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SANTEE, Neb. – Tribal schools are sticking together at the time of the state tournament.
When one or more of the state’s 4 predominantly Native American men’s basketball groups go to Lincoln, there is no envy of the others. Support only.
Winnebago was there 4 years in a row from 2015 to 2018, earning his first male state name in 75 years in 2015. Walthill qualified in 2016, when he qualified for the final, and returned two years ago. Omaha Nation in Macy was last there in 2009.
All those times, players from Santee, a tribal village located beneath the hills of Knox County leading to the Missouri River, made it to the top of the top, drove to Lincoln, and cheered on their brothers at basketball.
Could they be next? From one who has never qualified for the state tournament.
“It would be other indigenous schools that would come to observe us instead of us having to monitor them,” said second-year student Kellen Medina. “It would be his turn for us.
The Santee (Isanti) Warriors have the state’s leading prolific scorer. They have a brilliant record of 13-4. They are number nine in the World-Herald ranking for class D-2, the department of the smallest schools in the state. They were in their first championship game of the convention tournament, failing in the final minutes against a larger school.
They will host their subdistrict tournament this week. Even if they don’t win, their chances of qualifying for the district finals are still high. And in all likelihood host the game that can send them to the state.
“I came back to host the convention semifinals. I mean, it’s historic for us,” Santee Boys coach Waylon LaPlante said. “It’s a wonderful day for our community.
“Our network may simply not recover. At first, they didn’t really know that this could be the team that would take us to the state tournament. And now things are more real, we have more and more people buying. We have a crowd right now that is being pumped and amplified and they’re loud when we make a basket and they’re right behind us to cheer on our kids. “
Santee’s leading scorer is Austyn Saul, a 6-foot-4-inch senior. He averaged 28 game-consistent problems in the state across more than two problems, with a school high of 51 in a win over Tiospaye Topa, South Dakota, in December. He will play in a headline event in Barbados in June and several smaller schools are recruiting him.
Nunpa Torrez is the next scorer, averaging 16 consistent with the game. Justus Denney, TaSunka Starlin and Brad Strickland are the other starters. Medina, one of the first to enter games from the bank. Hoksida Wabasha and Marquis Tuttle also fall into this category. Alex Rodriguez, Isaiah Yellowcloud, Christian Torrez, Nate Sutta, Dakota Denney and Jake LaPlante (the coach’s son) are the other members of the team.
The taste of Santee is fast. On the night Saul scored 51 points, Santee scored 112 points, a school record and the state record this season. He lost to any team in his ranking. The setbacks were in the big schools: C-1 Winnebago elegance and C-2 Omaha Nation and Elkhorn Valley elegance.
John Miller’s Stuart Broncos, a smart team that sits a spot in Santee in the D-2 elegance standings, have lost twice to Santee in recent weeks.
“They have who can play ball,” said Miller, who has coached more than 750 wins in men’s and women’s basketball.
Santee’s unorthodox offensive taste (Miller wasn’t sure how to describe it) makes the Warriors difficult to maintain.
“They move to openings, penetrate a lot and can shoot,” he said. “The first time they beat us 84-81 and hit us 18 three-pointers. Wow. Me a little crazy, maybe opposite to myself and opposite to our defense, then when I saw a movie, I swear that 12 of them were very 3 challenged just hit us.
Last season, coach LaPlante’s first, the team finished 11-11. The disease swept the team at the end of the season, when they lost 3 of their last 4 games and were at a disadvantage with 3 of their six most sensible players. Apathy may simply have also set in. The coach said he had seen over the years that there would be a game at the end of the season, regardless of the outcome, and that the team would lose interest afterwards.
You don’t need to see that in this potentially historic team.
“The No. 1 word used this year is concentration,” LaPlante said. “For us, because we are such a small school and come from a small network in the hills, many of those things are life classes for them.
“Just the little things, they can be disappointed or frustrated and I try to teach them that when this game is over, you’re going to move on and look forward. As in life, if something goes wrong, you do it. “The times have to fix it.
This is LaPlante’s 17th season on the bench at Santee, as an assistant or head coach, since 1999. After a seven-year absence, when there were other coaches, it was implemented when the head coach position opened in 2021. His son, Jaylon, is his assistant coach.
