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Happy Hour might be too much to ask right now.

Welcome to Happier Hour.

The guests began arriving Friday afternoon. Face after smiling face, popping up on Teresa Thomas computer screen with glasses raised. Friends crossing the social distance to make the best of a bad, bad week.

Im calling it Happier Hour because were not really going to be happy, Thomas said, speaking the week the governor first asked Minnesotans to stay home in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly virus. But what if we could all leave just a little happier at the end?

Staying home saves lives.

Staying happy and healthy while staying at home is the challenge now for 5 million-plus Minnesotans.

I feel driven to help people find little moments of joy, said Thomas, who built an entire social-networking business 50 Fun Things on the idea of bringing people together to have fun.

When the whole world started crashing down, I thought, Well, now what?

Like a lot of businesses sidelined by the shutdown museums, yoga studios, musicians shes doing what she can, free of charge, to help her neighbors make the best of the worst of times.

Little moments of joy are everywhere. Even now. Especially now.

Look down, the sidewalks are scrawled with encouraging chalk messages from strangers: Be kind to each other. Appreciate the little things. Breathe.

People stood outside hospitals, holding signs up to the windows to thank health care workers.

People are calling old friends, trying new hobbies, testing new recipes, taking virtual tours of shuttered museums and watching the penguins at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago waddle around the exhibit halls.

People are posting goofy videos just to make strangers laugh. Google the Horse with No Name quarantine video. Youre welcome.

While Thomas tries to figure out a pandemic business model, 50 Fun Things is hosting free Friday Happier Hours and other chances to interact with someone who isnt your spouse, your kid, your pet or your houseplant.

Fifty Fun Things started with a to-do list Thomas drew up to cheer herself out of a funk after her 50th birthday. A list of 50 things she could do to enjoy the new year. Travel, visit with friends, give karaoke a try.

The idea caught on and she figured out a way to turn fun into a business.

With her Twin Cities business in limbo, she hosted her first stay-at-home Facebook Live event last week, throwing the challenge out to her followers: Find 50 fun things to do while youre cooped up inside.

People logged in from across the city and across the country. Suggestions poured in: Go for a walk. Read that stack of books. Build a pillow fort. Practice tai chi. Fall in love with your loved ones all over again.

One participant, a New Yorker, played his violin for strangers in Central Park.

Its just a way of keeping each other hopeful and connected, she said. It helps me avoid anxiety, it helps me avoid depression.

Right now, Im sitting in a 600-square-foot apartment with wonky Wi-Fi and a dog who cannot understand why Im never not around.

So the dog and I go for walks. Im making a felt ornament of that duck that plays drums with its feet. On Saturday, I logged onto Skype with friends from five different cities in three different time zones. We enjoyed a remote wine-and-paint night and tried with varying degrees of success to paint portraits of our pets. The asymmetrical black/brown blob I produced now hangs on my wall because mid-pandemic is a good time to freshen up your apartments look.

I get a lot of texts from my nieces.

They made a movie in the first week of lockdown, directed by Chloe, starring Anneliese and her stuffed giraffe, Mr. Giraffypants, as detectives in search of an answer to the toilet paper shortage. (It was the dog.)

Theyre sad, they tell me sometimes. They miss school. They miss their friends. Anneliese just heard that Prince Charles tested positive for COVID-19.

Im sad too, I told them. Youre allowed to feel sad, stressed, scared, anxious or mad that the only peanut butter left in the stores this week is extra-chunky. Youre allowed a pang of envy that Prince Charles can get a coronavirus test.

Then I sent them the Horse With No Name video.

They sent me back a picture of their toilet: two rolls of toilet paper sitting on the lid like eyeballs, an empty roll dangling dejectedly off the seat like a cigarette.

The toilet, Chloe said, is smoking.

We laughed together and I felt better.

If you want to join a Happier Hour, visit http://www.facebook.com/50funthings.

If you have your own tips for making the best of this bad week, please share them in the comment section.

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Capital Bank & Trust Co increased its holdings in shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) by 2,420.0% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,260 shares of the social networking companys stock after purchasing an additional 1,210 shares during the period. Capital Bank & Trust Cos holdings in Twitter were worth $40,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the stock. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its position in Twitter by 25.1% during the 4th quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 8,617,035 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $276,176,000 after purchasing an additional 1,727,024 shares during the period. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. lifted its holdings in Twitter by 110.0% in the 4th quarter. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. now owns 5,037,045 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $161,437,000 after buying an additional 2,638,029 shares in the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. lifted its holdings in Twitter by 4.1% in the 4th quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. now owns 4,911,129 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $157,402,000 after buying an additional 195,594 shares in the last quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC lifted its holdings in Twitter by 97.0% in the 4th quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 2,947,892 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $94,480,000 after buying an additional 1,451,656 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Raymond James & Associates lifted its holdings in Twitter by 4.1% in the 4th quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 2,758,312 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $88,404,000 after buying an additional 107,552 shares in the last quarter. 71.82% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

In other Twitter news, insider Michael Montano sold 1,750 shares of the companys stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $38.80, for a total value of $67,900.00. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Fox Martha Lane sold 3,125 shares of the companys stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $32.05, for a total transaction of $100,156.25. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 262,434 shares of company stock valued at $9,406,337. 2.65% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 6th. The social networking company reported $0.15 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts consensus estimates of $0.19 by ($0.04). Twitter had a net margin of 42.37% and a return on equity of 4.87%. The business had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $994.89 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.31 EPS. Twitters quarterly revenue was up 10.8% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts forecast that Twitter Inc will post 0.43 EPS for the current fiscal year.

