Good Morning – January 20, 2022

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Good morning! Happy Thursday. 😎

Enjoy the warmth while you can, as it’s not expected to last. I actually left the heat turned up last night, and with temperatures outside reaching 40 degrees, it was uncomfortably warm in my apartment. But I thought the mercury was supposed to be dropping through the night.

Partly cloudy and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 16. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️We had some melting yesterday, but what’s one the ground is going to be around for a while. We didn’t get any snow last night. The skies will clear around 11 am. And cold!

Got my teeth cleaned this morning. 🦷🪥 I guess they weren’t as bad as I once thought they were. I was a few minutes late for my cleaning appointment, but things were backed up at the entrance, so it wasn’t like I was holding things up. Kind of overslept this morning, after waking up during the middle of the night, then sleeping in a bit later then usual.

I get to bed early, and for a while was doing good 🛌 but lately I keep waking up at night. But I do find early to bed, early to rise is best prescription for a good nights sleep. Even though morning gets light earlier, the mornings are still so terribly dark. I am ready for April, when can it come? I might do a morning walk on session days, early, once there is more light in the days, so I can get more steps in. 👣

The truth is I wish I could get out of town more during the winter, ⛄ but it’s tough with the weekends being so cold and snowy, and often the places I like to go having roads close during the winter. And even along NY 8, the snow banks are certainly high along the roads.

Carhartt’s mandatory vaccine policy receives major backlash

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Carhartt’s mandatory vaccine policy receives major backlash

Last week, the Supreme Court announced a decision that large companies do not have to enforce the vaccination-or-testing requirement proposed by the Biden Administration. However, the decision is ultimately left up to the employer whether or not to continue the vaccine requirement. And that has put Carhartt in a tight spot with its customer base. Carhartt has come under fire from its more conservative consumers after it decided to keep the vaccine mandate in place for its roughly 3,000 U.S.-based employees.

This week, #BoycottCarhartt started trending on Twitter after the announcement from Carhartt’s CEO Mark Valade. In an email sent it to workers a day after the Supreme Court’s decision, Valade emphasizes workplace safety.

“We put workplace safety at the very top of our priority list and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling doesn’t impact that core value. We, and the medical community, continue to believe vaccines are necessary to ensure a safe working environment for every associate and even perhaps their households,” the message said.

NPR

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Biden nominates the 1st Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge : NPR

President Biden on Wednesday announced eight judicial nominees, including Nusrat Choudhury who would be the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge.

Choudhury, currently the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, has been tapped to be a U.S. judge in the Eastern District of New York.