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Michael Dennis (Canadian poet)

Michael Dennis's (Canadain poet) poetry is primarily in the tradition of narrative poets like the Canadian Al Purdy, and Americans Raymond Carver, and Charles Bukowski, though in recent years he has experimented with collaboration and centos.
==Personal life==
Dennis, who grew up mostly in Peterborough, Ontario, has travelled extensively through Canada. His working life has included stints in car plants and copper mines; installing artworks for the National Art Bank and the Canadian Museum of History; doing time as a short-order cook and dishwasher in a strip club; running a small boutique hotel in the ’80s; being a Santa at the Kmart in Charlottetown; operating a non-profit ESL school in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia, immediately following the Velvet Revolution; driving taxi and trucks; working as a private chauffeur. 
From 2013 to 2020, Dennis maintained the blog Today’s Book of Poetry, posting personal evaluations of 812 contemporary books of poetry.
Dennis has lived in Ottawa, Ontario, for the past 30 years.
== Bibliography ==
=== Poetry ===
* quarter on it's edge
* just standing in the rain, talkin' to myself
* poems for one-eyed jacks
* sometimes passion, sometimes pain
* no saviour and no special grace
* Christmas on the Nile
* poems for jessica-flynn
* so you think you might be judas
* how to keep a poet out of jail, or ship of fools, car of idiots
* Portrait
* wayne gretzky in the house of the sleeping beauties
* Fade to Blue
* what we remember and what we forget
* missing the kisses of eloquence
* the on-going dilemma of small change
* what we pass over in silence
* no gravy, no garlands, no bright rights
* This Day Full of Promise
* all those miles yet to go
* Poems For Another Poetry Reading
* Eros of Desire
* Coming Ashore on Fire 
* Arrows of Desire
* you must remember beauty when they point the gun
* Smile
* how are you she innocently asked
* Watching the Late Night Russian News in the Nude
* The Uncertainty of Everything
* forgiveness, my new sideline
* On Being a Dodo
* A Tiresome Litany of Indignities
* Talking Giraffes
* Bad Engine: New & Selected Poems
* Divining
* Sad Balloon
* Caterwaul
* The President of the United States
* Low Centre of Gravity
* Spøkjelse i japanske drosjar (Ghosts in Japanese Taxis) 
* 70 Kippers (with Stuart Ross)
== References ==
Category:Canadian poets
Michael Dennis (artist)

Michael Dennis (b. 1941 in Los Angeles) is a Canadian-American artist, considered at present "one of the most sought-after sculptors working in natural wood and wood forms." https://bcbooklook.com/2019/02/04/37652/ His best-known work is likely Reclining Figure, exhibited in Vancouver's Dude Chilling Park since 1991 and considered "a famous East Vancouver icon" as well as a "focal point of the neighbourhood." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wood-sculptures-celebrate-roots-at-vandusen-gardens-1.1380771.https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/vancouver-s-dude-chilling-statue-exemplifies-accessible-public-art-1.4555563?cache=?clipId=104059 
Educated at Reed College and Stanford University as a neurophysiologist https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/?request=record;id=1724;type=701, he taught at Harvard Medical School and was a Research Fellow at University College London before working as Professor at University of California San Francisco from 1972 to 1979 http://www.duthiegallery.com/artists/michael-dennis/. Leaving science to devote himself to art, he has lived on Denman Island in British Columbia since the 1980s. He is divorced from the American developmental biologist Victoria Foe.
His work is held by Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, Olympic College, Seattle Vocational Institute and University of Washington, where some examples are on public display. https://collections.burnabyartgallery.ca/ListDetail?q=creator_txt%3A%22Dennis%2C+Michael%22&p=2&ps=1
https://collections.burnabyartgallery.ca/ListDetail?q=SFU&p=3&ps=1 http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/dennis/chancellor.htm
Other public pieces can be seen on Denman Island and in Bellevue Downtown Park. https://bcbooklook.com/2019/02/04/37652/
==External links==
* Michael Dennis - Duthie Gallery
* Michael Dennis - Sculptures and Art | Wescover
* Michael Dennis Online - Artcyclopedia
* Michael Dennis Art Gallery — Michael Dennis
== References ==
Category:1941 births
Category:Neurophysiologists
Category:Stanford University
Category:Reed College
Category:Canadian artists
Category:Canadian American
Michael Dinich

