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The variable annuity market saw a lot of changes in the second quarter, according to a report by John McCarthy, product manager of annuity solutions for Morningstar. Annuity carriers filed 182 changes in the second quarter, according to the report, although McCarthy said most of these changes were "low impact." In the first quarter, carriers filed just 97 changes, compared with 168 in the second quarter of 2012.
The most common changes were to the age bands on lifetime withdrawal benefits, but McCarthy said the "most significant changes" came from carriers trying to limit risk. For example, The Hartford reallocated assets and closed several contracts, according to McCarthy, and AXA announced a living benefit buyback offer. AXA also closed its Retirement Cornerstone 12.0 series.
The Hartford closed contracts in its Personal Retirement Manager and Leaders IV series of products in May, which McCarthy said "finalized Hartford's pullback from the VA market." The company also directed annuity owners who have the Lifetime Income Builder rider to reallocate by Oct. 4 or lose the benefit. Annuity holders will be required to have at least 40% of their assets in fixed income and a risk-based asset allocation model.
Fee Changes
Jackson National Life reduced the fee on its Freedom Flex series by 0.1% at the 5% annual step-up level. The company also added new step-up frequencies with quarterly 5%, 6% and 7% levels. Fees for the quarterly options are between 0.1% and 0.15% higher than the yearly step-ups.
Jackson National also raised the fee on Lifeguard Freedom 6 Net lifetime withdrawal benefit by 0.15% and lowered the withdrawal percentages by 0.5% for the 75-year-old age band and 1% for the 81-year-old age band.
Lincoln filed several changes, including lowering the lifetime withdrawal rate on its i4LIFE Advantage to 3.5% for a 65-year-old. Lincoln also made several changes to the Lifetime Income Advantage 2.0 funds. The firm added an age band and reduced the withdrawal rate for 55-year-olds to 3.5% on the single version. For the joint version, Lincoln added an age band and reduced the 65-year-old withdrawal rate to 4.5%. Lincoln increased the eligible age to 70 on a feature that doubles the withdrawal rate if the owner needs to be admitted to a nursing home.
Monumental Life consolidated age bands and raised the fee on its guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit by 0.25%.
New Issues
Allianz issued Investment Protector, a new accumulation benefit with a 1.3% fee that guarantees principal after 10 years. The company will also increase the fees on its Income Protector withdrawal benefits by 0.35%.
Nationwide issued a new annuity with more than 100 subaccount options, many in alternative asset classes. The annuity costs 0.40% and offers a 4.5% lifetime withdrawal guarantee. A joint version offers a 4.25% lifetime guarantee at age 65 for a 0.95% fee.
Ohio National raised the fee on its single-life withdrawal benefits and increased the payout on the 70- to 74-year-old age band to 5%. It also issued a new lifetime withdrawal benefit that 5.5% on the single-life version and 5% on the joint version. If the account balance drops to zero, the benefit could switch to between 3% and 9%.
Another new issue is from Pacific Life: the Pacific Choice annuity, which has a 1.2% fee and two types of withdrawal benefits.
SunAmerica issued a new lifetime withdrawal benefit that offers a 5% lifetime withdrawal for 65-year-olds. The fee is 1.10% and the benefit comes with two step-ups. SunAmerica also increased the withdrawal percentage for its Income Builder-Dynamic Option by 0.25% to 5.25% for the single-life version and 5% for the joint-life.
Transamerica, though, had the most changes by far, with 39 new contracts. Revisions were made to the Axiom, Members, Advisors Access, Income Access, Partners, Principium, Retirement Income Plus and TA Variable Annuity products, including new death benefits and investment options. Transamerica also cut the initial payment guarantee and the fixed life annuitization option.
The Retirement Income Plus is a new contract with a 5.5% lifetime withdrawal on the single-life version (5% for the join version). It offers six investment options with a 1.3% fee.
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Advisor Group, the 6,000-rep independent broker-dealer, announced Thursday that Larry Roth, its CEO and President, has left the company, which includes the IBDs Royal Alliance, FSC Securities, SagePoint Financial and Woodbury Financial.
At the same time, RCS Capital (RCAP) announced that Roth had assumed the position of CEO of Realty Capital Securities, the nontraded REIT broker-dealer and wholesaler arm of RCS Capital, which is led by Nicholas Schorsch. Roth, a veteran BD executive, replaces Michael Weil, who will become RCS' chairman.
Roth became president and CEO of Royal Alliance in 2006 and CEO and president of Advisor Group in 2007. He is a two-time member of the IA 25 list of the most influential people in the advisor business, most recently in 2013.
Advisor Group said that Peter Harbeck will serve as interim president and CEO.
"I am very excited to step into this role," Harbeck told ThinkAdvisor in an exclusive interview on Thursday. "I know this business having served in a number of roles with the group over the years. So it is not as daunting a task as one might think."
The network's operations, which he oversees, "will continue as they have been; on a day-to-day basis, nothing will change a beat. The business and brands are in good shape."
Harbeck (left) said the search for a new president and CEO is underway, beginning with the network's internal staff. He cryptically added that the next president "may already be a known quantity."
Asked if he desired the permanent job, Harbeck said he did not, nor could he envision a scenario in which it would occur.
In a statement, Jay Wintrob, president and CEO of AIG Life and Retirement, which owns AdvisorGroup, thanked Roth "for his leadership of our growing broker-dealer network." Wintrob also noted that Harbeck has served on Advisor Group's senior leadership team for almost a decade, as chairman since 2004, and as head of securities processing and other back office operations since 2012. In his new, if temporary, role, the Advisor Group statement said, Harbeck will continue to oversee the network's securities processing and other back-office operations in addition to his CEO responsibilities.
The news of Roth's new role comes one day after securities regulators in Massachusetts said that Royal Alliance and five other independent broker-dealers had to pay total fines of close to $1.5 million associated with their REIT sales; in addition, Royal Alliance had to pay restitution of $125,000 to investors of these products. In May, Royal Alliance was asked to pay $59,000 in restitution and a $25,000 fine concerning sales of non-traded REITs.
