There is no available Bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap on this date. Please, consider changing travel dates or means of transportation.
It is no exaggeration to say that Siem Reap is the main tourist destination in Cambodia, and as such it enjoys great transport connections with the main cities of the country and the capital. The choice of operator serving the route is wide, with buses leaving for Siem Reap throughout the day. A 320 km journey from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap may take anywhere between 5½ hours to seven hours, so try to leave Phnom Penh before or around noon to get to Siem Reap before late. Morning buses obviously steal the precious daytime of your journey, but otherwise are quite a convenient variant to get to your destination. They normally make pit stops during the way, and you have a lot of time to enjoy local pastorals blooming with lotus flowers and peppered with water buffalos grazing amidst bright green rice paddies.
Strange enough, but the choice of night buses is limited. If you opt for one leaving around midnight, you will get to Siem Reap by 6am or 7am, have the whole day ahead and save a couple of dollars on a hotel room – a welcome compensation for having spent the night on the move.
Currently, the only bus company in Cambodia which sells tickets online is Giant Ibis Transport. They have three morning buses at 7.45am, 8.45am and 12.30pm and from one to three night buses at 10.30pm, 11pm and 11.30pm daily.
Morning buses are ordinary big buses (in Giant Ibis, they use Universe Luxury ones). Tickets cost USD15, which is a bit higher than you can find on the market. The cost includes insurance coverage of all passengers, a snack and a bottle of water. All buses have electrical outlets for charging your gadgets during the trip and (a local wonder!) free Wi-Fi.
Note that there are no toilets on board. Giant Ibis buses make two stops on the route between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap: a 10-minute bathroom stop and a longer half an hour lunch stop at a restaurant about half the way between the two cities. Lunch is not included into the ticket price. The majority of dishes on offer in the restaurant cost between USD3 and USD5.
If you have never travelled in a sleeper bus in Asia, go ahead. You are not necessarily going to like, but it is an experience not to be misses. Pros are that you save some money – no need to pay extra for your hotel room, just USD15 for your bus ticket – and the daytime of your journey. Cons are that sleeping bunks are not too comfy, especially if you have long legs. There is no entertainment program during the night trip which is great, but note that lower bunks do not have reading lights; so if you would like to read be sure to book the top bunk.
There are toilets on board, and night buses make a stop half the way between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. You can take an advantage of it to grab a quick bite, too.
In Phnom Penh, all the Giant Ibis Transport buses leave from the company's office in 106 Street, close to the night market and the riverfront. If you stay in one of the company's partner hotels, you can order a complimentary pickup service. Check the list of the partner hotels on the Giant Ibis Transport web site or inquire in your hotel.
In Siem Reap, buses drop off passengers at Giant Ibis Transport bus terminal. It is conveniently located in downtown, close to Angkor National Museum. From there it is about two km to the Old Market area where you can find the highest concentration of budgets digs, and even less to the leafy Wat Bo Road with stylish boutique hotels. You can walk to your accommodation or take a tuk-tuk – there are plenty of them meeting arriving buses.
Exploring, visiting, checking out and admiring all those awe-inspiring temples of Angkor from dawn till dusk – that is what you are supposed to do while in Siem Reap. Nobody of those arriving to Siem Reap escapes Angkor – well, no wonder.
But Siem Reap has even more activities on offer if you get tired of all those centuries-old carved stones. Enrol to ceramic classes and create your own pottery using the pottery wheel at The Angkor Pottery Centre or find out the variety of flavours of Khmer cuisine at cooking classes which include a visit to a local family with Beyond Unique Cooking Class. There are also opportunities for connoisseurs of alcoholic beverages with Georges Rum Free Tasting or Palm Wine tasting. In about 20 minutes drive from the centre there is The Angkor Silk Farm where the visitors are introduced to the whole process of silk-making. If you are still temple-hungry after visiting Angkor, there is a dozen of old and modern temples in the city, all of different architectural interest, including a 500-year-old Wat Preah Prom Rath, which shows the obvious Angkorian influence.
Evenings glitter with traditional costumes of the dancers performing at numerous venues round Siem Reap. And then there are all those massage shops to relieve your aching muscles after a strenuous day at the ruins. The Khmers claim that the famous Thai massage has originated from the Khmer one. Whether it is true or not, it is worth comparing anyway.
A three-hour bus journey brings you to the border town of Poipet. Some buses still practice numerous stops during the trip at local souvenir shops and restaurants which pay them commission on every dollar you spend with them. But otherwise there are no other dangers or annoyances while getting to the border. No touts are meeting you at the Thai side offering their help with your Thai visa and the only disappointment is that the queues may be quite long. On the Thai side, walk to Rong Klua Market for buses heading to Bangkok and some other destinations throughout Thailand or catch a tuk-tuk to get to Aranyaprathet bus station which has a wider choice of destinations. Find more information on getting from Aranyaprathet to Bangkok here.
There is a direct international bus from Siem Reap to Bangkok, too. If you use this one, you will not need to change transport at the border, which is the case with two separate trips – from Siem Reap to Poipet and from Aranyaprathet to Bangkok – and with other 'direct' buses from Siem Reap to anywhere in Thailand.


