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Lightspeed POS Inc is a Montreal-based Canadian technology company. Lightspeed sells software to restaurants and small retail businesses. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It has more than seven hundred employees and fourteen international offices. It sells software in about one hundred countries. It was founded in 2005 by Dax da Silva Dax Dasilva, who is a son of Goan-Ugandan refugees, is the founder and chief executive officer. Dasilva is a strong advocate of diversity in the workplace. It provides services to 23,000 businesses worldwide, including Adidas, Harman Kardon, Frank And Oak, Roll: Bicycles, and STORY. The company is backed by iNovia Capital and Accel Partners. History. Lightspeed was founded in 2005, with its headquarters in Montreal. In 2014, the company expanded its customer base to include the hospitality industry. Lightspeed Payments rolled out on January 30, 2019. In March, the company went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LSPD. In 2014, Lightspeed has over 700 employees in Montreal, Toronto, Ghent, Amsterdam, Olympia, London, and New York. The company generates revenue of $120.6 million with 478.4 million assets in 2020. On January 7, 2020 Lightspeed POS Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Gastrofix. On March 12, 2021, a company Vend, New Zealand cloud-based retail software, was bought by Lightspeed POS Inc. for US$350 million. Awards. Lightspeed won the 5th Annual Innovative Award in August 2012. Lightspeed was ranked by Profit number 61 on its list of "Canada's 200 fastest growing companies.
Walter Jakob Wolfgang (23 June 1923 – 28 May 2019) was a German-born British socialist and peace activist. He was vice president and vice chair of Labour of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament until his death. He was a supporter of the Stop the War Coalition. In August 2006, he became a member of Labour's National Executive Committee. He became known to the general public after cameras recorded him being removed by force from the Labour Party Conference in Brighton on 28 September 2005. The reason for his removal was because he was said to have shouted "nonsense" during Jack Straw's speech on the Iraq War. He joined the Labour Party in 1948. Wolfgang was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family. He moved from Nazi Germany to live in Britain in 1937. Wolfgang died on 28 May 2019, at the age of 95.
James Spencer Cleverly (born 4 September 1969) is a British Conservative politician. He was the Home Secretary from 2023 until 2024. He was previously the Foreign Secretary from 2022 until 2023. In July 2019, he became Minister without Portfolio and Chairman of the Conservative Party for the Boris Johnson ministry. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Braintree since 2015. Cleverly was the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2018 to 2019. In 2022, he served as the Secretary of State for Education. On 29 May 2019, Cleverly launched his campaign to become the Leader of the Conservative Party in the 2019 election. On 4 June, he withdrew from the race. On 23 July 2024, Cleverly announced he was running in the leadership election to be the new Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Opposition. He was eliminated on the fourth ballot of the election on 9 October 2024, despite coming in first place the previous ballot.
Carmine Caridi (January 23, 1934 – May 28, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared in movies and on television. He is best known for his roles in "The Gambler" (1974), "The Godfather Part II" (1974), "Prince of the City", "Summer Rental" (1985), "The Godfather Part III" (1990), "Bugsy" (1991) and "Top Dog" (1995). He also played Detective Vince Gotelli in "NYPD Blue" during the 1990s. In 2004, he became the first person to be removed from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Caridi was born in New York City. He lived in West Hollywood, California. In April 2019, Caridi had a fall and was taken to a Los Angeles hospital where he was comatose. He died of pneumonia on May 28, 2019, at the age of 85.
Matthew John David Hancock (born 2nd October 1978) is a British politician. He has been the MP of West Suffolk since 2010. He was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 until 2021. Hancock was suspended from the Conservative Party in November 2022. Political roles. On 9 July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock was named Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.  On 25 May 2019, Hancock announced his plans to run for leadership of the Conservative Party. He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after winning only twenty votes on the first ballot.  In May 2021, Hancock was filmed kissing an assistant during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also attended Boris Johnson's party during the national quarantine. Both of these events angered many people. He announced his resignation as Secretary for Health on 26 June 2021, with Sajid Javid taking over as Health Secretary. Television. In November 2022, Matt Hancock was announced as a contestant on "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here" (a show where celebrities live in a jungle). He was suspended from the Conservative Party because of this. Hancock made it to the final and finished in third place out of 12 celebrities. He will also be a contestant on "".  Book. Matt Hancock released a book named "Pandemic Diaries." The journalist Isabel Oakeshott worked with Hancock as the ghostwriter on his "Pandemic Diaries". He gave her his WhatsApp messages and she later gave them to the "Daily Telegraph." He said this was a “massive betrayal of trust”.