Michael Dinich (born 17 January 1981) is an American entrepreneur, journalist, personal finance expert, podcaster, and YouTuber. He is the founder of Your Money Geek, a popular website that offers approachable personal finance advice and pop culture news and commentary.
For over two decades he offered objective financial planning, investment management, and tax planning counsel to clients across the country. Winner of multiple awards, Dinich was in the Top 1% of the industry. A trusted advisor, a majority of his clients returned year after year to seek his advice.
==Early life and education==
Dinich was born on 17 January 1981 in Norristown, PA, to Michael R. Dinich and Bonnie Haines. He enrolled at the Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a degree in Economics. 
==Career==
For over 20 years, Dinich worked as a financial advisor. In 2018 he established Your Money Geek, an online platform to offer in-depth, well-researched, yet easy to understand articles to help his readers make informed decisions.
Your Money Geek is one of the leading sources for personal finance advice as well as pop culture news. It covers many topics ranging from finance to entertainment. From assisting people in debts, saving money for retirement, dealing with an emergency, or saving up some extra cash to enjoy their favorite comic convention, Dinich’s site covers it all.
==Personal life==
Dinich is married to Elizabeth Dinich, and they have two children. In his free time, Dinich likes to watch movies and play video games.
==In the media==
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==References==
==External links==
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Category:1981 births
Category:American journalists
Category:American investment advisors
Category:American podcasters
Category:American YouTubers
Category:American entrepreneurs
Michael Duchen

Michael R. Duchen is a British Professor of Physiology in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University College London (UCL), currently researching mitochondrial biology.
== Education ==
Michael studied Physiology and Medicine in Oxford, 1971-75, then moved to St George's Hospital Medical School to complete his clinical training, graduating 1978. he worked in clinical medicine in junior hospital appointments 1978-1981 including a period working at a rural hospital in the Transkei, South Africa. He moved to the UCL Department of Physiology to embark on PhD studies 1981 -1984 with Tim Biscoe as supervisor and mentor. He has stayed at UCL Physiology (now the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology) ever since, first as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, then as Reader and Professor. His early research was electrophysiological with an interest in neurotransmitter receptor biology.
== Honours ==
Michael is member of Academia Europaea 2007; Fellow of the Royal Society of Biologists, 2011; Council of Bioenergetics group, Biophysical Society, 2011; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 2014; 2018 awarded Charles L Hoppel 2018 International prize for ‘outstanding contributions to mitochondrial research .
Category:British people
Category:English people
Category:British educators
Michael E Burns

Mikko Kärkkäinen (born 1975) is a Finnish entrepreneur and business executive known for his contributions to supply chain management and retail technology. He is the co-founder and CEO of RELEX Solutions.
== Education and career ==
Kärkkäinen earned a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management and Industrial Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in 2000, later completing a PhD in 2005. He began his career as a Supply Chain Consultant at Sedecon Consulting and served as a Project Manager at the Helsinki University of Technology BIT Research Centre.
In 2005, Kärkkäinen co-founded RELEX Solutions alongside Johanna Småros and Michael Falck. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Board of Directors at Retail Logistics Excellence – RELEX Oy.
In 2022, Kärkkäinen and his co-founders established the RELEX Foundation for a Better Future, a €100 million charity focused on addressing climate change and inequality. He has published thirty academic papers and speaks on logistics and supply chain management.
== Awards ==
* Pros to Know award, Supply & Demand Chain Executive, 2023.
* Provider Pro to Know award, Supply & Demand Chain Executive, 2018.
Category:1975 births
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Helsinki University of Technology alumni
Michael Eastwood

Michael Eastwood FAA is a mathematician at the University of Adelaide, known for his work in twistor theory, conformal differential geometry and invariant differential operators. In 1976 he received a PhD at Princeton University in several complex variables under Robert C. Gunning. He was a member of the twistor research group of Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and he coauthored the monograph The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory with Robert Baston. After moving to South Australia in 1985 he was the 1992 recipient of the Australian Mathematical Society Medal and made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005. 
==In the media==
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== References ==
==External links==
* Michael Eastwood - Inner Traditions
* Professor Michael Eastwood - School of Mathematical Sciences
* Michael Eastwood | Australian Academy of Science
* Michael Eastwood's research works | University of Adelaide
* Michael Eastwood: Books - Amazon.in
* Michael Eastwood - Mathematical Sciences Institute, ANU
Category:Australian people
Category:Australian mathematicians
Category:Australian writers
Category:Doctoral degrees
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:University of Adelaide faculty
Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Michael Eraut

