Jillian is such a spark plug for us. She brings a lot of energy and confidence to the team.

She competed hard the entire game and pitched really competitively for us. You could really see at the end of the game the competitiveness was really high.

That's 'V,' fighting for everything, bringing us more confidence. Everyone feeds off her emotional energy.

[Rather than waiting for inspiration, the artist started to find inspiration just by continually working her canvases. As her confidence grew, the panic she'd experienced when something wasn't perfect, abated.] It's like being cold in winter and you can't imagine that you'll ever be hot, or hot in summer, when you don't believe you'll ever be cold, ... Now I say, 'It's OK. You know this feeling.'

In contrast to recent consumer confidence surveys, Canadians seem to show some strong resilience toward investing, even amid rising energy prices and energy-related impacts on equity markets in the past month.

These are low consumer confidence numbers, more than likely affected by the hurricanes and high prices of energy.