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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – It was a busy New Year’s Eve day outside the Cooper Memorial Library in Clermont where people 65 or older waited in their cars to get their Covid-19 immunization shot.

The majority of people had made an appointment by phone--but for others like 68-year-old Ken Wilde, the process has been frustrating.

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“I’ve been looking online at the Lake County Florida gov website and it says that starting tomorrow it’s available for walk-in but now I came up here to verify which location to go to but they say something completely different. So I have no option for tomorrow. I don’t know where to go,” Wilde said. “It’s very confusing cause online it says starting tomorrow it’s walk-ins only and yet here he said absolutely not it’s appointments only and you can’t make an appointment on the phone. I tried for three days and you just can’t get through.”

On Wednesday, Lake County officials with the department of health and the emergency center addressed the phone line situation.

“In my professional career, I’ve never seen a call center take so many calls,” Tommy Carpenter, emergency operations manager said. “I understand concerns from residents in getting information being able to initially to schedule an appointment for immunizations.”

The Florida Department of Health in Lake County said on Friday they are not sure when the next shipment of vaccines will arrive, but once they do have them, they will inform the community.

“The Florida Department of Health in Lake County is no longer scheduling COVID-19 immunization appointments but will honor previously scheduled appointments,” a news release from Lake County officials read. “Currently, the Florida Department of Health is only distributing the first dose. Persons who have received their first dose will be contacted to complete the two-dose series.”

Among other updates to Lake County’s vaccine distribution for 65 or older are: as of Friday, Jan. 1, the Cooper Memorial Library site will be closed, and operations will be moved to the Clermont Arts and Recreation Center.

The vaccine site at the Clermont Arts and Recreation Center is only taking seniors with appointments. No walk-ups are allowed.

For more information about vaccine sites in Lake County click here.

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StoryCorps: Remembering A Mother With A Fighting Spirit - NPR

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Editor's note: Jasmyn Morris, who co-produced this interview, is a distant cousin to Rose Liscum. Gert Uhl is Morris' great-grandmother.

Rosella "Rose" Liscum died at 101 years old last week in Ogdensburg, N.Y., after contracting the coronavirus, following a long, full life.

Back in 2012, Liscum, 93 at the time, sat down for StoryCorps with her daughter, Marlene Watson, then 66, to reflect on some of her memorable relationships with loved ones and her own unrelenting spunk.

While Liscum was growing up in De Kalb, N.Y., her best friend was Vivian Davis. Together, 6-foot-tall Davis and Liscum, 4 feet, 10 inches, were quite a sight, she recalled. "She used to put her arm out, and I'd walk under her arm."

Liscum described her friend as a "holy terror."

"She used to chew tobacco. And when her father would be in the chair sleepin', his mouth would be open and she'd chew that tobacco and then spit that juice right into his mouth," Liscum said.

At age 37, Liscum befriended Gert Uhl, a new neighbor in town.

"She was a person that if she made up her mind, come hell or high water, she was going to do it, and there was no telling her, 'No, you can't.' She did it. She was funny as a crutch, and she liked her beer," Liscum said.

Watson remembered how her mother used to disappear every night to hang out with Uhl.

"Dad would ask you where you were going, and you would say, 'I'm going down to Gert's and help her wallpaper,' " Watson said.

But, as her mother admitted, they weren't really wallpapering.

Instead, the pair would jump in Uhl's car and drive aimlessly and, as Liscum remembered, once got themselves in a pickle.

"We were driving along, and all at once she said, 'Oh, my Lord, look at the nice big road over there,' " said Liscum. "Well, she whirled the car right around, and we were going right down the runway and the airplanes were landing!"

But military police were quick to pull the friends over.

Liscum went on to outlive her husband, who died in 1986, and, later, another romantic partner.

She was in her 80s when she met Bill Cota at a dance at a nearby AMVETS around 2004. They were in a relationship for about 14 years until his death in 2017.

"We went to a dance one night, and he went with a bunch of fellows and I went with friends, you know," Liscum said. "And he kept watching me. So finally he come over and asked me to dance."

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After that night, Cota asked her on a date.

"Well, they had dances every week," Liscum said. "And he said, 'If you want, I'll come over and pick you up and we'll go to the dance.' "

Watson asked her mother how their relationship grew from that point: "How did you know that you were falling in love with Bill and that he wasn't just someone to dance with on a Friday night?"

Cota was someone she felt she could depend on, Liscum said. "He was just different than the rest of them," she said. "When you start trusting people, then you know that you're all right."

Without Cota, she told Watson, "it would be just a vacant spot in my life. It's just like coffee without sugar."

