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Geeia Habing
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Former teacher, now teacher[assistant].
Middle School.
Multilingual learners (ML).
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Why do they look like the cover of the Backstreet Boys Millennium album?
The Backstreet Boys cover for their album Millennium. The band is dressed all in white and standing together as a group.
October 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Sadly, I was interviewed for a front page story in the Greenville News during the bankruptcy phase. I was answering customer calls with an auctioneer calling for bids in the background.
Greenville News, Jan 13, 2004 Some make out from HomeGold bankruptcy Auctions of office items continue to bring in some compensation By Ed O'Donoghue Business Writer eodonogh@greenvillenews.com Columbia - It was work as usual Wednesday for customer service representative Geeia Habing, but it was no normal work day either for her or her dozen or so associates at the Co- lumbia headquarters of HomeGold Financial Inc. The 40,000-square-foot building just off Interstate 20 had been taken over by auctioneer C.D. Gallimore and crew and about 220 bar- gain hunters and a similar number of spectators. Both HomeGold and Pickens-based Carolina Investors Inc., its privately held subsidiary, filed for bankruptcy protection last spring, claiming they were unable to repay an estimated $275 million to more than 8,000 customers, most of whom live in the Upstate. Virtually all the desks, chairs, computers, copying machines and telephone units that hundreds of HomeGold mortgage sales agents and telemarketers formerly used were up for sale, as were lesser numbers of television sets, break-room tables and glass-framed prints that helped soften their work environment. With the sporadic cadence of "I've got 50, do I have 75... 75... 75" in the background, Habing continued to field phone calls and e-mail from HomeGold customers, explaining mort- gage terms and clearing up questions, the last customer service rep on the staff. In her 8-by-10-foot work cubicle marked off-limits to auction-goers, Habing said that even though the company recently sold off nearly all of the mortgages remaining on its books, it is responsible for providing customer See HOMEGOLD on page 2 HOMEGOLD FROM PAGE 1 service for them for 60 days. "And that's what I do," Habing said. On Jan. 5, the contents of Carolina Investors' headquarters in Pickens and branch office in Berea were sold at auction, netting about $30,000, according to Ralph McCullough, the bankruptcy trustee overseeing the liquidation of the two companies. McCullough said auctioneer Gallimore had estimated Wednesday's sale would net about $78,000. That would compare with the $65,000 a month he'll be able to cut from expenses by emptying and giving up the lease on the HomeGold building. For Wednesday's auction, most of the items for sale had been grouped by type: stack after stack of chairs, followed by row upon row of desks, followed by table upon table of desktop computers. Wallace Foster, who recently opened his own Realty World franchise, left the auction with a telephone system, fax machines, computers, work cubicles and wall art for his new Columbia offices. With a bid of $14 per unit, Charles Kildgore, a used office equipment dealer from Tennessee, bought a full lot of 78 stacking chairs that he planned "to ship back to Nashville and sell for $45 apiece." He pulled out of bidding for additional chairs when the price climbed to $17.50. Columbia equipment dealer Lee Fawler held his tongue for the auction's first three hours, then purchased 260 office swivel chairs at $20 each. Bankruptcy lawyer Michael Cox spent the day buying tables and chairs and at least eight large framed prints for his new office.
July 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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At the February 1939 German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Dorothy Thompson heckled the pro-Nazi speakers, and had to be escorted out of the arena for her own safety.
Published by United States Holocaust Museum. Photo credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
At the February 1939 German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Dorothy Thompson heckled the pro-Nazi speakers, and had to be escorted out of the arena for her own safety. Published by United States Holocaust Museum. Photo credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
July 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Have multiple ways to get weather alerts.
Courtesy: US National Weather Service Norman OK.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D4J...
5 not 6 ways to receive a weather warning. Not NOAA weather radio. Wireless Emergency Alerts and weather apps. Local TV and radio. Outdoor sirens. Internet sites. From your friends, family, and coworkers.
June 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Visitors bowing in a show of respect for North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on Mansudae (Mansu Hill) in Pyongyang, North Korea.
June 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever."
--On Elon's visit to Auschwitz from Julie Gray, Hachette Book Group author, and wife of Gidon Lev, Holocaust survivor. www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/... Posted Jan 23, 2025 to FB. See Alt Text.
Julie Gray on Facebook I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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January 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Wish I never had a purpose for this GIF.
Actor John Goodman saying monsters exist.
December 13, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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You should probably block "dennysdinner@bsky.social". First, it should be "dennysdiner@bsky.social". Second, they don't know what season it is. (Back to School and Summer themed posts two days ago?)
Pack your back-to-school essentials. Yellow backpack encircled by plates including a stack of pancakes, a side of hash browns, a side of bacon, a side of sausage links, and French Toast. A photo of a Grand Slam sandwich with a text overlay saying it's perfectly normal to love sandwiches this much.
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM