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Team Building News
15 February 2012
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The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass produced by unskilled labor.
-- Wernber von Braun
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-- Albert Einstein
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -- Frank Capra
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
-- Woody Allen
You can achieve a lot by just watching. -- Yogi Berra My father (President Franklin D. Roosevelt) gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere. Be brief. Be seated. -- James Roosevelt
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has time to get its pants on.
-- Winston Churchill
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert
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WORD POWER
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VOCABULARY
Graduate Record Exam
procurement -- obtaining
obfuscate -- confuse, muddle
exigous -- mall, minute
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
apogee -- highest point
apiculture -- beekeeping
lampoon -- riducule
gauntlet -- glove
quiescent -- at rest, dormant
inchoate -- undeveloped
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 www.msf.org
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Intel in Arizona
(Gold Canyon, AZ) -- Intel, a long-time Venture Up client, sent another executive team to experience the Ropes Course in the legendary Superstition Mountains.
Rexel in Dallas
(Dallas, TX) -- Rexel, a worldwide leader in the distribution of electric supplies, met Venture Up to build bikes for the Boys & Girls Club in Dallas.
Delta Upsilon in Flagstaff
(Flagstaff, AZ) -- Todd Gonzalez puts his trust in fellow honor students during a Venture Up team building program at Northern Arizona University. The event involved members of the Delta Upsilon Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the national honor society for accounting majors at American universities.
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Pharmacists Mutual Companies
Thank you again for a great event in Las Vegas. I heard many very positive comments about the team building exercises.
-- Shelly Brown
Assistant Vice President, Marketing
Pharmacists Mutual Companies
Phoenix Indian Center, Inc.
I would like to express my appreciation for your donation of bicycles to Phoenix Indian Center children ... By supporting our children, your generosity will definitely enable Phoenix Indian Center, Inc. to fulfill its stated mission of promoting the health, welfare and self sufficiency of the American Indian population in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
-- Patricia K. Hibbeler
Chief Executive Officer
Phoenix Indian Center, Inc.
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SERVING OTHERS
(Washington, DC) -- Hundreds of companies partner with World Vision and send a clear message of corporate social responsibility to their 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
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GEOGRAPHY
1. Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was demolished by an earthquake in 224 B.C.?
2. What Chinese river was named for the color of silt?
3. What were 30 tons of Lithuania's temporary currency converted into in 1994?
4. What desert do Botswana, Namibia and South Africa have in common?
5. What is the third largest continent, in square miles?
ANSWERS: 1.) The Collossus of Rhodes 2.) The Yellow River 3.) Toilet paper 4.) The Kalahari 5.) North America
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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.
Venture Up aims to provide uplifting experiences
to enrich your team players
at work and in life.
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