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The media is replete with COVID-19 stories about people clearing supermarket shelves and the backlash against them. Have people gone mad? How can one individual be overfilling his own cart, while shaming others who are doing the same?

As a behavioral neuroscientist who has studied hoarding behavior for 25 years, I can tell you that this is all normal and expected. People are acting the way evolution has wired them.

The word hoarding might bring to mind relatives or neighbors whose houses are overfilled with junk. A small percentage of people do suffer from what psychologists call hoarding disorder, keeping excessive goods to the point of distress and impairment.

But hoarding is actually a totally normal and adaptive behavior that kicks in any time there is an uneven supply of resources. Everyone hoards, even during the best of times, without even thinking about it. People like to have beans in the pantry, money in savings and chocolates hidden from the children. These are all hoards.

Most Americans have had so much, for so long. People forget that, not so long ago, survival often depended on working tirelessly all year to fill root cellars so a family could last through a long, cold winter and still many died.

Similarly, squirrels work all fall to hide nuts to eat for the rest of the year. Kangaroo rats in the desert hide seeds the few times it rains and then remember where they put them to dig them back up later. A Clarks nutcracker can hoard over 10,000 pine seeds per fall and even remember where it put them.

Similarities between human behavior and these animals are not just analogies. They reflect a deeply ingrained capacity for brains to motivate us to acquire and save resources that may not always be there. Suffering from hoarding disorder, stockpiling in a pandemic or hiding nuts in the fall all of these behaviors are motivated less by logic and more by a deeply felt drive to feel safer.

My colleagues and I have found that stress seems to signal the brain to switch into get hoarding mode. For example, a kangaroo rat will act very lazy if fed regularly. But if its weight starts to drop, its brain signals to release stress hormones that incite the fastidious hiding of seeds all over the cage.

Kangaroo rats will also increase their hoarding if a neighboring animal steals from them. Once, I returned to the lab to find the victim of theft with all his remaining food stuffed into his cheek pouches the only safe place.

People do the same. If in our lab studies my colleagues and I make them feel anxious, our study subjects want to take more stuff home with them afterward.

Demonstrating this shared inheritance, the same brain areas are active when people decide to take home toilet paper, bottled water or granola bars, as when rats store lab chow under their bedding the orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens, regions that generally help organize goals and motivations to satisfy needs and desires.

Damage to this system can even induce abnormal hoarding. One man who suffered frontal lobe damage had a sudden urge to hoard bullets. Another could not stop borrowing others cars. Brains across species use these ancient neural systems to ensure access to needed items or ones that feel necessary.

So, when the news induces a panic that stores are running out of food, or that residents will be trapped in place for weeks, the brain is programmed to stock up. It makes you feel safer, less stressed, and actually protects you in an emergency.

At the same time theyre organizing their own stockpiles, people get upset about those who are taking too much. That is a legitimate concern; its a version of the tragedy of the commons, wherein a public resource might be sustainable, but peoples tendency to take a little extra for themselves degrades the resource to the point where it can no longer help anyone.

By shaming others on social media, for instance, people exert what little influence they have to ensure cooperation with the group. As a social species, human beings thrive when they work together, and have employed shaming even punishment for millennia to ensure that everyone acts in the best interest of the group.

And it works. Twitter users went after a guy reported to have hoarded 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer in the hopes of turning a profit; he ended up donating all of it and is under investigation for price gouging. Who wouldnt pause before grabbing those last few rolls of TP when the mob is watching?

People will continue to hoard to the extent that they are worried. They will also continue to shame others who take more than what they consider a fair share. Both are normal and adaptive behaviors that evolved to balance one another out, in the long run.

But thats cold comfort for someone on the losing end of a temporary imbalance like a health care worker who did not have protective gear when they encountered a sick patient. The survival of the group hardly matters to the person who dies, or to their parent, child or friend.

One thing to remember is that the news selectively depicts stockpiling stories, presenting audiences with the most shocking cases. Most people are not charging $400 for a mask. Most are just trying to protect themselves and their families, the best way they know how, while also offering aid wherever they can. Thats how the human species evolved, to get through challenges like this together.

