards for a touchdown by San Francisco defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw to give the 49ers a 14-3 lead just after the start of the third quarter. After a Robbie Gould field goal extended the visitor's lead to 17-3, the Rams answered with a 41-yard field goal by Gay. On the ensuing possession, Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald tackled and forced Mostert to fumble, and the loose ball was picked up by cornerback Troy Hill, who returned it 20 yards for a touchdown. After the Rams forced the 49ers to punt, rookie running back Cam Akers broke loose for a 61-yard run down to the San Francisco 7 to end the third quarter. Two plays into the fourth period, Akers scored his first career rushing touchdown to give the Rams a 20-17 lead. However, the 49er defense stiffened and kept the Rams from crossing midfield. Though the Rams defense also played hard as linebacker Troy Reeder led the team with 15 total tackles, San Francisco prevailed on their final drives with field goals by Gould that went for 44 yards with 3:11 left and the final 42-yard kick came as time ran out, giving the 49ers their fourth straight win over the Rams, and a sweep of the intra-state series for the second straight season. Wide receiver Robert Woods led the Rams with seven receptions for 80 yards.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The visiting Rams maintained their dominance over the Cardinals, pulling away in the fourth quarter for their sixth straight win at State Farm Stadium going back to 2015. After giving up an early touchdown, Los Angeles pulled ahead in the second quarter on a 9-yard run by running back Cam Akers to cap a 14-play, 85-yard drive, and quarterback Jared Goff's 1-yard TD pass to tight end Tyler Higbee. Goff, who completed 37 of 47 passes for 351 yards, added a touchdown run on a quarterback sneak early in the fourth quarter, while running back Darrell Henderson broke loose for a 38-yard touchdown run as the Rams offense outgained the Cardinals 463 yards to 232 and dominated time of possession 38:53 to 21:07. Cornerback Troy Hill capped off L.A.'s stellar defensive effort with a 35-yard touchdown interception return of a pass by Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray, who was held to just 15 rushing yards on the day. The victory, combined with the Seattle Seahawks' upset loss to the New York Giants the same day, put the Rams back in first place in the NFC West with four weeks remaining in the NFL regular season.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: Rookie running back Cam Akers rushed for a season-high 171 yards on 29 carries and was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week (the sixth Rams player to earn Player of the Week honors this season) as he powered Los Angeles to its fourth win in five weeks. Facing the Patriots for the first time since their 13-3 loss in Super Bowl LIII, the host Rams dominated from the opening drive, going 75 yards in six plays to finish with quarterback Jared Goff scoring on a 1-yard run. Kicker Matt Gay added a 35-yard field goal on L.A.'s second drive midway through the opening period. Following a Rams turnover off a tipped pass end the end of the first quarter, Rams linebacker Kenny Young picked off a Cam Newton pass and returned it 79 yards for a touchdown at the start of the second quarter. The Los Angeles defense turned in a strong effort, limiting the Patriots to just 220 total yards and one field goal while eight of 12 New England drives were held to four plays or less. Defensive end Michael Brockers had two of the Rams' six total sacks, while defensive tackle Aaron Donald added 1.5 sacks. Wide receiver Cooper Kupp caught a 2-yard TD pass from Goff for the only score of the second half, as L.A. assured itself of a winning record at its new home by improving to 5-1 at SoFi Stadium. The win not only was the Rams' first victory over the Patriots since 2001, when they were then based in St. Louis, but it also secured the team's fourth straight winning season.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The Jets pulled off the most shocking upset of the NFL season, stunning the host Rams for their first win of the season. New York, entering the game with an 0–13 record and as a 17-point underdog, drove 76 yards in 13 plays on their opening offensive drive, capping it with an 18-yard from former USC quarterback Sam Darnold to Ty Johnson. Jets kicker Sam Ficken, who had played for the Rams in 2018, added a pair of field goals from 39 and 25 yards in the second quarter as New York built a 13-0 lead. The field goals were set up by a blocked punt off Rams punter Johnny Hekker and a Jared Goff interception. Matt Gay's 45-yard field goal at the end of the second quarter got L.A. on the scoreboard, but the Jets answered with another long touchdown drive to start the second half. Veteran running back Frank Gore's 1-yard TD run ended an 11-play, 72-yard drive that lasted minutes. The Rams answered as Goff connected with Robert Woods for a 15-yard touchdown pass. However, the Jets answered with another long scoring drive, going 72 yards in 10 plays down to the Los Angeles 3, which ended in a 21-yard field goal by Ficken for a 23-10 lead. The Rams pulled close in the fourth quarter with a 3-yard TD pass from Goff to tight end Tyler Higbee and a 42-yard field goal by Gay. But after the defense forced the Jets to punt, the Rams' final offensive drive stalled at the New York 37 after an illegal block penalty wiped out a 22-yard run by rookie running Cam Akers and Goff's final two passes fell incomplete. Akers, who ran 15 times for 63 yards, also had an 18-yard touchdown run that would have tied the game nullified by a holding penalty. Linebacker Troy Reeder had a team-high 11 tackles, while linebacker Samson Ebukam and defensive tackle Morgan Fox each had a sack for the Rams' defense.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The host Seahawks pulled away from the Rams in the second half to clinch the NFC West Division for the first time since 2016. Los Angeles took a 6-3 lead in the second quarter after field goals by kicker Matt Gay of 44 and 51 yards. But the Rams hurt themselves badly on their next two drives as quarterback Jared Goff threw an errant pass that was intercepted by Seattle cornerback Quandre Diggs at the Seahawks' 10-yard line. After Seattle went ahead 13-6 in the third quarter, the Rams responded by driving down to the Seattle 1. But successive run attempts by Goff and Malcolm Brown were stopped and L.A. turned over the ball on downs. Goff passed for 234 yards while playing half the game with a broken thumb on his right throwing hand. Gay added a 33-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to account for all of the Rams' scoring. Though he was sacked five times by the Rams' defense (twice by linebacker Leonard Floyd), Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson scored on a 3-yard run and passed for 225 yards and another touchdown.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The Rams shut down the visiting Cardinals to secure their third playoff appearance in four seasons as head coach Sean McVay maintained his unbeaten record against Arizona (8-0). With Jared Goff sidelined after having surgery to repair his broken thumb, backup quarterback John Wolford got his first career start. Wolford, who had not seen any action during the previous 15 games, had his first NFL pass intercepted to set up a Cardinals' touchdown. After an exchange of punts, Wolford led the Rams on a 16-play, 69-yard drive that reached the Arizona 1, but successive false start penalties moved the ball back and Los Angeles settled for a 28-yard field goal by Matt Gay. The Rams reached the Arizona 1 again on their next drive, going 81 yards in 13 plays before running back Cam Akers was stripped of the ball at the goal line. Arizona's celebration was short-lived as a holding call in the end zone gave the Rams a safety two plays later. Defensively, the Rams knocked out Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray early in the game, and late in the second quarter, Arizona backup QB Chris Streveler was intercepted by L.A. cornerback Troy Hill, who returned it 84 yards for a touchdown and a 12-7 Rams lead with 20 seconds left before halftime. Defensively, the Rams clamped down on the Cardinals' running game, which produced just 48 yards on the ground. Gay added two more field goals in the second, while Wolford was able to guide the offense effectively, completing 22 of 38 passes for 231 yards while also rushing for 56 yards on six carries, including a crucial 9-yard run on a 3rd-and-8 situation late in the final period to seal the win.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: A dominant performance by the NFL's No. 1-ranked defense and a breakout performance by rookie running back Cam Akers lifted the Rams to an upset victory over the host Seahawks. The Rams' triumph ended a 10-game postseason home win streak for Seattle at dating back to 2004, when the then-St. Louis Rams defeated the Seahawks 27-20 in an NFC Wild Card Game at Lumen Field, then known as Qwest Field. After an exchange of opening-drive punts, Los Angeles pushed into Seattle territory as Akers ran five times for 35 yards. Starting for the second straight week, quarterback John Wolford completed passes of 15 and 13 yards to wide receiver Cooper Kupp, but was then knocked out of the game after colliding with Seattle safety Jamal Adams on a scramble down to the Seahawks 18. The drive ended in a 40-yard field goal by kicker Matt Gay. After Seattle tied the game early in the second quarter, Rams quarterback Jared Goff (still nursing a broken thumb suffered during the teams' previous meeting two weeks earlier) misfired on his first four pass attempts before connecting with Kupp on a 44-yard pass play that led to a 39-yard field goal by Gay. On the Seahawks' next possession, cornerback Darious Williams picked off a Russell Wilson pass and returned it 42 yards for a touchdown. Seattle was able to answer with long touchdown pass from Wilson to DK Metcalf on a broken play, but the Rams countered with a 75-yard scoring drive. Akers took a dump-off pass from Goff and turned it into a 44-yard gain, then ran for 20 yards on his next carry that would ultimately set up his own score on a 5-yard run and a 20-10 halftime lead for L.A. In the fourth quarter, Gay would add his third field goal of the day from 36 yards and after Micah Kiser recovered a fumble on a Seahawks punt return, Goff found wide receiver Robert Woods wide open for a 15-yard TD pass to give the Rams a 30-13 advantage. Defensively both linebacker Leonard Floyd and defensive tackle Aaron Donald had two sacks each of Wilson, who was sacked five times in total and was hit a total of 10 times. The Seahawks were limited to 278 yards and were forced to punt eight times. Akers' 131 rushing yards (on 28 carries) was the fifth-best single-game performance in Rams' postseason history, and his 176 yards in total offense ranked No. 3 all-time for Los Angeles in the playoffs. Also, for the first time in the entire season, the Rams did not suffer a turnover.


