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Online tuition classes have become a popular option for students who want to improve their academic performance or catch up with missed lessons. CBSE Class 8 students, in particular, can benefit from online tuition classes as they prepare for the upcoming exams. In this blog post, we will explore the cost of CBSE Class 8 online tuition and the benefits of online tuition classes.

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In July 2020, a 72-year-old attorney posing as a delivery person rang the doorbell at US district judge Esther Salas’ house in North Brunswick, New Jersey. When the door opened, the attorney fired a gun, wounding the judge’s husband—and killing her only child, 20-year-old Daniel Mark Anderl.

The murderer, Salas said, had found her address online and was outraged because she hadn’t handled a case of his client fast enough. In her despair, Salas publicly pleaded, “We can make it hard for those who target us to track us down … We can't just sit back and wait for another tragedy to strike.”

She wanted judges to be able to keep their home addresses private. New Jersey lawmakers delivered. Months after the murder, they unanimously enacted Daniel’s Law. Today, current and former judges, cops, prosecutors, and others working in criminal justice can have their household’s address and phone numbers withheld from government records in the state. They also can demand that the data be removed from any website, including popular tools for researching people such as Whitepages, Spokeo, Equifax, and RocketReach.

Companies that don’t comply within 10 business days have to pay a penalty of at least $1,000. This makes New Jersey’s law the only privacy statute in the US that guarantees people a court payout when requests to keep information private are ignored.

That provision is being put to a consequential test.

In a pile of lawsuits in New Jersey—drummed up by a 41-year-old serial entrepreneur named Matt Adkisson and five law firms, including two of the nation’s most prominent—about 20,000 workers, retirees, and their relatives are suing 150 companies and counting for allegedly failing to honor requests to have their personal information removed under Daniel’s Law.

These companies, which Adkisson estimates generate $150 billion annually in sales, may now be on the hook for $8 billion in penalties. But what’s more important to him is the hope that this narrow New Jersey law could act as a wedge to force data brokers to stop publishing sensitive data about people of all professions nationwide. He’s hoping that this multibillion-dollar pursuit, with its army of union cop households, may be a catalyst for better personal privacy for us all.

If he doesn’t win, the oft-derided data broker industry would have proved that it has a right under the First Amendment to publish people’s contact information. Websites could avoid further regulation, and no one in the US may ever be guaranteed by law to become less googleable. “I never thought we would have such a hard time, that it would turn into such a battle,” Adkisson says. “Just home address, phone number, remove it. One state. Twenty-thousand people.”

This is the first definitive account of how the fate of one of the country’s most intriguing privacy laws came to rest on the shoulders of Adkisson’s latest tech startup, Atlas.

Matt Adkisson is almost your prototypical lifelong entrepreneur. He quit high school at 16 to code video games and small-business websites. His parents insisted, though, that he audit classes across the street from their home, at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island. So he began learning about national security. One lesson he picked up: When judges live in fear and can’t rule impartially, democracies can wither.

But saving democracy wasn't his passion. Making money was. He headed off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with designs on becoming a consultant or investment banker, but dropped out before senior year. Like so many other young people in the midst of the Web 2.0 frenzy, he had an entrepreneurial itch. Without telling them, Adkisson cashed out his parents’ tuition payment, and in 2006, he and a friend slept under office desks for a month before founding a company called FreeCause with Adkisson’s brother to develop marketing tools for Facebook games. Adkisson later bought shares of the nascent social media startup. Both bets paid millions. In 2009, FreeCause sold for about $30 million.

Adkisson upgraded to nights on a friend’s couch in San Francisco, where he used his wealth to invest in or start dozens of other software companies. As they sold, he became a comfortable multimillionaire. It was his last big deal, in 2018, that set him down the path of privacy crusader. He had sold Safer, which developed a Google Chrome competitor called Secure Browser, to antivirus maker Avast for about $10 million.

Adkisson and a cofounder recall that during a meeting over lakeside beers near offices in Friedrichshafen, Germany, after the deal closed, an Avast executive demanded they feed search activity from Secure Browser’s millions of users to Jumpshot, a sibling unit that was selling antivirus users’ browsing history to companies wanting to study consumer trends.

Adkisson stood to make millions of dollars in bonuses from the proposed integration. He refused. It was too intrusive to share that intimate data, he says, and a violation of trust. (Avast declined to comment on the episode. It shuttered Jumpshot, and this year agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle US government charges over the service’s allegedly deceptive data usage.)