Stephanie Preston, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

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When Kerrang! spoke to Paramore for their first ever cover story all the way back in 2006, the interviewer wrapped things up by asking Hayley Williams why she believed the band deserved pride of place on the front of that issue. After a thoughtful moment, the then 17-year-old star-in-the-making said, People might not think were real, but we are. We couldnt be more real. We make music that comes from the heart. And the reason we deserve this cover is so that people can read about us and see that for themselves. Were worth listening to. Theres no-one else like us.

Fast-forward to 2017 and Hayley had firmly established herself as the most important and iconic woman in alternative music, beloved by legions of fans. A GRAMMY winner [in the Best Rock Song category, for Paramores 2014 single Aint It Fun], she had now adorned countless magazine covers and picked up more awards than she could ever have fathomed back when the band started out. Global success was hers. She had also, however, never felt more alone, as she moved into an empty home carrying a plant and a box with the word fragile marked on it. Her divorce from New Found Glorys Chad Gilbert was confirmed, and the future of Paramore looked to be in the balance.

Long before she felt ready to fly solo, though, as she finally does this year, all Hayley Williams ever wanted was to be part of a family. Growing up, her home life was difficult. When she was a young child her parents split, and despite being hard-line Christians living in the Bible Belt of America they would both remarry. By the time she was 15, Paramore would get their record deal. Finally, she had her family a band of brothers (literally in the case of guitarist Josh and drummer Zac Farro), who would tour together, share vans and room space, taking every shiny opportunity that came their way. The catch was that Atlantic only wanted to sign Hayley, with the rest of the band signed via Fueled By Ramen, the emo and pop-punk subsidiary. This was a small distinction, but one that, despite Hayley and the bands best efforts to ignore it, would put a strain on them all.

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I was an only child and I wanted to be a part of something really bad, the singer told The Fader many years later. When I got signed by myself, I felt veryalone.

From the off, Hayley was portrayed in the press as the boss at the head of the Paramore family. Driving the aesthetics, decision-making and ambitions, she was the one fussing after her bandmates and answering all the questions. Were in a band its not about me, she would tell K! of her frustrations about the way the press framed them. To ram the point home, she performed in a homemade PARAMORE IS A BAND T-shirt a simple act of defiance and rebellion that spoke of an underlying anxiety about her bandmates not getting their due recognition orappreciation.

Still, when young fans ran screaming to Hayley in the streets or felt closer to Paramore thanks to her candid LiveJournal blogs, it was undeniably because she was the beating heart and soul of the band. The minute you met Hayley, you knew she was going to be a star, Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman told K! in 2015. People connected with her, and particularly the female audience Warped is so about.

The tension may not have undermined Paramores brilliance, but it was forever in the background. Hayley was the one who meant so much to fans and audiences, while also representing the marketable public face for record label executives. More than anything, though, she just wanted to keep her family aroundher.

Throughout their successes, good times and gut-wrenching, genre-defining music, Paramore had always been uncertain. Speaking to lOdet in 2019, Hayley pinpoints Paramores hard times as being between 2007 until right before 2017 album After Laughter almost the entirety of the bands journey to date,then.

In light of that, depression and interpersonal struggles dominated their best work. Around the lead-up to and release of 2009s Brand New Eyes, the band attended group therapy to stay together. Hayleys subsequent lyrics duly spoke to those issues: Were taking shortcuts and false solutions / Just to come out the hero (Turn It Off) and Next time you point a finger / I might have to bend it back (Playing God). Shortly after, in 2010, when the Farro brothers left the band, they did so with a blog post penned by Josh that claimed he and his bandmates were riding on the coattails of Hayleys dream. He also confirmed longstanding rumours that he and Hayley had dated and after their break-up, the band had gonedownhill.

When K! joined Paramore at SXSW in Texas during their self-titled album run in 2013, the band were down to just three (Hayley, bassist Jeremy Davis and guitarist Taylor York). Im so grateful for where we are, she said, adding of her lost-bandmates, I cant be mad at them for trying to find happiness in their own lives. Now Im sitting here in the band that I wanted to be in since I was 13 years old.

Being grateful and positive was always Hayleys modus operandi. At least in public. But the weight and responsibility of all this disruption within the band and also in her long-term relationship with Chad, all of which was happening throughout her teenhood and early twenties rested heavily on her shoulders.

