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AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA THE FUTURE FELONES OF AMERICA STUDENT BODY IS TAUGHT THAT AMERICA IS THE LAND OF SELFISH GREED AND THAT THE USA OWES THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR DOING SO MUCH DAMAGE TO IT.

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Charitable giving in the U.S. topped $390 billion in 2016, up nearly 3 percent from 2015, despite uncertainty around the election, according to a new report.

The Giving USA Annual Report, published by the Giving USA Foundation, said individuals, estates, foundations and corporations gave $390.05 billion to charities in 2016, up from $379.89 billion in 2015.

Giving by individuals was especially strong, at $282 billion, it was up 3.9 percent from the prior year. Charity experts say the growth was surprising given the public vitriol and volatility surrounding the presidential election and uncertainty about the economy and tax policy.

"Americans remained generous in 2016, despite it being a year punctuated by economic and political uncertainty," said Aggie Sweeney, the chair of Giving USA Foundation. "We saw growth in every major sector, indicating the resilience of philanthropy and diverse motivations of donors."

Giving by foundations rose 3.5 percent to $59.3 billion. Giving by bequests fell 9 percent to $30.4 billion, while giving by corporations increased 3.5 percent to $18.6 billion.

While the wealthy account for a large share of giving — the top 50 gifts totaled $5.6 billion last year — Giving USA said there were large numbers of smaller donations from less-wealthy donors.

"In 2016, we saw something of a democratization of philanthropy," said Patrick M. Rooney, associate dean for academic affairs and research at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, which writes the report. "The strong growth in individual giving may be less attributable to the largest of the large gifts, which were not as robust as we have seen in some prior years, suggesting that more of that growth in 2016 may have come from giving by donors among the general population compared to recent years."

Giving to all major categories increased. Religion remains the largest recipient of charitable dollars, increasing 3 percent last year to $123 billion. Education ranked second, taking in $59.8 billion, up 3.6 percent, while human services increased 4 percent to $46.8 billion and giving to health rose 5.7 percent to $33.1 billion. Giving to the arts and cultural organizations increased 6.4 percent to $18.2 billion, while giving to international affairs increased 4.6 percent to $22 billion. Giving to environmental and animal organizations increased 7 percent to $11 billion.

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The Best Surfing Waves in California : Lost Forever A Brief History of Killer Dana, Dana Point California

We all can recall and tell stories of  treasures discovered, then lost, never to be found again in a lifetime. In Southern California a legendary surf break that was compared by old school, Orange County local surfing legends and entrepreneurs Dale Velztly and Hobie Alter to Sunset Beach in Hawaii,  was also often called the Rincon Point ( Santa Barbara County) of Southern California. From all accounts is was one of the crown jewels of the California coastline that is now lost to development forever.

Killer Dana, at Dana Point, California was a mysto wave machine,  with just the right combination of geographic orientation to ocean bottom, rock reefs, and predominant swell direction to produce some of the most consistently, large and most treacherous waves in the world any season of the year. 

Before mentioned Hobie Alter, Dale Velzy,  with the addition of Malibu mystery man Micky Dora enjoyed this perfect twenty to thirty foot right point, thru the  fifties and early sixties with no crowds. (Click here and learn more about these luminaries the roots of surfing.) Killer Dana was simply too big, too dangerous, a paddle out for most surfers of the era. The population of Orange County was less than three-quarters of a million people thru the 1960's. As of 2000 due to unbridled greed of land developers actively soliciting immigration from Latin America and Asia  it had increased to nearly three million people.

Look around the Coastal Communities in California today from the Mexican Boarder to the Oregon Boarder, more immigrants are taking over. Paradise lost as Milton said.    

The long untouched sandy beach at Dana Point was in ancient history inhabited by a few hundred Acjachemen, now called Juañeno Indians. The near bye Village sites, surrounded by formerly rich in biodiversity,  major plant communities and hundreds of species of birds, invertebrates, mammals. As it goes the and amazingly rich wildlife filled pallisades and cliffs are gone forever, replaced by Dana Point Harbor.

The Spanish conquistadors arrived in the region in the 1770s, and built nearby Mission San Juan Capistrano near San Juan Creek.  In 1818, French via Argentinia,  pirate sailor Hippolyte de Bouchard anchored at Dana Cove while conducting his and crews rape, pillage and plunder of both the indigenous people and the Mission at  San Juan Capistrano. Pirates being what they are, never satisfied, Bouchard, proceeded up the coast to pilage and plunder Monterey and the Mission at Santa Cruz. For some lost reason in history he never made it to Santa Cruz.

The natural cove at Dana Point was always a popular port for ships involved with trade with the nearby Mission San Juan Capistrano. Trading reached its peak in the 1830s and 1840s and was made famous in Henry Dana's classic tale of life on the sea in Early California, " Two Years Before The Mast." (Highly recommend reading). Dana called the cove and natural harbor  " the most romantic spot on the entire coastline of California." Being raised in that region of California I'd have to agree. Like ziggysurfcatz, its a one-of-a-kind, that is until the modern day pirates and imitators show up.

Today Killer Dana is all rock and cement breakwater, yacht harbor, filled with multimillion dollar rapper yachts, the weekend warrior, wanna be, skippers and fishermen. As a consolation  you can now walk on the breakwater were the surfers use to ride the waves and experience the power of the Pacific's South Swells  swells pounding  the perimeter of the Harbor. When the big southern hemisphere ground swells hit, you can literally feel the tonage of rocks move with the forces of nature.