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'A Star Is Born' hits theaters next Friday October 5 and as I'm sure you've seen by now,

it stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Gaga is now making the media rounds

and dropping new music in the final days leading up to the film's debut.

Gaga stopped by 'Ellen' Wednesday to talk about the movie and her experience

working with first-time director Cooper.

Another interesting tidbit mother monster shared with Ellen was how quickly she

changed her look following filming. Gaga appears in the movie with darker hair, but

as you can see now is back to her trademark blonde.

Gaga explained the film, especially the end, demanded such tremendous emotion

and tragedy - she desperately wanted to get her character, Ally, out of her

but did admit, there's still a small piece of the role still inside the pop superstar.

From 'Ellen' to new music, Gaga premiered her Cooper-duet "Shallow" on Zane Lowe's

Apple Music Beats 1 radio show Thursday and we've got a clip for you to check out….

The track is set to appear on the motion picture soundtrack due out the same day as

the film - October 5 but will be joined by tracks like "Maybe It's Time," and

"I'll Never Love Again." To check out the Ellen clip and song in full -

head to billboard.com. Until next time, for Billboard News - I'm Kevan Kenney.

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Bir Umut Yeter / A Glimmer of Hope is Enough Trailer - Episode 2 (Eng & Tur Subs) - Duration: 0:42.

Let me introduce you to my daughter, Yılmaz. Derya.

Hello.

I have an offer for you.

- Ms. Derya, do you have any children? - I don't.

Ms. Derya...

...don't be sad.

Your son is healthy and safe.

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SHROUD'S TRUSTY DEAGLE IS BACK! SCREAM FNATIC CARRY! CS:GO Twitch Clips - Duration: 10:25.

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Jeffrey Toobin: Kavanaugh hearing is not a trial - Duration: 6:56.

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Volkswagen Golf 1.4 TSI GTE 150 PK / Automaat !! / Prijs is excl. BTW - Duration: 0:54.

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What is an Investment Services Broker? Top 5 Questions, Answered - Duration: 3:57.

- Hey, I'm Will Wyatt, a broker

with AQUILA Investment Services.

Today, we're going to to talk

about real estate investment services

and hopefully I can answer any questions you may have today.

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Basically, an investment services broker

is gonna help you buy or sell a property.

We can help you sell a property,

we can also help you identify and purchase a property

whether it'd be land, office, industrial, or multi-family,

we'll help you find the best value for your property.

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Anyone looking to sell or purchase property in central Texas

should be using an investment services broker.

We work across all product types.

I primarily focus in land site selection work

when it comes to buyers, normally, I'm

focusing on office, multi-family,

and industrial type assets.

No matter where you are on the spectrum,

we can help you identify a property that works best for you.

Whether you're buying or selling a property,

it's always good to connect

with the investment services broker sooner than later.

Everybody knows Austin is hot right now,

and the last thing you wanna do,

is be on the outside looking in,

so the sooner you can get us involved in the process,

the quicker we can find an opportunity for you.

Even if you're not ready to buy or sell your property,

it's always good to connect with investment services broker.

It's better for you to involve us early,

so we can learn and create, identify strategies,

that can help maximize the value of your property.

You simply, you just want somebody,

that knows what they're doing.

Purchasing a commercial property isn't a easy process,

just trying to identify a property purchase

is difficult too, so it's always good

to have investment services broker on your side to help you

along the way through the process,

and make things a little bit simpler and easier for you.

Most investment services brokers are specialists.

We can provide more value than just the transaction itself.

When it comes to sellers, we know the market,

and we can provide creative strategies that help you

increase the value of your property.

We market the property on all major listing services

with up-to-date, appealing marketing material

produced by graphic designers

and professional photographers.

We even sometimes include aerial-drone shots

in virtual tools.

For buyers, discovering opportunities that

aren't really easily seen without the help of brokers,

is what we do, and quite frankly,

it's one of our greatest assets,

our ability to find off-market opportunities.

