The Daily Populous

Saturday October 5th, 2024 day edition

image for Announcing PLAY's final issue

Though, anyone who remembers our rebrand from Official PlayStation Magazine to PLAY back in 2021, from official to unofficial, will know the legacy stretches back much further than just those numbers.

Future Publishing’s history of making PlayStation mags began with the launch of PlayStation itself, with Official PlayStation Magazine kicking it all off in 1995.

All the while, rival publisher Paragon Publishing (later bought out by Highbury, which eventually sold its games titles to Imagine Publishing) had its own unofficial PlayStation magazine: Play.

But in that time they went from friendly enemies to friendly friends, Play joining the Future portfolio for its final few years.

That original incarnation of Official PlayStation Magazine ran until 2004, focussed solely on PS1 – a true single-format mag.

(A peek behind the curtain: within the magazine, the farewell feature's filename is PSM46.feat_thanks.indd.) In effect, this means every issue of PLAY has been secretly moonlighting as PSM as well.

It’s why I’ve always considered this version of the magazine a combo of the legacies of Official PlayStation Magazine, PSM, and Play. »

North Carolina is distributing Benadryl and EpiPens as yellow jackets swarm from Helene flooding

Authored by apnews.com

Deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina has also disrupted the underground nests of yellow jackets, bees and other insects, causing them to swarm and sting people struggling to recover from the storm.

And the humanitarian aid group Direct Relief says it has sent more than 2,000 EpiPen injections to community health centers, clinics and pharmacies across western North Carolina.

“With every disaster, we get requests for EpiPens but this one is definitely an outlier,” said Alycia Clark, Direct Relief’s chief pharmacy officer. »

We should have given Ukraine more weapons earlier, says ex-NATO chief

Authored by politico.eu

“It maybe could even have prevented the invasion, or at least made it much harder for [Russia] to do what they’ve done.”.

Throughout the conflict, Kyiv has begged its Western allies for more advanced weapons, including long-range missiles, battle tanks and Patriot air defense systems.

Ukraine’s allies “should have given them more advanced weapons, faster, after the invasion,” Stoltenberg said. »

Judge denies an order sought by a Black student who was punished over his hair

Authored by apnews.com

But in a ruling issued late Friday afternoon, Brown denied George’s request, saying the student and his lawyers had waited too long to ask for the order.

George’s federal lawsuit also alleged that his punishment violates the CROWN Act, a recent state law prohibiting race-based discrimination of hair.

In February, a state judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by the school district that its punishment does not violate the CROWN Act. »