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Things To Do in Stockton, CA
Pixie Woods Amusement Park
3121 Monte Diablo Ave
Stockton, CA Local Resources
in Stockton, CA
Did you know that there are approximately 850 million visits to museums every year in America? They contribute $50 billion to the U.S. economy each year. If you think about how marvelous museums are, these numbers make sense. Museums can transport you to old worlds, future worlds, worlds you never thought you could be a part of.
If you're looking to add some of those unknown worlds to your day, check out our list of museums in the area. They are all within driving distance and offer a variety of topics that will enchant every member of the family.
Children's Museum of Stockton
402 W Weber Ave
Stockton, CA 95203 Directions
The Children's Museum of Stockton offers a chance for kids to learn in a truly fun and highly interactive way from the moment they walk through this impressive facility's front door. The museum features a generous number of hands-on, play-based exhibits and attractions that entertain, amuse and educate young visitors about various aspects of science and art while teaching them in great detail about the wonders in the world around them.
Delta College Clever Planetarium and Earth Science Center
While it may be true that you see stars in your lover's eyes, there's nothing quite like seeing the real thing. Gaze heavenward when the two of you visit the Delta College Clever Planetarium and Earth Science Center on a romantic date. This facility has been recently refurbished and now features such attractions as a digital planet and sky simulator as well as state-of-the-art telescopes that give you the chance to see the stars and planets in stunning detail.
Holt-Atherton Special Collections
Get a more detailed view of not only the country's history but of California's dramatic past as well when you visit the Holt-Atherton Special Collections. It's almost like connecting the various pieces of the area's past when you view the museum's vintage photographs, artifacts and various exhibits that all tell the story of the American West. Also, don't miss seeing the incredible collection of manuscripts, books and other historical items.
San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum
11793 N Micke Grove Rd
Lodi, CA 95240 Directions
The San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum is a fascinating, multidimensional time capsule of the area. Learn about the settlement history, local terrain, homesteads and the role of the Gold Rush in the social and economic development of the region. Additionally, see exhibits on wine making, tractors, gardening and a blacksmith shop as well as a generous selection of antiques and furnishings. Plus, there are various demonstrations of how all of these items were pivotal in the lives of the area's early inhabitants.
The Haggin Museum
1201 N Pershing Ave
Sometimes, art is best appreciated by just wandering from one exhibit to another and letting the visual impact of the work take hold of your senses. That is exactly what you can expect at Stockton's Haggin Museum. Featuring a balance between art and historic pieces, the Haggin does an impressive job of spotlighting the work of many notable American and European artists. The venue also encourages individual artistic expression with its many classes and seminars that are designed to deepen every visitor's appreciation and love for art.
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Q: In Objective-C, if @property and @synthesize will add getter and setter, why not just make an instance variable public? In Objective-C, we can add @property and @synthesize to create a property -- like an instance variable with getter and setter which are public to the users of this class.
In this case, isn't it just the same as declaring an instance variable and making it public?  Then there won't be the overhead of calling the getter and setter as methods.  There might be a chance that we might put in validation for the setter, such as limiting a number to be between 0 and 100, but other than that, won't a public instance variable just achieve the same thing, and faster?

A: Even if you're only using the accessors generated by @synthesize, they get you several benefits:

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*Memory management: generated setters retain the new value for a (retain) property. If you try to access an object ivar directly from outside the class, you don't know whether the class might retain it. (This is less of an issue under ARC, but still important.)

*Threadsafe access: generated accessors are atomic by default, so you don't have to worry about race conditions accessing the property from multiple threads.

*Key-Value Coding & Observation: KVC provides convenient access to your properties in various scenarios. You can use KVC when setting up predicates (say, for filtering a collection of your objects), or use key paths for getting at properties in collections (say, a dictionary containing objects of your class). KVO lets other parts of your program automatically respond to changes in a property's value -- this is used a lot with Cocoa Bindings on the Mac, where you can have a control bound to the value of a property, and also used in Core Data on both platforms.
In addition to all this, properties provide encapsulation. Other objects (clients) using an instance of your class don't have to know whether you're using the generated accessors -- you can create your own accessors that do other useful stuff without client code needing changes. At some point, you may decide your class needs to react to an externally made change to one of its ivars: if you're using accessors already, you only need to change them, rather than make your clients start using them. Or Apple can improve the generated accessors with better performance or new features in a future OS version, and neither the rest of your class' code nor its clients need changes.