Michael Eraut was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, then British India. For school, Michael and his brother Dennis Eraut travelling from British India by the MV Monte Rosa which was later renamed as the HMT Empire Windrush ship to school in Cambridge, England. Both Michael and his brother excelled in their school years, in mathematics and sports. Dennis Eraut eventually training as a medic and becoming a medical consultanthttps://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0007-0971(81)80027-7/fulltext. 
==Education and academic career==
===Education===
Scholar at Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1959-62, BA PhD Cambridge; Fulbright Scholar at University of Illinois, Chicago,1 965-7. Professor of Education, University of Sussex, since 1986. Director of Institute for Continuing and Professional Education 1986-91. Professor Emeritus from 2006.http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/831
===Books===
Best known book, Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence (1994) has now been considerably updated by recent publications. These cover pre-qualification, early career and mid-career learning and range over 12 professions; and include substantial research projects funded by the ESRC and the Departmemts of Education, Health and Employment. I was founder editor of the Blackwells journal Learning in Health and Social Care, 2002-6. I have currrent consultancy work with the University of Surrey (enhancing learning on student placements), Australian National University (preparation for legal practice) and the Royal College of Surgeons (training of specialist registrars).http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/831
==Nobel Prize==
It was regularly said that a Nobel Prize should be created for Eraut's work.
== References ==
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Category:People of British India
Category:1940 births
Category:2018 deaths
Michael Esola

Michael Charles Esola (born December 29, 1979) is an American technology and media entrepreneur. He is the founder, chief executive officer and early investor of Ficto.http://www.ficto.tv/ He is also the co-founder, chief executive officer and early investor in MAT.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.ficto.myapptoday
== Life & Career ==
Esola was born and raised in rural Indiana where he obtained public schooling in Valparaiso. He briefly attended the New York Film Academy in 1999, and in 2002, Indiana University, where he graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Cinema and Media Artshttps://mediaschool.indiana.edu/academics/degrees/ba-media/cinema-media-arts.html with High Distinction and also with a Bachelors of Science with High Distinction from the Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, IN.
He was hired to work as an assistant in August 2002 in the William Morris Agency mailroom in Beverly Hills, California where he was promoted to Motion Picture Literary Agent in 2005. After establishing a client roster that included screenwriters and film directors, Esola joined William Morris Endeavor when the two companies merged in April 2009. Esola made a name for himself when Reuters. ranked him as the top pitch sales agent three years in a row from 2011 to 2013. Esola jumped to the United Talent Agency in 2015 as part of a larger seismic shift among agents in the talent rep industry where earlier that same year, over twenty defected to the agency in a Midnight Raid. 
As streaming services became the dominant choice among consumers in content exhibition, Esola left agenting in 2018 and founded the technology-media company, Ficto,http://www.ficto.tv/ a next-gen dedicated mobile streaming platform. Based in West Hollywood, the Ficto app became free to download publicly in the App Store and Google Play, with sixty shows premiering on March 28th, 2020. At present, Ficto has distinguished itself in the streaming marketplace by offering a hybrid experience for viewers: it publishes shows that are combined with features which are popular in social media in order to create location-based shows, choice-based shows, live-stream shows and viewer content supported shows.
Esola co-founded MAThttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.ficto.myapptoday in May 2020 as part of an enterprise white label app offering of which Ficto’s technology powers customized streaming solutions for companies and organizations in need of exhibiting entertainment, corporate and philanthropy content around the world.
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* Michael Esola on Crunchbase
Category:1979 births
Category:American technology company founders
Category:American entrepreneurs
Category:American businesspeople
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Chief executive officers
Category:American chief executive officers
Michael Evans

Michael Evans (Cellist) (1932-2021) was a cellist who played in the Dartington String Quartet at Dartington Hall and taught the cello at the Dartington College of Arts..Michael Evans, 
'Life in a String Quartet', Dartington Hall News, 4th August 1967 <https://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/T/PP/EST/2/A> [accessed 21st Oct 2024] He subsequently became a cellist in The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He was awarded an Honorary Membership at the Royal College of Music in 1983, where he taught cello.Honorary Members of the Royal College of Music (2022), available at https://www.rcm.ac.uk/about/historyofthercm/honoursandfellowships
/List%20of%20HonRCM%202022.pdf [accessed 21 Oct 2024]
He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was taught the cello by William Pleeth. Michael played on a 1726 Stradivarius Cello, the Comte de Saveuse (see List of Stradivarius instruments). Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1726, the 'Comte de Saveuse', Tarisio Fine Instruments and Bows <https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/property/?ID=41609> [accessed 21 Oct 2024].
==Dartington==
At Dartington, Michael became a member of the already extant Dartington String Quartet. While he played with them, the quartet worked closely with Hans Keller on his new methodology for music analysis.Harriet Cunningham, 'Creative Hotspot: a cultural history of Dartington International Summer School of Music, 1953-1959' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Technology Sydney, 2019) <https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/creative-hotspot-cultural-history-dartington/docview/3039732547/se-2?accountid=13042> [accessed 21 Oct 2024]
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Category:English people
Category:1932 births
Category:2021 deaths
Michael Faye

