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Yes there has been a signNow change in the working of Indian Embassies around the world especially in the crisis hit nations as the Embassies are now faster in response to the need of the Indian Nationals in that country unlike the earlier years.

I'm a mid-level or perhaps senior associate at a large law firm. Let me describe the two types of days that I routinely experience and then mention why I actually think I'm unhappy - as opposed to what you might think if you simply read TNR or ATL.Busy Day:7:00am: Wake up, check Blackberry. See that 30 emails directed to me / my team on projects have come in since I put it down at 2:00am. Response to 10 of the 30, get four junior associates in motion on tasks for the day. Try to go to gym, but realize I can't make it because, while I was writing those 10 emails, I've had clients send me meeting planners for 8:30am and 10:00am calls. (For the initiated, clients rarely ask if I can make a call; sometimes I'm told to get on the line in five or ten minutes, sometimes I get random meeting planners. If matters conflict, somebody screams uncle, but it usually isn't me.)7:30am: Hop on train (subway). Read more emails while on train and respond to another 4 or 5 so that responses will launch as soon as I come up from underground.8:15am: Arrive at office. Start printing documents for 8:30am call b/c secretaries won't arrive for another hour. 8:30am: Call gets moved to 9:00. Thank god I don't expect it to last more than an hour, or I'd already have a conflict. Use extra time to look over documents I expect I'll be discussing on 9:00 call. (But still no clue of its content because I tried emailing the client, but the client did not respond.)9:00am: Jump on call. Fortunately, it's on what I expected. Client wants to do another call with the other side at 10:00am because he is heading to the beach with his kids at noon. I inform client I have another call at 10:00 and client asks me to push that call for him. I try to dodge by proposing 10:30 and promising to keep the other call to 30 minutes. All the while, 40 new emails come in while I am on the call. I get two more junior associates moving on projects, IM with another three and request additional experienced staffing for one project.10:00am: Get on second call. Again have no idea what it will be about, but assume I can handle it because it is with an unsophisticated corporate client that we love because it lets us ring the meter. Junior comes to my office to listen to call. In-house lawyer bloviates about irrelevant points for 30 minutes and I field another 20 emails while on call and mark a document at my desk, occasionally paying attention to the call. The junior is in my office, but I never look at her because I'm just trying to get done what I need to get done to not fall further behind.10:30am: I recap call with junior associate (largely because I missed key points while marking the document that is at my desk, and need her to tell me what happened). I then get on the 10:30am call with the 9:00am client and try to pay attention because the client is a business-side managing director. I check the news, anyway, however, in part because I know that nothing I do on the call will in any way impact my pay or my chance of promotion, so I don't really pay much attention.11:00am: Call ends. I follow-up with benefits and IP on some points raised on the 10:30am call. They're not expecting my queries, but they can't do anything. I CC the client and the relevant partners so that the client knows I'm following up on his points and so that the benefits and IP associates have to meet my stated timeline or look bad. (Chances are, they won't respond anyway. We won't fire them for it, and we won't pay them any more if they do.)11:30am: Take a few minutes to skim the news; get coffee. Return to desk and begin marking documents drafted by juniors for one of my deals. Attempt to mark them without interruption, but answer the phone every 10 or 15 minutes and lose train of thought.1:15pm: One of my callers asked me if I've seen emails that just came in and if I've reviewed the documents attached -- 250 pages, came in five minutes ago. I tell the client that, no, I have not yet reviewed the documents, but I will as soon as I can and generally try to determine whether the matter is urgent. When I realize that his deadline of this afternoon is false (like most deadlines), I find a way to push the work back. (I have more work on my plate than I could complete if I stayed in the office 24x7 for two or three weeks, so it's always a matter of fighting whatever fire is burning strongest; never a matter of real project management.)2:00pm: Begin catching up on emails; see that I missed two calls while reviewing documents and hope clients/partners are not mad at me for missing them. Call juniors to determine what I missed.2:30pm: Urgent email from client. Don't believe that matter is urgent b/c every matter from this client is said to be urgent, but call client to check. 