I have a daughter who is in the grips of a social media encouraged self identity crisis.  For the past 15 years nothing has ever made me, her mother, or herself double think her gender identity.  However, recently social media and a club at school have caused her to be socially engaged into dabbling in a gender identity that doesn't match her biological sexual identity.  This has historically never been an issue and I fully believe this is not an internal situation but rather a social situation. As a concerned and caring father how can I address this and bring my daughter back to the identity I truly believe she has and truly believe she herself holds internally despite temporary social influence which is pushing her away from that? Please do not frame challenge me.  That is against the rules of this site.
My daughter, 13, has said she wants to be a boy. A little background: we moved to a new state a year and a half ago. In her new school, she felt isolated among her peers until she met a girl in art, and became good friends. She joined the drama club, and made  friends with some 8th graders. They joined “the diversity club”. This club is a LGBT club. The kids put on a play they wrote and starred in, which had homosexual connotations. “Romeo and Juliet”, but script  rewritten to include  2 females as the couple, for instance.   My daughter got so wrapped up in it, that her life was as if she was copying the play. She’s no longer friends with the friend from art, but remains close with the 8th grade crowd. They all labeled themselves. One week, my daughter said she was gay, then, changed to bi, then onto pan. (I had to google that one). Now she is emphatic about being disgusted with her body and wants to be a boy. She wants to donate all the “girly” clothes she picked out last year, and tossed out all the makeup she bought a few months ago.   All her life, she was the classic girly girl. She had crushes on boys, and she and this boy were inseparable since first grade. She was sad when it came time to move away. When we settled here, she became sullen and angry, putting herself down. She now sees a therapist who she really likes. We’ve been working on her self esteem issues. She’s wanting us to call her “he” and by a male name. I can’t do that. She’s my daughter. She is female. Had we seen this coming, maybe I could come to accepting. But it happened out of the blue.  Sometimes the old her comes back-I got a makeup sample and she was interested in trying it, looked at me, then quickly put it down and said “ewww, makeup”—just a few months ago, she bought a bunch. She’s now wanting to wear boys clothes and talks of wearing a suit to her prom. She is very impressionable, and seems affected by viral YouTube videos about kids coming coming out to their mothers, and the mothers gleefully embrace with happy tears. She has told me when she’s 18, she’s having her breasts removed.    Nothing seems normal to me anymore-in terms of how she always was-this new situation just doesn’t fit.  My gut tells me this is a phase.  I’m hoping it’s a phase. But with all I’m seeing in the media about this, I’m not sure. I love her; this is too much for me to process. I’m a stay at home mom; we were inseparable. I knew her. Until now.:(  She cut off all her beautiful hair, and wears boys shorts, baggy tee shirts, and bought this awful men’s deodorant spray. Please help me sort this out. I’m at my wits end.  Do you think this is a phase? Is this common?
Is the function strcpy always dangerous? How should an educational institute woo good faculty? I have two exchange accounts on my iPhone 4. One that connects to my gmail, the other connects to my work's Lotus Notes. There are no overlapping contacts in the two accounts. There are also no contacts saved locally on my phone.   When I enable contacts in both accounts, I get two identical entries for each of the contacts in my gmail. If I disable the Notes exchange account, then there are no more duplicates. If I have Notes contacts enabled, and gmail contacts disabled then I have no contacts at all.  Does anyone know what is going on? Is this a problem with having multiple exchange accounts or is it a Lotus Traveler problem? (I tend to blame Notes for all the trouble in the world, but that is just my bias)  Thanks all. How should I act if I discover a user plagiarizing fellow users' posts? What if I find someone plagiarizing external resources without attribution?  