Texas residents sift through tornado rubble

FORNEY, Texas (AP) ? As a twister bore down on her neighborhood, Sherry Enochs grabbed the three young children in her home and hid in her bathtub. The winds swirled and snatched away two of the children. Her home collapsed around her.

Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt.

Enochs, 53, stood Wednesday amid the wreckage of what was once her home in the North Texas city of Forney, among the hardest hit by a series of tornadoes that barreled through one of the nation's largest metropolitan areas a day earlier. No one was reported dead, and of the more than 20 injured, only a handful were seriously hurt.

"If you really think about it, the fact that everybody who woke up in Forney yesterday is alive today in Forney, that's a real blessing," Mayor Darren Rozell said.

The National Weather Service is investigating the damage caused by the tornadoes, which appeared to flatten some homes and graze others next door. The twisters jumped from place to place, passing many heavily populated areas overhead and perhaps limiting what could have been a more damaging, deadly storm. Most of Dallas was spared the full wrath of the storms.

While tornadoes can strike major cities, having two major systems strike a single metropolitan area is highly unusual, meteorologist Jesse Moore said. The Texas twisters would have done more damage had they stayed on the ground for more of the storms' path. But weather experts and officials credited the quick response to tornado warnings for preventing deaths or more injuries.

In the Diamond Creek subdivision where Enochs' home was destroyed, residents put on work gloves Wednesday and began cleaning up. Many noticed things in their yards that didn't belong to them.

Enochs doesn't have a clear memory of exactly how things happened Tuesday, but she was found holding her grandson in the bathtub, which had blown into the area where her garage once was. A 3-year-old she was watching was found wandering around the backyard. A neighbor pulled another child Enochs had been taking care of, 19-month-old Abigail Jones, from the rubble.

"I heard the rumbling from the tornado and I didn't even hear the house fall," Enochs said.

Abigail was taken to the hospital but released. The blonde, smiling child with bows in her hair was bruised all over her body, but not seriously hurt. Her mother, Misty Jones, brought her back Wednesday to see what had happened.

Seven people were injured in Forney, none seriously. An additional 10 people were hurt in Lancaster, south of Dallas, and three people in Arlington, west of Dallas.

National Weather Service crews in Forney, east of Dallas, spotted storm damage that suggested the twister there was an EF3, with wind speeds as high as 165 mph. Other tornadoes in Arlington and Lancaster appear to have been EF2 tornadoes, with wind speeds up to 135 mph. Tornadoes can range from EF0, the weakest, to EF5, the strongest. An EF2 or higher is considered a significant tornado.

A twister can hit one spot and continue for miles before touching down again, Moore said. It's difficult to explain why a tornado touches down when it does.

"It can destroy one house and the one across the street is fine. It can go back up for a mile or two and drop back down," Moore said. "That's all the crazy things that can happen with tornadoes."

Randy McKeever and his wife and several of their friends sorted through what was left of their house Wednesday. Their roof was completely gone. The front yard was littered with shingles and pieces of wood. Inside was a jumble of belongings. McKeever, 47, wore work gloves as he tried to find anything that could be salvaged.

"There's a bunch of stuff in there that's not even ours," he said.

Stunning video from Dallas showed big-rig trailers tossed into the air and spiraling like footballs. An entire wing of an Arlington nursing home crumbled. In Lancaster, dozens of young children cowered in the safe room of a day care near a local church. The storm pulled one of the walls back "like you were peeling an orange," day care director Danita Harris said.

The students were moved further indoors and rode out the rest of the storm safely, she said.

"Not one Band-Aid had to be applied," Harris said.

Hundreds of flights into and out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field were canceled or diverted elsewhere Tuesday. American Airlines, which operates most flights at the airport, said it canceled more than 400 flights Wednesday after stopping about 800 Tuesday. An airport spokesman said more than 110 planes were damaged by hail.

April is typically the worst month in a tornado season that stretches from March to June, but Tuesday's outburst suggests that "we're on pace to be above normal," said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Bishop.

Gov. Rick Perry plans an aerial tour of the damage on Thursday.

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Associated Press writers Schuyler Dixon in Arlington; Diana Heidgerd, Terry Wallace and David Koenig in Dallas; Betsy Blaney in Lubbock; and Paul Weber in San Antonio contributed to this report.

