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PQ Pleased as punch to be part of TEAM DIGITAL! Registered: April 2006 Location: I am waving my magical inspiration wand over all of DSP Posts: 93,032 send this user a Private Message	I know that I have a few little typos....... JOHANN REUFF (1690-1718) was from Worth Hesse, in the German Empire. Johann was said to have been a Hessian Officer and Protector of his Protestant Prince of Hess. As a result of the wars in Germany, Johann and his wife fled to Holland. Their sons went from Hesse to Holland with their parents and then to America. The couple had seven sons who came to America prior to the Revolutionary War. Four sons went to the North, and three brothers settled in South Carolina. There are a large contingent of Roofs in S.C., especially around the Newberry area. The original Roofs and Reuffs were part of the German immigrants brought in by the British in Charleston to settle the area that became known as the Dutch Fork. Their purpose was to provide a buffer to Charleston from the Native Americans in the upcountry who made frequent raids on Charleston. Lexington and Newbery counties are full of the descendants of these Teutonic tribes. The oldest of the three brothers who went south was JOHANN SEBASTIAN RUFF. Our relative, Sebastian (called Bastian) Reuff came over on the Ship Barclay in September of 1754. This man settled near the branch waters of 12-mile creek, South Saluda River, in what is today Lexington County . On maps of South Carolina around 1750, hills on Sebastian's property were marked "Ruff Hills. This is the "Lexington County Roof Clan." The South Carolina clan ancestors were of Teutonic blood descended from Drogo, son of Charlemagne, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. English laws demanded that the settlers coming to America from the English Colonies take an English version of their names when they swore an "Oath of Loyalty to the Crown of England." The English clerks, being ignorant, spelled the names of the three brothers variously as shown on legal records now available for viewing. Earlier in Holland at the Port of Rotterdam, the name of "George Rueff" had been changed to "George Rough," attempting to arrive at the English of the name, using the phonetic of the English. George was the brother who settled at the foot of the Little Mountain, whose descendants are the "Newberry County Ruff Clan." The two other Reuff brothers who settled in the south were Daniel and George. George Roof, built his home on the present Newberry--Lexington County line. His house was set at the foot of the Little Mountain, set on the Lexington County side-- the Little Mountain was called "Ruff Mountain" during Colonial Days. The largest portion of his property lay in what is now Newberry County. George Ruff's descendants today are called the "Newberry County Ruff Clan." Daniel Roof, the youngest brother, built his first home in North Carolina and moved to South Carolina sometime between 1790 and 1800. Daniel built his second home in Fairfield District, Now Richland County. His descendants today are known as the "Richland County Ruff Clan." Johann?s son, Johann Sebastian Reuff (1715-1788) married Maria E. Burkerd (1719-1793) in .June of 1741 in Hessen, Germany. Maria was born in in Seligenst?dt, Offenbach, Hessen, Germany and was the daughter of Johann Peter Burkard (1681-1756) and Anna Maria Grim (1680-1721). Johann Peter Burkard and Anna Maria Grim was married in Seligenst?dt, Offenbach, Hessen, Germany, on 7 May 1708. I used: BIRDS AND BLOOMS - ROBIN VALUE COLLECTION
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Ohio man faces court in wife's hospital shooting

AKRON, Ohio (AP) ? A 66-year-old Ohio man is being arraigned on an attempted murder charge in the shooting of his wife in a hospital intensive care unit.

Akron police say John Wise of Massillon (MAS'-ih-lawn) will be arraigned on Monday in the shooting of his 65-year-old wife, Barbara.

Police say Wise entered his wife's hospital room Saturday and shot her while standing at her bedside. She remained in critical condition late Sunday at Akron General Medical Center.

Medical center spokesman Jim Gosky says one shot was fired and security officers reached the ICU in about one minute. A doctor was in a nearby room.

Gosky says privacy rules prevent the release of details why Barbara Wise had been admitted to the ICU a few days earlier.

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Five myths about Mars

No planet in our solar system has been linked to more misconceptions than Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is scheduled to touch down on Sunday night. Here are the five most persistent myths about the Red Planet.

By Stephanie Pappas,?LiveScience / August 3, 2012

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26, 2003, when the Red Planet was 34.7 million miles from Earth. The picture was taken just 11 hours before Mars made its closest approach to us in 60,000 years.

