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Nolan Advised Thompson Street Capital Partners and its Portfolio Company, Global Software, in its Acquisition of Atlas
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Founded in 2000, Thompson Street Capital Partners is a private equity firm that has managed over $1.5 billion in private equity capital.
From its headquarters in St. Louis, MO, Thompson Street has completed in excess of 100 acquisitions in more than 35 industries.
Thompson Street brings broad financial and operational knowledge to its portfolio companies to accelerate growth — both organically and through acquisitions.
Why Did Thompson Street Capital Partners Hire Nolan?
In May 2016, Thompson Street announced a partnership with management to recapitalize Global Software of Raleigh, North Carolina. Global Software is the leading provider of Microsoft Excel-based automation and reporting software solutions to enhance enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence platforms.
ERP's allow for automation in key business areas including technology, finance, customer relationship management, human resources and supply chain management. With the automation of these functions comes the critical ability for business leaders to access valuable data and aggregated dashboards for their use in a variety of decision-making scenarios.
Global Software's signature product is Spreadsheet Server, an Excel reporting add-in solution that transfers dynamic reporting data from an ERP system into Microsoft Excel. Global Software's products integrate with more than 60 ERP systems.
Following the recapitalization of Global Software, Nolan was engaged by Thompson Street to investigate the technology market for relevant Global Software add-on opportunities that aligned with Thompson Street's goals of adding software solutions in the business intelligence and ERP categories to Global Software's existing suite of product offerings.
Nolan identified Atlas, a company known as today's market leader and business standard for Excel reporting and automation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and AX.
Atlas, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, serves more than 1,500 Microsoft Dynamics AX customers in a broad range of industries.
Some of the world's leading brands are Atlas users, including the Associated Press, Air Asia, Fuji Film, Guylian, Lotus F1 team, Polaris, The Pokémon Company, Tommy Hilfiger, Walmart, Cathay Pacific, Georg Jensen, Kumon, Marks & Spencer, Mazda and Remy Martin.
The Atlas acquisition will broaden the customer base and ERPs that Global Software can currently serve, along with increasing their international range. Global Software will now reach more than 75,000 users and 4,500 customers in more than 60 countries.
Atlas has furthered Global Software's role as the market leader in Excel reporting and automation, and Global Software will continue to build on the category leadership position Atlas currently holds as the standard for Excel reporting and automation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and AX.
Atlas maintains additional offices in London, England and Fargo, North Dakota.
"After recapitalizing Global in 2016, we chose Nolan as our advisor for acquiring add-ons that would supplement the organic growth of Global. We are pleased with the results of our search, and the Nolan team was very helpful in navigating this cross-border transaction. Nolan's adaptability and experienced advisory processes were much appreciated in efficiently closing this transaction." -Craig Albrecht, Director, Thompson Street Capital Partners


Fatema Bureshaid Bureshaid and Hend Rezk became Bahrain's first female MMA competitors at the 2017 IMMAF World Championships that concluded on Saturday 18 November in Manama.
Bahraini supporters turned out in droves, and the near-deafening applause for the debutants created an electric atmosphere in the Khalifa Sports City arena, which played host to the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation's five-day, nation vs nation, amateur MMA tournament.
Bureshaid also became the first Bahraini female to be awarded an IMMAF medal and the first to wear a hijab in IMMAF competition.
Fatema Bureshaid had travelled directly from the World Police Games in Abu Dhabi, where she had earned 4th place in Brazilian jiu jitsu, to lose to the UK's Kaycee Blake in the IMMAF semi-finals. She was awarded a bronze medal for Bahrain in the Women's Lightweight division.
Hend Rezk represented Bahrain in the Women's Strawweight category to be defeated by Ayan Tursyn of Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, Indian athletes Naipunya Sunil (Strawweight), Saloni Avhad and Nishigandha Rao (Flyweight) also became their nation's first women to compete in international, amateur MMA.
Nishigandha Rao beat Daria Sloviashchenkova of Russia to progress to the quarter finals, where she faced defeat at the hands of past IMMAF World and European silver medallist, Anette Österberg, who ultimately took the bronze medal.
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Feb. 9, 2017 / 2:29 PM
Ashley Graham defends Vogue cover pose after criticism
The model appears on the magazine's March cover with six other women.
Ashley Graham at the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year ceremony on December 12, 2016. The model appears on the March cover of Vogue. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Ashley Graham at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on November 14, 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
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Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Ashley Graham is setting the record straight on her controversial Vogue cover.
The 28-year-old model denied she purposely covered her thigh during her photo shoot with Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Liu Wen, Adwoa Aboah, Imaan Hammam and Vittoria Ceretti.
"I chose to pose like that.. no one told me to do anything," she said Wednesday after posting the cover on Instagram.
Social media users had suggested that Graham was instructed to place her hand on her leg in an attempt to make her appear slimmer. Others pointed out that Hadid's arm looked Photoshopped.
"I find it so interesting that the ONE plus size model they include in this picture is covering half of her own leg with her arm," one person wrote.
"Hey Vogue, great job on including Ashley Graham on your cover, but did she really have to cover her thigh w/ her hand? #notsosubtlebodyshame," another added on Twitter.
Graham herself celebrated the cover, writing, "Dream. Come. True! THANK YOU @voguemagazine." She discussed the importance of size diversity in the accompanying interview.
"Sixty-seven percent of the women in America wear a size 14 or larger. Sixty-seven percent. Maybe you could ignore those consumers before, but now, thanks to social media, they're making their voices heard," she said. "And what they want is to be visible."
Dream. Come. True! THANK YOU @voguemagazine for having me on your cover!! 📸 @inezandvinoodh #diversity #inclusion #thenewnorm #fearlesswomen #vogue125
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Graham is known for her modeling work with Lane Bryant, and became the first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2016. She shared a photo of her cellulite and a body-positive message on Instagram in January.
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Anna Geyer (born Anna Elbert: 13 March 1893 – 2 March 1973) was a German politician (USPD, KPD, SPD) and journalist.