Adkisson left Avast in December 2020 thinking he would keep adding to his portfolio of over 300 startup investments or pursue something in AI, like automating brushstrokes to create on-demand oil paintings. But he couldn’t shake the Friedrichshafen incident. For his web browsing, he started to use VPNs and the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo. He tried to get websites to remove his new East Coast home address. Those efforts mostly failed; companies had no obligation to comply.

These websites that sell addresses or phone numbers typically get that data by buying voter or property records from governments, and user account details from companies willing to deal. The easy access to data enabled by the aggregators can be vital to services like identity verification or targeted advertising. But the customers also can include people who are looking for an old friend. Or investigating a crime. Or someone with a grudge against, say, a judge.

As Adkisson dug into the data broker industry in 2021, he read about how a law that went into effect the year before had given Californians a right to demand companies delete their personal information. So Adkisson and two cofounders launched a service they called RoundRobin, to help Californians do just that for a fee. Services like DeleteMe and Optery were already selling deletion assistance, but Adkisson felt they were more marketing spin than serious tech.

RoundRobin joined the well-known startup accelerator Y Combinator in April 2021 and began developing software to simplify making requests. But the startup had no way to enforce the takedowns it wanted to charge customers for; only California’s attorney general could sue for violations of the nascent law. Data websites ignored RoundRobin.

Given Adkisson’s pedigree, investors held out hope. California privacy activist Tom Kemp, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others invested about $2 million in RoundRobin that August. But the struggle continued. The cofounders renamed the company to the more serious-sounding Atlas Data Privacy in January 2022. It didn’t help. But then, a break. Just as Adkisson was considering giving up and his initial cofounders were pulling out, a relative of his in California who had worked in law enforcement mentioned Daniel Anderl’s murder—and the law it inspired in New Jersey. “Fate delivered the Garden State,” Adkisson says.

He soon reached out to law enforcement experts, including a former Boston police commissioner and a retired Navy rear admiral. The two told Adkisson stories about cops who were attacked in their homes. They urged him to press on.

The first organization to return Adkisson’s cold calls was the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association, the state’s largest police union. They said a few of the organization’s 31,000 members needed help containing some inadvertently leaked contact information. Adkisson and a cofounder, J.P. Carlucci, took a stab. Despite limited success, union members were excited by Adkisson’s moxy. In July 2022, a union leadership group voted unanimously to offer Atlas’ service as a benefit to members with the intention of using Daniel’s Law to demand websites remove phone numbers and addresses. The cost, spread across all members paying for the union’s legal protection plan, was hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, Adkisson says.

In August 2022, with the deal signed and thousands of members soon enrolled, Atlas established headquarters in Jersey City, New Jersey, and set out to prove it could deliver better results than back in California. For that, it needed litigation power.

The first six law firms Adkisson called refused to take up the New Jersey cases. They worried about their financial return and the likelihood of success. Judges had discretion over the $1,000 payouts, plaintiffs had to prove physical harm, and to even bring a case, attorneys had to mobilize each plaintiff individually. It wasn’t a good equation.

Over seafood in San Francisco on the waterfront, one attorney sketched out for Adkisson revisions to Daniel’s Law that could make Atlas’ job easier. Adkisson took those suggestions back to the police union, which in turn used its weight in Trenton to push lawmakers to enact the changes. By December 2022, legislators introduced amendments requiring judges to impose financial penalties on websites that failed to honor removal requests, allowing those covered by the law to sue more liberally, and enabling attorneys to more easily bring big cases. In July 2023, just after the third anniversary of Daniel’s murder, the governor signed these amendments into law.

Atlas stayed focused on recruiting more users, from the police union and beyond. Newly hired staff—the company grew to a total of eight people—learned the lingo, like don’t refer to state troopers as “officers.” Adkisson let clients call him directly 24/7 for technical support. He drove his Jeep Cherokee more than 50,000 miles to every corner of the state. The Atlas team spent 18 hours on back-to-back days at a correctional facility to catch every shift, plying union guards with Crumbl Cookies and Shake Shack. “Word started to spread, like, ‘Who the hell are these people?’” Adkisson says. “That brought us credibility.”

Days before last Christmas, Atlas finished the software for users to select the companies to which they wanted to send emailed data removal requests. The tired team gathered over Zoom watching a tally rise as the emails landed in data brokers’ inboxes. Altogether, Atlas would deliver 40 million emails to 1,000 websites on behalf of roughly 20,000 people over the next five months.

