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Team Building News
15 January 2012
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QUOTES
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The best ideas come from your head.
-- Mougins Abiquiu
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
-- Jackie Billings
The people who make the most difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money or the most awards. The are the ones who care. -- Unknown
Success is the side effect of your personal devotion to a course greater than yourself.
-- Victor Frankl
Everyone, with no exceptions, is searching for happiness. -- Blaise PascalWithout pleasure, man would live like a fool and then die. -- Pierre de Beaumarchais
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WORD POWER
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VOCABULARY
Graduate Record Exam
bourgeois -- middle class
fusion -- union, coalition
plaintive -- mournful
interment -- burial
hubbub -- confused uproar
provender -- dry food
protract -- prolong
abominate -- hate
imprecation -- curse, swear
rivulet -- small stream
balk -- foil
extirpate -- root up
nubile -- marriageable
mall -- public walk
bumptious -- assertive
Doctors Without
B O R D E R S
 www.msf.org
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DID YOU KNOW ?
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1. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but declined.
2. It takes glass 1 million years to decompose, which means it can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
3. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.
4. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
5. Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if its buried for thousands of years.
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Team Building
Meetings & Events
 
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Agios in Boston
(Boston, MA) -- Agios, a pharmaceutical company dedicated to cancer research, sent executives on an Amazing Race in Boston.
Avanade in San Antonio
(San Antonio, TX) -- Avanade, a subsidiary of Accenture, is a multinational information technology consulting and software company that develops business software from Microsoft products. The Avanade team of 75 donated 26 bikes to the Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio .... Also in San Antonio this month, Boys & Girls Club kids rode bikes in the Martin Luther King Day parade that were built by Dave Ramsey EntreLeadership executives in December.
InfuSystem in Scottsdale
(Scottsdale, AZ) -- InfuSystem, the leading provider of infusion services to oncologists and other outpatient treatment settings, sent 45 executives to the Camelback Inn Resort for team building with Venture Up, including the building of 12 bikes for Phoenix Youth at Risk.
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Avanade
What a fantastic time we had at your event. Your message was totally on-point. The activities were super fun and the fact that we got to give something back to the community was the icing on top ... I would recommend you to whoever asked.
Melanie Prieto Warren
Human Resources Operations and Programs Consultant
Avanade, Inc.
Phoenix Youth at Risk
Thank you again for arranging for Phoenix Youth at Risk to receive bikes for our PALS Homeless Childrens program. We are all very grateful to partner with you and the amazing companies you work with.
Katia B. Howard
Director of Fund Development
Phoenix Youth at Risk
888-305-1065 info@VentureUp.com
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DESTINATIONS
Tahiti
The Meridien Tahiti Resort sits on the south of the main island, across from Moorea. The resort offers a sand-bottom pool, over-water bungalos, a well-equipped sports center, and a few doors down from the beach front Museum of Tahiti.
 Moorea, 7 miles from the main island, is likely the most scenic world class scuba destinations. Biking is also a popular way to experience Moorea. A 37-mile paved road allows bikers of all levels to experience a land of friendly, relaxed people who will do anything to help. 
Fruit stands generally do not sell water, but this Tahitian native went into her personal stash to fetch a 2-liter bottle of icy water for two tired bikers -- the highlight of this exploratory trip for Venture Up.
Hotel Kaveka, a family-owned hotel, is away from the crowds, and offers waterfront bungalos, a fishing wharf and a chance to unwind in the shadow of Moorea's famous peaks.
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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 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
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GEOGRAPHY
1. What is the only nation that has a Bill of Rights for cows?
2. Tourists from what country spend the most money per capita?
3. What Turkish city has spread to both sides of the Bosporus Strait?
4. What major nation is second only to Russia with the number of imprisoned citizens per capita?
5. What are the three largest cities in South America?
ANSWERS: 1.) India 2.) Japan 3.) Istanbul 4.) United States 5.) Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro
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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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