Dame Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (; ' Salmon; born 13 May 1963) is a British Conservative politician. She was the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from to 2020. She was Leader of the House of Commons from 2017 to 2019, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Northamptonshire since 2010. Leadsom became one of five candidates in the election for the leadership of the governing Conservative Party. She advanced to the second round only to loose to Theresa May. Leadsom resigned as Leader of House of Commons on 22 May 2019 in protest at Theresa May's Brexit strategy. Three days later, Leadsom announced her second candidacy for the Conservative Party leadership in the 2019 election. She was eliminated on the first ballot from the race on 13 June.
Christopher Laurie Malthouse (born 27 October 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, businessman and occasional writer. In July 2019, Boris Johnson made him Minister of State for Policing. He was elected in the May 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Hampshire. In 2022, he became the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State for Education. He was formerly Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority and the first Statutory Deputy Mayor for Policing, and a former city councillor and Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council, London.  In July 2018, he was appointed Minister of State for Housing, at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. On 27 May 2019, Malthouse announced that he was standing in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Theresa May. On 4 June, he withdrew from the election.
Esther Louise McVey (born 24 October 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office since 2023. In July 2019, McVey became the Minister of State for Housing and Planning for the Boris Johnson ministry. She resigned in February 2020. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton. She was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from January 2018 to November 2018.  McVey first entered parliament as the MP for Wirral West in the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.  In the 2015 general election, she lost her seat and spent two years as the Chair of the British Transport Police before returning to parliament in 2017. In May 2019, McVey announced her intention to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party when Theresa May resigns, claiming that she already had "enough support" to stand. However, she was eliminated on the first ballot from the race on 13 June.
Dominic Rennie Raab (born 25 February 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2022 until 2023 in the government of Rishi Sunak. He had the same job in the government of Boris Johnson from 15 September 2021 to 6 September 2022. In July 2019, Raab became the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs during the Boris Johnson administration. He was Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from July 2018 to November 2018. Raab has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since being elected in 2010. He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 12 May 2015. Following the 2017 general election, he was appointed Minister of State for Courts and Justice. He was later moved to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. In July 2018, May appointed him Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union following the resignation of David Davis. Raab resigned as Brexit Secretary on 15 November 2018. On 25 May 2019, Raab announced he was standing in the Conservative Party leadership election after Theresa May announced her resignation. On 18 June, he was eliminated on the second round of the contest. On 15 September 2021, Raab's cabinet position was reshuffled and he became Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He resigned from the Government in April 2023. His father was Jewish and fled from Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British politician. He was the Secretary of State for International Development from May 2019 to July 2019, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 2010 through 2019. From 2016 to 2018, Stewart was Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Minister of State for Africa, and on 9 January 2018 he was appointed Minister of State for Prisons. Stewart was a candidate in the 2019 Conservative leadership election. On 3 October 2019, Stewart announced he had resigned from the Conservative Party and would stand down as an MP at the next general election. He will stand as an independent candidate for Mayor of London in the 2020 election.
Steven John Baker (born 6 June 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician and former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant and bank worker. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe, being in the 2010 general election. In June 2015 he became co-chairman of Conservatives for Britain.  He co-founded The Cobden Centre. He was Chair of the European Research Group (ERG), a pro-Brexit group of Conservative MPs, until his promotion to ministerial office at the Department for Exiting the European Union on 13 June 2017, but resigned from his office on 9 July 2018 following the resignation of David Davis over concerns with the Government strategy on Brexit.  In September 2022, Baker was picked as Minister of State for Northern Ireland by Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British politician who was Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the government of Liz Truss from 6 September to 25 October 2022. He was Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council in the government of Boris Johnson from 24 July 2019 to 8 February 2022. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset from 2010 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party. He has been seen as socially conservative. In 2022, he became the Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency in the Boris Johnson government. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 2024 general election.
Sir Graham Stuart Brady (born 20 May 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Altrincham and Sale West from 1997 to 2024. He served as a Shadow Minister for Europe under four Conservative leaders before resigning in 2007 in protest at David Cameron's opposition to grammar schools. Brady replaced Michael Spicer as Chairman of the 1922 Committee on 26 May 2010. On 1 December 2010, Brady was voted "Backbencher of the Year" by "The Spectator". He resigned as 1922 Committee Chairman on 24 May 2019 in order to launch a bid for Conservative Party leadership in the weeks that followed. Brady was knighted as part of the 2018 New Year Honours. In March 2023 he announced that he would not be standing again for election.