See also: Ping a site in Python? I have a HP 14-AN001NA laptop. It came with Windows 10 installed on which the Wi-Fi worked fine anywhere in the house.   However I removed Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.04 instead and since I have had terrible Wi-Fi anywhere aside from about three foot away from the router. I don't know if it's relevant but my Wi-Fi is not called wlan0 but wlo1 for some reason (I didn't change it).  When running lspci -knn | grep Net -A3     I get the following output:  05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:b723] DeviceName:   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [103c:81c1] Kernel driver in use: rtl8723be Kernel modules: wl, rtl8723be How to sort lines with >> double angle brackets? It seems that sort behaves strangely on lines such as &gt;&gt;b    $ cat test a &gt;&gt;b b c &gt; &gt;&gt;  $ sort test &gt; &gt;&gt; a b &gt;&gt;b c   I would expect the &gt;&gt;b line to be the third line output by sort but it is the fifth. Why does it do this and is there a way to make sort give my expected output?    I'm using GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04. "is" vs "are" when followed by a number I read the following sentence on YouTube and initially thought it was grammatically incorrect:     Here are 10 minutes of the movie Black Hawk Down!   I thought "are" should have been "is" but then I realized minutes is plural so the plural form, are, is used correctly. I also thought how most people would naturally say "Here is ten dollars in change" but is the use of the singular form, is, correct since dollars is plural?   Am I misunderstanding a rule? Installing 3rd party python libraries for QGIS on Windows G is the product of its Sylow subgroups I want to prove the following:     If every Sylow subgroup of $G$ is a normal subgroup, then $G$ is isomorphic to the product of its Sylow subgroups.   So far, I have gotten to realize that for every prime factor $p_i$ of $|G|$, there is exactly one Sylow subgroup and that these form a partition of $G$. However, I am having trouble finding the isomorphism between $G$ and the product which I will call $G_1 \times \ldots \times G_r$. My idea was just to use the mapping $(g_1, \ldots, g_r) \mapsto g_1\ldots g_r$, which is a bijection, but I don't see whether it is a homomorphism. In general, not all elements of $G_i$ commute with elements of $G_j$, so one cannot simply change the order of the elements in the product. Significance of assumption in competition inequality questions Refer to the problem below (IMO 2009 Shortlist)     Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that $$\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c} = a + b+ c$$   Prove that    $$\frac{1}{(2a+b+c)^2} + \frac{1}{(2a+b+c)^2} + \frac{1}{(2a+b+c)^2} \leqslant \frac{3}{16} $$    In the solution given by the  (Pg 16), it states that      Without loss of generality, we choose $$a +b+c = 1$$.    Thus, the problem becomes    $$ \frac{1}{(1 + a)^2} + \frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} +\frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} \leqslant \frac{3}{16}(\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c})$$    Applying Jensen’s inequality to the function $$f(x) = \frac{x}{ (1+ x)^2}$$   ,which is concave for $0 ≤ x ≤ 2$   and increasing for $0 ≤ x ≤ 1$, we obtain   $$α \frac{a}{(1 + a)^2} + β \frac{b}{(1 + b)^2} + γ \frac{c}{(1 + c)^2} \leqslant (α + β + γ) \frac{A}{(1 + A)^2}$$   , where $A =\frac{αa + βb + γc}{α + β + γ}.$   Choosing $α = \frac{1}{a} , β =\frac{1}{b},$ and  $γ = \frac{1}{c}$   , we can apply the harmonic-arithmetic-mean inequality   $$A =\frac{3}{\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}} ≤ \frac{a + b + c }{3} = \frac{1}{3} &lt; 1$$   Finally we prove:   $$ \frac{1}{(1 + a)^2} + \frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} +\frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} \leqslant ( \frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}) \frac{A}{(1 + A)^2} \leqslant ( \frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c})\frac{A}{(1 + \frac{1}{3})^2} = \frac{3}{16}(\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}) $$   However,  (Pg 4) differs by having $a +b+c=3$ and setting $f(x) = \frac{1}{16x} - \frac{1}{(x+3)^2}$ and allowing Jensen to resolve the rest.   The questions are as follows;   How do you choose before hand which $a + b+ c =$ to choose?  