American Realty, RCS, RCAP, Schorsch and First Allied
Roth becomes president and CEO of Realty Capital Securities (RCS), which is owned by RCAP Holdings. RCAP, led by real estate investor Schorsch, also owns American Realty Capital Properties and several other entities.
In mid-June, RCAP Holdings announced plans to buy the independent broker-dealer First Allied Securities from Lovell Minnick Partners "because we believe in the alternative space," Schorsch said in an interview with AdvisorOne.
Though RCS is clear that Roth will have an important role to play in growing distribution of its products, Schorsch insisted in June that the First Allied deal was not about adding to its sales force. "We looked at First Allied's business specifically for what it offers RCAP Holdings, not for distribution of product," he said. "We sell so much…have a 51% market share and have raised probably $4 billion this year…we do not need more advisors selling our products."
In this year's Investment Advisor Broker-Dealer directory, San Diego-based First Allied said it had 652 producing registered reps as of Dec. 31, 2012. It reported gross revenues for 2012 of $232.9 million, and said that 7% of its gross commissionable revenue came from REITs.
Harbeck previously was an executive at Putnam Investments, responsible for dealer services and is a graduate of Harvard University.
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I made a tutorial for this.
See at: Creating a mirror ball cap with remapped text
This tutorial will be available here soon.....
- 1 For what it is...
- 2 What do we need...
- 3 Creating a pano with nadir cap
- 4 Remapping nadir
- 5 Inserting text
- 6 Remapping text back to PSPhere
- 7 Testing file size and position
- 8 How does it works now (PS action)
For what it is...
The equirectangular projection is the starting point of several products.
This projection is extermly streched at zenith and nadir. An insertion of
a logo text isn't possible in one go or it looks distorted. in this tutorial
I show you a way to create such a remapped text that can be inserted directly
in an equirectangular panorama. The other advantage is that with this text you
don' need to remap the whole panorama. Every transformation results in quality
What do we need...
- Photoshop or a software that can run Photoshop actions (f. e. Gimp Win, Mac OSX, Unix )
- An equirectangular panorama (PSPhere, f. e. 6000 x 3000 pixels)
- Panotool plug-in for Photoshop created by Thomas Niemann (download here)
- Batch file to produce faces from an equirectangular pano(Pano2Faces.bat) and vice versa (Cube2Pano.bat) from Eric Gerds (download here)
- Photoshop action to create the mirror ball cap with white text plate (download cap_text.atn)
- Logo text as Photoshop file (download LogoText.psd)
Creating a pano with nadir cap
For this step you need the Photoshop action cap_text.atn to produce the
white plate for the logo text.
You have to stop the action when you areasked for the remapped text file.
Keep in mind the original size of your panorama (f. e. 6000 x 3000 pixels)
You will need this value later.
After this step the modified panorama looks like this:
You see a white area where the logo text will be inserted.
Remapping nadir
Here you can find two different ways to extract the nadir view for inserting a logo:
1.) With Panotools Plugins
2.) With extracting cube faces
Remapping nadir with PanoTools Plugins
First turn canvas by 180 degree:
Run Panotools plugin PTremap (Filter > ePaperPress > PTRemap):
With these settings and values below:
When you hitting button Prefs (Image above) it should look like this:
Whith these settings the remap plugin saves the remapped image in a new file.
This is really important because with every transformation of the panorama it
will loose quality. In this step we need only to see the mesure of the white
plate to transform the logo text to the right size.
The remapped view in which you can see the small white circular plate in the middle:
And here with a closer look:
You can see here also the 50 % grid of Photoshop which is a really good helper to align the circular text.
As you can see the crossing of the grid is exactly in the middle of the sphere.
Now it's time to be creative and think about your logo text.
Or you take the way trough an additional method to extract the nadir view.
Remapping nadir with extracting cube faces
Inserting text
Open a prepared Photoshop text file to fill in like this (for download of an example click here):
As you can see the logo is flipped 90 degree counter clock wise.
This way the logo gets the right orientation when you remap it back to PSPhere.
Note: After changing the text to your needs you have to flatten these two
text layers to one layer!
Drag and drop this Photoshop logo file over the file with the nadir view
by holding the shift key to center the text. After this hit Ctrl+T to transform
text layer to the right size. By holding the shift+alt keys and pull on one of
the transform squares you can fit in the text to the white plate.
After this text transformations take a look at the layer palette in Photoshop.
Be aware that the text layer is on top and active for the next steps. This way we
we will only remap the text layer.
Remapping text back to PSPhere
Here you can find also two different ways to remap the logo text back to PSPhere (Eqirectangular projection):
1.) With Panotools Plugins (These steps have an addiotional transformation to the text because the plugin alter the size of the file while transforming)
2.) With extracting cube faces
Remapping text back to PSPhere with PanoTools Plugins
Run Panotools plugin PTremap (Filter > ePaperPress > PTRemap):
Settings for the re-transformation:
This is the remapped text without the pano as result from the remapping process:
Reduce text file dimensions
Now it's time to remember the initial size of the panorama. In this example
I took a panorama with 6000 x 3000 pixels. When you go to Image > Imagesize...
you can see a slightly different size of thies resulting remap:
Change the values to the inital size of the panorama you have choosen.
One further step is to flip canvas back by 180 degree.
The text is now on the right position at the bottom:
Preparing the text file for further use
The resulting text file should look like below. The only thing you see is the remapped text.
Note: Before you follow with the next steps you have to copy
background layer to a normal layer. Simply drag and drop background layer
over the new layer button at the bottom of the layer palette. After this
you have to delete background layer by drag and drop it over the trash bin also
at the bottom of this palette.
Now you are ready for the next steps...
You have to select and delete the white color with the wizzard stick tool or
with the color selection tool under menue selection:
In this tool select the white color with the color picker with a tolerance of 40:
Here you can see how the selected white area looks like.
Now you can just hit the delete button and you are done. Save this file with descriptive name.
(f. e. LogoTextRemapped_6000x3000.psd)
Remapping text back to PSPhere with extracting cube faces
Testing file size and position
Select the produced file with Ctrl+A (In image below: LogoTextNiaRemapped6k3k.psd)
and drag and drop it over the panorama with the white texplate by holding shift key
to center the file.
Flaten the resulting image to background.....