LaPlante, 44 this month, has lived in Santee since 5. Su father, the late Charles LaPlante, moved Lincoln’s circle of relatives for his works as an addiction and intellectual fitness counselor for the Santee Sioux Nation. The young LaPlante played basketball for the Warriors.
He is an investigator of criminals. Director of security and assistant manager of the casino and tribal hotel. Two years ago, he underwent a kidney transplant. She now works at the Dakota Tiwahe Service Unit recruiting adoptive parents.
He is so immersed in helping his network that he is one of the 3 commissioners of the game council. He is a new board member.
He saw the village grow. Santee’s population increased from 346 to 424 from 2010 to 2020. The school’s traditionally low graduation rate has recovered, with the past two years being 100%. The casino and its championship-level Tatanka golf course, which has won national honors, have created jobs.
“We’re booming right now. In northeast Nebraska, a little C-2 casino, there are other people coming from everywhere to see us because we have wonderful facilities,” LaPlante said. “We certainly have a sense of pride, even for our best school students who don’t get into the business side.
“But they know we have Feather Hill that attracts a lot of consumers and they know we have the casino, they can stop by for a burger and see all the lighting fixtures and the internal glamour of the building, and then move on, because that’s the course of our school house.
Will Santee keep the course on the court, stay focused and earn his first prize ticket to the state tournament?Miller, Stuart’s coach, believes it’s possible.
“I think Santee is also going to be down, because even if we win them (in the subdistricts), I think they’ll get a smart draw for their (district) game,” he said. “They deserve to be there if they make it. “
That would be it, Medina said.
“It’s now or never for us,” he said. That’s what we’re looking for and we’re going to get there. “
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LINCOLN — Up to 80,000 Nebraskians could lose Medicaid policy as the federal COVID-related public fitness emergency expires and pandemic-era protections end.
Some will be abandoned because they make more money at work, have found a task with fitness benefits, moved their children, or because of other changes in their lives.
But state officials and network fitness advocates worry that others could be kicked out of the program, even if they are still eligible, since state Medicaid agents won’t be able to succeed in the recently resumed eligibility exams. They have introduced efforts to save others personas. de fall through the cracks.
“Most importantly, weArrayArray needs to make sure that it doesn’t exclude anyone from politics who is still eligible,” said Kevin Bagley, state director of Medicaid.
During the public fitness emergency, Congress required states to hold anyone enrolled in Medicaid as of March 18, 2020. This resolution was intended to ensure that as many other people as possible had a fitness policy during the pandemic.
But, under pressure from Congress, President Joe Biden announced last month that he would end the COVID emergency starting May 11. This triggered a national “rollout” procedure under which states will have to resume reviewing Medicaid recipients, as they did before. the pandemic. States will want to tap on each user on their Medicaid list and determine their eligibility within the next 12 months.
Bagley said Nebraska will begin testing on March 1, and some other people could waste the policy starting April 1. Medicaid recipients with the renewal months of April and May will be first. Over the next year, all 390,642 people enrolled in the program will be evaluated.
That’s more eligibility checks than state staff have had to do in a year. The numbers are increasing in part because other people have stayed in the program frequently for the past 3 years and in part because more than 70,000 low-income adults have been added through the voter-approved expansion of Medicaid.
In addition, the state will adopt revisions as it addresses labor shortages. Bagley said Medicaid operates with about 15 percent vacancies. The program has also experienced significant turnover, meaning that many employees do not enjoy coverage termination.
“It’s a very, very big thing for them,” said Amy Behnke, executive director of the Nebraska Association of Health Centers, which represents the state’s network fitness centers.
Simply telling other people that they will have to verify their eligibility is also a vital task. Behnke said those who have enrolled in Medicaid in recent years haven’t been reviewed before. In addition, your phone number may have been moved or replaced, more than once, since your initial registration.
Bagley said the state is making a major effort to alert others to criticism and inspire them to update their state contact details.
He said others can verify and update their details by logging into their ACCESSNebraska account or calling toll-free 855-632-7633. They can also use the ACCESSNebraska account to check which month they want to renew their Medicaid enrollment.
This month, letters were sent to new Medicaid recipients at their last known address. If letters cannot be delivered, state officials work with private contractors who administer the Medicaid maximum policy to help others by phone, text message or other means.