Young musicians dominate the weekend as we recover from a jazz-packed New Year's Eve. Yet it's an old favorite tickling the ivories in the new Dunsmore Room; and a favorite NOLA-style band releasing a new recording at the end of the week. Not a bad start to 2016.
Friday, January 1. New Year's Day is always a bit slow for live music, but Orchestra Hall is open and pianist Chris Lomheim is in the lobby (e.g., free!) for an hour before the 2 pm orchestra concert-- you don't need a concert ticket for the prelude!
Give your ears a jumpstart for 2016 with the youthful energy of Sound Skirmish at Jazz Central. This quartet launched about two years ago, before the full band was out of high school. Now, all involved in college music programs, and home for the holidays, SS features pianist Patrick Adkins (Lawrence Conservatory), vibraphonist Levi Schwartzberg (U of M), bassist Drew Stinson (McNally Smith) and drummer Ben Ehrlich (U of North Texas).
More young lions on the prowl tonight at the Gingko Coffeehouse in St Paul with The Big Other. The quartet of young college jazzers include two Mounds View High School grads, Peter Goggin on alto (U of Michigan) and Sam Worthington on bass (Peabody Conservatory), with pals Aidan Sponheim on trumpet (Lawrence Conservatory) and Edmund Caitlin (McGill U) on drums.
And dinner at the Icehouse might be just the antidote to New Year's Eve madness, and all the more enjoyable with piano/bass duo music from Bryan Nichols and James Buckley during the dinner hours.
Note about The Nicollet: Closed for New Years, the Friday Night Jazz series will be on a short vacation as the venue undergoes some remodeling and rebranding under new ownership. Watch for the return of Friday Night Jazz under the new club name (TBA), with an expanded kitchen, on January 22!
Friday-Saturday, January 1-2. Early evenings get a boost at Crooners Lounge this weekend, with guitarist Reynold Philipsek entertaining during Happy Hour. Reynold probably has the thickest book of original tunes in the Midwest!
In the Lobby Bar at the Saint Paul Hotel, JoAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske resume their usual winter weekend gigs, standards and more.
Saturday, January 2. Patty Peterson and Friends start the new year in the lounge at Crooner's -- with her usual suspects, nephew Jason Peterson DeLaire and pals Billy Franze and Bobby Vandell. It's always a party night with Patty!
At the Dakota, one of the area's favorite vocal pairings-- Ginger Commodore and Dennis Spears, with Ginger's band featuring Rich Manik, Lee Blaske, Tony Axtell and Bobby Commodore. It's an embarrassment of riches.
At the Black Dog, Steve Kenny opens the 2016 season of weekly nights with Central Standard Time, a cross-generational band that launched about a year ago, featuring some of the hottest young talents in the area meshing seamlessly with veteran artists. It's an expanded ensemble tonight with Kenny (FLUMPET) and special guests Brandon Wozniak (saxes) and JT Bates (drums), along with young guns, Levi Schwartzberg (vibes), Will Kjeer (piano) and Charlie Lincoln (bass), taking a break from college studies. And speaking of young guns, four high school seniors make up Trap Tube, playing the opening set -- Jordan Anderson on piano with Gerhardt Robinson (saxes), Alma Engebretson (bass) and Simon Petrick (drums).
More teen wizards take the stage at the 318 Cafe in Excelsior as the Will Schmid Duos perform-- a two-guitar duet featuring Will and Adam Astrup opens, followed by Will and vocalist Kalli Anderson.
Sunday, January 3. Jazz brunch around the metro: The Andrew Walesch Trio at Crooners Lounge; Patty and the Buttons swing it at the Aster; Robert Everest at Maria's. In the afternoon, Doug Little's Charanga Tropical brings some Havana heat to the Icehouse for their monthly gig; in the evening, the Zacc Harris Trio is at the Riverview Wine Bar, their home for the past decade.
Monday, January 4. Big band night in Fridley-- the Acme Jazz Company plays in the lounge at Crooners, and of course the band features the area's own "crooner," Arne Fogel.
In the spotlight tonight at Jazz Central, young piano whiz Will Kjeer assembles a band of somewhat older area notables-- Nelson Devereaux on saxes, Graydon Peterson on bass, and Miguel Hurtado on drums. Catch will now before he heads back to studies at Cal Arts.
At the Icehouse, JT's Jazz Implosion is a double feature, starting out with '58 Belvedere -- a trio heavy on guitar with Dean Granros and Pat Keen (adding vocals) and drummer "Diamond" Dave Power, playing what they describe as "explosive improvised experimental modern dance-core thrash music." The second set presents the magic of Cory Healey's Beautiful Sunshine Band, with the leader on drums, Jake Baldwin on trumpet, Brandon Wozniak on sax, Zacc Harris on guitar and Erik Fratzke on bass.
Tuesday, January 5. If you haven't visited the new Dunsmore Room at Crooners yet, tonight is a perfect opportunity (assuming you can still get a reservation)! Butch Thompson takes his turn at the Bösendorfer grand with a solo night that we can only anticipate as a perfect context for ragtime and blues. There's no cover and reasonable minimums from the dining room menu and bar.
Vieux Carré holds a piano night of its own, with Chris Lomheim handling the happy hour sets and the Phil Aaron Trio coming on for the rest of the evening.
At the Black Dog, it is First Tuesday, meaning Dean Magraw and Davu Seru will offer their usual menu of fun and surprise. The Bill Simenson Orchestra takes the first turn of 2016 for Big Band Tuesday at Jazz Central, and the always-off-the wall fun of the Travis Anderson Trio warms the winter night at the Dakota.
Wednesday, January 6. The plethora of local craft breweries has also expanded the venues for live music. Tonight, the Pete Snell Trio (with Lee Blaske and Jim Chenoweth) performs at the Lupine Brewing Company in Delano, so you can enjoy the veteran saxman with a one-of-a-kind brew.
At the Dakota, vocalist Katia Cardenas returns for a night from her eclectic songbook, while Connie Evingson hosts Jazz in the Lounge at the Minneapolis Woman's Club, this evening with Sanford Moore and Dave Karr. At the Marsh, Maud Hixson is featured with Adi Yeshaya.
Thursday, January 7. It's a party whenever the Jack Brass Band is on stage, and when they release a new recording, it's a holiday party! The JBB brings their new CD to Vieux Carré, following opening solo piano sets from multi-instrumentalist Jon Pemberton.
At the Dakota, the trombone-wielding Potash Twins return for another dose of low-brass adventures. Twins Adeev (SUNY Purchase) and Ezra (Manhattan School of Music) have been protege's of Wynton Marsalis, and are no strangers to Minnesota, having performed at the State Fair, First Avenue and Icehouse as well as the Dakota. And what could be more fun that two trombones?
Speaking of fun, The Wolverines are at it again at Hell's Kitchen, while Vocal Jazz Night at Jazz Central will feature local singer/songwriter/cabaret artist Erin Livingston, in a jazzy frame of mind with pianist Marc Z.
Keep up with the live jazz scene in the Twin Cities. The most comprehensive jazz calendar can be found at Jazz Police, but you will also find jazz listings at KBEM, Rhythm and Grooves and Jazz Near You. KBEM and KFAI radio host jazz programs regularly and provide daily notices of jazz gigs and concerts. The live edition of The Lead Sheet can be heard at 4:40 pm on Thursdays on KBEM, excerpts rebroadcast at 7:20 am on Fridays. Special guest next week will be Walker West director Peter Leggett, updating us on the 2016 season of the Eight O'Clock Jump series. Venues and artists are reminded to send information to online and print calendars (e.g. tc@jazzpolice.com).
*All photos by Andrea Canter except Potash Twins CD cover.