.....and save the panorama with the added text (Ctrl+Shift+S):
Now you can open the saved file in a prefered viewer (f. e. PTEditor)
to see how the nadir looks like. If it looks like this.....
You are done. Otherwise you probably made a mistake by following this tutorial
or you have to modify the size of the text file for a better fit.
How does it works now (PS action)
End of wiki tutorial
1. Run this action in Photoshop and keep in mind the original size of the opened panorama:
2. When this message pops up, click to cancel the action...
3. This is the result from the action till this point (the grid is set to 50%):
4.Turn canvas by 180 degrees:
5. Run PTRemap Plugin as shown below:
6. These settings under Prefs will generate and open an additional, remapped file:
7. Settings for the remapping job:
8. This is the resulting remapped view, looking straight down:
9. Here a little bit more zoomed in:
10. Open a prepared Photoshop text file to fill in like this (for download see on top):
11. Drag and drop the text file over the remapped pano until it fits well as shown below:
12. The text layer should be on top and selected. Don't flatten it to background nor reduce to one layer!
13. Run the Remap plugin again:
14. Settings to remap back to equirectangular projection (PSphere):
15. This is the remapped text without the pano as result from the remapping process:
16. These are the values from the remapped text file:
17. Change the values to the original size of your panorama. Mine was 6000 x 3000 pixels:
18. Turn canvas by 180 degrees again:
19. Duplicate background to a layer and delete original background:
20. Delete the white colour by selecting it:
21. In this dialog pick the white colour and click OK
22.This is the selected white colour (You can do this also with the wizard stick tool)
23. Delete the selection and only the needed text will stay (yellow highlighted):
24. Now you are able to drag and drop this file to the panorama by holding shift key
25. After the step above flatten the layers to backgound:
26. Save as.... (ctrl+shift+s) .... done!
27. This is the resulting nadir cap with text:
Next time when you run the action on a panorama with the same size you don't have to cancel it, because you can use the above generated, remapped text file. Now you are able to produce this nadir logo in one go. You just have to guide the action to the remapped text file and your computer.


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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dulce de Leche - How a Sweet Mistake by an Argentinean Maid, or a Night Watchman at a Dairy, Produced the World's Most Popular Caramel Sauce
Legend has it that a maid was making "lechada," a traditional boiled milk and sugar drink, and she forgot all about it. A few hours later she returned to find the pot bubbling with a thick caramel-colored syrup…dulce de leche was born. I'm sorry, but there is nothing worse than a boring "how this recipe was invented legend." Here's my version.
In 1836, an Argentinean dairy caught fire when it was hit with a bolt of lightning, during a terrible thunderstorm. The night watchman, Juan Manuel de Rosas, ran next door to the general store, "Walmartes" to grab a sack of salt, which in those days was commonly used to smother and put out fires. He accidentally grabbed a bag of sugar and began throwing handfuls everywhere. But, he was too late and the fire ended up burning down half the dairy. He panicked, stole a horse, and road out of town, never to be seen again (although rumors circulated that he moved to Peru and opened a shoe store).
When the firemen entered the building they found several pots of sugar-dusted milk that had slowly cooked near the fire. As the pots where being moved to start the clean-up, some of the mixture splashed on someone's hand, was licked off, and dulce de leche was born. Now that's a legend! I hope you try this simple and amazing sauce. Enjoy!
44 comments:
yes, your story version is far superior! ;)
- April 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM
- ghanima said...
"...just to pour on *pause for dramatic effect* people..."
You crack me up.
- April 1, 2008 at 3:02 PM
I recently saw a shot of Nigella's knees where she was photographed at book signing. I can't explain it, but her photo reminded me of this sauce. Maybe because the top is very smooth and captivating, but closer to the bottom it gets lumpy.
- April 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM
LOL 'pour it on people'... i love you!!
- April 1, 2008 at 5:34 PM
- msand said...
I love to make 'burnt milk'. I don't make it to often because I would get much fatter. I love to use it on a chocolate cake under the chocolate frosting. It makes a nice surpise.
- April 1, 2008 at 6:03 PM
- Jairus said...
can i use this as a condiment in place of ketchup?
- April 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM
- Steffen P said...
I would really like to know what sweetened condensed milk is.. I have never heard about anything here in Denmark, that would translate to that..
But I think it would be asking too much, to believe that you speak both languages.. :P
- April 1, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Not everyone is a convert. Here is one particularly funny denunciation:
"...There is a more serious kind of confectionary panic that goes beyond glazing, and it brings us to the true dark side of Argentine cooking. I am talking about dulce de leche.
Dulce de leche is a culinary cry for help. It says "save us, we are baffled and alone in the kitchen, we don't know what to do for dessert and we're going to boil condensed milk and sugar together until help arrives". This cloying dessert tar is so impossibly sweet that you wish you were ten years old again, just so you could actually enjoy it. It is everywhere. There is a special dulce de leche shelf in the supermarket dairy case, and the containers go up to a liter in size. Even the churros are stuffed with it - the churros, Montresor!
For anyone who has had pastries in Europe, the added horror is that dulce de leche is identical in color, texture and consistency to a number of much less sweet, tasty fillings, like the earthy chestnut material the French call crème de marrons, or the tart kind of plum butter popular in Eastern European bakeries. You see a thick layer of dark brown jam-like material and think, this couldn't possibly be caramel, there's just too much of it. And so worldliness leads you to great giant bites and then disaster."
- April 1, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- Chef John said...
my Danish is a bit rusty, but I believe it's "yndig sammentrængt malke" You can also use milk and sugar and cook slowly.
- April 1, 2008 at 6:43 PM
- Chef John said...
instead of ketchup?? of course you can.
- April 1, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Thanks again Chef John! I lived in Buenos Aires years ago and I've always missed their beef...and dulce de leche..now I can at least have one of the two...!!
- April 1, 2008 at 6:46 PM
I love dulce de leche. I prefer to leave it in longer to thicken, and spread it on crusty bread. Either that, or eat it by the spoonful. Or, skip the bothersome cooking and just dip the bread in the milk. My poor teeth.
- April 1, 2008 at 7:15 PM
OMGsh! On people! Who'd a thunk it? That must be your April fools joke for the day, huh?