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Earth's neighbor Mars is perhaps the most-studied planet beside our own in the solar system, with two robot rovers,?Spiritand?Opportunity, exploring the surface since 2004.

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With Spirit no longer sending communications back to Earth but Opportunity still chugging along, NASA plans to land a third rover on the Martian surface; on Sunday, Aug. 5 at 10:30 p.m. PDT (1:30 a.m. EDT, 0530 GMT),?Curiosity?will carry 10 times the mass of scientific instruments as the earlier rovers to Mars, offering an opportunity to learn more than ever about the Red Planet.

Before Mars exploration began, though, limited information led to major misconceptions about the planet. Here are some of the myths that have persisted, and in some cases still persist, about?Mars. [Full Mission Coverage of Mars Curiosity]

Myth #1: There's a face on Mars

In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a photo of a Martian mesa that turned out rather eerie. Staring back from the surface of Mars was what appeared to be a human face.

Scientists shrugged the images of the "Face on Mars" off as a trick of light and shadow, but the public went mad. Conspiracy theorists figured the face was evidence of life on Mars. Supermarket tabloids loved it. It even showed up in a 1993 episode of television show "The X-Files" (episode: "Space").

In 1998, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor flew over the face and snapped the first sharp images of the landform since the Viking missions. This time, the mesa looked decidedly less human. The face got one more blow in 2001, when the same spacecraft snapped yet more photographs. In high resolution, the Face on Mars turns out to be an ordinary butte. [See Things on Mars: A History of Martian Illusions]

Myth #2: Martians built complex canals

Long before the Face on Mars mystified the public, planet-gazers were convinced that strange features dotted the surface of the Red Planet. In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed what he called "canali," or canals, on the Martian surface. Could these features be evidence of irrigation and civilized life?

American businessman Percival Lowell certainly thought so. His?drawings of the canals?and his three books on the planet published between 1895 and 1908 spread the idea that intelligent life had built the canals in a desperate attempt to draw water from Mars' polar ice caps.

The first close-up pictures of Mars in 1965, taken by the spacecraft Mariner 4, put the canal theories to bed. It turns out no such features exist, and the canals are now known to be nothing but an optical illusion.

Myth #3: Mars has oceans

Less fanciful than the idea of canals on Mars, but still ultimately proven untrue, was the idea that?Mars boasts oceans. In 1784, astronomer Sir William Herschel published a paper on his telescope observations of Mars. He got some things right, or at least close, including an axial tilt of 30 degrees (the actual number is 25.19).

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Wildfires rage in western Spain, Canary islands

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, a man looks out from inside a house threatened by wildfire in La Palma, Spain. Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Palma and La Gomera on Sunday. Flames are threatening to cut off La Gomera's phone communications and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Juan Arturo)

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, a man looks out from inside a house threatened by wildfire in La Palma, Spain. Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Palma and La Gomera on Sunday. Flames are threatening to cut off La Gomera's phone communications and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Juan Arturo)

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, smoke clings to the trees as fires burn in La Palma, Spain. Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Palma and La Gomera on Sunday. Flames are threatening to cut off La Gomera's phone communications and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Juan Arturo)

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, a house is surrounded by wildfire in La Palma, Spain. Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Palma and La Gomera on Sunday. Flames are threatening to cut off La Gomera's phone communications and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Juan Arturo)

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, smoke clings to the trees as fires burn in La Palma, Spain. Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Palma and La Gomera on Sunday. Flames are threatening to cut off La Gomera's phone communications and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Juan Arturo)

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, a man waters the vegetation around a house surrounded by wildfire in La Palma, Spain. Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Palma and La Gomera on Sunday. Flames are threatening to cut off La Gomera's phone communications and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Juan Arturo)

MADRID (AP) ? Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across a western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands on Sunday, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island, killing an emergency worker and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials said.

A 35-year-old man from an army emergency services unit died in a vehicle accident while battling the wildfires in the Extremadura region, and three others were injured. A fourth firefighter had to be treated after inhaling smoke.

Extremadura Interior Ministry spokesman German Lopez Iglesias said about 300 vacationers had to be evacuated from a campsite in the heavily wooded hills of the Sierra de Gata area near the Portuguese border.