Here at Aquila, we have one

of the best marketing research departments

in the entire city.

What that allows us to do for our buyers

is to provide up-to-date intel,

that helps them understand the value of a property.

We never want our buyers to pay more than they have to.

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it is important to know that a broker

is not paid until a property transacts.

In Austin, brokers are generally paid a fee by the seller.

This fee is generally calculated as a percentage

of the fee of the sales price.

Brokerage fees for the sale of property,

vary from market-to-market.

In Austin, a typical fee varies based

on the final price and the type of asset.

For improved properties such as existing office, retail,

and industrial buildings, the commission generally

ranges from two to six percent depending on the sale price.

The higher the sale price, the lower the percentage.

For land, the fees range from three to six percent,

again depending on the sales price,

and sometimes there are exceptions to this,

but typically those are negotiated in the listing agreement.

I hope this answer your questions

about Aquila investment services.

If you have any more questions, definitely reach out,

or you can visit our AQUILA Learning Center.

Looking forward to talking to you soon,

and remember, no one knows Austin better than AQUILA.

For more infomation >> What is an Investment Services Broker? Top 5 Questions, Answered - Duration: 3:57.

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Attorney Anne Bremner is here to go in depth with the Brett Kavanaugh case - Duration: 7:02.

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Learn how Rockets of Awesome is using our Commerce Services Complete Fulfillment, Delivery & Returns - Duration: 1:54.

So Rockets of Awesome is a personal shopping service, and vertical apparel brand for kids.

what that means is that we have a design team in our office in New York City that is designing

a full apparel line for boys and girls, sizes three to 12

so the opportunity that we see in the market is that, it's a $45 billion market in the US

and it was really important for us that we delivered that trifecta of style and quality and value.

And so, what we recognized was that kids are growing out of their clothes

we're replacing an entire dresser for our kids every season. And so,

could we take the preferences from their kids and from the parents and be able to deliver

a personalized assortment of clothes into our customers' homes at the beginning of every season?

the end to end experience for the customer is critical. It's what we obsess over. And

we wanted to make sure that the return process was also as seamless as possible.

you know, ultimately, what we're trying to do Pitney Bowes and with Newgistics

with them as partners, how do we do that seamlessly? How do we do it efficiently?

and really optimizing for the time

that it takes a product to get out and then back to the warehouse so that

we can use any products that customers return that are returned in

perfect quality to go out to the next customer.

we actually couldn't deliver that feature to our customer before they were a partner.

so working with Newgistics, now Pitney Bowes, has been

really seamless and kind of magical.

You know, I think that as a team, we have a full team meeting every week and

you know months in, one month in, six months in

really looking to them as such tremendous partners who have

not only made our operations much more seamless,

, but made our customers experience really exceptional.

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Dalvin Cook Fantasy: Is the Vikings RB a Start or Sit vs. Rams? | Heavy.com - Duration: 5:41.

Dalvin Cook Fantasy: Is the Vikings RB a Start or Sit vs. Rams? | Heavy.com

Minnesota Vikings RB Dalvin Cook has fantasy football owners in a tough spot.

Fantasy football owners will have their hands full this week when attempting to figure out what to do with Dalvin Cook.

The Minnesota Vikings' talented second-year running back missed Week 3 due to a hamstring injury, and his Week 4 status for Thursday Night Football remains up in the air.

Update.

Following the report from earlier in the week that Cook took part in practice, ESPN's Adam Schefter offered an update on gameday.

As the analyst revealed, the team is "otpimistic" that Cook will play against the Rams.

This is a great sign for his Week 4 availability against the Los Angeles Rams, but that doesn't make him an instant-starter in season-long fantasy leagues.

Let's take a look at the argument for both sides and offer up a consensus.

The Argument for Starting Dalvin Cook.

Sometimes, talent just trumps everything.

