Venture Update March 2010

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Team Building News
15 December 2011 

QUOTES

Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Ms. Piggy


Gratitude is the memory of the heart.       
-- J.B.Massieu
 
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-- Walt Disney

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.   

-- Julius Caesar 

 

Nature is so full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

-- Henry David Thoreau


A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

-- Charles Baudelaire


Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing.  It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.   

-- Confucious

 

WORD POWER 

VOCABULARY

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procurement -- obtaining   

  

obfuscate -- confuse, muddle

  

exigous -- mall, minute

 

scuttle -- sink

   

disport -- amuse 

 

dearth -- scarcity

 

dissonance -- discord  

  

remnant -- remainder

  

chicanery -- trickery

  

martial -- warlike, of war   

knavery -- rascality

 

daunt -- intimidate

 

aphorism -- pith, maxim 

  

culpable -- deserving blame

  

rote -- repetition

 

aplomb -- poise

   

apogee -- highest point 

 

apiculture -- beekeeping   

 

lampoon -- riducule 

 

gauntlet -- glove

  

quiescent -- at rest, dormant   

 

   

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(San Antonio, TX) -- Dave Ramsey EntreLeadership executives joined Venture Up to provide a charity Bike Building program for San Antonio's Boys & Girls Club. 

 

       

     Guidon Performance Solutions

Guidon Bike Group

  

(Mesa, AZ) -- Guidon Performance Solutions joined Venture Up in Mesa for a charity Bike Building program for the Save the Family Foundation.

 

 

Client Feedback 

  

Venture Up is very grateful for feedback.  We consider our clients as our greatest consultants.  Here's one letter excerpt we'd like to share:    

  

The Venture Up program was really beyond our expectations.  Everyone said it was one of their favorite parts of the week ... that they couldn't stop laughing they were having such a great time.  All I can say is thank you so much for coming in and providing a fun time for everyone to bond and work together.

  

Emily Warren, Guidon Performance Solutions   

 

 

Merry Christmas &
Happy Holidays to All
  
 May the New Year bring you
 
peace and prosperity
 
in all ways possible.
 

 

 

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SERVING OTHERS 
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(Washington, DC) -- Hundreds of companies partner with World Vision and send a clear message of corporate social responsibility to its customers, shareholders and employees.  Can you or your company make a difference for children and families in need worldwide?       

 

Here's how:

 

Matching Gifts & Workplace Giving --  Learn how payroll deductions, stock donations, and employer matches can create the socially responsible corporate environment you seek while helping others in need around the world.  

 

Product Donations -- Learn about the types of product donations we accept, how donating benefits your corporation, and how your donations impact the lives of children in the United States and abroad.

 

Corporate Caregiver Kits- Learn how to create a dynamic opportunity for your corporation to band together and improve morale by building Caregiver Kits to help support volunteer AIDS caregivers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

 

SchoolTools Backpacks-- Learn how your group can make a huge difference in the lives of children in your own community by assembling School-Tools Backpacks for students in need.

 

http://www.worldvision.org 

GEOGRAPHY

 

1. What major city is close to the middle of the Iberian Peninsula?  

 

2.  What country dared but failed to replace the chocolate Easter Bunny with the "Chocolate Bilby"? 

 

3.  What country's Hindi name is Hind?

 

4.  What American city has only 113 divorces for every 1,000 marriages?

 

5.  What two directions does one typically travel on interstate highways with odd numbers? 

 

ANSWERS: 1.) Madrid  2.) Australia  3.) India  4.) Las Vegas  5.) North and South 

 
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More than 250,000 people on 5 continents have participated in Venture Up programs since we began 1983.  Venture Update's aim is to show team building clients just like you new ways of interacting, having fun and serving others.


   

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to enrich your team players

at work and in life.

  
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