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To: SafetyAgentMan who wrote (9300)	4/21/2001 4:34:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10852

<Woods, who himself has graced the cover of Wheaties boxes numerous times since he became the brand's primary spokesperson in 1998, is spearheading the search. "I know what an honor it is to appear on the original orange Wheaties box - The Breakfast of Champions - and now with Wheaties Energy Crunch, everyday champions from across the country will get a chance to join me on breakfast tables everywhere," said Woods. Individuals can nominate themselves or others by submitting an essay of up to 300 words explaining how they or the person they are nominating is an everyday champion. Entries will be judged on 1) how this individual demonstrates a balanced life while achieving compelling athletic accomplishments and outstanding volunteer community service, and 2) originality of the essay. > My Everyday Wheaties Champion - Mr Bernard Schwartz Bernie Schwartz told "7 Minute Investors" in Globalstar to "Buy Wheaties". That was a rude put-down of impatient investors. But now I see that Wheaties supports the most spendid example of young humanity lighting up lives today. Inadvertently, Bernard was pointing people to one of the world's great champions; he intuitively knew where to send people. He didn't say, "Buy Amazon, Yahoo! Lucent or Hagfish". He said "Buy Wheaties". Watching Tiger Woods win at Augusta, seeing his emotional commitment, seeing the love shared with and the support given by his American father and Thai mother, seeing the hordes of people admiring such a heroic and talented effort and knowing that the world was watching made my eyes water and nose itch. So too with my golfing friend when I looked across at him. At the opposite end of his life is Bernard Schwartz. Enmeshed now in failure on as grand a scale as Eldrick ww1.sportsline.com is enmeshed in success, Bernard is still a champion. Failure will far more test the courage and will of a champion than will success. Bernard has led in the development of one of the most glorious technological, political and economic achievements of humanity. He has led in creating a worldwide satellite-driven communication technology; anyone anywhere will be able to talk to or see anyone, or anything, anywhere. Bernard had the energy, imagination and excitement to spend the last decade of his life, before the inevitable decline into the human octogenarian years of reminiscence, bringing to people the possibility of extending their hearing and sight around the world and into space - Globalstar phones have already been used in space. The system is up. The system works. It is being used now by nearly 50,000 people. That is the work of champions. It will continue in service for a decade. It will be expanded to service 100s of millions. But the system has financially failed because our champion was hobbled by Vodafone and the other greedy service providers who suffocated Globalstar at birth with excessive charges which stopped people buying it. In his frustration, rather than tell people the truth of slow sales, he let wishful thinking take over and made unfounded promises of how many phones would sell by the end of Y2K. He was cornered. He was trapped by the monopolist service providers who cared little about selling a lot of service quickly. They are NOT champions. Rather than tell investors to buy Wheaties, he should have faced failure and admitted that sales were slow, he was unable to get the service providers to co-operate and that we were in trouble. Perhaps the resultant clamouring from shareholders would have woken the service providers. Continued wishful thinking left the business to sleepwalk to doom. I bet even Eldrick has a glitch or two before he is 80 years old. But his achievements will last forever and brighten the rich pastiche of life. So will Bernard's. Go Globalstar Go. globalstar.com Wheaties, breakfast of champions. wheaties.com I nominate Bernard Schwartz and Globalstar. Mqurice [nobody really thought I could keep to 300 words did they?] PS: I have to include Irwin Jacobs and QUALCOMM too - they are the foundation of Globalstar and will probably be the people who successfully deliver the service to the planet. I also have to point to the champions who reached out to each other across the world - Eldrick's mother and father. Come to think of it, here's another couple of champions: Message 13794091