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Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault  from Histoires ou contes du temps passé.  Passé e passe! Happy New Year! (Better late than never.) Puss in Boots and Kitty Softpaws send their New Year Greetings to all their faithful admirers. Puss Boots, the world's greatest fighter, lover, and milk connoisseur celebrates the New Year with a glass of wholesome natural Valdai milk. Puss in Boots: Dance Scene _______________________________________________ Gunmen attack Indian air base in Pathankot, 6 dead Pathankot: Gunmen attack India air force base near Pakistan border - BBC News 4 gunmen, 2 troops dead in Indian air base attack Two Gunmen Killed in Attack on Indian Air Force Base At Least 6 Dead After Gunmen Attack Indian Air Force Base 4 Gunmen, 2 Troops Dead in Attack on Indian Air Base - ABC News Gunman attacks Indian air force base - Telegraph Gunmen attack Indian air base near Pakistan border, six dead | Reuters Все четверо участников нападения на базу

All-cause mortality, ages 45–54 for US White non-Hispanics (USW) , US Hispanics (USH), and six comparison countries: France (FRA), Germany (GER), the United Kingdom (UK), Canada (CAN), Australia (AUS), and Sweden (SWE). Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century   _____________________________________________ America’s self-destructive whites - The Washington Post :   ...one group — middle-age whites in the United States — constitutes an alarming trend.  They are dying  in increasing numbers ... The main causes of death are as striking as the fact itself: suicide, alcoholism, and overdoses of prescription and illegal drugs. “People seem to be killing themselves, slowly or quickly,” Deaton told me. The circumstances  are usually caused by stress, depression and despair. The only comparable spike in deaths in an industrialized country took place among Russian males after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when rate