Life
Anna Elbert was born in Frankfurt. Her father, Hans Elbert (1864–1928),  was a sculptor.   After leaving school she is described in sources variously as a secretary and as a housewife.   In 1917 she married the contributing-editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung (daily newspaper), Curt Geyer. 1917 was also the year in which she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party ("Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / USPD), launched that year as a result of a split within the Social Democratic Party (SPD), primarily over differences with the party leadership over whether to support continued funding for the war. In the USPD she worked in the head office for business councils and created a party press and information service. In 1919 she was elected a member of the Leipzig city council and was appointed a member of the Saxony regional parliament (Landtag).

At the end of 1920, as the USPD itself broke up, she was part of the left wing majority that moved across to join the newly formed Communist Party, along with her husband and her brother in law, Friedrich Geyer.   Here again she ran a press and information service for the party.   The young Communist Party also proved prone to internal feuding.   In the political context surrounding the March revolt of 1921 she supported Paul Levi and those around him.   After Levi was resigned from his leadership position in the party she continued to provide him with copies of internal leadership and Comintern communications, which led to her own exclusion from the party the 7th Party conference in August 1921.   Her husband, also active as a supporter of Levi's approach, was excluded from the party at the same time.

The excluded Levi faction now formed the Communist Working Community ("Kommunistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft"), led by Levi himself and by Ernst Däumig.   Both the Geyers were initially members.   However, in February 1922 Curt Geyer moved over to the (briefly resurgent) USPD, followed by Anna Geyer the next month.   In September 1922 what remained of the USPD re-merged with the SPD, taking Anna and Vurt Geyer with it.   Within the party she continued to be active, especially in respect of women's political and employment issues, a subject on which she published a book in 1924.

The political backdrop changed completely with the Nazi power seizure in January 1933.   The new government lost little time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship.   People who were, or had been, members of the Communist Party were subject to harassment and arrest.   In October 1933 the Geyers emigrated to Prague in Czechoslovakia where, like her husband, she worked on the (now exiled) Social Democratic publication, Neue Vorwärts.   On 25 July 1936 she was stripped of her German citizenship.   Although Czechoslovakia was not invaded till 1938, the government by that point faced increasing pressure from the German government to close down  Neue Vorwärts, as a result of which the publication moved its base again in 1937, this time to Paris.   The Geyers went too.

In May/June 1940 the German army invaded France, placing the north of the country under German occupation while entrusting the southern part of the country to a puppet government.   Anna Geyer escaped through the south of France to Portugal, leaving Curt in Paris.   They later divorced.   (Curt Geyer escaped to Britain the next year.)   In November 1940 Anna Geyer was able to embark on a ship from Lisbon to the USA. where she would spend the rest of her life, working initially as a dietitian.   Her mother, born Amalie Kress (1871–1956), had already emigrated to the United States as a widow in 1931.

In 1941 Anna Geyer became a member of the executive committee of the "German-American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism", founded by her fellow SPD political exile, Albert Grzesinski.

She died in Detroit on 2 March 1973.

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Independent Social Democratic Party politicians
Communist Party of Germany politicians
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Members of the Landtag of Saxony
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
1893 births
1973 deaths
20th-century German journalists

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When I was growing up, I had an Advent Calendar every December. Every night before bedtime, I remember opening another window to see a Christmas scene or a verse of scripture or poetry. It was something that marked this time as different and special. It helped me count down the days until that magical night when we would go out in the middle of the night to the church, to celebrate light in the darkness.
When I had kids of my own, I hoped to carry on the tradition, but there isn't a large Catholic population where we live, and none of the stores carried them. This year, I've been thinking a lot about that simple tradition from my own childhood – perhaps because I'm looking forward to Christmas, then a few weeks later I'll get another dose of magic in Walt Disney World.
This week I decided I wasn't going to let some store determine what I traditions I could and couldn't share with my kids (so there!), so I made a simple Disney Countdown Calendar, built on the idea of those Advent Calendars of my childhood.
On each square, I wrote the name of a place, activity or event we have planned for our upcoming Disney trip in alternating white and black marker.
Next, I cut six strips of adhesive magnet, approximately 15 inches long to hold the cards on the magnetic whiteboard. I could have also cut individual pieces of magnet for each square.
Then I arranged the squares on the whiteboard in an alternating pattern and used the strips of magnet to secure them.
Finally, I numbered each square, starting with 30 and going all the way down to 1 – the night before we leave for our trip!
One of the things I'm especially excited about with this project is that it plays a dual role. For our neurotypical kids, it's a way to count down to our Disney trip. For our kids on the Autism spectrum, it also gives them a way to preview our vacation and do a dry run through our itinerary, step by step. That way, if something – like "Ride Space Mountain" for example, causes anxiety, we have plenty of time to talk about it and alleviate those fears – or reassure them that they don't have to go on any ride they don't want to – well before we're standing in the queue and wondering why our child is suddenly melting down. I would much rather prevent anxiety meltdowns than deal with them after they've started!
What are your favorite ways to countdown to a Disney vacation? Share them in the comments below!