Forest fires were also raging on the Canary Islands of La Gomera and La Palma and there were hundreds more evacuations there, said Javier Gonzalez Ortiz, a security official for the islands off the northwest coast of Africa.

A statement on the Canary Islands government website said a large fire had affected the southeastern area around Villa de Mazo in La Palma, where some 70 people had been moved to safety by the Red Cross and close to 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) had been affected by flames.

"Firefighters are finding the greatest difficulty in La Gomera," and at least 600 people had been evacuated, the statement said.

Nancy Melo, an agricultural technician for La Gomera's winemaking authority, said residents from five villages had been ordered from their homes and flames were rising up to the center of the island near the Garajonay National Park.

"The fire has now entered the park and the problem is that area is where the island's telecommunications antennas are located," she said. "When the flames reach them we'll be left without communications."

Garajonay was declared a national park in 1981 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and is a very rare example of the type of humid subtropical forest that once covered almost all of Europe before the arrival of man.

The causes of the fires are unknown, but several days of high temperatures have contributed to dry conditions throughout Spain, even on the normally verdant La Palma ? one of the least developed and greenest of the Canary Islands.

La Palma suffered a large fire in August 2009, and vineyard owner Antonio Eliseo Carballo said the new outbreak was raging on steep hillsides southeast of the island's dormant San Antonio volcano.

"This year we haven't had much rain, we measured just 4.3 inches, no more," he said. "This is a disaster."

Pop singer Madonna praised La Palma by its local name in her 1987 song "La Isla Bonita."

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Randy Blythe Released From Jail on Bond; Still Faces Manslaughter Charge

Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe has been released from a Prague jail, but is still charged with manslaughter stemming from the 2010 death of a fan.

Released Thursday, the 41-year-old musician had spent the past five weeks in a Czech prison after being arrested and charged with the felony offense.

Over the objection of prosecutors, who wanted him held without bail for fears he will leave the country and never return, Blythe posted $400,000 bail.

The bizarre case started two years ago during a Lamb of God concert, when Blythe allegedly pushed the man who jumped on stage back off the stage.

This caused him to sustain head injuries from which he later died. When the band returned to Prague on June 27, 2012, Randy Blythe was arrested.

Blythe has maintained his innocence through the ordeal, telling a newspaper from behind bars, "I don't know anything about any sort of incident."

"I did not attack anyone," he said. "The only way I could have come into contact with anyone from the audience was if I was protecting myself."

"I remember very few details, mainly because I have played a lot of concerts," he said. "I just remember that the stage at the club was very small."

"We barely managed to fit our equipment on there. Also, apparently there was a security guard there because many people climbed onto the stage, including one small boy, in particular, but I could be mixing up details with other clubs."

After scrapping all tour dates due to his incarceration, Blythe's bandmates raised funds for his legal defense, calling the situation "maddening."

With Blythe now back on board, the band has already agreed to resume touring in the U.S. It's unclear whether he'll be back in Prague, ever.

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I killed a Hedge Fund ? Former Trustee of Ky. Retirement Systems ...

By Christopher B. Tobe, CFA,CAIA Trustee KY Ret. Systems 2008-2012
I killed a Hedge Fund because I felt I had to as a Fiduciary for a $14 billion Public Pension Plan. This fund Arrowhawk Capital partners was conceived in corruption, and that, along with its mediocre performance sealed its fate.
I joined the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) as a Trustee in April 2008 the only one of nine with any investment experience whatsoever and was at the time an investment consultant with NEPC. I
I was not allowed on the investment committee from April 2008 to April 2009 because of ?seniority?, but in January 2009 legislation was proposed to require an investment expert on the investment committee.
While the legislature did not have time to pass it by March the KRS chair put me on the investment committee in April 2009 because the legislative intent was clear. As an investment committee member I immediately started asking questions about placement agents, but the staff and other trustees looked at me dumbfounded, leaving me with the impression they did not know what I was talking about and they did not know of any placement agents even attempting to do business at KRS. At the February 2009 investment committee we approved a 5 allocation to a hedge funds with an established large fund of funds which was consistent in the way I was making initial public pension first time hedge fund investments with my clients at NEPC. KRS Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Adam Tosh even mentioned this fund of fund structure in interviews with trade magazines and said that RV Kuhn?s our consultant would assist in the search.? I started digging in a number of areas of what I considered shady investment practices, and at the August 2009 board meeting I was kicked off the investment committee in a secret session with no reason
recorded in the minutes. I remained a trustee because that removal would require a formal open process.
While investment committee meetings are normally held every 3 months, KRS, within a few weeks of kicking me off had called a special meeting of the Investment Committee on September 29,2009 with the apparent goal of seeding $200 million with Arrowhawk Capital Partners. Contrary to Tosh?s earlier comments in the press Arrowhawk was an individual hedge fund not a fund of funds which diversify any potential operational risk (i.e. Madoft) that a single fund may face. But most disturbing was that Arrowhawk was a start-up hedge fund with no established investment track record and was KRS? first-ever hedge fund investment. Within 2 days Arrowhawk has announced
this $200 million win in the trade magazine P&I. I had never heard of Arrowhawk before I found about this entire secret deal through the press, not through any official KRS channels,

