The Model City Times
This was a tough year for comedy as the unexpected deaths of both Robin Williams and Joan Rivers left fans in tears. Robin Williams, 63, committed suicide in his California home on August 11 and his wife later revealed that while the actor, who had previously battled substance abuse, was sober at the time of his death, he was struggling with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Less than three weeks later, complications from a throat surgery left the 81-year-old in a medically induced coma and life support, later dying from brain damage due to a lack of oxygen. Investigators found that the clinic performing the surgery made a number of mistakes that contributed to her death.
Violent riots broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson this August after an unarmed teen named Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer. Witnesses allegedly stated that Brown had his hands up at the time of the shooting — which was later disputed by police officer Darren Wilson — added to the fury. A grand jury decided not to indict Wilson on criminal charges.
Ten days later, a New York grand jury also decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black man in Staten Island who put in an apparent choke hold by a white police officer after Garner was allegedly caught selling loose cigarettes. These cases and others prompted national protests demanding an end to aggressive use of force by police.
The debate took a turn when a man fatally shot two NYPD officers in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 while they were parked in their patrol car before shooting himself. The investigation into the shooting determined that the man had posted threats to police on his Instagram account shortly before the shooting, specifically citing Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Both Brown’s and Garner’s families spoke out condemning the attack.
The Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII over the Denver Broncos by a score of 43-8
The Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals 3–2 in Game 7 of the World Series to win their third title in five years.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro’s Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and the fourth installment in the Transformers film series. Like its predecessor, the film is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T.J. Miller. It does not feature the original human cast from the previous three films, and instead introduces a new human cast and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots. A struggling inventor and single-father discovers a damaged truck, which turns out to be a Transformer in disguise.
It was released in the United States on June 27, 2014, by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics for its runtime and direction, and grossed over $1.104 billion worldwide against a $210 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the only film in 2014 to gross over $1 billion, and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release.
The freshly made group, New Cache Order, began building it’s reputation with events, volunteering and many, many adventures! The word was out and they were the talk of the town. They built relationships with Bays Mountain and One Acre Cafe just to name a couple. The events were monthly and you could always expect some kind of hiking, kayaking or some kind of activity.
