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Join the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles and Habitat for Humanity in "building a greater Los Angeles"!

On Saturday, March 20, DCLA volunteers will participate in Habitat Humanity's A Brush With Kindness program. To sign up to volunteer, email DCLA. Space is limited to 15-20 volunteers.

DCLA has committed to raising $2500 for this event. Please make a donation to support your DCLA construction team! Checks should be written out to 'Dartmouth Club of LA' and sent to:
DCLA, 8950 W. Olympic Blvd Suite 452, Beverly Hills CA 90211
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Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles and Habitat for Humanity in “building a greater Los Angeles”!

On March 20, the DCLA participated in Habitat for Humanity’s “Brush with Kindness” program. This is a new program where HFH volunteers work on existing properties instead of new construction. Our project was a single family house in Norwalk that is owned by the city of Norwalk and will be the […]

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Oscar Viewing Party - VENUE CHANGE

Oscar Viewing Party!
Get ready for the big awards show of the year: it’s our annual Oscars Viewing Party! We had so much fun dressing up and watching the show together last year, we’re looking forward to more of the fun this year.
We’ll also:

Play our winner prediction game for your chance to win prizes like Arclight […]

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Dartmouth Night at The Company of Angels - Friday, March 5th

THE PEACOCK MEN
By: Ronald McCants ‘06
Directed by: Ayana Cahrr
Five Black men explore contemporary American culture, images, labels, dreams deferred and their own subconsciousness in this wacky, lyrical, quirky, dark comedy about N*ggas in America. Of course there’s nudity. You’ll leaving laughing. Guaranteed.
TICKETS: http://companyofangels.org/events.html
March 5 is Dartmouth Night at The Company of Angels in the historic […]

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DEN-LA Trip to Mojave Air and Spaceport: Company Visits and Air Show

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DEN-LA is going to Mojave Air and Spaceport, famed for its innovation and pioneering spirit in the aerospace industry.

We will tour the facilities of two entrepreneurial companies at the cutting edge of the aerospace industry. These tours will be conducted by executives from XCOR (xcor.com) and Masten Space Systems (masten-space.com), for a close and intimate view of the industry and the challenges and rewards of??entrepreneurship.

After these visits we will enjoy the Plane Crazy Air Show, featuring many experimental and vintage aircraft.

When:??September 18^th??@ 10:30AM (Carpools will leave LA earlier)

Where:??Mojave Air and Spaceport (1434 Flightline Street, Mojave CA 93501)

RSVP:??armin.ellis@gmail.com??by September 12^th??(Places are limited!)

Cost:??$10 all counted towards the DEN-LA website

XCOR AEROSPACE INC

Background Information

XCOR is a leader in developing responsive, safer and significantly lower-cost systems to

access space. The company???s core competency is developing, building, testing and operating reusable rocket powered launch vehicles (RLVs), rocket propulsion systems and related components. XCOR???s innovations are highly disruptive to existing markets for manned suborbital space flight and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite launch. These markets are projected to be a $7.5 billion wedge of a $235 billion annual aerospace / space market.

XCOR???s fully reusable rocket engines and related components provide significant operational utility, safety, and cost advantages over today???s expendable systems. Unlike today, space launch operators and users will not have to throw away 99 percent of their vehicle after every launch when using XCOR???s RLVs or engines. XCOR has developed unique breakthrough rocket engines that operate like jet engines: fly, land, re-fuel, perform a check list, and take off again ??? multiple times a day, every day. The first space capable vehicle that will use this technology is the XCOR Lynx suborbital vehicle. This type of capability has the promise to:

Lower time to launch from two to three years to less than one day,
Lower the price per pound of space access from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of dollars, and
Offer hundredfold safety improvements, which is critical for business viability and cost reduction.

XCOR propulsion systems and related component developments solve customer problems and enhance customer value by orders of magnitude, as shown in these examples:

If a small satellite needs to be replaced, or a new satellite put in orbit today, the wait is up to three years and the cost can be as high as, or more than, $20 million. With the XCOR Lynx small-satellite launcher, the satellite could be in orbit in several days (or sooner) and for less than $500,000.
If environmental scientists or special monitoring agencies want samples of the upper atmosphere or measurements of high-altitude winds (needed for various types of forecasting), they have to wait three to four months and pay upwards of $1 million for a sounding rocket. With Lynx, the data could be gathered in less than a day for under $50,000 (perhaps as low as $5,000 on a ???piggyback mission???).
A military commander who today needs a near real-time view of a troubled area lacking satellite??coverage or is not UAV accessible, he has limited options without putting troops in harm???s way. A Lynx could gather data with near real-time updates for under $50,000 per flight from up to 750 miles away.
If a traditional launch-services provider wants a new upper-stage launch-vehicle propulsion system or new upper-stage engine, today nothing is available commercially off-the-shelf. As a result, they will have to wait two to three years and pay $60-100 million for development by a traditional engine supplier. XCOR is preparing to provide this service to aerospace prime contractors for between $5 and $25 million per system. XCOR???s rapid prototyping rocket engine design process previously demonstrated for ourselves and NASA, will have significantly shorter time and lower cost to delivery and then we will supply off-the-shelf production versions of the engines on a supply contract basis with turnaround measured in months, not years, and at less than half the projected price of current providers, while maintaining high net margin forecasts.

Tour Guide Bio:??

Randy Baker, Director of Finance, has 27 years of finance and general business experience and a wealth of experience with start-up organizations. As CFO of Looksmart (NASDAQ: LOOK), he oversaw the financial and business aspects from its inception in 1996 through its highly successful IPO. Mr Baker spent ten years with Big 5 accounting firm KPMG???s audit group. Mr. Baker holds a BA in Business Studies -Accounting and Marketing - from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

DCLA @ August 15, 2010

DAEMA Panel Discussion at the WGA

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Over a hundred Dartmouth Alums and friends gathered at the Writer’s Guild of America to listen to an exclusive panel of Hollywood’s dealmakers discuss what happens behind the scenes in film, tv, and new media. ??Panelists included Zola Mashariki (Sr VP Production, Fox Searchlight Pictures), Matt Keener (former ICM & APA agent & Managing Partner of Scenario), Tim O’Hair (Motion Picture Finance, Paradigm), Steve Hutensky (former Miramax Exec, Biz Affairs for Relativity Media), Larry Stephens (former Legal Affairs, Sony Pictures Music Group).

http://animoto.com/play/UyR2evjgu8vcg4KiQ4mibQ

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DAEMA packs the house.