even though I was still a trustee.
It appears that secret backroom deals were cut by Arrowhawk and staff in July or August to get the majority of their seed money from public pensions. Within 2 weeks Arrowhawk announced another $100 million win with San Jaquin County, which I later heard was contingent on Kentucky seeding the plan first. In this same P&I article it announces that ?Arrowhawk Capital Partners LLC finally launched its first hedge fund Sept. 1 with $500 million from institutional investors?

iii Not only was their no RFP issued by the plan or any of the consultants, but it appears that investment staffs at both KRS and San Jaquin had cut deals prior to September 1, 2009 to get into Arrowhawk at least 4 weeks before there was any official board knowledge or approval.
I was fairly inactive. being kicked off the investment committee, until I was forced back on by legislation requiring investment experts onto the committee in April 2010. I did however write an e- mail to the Chair of the Investment Committee concerning my reservations about Arrowhawk and the rumor of a placement agent Glen Sergeon making millions off of Kentucky. Back on the investment committee I continued to ask about placement agents and continued to receive back blank stares. On June 20, 2010 CIO Adam Tosh left town to work for Rogers Casey.?
On August 4, 2010 KRS staff disclosed for the first time to the Trustees the existence of placement agents and $13 million in fees buried in a stack of over 50 pages to members of the investment committee. This internal audit had KRS staff cutting secret placement agent deals since 2004. The largest placement agent fee paid was over $2 million paid by Arrowhawk to Glen Sergeon. The audit (or the fact we had placement agents) was deliberately kept secret from the full board of trustees and the public. It appeared to me that the CIO Tosh had cut a deal with KRS management to keep the existence of placement agents secret until he had secured ajob in the private sector.

While some parts of management were aware for six plus years we found documentation that the current senior management team was fully aware of all of the major findings in January 2010 and keep it secret from the board for 8 months. On August 19,2010 at the Board of Trustees meeting I declared I was sending a note to the SEC in an open meeting for the record, which was my official start as a SEC whistleblower.
During several KRS public meetings I asked our independent investment consultants about this transaction. In fact KRS consultant Pete Keliotis of SIS said they had regular professional contact with Arrowhawk and no placement agent was needed. In fact neither KRS investment consultants R V Kuhn nor SIS was aware a placement agent was paid. It seems that the placement agent was paid $2 million for doing nothing since our consultant could have helped us hire Arrowhawk for free as part of their normal retainer fee.
Meanwhile there was limited Kentucky press on the issue and the Governor asked the auditor to do a review in the fall. The blog press in Kentucky continued to write about the scandal. v