Liscum held onto her spunk, even in old age.

She remembered a woman at one of the weekly dances whom she saw whisper in Cota's ear. "I kept my eye on her. And finally she grabbed him by the hand, and I went right over to her. I said, 'If he doesn't want to dance with you, move on,' " she said.

That's the mother Watson remembers.

"As my younger daughter would say, 'Grandma is the one who taught me how to fight,' " Watson said.

Liscum told her that it was just part of how she stayed true to herself.

"Well, if you know you are right, you stick to it," she said. "You don't let nobody sway you one way or another. Just do what's in your heart. Do what's right and have fun."

Audio produced for Morning Edition by Jasmyn Morris and Jey Born. Emma Bowman adapted it for the Web.

StoryCorps is a national nonprofit that gives people the chance to interview friends and loved ones about their lives. These conversations are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, allowing participants to leave a legacy for future generations. Learn more, including how to interview someone in your life, at StoryCorps.org.

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College football bowl games today: Schedule with predictions, picks, odds, lines for New Year's Day 2021 - CBS Sports

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Four exciting months albeit strange of college football have come down to this. The four top teams in the nation will meet on New Year's Day in the College Football Playoff semifinals, though those are not the only bowl games set to be contested in what should be a captivating day of action that should run from noon until midnight on the East Coast. The best day of the 2020-21 bowl slate thus far features three other top 25 teams, all of which are looking to make statements before closing the book on this season.

Still, the co-main events (if you will) are set for the evening. No. 1 Alabama will look to continue its dominant season against No. 4 Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl semifinal, while No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Ohio State meet in a CFP semifinal for the second straight year and third time in the history of this event. It was a close game the last time the Tigers and Buckeyes met on the gridiron, and neither team has forgotten the effort that went into advancing to the national championship just one season ago.

So what will go down Saturday, and which teams should you back over the course of the day? Our CBS Sports college football experts share their insights on the four games and offer their picks both against the spread and straight up. Click on the bowl game names below for a more detailed look at each matchup.

Peach Bowl: (8) Cincinnati vs. (9) Georgia

Latest Odds: Georgia Bulldogs -9.5

This one will be a barn-burner. JT Daniels will have his hands full against the stout Bearcats defense, but will find enough juice to get the job done late. With that said, Desmond Ridder will make the Bulldogs' heads spin enough to give his team the ball late with a chance to spring the upset. They won't be able to finish it off, but it'll be within a touchdown. Pick: Cincinnati (+7) | Georgia 31, Cincinnati 27 -- Barrett Sallee

Citrus Bowl: (14) Northwestern vs. Auburn

Latest Odds: Northwestern Wildcats -4.5

When it comes to handicapping a bowl game, you have to consider a team's motivation for playing in the game. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Northwestern will show up ready to play in this game; that's the way Pat Fitzgerald runs his program and how his teams treat bowl preparation. There's also the added motivation of it being Mike Hankwitz's final game as defensive coordinator. I can't say I'm confident Auburn will be all that motivated. As mentioned above, it's a team coming off a disappointing season playing under an interim coach who wanted the full-time job and didn't get it. Northwestern's offense isn't good enough to make me believe the Wildcats can run away with this game, and letting Auburn hang around could be all the motivation it needs. I do think the Wildcats cover in the end, however. Pick: Northwestern -3.5 | Northwestern 23, Auburn 17 -- Tom Fornelli

Rose Bowl semifinal: (1) Alabama vs. (4) Notre Dame

Latest Odds: Alabama Crimson Tide -19.5

Notre Dame has been too solid, too veteran-led and too ready to answer the challenge all season for me to think we see another steamrolling like the 2013 BCS Championship Game. I don't doubt that Alabama will strike early and likely be in control for most of the game, but this is too many daggum points for a College Football Playoff semifinal between two teams who have a combined 21-1 on the year. Pick: Notre Dame +20 | Alabama 45, Notre Dame 28 -- Chip Patterson

Sugar Bowl semifinal: (2) Clemson vs. (3) Ohio State

Latest Odds: Clemson Tigers -7

I'm not sure why Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has been so willing to provide Ohio State with bulletin board material the last few weeks, but he's not shy about it. Swinney is adamant about his belief that Ohio State shouldn't have been selected for the College Football Playoff because it only played six games. Now, we all know that if had it been Clemson who had been limited to only six games, Swinney would not be arguing his team didn't belong. Still, it doesn't mean he's wrong. It is advantageous for the Buckeyes to only have to play six games, but I don't think it's enough of an advantage that they win this game. When Clemson has Trevor Lawrence, it has looked like the juggernaut we all expected it to be. Ohio State looked terrific in its first three games but has been inconsistent since with Justin Fields especially struggling to find his confidence. Unless Fields reverts to his elite form, it's hard to imagine the Buckeyes keeping this game within a touchdown. Pick: Clemson -7.5 | Clemson 31, Ohio State 21 -- Tom Fornelli

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Crane kick off 2021 with the new season of 'Cobra Kai' on Netflix - Madison.com

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Ralph Macchio stars as Daniel LaRusso in "Cobra Kai" on Netflix.

