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The first days in a new job are usually exciting and uncomfortable at the same time. You look forward to everything new that awaits you, but at the same time you feel insecure among all the unknown faces and tasks. Nevertheless, with a few little tricks, it's not that difficult to make a success of your start in your new job.

It is self-evident that one informs oneself about the most important formalities before starting a new job. Of course you have to know exactly where and when you have to arrive on the first day and who your contact person is. Arriving late is an absolute no-go, so allow plenty of time to get to work and even test the route to the office in advance if possible.

So far, after a censored search, there has only been a vague technical indication that the website is "unavailable" or that the connection has been "reset". In the search, for example, for the well-known dissident website peacehall, which is blocked in china.Com, google now rather shows: "we have observed that searching for [peacehall] in mainland china may temporarily interrupt your connection to google. This disruption is beyond google’s control."

With the warning, google reveals censorship in china more openly than before. The internet company wants to improve the handling of the search engine and prevent annoying interruptions, as google vice president alan eustace explained in a blog post. With the hint the user can still change the search, before the blockade begins.

In the russian tundra, the nickel producer nornickel has been working on a new project following the disaster with 21.000 tons of oil spill highly toxic flussig waste dumped in rivers and lakes according to media reports.

The anti-government newspaper "novaya gazeta" published videos of the sewage polluted with heavy metals and acids. These flowed into the river kharayelakh, which flows via another river into the unique sub-water lake pyassino.

Eu competition commissioner joaquin almunia said his office was continuing to investigate allegations that google had discriminated against competitors in its leading internet search engine. At the same time, almunia spoke of progress after a meeting with google board chairman eric schmidt. Since the beginning of the talks in july, the differences have been considerably reduced. He expects official proposals from google in january, the commissioner said.

In the U.S., according to media reports, the most serious accusation by competitors that google has discriminated against them in favor of its own services in search results is off the table for antitrust watchdogs. Almunia, on the other hand, told the head of the U.S. Federal trade commission (FTC), jon leibowitz, later this month that EU regulators would continue to focus on this issue, the new york times reported. In europe, it is more difficult to dismiss allegations of abuse of a dominant position on the grounds of consumer benefits. Google had always replied to the accusations that it was operating a service for users and not for other search engines.