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A Jobcenter in Brandenburg (around Berlin) has given "older" unemployed a pedometer to measure whether they're "moving enough" in search for jobs.

According to Bild: the one that gets to 8848m first gets a prize.

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Reports that Morsi has fled Egypt's Presidential Palace under pressure from protesters...

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NZ waka due to end epic voyage across Pacific - National - NZ Herald News

Two New Zealand waka are due to arrive at Easter Island tomorrow after an epic three-month voyage across the Pacific using only traditional navigation techniques.

On board one of the waka, Te Aurere, will be 80-year-old master waka builder Hekenukumai "Hec" Busby from the Far North.

Mr Busby, who is credited with reviving the lost arts of traditional Polynesian navigation and building ocean-going waka, built both vessels at his workshop in Doubtless Bay.

Although he could not take part in the whole 5000-nautical-mile journey, he is due to arrive on Easter Island by plane today, and will then be taken to the waka by boat. The waka are due to make landfall tomorrow.

Te Aurere and Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti left Auckland in August in an attempt to sail the southeastern side of the Polynesian triangle. The other sides of the triangle - from Aotearoa to Hawaii, and Hawaii to Rapanui (Easter Island) - have already been sailed by ocean-going waka hourua.

The waka made only two stops, at Tubuai and Mangareva, both in French Polynesia, and navigated using the sun, stars, moon, currents and marine life.

The sailors first sighted Rapanui at 1.34am on Thursday (Easter Island time) after more than three months at sea.

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