No, IKEA doesn't give its furniture away for free, but the Swedish furniture store is almost as famous for its food as for its hard-to-assemble bookcases, and it's often willing to give away food for free if it gets people in the door.
Usually that takes the form of a free breakfast -- this past weekend, for instance, shoppers could come in Saturday through Monday before 11 a.m. and get a platter of eggs, bacon and hash browns, plus a cup of coffee, on the house.
The usual price of that breakfast is only $1.78 (99 cents for the breakfast and 75 cents for the coffee), so it's not as if you're making out like a bandit here.
To keep up on all the free food offers from IKEA in the future, bookmark the retailer's special offers page.
----------- 原稿 -------------- Five-year-old boy opts to become a girl
Zach Avery was three when he started questioning his gender, and began wearing dresses and ribbons in his hair.
Following a psychological evaluation he was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID), and has now been living as a girl for more than a year.
The disorder is a conflict between a person's physical gender and what they identify as. It prompts Zach to feel like a girl trapped in a boy's body.
According to his mother Theresa Avery, until the age of three Zach was a regular boy who loved Thomas the Tank Engine, but suddenly he started dressing in girls clothes.
Ms Avery said: "They told us that although he had a male body, his brain was telling him he was a girl."
Zach's primary school now addresses him as a girl and has changed the toilets to Unisex.
165 children received a GID diagnosis in the past year, of which only seven were under the age of five.
"In general when younger children are referred it is in relation to cross gender preferences in play, play mates and activities. It is more unusual for children of this age to express cross gender identification."
------------- 原稿 ---------------------- No need to panic, it's art
Mark Jenkins creates works of art that he installs in urban areas. The disturbing scenes of people stepping off buildings or floating in rivers attract attention and are so realistic that startled pedestrians have reported the “bodies” to police.
Jenkins’ intention is to create scenes that force city dwellers to drop their cell phones and interact with their environment.
Yael Naim In January 2008, Apple featured her song "New Soul" in its debut commercial for the MacBook Air laptop.
Steve Jobs himself picked the song "New Soul" for the launch of the MacBook Air.
Owing to high U.S. digital sales, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart week of February 16, 2008, at #9, becoming Naïm's first U.S. top ten single, and making her the first Israeli solo artist to ever have a top ten hit in the United States.
"New Soul" moved up to #7 the following week. The song was also featured on the soundtrack of the movies The House Bunny and Wild Target.
Her third album was released in November 2010.
The first single from this new record is "Go to the River".
"Go to the River"
When you feel ashamed go to the river When you’re feeling sad go to the river When you’re feeling blue inside, immersed and tied When you’re feeling stuck in pain, forever
Go go go go – go tonight, you Sigh and sigh inside you long for More, more of the life you had be Fore fore fore, let the seasons Arrive and dive let the winter snow and Glow glow when the wind will blow just Flow flow, eventually you will know
When you’re feeling bad, go to the river When you’re feeling mad, go to the river When you feel it blows your mind, cause you can’t find When you feel you’re going blind, you can’t deny… I say
Go go go with the river flow you Hide hide hide – but the river gets wide dont Row, row, with everything you Know , know, know, all you’ve carried inside Side side, let the water unwind – don’t Fight, fight – the river is right – let Go, go, eventually you will grow
When you feel you’ll lose your mind – they’ll let you slide When you feel you go insane – they let you die
Go go the river will know Blow blow, the river will blow Go go ,the wind will sigh Blow blow the leaves can die Go go the seeds will grow Blow blow, the river will slow Go go the years go by Blow blow, with the river go…
Go go go go in your soul you Try to fly but never get high you’re Low low – wishing for the Tide to rise – hold your feelings inside Side side side – let the river glide and Slow slow, the winter will go you Know know know – with everything you’ll grow Whatever comes will go
Go go go down the river below you Sigh sigh sigh and the years go by and So , so, the leaves will fall but More more more, you wanted even more just Go go go with the river flow, you Can’t decide cause the river gets wild you Know, know that there’s no goal no Sign , sign … Eventually you will find