Cook's pass-catching makes him an incredibly intriguing play in most formats, as the Rams have allowed 24 catches to opposing running backs through three weeks.

If Cook is all systems go, he should see plenty of targets coming his way in the passing game.

And while this season's numbers haven't been overwhelmingly impressive, the 23-year-old was impressive in the four games he played last year.

Over that stretch, Cook was a workhorse with 74 carries for 354 yards and two touchdowns.

The upside is unquestionably there, but it's not as simple as just going off that.

The Argument for Sitting Dalvin Cook.

There are some reasons for concern after Cook's start to the 2018 NFL season.

The Vikings running back is coming off a torn ACL last season and has totaled 26 carries for 78 yards (30 yards per carry) through the two games he played.

With that said, he did manage to catch nine passes for 107 yards.

In this specific instance, the negatives outweigh the positives in a big way for fantasy football owners.

Not only has Cook struggled this season, but hamstring injuries are nothing to mess around with.

Just last week, Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette was expected to play but was held out in somewhat of a surprising decision.

Even if the Vikings do start Cook, one tweak could send him to the sidelines not only for this game but for a few additional weeks.

It's unlikely the team wants to risk that, so they could opt to play it safe.

Going beyond the actual injury, the numbers don't favor the Vikings running back in this matchup.

Aside from the pass-catching opportunities, the Rams have allowed just 96.7 rushing yards per game (No.

9 in the league) and two rushing touchdowns.

It's a tough matchup for Cook, and with the Rams boasting a high-scoring offense, Minnesota could be forced to throw early and often.

Consensus.

If Cook is cleared to play, I'm fine using him in daily fantasy games, such as DraftKings' showdown options.

But in season-long leagues, unless you have no one even remotely close to him in upside, I'd try to find another option.

Cook has the potential to put all the stats and numbers aside and just dominate, but with the matchup and injury together, it's a scary spot.

In 12-team leagues with flex and 14-teamers, I can understand rolling him out in your starting lineup.

But beyond that, I think playing it safe with the Vikings back and treading lightly Thursday is the smart move.

For more infomation >> Dalvin Cook Fantasy: Is the Vikings RB a Start or Sit vs. Rams? | Heavy.com - Duration: 5:41.

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1 What is Accountability - Duration: 5:02.

SHANNON: Domestic violence movements and

anti-violence movements broadly have really struggled in: what do we do with people

who do harm? What do we do with people who rape people? What do we do with

people who batter people? What do we do with people who do those kinds of harms

to other people? The criminal legal system is crushing my communities, is

crushing our communities, and people want, are hungry for other mechanisms for,

someone has done harm, how do you reasonably help that person to be

responsible for that harm without putting them into a system that's

crushing them and their communities?

KIYOMI: So I'm wondering if you could just start by

telling me, What do we mean when we talk about accountability?

It's a big word that gets thrown around a lot.

SHANNON: The definition that I use,

that actually was gifted to me from the Northwest Network, is taking

responsibility for your choices and the consequences of those choices. And so

accountability is one tool for figuring out, if you do something that's outside

your values, if you do something that is, you know, harmful to other humans, what do

you do about that? So we need to figure out what are what I call reasonable or

appropriate, proportional consequences for people who do harm? What I'll often say

is like, there's no batterers' island. There's no island where you send all the

people who do harm and then you don't have to think about them. When you kick somebody

who has battered someone, who's assaulted somebody out of your communities, they

just go to the next community and continue to do harm. Which doesn't mean

each of us individually has to take responsibility for the harm someone else

does. But as communities broadly, we have to be coming up with solutions, and

coming up with ways to support people who are doing harm in how to knock it

off and take responsibility for the harm

that they've done. What would be reasonable and appropriate consequences

for people who do harm, short of, you know, kicking them out being sort of our

primary tool? All human beings deserve to have their need basic needs met. You may

not get to be in leadership. You may not get to be at the front of the movement. You

may not get to, there may be things you don't get to do, or at least for a very,

very long time if you have done harm to other folks. A lot of social justice

communities have a lot of visions of the world we want and the thing that keeps

getting in the way, I've seen time and time again, is our ability to actually

interact with each other. Like how do we organize groups

of people tends to continue to get in the way of that, or continues to be a

thing that breaks down movements. Thinking about accountability, both self

accountability and accountability on a community level, actually helps

us start to provide some of those answers and those tools.

