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The maximalist, heart over head adaptation of the romantic tragedy made stars of its leads and became an English teacher’s most trusted weapon for Bard-averse students

Romeo + Juliet is not the most renowned or beloved of Shakespeare’s plays, but it is perhaps the most foundational. The 16th-century tragedy, a story of love-addled teenagers and white-hot resentment, is often an English student’s first introduction to the bard’s oeuvre – more accessible and relatable to teens, with its plaintive lust and histrionic mood swings, than the more austere machinations in, say, Macbeth, Hamlet or Othello. And if Romeo + Juliet is the young person’s entry to Elizabethan English, perhaps no version of it is more worthy of the term “gateway drug” than Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film version, which reimagined Verona’s family feud as a tropical gang war and launched an army of teenage crushes with the faces of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

The maximalist interpretation of Shakespeare’s most lovelorn work, released 30 years ago this week (!), retains Elizabethan verse but announces its divergence from rigid classicism from the jump. Our scene is set in fair Verona beach by a news anchor via TV set, relaying the woe of two star-cross’d lovers before clips of civil strife. Fresh off his breakout success in 1992’s Strictly Ballroom, the Australian director boldly mapped the medieval story on to 90s tabloid fixations – grainy footage of violence in the streets, magazine headlines of capos and criminals, helicopter views of car chases and riots that recalled the media circus around the OJ Simpson chase two years prior. It is a movie that could have only been made in the 90s; Luhrmann’s vision of two warring families as rival gangs, replete with their own economic operations and marked territory, tapped into the era’s preoccupation with gangland as a source of transportive art, from movies to hip-hop, and as a conservative fixation for ideas on intrinsic criminality.

kbool приносит в bash привычки Free Pascal: модули через uses, классы class … end с наследованием и библиотеку TStringList, TDictionary, TIniFile, TRegEx и другие. Один API на Linux, macOS, FreeBSD и Windows, 13 конфигураций CI. Рассказываю, как это устроено, когда оно вам нужно, а когда лучше по старинке через pipe и как всё это делалось с помощью ИИ

Mayor questions impact on air quality, congestion and jobs as government poised to allow driverless vehicles in capital

London’s mayor has called for a cap on the numbers of robotaxis on its streets, with the UK government poised to allow fully driverless vehicles to operate in the capital.

Sadiq Khan said politicians had failed to “grasp the pace of change” from the technology, which could threaten jobs and increase congestion in the city, and questioned whether the rules for autonomous cars were fit for purpose.

As polls close on election night, here's a look at what to expect each hour and which midterm races are key to deciding control of Congress.

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A family affected by Sanfilippo syndrome raised millions of dollars for research. The Food and Drug Administration just approved a gene therapy the support helped make possible.

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The Archdiocese of Denver wants to be able to turn away LGBTQ families from Catholic preschools that receive state funding.

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President Trump has maintained a near-daily rally schedule as Election Day draws closer, playing his greatest hits for loyal crowds in red states in what is a sort-of goodbye to campaigning.

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The majority of congressional races this cycle are rated either solid Democrat or solid Republican. They're the opposite of tossups, where candidates from the minority party face near impossible odds.

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Наконец создаем ученика — модель, которая будет "перенимать" представления учителя. Соберем "конструктор" из нужных нам слоев и проведем первые пристрелочные тесты, чтобы убедиться, что модель можно использовать.

Недавно ко мне пришел начинающий дизайнер с неожиданным вопросом: стоит ли учить WordPress для создания сайтов с нуля? Поначалу я уходила от темы, предлагая посмотреть на что-то посвежее, типа Tilda или Webflow. Сравнивала с ситуацией в 2014, когда альтернатив собрать сайт без знания кода было немного.

Но потом решилась. И сказала то, в чем сама себе боялась признаться: «Есть нешуточная вероятность, что нашей профессии скоро не будет».

Почему тогда курсы до сих пор обещают легкий вход в индустрию, удаленную работу из любой точки мира, а лиды бигтехов зарабатывают на консультациях — и к ним идут?

А потому что, по моим наблюдениям, индустрия раскололась на два лагеря. Они живут в параллельных вселенных, в одной из которых новички идут за советом к старшим, уверенным в своей незаменимости. Во второй — те, кто без знаний базы веб-дизайна идут и вайбкодят сайты, блистая эффектом Даннинга-Крюгера, за что получают по шапке от «старичков».

Покупая билет в первую, новичок вынужден перейти во вторую, потому что работодатели все чаще требуют владеть нейросетями. А параллельно дизайнеры-сеньоры кошмарят в комментариях работы, сделанные через ИИ: «Невозможно без опыта сгенерировать сайт, решающий задачи бизнеса».

Совсем недавно я тоже считала, что вот с моим-то огромным опытом бояться нечего. Ага)

Почти весь код своего проекта kb-engine я писал вместе с ИИ-агентом и быстро понял: правило, которое можно пропустить, когда неудобно, никто соблюдать не будет. Работает только то, что проверяет код.

Сейчас в проекте 21 автоматическая проверка. Вот пять историй, и в нескольких из них проверка была зеленой и при этом ничего не проверяла.