Forbes was working on a major story but it was not released until May 2011, but had some
important observations such as ?One that paid Sergeon?s firm over $2 million was the Arrowhawk Durable Alpha Fund-an outfit that couldn?t have won over public officials with its track record because it was brand-new ?.. In April the Kentucky board
fired longtime director Michael Burnside amid concerns that he?d withheld information on placement agents from trustees. vi It is my opinion that this bad publicity along with mediocre performance sealed the doom for Arrowhawk.
They could not get any legitimate business because of their track record, and the backdoor business model through public plans was shut down by the publicity of the scandal.
In June 2011 after a long torturous process (in which they ignored hundreds of documents I sent them) the Kentucky State Auditor (AP A) released a 118 page report, which was, according to several blogs, a whitewash???. The APA could find nothing wrong with placement agents the managers like Arrowhawk and this process. The Kentucky Attorney General did not think it warranted his attention as well.viii However, the SEe continued its investigation.
I knew that the AP A report had many errors and flaws so in doing my fiduciary duty I hired an ex- SEe attorney who was an expert on public pensions to write a 30 page report. He concluded that ?The APA report is remarkable in its failure to adequately address the most obviously troubling issues surrounding use of placement agents at KRS. For example, the APA did not investigate the services actually provided by the placement agents and whether the millions in compensation paid by this public pension to such agents bore any relationship to services the agents actually provided,
or was excessive.. .Byfar the most troublingfinding in the APA report is that the APA, like the KRS Internal Audit, found no evidence of ?pay-to-play at KRS. aix
I believe this report addressed to the SEe highlighted Arrowhawk as the largest more egregious placement agent payment giving it a high probability of pay for play.
Arrowhawk most likely informed KRS staff they were closing in early December 2011. As usual as a Trustee and investment committee member I found out about this via the trade press at the end of December? Arrowhawk?s closing was picked up by Bloomberg on January 2nd and finally our local press at the Lexington Herald Leader (HL) which was published on January 5,2012. xi KRS staff was so incensed that the HL article insinuated they had done something wrong (after they felt the AP A had whitewashed them clean) they published a long tortured report on their web site accusing the HL of ?misreporting. xii
Even after the death of Arrowhawk was announced in January 2012 KRS continues to fight hard to keep information on Arrowhawk and placement agent transaction secret especially from my ex- SEC independent counsel who they feared would turn over information to the SEC. xiii In the report he made several scathing comments. ?Arrowhawk announced that it was shutting down its operations in December, 2011, in the midst of the SEe investigation of placement agent fees paid by KRS. While investment management firms may shutter from time-to-time for any number of reasons,
it is unusual (and a cause for concern) when afirm does so in the midst of an investigation by a regulator
Finally, 1 had reason to believe that Arrowhawk lacked audited financials for all
years of operation of the fund. ?
Because of this the independent counsel on February 1,2012 requested that KRS or its counsel provide him with audited fmancial statements of Arrowhawk. On February 13, 2012, KRS and its legal counsel responded that they had determined that a review of the Arrowhawk financial statements was not ?relevant? to my representation of Mr. Tobe. Later counsel for KRS informed the independent counsel that KRS does not possess audited financial statements for all periods, only periodic unaudited statements. xiv In a story in Forbes the independent counsel had this to say ?1 continue to be amazed at their wildly irrational and defensive responses to legitimate, especially
expert, criticisms. ?zv
Even as KRS liquidates its position and the fund shuts its doors, staff is still defending the hiring decision with Arrowhawk. I can only imagine that this is a defensive position taken while the SEC investigation continues. Hopefully the SEC will set an example in this case since public pensions do not need any more Arrowhawks.
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CHRIS TOBE, CFA, CAIA has 25 years of institutional investment experience with a focus on Public Pension plans. Recently with his own firm he has consulted to major public plans in Texas and Maryland. From 2008-2012 he served as a Trustee of the $13 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems and
served on the Investment and Audit Committees. From 2008-2009 he was a Sr. Consultant with New England Pension Consultants and worked with a number of public pension plans in Missouri, Michigan and Washington DC. While at AEGON 2001-2008 he worked with Public Plans in Montano,

Pennsylvania, New York, and California. While at Fund Evaluation group 1999-2001 he consulted to a number of Public University Endowments.

From 1997-1999 he worked with Kentucky State Auditor Ed Hatchett and published a 40 page report on the investments of both the Kentucky Retirement Systems and the Kentucky Teachers Retirements Systems. Prior to this he worked as a bank trust officer and served as the Joint Economic
Committee of Congress intern for Lee Hamilton. He has published articles on public pension investing in the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Investment Consulting, Journal of Performance Measurement, and Plan Sponsor Magazine. He has given 12 presentations on Public Pension
investing to a number of national groups and conferences. He holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Indiana University Bloomington and a BA in Economics from Tulane.

He has the taught the MBA investment course at the University of Louisville, and is a 10-time grader for the CFA exam.
As a public pension trustee in 2010 he completed the Program for Advanced Trustee Studies at Harvard Law School and in 2011 he completed Fiduciary College held at the Rock Center at Stanford University.
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