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The Obesity-Eating Disorder Paradox

America is suffering from two serious health crises that initially seem contradictory. Levels of obesity have risen to epidemic proportions in recent decades, while the high frequency of eating disorders has become cause for serious concern. Healthcare professionals are now charged with the difficult task of simultaneously fighting two diseases located on opposite ends of the health spectrum. While the diseases may seem antithetical, recent findings have shown that they may, in fact, stem from the same source: a fundamental problem within American culture that has injured the way Americans think about food, exercise, and their own bodies. American society is not suffering from two distinct health problems. It is experiencing two symptoms of one serious cultural disorder.

Two Serious Health Problems
The forces that promote obesity are ubiquitous in American society. Meals are being super-sized, food items heavily processed, and inactive forms of recreation, such as watching TV and playing video games, have become the norm. In an interview with the HPR, Sean Palfrey, physician and Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine, emphasized the severity of America?s ?Obesity Epidemic,? which is now at an all time high: ?Some of these kids [in cities around the country] are literally eating themselves to death.? Talk of America?s epidemic has swept the healthcare world, engulfed the mainstream media, and exposed a gluttonous nation addicted to junk food and allergic to exercise.

On the other hand, while the nation of plenty struggles to reduce its intake of cheap and fatty foods, unhealthy obsessions with weight and body image persist. Experts argue that the nation?s anti-obesity emphasis has left Americans vulnerable to a wide range of mental health issues, including eating disorders. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from eating disorders in the U.S. alone. Even more, anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents and its mortality rate is higher than any other mental illness. These are startling figures, particularly as twenty-five percent of college-aged women report using binging and purging for weight management. Even amongst those Americans who don?t suffer from eating disorders, pressures to be thin complicate relationships with food.

A Culture of Discontent
During competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, government foreign policy exports feared that Americans were being seen as too ?flabby.? Compared with the world outside of the U.S., they argued, Americans were drinking too much, eating too much, and not exercising enough. To combat this image, President Kennedy created the President?s Council on Youth Fitness and coined the term ?Soft American? as a means of getting Americans to change their lifestyles. As a result, more Americans began going to gyms and investing in fitness products. But what began as steps towards a healthier America evolved into another beast entirely?fears of weight gain and health obsessions. These fears have since become an underlying force behind both obesity and eating disorders.

In an interview with the HPR, Dr. Richard Gordon, author of Eating Disorders: Anatomy of a Social Epidemic, described just how internalized this negativity towards fat has become. In his words, the assault on fat in American society is the ?last sanctioned form of public prejudice.? Dr. Michael Levine, co-author of The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, and Practice, agreed, in an interview with the HPR, that America has turned fat into a ?dirty word.? To prove his point, Levine frequently asks people to imagine the hypothetical statement, ?You are looking really good because you?ve put on some fat.? Because the word ?fat? is included, many Americans struggle to consider it a compliment despite the actual intention of the statement?to tell somebody that they look good. In American culture, fat is almost always perceived as negative.

Capitalizing on this deep-rooted obsession with body image, products and services promoting dieting and exercise have formed a multi-billion dollar industry in recent decades. The media is filled with advertisements for the latest weight-loss programs, healthy meal plans, and ways to achieve that ?perfect body.? Television shows such as ?The Biggest Loser? and ?Fat Chef? have successfully made their way into the American household. As such, the ?war on fat? has actually extended beyond public policies and has seeped into American culture. In an interview with the HPR, Dr. Cynthia Bulik, a professor of eating disorders and nutrition at University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill, pointed to ?Big Fashion, Big Diet, and Big Media? as the basic components of a ?culture of discontent that makes [Americans] continually dissatisfied with [their] bodies.?

Frustrated and Fat
Even worse, America might be said to be a fat country with ?fear of fat.? Though the war on obesity dates back to the 1960s, levels of obesity have risen steadily in recent decades. In an interview with the HPR, Dr. Allison Field, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, noted that as obesity has become more and more prevalent, the ideal standard of beauty has not changed, resulting in a growing gap between the average person and his or her ideal body image. A contrast which, he believes, has led both genders to become very concerned about weight and has further fueled the rise of obesity-eating disorder paradox.