2:45pm: Matter not urgent, so grab lunch in the caf. Eat lunch at desk while responding to emails.3:00pm: Things are quiet, so catch up on document that has sat on my desk for more than a week. The official deadline was last Friday, but we all know that deadline was false and I probably blow through 50+% of my deadlines.3:30pm: The firedrills begin. Client says it wants to sign a set of documents today, none of which we've seen. I call two juniors to get them to review parts and to get tax review. I skim as fast as I can, isolating key points.4:00pm: Three clients have already sent me voicemails on other projects, and I have two more meeting planners, both for calls at 4:30pm. I ignore all to close out document I'm reading for the 3:30pm client.4:30pm: I jump on one of the calls and find out this client also wants documents signed tonight. I IM some juniors and wonder how I can possibly get this done.5:00pm: Partner drives by and drops a 200 page markup on my desk. He spend 30 minutes in my office trying to discuss it despite my telling him that other matters are in process and need to be closed out.5:30pm: I've been hit with two more clients who want to sign documents today. I now have five projects that are trying to get done by today. I push things forward to the extent I can, do the least possible amount of work I am OK with on each project and push things out. I am on and off calls with each client for next three hours while turning the documents.8:30pm: I'm now waiting for comments on three of the five matters. The other two have died: false alarms. I catch up on emails.9:00pm: Things get hot again and it's just like at 5:30pm, except that now it's harder to signNow the clients but the deals still need to get done. This continues until 10:30pm.10:30pm: Order dinner on seamless, catch up on emails not related to hot projects.11:00pm: Documents begin to come back and junior associate dumps work on me from outside of my practice group. I try to tell him to shove it, but I can't because he has CC'd a powerful partner. I ignore the deals that I'm trying to close and deal with the junior associate's query.11:15pm: Return to hot deals. Continue going back and forth (I'm still receiving 50-100 emails an hour on these projects) for next 2 hours.1:15am: One deal done, the others can't be finished because one side's clients went home and all outstanding points are "business points" (i.e., they matter, so we can't touch them because we are just lawyers). Turn back to other work that build during the day. Because most of my juniors are gone, do whatever needs to be done that hasn't yet been done.2:00am: Get markups from Asian office. Powerful partner CC'd, so turn documents myself, which include such wonderful 2:00am tasks as adding brackets to the trailers on signature pages. Finish in about 90 minutes, and call a car.3:45am: Get in car, knowing that everything that I did not close last night will be open by 9:00am the next morning, likely with clients hounding me to get in touch with other side, update all dates and numbers, etc., from approx. 7:00am onwards.***Not-Busy Day7:00am: Wake up, check Blackberry and see 20 emails. None need to be handled by me, so I ignore them.7:15am: I go to the gym and aim to get into the office at 9:30am.9:30am: I skim the news and ignore projects that have sat on my desk for weeks. I turn to them at 10:00am and work on them until 1:00pm.1:00pm: I get lunch and say hi to my secretary. I eat lunch at my desk so that I can continue to plow through the backlog from busier days.4:00pm: I get coffee b/c I am bored with the work and want to talk to somebody. I bring coffee back to my desk, anyway, and continue to read and mark more documents.8:30pm: I finish reading what I think ought to be read today (It's really my call; every deadline I have at this point is obviously false and I cannot possibly clear my plate.), and call it a day by having document services scan my markups.8:45pm: I take the train home, a little happier because I talked to the folks in document services, at the coffee shop and the cashier in the cafeteria. Otherwise, I just spent the last 11.25 hours alone in my office proofreading and marking documents without any human interaction.***How many people would like to work through either of these two types of days?When you add partners who scream at you (and do indeed throw objects when angry), associates who routinely backstab each other, fixed salaries and bonuses so that there is no link between pay and performance, or pay and value add, and partnership odds of roughly 1 in 25 to 1 in 50 - as well as sometimes weeks on end in which you do not leave the office before midnight - there are just a lot of things not to like about the practice of law.But, having been through all of this - and quite a bit more - I honestly think that what really makes lawyers unhappy - much less happy than, say, bankers or consultants - is some combination of the lack of ownership over anything, the inability to ever make any forward career progress, the social isolation, the complete lack of control over when any work comes or must be done, the nonstop false deadlines and the realization that the clients never read anything that you produce...so that it all seems completely pointless - which, perhaps surprisingly, is far worse than the hours, the backstabbing or the often inhumane partners and senior associates.Btw: I've slightly altered the facts in my replies because I want to preserve my anonymity. Because I felt uncomfortable, and in no way want Quorans to think that I am exaggerating anything above or below, I felt compelled to add this disclosure.

Photo Booth on an iMac or a Mac Notebook is more useful than its first obvious use: 1. Yes, it is a ginormous selfie-maker.2. While taking an online Mandarin Chinese class from Peking University, I had to take a photo of myself with the Photo Booth camera before taking any tests: the University used this system to verify that you were the one actually taking the test.3. If you don't have a scanner handy and you need to send a signed document back to someone, by e-mail or on-line, use Photo Booth to snap a photo of your signature on a blank paper, mirror-reverse it horizontally, saved it, and then size and apply the digital signature to the bottom of your document before you send it.