Helping users with only the easy targets—the ad-supported websites that tend to pop up when googling someone’s name—“would have been a band-aid on a wound that needed much deeper treatment,” Adkisson says. To provide what it viewed as comprehensive support and more than what competitors offer, Atlas also was facilitating takedown requests to mainstream services such as Zillow and Twilio. They tend to supply data through fee-supported advanced tools that don't pop up on a standard Google query.

Twilio denies that it provides data subject to Daniel’s Law. Zillow didn’t respond to WIRED’s requests for comment. Atlas, Adkisson says, spent about $1.3 million in labor and fees to verify websites it targeted were actually providing home addresses and phone numbers.

The startup got its first response on December 26. Red Violet, whose Forewarn data dossiers help real estate agents vet potential clients, was demanding Atlas cease and desist, erroneously claiming that Daniel’s Law applied only to government agencies and not private companies. Adkisson had expected the legal teeth of the updated Daniel's Law to inspire widespread compliance. This was a rough start. “Demoralizing,” Adkisson says.

Other companies responded with demands to see ID cards of Atlas clients, apparently suspicious that the startup was making up its customers or people demanding takedowns were pretending to work in law enforcement just to be covered by the law. Adkisson told one company they could call requestors to authenticate demands. After all, it had their numbers. Another company suggested that if Atlas clients wanted anonymity, they should have used an LLC to buy property instead of their own names.

Akisson says the most retaliatory response came from LexisNexis, which lets police and businesses search for people's contact information and life history, typically for investigations and background checks. He alleges that instead of removing Atlas clients’ phone numbers and addresses from view, LexisNexis needlessly froze their entire files in its system, impeding credit checks some were undergoing for loan applications.

LexisNexis spokesperson Paul Eckloff disputes that freezing was an overreach. The company deemed that step as necessary to honor the requests submitted by Atlas users to not disclose their data. “This company couldn’t be more dedicated to supporting law enforcement,” he says. “We would support common sense protections.” But he described Daniel’s Law as overly punitive.

To Adkisson, the people being punished were the cops, judges, and other government workers he had met on his Jeep excursions through New Jersey. Among them were police officers Justyna Maloney, 38, and her husband, Sergeant Scott Maloney, 46, who work in Rahway, a tiny city along the border with New York City.

In April 2023, Justyna was filmed by a YouTuber who runs the channel Long Island Audit, which has over 842,000 subscribers. He often films himself trying to goad police into misbehavior, and Justyna asking him to leave a government office became his newest viral hit. Followers inundated the Rahway Police’s Facebook page with about 6,500 comments, including death threats, slurs, and links to the Maloneys’ address and phone numbers on SearchPeopleFREE.com and Whitepages. Scott says Facebook wouldn’t remove the comments linking to the contact information. Neither would the police department, citing First Amendment concerns. Tensions boiled.

In August 2023, Scott received texts demanding $3,000 or “your family will be responsible for paying me in blood.” The texts listed his sister’s name and address. An hour later, the same number sent a video of two ski-masked individuals bearing guns inside an unknown location. Atlas wasn’t up and running yet, so Scott, determined to delete all his family’s contact data online, sat on his lagoonside deck every evening for weeks, crushing Michelob Ultras to stay calm as he navigated takedown forms. He put in so many requests to Whitepages for his family that it barred him from making more.

The Facebook comments linking to the Maloneys’ address only came down after they sued their bosses last November for violating Daniel’s Law. This past January, a state judge ruled that the risk to the couple “far outweighs” potential harm to the police department from censorship complaints.

As Adkisson looked to sue noncompliant data websites, he had no trouble signing up the Maloneys as plaintiffs. And because Daniel’s law now made it possible, thanks to Atlas and the police union’s lobbying, to collect guaranteed penalties from data websites, Adkisson had been able to secure five law firms, including prominent national firms Boies Schiller Flexner and Morgan & Morgan, and some attorneys who personally knew the Daniel of “Daniel’s Law.”

On February 6, Atlas and the legal team began filing lawsuits, naming the Maloneys and about 20,000 other clients as plaintiffs. In state court, 110 cases remain unresolved across five different counties. Thirty-six lawsuits are being contested in federal court before Judge Harvey Bartle III, who is based in Philadelphia but commutes across the Delaware River to Camden, New Jersey, because judges based in the state were conflicted out by virtue of being eligible for Daniel’s Law protections.