Michael Larren Faye, born July 6, 1980, is an American economist and social entrepreneur. He is the President and co-founder of GiveDirectly, a non-profit that sends unconditional cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty... He is also the co-founder of Segovia Technology and co-founder and CEO of Taptap Send
== Background and education ==
Michael was born and raised in New York, and is the first son of Gayle and Ronald, who both worked as public school teachers. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Classics from Harvard University in 2002, and completed a PhD in Business Economics at Harvard in 2009. He worked as a research analyst on the United Nations Millennium Project and as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company where he focused on tech, risk, and regulation in the financial services industry. Michael went on to co-found GiveDirectly, a non-profit specializing in sending unconditional cash transfers to those living in extreme poverty, in 2009; Segovia Technology, a software company and mobile payment network that is making it easier for organizations to pay and be paid by anyone, anytime, anywhere in emerging markets, in 2014; and Taptap Send, a direct to consumer payment solution for emerging markets, in 2018
==In the media==
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== References ==
==External links==
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* Michael Faye | President & Co-Founder of GiveDirectly
* Michael Faye on linkedin
* Michael Faye | Innovations for Poverty Action
* Michael Faye | World Economic Forum
* Michael Faye - CEO, Co Founder @ Taptap Send
* Interview: Michael Faye of GiveDirectly | Alliance
* Michael Faye – Social Enterprise Conference
Category:1980 births
Category:American economists
Category:Social entrepreneurs
Category:Bachelor's degrees
Category:Doctoral degrees
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Business economics
Michael Finn-Henry

Michael Finn-Henry is a North American speed climber and entrepreneur. Born in the Boston area, Michael attended the Carrol School from a young age due to significant dyslexia. It was at The Carroll School that Michael discovered engineering and rock climbing. In high school these passions would grow onto the world stage with Michael qualifying for his first men's USA Climbing Team in 2016 at the age of 16, and securing an engineering internship at the Mechatronics research lab at MIT that same year.
From 2016 to 2021 he was a consistent member of the USA Climbing national team, making multiple World Cup finals, winning an IFSC Youth World Championship Medal and retaining the collegiate national championship title throughout all four years of university. At his last United States Men’s National Championship in 2021, Michael Finn-Henry qualified first in the US for men and won the North American Cup Series before going on to exercise his dual citizenship competing on the Canadian national team beginning in 2022. Since then michael has broken the Canadian national record twice, in the 2022 Chamonix men’s World Cup with a time of 5.69 seconds, and in the 2023 Salt Lake City men’s World Cup with a time of 5.59 seconds. His stated goal is to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games for team Canada.
Michael supported his climbing career with a series of entrepreneurial endeavors and research fellowships. Beginning with the commercialization of the research Michael was working on at MIT, Michael began a series of research based companies and licensing deals.Wu You, Youcef-Toumi Kamal, S. Kim Kristina, Finn Henry Michael, Ben Mansour Rached. "In-pipe leak detection systems, devices, and methods." Patent US10845007B2. 17 October 2017. In 2019 Michael was the recipient of the Vanderbilt Bruce and Bridget Evan’s Entrepreneur Scholarship in addition to being awarded the Searle Research Fellowship during his bachelors degree. Upon graduating from Vanderbilt with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering, Michael, deferred from a PhD of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University in order to train for the 2024 Olympics in Speed Climbing, and run EndoShunt Medical Inc., the medical device company he co-founded while at Vanderbilt. 
Category:People from Boston
Category:North American people
Category:Speed climbers
Category:Entrepreneurs
Michael Franklin (actor)

Michael Franklin is an American actor, documentary producer, and choreographer. His works frequently address the topics of Activism for African American youth.
== References ==
# Ross, Heather. "Dancing those pounds away". recordnet.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
#"Outfest 2021 Celebrates Life at Hollywood Forever Opening Gala". www.pride.com. 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2021-08-18. 
#"Michiel Thomas talks about filming the harrowing stories of Gemmel and Tim". QUEERGURU. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
#"'Gemmel and Tim': New film focuses on lives of 2 Black men who died in Ed Buck's apartment". KCRW. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
#"Ed Buck Conviction Documentary". This Week In Texas. 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2021-08-19
#"Eye for Film: Outfest Los Angeles 2021 - Documentary Features programme". www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
#Pawar, Abhijeet (2021-07-12). "Truth Be Told Season 2: Release Date, Teaser, Cast and Updates!". DroidJournal. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
#"The call of the wild". ABC Radio National. 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
#"That's Wild | DOCUTAH". Retrieved 2020-09-09.
# Producer "That's Wild". SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
# May, Rebecca (2020-10-24). "The Inner City Meets the Mountains". LMFF . Retrieved 2020-10-24.
# The D-Word: That's Wild - documentary film produced by Michael Franklin . www.d-word.com . Retrieved 2020-08-21.
#"'That's Wild' shows us the power of nature". SCAD District. 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
#"Professional Dancers". Oxygen Official Site. 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
#Meet Michael Franklin - Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
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Category:American producers
Category:American choreographers