Washington, like Colorado, legalized marijuana through a voter initiative in 2012. Starting this year, the Liquor Control Board of Washington will begin licensing marijuana stores, growers, and processors to provide legal weed to the general public. 

While the application process for those applying to become "licensed" under Initiative 502 is still underway, medical marijuana business owners and marijuana entrepreneurs have begun the process of setting up their businesses for what many hope to be a lucrative business. 

We visited with Jason Gardiner, one of the owners of a Renton, Wash.-based medical marijuana store (and I-502 hopeful licensee), and Dante Jones, one of the business partners in charge of Grow Ambrosia (hoping to get a marijuana producer and processor license), to see their operations.

Stores may not officially open until the spring, when the application process will finish, but we got a look at what the weed industry will look like in Washington.

Life's RX is a medical marijuana dispensary in Renton, Wash., a Seattle suburb where there are 6 other dispensaries like it. The store is applying to become a licensed recreational marijuana store under Seattle's I-502 law.

The store is located in a shopping mall with other suburban staples like dry cleaners, hair salons, and H&R Block.

The store is marked by a small sign and a discreet door. State officials are finicky about how large store signs are allowed to be.

If it sometimes feels like advertisers don't treat you like a human being, don't worry, they do.

It's just that they treat you like a bunch of human beings packed into one.

We recently stumbled across a packet from Little Rock, Ark.-based marketing data firm Acxiom for their "Life stage segmentation system" called "PersonicX® Cluster Perspectives."

Acxiom has broken down American society into 21 composite characters at various life stages according to income, marital status, number of children, age, etc.

The PersonicX system "enables you to see the dramatic difference between the consumer behaviors of the affluent, retiring couple living right next door to the young family just starting out. PersonicX helps you tailor your marketing strategies with a level of precision only offered by a household-level segmentation system and the most accurate, up-to-date data source in the market."

The descriptions of these consumers are hilariously, impeccably detailed.

We picked the 7 best ones and reproduced them in full below.

BEGINNINGS, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist:“Jimmy”

Wakes up…late because he stayed up too late playing games online the night before. Grabs a quick shower and has leftover pizza for breakfast.

Spends the day…at the car dealership where he is a salesman. He’s a good salesperson and is already above quota with four days left in the month. He spent half the day talking to his new girlfriend on his cell phone.

Talks about weekend plans to…play a game of football or basketball with friends, or catch a movie and come back by the evening to go see one of his favorite local bands that is playing down at Joe’s Pub and Pool Hall, one of his regular hangouts. Has a meeting with…his sales manager to discuss a deep discount for his new girlfriend. She wants that new black Pontiac G6 that they got in last week.

Spends the evening…meeting his roommate back at the apartment. They order pizza and watch Adult Swim or reruns of Family Guy as well as the reality TV offerings on MTV. He has a few beers at the apartment and texts his girlfriend while checking the game scores at ESPN.com. Later, he and his roommate go down the street to The Tavern where he meets his new girlfriend.

Goes to bed at…1:30 a.m., flipping between…WWE Wrestling and MTV.

TAKING HOLD, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist: “Maria”

Wakes up…grabs the remote and flips on alternative rock radio. She gets up, goes to the kitchen, grabs a bottle of water and goes to the third bedroom that doubles as the workout room. She runs on the treadmill for 30 minutes.

Spends the day…researching a big liability case for the law firm where she works as a paralegal. She calls her husband and reminds him that it’s his parents’ anniversary and that it is a good idea to at least offer to take them out to dinner that week or cook a dinner for them in their gourmet kitchen. Talks about weekend plans to…go camping to get away from it all. The weather is supposed to be perfect for it, finally cooling down after that heat wave.

Has a meeting with…the group of attorneys that is working on the case to discuss the fact that they were not going to have any case based on precedents of two similar cases.

Spends the evening…driving to the athletic club and playing tennis with her group of friends. Meets her husband for a late dinner at Jay’s Pizza. She has soup and salad with a Corona Light beer. Later they spend time online shopping for a new TV, hopefully one of those nice flat screens with HDTV and a Blu-ray player.

Goes to bed at…11:30 p.m. after a half hour of pilates, watching…Scrubs reruns

TRANSITION TIME, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist: “J.D.”

Wakes up…and notices a small yellow spot on the ceiling of the bedroom in his doublewide mobile home. He thought to himself that he didn’t completely seal the leak in the roof. He knew his wife would be angry. She told him he needed to use a roof sealant, not the caulk in the toolbox. He made some instant coffee and took a shower.

Spends the day…working as a foreman in a paper products factory. He has a team of four truck loaders that report to him, and a typical factory schedule: involves punching the clock and working 8:00 to 5:00 with two daily, 15-minute breaks and an hour for lunch.

Talks about weekend plans to…go hunting. Deer hunting season starts this weekend and he’s got a lease to hunt on some property with several guys at the factory.

Has a meeting with…his deer hunting buddies to make plans about who needs to bring what to the property lease this weekend.

Spends the evening…adjusting the throttle body on his wife’s car and putting some more caulk on the roof while she makes dinner. They have sloppy joes made with a canned mix and watch King of the Hill and CMT. His wife cleans up the kitchen and spends the rest of the evening reading magazines.

Goes to bed at…10:30 p.m., watching…nothing. His wife can’t sleep when the TV is on or music is playing.

