Join other Russians in a vibrant and encouraging community for those that love to learn English. This cross-cultural podcast brings together alumni of Access and other similar groups, and welcomes new participants that want to hear interviews, recommendations, jokes, quotes, and announcements about opportunities. Connect with us at https://vk.com/raaas2023 - Launched with support from https://elprograms.org
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Murder, infidelity, suicide, arson, overdose, religious cults, drug trafficking; this award winning podcast explores the alleged true crime antics and criminal connections of musicians we love like Jerry Lee Lewis, Jay Z, The Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse, Tupac Shakur, the Grateful Dead, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Blondie and many more. Why? Because real rock stars are more like feral, narcissistic animals than functioning members of society and that is precisely what makes them so damn entertaini ...
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The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
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'What Matters' is back for season two! This MA Financial podcast series offers listeners unique access to our experts and their insights – across alternative investments, lending and corporate advisory – to help keep you informed. Subscribe and follow the podcast today! This information in this podcast series is being made available for MA Financial Group Limited (ACN 142 008 428) and its related bodies corporate (“MA Financial”) for informational purposes only and reflects the views of its ...
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Amy Winehouse: Rehab, the Muse and a Rare Talent
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47:37Rehab, arrests, fights, hitting on Prince Harry, dramatic stage breakdowns, slagging off the press, Amy Winehouse was a rockstar’s rockstar and she was also one of the greatest musical talents of the past 20 years. Her voice was unlike any other. She modernized jazz. She gave weight to pop. When she was inspired, she was untouchable. Driven by her …
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Bonus Episode – Obsessions, Earworms, and RIP Sly Stone
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40:23This week in the After Party, Jake goes down a rabbit hole as he thinks about great songs about obsession. What are some of your favorites? And speaking of songs and obsession, what is that 90s earworm Jake has stuck in his head? Plus we hear from you on where you are and what you're doing when you listen to Disgraceland. Next week, we're bringing …
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Bjork: The Package, the Fan, and a Deadly Obsession
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33:49A deranged fan. A deadly package. And one of the most innovative musicians on the planet. This is the true story of obsession, art, and attempted murder. This is Björk in Disgraceland. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including depictions of suicide. If you or a loved one are thinking about suicide, help is ava…
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#724: Accelerated computing: From fraud detection to AI innovation
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41:25Join host Shruthi to discover how organizations use GPU-accelerated computing on AWS. Container Specialist Re Alvarez Parmar shows how Rivian optimizes GPU usage for autonomous vehicles with Amazon EKS. AWS Financial Services expert Sudhir Kalidindi explains real-time fraud detection processing 100B+ events annually. Learn architectural patterns an…
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Gun fights, heroin trafficking, burglaries, kidnapping threats, intra-band infidelity and the greatest rock ‘n’ roll record ever made, Exile on Main St. The Rolling Stones created this album as fugitives––tax fugitives––exiled from their homeland to the French Riviera and desperate to keep their career afloat after a near decade of scandal and near…
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The Rolling Stones at Altamont: Bikers, Blood, and the End of the '60s
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51:16The Rolling Stones, the most dangerous band on the planet, envisioned their free concert at the Altamont speedway outside San Francisco as the triumphant capstone to their 1969 tour: a west coast Woodstock, and a celebration of free love and hippiedom. But the festival, thrown together in under seventy two hours and with security managed by Hell’s …
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Bonus Episode - Suffering Souls, Subversion, and More Great Girl Groups
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44:58This week in the After Party, Jake is thinking about the connection between psychopathy, artistry, and trauma. So many great artists are also undeniably damaged people. Is their trauma at the root of both their artistry and their disgraceful behavior? Plus, we hear more from you on great girl groups! Next week, we're bringing you the terrifying sto…
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Marilyn Manson: A Car Crash, a Planned Murder, Nihilism, Abuse, and Inhumanity
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42:47Discover the controversial story behind Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner. Accused by multiple women of abuse—allegations he denies—what do his own revelations of past inhumanity reveal about him? And what can those admissions tell us about the serious accusations swirling around his name? Tune in to explore the complexities behind the artist and th…