Instead of repeating what others have already said, I am going to suggest how we can get rid of bad leaders. The answer below has great answers about why we have a leadership crisis in many African countries.Why are African leaders so corrupt?Some reasons are historical, cultural, and generational. It is going to take some time to eradicate the system of corruption and cronyism. Keep in mind, many African institutions are only 50–60 years old.Industrialized countries developed their system for over 300–400 years. They experimented with different systems until they found what worked for them. Remember, France had Napoleon Bonaparte before what they have today.It is my honest opinion that we should let Africa alone and deal with their issues. Uganda had Idi Amini in the 70’s. I don’t see Uganda get another Idi Amini anytime soon. In the 70’s and 80’s, we had civil wars, coups, and many military dictatorships, many of them were reversed later in the 90’s. By 00’s, you could count very few of them.My home country ( Rwanda) had a brutal genocide in the 90’s. We are sure not going to have any such tragedy anytime soon. We learned the effects of tribalism, bad leadership, corruption, greed, nepotism, and many others the hard way.The European countries we praise today, they had their fair share of revolutions, the French revolution comes to mind. Germany, the most fiscally responsible country in the EU and the best-performing country in Europe had Hitler and Nazism. The United States had the civil war which united both the North and the South to form the United States of America as we know it today.All these events were bloody, horrible and terrible. For things to get better, they have to get worse. Only the natives have to experience it themselves to change. Nobody else will.Literally, every country has had their fair share of misfortune. People from those countries learned from their experience and nobody came to lecture them about their issues. After 1994, you don’t have to lecture Rwandans that tribalism is detrimental to the survival of Rwanda as one country. What I am saying is that those from developed countries should let African people struggle with their misfortune. In the end, it all works out and people themselves figure out what needs to be done.How would the EU be today if it was not for World War I and II? It is our human nature to learn from our mistakes. Bad leadership is the same. For things to get better, they have to get worse. Of course, some people pay the sacrifice and become collateral damage. However, that’s the reality of life.How to get rid of bad leadership.I have an autocratic solution, but very few will like my decision. Here it goes.In many corrupted countries with bad leadership, many top officials do the following. They send their children to study overseas, often in much more developed countries. When they are sick, they fly private jets to get treatment in France, UK, US, and other industrialized. They buy imported designer clothes from Italy and France. Some do even buy properties overseas to prepare for their escape once they leave office.How do you solve bad leadership? Stop all these luxuries and make them do everything locally. This is the only way leaders can care about their country. In 5–10 years, enforcing such nationalist policies will make a big difference.This is what happens with leaders in many corrupted countries. Their children attend international schools in primary and secondary schools. In university, many send them overseas to study in developed countries ( France, UK, and the US).What if you made a law that all ministers’ children will have to go to schools in the country only? That way, ministers are not stealing money to send their kids to overpriced schools in developed countries. I can tell you that the school system will get fixed very soon. Why? Because these overpaid ministers will do everything possible to address the quality of education in their home countries.Offshore Bank Accounts.In corrupted countries, you hear about offshore accounts that leaders send to their children overseas and family members. To fix this crisis, you would have to crack down on any family members overseas. Make it clear that all higher officials can only save their monies in-country. Monitor their assets and fire those who do not want to cooperate. Before starting their jobs, they would have to sign documents giving permission to be audited anytime and give explanations of any assets they own. Of course, you would need to be harsh and mean to enforce this policy.Big Man mentality.Strip them all the benefits the leaders get for being in the government. Nobody should wear a $5,000 Armani suits if their country’s GDP per capita is not at least $ 10,000. Make it a requirement so that they can only wear what is made in their country. If you are a leader in Nigeria or Kenya, all leaders should wear suits made in Kenya. No expensive suits imported from Italy, France, and other exotic places. Does it make sense to wear a $3,000 suit when the GDP per capita is not even $ 3,000? I don’t think so.The main reason we have bad leaders in Africa is that politics is a lucrative profession. Our members of parliament drive expensive $40K to $ 50K brand new cars, that the government is paying for. Gas money and other repair services are all paid for. Literally, being a politician is the quickest way to get rich in Africa. So, many people do everything possible to get the positions in the governments.As soon as they become leaders, there is no connection with the people at all. How do you expect an MP to solve public transportation in the cities if they ride Land Cruiser all day every day? How do you expect them to solve the power cuts if their neighborhood never loses electricity? How do you expect them to solve the clean water crisis if they never had any water issues in their homes?It is long overdue to make leadership a very unattractive profession in Africa. Make it so demanding that only a few want to join the profession. Only them who want to serve and make a difference will join the profession. Their motive should be only to serve the people and not to enrich themselves by embezzling public funds.Last but not least, if they have served in higher positions in the cabinet or parliaments, and other higher positions, require them to stay in the country for at least 10 years after they leave office. That way nobody can steal the money and go off to live a happy life with their family in the UK or the US. As long as these leaders have no choice but to make their home country a better place, only then, they can serve with honor and humility. When they can send their children to study overseas, go get treatment overseas, and virtually do everything outside of their home countries, there is no way you are going to get good leadership.Be mean, Be tough, & Be unmerciful.Only then the passionate ones can join this noble profession to make their county great. At this point, you cannot install good leadership morals by negotiating. You have to be equally detrimental as it is bad leadership and corruption.Welcome to my Wakanda. If I was the president, this is what I would do. I would be the first one to hold myself to these standards and hopefully, others would follow.Why drive a $ 100K, customized Benz when GDP per capita is less than $ 1,000?It does not make sense.Top 10 most beautiful presidential palaces in Africa (With Pictures)Paul Biya’s home in Yaounde, Cameroun.