Why particularly does the assumption differ between the 2 solutions? How does one know before hand the choosing of $α = \frac{1}{a} , β =\frac{1}{b},$ and  $γ = \frac{1}{c}$?  Where and how did $A =\frac{αa + βb + γc}{α + β + γ}$ come from?   Any help would be much appreciated. How do we perform transverse measurements in a two level system? In quantum mechanics any two level system can be mapped onto effective spin variables. If the system is defined by two energy levels, $|E_1\rangle$ and $|E_2\rangle$, the Hamiltonian is  $$ H = \left(\begin{array}{cc} E_1 &amp; 0 \\ 0 &amp; E_2 \end{array}\right) \, .$$  This can be recast as  $$ H = \frac{E_1+E_2}{2} 1\!\!1 + \frac{E_1-E_2}{2} \sigma_3\, .$$  $1\!\!1$ is the identity operator and $\sigma_3$ is the third pauli matrix. This is very nice because we can now apply our knowledge and intuition of spin dynamics to any two level system.  My question is the following: for a real spin I can measure expectation values of $\sigma_{1,2}$ by physically rotating my system and align its $x$ or $y$ axis with my measuring apparatus. How do I do this (in the lab!) with a pseudo-spin system? Imagine I am looking at a cold atom and I want to know if the system is in an symmetric or anti-symmetric superposition of $|E_1\rangle$ and $|E_2\rangle$, how do I do it? I have a couple of floats in my document, which contain large Images (it consumes the half of the page). In this case, the figure get's its own page and no text goes on this page.  How can I configure this? I'd like to have text before and after the floats until the float doesn't use more then 75% of the page height. Could authors overturn recent community review decisions? When new users edit a post, the review is posted to a review queue and other reputable users can review the edit and choose to approve or reject it. However, I feel that a lot of people do it pretty quickly.    to . He was fixing broken links in the answer, and as soon as I saw it I knew it would have been a good edit. However, only one reviewer found so, and three others rejected it. I ended up manually doing the edit, and poor Onato didn't get any credit for it (in fact, he got an undeserved 'rejected' for it).  The point I want to bring is that, first and foremost, the person who wrote the answer probably knows best if an edit is acceptable or not. Could there be a time frame where the author of the answer (or question) can overturn a review decision?    EDIT: one more  was rejected by overeager reviewers as well. I absolutely disagree with the notion that the community knows better. The community repeatedly proves that it only wants Internet points.    EDIT: I told a commenter to fix something himself in one of my posts, but . I went back and applied the changes myself. It's not credited to him and his stats got a rejected edit now (which really should be an approved edit). The reason ("This edit is incorrect or an attempt to reply to or comment on the existing post") is blatantly wrong and shows once more that the community has much less insight into edit quality than the people who wrote the answers in the first place. It's true that the UI didn't make it easy for them, but those guys clearly didn't read the comment thread; I did, because as the author, I was notified.    EDIT: This time around, a user fixed a blatant (though small) mistake in one of my accepted answers. One hour later, another, unrelated 10k user , even though it had been approved by the community. I went back to undo his undo.  This goes on again to show that an active user is the best judge for the quality of an edit, and that since I can have the last word on edits on my own posts, I should be allowed to retroactively overturn a community edit vote and accordingly credit the person who proposed the change.    EDIT I wrote a  years ago. Some guy found it and tried to fix it but the community thought that it wasn't worth it. I think that the changes are great and once more I'll integrate them by myself into my post. Unfortunately for this user, he won't be credited for it. I still don't understand why I can't have a binding vote on edits on my posts. Detect an internet connection activation with Delphi I've been using a 3G wireless card for a while and every time I connect, my anti-virus fires up the updates.  I'm wondering what is the Win32 API set of functions that I can use to, either, get notified or query about the event of an Internet Connection coming up?  