Saying the president was "grasping at straws," a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’

At the end of his interview with Kuennsberg, Healey was also asked to comment on a potential apology for Britain’s near-250 years of perpetrating the slave trade and why the government should or shouldn’t pay reparations to enslaved people and their countries.

Sitting in the grand settings of Number 11 Downing St, Kuenssberg pointed out the lavish interiors:

Considering a formal apology doesn’t mean accepting that British people now should accept the financial liability for any party and things that happened hundreds of years ago, in which they had no role.

For almost 250 years (1560s-1807), British ships trafficked more than three million enslaved African men, women and children in a state policy backed by the monarchy and parliament.

Many were taken to British-owned plantations in the Caribbean, which enslaved generations. Children were born into slavery, uprisings were put down with extreme brutality

There were still 800,000 enslaved people on British plantations when enslavement was finally abolished by parliament in 1833

Abolishment was only achieved because the government agreed to “compensate” the enslavers. The government paid an enormous sum, the equivalent of billions of dollars these days, to the “owners” of enslaved people; this came from a huge loan that was only paid off in 2015.

Britain has never paid any compensation or reparations to the people who were enslaved, or their countries.

U.K. politicians have traditionally focused on the country’s role in banning the slave trade in 1807 and outlawing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833.

Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’

At the end of his interview with Kuennsberg, Healey was also asked to comment on a potential apology for Britain’s near-250 years of perpetrating the slave trade and why the government should or shouldn’t pay reparations to enslaved people and their countries.

Sitting in the grand settings of Number 11 Downing St, Kuenssberg pointed out the lavish interiors:

Considering a formal apology doesn’t mean accepting that British people now should accept the financial liability for any party and things that happened hundreds of years ago, in which they had no role.

For almost 250 years (1560s-1807), British ships trafficked more than three million enslaved African men, women and children in a state policy backed by the monarchy and parliament.

Many were taken to British-owned plantations in the Caribbean, which enslaved generations. Children were born into slavery, uprisings were put down with extreme brutality

There were still 800,000 enslaved people on British plantations when enslavement was finally abolished by parliament in 1833

Abolishment was only achieved because the government agreed to “compensate” the enslavers. The government paid an enormous sum, the equivalent of billions of dollars these days, to the “owners” of enslaved people; this came from a huge loan that was only paid off in 2015.

Britain has never paid any compensation or reparations to the people who were enslaved, or their countries.

U.K. politicians have traditionally focused on the country’s role in banning the slave trade in 1807 and outlawing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833.

Guardian understands Home Office continues to detain dozens of people, with one group forcibly removed this week

The Home Office is still putting asylum seekers on to planes to France weeks after the controversial scheme to remove them ended, the Guardian has learned.

The “one in, one out” scheme was announced by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the former prime minister Keir Starmer in July 2025. It aimed to deter small boats crossing the Channel to the UK from northern France, with some asylum seekers arriving here forcibly returned to France while a similar number in northern France were brought legally to the UK.

В 2000-х я купил пиратский (извините) диск с игрой Neverwinter Nights. Запустил и… выпал из реальности на несколько месяцев. Нет, я встречался с друзьями, продолжал учиться и работать. Но все мысли были там, в этом фэнтезийном мире. Даром, что мой ПК не тянул игру в полной мере, так что в местах даже не очень большого скопления виртуальных персонажей все дико тормозило. Потом я прошел дополнение, еще одно… 2–3 года поигрывал с уже чуток меньшим энтузиазмом. Ну а после этого уже забросил, несмотря на то, что ностальгирую по тайтлу по сей день. Но это я, а многие геймеры играют до сих пор. Спустя 24 года в мире Neverwinter Nigths продолжают строить города, придумывать задания и содержать серверы, на которые приходят ради общения и совместных приключений. Давайте попытаемся разобраться, почему NWN стала долгожителем.

Rapper Pos of the hip hop greats favours Barry White for the bedroom and sobs to Stevie Wonder, but which cheese-rock hit does he love on the sly?

The first song I fell in love with
My father could sing really well – he was in a choir and had this coolness. He would walk around singing Love and Happiness by Al Green and, because he looked so much like him on the cover, I actually thought he was Al Green.

The first single I bought
Underlove by Melba Moore from Abraham & Straus, this department store in Long Island that had a mini record store inside. I later realised it was produced by Kashif, and I would fall in love with everything he produced.

Если взглянуть на первые релизы фильмов на DVD, то мы увидим, что нередко в них было интерактивное меню, которое преподносилось как одно из главных достоинств. На фоне более старых VHS (или LaserDisc), где меню вообще отсутствовало, это действительно являлось прорывом, хотя интерактивные возможности встраивались не во все DVD-релизы. В самых первых или более дешёвых изданиях контент зачастую начинал воспроизводиться сразу после вставки диска в плеер.

Но по мере всё большего распространения DVD издатели начали полноценно задействовать все возможности нового формата. Появилась эта технология в 1996 году, но реальную популярность набрала только к 2000-м. Настоящий расцвет DVD-индустрии начался после того, как люди осознали все сильные и слабые стороны нового формата, плееры стали повсеместным явлением, а сопутствующие технологии окончательно дозрели. Ну а следом появились и те яркие, запоминающиеся интерактивные меню.