title: 2020 Los Angeles Rams season

text: The top-seeded Packers played mistake-free football and turned away the visiting Rams to advance to the NFC Championship game. Green Bay controlled the line of scrimmage in the first half and scored on every drive to build a 19-10 first half lead, mounting scoring drives of 12, 14, and 10 plays against the top-ranked Rams defense. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Davante Adams in the second quarter, capping off a drive that was extended by an uncharacteristic 15-yard personal foul penalty on Aaron Donald, who had only one assist as he appeared limited due to a rib injury suffered a week earlier. Rodgers, who added a 1-yard TD run later in the period, finished the day with 296 passing yards and was not sacked. For the Rams, Jared Goff returned to the starting lineup and completed 21 of 27 passes for 174 yards and a touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Van Jefferson from 4 yards out late in the second quarter to pull within 16-10. Running back Cam Akers continued a strong postseason push, rushing for 90 yards on 18 carries, including a 7-yard touchdown run out of a wildcat formation play in the third quarter. Akers scored on a two-point conversion play to keep the Rams within a touchdown, but the Packers sealed the win with a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. Linebacker Troy Reeder had 13 tackles for the Rams defense, which gave up a season-high 484 yards in the loss.


title: Islamic revival

text: Islamic revival (" ", lit., "regeneration, renewal"; also "", "Islamic awakening") refers to a revival of the Islamic religion. The revivers are known in Islam as "mujaddids".


title: Islamic revival

text: Within the Islamic tradition, "tajdid" has been an important religious concept, which has manifested itself throughout Islamic history in periodic calls for a renewed commitment to the fundamental principles of Islam and reconstruction of society in accordance with the Quran and the traditions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (hadith). The concept of "tajdid" has played a prominent role in contemporary Islamic revival.


title: Islamic revival

text: In academic literature, "Islamic revival" is an umbrella term encompassing "a wide variety of movements, some intolerant and exclusivist, some pluralistic; some favorable to science, some anti-scientific; some primarily devotional, and some primarily political; some democratic, some authoritarian; some pacific, some violent".


title: Islamic revival

text: After the late 1970s, when the Iranian Revolution erupted, a worldwide Islamic revival emerged in response to the success of the revolution, owing in large part to the failure of secular Arab nationalist movement in the aftermath of the Six-Day War and popular disappointment with secular nation states in the Middle East and Westernized ruling elites, which had dominated the Muslim world during the preceding decades, and which were increasingly seen as authoritarian, ineffective and lacking cultural authenticity. Further motivation for the revival included the Lebanese Civil War, which began in 1975 and resulted in a level of sectarianism between Muslims and Christians previously unseen in many Middle Eastern countries. Another motivation was the newfound wealth and discovered political leverage brought to much of the Muslim world in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and also the Grand Mosque seizure which occurred in late 1979 amidst the revival; both of these events encouraged the rise of the phenomenon of "Petro-Islam" in Saudi Arabia during the mid-to-late 1970s in an effort by the Saudi monarchy to counterbalance the consolidation of the Iranian Revolution, exporting neo-Wahhabi ideologies to many mosques worldwide. As such, it has been argued that with both of the Islamic superpowers in the Middle East (Iran and Saudi Arabia) espousing Islamist ideologies by the end of the 1970s, and the isolation of the traditionally secularist Egypt during the period from being the most influential Arab country as a result of the Camp David Accords- resulting in Saudi Arabia's newfound dominance over Arab countries – the Islamic revival became especially potent amongst Muslims worldwide. With Lebanon, traditionally a source of secular Arab culture, fractured between Muslim and Christian, exposing the failures of its secular confessionalist political system, there was a general idea amongst many Muslims by the late 1970s that secularism had failed in the Middle East to deliver the demands of the masses. In Egypt, the revival was also motivated by the migration of many Egyptians during the 1980s to the Gulf countries in search of work; when they returned, returning especially in the aftermath of the Gulf War in Kuwait, they brought the neo-Wahhabist ideologies and more conservative customs of the Gulf back with them.


title: Islamic revival

text: Religiously, the revival was motivated by a desire to "restore Islam to ascendancy in a world that has turned away from God". This revival has been accompanied by growth of various reformist-political movements inspired by Islam (also called Islamist), and by "re-Islamisation" of society from above and below, with manifestations ranging from sharia-based legal reforms to greater piety and growing adoption of Islamic culture (such as increased attendance at "Hajj") among the Muslim public. An especially obvious sign of the re-Islamisation of many Muslims was the rise of the hijab in the public space, when in previous decades it had largely been abandoned in some Middle Eastern countries, as well as the adoption of the previously-unknown niqab by women outside of Gulf countries. Among immigrants in non-Muslim countries, it includes a feeling of a "growing universalistic Islamic identity" or transnational Islam, brought on by easier communications, media and travel. The revival has also been accompanied by an increased influence of fundamentalist preachers and terrorist attacks carried out by some radical Islamist groups on a global scale.