Eight defendants quickly filed motions to dismiss in state court, but they were all denied. At the federal level, most companies are arguing together that the New Jersey statute violates their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. It’s an argument that’s allowed personal information to stay online before. Federal courts have given leeway to publication of lawmakers’ contact information and actors’ birthdates, leaving doubts over whether cops and judges and their homes and phones would fare any better.

Defendants have told Bartle to consider a US Supreme Court decision in 2011 that found a law in Vermont that protected doctors’ privacy unreasonably singled out data use by drugmakers. Atlas’ foes view Daniel’s Law as similarly arbitrary because it holds New Jersey agencies to different standards than their companies when it comes to keeping data private. They also say it’s unfair that they must remove numbers that cops still list on personal websites.

Some companies fighting the lawsuits note that the $1,000 penalty that the law guarantees may lead to companies acting out of fear and removing more data than needed, or honoring requests that are actually invalid. What’s more, these defendants say that Atlas’ true motivation is money. They claim that instead of trying to quickly protect those already signed up when last year’s amendments passed, Atlas sought out more users to run up the potential monetary judgment and duped them into paying for protections they could exercise for free themselves.

Adkisson disputes the accusations. He says Atlas needed time to finish its platform and ensure it was able to properly log usage, so that judges wouldn’t dismiss cases based on technicalities like takedown requests ending up in spam folders. The startup also won’t be profiting from the lawsuit, he says. Two-thirds of any proceeds will go to the users represented; anything he and Atlas are left with after covering the costs of bringing the lawsuits would be donated to law enforcement charities and privacy advocacy groups through Atlas’ nonprofit arm, Coalition for Data Privacy and Security. Privacy is “a very real, tactical, and visceral need,” Adkisson says.

He was reminded of that this past May when he took WIRED in his Jeep to meet with Peter Andreyev, a cop in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, and president of the statewide Policemen's Benevolent Association. Around dusk that day, Adkisson handed Andreyev a search result for his name on DataTree.com, a website that sells property records. Andreyev slipped on his black-rimmed glasses and brought his linebacker figure toward a conference table to review the page. It took him just two seconds to tense up. “Oh shit,” he said.

He stared at a street-view image of his home, and a birds-eye shot with his address overlaid. The square footage was in there too, for good measure. His head visibly rattling and legs restless, Andreyev pounded the table. “I—I’m pretty infuriated by this.”

Like many law enforcement officers, the 51-year-old rarely goes a day without nightmares about some known thug or detractor attacking him and his family. The DataTree printout reinforced for him that it would take just a few clicks for anyone to target him in the vulnerability of his own home. WIRED pulled up Andreyev’s report from DataTree with just a free trial.

As Andreyev continued to study the page, Adkisson pointed out something he viewed as particularly galling. In February, Atlas had sued First American, the $6 billion title insurance company that operates DataTree, for allegedly not complying with removal requests. Andreyev had been listed as one of the lead plaintiffs, alongside the Maloneys. In the following weeks, DataTree removed Andreyev’s address from one section of the search result for his name but left it up on the map that Andreyev was now staring at. “That’s no way compliant,” Andreyev said. “Fuck, it pisses me off.” First American declined to comment. As the legal battle plays out, Andreyev says he's left to continue looking over his shoulder—even at home.

The antidote of making officers more difficult to find could require greater creativity from those investigating or advertising to them, says Neil Richards, a Washington University School of Law professor and author of Why Privacy Matters. But it doesn’t make the work impossible. Richards, who isn’t involved in the Atlas litigation, says courts need to recognize that “privacy protections are a fundamental First Amendment concern, and one that's even more important than a company's ability to make money trafficking in phone numbers and home addresses.”

In the coming months, Judge Bartle will decide whether cops and judges living in fear imperils public safety. If so, he’ll have to settle whether Daniel’s Law is the least onerous solution. A loss for Atlas and its clients would effectively be treating “anything done with information” as free expression, Richards says, and stymie further attempts to regulate the digital world.

On the other hand, a victory for Atlas could be a boon for its business. Adkisson says tens of thousands of people across the country have joined the company’s waiting list: prison nurses, paramedics, teachers. All of them, he adds, anticipating someday gaining the same removal power as New Jerseyans. Since the beginning of 2023, at least seven states have passed similar measures to Daniel’s Law. None of those, however, include the monetary penalty that gets lawyers interested in pursuing enforcement. “Step one is, win here,” Adkisson says, referring to New Jersey.

After the dispiriting start, he thinks momentum is swinging in Atlas’ favor. In August, the startup raised its first funding since 2021, about $8.5 million in litigation financing and equity investment.