Christmas and divorce. They don't sit well together do they? Perhaps this is your first Christmas as a separated lady, and you're wondering how you are going to manage financially and emotionally. Here are a few tips to get you through the festive period this year, whether you're a parent or not.
It may sound obvious, but planning your Christmas can make a world of difference to you, whether you have children or not. You are just as important as children. Ensure that you plan a restful/ fun/peaceful time for yourself. Christmas can be a lonely time, others enjoy some solitude. Choose what works for you.
If financially you are in a different place this year, and you have children, you need to manage your children's expectations, particularly if they are young and still believe in Father Christmas. The end of your relationship doesn't have to mean the end of their belief in the Big Man. It's about how you frame it with your children. Perhaps there's one item your child longs for more than anything, that's within budget? Perhaps your child really likes opening lots of smaller parcels? Perhaps you can buy them some things they need as well as those they want? Who hasn't had pyjamas and pants for Christmas?
If possible, discuss with their father the gifts you will buy for your children. Will you continue to give joint gifts (many parents do), or separate ones? Will your children see their father, and if so, when? Having these discussions in advance will help the whole family. It's important to remain calm and as relaxed as you can. Consider family mediation if you feel that talking with an impartial third person will be helpful.
This can also work well for families facing their first Christmas after the death of a loved one.
You may not be in a relationship anymore, but you are still a parent. Whatever your personal thoughts about your husband, (unless there are safety issues), that person may be the father of your children. Your children love him and need to know that it is ok to love him. Your children may feel anxious and worried about their father. It's important to acknowledge that with your children and reassure them that their is still loves them. Of course, if their father isn't around anymore of his own volition, manage your children's expectations by being as age appropriately honest as you can. Even if Christmas brings to the surface feelings of resentment and of being let down by their father, avoid sharing these feelings with your children. It causes stress and encourages your children to have divided loyalties which are unhealthy.
Probably the greatest gift you can give your children this Christmas is time. Time with you, and time with their father and extended family. Grandparents may also be missing from your children's lives this Christmas. How you can make this work depends on your circumstances. It might be you live close by and the children can spend some part of Christmas Day with their father. It maybe that you and their father are able to be in the house together for part of the time enjoying watching the children opening gifts or playing games.
Only you know what you can handle. However, it is important that in some way, your children are able to connect with their father and extended family. If distance is an issue, this could be through Skype or Facetime. Remember that if you have your children completely to yourself this year, unless you and your former partner agree otherwise, it is likely the children will be with him next year. How would you feel not having any contact with your children? More importantly, how will you children feel not having contact with you?
If talking through these issues is tricky, mediation can help. Mediation is about helping you share your thoughts, asking questions and agreeing to a way forward in a neutral environment. Deciding how to deal with Christmas as a separated parent isn't easy and that's why mediators are available to support you in making these arrangements for you and your family.
Remember that this Christmas may not be easy, but the way in which you handle it will set expectations for future years. If you don't have children, what new traditions or adventures can you start for yourself? Who could you invite to spend Christmas with? Perhaps you fancy some winter sun? If you're open to invites, let your friends and family know – they'll likely want to support you in the best way they can.
6. What if you can't reach agreement?
If you and the other parent can't agree, you may be faced with no alternative but to issue an application for a Child Arrangements Order. This starts with the consideration of mediation. You must see a mediator prior to making an application to court. This all takes time.You can expect to wait up to 6 weeks for court hearing to deal with your case. It's therefore important that you start talking about Christmas right now. Use an organisation such as Resolution to help you find a lawyer if you need one. The sooner you act, the sooner you can relax knowing that arrangements are in place for you and your children.


LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The Kalbar conundrum: what happens when the mineral sands hit the road via 40 trips in loaded-72 tonne B-double trucks per day?
Kalbar is proposing a mineral sands mine at Glenaladale.
THE Kalbar conundrum: what happens when the mineral sands hit the road via 40 trips in loaded-72 tonne B-double trucks per day?
There are three issues: the incidence of crashes, the risk of toxic contamination, and the damage to infrastructure.
The Australian government Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development paper titled Heavy Truck Safety: crash analysis and trends notes heavy trucks are disproportionately involved in casualty crashes: approximately 16 per cent of road crash fatalities and four per cent of injuries involve these vehicles.
In general, involvement of a heavy truck is associated with more severe injury outcomes.
Rates of annual fatal crashes per kilometre travelled or per registered vehicle are higher for heavy truck-involved crashes than for passenger car-involved crashes.
Available Australian evidence suggests in about 80 per cent of fatal multiple-vehicle crashes involving heavy trucks, fault is not assigned to the heavy truck.
The environmental effect statement will not work here.
There will be 80 in number 72 tonne B-double trucks (40 loaded) transporting hazardous materials (toxic soils) day and night on our rural roads over a period of 20 years.
The convoluted route is intended to be from the mine site to Port Anthony adjacent to Port Welshpool. All roads maintained by the East and South Gippsland and Wellington shires.
Phillip Laird, honorary fellow of the University of Wollongong, prepared a paper titled Trucks are Destroying Our Roads and Not Picking Up the Repair Cost.