A: Overhead Is Not a Real Issue
To answer your last question, yes there will be overhead—but the overhead of pushing one more frame and popping it off the stack is negligible, especially considering the power of modern processors. If you are that concerned with performance you should profile your application and decide where actual problems are—I guarantee you you'll find better places to optimize than removing a few accessors.
It's Good Design
Encapsulating your private members and protecting them with accessors and mutators is simply a fundamental principle of good software design: it makes your software easier to maintain, debug, and extend. You might ask the same question about any other language: for example why not just make all fields public in your Java classes? (except for a language like Ruby, I suppose, which make it impossible to expose instance variables). The bottom line is that certain software design practices are in place because as your software grows larger and larger, you will be saving yourself from a veritable hell.
Lazy Loading
Validation in setters is one possibility, but there's more you can do than that. You can override your getters to implement lazy loading. For example, say you have a class that has to load some fields from a file or database. Traditionally this is done at initialization. However, it might be possible that not all fields will actually be used by whoever is instantiating the object, so instead you wait to initialize those members until it's requested via the getter. This cleans up initialization and can be a more efficient use of processing time.
Helps Avoid Retain Cycles in ARC
Finally, properties make it easier to avoid retain loops with blocks under ARC. The problem with ivars is that when you access them, you are implicitly referencing self. So, when you say:
_foo = 7;

what you're really saying is
self->_foo = 7;

So say you have the following:
[self doSomethingWithABlock:^{
    _foo = 7;
}];

You've now got yourself a retain cycle. What you need is a weak pointer.
__block __weak id weakSelf = self;
[self doSomethingWithABlock:^{
    weakSelf->_foo = 7;
}];

Now, obviously this is still a problem with setters and getters, however you are less likely to forget to use weakSelf since you have to explicity call self.property, whereas ivars are referenced by self implicitly. The static analayzer will help you pick this problem up if you're using properties.

A: @property is a published fact. It tells other classes that they can get, and maybe set, a property of the class. Properties are not variables, they are literally what the word says. For example, count is a property of an NSArray. Is it necessarily an instance variable? No. And there's no reason why you should care whether it is.
@synthesize creates a default getter, setter and instance variable unless you've defined any of those things yourself. It's an implementation specific. It's how your class chooses to satisfy its contractual obligation to provide the property. It's just one way of providing a property, and you can change your implementation at any time without telling anyone else about it.
So why not expose instance variables instead of providing getters and setters? Because that binds your hands on the implementation of the class. It makes other acts rely on the specific way it has been coded rather than merely the interface you've chosen to publish for it. That quickly creates fragile and inter-dependent code that will break. It's anathema to object-oriented programming.

A: Because one would normally be interested in encapsulation and hiding data and implementations. It is easier to maintain; You have to change one implementation, rather than all. Implementation details are hidden from the client. Also, the client shouldn't have to think about whether the class is a derived class.

A: You are correct... for a few very limited cases.  Properties are horrible in terms of CPU cycle performance when they are used in the inner loops of pixel, image and real-time audio DSP (etc.) code.  For less frequent uses, they bring a lot of benefits in terms of readable maintainable reusable code.

A: @property and @synthesize is set are getting getter and setter methods
other usage is you can use the that variable in other classes also
if you want to use the variable as instance variable and your custom getter  and setter methods you can do but some times when you set the value for variable and while retrieving value of variable sometimes will become zombie which may cause crash of your app.
so the property will tell operating system not to release object till you deallocate your object of class,
 hope it helps