As an aspie, a few of my civil rights have been violated over the last few years. I'm 19 years old, which is legally an adult, but I don't have the rights of an adult. Why? Because I had to fight for mine, and it wasn't even a fair battle.When I was 17, my parents started pushing for paperwork to go through so that they could keep guardianship of me for the next 5 years past 18 years old. To do this, they had to put me through a psychological assessment, and this psychological professional had to determine that I was not as mature as an 18 year old should be. She determined that I had the maturity of a "preteen" (in her words), but when I looked at the system of testing and the evidence, it told a whole different story.First of all, the criteria to be "eighteen" or "adult" in this situation was to have life figured out. Among her arguments were the fact that I didn't have a solid plan for my future, that I could only cook a few meals, and that I hadn't dealt with my own finances before. I'd like to see how many eighteen year olds have it all figured out. Being a young adult is about trying these new things, and not having your life together before you're 20 isn't unusual at all.Secondly, my parents showed the psychologist some things I had written and drawn. This could give her a bias towards me before she saw me, but it's not necessarily foul play, until it comes down to them showing her a comic I had drawn at the age of 12 as if it were something I had drawn in high school. This psychologist had NO basis to work on because she was shown so much false content beforehand. I'd say that a psychologist doing this assessment should be capable of assessing their client's maturity without having to read anything their parents bring in. It's not the same as listing some concerns- it's false evidence against me!Not to mention that the assessment was done in the worst way possible for someone on the autism spectrum- it was done verbally. Why? If she's asking me whether I can cook or not, I can write my answer, right? That doesn't change the answer, it just solidifies it. I'd say that anyone being asked these questions should write them rather than speak them for one other reason too. Psychologists love to twist what I tell them into the worst possible light. When this psychologist asked me if I could cook, she asked me how long I had been cooking for. In preparation to be an adult, I had been teaching myself for the past few months, and was making incredible progress with both cooking and baking. But I mentioned that I was apprehensive at first to signNow into the oven a few months back. On the report, she twisted those words and said that I was currently afraid of the oven, something that has never been true about me at any age. These lies could be avoided if they knew what I actually said, rather than what she claimed I said. That's heresay, and if it doesn't hold up in court, then why should it hold up on a document that went through the legal system at all?It gets worse, though. In this situation, the soon-to-be adult (me) was given a form, one that allowed me to appeal the process in court. There was a deadline on it, and I filled it out within the next 24 hours and was ready to send it back. But there was a problem- I needed an envelope and stamps to mail the form in to say I did not agree with my parents' decision, and that I wanted my voice to be heard in that court. Could I get these items? Unfortunately, no. My parents refused to let me leave the house until that deadline, and didn't provide me with the necessities to mail it, either. So that paper is STILL stuck in my room two years later. I wasn't allowed to appeal the court's decision, so of course, they got what they wanted.Now I'd have to find my own lawyer to appeal this decision. This costs money, money that I don't have, money that I wouldn't have even if I worked full time. Why is it that I had to fight for my right to be an adult in the first place? Nobody else had to. I graduated from the same school as everyone else, navigated the same world as everyone else, and went through at least as much as everyone else, but probably more. Most eighteen year old girls haven't dealt with the court system from their rights being violated multiple times, and most eighteen year old girls haven't been forced to stand up for themselves against people who did this. I can do this because I had to learn it. I'd say that's a more important criteria to judge an adult on than whether or not they've passed their driving test (something my mother didn't do until she was 20-21 years old) or whether or not they've been cooking for a long time (as opposed to whether or not they can cook something for themselves). Wouldn't you?What rights have they taken away from me by doing this? They have taken away my right to:Go where I want toMake my own decisions about healthcare (I take more responsibility for my health these days than most people my age)Sign documents (my signature can be deemed void as soon as my parents say so)Associate with whatever people I want to (my parents can legally interfere if I were to make a friend they don't like)What did I get for turning 18? Well, I got the right to vote, and I really appreciate this right. At the same time, I get told over and over that I'm not a "real" adult, and that I'm mentally a child. Every day I'm degraded by my own parents if I so much as disagree with them. I'm verbally and emotionally abused, only not physically abused because I made it clear that I would report them for it by doing so in high school (the system did nothing, by the way. They just asked my parents if they did it, they said no, nothing else. Gave my parents quite the wake-up call). I stay at my boyfriend's house because at least there, I'm treated like a human being. My parents have broken almost every condition of being a legal guardian to me, but I can't do anything but wait it out. I'm 19 now, but I'm not free from this until I'm 23.Even when I'm 23, I'll have to fight this battle again. I'll have to hope that they give me my rights this time around, that I can fight back and that the system gives me a fair chance for my voice to be heard.I know that there are many people with Asperger's, high functioning autism, and many other disabilities and disorders, who are put through the same sort of ridiculous treatment as me, told they can't do anything by their own parents. Many of these people don't have the support I have to deal with these challenges. Most people on the spectrum who are in this mess are socially isolated, and need their family to be supportive of their fight forward into adulthood most than anyone else.How is this a fair system?At the same time, I can't say that the system is to blame instantly. They have to figure out their flaws, and then how to fix them. The system involved in this has to be aware of how people are abusing the rules to fix them. People have to speak up somehow, and this is a system involving people who have a lot of difficulty in that area, be it a lack of communication skills or just being kept from doing it when they desperately want to. It's up to everyone who knows and can speak up to do so, to push for the changes necessary to help the next person in this situation.

(I started to answer a very short answer and ended up with a long entry. I hope you find it useful.)As Richard Tuisk said, it depends a lot on where you are from. However, let me tell you what my experience has been so far in Estonia, what I think it is good and what I would see as a downside of living here. Of course, I need to qualify my answer by saying that I am Latin American, but also have lived in four other countries (including the US where I went to college).A quick introduction: Estonia is a small country located in the Baltic Sea next to Russia and Latvia and very close to Finland. It is part of the European Union. The area of the country is roughly the same as Switzerland or as Maryland and Massachussets combined. There is about 1.3 million people living here which means it is not densely populated. The country is essentially flat, except in the south where you find the highest point at 318 meters (1043 ft). The main city and where I live in is Tallinn. The population is about 400,000 people. Tartu is the second city with about 100,000 people and all the rest of towns are smaller than that.Immigration systemIf you are European, moving here is no problem as you enjoy all the benefits of any country within the European Union. If you are not European, the main reasons people immigrate here is to work which would guarantee a working visa or if you are married to an Estonian citizen which allows you to apply for a visa as long as you have enough funds to live here.Overall, the process to get a short-term visa is straight forward. Obtaining a long-term visa is more complicated as you have to speak the language at a relatively high level. Obtaining a citizenship requires that you give up your own citizenship.JobsAlthough Estonia suffered also during the 2008 crisis, there is enough jobs in areas of business and technology for people to move here. One of the problems Estonia faces is that it does not have enough people to fill all jobs in IT areas as I hear.There is a few big companies who recruit people from abroad, but if you don't speak the local language, your opportunities are reduced to the IT area (I work for Skype which originated here in Estonia which was acquired by Microsoft in 2011). You can see a list of notable companies here: List of companies of EstoniaSocial interactionEstonians tend to be reserved in comparison to other Europeans. I suggest to foreigners who come here to be aware of differences so they are not taken by surprise. Some examples of faux pas I have encountered:Using smalltalk in a conversation.Saying good morning when coming to office or good bye when leaving.Smiling with no reason (I have to accept that this could be awkward in Northern Europe and some parts of the US, but it is totally normal in Mediterranean or Latin American environments).Being noisy. People love their quiet here.However, it is totally Ok to try to make a conversation in English especially with young people. I am learning Estonian and try to use the language when I can, but in some occasions (say, at the pharmacy), I need to switch to English and have never found anyone being annoyed by that.The exception to all of this is if you meet young people. They tend to be more open and curious (especially women). I am speaking about more casual environments such as a cafe or a restaurant, but a