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Look at the faces of the two lead actors on Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” whose third season premieres Friday on Netflix. These are two faces of nostalgia.

There’s the ageless face of Ralph Macchio, reprising his role at 59 of Danny from the “Karate Kid” movies. To an uncanny degree, Macchio looks exactly like he did in 1984. His face feels like a metaphor for the impulse to keep everything exactly the way it used to be.

Then there’s Billy Zabka, reprising his role as Johnny, the arrogant rich kid who was the villain of the first “Karate Kid” movie. Zabka is 55 and looks it, with a craggy face and lines under his eyes. It’s a far more interesting face than that of the snotty rich kid he played 36 years ago. Johnny’s a fascinating character, in part because he’s so different than the Johnny we used to know.

“Cobra Kai” became a streaming hit when it moved from YouTube Red to Netflix in 2020, and still seems caught between competing ways of looking at the past. When it’s trying to be just like the original “Karate Kid” with a new generation of teenagers, it’s a vanilla, disposable soap opera.

But when it’s commenting on the original movies in a wry postmodern way, it’s a fun show. This season in particular features several surprise cameos that will tickle fans of the original movies. 

The original premise of “Cobra Kai” was that it would be a revisionist show that would focus on Johnny, whose life fell apart after Danny demolished him with a flying crane kick at the end of the first movie. Johnny grew up to become an alcoholic, divorced sad sack, bitterly reliving his past defeats in his head.

Danny, meanwhile, grew up to become rich and successful, so convinced that he’s the hero of his own story that he has blind spots about his own behavior. Danny may be a better human being, but I’d rather grab a beer with Johnny.

Once the storyline expanded beyond that tense rivalry, it was not always to the show's benefit. Johnny and Danny run competing karate dojos in the San Fernando Valley for a new generation of teenagers. The show spends a lot of time with these younger characters, all severely underdeveloped compared to their middle-aged mentors, even as the show puts them through typical teen soap opera twists and turns. Much of Season 3 is spent trying to tie up the loose ends left by Season 2, which leads to a fragmented, sometimes frustrating show.

This season also features a lot more of Martin Kove as John Kreese, Johnny’s truly villainous sensei in the movie. Kreese initiated a hostile takeover of Johnny’s Cobra Kai dojo in Season 2. Kove seems to be having a great time playing a cartoonish monster, but the decision to present Kreese's origin story in flashbacks (bullied teenager, tour of duty in Vietnam) feels like a symptom of the show spreading itself too thin.

Also on streaming: If doing more meditation is one of your New Year’s resolution for 2021, Netflix has partnered with the app Headspace for the “Headspace Guide to Meditation,” a new animated special premiering on Friday.

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Broncos affirm commitment to social justice with $250,000-plus donation - DenverBroncos.com

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"At the early announcement of the Inspire Change program, [Head] Coach [Vic] Fangio committed to adding Power Hour as part of the football schedule on Tuesdays," Engelken said. "… They are voluntary and open to any member of the team, but also the coaching staff and any of the football staff. The goal is to continue … momentum and moving progress forward in the areas of social justice. We worked individually with players who would attend for topics, speakers and area experts that they would want to hear from in order to put some of their plans into action."

Every week, players would hear from guest speakers or have dialogues with one another about the financial opportunities for the Social Justice Fund, and in the end, the result was the distribution announced on Thursday and, overall, a greater commitment to the cause.

"It's something our players have done a great job with," Fangio said. "Obviously, when it all started, everybody was enthusiastic about it. I think our players — different than many people — sustained it throughout the season and have done a great job with this. We had a social justice power hour every Tuesday that the players could attend that we made available to them. We had various speakers and issues that they were able to listen to and discuss. Our players have done a great job with it. They've been persistent, and I applaud them for it."

Though this isn't the first year the Broncos have made a donation through their Social Justice Fund, all the work that has been done throughout the year has represented a significant amount of progress, to be sure.