Adkisson says compliance with more recent removal requests is increasing, and a few defendants are settling. In September, a state judge approved the first deal, in which NJParcels.com owner Areaplot admitted to 28,230 violations of Daniel’s Law and accepted five years of oversight. PogoData, a revenue-less website that had made property owners’ names searchable, settled this month. Bill Wetzel, its 79-year-old hobbyist owner, would owe $20 million for breaching the deal but he says he supports removing names of officers in harm’s way.

Then again, against the better-funded defendants with more at stake and unpredictable courts, Adkisson recognizes that a broader victory for privacy and Atlas is uncertain. In telling his story, he wants to ensure there’s opportunity for people to learn from any missteps if Atlas fails. But his advisers, including former boss Steve Avalone, don’t expect Adkisson to give up easy. They describe him as the ultimate gadfly—unorthodox, tenacious, and wealthy. “There’s few people with that horsepower and that charisma,” Avalone says.

For his part, Adkisson says he’s driven by a sad truth. The tragedies, fueled in part by contact information online, that judge Salas wanted to bring an end to after her son’s murder haven’t stopped. Last October, a man allegedly shot to death Andrew Wilkinson, a Maryland state judge, who hours earlier had denied the man custody of his child. The National Center for State Courts said it was the third targeted shooting of a state judge in as many years.

Maryland investigators say they believe the now-deceased assailant found Wilkinson’s address online, though they never recovered definitive evidence beyond a search query for the judge’s name. When he heard about the murder the day it happened, Adkisson immediately googled Wilkinson. His address was right there.

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PORTLAND: First Friday Office Hours!

I'll be at Books With Pictures (1401 SE Division here in Portland, Oregon) this Friday, Dec 6th from 4-6 PM, giving emerging artists professional feedback on their comics art.

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

You show me 6-8 pages of comic book storytelling. I'll give you honest feedback based on my 30 years in comics. I'll tell you what I think works, what doesn't, how to tweak a panel for clarity or impact- all the stuff your teacher at a comics class might tell you.

WHAT ARE THE LIMITS?

This isn't networking. I'm not there to hire you, read your pitch, give your samples to a publisher, or introduce you to other, more famous comics people. I'm just there to talk with you about the pages you've drawn. Like a class in art school, but without roll call or tuition.

ANYTHING ELSE?

I'm restricting this to comics pages- storytelling- because that's what I know. If you're looking for feedback on scriptwriting, or illustrations, or fine art, or concept art, I'm not that guy. There are people who know WAAAY more about those specialties than I do. And it’s fine to work digitally, but please bring print-outs. It’s a LOT easier to critique art on paper, and we won’t have to deal with app glitches or battery problems.

CAN YOU DO THIS ONLINE?

I only do this in person- not online. My plan is to keep doing office hours at Books With Pictures, 4-6 PM on the first Friday of every month for as long as our mutual schedules permit.

WHAT DOES THIS COST?

Zip. Nada. Zero. It costs nothing. Just bring your portfolio and your love of comics.

IS THIS A NEW THING?

Nope. This session will be the THIRD ANNIVERSARY of this project. And you know what? I am proud of that. It's important to me that local comics artists have access to ongoing professional feedback without having to take out student loans. Hope to see you this Friday!

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Gonna disclose my income as a freelance artist because I feel like it might give some perspective. And mostly bc I'm feeling a bit burnout and I want pity points ok? Lol.

Context 1: For sake of simplicity, all figures are net income (minused all fees, charges, insurance, benefits, etc)

Context 2: I live in a big city in Việt Nam and the cost of living is relatively low. A salary of 1000$/month is considered really good for someone living alone with one pet, no family or children, no debt or other liabilities. Entry level jobs usually start at around 200-300$/month.

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Let's start in 2021 because that's when it can be considered when I started doing art professionally.

In 2021 and 2022, I was juggling between art school, a part-time online side gig, building social media for my art, and of course try to get commissions. But coms were few and far between, mainly because I didn't have an online present before and I only hang in relatively small fandoms. So all I earn through side gig and art were only some change, in total avarage to about 40$/ month. Some months made up for no income months.

In 2023, things starts to be a bit better as I get more confident in my skill, but coms are still few and far between and months with no income is still common. Side gig was few and far between too and pay less. Overall I'd say it goes up to about 80$/month.

