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July - August 2012

QUOTES

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

-- Ogden Nash

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

-- Joseph Campbell

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

-- Alfred de Musset

What we play is life.

-- Louis Armstrong

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

-- Voltaire

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
-- John Allston

Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. --Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-- Auguste Rodin

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- Franklin P. Jones

Why do you stay in prison when the doors are so wide open?

-- Rumi

Did you know ?

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

Google is actually the common name of a number with a million zeros.

Your Tongue is the only muscle not attached at two ends.

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver messages to newspapers.

2 million smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related illness every year.

The letter J does not appear in the Periodic Table of Elements.

Gravity makes it impossible for the earth's mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

A solar eclipse cannot last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds because of the speed at which the earth moves around the sun.

The roar that we hear when we put a conch shell at our ear is not the ocean, but the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Drinking water

after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can only be propagated by the hand of man.

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless heated above 450 degrees.

Nine out of ten living things lives in the ocean.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

Airports at high altitude have longer landing strips due to lower air density.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

Doctors Without

B O R D E R S

www.msf.org

Team Building

Meetings & Events

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Exxon Mobil in Houston

(Houston, TX) --

A multicultural team of Houston-based

Exxon Mobil

executives

take on Venture Up's Technicolor Transport challenge.

John Deere in Indiana

(Moline, IN) -- John Deere union members in Moline met for 8 consecutive weeks for a series of team building programs with Venture Up.

Grimaldi's Pizza in Las Vegas

(Las Vegas, NV) -- Grimaldi Pizza, another repeat client, takes on the Team Survivor program with Venture Up in Las Vegas.

Questions? 1-888-305-1065

info@VentureUp.com

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

GEOGRAPHY

1. What continent was believed to be made up of two islands until explorer Finn Ronne's expedition proved otherwise?

2. What is the world's highest island mountain?

3. What railway linked Siberia to Irkutsk in 1900?

4. What Arab nation has the highest number of Christians?

5. What is a round, domed dwelling built by Central Asian nomads?

ANSWERS: 1.) Antartica 2.) Mauna Kea 3.) Trans-Siberian Railway 4.) Lebanon 5.) Yurt

More than 250,000 people on 5 continents have participated in Venture Up programs since we began 1983. Venture Up aims to show working people
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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