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Thread: Real-Life Newsmakers

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    Default Real-Life Newsmakers

    Graham Jebb - soccer player who couldn't find shoes large enough to play 4 years ago;
    Henry McDonald - flew bombers and raced stock cars barefoot until his death in 2008;
    Josh Lauritch - Director of Brand Management at Warner Music Group;
    Lars Steinar Smedsrud - took his daughter on a 9-hour barefoot tour of Besseggen, Norway;
    Mauricio "Moe" Morales - AKA "Barefoot Moe", a Canadian devotee of "La Vida Descalzo" (story here: http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/he...service=mobile)
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    Default Tellman Knudson - internet entrepreneur and barefoot runner

    As founding partner of The New Hypnotists and Hypnosis.com and practicing hypnotherapist for over 13 years, Tellman Knudson specializes in wealth-building self-hypnosis for clients.

    In 2009 Tellman made his first attempt at running across America barefoot, completing 564 miles and raising over $300,000 for homeless youth in the United States.

    A master of internet and email marketing since 2006, today Tellman uses his legendary marketing skills to help other hypnotists build their practices.

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    Default 2nd Annual New York City Barefoot Run

    In 2011, participants in the 2nd Annual New York City Barefoot Run gathered for this wonderful shot:
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    Default Gerry Duffy and Ken Whitelaw - long-distance runners

    From July 2nd to August 2nd 2010, Gerry Duffy and Ken Whitelaw completed a full marathon of 26.2 miles every single day. During the 32 days they ran a marathon in every county in Ireland. Along the way over 1,100 runners joined them for a half or a full marathon and over ?500,000 was raised for Irish Autism Action and The Irish Cancer Society.
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    Default Efrem Rensi and Noah Elhardt - Barefoot runners

    California runners Efrem Rensi, left, and Noah Elhardt were featured in a 2007 Sacramento Bee story on barefoot running:
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    Default Jessiah Krasner - skateboarder

    Jessiah Krasner also prefers the barefoot way: "I guess being barefoot is just more comfortable, and I kind of like being different. Being barefoot makes me feel; I can longboard faster, and I can run faster.
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    Default Glenn Courson - Barefoot Mailman (1958)

    Seen in this photo is Glenn Courson, who hiked the entire Barefoot Mailman route from Palm Beach to Miami in South Florida in 1958. He told Miami Herald Staff Writer Ronald York frightening tales of sidewalks, snapping dogs (four-legged kind), rusty hotel groins, patchy oil scum washed ashore from ships - and hundreds of disease-carrying mosquitoes from the Florida swamps:
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    Last edited by footmonster; 08-13-2013 at 11:07 AM.

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    Ben Backstrom - 18-yr old Backstrom was voted PrepXtras soccer player of the year:
    Casey Cochran - founder of the Green Guide Network:
    Christian Peterson - president of the Minnesota chapter of the Barefoot Runners Society:
    Donald Frazier - barefoot running blogger:
    Simon Jilley - After injuring himself last year running the Bath Half Marathon in the wrong shoes, the 23-year-old Bath Spa University student ran 13 miles through the city barefoot:
    Last edited by footmonster; 08-19-2013 at 12:13 PM.

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    Post Glenn Greenwald and David Michael Miranda

    Glenn Greenwald with partner David Michael Miranda-Greenwald is the Guardian reporter who broke the Edward Snowden NSA spying story
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    Quote Originally Posted by aso49red View Post
    Glenn Greenwald with partner David Michael Miranda-Greenwald is the Guardian reporter who broke the Edward Snowden NSA spying story
    Great! Thanx for contributing!!!

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