title: Islamic revival

text: The revival, which erupted during the end of the 1970s and continued throughout the 1980s, has gradually fizzled out in many countries, including Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and has come to be abandoned by many younger and disillusioned people in more Islamist societies such as Iran, Tunisia, and Turkey - placing more younger people in these countries increasingly at odds with their government, with whom they associate the Islamic revival with the political authoritarianism of these countries. However it has remained fairly strong in other countries, particularly Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and in the Sahel, as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011.


title: Islamic revival

text: Preachers and scholars who have been described as revivalists (mujaddids) or "mujaddideen", by differing sects and groups, in the history of Islam include Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn Taymiyyah, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Ahmad Sirhindi, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and Muhammad Ahmad. In the 20th century, figures such as Sayyid Rashid Rida, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Abul A'la Maududi, Malcolm X, and Ruhollah Khomeini, have been described as such, and academics often use the terms "Islamist" and "Islamic revivalist" interchangeably. Contemporary revivalist currents include Jihadism, which seeks to intellectually and militarily counter socially regressive post colonial rhetoric and influences; neo-Sufism, which cultivates Muslim spirituality; and classical fundamentalism, which stresses obedience to "Sharia" (Islamic law) and ritual observance.


title: Islamic revival

text: The concept of Islamic revival is based on a sahih "hadith" (a saying attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad), recorded by Abu Dawood, narrated by Abu Hurairah, who reported that Prophet Muhammad said:


title: Islamic revival

text: Within the Islamic tradition, "tajdid" (lit., regeneration, renewal) has been an important religious concept. Early on into the Islamic era, Muslims realized that they have not succeeded in creating and maintaining a society that truly followed the principles of their religion. As a result, Islamic history has seen periodic calls for a renewed commitment to the fundamental principles of Islam and reconstruction of society in accordance with the Quran and the traditions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (hadith). These efforts often drew inspiration from the hadith in which Muhammad states: "God will send to His community at the head of each century those who will renew its faith for it". Throughout Islamic history, Muslims looked to reforming religious leaders to fulfil the role of a "mujaddid" (lit., renovator). Although there is disagreement over which individuals might actually be identified as such, Muslims agree that "mujaddids" have been an important force in the history of Islamic societies.


title: Islamic revival

text: The modern movement of Islamic revival has been compared with earlier efforts of a similar nature: The "oscillat[ion] between periods of strict religious observance and others of devotional laxity" in Islamic history was striking enough for "the Muslim historian, Ibn Khaldun to ponder its causes 600 years ago, and speculate that it could be "attributed ... to features of ecology and social organization peculiar to the Middle East", namely the tension between the easy living in the towns and the austere life in the desert.


title: Islamic revival

text: Some of the more famous revivalists and revival movements include the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties in Maghreb and Spain (1042–1269), Indian Naqshbandi revivalist Ahmad Sirhindi (~1564–1624), the Indian Ahl-i Hadith movement of the 19th century, preachers Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1702–1762), and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1792).


title: Islamic revival

text: In the late 19th century, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, "one of the most influential Muslim reformers" of the era, traveled the Muslim world, advocating for Islamic modernism and pan-Islamism. His sometime acolyte Muhammad Abduh has been called "the most influential figure" of Modernist Salafism.


title: Islamic revival

text: Muhammad Rashid Rida, his protege Hassan al-Banna would establish the "Ikhwan al-Muslimeen" in 1928, the first mass Islamist organization. Despite him being influenced by Rida and his drawing of ideas primarily from Islamic sources, Al-Banna nevertheless was willing to engage with modern European concepts like nationalism, constitutionalism, etc.


title: Islamic revival

text: In South Asia, Islamic revivalist intellectuals and statesmen like Syed Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah promoted the Two-Nation Theory and the Muslim League established the world's first modern Islamic republic, Pakistan. Abul Ala Maududi was the later leader of this movement who established Jamaat-e-Islami in South Asia. Today it is one of the most influential Islamic parties in the Indian sub-continent, spanning three countries (Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh), although the different national parties have no organisational link between them. Muhammed Ilyas Kandhlawi was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the widely influential Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925. It is now a worldwide movement with over 50 million active followers, it is a non-political movement which focuses on increasing the Muslims' faith and for them to return back to the sunnah way of life.


title: Islamic revival

text: Whether or not the contemporary revival is part of an historical cycle, the uniqueness of the close association of the Muslim community with its religion has been noted by scholar Michael Cook who observed that "of all the major cultural domains" the Muslim world "seems to have been the least penetrated by irreligion". In the last few decades ending in 2000, rather than scientific knowledge and secularism edging aside religion, Islamic fundamentalism has "increasingly represented the cutting edge" of Muslim culture.


title: Islamic revival

text: A global wave of Islamic revivalism emerged starting from the end of 1970s owing in large part to popular disappointment with the secular nation states and Westernized ruling elites, which had dominated the Muslim world during the preceding decades, and which were increasingly seen as authoritarian, ineffective and lacking cultural authenticity. It was also a reaction against Western influences such as individualism, consumerism, commodification of women, and sexual liberty, which were seen as subverting Islamic values and identities. Among the political factors was also the ideological vacuum that emerged after the decline of socialist system and related weakening of the liberal (Western) ideology.


title: Islamic revival

text: Economic and demographic factors, such as lagging economic development, a rise in income inequality and a decline in social mobility, the rise of an educated youth with expectation of higher upward mobility, and urbanization in the Muslim world also played a major part. In general, the gap between higher expectations and reality among many in the Muslim world was an important factor. Gulf oil money was also a huge factor, in a phenomenon known as Petro-Islam.


title: Islamic revival

text: The above reasons are generally agreed to be the ultimate causes of the Islamic revival. There were also specific political events which heralded the revival. Major historical turning points in the Islamic revival include, in chronological order:


title: Islamic revival

text: The term "Islamic revival" encompasses "a wide variety of movements, some intolerant and exclusivist, some pluralistic; some favorable to science, some anti-scientific; some primarily devotional, and some primarily political; some democratic, some authoritarian; some pacific, some violent".


title: Islamic revival

text: The revival has been manifested in greater piety and a growing adoption of Islamic culture among ordinary Muslims. In the 1970s and 80s there were more veiled women in the streets. One striking example of it is the increase in attendance at the "Hajj", the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, which grew from 90,000 in 1926 to 2 million in 1979.


title: Islamic revival

text: Among revivalist currents, neo-fundamentalism predominates, stressing obedience to Islamic law and ritual observance. There have also been Islamic liberal revivalists attempting to reconcile Islamic beliefs with contemporary values and neo-Sufism cultivates Muslim spirituality; Many revivalist movements have a community-building orientation, focusing on collective worship, education, charity or simple sociability. Many local movements are linked up with national or transnational organizations which sponsor charitable, educational and missionary activities.


title: Islamic revival

text: A number of revivalist movements have called for implementation of sharia. The practical implications of this call are often obscure, since historically Islamic law has varied according to time and place, but as an ideological slogan it serves "to rally support for the creation of a utopian, divinely governed Islamic state and society".


title: Islamic revival

text: According to scholar Olivier Roy, The call to fundamentalism, centered on the sharia: this call is as old as Islam itself and yet still new because it has never been fulfilled, It is a tendency that is forever setting the reformer, the censor, and tribunal against the corruption of the times and of sovereigns, against foreign influence, political opportunism, moral laxity, and the forgetting of sacred texts.