Dr. Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, an Associate Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has found that many personality characteristics that predict obesity are actually the same that indicate the existence of eating disorders. In an interview with the HPR, she cited depression, dieting behaviors, excessive weight concern, and most importantly what she calls, ?loss of control eating? as predictors of both conditions. And dieting frequently, she noted, often backfires and can lead to more weight gain, as recent research has observed. Therefore, the country is caught in a vicious cycle of weight gain, separation from the ideal body image, dieting behaviors, and more weight gain. The ultimate result: a country of unhappy, unhealthy people.

Potential Solutions
Conceptualizations of new, more integrative approaches to addressing both eating disorders and obesity have emerged from the work of researchers who study the two issues together. Dr. Dianne Neumark- Sztainer, Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, explained in her article ?Can We Simultaneously Work Toward the Prevention of Obesity and Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents?? that the environment in which Americans live needs to change in order to foster healthy behaviors and prevent a situation that ?further stigmatizes overweight persons.? For this reason, researchers like Neumark- Sztainer believe that energy should not be focused on weight and dieting, but rather on positive lifestyle changes for the sake of being healthy, not attractive.

The ?Let?s Move? campaign, an initiative launched by Michelle Obama dedicated to solving the childhood obesity problem within a generation, is one potentially positive approach. In an interview with the HPR, Dr. Judith Palfrey, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School who consults the ?Let?s Move? campaign, praised its focus on healthy lifestyles as opposed to an idealized body image. ?Let?s Move,? she explained, ?stresses eating healthy food in appropriate portions? not too much but also not too little.? Palfrey noted that an added bonus of ?Let?s Move? is that it decreases young people?s exposure to images of unattainable beauty from the media by getting them to turn off the television and exercise.

A priority of any program should also be to foster healthy relationships with food. The ways in which people perceive food and approach eating is a fundamental problem that fuels all sorts of unhealthy behaviors. Dr. Field proposed the idea of promoting home-cooked meals as a means of returning people to eating simpler foods and enhancing their feeling of connection with what they consume. Other positive approaches include education in schools, training kids to listen to their bodies? internal cues, encouraging people to eat more slowly, refraining from classification of foods as good or bad, and promoting a general mindfulness about the kinds of foods people are eating.

Even though experts agree that the focus shouldn?t be on weight, they view the public?s growing awareness of obesity-related health concerns positively. ?It is absolutely healthy to be health conscious,? Tanofsky-Kraff maintains. However, ?It?s knowing when health conscious is health conscious? and not going to extremes that is most important. Indeed, American society will need to give up the extreme dichotomies it has created regarding dieting and exercise in order to find a healthier balance of moderation.

Conclusions
Failing to deal with the reality of America?s obesity problem for fear of perpetuating an unhealthy obsession with body image would be a disservice to the public and perilous for the health of the nation. However, it is equally detrimental to attempt to tackle obesity by promoting restrictive diets and extreme exercise regiments. Adopting approaches that focus on positive attitude and lifestyle changes not only protects against eating disorders and issues of body image, but also is actually more successful in preventing obesity. Therefore, America need not choose one fight over the other. The solutions to both issues are actually one in the same.

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Bad Boy MC Los Dedicates Song To Trayvon Martin

Diddy urges fans to retweet link to rapper's 'Wit My Hoodie On' tribute track.
By Rob Markman


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The tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin has led a number of prominent hip-hop artists to speak out. On last week's "RapFix Live," Nas, Bun B, Killer Mike and Prodigy all expressed their views on the Florida teen's death at the hands of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.

The discussion around Martin, who was wearing a hoodie when he was killed, has also led to protests, televised debates and songs dedicated to young Trayvon. The latest of such singles comes from Diddy signee Los. On Sunday night, the Bad Boy mogul tweeted the link to Los' "Wit My Hoodie On" and urged his followers to retweet it to the world.

The Baltimore MC begins the somber, violin-laced track saying, "I just came here tonight to celebrate the life of Trayvon Martin. Put your hoodie on." Los' track was released eight days after Plies dropped his dedication, "We Are Trayvon," in what seems to be a growing trend.

