Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire in The Enchanted Cottage. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Hunt Stromberg. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Upermost in our hearts and minds this holiday is a fall of peace and the knowledge that millions of our fighting men are coming home. Some will return, as they have already, with the scars and disillusionment of battle, faced with problems of adjustment that require not alone their fortitude, but ours as well. Our sympathy, our tact, and our understanding. This is a theme of tonight's Lux Radio Theatre play, RKO's courageous and inspiring drama The Enchanted Cottage, starring Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire in the roles they filled so ably on the screen. Written originally by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, it tells how one returning soldier finds a strange and unexpected love to take the place of tragedy and heartbreak. Of course, all men come back to something different, but each looks forward to essentially the same reward, home and love, and a return to familiar things. And I think every fighting man feels grateful to the women of America who've kept the home fires burning and kept themselves as tender and as lovely as the day they said goodbye. If a product like Lux Toilet Soap has helped a little, helped those women guard their feminine loveliness, then that is another tribute to their good sense and discrimination. In fact, it's that very preference for Lux that enables us to raise this curtain every Monday night and bring you now The Enchanted Cottage, starring Robert Young as Oliver Bradford and Dorothy McGuire as Laura Pennington. Lonely, remote, the cottage stands today as it has for 150 years. Close by, the restless Atlantic beats upon the rocky New England shore, and all about is the forest, a place of awe and strange beauty. Forgotten lovers of forgotten generations knew the place well. For a long, long ago, brides and grooms would come to the cottage to spend their honeymoon. In more recent years, the cottage has been owned by a widow, a Mrs. Minut, who keeps her distance and sees to it that others keep theirs. But four years ago, on a December morning, Mrs. Minut was expecting a caller. The caller came from the village. Near the cottage, she encountered a boy. Hello, Daddy. What are you doing right out here? We're taking a walk, Mrs. Pennington. Uncle John and I. Mr. Hillgrove? Uh-huh. He's blind. Yes, I know. Where is he? Oh, back by the old wall. He says there's lots of music around here. He wanted to sit and think about it. Well, you'd better not wander off, Danny. I just thought maybe I could find out about the witch. She lives in the cottage. Oh, that's just Mrs. Minut, Danny, and I'm about to call on her. You don't think I go calling on a witch, do you? Exit. Here, Uncle John. He called me to Exit because I take him places. Stay there.  Oh, I'm afraid you're just a couple of hundred years too late for witches, Danny. Yeah, I guess I'm a couple of hundred years too late for anything. Well, I wouldn't worry about it. I think something will turn up. You really think so? Mm-hmm. Well, here's Uncle John. This is Mrs. Pennington, Uncle John. How do you do, Mr. Hillgrove? Good morning. Uncle John is a great piano player, Mrs. Pennington. He plays the piano. Yes, I've read about him. It'll be nice if all the critics had Danny's enthusiasm. Well, goodbye, Mrs. Pennington. Nice to have met you. Thank you. Goodbye. Your friend has a very pleasant voice, Danny. Yeah, but she sure is homely, Uncle John. Well, that's not nice, Danny. Don't you always say I should tell the truth? There's a time and a place even for the truth.  But she really is homely. Where is she going? To see Mrs. Minnet. Oh. Well, let's get back to the village. Mrs. Minnet, I'm Laura Pennington. Come in. Thank you. Thank you. This room... It's just as I imagined it would be. Sit down, please. I understand you're looking for a job. Well, I suppose I'm really looking for a home. I need a young woman to help me, Mrs. Pennington. One without attachments.  It's not haunted. You know that, don't you? Well, I'm sure that when people say haunted, they don't really mean that. You just came back to Eastwood, didn't you? Mm, three weeks ago. There are some that are meant to be wonders. And others? Well, it's no good for them to go looking for things. How long were you away? Nearly eight years. When my mother died, there wasn't anyone here that I belonged to. I thought when you went away that you'd be back. I've been hoping that here, where I grew up, I might find a place I belong to. A place that when I wake up in the morning, I'd be glad it was another day. When I went to sleep, I'd know that it had been something to have been awake. I've rented the cottage. Does that surprise you? Mr. Bradford, he's bringing someone here today to look at it. They want a housekeeper and maid. The work will be hard. You'll get room and board and the regular wages. That's quite satisfactory, if you think I'll do. Then let's get started. You can get your things from the village later. These people? Are they a honeymoon couple? I didn't ask. Oh, I was hoping you were going to renew the old tradition, Mrs. Ninette. What old tradition? Why, the one about this cottage? Half an earlier century, it was rented only to honeymooners. That tradition is broken. I broke it. Oh. This cottage was deeded to my husband as a wedding present. It was to have been our home. Only I've had to live on here alone. Do you know what loneliness is? Real loneliness? Yes. I thought you might. Come now, and I'll show you your room. Mrs. Ninette, I'll put the holly on the... Oh, I beg your pardon. That's all right. You must be Laura. Yes, sir. Mrs. Ninette mentioned you. I'm Mr. Bradford. Well, I've been gathering some holly for the mantle. Mrs. Ninette is showing my fiancee around. You're the maid. Yes, Mr. Bradford. I've been examining this goblet as an inscription on it, isn't there? But I can't make it out. Oh, it's very old. The man who built the cottage gave it to his son when he was married. He and his bride drank a toast from it on their wedding night. This thing must hold half a quart. You mean to say they killed it all by themselves? Well, so the story goes. Well, when you had a cocktail in those days, you weren't kidding. There's so many old things about this place. Do they all have a story? Most of them.  Oh, no. I just came this morning. This morning? But you seem to know all about this place. Well, I was born in the village. When I was a little girl, I heard all the stories there were about the cottage. It was like... Oh, like living near a fairy tale. Next thing you'll be telling me it's haunted. Oh, no. It's not haunted. But it is enchanted. Well, it comes to the same thing, doesn't it? Oh, no. Haunted. That's to be restless, uneasy, afraid. It's ugly. But enchantment. That's to be happy and gay. It's beauty. You see, all the people who lived here loved one another. Look, here in the window. Yes, what is that? That handwriting on the glass? These are their names. Young men and women who in this very room swore to love each other always. Vangeline and Clement, 1814. Judith and Richard, 1798. They wrote that themselves? They're all a part of this place now. Forever. You really believe all this, don't you? Oliver? Oh, yes, dear. Well, what do you think? Well, I admit it all very charming. It's much more than that. It's enchanting. I've just received a guarantee that if we spend our honeymoon here, we'll live happily ever after. Oh, this is Laura, darling. How do you do? Is there anything else you care to see, Miss? I don't think so, Mrs. Minut. Mr. Bradford stumbles on your cottage. He's fascinated by it and persuaded you to rent it to him. What can I say? In other words, Miss Alexander is delighted by the prospect of spending her honeymoon here. There are a few questions, Mr. Bradford. Mrs. Minut, I've filled out so many forms. In the past few weeks, I can tell you anything you want to know. With photostatic copies. Mr. Bradford means he's applied for a commission in the Army Air Corps. Oh. Well, but don't worry. The Army won't be my sole means of support. I'm really a very good risk in spite of the uncertainty of my profession. Oh, really, Oliver? We plan to be here at least three months, Mrs. Minut. It'll take that long to get my commission. It may come sooner than you think. Oh, no, not a chance. Army red tape and everything. Well, we'll be back on Tuesday, Mrs. Minut, and... What's the matter? I just had an idea. Let me have your ring, darling. My ring? Yes, and come over here to this window. If we're going to stay here, we must observe all the old traditions. See those names etched on the window pane? Yes. Our name should be there, too. And if that's a real diamond, I bought you a... Here, look, I'll show you. Oliver, you're not going to cut the glass with my diamond. Don't worry. It won't hurt at all. Oh. Now look. Oh, I'm sorry, darling. Forgive me. What did you do? Let me see. Well, the stone fell out of the setting. I'll have it fixed first thing in the morning. I suppose if I was superstitious, I'd regard this as a warning that we shouldn't get married at all. You're not married yet. That's why it happened. Only honeymoon couples may write their names on that window. Oh. Well, we're going to be married on Tuesday, Missin' Minute. Maybe we'll have better luck when we return. Well, goodbye and thank you again. Goodbye. And you, Laura, be sure to dust off that goblet for us. Do you know the roads, Mr. Bradford? There's a storm coming up. Oh, well enough. Bye. Bye. Goodbye, Miss Alexander. Bye. Hurry, Oliver. Oh, they seem so happy, don't they, Mrs. Minute? Very happy. You know, I... Well, look at your calendar on the desk. Yes. Well, your calendar's way off, Mrs. Minute. Let me see. Today is December 7th, 1941, and on here it's April 6th, 1970. April 6th, 1970. Why, you're just 24 years, eight months, and one day off schedule. Let it alone. Let it alone. How much more time, Oliver? Only a moment. Darling, how can I thank you? Thank me for what? You're going to war. On the day we were going to be married, you're going to war.  Would you do believe we did the right thing? I mean in waiting until I get back. Yes, darling, I do. Oliver, why didn't you let your mother come to the station with us, and Freddie too?  Freddie, dear, is Freddie. All right, your stepfather. Oh, he's a good guy. He's well to my mother.  Your mother will never forgive you. Mother's upset about just one thing. According to her, they had no right to start a war, especially in December. It's going to mean cancelling all those parties. But you saw how she cried when you left. Oh, it isn't that we don't love each other. It's just that I can never talk to her about anything important. We've always seemed to go past each other from the very beginning. We just don't... You know, looking at you now here in the middle of a railroad station, it occurs to me that I love you very much. Do you? You mean this war isn't just a great big excuse you cooked up to get out of marrying me? Oh, I almost forgot here. I may not have checked that woman at the cottage. Mrs. Minut, drop her line, dear, and tell her why we never showed up. I'll tell her that we're modern, intelligent people, and no, I'll just let her guess. It was time, darling.  