The state has also partnered with teams of physical care providers and advocacy organizations to distribute written data and has turned to social media to spread the word.
Behnke said the network’s gyms have registration specialists available to help others update their touch data and, when the time comes, help them get through the verification process.
Under federal law, the state will have to try 3 other successful tactics on other people before terminating the non-response policy. Even if the policy ends, Bagley said most people can return to Medicaid without interruption if they provide eligibility information. within 90 days.
Those who lose Medicaid because they are no longer eligible will be referred to the federal marketplace, where they could get a low- or no-cost health insurance plan, Bagley said. Community Health Center enrollment specialists can also help others enroll in these plans.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Under the fluorescent lamps of a fifth-grade in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey asked his 23 students to check to outwit the “robot” that produced writing assignments.
The robot, the new synthetic intelligence tool ChatGPT, can generate everything from rehearsals and haikus to trials in seconds. The generation scared teachers and led school districts to block access to the site. But Piercey embraces it as an educational tool and says his task is to prepare academics for a world in which the wisdom of AI will be needed.
“This is the future,” said Piercey, who describes ChatGPT as the newest generation in its 17 years of training that has raised considerations about the possibility of cheating. The calculator, the spell checker, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube. Now all your academics have Chromebooks. “As educators, we have not yet figured out the most productive way to use synthetic intelligence,” he said. “But it’s coming, whether we like it or not. “
A training pitted the academics against the device in an animated and interactive writing game. Piercey asked the academics to “find the bot”: the student summarized a text about boxing champion Muhammad Ali, then tried to perceive which one had been written through the chatbot. .
In elementary school, Piercey is less involved with cheating and plagiarism than the school’s top teachers. Your district has blocked students from ChatGPT but allows teachers. Many educators across the country say districts want time to compare and perceive the chatbot, but they also recognize the futility of a ban that tech-savvy academics can circumvent.
“To be completely honest, I wish it wasn’t made up?But it happened,” said Steve Darlow, a generation teacher in the Santa Rosa County, Florida, district, who blocked the app on school-provided devices and networks.
He sees the advent of AI platforms as “revolutionary and disruptive” for education. He imagines teachers asking ChatGPT to make “amazing lesson plans for a substitute” or even help with paper grading. “I know it’s a noble speech, however, it’s a game changer. You will have a merit in life, business and education by employing it.
ChatGPT was introduced in November and rival corporations are rushing to launch their own versions of AI-powered chatbots.
The topic of AI platforms and how schools respond attracted many educators at the Future of Education Technology convention in New Orleans last month, where Texas math instructor Heather Brantley gave a hearty speech on the “magic of writing with AI for all subjects. “
Brantley said she was surprised by ChatGPT’s ability to make her sixth-grade math categories more artistic and applicable to life.
“I use ChatGPT to improve all my lessons,” he said. The platform is blocked for students but open to teachers at his school, White Oak Intermediate. “Take whatever lesson you do and say, ‘Give me a concrete example,’ and get examples from today, not 20 years ago, when the textbooks we used were written. ‘
For a lesson on the slope, the chatbot advised students to build cardboard ramps and other items discovered in a and then measure the slope. or build a cardboard box, Brantley said.
She urges districts to exercise to use the AI platform to stimulate students’ creativity and problem-solving skills.
“We have the opportunity to advise our students on the next big thing that will be a component of their total life,” he said. “Let’s block it and exclude them. “
After a few rounds of “Find the Bot,” Piercey asked their elegance what skills he helped them hone. They raised the mano. la importance of having a writing voice and how some of the chatbot’s sentences lacked style or seemed forced.
Trevor James Medley, 11, felt that sentences written by academics “feel a little more like. More spine. More flavor.
Then elegance became “Pl-ai writing”.
The schoolchildren were divided into teams and wrote the characters of a short play with 3 scenes to deploy in a plot that included a challenge to be solved.
Piercey provided the main points of his worksheets to ChatGPT, with commands to set up scenes with fifth-grade elegance and add a wonderful ending. He generated scripts, which the academics edited, rehearsed, and then performed.
One was referring to a computer that escaped, with students searching for it. The creators of the play laughed at the unexpected plot twists introduced by the chatbot, adding that they sent the students on a time-travel adventure.
