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Dozens of LGBT community members and ally Atlantans gathered for a rally and march in support of transgender rights in Midtown on July 29. (Photo by Dallas Anne Duncan)
Atlanta march kicks off $20,000 fundraiser for transgender nonprofits
Dallas Duncan
Atlanta, News
On July 26, President Donald Trump issued a series of tweets claiming the US military "will not accept or allow" transgender people in the armed forces due to a burden of "tremendous medical costs and disruption" caused by trans service members.
The reaction was swift. Within 48 hours, a group of Atlanta LGBT organizations pulled together and formed a weekend rally and march in support of transgender rights, which organizer James Brian Yancey used to kick off a city-wide fundraising effort for trans nonprofits.
"We feel lucky to have the freedoms we have, standing at the rainbow crosswalks. We made so much achievement, but now there's one segment of the larger community that's not staying neutral. They're legitimately going backward month by month, with legislation and the way they're treated," Yancey said. "Some people will say it's our duty, because whether they were trans or straight or gay all those people at some point came to the aid of us … we owe it to those people now."
The march began at Midtown gay bar TEN and went to Bobby Dodd Stadium on the Georgia Tech campus, where Atlanta's professional soccer team just began a match against Orlando. Once the official march ended, there were cries to take to the streets, and advocates led a line of cars all the way back to the restaurant.
Crystallizing commitment
"One thing that I do want us to make sure is that this is the start of an effort, that you don't go home and forget about stuff," Yancey told the crowd. "Money is energy crystallized. We love you being here. We love you chanting. We love you marching and we need your energy crystallized to help this community. … It's crucially important today is not a party."
The rally was an opportunity to draw attention to a number of issues faced by America's transgender community, not just the president's tweets regarding military service. Activists and Rep. Keisha Waites paid homage to the transwomen who were murdered this year with a moment of silence, and there was plenty of talk about the president's backpedaling on school guidance documents regarding what bathrooms students can use.
"I'm from the Vietnam generation. How many years was it between the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the signing of the civil rights legislation? We're in this for the long haul," Dani Atlanta, a trans activist, told Georgia Voice.
Atlanta trans activists issued statements, including one from Monica Helms, the Atlanta resident and Navy veteran who designed the pink, blue and white transgender flag. Activist and author Gabrielle Claiborne read Helms' remarks to the cheering crowd.
"We fought long and hard to get open service and we will not give it up that easily," her statement said. "This is not going to end well for the Trump administration. The trans people are some of the strongest activists in the country. Decades of oppression have made us battle-hardened and experienced."
Helms also had words specifically for transgender service members.
"I tell you one thing: keep hope alive. If you are kicked out of the military, we are here for you," she said. "Trump will not be in office forever. His reign of hate and bigotry will come to an end sooner or later. Keep your uniforms clean and pressed, because if Trump kicks you out of the service, you will one day be back."
Jon Ossoff, former Democratic candidate for Georgia's 6th District, pledged to stand beside LGBT service members.
"Anyone who is brave and qualified and willing to defend this country should be welcome into our armed forces; should be applauded for their bravery and their commitment to the United States," Ossoff said. "This president is attacking people who serve our country under his command to distract the country from his weakness and incompetence."
Setting military policy
Though his tweets were characterized as "effectively banning" trans individuals from the military, it will take more action than social media to make that policy.
According to Reuters, 58 percent of Americans who responded to its poll on the subject support transgender military service. The news organization reported that Marine Corps. Gen. Joseph Dunford said the military will not alter its policies until it receives additional guidance from the secretary of defense.
The New York Times reports that the Pentagon will provide "detailed guidance in the 'near future' on how Mr. Trump's tweets will be turned into policy."
The tweets were praised by anti-LGBT groups, including the Family Research Council, National Organization for Marriage and the Ku Klux Klan. A bipartisan group of senators nationwide, including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-California), Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), spoke out against Trump's remarks.
Though neither of Georgia's senators appeared to take a stance, Karen Handel, the newly elected Republican in Georgia's 6th District, told the Marietta Daily Journal that "the military is not going to act on a 40-character tweet."
"I think you have to see what the actual directive is going to be," she said. "What I will say is this: I do not think that the military should be required to pay for the transition surgery. That is an elective."
Daniel Dunlop, president of the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, issued a statement the day after Trump's tweets, saying AGLCC stands united in its support of the transgender community.
"This policy shift further unveils an agenda by the present administration to deny LGBT equality," Dunlop said. "As an organization, we stand with firm resolve against this policy and denounce all bullying tactics that seek to wage war with our transgender community. An attack on one of us is an attack on all."
Georgia Equality issued a statement saying staff members were "shocked" and "disturbed" to see the tweets.
"The US military is the largest employer of transgender people in the world, employing an estimated 15,000," the statement read. "Coming from a president that ran on the promise of creating jobs, making a move to strip jobs from 15,000 Americans shows the president's true feeling toward LGBTQ people."
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Social imbalances and population flows to London
Published Monday, 24 February, 2014
Work and incomes
Steven Ayres
"The continued drift of the industrial population to London and the Home Counties constitutes a social, economic and strategical problem which demands immediate attention"
– Report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population, 1940
