Joseph Mtakwese Made is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture.

He was the Minister of Agriculture^[1] before being moved to the position of Minister of Agriculture Mechanization, with Rugare Gumbo replacing him as Minister of Agriculture. Made has been accused of overseeing the destruction of the agricultural sector in Zimbabwe when he was minister.^[2]

Made was nominated as ZANU-PF's candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Makoni West, a constituency in Manicaland, in the March 2008 parliamentary election.^[3] He was defeated by Webber Chinyadza of the Movement for Democratic Change, receiving 2,585 votes against 6,187 for Chinyadza.^[4]

When the national unity government was sworn in on February 13, 2009, Made became Minister of Agriculture again.^[5]

References[link]

v t e  Ministers of the Zimbabwean Government of Robert Mugabe June 2000 - February 2009     Robert Mugabe (President) Joice Mujuru (Vice President) Aeneas Chigwedere (Education, Sports and Culture) Patrick Chinamasa (Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs) Amos Midzi (2002-04) / Mike Nyambuya (2005-present) (Energy and Power Development) S Mombeshora / C Mushohwe (Transport and Communications) J Moyo (2000-05) / T Jokonya (2005-07) / S Ndlovu (2007-09) / P Mangwana (acting since 2009) (Information) Gideon Gono (RBZ Governor) S Makoni (2000-02) / H Murerwa (2002-07) / S C Mumbengegwi (since 2007) (Finance) Rugare Gumbo (Agriculture) Joseph Made (Agriculture Mechanization) Simbarashe Mumbengegwi (Foreign Affairs) Sydney Sekeramayi (Defence) Ambrose Mutinhiri (Youth Development and Medium Enterprises Development) Kembo Mohadi (Home Affairs) Obert Mpofu (Industry and International Trade) Olivia Muchena (Science and Technology Development) David Parirenyatwa (Health and Child Welfare) Nicholas Goche (Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare) Ignatious Chombo (Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development) John Nkomo (Special Affairs) J Tungamirai (2004-05) / S C Mumbengegwi (2005-07) / P Mangwana (since 2007) (Indigenisation and Empowerment) Emmerson Mnangagwa (Rural Housing and Social Amenities) Opa Muchinguri (Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development) Sithembiso Nyoni (Small and Medium Enterprises Development) Webster Shamu (Policy Implementation) Didymus Mutasa (State Security)

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Joseph Prince (born May 15, 1963, Singapore) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, one of Asia's biggest churches.^[1] He was one of the young pioneers who founded the church in 1983.^[2]

Background[link]

Joseph Prince, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother, ^[3]spent his primary school years in Perak, Malaysia.^[3]

Prince changed his birth name to Joseph Prince during his previous occupation as an IT consultant. ^[3]

Prince has been invited to preach at churches in Australia, London, USA, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, South Africa and Indonesia.^[4] Notably, he was invited to preach at the Grace & Favour Seminar at Hillsong Church^{[1][dead link]} Sydney and Hillsong London^[5] in 2006. In 2007 and 2008, he was invited to speak at the Hillsong Conferences in Sydney and London. In 2009, he was invited to speak, alongside Joel Osteen from Lakewood Church, at the 2 Days of Hope Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa.^[6]

Prince's TV program "Destined to Reign" is broadcast in more than 150 countries. ^[7] His broadcast program is also streamed online through Internet and podcasts for viewers.^[8]

Prince publishes books, CDs and DVDs.^[9] In 2007, his book Destined to Reign: The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living, which contains teachings from his ten years of preaching from 1997 to 2007, was published in Singapore ^[10] and the US. Six months after the book's US release, it was listed as one of Christian Retailing's Top 100 Books.^[11] In 2010, Prince's latest book "Unmerited Favor" was published worldwide by Charisma House.^[12]

Prince was featured in the cover story of the June 2010 issue of the Charisma (magazine), which covered his preaching and teaching ministry.^[13]

On October 29th 2011, Prince ministered in the US for the first time at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. He also preached at two more services the day after.