Priti Sushil Patel (born 29 March 1972) is a British politician who has been the Shadow Foreign Secretary since 2024. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham in Essex since 2010. She was International Development Secretary from 2016 to 2017. In July 2019, Patel became Home Secretary for the Boris Johnson administration. Patel is a member of the Conservative Party. Her ideas and policies are inspired by Margaret Thatcher. Patel, a Eurosceptic was a strong supporter of the Brexit campaign in 2016. During her time as Home Secretary, Patel was criticized for her handling of immigration issues and for her asylum deal with Rwanda. During her career, she has been accused of breaking the ministerial code several times. After the resignation of Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party in July 2024, Patel announced she would run to be the new Tory leader and Leader of the Opposition in the 2024 Conservative Party leadership election. She was eliminated from the election in the first round of voting in early September 2024. In November 2024, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet of Kemi Badenoch as the Shadow Foreign Secretary. Early life. Patel was born on 29 March 1972 to Sushil and Anjana Patel in London. In the 1960s, her parents emigrated to the United Kingdom and lived in Hertfordshire. She was raised Hindu. Patel went to study economics at Keele University. She then continued her postgraduate studies in British government and politics at the University of Essex. Early career. After graduating, Patel became an intern at Conservative Central Office. In 1997, Patel began to work with William Hague in his press office.  In 2000, Patel left her job at the Conservative Party to work for Weber Shandwick, a PR consulting firm. Patel's job was also to lobby MEPs against EU tobacco regulations. She worked for Weber Shandwick for three years. In August 2003, the "Financial Times" ("FT") published an article using quotes from Patel talking about the "racist attitudes" in the Conservative
David Vaughan Icke (; born 29 April 1952) is an English professional conspiracy theorist and former footballer and sports broadcaster.  He is the author of over 20 books and many DVDs and has lectured in over 25 countries, speaking for up to 10 hours to audiences. He is known for his conspiracy theory that many of the world's most important figures are lizard people. In the 1990s, he was a sports commentator for BBC. He played football for Coventry City and Hereford United.
William Michael Hardy Spicer, Baron Spicer PC (22 January 1943 – 29 May 2019) was a British Conservative Party peer and member of the House of Lords from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the House of Commons from 1974 to 2010. He was chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2001 to 2010. Spicer was born in was born in Bath, Somerset. Spicer died on 29 May 2019 of problems caused by Parkinson's disease and leukaemia at the age of 76.
Dennis William Etchison (March 30, 1943 – May 28, 2019) was an American writer and editor. He was known for his fantasy and horror novels. He wrote novels based on the "Halloween" franchise. His best known work was "The Museum of Horrors" which won him the World Fantasy Award in 2002. He wrote the screenplay for "". Etchison died on May 28, 2019 at the age of 78.
Andrew Hall (19 January 1954 – 20 May 2019) was an English actor and theatre director. He was known for his role as Russell Parkinson in Carla Lane's BBC situation comedy "Butterflies" (1978–83). He was born in Manchester. Hall died on 20 May 2019, from cancer at the age of 65.
EEPROM (also E2PROM) stands for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory and is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers, integrated in smart cards and remote keyless systems. It is a Read Only Memory (ROM) whose data can be erased and reprogrammed by higher than normal currents of electricity.
Gustav Schwarzenegger (17 August 1907 – 13 December 1972) was an Austrian police chief, postal inspector and a military police officer. He was the father of Hollywood star and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gustav Schwarzenegger was born in Austria-Hungary, the son of Cecelia (née Hinterleitner, 1878 – 1968) and Karl Schwarzenegger (1872 – 1927). He was a sportsman and loved music. Schwarzenegger died of a stroke in Weiz, Steiermark, Austria on 13 December 1972 at the age of 65.
Jackie Winters (April 15, 1937 – May 29, 2019) was an American politician. She was born in Topeka, Kansas. She was a Republican. She was the first African-American Republican elected to Oregon legislature. She served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003. She was a member of the Oregon Senate from 2003 until her death in May 2019. Winters was Minority Leader of the Oregon Senate between November 2017 and January 2019. Winters died of lung cancer on May 29, 2019. She was 82.
Bayram Şit (1930 – 29 May 2019) was a Turkish featherweight freestyle wrestler and coach. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1952 and placed fourth in 1956. He also won a silver medal at the 1954 World Championships. He was born in Denizli, Turkey. Şit died on 29 May 2019, at the age of 89.