Oh, I'll... Ask me to send you the day he reported for duty. We both regret any trouble we may have caused you. It's signed Beatrice Alexander. You can put the letter in the desk, Laura. If they're not coming, you won't be needing me, Mrs. Minut. You're welcome to stay. Oh, but I couldn't. Not unless I can be of some help. You can be of help. You're going to rent the cottage to someone else? Perhaps. When the time comes. No. No, I don't. It may be better if you gave up the canteen. Oh, I like it. Really, I do. It's a nice walk, and I like the work. Well, I'd better be on my way. I won't be late, Mrs. Minut. With modern dancing, do you? No, I don't. Oh, personally, if I did nothing but wash dishes, I'd doubt what their best fit is for them. Terrible thing to say. Oh, please, it was perfectly all right. It never did.  Oh, no, thank you, Mrs. Minut. I'll take over here for a change, and you're going to have a good time. I am sick. Oh, please, really, Mrs. White. I'm the hostess here, and you have your orders. There's a girl all alone at that table. Her name is Laura Pennington.  If you don't mind, we'll sit this one out. I want to get out of here. Come here. I think I'll go right to bed. You've been crying, haven't you? It's nothing. Please, not as I have. If only I were pretty. You don't have to tell me what happened. I think I know. Laura, it's not for some of us to try to live like other people. You think you can sometimes. There's always a world to remind you. All the things that other people take for granted. You've got to make up your mind and your heart. They're not for you. You've got to find something else to take their place. Somewhere where you're safe, where no one can hurt you. That's why I wanted you to be here.   Yes, I understand. Good night, Mrs. Minut. Laura, wait a minute. While you were in the village, a telegram came. It was from Oliver Bradford. Mr. Bradford? He wants to rent the cottage starting tomorrow. Oh, then they did get married after all. Imagine they're remembering the cottage and still wanting to come here. Mrs. Minut, there is something about this cottage. There is indeed. It needs a good cleaning.  It has to be raining like this. If you'll go to the door, I'll make some coffee for them. I see. I'll take you upstairs. Coffee, Mrs. Minut. And some sandwiches. Just give me the tray, Laura. Mr. Bradford came alone. He doesn't wish to see anyone. Alone? Something has happened to him. I don't know what it is. He hides his face. He hides his face. What can we do? Nothing. We can wait. That's all. Yes, perhaps that's better. To just wait. It's time now for a brief intermission in a chat with Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter. Sometimes it happens, doesn't it, Libby? A young actress with real dramatic ability gets the break she deserves. I'm thinking of Barbara Hale, who plays the only leading feminine role in R.K.O.'s picture. First, yank into Tokyo. Now, there's a girl who's making a steady rise to start on Mr. Scondard. Yes, she was the unanimous choice of producer and director for the film. I think she's going to make it. 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In an upstairs room with the cottage, Oliver Bradford, behind the closed door, the stairs blankly through the rain-streaked window. Below in the kitchen, Mrs. Minnet and Laura wait in silence. While in the front room are two more recent arrivals, Oliver's stepfather and his fiancé. Desperately, they try to figure out what has happened to him. We've been here exactly 1 hour and 40 minutes and what good has it done? Why the boy won't even talk to him? Maybe he'll talk to his mother. He's still up there, isn't he? Pounding on his door, begging him to say something. I thought that when the army dismissed him from the hospital, when he was discharged from the service, that he was well again. Now he doesn't even want us. Well, he was pretty badly bashed up, Beatrice. But there's no sense becoming a mental case over a little injury. Certainly his face is disfigured, but he's left him alone. If we let him think things out for himself. There's simply no reason for him to run away from home. Well, here's his mother. He just won't talk to me.  That girl just brought some in. Oh, thank heaven, tea. He won't even open the door. I even cried a little. He told me to go away. Then why don't we go? In a few weeks, just for a second hole, he'll appreciate a little friendly society. I mean, after he left the hospital... I... I just don't know. Well, something did happen. Did you quarrel? No. We didn't quarrel. Well, I don't see why you won't go upstairs and talk to him if anyone can persuade him to leave this building. I couldn't. But you're our only hole. I wish you wouldn't ask me. But you and he were going to be married. Oh, please try, Beatrice. Very well. I'll try. Oh, bless you, darling. And remember, you must be brave. Oliver. Please, Oliver. Won't you speak to me? Won't you? I meant what I said when they sent you home. We can be married. We can be married right away. Oh, why did we have to have this terrible war? Oliver, that day you came home, no one had told me. And when you turned and looked at me and I saw your face, I... I just wasn't prepared. That's why you thought I... Oh, I can't help it if I'm weak. Aren't you listening, Oliver? All right. I'll go. I'll go. Are you all right, Mr. Bradford? What do you mean by breaking into my room? I'm the maid, Mr. Bradford. I was outside bringing in some logs. There was a flash of lightning and I saw you by the window. I saw a gun in your hand. Relax, Molly. I haven't done anything. Your mother left this note for you. I'm afraid she was very upset when she left this afternoon. Will you please mind your own business? I'm sorry.  Do you think I want people to see me? Light the lamp. I said, light the lamp. Yes. I hope the lamp and look. Look. You saw me before. Doesn't the chain shock you? No. Oh, how can you know? I can't realize what it is to face life disfigured and a... I'm going downstairs now, Mr. Bradford. I'll be back with your supper. Your name was Laura, wasn't it? Yes. Thank you, Laura. What's this out here, the garden? Mr. Bradford, good morning. What are you doing? This, it's wood engraving. Looks like you're pretty good at it. Well, I entered some in an exhibit once. Some seascapes. And a prize, not a first prize. But it was a prize. I used to win prizes too. Tennis, swimming. I once knew a fellow who used to make ship models and glass bottles. Always asking to tell me why. I never got a satisfactory answer. Well, I do block prints because... I like to do block prints, I guess. I never thought of that. That he never did either. And a hobby of your own, one of these days, I hope. Be careful. You don't want to talk like Freddie, do you? From the way you say it, I'm sure I don't. And I don't even know who Freddie is. That's the best thing that can happen to anybody, not to know who Freddie is. In case you think I'm not making much sense, that's what I think too.  You haven't asked me how I feel if I slept well. You don't seem at all worked up about that gun incident. That was three days ago, wasn't it? Why have I stayed in my room for three days? I don't know, really. I don't think it matters. Yes. You've got a lot of sense, too. You'd be amazed how few people have any. If you'll excuse me now, I think I'd better get started on the housework. Yes. Wouldn't do to neglect the housework, would it? I'll do Mr. Bradford's next, Mrs. Minnet. I don't think Mrs. Minnet hears you, Miss Pennington. Oh, why Mr. Hillgrove? He is, Miss Pennington. However did you remember my name? It wasn't so long ago we met. Just a year or so. I'm calling to see Mr. Bradford. Mrs. Minnet's just gone to tell him. But she warned me that he doesn't want to see anyone. I'm very glad you came. He needs friends. You know, this is real adventure for me. This is the first time I've been inside this cottage. I must have walked by it a hundred times. It has a strange fascination. Indeed it has. Somehow I feel that if I ever get to know this place, it'll be more than just a cottage. To me it has a life of its own. Everything connected with it seems so different. Mrs. Minnet, for example. I wonder about her. When she first came here, she came as a bride. But her husband was killed in the last war. On the desk is a calendar, April 6th, 1917. She's never changed the date. Time seems to have stopped for her the day her husband went away. She's withdrawn into the past. Yes. Well, perhaps that's one way to know the future. Mr. Bradford's in the garden. I'll be glad to take you to him. Thank you. Is your nephew here, Danny? He left me here. I said he'd be down on the shore with his dog. Well, I'll take you to the garden and then I think I'll find Danny. I'd like to see him. And as long as we're more or less neighbors, Mr. Bradford, I thought he might also be friends. I'm not very good at friendship these days. Sick men, are you? Don't I look like one? I wouldn't know. I'm blind. Oh. I'm sorry. The last war, I was a pilot. That's what I am. I was, and they dragged me out of the jungle. You're young. You're men. Oh, you can't see me. How do you know how I look? There's nothing left of me but nerves, nothing but... Go right ahead. Complain all you want if it makes you feel better. Apparently, you never complain. You haven't given me a chance. All right. How in the name of heaven have you stood it all these years? Being blind? Sometimes I feel that as a young man, I was blind. That it's only now that I can really see. I don't believe you. Anyway, it would never work for me. Why not? I'm not blind. Because I still want the same things I wanted when I had a face that people could look at without wincing. When this arm of mine did more than just hang here. When I was well and strong... I batted my head against many a wall, just the way you're doing. As a matter of fact, I was lost until I found music. And then a whole new life began for me. Music? I don't know one note from another. You'll find something. Yes, how? Where? In yourself.  You don't want to go ahead. You want to go back. You don't trust yourself. How can I trust myself? You must. And you will. Well, I mustn't overstay my first visit. I'll call my young nephew. I believe he's waiting down at the shore. I'll walk down there with you. Oh, I can manage. No, I'd like to. It's the first time I've really felt like walking. Danny, he's bringing the stick back again. He sure is a silly old dog. No more than I call the stick out in the ocean when he brings it back to me.  