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Windows Essentials, including Windows Movie Maker, are no longer available from Microsoft. But someone posted the links to the archived version in the Microsoft community. A Microsoft agent left a comment thanking them for the info. I have a project that I made with Movie Maker and I want to be able to maintain it, so I was very happy to find this.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/moviemaker-wlinstall/want-to-download-a-safe-version-of-movie-maker/9531c5d8-0bff-48cc-afa5-9ba19927c6b2


Starbucks Says Anyone Can Now Sit In Its Cafes — Even Without Buying Anything
[Which means more work for the low-wage employees in the same amount of time.]
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-changes-policy-restrooms_us_5b014261e4b0463cdba30dca


Tax cut sparks record-setting $178 billion buyback boom
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/20/investing/stocks-week-ahead-buybacks-tax-cuts/index.html


A D.C.-area doctor was sentenced to three years in prison for slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant ex-girlfriend’s drink, causing her to miscarry
The Washington Post was unable to reach Fiske Saturday, but WJLA reported that she didn’t want her ex-boyfriend to serve a long prison sentence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/05/19/a-doctor-laced-his-ex-girlfriends-tea-with-abortion-pills-and-got-three-years-in-prison/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cfad9dba08f0


Some countries have as high or higher rate of gun ownership than the U.S., but far lower rate of violence.

Iceland is awash in guns, yet it has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22288564


https://www.deseretnews.com/top/2519/1/Iceland-Tied-for-15-15-nations-with-the-highest-gun-ownership.html

Country - Firearms per 100 people - Firearm homicides per 100,000 - Percent of homicides by guns
Iceland - 30.3 - 0 - 0
Germany - 30.3 - 0.19 - 26.3
Austria - 30.4 - 0.22 - 29.5
Canada - 30.8 - 0.51 - 32
France - 31.2 - 0.25 - 9.6
Norway - 31.3 - 2 - 8.1
Sweden - 31.6 - 0.41 - 33.9
Finland - 45.3 - 0.45 - 19.8
Switzerland - 45.7 - 0.77 - 72.2
United States - 88.8 - 3.21 - 67.5


Parents in the U.S. are more willing to increase the chances that their children will commit suicide or violence, or be a victim of violence, than give up the gratification of being able to take out their anger and frustrations on their children.


There is also robust evidence of an increased incidence of aggression among children who are regularly spanked. A 2002 meta-analysis of 27 studies across time periods, countries, and ages found a persistent association: children who are spanked regularly are more likely to be aggressive, both as a child and as an adult.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/hitting-kids-american-parenting-and-physical-punishment/