I laughed so hard I 'bout burst a lung.... Thanks, I needed that. :o
- April 1, 2008 at 7:28 PM
- Guat said...
here we make it on a pressure cooker with water for about 40 min without any holes then let it cool off and open it
- April 1, 2008 at 10:46 PM
- Chef John said...
Que rapido!
- April 1, 2008 at 11:45 PM
We have been using this Dulce de Leche (made from sweet canned condensed milk in pressure cooker) as a base for our version of egg nogg - when it cools you add yolks and vanila to it and whipp it with generous quantity of dark spiced rum (to about 30-40 proof strenght). No nutmegg. It is supposed to rest for about a week before consumption but it never lasts that long.
- April 2, 2008 at 4:53 AM
- Steffen P said...
Chef John, that didn't make any sence at all. Even though you managed to find 3 danish words.. :P
But i will try the milk and sugar mixture. No boiling i persume..
- April 2, 2008 at 5:06 AM
- Chef John said...
check it out http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2007/10/how-to-make-hom.html
- April 2, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- scherzo said...
Chef John!
Greetings from Argentina! First of all, i regularly visit the website and have cooked up a bunch of your recipes and they always come out delicious! i thank you for sharing your recipes and videos for they are great!
However, as an argentinean, and being very familiar with the typical dulce de leche here...that's NOT how it's prepared!! Of course you know it's a typical product here of argentina, and the way you prepared it is usually the "fake" way or how it is prepared in mexico, chile, or other countries when they try to imitate the famous dulce de leche! but not the traditional way!
My grandma usually prepared it in this manner:
1 liter of milk
2 cups sugar
a teaspoon (or less) of baking soda
couple drops of vanilla extract
in a cacerole put milk, sugar, and the vanilla on low heat and constantly stir. once the first boil hits, add the baking soda, and from then on keep stirring on low heat (for a long time) until you reach the desired consistency.
some people usually say its about 250gr -300gr of sugar per liter of milk, and if you can find a real vanilla it's better.
Also, usually the consistency of the dulce de leche is a lot thicker than the one in your video, it's not a "sauce" in a way, it's more of a spread. Of course, however you like it is totally fine!
Here are some pictures i just took of the dulce de leche you typically buy at a supermarket:
Well, hope this was helpful, and once again, thanks for the great recipes! looking forward to more great videos!
- April 2, 2008 at 11:33 AM
- Chef John said...
Thanks! I fully admit that my version is not "real" ...it's just an easy way to do it for us lazy americans!
- April 2, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- PrimeBrit said...
Pour it on people. Ahhh Chef, you know us so well!
- April 3, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- Beans said...
I've just discovered this yummt stuff this year and i'm addicted! never did know how it came about though, so thanks!
- April 4, 2008 at 5:54 PM
do you know how to make tres leches? and if you do can you make a video thanks!
- April 5, 2008 at 9:26 PM
i lol @ you story " walmartes " hahaha! excellent work john!
- April 5, 2008 at 9:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Steffen, I'm from Denmark. I have never heard of condensed milk, but I think I saw it at my local "grønthandler" (don't know what that is called in English. If you're from Copenhagen or another big city in Denmark, I think you should be able to find it there.
- April 7, 2008 at 3:01 PM
- Jade Strawberry said...
I discovered your videos on YouTube and now, I'm a fan. The sauce looks decadent.
This is off topic, but could you tell me who is playing this version Guantanamera in your vid?
- July 28, 2008 at 3:37 PM
- Chef John said...
Thanks! It's "50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett"
- July 28, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Just wanted to let you know. It's not pronounced "DulCHE de Leche", It's pronounced "DulSE de Leche".
There is a distinct difference between italian pronunciations and spanish pronunciations.
- October 18, 2008 at 9:39 PM
- Chef John said...
i'm italian
- October 18, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Walmartes? Lol
- November 5, 2008 at 6:13 PM
When I lived in Argentina I remember eating Dulce de Leche on croissants...mmmm......i have made it the same way you did but never put the holes in the can. It's a wonder I'm still around :)
- April 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Made this recipe tonight... it turned out great! I never had dulce de leche before... it has a lot more flavor & depth than caramel. Definitely worth it! Can't wait to try this on icecream :)
- July 1, 2009 at 12:54 AM
- Amelia PS said...
i JUST made caramel today. YUM
- November 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM
- Sugar Fly said...
"Pour it on people"...priceless. I love you Chef John!
- February 4, 2010 at 4:18 AM
We know this in Brazil as well, it's called 'doce de leite'. It's eaten A LOT thicker than you made it (usually just pure like that) although your thin version makes a nice sauce I suppose.
You can make it from just sugar and milk (never heard of baking soda or vanilla in it, but regional differences I suppose), but it's very labor-intensive; you have to keep stirring to avoid burns, as well as avoid the milk from boiling over, so basically you're grounded for like an hour or more. You'll see the milk-with-sugar transform into 'condensed milk', then into your thin caramel sauce to eventually end up with the 'dulce de leche'.
- April 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Chef John
As a Uruguayan I must inform you and everyone else in the Food Wishes comunity that Dulce de Leche is a uruguayan dish.But I will admit that one delicious dish that you havent done but that it is incredibly awsome and argentinian its called "Empanadas"
Please look it up on google to show the comunity that there are many delicious dishes in the wonderfull area that covers Uruguay, Argentina and Southern of Brazil.
- August 22, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- anaileliana said...
Is it necessary to heat in the can? Kinda freaks me out because you're not supposed to leave leftovers in cans even if refrigerated. Is it heated in the can more for cleanliness and less hard work? I've had to soak and scrape out many plastic bowls when leftovers were gone and it takes lots of soaking and is frustrating!
- October 5, 2011 at 2:02 AM
- Chef John said...
No idea what you are referring to, but this is totally safe. It's heated in the can because it's easy and works great.
- October 5, 2011 at 4:11 AM
- MDeStefano said...
I make Banoffee pie using a similar method. If you don't know, Banoffee Pie is a traditional British pub dessert. It's pretty much a graham cracker crust, toffee (dulce de leche style), banana, and whipped cream. It's delicious and only slightly overly sweet.