No more than he brings the stick back, you throw it out again. You can throw it if you want to. Well, thank you, Danny. Thanks, Dave. Hey, Uncle John. Goodbye, Miss Pennington. Bye. Come on, old dog. Come on. To our ocean, Mr. Bradford. Danny was helping me gather some driftwood. Well, how would that be as a hobby for me? A driftwood gatherer. Oh, too practical. A hobby for hobby's sake, it's supposed to be. Well, maybe I could set a new style in hobbies. Well, why don't you try? Here, here's the basket. But you'll have to do your gathering without my help. I still haven't started that housework. This driftwood weighs a ton. I told you to leave some for tomorrow. Well, nevertheless, I've made it. Has it actually been three weeks since you introduced me to the wonders of your seashore? Three weeks. I think I didn't know the difference between a starfish and a star sapphire. Well, if you'd been in doubt, any fisherman could have told you. Or any Jew of it. Look, there's was a minute. Surprise, Mr. Minut.  Thanks. That makes just about enough for a dozen winters. You can always use it. Well, it's probably never been done before, but I could gather up all the driftwood I've gathered and take it back to the shore. That would be different. Yes, it's something to think about. But first, I think I'll dump this on the wood file. It's wonderful, isn't it, the way he's changed. If only they'll let him alone now. They? The letter just came for him. Sooner or later, they'd hear from him. He'd hear from them. Perhaps it's better now. The room is dark. He's just sitting there, the way he did that first night. You supper? He didn't touch it. I brought the tray down. Did he mention that letter? He said nothing, only that Mr. Hillgrove was coming tonight. He told me to tell him that he won't be able to see him. Well, maybe that's Mr. Hillgrove now. No, no, it's him. Look, through the window. He's walking toward the ocean. He shouldn't be alone like that. He shouldn't be. Mr. Bradford? Mr. Bradford? What do you want? Oh, did I fight? No, I didn't mean to. But it's so dark I couldn't see. They're little you miss, even in the dark. I thought you might not want to be alone. I'll be safe for me to be alone. I'll go back if you want. Is there anything you want me to tell Mr. Hillgrove? No, nothing. He's leaving tonight on a concert tour, you know. Yes, I know. Laura. Yes? Don't go back, please. These past few weeks I had the idea that walks we talk and talking to me. I hoped I was being of some help to you. And I thought if you needed help now I... That letter this afternoon, it's from my mother, Freddie. They've decided it isn't good for me to be alone, where I can brood too much. I can go home to their loving care or they're prepared to make the supreme sacrifice and come to live here with me. They want to know if they shouldn't bring a trained nurse with them. But they can't do that. My nothing could do you more harm. There's no way to make them understand. No way to escape them. Give me your hand.  Promise. You understand. Because you're thoughtful and kind. Laura, don't be startled at what I'm going to say. Will you marry me? No, don't pull away. Look at me. I had no idea I was going to ask you that. But I'm glad I did. Would you believe me that the very asking makes me realize I've been thinking about it for some time? And I mean it, with all my heart. If you want to marry me to get rid of your family, there must be dozens of girls who'd suit your purpose better than I. You think I have such a great choice, a casualty for the rest of my life? I understand. I get the chance because I...  I wouldn't have hurt you for anything in the world. It isn't as if I weren't aware of my ugliness. Women like me find a refuge in our dreams, daydreams as well as nightdreams, merciful dreams, which were lovely and desirable. It's cruel to destroy those dreams. I only felt that no woman would marry me except out of compassion. I know you have a lot left. You know how desperate I get at times, but I promise if I felt a black spell coming on, I'd hide away in my room till it passed. But with you, I wouldn't have them often because I like being with you. The sound of your voice, your laughter. I know I'm not offering you much, but... Well, we are sort of in the same boat, and we would be together. That's so much better than being alone. But I don't want to be your wife just because you need one. And I happen to be here. Don't you see? Yes, I see. You couldn't possibly carry them. But I do care. That's the reason. Oh, bless you, Laura. Bless you forever and ever. Never heard of such a thing. What does it say? Tell me. There will be no need of your coming here. Laura Pennington and I were married yesterday. I'll write more later, Love Oliver. Married? Thank you. You came here alone? I took a taxi cab this time, not Danny, a real cab. I'd been out of town, Mrs. Minnet, at a concert tour. When I arrived home tonight, I found a note from Oliver Bradford. Yes. Danny, ready to me. Oliver told me of his marriage. Then he asked me to come here as soon as I could. He said something extraordinary has happened to him and Laura. They're out now. They're walking. Everything's all right? Oh, yes. This room, what's happened? It feels different somehow. It's the flowers, maybe. No, no, it's more than that. Mrs. Minnet, tell me please, what's happened to them? I don't know. They see me no more of me than they can help. They're in hiding. Hiding? They keep to themselves all day. And when they go out at night, they wrap themselves up and cover their faces. They, oh, they're here now. Excuse me. Laura, Mr. Bradford. Mr. Hillcloth's here in the living room. Hello, hello. Oh, John, it's good to see you again. Hello, John. I think we should have died if we'd had to wait much longer. What's this about all this mystery? Well, it may be insane, but we sent for you because you're the only one we can trust. We don't really know how to explain it. It's fantastic. Oh, Oliver, let me. I thought I'm very articulate about it, but, well, it has to do with this cottage. I think, John, you know my feeling about it. It's the same as yours. There's something strange here. Something. But what has it to do with you and Oliver? Well, it's pretty incredible, John. We've changed. Changed? Completely. I can tell that from your voices. You feel different because you're happy. What's more than that? It's a physical change. We no longer look as we did. We're different. John, tell us that it's true that we have changed. I'm blind, I can't see. That's why we had to tell you first. John, look. Look at us and tell us what your blind eyes can see. We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. In just a minute, we'll bring you the third act of The Enchanted College with Dorothy McWire and Robert Young. We have with us tonight one of RKO's prettiest young actresses, Miss Rita Carday. Perhaps some of you may have seen her on the screen. What were your latest pictures, Rita? I've appeared in several of the Falcon series, Mrs. Tromburg, and I've a part in George White's scandal soon to be released. Well, I understand you got into the movies by quite a long and roundabout route. Yes. By way of Indochina, Saipan, Australia and San Francisco. You see, my family were living in Shanghai when the jabs came in and we had to run for our lives. Well, as Hollywood's good luck, you arrive safely. Don't you agree, Mr. Kennedy, that Miss Carday is a candidate for success on the screen? I should say I do. If acting ability and fresh young beauty mean anything, I think I really ought to describe you for our listeners, Miss Carday. Let's see. Ash blonde hair, grey eyes and a gorgeous luxe complexion. There now, Rita. How do you like that word picture? Really, Mr. Kennedy, it's a very flattering one.  I've used luxe toilets so ever since I first learned it was the screen star's own complexion care. Active ladder facials really work, I found. Thank you, Miss Rita Carday. I'm sure pretty girls everywhere will agree with you. They know this gentle care, 9 out of 10 screen stars depend on is quick, effective and so easy to use. Why not prove it for yourself? Get a supply of this satin smooth beauty soap tomorrow. See if you're not delighted with the gentle, cherishing care it gives your skin. And here's another tip. You'll find luxe toilet soap makes a delightful daily beauty bath, too. The rich, creamy lather leaves skin so fresh and sweet. Makes a girl sure of daintiness. Screen stars say they love luxe toilet soap's flower-like perfume. Delicate fragrance that clings. Back to Mr. Stromberg and our stars. Act three of the Enchanted Cottage, starring Robert Young as Oliver and Dorothy McQuarr as Laura. Only a few moments have passed since Laura and Oliver have told John Hillgrove of the amazing change that has come over them in the Enchanted Cottage.  He sits motionless and fascinated as they continue the story. You could only see us, John. First as we were, then as we are now. Your eyes would know that we're telling you only the truth. Perhaps if you started at the beginning. We were married in the village, and when we came home Mrs. Minut had prepared dinner, our wedding dinner. When it was over, she left the room. This room. I could feel Oliver's eyes upon me. I wanted to look at him, but I was afraid of what I might read in his eyes.  The last barrier I can build to keep out the world that I'm afraid to face. What would I have done to them? This girl who sits across the table from me and bows her head. What terribly shabby trick have I played upon her, trying to palm off the broken, bitter shell of a man on one so gentle, so honest. And what can I say to her? There's nothing I can say. Nothing. He is my husband. And yet he can never know how much he means to me. That I've loved him ever since the first day he stepped into this room. I'll never be able to tell him all that was in my heart. Because he can never love me as I love him. Only I could make him understand. Perhaps, through music, the first notes I struck were like the touch of a magic wand. I could feel the room changing. There was a new warmth, the radiance, a strange enchantment, embracing everything about me. I turned and looked at Oliver. His scars were gone. The lines of his anguished face had disappeared. And I saw him as he was the first day in December. Suddenly I thought, how could I fool myself? How could I be the bride of such a man as this? I started to cry. I rushed from the room. She was gone before I could stop her. I knew how cruelly I'd hurt her. I had no choice. I would release her. Release her from the torture that our marriage meant to her. I found her in the garden. I remembered all her kindness. The thousand and one little ways in which she had lightened my loneliness. Suddenly I knew how much she had come to mean to me. I took her in my arms to tell her. She was beautiful. More beautiful than anyone I had ever known. That was when we knew, John. That was when we knew. Now we've told you and I'm afraid. I can't help it, but I am afraid. Why, Laura, why? It's this cottage. Houses are living things alive with all the thoughts and all the memories of the people who've lived in them. But the lovers who came here before were not like us. Ours was a marriage of convenience. They may think that we've profaned their memory and this may be their revenge, letting us have happiness for a moment before taking it away. That's why I'm afraid.  