The Daily Populous

Sunday April 30th, 2017 morning edition

image for Hamilton retiree uses electric fence to jump-start heart

A Hamilton man has taken Kiwi ingenuity to a whole new level after using his neighbour's 8000 volt electric fence to jump-start his heart.

But when Griffin got frustrated with the emergency department during an episode, he went home and ended up using his neighbour's fence to get a shock instead.

It gave him a "decent belt", he said, and his heart started beating regularly again.

He went home, took his medicine and, daunted by a trip to a hospital in Auckland, noticed his neighbour's fence.

Kicking off his boots, he put the back of his hand on the fence to give himself an electric shock.

Dr John Bonning, Waikato Hospital's clinical director, did not recommend people use an electric fence that way as it was "dangerous and ill-advised".

Dr Gerry Devlin, medical director at the Heart Foundation of NZ, said using an 8000 volt electric fence was "completely inappropriate" and would deliver a large bolt. »

Russians, in peaceful protest, call for Putin to quit

Authored by reuters.com

Putin, who has dominated Russian politics for 17 years, has not said whether he will run in presidential elections in March 2018.

Irina Glushkova, 64, standing in the same line as the schoolgirl, said she and many others simply didn't agree with how Putin governed.

Activists said they confiscated 100,000 blank appeal forms which the foundation had hoped to hand out to people encouraging them to call for Putin to quit. »

Seth Rogen & The Lonely Island Making Fyre Festival-Like Movie

Authored by screenrant.com

Seth Rogen and The Lonely Island are teaming up for a movie about a music festival that goes horribly wrong.

With the recent disaster of rapper Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival making headlines, both Rogen and The Lonely Island took to Twitter to reveal that they are in fact, making a movie “about a music festival that goes horribly wrong.”

This seems like a good time to mention the movie we are making with @thelonelyisland about a music festival that goes HORRIBLY WRONG. »

Google CEO Sundar Pichai made nearly $200 million last year

Authored by money.cnn.com

Google CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly $199.7 million in compensation last year, double the amount he made in 2015, according to a filing Friday from Google's parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30).

Pichai, a longtime Google executive, took over as CEO as part of a corporate restructuring in 2015.

Under Pichai, Google has boosted sales from its core advertising and YouTube business, while also investing in machine learning, hardware and cloud computing. »