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Click here to read the full article. Interior designer Melanie Rose specializes in something very intimate and unique in the home renovation space: She designs sex rooms. Remember Tommy Lee’s dream of a boudoir playground in “Pam & Tommy,” and how the racy redesign led to his sex tape being stolen? That’s what Rose does for a living — well, except she doesn’t steal her clients’ personal belongings. When she’s not planning other folks’ bedrooms, Rose is in her own home writing a series of erotic novels based on that career. It was under the guise of pitching those books as a scripted series that her manager approached Adam Sher, president of ITV America. But Sher had another idea: Why not turn her life and work into a TV-MA-rated reality show? More from Variety 'The Next 365 Days' Review: For Masochists Only - and Not the Sexy Kind 'Sex Education' Season 4 Adds Dan Levy, Six Series Regulars Streamers Hike Prices: How the Big Players Stack Up Now And … [Read more...] about Streamers Get Steamy as They Lust After Sex-Drenched Fare to Seduce Subscribers

Click here to read the full article. The Television Academy will launch its first-ever industry-wide DEI summit later this year, which comes as the org also releases its latest report on diversity, equity and inclusion practices throughout the industry. The summit, which will take place Dec. 1, will target DEI professionals in the industry – “to meet, network, share ideas and collaborate to work towards a more inclusive and equitable industry, increasing the visibility, equity and power for those marginalized and underrepresented,” according to the Academy. More from Variety TV Academy to Honor Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media With 2022 Governors Award Game Shows Shift to Primetime Emmys as the Two TV Academies Continue Their Awards Realignment As More Late Night Shows Disappear, TV Academy Will Have to Figure Out Its Variety Series Conundrum Soon The report is part of the TV Academy’s efforts, first announced in March 2021 , to evaluate the … [Read more...] about Television Academy to Hold an Industry-Wide Summit on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion This December

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Community Corner Addressing summer learning loss through programs focused on academics, enrichment and social-emotional needs of children United Way of Lake County , Community Contributor Posted | Updated Reply United Way of Lake County announced today that $84,345 has been awarded in the ninth and final round of Lake County COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund grants to eight local nonprofits. This grant cycle focused on summer programs for children up to age thirteen that address learning loss through academics or enrichment programming and include activities or services that address children’s social-emotional needs due to the impact of the pandemic. The grant recipients for the ninth funding distribution are: Beacon Place , to revive Tweens summer program for 25 rising 6th and 7th graders in Waukegan and … [Read more...] about United Way of Lake County awards $84,000 in final COVID-19 fund grants

A Connecticut school district policy went into effect Tuesday which requires educators to call students by their preferred pronouns and names. Hartford Public School District in Hartford, Connecticut, implemented a new policy for teachers on Tuesday regarding the treatment of transgender and non-binary students. Educators must address a student by their preferred pronouns and name and failure to do so is a violation of the school policy. (RELATED: California School District Pressures Teachers To Aid In Students’ Gender Transitions) The school states in the policy that they will not reveal a student’s transgender status to parents unless told by the student to do so.  Educators also must attend a “transgender sensitivity” training which will focus on “what it means to treat all people respectfully and equally.” Educators are also advised to “eliminate the practice of segregating students by gender,” according to the policy. When required, especially in health education … [Read more...] about School District Is Requiring Its Employees To Call Students By Preferred Pronouns, Names

A federal court denied a petition for rehearing in a case surrounding United Airlines’ vaccine mandate — one judge accusing the company of “ coerc[ing] its employees into violating their religious beliefs.” Judges for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, widely considered the most conservative federal court, voted 13-4 on Thursday to deny a rehearing. The court also denied United Airlines’ request to vacate a panel opinion from February , which held that the mandate inflicted irreparable harm and remanded the case to district court. Trump-appointed Judge James Ho penned a concurring opinion , admonishing the airline for creating a “crisis of conscience” for its employees, and warned of new wave of corporatism in the Unites States that seeks to inflict its cultural values on Americans. Ho wrote that mandating employees with sincere religious objections to take vaccines that “were developed using aborted fetal tissue” or face indefinite unpaid … [Read more...] about Federal Court Nixes Vaccine Mandate, Citing Religious Liberty