Darling, you can't talk like that. John, have you nothing to say? Mrs. Minut, does she know? She never looks at us, but she knows, I know she knows. Laura, Oliver, take this gift that's come to you and enjoy it without question, without fear. Accept it humbly as a heaven-sent miracle and be grateful for it. A miracle? Don't either of you believe in miracles? Modern miracles that may happen to you or to me? Today, tomorrow? You both may be touched by a power that is beyond this world. Accept your blessing. Don't speak to anyone about it. It belongs to you. John. Then you understand. You believe? I believe what you told me. Keep your happiness. Cherish it as you would your lives. I love you so, Oliver. And I have the strangest feeling. Almost as if these walls were breathing. All the memories and ghosts of love. Live, live, live. That's what they seem to say. This is our day and night. All our enchanted life to be lived now. I have a feeling too. Madness. It's contagious. That's what's nice about it. Listen. What? That song I hear. A melody that whispers all through these enchanted rooms. What does it say, this song you hear? I love you, Laura. That's what it says. The song I hear.  Of course, darling. It's just as essential as biting one's tongue when you're drawing. Oh, that's reasonable. You know, I could sit here forever and just look at you. Is that all? Well, occasionally I'd want very much to kiss you. You see, I've been standing here for five minutes. John! Waiting to make a less embarrassing entrance. That might take hours. Oh, I'm so glad to see you. You're alone? Yes, I came by courtesy of the milk truck. You know it's been almost a week since we've seen you? Well, I was in the village. Just now, a telegram came in for you, Oliver. I said I'd bring it out. Telegram? Oh, it's for my mother, Laura. She and Freddie. They're coming here today. Well, that's fine. It is fine. I'm glad they're coming. I'm only sorry I hadn't asked them two before now. I'm glad too, John. I want them to see how happy we are. But most of all, well, I'd like them to see that Oliver didn't do too badly marrying me. Darling! Well, anyway, I have the most exciting new dress. Yes, Mrs. Minnet. There's a car stopping in front of the house. It's your mother and stepfather. Mr. Bedford, you weren't expecting them. Oh, Mr. Hillcourt. Good afternoon. We are expecting them, Mrs. Minnet. It's so typical of mother not to give us more warning. But I can't meet them looking like they are. I've had you two. I'll entertain them till you're ready. Sure you don't mind? Actually, I'm glad of the opportunity. Well, come along then, darling. We'll have to hurry. Yes. Oh, Mrs. Minnet. Yes. Do you suppose we could have an especially fine tea this afternoon? What's the matter, Mrs. Minnet? Oh, please don't be upset. We're really very pleased to have them come. I'm all right. Run along. Bring them here, Mrs. Minnet. I think you understand. Yes. Yes, I understand.  It's really a very pleasant garden. Oh, thank you. But where's my son, Mr. Hillgrove? Where is he? He and Laura are in the cottage. They'll be out in a moment. And it's goodwill alone because there's something I have to explain. He doesn't want to see us. That's it, isn't it? They do want to see you very much. But something extraordinary has happened to Oliver and Laura. They're different people. Different how? They're on the borderland of the greatest happiness they've ever experienced. But they've changed. They've changed greatly. And I know that this change, as they see it, is not as you will see it. What in the world are you trying to tell us? Suppose I put it this way. When you see them walk out of the cottage, whatever they do, whatever they say, please act along with them. Pretend that the change is as great as they imagine it to be. Change? For heaven's sakes, what change? Oliver isn't well. That's what you're trying to tell me. He isn't well. He's perfectly well. Oh, Freddie, we should have come here long ago.  But now, believe me, it would actually be better if you went away without even seeing him. You can't mean that. How can a mother deserve her only son at a time like this? Now, where is he? Oliver! Oliver! We'll be right down, Mother. Remember that the next few minutes may be the most important in their lives. You hold their chance for happiness in your hands. Oliver! Mother, oh, it's good to see you. And Freddie. Hello, Oliver. Well, you both remember Laura, don't you? I'm so glad to meet you, Mrs. Price. Huh! How do you do? We got your telegram just a few minutes ago. It seemed to add just the note we wanted. You're coming here. Well, Mrs. Minnett's getting tea, or I'm just waiting till you've tasted her skull. This is going to be a real party, isn't it? A memorable occasion because you're the first mother, you and Freddie, besides John here. There's nobody else who knows. No, Swat. Look here, Oliver. Well, Freddie is a greater shock to you than anyone, isn't it? But you'll soon get used to the change. You won't even remember us as we used to look. Laura and I actually joke about it now. Mother. Mother, what is it?   But if you're happy, well, I guess that's all that really matters. Laura, I'm glad you married you, my dear. Believe me, I am. Thank you. It's clear you're such a loyal girl. You've got so much more to give him. So much more than just a pretty girl. A pretty girl? It's fortunate that Oliver has an income and that Freddie and I can help. That way, you'll be able to stay right on here, the two of you. We'll visit his office, we can, but it won't be necessary for you to see people, even leave here. Yes, Mrs. Minnet. Would you like some tea? I couldn't swallow them all. I've got a dreadful headache coming on. I know you'll forgive us if we just run along.  Goodbye, son. Don't worry about anything. Goodbye. I'll be in the cottage. Stay here, Mrs. Minnet. Laura, Oliver. I hope I could spare you this... I don't understand. You've known the truth about us, haven't you, John? You've known all along. Yes, I have. And you've known too, haven't you, Mrs. Minnet? Tell us the truth. Have you noticed any change in our appearance? Have you? Have you seen any change, whatever? No. Look at us, Mrs. Minnet. There is no change now. None. Why didn't you tell us? There's nothing I could have told you. I knew you had to find out the truth just now. I thought my heart would break. And yet, what is there really to be sad about? Shall I tell you the secret? Shall I? Please. You love each other. I've watched you from the beginning. And on the day of your wedding, I saw your love blaze up like a fierce flame. Keep your love burning. Keep it burning. I promise you, you'll never be anything to one another, but fair and young and handsome. That's the secret to the only enchantment the cottage holds. And it's of your own making. Just as I am. Broken and old. If my man could rise from his grave and walk in this minute and behold me, I should be pretty to him. Yes, pretty to him. John, don't feel badly. I wanted so to help. You did help. If we'd known sooner, it might have been... But now... Now it's all right. Isn't that Donny's door? Yes, I guess he and the boy have come to fetch me. Goodbye, John. Goodbye, Laura. There's something that may interest you. I've written some music about you, about this cottage. Tonight at my house, I'm playing it. There'll be people there, many people. I want you to come. People? Us? How can we? Think about it. Perhaps you'll change your mind. Let's go into the cottage, darling. We've been sitting here. Hours and hours, darling. In all that time, I've had but one thought. Laura, you'll always be beautiful to me. And nothing in this world could ever change the way I feel about you. You know that. Yes, dearest, I know. Oliver, we've never written our names on the window. Somehow I think they'd want us to now. You write mine, and I'll write yours. Then I think it would be nice if we paid John a visit. After all, we owe him quite a few visits. There'll be people there, darling. Yes, I know.  You'll come, Laura.  So full of pride. In just a moment, our stars, Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young, will return for a curtain call. Meanwhile, remember, the war is over, but the battle of supply still goes on. Our Secretary of Agriculture tells us that America's supply of fats and oils is still alarmingly low, and it'll be many months before it returns to normal. Used fats are needed to help make nearly everything of which there has been a wartime shortage. Automobiles, tires, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, irons, nylon, paints, plastics, soaps. The list is endless, and the need is critical.  Put into it every drop of used fat, rendered meat scraps, skimmings from soups and stews, even burnt blackened grease from your roasting pan. Every bit you save is helping every one of us to have more quickly the peacetime necessities we've been waiting such a long time to have. And remember, for every pound you turn in, your meat dealer will give you two red ration points and four cents. We return you to Hunt-Stromberg and our stars. Once again, it's curtain call time, and with Bob Young representing the Lux Regulars, we're happy to welcome a newcomer to this stage in the pleasant farm of Dorothy McQuire. Thank you, Mr. Stromberg. It's a privilege to be here. I must say, Dorothy, that since your screen success is Claudia, you've had the good sense not to let yourself be tight. Well, I don't know about the good sense, Mr. Stromberg. In my next picture, some must watch they've cast me as a mute. I don't speak a single line. Well, that's going to present an interesting problem for Lux, Mr. Stromberg. Yes, a starring part in which the heroine doesn't say a word. It's certainly a new idea for radio. Well, you've got signs around this theater saying quiet, please. Dorothy, I think you need to get a little more familiar with the way we operate here. Well, the Lux radio theater may be new to me, but Lux toilet soap isn't. I've been using it for years for my complexion. And with very alluring results, Dorothy. Bob, with the last time that I worked with you was on the set of Northwest Passage. That's right. I understand that since then you've had quite a family man. Three daughters, Mr. Stromberg. Three? Hey, do you take them to see your pictures? None. I wouldn't run the risk. I did try to take them to anchors away, though, and I couldn't get a seat, so I had Metro Golden Mayor run the picture off at home. You're going to make a lot of parents jealous solving the problem that easily. Pictures in your own home. Well, Lux solves the problem, Mr. Stromberg. What are you bringing into people's homes next Monday night? Next Monday night, we're mixing terror with suspense, excitement with mystery, and love with action. In RKO's fascinating drama, Experiment Perilous, and our stars are George Brant playing his original screen role, Virginia Bruce, and Paul Henry. It's one of the year's outstanding mystery thrillers. The drama of a young wife torn between fear of her demented husband and love for the man who tries to save her. It ought to make a thrilling evening, Mr. Stromberg. Good night. Good night. Good night. You gave us an enchanting evening with Enchanted Cottage. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux's toilet soap, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening. When the Lux Radio Theatre presents George Brant, Virginia Bruce, and Paul Henry in Experiment Perilous, this is Hans Stromberg saying good night to you from Hollywood. Every day, more than a million and a half men and women in the service overseas relax before a radio or a motion picture screen. In far-off places, in jungles and isolated villages or on the high seas, they see the latest pictures or hear this very program you're listening to tonight. Through the efforts of the motion picture industry, the finest pictures are made available to them. And through the cooperation of the army, the Lux Radio Theatre and other famous programs are brought to them regularly. Another of the many efforts that are being made to keep our men and women overseas in touch with home. Hans Stromberg's next picture to be released is Young Widow. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer, George Brant. John Milton Kennedy reminding you to tune in again next Monday night to hear Experiment Perilous with George Brant, Virginia Bruce and Paul Henry.