On "Wit My Hoodie On," Swagger Boy Los goes on to compare the Trayvon tragedy to his own troubles. He begins the first verse recalling the murder of his father 15 years ago and the effect it has had on his life. Toward the second half of the verse, Los brings it back full-circle, spitting, "I'm wrestling for this one shot/ Feeling like Trayvon on the lawn before the gunshot/ I ain't gettin' my up-to-no-good on/ They just wanna kill me, because I put my hood on."

The song's hook is an ode to the hoodie, a fashion staple and now a symbolic representation of Trayvon's gripping death. "I ride (with my hoodie on), I hustle (with my hoodie on)/ Damn right, I represent the struggle (with my hoodie on)."

Veteran news reporter Geraldo Rivera recently said that he believed "the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman." But on Sunday night, Rivera apologized to Martin's parents when they appeared on his Fox News show. Trayvon's dad, Tracy Martin, accepted Rivera's apology and took a moment to clarify why his son was actually wearing the sweatshirt.

"Your apology is accepted," he said. "Let me just add one thing with the wearing of the hoodie. I don't think America knows that, in fact, at the time of the incident when he initially made the call, it was raining. So Trayvon had every right to have on his hood. He was protecting himself from the rain.

"So if being suspicious, walking in the rain with your hoodie on is a crime, then I guess the world is doing something wrong."

What do you think of Los' "Wit My Hoodie On"? Tell us in the comments.

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Los Hermanos Musulmanes presentar?n a las elecciones egipcias a su n?mero dos

El grupo islamista los Hermanos Musulmanes presentar? a su "n?mero dos", Jairat al Shater, como candidato a la presidencia de Egipto, seg?n anunciaron sus dirigentes.

Pese a que en un inicio se hab?an comprometido a no aspirar a la jefatura del Estado, el Consejo de la Shura del grupo aprob? en una ajustada votaci?n apoyar a Al Shater, una decisi?n que puede tener gran influencia sobre los comicios por el enorme peso popular de la cofrad?a.

El l?der de la Hermandad, Mohamed Badia, confirm? en una esperada rueda de prensa la designaci?n de Al Shater y ley? en su nombre un mensaje en el que aceptaba la designaci?n.

La decisi?n, que revoca el compromiso que los Hermanos Musulmanes adoptaron tras la revuelta que hizo caer al presidente Hosni Mubarak en febrero de 2011, llega en medio de las grandes divergencias que enfrentan al poderoso grupo islamista con la Junta Militar que dirige el pa?s.

Los Hermanos Musulmanes mantienen otro contencioso abierto con las fuerzas liberales y laicas del pa?s, que los acusan de querer monopolizar la redacci?n de la nueva Constituci?n.

En la rueda de prensa, el secretario general del grupo, Mahmud Husein, justific? su cambio de posici?n con que "existe una amenaza real a la revoluci?n y al proceso de transici?n democr?tica".

El previsible candidato, que deber? todav?a recibir la aprobaci?n de la m?s alta instancia del grupo, fue condenado el 15 de abril de 2008 a siete a?os de c?rcel por blanqueo de dinero y pertenencia a una organizaci?n prohibida, aunque tras el triunfo de la llamada Revoluci?n del 25 de Enero fue excarcelado.

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Fletcher named president of Sound Publishing

Gloria Fletcher has been named President of Sound Publishing.

Fletcher comes to Sound from Gatehouse Media, where she was Regional Vice President responsible for 85 publications spread over 13 states based in Joplin, Mo. Prior to Gatehouse, she was Division Vice President for Community Newspaper Holdings from 2000 to 2007, responsible for their Oklahoma group. She also worked for American Publishing Company from 1988 to 1999, after beginning her career working for a small daily in Woodward, Okla., in 1985.?She is an honors graduate of the University of Oklahoma and serves on the board of directors of the Local Media Association (formerly Suburban Newspapers of America). Gloria is married with two sons, ages 14 and 17, and she and her family are excited about the move to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.?She will take up her new position in April and will be relocating her family over the summer.

?I?m honored to join Sound Publishing and Black Press,? Fletcher said. ?I?m anxious to be on-site to learn about the area, the plethora of print and digital news products and really get to know the many talented people who produce them. My family and I are very excited to get there.?

Fletcher?s appointment was announced March 26 by Rick O?Connor, Chief Operating Officer of Black Press of Victoria, B.C., Sound Publishing?s parent company, and company owner David Black.