A recent report by the Centre for Cities stated that while London's strong economic performance should be welcomed, other cities around the UK are "punching below their weight". Some commentators argue that disproportionate growth is not a problem as long as people are free to move to where the opportunities are available, which in itself should be possible given that we are a small, well-connected nation. Yet it is not just the spread of prosperity throughout the country that has proved to be uneven, but also the ability of people to spread and exploit the opportunities of the main centres of prosperity such as London.
Regional imbalances in the UK's economic and social landscape are by no means a new phenomena. In July 1937, a Royal commission was appointed to investigate the social, economic and strategic disadvantages of the imbalance in industrial production that had become evident as early as the 1920s and 30s. Yet the bold decentralisation measures recommended by the committee three years later as urgent national priorities were quickly overshadowed by the war effort, and the urgency to address the economic and social disparities between regions faded.
That is not to say that the issue has received no policy attention over the second half of the 20th century, with both Conservative and Labour governments attempting to tackle the issue. The regional development agencies of New Labour and the Regional Growth Fund initiative of the current government represent some of the various endeavours to boost all regional economies that have been attempted in recent times. Yet there has still been an increase in the share of national Gross Value Added (GVA), a measure of economic output, of London and the South East in recent years. Between 1981 and 2012 an increase from 31% to 37% in the share of GVA amounts to around £80 billion at 2012 prices.
Attention has been drawn to the internal imbalances that underscore this trend, including commentary from the IMF, along with numerous newspaper and magazine articles, blog posts and reports serving to fuel the debate. While London is not the only success story in the UK's modern era of development, it seems that a primary means for people across the UK to enhance their economic and social well-being is to head South East.
Yet for many years London has seen a net outflow of internal migrants, not the reverse. (It should be noted, however, that the population of the capital has not declined due to significant net inflows of international migrants). By taking a look at internal flows into and out of London and the South East, we can get a better idea of what is going on.
The maps below shows the geographical differences in the number of people who leave a local authority in England or Wales and end up in London. It is quite apparent that a greater proportion of people leaving the Home Counties and the surrounding areas migrate into the capital, with parts of Wales and the North far less likely to do so. The magnitude of this effect is even greater among the 22 to 30 age group. While this isn't particularly shocking – quite intuitively people are more likely to move locally and younger people are more likely to head to the big city – the differences in flows of people that we can observe are likely to increase the gaps between those who are willing and able to move to more prosperous areas and those who are not.
Percentage of migrants leaving each local authority who flow into London, June 2012
Percentage of young migrants (aged 22-30) leaving each local authority who flow into London, June 2012
Source: ONS and the Department for Communities and Local Government
So what might distinguish those who can and cannot move to London and the South East? A number of social factors that can restrict both the spread of prosperity and the ability of people to move to it appear to play a part.
The figure below shows the different percentages of migrants leaving the least and most deprived local authorities in England and moving to London and the South East of England, with deprivation represented by the education, income, health and overall elements of the 2010 Deprivation Indices. These were selected as they give an idea of how absolute deprivation may affect people's movements within England, whilst also decomposing the concept of deprivation into a number of components deemed important for this analysis. It is clear that there are substantial differences between deprived and less deprived areas, with the latter far more likely to make the move to the prosperous London and the South East region.
Percentage of migrants leaving the most and least deprived local authorities who flow into London and the South East, June 2012
We often think of deprivation as being synonymous with low income levels. However, it is important to look at both economic and social aspects of deprivation, as social aspects are what constitutes deprivation itself (i.e. they are of intrinsic importance) where as economic aspects such as income can be viewed simply as a means to escape deprivation (i.e. of instrumental importance) – an opinion famously espoused by Nobel Laureate for Economics Amartya Sen.
Education deprivation is likely to translate into poorer attainment at school, which may lead to inability to compete for jobs in areas performing well economically. The potential for a widening skills gap between the most and least deprived areas may be a further concern arising from this. Health deprivation is also likely to have profound impacts on the imbalances in economic and social opportunities as poor health limits an individual's ability to participate fully in society.
Income may have a more obvious connection with lack of movement to the London area, with house prices in the region being substantially higher than elsewhere in the country and rising faster (the average house price in London is around 18 times the average salary in the North East). Yet house prices appear to have a further consequence for the movement of people around the UK; indeed it seems that in the most housing deprived boroughs of London (which also happen to rank among the most housing deprived in the country), people appear to be moving out of the capital. Figures show that of those residents leaving the 5 most housing deprived boroughs of London (Brent, Waltham Forest, Newham, Hackney and Tower Hamlets), over 60% of them are leaving London entirely.
Both those who are unable to join in with the prosperity of the South East and those who are unable to stay in the region are likely to experience an imbalance in opportunities, a problem with roots that appear to go back decades. Given the stuttering economic progress of the last 6 years the current rates of economic growth have been welcomed by most, however the issue of imbalances is still there and at present shows no sign of fading.
Author: Steven Ayres