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#723: AWS News: Claude 4 Opus comes to Bedrock, AWS Transform accelerates modernization, and more
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39:45Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet, the most powerful models from Anthropic for coding and advanced reasoning, are now available on Amazon Bedrock. Plus, AWS Transform can now accelerate your Mainframe, .NET and VMWare workload modernization. Learn about these updates and more with your hosts Shruthi and Jillian. 00:00 - Intro, 00:21 - Amazon Bedrock, 03:40 …
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Madonna: Music as Sex and Sex as Power in the Reign of the Queen of Pop
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46:24Madonna always knew her life would be art. She rose through the late 70s New York scene reinventing pop iconography and feminism alike. But whether it was Toronto police threatening her for indecency, her short-fuse husband, Hollywood bros exploiting her charisma, or far worse, Madonna learned quick: the world doesn’t know what to do with a truly f…
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Bonus Episode - Great Girl Groups au Go Go
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40:16This week in the After Party, Jake ponders the greatest girl groups of all time and wonders about our AI-driven future if AI doesn't even have the Go-Gos on its radar as one of the all time great girl groups. Next week, we're presenting our episode on Marilyn Manson, and Jake wants to know: Who was the most subversive artist of the 1990s? Tell Jake…
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The Go Go’s: Serial Killers, Drug Addiction, an Historic Album, and “the Rumor”
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45:26Serial killers, drug addiction, avoiding death, destruction, punk rock cliches and surviving an unmentionable “rumor” all while doing something no group of female musicians had ever done before. Which "girl group" is the greatest of all-time? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, [email protected], or on socials @disgracelandpod. To see the full list …
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#722: The Frugal Architect w/Werner Vogels: How Warner Bros. Discovery keeps streaming seamless
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48:45With only nine months to launch Max, Tom Leaman, VP of Site Reliability Engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery had to move fast to keep millions of viewers streaming smoothly. Learn about their innovative approach to measuring efficiency, managing global operations, and building resilient systems at massive scale with your hosts Simon Elisha and Dr.…
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GG Allin, the notoriously transgressive punk rocker, pushed the limits further than anyone before or after. For GG, there were no limits. No laws. He lived and performed well outside the boundaries of the mainstream and saw himself as the leader of what he called "The Rock 'N Roll Underground," for whom he pledged he would one day make the ultimate…
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Bonus Episode – Upcoming Episodes, the Diddy Trial, and More Mount Rushmore
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49:30This week in the After Party, Jake takes a look at the upcoming slate of episodes in Disgraceland and hears from you on the Diddy trial, Phish, and more. Next week, we're presenting our episode on the Go-Gos, and Jake wants to know: Are the Go-Gos the greatest "girl group" of all time? If not, who is? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, disgracelandpod…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: New York City Squalor, Art-World Slumming, and the 27 Club
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44:53Jean-Michel Basquiat's graffiti in Lower Manhattan was mistaken for a CIA operation. He was the toast of the New York art world while sleeping on floors in squalid apartments. He sold his first painting to Blondie's Debbie Harry for $200. Less than a year later, his paintings were going for more than $20,000. And decades later, the debate over what…
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#721: AWS News: Amazon Nova Premier takes on complex tasks and model distillation, and more
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28:42Nova Premier is our most advanced AI model yet, featuring a million-token context window and enhanced capabilities at nearly half the cost of competitors. Dive into this update and more with hosts Simon and Jillian.00:00 - Intro 00:31 - Amazon Nova Premier 02:56 - Analytics 04:46 - Artificial Intelligence 11:02 - Business Applications 11:38 - Cloud…
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Bonus Episode - Sign o' the Times: the Diddy Trial Begins
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42:09This week in the After Party, Jake shares his thoughts on the start of the Diddy trial and (of course) takes your calls, emails, texts and DMs.. Next week, we're presenting our episode on legendary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jake wants to know: Which musician also excelled in a second art from or sport? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, disgracel…
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Prince (Pt. 2): Bodyguards, Guns, Gangs, and a Revolution