title: Islamic revival

text: Contemporary Islamic revival includes a feeling of a "growing universalistic Islamic identity" as often shared by Muslim immigrants and their children who live in non-Muslim countries. According to Ira Lapidus,


title: Islamic revival

text: The increased integration of world societies as a result of enhanced communications, media, travel, and migration makes meaningful the concept of a single Islam practiced everywhere in similar ways, and an Islam which transcends national and ethnic customs.


title: Islamic revival

text: Global Muslim identity does not necessarily or even usually imply organised group action. Even though Muslims recognise a global affiliation, the real heart of Muslim religious life remains outside politics – in local associations for worship, discussion, mutual aid, education, charity, and other communal activities.


title: Islamic revival

text: Islamic revivalist leaders have been "activists first, and scholars only secondarily", emphasizing practical issues of Islamic law and impatience with theory. According to Daniel W. Brown, two "broad features" define the revivalist approach to Islamic authorities: distrust of Islamic scholarship along with "vehement rejection" of "taqlid" (accepting a scholar's decision without investigating it); and at the same time a strong commitment to the Quran and Sunnah.


title: Islamic revival

text: Politically, Islamic resurgence runs the gamut from Islamist regimes in Iran, Sudan, and Taliban Afghanistan. Other regimes, such as countries in the Persian Gulf region, and the secular countries of Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Pakistan, while not a product of the resurgence, have made some concessions to its growing popularity.


title: Islamic revival

text: In reaction to Islamist opposition during the 1980s, even avowedly secular Muslim states "endeavoured to promote a brand of conservative Islam and to organise an `official Islam`". Official radio stations and journals opened up to fundamentalist preaching.


title: Islamic revival

text: In 1971, the constitution of Egypt was made to specify (in article 2) that the "sharia" was "the main source of legislation". In 1991, the Egyptian Security Court condemned the writer Ala'a Hamid to eight years in prison for blasphemy. By the mid 1990s, the official Islamic journal in Egypt – "Al-Liwa al-Islami" – had a higher circulation than "Al-Ahram". The number of "teaching institutes dependent" on Al-Azhar University in Egypt increased "from 1985 in 1986–7 to 4314 in 1995–6".


title: Islamic revival

text: In Pakistan, a bill to make sharia the exclusive source of law of the state was introduced after General Zia's coup in 1977, and finally passed in 1993 under Nawaz Sharif's government. The number of registered madrassas rose from 137 in 1947 to 3906 in 1995.


title: Islamic revival

text: In Sudan, the sharia penal code was proclaimed in 1983. South Yemen (formerly the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) made polygamy legal with a new Family Code in 1992.


title: Islamic revival

text: In Algeria, the leftist secularist FLN government made Friday an official holy day in 1976. The family law of 1984 "re-introduced some sharia elements" such as Quranic dissymmetry between men and women, and the official policy of Arabisation led to a "de facto" Islamisation of education.


title: Islamic revival

text: In secular Turkey, religious teaching in schools was made compulsory in 1983. Religious graduates of İmam Hatip secondary schools were given right of access to the universities and allowed to apply for civil service positions, introducing it to religious-minded people.


title: Islamic revival

text: Even the Marxist government of Afghanistan, before it was overthrown, introduced religious programs on television in 1986, and declared Islam to be the state religion in 1987.


title: Islamic revival

text: In Morocco, at the end of the 1990s, more doctorates were written in religious sciences than in social sciences and literature. In Saudi Arabia, the absolute majority of doctorates were in religious sciences.


title: Islamic revival

text: In many Muslim countries, there has been a growth of networks of religious schools. "Graduates holding a degree in religious science are now entering the labour market and tend, of course, to advocate the Islamization of education and law in order to improve their job prospects."


title: Islamic revival

text: In Iraq, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr criticized Marxism and presented early ideas of an Islamic alternative to socialism and capitalism. Perhaps his most important work was "Iqtisaduna" ("Our Economics"), considered an important work of Islamic economics.


title: Islamic revival

text: One observation made of Islamization is that increased piety and adoption of Sharia has "in no way changed the rules of the political or economic game", by leading to greater virtue. "Ethnic and tribal segmentation, political maneuvering, personal rivalries" have not diminished, nor has corruption in politics and economics based on speculation.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: Dehradun Airport , also known as Jolly Grant Airport, is a domestic airport serving Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, India, located 25 km south of the city. Commercial operations began on 30 March 2008, after a runway extension to accommodate larger aircraft. A new terminal building was inaugurated in February 2009. The current passenger terminal was inaugurated in October 2021. Located from Rishikesh, and from Haridwar, the airport Dehradun Airport is the 30th busiest airport in India, with over 1 million annual passengers.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: It is also known as the "Air Gateway of Garhwal" and plays an important role in the tourism of Uttarakhand.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: Vayudoot operated scheduled services to New Delhi, Lucknow and Pantnagar from 1982 to 1995. Air Deccan started flights between Dehradun and New Delhi in December 2004 and added a second daily flight from August 2006.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: The Airport Authority of India suspended flight operations at the airport from 1 March 2007 in order to execute its airport modernization plan. The runway was extended from 3,500 feet to 7,000 feet and also broadened from 23 metres to 45 metres to enable the landing of narrow body jets like the Boeing 737 and the Airbus 320. A night landing system was installed and a new terminal building and ATC tower were also constructed.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: The expansion work was expected to cost ₹720 million and was to be completed by the end of 2007. However, it took a few months more and scheduled flights resumed only in March 2008 with Air Deccan re-launching its flights. Air India launched its Delhi to Dehradun services on 28 January 2010, followed by SpiceJet in 2012.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: The Domestic Terminal Building at Dehradun is a 4,200 square metre glass and steel structure with central air conditioning, central heating, a Flight Information Display System (FIDS) and CCTV surveillance systems. The terminal has peak-hour passenger handling capacity of 150 passengers and annual handling capacity of 122,000. It has 11 check-in counters, an X-ray baggage scanner, three security check booths in the Departures section and two baggage claim conveyor belts in the arrivals section. Its adjoining airport apron can accommodate two Category 'C' type of aircraft.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: In September 2018, AAI approached the Environment ministry for clearance to expand the airport by constructing a new integrated terminal building and allied facilities at an investment of Rs 344.75 crore.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: A new, centrally air-conditioned Modular Integrated Terminal Building would be built in an area of 17,961 square metres and would involve a built-up area of 30,200 square metres.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: The new terminal building will have a concourse, check-in area, security hold and arrival lounge on the ground floor. Offices will be accommodated on the mezzanine floor. Departures will have 36 check-in counters, self-check-in kiosks, in-line baggage screening facility and four aerobridges. Retail space will be spread over an area of 6,465 square metres.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: In order to meet the expected increase in passenger footfall in the future, Dehradun Airport is all set to receive a full makeover. The cost of the redevelopment project is estimated at Rs 353 crores. According to Airports Authority of India (AAI), the first phase of development will include the construction of Domestic Terminal Building along with a utility block, a car park, sewage treatment plant, rainwater harvesting facilities and other ancillary structures.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: AAI said in a statement, "With an area of 42,776 sqm, the new terminal building will be able to handle around 1,800 passengers during peak hours, thereby expanding the capacity of the airport by eightfold. The new terminal building will have a concourse, check-in area, security hold and arrival lounge on the ground floor, security hold at first floor, and various offices on the mezzanine floor.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: As per the project details, equipped with 36 check-in counters and four aerobridges, the new terminal building will have facilities like self-check-in kiosks and an inline baggage screening facility, along with retail space.