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To: Mr Metals who wrote (11) 7/19/1999 2:08:00 PM
From: Scoobah
Let's hope the news comes in 3's, :-)
Undervalued and waiting to explode | Stock Discussion ForumsShare RecommendKeepReplyMark as Last Read
To: Stephen Howell who wrote () 8/17/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: CrazyTrain
This is a REPORTING worldwide & profitable company with NEWS!
Uroplasty Receives Approval to Begin a U.S. Clinical Trial of Macroplastique(R)
for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Uroplasty, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: UROP) announced today that it received an Investigational
Device Exemption ("IDE") from the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to
begin a U.S. clinical study of Macroplastique Implants for the treatment of
female stress urinary incontinence.
Stress urinary incontinence is the most common form of incontinence found
in women and is treatable. When Macroplastique is implanted into the tissue
surrounding the urethra in the area of the bladder neck, a patient's
continence may be improved or eliminated by enhancing existing sphincter
Macroplastique is an injectable bulking agent marketed outside the United
States to treat stress urinary incontinence in females, incontinence in males
due to prostate surgery, and vesicoureteral reflux in children (back flow of
urine from the bladder to the kidney). It was introduced to the European
marketplace in 1991 and since that time has been used to treat over 20,000
patients. Macroplastique is available throughout Europe, Canada, Australia
and several Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Pacific Rim countries.
The IDE approval paves the way for a pivotal United States multicenter
clinical trial to begin in the fall of 1999.
In an attempt to provide assistance in understanding its anticipated
future financial performance, the Company may from time to time make written
or oral "forward-looking statements" such as may be contained in this news
release and elsewhere. "Forward-looking statements" are, however, by their
very nature, subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties relating to
the Company's future performance that may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of the Company, or the industry, to differ
materially from those expressed or implied in any such "forward-looking
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Investors are cautioned that any "forward-looking statements" made by the
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To: Mr Metals who wrote (10) 8/29/1999 8:11:00 AM
Metals, here is my latest rendition of DCHT review: Expect a dramatic increase in attention to the fuel cell business as Goldman Sachs, and Merril Lynch take Plug Power public, for $ 117 million!!
DCH TECHNOLOGY, INC.	OTC-BB: DCHT
HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS - SENSORS - HYDROGEN GAS DETECTORS
DCH Technology, Inc. manufactures hydrogen sensors, gas detectors and process monitors; licensed from the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory.
DCHT also makes PEM Fuel Cells; also US Department of Energy technology,
licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Substantial financial, marketing, and organizational resources are currently being devoted to fuel cell technology, driving the nascent market from approximately $40 million in 1999 to over $10 billion by 2010, according to findings made recently by Allied Business Intelligence of Oyster Bay, NY.
DCH Chief Scientist Mark Daugherty, joined DCH directly from Los Alamos in June 1998. LANL is leading the charge in the United States for the commercialization of alternative and renewable energies, and specifically for DCHT, fuel cells. The Dept. of Energy has a an educational website on fuel cells at education.lanl.gov
LATEST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS
DCHT was awarded their first fuel cell contract from North West Power Systems, a division of NYSE: IDA, as part of an overall $ 3.5 million dollar preliminary order from Bonneville Power Authority, (announced July, 19, 1999).
dch-technology.com
Stephanie Hoffman will join DCH in Sept. as Vice President and General Manager of the Fuel Cell Business. Ms. Hoffman comes to DCH from Eaton Corporation where she was Director of Strategic Planning and Business Technology Manager.
DCHT filed their Form 10 on August 6, 1999, and is now actively seeking to expand it's shareholder base. (see press release, July, 29, 1999).
May 12, 1999 U.S. Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, ( CA) announced that DCHT was chosen by the Department of Energy's Hydrogen Program to lead a study on the potential for using of hydrogen power on ships. DCH will manage a team of 22 organizations including Allied Signal, and the American Bureau of Shipping to the-signal.com
April 8, 1999 DCH successfully demonstrated their PEM Hydrogen Fuel Cell.
Mar. 4, 1999 DCH and Allied Signal announced a multi year strategic alliance for the implementation and commercialization of hydrogen energy and safety technologies.
Feb. 11, 1999 DCH and Freewing Aerial Robotics Corp., begin a development program to integrate Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cells into the Freewing Tilt-Body Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicle (UAV). sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov
The DCH Technology story has not yet come to the attention of the investment and analyst community, and is still virtually unknown.