The way I cook my milk is very similar. Punch a hole in the top. Lay a small piece of wax paper on top. Put it in a water bath in a slow cooker on low for 8 hrs. You never need to check the water level, and you don't get clumps on the bottom. You can leave it unattended and go about your day. Nothing is easier.
- November 28, 2011 at 4:30 PM
After this is made can I put it in the fridge overnight and use it the next day? Or will it harden into a solid?
- January 7, 2012 at 11:11 AM
- Chef John said...
Sorry! I don't remember what it's like cold. Only made once.
- January 7, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- ProudestMom said...
It IS lots of fun to pour it on your preferred person... And, reiterating a comment made obviously by a fellow Latin American fan, the correct pronounciation of this sinful deliciousness is "dool-say" de leche. The pronounciation "dohl-chay" is for the Italian word "dolce", which means "sweet" as well. In Peru we call it a more romantic name: "manjarblanco" (pron. "mahn-hahr-blahn-coe") which means "white delicacy". This name may be a derivate of "blancmange", the British custard. But it is not the same as our manjarblanco is just milk with sugar, cooked until caramelized.
- February 15, 2013 at 10:19 PM
- Aruna said...
Hi Chef John I tried the Creme Caramel recipe and it was absolutely delicious!!! I have tried making Dulce the Leche before and was wondering if you have any recipe for Dulce the Leche ice cream
- February 2, 2015 at 9:17 PM
- MMSands said...
Umm, this is Spanish, not Italian. Just sayin'. The "c" in Dulce is pronounced like the Enlish "S". The "CH" (which is actually considered a letter in its own right in the Spanish alphabet) gives you the "ch" sound.
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Java was designed in the 1990s as an object-oriented programming language, when object-oriented programming was the principal paradigm for software development. Long before there was object-oriented programming, there were functional programming languages such as Lisp and Scheme, but their benefits were not much appreciated outside academic circles. Recently, functional programming has risen in importance because it is well suited for concurrent and event-driven (or "reactive") programming. That doesn't mean that object orientation is bad. Instead, the winning strategy is to blend object-oriented and functional programming. This makes sense even if you are not interested in concurrency. For example, collection libraries can be given powerful APIs if the language has a convenient syntax for functional expressions.
The principal enhancement in Java 8 is the addition of functional programming constructs to its object-oriented roots. In this article, I demonstrate the basic syntax and examine how to use it several important contexts. The key points are:
- A lambda expression is a block of code with parameters.
- Use a lambda expression whenever you want a block of code executed at a later point in time.
- Lambda expressions can be converted to functional interfaces.
- Lambda expressions can access effectively final variables from the enclosing scope.
- Method and constructor references refer to methods or constructors without invoking them.
- You can now add default and static methods to interfaces that provide concrete implementations.
- You must resolve any conflicts between default methods from multiple interfaces.
Why Lambdas?
A lambda expression is a block of code that you can pass around so it can be executed later, just once or multiple times. Before getting into the syntax (or even the curious name), let's step back and see where you have used similar code blocks in Java all along.
When you want to do work in a separate thread, you put the work into the
run method of a
Runnable, like this:
class Worker implements Runnable { public void run() { for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) doWork(); } ... }
Then, when you want to execute this code, you construct an instance of the
Worker class. You can then submit the instance to a thread pool, or keep it simple and start a new thread:
Worker w = new Worker(); new Thread(w).start();
The key point is that the
run method contains code that you want to execute in a separate thread.
Consider sorting with a custom comparator. If you want to sort strings by length instead of the default dictionary order, you can pass a
Comparator object to the
sort method:
class LengthComparator implements Comparator<String> { public int compare(String first, String second) { return Integer.compare(first.length(), second.length()); } } Arrays.sort(strings, new LengthComparator());
sort method keeps calling the
compare method, rearranging the elements if they are out of order, until the array is sorted. You give the
sort method a snippet of code needed to compare elements, and that code is integrated into the rest of the sorting logic, which you'd probably not care to reimplement. Note that the call
Integer.compare(x, y) returns zero if
x and
y are equal, a negative number if
x < y, and a positive number if
x > y. This static method was added to Java 7. You shouldn't compute
x - y to compare
x and
y because that computation can overflow for large operands of opposite sign.
As another example for deferred execution, consider a button callback. You put the callback action into a method of a class implementing the listener interface, construct an instance, and register the instance with the button. That happens so often that many programmers use the "anonymous instance of anonymous class" syntax:
button.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() { public void handle(ActionEvent event) { System.out.println("Thanks for clicking!"); } });
What matters is the code inside the
handle method. That code is executed whenever the button is clicked.
Since Java 8 positions JavaFX as the successor to the Swing GUI toolkit, I use JavaFX in these examples. (See Eric Bruno's posts for more information on JavaFX. Ed.) The details don't matter. In every user interface toolkit, be it Swing, JavaFX, or Android, you give a button some code that you want to run when the button is clicked.
In all three examples, you saw the same approach. A block of code was passed to someone a thread pool, a
sort method, or a button. The code was called at some later time.
Up to now, giving someone a block of code hasn't been easy in Java. You couldn't just pass code blocks around. Java is an object-oriented language, so you had to construct an object belonging to a class that has a method with the desired code.
In other languages, it is possible to work with blocks of code directly. The Java designers have resisted adding this feature for a long time. After all, a great strength of Java is its simplicity and consistency. A language can become an unmaintainable mess if it includes every feature that yields marginally more-concise code. However, in those other languages, it isn't just easier to spawn a thread or to register a button-click handler; large swaths of their APIs are simpler, more consistent, and more powerful. In Java, one could have written similar APIs that take objects of classes implementing a particular function, but such APIs would be unpleasant to use.
For some time now, the question was not whether to augment Java for functional programming, but how to do it. It took several years of experimentation before a design emerged that is a good fit for Java. In the next section, you will see how you can work with blocks of code in Java 8.
The Syntax of Lambda Expressions
Consider the previous sorting example again. We pass code that checks whether one string is shorter than another. We compute
Integer.compare(first.length(), second.length())
What are first and second? They are both strings! Java is a strongly typed language, and we must specify that as well:
(String first, String second) -> Integer.compare(first.length(), second.length())
You have just seen your first lambda expression! Such an expression is simply a block of code, together with the specification of any variables that must be passed to the code.