FLYING SOLO, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist: “Jackie”

Wakes up…gets out of bed after hitting the snooze button several times. She listens to a station with an urban format. She has a bowl of Kellogg’s Special K Red Berries and a Rockstar energy drink before heading to the subway from her apartment a few blocks away.

Spends the day…working as a compliance assistant in a brokerage firm downtown. She tried being a sales assistant, with dreams of being a broker, but quickly decided that it wasn’t for her. The job isn’t exactly executive level and her parents wonder why she didn’t finish her college education. She opens a can of chicken for lunch in the break room and catches up on the office gossip with her girlfriends. Talks about weekend plans to…go dancing with her friends at the new club that just opened.

Has a meeting with…the compliance manager. She does a good, thorough job and has good relationships with her co-workers, but her data entry speed is just a little slow. She’ll need to work on it if she wants to advance to team leader.

Spends the evening…grabbing a quick drink with co-workers after work and then rides the subway back home. Reads the new issue of Cosmopolitan magazine that arrived in today’s mail. She fixes pasta and a pre-made spaghetti sauce for dinner and surfs the Internet checking job sites and making a purchase here and there while watching a movie she had rented.

Goes to bed at…11:30 p.m., watching…reruns of Scrubs.

MIXED SINGLES, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist:“Malcolm”

Wakes up…warms up some Entenmann’s cake for breakfast and washes it down with skim milk.

Spends the day…looking for a new job on the Internet, and listening to Urban radio, missing his first class at Phillips Community College. He hates the instructor and figures that he was going to drop that class anyway.

Talks about weekend plans to…hang out with his buddies, checking out the latest dance club and maybe go to the opening weekend of the latest movie.

Has a meeting with…his financial aid counselor to find out if he could still receive financial aid if he drops the course.

Spends the evening…working the late shift in the grocery store. It’s a boring job, but the two M.O.D. (Managers on Duty) are okay to work for. He’s a checker for part of the evening, then a stocker. He gets off work at 2:00 a.m.

Goes to bed at…3:00 a.m., watching…Family Guy

CASH & CAREERS, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist: “Derek”

Wakes up…hits snooze on his alarm clock/sound machine. It is 5:00 a.m. His back has started to hurt recently and he takes a moment to stretch and work out the kinks. He jogs his usual three miles regardless of the weather. He would run farther, but there’s not enough time. He gets back to the house and logs on to get tickets to an upcoming rock concert.

Spends the day…at his job as an educational administrator at Bridgewater Academy. He’s preparing for a meeting with the Academy’s largest benefactors to provide a construction update on the new science building.

Has a meeting…with the fertility doctor. He and his wife have been trying to get pregnant for a few years.

Talks about weekend plans to…play golf on Saturday with some colleagues, then have friends over for dinner, comparing some newly acquired wines. Spends the evening…reading a John Grisham novel. He can’t take it to work because all of the instructors give him a hard time about reading “that best-seller trash.”

Goes to bed at…10:00 p.m., watching…nothing. He has to get a full seven hours of sleep for his morning run.

MIDDLING SINGLES, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Name of protagonist:“Richard”

Wakes up…tunes in to NPR and catches the morning news. The meteorologist is predicting rain today. He jumps on the subway; its shoulder-to-shoulder as usual.

Spends the day…at his cubicle in the insurance claims department, researching his company’s benefits policies and watching the CNN news ticker run across the bottom of his screen.

Talks about weekend plans to…give Paula, his 36-year-old “friend,” a call even though it has been two months since they last talked. He has two tickets to the John Mayer concert and thought she’d be a fun date. Afterward they could grab a bite to eat.

Has a meeting with…his travel agent to discuss plans for an upcoming trip to the Bahamas with his buddies. He has noticed that the agent is very attractive and recently divorced.

Spends the evening…working out at the gym. He showers and then heads home for dinner, making pasta and watching The Office. After dinner he updates his profile on Facebook just to let his friends know what’s going on.

Goes to bed at…11:30 p.m., watching…a new TV show he just downloaded off of the Internet.

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When it comes to vacationing, some hotels will make you feel like royalty — and others will treat you like it.

These 17 once-in-a-lifetime hotel suites are guaranteed to do just that.

They're not without a hefty price tag, but when they include personal butlers, pillow service, and some of the best views in the world, you should make sure they get onto your bucket list.

The Bridge Suite at Atlantis Paradise Island, Bahamas

Nightly rate: About $25,000

Hovering at 16 stories high, the Bridge Suite spans the distance between the Royal Towers at the Bahamas' premiere luxury resort destination. Take in the views of Paradise Island from the 12-foot, floor-to-ceiling windows, and indulge in the suite's unique amenities, including a living room with a grand piano, twin entertainment centers, a 24-karat gold chandelier, and a dedicated staff of seven to wait on you.

Photo: Atlantis Paradise Island

The Royal Penthouse Suite at the Hotel President Wilson, Switzerland

Finch Hatton's Suite at Giraffe Manor, Kenya

Nightly rate:From $1,188

Built in 1932 and modeled on a Scottish hunting lodge, Kenya's Giraffe Manor offers luxury bedrooms with antique furnishings, striking art decor, and just-outside-the-window access to a giraffe sanctuary. Other safari animals abound on the 140-acre property — if you're so inclined, stop by the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage and sponsor a baby elephant before returning home.

Photo: Giraffe Manor/Facebook

Only about 2% of London's 8 million+ residents ride bikes to get to work each day, according to an analysis by the Transport for London.

Unsafe conditions seem to be a huge reason people stay off their bikes. According to the Department for Transport, London pedestrians and cyclists are 11 times more likely to be killed in a road accident than people who travel by car. Heavy traffic and an obvious lack of extra space in the city make coming up with a solution for safe cycling a difficult task. 

A new collaboration from Exterior Architecture, Foster + Partners, and Space Syntax could help to make London's roads safer for cyclists, in addition to having applications for other major cities worldwide.

They call it SkyCycle, a network of bike paths that would be constructed above existing railroad lines and could put cyclists in the sky. 

According to a press release from Foster + Partners, each route could accommodate up to 12,000 cyclists per hour and improve travel times by 29 minutes. It's an efficient use of space in a city whose population is expected to grow by as much as 12% over the next 10 years.  

Plus, developing a usable bike system with 200 entrance points in heavily populated areas could be good for the local economy. 

"Early studies of a SkyCycle system indicate that it provides capacity at a much lower cost than building new roads and tunnels," a press release from Foster + Partners says. "The possibility of the deck providing development opportunities for businesses along the route, particularly where it intersects with stations and bridges, has also been the subject of the study, exploring ideas for public/private commercial growth and regeneration." 

And though there's no word on when or if the proposal could become a reality, a spokesperson for London's Network Rail told RelaxNews, "We welcome the proposals which have been put forward by Foster + Partners and Exterior Architecture and are always happy to look at ways we can contribute to improving travel and transport in London."

Here's another look via Exterior Architecture at what London's SkyCycle could be like:

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A Texas restaurant owner is selling his business to help a young worker with a brain tumor. 

Brittany Mathis, 19, was diagnosed with a ping pong-sized brain tumor in December. She doesn't have health insurance, and her dad died of a similar condition years ago. 

She hasn't been able to afford to find out whether the tumor is benign or malignant. 

Michael De Beyer told local newspaper The Courier that he believes his Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar is worth $2 million. That's enough to pay for her medical bills. 

"I’m not able to just sit by and let it happen," De Beyer, who opened the restaurant more than 15 years ago, told the paper. "I couldn’t live with myself; I would never be happy just earning money from my restaurant knowing that she needs help."

De Beyer is close with the entire Mathis family and also employs Brittany's mom and older sister. 

Brittany's mom, Barbara, told local news station KVUE that they are overwhelmed by his gesture. 

""I really think it’s an amazing blessing and can't thank him enough and his family," Mathis said. "Never thought that anybody would do that and he did and it makes me feel really good."

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In September 2013, Leon Mackie and Lilly Lang realized they had a lot of old cardboard boxes leftover after a series of moves over the last two years — once from Wellington, New Zealand to Melbourne, Australia in 2012, and again from Melbourne to Sydney four months ago.

"We had been living in Melbourne for about a year and our garage was still full of flattened moving boxes," Lang explained to Business Insider. "I wanted to throw them in the recycling bin but Leon was adamant that we'd be able to use them for something."

That time came in September 2013 when the couple decided to take a family picture with their 10-month-old son Orson.

"We decided to do something that showed how messy and sleep-deprived our lives had become now that Orson was at the driver's seat," Lang explains. "That photo was the 'Life Domestic.' People loved it and asked for more. Suddenly we had a use for the boxes. It just went from there."

The family of three now has a website called Cardboard Box Office with its own Twitter and Facebook pages with over 18,000 likes. They try and upload a new scene from a famous film — such as "Star Wars" and "The Dark Knight" — every few weeks with Orson the star of the shoots. As their popularity has grown, they have even started asking fans for movie suggestions.

Lang says it takes her and Mackie three to five hours to set up each scene, depending on their costumes, props, and how staging goes during the week.

They only use common household items like plates, laundry baskets, tape, toys, pots, and those cardboard boxes. Lang said "Wah Wars" (the family's parody of "Star Wars") took the longest due to building the guns, lightsaber, and Mackie's Han Solo equipment belt.

"We choose films that contain either an iconic set, costume, vehicle, or monster," Lang said. "If it doesn't contain at least one of these elements the references in our version of the film won't be obvious enough to work."

"Because of this reason we're having a real struggle coming up with any rom-coms — which doesn't seem to bother Leon in the slightest," she added.

See more of the pair's amazing photography at Cardboard Box Office.

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The Little Baby Face Foundation (LBFF) is an NYC-based nonprofit with a noble mission and a great deal of controversy. 

Founded by Dr. Thomas Romo and Lauralouise Duffy Blatt in 2002, LBFF provides free plastic surgery for children born with facial deformities, both here in the U.S. and around the world. Applicants seeking surgery with the foundation are evaluated on the basis of financial need and the severity of the deformity.

The controversy arises, however, when you consider the reasons some American teens are applying for surgery with LBFF. Many have been teased for their looks in the past and are looking to plastic surgery as an escape — a response many critics find problematic. 

"Are we saying that the responsibility falls on the kid who’s bullied, to alter themselves surgically?" New York psychologist Diller asked in an interview with NBC News. "We really have to address the idea that there should be zero tolerance of bullying, and maybe we even have to encourage the acceptance of differences."