This year 2024, art school is done, I can finally do art full time. But I was severely burnout because all the accumulated stress since waaaaay before catch up with me and i couldn't cope anymore. I have to spend a lot of time resting instead. Fortunately, I received a decent amount of coms each month, and the new patreon surprisingly got a few supporters (I fully realistically expected it to sit at 0 for at least a year). Overall, I have an 8 hours 4 days work week: 4 hours a day on com and managing social media and other stuff that actually makes money; 4 hours a day on my own projects and personal indulgence that doesn't directly make money. As of now, my income is about 180$/month.

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You are probably wondering how the fuck do one live like this in this economy.

It's because my family is middle class and can afford a freeloader like me in their house, receive their pocket money and tuition fee. I'm privileged.

But of course my family isn't rich and if just one catastrophic event happens to us, we'd be in bad shit. I'm constantly in anxiety of money, work, and the future. It doesn't help that I'm late 20s and many people around keep reminding of how I'm not making money yet still leeching off parents. It doesn't help that, for years all i hear about art is it will just lead to failure and no money.

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But still, I am thankful of my family for letting me stay here. And all my friends and supporters for giving me money oc lol, but more importantly, believing in me more than I ever do in myself. I read all of your little tags, your keysmash and compliments, and I keep them all dear to my heart, and I went back to them everytime I need motivation. I can't see where my future as an artist will be, but I cling to your support and love as the will to keep going. Thank you all so, so fucking much. I'd have been literally dead in a ditch somewhere without you guys.

Anyway, idk, I've always been adamant about wage transparency (especially in a corporate setting) but I rarely see this in freelance artists. except to flex, to promote the hustle culture, or to sell some courses they made. Most of us don't want/can't subscribe to the grind and have nothing to flex either. All we have is this shit economy. I'd wish we could have been more open about this and many of us wouldn't have to feel so lonely and despair all the time.

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I need to write a fic for the human au soon. (Unfortunately my classes are out so I don't even have an excuse for why I don't) But I was thinking since a part of me likes this kind of thing for some background being Sera had a strained with her family who werent great but not overlord au bad when Emily was born while she was in university. Before Emily is a year old both her parents die in car crash and suddenly she is Emily's guardian she could have left Emily in foster care but she didn't want to leave Emily so she took her in but couldn't afford to care for her and do school so she drops out and starts working to support the two of them. She's able to keep her head above water but barely in a position where one accident or sudden expense would he a disaster she couldn't afford. Meanwhile Carmilla is rich she was rich by family and married rich than her husband passed leaving her with a lot of money and a company plus the two girls. They meet at school (Emily got a scholarship thing to go whatevet private school the girls go to and become friends.) Carmilla notices Sera is always stressed about money being one major expense away from disaster and also trying to help her in what way she can. If they get together Carmilla plans to let Sera do whatever go back to school, keep working like she is though hopefully less hours or just stay at home as her sugar baby. Also for ages Carmilla is older than Sera who was 21 when Emily was born and got her at that age Sera is 28 now and Carmilla is currently 32 her late husband passed 4 years ago.

You totally should!

I can see Sera working multiple jobs to take care of Emily, and even if Emily got a scholarship, there'd probably be other expenses like books, uniforms, field trips, or whatever else that she'd have to pay for out of pocket. Maybe Sera tried to go back to school multiple times, took online classes, etc. but she just couldn't keep up with multiple jobs and classes at the same time, so she'd give up after a while. But it's okay, as long as Emily got a good education.

The first time Emily, Odette, and Clara have a play date and Sera comes to pick up Emily, she and Carmilla get into a conversation. Carmilla wants to get to know all the parents of the girls her daughters are friends with. Almost immediately, Carmilla is very attracted to this woman. She's not dressed to the nines or driving a fancy car or wearing really expensive clothes/jewelry like all the other moms and dads Carmilla meets. She's a homely, down-to-earth person probably driving a 20-year-old Honda Civic, wearing a simple blouse and skirt from her day job at some office somewhere, and running really late because traffic was a nightmare.

Carmilla respects her very much for being a single "parent" and trying to raise Emily on her own. She invites her back anytime she wants. Emily is always welcome in her home. Sera starts coming to visit all the time, even though Carmilla orchestrates these encounters very strategically, so she doesn't scare the timid woman away. She wants to make her feel welcome like any of the other parents, but also let her know that she's special and Carmilla fancies her very much.

It takes a while, but when they eventually get together, Carmilla tells Sera she doesn't have to work anymore; she can go back to college full-time if she wants, or just stay home and take care of all the girls. Sera thinks it's very tempting, because she hasn't had the opportunity to think about what she wants for the last 8 years of Emily's life. It's honestly all so overwhelming. She doesn't even know how to be selfish anymore.