And is there already a set of ported headers for Delphi? Why is the last digit of $n^5$ equal to the last digit of $n$? I was wondering why the last digit of $n^5$ is that of $n$? What's the proof and logic behind the statement? I have no idea where to start. Can someone please provide a simple proof or some general ideas about how I can figure out the proof myself? Thanks. A photon emitted from a receding source (Doppler redshift) has less energy when detected at an observer's location. Please explain the energy loss from the perspective of energy conservation. The LaTeX Wikibook :     Please understand: you do not have to use floating tables. It only   looks more professional. If you want to place your tables where they   lie in your source code, do not use table at all! This is a very   common misunderstanding among newcomers.   LaTeX works with an intricate , but I often prefer immediate placement with the H placement specifier (enabled by the float package).  My understanding is that captions and table/figure numbering require the table/figure environments. Is this really so, or are there ways around that? What other reasons are there for using table/figure if we know that we don't want a particular object to float? How do i prove invertibility of this linear transformation Let $T$ be a linear transformation from a vector space $V$  over reals into $V$ such that $T-T^2=I$. Show that $T$ is invertible Create database fields to an existing table when installing a module I'm new to drupal and I need some help.  I created a new module with name user_extra. Which create necessery table when Installing the module.  But I also need to insert some database field in 'users_field_data' table ('user_extra_id' and 'user_office')  In baseFieldDefinitions I wrote all necessery database table fields for user_extra table.   public static function baseFieldDefinitions(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type) {     // Standard field, used as a unique if primary index.     $fields['id'] = BaseFieldDefinition::create('integer')         -&gt;setLabel(t('Unit ID'))         -&gt;setDescription(t('The unit ID.'))         -&gt;setReadOnly(TRUE)         -&gt;setSetting('unsigned', TRUE);      $fields['uuid'] = BaseFieldDefinition::create('uuid')         -&gt;setLabel(t('UUID'))         -&gt;setDescription(t('The unit UUID.'))         -&gt;setReadOnly(TRUE);         .         .         .     $fields['user_info'] = BaseFieldDefinition::create('string')         -&gt;setLabel(t('User Info'))         -&gt;setDescription(t("The User Info"))         -&gt;setSetting('max_length', 255)         -&gt;setDisplayOptions('form', array(           'type' =&gt; 'string_textfield',           'weight' =&gt; 10,         ))         -&gt;setDisplayConfigurable('form', TRUE);      return $fields;      }   When I install the module it inserts all values that I define in baseFieldDefinitions.  But I also need to create 'user_extra_id' and 'user_office' in 'users_field_data' table with setDisplayOptions and setDisplayConfigurable options.  This is the commenting that I made in entity file  /**  * @ContentEntityType(  *   id = "user_extra",  *   label = @Translation("user extra"),  *   handlers = {  *     "storage" = "Drupal\user_extra\UserextraStorage",  *     "storage_schema" = "Drupal\user_extra\UserextraStorageSchema",  *     "access" = "Drupal\user_extra\UserextraAccessControlHandler",  *     "list_builder" = "Drupal\user_extra\UserextraListBuilder",  *     "view_builder" = "Drupal\user_extra\UserextraViewBuilder",  *     "views_data" = "Drupal\user_extra\UserextraViewsData",  *     "form" = {  *       "default" = "Drupal\user_extra\Form\UserextraForm",  *       "add" = "Drupal\user_extra\Form\UserextraAddForm",  *       "edit" = "Drupal\user_extra\Form\UserextraEditForm",  *       "delete" = "Drupal\user_extra\Form\UserextraDeleteForm",  *     }  *   },  *   admin_permission = "administer user_extra",  *   base_table = "user_extra",  *   entity_keys = {  *     "id" = "id",  *     "label" = "name",  *     "uuid" = "uuid",  *   },  *   links = {  *     "canonical" = "/admin/user_extra/{user_extra}",  *     "add-form" = "/admin/user_extra/add",  *     "delete-form" = "/admin/user_extra/{user_extra}/delete",  *     "overview-form" = "/admin/user_extra/${user_extra}/overview",  *     "edit-form" = "/admin/user_extra/{user_extra}",  *     "collection" = "/admin/user_extra",  *     "children" = "/admin/user_extra/{user_extra}/children",  *   },  * )  */