An eye-opening report that aired on last Sunday night's edition of "Dateline" profiled four teens going through the application process with the Little Baby Face Foundation. There was an Illinois 16-year-old named Connor whose friends called him "Toucan" because of his large nose, a girl named Cheyenne who was born with a condition that resulted in smaller than average eyes, and Donovan, a 16-year-old who had been told to commit suicide because of his looks at school.

Another one of the teens was Renata, a 15-year-old from South Carolina who competed in beauty pageants when she was younger. She sought help from LBFF when taunting about her appearance got so bad she decided to stop going to school altogether, opting for a home-school program instead. 

"They were just calling me ‘that girl with the big nose,'" Renata told NBC News. "It just really hurts. And you can’t get over it."

So she applied to LBFF for a rhinoplasty procedure, and was ultimately accepted.

To some, cosmetic surgery is the same as correcting any other medical problem, like getting braces. Romo — who in addition to being the co-founder of LBFF works as the director of facial, plastic, and reconstructive surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital — says that altering someone's appearance helps to empower them. 

"You take a child, and you change the way they look. To anybody who sees them, they’re good-looking," Romo said in the "Dateline" segment. "That gives the child strength. We can’t go after the bully. But we can try and empower the children."

A few months after her nose job surgery, Renata says she feels better now than ever before. 

"I feel happy and I feel confident, and I feel like I don’t have to hide myself anymore," she said.

You can watch the entire "Dateline" segment here. 

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While climate shouldn't necessarily play into a student's decision as to where to attend college, there's a lot to be said about the classic beauty and serenity of the snow-covered campus.

Of course, there are also downsides to a school that has more traditional seasons — mostly the cold temperature. But things like snowball fights and ski slopes should more than make up for a little chilliness.

From easy access to top slopes to great winter traditions, here are the 10 best colleges to get a true winter experience. 

Dartmouth College — Hanover, New Hampshire

Dartmouth hosts an annual Winter Carnival featuring ice skating and polar bear swims, which the school describes as "a welcome break from the cold, grayness of winter term."

The school also offers a number of winter-themed PE classes, including skiing lessons — read about one California-native student's first-time experience on the slopes here.

Montana State University — Bozeman, Montana

As one MSU alum — and professional skier — tells ESPN, "Many professors adhere to the 10-inch rule— it's OK to miss class, granted you're doing all right in school, if it snows over 10 inches."

For people more interested in learning about the wonders of winter, one ski blog points out that MSU geography professor Karl Birkeland is also the director of the Forest Service National Avalanche Center.

Columbia University — New York, New York

While Columbia is unlikely to feature the natural snow-covered beauty of a more rural school, the New York City university welcomes in winter every year by lighting the trees that surround its entranceway.

Following the tree lighting, students parade a Yule Log around campus while singing seasonal carols — a tradition that dates back to before the Revolutionary War.

"Secrets of the Living Dolls" is a new documentary series on Britain's Channel 4 that follows men who dress as dolls in a phenomenon called "masking."

Some have spent nearly £10,000 (over $16,000) on latex female body suits, masks with permanent makeup, wigs, and other accessories.

Joel, a 28-year old bartender from Essex, explained in the documentary's first episode that he feels a sense of escapism while masking since he is able to let out his inner persona. "Dominique," another masker from the Bronx, also noted feeling more comfortable when she was dressed as a doll.

"When I walk into a place, they see a large black man and think automatically, 'He's going to rob me'," Dominique said in the first episode. "Whereas as a female they're like, 'Oh, she's really sexy, she's really cute, she's really curvy.' I notice that when I'm a sexy female, I get treated completely differently."

Masking has become its own phenomenon, with a special social network called Doll's Pride and an annual convention in Minnesota known as Rubber Doll World Rendezvous.

When the first episode of "Secrets of the Living Dolls" premiered last night in the U.K., an impressive 2.4 million Brits tuned in, according to Digital Spy.

The series is getting a lot of press on the other side of the pond as well. And though American viewers are not able to watch it on TV or online yet, they can get a taste of the show from various clips Channel 4 has posted on its YouTube channel.

Secrets of the Living Dolls highlights Femskin, a family-run company in Florida that developed an ultra-light wearable female body-suit for "maskers."

Men slip into the suits like so:

And then add a mask with the makeup of their choice.

Once dressed, the body suit moves naturally, with only the face remaining frozen like a doll's. The lips of the mask don't move, but there's enough of an opening not to impede speech or breathing.

Some of the maskers opt to only wear the doll mask and get saline injections to temporarily develop natural-looking female breasts.

When they're all dressed up, it's not uncommon for maskers to go out on the town together.

Or they just go about their daily routines.

"Secrets of the Living Dolls" found maskers from all over the world, from the USA and UK to Russia and Japan.

You can watch full clips at Channel 4's YouTube page, or go to the documentary's website to learn more.

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Twenty-five years ago, Mick Dodge left the modern world and ventured into the Hoh rain forest. He's been building his life there ever since, sleeping in tree stumps and living off the land.

Dodge is also known as the "barefoot sensei" because he doesn't wear shoes. He runs a program called "Earth Gym" in which he teaches people to work out using the terrain around them instead of traditional gym machines.

The nomad's unusual lifestyle will be the subject of a new television series,"The Legend of Mick Dodge," that airs for the first time on Tuesday night on the National Geographic Channel.

In advance of the premier Dodge did an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit.

We've compiled some of our favorite answers below, which have been edited for clarity.