If you're not familiar with the red pill community, this is a group of people that believe that the primary problem with relationships today centers around feminism and the fact that women are more entitled than ever before. And what's interesting, I was listening to a conversation with a group of people talking about how men also have been feminized in the last 50 years and one of the fundamental problems in relationships also centers around that men are no longer stoic, men are no longer men and that sort of thing. And I've been thinking a lot about this, whether it's true or not. And while we can certainly judge men and women to be a certain way, what I think is really happening today more than ever before, particularly for men, is men for the first time in their lives are actually in an opportunity to express their feelings, whereas in the past they were stoic. And because of this, men are uncomfortable and unfamiliar with actually tapping into how they feel about certain things in their life, particularly when negative things have happened in our lives because we can certainly celebrate men and women who are in their victorious stage and show and express emotions when things are going well. What about when something is not going well for a man? In the past there was no outlet. It was to be stoic. It was to show no emotions.  Now this probably was because throughout the eons, men were the primary protectors in the physical sense when we had to go to war. So to some degree, if we prepared young boys to be violent, they could protect the tribe, so to speak. But nowadays we're not in war environments, at least here in the United States. And so let's think about this for a moment. Think about the emotional effects, the traumas that happen when going through a divorce. And while in many cases women oftentimes complain about men's bad behavior, I can equally, I can test a test that women can be equally bad in their behavior in a relationship. Whatever bad looks like for you. It could be stonewalling. It could be contempt. It could be criticism. It could be defensiveness in a relationship. These are the things that critically affect someone on an emotional level. And given that the number one emotional health issue facing most people today, I'm not good enough, I'm not lovable, or worse, I'm not likable. Actually, I'm not lovable is the worst. So what's happening today is that men struggle from an emotional sense because we haven't been taught to actually connect on an emotional level. I can tell you it wasn't until my mid-50s that my closest male friends and I ever had a serious conversation on emotional level and it took losing my son Connor for that to actually happen. Now we can criticize men too for a variety of reasons but I want you to think about this, especially going through a divorce. If you go through a divorce with someone yet one point in time you cared about in your life, there's an unraveling of the tapestry of a previous life and in many cases men and women are lost after a divorce. And so this can emotionally lost if you will. And while they might be able to pay their bills and take care of the physical aspects of their lives, many men and women are struggling on an emotional level. And I think because this isn't addressed to the same degree for men as it is for women and this is rapidly changing, I think the reality is our emotions make up the substantial component of our lives, our emotions, our feelings, how we feel through the world and if we don't have the tools and resources to navigate this it can be incredibly challenging to actually lean into a healthy happy relationship with someone. This is why I'm such a big proponent of individuals doing personal development, self-help and spiritual work. This is why, where's my book? This is why I wrote my book, what the heck is self-love anyway a journey of personal development, self-help and spiritual work because the reality is as men are struggling in the same degrees that women are. And yet we have the expectation, we're the provider, we're the protectors, we have to be stronger because that illustrates and demonstrates confidence and God forbid a man is perceived weak by a woman. And so one of the primary reasons why men are less likely to commit these days is because they were maybe significantly hurt in their past relationship and they're operating from a place of being gun shy. And while we can criticize this, certainly you can criticize someone for being gun shy. We don't criticize women for being gun shy, do we? Sometimes we do, but to be criticized for a fear, to be judged for a fear rather than come at it from a place of compassion, a place of love, a place of understanding. This is why I haven't talked about this in a while, but I highly recommend reading the book, Return to Love by Marianne Williamson because the antidote to what's happening in the dating mating marketplace isn't about whether or not feminism has affected. Human behavior or at least relationships and it is about whether or not men are no longer alpha males and they're stoic and they've been emasculated. The real challenge in the dating mating and marketplace is centered around a lack of real compassion and love for human beings. You know, it's interesting, I've on dating on swipe applications. I've had women say to me, and I only because I coach women say to me, what was that guy thinking messaging me? What was that guy thinking? Think of the judgment, when we judge a human being just based on a picture. By the way, men do this too. You know, one of the things I've always done is when I looked at a profile that was interested in me, I always might have swiped the other way and I always said, I'm sending you love, I'm sending you love, I'm sending you love because when we can operate from a more positive mindset when putting ourselves out there when we can operate from a place of compassion, love, understanding, I think we draw in more positive experiences in our life. And yet if we operating from a place of judgment, being jaded, bitter, or operating from a place of fear, we're going to attract more of what we don't want in our lives and not to say that men, and by the way, I'm a big proponent of men equally doing a more personal development, self-help and spiritual work. I'm a big proponent of men doing work to help prepare them, more importantly doing the work to actually improve their emotional maturity and their relationship skills. We are swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality of men and women alike who have terrible relationship skills. If the divorce rate is 50%, what does that say? Half of everybody who gets married is most likely to get divorced and in midlife, those numbers are substantially higher. They're 65 to 70% for second and third marriages. What does that say? We can enter into a relationship based on chemistry, great. But if you haven't built the deep roots of trust early on through better communication skills and particularly our ability to communicate our emotions because most people operate when there's a friction and a relationship is I'm right and you're wrong. Instead of operating from a place of a we and I'd rather be happy than be right. Folks, I'm here to say, men are not the devil, women are not the devil. The devil, if anything, is our lack of knowledge, particularly our ability to navigate our emotions in such a way from a healthy place, not from a place of stuffing our emotions which many men were taught early on. And to judge men because they're more emotional, folks, we need to exploit emotions in a way to further help both genders actually find a way to deeper commitment and love when they actually find a partner they want to commit to. And more importantly, I want you to think about it. This commitment is the, the commitment, the foundation for commitment really boils down to not about being with someone because you want to have a good time. It's really about saying, do I want to take care of this person? And if we don't reach that point, what's going to happen is the relationship will most likely fizzle and then people will put themselves out there to do this again and again and again. I'm here to say, and this is why I teach this in my private coaching, do a better job of vetting for this emotional maturity. Do a better job of recognizing who's genuinely compatible with you. So you can put the odds in your favor. That's what my private coaching is all about is putting the odds in your favor. And that's my invitation for you all. So to understand why men are less likely to commit, it's not because they're bad guys. It's not because of red pill. It's not because they're not stowing. It's just many men haven't been given the opportunity really navigate their emotions. And thankfully more men each day are seeking therapy, personal development, self-help and spiritual work to better prepare themselves to actually be in what I call a juicy, delicious, healthy relationship like I am with my sweetheart there. All right, I think you get the gist of where I'm going. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Please post a comment below. Please share this. Please tell your friends about our group called Midlife Love Mastery. Send them to my website, Jonathanasley.com. Have them click the group coaching button so they can join our fantastic group. And I'm gonna sign off this video as I always do. First off, giving myself a big, gigantic Jonathan Bear hug of self-love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear pillow and give them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye-bye now. Bye-bye.


