Is the phrase 'request you to send the copy' correct?
Is it correct to say "I kindly request you to..."?
Is there any difference between like best and like the best? Is there a difference between these two sentences? Are they the same?   What color do you like the best? What color do you like best?   Is there a difference in their meaning? How to Split Features in QGIS? If I were to use the sentence "There are lots of John Smiths" in the world, would that be the correct use for saying that there are a lot of people named John Smith in the world?  I don't think there should be an apostrophe as that would imply ownership of something.  If my first example is correct, then what would you do if the name referenced already ended with an 's'? What's the C++ way of parsing a string (given as char *) into an int? Robust and clear error handling is a plus (instead of ). Pretty printing XML with javascript Is there such a thing as a Ubuntu Certified Engineer? biblatex: change name of author according to language? Usually a name stays the same in whatever language. So, whenever I quote a work by Knuth -- be it in an English article or a German one -- I will quote him as Donald E. Knuth.  This is not always the case with ancient or medieval names. They are spelled differently in different languages. Two examples in English | German | French:   Aristotle | Aristoteles | Aristote Thomas Aquinas | Thomas von Aquin | Thomas d'Aquin   This means that when I write an English article, I need a bib-file that contains the English names, but when I want to write a German article, I need to go through my bib file and change the names accordingly. Depending on how often I in fact publish in English or German this could keep me busy and is prone to error.  So, I though, maybe I could have the different names already included in one single bib-file and let biblatex choose the correct name according to the primary language used in the document. Any ideas?  NB: I do not want to use in one single document both spellings Aristotle and Aristoteles (as the following MWE might make you think). Of course, if the article's primary language is English, then all the references to Aristotle will use the English spelling of his name. However, I want to be able to write articles in different languages, without (a) having to edit my bib-files each time or (b) generally maintaing not one single bib-file but two different ones, one for each language, or (c) having two distinct entries in one bib-file  MWE  % !TEX TS-program = lualatexmk \documentclass{scrartcl}  \usepackage{fontspec}         \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Times New Roman}  \usepackage[ngerman, british]{babel} \usepackage[babel]{csquotes} \usepackage[style=verbose,abbreviate=false,backend=biber]{biblatex}  \usepackage{filecontents}  \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib} @book{aristotle:ross:1924,     Author = {Aristotle},    % It is here, I think, that something could be done, e.g., ...     Title = {Metaphysics},     % ... british=Aristotle,ngerman=Aristoteles,french=Aristote     Editor = {William David Ross},     Commentator = {William David Ross},     Introduction = {William David Ross},     Hyphenation = {british},     Location = {Oxford},     Publisher = {Clarendon Press},     Volumes = {2},     Year = {1924}} \end{filecontents}  \addbibresource{\jobname.bib}  \begin{document}  \selectlanguage{british} Some English text.\footcite{aristotle:ross:1924}  \selectlanguage{ngerman} Etwas Text auf Deutsch.\footcite{aristotle:ross:1924}  \end{document} What are the possible catch bonuses and how much experience do they reward? Amongst North Indian Students, the phrase "give an exam" is very popular. These students use the phrase to describe the act of writing the answers to examination questions.  The reason being, in Hindi, it's known as "exam dhena" which translates literally to "to give an exam".  In South India, however, a majority of people use the phrase "to take up an exam".  Which of these usages is more common/appropriate/grammatical? (As a prof I have developed a strange aversion toward the "give an exam" phrase; I find it wrong and ugly.) Airbnb housing gone electrifyingly bad I am staying at a place booked via Airbnb. Something happened and there is no electricity from Friday! The house-owner has provided a super noisy generator, which is inconsistent, meaning that it "randomly" supplies power to some parts of the house, so you cannot rely on it.  Is there any rule/law in SF, CA, USA to describe the compensation one should get from such kind a situation?    The owner owns the whole building. On the ground floor there is a restaurant. On the 1st floor there are the apartments. Something happened in the restaurant, which made the electricity go off, but she didn't give more details, she said "there was an emergency and the power went off". How to find roots of $X^5 - 1$? How to find roots of $X^5 - 1$? (Or any polynomial of that form where $X$ has an odd power.) How do I complete "Find the Bitizen"? In tiny Death Star, Palpatine has given me the mission "Find the Bitizen" with the text "Working for tips is acceptable. Find 1 Bitizen(s)."  I assumed I had to wait for one of the events where you have to find a "rebel scum" and tap on it to get rid of. One of those events finally popped up but it did not complete the mission.   How do I complete this mission? Say a prospective PhD has a high reply rate (90-95%) to first contact emails with potential superviors. He/She has a well thought out e-mail, but a particular professor (here: USA) that is in the top preferences does not reply after two to three e-mails that were sent within a time frame of three months. I also followed the instructions on the professor personal website in the section "prospective PhD students". The student has already contacted some of the advisor students and has received positive feedback about the professor.  Should the student just give up and move on? Should the student keep trying?  Aside from the obvious "I have too many incoming e-mails to answer" or "I am out in the field", what could create a no response behavior from the professor?  I have seen the simplistic answer "move on, bad advisor, doesn't have time, etc". But this seems a contradiction in this case. The PhD students like the professor and say he/she is personable and no e-mail response after a few well written emails. How to make a simple app from an applescript! I've got an applescript that I use to open files such as test.txt in vim, using the terminal.  I usually open a file by right-clicking it an selecting the service open in vim (this service is created by me and basically runs the applescript).  How do I build an actual program, that can be set in the "open with" option for a file?  This way, when I double click test.txt, the applescript gets run and the file gets opened in my vim in terminal.app.  I would also like to create custom icons that will be applied to all files I open using this app (using the "Change All..." button).  Where would I begin? Is this easy, because I'm just a novice -although I love programming and would spend much to to get to know all that is needed to do this.  the code is:  on open this_item      tell application "System Events"         if (count (processes whose name is "Terminal")) is 0 then             tell application "Terminal"                 activate                 do script with command "vim " &amp; (POSIX path of this_item) in front window             end tell         else             tell application "Terminal"                 activate                 tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down                 do script with command "vim " &amp; (POSIX path of this_item) in selected tab of the front window             end tell         end if     end tell  end open How do you take profit from stock trading while keeping capital invested? Will I still receive OTA updates after rooting my Nexus 5? I just wanna ask that after rooting Nexus 5 will I be receiving OTA updates by Google ? Or I'll have to install a custom ROM ? Convert .jar to .deb package Does Blender support any form of collaborative editing? Are employments in universities affiliated (or named) with a specific religion restricted to people with the same religion? I just saw an ad in mathjobs.org about an opening in a Catholic university, see . I am not christian. So I was wondering to be eligible for employment in a university or college affiliated with a specific religion, should the applicant  have the same religion, or other people from other religions (or even non-religious people) are eligible to apply as well? In JUnit 3, I could get the name of the currently running test like this:  public class MyTest extends TestCase {     public void testSomething()     {         System.out.println("Current test is " + getName());         ...     } }   which would print "Current test is testSomething".   Is there any out-of-the-box or simple way to do this in JUnit 4?  Background: Obviously, I don't want to just print the name of the test. I want to load test-specific data that is stored in a resource with the same name as the test. You know,  and all that.