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Q: Can't see my custom extension on Azure Devops Marketplace My issue
I created an Azure Devops extension task. Deploy it on a publisher, shared it. But I can't find it on the MarkePlace.
What I did
This is my project:

This is my task.json:
{
  "id": "0f6ee401-2a8e-4110-b51d-c8d05086c1d0",
  "name": "deployRG",
  "category": "Utility",
  "visibility": [
    "Build",
    "Release"
  ],
  "demands": [],
  "version": {
    "Major": "0",
    "Minor": "1",
    "Patch": "0"
  },
  "instanceNameFormat": "DeployRG $(name)",
  "groups": [],
  "inputs": [
    {
      "name": "Name",
      "type": "string",
      "label": "RG name",
      "defaultValue": "",
      "required": true,
    }
  ],
  "execution": {
    "PowerShell3": {
      "target": "CreateRG.ps1"
    }
  }
}

My manifest vss-extension.json:
{
    "manifestVersion": 1,
    "id": "deployRG",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "name": "Deploy RG",
    "publisher": "Amethyste-MyTasks",
    "public": false,
    "categories": [
        "Azure Pipelines"
    ],
    "tags": [
        "amethyste"
    ],
    "contributions": [
        {
            "id": "DeployRG",
            "type": "ms.vss-distributed-task.task",
            "targets": [
                "ms.vss-distributed-task.tasks"
            ],
            "properties": {
                "name": "DeployRG"
            }
        }
    ],
    "targets": [
        {
            "id": "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services"
        }
    ],
    "files": [
        {
            "path": "DeployRG",
            "packagePath": "DeployRG"
        },
    {
        "path": "VstsTaskSdk"
    }
    ]
}

What I checked
I am owner of the organization and belong to Project Collection Administrators group.
On the portal:

On the publisher portal:

What I need
I checked some tutorial on Internet and can't see what I do wrong.
Has anybody an idea?
Thank you

A: Aargh, I have just found and its easy.
After sharing, one should install the extension as indicated here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/publish/overview?view=azure-devops
Don't know why so many tutorials skip this step

