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Joseph Furr (November 17, 1953 - May 29, 1973) was a Baltimore painter who was so committed to his art that he stopped laboring for a paycheck, eating only roaches during the summer of 1973.
Records of his existence are spotty, but several facts illustrate the course of his life. On May 29 1973, concerned neighbors at a warehouse on East Oliver Street complained of a bad smell coming from his efficiency. The landlord had received many complaints about Mr. Furr in the previous month. Reports of him climbing up the storm drain to get into his apartment, strange noises at night, a sudden infestation of cockroaches in neighboring apartments, and the sound of chopping were all reported to the landlord at various times. After the complaints of the cockroach infestation, maintenance men found Mr. Furr lying dead in his apartment when coming to fumigate. The landlord subsequently contacted the Baltimore Police Department. They found no evidence of trauma on the body, although a singular dilated pupil led the authorities to suspect heart failure.
In a sweep of the otherwise bare apartment, the landlord and the police located Mr. Furr’s paintings and art supplies, his clothing, 20 stacks of books, and a refrigerator empty apart from 6 glass jars full of roach carcasses. The puzzled law enforcement officials then took Joseph Furr to St. Agnes Hospital, where a routine autopsy revealed elevated levels of allethrin, a synthetic compound found in commercial insecticides, in his blood. The morgue physician initially suspected deliberate poisoning. However, after Mr. Furr’s large intestine yielded partially-digested roach remains, it became apparent that he had deliberately ingested roaches which, presumably unbeknownst to him, had been exposed to a household insecticide.
Records from Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore, MD indicate that Mr. Furr is inhumed in lot #110, an irregularly-shaped sepulcher towards the center of the graveyard, paid for by the an anonymous benefactor. His grave can be visited today, and is marked by a squat, beige stone near the rear of the graveyard. He isn't the most notorious member of the cemetery, but competes with the infamous John Wilkes Booth (Abraham Lincoln's assassin.)
Shortly after his death, most of his artwork was inherited by his sister, Kathleen Peoples. Mrs. Peoples, a Christian fundamentalist, described the paintings as offensive; she is believed to have destroyed them shortly after Mr. Furr’s death.
A cache of his artwork was found by a small group of warehouse tenants, who moved into the space which in 1973 Furr had rented, in 2006. Apparently, in the large closet Furr had buried two paintings and a small tooled box behind a rotted insulation board. The first consisted of a series of crisscrossing lines with the title “self-portrait” written in what later forensic analysis revealed to be Furr’s own semen mixed with a carbonate powder. The second painting was a detailed study of latrine microflora, and had metallic copper tubes as the main background. The final piece was a wooden cube with grotesque faces carved in high relief, painted red. These pieces are currently on display at Baltimore’s Oddities Museum at the East Oliver Gallery.

iNewsit is an independent community-powered news and current affairs website which attempts to draw original and accurate content from its users thus utilising the news-gathering capabilities of citizens at the scene of notable events.
It takes a page from Wikinews, CNN’s iReport and other similar initiatives as it acts as a social news platform, and encourages, regular citizens to upload videos, photos, audios and write articles from anywhere where there is breaking news. The site differs however in strategy in that it encourages public journalism to try and uncover the truth behind the headlines, as it attempts to empower the general public to expose stories which mainstream media have either dismissed as unimportant, failed to report in an impartial manner or deliberately distorted or covered up due to financial or political influences.
As mobile phone penetration rates across the world have increased dramatically in recent years, including in third world countries, iNewsit hopes to gather footage from camera enabled mobile phones. It encourages the general public to upload footage and photos from countries where there is tight media censorship, to expose to the world stories which would otherwise go unheard of. It hopes to expose human rights abuses and violations of international law.
Another major difference between iNewsit and other citizen news initiatives is that there is potential for members who upload material to the site, to earn some money. iNewsit acts as an agency marketing all its content to media groups and news agencies across the world attempting to sell the news content on the member’s behalf. iNewsit takes a commission for any news content it manages to sell.
The site has been particularly useful for students, freelance journalists and others wanting to take up journalism as a career, as it has helped to expose their work on the internet and promote their material to media organisations and publications across the world.
The website was launched on Tuesday, 4 Nov 2008, on the day of the United Sates presidential election in which Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president, and since has covered many major international events as well as local stories.
During the Gaza War of December 2008/January 2009 iNewsit received a large number of Videos, Photos and Articles from people in the region as well as some NGOs and media organisations. As a result, iNewsit appeared consistently on the first page of Google SERPs on many search terms related to the Israel Gaza war, appearing above major news organisation websites such as Al-Jazeera and CNN.
In recent months iNewsit has faced some strong criticism as it has no way of verifying the authenticity of the content it receives from its users. Some of the content submitted to the site have also appeared on YouTube and other media sharing sites so it cannot fully protect its members' material from being used without payment.
References
*http://www.inewsit.com/about_us.php
*http://www.inewsit.com/news/-iNewsit-Launched-
*http://www.ijnet.org/ijnet/training_opportunities/international_reports_sought_for_community_powered_internet_news_program
*http://www.kawaleesonline.com/index.php?news=1075
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The word 'Shunner' is a slang word for pensioner. It was started in Darlington by Rebecca & Janet Crame, to which the word became popular and more commonly used. There are also other uses of the word. Such as, 'Shunner Elbows' and 'Shunner Drivers'.

'Shunner Elbows' are frequently found in jumble sales, or other events where a frequent amount of 'Shunners' congregate; this is when a 'Shunner' barges his/her way though crowds with disregard for others, in order to get their bargain from the sale.

The 'Shunner Elbow' can also be found in the younger generation, more often, this is found in bars and clubs. This is when a person makes their way to the front of the queue at a busy bar by using pointed elbows. A perfected 'Shunner Elbow' is when a person can get to the front of a queue easily, whilst going unnoticed to fellow drinkers.

'Shunner Drivers' also falls under the 'Shunner' category. This is when 'shunners' drive at a slow, and dangerous, pace on the roads (most likely on Sunday mornings) 'Shunner Drivers' are likely to behave unexpectedly and make sudden, irrational moves on the road, such as pulling out without looking or weaving between two lanes. The speed limit for a 'Shunner Driver' is approximately 20mph.