Questions about his church salary[link]

In 2004, Prince asked New Creation Church to stop paying him a salary. The church's council members,however, refused his request.^[14][15]

On 5 October 2008, in an interview with The Sunday Times, Prince, the executive chairman of the church council, while acknowledging that he was "well-paid", added that "money doesn't have a hold on me". He dismissed allegations that his salary was $50,000 a month, saying "It could have been $50,000 if I had not voluntarily taken all the pay cuts through the years. There was a system of payment that would actually enrich me greatly but as the church grew, I refused to accept that system of payment."^[3]

On 30 March 2009, The Straits Times reported that a check revealed that New Creation Church paid one employee between $500,001 and $550,000 in its last financial year of 2008. Singapore's Code of Governance for charities ^[16] requires all charities and non-profit organizations in Singapore to disclose top executives' salaries to the Commissioner of Charities. While the church would not confirm that the amount in question had been paid to Prince, church officials told The Straits Times that the church's policy is to "recognise and reward key contributors to the church and Senior Pastor Prince is the main pillar of our church's growth and revenue."The New Creation Church's income was reported to be $55.4 million for the financial year ending March 2008.^[17]

On 7 June 2010, The Straits Times and Channel News Asia reported that Joseph Prince has not been on the church payroll since 2009.^[14][15]

Personal life[link]

Joseph Prince is married to Wendy Prince.^[3] They have a daughter, Jessica Shayna Prince, and a son Justin David Prince^[18]

References[link]

External links[link]

• New Creation Church
• Joseph Prince Ministries
• Practice Grace

Joseph Nathan Mills (born 30 October 1989 in Swindon) is an English footballer who plays for Reading. He is the younger brother of Leicester City defender Matthew Mills and can play at either left back or left midfield.

Career[link]

Southampton[link]

He made his Southampton first team debut as substitute in a League Cup match against Birmingham City on 26 August 2008. He made his league debut at home against Barnsley on 20 September 2008.^[2]

On 23 February 2009, he joined Scunthorpe United on an emergency loan for one month.^[3] On 24 March, the loan was extended to the end of the 2008–09 season.^[4]

He signed a new three-year contract in August 2009 after some good pre-season performances, featuring sporadically during the 2009–10 season. However, Mills did play in Southampton's victorious Football League Trophy final against Carlisle United.

He joined Doncaster Rovers on a one month emergency loan deal on 19 October 2010,^[5] making his debut the same day in a 3–2 defeat by Derby County.^[6] This loan deal was then extended to 19 January 2011. Mills was injured in Doncaster's 3–0 defeat to Reading on 15 January 2011 and this may have been his last action for Doncaster. In July 2011, he joined Preston North End F.C. on trial.

Mills scored his first professional goal for Doncaster in a 3–0 victory over former loan club Scunthorpe United. On 31 January 2011, the loan deal was extended until the end of the season.^[7]

Reading[link]

On 22 August 2011, he joined Reading for an undisclosed fee, signing a one-year contract with the option of another year.^[8] He made his first start for the Royals in a 2–1 defeat by Charlton Athletic, in the League Cup first round on 23 August 2011, coming off the bench for Ian Harte in the 62nd minute.

On 6 November 2011, Mills was announced as Man of the Match after Reading defeated Birmingham City 1–0 thanks to a Noel Hunt winner.^[9][10]

Honours[link]

Southampton

• Football League Trophy: 2010

Reading

• Football League Championship: 2011–12

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joseph Mills career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile on Southampton F.C. website

Joseph Nagyvary, born in April 18, 1934 Age 77, is a Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University and has spent years studying and analyzing violins made by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri.

Biography[link]

Joseph Nagyvary was born 1934 in Szeged, Hungary. As the most celebrated citizen of this town was Albert Szent-Györgyi, the discoverer of vitamin C and much of the citric acid cycle, he was inspired at an early age to follow a career in natural products and biochemistry.