title: Dehradun Airport

text: AAI further said in its statement that the second phase of the development work will include shifting of operations from the existing terminal building to the new one and construction of the remaining portion of the terminal building along with the integration of all the services and completion of balance works. The project was completed and inaugurated by Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on 7 October 2021.


title: Sextuplets (film)

text: Sextuplets is a 2019 American comedy film directed by Michael Tiddes from a screenplay by Mike Glock, Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans. It stars Marlon Wayans and Bresha Webb, and follows a man who sets out to find his long-lost siblings after discovering he is one of sextuplets his mother had. The film was digitally released on Netflix on August 16, 2019.


title: Sextuplets (film)

text: An expectant father seeks his birth mother and discovers he has five other siblings born from the same pregnancy. He tries to track them down before his baby is born. He first meets with his brother Russell and the pair go on a road trip to find their other siblings. Dawn is a stripper serving time in a women's prison, Ethan is a hustler who dresses and talks like a '70s pimp, while Jasper is marked for his red hair and lighter complexion, and "Baby Pete" suffers from polio.


title: Sextuplets (film)

text: In August 2018, it was announced that Marlon Wayans would star in "Sextuplets". In October 2018, Molly Shannon, Glynn Turman, Michael Ian Black, and Debbi Morgan joined the cast.


title: Sextuplets (film)

text: On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, and an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads, "Lazy, messy, and deeply unfunny, "Sextuplets" is the latest misfire from the collaborative duo of Marlon Wayans and Michael Tiddes." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 21 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".


title: Azide

text: In chemistry, azide is a linear, polyatomic anion with the formula and structure . It is the conjugate base of hydrazoic acid . Organic azides are organic compounds with the formula , containing the azide functional group. The dominant application of azides is as a propellant in air bags.


title: Azide

text: Sodium azide is made industrially by the reaction of nitrous oxide, with sodium amide in liquid ammonia as solvent:


title: Azide

text: Many inorganic azides can be prepared directly or indirectly from sodium azide. For example, lead azide, used in detonators, may be prepared from the metathesis reaction between lead nitrate and sodium azide. An alternative route is direct reaction of the metal with silver azide dissolved in liquid ammonia. Some azides are produced by treating the carbonate salts with hydrazoic acid.


title: Azide

text: Azide is isoelectronic with carbon dioxide , cyanate , nitrous oxide , nitronium ion and cyanogen fluoride NCF. Per valence bond theory, azide can be described by several resonance structures; an important one being


title: Azide

text: Azide salts can decompose with release of nitrogen gas. The decomposition temperatures of the alkali metal azides are: (275 °C), (355 °C), (395 °C), and (390 °C). This method is used to produce ultrapure alkali metals:


title: Azide

text: Azide as a ligand forms numerous transition metal azide complexes. Some such compound are more shock sensitive.


title: Azide

text: The azide anion behaves as a nucleophile; it undergoes nucleophilic substitution for both aliphatic and aromatic systems. It reacts with epoxides, causing a ring-opening; it undergoes Michael-like conjugate addition to 1,4-unsaturated carbonyl compounds.


title: Azide

text: Azides can be used as precursors of the metal nitrido complexes by being induced to release , generating a metal complex in unusual oxidation states (see "high-valent iron").


title: Azide

text: Azides decompose with nitrite compounds such as sodium nitrite when acidified. This is a method of destroying residual azides, prior to disposal. In the process, nitrogen, nitrogen oxides, and hydroxides are formed:


title: Azide

text: About 251 tons of azide-containing compounds are produced annually, the main product being sodium azide. Sodium azide is the propellant in automobile airbags. It decomposes on heating to give nitrogen gas, which is used to quickly expand the air bag:


title: Azide

text: Heavy metal azides, such as lead azide, , are shock-sensitive detonators which decompose to the corresponding metal and nitrogen, for example:


title: Azide

text: Silver azide and barium azide are used similarly. Some organic azides are potential rocket propellants, an example being 2-dimethylaminoethylazide (DMAZ) .


title: Azide

text: Azides are explosophores and poisons. Sodium azide is as toxic as sodium cyanide (with an oral of 27 mg/kg in rats) and can be absorbed through the skin. Heavy metal azides, such as lead azide are primary high explosives detonable when heated or shaken. Heavy-metal azides are formed when solutions of sodium azide or HN vapors come into contact with heavy metals or their salts. Heavy-metal azides can accumulate under certain circumstances, for example, in metal pipelines and on the metal components of diverse equipment (rotary evaporators, freezedrying equipment, cooling traps, water baths, waste pipes), and thus lead to violent explosions.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius Network LLC is a bankrupt cryptocurrency lending company. Headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, Celsius maintained offices in four countries and operated globally. Users could deposit a range of cryptocurrency digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, into a Celsius wallet to earn a percentage yield, and could take out loans by pledging their cryptocurrencies as security. As of May 2022, the company had lent out $8 billion to clients and had almost $12 billion in assets under management.


title: Celsius Network

text: In June 2022, the company gained notoriety when they indefinitely paused all transfers and withdrawals due to "extreme market conditions", resulting in steep declines in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. On July 13, 2022, Celsius filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.


title: Celsius Network

text: The company facilitated lending and borrowing for its users. Depositors earned interest by depositing qualifying cryptocurrencies, with the rate of interest dependent upon the cryptocurrency deposited (e.g., up to 6.2% interest on bitcoin). The company paid the interest in cryptocurrencies, including in its own CEL token. Borrowers paid between zero and 8.95% on bitcoin-backed loans, depending on the loan-to-value ratio. Some of the money that Celsius used to fund the loans came from hedge funds that were looking for higher yields than banks pay.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius generated revenue from token sales, lending, bitcoin mining, and discretionary trading of cryptocurrencies. Celsius claimed that up to 80% of its revenue was returned to its user community through interest payments on deposits made through its platform. The company did not charge any fees to its users.


title: Celsius Network

text: On July 7, 2022, former investment manager Jason Stone sued Celsius, alleging that the company ran a Ponzi scheme. On August 23, Celsius sued Stone, alleging that he lost or stole tens of millions of US dollars' worth of cryptocurrency.


title: Celsius Network

text: In March 2018, Celsius raised $50 million in its initial coin offering (ICO) of the CEL digital currency. In April 2018, the CEL cryptocurrency began trading on cryptocurrency exchanges. In advance of the ICO, Celsius listed its currency as a security. In June 2018, Celsius launched its mobile app. In 2019, Celsius completed a $24 million equity round at $140 million valuation.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius was a major buyer of its own token, buying CEL interest it owed to customers on the open market. Crypto analysis firm Arkham Intelligence estimated Celsius had spent $350 million on purchases since July 2019.


title: Celsius Network

text: In August 2020, Celsius raised $20 million via an equity crowdfunding to support its operations. In the fall of 2020, the price of Celsius's currency climbed more than 230% in less than a month.


title: Celsius Network

text: In October 2020, the company reported that its CEO, Alex Mashinsky, sold $500,000 worth of CEL tokens in one transaction. In December 2021, Mashinsky tweeted, "All @CelsiusNetwork founders have made purchases of #CEL and are not sellers of the token." Based on public data, Arkham Intelligence estimates that Mashinsky sold $44 million worth of CEL through exchanges.


