Hula is good for your heart. Literally.
Results of a five-year study with more than 260 Native Hawaiian participants found that hula “significantly” reduced a patient’s risk for heart disease.
On average, those in the study saw their systolic blood pressure go down by 17 points.
The results of the study were released at the American Heart Association national meeting.
As part of the study, participants underwent hypertension education and attended one-hour group hula classes twice a week for three months.
Prior to his death,Prince announced plans to publish a memoir called The Beautiful Ones. An abridged version, featuring 50 handwritten pages completed prior to his passing, will see release on October 29th through Random House (pre-orders are ongoing). In anticipation,New Yorker writer Dan Piepenbring, who Prince personally enlisted to co-author the memoir, has shared the book’s fascinating backstory, including his early interactions with Prince and what the musician sought to accomplish with The Beautiful Ones. Specifically, as Piepenbring recounts, Prince wanted it “to be the biggest music book of all time.”
source: https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/prince-memoir-backstory/
An attorney and New Orleans Saints fan said Monday he will go no further with his court fight against the NFL over game officials’ failure to call an obvious penalty at a crucial point in a January playoff game.
The no-call helped the Los Angeles Rams beat the Saints and advance to the Super Bowl.
source: https://apnews.com/206099cdbe3c400fa5c031161c665940
Amazon is going on a hiring spree.
The online shopping giant is holding job fairs across the country next week, aiming to hire more than 30,000 people by early next year, a 5% bump in its total workforce.