bit less at work. Another obvious exception is if you are in a touristy area (such as the Old Town in Tallinn), but this should go without saying.It is totally Ok to be in a group of people and be totally silent. For example, you can have lunch or share a cab with Estonians when no one is speaking, but there is no awkwardness on it. Another thing is that people do not demonstrate much through their expressions which is one of the difficult things to deal with for me. Remember, I come from a country where you smile or frown or show your teeth if you want someone to understand you clearly.When having a conversation with an Estonian, you should say what you mean and mean what you say (remember what I said about smalltalk?). For example, if you ask "how are you?" to an Estonian, do it only if (a) you really want to know how the other person is, and (b) don't ask it if you don't know the person well. I value that Estonians take your word at face value and you should do the same with them.One word of advice is that Estonians can be very critical of others, but they are mainly critical of themselves. Someone told me once that complaining is a national sport, and I have to agree with that. In other words, when they tell you that something is truly bad here in this country, you have to take it with a grain of salt.Because of this, you should also expect that people are straight forward with you. In some cases, this borders on rudeness if I measure by my home country's standards, but here is totally Ok. I have seen a few foreigners getting shocked by that, but you get used to it. In other words, they are not politically correct (this I like very much).Also, because people are economical with the language, you shouldn't expect what I would call, a "warm" communication most of the time. As a latin person, I need to say and hear things on a beautiful way, but this doesn't happen here much. It is different when you start to get to know locals.Which brings me to the last point. It takes a while before you break the ice with an Estonian, but it is worth waiting. I have had the chance to establish a closer link with some locals outside my wife's family and I find an honesty and sincerity that I haven't seen in other places. If you get to that point, congratulations, as you have made it through this journey. By this time, you should also be an expert on sharing saunas with people you don't know (and yes, naked) and have had your share of vodka.Quality of life, services, infrastructureWhen compared to other places where I have lived, I have to say that Estonia still doesn't signNow the level of living in Germany or the US, but it is getting closer by the day. However, I would say that Estonia is already at the level that I would call it first-world country in most aspects.Infrastructure and services need some improvement, but they provide the minimum level of service. For example, if you don't have a car, you can use public transportation everywhere even if buses, trains or trams are sometimes old. Roads in Tallinn are Ok, even if you find potholes in some places. Services such as schools and hospitals are public which means that there is always a waiting list. If you need to visit a specialist doctor, you have to wait. On the other hand, the wait is not as bad as in third-world countries (like where I come from). Also, those services are basically free. The downside is that there is almost no private service, and even the ones there are rely partially on the public health system for some aspects.I have had two children born here and had no complaints about the process. In fact, I felt that everything was very professional and that they always try to do their best. However, when I spoke with Estonians, some of them were very surprised that I spoke highly of the hospital system. I guess it's up to my personal point of view in this case.Taxes are low. Personal income tax is 21% flat for everyone. If you live here and your visa allows it, you can create your own start-up in no time which is prevalent among young people in IT.By the way, unemployment was at 8% at the end of Q3 in 2013. I am no economist, but I understand that this is still considered high. However, it came down from 10.2% at the end of 2012.Food, shoppingEstonia has the typical supermarkets like any other European country. There is also local markets, but you probably need to speak Estonian or Russian. Typical food you find are potatoes, wheat-like grains, oats and so on. Pork meat and fish are eaten often here, but beef is not yet too common. Vegetables and fruits tend to be expensive. I miss having international food though. There is one supermarket in town (Stockmann) that carries some international products, but it is very expensive. I was used to visiting Oriental-type shops in Ireland and Germany, but there is none here that I know of.There is a few shopping centres, but the variety is not wide. I am in favor of buying local to support businesses here, but in many cases, we end up buying from abroad because of the lack of options or because we would have to wait for too long. For example, my wife and I love movies (yeah, still buying old-fashioned DVDs), but there is no shop that fills our expectations. Because of that, we buy everything from Amazon.ActivitiesIf you love nature, you