Good morning Doggie! Having a lovely day so far here. Hope all is well with you too!

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Hello, my friend! I am doing great here, thanks!

I will visit two customers tomorrow and we will be hiking again this weekend. Sunday aftyernoon we will finish very close to where Having Fun lives...

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How are you today?

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Just when U think you have heard it all...

Nurse gets called out of surgery to get pink slip
Manager who summoned health worker violated protocol, Wis. clinic says.

MADISON, Wis. - A nurse was called out of surgery so a manager could tell her she was being laid off. Dean Health said the surgery was minor and the patient wasn't affected, but the manager who summoned the nurse from surgery violated medical protocol. Dean Health spokesman Paul Pitas said the incident happened at Dean's West Clinic in Madison on Wednesday or Thursday.

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Doing great, Tasha! Nice weather overthere? Good!!

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I'm doing good, sounds like fun! HaHaHa Having Fun!!!!!

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LOL!

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Dum spiro spero!

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Or maybe getting coffee!!!!!!

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Events of 1917

January
January 1 – The University of Washington defeats The University of Pennsylvania 14-0 in The 3rd Annual Rose Bowl in college football.
January 2 – The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
January 11 – German saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ), one of the events leading to U.S. involvement in World War I.
January 13 – The Battle of Wadi occurs between Allied British and Ottoman Empire forces, during the WWI Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq.
January 19 – Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
January 22 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
January 25
The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7,000 people, 20,000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, an outspoken foe of prostitution, 300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration, explaining they had been forced into the practice by poverty. When Smith asks if they will take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laugh derisively, which loses them public sympathy. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter. [1]
January 26 – The sea defences at the English village of Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable.
January 28 – The United States ends its search for Pancho Villa.
January 30 – Pershing's troops in Mexico begin withdrawing back to the United States. They reach Columbus, Ohio February 5.
January 31 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.

February
February 3 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 5 – The constitution of Mexico is adopted.
February 13 – Mata Hari is arrested for spying.
February 23 – The first International Women's Day is observed in Russia.
February 24 – World War I: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
February 26 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records their first commercial record, with the tunes Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jazz Band One Step.
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States announces to Congress the breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany

March
March 1
The U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
Japanese city of Omuta, Fukuoka is founded by Hiroushi Miruku
March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
March 4
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson begins his second term.
Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.
March 8
(N.S.) (February 23, O.S.) – The Russian February Revolution begins with the overthrow of the Tsar.
Women calling for bread in Petrograd start riots, which spontaneously spread throughout the city.
The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.
March 10 – The Province of Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines' first encomiendas.
March 11 – Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza is elected president of Mexico; the United States gives de jurerecognition of his government.
March 12 – The Duma declares a provisional government.
March 15 (N.S.) (March 2, O.S.) – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates his throne for his son.
March 17 (N.S.) (March 4, O.S.) – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly-formed Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov.
March 25 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores the autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
March 26 – World War I – First Battle of Gaza: British cavalry troops retreat after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
March 30 – The independence of Poland is recognized.
March 31 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $25 million to Denmark.

April
April 2 – World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
April 6 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.
April 9-April 12 – World War I: Canadian troops win the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
April 10 – An ammunition factory explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania kills 133.
April 11 – World War I: Brazil severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
April 16
Vladimir Lenin arrives in Petrograd.
The Nivelle Offensive commences.
April 19 – The Second Battle of Gaza, a fiasco for the British, causes the dismissal of the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Force, General Archibald Murray.

May
May 9 – The Nivelle Offensive is abandoned.
May 13
Three peasant children claim to see the Virgin Mary above a Holm Oak tree in Cova da Iria near Fátima, Portugal.
The nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV[2]
May 18 – World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress, giving the President the power of conscription.
May 21 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
May 23 – A month of civil violence in Milan, Italy ends after the Italian army forcefully takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war revolutionaries. Fifty people are killed and 800 people are arrested.[3]
May 26 – A tornado strikes Mattoon, Illinois, causing devastation and killing 101 people.
May 27 – Over 30,000 French troops refuse to go to the trenches in Missy-aux-Bois.