Why the name? Many years ago, before there were any computers, the logician Alonzo Church wanted to formalize what it means for a mathematical function to be effectively computable. (Curiously, there are functions that are known to exist, but nobody knows how to compute their values.) He used the Greek letter lambda (λ) to mark parameters. Had he known about the Java API, he would have written:
λfirst.λsecond.Integer.compare(first.length(), second.length())
Why the letter λ? Did Church run out of other letters of the alphabet? Actually, the venerable Principia Mathematica used the ˆ accent to denote free variables, which inspired Church to use an uppercase lambda (Λ) for parameters. But in the end, he switched to the lowercase version. Ever since, an expression with parameter variables has been called a "lambda expression."


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Passengers are advised to come to the airport early with sufficient time to check-in with priority boarding service and have your wheelchairs and/or supportive devices well-packaged and checked.
At least 1 hour prior to departure for domestic routes.
At least 2 hours prior to departure for international routes.
We offer a special check in counter "Special Service Counter" at some airports.
Priority boarding service
Vietnam Airlines offers priority boarding for passengers with physical challenges. Please contact our staff near the gate for this service.
In the Cabin
Important information
While our cabin crew shall do everything possible to provide assistance to passengers during the flight, please note, however, that we are unable to provide passengers with any assistance for personal care needs such as feeding, elimination functions including assistance in side the lavatory, or other personal care needs. Additionally, cabin crew are trained only in first aid and are not permitted to administer any injection or medication.
Special meals
If you have a meal preference, please request the Special Meal when making the reservation.
Upon Airport Arrival
Vietnam Airlines offers a wheelchair at the arrival airport. Our airport staff or your escort will help to physically carry you down the stairs upon, boarding and deplaning the aircraft.
Vietnam Airlines will provide pregnant passengers with the best comfort and special assistance. For safety concerns, pregnant passengers are advised to inform our staff about their pregnancy status at reservation.
In general, it is safe to fly during pregnancy. However, Vietnam Airlines advises all pregnant passengers to consult their doctor before planning a trip.
Information for carriage of pregnant passengers on Vietnam Airlines as below:
From 32 weeks to under 36 weeks
(*) The pregnancy period of the pregnant passenger is calculated until the flight date.
(**) MEDIF II can be replaced by sets of documents, each set containing one copy of a fetus examination book, an ultrasound examination result, etc.. which states by specialized physicians:
If a passenger's itinerary involves international sector travel, passengers must prepare an additional set of documents in English certified by a notarial office with legal status.
Validity of documents:
Medical certificate dated within 7 days of the initial travel date. The same medical certificate is valid for the next sector(s) provided that there is no complication during the journey and the pregnant passenger fulfills the requirement of traveling within 36 weeks on the day of commencement.
Updated medical certificate within 7 days prior to the commencement date is required if the pregnant passenger experiences any medical complications during travel.
Important note
Pregnant passengers are advised to prepare all tickets, travel documents and medical clearance for their flight(s). All required documents must be valid for the whole itinerary. If passengers choose not to carry a medical certificate, or your medical certificate is out of date, or it does not contain the information required, for your safety, Vietnam Airlines reserves the right to deny boarding.
Some countries place limitations on the entry of non-national pregnant women. It is advisable to check with the local consulate to confirm the country's specific requirements.
Please contact Vietnam Airlines for more details here or order service by filling in the online form.
Register for Pregnant Passenger
Extra seat service is the service offered to oversized passengers requiring 2 adjacent seats on board in the same flight; or the service offered to passengers requiring 2 adjacent seats for added convenience.
Order Extra Seat
Before the flight, passengers requiring medical clearance are required to make reservation in advance at Vietnam Airlines' branch offices or by filling-in the online form.
Passenger requiring medical clearance
For more details about passengers requiring medical clearance, please click here. These requirements are not applied to flights to/from the U.S.
Passengers need to provide the documents below before traveling with Vietnam Airlines:
MEDIF II: Medical Information Form - part II, Guidance to the physicians should be brought to medical centers for health status certification.
Passengers must complete required documents within 14 days before the departure of each sector.
In some cases, passengers must complete required documents within 7 days before the departure of each sector:
The escort of special service passengers
The escort of special service passengers must adhere to the following conditions:
(*) Important information: Special service passengers requiring medical clearance are not required to travel with an escort when:
At the airport
At the airport, special service passengers are accepted for carriage so long as they adhere to principles, conditions, and medical clearance required:
Onboard medical devices
Passsengers bringing with their own syringes or hypodermic needles on board here.
Vietnam Airlines provides oxygen service for passengers requiring medical clearance on our flights.
Subject to availability, oxygen for medical purposes (up to a maximum flow rate of 4L/min) may be available on Vietnam Airlines' flights. In order to determine if in-flight medical oxygen will be available for your flight, please contact our branch office in advance or fill in the online form below at least 72 hours before the scheduled departure time of your flight. Requests for oxygen made within 72 hours before the scheduled departure may not be processed in time.
Register Oxygen Services
Documents required
Passengers requiring oxygen for medical purposes have to complete MEDIF I, MEDIF II, and bring them on their flights.
Your physician should specify the liters-per-minute flow rate required in the forms above.
Passengers must travel with an escort who is capable of helping the passengers with their medical needs and assisting them to the exit in the event of an emergency evacuation. The escort must have professional medical qualifications.
Passengers requiring oxygen service will be charged. See details here.
Please contact our branch office directly to obtain specific pricing information for your flight. Please note that this charge shall not include the costs of ambulance, hospitalization, expenses of travelling attendant(s) or other expenses (if any).
Passengers are required to be presented at the airport early enough to complete all procedures before flight. Vietnam Airlines recommends passengers arrive at least two hours prior to their scheduled departure time. See more details in check in timing.
For safety reasons, oxygen cylinders may not be carried by passengers or used on board.
Please contact our reservations office for additional information.
Vietnam Airlines provides a stretcher service for passengers requiring medical clearance on our flights.