are in luck. There is a lot of natural areas in the country and they are a short drive away. There is plenty of sea shores, forests, rivers and lakes. In the Summer you can do hiking, camping, canoeing and you can add cross country skiing in the Winter. Estonians love nature in general.If you are a city person (like myself), then that's another story. There is a few theatres, cinemas, galleries and so on, but everything is limited. Tallinn itself has the most interesting activities in the center. There is plenty of good restaurants though.Cinemas show the popular movies like everywhere else and you can find some artsy type of cinemas for alternative movies. No movie is dubbed here, but they usually carry subtitles in both Estonian and Russian.What is impressive about this countryThere is a few good things that I haven't seen outside Estonia. The first one is the electronic system prevalent in this country. When you are a foreigner and get your Estonian ID, you are also getting your electronic identity. With that, you can file taxes online, access information about property, bank accounts, mobiles, whatever services you need. When you get your local ID number, you automatically get a local e-mail address at the eesti.ee domain that you can redirect to your personal account. With that, you never miss an official communication (such as whenever is time to file your taxes).That ID has also legal validity and you can sign documents electronically anywhere in the world. For example, if you apply to get a car leasing, you don't have to show up at the bank necessarily. They send you some forms, you put your ID card in your computer reader, sign the document electronically, and send it back and that's it. It is the equivalent of putting your signature on paper in front of the bank official or lawyer. Estonian citizens and permanent residents are even allowed to vote online with their ID.A second impressive area is bureaucracy: it is a well-oiled machine. One recurrent example is taxes. You get the notification that your taxes are ready to file, you login to the tax office site, sign in, check that they have the correct information that they have collected from your company, employer and so on, sign with your ID card, and that's it. It might take as little as five minutes. My wife and I file jointly, so it takes us much longer: twenty minutes (and that's because we always forget to do one crucial step so we are delayed).The government doesn't even use paper for their minister meetings. They file everything electronically which is made available so you can follow up agendas, minutes and whatever happens there.You want to open your own company? It might take literally twenty minutes to do that too. All of this thanks to the frictionless bureaucratic system they have here. You want to park? Send a text to the number 1902 with your plate number and where you are parking and it will be charged to your mobile.One more impressive part: internet. Besides having decent speeds, there is practically free access points everywhere through the country. I personally have witnessed free available working access points in national parks and public beaches. You can read this article that talks about this (read the date: 2005!): Estonia sets shining Wi-Fi exampleIn my case, I don't use access points much because I have a decent LTE connection with my mobile. Mobile companies have good coverage and relatively good service. I remember that when we got our internet when we moved here, it took only one day to install it. When I measured the effective speed a few months later out of curiosity, it was 50 Mbps. Not bad.The downsidesAs anywhere else, there is a few things that you need to be aware of that could be difficult to adapt to.The first part for me is the social interaction which tends to be dry and quiet. I mentioned that above, so not much more to say here.Another one is the weather. In Winter, the sun might rise at 9:30 in the morning and set at 3 in the afternoon. That's just about six hours of sunlight. If you add that it is cloudy most of the time during the Winter, then you realise how dark it might be. As counterposition, Summers are amazing (up to 20 hours of sunlight and clear skies easily).Winters are relatively long. It gets cold around the end of October and stays that way until around April. It varies from year to year, but sometimes the temperature drops to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 F). Life rarely stops here because of the cold or snow though. I have taken the bus at -30 degrees Celsius. It makes for an interesting ride.One more problem for a foreigner to live here is that you feel a bit isolated from the world. Flights are available mainly to neighbouring countries plus Germany, UK and the Netherlands. If you are from another country, you always need to make connections which makes it longer and more expensive to go back home.Last, if you are from a big city, you might find even Tallinn a bit provincial. It is changing as of late though. On the other hand, there is some positive things out of this too: less crime and virtually no traffic jam as I know it (I live 20 km. from work and make it in 30 minutes on a good day and 45 on a bad one).If you are thinking to move here, I definitely recommend this place.