title: Celsius Network

text: In November 2020, Celsius said it had plans to open an office in Australia and to expand its office in Israel.


title: Celsius Network

text: In December 2020, Celsius had $3.31 billion in assets under management. In January 2021, Celsius had more than $4.5 billion in assets.


title: Celsius Network

text: In October 2021, Celsius raised $400 million in new equity from investors. The funding round was led by WestCap, the fund led by former Airbnb executive Laurence Tosi, and CDPQ, Canada's second largest pension fund. The funding round valued Celsius at $3 billion. At this time, Celsius's office in Israel employed 100 people.


title: Celsius Network

text: On April 16, 2021, Celsius confirmed that a security breach had occurred in its systems; a third-party server with customer data had been compromised, resulting in a portion of the company's customer list being exfiltrated and a phishing email being sent to Celsius customers.


title: Celsius Network

text: In September 2021, authorities in a number of US states said that Celsius's interest-bearing cryptocurrency accounts constitute an unregistered securities offering. The attorney general of New Jersey ordered Celsius to stop issuing interest-bearing cryptocurrency products via a cease-and-desist order. Texas state regulators filed a notice seeking a hearing in February 2022 to determine whether to take similar action. Kentucky's securities regulator told Celsius to cease and desist from offering its interest-paying accounts in the state. Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky said he was "very confident" that none of Celsius's products in the United States were securities. Celsius said it was working with US states in order to provide clarity about its business operations.


title: Celsius Network

text: On October 18, 2021, Celsius received a request for more information from New York Attorney General, Letitia James. Earlier that month, Celsius had US$400 million in new equity funding from investors.


title: Celsius Network

text: On November 26, 2021, Celsius announced that one of its senior employees was the focus of an Israeli police probe associated with prior employment activities; the employee was later suspended.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius had been using the crypto custodian Prime Trust to store some customer assets since March 2020. This relationship ended in June 2021, when Prime Trust's risk team expressed concern about Celsius's strategy of "endlessly re-hypothecating assets ... lending the same assets over and over and over again to juice yields". Prime Trust founder Scott Purcell suggested that re-hypothecating "would be destined for failure as any sharp market movement in either direction would be catastrophic to such a ridiculously leveraged business model". Celsius sued Prime Trust in August 2022, accusing the custodian of retaining $17 million worth of assets after the relationship ended.


title: Celsius Network

text: CNBC described Celsius as "one of the largest players in the crypto lending space" in the second quarter of 2022. The company had issued loans totaling more than $8 billion, and as of May, it had almost $12 billion in assets under management. In June 2022, Celsius said it had 1.7 million customers and that it offered yields as high as 17% per year.


title: Celsius Network

text: On June 7, in a blog post entitled "Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead", Celsius addressed rumors that the company had lost client funds by making poor investments and that it was facing a liquidity crisis. The company dismissed these rumors as the actions of "vocal actors ... spreading misinformation". The blog post denied claims that Celsius sustained significant losses as a result of the collapse of Luna in the preceding month.


title: Celsius Network

text: On June 10, during his weekly "Ask Mashinsky Anything" session on YouTube, the CEO denied that Celsius was having problems with clients' access to their funds and he suggested that its critics were being paid by competitors. Mashinsky said on the live stream, "Celsius has billions in liquidity, right, and we provide immediate access to everybody". Around this time, Mashinsky was questioning skeptical commenters on Twitter, accusing them of spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Celsius.


title: Celsius Network

text: On June 13, the company paused all customer withdrawals "in order to stabilize liquidity and operations", citing "extreme market conditions". After this announcement, the prices of bitcoin and Ethereum decreased by 12% and 14% respectively from the previous day. Celsius's own CEL token, which had been trading for almost $7 a year prior, was down by one-third after the withdrawal pause announcement, falling to $0.21. The total market value of all cryptocurrencies fell to $983 billion, marking the first time since January 2021 that the cryptocurrency market was collectively worth less than $1 trillion. The news also caused a 10% decline in the share price of Celsius Holdings, an unrelated beverage company, on June 13, due to investor confusion between the two companies' names. The beverage company's shares increased by about 5% the following day.


title: Celsius Network

text: Rod Bolger, who joined Celsius as CFO in January 2022, resigned on June 30. Celsius appointed Chris Ferraro, its head of financial planning, analysis, and investor relations, to succeed Bolger. Celsius Network laid off 150 employees, a quarter of its workforce, in early July.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 13, one month after pausing withdrawals. A declaration filed the following day reported a $1.2 billion deficit in the company’s balance sheet. Mashinsky said that the company had "made what, in hindsight, proved to be certain poor asset deployment decisions". According to the bankruptcy filing, the company had $167 million in cash on hand, which it said would provide "ample liquidity" to support its operations during its bankruptcy. Of Celsius's $5.5 billion in total liabilities at the time of its bankruptcy filing, the company owed $4.7 billion to its users, who were listed as unsecured creditors. Celsius's choice of Chapter 11 bankruptcy would prioritize repayments to secured creditors first, then unsecured creditors, then equity holders.


title: Celsius Network

text: Mashinsky resigned as Celsius CEO on September 27, 2022. Chris Ferraro, the former CFO of Celsius, was appointed to replace him as interim CEO.


title: Celsius Network

text: After Celsius filed for bankruptcy in July 2022, Molly White tweeted a list of excerpts from customer letters to the bankruptcy court judge. Among the stories were concerns about how Celsius had frozen their funds and statements about the company's negative impact on customers' lives. On its bankruptcy website, the company said that it intends to offer two options to customers, "... to recover either cash at a discount or remain 'long' crypto."


title: Celsius Network

text: Six lawyers specializing in bankruptcies, restructuring, or cryptocurrency told Reuters that there was little precedent for bankruptcies at cryptocurrency companies. "This could last for years", said one attorney about Celsius's bankruptcy process.


title: Celsius Network

text: On September 28, 2022, The court ordered Celsius to publish customer lists with financial details to create transparency. Celsius had argued that the customer list had resale value and should therefore be kept secret. The Celsiusnetworth website with the now-challenged information was created anonymously and apparently based on court documents which are publicly viewable as a PDF document. According to CelsiusNetworth, the top three names lost $40.5 million, $38.2 million, and $26.4 million, respectively. Celsius owes users approximately $4.7 billion but lacks the funds to pay them.


title: Celsius Network

text: On December 2, 2022, Celsius announced the sale of GK8, a digital asset custody platform, to the Michael Novogratz-founded company Galaxy Digital Holdings. According to a lawyer representing Celsius's creditors, the proceeds from the sale are expected to go to Celsius's legal fees and former customers.


title: Celsius Network

text: On December 7, 2022, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ordered Celsius to return cryptocurrency worth $50 million to users of its custody accounts.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius's bankruptcy filing ascribed its $1.2 billion deficit to a modern version of a bank run, in which depositors, anxious about the security of their funds, try to withdraw their funds in great numbers. One critic of Celsius told CBS News, "This was yet another bank run. You're not reinventing anything here. They were promoting their services as a better savings account but in the end you're just another unsecured lender."


title: Celsius Network

text: The sudden end to customer withdrawals and subsequent bankruptcy led some commentators to highlight the lack of deposit insurance in the cryptocurrency sector. Celsius's terms of use permitted the company to halt trading for its users. Without deposit insurance, no entity is obligated to compensate Celsius's users or to prioritize them more highly than its investors should the company enter liquidation. Securities regulators in five U.S. states announced investigations into Celsius's withdrawal freeze within three days of the company's announcement. Federal entities such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had considered extending deposit insurance to stablecoin investors, but no FDIC protections for crypto investors existed at the time of Celsius's withdrawal freeze.


title: Celsius Network

text: Celsius's collapse exemplified what one commentator called a "pervasive problem in the crypto industry, where financial services that claim to be decentralized ... are actually centralized entities, with the power to control the flow of crypto assets." The bankruptcies of centralized cryptocurrency financial institutions like Celsius led some investors to lose trust in centralized storage and to move their funds onto hardware cryptocurrency wallets.