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Tom Odell regrets how hard he worked when he...
Tom Odell regrets how hard he worked when he was a teenager.
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 21 August 2016
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Tom Odell regrets how hard he worked when he was a teenager and thinks he should have preserved his energy for later in life.
The 25-year-old singer credits his drive and ambition to getting him where he is today, but admits he was so focused, he didn't really take the time to enjoy recording his first songs.
He said: ''When I was 18, I was driven and obsessed with the idea of making an album, almost to the point that I didn't enjoy it.
''I'd go back and tell myself to revel in that time.
''Then again, if i'd done that I probably wouldn't be sat here today, because it takes a lot of ambition to get a record deal and make an album.''
And the 'Another Love' singer still recalls the times he was rejected in harsh ways.
Asked if anyone owes him an apology, he said: ''When I was 18, I gave my demo CD to a promoter. He walked down the street and put it in the bin in front of me.''
If he wasn't a successful musician, Tom would have gone down a very different career path.
He said: ''My biggest extravagance is flowers. My grandma was very into them and I think it rubbed off on me. If I wasn't a musician I'd be a florist.''
Though the 'Real Love' singer is proud of his career, he admits he wishes he'd had a rethink about some of his outfits when he was starting out.
He told Grazia magazine: ''I definitely wore some suspicious outfits around the time of my first album.
''Perhaps it would be nice if the pictures of that were quietly swept under the carpet.''
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The photos were taken in 1950 with a still unknown Marilyn, by a Life Magazine photographer Ed Clark, at the suggestion of a friend of 20th Century Fox telling of the new hiring of the studios.
"I sent several rolls to LIFE in New York, but they wired back, 'Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?" – Ed Clark.
No one at that time could have even imagined how iconic Marilyn will become.


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Home News India's Radical Hindu Hate Speech Against Muslims Draws Condemnation
India's Radical Hindu Hate Speech Against Muslims Draws Condemnation
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 News
Bulsha:- Hate speech against Muslims by Hindu radicals in India has drawn public condemnation. Previously, a Hindu resident was recorded voicing a statement threatening Muslims.
"If 100 of us become soldiers and prepare to kill two million (Muslims), then we will win, protect India and make it a Hindu nation," Pooja Shakun Pandey, a member of the far-right Hindu Mahasabha party, said in a video of the event. conference in Haridwar, Uttarakhand state, last month.
The appearance of this video has drawn outrage from the public. Some people consider the Indian government's response to be slow in dealing with the problem of hate speech.
A women activist and co-founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan group, Zakia Soman, said that the failure of the Indian government has caused right-wing extremist groups to increase.
"Our community made us realize, we have become second class citizens in our own country," said Soman.
"Batting and hatred of minorities has become commonplace and normal. As the intensity increases, the poison and violence in their language also rises," he continued.
According to lawyer Vrinda Grover, incitement to violence is prohibited under Indian law.
"Police, states and governments have a responsibility to keep (incitement to violence) from happening. But the states, through their inaction, are actually allowing groups like this to move, while endangering the Muslim community they are targeting," Grover said.
A Muslim student in New Delhi, who asked not to be identified, said many Muslims feel threatened when India's Hindu right-wing groups use hate speech.
"It made us feel we didn't deserve to be there," he said.
CNN has contacted India's Ministry of Minority Affairs, Mahasabha Hindu and Pandey but has not received a response.
Analysts say that the courage of this extremist group arises because the government's efforts to handle it are still lacking. This situation has the potential to bring danger to minority groups, especially Muslims in India.
"That's what makes the Hindu Mahasabha dangerous," said Gilles Verniers, an assistant professor of political science at Ashoka University.
"(They) have been waiting for this moment for decades," he continued. He also considered that Pandey's statement containing violence was the worst form of hate speech.


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Q: Npm postinstall only on development on Windows Basically I need this:
Npm postinstall only on development
But here on company we have several machines running Windows on development. What to do?

A: On Windows you can use the format IF NOT %NODE_ENV% == production <script here>.
I have this in package.json to run bower & typings when doing a dev (non-production) install:
"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "IF NOT %NODE_ENV% == production (bower install & typings install)"
}

See for example SS64 for documentation of available commands etc.

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