And for more on Dodge's background and adventures, you should check out this well-done profile by Chris Sailor from the Associated Press. 

How the show's producers found him:

"Yoish! Jenny and Michele of interchange media found me on Whidbey Island living in a tent sharing the Earth Gym practices, and then two years ago I returned to the Hoh River Valley my teacher and set up a Earth Gym for people to come and train. It was the band of women at the Olympic Mountains Earth Wisdom Circle that set up all the modern support to connect me in."

How he connects to the Internet:

"Yoish! I walk my way to my base camp. Turn on the computer and do you what you do. Though we are having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to do this now."

What "Yoish" means:

"Yoish! Yoish, is a word that my sensei taught me in Okinawa. It can mean many things. It helps me focus. If I am going to pick up a heavy stone and lift it. I use the word 'yoish' to focus my attention and effort. Then when I am in the game of life and need to get a grip on the moment. I can say 'YOISH' deep inside me and ground with the moment."

What he eats:

"Yoish! I eat food, some times insects, sometimes pizza. I run three terrains in the Earth Gym and have explored how to eat in all these terrains."

The three items he would recommend bringing to survive in the wild:

"Yoish! Knowledge, skills, and desire. They are the three pillars of training."

The most meaningful experience in his life:

"Yoish! I have them every day how to fit my bare soles into the gated wild and how to fit them into the modern world and finding the balance the middle path and have a good time while doing it."

How long it took him to become accustomed to being barefoot:

"Yoish! It has taken sixty two years. I am still following them. I just follow them and find my own rhythm, endurance, strength, and balance in landing the earth."

How he maintains his free-flowing beard:

"Yoish! Good Hoh Water, living water and not that dead water of the city. The water here is magical, likes to grow things."

On his encounters with modern living:

"Yoish! I having been stepping 'in and out' of modern living and the wild for sixty-two years, all of us have. It is a rhythm 'in and out' and 'out and in.' The key word is the word 'and," which tracks and sounds into the word 'land." So I land my soles in the three terrains, the walls of the city, through the open fenced lands up into the gated wild and back again, seeking middle earth."

On whether he's come close to dying (i.e from weather, hunger, or wild animals):

"Yoish! One of the things that the earth has taught me about hunger, is to run, go on foot and just keep moving, the hunger pains take a back seat. It was amazing how long that I could go on foot and not eat the way that I had learned in domestication."

How he uses fire to heal himself when he gets sick:

"Yoish! One of the ways I use fire is sweats. Another way is to dance with the fire. I often find that when I get a bit weak, run down. That a good dance with the spirit of fire, pulls me back into the "rapture.'"

And finally...in which he clarifies the description for one of the episodes that says he became so desperate for a decent meal that he looked through elk feces hoping to find larvae eggs:

"Yoish! No I was not going to eat elk sh*t. I was trying to get the camera crew to eat it."

You can learn more about Dodge in this short clip below, courtesy of National Geographic:

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If James Bond decided to build an ultra-modern nightclub in his secret hideaway, this home in Mallorca, Spain is what it would look like. 

The 26,867-square-foot mansion — known as the "Chameleon Villa" — takes swank to another level. It comes complete with crisp white interiors, colorful LED lights, and a bumping sound system that mimic the atmosphere of a highly exclusive club. 

According to the listing, the house itself is divided up into three different buildings: The first acting as the main residence, the second as a fitness center, and the third as lodging for party guests. 

It's listed with Sotheby's International Realty. Price is available only on request. 

Welcome to the Chameleon Villa.

Dramatically perched on a cliff overlooking Son Vida, Mallorca, the all-white "Chameleon Villa" might be a bit of a misnomer.

You can park your car out front.

Actor (and former helmsman of the USS Enterprise) George Takei recently posted the above image on Facebook that depicts a strange example of a perfectly logical English sentence.

It contains lexical ambiguity, where the same words possess different meanings. 

And this phrase is only one of many strange examples. We've collected our favorite sentences that look confusing and ridiculous but are technically accurate. 

1. A ship-shipping ship ships shipping-ships.

As you can see, we turned the meme into sentence and added hyphens for clarity. The above example contains three similar versions of the same word — a noun, adjective, and verb. The adjective, in this case, is actually a participle, "shipping," or a verb functioning as a modifier.

A ship-shipping (compound participial adjective) ship (noun) ships (verb) shipping-ships (compound participial noun).

Let's substitute "boat" for the noun and "transports" for the verb.

The sentence then reads more clearly: A boat-shipping boat transports shipping-boats.

2. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Like the last example, this one contains three different versions of the word "buffalo" — the animal (a noun), the city (adjunct noun/adjective), and the action of bullying (verb).

So the sentence really looks like this: Buffalo (the city) buffalo (the animal) [that] Buffalo (the city) buffalo (the animal) buffalo (verb) buffalo (verb) Buffalo (the city) buffalo (the animal).

The meaning becomes much more clear when you substitute bison for the noun version of buffalo and the verb version with a synonym —"bully." We switched around the words and added a few for clarity, too.

Bison from the city of Buffalo [that] [other] bison from the city of Buffalo bully [also] bully bison from the city of Buffalo.

This lexical ambiguity can work for any word that has the same noun, noun adjunct (adjective), and verb form — like police.