From 1952-1956 he attended at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and in 1957 he went to Zurich to study under Paul Karrer. There he became fascinated by the violin when he had the opportunity to take lessons on an instrument once owned by one of his heroes, Albert Einstein.

In 1963 he went to Cambridge to study under Alexander Todd at the laboratory there. He moved to America in 1964 and in 1968 he moved to Texas where he became a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M University.

In 1983 he devoted his research entirely to the study of recreating the legendary tone of violins made by the old masters. While working at Texas A&M University as a biochemist Nagyvary succeeded in making a violin which he described as being somewhere near the quality of a Stradivari.

Texas A&M University biochemist Joseph Nagyvary succeeded in making a violin which he described as being somewhere near the quality of a Stradivari by leaving the wood to soak in brine.^[1] Because of the lack of land in Venice, during that period imported wood(*) was often stored in the seawater of the Venetian Lagoon, where a type of decomposition had a slight effect on the wood. Nagyvary managed to acquire wood shavings from a Stradivarius violin, and under a microscope he found the natural filter plates in the pores between the tracheids were gone. He also treated the wood with a preparation of borax in the manner of Stradivari, who used it to prevent infestation (conjecture - no written record exists of this practice by Stradivari). ^[2] (*This applies only to the maple, a relatively less important acoustical contributor to violin-family instruments. Spruce for Stradivari's instruments was not likely to have been brought through Venice, as it came from Northern Italy and parts further North. As such there would have been no need for such a round-about journey.)

By late 2003, Nagyvary refined his techniques and produced a violin that was tested in a duel with the Leonardo da Vinci of 1725, an instrument not from Stradivari’s golden period.^[3] Both violins were played in each of four selections of music by violinist Dalibor Karvay behind a screen to an audience of 600 attended by 160 trained musicians and 303 regular concert goers. This was the first public comparison of a Stradivari with a contemporary instrument before a large audience where the audience would cast ballots on the performance quality of each violin. The consensus was that Nagyvary's instrument surpassed the Stradivarius in each category by a small margin.^{[citation needed]} Such curtained showcases have been conducted numerous times during the 19th and 20th centuries, and continue in the 21st. In common with all such tests is that they did not use a double-blind experiment, where the experimenters do not know the instruments as well. All such observations should be interpreted in this light.

References[link]

• Bio of Joseph Nagyvary [1]
• Nagyvary's Violin Interest [2]
• Bio of Nagyvary from Nagyvary Violins [3]
• More Nagyvary Information (Nagyvary Violions) [4]
• Chemical secrets of Stradivari unveiled -- from the Telegraph [5]
• Stradivari 'owes it all to worms' -- Telegraph [6]
• Mystery Solved: Chemicals Made Stradivarius Violins Unique, Says Nagyvary [7]

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Joseph Bologna (born December 30, 1934) is an American actor.

Life and career[link]

Bologna was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brown University, where he majored in art history. After a hitch with the Marines, Bologna was hired to produce and direct Manhattan-based TV commercials.

The actor has a long history in film and television. His breakthrough film, Lovers and Other Strangers, written with his wife Renée Taylor, was based on the true-life circumstances of organizing a wedding on short notice with the involvement of his Italian extended family and Renee's Jewish clan. Several relatives performed as extras in the final cut. A year later, in 1971, the couple again collaborated to write and perform in the movie Made for Each Other.

Bologna stayed close with his old-neighborhood aunts and uncles after becoming successful. Two of them were slightly famous on their own: his Uncle Pat was "Blacky the Bootblack", whom Joseph Kennedy credited as his main influence when he sold all of his stock holdings in the summer of 1929 (the market crashed in October), and his aunt Pauline was one of the best-known chefs to the stars, working for Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds and many other luminaries.

Bologna's aunt Pauline chastised him for starring in the nudity-filled Blame it on Rio co-starring Michael Caine. Bologna replied, "Blame it on me, it's the last time I invite Aunt Pauline to a film premiere." In 1976 he starred in the television drama What Now, Catherine Curtis? with Lucille Ball, although as Bologna's other best-known film roles are that of temperamental 1950s television star Stan "King" Kaiser in the 1982 comedy hit My Favorite Year, starring Peter O'Toole and of Lenny Koufax, the frustrated father of Sonny Koufax, who was played by Adam Sandler in the 1999 comedy Big Daddy.