I’m a business lawyer, so my answer will reflect the types of mistakes that clients of mine make. I work mainly with software companies and various small businesses, from lawn care companies to graphic designers. Common mistakes:Two people start doing business together without writing up a clear agreement that spells out their understanding of what they’re doing together, and what that means for who gets paid what, and when, and who owns any intellectual property that the project might create and who has what rights to make decisions about it. Bottom line: if you’re working with somebody else, write up a detailed written agreement that explains all of this. Ideally use a lawyer. If you can’t afford one, do your best, and do it in writing. Not just so you have “proof" later, but (a) because the process of writing it down will help you make sure to address the key terms of the deal and (b) so you both will remember a few years later what you agreed to today. It's not actually that common for one person to just lie later about what the agreement was; much more common are failures of memory and failures to address the key terms up front. For example, Susan and Joe might agree they will be cofounders of a company, but they don't discuss what happens when (not "if") one of them quits later to take a new job. Will the departing co-founder get a cash buyout? By what valuation method? Who pays for the outside expert to do analyze the company's value? Far better to agree on this today than argue about it when a co-founder gives notice.a company does not research trademarks before sinking time and money into marketing the company or one of its products, and then gets a cease-and-desist letter from the owner of a similar company or product name. As a result, the company now needs to re-brand and start building their reputation again largely from scratch. Not too bad if you’re a service company, but if you’ve already paid to stamp your logo on a few thousand t-shirts or stickers or already shipped out physical products to customers, it’s a huge loss. Bottom line: when your budget permits, ask a trademark lawyer for a search to determine whether your name is going to buy you trouble. This is less important if you sell a product or service only locally, but if you sell anything online, it’s key.one person/company hires another to create something (software, a website, a graphic design) and they don’t have a clear written agreement that says who owns the resulting work and/or who has a license to it. Bottom line: the person who created the work generally owns it unless she and the person who hired her signed a fairly specific written agreement that transfers the ownership to the client. Which means if you hired that graphic designer and didn’t have that agreement with her, then you don’t actually own that cool design she made - you just have a license that she can revoke at any time, which is the least useful type of license to have. Have a lawyer write an agreement for you — ask one for a “work for hire” or “I.P. assignment” agreement. It will cost you a fraction of what the designer will charge you for the design itself and is the only way to make sure you just bought what you meant to buy.Company A sells products or services, but rather than having its own standard template contract that it uses to sell them, it always agrees to sign contracts drafted by the companies that want to buy those services. As a result, Company A signs a clause that, to its surprise, gave away rights it couldn’t afford to lose. Maybe A accidentally gave away ownership of its software rather than a mere non-exclusive license. Maybe A agreed to subject itself to the jurisdiction of courts in Grand Cayman or Kansas in the event of a dispute. Bottom line: have a lawyer draft a standard agreement for whatever you sell, and use that agreement wherever possible. When you start selling to larger companies, they’ll insist that you sign their agreement, but that’s fine. Often they claim they can’t deviate from their standard terms, but if you make some reasonable suggestions for edits, they’ll agree to them after all. Your lawyer can help you “sell” those changes to the lawyer for the other side.a company hires a freelancer to do some specific type of work for them, and they don’t realize that a state labor or tax agency may later look at that relationship and determine it’s an employment relationship and not a freelancer relationship. As a result, the company now may owe back taxes, health care benefits, unemployment benefits or overtime pay. States are increasingly cracking down on these arrangements, and there are usually pretty easy ways to avoid this situation — they may include insisting that the freelancer create her own single-member LLC to do her business through, and they may include language in the contract clarifying that she may work for your competitors. This depends on state law. But it’s no joke. I realize people in these situations are not deliberately trying to “take advantage” of anybody — they just are not aware of how the law works and don’t realize they should take steps to reduce these risks. Bottom line: if you hire a freelancer, talk to a lawyer in your state about how to set up the relationship between the two of you. Most business lawyers have a simple independent contractor agreement that they can tailor to your situation for a few hundred bucks. Well worth the risk reduction that it brings.

I have read all the answers here but none seems have addressed the question properly.Let me try to enlighten about the procedure of Police Verification so that none should get worried or confused.After applying for a Fresh or Renewal of the passport, the PSK/PRO initiates a verification task to the applicant’s district Superintendent of Police office. At the same time, the application and related data are uploaded to the CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems) in the office of the state’s Special Branch i.e. the intelligence department of state police.The district Superintende...

My glib self wanted to answer that you should take up bungie jumping or rock climbing or parasailing. But that probably isn’t true unless you have already been doing those things. And I’m 79, and still haven’t done those things, nor do I plan to.So if the question is what should you start doing that you haven’t been doing before turning 65? I guess that depends on a lot of things - your state of health, for one.If you have spent your entire adult life behind a desk, or have been sedentary generally, and have just retired, you might just start moving more (at whatever level you are able). Go for slow walks around your neighborhood if that’s all you can do. Or go for long vigorous hikes if you can do that. But one of the glories of not having a tight schedule if you have just retired is that you can plan to do things when you want to do them. So increase your physical activity. If you used to squeeze in a golf game every once in a while when you had time, plan to go out and practice and play much more often. If you have always been fairly active when you had the time - in any kind of activity - plan to do more of it, not less. Think of some things that you always wanted to do - or wanted to go see - and do them. Not as part of a “bucket list” (a phrase I really don’t like for what it implies!) but rather because you can … and want to.I’ve been lucky - and realize I’ve been lucky. But I also know that luck will not last forever. And for many, much younger than I, the luck of being healthy enough to be active has already diminished. But being as healthy and active as you can be will make the years remaining better in every way - and, that takes a bit of work and commitment.