"To see the little steps that we've taken — not just as an organization in Denver, but I think in the NFL — just the little steps that we've seen them take have been steps in the right direction, but always looking to keep that going," Justin Simmons said. "Not to be stagnant and thinking that just doing a few things here and there and kind of just promoting a few things here and there will kind of change it, but always consistently staying on top of this from here on out. It's been great seeing all the support and all of the communication heading in the right direction. I just hope it's not just because this year was so prominent in bringing all those things up. I hope that happens for years and years to come because we know how powerful the shield is and the NFL can be, and there could be a lot of good change coming with that support."

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Even without the pandemic, life's toughest challenges are hard to explain to a child. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with author Matt de la Peña about children's books that may give parents a little help.

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There are only so many ways you can say the same thing. But to borrow from a popular kid's book, 2020 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. And if you're the parent of a young child, one of the year's hardest jobs was trying to explain what was going on in a way that didn't make things worse. And if you thought to reach for a book to help, we've got some suggestions. Author Matt de la Pena is here to talk more about books to share with kids during tough times.

Welcome to the program. Welcome back.

MATT DE LA PENA: Thank you so much for having me again.

CORNISH: Now, I think people might best know your work in the realm of picture books, and some of that is what we're going to be talking about here. But to start, what are the qualities that you look for in a book that will confront difficult subjects for kids or bring some measure of comfort?

DE LA PENA: You know, while you and I read the news, our young children are watching and reading us. And so they're not getting the whole picture, so I like books that hit everything slant. It's not going to hit it head-on, but there are deep issues that we can explore with our children through books because I'll tell you, Audie, the way I look at books, especially books for young people, is they are really just vehicles to conversation. Sometimes, those are silly conversations. Sometimes, they're educational conversations. And sometimes, like now, they can be quite profound.

CORNISH: A big idea for little people is anxiety. Adults deal with it. Some of us just barely reckon with it, frankly (laughter).

DE LA PENA: Yes.

CORNISH: But you've brought a book that talks about it in a way that young people can understand, and it's called "There Might Be Lobsters."

DE LA PENA: Yes.

CORNISH: Who's it by? What's it about?

DE LA PENA: So it's by Carolyn Crimi, and it's illustrated by Laurel Molk. So this is a very simple story about a young dog that is very anxious about going to the beach. And the companion of the dog, Eleanor - she doesn't understand why this dog is so scared. But the dog is worried about the sand, the beach balls. But especially, the little dog is scared of lobsters. What I love about this book is we see a dog who is pushed out of her comfort zone. She ends up losing her little stuffed animal because a wave takes it out to sea, so the dog is forced out of her comfort zone. She goes into the water. She saves Chunka Munka - that's the stuffed animal's name - and brings it back to shore. And I think it's great to read today with kids because so many of us are forced out of our comfort zones. So I just - I love the way it's exploring that.

CORNISH: With the number of deaths in this country, it's very likely that you have kids who have lost a neighbor, a friend, a family member to COVID-19. And death more broadly isn't unusual in terms of themes for kids' books. I mean, you've talked about this on the show in the past. What do the best of those kinds of books have in common in the way they approach it?

DE LA PENA: So "A Map Into The World" by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Seo Kim - a little girl who's peering through the window at a neighbor who's lost his wife of 60 years. And she can't quite access what it means, but it weighs on her. And it weighs on the entire street. And near the end of the book, I love this moment where she goes across the street with a bucket of chalk, and she asks if she can draw on his sidewalk. And she draws him a map into the world because she thinks he might need a map in order to get back into the world.

CORNISH: You've written a book that does what we're talking about here. It's called "Love." It came out in 2018, and there - I have this book in my house, and there are various scenes in it of children confronting kind of happy and dark moments that represent love. And it struck me that you had couched all of these moments, some of them quite fearful, in the context of love and protection.

DE LA PENA: As I was writing "Love," at first, my idea was to just tell a very reinforcing story because I wanted a story that I could read to my daughter before bed that would make her feel good, considering that the news wasn't always so positive. And I wanted to feel good about something. But as I was writing it, and in thinking of the books I'm presenting to you all today, I just - something didn't feel true or honest about a book that was purely reinforcing. Now, I want to acknowledge there are some great books that do that. But for the book I was writing, I had to at least acknowledge adversity because every child is going to be confronted with adversities throughout their life. So I wanted to acknowledge that by having a couple challenging scenes.

CORNISH: And we should say they don't get solved, right?

DE LA PENA: Yes.

