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First Snow, Then Sand, and Now, Salt Boarding!

Snowboards have been used ride down a snowy mountain, and tweaked to speed down a big sand dune, but now they’re being used to glide across salt (with the help of an ATV). I’m talking skimming the surface of the salt flats of Utah, as seen in this new video by Devin Graham — aka devinsupertramp — who is no stranger to filming offbeat adventure activities; he brought us other videos we’ve liked here at Discovery.com, from the exploits of the talented mountain biker Jeremy VanSchoonhoven, to extreme tricycle racing, to the ultimate Slip ‘n Slide — a video which also served as an ad for Vooray.

In his latest installment of promotional video, he’s partnered up with his buddies who own Blank Snowboards, gear which seems to stand the abuse of not only rail slides, but saltboarding at speeds up to 50 mph:

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New York Times- Who Counts as 'Rich'?

By CATHERINE RAMPELL | New York Times – Fri, Dec 9, 2011 5:35 PM EST


We've written plenty of times about how little Americans know about the distribution of income in the United States, and how many rich people don't realize they're rich, at least relative to the rest of the country.

Now Gallup has surveyed Americans to ask what they believe the cutoff for being "rich" should be. The median response was that a person would need to make at least $150,000 to be considered rich. Here's a breakdown of the responses:



According to the Tax Policy Center's calculations on income distribution, a household earning cash income of $150,000 would fall somewhere between the 89th and 90th percentiles. In other words, the typical American believes anyone in about the top tenth of the income distribution counts as "rich."

President Obama and others, on the other hand, have set the cutoff around $250,000 when discussing "raising taxes on the rich." Households earning cash income of $250,000 are somewhere between the 96th and 97th percentiles.

As you might expect, answers to Gallup's survey question on the threshold for being "rich" varied tremendously by demographics and geography. For example, men cited a higher bar than women did -- $150,000 versus $100,000, respectively:



Note that respondents with children under 18 said they would require $200,000 before considering themselves rich, whereas the childless were satisfied with a $100,000 benchmark. (That reminds me of this xkcd cartoon.)

As you might expect, those who live in urban areas -- like New York City, where the cost of living is very high -- or in suburbs had higher standards for being "rich" than did Americans who live in towns or rural settings.

Readers, I'm curious: What's your definition for who counts as "rich"?

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