?David and I are excited about the quality of leadership that Gloria brings to her new position and we hope to build on the new acquisitions we announced in the fall of last year,? O?Connor said.?O?Connor thanked both Josh O'Connor and Lori Maxim, Vice Presidents of Sound Publishing, for their leadership and guidance of Sound over the past two years. He also thanked executives Mark Warner and Don Kendall for their work in bringing both the Port Angeles and Sequim newspapers into the Sound group over the past few months.??Gloria is inheriting a group of publishing titles and websites that I think is poised for strong growth given the quality of assets, the health of the marketplace and talented employees,? O?Connor said.

Based in Poulsbo and Bellevue, Wash., Sound Publishing, Inc., owns and operates 38 community newspapers, including The Arlington Times and The Marysville Globe, and 14 Little Nickel publications in the greater Puget Sound area. In fall of 2011, Sound Publishing added the Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles), Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum to their community newspaper holdings. Collectively, Sound Publishing has circulation of 773,126.

Sound Publishing?s broad household distribution blankets the greater Puget Sound region, extending northward from Seattle to Canada, south to Salem, Ore., and westward to the Pacific Ocean.

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Health And Fitness Software, What Should Be In It? Part 1

Let?s keep the answer simple; everything that is related to your health.

The most important indicators for your state of health can be measured though your vital signs, like blood pressure, cholesterol level, heart beat, body mass index etc. The major input that influence these health indicators are what and how much you eat and drink, smoke, medication use, life style, daily activity and air quality.

Beside our genetic disposition, we are what we eat, drink and breathe.

A good health and fitness software program should be able to capture the above mentioned input and correlate the results with the output, or health indicators. This way you create a cause and effect system that the user can analyze and consequently take corrective measures and improve his or her overall health.

The bigger picture teaches us that an effective health and fitness software program contains modules that can monitor our food intake, record our body measurements and vital signs. Furthermore it should track our daily activities and convert them into calories burned. Also it should keep track of our medicine and supplement intake and monitor our overall health level. For the sport and bodybuilders we need additional modules that can keep track of our workout activities, sport results and fitness tests

Let?s start with food intake.

Most of the time we eat together with our family therefore a health and fitness software program should never be restricted to one user.

People tend to repeat the recipes they cook and meals they prepare on a regular interval. For most people this interval is between 20 and 30 days. Furthermore people tend to buy more or less the same ingredients for their meals. For this reason a fitness or diet program boosting databases with thousands of food items will be more of a hindrance than a benefit. The reason that I say this is because it will be very time consuming to pick an ingredient for a recipe or meal plan from a list of thousands of ingredients.

Look for a program that has the basic ingredients to build your recipes and allows you to add food items that are specific to your taste.

A food?s nutrition facts change depending on how it is conserved, processed or cooked. For example a cup of canned spinach that is cooked will have totally different nutrition facts than a cup of fresh spinach. Look for a program that can make a distinction between these food properties.

The cost of buying special diet foods can be a lot more (up to 2.5 times) than what the average American spends on food. It is a plus if a health and fitness software program can keep track of the food cost by recipe, meal and day. It is really a bonus if the program can compare grocery prices between shops and help you budget.

A recipe module is imperative to a good health and fitness system. This is the place where you can experiment and adjust your recipes to your diet?s nutritional fact limits. The recipe should calculate its nutritional facts per portion depending on the weight ratio of each ingredient that has been added to the recipe. Naturally you should be able to print the recipe and see the total recipe cost and the cost per portion. Having the ability of adding recipe pictures is a plus.

You should also have the ability to create multiple meal plans in the system. Maybe you would like a separate plan for the kids or baby. Or for a partner that has a cholesterol problem, high blood pressure or diabetes. Or you simply want to change diets. These meal plans should repeat over a certain amount of days. The timing of the meals should be more then just breakfast, lunch and dinner. Many diets ask for many small recipe portions during the day. The food items that you select on the meal plan should come from the ingredients as well as from the recipes. For instance you can add a raw apple to your meal plan, which is an ingredient to make an apple sauce recipe. The apple sauce recipe or the raw apple can each be added to the meal plan

As you would expect, the software program should be able to calculate the meal plan cost and nutrition facts by day and for the whole meal plan.