TWTR has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Deutsche Bank boosted their price objective on shares of Twitter from $30.00 to $35.00 and gave the stock a hold rating in a report on Tuesday, February 4th. Stifel Nicolaus reiterated a hold rating and issued a $35.00 price objective on shares of Twitter in a report on Monday, March 9th. Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on shares of Twitter from $38.00 to $44.00 and gave the stock an outperform rating in a report on Friday, February 7th. Canaccord Genuity boosted their price objective on shares of Twitter from $35.00 to $40.00 and gave the stock a hold rating in a report on Friday, February 7th. Finally, Guggenheim lowered shares of Twitter from a buy rating to a neutral rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $34.00 to $36.00 in a report on Friday, February 7th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-five have issued a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. The stock presently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus target price of $36.21.

About Twitter

Twitter, Inc operates as a platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. The company offers various products and services, including Twitter, a platform that allows users to consume, create, distribute, and discover content; and Periscope, a mobile application that enables user to broadcast and watch video live with others.

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Bitcoin whales often sway the market, and it appears that the crypto giants are in for another round of play in the latest developments. Lately, there have been some large Bitcoin transactions carried out between anonymous wallets and leading crypto exchanges such as Binance, OKEx, and some others; the market could be accumulating Bitcoin.

In the last 24-hour, Whale Alert detected about a dozen transactions bearing almost 16,000 BTC worth $99,702,423. These transactions were carried out with the leading crypto exchanges such as Binance, Bitfinex, Poloniex, Coinbase, and OKEx.

The largest transaction was recorded was of 5000 BTC, while the various other transactions have been recorded by the Whale Alert service.

On 12th March, Bitcoin price plummeted, losing up to 50 % of its value, and after that recovered a bit, however, there were no Bitcoin whales in the play. The crypto traders started tweeting about the accumulation period that while Bitcoin would be trading in a range is going to be better for the BTC price, rather than an immediate surge.

The transactions mentioned above could be indicating that now the investors are actively accumulating Bitcoin, though some might be selling their stashes also.

At press time, Bitcoin is trading at $6,200 range, after dropping from $6,700 area. Various popular traders on the social networking site Twitter are tweeting in a sarcastic tone about the present Bitcoin price, stating that it might hold here for an unknown period.

However, the current set of Bitcoin whales movement recorded by the Whale Alert could be a sign of change. It is expected that the Bitcoin whales would try to sway the market upwards for a short term gain, so serious Bitcoin price thrashing can be expected.

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The Federal court of Rio de Janeiro ruled in a preliminary injunction, which the federal government does not provide the means of communication, the advertising campaign slogan Brazil cant stop, which stands for the suspension of social isolation as part of a strategy to combat the covid-a 19-a disease that is caused by the new coronaviruses. This was asked just yesterday by MPF (Federal Public Ministry) may be granted by a federal judge in Lauras Many Oak-tree, on the duty of the judiciary.

The decision to bar the advertising of the government, which does not have the technical expertise to the Ministry of Health, and science. It was also argued that a campaign that threatens the constitutional right of the population to health care, and that its adoption could lead to a collapse of the health system. In the case of non-compliance on the part of the federal government, the court determines a fine of$ 100 up to a thousand.

According to her, the order for the community to abstain from conveying, by the radio, television, newspapers, magazines, web sites, or any other media, in physical or digital publicity materials relating to the campaign in Brazil you cant stop it, I suggest that in the population of behaviors that are not strictly based on the technical guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health, on the basis of publicly available documents, the entities, net recognised in the field of epidemiology and public health.

The president Jair Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) has been pushing the governors and mayors of large cities, to stop the measures of social isolation, and returning to the activities that generate agglomeration such as the proper functioning of the public transport, in the classroom, in schools, colleges, and universities, and the re-opening of the shops.

On the grounds that the economic impact of the blockage would be more severe than a pandemic, of a coronavirus, jair bolsonaro, has asked the population to go back to work, keeping you isolated only to the elderly and other members of the at-risk groups in the vault a strategy known as the isolation in the vertical position.

According to the judges campaign, the federal government is putting at risk the right to health care, particularly the most vulnerable such as the elderly, and the share of the poorest in the population.

It turns out that the incentive for people to exit the streets, and catch up on your routine, without the need for a plan to combat the pandemic, defined, and widely available, may be incompatible with the principles of precaution and prevention, it can also result in a deficient protection of the constitutional right to health care, both in its focus on individual, as a group. And that protection is disabled it would impact disproportionately on the most vulnerable groups, particularly the elderly and the poor, he says.