3. Police police Police police police police Police police.

Less known than Buffalo, Police is a city in Poland. Three different forms of the same word come into play above: law enforcement (the noun), the city (an adjunct noun/adjective), and the verb.

Again, we'll use substitutions to clarify the meaning — "patrol" for the verb form and "law enforcement" for the noun.

Law enforcement from Police [that] [other] law enforcement from Police patrol [also] patrol law enforcement from Police.

4. Can-can can-can can can can can can-can.

For a fourth time, we have the same word with three different meanings: can-can, the dance; can, a verb meaning "able"; and can, a second verb meaning to put in the trash, or euphemistically to outperform.

Can-can, the dance, that other can-can, the dance, are able to outperform are also able to outperform other examples of can-can, the dance.

5. Will, will Will will Will Will's will?

Will (a person), will (future tense helping verb) Will (a second person) will (bequeath) [to] Will (a third person) Will's (the second person) will (a document)?

Someone asked Will 1 directly if Will 2 plans to bequeath his own will, the document, to Will 3.

6. James, while John had had "had," had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

A story accompanies this example.

Two students, James and John, were asked on an English test to describe a man who, in the past, had suffered from a cold. John wrote: "The man had a cold," which the teacher marked as incorrect. James, however, wrote: "The man had had a cold." Since James' answer was right, it had had a better effect on the teacher.

A few word substitutions and brackets to identify clauses will make this more clear.

James, [while John had written "had,"] had written "had had"; "had had" had left a better effect on the teacher.

The double "had" — called past perfect tense — puts the action further back in time, suggesting that the man had had a cold but doesn't anymore.

7. Rose rose to put rose roes on her rows of roses.

Now, this sentence deals with homophones, words that sound the same with different meaning.

In this example, we have:

• Rose, a woman.
• rose, the verb meaning to get up.
• rose, the flower.
• rose, the color.
• roes, the fish eggs (in this case, used as fertilizer).
• rows, the lines.

A woman named Rose got up to put rose-colored fish eggs on her rows of roses.

8. If it is it, it is it; if it is it is it, it is.

This example has nothing to do with parts of speech or verb tense. Only massive substitutions can save us now.

If A is B, then B is C; If the idea is [that] A is C, then the idea is [correct].

9. That that exists exists in that that that that exists exists in.

The various forms of "that" affect this example, too. We'll switch the demonstrative adjective "that" with "this" and the relative pronoun "that" with "which." And when we have two examples of the verb "exist" next to each other, we'll change the second to "occur."

[The fact] that "that" exists occurs in a situation which this "that" exists [also] occurs in.

Essentially, the two different versions of "that" in this sentence, exist in some situation simultaneously.

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In early 2010, Janice MacLeod couldn't take it anymore.

She wanted out of her job as a copywriter at an advertising agency. And she didn't just want a new job. She wanted to quit and move to Paris and devote herself full-time to painting and writing. 

What makes MacLeod different from most is that she actually did it. She decided to drastically change her money habits and look for ways to save, minimize expenses, and sell off what she could. She aimed to save or make about $100 a day, which she could then turn into a $100-a-day travel budget.

After cutting corners for a year and blogging about 100 ways to spend less, MacLeod saved up $65,000 — enough to move to Paris in 2011 and use for two years of frugal living. She continues to live there today (with her new French husband) and has a book coming out about her journey called "Paris Letters."

MacLeod says anyone can buy themselves some freedom with a little time and creativity. Below, she shares with Business Insider 10 simple ways that she cut costs and financed her dream:

Traded clothes and bric-a-brac at the thrift store for a tax receipt. This contributed to my overall tax refund.

Added small price tags to the finished paintings I made in my house. Visitors often bought without me feeling like I was selling: Some paintings were $25 for small pieces, others were $250 for bigger paintings. 

Cleaned out closets like I was looking for loot. Sometimes I found some. Sure, I found the occasional $5 bill, but what I really found was coffee cards — many pre-paid coffee cards that still had small balances. I had a lot of free coffees that year.

Started making oatmeal and popcorn on the stove, rather than fancy breakfasts or snacks. Oatmeal may have been the biggest money saver. The regular, plain oatmeal. One big bucket is a lot of breakfasts. Eating oatmeal also filled me up, gave me energy and kept me from making expensive nutritional errors by buying muffins and goodies at the coffee shop. 

Went out on picnics instead of going to restaurants. Totally fun way to save money and visit friends. What I didn’t realize at the time was that this became good practice for a life in Paris. Picnics in parks and along the Seine are part of the culture. And it costs a fraction of what one would spend in a restaurant. Bonus: I used up the plastic utensils and chopsticks I had saved over time.

Stopped going to salad bars and started chopping my own vegetables. There is that joke about calling Whole Foods "Whole Paycheck." Before my grand money-saving scheme, I was always at the salad bar paying way too much for a salad I could have made myself for a fraction of the price. I changed my salad bar habit with a bit of planning. The key is to buy the vegetables at the market or farmers market, come home, and prep them for a salad right away. Not later. If I didn’t prep right way, the vegetables would lay to waste in the back of my refrigerator, forgotten and limp.

Started going to the library. Books, movies, and CDs are all free! Once I realized that I would travel after quitting my job, the library became the most wonderful place to find DVDs about distant places I may want to visit once I saved up enough to quit my job. Plus, I started listening to Italian and French language CDs, which came in handy later. 