June
June 1 – A French infantry regiment seizes Missy-aux-Bois and declares an anti-war military government. Other French army troops soon apprehend them.
June 4 – The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
June 5 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States.
June 13 – World War I: The first major German bombing raid on London leaves 162 dead and 432 injured.
June 15 – The United States enacts the Espionage Act.

July
July 1 – A labor dispute ignites a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which leaves 250 dead.
July 1 – Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.
July 6 – Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
July 6 – A conscription crisis in Canada leads to passage of the Military Service Act.
July 12 – The Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1,000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona.
July 16-17 – Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austrian front, and retreat to the Ukraine; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
July 16-18 – Serious clashes in St. Petersburg in July Days; Lenin escapes to Finland; Trotsky is arrested.
July 17 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a proclamation, stating that thenceforth the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor, vice the Germanic bloodline of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which is an offshoot of the historic (800+ years) House of Wettin.
July 20 – Finland declares complete independence.
July 20 – The Corfu Declaration, which enabled the establishment of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the Kingdom of Serbia.
July 20 (July 7, O.S.) – Alexander Kerensky becomes premier of the Russian Provisional Government, replacing Prince Georgy Lvov.
July 20-28 – Austrian and German forces repulse the Russian advance into Galicia.
July 25 – Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
July 28 – The Silent Protest is organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.
July 31 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres or the Battle of Passchendaele: Allied offensive operations commence in Flanders.

August
August – The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the World War I draft, takes place in central Oklahoma.
August 2 – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning lands his aircraft on the ship HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney. He is killed 5 days later during another landing on the ship.
August 3 – The New York Guard is founded.
August 10 – A general strike begins in Spain; it is smashed after 3 days with 70 left dead, hundreds of wounded and 2,000 arrests.
August 17 – One of English literature's important meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
August 18 – The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 in Greece destroys 32% of the city, leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
August 29 – World War I: The Military Service Act is passed in the Canadian House of Commons, giving the Government of Canada the right to conscript men into the army.

October
October 12 – World War I: The biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand. 0ver 800 men and 45 officers were killed at the first Battle of Passchendaele, roughly 1 in 1000 of the nations population at the time.
October 15 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
October 19 – Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
October 25 (O.S.) – (traditional beginning date of the Bolshevik Revolution.
October 26 – World War I: Brazil declares war against the Central Powers.

November
November 2 – Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
November 6 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
Militants from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government.
November 7
October Revolution: The workers of Petrograd in Russia, led by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, attack the Kerensky Provisional Government ( Julian Calendar shows an October 25 date).
The Safavid Empire of Persia (which provided weapons for Russia) refuses to support the Allied Forces after the October Revolution.
World War I – Third Battle of Gaza: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
November 15 – In the United States, a "Night of Terror" results in the death of several influential suffragettes.
November 15 – Finland takes a step towards full sovereignty, ending the personal union with Russia.
British troops occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Palestine.
Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France.
November 17 – The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom.
November 18 – Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 20
World War I – Battle of Cambrai: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.
The Ukraine is declared a republic.
November 22 – In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association breaks up.
November 23 – The Bolsheviks release the full text of the previously secret Sykes-Picot Agreement in Izvestia and Pravda; it is subsequently printed in the Manchester Guardian on November 26.
November 24 – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most fatal single event in U.S. police history until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
November 26 – The National Hockey League is formed as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association.
November 28 – The Bolsheviks offer peace terms to the Germans.
November 29 – Don Cossacks declare the Don Republic, which lasts two weeks.

December
December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).
December 6
Finland declares independency.
Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1,963 people, injures 9,000 and destroys part of the city (until Hiroshima, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history).
December 11 – British troops take Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.
December 25 – Why Marry?, the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
December 26 – United States president Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.

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hehe...black please, NO sugar!

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SpAm is the point but coffee is better!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well, I am off for a walk ....it is so pretty out! Talk to you all later. Have a good morning ! (afternoon, Amok )

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