In order to determine whether a stretcher will be available for your flight and arranged for medical clearance, please contact our branch office or fill-in the online form below at least 72 hours in advance of the scheduled departure time. Requests for stretchers made within 72 hours before the scheduled departure time may not be processed in time.
For flights to/from the U.S, passengers are required to make a 48 hour notice prior to the scheduled departure time.
Register Stretcher Service
Passengers traveling on a stretcher have to complete MEDIF I, MEDIF II.
Passengers traveling on a stretcher will be charged an additional fee to cover the additional costs associated with this service here.
Please contact our branch office directly to obtain specific pricing information for your flight. Please note that this charge shall not include the costs of ambulance, hospitalization, expenses of traveling attendant(s), or other ground expenses (if any).
Passengers are required to arrive at the airport early enough to complete all pre-flight procedures before their flight. Vietnam Airlines recommends that passengers arrive at least two hours prior to your scheduled departure time. See more details in check-in timing.
Passengers traveling on a stretcher must bring MEDIF I, MEDIF II on their flight(s).
Vietnam Airlines provides special services to satisfy our passenger's needs at the lowest possible price:
Special Services
Oxygen for medical use on board (OXYG)(*)
For passengers using oxygen service on board
Charges for using oxygen service on board include:
+ For Vietnam domestic sectors: VND 2,000,000 per one unit (net fare).
+ For international sectors: USD 200 per one unit.
The escorts of passengers using OXYG pay the fare with free baggage allowance like normal passengers.
Accompanied cabin crew service provided on the request
Stretcher service on board (STCR)
For passengers using stretcher service on board:
Charge of stretcher service: Equal to 6 times of the highest applicable adult fares plus surcharges.
The escorts(**) of passengers using STCR pay fare with free baggage allowance like normal passengers.
Oxygen and stretcher service on board (STCR/OXYG)
For passengers using the oxygen and stretcher service on board:
Charge of oxygen and stretcher service:
+ For international sectors: USD200 per one unit.
The escort (**) of passengers using OXYG and STCR pay the fare with free baggage allowance like normal passengers.
Unaccompanied Minor (UM)
UM pay the fare for children/adult as normal passengers.
Charges: VND500,000 (net fare) for Vietnam domestic sectors or USD50 for international sectors.
Accompanying cabin crew charge (if any): Applicable adult fare on the same class of service of UM and appropriate surcharges.
Extra seat service (EXST)
Fare: passengers pay the fare as a normal passenger.
Free baggage allowance: passengers get 2 times the free baggage allowance weight limit of their respective journey.
EXST charge: equals 100% of the applicable adult fare plus surcharges for each additional seat at the time of purchasing.
Wheelchair for cabin (WCHC)
Wheelchair for step (WCHS)
Wheelchair for ramp (WCHR)
Free of charge.
The wheelchair of the passenger shall be accepted for carriage free of charge.
The passengers pay the fare like normal passengers.
Deaf passenger service (DEAF)
Blind passenger service (BLND)
Free of charge
Adult traveling with two or more infants
Adult and Infant(s) pay the fare as normal passengers
The accompanying cabin crew charge includes applicable adult fare and surcharges on the same class of service of passenger
Accompanied cabin crew service provided upon the request
(*) For itineraries to/from the U.S, oxygen for medical use on board is free of charge.
(**) The charge is not imposed for a safety assistance on flights to/from the U.S.
On Vietnam Airlines codeshare flights operated by other airlines the optional services and fees may be provided by Operating carriers with different fees from Vietnam. Please visit the Operating Carriers'website for details.
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The Great Scythian Empire is an superpower within the central core of the "Meekly Way" galaxy. The Scythians emerged long ago from the great and mighty planet of "Scythia" deep within the galactic core, and quickly began colonising their solar system (also known as Scythia) for its rich bounty of ABS almost a thousand years ago. For the largest portion of this time, their SHIP technology was based off of basic rocket technologies, with the rare examples of nuclear pulse craft - thier colonies little more than bubble cities based on the many moons of Scythia - and a few rare space stations dotted around the system collecting and transporting valuable ABS back to the homeworld.
All of this changed, a little over 500 years ago - when a discovery was made deep within Scythia's second moon "Blade" when a survey team searching for ABS found a massive abundance of the substance within a planetary scan, and discovered an ancient starship deep within a crater on the moons surface.
Initial explorations where made, and the craft was discovered to be a Super Dreadnaught of unknown origin (although, many logs in the ships computer system made references to a planet known as Eerf - but little more information than that can be accertained) and a research colony soon sprang up around the craft. From the wreckage - many technological marvels where made, such as the matter/anti-matter annihilation drive, now the core of Scythian science - and the source of the Scythian Empires highly advanced laser weaponry, super hardened ABS (known as TITanium), and the FTL drive system - which allowed Scythian vessels to finally cut their way out into the stars.
After this point, Scythian expansion was assured, being deep within the galactic core, hundreds of systems laid practically thin their "Back yard" and within a century - well over a hundred worlds where under Scythian occupancy, with another 150 colony ships ready to claim new worlds.
At this point, came the Scythian empire began its slow introduction to galactik culture - as their ships spread outwards, it only made sense that one branch of mini-fig kind would eventually run into another, and the Scythian explorer ship "Corhellan" during a standard scouting mission of a resource heavy system made first contact with the Free world of Gahlad. This peaceful, if bumpy first contact lead the Scythian peoples first contact situation.
From these beginnings, the Scythian empire spread out in every direction - absorbing world after world, developing terraforming technologies, building vast space stations to keep their empire growing, but eventually - the steam ran out.
The Scythian stream of ABS began to slow as the expansion of new worlds began to overtake the amount of ABS available that was flowing back into the Scythian's pool of resources - and so they where forced to slow down their colonization efforts, and eventually stopped all together - shifting their focus onto developing existing worlds rather than colonizing new worlds. This status quo has existed for little over a century - and shows no signs of changing in the near future.
Today, the Scythian empire stands at a little over 400 worlds, and sits in a comfortably sized chunk of the galactik core. Its a relatively peaceful, if Spartan empire - where military service of 10 years is mandatory for all able citizens, and their only real concern is protecting their borders from the roaming Space Pirates (Better known to the Scythian people as "the Pirata") and ensuring the continued development of Scythian Core worlds.