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43:351984. Prince is at his commercial and creative peak. "Purple Rain" – the album, the soundtrack, and the film – is a sensation. But that's when the backlash sets in. That's when Prince's public persona sours, thanks in part to a tell-all story sold by a former bodyguard for a big drug-money payday. All the while, the world is sinking further into ch…
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#720: Hooked on CloudFormation: GoDaddy stays proactive with AWS CloudFormation Hooks
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25:44Discover how GoDaddy manages cloud security at speed for hundreds of developers as Cloud Governance Engineer James Kelley of GoDaddy pulls back the curtain on their transformation using AWS CloudFormation Hooks. Join your host Simon and AWS Product Manager Stella Hie as they dive into the new features that help GoDaddy balance developer freedom wit…
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Bonus Episode: The Mount Rushmore of Guitarists
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42:39This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you about the Mount Rushmore of Guitarists and opines on a recent performance from David Lee Roth. Next week, we're presenting part 2 of the Prince story, and Jake wants to know: Which artist best represented their times? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, [email protected], or on socials @disgracel…
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Van Halen Pt. 2: Pulling a Gun on Fred Durst, Racing Ferraris and Lambos, and Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Most Faithful Servant
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43:21In 1985, David Lee Roth was out and Sammy Hagar was in. One of the biggest lead singer shakeups in music history led to some of the biggest sales of Van Halen's career. It also led to more drama, to Lamborghinis and Ferraris racing through the streets of Los Angeles, to military assault vehicles storming Beverly Hills, to crazed fans and loaded gun…
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#719: AWS News: Amazon Q Developer brings powerful new AI capabilities to GitLab Duo
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26:12Description: Learn how you can use the all new Amazon Q Developer integration with GitLab Duo to automate code generation and review, plus even more updates from AWS. 00:00:00 - Intro, 00:00:28 - SWE Holly Bench, 00:04:31 - Analytics, 00:06:49 - Application Integration, 00:07:14 - Artificial Intelligence, 00:08:53 - Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, …
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Bonus Episode: Gen X Actresses and Getting to Know You
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45:26This week in the After Party, Jake reflects on Wynona Ryder and her iconic status among Gen X. Plus, Jake wants the Disgos to get in touch and tell him a little more about yourself: What are your favorite genres of music? What books and films do you like? What are your hobbies? Next week, we're presenting part 2 of the Van Halen story, and Jake wan…
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Winona Ryder: Drowning, Designer Theft, and a Deadly Kidnapping
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45:24Between beatnik parents, an LSD guru godfather, and an unconventional upbringing in Northern California, it’s not surprising that Winona Ryder became America’s endearing weirdo in the 1990s. Her noir starpower shined from an early age in movies like Beetlejuice, Heathers, and Edward Scissorhands, but her penchant for dark roles would lead her towar…
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#718: From cost center to value creator: How IT automation creates business value
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30:52Learn how organizations are transforming IT from a cost center to a value generator through automation, AI, and smart business process optimization, featuring real success stories from AWS Solution Architects Adrian SanMiguel and Greg Harris.Innovate faster with an AWS Genai Competency Partner: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/partners/…
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This week in the After Party, Jake looks at second acts in music history. Which artists went on to form successful groups whose impact matched or exceeded that of their breakthrough group? Plus, we'll hear from you on this question and more. For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as: Episode 9…
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What Matters mini: ‘Predicting rain doesn’t count’.
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18:09On this mini edition of What Matters, Andrew Pridham AO talks with our Head of Global Credit Solutions Frank Danieli about his new quarterly private credit investor letter released in mid-April titled ‘Predicting rain doesn’t count’. Frank dives into March quarter fund performance and explains why at MA Financial when it comes to investing in priv…
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Chris Cornell: Bad Trips, Crooked DEA Agents, and Four Octaves of Sheer Power
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43:50As a teenager, Chris Cornell was traumatized by a bad PCP trip that turned him into a recluse for years. Music pulled him out of the darkness when he discovered his four-octave voice by accident – A voice he used to incredible effect as the frontman for both Soundgarden and Audioslave. But the darkness never really went away – it was there in his h…
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