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Design and develop a fully engaging, interactive and responsive website across all browsers and devices using UX best practices.
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Discussion in 'User Content' started by Jerry-me, Jan 10, 2012.
Sweet! Good luck with that, Jerry. Let me know how that works out for you!
I don't know how useful it might be for your purpose, but API 11 (Android 3.0) allows for better memory management.


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"We remind parents that this generation was raised differently than ours. Remember pickup games? Kids would get together and play baseball, basketball and soccer without parents or coaches screaming "encouragement" from the sidelines. Isn't it amazing how we survived our childhoods without orange slices provided by our parents?"
As an advocate for kids playing more pickup, I appreciated their short commentary on the over-involvement of today's parents in their child's youth sports experience.
In my earlier post, Pickup Games Are Dead! I talked about some of the reasons that pickup games play a much lesser role than years ago. Although there are several reasons for the disappearance of neighborhood pickup games, parental over-involvement in their child's sports experience is certainly a contributing factor.
With organized sports so dominating the landscape, I worry that many of today's parents have lost sight of the unique benefits that their child derives from playing pickup. Learning how to organize games, manage arguments, and otherwise interact without assistance from adults, all help develop self-reliance. Enjoying the intrinsic rewards of the play itself, an essential element of playing pickup, promotes long-term participation. Instead of dropping out, kids continue to play. Isn't that a more fulfilling, lasting reward than yet one more organized sports experience highlighted by "soccer snacks"?
Playing both pickup and organized sports helps balance the overall youth sports experience. When pickup games are thrown into the mix, young athletes can Play Up or Play Down to experience different roles, develop their talent, and have the type of fun they need. Every kid gets his or her "playing time." Opportunity is viewed beyond the context of organized youth sports, and that helps tamp down the instinctual parental response to protect their child and get involved.
In the world of youth sports, many parents would do better to provide and promote opportunities for their child to engage in self-directed play. Start when they're young. Get the ball rolling by playing catch. Play in some backyard games with your child and neighborhood families. Begin to encourage your child to independently play games with their friends. Carve out time in your child's schedule so he or she has the opportunity to play pickup. Accept some risk.
Why wait for college to begin your child's education in self-reliance?
Admittedly, getting kids more involved in physical activity is a lot tougher - but not impossible - with all the technology today. Like kindergarten reading, it's something parents will really have to exert extra effort to get results.


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We were called in to secure an isolated site in Welshpool, a market town in Wales. The site has previously been the location for criminal activity and the owner wanted to ensure it was protected from any further wrongdoing.
We specified two rapid deployment mobile CCTV towers, which could be installed swiftly, to ensure the site was suitably secured. The CCTV towers incorporated 4G wireless technology, which enabled remote monitoring, from any smart device with the added surety or 24/7 observation carried out by an alarm receiving centre. This was particularly important given the site's previous vulnerability to intrusion and its remote location.
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Over the course of two days, both mobile CCTV towers were delivered to site, and installed by our team of expert engineers. By the end of the second day both towers were fully commissioned and surveillance up and running through the monitoring station. The client was very happy that the site perimeter and front entrance were fully protected and under professional observation, around-the-clock.
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8.2 Attitudes toward Bronies
Given that upward of one-quarter of the furry fandom may self-identify as a brony,1 and given that furries, themselves, experience a significant amount of stigma from the general population,2 it's worth asking whether bronies and furries hold negative attitudes toward one another, or whether they get along due to a shared experience of stigma from popular culture (bronies are often mocked for their tendency to eschew traditional gender norms and their interest in a show targeted toward a younger audience).
This first figure presents the results of one study where furries and bronies were asked to rate how positively or negatively they felt about bronies, as a group.3 They were asked to provide this rating on a scale of 0 (extremely negative) to 100 (extremely positive). The data show that while bronies (unsurprisingly) felt positively about bronies, furries had mixed feelings:
They were asked to provide this rating on a scale of 0 (extremely negative) to 100 (extremely positive). The data show that while bronies (unsurprisingly) felt positively about bronies, furries had mixed feelings: 17% rated bronies extremely negatively, 23% felt very ambivalent, and 7% felt extremely positively. While the average rating was "50" for the furry participants, this was the product of very polarized views, not of overall ambivalence of the fandom toward bronies.
In another study4 we asked furries and bronies to rate their attitudes toward furries, bronies, and non-furries (i.e., the average person). This would allow us to test whether the negativity furries indicated toward bronies was directed at bronies in particular or toward any non-furry group specifically. The data show that furries and bronies did not significantly differ with regard to their ratings of furries and non-furries. Replicating the above finding, furries rated bronies significantly more negatively than bronies did. Most relevant, however, was the fact that furries also rated bronies significantly more negatively than they did the average non-furry, suggesting that their negative attitudes were specific to the brony fandom, and not just to anyone who was not a furry.
See section 8.1 Bronies: Prevalence
See 10.2 Experienced Stigma
Anthrocon 2012 and IARP 2-Year Summary
Furry Fiesta 2013 Study