KIYOMI: I've heard the network talk a lot about how accountability isn't something that happens to

a bad person, right? And that it could be a practice that we all sort of take in.

Can you talk about sort of that shift from community accountability as an idea

of something that happens to someone, to accountable communities where our

communities are actually showing up for us?

SHANNON: The idea behind accountable

communities is shifting the focus from community accountability, which tends to

have this idea that like, we're all going to come together and support you to be

accountable, to the idea that we are going to create environments where it is

possible to be accountable. So where community accountability is saying like,

you know, what are you gonna do? Accountable communities say what am I

going to do to support my community to have what we need to make accountability

a robust, viable option for people? I think about this with, almost any time

there is a public figure who's a part of my communities or who's, you know, in

relationship to my communities who has been accused of doing harm, sexual or

domestic violence specifically, how could we create a space that would allow those

people to genuinely take responsibility for the harm they've done and have a

reasonable consequence? Because right now the consequences are potentially like, go

to jail, be ostracized, have everybody just kind of like want to

crush you, or just or at the very least just like isolate you. Human beings

need other humans. And so those are the fears that what people who have done harm are

dealing with. And so it would be very hard, even if you genuinely were like, I

did something wrong and I need to be responsible for it, it would be very hard

to publicly do that without any sense of that there's something that you could do

that would be proportional and right-sized. So that might be quitting

your job. That might be, you know, finding another place to live. There may

may be real action you need to take. We are not going

to move forward in ending domestic violence and sexual assault without this

key piece of what do we do with, what do we do for, how do we support people

who've done harm in being accountable.

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If God is Sovereign, Why Pray? | Why Prayer Matters - Duration: 7:48.

- So the goal is not to impose my will on God,

but to pray in a way that agrees with His will

and then watch as He works through those means

that He's ordained, to do what He has determined to do.

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- Welcome back to the Straight Truth Podcast,

I'm your host Josh Philpot

and we're glad you've joined us today.

As always, I'm joined by Richard Caldwell, the pastor

of Founder's Baptist Church

and our special guest today is Dr. Nicolas Ellen,

a senior professor at the College of Biblical Studies

and also pastor at Community of Faith Bible Church.

As always please leave a comment for us

in the comments section and do us a favor, and please go

to the iTunes podcast section and leave us a review.

Well when we read through the Scriptures, we read

about a God who is sovereign over all things

and His providence guides all of our actions

and our ways, according to the Scriptures.

And it seems that the Bible is firm in this doctrine

that God is absolutely sovereign,

and it's His delight to be sovereign

for the good of His people and for His creation.

And yet there is this thing that kinda comes in

on the side, which is that He also instructs those

who would follow Him to pray, and that He hears our prayers,

our requests that we make.

Our petitions to God and He listens, and that He will act.

He commands us to pray, even Jesus gives us

a model for how to pray.

So I wonder how you guys reconcile those two things,

how do we reconcile the fact that we have a sovereign

God, who governs all things and also that we have to pray.

- The sovereign God who governs all things,

has sovereignly determined to work through means.

And prayer is one of those means that God has chosen

to work through, so I could say,

and it would be accurate to say,

sovereign God provides the meals

that my family enjoys everyday.

It would also be right to say that He's ordained

to supply for us in that way as I go to work

and earn money that we're going to use to spend

on that food, He is ordained to work through

the means of people planting fields

and harvesting crops and in this way he feeds people.

