How do you pronounce “asks” in “She asks too many questions”? Is it possible to omit the “s” while we are speaking?
I know the correct pronunciation (I think) of the words "ask" and "asked", but I quite often hear them pronounced as "ahks" and "ahksed" (almost like an "r" sound). I've heard it both in conversation and on television shows (both Australian and American).   Are these pronunciations due to dialect, or are they alternative pronunciations or incorrect pronunciations? If they are the correct pronunciation, should I use them or the "normal" pronunciation?
If $f,g : [a,b] \to (0,\infty)$ are continuous functions, prove that there exists $c \in (a,b)$ such that: $$\int_{a}^{c} f(x) \ \mathrm dx = \int_{c}^{b} g(x) \ \mathrm dx$$ Help, I cannot get my test code coverage higher than 75%! Code below How can I switch between keyboard layouts by pressing a keyboard shortcut like on Windows? Possible Duplicate:          On Windows I am able to switch between keyboard layouts by pressing Alt+Shift. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut in Ubuntu? Why is MixColumns omitted from the last round of AES? Transit Visa for Thailand Im an Indian citizen. Do I need a transit visa in Thailand while going to Angkor Wat from Kolkata (India), and can I stay in Thailand for two days on this transit visa? UIRefreshControl without UITableViewController Best way to draw matchstick pictures I want to draw various matchstick pictures like this:    or like this    or other figures from:   I want to use TikZ for this and have two questions about this:   How do I get the path decoration with the matchsticks? What's the (syntactically) easiest way to draw pictures like this or how would a TikZ expert do this (to be flexible enough to draw such kind of figures but to have an easy syntax)? How do I intercept a method call in C#? For a given class I would like to have tracing functionality i.e. I would like to log every method call (method signature and actual parameter values) and every method exit (just the method signature).      How do I accomplish this assuming that:     I don't want to use any 3rd party AOP libraries for C#, I don't want to add duplicate code to all the methods that I want to trace,   I don't want to change the public API of the class - users of the class should be able to call all the methods in exactly the same way.     To make the question more concrete let's assume there are 3 classes:     public class Caller   {      public static void Call()       {          Traced traced = new Traced();          traced.Method1();          traced.Method2();       }  }   public class Traced   {      public void Method1(String name, Int32 value) { }       public void Method2(Object object) { }  }   public class Logger  {      public static void LogStart(MethodInfo method, Object[] parameterValues);       public static void LogEnd(MethodInfo method);  }   How do I invoke Logger.LogStart and Logger.LogEnd for every call to Method1 and Method2 without modifying the Caller.Call method and without adding the calls explicitly to Traced.Method1 and Traced.Method2?  Edit:  What would be the solution if I'm allowed to slightly change the Call method? I was a member of a study team that produced a couple of research papers. The authors of the paper are, for example:      Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, John Smith and The ABC Study Investigators   In the acknowledgements, it reads:     The ABC Study team consists of members from Harvard University (James Bond, Thomas Harper, David Price, and Jason Jolly)   (Suppose that my name is David Price.)  Can I list such papers in the publication list of my CV? If not, how can I show that I participated in these research papers?  In PubMed, my name was listed as one of 'collaborators.' "Deleted by {owner}" vs "Deleted by owner" in self deleted answers HD bad blocks: is there a way to repair them? Doubt regarding a limit which is related to MVT Let the function $f(x)$ be differentiable  and $f'(x)$ be continuous in $\left(-\infty,\infty \right)$ with $f'(2)=14$ then evaluate the limit  $$\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{f(2+\sin x)-f(2+x\cos x)}{x-\sin x}$$  My attempt:  $\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{f(2+\sin x)-f(2+x\cos x)}{x-\sin x}$  $\lim_{x\to 0}\left(\frac{f(2+\sin x)-f(2+x\cos x)}{\sin x-x\cos x}\right)$ $\frac{\sin x-x\cos x}{x-\sin x}$$=\left(f'(2)\right)(2)=28$  Is the method used here correct avidemux problems with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I installed 16.04 a few days ago and had to reinstall some apps. One of them was avidemux. After I installed it from the Software Center, I couldn't get it to work properly. It wouldn't even load a video clip before giving me an error message and closing.   After trying many commands to purge the avidemux files, I still can't get it to reinstall from the Software Center...   Any tips? Complete references in between the document When we do   \bibliographystyle{style} \bibliography{References.bib}   We get all the references at the end of the document, with some kind of reference/id in the document.   What I need is the complete reference in the document itself (not at the end) and then to be able to write what I want below this reference. For example;  Chaminade, T., Hodgins, J., &amp; Kawato, M. (2007). "Anthropomorphism influences perception of computer-animated characters' actions." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2(3): 206-216      - Some text..........      - Some more text.......  Cowley, S. J., Kanda, T. (2005). "Friendly machines: interaction-oriented robots today and tomorrow." Alternation 12(1a): 79-106.      - Some text.....      - Some more text....   How can I do it? Thanks. Number of equivalence relations on a set Is there an editor or IDE (or a script) for substituting the TeX-Commands $ and $$ for opening and closing math regions into the corresponding LaTeX-Commands \(,\) and \[,\]? I'm sure there is a tool - and I'm searching for. I think, this will result in better readable code. A simple search and replace wont do that - but with regular expressions, that should not be problem. I simply do not want to invent the wheel a second time. I deleted the "/etc/passwd" file and cannot log in Is there a simple way to explain how Kepler's third law follows from the inverse square law that of gravity  (and laws of motion)  For example for Kepler's second law we can say it's because Gravity is a central force  What is it about the law of gravity which ultimately gives rise to Kepler's third law? I have a file, which was encrypted with AES-128 in ECB mode. I know the format of the original file and know that all files in this format have the same headers. So, I have an encrypted block and the original block.  Can I get the encryption key, using this information? class and private variables