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Of tigers and humans: The question of democratic deliberation and biodiversity conservation
DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY is not necessarily related to the success of conservation policies. Examples include the creation of East African parks by undemocratic colonial governments, as well as evidence of success of environmentally benign authoritarian regimes in Gabon or the Dominican Republic, in promoting environmental policies and regulation. Paleontologist and conservation activist Richard Leakey became celebrated for his successful fight to preserve wildlife in Africa. In order to address the poaching of elephants, Leakey created well-armed anti-poaching units that were authorized to shoot poachers on sight. While successful in protecting elephants, this approach earned Leakey a critique of his human rights credentials.
Protecting the Wild
Parks and Wilderness the Foundation for Conservation
George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler
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Kopnina, H. (2015). Of tigers and humans: The question of democratic deliberation and biodiversity conservation. In G. Wuerthner, E. Crist, & T. Butler (Eds.), Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness the Foundation for Conservation (pp. 64-71). Island Press-Center for Resource Economics . https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-551-9_8
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What To Do About Love Locks on the Pont des Arts?
Posted on June 12, 2014 by Bob Adams — Leave a reply
News out of Paris during the last few days is that the preponderance of padlocks attached to the Pont des Arts—a cultural phenomenon known as "love locks," in which a couple inscribes their names on a lock, attaches it to the bridge, and throws the key into the Seine, symbolizing their eternal love—caused part of the bridge to collapse.
Engineers closed the Pont des Arts for a few hours to assess the damage, and to place wooden barriers on the sides where the metal grates fell off into the river below. Fortunately, no one was hurt by the falling metal, which is something of a miracle considering the constant flow of tourist boats under the bridge both night and day.
Parisians—and visitors alike—have strong feelings about the love locks. Some love them, some detest them. (I'm in the former category, with a few caveats.) But the issue is now clear—something needs to be done before people get hurt or the bridge itself suffers irreparable damage.
First, though, a little history on the Pont des Arts.
The pedestrian-only bridge that connects the Institut de France on the Left Bank with the Louvre on the Right Bank was built from 1981 to 1984 to replace a 19th century pedestrian bridge that had been damaged during World Wars I and II and which partially collapses after being rammed by a barge on the Seine in 1979.
Today, the Pont des Arts (Metro: Pont Neuf) frequently serves as an open-air art gallery for both official exhibits and displays by amateur artists. It's also a popular spot for sketching and painting, particularly for art students, due to its vistas of the Seine, the Louvre and the Ile de la Cite.
The love locks phenomenon on the bridge took off after the turn of the century, although the practice was first described more than 100 years ago in a Serbian novel and focused on the Most Ljubavi in the town of Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The placing of love locks became a Europe-wide practice following its depiction in the 2006 Italian teen romance novel "Ho Voglia di Te (I Want You)" which was made into a movie the following year.
So, what should be done about the love locks phenomenon in Paris?
Many—including two American expats living in Paris who've launched a citywide petition—want to ban the practice banned altogether. But let's be frank: A ban is never going to work. First, who will enforce it? The police? Is the city really going to pay to have police patrol the bridge day and night, 24/7 to prevent folks from attaching locks? And unless the bridge is under constant surveillance, who's going to stop couples from attaching locks at night? (And let's face it, couples in love stroll the streets of Paris at all hours. I love a midnight stroll through the City of Light!)
And banning the practice on the Pont des Arts is only going to lead to its explosion elsewhere. Many other Parisian bridges—and even some landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower—are already reporting the appearance of love locks. This is a shame. No one—even fans of the love locks—want them to be attached to every bridge, monument and sight-seeing destination in the city.
So, why not this? Reinforce the sides of the Pont des Arts so they can withstand the weight of the additional locks—and not collapse into the Seine below. Make the bridge the "official" location where visitors and locals alike can place love their locks. City workers can remove the grates filled with locks on a rotating basis so that new, empty grates are constantly going up. Old locks and grates are recycled. And the practice is banned at other sites in the city. Locks placed there are routinely cut off. Sure, it won't stop folks from trying elsewhere, but it will keep the masses focused on the Pont des Arts. Besides, who wants to hang a lock elsewhere when the "Love Bridge" is the true place for them—and is openly promoted as such?
Who will pay for the upkeep and maintenance? Why not have the city itself sell locks (even specially designed ones that weigh less than hardware-store varieties) at kiosks at either end of the bridge, with profits (even a tax?) used to fund the necessary upkeep?
That's my two centimes, at any rate.
I really do think the genie is out of the bottle on this phenomenon. It's not going to go away, no matter how much opponents wish it would. The best we can hope for at this point is a solution that appeases those who are determined to leave behind their love locks in Paris and those who want the practice contained or, at the very least, made safer.
I have to admit, I love seeing the locks on the Pont des Arts, particularly at sunset when the entire bridge glitters like gold. It's magical. It's romantic. And in a world filled with some much anger and hate and violence and war, the Pont des Arts is quite literally a gleaming symbol of love
I hope they find a safe way to keep the love locks.
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/**
 * @file
 * Surface utility functions.
 *
 * @author Brian Paul
 */

#include "pipe/p_defines.h"
#include "pipe/p_screen.h"
#include "pipe/p_state.h"

#include "util/u_format.h"
#include "util/u_inlines.h"
#include "util/u_rect.h"
#include "util/u_surface.h"
#include "util/u_pack_color.h"

/**
 * Initialize a pipe_surface object.  'view' is considered to have
 * uninitialized contents.
 */
void
u_surface_default_template(struct pipe_surface *surf,
                           const struct pipe_resource *texture,
                           unsigned bind)
{
   memset(surf, 0, sizeof(*surf));

   surf->format = texture->format;
   /* XXX should filter out all non-rt/ds bind flags ? */
   surf->usage = bind;
}

/**
 * Helper to quickly create an RGBA rendering surface of a certain size.
 * \param textureOut  returns the new texture
 * \param surfaceOut  returns the new surface
 * \return TRUE for success, FALSE if failure
 */
boolean
util_create_rgba_surface(struct pipe_context *pipe,
                         uint width, uint height,
                         uint bind,
                         struct pipe_resource **textureOut,
                         struct pipe_surface **surfaceOut)
{
   static const enum pipe_format rgbaFormats[] = {
      PIPE_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM,
      PIPE_FORMAT_A8R8G8B8_UNORM,
      PIPE_FORMAT_A8B8G8R8_UNORM,
      PIPE_FORMAT_NONE
   };
   const uint target = PIPE_TEXTURE_2D;
   enum pipe_format format = PIPE_FORMAT_NONE;
   struct pipe_resource templ;
   struct pipe_surface surf_templ;
   struct pipe_screen *screen = pipe->screen;
   uint i;