DCH has an experienced management team, with careers stemming from RCA Aerospace, Rockwell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Aeronautics Corp. of America, General Instruments and Motorola, etc.
IR Phone 805-775-8120 ext.11
Email DCHTinfo@aol.com
Web dcht.com
The author of this report does not hold free trading shares of DCHT on the day of this writing, but has in the past. For full 17b disclosure see: ramcapitalmanagement.com
Undervalued and waiting to explode | Stock Discussion ForumsShare RecommendKeepReplyMark as Last ReadRead Replies (1)
To: Scoobah who wrote (14) 9/23/1999 8:18:00 AM
From: jmhollen
Not sure about any "..explosions.." - however, I suggest that ya'll boogie over to the LGOV board and check things out. The company is starting to make "..bubbling.." noises..!!
Subject 4727
Still really cheap at 0.12+/-, and it just got noticed by WeeklyStockPicks.com......
John :-)
To: jmhollen who wrote (15) 9/23/1999 8:58:00 AM
I have been hearing that one since 1996 on LGOV.
I am sticking with DCHT, but looking at a few others too.
From: Khris Smith
Please take a moment to check out this stock. It has very low
volume now, but that is to soon change. There is an up coming
media blitz, with tons of GREAT news. This is the 4th stock I have
ever recommended. The other 3 being XNET @ .68 sold at $5.50,
ZICA @1.25 sold at 9.03, CAOL@ .89 (still waiting) and now DFNL
@.75 (soon to be $2+).
DFNL-Definition, Ltd. IS:
Definition, Ltd. Intends to be a premier sales and distribution
entertainment company bringing previously released and unreleased
films and music to the marketplace. The initial focus is on legends
in the entertainment field such as Roy Rogers, Vincent Price,
Sammy Davis Jr., and Cristy Lane. (While I do not know who, I have
been told that two other huge stars will be included as part of their
unreleased film library.)
DFNL is a fully reporting, debt-free, company headquartered in Las
Vegas, Nevada. They are a full service, family oriented
entertainment company, concentrating in the distribution of movies
and music. Product for distribution will be developed from a recently
acquired 2500 piece film library ,a 150 film collection of limited and
unreleased movies, one million feet of NBC news footage,
production of new films, signing music artists, and purchasing other
libraries. (There are other libraries close to be closed on, including
175 films with little or no public release). Distribution will focus on
theatrical, television, rental, mass retailing, Internet retailing, and
direct marketing.
Initially DFNL will release "If these walls could speak" narrated by
Vincent Price. This is a 26 half-hour documentary series covering
castles, prisons, palaces, forts, houses, and cities. The 26 half-hour
shows will be released on cable. Interested parties are A&E and
other networks. DFNL's asking price of $35K per half-hour show is a
fairly standard price and will net $520,000.00. These shows will
also be edited for home video, creating 13 programs. Blockbuster
will purchase at least one tape per store, at 3200 locations for $15
per tape. Blockbuster alone will provide a minimum of $624,000.00.
Finally, on the wholesale front, it is conservatively estimated 200K
copies, as a two pack would wholesale at $5 for VHS and $10 for
DVD bringing in an estimated income of $1,400,000.
Roy Rodgers' marketing program will consist of selling a book
written by Dusty, Roy's only son, a CD and a video offered for sale
on TV for $39.99. (Profit of $14 per sale) DFNL owns a few of Roy
Rodgers' songs, including the only one recorded by Roy, Dale and
Dusty. A very experienced and successful telemarketing company
projects sales in excess of one million pieces. Conservatively
projecting sales at 225K equates to revenue of $3,150,000.00
DFNL has recently signed a contract with Cristy Lane, a country
and gospel music star. In a TV offer, DFNL will include her
autobiography, "One Day at a Time", a video of Cristy Lane in
concert, and a CD/Cassette of her album, "One Day at a Time". It is
projected that approximately 1,500,000 sales at $29.95 will be
generated. DFNL also has nine more albums by Cristy Lane that will
be distributed through the retail market.
The last initial offering will be "How the West Was Lost", a western
spoof staring Sammy Davis Jr., James Caan, and Stephanie
Powers. This movie will be released for national syndication,
providing up to $25M.
LONG TERM PROJECTS:
Retailing previously unreleased movies, after digitizing and
remastering the footage.
"Golden Legend" record label. Currently has signed Frankie Randall,
as the first of 15 major artists to this label.
"History of the Navy Seabees", a 6 to 7 hour mini-series including
30-45 minutes of footage on a sequel to ""he Fighting SeaBees", the
last movie made by John Wayne.
A seven-hour mini-series on the Korean War.
Outstanding Shares:11,832,149
Estimated Float: 1.5M
Auditors: Clancy &Co., CPA
Registrar & Transfer Agent: Corporate Stock Transfer Denver, CO
The stock moves very easily on low volume.
I do not work for DFNL, nor was I paid to write this. I do hold stock
in DFNL.
Nitetrade / khris
To: Stephen Howell who wrote () 10/30/1999 5:10:00 PM
ECNC is super, new, money-transfer technology (fund your brokerage account from your PC with ATM card) and other services; check it out quickly........
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To: jmhollen who wrote (18) 11/1/1999 7:35:00 PM
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