Declined a few out-of-state weddings of people I wasn’t really close to. Sending them a more generous cash gift was more cost-effective financially and energetically. Let’s be real. If they were very close friends, I would have gone to the wedding. But there is nothing wrong with saying no to some invitations. 

SEE ALSO: The 10 Best Places In The World To Retire In

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When some dangerous activities make their way on TV, they are usually accompanied with a warning that stunts were done by professionals and should not be attempted at home.

It looks like Meteorologist Eric Holthaus — who yesterday posted an insane video of him turning boiling water into snow — probably could have used that warning in his video. But he wasn't alone, as other meteorologists and reporters did the same thing on-air, Los Angeles Times reports. 

As it turns out, some people were intrigued so much they had to try it. About 50 of them reported burning themselves on social media, according to an estimate from The Times.

In Holthaus' video, which was shot in Viroqua, WI, near La Crosse, it was -21°F with a wind chill of -51°F. 

Here's the original video, along with the amateurs below:

And now the amateurs:

Tried the boiling water trick today... burned the high holy hell out of my hand... I may have done it wrong... but it shore was purdy...

— Tyler Rump (@tyrump) January 7, 2014

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A company called Not Impossible Labs has come up with one of the best uses for 3D printer technology we've ever heard of: printing low-cost prosthetic arms for people, mainly children, who have lost limbs in the war-torn country of Sudan.

The project was the brain child of Mick Ebeling, founder of Not Impossible, a company dedicated to "technology for the sake of humanity." Not Impossible is probably best known for its "Eyewriter" eye tracking glasses, created with free open source software, that helped a paralyzed graffiti artist draw and communicate using only his eyes.

Project Daniel started in 2012, when Ebeling read a story in Time magazine about Daniel Omar, a then 14-year-old Sudanese boy who lost both his hands from a bomb.

It inspired Ebeling to assemble a team capable of creating a low-cost, 3D-printed prosthetic on consumer-grade 3D printers. The team included the South African inventor of the Robohand, an Australian MIT neuroscientist, a 3D printing company in California and was supported by Intel and an engineering company called Precipart.

The arms they developed are inexpensive enough to be available to anyone who needs one, costing around $100 to produce, and can be printed in about six hours, reports Time's Harry McCracken.

Daniel recieved his left arm in November and Ebeling then set up a 3D printing lab in a nearby hospital, Not Impossible says. Since then, many others have received arms and the effort could eventually help thousands.

The 3D printed arm isn't as sophisticated as high-end prosthetics. Daniel can't precisely control the fingers or lift heavy objects, though perhaps future versions of the arm will solve those problems.

But it's a huge improvement over his life before where, without hands, he couldn't do basic tasks like feed himself.

Now he's working at the hospital helping print arms for other people.

Ebeling discussed Project Daniel at CES in Las Vegas during Intel's keynote this week.

Here's the video Ebeling posted about Project Daniel.

If you need a heartwarming moment, check out the video at 2:10 where Daniel feeds himself for the first time in two years. Inspiring stuff.

SEE ALSO: How America's Best Inventor, Dean Kamen, Is Helping Thousands Of US Kids

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Aereo, the company that streams live TV over the Internet, just raised $34 million to help support its nationwide expansion.

This is its Series C round of investment, bringing the total to $$97 million.

This is also a vote of confidence that Aereo will beat lawsuits by broadcasters like Fox and CBS that want its business model declared illegal. After a string of such suits, last month, Aereo founder and CEO Chet Kanojia told his rivals to bring their best legal arguments to the Supreme Court to settle the litigation once and for all.

Aereo captures live over-air television broadcast with antennas and streams them over the Internet to your laptop or mobile device. It charges subscribers $8 a month. Broadcasters say Aereo threatens their business.

Aereo has been famously backed by media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC who contributed to this round as well, the company says. It also landed a big-name new investor: Gordon Crawford. Crawford is known for backing companies like Time Warner, Liberty Media, News Corp, Comcast and DirecTV.

The round also includes participation from Himalaya Capital Management and existing investors Highland Capital Partners, FirstMark Capital, and others.

SEE ALSO: A Look At Aereo: The Live Internet TV That's Scaring The Pants Off Broadcasters

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Yahoo dove deeper into being an Internet Age media company, bringing in news, music and television stars for the launch of online magazines focused on technology and food.

The fresh online offerings were showcased by Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer during a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote presentation at a packed theater in Las Vegas.

"Yahoo is about making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining, and there are few places as inspiring and entertaining as CES," Mayer said. "We have been hard at work re-imagining Yahoo's core businesses across search, communications, media and video — all powered by two powerful platforms, Flickr and Tumblr."

Late last year, Yahoo had more than 400 million mobile monthly users for the first time in the Internet pioneer's history, according to Mayer. About 800 million people use Yahoo monthly overall, the California-based company said.

The theatrical keynote production included appearances by newly-hired Yahoo Global Anchor Katie Couric and Yahoo Tech vice president David Pogue, a former New York Times reporter.

Cecily Strong and Keenan Thompson of beloved US comedy program Saturday Night Live appeared in a faux news report skit lampooning trendy technology companies and concepts. Targets included SnapChat, Bitcoin, and in-flight smartphone use.

Grammy award-winning musician John Legend entertained the audience with a set of songs.

Announcements woven into the stage show included the launches of a Yahoo News digest app design to deliver concise, personalized summaries of global happenings twice daily to smartphones.