The People's Democratic Party, PDP, looks to be gearing up diverse power from the ruling party in the 2023 general elections. The governor of Adamawa State, Amadou Finturi, said PDP governors are working in unity to achieve this. Governor Finturi assured that the PDP will not disappoint the country if given the opportunity in 2023. He spoke when he inaugurated new chair ketika committee chairman during this wherein in. Our supporters that have also come from the local government, I want to assure you that all the PDP governors are working together to ensure that what you are yearning for, they change your accent, the change you are looking for to bring in the president of this country in 2023 is sacrosanct on every one of us. And that is why we are working all year round to ensure that this party is further strengthened because we cannot afford to fail Nigeria. Nigerians are waiting for PDP in 2023 and it is on us, your leaders, the leaders of the party in all the states that PDP control to ensure that we get the best for this country. Speaking on behalf of the newly sworn in ketika committee chairman, Professor Abbata here promised that they would work hard to bring the grassroots closer to governance. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello and welcome to the session. This is Professor Farhad and this session we're gonna be looking at the US tax reform of 2017 and other international tax provision. This topic is covered in international accounting or international taxation course, also CPA and ACCA exam. If you haven't connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so. YouTube is where I house all my 1,500 accounting, auditing, tax and finance lectures. This is a list of all the courses that I cover. Please subscribe, share the channel, like them. It will help me tremendously. Also on my website I do have additional resources in addition to the lectures. I have notes, PowerPoint slides, multiple choice through false and other questions and 2000 plus CPA questions. StudyPal.co is an artificial intelligence driven study body platform that matches you with a CPA, CFA or any other test. StudyPal has users in 85 countries and 2,500 cities. Please check them out. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 made the most extensive changes to international tax provision since 1986. The objective was to make the US corporation more competitive internationally. So what they did, they lowered the rate from 35% overall to 21% flat rate and prevent the erosion of US tax space.  So the most significant change was the adoption of a territorial, partial territorial system which is participation exemption system in which most foreign subsidiaries is exempt from US taxation. And we discussed this topic pretty much in detail in this course, which as you can see in the playlist for this chapter. Other major international tax provision which we're gonna be discussing are the deemed repatriation of accumulated foreign earnings, taxation of global intangible low tax and gamut is guilty, and the imposition of a base erosion anti-abuse tax. And this topic will cover the first topic, which is the deemed repatriation of accumulated foreign earnings. What's the big idea? The big idea is this. Prior to 2018, the money was kept overseas. So the US companies had an incentive not to bring that money back home, okay? By the foreign subsidiaries. Now, again, we always use the island as an example but doesn't have to be in an island. They can be anywhere, okay? In a tax haven countries because dividend received from low tax income countries resulted in additional tax being paid. So some observer, based on different studies, they said there was closer 3.1 trillion dollar in overseas earning, which that's a lot of money. And what happened after the financial crisis, the US government needed every penny. So that's why they had every incentive to do something to change the law to bring that money. So here's what the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act do. It required US companies to include under 2017, US tax return, foreign subsidiary income earned from 1987 through 2017, why 1987? This is when the law changed that had not previously been taxed in the US. Okay, in other words, accumulated earnings of foreign subsidiaries generated during those 30 years, deemed to have been repatriated, brought back to the US. Deemed means whether you brought it or not, you're gonna pay taxes on it. But once you pay taxes, you can bring it, no problem. Now you might be saying, how can the government do so? Well, it's the government, that's the law, but of course they gave the corporations many incentive to do so. So it's not like, okay, now you have to pay the taxes for 30 years of earnings, they're gonna give them a lot of incentives. So although the US corporate income tax rate was 35%, the deemed repatriated earnings were taxed at a greatly reduced rate. Okay, let's look at it. 15.5% of retained earnings held in cash and cash equivalent. So if you have those earnings in cash and cash equivalent, you only paid 15.5 rather than 35. 8% of retained earnings that has been reinvested in non-cash assets. So if you invested that money in assets, well, in property, plant and equipment, now we're gonna only charge you 8%. It's not only that, the tax law gave you eight years to make installment payments. So you pay your taxes over eight years. Also the foreign tax credit was allowed to reduce the US parent company, US tax liability on the deemed repatriated dividend. Simply put, if you have any credit, foreign tax credit, you can use that credit against that deemed repatriated income. So as a result, additional US tax was owed on the current only if the average effective tax rate was less than 15%, less than 15.5 for the earnings held in cash. So simply put, if you would only have to pay taxes, if your rate was less than 15.5, assuming you held it in cash, and less than 8% if you held it in non-cash asset. So simply put, they gave you a lot of good, lot of incentives to bring that money back and pay minimal taxes, but bring the money back to the US now, to the US corporation, can you? Let's take a look at an example and see how this all fits together. Let's assume from the period of 1987 to 2017, foreign subsidiaries of multi-million corporation, a US tax payer generated an aggregate before tax income of 10 million upon which they paid 1.2 million. So they already paid overseas 12%, 12% on that income. Okay, over the years, the foreign subsidiary repatriated 2 million. So they generated 10 million in total. Let me just do this. They generated 10 million.  So what's left is 8 million. What's left is 8 million that's overseas, and on that 8 million, they already paid 12% of that foreign country. So the 8 million of accumulated earning was held in cash and cash equivalent by the foreign subsidiary, okay? So multi-million, so here's what they did in 2017. They have to say it's deemed to be repatriated of $8 million. So they have to include in their income an amount of $8 million. So let's see what the taxes on this. So let's, these earnings, the 8 million were subject to a one-time tax of 15.5. Now, 15.5 means 1,240,000 in taxes, which is 8 million times 15.5 before subtracting the foreign tax credit. Now, remember the multinational already paid at 12%, okay? So simply put, 8 million times 12%, 8 million times 12%, they already paid 960. So what's gonna happen, the net amount that they're gonna pay for the US government is only 280,000, because this is the tax bill based on the new tax law. This is the tax credit for the 12%. Simply put, they're only responsible for 280,000, okay? So if the foreign accumulated earning has been invested in a non-cash asset, such as property, plant and equipment, the tax rate would have been 8%. And guess what? 8% is lower than 12.12% that they paid and that situation, they wouldn't have to pay any taxes, okay? In that case, multi-million would not have to pay any tax to the US on the accumulated earning because the tax before the FTC is 640, okay? And remember, the foreign tax credit is 960, the tax is 640, you have more credit than you are good to go. So this is basically the topic here. Now in the next session, we'd look at the other incentive that they gave them, which is the intangible low tax, a global intangible low tax income, which is called Guilty. We would look at this topic. If you have any questions, by all means, email me. If you want additional resources such as the PowerPoint slides, notes, the multiple choice questions, and additional resources for your CPA exam, visit my website, consider subscribing. It's an investment in your career. Good luck.


Hvijedno, u ovom ljudeću imamo se o to, kako učiniti sve vektore u rast programiju ljubeću. Prvom, znamo se vektore, znašam vektore koji je vek, eksklamaciju Marka i znamo se vektore koji je veči element. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ok, to je bilo. Now we want to iterate through our vector elements in Rust by using for loop. So we'll say for i in my vector. And let's for example just print those elements to the console. We'll use function print with exclamation mark. And inside double quotes we'll put placeholder for our vector elements that will be printed. I will leave a little space to make a space and to separate vector elements. And in every iteration we'll print our current vector element which is kept in variable i. Ok, that is for now. I will zoom out my window and let's run our program. Ok, so we used successfully our loop to iterate through vector elements and to print them out to the screen. That's all in this lesson. Thanks for watching. Happy coding. See you in some next lesson. Bye-bye.


