Most of the June 5-6 tornado was reserved for a 100-yard-wide, 7-mile-long strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, splintered wood and family possessions. The tornado ripped the roof and back wall off Lake High School’s gymnasium about 11 p.m. June 5, several hours before the graduation ceremony was supposed to begin there. Two buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 yards, landing on its top near the high school’s football field. More than 10 hours later, its right turn signal was still blinking. Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer flew over the damaged area and said at least 50 homes were destroyed and another 50 severely damaged, as well as six commercial buildings..
See more including picture of Lake High School at: http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/06/07/tornado-unleahes-war-zone/
The seniors at Lake will have graduation ceremony June 8 at Owens Community College in Perrysburg Township.

New Technologies Could Reduce Fuel Use in Passenger Vehicles
News release: "A wide array of commercially available technologies can significantly reduce fuel consumption in passenger vehicles, says a new report from the National Research Council. Assessment of Fuel Economy T echnologies for Light-Duty Vehicles reviews the technologies and provides estimates of how they would affect vehicle purchase prices...Using a 2007 base vehicle, the committee estimated the potential fuel savings and costs to consumers of available technology combinations for three types of engines: spark-ignition gasoline, compression-ignition (CI) diesel, and hybrid. According to its estimates, adopting the full combination of improved technologies in medium and large cars and pickup trucks with spark-ignition engines could reduce fuel consumption by 29 percent at an additional cost of $2,200 to the consumer. Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37 percent at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43 percent at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle."

Born in 2004 as a 7-piece with a different rhythm section, Brooklyn Public Library's own Lost In The Stacks now plays all over Brooklyn and beyond as a dynamic 8-piece unit. In addition to an expanding number of originals, LITS plays many rock, pop, blues, and jazz standards in their own unique style. LITS has played at numerous library functions, including the Coney Island Blues Festival (3 years running), Service for the Aging (at the Saratoga and Dyker neighborhood libraries), the annual Book Drive, and has made several appearances at the Literacy Banquet at the Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. http://www.lisnews.org/lost_stacks_brooklyn_public_librarian039s_band

The Newark Earthworks were the largest set of geometric earthworks ever built in Ohio. They were constructed by the Hopewell culture (100 B.C. to 500 A.D.) of prehistoric Native American people. Originally it included a great circular enclosure (the Great Circle Earthworks), another slightly smaller circle that was linked to an octagon (Octagon Earthworks), and a large, nearly perfect square enclosure (Wright Earthworks). In addition an oval earthwork surrounded a dozen conical and loaf-shaped mounds. All of these structures were connected by a series of parallel walls. There were many smaller circular enclosures and a scattering of other mounds and pits. On the opposite bank of the Licking River's South Fork, another square enclosure and an oval earthwork encircled the top of a hill that overlooked the vast maze of geometric enclosures. Over the years, the growth of the city of Newark destroyed many of the Newark Earthworks, but the Great Circle and the Octagon earthworks are major elements preserved by the efforts of interested local citizens. The surviving parts of the Newark Earthworks are recognized as a National Historic Landmark. In 2006, the State of Ohio designated the Newark Earthworks as "the official prehistoric monument of the state." http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2221

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From: Syed F. Akbar Subject: Guillotine
The BBC mini-series "Terry Jones: Medieval Lives" -- true stories of damsels, knights, peasants, and other characters of the Middle Ages. Challenging the myths and stereotypes associated with the era ... claims that the guillotine was invented and was in use in Ireland long before the executions of French nobility, during the French Revolution, gave it notoriety and universal recognition.
From: Robert Payne Subject: Words not named after the person they should be
I wonder if the name of the American landmass would qualify for your category of "words not named after the person they should be". As the story goes, the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller named the landmass in 1507 after the then-celebrated explorer Amerigo Vespucci, and some believe that Christopher Columbus should have received the honor.
Of course, this dredges up the wearisome issue of who actually "discovered" America. Columbus? Leif Ericson? The Norse Greenlanders? The direct ancestors of modern-day Native Americans? People before them? Thinking about all of this makes me wonder if anything at all is named after the person it should be.