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Team Building News
15 April 2011

QUOTES

All you need is ignorance and confidence and success is sure.

--Mark Twain

I never think of the future. It comes fast enough.

--Albert Einstein

And in today already walks tomorrow.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

--Sai Baba

The ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

--Wiliam Shakespeare

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

--Helen Keller

ART

beach horse

2 horses

2 horses water

Artist

Artist Heather Jansch

Devon Coast UK

www.heatherjansch.com

WORD POWER

VOCABULARY

Graduate Record Exam

requite: repay, revenge

fulgent: beaming; radient

doggerel: poor verse

fell: cruel, deadly

magnanimous: generous

importune: beg earnestly

somnolent: half asleep

decant: pour over gently

interpolate: insert between

diffidence: shyness

horatory: encouraging

cerebration: thought

virago: shrew

gloaming: twilight

reprove: censure

vellum: parchment

anathema: solemn curse

ordinance: decree

adjure: request solemnly

Resources:

www.soundkeepers.com/GRE www.manythings.org.

See Past Issues of Venture Update.

Spring Fever

CSR Miami Beach 2 CSR Beach Buildings

CSR techies from around the world gather at the historic Eden Rock Hotel in Miami for Venture Up's "Game On" beach program.

General Electric executives from Mexico, Scotland and Italy gather in Houston for Venture Up's Strategic Games, and find a way to build the Da Vinci's bridge.

P2 Energy executives pursue the Amazing Race along San Antonio's River Walk, Texas.

Galveston Island: More than 700 Texas teachers meet on Galveston Island for a series of team building week-long workshops with Venture Up.

Yahoo Malibu

Yahoo meets Venture Up in Malibu.

Questions? Call us 888-305-1065 / info@VentureUp.com

BRAIN TRAIN

Jump start your next meeting !

1. What country led the world in percentage of TV homes with a VCR by 1994? Japan

2. What country would you be in if you visited the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu? Peru

3. What U.S. City had 3 of the world's 5 tallest man-made structures in 1994? Chicago

4. What U.S. state has a difference iof 20,320 feet between its highest and lowest points? Alaska

5. What Iowa nickname honored Chief Black Hawk's fight against European expansionism? The Hawkeye State

More than 250,000 people have participated in Venture Up programs since we began 1983...in North America, Asia, Europe, Russia, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. Venture Up aims to provide an uplifting experience to enrich your team players at work and in life.

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Editor: Teresa Shaw Lengyel