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime movie. The director and producer of the movie is Francis Ford Coppola. The movie stars Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. The story is partly based on "The Godfather", a 1969 book by Mario Puzo. "The Godfather Part II" is the second movie in the "Godfather" trilogy. It is a sequel and also a prequel to "The Godfather" (1972). It has two plots, one focusing on Vito Corleone, and the other on his son Michael. The next movie, "The Godfather Part III", was released in 1990. The movie has very positive reviews from critics. Like the first movie in the series, "The Godfather Part II" won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Willem Woudsma (11 August 1957 – 23 May 2019) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a defender. Woudsma was born in Nijverdal, Overijssel. He played in the Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie. He played for Go Ahead Eagles between 1976 and 1989. He spent his professional career for the club except for his final season in 1989–90 when he played for N.E.C. in the Eredivisie. He played in 430 competitive matches for Go Ahead Eagles, the second most of any player. He later coached amateur football sides and was a youth coach at Go Ahead Eagles. Woudsma died on 23 May 2019 in Nijverdal after a long illness. He was 61.
Kimbolton Castle is a country house in Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire.  Haunting. Kimbolton Castle is reported to be haunted by Catherine of Aragon who died there in 1536 after several years of imprisonment.
A dollhouse (or doll house) is a toy home made in miniature. Dollhouses have been mainly for children. Making and collecting them, however, is also a hobby for many adults. In the United States and Canada, the term "dollhouse" is used. In the United Kingdom, the term "doll's house" is used. Early dollhouses were seen more than 400 years ago as "baby house" display cases in Europe. Smaller dollhouses that looked like real houses on the outside appeared in Europe in the 18th century. Early dollhouses were hand-made. After the Industrial Revolution and World War II, doll houses were mass produced. They became more standard and cost less to buy. Mass-produced dollhouses include those related to the Barbie doll. One famous dollhouse is Queen Mary's dollhouse. It took four years to build. Another is Colleen Moore's dollhouse. It took seven years to build.
A town is a type of populated place in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia. Towns are incorporated by order by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board according to sections 383 through 388 of Nova Scotia's "Municipal Government Act". Nova Scotia had 26 towns at the time of the 2016 Census. In 2016, the towns had a cumulative population of 97,495. Nova Scotia's largest and smallest towns are Truro and Annapolis Royal with populations of 12,261 and 491 respectively.
A village is a type of unincorporated community in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia that has a commission established under the "Municipal Government Act" for the purpose of providing certain municipal services to a defined area within its larger county or district municipality. Nova Scotia has 22 villages. According to available population data, Nova Scotia's largest and smallest villages are Bible Hill and River Hebert with populations of 8,913 and 1,296 respectively.
Nova Scotia is the seventh-most populous province in Canada with 923,598 residents as of the 2016 Census of Population, and the second-smallest province in land area at . Nova Scotia's 50 municipalities cover of the territory's land mass, and are home to of its population. References. Notes
Khatuna Tskhadadze (, born 3 May 1973) is a Georgian translator and writer. Early life and education. Tskhadadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union in 1973. In 1996 she graduated from Tbilisi State University. She knows Georgian, Italian, English and Russian languages. Career. In 1997 she posted translations of short stories by Gianni Rodari, Italo Calvino and Tonino Guerra. From 2005 to 2010 she translated into Georgian "The Name of The Rose", by Umberto Eco, After this she translated more of his books.
Morris County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, close to New York City. As of 2020, there were 509,285 people living in the county. This made it the 10th-most populous county in New Jersey. The county seat is Morristown. The place where most people live at is Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, with 56,162 people, while the largest place is Rockaway Township, at . History. Lenape Native Americans used to live in New Jersey. They lived near rivers and hunted, fished, and got plants and nuts. Henry Hudson explored New Jersey in the 1600s. After he did, the Dutch came and made small towns and cities. They traded tools with the Native Americans for food and fur. Then, the British took over the land that the Dutch owned. They built the first towns and mines in what is now Morris County. But by 1750, there were no more Native Americans in New Jersey, because the Native Americans lost their land, grew less food, and got very sick. They all went to the Ohio Valley or Eastern Canada instead. Morris County was made for real in 1739, from parts of Hunterdon County. It was named after a governor named Lewis Morris. During the battles of Trenton and Princeton during the American Revolution, George Washington and his men camped here. You can still see the place where they camped today; it's called Jockey Hollow. Geography. This county is , according to the 2020 Census.