So God has chosen to work through sunshine and rain

and all different ways in supplying for His creation,

so in the same sort of way God who's determined

to do what He's going to do is determined

to work through prayer and prayer therefore really matters.

I mean if I sit in my home today and go

God is sovereignly promised to feed me,

I'm not going to work, we're not going to the grocery store.

No one's gonna work in the fields

and grow any crops, God's gonna feed me,

I'm gonna starve because I've misunderstood

how sovereign God has chosen to work.

In the same sort of way if I live a prayerless life,

I'm gonna experience some spiritual starvation

because that is not how God has determined to work.

So that's one aspect of my thinking on it,

the other would be, I think we misunderstand

sometimes what prayer's about.

It's not about changing the mind of God,

It's about getting our minds and hearts in the position

where we agree with God.

We're actually praying in the name of Jesus

we're praying in agreement with God,

His truth, His word, His character, His will.

If we ask anything according to His will,

we know we have it so the goal is not to impose my will

on God but to pray in a way

that agrees with His will and then watch

as He works through those means that He's ordained

to do what He has determined to do.

It is the knowledge that God is sovereign in everything

that actually fuels prayer

because now the very one who has the all wisdom

and all power, and is always present

has invited me and commanded me to come to Him

and He promises to answer, so I'm not dealing

with somebody who may not hear me, He hears me.

I'm not dealing with someone who can't do anything

about what I'm asking about, He possesses all power.

I'm not dealing with someone who doesn't care,

He's commanded me to come, I mean I have assurance

in the matter of prayer so this fuels my prayer life.

So to me it's not a problem.

It's a joy that we're talking about.

Sovereign God commands me to come to Him

and He's promised to work through that process

to accomplish what's He's determined to do in His world.

- [Josh] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- I think that the key to that is,

seeing Richard's perspective on that is

that God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility

- [Josh] Right

- And where people focus on the sovereignty of God

and negate their responsibility,

they misunderstand the sovereignty of God.

- Mm-hmm.

- When it comes to prayer, and I like what Richard said

lining up with God's will, well think about it this way,

if there's a sovereign God who's in control of all things

and this sovereign God is giving me the responsibility

to pray and those things work together, I might wanna know

more about the character and the will of this God

so then my prayers begin to come in tune with Him.

It's kind of like, I liken it to when I was a child.

I knew what to ask and what not to ask for

because I knew the nature of my parents,

so therefore I knew, well, that won't fly.

(John affirms)

Because it doesn't line up with their standards,

their values, their virtues, well if I ask for this

that will fly, but I had to learn my parents in order

for me to understand how to ask and the fact that

I'm to ask for what I want from God,

but in tune with what He's willing to do according

to His character and standards, it's powerful.

So prayer becomes an opportunity for me to exercise

my responsibility but to learn the character of God

and process to say, ah, my faithful sufficient holy God.

If I were to ask for blank, this doesn't seem to line up

with who He is, let me rethink my position

of what I'm asking for and why,

knowing the God that I serve cares.

- That's excellent Nick, and it reminds us that prayer

is one way that God has ordained to sanctify us.

- [Nicolas] Yes.

- So we're learning what God loves, we're learning

what He cares about, what He approves of and we're

to learn it in such a way that we then love what he loves.

- Yes. - We care about

what He cares about, that's why the effectual fervent prayer

of a righteous man avails much.

- [Nicolas] Amen, yes

- So even our affections are to be involved

in genuine prayer, it's not just our mind but our hearts

coming in agreement with what God loves and cares about.

And if we ever wonder whether this is important,

just look at the life of our Savior, who devoted Himself

to prayer entirely through the night in some cases.

- [Nicolas] Absolutely.

- Before He made major choices or major decisions

so in every way we're encouraged to seek our God in prayer.

- Well thanks again for joining us

for the Straight Truth Podcast.

And you could find more details about this podcast

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Thanks again.

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