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Not-so-brilliant end for ABS as liquidation looms
The death knell has sounded for an alternative business structure that entered the sector loudly but has left with barely a whimper.
Leeds firm Genus Law was prepared for closure within a month of insolvency experts being drafted in to liquidate the business.
All client matters have been transferred, with most going to Alt Legal Limited, trading as Alpaca, which is also based in Leeds.
It marks an ignominious end for Genus Law, which was the revised name for ABS Brilliant Law, a business which launched in January 2013 onto the legal sector with backing from Betfair founder Bert Black.
But within 18 months, the firm had changed its name and lost director Matthew Briggs, who has since gone on to start comparison website Law Superstore. According to Companies House records, former BSkyB director Jeremy Fenn resigned from the board in December 2015.
Financial advisory firm Armstrong Watson LLP today confirmed it had been engaged by Genus to find a firm to acquire ongoing matters, client relationships and successor practice status, as well as engage with the SRA.
Matthew Briggs left Genus Law in 2014
Tom Blandford, legal sector director at Armstrong Watson, confirmed the entire transaction was completed within a month. He added: 'It has been a very busy few weeks for all involved, but I am delighted that the Genus clients will continue to receive the exceptional levels of service they are used to.
'I am also very pleased that many of the staff have found new roles. I would like to thank them all for bearing with us over the last four weeks whilst we have worked hard alongside the Genus directors to make these arrangements.'
Genus was designed as a commercial practice based on a corporate rather than partnership structure. It targeted small and medium sized businesses and start-ups with the promise of a fixed-fee service.
Alpaca is a multi-disciplinary business which offers legal and financial advice, consultancy and HR management.
Armstrong Watson said the successor firm's 'agile business model' allows it to respond quickly to avoid disruption to clients and to offer continuity of service. The firm works on fixed fees across corporate and employment law.
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Study Shows How NAC Can Help Prevent Strokes
Written by Lynkuptaxi Team	Posted on April 3, 2021 April 3, 2021 Less than 0 min read
N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a form of the amino acid cysteine and a common dietary supplement, may prevent strokes in people with hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA), a rare genetic disorder.1 People with HCCAA have an average life expectancy of just 30 years, and most die within five years of their first stroke,2 so reducing their incidence could prove to be essential to increasing survival.
The finding is even more significant because it was conducted by researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), which is notoriously against supplements.3 NAC appears to work by preventing the formation of amyloid-producing proteins, which promote amyloid deposits linked to strokes.4
Preventing Strokes Could Save the Lives of Those With HCCAA
HCCAA belongs to a group of diseases known as cerebral amyloid angiopathies (CAAs), in which amyloid deposits form in the blood vessels of the central nervous system.
Amyloid deposits are also involved in a number of other neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob's and Huntington´s diseases.5 HCCAA is an inherited disease, caused by a leucine 68 to glutamine variant of human cystatin C known as L68Q-hCC.
Young people with the mutation suffer from microinfarcts, which are microscopic lesions, or areas of cellular death or tissue necrosis,6 that are associated with cognitive impairment in older adults.7 Cerebral microinfarcts are clinical markers for stroke and dementia.8
In people with HCCAA, the microinfarcts begin in their 20s along with brain hemorrhages, leading to paralysis, dementia and — as the strokes become more frequent — death.9 hCC deposits are found primarily in the brain in those with HCCAA, though they may also be found in other internal organs.
The study by CHOP researchers suggests NAC may block the precipitation of amyloid plaque deposits, as well as help break up their formation, which could make a dramatic difference for those living with HCCAA. The study's lead author, Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of CHOP's Center for Applied Genomics, said in a news release:10
"Amyloids cannot precipitate without aggregating, so if we can prevent that aggregation with a drug [NAC] that is already available, then we could make an incredible difference in the lives of these patients.
Additionally, since we already have genetic testing available to identify these patients, we could conceivably give this treatment early in life and potentially prevent that first stroke from ever occurring."
NAC May Help Prevent Strokes
NAC is most well-known to help increase glutathione and reduce the acetaldehyde toxicity11 that causes many hangover symptoms. Anyone who overdoses on acetaminophen (Tylenol) also receives large doses of NAC in the emergency room, as it helps prevent liver damage by increasing glutathione.
NAC is also sometimes prescribed to break up mucus in the lungs,12 and the CHOP researchers used NAC to treat cell lines expressing wild type and L68Q-mutant hCC, to determine its effects on toxic oligomers that occur in multiple types of amyloidosis.
NAC broke the oligomers into monomers (oligomers are composed of a few monomer units13), which helps prevent the formation of amyloid deposits linked to strokes.14 "Given the results from the described cellular work, it became evident that NAC could potentially be useful to treat this devastating disease," the researchers wrote in Nature Communications.15
NAC was also evaluated in six patients with the L68Q-hCC variant who were taking NAC. The variant is thought to stem from a mutation in the Icelandic population that occurred during the 16th century. The proband — the person who was the starting point for the family genetic study — from one HCCAA family in Iceland had suffered from three serious strokes over a nine-month period at the age of 22.
The person was put on a respirator after the third stroke and was suffering from mucus plugging, but was treated with NAC, which gradually resolved the mucus plugging. Due to the positive results from the cellular models, the person continued to take NAC, as did five family members who were also carriers of the mutation.