Ultimately, Sera decides that she does want to pull her weight and work her way through college. She gets a job on campus part-time, like a work study program, so she can help pay her tuition herself and still have time to take care of the girls in the mornings and afternoons when they get home from school. Eventually she decides she wants to go to graduate school, as well; she gets an assistantship, and by the time Emily is a teenager, Sera's finished with her education and working with Carmilla at her company.

[thesims3help]

Sims 3 - Gameplay enhancing mods: School, University, Skills, Work.

A category-based mod post. Mods and links previously featured in our Masterlist. All credits to their rightful owners.

Categories include: school, apprenticeship, university, tuition, skills, careers, gigs and work mods.

School:

Extra-Curricular Activities – MissyHissy's School For Gifted Sims

The Apprenticeship Program – MissyHissy's School For Gifted Sims

Faster (and Slower) Homework - 8 Flavours!

Extra Credit Homework V4 by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Edited Education Hours

University:

Course List | MissyHissy's College of Further Education

Lost & Found: Honors Scholarship (Plus Other Aptitude Test Tweaks)

Write Scholarships for Money

New Scholarships (Update 10/26/23) - Talent Scholarships & No Store Version

Attend University Online (Update 10/26/23) - Wish Fix

University Life Visual Fixes (Send Insulting Text, Texting Idle, Heat of the Moment Kiss)

Studying Tweaks

Minimum Wage/More Realistic Earnings, Higher Tuition, Higher Boarding School Costs, Higher Grant Money

University Manager by Kuree[Script Mod] by Kuree (simlogical.com)

[UL] No Academic Performance Decay - 1.63 - 1.67 by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

University Degree Tweaks: Counts for Education and Social Group Jobs + FLAVOURS

Skills:

Take Practice Shots Mod

Hidden Skills Unhidden

Learn Cooking Recipes by Watching TV!

Skills Lose Progress

Musical Instruments

Flower Arranging - Interaction and Skill

Knitting for TS3 - Interaction and Skill

Writing, Painting, Gardening, Tinkering More Fun

Study Skills Online V37

Yoga Mod (Update 3/1/23) - New Features!

Scribbling Pad + Buzzler's Scribbling Pad - Fixed

TS2 > TS3 Functional Sewing table [BETA V2.0.0]

Programming Skill

Faster Gardening Mod - 3 Flavors

Faster Upgrades Times

Faster Drafting Table Sketches & Paintings

Faster Invention Making/Sculpting and/or Challenges

Faster/Slower and/or Hidden Skills!

Rock Climbing Wall Tweaks, with multiple flavors

Meditate by Candlelight V4 by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Fit Atmosphere (Gym) Moodlet Fix by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Jobs, Gigs:

Social Networking Skill for Computer/MultiTab

Spin Class

The Job Board | MissyHissy's Job Centre

Employment – MissyHissy's School For Gifted Sims (Teen Jobs)

Time to work again - Cancel Time Off

Social Care Career

Hairdresser Mod - Impress Clients, Temporarily Dye Hair and More!

Job Overhaul -- Interviews And More

Pool Jobs for Lifeguards

nraas Careers - Must download main Careers mod and wanted modules which represent different careers.

The Business as Unusual Bistro Set

The Savvier Seller Mod - Version 4

Observatory Assistant -- Part-Time Astronomy Job

Sim State - The Sims 3 Open For Business Mini Expansion v1.4

Ultimate Careers (Version 4.3)

Showtime: Performance Career Tweaks by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Xtreme Career [TS1 to TS3]

Army Enlisted Career - Now With Two Separate Career Paths! - Updated 12/02/2012

Magic Academy / Dark Magic Academy Career

Factory Worker Career

Music Producer Career

Marine Biologist career

Doggie Day Care career

Restaurant Host career

Superhero and Supervillain Careers

Layoff Mod

Cancel Time Off Updated

Check For Work In Rabbitholes

Showtime Gigs: Easier or Harder Legendary Shows

Late Night Gig Scheduler Deluxe: Be your own agent! (scripted object) by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Find All Jobs in Newspaper or on any Computer

All Careers Available In the Future by Gurra (simlogical.com)

Adventure Boards/Job Board for your towns by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Audition For Band Gigs

Teen Band Redux

[onlinelearningclass]

Online Tuition for Class 8: Personalized Learning for Success 

Online tuition for Class 8 offers personalized learning with expert tutors to help students excel in subjects like Math, Science, and English. With interactive lessons and tailored study plans, students can focus on areas they find challenging. The flexibility of online learning allows them to study at their own pace, ensuring a deeper understanding of concepts. Regular assessments and feedback help track progress, boosting confidence and academic performance, while preparing students for future studies and competitive exams.