The magistrada highlights the fact that the campaign argues is the purpose of social isolation, which was adopted by a large part of the district governors and the mayors of the major towns and cities, without any scientific evidence.

In this regard, it is shown to be a risk in the placement of the campaign in Brazil you cant stop, which gives an incentive for the population to return to the routine, in opposition to the health measures of isolation advocated by the authorities at the international, state, county, and city, to the extent that it would give a boost to the number of cases of infection in the country, he says.

The judge also said that there is no scientific evidence that is contrary to the social, and the encouragement for the population to get out of the house, you can generate a collapse in the health-care system.

In this campaign, there is no mention of the possibility that the mere fact of social distancing may lead to a greater number of cases, the Covid-19, when compared with the extent of the isolation, and the adoption of a measure that is more lenient it would have as a consequence of a likely collapse of the systems of public and private health care. The impact of such a campaign would have if it was promoted widely by the eu, and without the proper information about the risks and the potential consequences for the health care of the individual and the collective, could lead to irreparable damage to the population, he said.

The MINISTRY has also asked the Justice to prohibit the dissemination of the campaign to profiles on the officers of the federal government in the social networks, as well as information from the social isolation that they are not strictly based on scientific evidence.

It has also requested the government to issue a correction on your social networks, stating that the information provided in the advertising campaign, does not have a scientific basis. It also wants social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube WhatsApp to stop the traffic to your posts prompted by the publicity from the government, and to adopt effective strategies in order to avoid further publications on this line.

In both of these cases, however, the court preferred to leave the assessment of the position of the 10th Federal court of Rio de Janeiro, where it was distributed in the first place.

The campaign was produced in an official capacity at the request of the Secom (Secretary of Communication of the Presidency of the Republic), and published originally by the senator for Flavio jair bolsonaro (the Republicans) on social media. The video is about 90 seconds, which brings up a collage of images with a voice-over offquoting the workers, and in sectors of the economy, which, in the opinion of the government, will be affected by social isolation as a response to the coronavirus.

For those who defend the lives of the brazilians, and the conditions for everyone to live in quality, health, and dignity, and Brazil has definitely you cant stop it, he says in the videos completion.

The leader of the Secom, He Wajngarten, has been tainted by the covid-19 with a motorcade to the presidential for the United States of america. He served in the social, criticized the campaign, developed by the agency that is in charge of. In addition to the Wajngarten, the other 24 people who signed up for the visit of the president Jair jair bolsonaro had contracted the coronavirus.

In a statement, the Secom has denied that it has endorsed the campaign, as disclosed by the eldest son of the president, Jair, jair bolsonaro. According to the agency, this is the video that is produced on a trial basis, so the cost to you and without a trial, and the approval of Secom. In the piece, it would be the initial proposal for the use of the social networking sites that you would have to go through the scrutiny of the Government. Has not been adopted, nor featured in any of the official tv channel of the united states. It is worth noting, for it does not doubt that there is any campaign by the Federal Government, with the video being posted for the time being, and, therefore, there has not been any expenditure or cost to you in this regard.

However, there are social networks images with the brand of Secom with the hashtag developed for the campaign. The arts have the features of the design professional and want to follow the same pattern as the aesthetic of the campaign released by the federal government during a pandemic coronavirus.

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LinkedIn is a website thats effectively a mixture between an interactive resume and a college job fair, but that hasnt stopped it from aspiring to be a cooler, more social part of the internet. Its latest attempt? Snapchat-style stories, which the company announced it was testing internally to try out a new conversational format for business conversations.

According to Pete Davies, LinkedIns head of content products, the goal is to meet LinkedIn users where their voices are. Stories would offer a lighter, more casual way of interacting in the business-focused world that makes up LinkedIn, instead of the formal messaging and posting that makes up the bulk of interactions on the site. For example, Davies imagines that a company might use stories to share key moments from work events or tips and tricks that help us work smarter.

More cynically, one could view LinkedIn stories as similar to features like the companys video filters from 2018: a sad attempt at chasing the relevancy and popularity of social networking apps in an attempt to grow beyond its dull, corporate identity.

The original stories feature was first introduced by Snapchat all the way back in 2013, before Instagram shamelessly copied the idea and brought it to even higher heights of popularity in 2016. Other apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube, would soon follow, to the point where [thing] will now have stories became its own meme.

Technically, this isnt even LinkedIns first time dabbling in the social media story format: in 2018, it tested a similar feature called Student Voices that let college students post videos to a campus playlist that lived on top of the LinkedIn app.

But where the Student Voices feature was limited both in who could use it (college students) and what they could post (just videos, without the plethora of features that apps like Instagram offer), the new LinkedIn story feature sounds like it would be a much broader service.

Theres no guarantee that LinkedIn will actually launch stories to the broader public: right now, its just being tested internally, with plans for wider public tests in the coming months.

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