Because the impacts of NAC on hCC deposition in the brain cannot be directly monitored, the researchers conducted skin biopsies on the six individuals. Research suggests that amyloid deposits in the skin correlate with symptom status in HCCAA patients, with those experiencing symptoms having higher deposition in the skin.16
Up to 90% Reduction in L68Q-hCC After NAC
The skin biopsies showed that five of the six patients had a 50% to 90% reduction of hCC protein complex deposition following NAC supplementation — a dramatic result. The researchers wrote:17
"[T]he proband had very high levels of hCC protein complex deposition in the first skin biopsy. Subsequent biopsies reveal the proband had not progressed in terms of deposition; rather, the deposition had decreased by about 40%.
… The reduction in hCC deposition in the proband from first biopsy to third (approximately 15 months at two different doses) was estimated at ~70% … The parent demonstrated an ~50% reduction in staining on biopsy #3 … and the sibling ~30% after 6 months of NAC.
In the second cohort, carriers 1 and 2 showed a visible reduction in the hCC deposition with carrier 1 having near-complete clearance following 600 mg of NAC 3× per day for 24 months.
… Treatment with NAC in human patients not only prevents ongoing deposition of cystatin C protein complex in the skin, but also reduces prior deposits in a significant way."
An NAC clinical trial was launched in 2019 to investigate whether the results will be confirmed in a larger number of subjects, with results expected in the second quarter of 2021.
The Many Benefits of NAC
In the case of HCCAA, the average lifespan of those affected has dropped significantly, from approximately 65 years in 1825 to about 30 years in 2021. Lifestyle, economic and industrial changes have all been suggested as contributing factors to this decline, including increased consumption of carbohydrates in the diet. This theory fits with NAC showing a benefit, as the researchers noted:18
"Hyperglycemia has been linked to oxidative stress in diabetes, and it is possible that increased carbohydrates in Icelandic diets in the 19th century created enough oxidative stress in L68Q-hCC carriers to make presentation of the disease more severe.
This hypothesis is compatible with our results; increased oxidative stress would increase multimerization of L68Q-hCC, and dietary reducing agents like NAC would reverse that effect and prevent deposition of new aggregates. Therapeutic benefits would be derived mainly from the lack of new occlusions causing new strokes."
While the most common use of NAC is for liver support, it's also showing increasing promise as a neuroprotectant. In addition to HCCAA, scientists are investigating NAC as a treatment for Parkinson's disease, which has been linked to glutathione deficiency in the substantia nigra, a region that houses dopamine neurons.19
NAC is a precursor to and rate-limiting nutrient for the formation of glutathione;20 because glutathione is poorly absorbed, in many cases it's easier to raise your glutathione by taking NAC instead.
It could also have potential for Alzheimer's as, according to the CHOP researchers, the process of protein deposition that occurs in HCCAA is similar to what occurs in Alzheimer's, although at an accelerated pace in HCCAA compared to Alzheimer's, which is why dementia occurs later in life with the latter.
"If the underlying mechanisms of protein deposition and pathogenesis are sufficiently similar, similar or identical treatments may be effective," they said.21 Another area where NAC shows particular promise is in the treatment of mental health disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder,22 depression23 and substance use disorders.24
NAC even shows promise for COVID-19. According to one literature analysis,25 glutathione deficiency may be associated with COVID-19 severity, leading the author to conclude that NAC may be useful both for its prevention and treatment.
NAC may also combat the abnormal blood clotting seen in many cases, and helps loosen thick mucus in the lungs. Interestingly, with COVID-19 treatment as a new indication, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suddenly cracked down on NAC, claiming it is excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement, as it was approved as a new drug in 1985.26
As such, NAC cannot technically be marketed as a supplement, even though there are no fewer than 1,170 NAC-containing products in the National Institutes of Health's Dietary Supplement Label Database.27
Why the CHOP Study Has Additional Significance
The fact that CHOP researchers are recommending NAC for the treatment of HCCAA is of particular significance because of their historical opposition to the use of dietary supplements. In October 2013, it announced that its list of medications approved for use would no longer include most dietary supplements, making it the first U.S. hospital to discourage its patients from using dietary supplements as a matter of policy.28
Their reasoning was that dietary supplements are "essentially unregulated" with "no sound information" about side effects, drug interactions or standard dosing, which they said made giving them to sick children "unethical when the risks are unknown." But considering the results of the recent study, it would be unethical to withhold such a potentially lifesaving treatment.
The policy is so stringent that parents are asked upon their child's admission whether they're taking any supplements. The use of the supplements is then discouraged, including parents being informed of the hospital's anti-supplement policy and supplement risks, and if "after receiving this information, a parent or guardian insists on continuing to give their child a dietary supplement," they must sign a waiver to that effect.
Only a limited list of "acceptable products" are allowed in CHOP's supplement formulary, and it's unclear if NAC is one of them. If not, it certainly deserves to be added, and perhaps the study will open CHOP's eyes to the life-saving potential of natural products and dietary supplements.
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Q: How do I extract this email address from this multi-line string? My workplace has forms sent in via Asana and I am trying to extract the Recipient Email: entry and the Recipient Contact Number: from the desc variable. (note: there are other email & phone numbers I dont want to get in the larger result)
I'm trying to learn after years of PHP & js
The result I want is

