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To: unclewest who wrote (107285)	4/2/2005 7:45:20 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793822

Settlement sought in tuition dispute Sen. Rick Santorum's children went to a Pa. cyber charter school on taxpayer money while in Virginia. By Martha Raffaele Associated Press HARRISBURG - A Pittsburgh-area school district will try to settle a dispute over $100,000 in tuition that its taxpayers paid for five of U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's children to attend a cyber charter school while living in Virginia, a state Education Department spokeswoman said yesterday. A negotiated settlement would eliminate the need for a public hearing on the high-profile dispute between the Penn Hills School District and the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. Both sides have agreed to work toward resolving the matter without a hearing, department spokeswoman Bethany Yenner said. A state-appointed hearing officer has set a May 9 deadline for the parties to present settlement terms, she said. The settlement would need the hearing officer's approval to become final, Yenner said. "If it appears they cannot come to an agreement, he will have a hearing," she said. Santorum (R., Pa.) withdrew his children from the Midland-based cyber school in November amid news reports about Penn Hills officials who questioned why they were paying to educate Santorum's children. Santorum owns a two-bedroom house in Penn Hills that was assessed at $106,000 last year, but his family lives primarily on their nearly 4-acre property in Leesburg, Va., which was assessed at $757,000 this year, according to tax records. School officials estimated they spent about $100,000 on tuition for the senator's children since 2001. Pennsylvania law requires school districts to pay for students who live in the district and enroll in cyber schools. Districts must pay the equivalent of 80 percent of their per pupil costs toward cyber-school students' tuition. Santorum's spokeswoman, Christine Shott, said that although the senator is not a party to the dispute, "he is interested in the proceedings, and obviously disagrees with the school district's objections."

To: unclewest who wrote (107285)	4/2/2005 8:03:01 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 793822

<<Under doctors orders, I haven't had more than a hike for exercise since the injury 8 1/2 years ago. I worked out yesterday.>> I spent two hours yesterday picking up limbs from the winter storms. Have a pile 6' high and 12' across waiting for a match. Today I can feel it and have realized between satellite TV and the computer I spend too much time on my butt. I'm going to try to do 1-2 hours of yard work a day for my gym workout.

To: unclewest who wrote (107285)	4/2/2005 12:30:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793822

The quality of the images is incredible Great news, UW! Of course, it's been obvious to me for years that you needed to have your head examined.

To: unclewest who wrote (107285)	4/2/2005 1:52:50 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793822

I saw some early 3D imaging at Johns Hopkins circa 1996 for a case I was working on. At that time, they were using an IBM Big Blue for the computing. The images were amazing. The guy in charge of the work told me that CT scans and MRIs at the time would allow 3D imaging but you needed to feed the scan into his computer in order to get the output. (We decided not to go with it because we just didn't have time.) Glad to see it's hitting the mainstream. It's spectacular. They can use filters to select whatever structure they want to look at and amplify that, and mask out the surrounding structures, and rotate it in space. What he was working on at the time was imaging brain cancer during surgery, so the surgeon could see what was being removed.

To: unclewest who wrote (107285)	4/2/2005 2:35:38 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793822

My wife asked me what I'd like to do to celebrate. Congrats, Mike. If you ever go back to NC and we ever go back to the Outer Banks, we'll have to do the beer bit.