Good day everybody, my name is Iman Zarei, so today I'm going to cook original Persian recipe, actually my grandma's recipe is Tachin, we call it Tachin, so Tachin is a rice cake if you want to translate it into English, and which is we usually eat it when we have special occasions like weddings or if a special guest comes home, so I hope you enjoy it and learn something from this cooking. As for ingredients, we have non-sticky rice, so particularly I have chosen jasmine rice, we got chicken, so you can choose any part of chicken you like, particularly again I have chosen here rice and thigh chicken, we got yogurt and onion and garlics as it's required and some spices including black and red pepper, turmeric and the most expensive spice in the world which is saffron, some salt, egg and vegetable oils and of course the final trick would be rose water. So first we have to wash our rice, so to wash off all the dust from the rice, I usually do it two or three times, so after the washing so I have left some water on the top of the rice in the pot, so for this amount of rice which is 10 cups of rice we are cooking today, we need at least three tablespoons of salt, so we soak it for 15 minutes, so three tablespoons of salt, so we dissolve it and keep this aside for 15 minutes. We place the chicken in the pot, so I put chicken in the pot, for 10 cups of rice we need 1 to 1.5 kilograms of chicken, so I guess that would be enough, then we peel the onion, three medium-sized onion would be enough for this amount of chicken and add some garlic, some salt, turmeric, one tablespoon of turmeric it's enough, of course depends on the quality of turmeric. Add some water till it covers all the chicken, yeah, and we will place it on the stove to be cooked. It takes maybe 30 minutes for this amount of chicken to cook, we'll leave it on. I guess 15 minutes passed now we can start cooking our rice, so what I do is boil some amount of water, once the water comes to the boil, now it's time to add our rice into the boiling water, so I'm going to add it gradually, while boiling you may see that on the top of your water it would be foamy, so it's a grand matrix, we have to remove the foam because this foam will give not good flavor to the rice later on. Okay from time to time we check our rice, so to see if our rice is parboiled, we take one grain and we'll squeeze it between our fingers, if we don't feel any hardness like now, so it means that rice is already parboiled, so that's the time, so we need to sieve it, sieve the rice and also give the rice less stickiness as well while you're washing it. Chicken is ready, now we should take it off from the heat and I will remove the chicken and let it to cool down, take the chicken out of the pot, so we will let it to cool down and then we will remove the bone from the chicken. Once the chicken is cooled down, so now we are going to shred it, once we are done with shredding chicken, so on the other side our rice is ready, so this is the final steps, we have to mix all the ingredients together and put it back on the stove for our dish to get ready. Give the better taste to our touching, so what I did I picked the onion and the garlic from the broth and add also I will add some broth into it, smash it and add with other ingredients. Later on I will show it, I'm adding some broth, start smashing. I boiled some water, so for the zafron, for almost one tablespoon zafron I add almost around half a cup or maybe one cup even, but not more boiled rice, boiled water sorry and I will keep it aside for a few minutes that it gives proper and good color to our food. And for final step we have our shredded chicken, we have our parboiled rice ready, so all we need now to mix the ingredients a bit and let it cook, so I'm going to add yogurt, that's enough, a pinch of turmeric, only a pinch, almost a pinch of black pepper and same amount of red pepper, salt, one tablespoon, so we'll crack our eggs to the rest of ingredients, half a cup of oil, so now I'm gonna mix them all together, so plus zafron, the smashed onion and garlic also I'm going to add that till we get a homogenized liquid, almost a homogenized liquid. Chicken will mix all ingredients well, it's ready, it's time to put it back on the oven, our tachin is ready to go back on the stove. We'll put the flame on the medium low, so it may take around 20 to 30 minutes for our dish to be ready. 10 minutes after our dish is on stove already, so I'm going to add some rose water, so maybe around three tablespoons would be enough, so that's enough. Again put the lid back, then after adding your rose water, so what I'm going to do is to cover the lid with a towel or a cloth or whatever you have at home, so because once it starts steaming, I don't want the steam goes back to the dish, so it will absorb all the water. Now for the five minutes passed, so our food is ready, what I'm going to do is to make a dish, to invert the dish into this tray, supposedly it should look like a cake from another side, it has to be golden brown in color. Now our dish is done, this is how it looks, I hope you liked it and I hope you will have time to try this dish at home, I bet you will enjoy it, so and we this is the way we usually serve it, in a plate, and garnish it with parsley and also if you have barbecue at home that would be great, here you go. I hope you will find time and try this food at home and enjoy this beautiful good-looking Persian Dajian. Mmm, yummy!


From London, England, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE, Cover, Discover 2015, brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in London for HP Enterprise, HPE Discover. This is theCUBE's Silicon Angles Flection Program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier. Dave Vellante, our next guest is Tom Norton, VP of Cloud Services, Technology Service Consulting Group at HP. Good to see you, Q-Time Cube alumni. Welcome back to theCUBE. Good to see you. All right, thank you. Good to see you too. I'll see HPE now focused on cloud, 100%, you can see that everywhere. Cloud is messaging. You got the Azure relationship, the announcement of getting out of the public cloud business, but being a big player focused on private cloud, hybrid cloud. No change there. It's going to march along. But the participation in open source has been a huge benefit for HP over the years. Great success. Helium Group has been doing great. We see an OpenStack summit around the world, Vancouver. We miss Tokyo. You do not make it to Tokyo. But OpenStack has been a real enabler for customers to open their eyes to rolling your own and getting an ecosystem of solutions to build enterprise-grade infrastructure. And now with Synergy and these things coming together, we're starting to see the fruit on the tree. So give us the update on OpenStack, what happened at Tokyo? What's the traction update? A lot of rumors going around. It's just prototyping and POCs. Not a lot of production. True, false, what's your take? Well, so for me, my take is that real foundational, I think now, OpenStack from a hybrid IT perspective. So if I think of cloud, we've been talking about cloud for three or four years. You and I just talked about that. And as a term in the industry, I think people are just kind of coming around to having an understanding about how that hybrid blend works. You still have public, public is very important. But how you can integrate between on-premise private, how you can incorporate maybe a managed private cloud so that if something is not core to your business, you could have someone taking OpenStack and managing it, but also in the public space. And I think what we're finding is that OpenStack is a common denominator across any of those from a hybrid IT, hybrid infrastructure, but really a hybrid cloud approach. And it's becoming really much less of what a year ago people might have thought of it as a kind of a science experiment. But really it's a credible, productive, scalable, enterprise grade cloud platform today that's being used in multiple different environments. So traction update, solid traction. Give us some color around the traction. Oh, traction is unbelievable in terms of where people are taking it. So I think we're seeing it. Can you give some examples? Well, some examples we're seeing in Telco. So I would say that I can't even imagine a Telco provider around the world that isn't in some way looking at OpenStack. But it's not just Telco. Service providers who are not Telcos are advancing how they're using OpenStack to not only service infrastructure as a service for themselves, but also how they can connect from a helium network but how they connect to other SPs. The last piece is it's not just in the service provider space. We're seeing traction in finance, which in financial services, which may not be a natural idea, but the banking systems themselves, both private retail banking, but internet banking and national banking systems are all looking at it from a data center provisioning hybrid IT perspective and public sector. Doesn't matter whether it's highly sensitive public sector or community services, OpenStack is big and growing in all of those areas today. Yeah, it's interesting. The financial service is an interesting use case, right? Because those guys actually hopped on early as a way when they've been really seriously trying to go after the big sort of hyperscale vision. And so OpenStack to them, potentially as a path to get there, although it's still early days, you mentioned early on sort of the vision of OpenStack, the promise of OpenStack is this sort of cross-cloud compatibility. But a lot of us questioned early on, is that actually going to come to fruition because you got, you know, company A does it one way, company B does it other way, underlying this is OpenStack, but there's little slight implementation differences. Give us the update on that piece. Is that vision actually coming to fruition or is it really within sort of the HP OpenStack community that you can achieve that? Well, I think that OpenStack as a base and commonality of OpenStack between cloud platforms can exist today. We're seeing it in production today where we're connecting clouds. So there's this concept here about Cloud 28 Plus, which we have within Amia itself today where we are using OpenStack as a common platform between 28 and more service providers in Europe to be able to share services and be able to deliver services from one cloud provider through another. And that's HP infrastructure, correct? Across that, not necessarily. The benefit of OpenStack is it doesn't have to be a common denominator from a physical platform perspective. I think when you're at a control plane between OpenStack, I think that's important. I think where we're working today to advance it is between hypervisors. You know, you can serve up virtual machines within OpenStack very easily. I think if you want to manage, maybe a Microsoft cloud environment, a VMware cloud environment, OpenStack cloud environment, that's maturing and getting there, but it's still a challenge. But you've dealt with that lowest common denominator. Absolutely, yes. Yeah, and I think we're seeing that maturity in terms of still between multiple cloud platforms. Say we're talking about finance. At first it was about scalability from infrastructure. But what we're seeing today is that HTTP, the helium development platform, that's becoming more and more important from a services perspective on how we can then take OpenStack at its base and advance how companies protect and serve up their development environments. That from banking, that's very, very important because mobile banking and the ability to continuously integrate and continuously develop applications and be able to roll that out to a common platform that can be expensive in any industry. But if you can create a common development platform around Cloud Foundry and be able to connect those different development groups