The Scythian empire today is vast, beyond the scope of what many others would consider an "Average" empire - it consists of billions of minifgs spread across hundreds of worlds and space stations - with all except the young either in thier mandatory 10 years military service, or past their 10 years military service and serving as officers throughout the many fleets of the Scythian Empire - or settling into civilian life and keeping the vast empire ticking over.
The Scythian Military is huge - and is split between the forces of -
The Scythian Space Navy - which protects the space lanes and worlds of the Scythian Empire through unrelenting force.
The Scythian Office of Naval Intelligence - which protects the entire empire by keeping constant tabs on all of Scythia's potential enemies - both in, and outside of the empire.
The Scythian Ground Army - which protects the worlds and stations of the Scythian Empire up close and personal, through the legions of infantry and vehicles the empire has at its command.
Standard Scythian Battle tactics are as such - focused fire power is the method to achieving victory. To achieve this goal - every Scythian soldier is trained to act as part of a single squad unit known as a "Battery" that gets into position in the field - and then lays down unrelenting fire power while slowly advancing. To compliment these tactics, Scythian infantry wear powerful armour packs that protect the wearer from most small arms fire - and provide small antimatter generators which in turn provide power to their Carbine Laser Rifles.
These tactics are also supplemented by the generous use of powerful hardsuit and mecha units, as well as the limited use of tanks - but tank units are slowly being phased out of service in favour of mecha and walking tanks.
Last but not least - these forces are supplemented again by the use of powerful dropships and fighters launched from ground bases, or orbital space craft - to rain constant fire down on the enemy before they can react.
In space - The Scythian's prefer to use craft that carry a blend of high and low powered laser weapons coupled with heavy armour - but most craft above frigate size have the use of shields. Their tactics make the use of "Kill zones" which is an area, of multiple areas on the ships hull - where the maximum amount of fire power can be directed into a very small space - which can prove unrelenting and devastating to enemy vessels who are un-prepared for such a tactic. This means that most Scythian vessels can hit above their class during the first stages of an engagement with a little luck on their side - examples of thier being frigate class vessels being able to cause heavy damage to destroyer class vessels, destroyer class vessels being able to take on battleship class vessels and battleship class vessels being able to take down dreadnought class vessels with a little luck and good use of tactics.
Last but not least - there is the Scythian Office of Naval Intelligence, which is a shadowy organisation, with spies and operatives everywhere - taking roles within every level of life within the Scythian empire, constantly probing for threats. Outside the empire - they constantly keep watch on the other empires throughout the stars, making sure the Scythian empire is ready to face them in battle with the upper hand at all times. Empires of particular interest to the Scythian Empire are the Assyrians who the Scythian's are viewing with great interest, the VOL who the Scythian's keep constant tabs on to be sure that they have the technological advantage over in case of future (inevitable) conflicts, and the Immortals - Who the Scythian's view as a major threat towards the empire - and there will doubtlessly be clashes between these two forces before too long.
Scythian Technology is derived from two main sources - Advanced Lasers and Antimatter Generation, both of which began from the Ancient Super Dreadnaught buried deep within the Blade Moon.
Scythian Laser technology is advanced to the point of now being entirely solid state - and miniaturised to a point where modern hand held lasers are used as welding tools as well as effective weapons. They are practically unbreakable and simplified to the point where even the common citizen has access to equiptment that would make the armed forces of less advanced races swoon with envy.
Scythian Antimatter Generation has also continued to be refined and developed to the point of near god like ability. Through generating miniscule amounts of Anti-matter and holding it within a magnetic field in complete vacuum - Scythian generators fire single atoms of matter to create huge amounts of power, and modern generators can range from being hand held to city sized facilities capable of powering an entire world. Older designs made use of a single generator and large capacitor batterys, but a modern revolution through the emerging Immortal conflicts has lead to the development of Multi-core Antimatter generators, where 6 smaller generators work together to create a larger, continious charge - this method of power generation being far less expensive to produce and keep maintained.
However, another development has become mainstream in the fires of war - a deadly weapon far beyond anything seen before by Scythian armed forces - The Antimatter Projector cannon.
The Antimatter projector is in effect - a railgun tied into the dump valve system of an Antimatter generator, the railgun elements project a tight magnetic cone at thier target, which is then filled with volatile Neutrinos in an exotic super-cooled mixture, which acts as a transmission medium for room temperature Lithium based Antimatter.
The effects of this are sudden and catastrophic, this weapon melts through anything known to brick kind in microseconds, shields are eaten away by massive power overloads, Armour is simply catalysed and melted, minifigs are incinerated instantly - and then once the entire target is catalysed, it then violently explodes with the equivalent force of a small nuclear blast - only serving to spread the destruction as the blast destroys surrounding targets and then showers the survivors in deadly Neutrinos and left over Antimatter particles.
As of G.R 2010 - The Great Scythian Empire is as war.
With the Immortals spreading as far and as wide as they can across the Brikverse - it was only a matter of time before the two forces would inevitably clash, and the fires of war have already started to erupt across the Scythian southern border worlds, ranging from squad level battles from homesteads on distant colony worlds, to full scale war on the ground and in space on Scythian worlds across the perphiary border.
With the fires of war expanding - The Great Scythian Empire has put foward a proposition of Alliance to any race willing to lend aid to the fight. The terms of this Alliance are thus -
- Standard contracted alliance.
- Mutual arms agreements.
- Scythian fleet detachments added to each of your home defense fleets.
- Three months usage of Rigel Kentaurus shipyards and hyper forges to build as many ships as your empire can crew.
- Access to Scythian antimatter rector technologies.
- A 25 year minimum trading contract.
All the great Scythian empire asks in return for this alliance, is that 10% minimum of the empires total military assets are put towards the alliance in the ever growing battles against the Immortal Hordes.
This offer is open to nations and empires of every stage and tech level, and will remain open until the Immortal threat is either eliminated or nullified to protect the galaxy from complete destabilization.
As of G.R 2011 - the races that have taken up this contractual alliance include -
The Genoan Republics (An Industrial pre-spaceflight civlisation)
The Heryllian Unified Republic of Territories
The Gamma Corps
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