How are you going to keep track of what you actually ate on a particular day and how do you know how to stick exactly to your plan? You do this by printing a meal plan worksheet for a particular day and you note the actual differences from the plan.

We don?t have much time in today?s busy society; therefore you should be able to register the actual daily food consumption in less then 30 seconds. A system that forces you every day for every meal to select your food items from a list of thousands records is not going to make it in 30 seconds. Only select a system that automatically populates your meal plan for that day and you only update the actual differences from the plan.

Just adding your daily food intake to a database is not going to benefit you. It will create a ?data cemetery?, data that is never examined. The food data needs to be analyzed and correlated to other types of data like your body measurements or calories burned. Click on the calorie analysis hyperlink to view an example. The chart makes it very quickly clear that the calorie intake line is under the calories spent line and consequently you will lose weight.

Next article I will talk about activity calorie counting and the factors involved.

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Mega Millions jackpot, Twitter falls victim to April Fools joke

Mega Millions jackpot, Twitter falls victim to April Fools joke

Saturday, March, 31, 2012; 6:09 PM | | |

Over the last 24 hours, all of the country has been scrambling to find out who the three lucky people who won a slice of the $640 million Mega Million jackpot are.

Quickly, social media gave us the first. Chris Cunningham ? a senior hospitality and tourism management major at Virginia Tech ? posted a picture of the winning ticket on his Twitter account less than an hour after the drawing and it took off from there.

There?s just one problem with the fairytale story: It was a hoax.

Cunningham and three friends Brian Evans, Matthew Folkemer and KJ Harkness saw the lottery as an opportunity to trick the entire world. The idea came to them while they were getting ready to go out like any other Friday night, when they had a better idea.

?We used Photoshop and made the ticket look very legit and we Tweeted it,? Cunningham said. ?All we Tweeted was, ?Our lives have changed.? All four of us Tweeted, but for some reason, everyone thought it was me. Next thing I knew, I blew up.

?We were literally just about to go out and we were like, ?We could drink tonight, or we could fool the world and get ourselves trending on Twitter,?? he said.

The plan worked, as Cunningham said he has been trending on Twitter all over the world, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil. Cunningham now has more than 9,000 followers on Twitter and has seemingly become the most sought after bachelor in the country.

?I had girls saying they wanted to marry me, I had porn stars sending personal invites to come to their city,? Cunningham said. ?I?ve been hit up by Good Morning America, I?ve been hit up by CNN, UK, ESPN radio ? but it was an April Fools Joke. I didn?t win it.?

The groups? entire goal going into this was to try and get on Comedy Central?s show Tosh.0, hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh.

?That was literally the whole goal ? to get on Tosh.0,? Cunningham said.

Even as he got hundreds of messages all day from friends and media outlets, he stayed firmly attached to his goal, stating on Twitter, ??No interviews unless your name is Daniel tosh @danieltosh #CHAMonTOSH.?

That aspiration could very well be in the future too, as Comedy Central has contacted Cunningham this afternoon.

Cunningham earned his 15 minutes of fame by exploiting the flaws in relying on social media such as Twitter and has successfully pulled off one of the best April Fools pranks of all time.

?Through social media, we tricked all of these people,? Cunningham said. ?I haven?t gotten anything but phone calls all day.?

If there?s been one downside to a plan that seemingly could not have gone better, it is that his hometown of Martinsville, Va. is now in a frenzy thinking one of its residents has literally hit the jackpot.

Cunningham?s parents have had to unplug their phone from the wall because of all of the calls they were getting and didn?t know how to respond, as they were aware it was a joke as well.

?I told them last night I was going to try this to see if it would work,? he said. ?They didn?t think it would.?

But eventually, Cunningham will have to go home and admit that he isn?t going to be buying anything extravagant any time soon.

?My hometown thinks I?m a millionaire, and I?m going to have to tell everyone it?s a joke ? that?s going to suck," he said.?

Winning tickets were sold in Kansas, Illinois and Baltimore, Md. Out of those, Cunningham was claiming he had possession of the one bought in Baltimore, where he claimed he'd been to shoot a music video with Harkness, known as Killa J, earlier in the week.

A version of this article appeared in the Apr 1 issue of the Collegiate Times.

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