through a common platform like OpenStack, you can have a value perspective in terms of accelerating adoption, accelerating deployment, but at the same time efficiencies in the data center. How about the services component here? It's a lot of stuff we're talking about is complex for a lot of customers. In particular, we talk about hybrid cloud. You don't buy it, you got to build it. A lot of connection points that you have to architect. So talk about what you guys are doing with customers around services. What are they asking you for in particular? Well, there's really two maturity levels to that. At first it is about adoption. How can I accelerate the adoption? There's some value that some customers are trying to drive. It may be an app that they want to host on OpenStack. And they want to be able to move that into production as quickly as possible. So the accelerating the adoption of OpenStack in their environment and integrating it into their environment is the first step. And that can be easy in some aspects of it. It's a very generic environment, but most enterprise environments are not. They have complexities on the storage side. There are complexities on the network side especially. And accelerating that through kind of a test bed by getting it into production can be challenging. I think we have, from a services perspective, we have very senior resources both in OpenStack and how OpenStack applies to the networks. That's the first step. I think the next step where services getting involved now is then integrating those clouds with other clouds. Being able to look at how I can connect an OpenStack cloud and have multi-tenants. That's another challenge, where I might have 20 different business units that are all going to be served out of centralized IT. And how do I ensure that I've got connectivity between the lines of business and back to IT from a control plan perspective? So services, we do that planning and design and the implementation. Okay, Tom, so we kind of want to step out of our bubble because we love OpenStack so much, we can talk about it all day. Folks watching out there, they know we love OpenStack so much because it's a great opportunity. But let's come back into this world of HP Enterprise Discover. Sure. A lot of customers here, on the one data point on their overall plans of changing IT. How do they look at OpenStack in context to the pan, HP Discover portfolio solutions? Where does it fit in? Well, so I think it's all part of transforming their IT. So transforming infrastructure. So at the base, if I think of transforming infrastructure as part of one of our transformation areas, there is the physical foundation area. So if you think of composable infrastructure which is part of our transform area element, that can be a base of how you can address and accelerate the way infrastructure can respond to something like OpenStack, a command for infrastructure. So it all fits together when we're transforming into a more hybrid infrastructure, a more hybrid IT perspective. OpenStack can sit at a control plane, it can be a component piece, but in the end, how we use it today is trying to find that common control across multiple different physical platforms, but also taking advantage now for the future which is composable IT, composable infrastructure. And on the services side, what is the opportunity for customers? What do they have to do with OpenStack now? Is it a heavy lift for them? Is it getting easier? Can you share some insight into how OpenStack's evolving from a services and operational perspective? Well, I think in the most part, we are seeing our customers approach it from a maturity perspective. They're not doing a lift and shift. They're not going to disable what they do with VMware today and whatever cloud components they had. They're not going to move what they may have had with CSA or OO from an HP perspective and abandon that component. I think what they're trying to do today is they're looking at OpenStack from a workload perspective. If they're shifting to a cloud native development environment, they want to have an infrastructure where they want to have a platform for cloud that can dramatically improve the way that they handle cloud native applications, the way they're deployed, the way they're tested, the way they're managed in the environment. Because that's all continuous, so it's a shift, but it's not going to be 100% lift and move. It's going to be something where I adopt, I test against a workload, and then I start adding workloads as I mature in my systems administration and as I mature with my applications. So what's new with the services offerings that you guys offer customers? Can you share some insight into what you guys are doing? What are some of the hot programs, hot programs you guys have? Well, I think where the focus is coming with anything that's going to be hybrid infrastructure or anything in our transformation area, we're shifting to that design approach. But design isn't the way we used to do it with Waterfall where we design, design, design, test, test, test, deploy, deploy, deploy, right? We're shifting to a design that says, I want the functional understanding of the workload, so I'm going to do a design and I'm going to get it immediately or as quickly as possible in a test. So we see this bringing together of the ab world and IT, because IT has to be able to respond immediately. So if we're thinking of how I can accelerate adoption of a flexible infrastructure based on the demands of the workload, and I can do that test and I can refine the workload and refine the infrastructure and keep progressing that open infrastructure approach or that hybrid infrastructure approach, the same time we're evolving to a native IT organization. So ours is changing in terms of how we design. So what's the top seller? What sells the best? What's the top selling service? Well right now today, it's still infrastructure as a service, it's still top. I mean, that's still what everybody starts with. But what's really coming on right now are two component pieces. One is understanding how to have virtualized networks. That's really increasing. That's a hypervisor point. I mean, outside, but it will, yeah, virtualizing the network from a virtual switch to virtual routers, that's really increasing in demand today. So we have to be able to shift what has been traditionally infrastructure as a service to understanding that. And the second is on the application side. So development platform and helium development platform is the key to us there. And how we can support the development community from a flexible hybrid infrastructure. So we're seeing that shift in maturity where originally our focus was on infrastructure that's fine. But we shift that to where we're really looking at both the network side and the app side and how that's directing what infrastructure does. What role does HP play in assisting customers in transitioning their skill sets? Because when you talk about sort of that example, you know, what may play in heavy lifting of infrastructure might not play in sort of this new DevOps world. So how are customers transitioning those skill sets and how are you helping them? Well, so we're helping them really education services, which is a big part of consulting. And it's a challenge for everybody because if I think of the way platforms are changing is every six months. And every platform has new characteristics and new type environments. So I think education services is helping us stay ahead or helping our customers stay ahead of what's coming. Because if I see the way open stock changes or the way that even Microsoft or VMware may changing today, it's every six months the skill sets may need a requirement change. So HP education services through TS consulting is addressing that kind of hybrid world, both in DevOps but also in, from an infrastructure. And the skill sets that the sort of traditional infrastructure folks have, are they sort of a stepping stone to this new world or is it like putting a handy Ramirez from shortstop into left field? If I can use it. I understand, no, it's a shift. Because I think that understanding how to be proactive about what's the expectation of the workload and changing the whole design from a design to support an SLA to the design to support the demand on a bi-weekly basis or a monthly basis of the application is a shift. So it's a big commitment from the individual to really make that shift. Well I think it's a natural progression in the IT industry today. And my advice to anybody that is in systems administration, my son is a systems administrator today. And he's making that shift himself. Don't walk. Because he's getting that pressure. Run? Yeah. More DevOps guy, either way you're doing good. Right, and I think the idea of that blend between data requirements and data analytics and even predictive requirements of the application against IT is blending today and the requirements for a systems application. So Tom, I got to ask you the question that's on everyone's mind. Why is OpenStack getting all the negative press? I mean a lot of people, is it just people throwing haymakers out there? It's been a lot of like negative vibes around OpenStack. Where's all the hate coming from? Is it because people are not winning? Is it FUD? I mean, we're seeing similar things to you that people are using it. It might not be mainstream. Is it because people aren't getting it? What's the disconnect? Well, I think it was an expectation. You know, VMware has been around since 1995 and been doing virtualization. So if you think of those 20 plus years, 21 years, Microsoft has been doing the same thing. You know, we're at year five, I think, from an OpenStack platform. And it's a remarkable improvement, remarkable maturity model to go from ground zero over five years to serve in the enterprise. I mean, I've been around a long time and been designing applications in the enterprise but also supporting it. I've never seen such a shift and such an accelerated curve in terms of functionality. Now, the complexity- The market's been pretty dynamic, too. So it's not just, I mean, they've been doing really well. Given the market conditions on the speed of change, it's been significantly positive. I think speed of change, but speed of expectation. So I mentioned from a connectivity perspective. That's heavily based on the network. And network technology, again, is very complex. And trying to understand how I can virtualize that but virtualize it also in a new kind of control plane from a cloud perspective is a whole new challenge. But I think the market is pushing change and the market is pushing accelerated change. So if there's any disappointment, it's that it just wasn't where people wanted to be expecting where the rest of the market may have been, but we're catching up very quickly in terms of- Tom will give you the final word. Share with the audience, what's the vibe here this year at HPE Discover? Oh, it's exciting in terms of, if you look around in the audience, that kind of emphasis on transformation and the areas that HPE has looked at and sectioned out in terms of infrastructure and workplace productivity and enabling kind of that data perspective and a data sensitive workforce. That whole approach has an ability to just walk down one aisle and be able to connect from an infrastructure perspective or connect from a network perspective. I think has the audience and also HPE really excited about what we're doing here. All right, I appreciate you spending some time coming on theCUBE. Good to see you again. Again, OpenStack is real, it's happened and a lot of success, a lot of traction. HPE's certainly taken advantage of that in their building blocks of this new way to do things here at HPE, new style of IT, new style of business. theCUBE bringing you all the action here in London, day two of coverage of theCUBE at HPE Discover. 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