   /* Choose surface format */
   for (i = 0; rgbaFormats[i]; i++) {
      if (screen->is_format_supported(screen, rgbaFormats[i],
                                      target, 0, bind)) {
         format = rgbaFormats[i];
         break;
      }
   }
   if (format == PIPE_FORMAT_NONE)
      return FALSE;  /* unable to get an rgba format!?! */

   /* create texture */
   memset(&templ, 0, sizeof(templ));
   templ.target = target;
   templ.format = format;
   templ.last_level = 0;
   templ.width0 = width;
   templ.height0 = height;
   templ.depth0 = 1;
   templ.array_size = 1;
   templ.bind = bind;

   *textureOut = screen->resource_create(screen, &templ);
   if (!*textureOut)
      return FALSE;

   /* create surface */
   u_surface_default_template(&surf_templ, *textureOut, bind);
   /* create surface / view into texture */
   *surfaceOut = pipe->create_surface(pipe,
                                      *textureOut,
                                      &surf_templ);
   if (!*surfaceOut) {
      pipe_resource_reference(textureOut, NULL);
      return FALSE;
   }

   return TRUE;
}

/**
 * Release the surface and texture from util_create_rgba_surface().
 */
void
util_destroy_rgba_surface(struct pipe_resource *texture,
                          struct pipe_surface *surface)
{
   pipe_surface_reference(&surface, NULL);
   pipe_resource_reference(&texture, NULL);
}

/**
 * Fallback function for pipe->resource_copy_region().
 * Note: (X,Y)=(0,0) is always the upper-left corner.
 */
void
util_resource_copy_region(struct pipe_context *pipe,
                          struct pipe_resource *dst,
                          unsigned dst_level,
                          unsigned dst_x, unsigned dst_y, unsigned dst_z,
                          struct pipe_resource *src,
                          unsigned src_level,
                          const struct pipe_box *src_box)
{
   struct pipe_transfer *src_trans, *dst_trans;
   void *dst_map;
   const void *src_map;
   enum pipe_format src_format, dst_format;
   unsigned w = src_box->width;
   unsigned h = src_box->height;

   assert(src && dst);
   assert((src->target == PIPE_BUFFER && dst->target == PIPE_BUFFER) ||
          (src->target != PIPE_BUFFER && dst->target != PIPE_BUFFER));

   if (!src || !dst)
      return;

   src_format = src->format;
   dst_format = dst->format;

   src_trans = pipe_get_transfer(pipe,
                                 src,
                                 src_level,
                                 src_box->z,
                                 PIPE_TRANSFER_READ,
                                 src_box->x, src_box->y, w, h);

   dst_trans = pipe_get_transfer(pipe,
                                 dst,
                                 dst_level,
                                 dst_z,
                                 PIPE_TRANSFER_WRITE,
                                 dst_x, dst_y, w, h);

   assert(util_format_get_blocksize(dst_format) == util_format_get_blocksize(src_format));
   assert(util_format_get_blockwidth(dst_format) == util_format_get_blockwidth(src_format));
   assert(util_format_get_blockheight(dst_format) == util_format_get_blockheight(src_format));

   src_map = pipe->transfer_map(pipe, src_trans);
   dst_map = pipe->transfer_map(pipe, dst_trans);

   assert(src_map);
   assert(dst_map);

   if (src_map && dst_map) {
      if (dst->target == PIPE_BUFFER && src->target == PIPE_BUFFER) {
         memcpy(dst_map, src_map, w);
      } else {
         util_copy_rect(dst_map,
                        dst_format,
                        dst_trans->stride,
                        0, 0,
                        w, h,
                        src_map,
                        src_trans->stride,
                        0,
                        0);
      }
   }

   pipe->transfer_unmap(pipe, src_trans);
   pipe->transfer_unmap(pipe, dst_trans);

   pipe->transfer_destroy(pipe, src_trans);
   pipe->transfer_destroy(pipe, dst_trans);
}

#define UBYTE_TO_USHORT(B) ((B) | ((B) << 8))

/**
 * Fallback for pipe->clear_render_target() function.
 * XXX this looks too hackish to be really useful.
 * cpp > 4 looks like a gross hack at best...
 * Plus can't use these transfer fallbacks when clearing
 * multisampled surfaces for instance.
 */
void
util_clear_render_target(struct pipe_context *pipe,
                         struct pipe_surface *dst,
                         const union pipe_color_union *color,
                         unsigned dstx, unsigned dsty,
                         unsigned width, unsigned height)
{
   struct pipe_transfer *dst_trans;
   void *dst_map;
   union util_color uc;

   assert(dst->texture);
   if (!dst->texture)
      return;
   /* XXX: should handle multiple layers */
   dst_trans = pipe_get_transfer(pipe,
                                 dst->texture,
                                 dst->u.tex.level,
                                 dst->u.tex.first_layer,
                                 PIPE_TRANSFER_WRITE,
                                 dstx, dsty, width, height);

   dst_map = pipe->transfer_map(pipe, dst_trans);

   assert(dst_map);

   if (dst_map) {
      assert(dst_trans->stride > 0);

      util_pack_color(color->f, dst->texture->format, &uc);
      util_fill_rect(dst_map, dst->texture->format,
                     dst_trans->stride,
                     0, 0, width, height, &uc);
   }

   pipe->transfer_unmap(pipe, dst_trans);
   pipe->transfer_destroy(pipe, dst_trans);
}