i_want@this.com

but I'm getting

nah bro

Can anyone nudge me the right way?
import re

desc = '''Recipient Email:
i_want@this.com

Recipient Contact Number:
+44(0)0000 000000
'''

email = re.search('Recipient Email:(.*)Recipient Contact Number:', desc)
if email:
    found = email.group(1)
else:
    print('nah bro')

A: You need re.DOTALL even when using .search()

re.DOTALL
[..] without this flag, '.' will match anything except a newline. [..]

>>> re.search('Recipient Email:(.*)Recipient Contact Number:', desc, re.DOTALL)
<re.Match object; span=(0, 59), match='Recipient Email:\ni_want@this.com\n\nRecipient Co

A: It looks like your regex just doesn't match what you're looking for...
Try this:
email = re.search('Recipient Email:[\r\n]+([^\r\n]+)', desc)

Check out this post for an explanation of how this regex expression works.
Essentially, we are asking for the characters that come after the line 'Recipient Email:' up until (not including) the next newline character.

A: The problem is that your string is containing enters \n and your regular expression is not. You could change your expression to
email = re.search('Recipient Email:\s*(.*)\s*Recipient Contact Number:', desc)

\s is equivalent to any of these characters \r\n\t\f\v
Take a look at Regex101 when making regular expressions.

