Howard Hart

Results recently released from a 2011 Gallup/Healthways  poll asked 350,000 adults about how many days a week they exercised over 30 minutes per day. 30 percent of those asked admitted to NOT exercising at all; 19 percent 'fessed up with at least one day but not more than two days a week and 51 percent either stretched the truth or outright lied and said they logged three or more days a week... Re

More IT personal security responsibility on the horizon for us. Google’s change in its privacy policy makes our private information less so. In order to keep your vitals from being shared with other Google products and perhaps being used by those you don’t want to use it, there are some Google software setting we need to alter...

A Memphis 13 year-old has gotten in trouble before about stealing. Natia’s mom cut off her cell phone recently. She decided she’d just get mom’s debit card and reactivate it, which netted additional punishment that has the sanction of her aunt, even if it seems extreme...

Information technology advances give us the …convenience … of working from home. I’m not talking about some of the “jobs” that promise astronomical paychecks that are “not typical, see website for average earnings” jobs. No...

To celebrate the possibility of an early spring lurking in the shadow of a groundhog, I found out about "Five Famous Groundhogs" you didn't know.  Buckeye Chuck of Ohio. He is one of two Ohioan groundhog weather prognosticators…and declared by the Ohio General Assembly as the official Ohio state groundhog...

The old adage : "can’t chew gum and walk” gets a new millennium twist -  “can’t cell phone talk and walk." What ELSE can people find to attack regarding personal liberty and responsibility? ANYway, it seems researchers at New York's Stony Brook University School of Health Technology and Management think what they have found “may have significant real-world repercussions...

NFL Quarterbacks have the best trainers money can buy. Some of the sport’s biggest stars get lean and strong with workouts and tools that are surprisingly simple. Super bowl 46 is Sunday, February 5. Kick off is about 5:30 p.m., Central Time...

Surely there are things of greater importance to worry about. A new Draper, Utah high school gave up the idea of its athletes having the moniker of Cougars…a large American wild cat with tawny coat, because some parents adjudged the name could be offensive to a group of chardonnay swilling, on the prowl for younger men, women...

(With acknowledgement and apologies to Ernest Thayer, author "Casey at the Bat.") The outlook was brilliant for the Tiger Eleven that day, The score was nothing to nothing and there were four quarters of football to play, When Alabama scored a field goal first, and LSU failed to answer,   A sense of Déjà vu rose on those faithful to the Tigers...

I like football. Heck, every Friday night during my high school days, I was in the stands at Fairgrounds Stadium (now Independence Stadium) and on the field to march in the half-time show. I did the same during my college days. I helped finance my first degree by marching more half-time shows for then Northeast Louisiana University Indians...

If you made the perinnial New Years Resolution to lose weight, I've discovered a list of 10 tried and true ways to do it. #1- DON'T starve yourself. There is a good physiologic reason for it. #2- It's OK to SNACK! But make it fruits, veggies or something protein...

Christmas has a mystery all its own with the birth of Jesus. It also has a mystique; customs, legends, stories, traditions and other practices handed down in families and in societies around the world. This very weekend in 1823 marks the first publication of a work poet Clement Clarke Moore composed for the enjoyment of his family...