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning across the state. Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two civilians were injured.


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: The wildfire season in California experienced an unusually early start amid an ongoing drought and historically low rainfall and reservoir levels. In January 2021 alone, 297 fires burned on nonfederal land according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which is almost triple the number of fires and more than 20 times the acreage of the five-year average for January. The January fires were exacerbated by unseasonably strong Santa Ana winds, and some of them burned in the same areas as previous fires like the CZU Lightning Complex.


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: The long term trend is that wildfires in the state are increasing due to climate change in California. The 2021 wildfire season was exceptionally severe in California, although it did not approach the extent of the previous year's wildfire season, which was the largest season in the state's recorded history. As of July 11, more than three times as many acres have burned compared to the previous year through that date, with drought, extreme heat, and reduced snowpack contributing to the severity of the fires. The state also faces an increased risk of post-wildfire landslides.


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: As of August 18, 2021, the state of California was facing "unprecedented fire conditions" as multiple fires including the Dixie Fire, McFarland Fire, Caldor Fire, and others, raged on. The USDA Forest Service temporarily closed California national forests at the end of August to mitigate the impact of potential fires.


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: On October 18, 2021, much of the state—particularly Northern California, where the majority of the significant fires had been located—received its first major precipitation since the start of the wildfire season. This significantly lowered wildfire risk in the region.


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: More than 120 families have been evacuated from the fires, and companies including PG&E have preemptively spent billions of dollars to reduce the risk of wildfires and avoid an event similar to the previous year's fire season. Firefighters have also set prescribed fires to prevent other fires burning. During evacuations from the Lava Fire, an illegal marijuana farmer was shot and killed by police after brandishing a firearm at authorities, while "defending his farm".


title: 2021 California wildfires

text: The following is a list of fires that burned more than , or produced significant structural damage or casualties.


Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, known in Japan as , the fourth installment of the "UltimateStorm" series, is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 as part of the "" video-game series based on Masashi Kishimoto's "Naruto" manga. It was first released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Namco Bandai Games on March 2013 in North America and in Europe, and on April 2013 in Japan.


title: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3

text: The story focuses on the conflict between ninjas from all the villages and the terrorist organization known as Akatsuki as a world war starts between the groups. Its gameplay retains elements of "Ultimate Ninja Storm 2" (such as quick time events), adding hack and slash scenarios and options to increase battle difficulty.


text: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst was released on October 22 and 24, 2013 in North America and Japan, respectively. Its European version was released over three months later, on January 31, 2014.


text: The game had positive reviews and good sales, surpassing its predecessors from the series. Critics praised the return of boss battles from "Storm 2", the Ultimate Decision mechanics and improved graphics and controls. Reception of story-mode development, based on the number of cutscenes, was mixed. Lack of depth in the fighting mechanics and the under-use of hack and slash were criticized. A sequel, "", was released in 2016. In 2017, CyberConnect2 re-released it again with the first two "Storm" games as a trilogy. The game was also released online that year.


text: The game has 80 playable characters and seven support characters (81 playable characters and seven support characters in Full Burst) The fighting system has been modified, with the Awakening Mode, giving each character enhanced abilities when their health is low and usable by certain characters during a fight. The item system was rearranged, so a player can choose between healing and offensive items. As the game progresses, the player can store items to use in combat.


text: Like the previous games, a player can choose two characters to assist the player character in battle. The assisting characters can aid the playable one with thirteen combos. In the team-attack system, a player can use support characters to charge and attack. The assistants have health bars, losing health when they are hit and becoming unusable when their health bars are depleted. If a player has one support character, they have ten health bars; if a player has two support characters, each has five health bars. Several arenas are interactive, making a player lose a fight if they leave an area.


text: Story mode is similar to "" rather than the previous game, ""; it features boss battles, including quick time events requiring strategy to defeat the opponent. Ultimate Decision Mode has the option of changing battle difficulties, with higher scores if greater difficulty is chosen.


text: The game has mob battles, in which the player controls a character who must battle a series of enemies. In this mode, controls from regular fights are retained and the player can transport to another enemy after they defeat one.


text: "Ultimate Ninja Storm 3" begins with the attack of the Nine-tailed Demon Fox of the Konohagakure ninja village while its former leader, Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, tries to stop it. The current leader of Konohagakure, Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, faces the masterminds behind the attack: Madara Uchiha and the fox. The story then moves to some time after "Ultimate Ninja Storm 2"s; the five leaders of the ninja village face Sasuke Uchiha, who intends to kill acting "hokage" Danzo Shimura. Madara saves Sasuke and declares a world war against the ninja forces. In the next chapter, Sasuke's former comrades from Konohagakure try to kill Sasuke until Naruto Uzumaki convinces him to have a death match. Naruto trains to obtain the power of the fox with the help of Killer Bee and the spirit of his mother, Kushina Uzumaki. The fourth ninja world war begins, with the ninjas facing the Madara's army of Zetsu and Kabuto Yakushi's reanimated warriors. When Naruto and Killer Bee go to war, Kabuto revives the original Madara Uchiha and reveals that the "other Madara" is an imposter. While the five Kages make Madara retreat, Naruto defeats the fake Madara forces.


text: In "Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst," after the story mode's ending, a side story reveals that Sasuke is joining the war. He changes sides when he allies with the reanimated body of his brother, Itachi, to defeat Kabuto and send his forces to the afterlife.


text: The new "Naruto" game was first leaked online in the "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine in June 2012, with Namco Bandai Games confirming that it was "Ultimate Ninja Storm 3" shortly afterwards. With the announcement, Yusuke Sasaki of Namco Bandai promised improvements to the fighting system and story mode. To make areas more interactive and add strategy to the fights, the staff added the ring-out option.


text: The story mode was developed to be accessible to players unfamiliar with the "Naruto" series. CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama promised the return of "epic boss battles" absent from "". Bandai promoted graphics improvements in its first trailer, released in July 2012. Two alternative costumes for Naruto Uzumaki (a samurai outfit and Goku's uniform from "Dragon Ball") were based on illustrations by Masashi Kishimoto which were published in "Shonen Jump" and an art book. They attracted producer Yuki Nishikawa, who consulted other members of the company to include them in the game.