/**
 * Fallback for pipe->clear_stencil() function.
 * sw fallback doesn't look terribly useful here.
 * Plus can't use these transfer fallbacks when clearing
 * multisampled surfaces for instance.
 */
void
util_clear_depth_stencil(struct pipe_context *pipe,
                         struct pipe_surface *dst,
                         unsigned clear_flags,
                         double depth,
                         unsigned stencil,
                         unsigned dstx, unsigned dsty,
                         unsigned width, unsigned height)
{
   struct pipe_transfer *dst_trans;
   ubyte *dst_map;
   boolean need_rmw = FALSE;

   if ((clear_flags & PIPE_CLEAR_DEPTHSTENCIL) &&
       ((clear_flags & PIPE_CLEAR_DEPTHSTENCIL) != PIPE_CLEAR_DEPTHSTENCIL) &&
       util_format_is_depth_and_stencil(dst->format))
      need_rmw = TRUE;

   assert(dst->texture);
   if (!dst->texture)
      return;
   dst_trans = pipe_get_transfer(pipe,
                                 dst->texture,
                                 dst->u.tex.level,
                                 dst->u.tex.first_layer,
                                 (need_rmw ? PIPE_TRANSFER_READ_WRITE :
                                     PIPE_TRANSFER_WRITE),
                                 dstx, dsty, width, height);

   dst_map = pipe->transfer_map(pipe, dst_trans);

   assert(dst_map);

   if (dst_map) {
      unsigned dst_stride = dst_trans->stride;
      unsigned zstencil = util_pack_z_stencil(dst->texture->format, depth, stencil);
      unsigned i, j;
      assert(dst_trans->stride > 0);

      switch (util_format_get_blocksize(dst->format)) {
      case 1:
         assert(dst->format == PIPE_FORMAT_S8_UINT);
         if(dst_stride == width)
            memset(dst_map, (ubyte) zstencil, height * width);
         else {
            for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
               memset(dst_map, (ubyte) zstencil, width);
               dst_map += dst_stride;
            }
         }
         break;
      case 2:
         assert(dst->format == PIPE_FORMAT_Z16_UNORM);
         for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
            uint16_t *row = (uint16_t *)dst_map;
            for (j = 0; j < width; j++)
               *row++ = (uint16_t) zstencil;
            dst_map += dst_stride;
            }
         break;
      case 4:
         if (!need_rmw) {
            for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
               uint32_t *row = (uint32_t *)dst_map;
               for (j = 0; j < width; j++)
                  *row++ = zstencil;
               dst_map += dst_stride;
            }
         }
         else {
            uint32_t dst_mask;
            if (dst->format == PIPE_FORMAT_Z24_UNORM_S8_UINT)
               dst_mask = 0xffffff00;
            else {
               assert(dst->format == PIPE_FORMAT_S8_UINT_Z24_UNORM);
               dst_mask = 0xffffff;
            }
            if (clear_flags & PIPE_CLEAR_DEPTH)
               dst_mask = ~dst_mask;
            for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
               uint32_t *row = (uint32_t *)dst_map;
               for (j = 0; j < width; j++) {
                  uint32_t tmp = *row & dst_mask;
                  *row++ = tmp | (zstencil & ~dst_mask);
               }
               dst_map += dst_stride;
            }
         }
         break;
      case 8:
      {
         uint64_t zstencil = util_pack64_z_stencil(dst->texture->format,
                                                   depth, stencil);

         assert(dst->format == PIPE_FORMAT_Z32_FLOAT_S8X24_UINT);

         if (!need_rmw) {
            for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
               uint64_t *row = (uint64_t *)dst_map;
               for (j = 0; j < width; j++)
                  *row++ = zstencil;
               dst_map += dst_stride;
            }
         }
         else {
            uint64_t src_mask;

            if (clear_flags & PIPE_CLEAR_DEPTH)
               src_mask = 0x00000000ffffffffull;
            else
               src_mask = 0x000000ff00000000ull;

            for (i = 0; i < height; i++) {
               uint64_t *row = (uint64_t *)dst_map;
               for (j = 0; j < width; j++) {
                  uint64_t tmp = *row & ~src_mask;
                  *row++ = tmp | (zstencil & src_mask);
               }
               dst_map += dst_stride;
            }
         }
         break;
      }
      default:
         assert(0);
         break;
      }
   }

   pipe->transfer_unmap(pipe, dst_trans);
   pipe->transfer_destroy(pipe, dst_trans);
}


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Diamond 4 C's
Not to be mistaken for the shape of a diamond, the cut is actually how proportionate a diamond is along with its symmetry and polish. The cut is graded on a scale of poor to excellent, which is based on the three criteria explained below.
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Here is the diamond color scale:
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Scale of clarity:
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Included (I1, I2, and I3) – Transparency and brilliance are affected and inclusions are obvious under 10× magnification
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Carats are a unit of weight used when determining the value of a diamond. One carat is equal to .2 grams. Although the weight of a diamond is important to determining its value, the diamond must still grade highly on the cut, color and clarity scales as well, for it to be valuable. Carats are divided into 100 points and will be displayed in decimal form.
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Q: Открытие формы в левом нижнем углу Как при нажатии button'a открыть вторую форму в нижнем левом углу. Да, можно открыть в правом верхнем углу, в центре (это все в properties), но вот как можно, чтобы она открылась над часами (tree)?
Т.е. ширина формы должна быть довольно маленькой (к примеру, this.width = 150; this.height = 150;) но при том открыта в нижнем левом углу, над часами.
Буду весьма благодарен.
A: Нужно задать координаты Top, и Left для формы.
Left = Ширина экрана - ширина твоей формы
Top = Высота экрана - высоту формы

Как узнать ширину и высоту экрана нагуглите =)
ширина формы - this.width;
высота формы - this.height;

можно на событие Show повесить вычисление координат.

