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" ... As sales rose, Harman and his staff struggled to manage a crushing workload for the six-week period when Balsam collects two thirds of its annual revenue. That requires a temporary army of 600 customer-service reps, up from Balsam's usual 20. He would prefer to stay busy year-round, but his attempts to diversify have failed: He has tried selling $139 pet beds, an assortment of lighting fixtures and $300 above-ground plastic swimming pools manufactured by the factories that produce Balsam's trees. He also bought a maker of low-priced Catholic items like plastic rosaries that sold for less than $1. Total losses: more than $1 million. Today non-Christmas merchandise still makes up less than 5% of Balsam's sales. ... "
" ... My mom worked at the sexual assault center, among other social justice and other social service agencies, when we were growing up. And she got very political and became a very outspoken activist and feminist. We went to "Take Back The Night" and Women's Day Marches. But I have this memory, right at the end of our senior year, my mom took us to a pro-choice rally, which was interesting because I barely knew people who were having sex, like straight people. But we all went, a bunch of us girls, there were like a dozen of us. And we went with my mom and we stood in solidarity with everybody. The other side, the pro-lifers, were screaming at us. I can remember getting really amped up. We're 17 years old, standing with my mom, and we're chanting, "Keep your rosaries off my ovaries," these tried and true anthems. I just remember feeling really that was the awakening of, "I am an oppressed, we are the oppressed gender and we're gonna have to face a lot." I was having a secret relationship with a girl, I knew I was on the cusp of coming out. I remember going there and feeling really invigorated and getting in the van and all being really excited we had done this. One of the first gigs we got after we won Garage Warz and got offered a record deal was an offer to go play "Take Back The Night," big march in Calgary. I can just remember thinking right away how cool that was. It's become such a huge part of our identity as a band, how political and outspoken we are. But that pro-choice rally really struck me as the beginning of, "We will not go home!" ... "