Declaring that Tony Packo's Inc. is a community asset and "part of our Toledo legacy," Judge Gene Zmuda, of Lucas County Common Pleas Court, on October 6 ordered the restaurant chain sold for $5.5 million to local fast-food magnate Bob Bennett. The decision removes from ownership the family that started the well-known local company eight decades ago. It also leaves the family member who last year initiated legal action, which led to the court-supervised sale, without any further involvement. The judge cited Mr. Bennett's offer — the "highest, best offer" — as the one that could best settle the restaurant chain's debts and expenses, leaving it a free and clear financial slate and in the strongest position to succeed in future years, given an uncertain economic climate. The offer was submitted under the name TP Foods LLC. It was not known whether the sale will be appealed or whether other related aspects would be challenged in court. Possibly still under contention is whether the company's name and secret recipes will transfer with the sale. There is a court hearing on that issue scheduled for November 6.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2011/10/07/Judge-selects-Bob-Bennett-to-be-new-Packo-s-owner.html

Monkeys can reason by using analogy, it seems. In an experiment recently reported in the journal Psychological Science, baboons in a lab proved capable of realizing that a pair of oval shapes is "like" a pair of square shapes and "unlike" a pair made of two different shapes. This finding suggests that you can have analogy without language. The experiment, run on 29 baboons by Joel Fagot of the University of Provence and Roger Thompson of Marshall College, found that the monkeys could ignore the fact that some symbols were more familiar from previous sessions and stick with the task of selecting those that came in pairs, and that they still partly recalled the skill after a year. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576594723966172468.html

Copyblogger writes: A metaphor is a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two. The key words here are “one thing to mean another.” A simile compares two different things in order to create a new meaning. In this case, we are made explicitly aware that a comparison is being made due to the use of “like” or “as.” An analogy is comparable to metaphor and simile in that it shows how two different things are similar, but it’s a bit more complex. Rather than a figure of speech, an analogy is more of a logical argument. http://www.copyblogger.com/metaphor-simile-and-analogy-what%e2%80%99s-the-difference/

Response to copyblogger An allegory is a one-to-one comparison or substitution of something figuritve for something literal. While this is extremely similar to a metaphor, allegories are usually more subtle and a lot more involved, taking up entire books and pieces of art. Perhaps the most famous allegorical tales are in literature, Sir Walter Raleigh’s Faerie Queen and Orwell’s Animal Farm are two famous examples I can think of. http://intopr.prblogs.org/2007/05/07/weekly-grammaticalness-analogy-allegory-metaphor-and-simile/

Architecture as allegory We all know that architecture sometimes depends on simile, because we hear critique like, that building looks like a rocket, or a ship, or a dump truck. Sometimes the goal is metaphorical, like in public buildings and fortresses designed to portray the idea of power, or churches that use the play of light and darkness. But very few know that buildings have been used for centuries to depict full blown allegories. See pictures and rest of the story at: http://dcsymbols.com/dc_cathedral/intronew.htm

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
Reportedly said by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, in a speech in 1904. Alternately phrased as "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure", Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100, dissenting; opinion (21 November 1927). The first variation is quoted by the IRS above the entrance to their headquarters at 1111 Constitution Avenue.
See many of his quotes at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.

Free to Think, description of five prison writings by Martin E. Marty
Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela (2010)
"'I feel I have been soaked in gall" was Nelson Mandela's summary of his 27 years in prison during the struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde (1973)
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1974)
Civil Disobedience and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau (1849)
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (sixth century)
Read more at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576580972323285768.html

Wikipedia Loves Libraries is a wiki-coordinated program of distributed micro-conferences (editathons) to be held at libraries and archives in cities across North America around October 2011. It is modeled on this past summer's Great American Wiknic (multiple wiki-meetups on a single day), the broader WikiProject GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) collaboration effort, and the June 2011 Editathon at the British Library, where Wikipedians gathered at the library, and were given access to library resources in order to expand Wikipedia articles about miscellaneous topics. See lists of events by region at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries

The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was an American football game played on October 7, 1916, between the Georgia Tech Engineers and the Cumberland College Bulldogs. The game became the most lopsided in the history of college football, as Georgia Tech was victorious 222–0. Cumberland College, a school in Lebanon, Tennessee, had discontinued its football program before the season but was not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers. The fact that Cumberland's baseball team had crushed Georgia Tech earlier that year 22-0 (amidst allegations that Cumberland used professionals as ringers) probably accounted for Georgia Tech coach John Heisman's running up the score on the Bulldogs. He insisted on the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 ($60,349 in inflation-adjusted terms) to Tech if its football team failed to show. So, George E. Allen (who was elected to serve as Cumberland's football team student manager after first serving as the baseball team student manager) put together a team of 14 men to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland's football team. Another reason for Heisman's plan to run up the score was that collegiate rules at the time ranked teams based on how many points they scored. Heisman did not consider that statistic a true mark of a team's success, and may have unleashed his players on Cumberland to make his point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game