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BROCKTON (CBS) – Five Brockton residents want to be the catalyst for change and they plan to do that with the Brockton Beer Company , the city’s first craft brewery. “It’s really a great story about diversity and families coming together and trying to make a contribution to their community,” co-founder Ed Cabellon told WBZ-TV. READ MORE: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Issue Not Expected To Delay Large Shipment To Massachusetts Cabellon said ten years ago, five Brockton families, including his own, were bought together by their preschool-aged children. Over time, the parents developed their own friendships through school and sports. “I got a Suburban. I know it was always full of kids going back and forth to soccer games and hanging out at tournaments, babysitting. We became a family,” co-founder Rowan Olmstead told WBZ. To wind down from long days on the soccer field, the adults started ‘Friday Game Night,’ even playing virtually during the pandemic. One night they brewed … [Read more...] about It Happens Here: Diverse Families Come Together To Form Brockton Beer Company

BOSTON (CBS) — Weather technology is exploding, rapid progress is happening from forecasting to modeling. A local software company is on the front lines, creating the most powerful weather engine the world has ever seen to prepare us from the most hazardous weather. “Weather is more critical than ever before for a whole host of reasons. I think climate change is making all of these weather events much more extreme, much more frequent and we need to be prepared,” said Rei Goffer, a co-founder of Climacell. READ MORE: I-Team: Family Says State Guidelines Kept Elderly Mother Isolated Despite Receiving COVID Shot Climacell is a Boston-based weather intelligence company that emerged from the founders’ personal experience. “We come from Israel and spent over a decade in the military flying airplanes, patching helicopters, F-16s and being in special forces and we all had some pretty nasty experiences with weather, near death experiences if you will, so we’ve said well something … [Read more...] about Boston Software Company Developing Small Satellites To Better Weather Forecasts

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/CNN) — Krispy Kreme is offering a sweet treat for anyone who has proof they received the COVID-19 vaccine. Customers who show their vaccination card will receive a free glazed doughnut. The deal is available at all 369 Krispy Kreme locations in the United States. READ MORE: Signs Posted Around Reading Terminal Market Warn Homeless They Have About 2 Weeks To Remove Belongings There are three locations in the Philadelphia area in Havertown, Bensalem and Collingswood, New Jersey. Krispy Kreme says customers can take them up on the offer on any day for the rest of the year. READ MORE: Several Hundred People March To Philadelphia City Hall, Urging Lawmakers To Protect Asian-Americans Some companies are offering paid time off incentives to their employees in an effort to get them vaccinated, according to CBS News . Aldi, Target, Trader Joe’s, McDonald’s and Dollar General are promising employees up to four hours of extra pay for getting the shots. Lidl … [Read more...] about Free Donuts, Paid Leave & Cash: Companies Are Offering Freebies To Customers, Employees Who Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

GREAT PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — There are new privacy concerns over a device that tracks how much power you use in your house. Some experts say smart meters could reveal more than what you want known about what goes on inside your home, CBS2’s Clark Fouraker reported on Tuesday. READ MORE: Indoor Family Entertainment Centers Reopen At 25% Capacity In New York About 2,700 homes near Mahwah, New Jersey have the state’s first smart power meters — the latest gadget used by utilities to track how often the lights are on. “The smart meter is essentially a mini computer, if you will,” Rockland Electric Company’s Keith Scerbo said. MORE : Planned Smart Electric Meters On Long Island Draw Fears About Privacy, Radiation Unlike the meter on most homes, smart meters send data from your home back to the power company every 15 minutes. Utilities don’t just learn how much power you use; they can also be alerted in real-time to an outage caused by bad weather. The smart meter’s … [Read more...] about Are ‘Smart’ Meters Spying On You? Rockland Electric Company Says Absolutely Not

(CNN) AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine showed 79% efficacy against symptomatic disease and 100% efficacy against severe disease and hospitalization in a new, US-based clinical trial, the company said Monday. The findings from the new Phase 3 trial, which included more than 32,000 participants, may boost confidence in the vaccine , which was originally developed by the University of Oxford. Some experts are split on whether US could see another Covid-19 surge The trial showed that the vaccine was well-tolerated and identified no safety concerns, the company said. An independent committee "found no increased risk of thrombosis or events characterized by thrombosis among the 21,583 participants receiving at least one dose of the vaccine," according to AstraZeneca. The new data came from a Phase 3 clinical trial conducted in the US, Chile and Peru. AstraZeneca says it plans to submit the findings to a scientific journal for peer review. … [Read more...] about AstraZeneca vaccine is 79% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, company says