"Yahoo News Digest, at its core, simplifies news and solves the problem of information overload and TL;DR," said Yahoo product manager Nick D'Aloisio, referring to an acronym for 'Too Long; Didn't Read.'

Digital magazines Yahoo Food and Yahoo Tech were launched with fanfare.

"We found our inspiration in magazines," Mayer said. "They are elegant, beautiful and have a distinctive voice."

Yahoo Food is devoted to things culinary, while the Tech magazine team headed by Pogue has a stated mission of demystifying the world of geeky gadgets, services and trends.

"Everyone at CES is a gear-head, but the rest of the country is struggling," Pogue said.

"The first language we are going to speak is called English; it's called human."

Pogue said Yahoo Tech would be a "jargon-free, cool-looking" source of news and information presented in terms people not immersed in the industry can appreciate.

And instead of banner or display ads, Yahoo digital magazines will follow the lead of their glossy predecessors and weave clearly labeled advertising into content, according to Mayer.

Pogue said he will be reviewing projects seeking backing at crowd-source funding websites Kickstarter and Indiegogo, giving as an example a stand that keeps a single razor blade sharp for five years.

"It is brilliant, but it also costs $600," Pogue said of the razor system.

Mayer mentioned the acquisition of yet another firm, Aviate, which specializes in automatically organizing applications on smartphone home screens based on clues such as location or time of day and on people's habits.

Mayer took over as Yahoo chief in July of 2012, and her plan to revive the company includes being at the center of people's Internet habits, especially on mobile devices.

"We reach for our mobile devices as soon as we wake up to check the morning headlines," Couric said, telling the audience she was eager to get to work interviewing "anyone with an important or interesting story to tell."

Digital magazines were touted as part of Yahoo's longterm strategy.

"A common theme for us is simplifying our business and how people consume information," Mayer said.

Forrester analyst David Cooperstein saw it as a savvy move to differentiate Yahoo from Google, Facebook or other online venues by providing the professional content people are looking for instead of user-generated material they might find interesting.

"It is a more mainstream play, basically," Cooperstein said.

"By bringing in familiar faces from John Legend to SNL it indicates to me she is talking about more traditional content online, which is the only angle her competitors haven't taken. And every good keynote should have some theatrics in it."

Despite many investments, Yahoo last year lost its Number 2 position in the US digital ad market to social networking titan Facebook, according to industry-tracker eMarketer.

Yahoo's share of global digital ad revenue slid about a half percent to 2.87 percent last year, while Facebook and Google say their shares rise, eMarketer reported.

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This map shows the cost of living index scores from site Expatistan, with red showing more expensive cities and green showing cheaper cities.

This year, London was the most expensive city, where monthly rent for a furnished one-bedroom apartment was the equivalent of $4,250. A monthly ticket for public transportation was $215, and a typical man's haircut cost roughly $28.

Oslo, Geneva, Zurich, and New York City rounded out the top five.

The bottom of the list included Caracas in Venezuela, as well as the cities of Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, and Madras in India. According to Expatistan data, London is around 1,000% more expensive than Caracas.

The team at Expatistan calculated the price index value for hundreds of global cities based on the current cost of items such as housing, clothes, transportation, medicine, and food.

Below is the full list of the top 20 cities based on Expatistan's Cost of Living index.

1. London, UK(280)

2. Oslo, Norway(267)

3. Geneva, Switzerland(259)

4. Zurich, Switzerland(256)

5. New York City, USA(237)

6. Lausanne, Switzerland(233)

7. Singapore, Singapore (228)

8. Paris, France (219)

9. San Francisco, USA(218)

10. Copenhagen, Denmark(217)

11. Sydney Australia(215)

12. Hong Kong, China(214)

13. Brisbane, Australia(208)

14. The Hague, Netherlands(204)

15. Stockholm, Sweden(204)

16. Honolulu, USA(199)

17. Amsterdam, Netherlands(199)

18. Melbourne, Australia(198)

19. Tokyo, Japan(198)

20. Washington D.C., USA(197)

To see an interactive map and the full list of cities, head over to Expatistan's website.

SEE ALSO: The 15 Countries With The Highest Quality Of Life

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Sometimes, it pays to travel below the earth's surface.

Virgin cave systems comprise some of the last unexplored regions on our planet. Late last year, for the first time ever, a group of cavers photographed a cave in China that's so vast it even has its own weather system.

But for those who deem caving — or spelunking — a little too adventurous, camera-wielding cavers have captured the beauty of the earth's interior.

Here are 12 of the most breathtaking caves in the world.

West of Koh Mook, Thailand, is the gorgeous Morakot Cave. Also known as the Emerald Cave, visitors must swim 230 feet in complete darkness to reach the cave's private beach, which is walled in on all sides.

Source: KohMook.info

The world-renowned Waitomo Glowworm Cave in New Zealand is home to the Arachnocampa luminosa, a worm that emits its own light. Visitors can take a boat ride through the caves and see the glowworms, which look like tiny stars in the darkness.

Source: Waitomo Caves

Some of the most interesting caves in the world are the Crystal Caves of Naica, in Mexico, which were discovered in 2000. The immense crystals are believed to have grown for about 500,000 years due to the chamber's unique conditions.

Source: National Geographic

This popular Midwestern expression about government-issued cheese says a lot about how Americans feel about the Obama administration.

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