Two weeks ago, we won first place in Planet Earth Outerwear half-pipe competition and second place in the rail jam competition. And we won first place for overall shop.

This is an earth shattering reversal in competition policy from an agency that broke up [the AT&T] monopoly 21 years ago.

This is an earth-shattering reversal of competition policy from the agency that 21 years ago broke up the Bell monopoly and today is coddling the dominant Bell companies who seek to re-monopolize each of their regions,

Blair is probably the most enthusiastic kid we have on the team. He truly loves to snowboard. The other people feed off it. He's a real inspiration, not because he's just a great snowboarder for being 12 years old but because he's so stoked about snowboarding it rubs off on the rest of us.

Our team is very hard to get on. We have a really good team. We turn people down all the time.

I'm really excited by this generation. They're so young and so talented, they're meeting the criteria of this competition [using Maori or Pacific language] and they're doing it with impressive musicianship. It's good to see them getting the encouragement that this competition provides.