“First of all, I was impressed,” said Olivia Laksi, 10, one of the protagonists. He liked how the chatbot came up with artistic ideas. But he also liked how Piercey suggested they review things they didn’t like. It’s useful in the sense that it provides a starting point,” he said. “It’s a smart generator of ideas. “
ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of supporters made the pilgrimage Sunday to the Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and mementos of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were presented at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he entered hospice care.
Among those who paid tribute to his niece, who highlighted the 39th president’s years of service in an emotional address at Maranatha Baptist Church, where Carter taught Sunday school for decades.
“I just need to read one of Uncle Jimmy’s quotes,” Kim Fuller said at the Sunday school morning service, adding, “Oh, it’s going to be really hard. “
He referred to this quote from Carter: “I have a life and the possibility of making it count for something. I get lost in that something. . . My religion demands that I do all I can, anywhere I can, when I can, while I can.
“Maybe, if we think about it, maybe it’s time to pass the baton,” Fuller said before leading the other people gathered in prayer. Be great
Carter, 98, the longest-serving U. S. president, recently endured a series of brief hospital stays. The Carter Center said Saturday that he now “decided to spend the rest of his time at home with his circle of family and get palliative care instead of additional medical intervention. “
In Atlanta, people, some of whom traveled many miles, flocked to the Carter Center to reflect on the former president’s life on a spring Sunday under sunny skies.
“I brought my kids here to pay tribute to President Carter and teach them a little bit about how humanitarian he was, especially in the latter stages of his life,” said James Culbertson, who drove an hour to Atlanta from Calhoun, Georgia.
The presidential library closed in honor of Presidents Day weekend, but others still showed up to stop by the fountains and gardens.
David Brummett of Frederick County, Maryland, said he replaced his plans Sunday morning when he learned Carter was in hospice care.
Brummett stopped near a giant statue of Carter, the base of which he had placed a pot of purple chrysanthemums.
“Great man, wonderful president, probably underestimated by those who didn’t know much about him,” Brummett said. “People deserve to come here to appreciate the life and contributions he made during his presidency and after. “
Margaret Seitter of Atlanta met Carter in the 1980s, when she spoke about foreign relations in one of her courses at Emory University. Seitter and his friend, Larry Goeser, visiting Florida, were among those who paid tribute to the Carter Center.
Both said they were encouraged by Carter’s paintings with Habitat for Humanity, which continued to help build homes until the end of his life.
“I need to approve and build a Habitat for Humanity space in his honor,” Seitter said.
After Fuller’s Sunday School service at Maranatha Baptist Church, Pastor Hugh Deloach offered prayers for the Carter family, for Carter’s wife, Rosalynn.
The Carters have been married for more than years, making American history the longest-serving married presidential couple.
“Lord, especially Mrs. Carter, and God forget the times and years when they were in combination and Lord, she also in the strength of your strength,” the pastor said.
Others took to social media for Carter, who served a term after defeating President Gerald Ford in 1976.
President Joe Biden tweeted, “To our friends Jimmy and Rosalynn and their circle of family: Jill and I are with you in prayer and send you our love. “
“We appreciate you for the strength and humility you have shown in difficult times. May you continue your adventure with grace and dignity, and may God grant you peace,” Biden wrote.
U. S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga. , also paid tribute to Carter on Twitter: “Through the seasons of life, President Jimmy Carter, a man of wonderful faith, walked with God. In this tender age of transition, God walks with him. “
“May he, Rosalynn and Carter’s entire circle of relatives feel comforted by this peace and surrounded by our love and prayers,” Warnock wrote.
The Carters have volunteered for decades with Habitat for Humanity, from 1984 to 2020.
“We pray for your convenience and for your peace, and for Carter’s circle of family members that you will enjoy the joy of your relationships with others and with God at this time,” Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford said in a statement.
Carter, a little-known governor of Georgia when he began his bid for president before the 1976 election.
Carter served a tumultuous term as a bachelor and was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980, a crushing defeat that finally paved the way for his decades of global advocacy for democracy, public health and human rights through the Carter Center.
Former president and wife Rosalynn, 95, opened the one in 1982. His paintings there earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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