CORNISH: Some of these are - page by page is an image, is a scene, and it works on both levels as a parent because you recognize your person - yourself in the image. And for the kid, you know, I assume, like, it's, for them, seeing themselves in the image of being the outsider. But I remember thinking, this is kind of dark (laughter) some of these pages. And, like, I'm actually afraid of these moments. I'm afraid of when these moments come, and I'm going to have to somehow explain.

DE LA PENA: And, you know, I'm afraid of those moments as a parent too. I don't think the job of a picture book is to answer questions. I think it's just to explore interesting topics, and I hope that's what these books do. And I hope that's what my books do.

CORNISH: Author Matt de la Pena - his newest book, out in February, is his third collaboration with illustrator Christian Robinson. It's called "Milo Imagines The World".

Thank you for being with us.

DE LA PENA: Thank you very much.

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For a preseason game, the Rockets showed plenty. There were flashes of all kinds of offensive potential. They picked up the defense that started slowly. They demonstrated a good deal of what they could be when it all is put together.

The season, however, had begun. They needed wins.

The work-in-progress Rockets were often sloppy, sometimes ragged and often pushed to the brink. But with the game on the line, James Harden scored 16 of the Rockets' final 18 points, setting up the other two to hold off the Sacramento Kings, 122-119, for their first win of the season.

“It was just a grind it out, tough, find a way to win game,” said Rockets coach Stephen Silas, who was presented with the game ball for his first win. “Luckily, we had the players who were able to do it.”

Harden led the Rockets with 33 points and eight assists while John Wall, in his Rockets debut, had 22 points with nine assists. Christian Wood added 21 points with 12 rebounds.

The Rockets escaped with the win when Buddy Hield and De’Aaron Fox, who combined for 41 points, missed 3s to force overtime in the final seconds.

The Rockets had built a nine-point lead early in the second half, dramatically picking up their defense. But when they began to break down on the other end, with waves of turnovers and bog down with stagnant offense, the Kings took off.

The Kings ran through a 13-2 fourth-quarter run almost entirely by turning defense into offense. The Rockets had committed four consecutive turnovers in that stretch. The Kings’ seven-point lead was their largest. With six minutes remaining, the Kings led, 104-97. The Rockets had committed 11 turnovers leading to 17 Sacramento points in 18 second-half minutes.

When they finally kept the ball, the Rockets scratched out enough offense mostly by forcing the ball into the paint to keep it tight. With three minutes remaining, Harden nailed a 3-pointer, giving the Rockets a one-point lead. He added a pair of free throws after a P.J. Tucker steal, scoring nine consecutive Rockets points.

When he found Wood alone on a pick-and-run dash to the basket, Wood’s slam put the Rockets up 115-110 with two minutes remaining.

They got just enough stops for Harden’s 3 with 1:01 left to build a six-point lead before he closed out the win at the line.

The Rockets showed some rust through the first half, which might have been expected if not necessarily from Harden after a pair of games in which he continued to lead the NBA in scoring, as he had for the past three seasons.

Harden missed his first six shots. Wall missed some open jumpers. Eric Gordon went 1 of 4 in the first half. None of that was worth much concern. If anything, the Rockets had to feel encouraged by another look at how explosive Wall appeared from the opening tip and how sharp DeMarcus Cousins was as soon as he checked in.

The greater issue was the same as it had been in the losses in Portland and Denver.

The Rockets’ defense did little to slow the Kings through much of the first half with guards frequently beating the Rockets off the dribble and the Rockets big men dropping deep and out of position to help.

It was not until late in the first half that the Rockets began to string stops together. When they did, Harden got going on the other end, scoring nine of his 10 first-half points in the final 2:47 of the half.

When the Rockets brought the defensive energy they showed at the end of the first half into the start of the second half, they briefly opened a bit of a cushion. After a half in which neither team led by more than the Rockets’ 63-59 halftime edge, the Rockets outscored the Kings, 8-3, in the opening three minutes of the half to build a nine-point lead.

More important, they had picked up their defensive intensity. In a 5 ½ minute stretch to end the first half and start the second, the Kings had made 1 of 10 shots with four turnovers in a 16-4 Rockets run.

The Kings would settle down. They would get going by quickly counter punching after Rockets misses or turnovers. But the Rockets were putting up much more of a fight defensively.

They could not make that brief surge of momentum last, however, when they suddenly broke down on the other end. The Rockets missed their final five shots of the half as the Kings rushed through a 9-0 run to within one.

By then, it was clear how far removed the Rockets were from where they need to be, looking more like a team midway through the preseason but showing flashes of what could be. But after the 0-2, shorthanded start to the season, they also need wins while knocking off the rust.

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