text: In August 2012, CyberConnect2 began a suggestion forum on their website which asked players worldwide to say what they wanted to see in "Ultimate Ninja Storm 3" and upcoming "Naruto" games. The feedback was used to create the game. At Comic-Con International in July 2012, Namco Bandai Games America representatives confirmed plans for a March 2013 release in North America. First-run copies of the game included a code to download six costumes: a Goku costume, a samurai suit for Naruto Uzumaki, "" costumes for Hinata Hyuga and Sasuke Uchiha, a kimono for Sasuke, swimsuits for Sakura Haruno and Tsunade, a Japanese school uniform for Sakura, and ANBU costumes for Kakashi Hatake and Itachi Uchiha. The game was released in a regular form and in two limited editions which included action figures and the soundtrack.


text: Downloadable content is available for the game, a new addition to the series. All content released are new costumes for existing characters. Pre-orders for the game included a code to download the Goku's Turtle School uniform for Naruto Uzumaki. Players who subscribed to "Weekly Shonen Jump" or "Neon Alley" in North America received a code to download samurai costume for Naruto, a kimono for Sasuke Uchiha, a school uniform for Sakura Haruno, a swimsuit for Tsunade and an ANBU costume for Itachi Uchiha; these costumes were included with the Goku costume in Europe. On March 26, 2013, a School Uniform Pack was released in the North American and European PlayStation Store with school uniforms for Hinata Hyuga, Kakashi Hatake, Ino Yamanaka, Naruto, and Sasuke. Akatsuki straw hats for Deidara, Itachi, and Kisame Hoshigaki and a torn cloak for Pain were released on April 2, 2013 as part of the Akatsuki Hats Pack. Five costumes for Naruto and one for Sasuke were released on April 9, 2013, each based on traditional clothing from cultures around the world. New costumes for Hinata, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Madara Uchiha, Orochimaru, Sasuke, Yamato, and Tsunade were made available for download on April 16, 2013, some of which were from the ninth Naruto film (""). On April 23, 2013, a "Hello Kitty"-inspired costume for Sakura and a Swimsuit Pack with swimsuits for Hinata, Ino, Sakura, and Temari were released. The final DLC for North America and Europe (the Kage Hats Pack) was released on April 30, 2013, with kage hats for Danzo Shimura, Gaara, Mizukage, Raikage, and Tsuchikage. Most costumes released in bundles in North America and Europe are available for purchase at the Japanese PlayStation Store.


text: "Storm 3" sold 87,661 units in its opening week, surpassing the initial sales of its predecessors. The game sold one million copies in North America and Europe by May 2013. Over two million copies of "Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst" were shipped worldwide by August 28, 2014; it sold one million copies in North America, 750,000 copies in Europe, and 250,000 copies in Japan.


text: The game has been well-received, with an average score of 77/100 on Metacritic for the PlayStation 3 version and average of 70/100 for Xbox 360 version. IGN praised its improvements over its predecessors in gameplay and story-mode action scenes. Its cinematic boss battles were praised, particularly those exploring the series' background. Its story presentation was contrasted with its predecessor, "Storm 2". Despite finding "Storm 3" plot inferior to "Storm 2", Destructoid still found it one of the best anime-based games based on its graphics and fights. Other sites had mixed responses, due to the amount of dialogue and length of cutscenes. GameTrailers felt that the exposition and lack of visual appeal made "Storm 3" fail to show the manga and anime's appeal; its fighting system was simplistic and its soundtrack unsuitable. However, "Play" called it the best "Naruto" game ever released.


text: The addition of Decision Mode was well-received, since it could increase the game's difficulty. Noting that newcomers might not understand the game's plot, retellings might make it easier to grasp. Gaming Age appreciated the graphics and cast, saying that it surpassed Level-5's "Ni no Kuni". Although hack and slash was more entertaining than "Ultimate Ninja Impact", its scarcity was criticized. Despite the number of characters, the combat's technical depth was also criticized. Gaming Union found the story's presentation similar to "Storm 2", with limited exploration and few side quests.


text: On July 4, 2013, Namco Bandai Games Europe announced "Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst", available in a retail pack or downloadable add-on and with support for PC. CyberConnect2 called it a "director's cut" version of the original "Storm 3". The game has a number of additions, including enhanced cinematics, all previously-released DLC costumes (with the exceptions of Naruto's Goku costume and Sakura's Hello Kitty costume), more missions and one playable character, and an additional chapter in story mode. It was released on October 22, 2013 (October 25, 2013 for PC via Steam) in North America, on October 24, 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360 in Japan, and on January 31, 2014 (October 25, 2013 for PC via Steam) in Europe. "Full Burst" scored 80 out of 100 on Metacritic. Vandal praised "Full Burst" improvements, notably the boss fight between the Uchiha brothers and Kabuto. Worthplaying found the new missions and online features appealing, but thought that only "Naruto" fans would buy it.


text: According to the Siliconera website, many players wanted to control the reanimated Kages which debuted in "Storm 3" as enemies but CyberConnect2 focused on Sage Kabuto Yakushi in "Full Burst". A sequel, "", was released in early 2016. Bandai Namco released "Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy", which contains "Storm 3 Full Burst", on August 25, 2017. "Storm 2", its prequel and sequels were released online at the same time.


title: Miya Cech

text: Miya Cech (born March 4, 2007) is an American actress. She made her film debut in "The Darkest Minds" (2018). She then starred in "Rim of the World" (2019), the second revival of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (2019), "The Astronauts" (2020–21) and "Marvelous and the Black Hole" (2021).


title: Miya Cech

text: Cech was born on March 4, 2007, in Tokyo. She was adopted at five weeks old and raised in Davis, Northern California. She is the third of four children adopted from Japan and Kazakhstan.


title: Miya Cech

text: Cech began her career as a child model, landing gigs with Gap, Ralph Lauren, Skechers, and Gymboree. She made her acting debut in a 2015 episode of the CBS police procedural "Hawaii Five-0" as a young version of Grace Park's character. This was followed by further guest roles in "American Horror Story" and "American Housewife" in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2018, Cech made her film debut in "The Darkest Minds" as Zu, a mute girl who can manipulate electricity. The film received generally negative reviews, but her performance received praise. "Deadline Hollywood" said "Cech do[es] what [she] can with nothing", while "IndieWire" considered her a standout.


title: Miya Cech

text: The following year, Cech starred in the Netflix film "Rim of the World" as ZhenZhen. Released on May 24, 2019, the film was negatively received by critics; Cech's performance received commendation, however. John Serba of "Decider" said, "Cech is my favorite, carrying the character in her sideways glances and quiet, confident swagger[.] ... She's funnier [than the males], too." Later that month, she portrayed a pre-teen version of the protagonist Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) in the Netflix film "Always Be My Maybe". According to "Variety", this is Cech's most well-known film role. Later that year, she starred as Akiko Yamato in the second revival of Nickelodeon's "Are You Afraid of the Dark?". The series was critically acclaimed; "Decider" called Cech the "[s]leeper [s]tar" of the show.


title: Miya Cech

text: From 2020 to 2021, Cech starred in the Nickelodeon drama series "The Astronauts". Common Sense Media praised the child actors, calling them wonderful. Cech played a lead role of Sammy in "Marvelous and the Black Hole", which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Critics acclaimed her performance. "IndieWire" stated, "[the film is] grounded by... Cech, who effectively channels the angst of teendom into an offbeat tale... [and] does solid work in immersing us in Sammy's frustration and sadness, even if the script doesn't always give her the best lines to punch with." In December 2021, she was announced to have been cast in a lead role alongside YaYa Gosselin in Apple TV+ series "Surfside Girls". She will portray Jade, who seeks to "find a scientific explanation for the existence of ghosts".