[onlinetutorsservices]

Why Do Students of Class 8 Need to Know About Athenian Democracy?

online tuition for Class 8 provides the flexibility to utilise various teaching strategies and customised approaches.

[helioscopepdx]

PORTLAND: Steve Lieber's First Friday Office Hours are back!

This Friday, November 1st, find Steve at @bookswpictures at 1401 SE Division from 4-6PM, giving professional feedback on your comics art. Here's his pitch for the event:

HOW DOES THIS WORK? You show me 6-8 pages of comic book storytelling. I’ll give you honest feedback based on my 30 years in comics. I’ll tell you what I think works, what doesn’t, how to tweak a panel for clarity or impact- all the stuff your teacher at a comics class might tell you. WHAT ARE THE LIMITS? This isn’t networking. I’m not there to hire you, read your pitch, give your samples to a publisher, or introduce you to other, more famous comics people. I’m just there to talk with you about the pages you’ve drawn. Like a class in art school, but without roll call or tuition. ANYTHING ELSE? I’m restricting this to comics pages- storytelling- because that’s what I know. If you’re looking for feedback on scriptwriting, or illustrations, or fine art, or concept art, I’m not that guy. There are people who know WAAAY more about those specialties than I do. And it’s fine to work digitally, but please bring print-outs. It’s a LOT easier to critique art on paper, and we won’t have to deal with app glitches or battery problems. HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON? I’m only doing this in person- not online. My plan is to keep doing office hours at Books With Pictures, 4-6 PM on the first Friday of every month for as long as our mutual schedules permit. WHAT DOES THIS COST? Zip. Nada. Zero. It costs nothing. Just bring your portfolio and your love of comics. Hope to see you this Friday!

[doubtout]

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 2 Polynomials is the second chapter of Class 9 Maths. Polynomials are introduced and discussed in detail here. The chapter discusses Polynomials and their applications. The chapter’s introduction includes whole numbers, integers, and rational numbers.

[scroomp]

Things I did today on the first day of classes after winter break

Lost my ID card, got a temporary card, and then as soon as that was done someone found my card

Missed my first ochem2 class because I lost my ID card

Attended my first biochemistry lecture

Lunch with my best friend

Attended my first genetics lecture

Caught up with a friend

Bought a textbook

Walked across campus to buy another textbook

Bought an online textbook

Bought my next 8 aerial silks classes

Paid all $12,129.10 of my tuition

Made a phone call and waited for over 30 minutes for a one minute interaction

Made 4 separate phone calls to figure out how to get my medication

Called my parents

Ordered a new pen for my laptop

Attended my first Science in the Media lecture

Spoke to 2 NEW people!!!

[delphidewirests]

Day 4

26/6/24

Okay, things changed a bit today. May be because my antibiotic course just completed today. I will be dividing the day into 3 parts.

Studying/Working:

1. 3 hours of tuition. Taught with changing level of concentration. It was difficult, I don't know why, but I managed well.

2. Half an hour of note working in the afternoon.

3. 2 hours of reading and working on an online presentation for teaching.

4. 2 hours VSMS write up working. Used pomodoro this time. Not very useful usually, but achieved more than usual today for me.

5. 40 minutes of learning Spanish on Duo.

(not in bed yet, so may be will sit with some more studying before I finally sleep)

Being productive

1. Woke up at 7:30 pretty unusual.

2. Had a bath, took my inhalers properly, had my morning coffee before starting off for tuition class.

3. Came home and ate on time.

4. Completed antibiotic course. Delayed by a day, but I'm working on forgiving myself.

5. Didn't overindulge in movie/series watching.

6. Watched 3 episodes of Dr. House.

7. Slept for 2.5 hours in the evening.

8. The evening tuition got cancelled. So I sat with A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux almost for an hour. I was distracted but I read quite some pages.

9. Spent some time preparing compost water for plants, watered them.

10. Ate, did some dishes.

Bad things

1. Transformer blasted, smoke rushed like madness, I'm having the chest congestion again.

2. Slept too long may be in the evening, so no sleep now.

3. I was having some silly confusion regarding how to manage money. I felt insecure, silly, .. May be I have to start another meditation routine again.

That's all for today I guess! I am happier I think.