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Steel beams are used in the manufacture of skyscrapers.
Steel is a versatile, popular material used in the construction of everything from skyscrapers to housing. Steel beams are composed mostly of iron with some alloying elements. Two types of steel beams exist: cast iron and wrought iron beams. Cast iron beams are made by pouring molten iron into a mold and are strong in compression but brittle. Wrought iron beams are made by forming heated iron and are strong in tension.
Steel has a high strength-to-weight ratio, as can be seen from the thinness of these benches.
Steel has a very high strength-to-weight ratio. This means that a steel beam of a given mass is capable of resisting much higher stresses without fracture than an equivalent mass of wood or stone.
Resistance to Corrosion
Steel can be made quite resistant to this kind of rusting and corrosion.
Steel can be manufactured in such a way as to be extremely resistant to rust and corrosion. Stainless steel is a mix of steel and chromium. Unlike wood, steel does not rot. Steel beams thus have a much longer life expectancy.
Steel is cheap compared with many alternative materials.
Steel costs very little compared with other metals like aluminum or titanium. This, combined with its other mechanical and chemical attributes, contributes significantly to the popularity of steel beams as a construction material.
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Q: 20Khz 50% duty cycle PWM generation Problem in atmega 328p I wanted to create a PWM of 20Khz with 50 percent duty cycle(can be varied within while loop) in timer 0 of atmega 328p with MOODE 7:fast PWM mode with top value as OCROA.I used OCROA register to make 20khz and OCR0B to create 50 percent duty cycle(can be varied) by updating duty cycle in every compare match of OCR0B with TCNT0 register value.Datasheet says that output will be found at OC0B pin(11th pin).I compile the code without any error and sucessfully burn it to 328p.But led is not glowing at all.I  am attaching may code:

A: Main problem
You are setting the Compare Match Output pin in the wrong register. Replace
TCCR0A |= (1<<WGM01) | (1<<WGM00);
TCCR0B |= (1<<COM0B1) | (1<<WGM02) | (1<<CS01);

with
TCCR0A = (1<<COM0B1) | (1<<WGM01) | (1<<WGM00);
TCCR0B = (1<<WGM02) | (1<<CS01);

Of course, this assumes you have a 16MHz CPU frequency with no clock divide as you are using a prescaler of 8 with a TOP value of 100.
F_OCRO = F_CPU / (Prescaler * (1 + OCR0A)) = 16MHz / (8 * 100) = 20kHz

Other problems
This might be working, but it's not the best idea. There's lots I could go over, but let's just talk about this
double duty_cyle = 50;
OCR0B = (duty_cycle * 99) / 100;

AVR is 8-bit. Double is a 64-bit number with decimal places. Actually, (in GCC, at least), doubles are automatically replaced with Floats (single-precision). AVR doesn't have a floating-point unit (FPU) and any floating-point operations (which have 32-bit storage) will take an order of magnitude MORE clock cycles to complete than a typical 8-bit operation. Division is also not supported in AVR hardware, so the compiler emulates it in software. You are also doing all of this math in an interrupt service routine. That's ... not good.
OCR0B is an 8-bit register (max of 255, unsigned). Since you are using OCR0A as the timer TOP with a value of 99, you have a nice 0 - 99% duty cycle setup. So, just set OCR0B to whatever duty cycle you want. Why do (50 / 99 * 100) which equals 49.5 and will be chopped to 49 anyway? Just do this:
static volatile uint8_t duty_cycle = 50;   // unsigned 8-bit integer
OCR0B = duty_cycle;

The "static" keyword means this variable is only available in the current file - it's like a local global. You should also use it on any local functions that aren't accessed outside of this .c file. The "volatile" keywords tells the compiler not to optimize the variable because it could be updated somewhere not expected (like in an ISR). You don't need volatile if you aren't changing the duty_cycle variable in an ISR. Better yet, why use a global variable at all when you can access the register directly?
OCR0B = 50;

If you don't like that, use a macro or static inline function:
#define SET_DUTY(PERCENT)     OCR0B = (PERCENT)
// ...
SET_DUTY(50);
// OR
static inline void set_duty(const uint8_t percent) {
     OCR0B = percent;
}
// ...
set_duty(50);

Also, unless you plan on re-initializing the timer at some point while keeping other changes you've made to those registers, you don't need to do "|=" which is a "read-modify-write" operation. Just use "=". The "|=" means to set only the specified bit while leaving everything else alone, which is pointless during initialization when you want everything not specifically set to be 0.


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Q: I have written a Java servlet code to download a file but getting an error How can I figure out this error?

HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it
  from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException    p1.Download.doGet(Download.java:76)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
    org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
    org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:393)
  note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache
  Tomcat/8.0.27 logs.
Apache Tomcat/8.0.27

Code:
package p1;

/*
 * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
 * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

/**
 *
 * @author Admin
 */
public class Download extends HttpServlet
{

    /**
     * Processes requests for both HTTP GET and POST
     * methods.
     *
     * @param request servlet request
     * @param response servlet response
     * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        try (PrintWriter out = response.getWriter())
        {
            /* TODO output your page here. You may use following sample code. */
            out.println("<!DOCTYPE html>");
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
            out.println("<title>Servlet Download</title>");
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
            out.println("
Servlet Download at " + request.getContextPath() + "
");
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
        }
    }

    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="HttpServlet methods. Click on the + sign on the left to edit the code.">
    /**
     * Handles the HTTP GET method.
     *
     * @param request servlet request
     * @param response servlet response
     * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        response.setContentType("application/jar");

        ServletContext ctx=getServletContext();
        InputStream is=ctx.getResourceAsStream("/filefroup1.jar");

        int read=0;
        byte[] bytes=new byte[1024];

        OutputStream os=response.getOutputStream();
        while((read=is.read(bytes))!=-1)
        {
            os.write(bytes, 0, read);
        }
        os.flush();
        os.close();
    }

    /**
     * Handles the HTTP POST method.
     *
     * @param request servlet request
     * @param response servlet response
     * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        processRequest(request, response);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a short description of the servlet.
     *
     * @return a String containing servlet description
     */
    @Override
    public String getServletInfo()
    {
        return "Short description";
    }// </editor-fold>

}

        <title>TODO supply a title</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

        <form action="/Download">
            <input type="submit" value="download">
        </form>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Download</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>p1.Download</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Download</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/Download</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

A: Plirkee is correct,
I ran your code and created a file called filefroup.jar, and stuck it in WebContent, and your code worked for me.
Added this line otherwise the file get's named "Download"
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename="+ "filefroup1.jar");

So it looks like you have an issue with where the file is being stored, since you didn't specify where it is in your structure, I guess it isn't in WebContent and you want to place it elsewhere in your project?


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