A: You can use  this regex  [A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z|a-z]{2,}
import re

desc = '''Recipient Email:
i_want@this.com

Recipient Contact Number:
+44(0)0000 000000
'''
regex = r"[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z|a-z]{2,}"

email = re.search(regex, desc)

if email:
    found = email.group(0)
else:
    print('nah bro')

The output that i got
i_want@this.com


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Original black and white photographic print, May 16, 1963: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.
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"Astronaut Gordon Cooper Recovered After Splashdown." RICHES of Central Florida accessed April 21, 2019, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/5012.


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Home News & Analysis Hogg to stand down as 3i chairwoman(3)
Hogg to stand down as 3i chairwoman(3)
Matilda Battersby
Sarah Hogg will retire as 3i's chairwoman in December 2010 after more than 10 years with the firm.
Hogg replaced Sir George Russell as 3i non-executive chairman in 2002 and has held the post for the last seven years, having previously spent four years as a non-executive director at the firm.
3i plans to hire two new non-executive directors and speculation is rife that one of them will replace Hogg as chairman when she steps down, a source said.
Hogg is a Conservative party peer, holding the title Lady, and headed the policy unit under UK Prime Minister John Major in the 1990s. She is currently chairman of the Nominations Committee and Valuations Committee, chairman of Frontier Economics, a director of BG Group and Carnival Corporation, a governor of the London Business School and a member of the Financial Reporting Council.
There have been significant management changes at 3i in the wake of tumbling share prices and write-downs. Last month Philip Yea resigned as chief executive of 3i after less than four years in the role. He was replaced by 3i infrastructure head Michael Queen, who was then replaced by infrastructure senior partner and chief investment officer Cressida Hogg.
This morning 3i shares were trading at 219.50 pence, which is a massive drop off from the 1,195 pence that the shares were worth when Hogg was hired in 2002.
One of the new non-executive directors is also expected to replace Oliver Stocken, deputy chairman and senior independent director at 3i, who is rumoured to be retiring in the next 12 months, according to The Financial Times.


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Q: Vista OS disk for Gateway used to install on another Laptop Is it possible to use a Vista OS cd for a Gateway laptop to install Vista on another Laptop? I wish to do this since the other Laptop didn't come with an OS cd, and recently I had to completely replace the corrupted Vista with Ubuntu I now need to reinstall Vista but only have my Vista disk for my Gateway laptop.

A: No, most OEM install cd's are made only for that specific computer model and will only work with that computer.

A: Maybe. If you have the Vista key for this computer in particular, a OS install should be possible for any type of CD. You´ve to try it to know for sure if yours CD works. I sucessfully installed with OEM install cd´s in diferent computers (Dell Notebook, Dell Workstation, HP). But none were Vista. The last one was XP SP2.
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Portuguese Version/Versão em Português:
Talvez. Se você tiver a chave de registro do Vista para este computador em particular, a instalação do S.O. deveria ser possível para qualquer tipo de CD. Você tem que tentar a instalação para ter certeza. Eu instalei com sucesso usando cd´s de instalação OEM em diferentes computadores (Notebook Dell, Estação de Trabalho Dell, Notebook HP). Mas nenhum deles era Vista. O último era XP SP2.

A: The freedom to install one OS on many PCs ended with windows 2k. XP onward is Microsux's attempt to get paid for every PC in the house. I have installed 2k on all of my home PCs numerous times.I'll switch to linux before upgrading.


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Q: How to determine media completion in VideoCastControllerActivity? In my app, I am using the CastCompanionLibrary to cast videos to a chromecast device. I want to perform some action when the video has finished playing. How do I determine as to when the video has completed playing? I did not find any suitable callback for this.

A: *

*Register a VideoCastConsumer that implements onRemoteMediaPlayerStatusUpdated(). This will inform you when the playback status changes.

*In that callback, get the mediaStatus = mCastManager.getMediaStatus(); this will give you the updated status.

*If mediaStatus == MediaStatus.PLAYER_STATE_IDLE and mCastManager.getIdleReason() == MediaStatus.IDLE_REASON_FINISHED, then it means the currently playing item is just finished.

Note that a version of this is already being done in the associated fragment so please tell us what you are doing exactly; what I suggested allows you to generically find out when the playback of a single media items reaches its end.


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