By 1987, Bologna was starring in the short-lived TV sitcom/musical "Rags to Riches" as the millionaire mogul turned foster father, Nick Foley. The show aired for two seasons.

He played the mad scientist Dr. Malavaque in the 1985 comedy "Transylvania 6-5000".

From 1996 to 1998, he voice-acted the character Inspector Dan Turpin, a hot-headed police officer modeled after Jack Kirby, in several episodes of Superman: The Animated Series.

In 2006, he became the voice of Mr Start in "Ice Age: The Meltdown."

He is married to the actress Renee Taylor, with whom he has a son. Taylor and Bologna have also co-starred on stage and on TV. Bologna played a love interest for his real-life wife in the "Maternal Affairs" episode of the CBS sitcom The Nanny in the sixth and final season in which Taylor plays Sylvia, the already-married mother of Fran Drescher's character. He also appeared in the first season episode "The Gym Teacher" as a famous actor for whom Maxwell Sheffield once interned.

Filmography[link]

• Made for Each Other (1971) - Giggy
• Honor Thy Father (1973) - Salvatore (Bill) Bonnano
• Acts of Love and Other Comedies (1973) - Arthur Hellman
• Cops & Robbers (1973) - Joe
• Mixed Company (1974) - Pete
• What Now, Catherine Curtis? (1976) - Peter
• The Big Bus (1976) - Dan Torrance
• Woman of the Year (1976) - Sam Rodino
• Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) - Ted Conti
• Chapter Two (1979) - Leo Schneider
• My Favorite Year (1982) - King Kraiser
• One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983) - Max Boone
• The Joe Piscopo Special (1984) - Rev. Jimmy
• Bedrooms (1984) - Host/Bill/David
• Blame It on Rio (1984) - Victor Lyons
• The Woman in Red (1984) - Joe
• Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) - Dr. Malavaqua
• Copacabana (1985) - Rico Castelli
• A Time to Triumph (1986) - Chuck Hassan
• Sins (1986) - Steve Bryant
• Rags to Riches (1986-1987) - Nick Foley
• Not Quite Human (1987) - Gordon Vogel
• Coupe de Ville (1990) - Uncle Phil
• Alligator II: The Mutation (1991) - David Hodges
• Married with Children (1991) - Charlie Verducci
• Top of the Heap (1991) - Charlie Verducci
• Citizen Cohn (1992) - Walter Winchell
• Murder, She Wrote (1992) - Brynie Sullivan
• Daddy Dearest (1993) - Dr. Di Napoli
• L.A. Law (1994) - Jack Barbara
• Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994) - Aaron Humphrey
• The Nanny (1994-1999) - Alan Beck / Dr. Joe Razzo
• Caroline in the City (1996) - Lou Spadaro
• Love Is All There Is (1996) - Mike Capomezzo
• Worlds's Finest (1996) - SCU Lt. Dan Turpin
• Superman: The Animated Series (1997-1999) - SCU Lt. Dan Turpin
• Jenny (1998) - Bernie
• Big Daddy (1999) - Lenny Koufax
• Martial Law (1999) - Alistair Temple
• Returning Mickey Stern (2002) - Mickey Stern
• The Chris Isaak Show (2002) - Uncle Corky
• Arliss (2002) -
• Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part ((2005) - Louis Angelini
• Everwood (2005) - Max Barrett
• Boynton Beach Club (2005) - Harry
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - Mr. Start
• According to Jim (2006) - Bill
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2010) - Giovanni 'Papa' DiMasa
• Driving Me Crazy (2012 film) (2012 post-production) - Martin Brown

External links[link]

• Joseph Bologna at the Internet Movie Database
• Joseph Bologna at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joseph Bologna at AllRovi