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In the summer of 2015 she had privately left Paramore only to later, in the depths of her darkest depression, have Taylor coax her into the happy-sad contradiction of After Laughter. But the synth-pop opus almost didnt happen. Performing it at Riot Fest 2017, standing in front of a crowd of rock fans whod been through every twist and turn with her, she said the record was about darkness, or sadness, or depression, or whatever you wanna call it.

Sadly, during this album cycle journalists were ruthless. Enquiries fiercely pressed for drama and band dynamics her Achilles heel. One interview, in The Fader, detailed the aftermath of a panic attack she had, subsequently digging for answers in a way that Hayley would later admit made her uncomfortable. Through another interview with a male blogger, Hayleys regrets at having written 2007 single Misery Business were aggregated by music blogs, prompting an online scene-wide discourse around problematic lyrics. In the wake of all this pressure, its understandable that she would subsequently retreat from publiclife.

Ive had to be careful how I answer people who ask me questions for Paramore about these last songs, she said in a blog with lOdet. Is this the place? Or is this safe? I dont want to sound sexist, but when weve done interviews with male journalists its been really hard. Its sacred, you know? Its your story.

Her story or what shed believed to be her story was unravelling and in need of examination. In the same interview she revealed that Paramore was suffering, too. I cant keep this family together Im failing so badly. She wasnt happy in her marriage either. Perhaps, she realised, she hadnt wanted to get married, only that she thought she did.

I thought it would help, she reflected. And I couldnt keep that together either. So Ive had a lot of unravelling and deconstruction of my ideas of family, loyalty, commitment. There is a lot of grieving that comes with that too.

But without her chosen family, who is Hayley Williams? To find out, she needed the space to explore and process everything that had come before. Paramore didnt allow for that. In December 2019, Hayley announced on social media that her 31st year would be a special one. With the help of some of my closest friends, she stated, I made something Im going to call myown.

During a craniosacral massage, as Hayley lay on her back, she had a vision of flowers growing out of her, grotesque and painful. When she came to, she found the masseuse had laid petals on her. She knew that it meant she had growing to do, and it would hurt, but it would also be beautiful. Hayley told this story and more in an interview in February with Zane Lowe on Apple Music about her new solo project, Petals For Armor.

Depression, she told him, was often a mask for other feelings. After years of bottling emotions up and suppressing darkness and anger, it was time to release everything. She began intensive therapy alone, this time and started to explore her relationships with her family. It was evident that her early experiences had left their mark in adulthood. She spoke with her mother about why Hayleys dad and her had split up. With that knowledge, maybe she could understand more about why she desperately needed others in the way she did. Ive been trying to keep my family together ever since then, vicariously, through this band, she told lOdet of her parents split.

This is the Hayley who is learning to stand alone. In the furious DNA of the Petals To Armor music, there is also a glimpse of hope. Theres hope of eventual comfort without a romantic relationship, without tying herself to the raft of a family structure. Now that Im taking account of all these feelings, and Im feeling all of them, theres this beautiful rainbow versus just the deep end, she told ZaneLowe.

From the depths of those dark years, there is a version of Hayley now being reborn. On the Petals To Armor album artwork, the singer holds her hand near her mouth, so the black squares of ink that she had tattooed over her ex-husbands name on her fingers lead to a spiralling branch of squares painted on her face. They look like dark petals in the shape of a question mark, or a path to something else.

From the clay and the earth comes something feminine and beautiful, something real natures way of saying that theres still no-one else quite like HayleyWilliams.

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The House bill, called the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, was passed by a vote of 410-4 on February 26, after the Senate passed the bill unanimously last year. The legislation, if signed into law by President Trump, will end more than a century of effort to make lynching a federal crime.

As Erin Logan reported, this was something that Congress had failed to do for over 120 years. Lawmakers in the first half of the 20th Century tried nearly 200 times to address lynching on a federal level. Although seven presidents supported such efforts, none were successful.

The first efforts to address this lawlessness on the federal level came in 1870, when President Ulysses S. Grant approved legislation to subdue the actions of white-supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.Michael J. Pfeifer, history professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told The Washington Post in an email that legislative failure to federally penalize assailants was largely because of Southern lawmakers stonewalling.

Asserting a doctrine of states rights, Southern Democratic senators consistently thwarted federal anti-lynching legislation over the decades, Pfeifer said. So although federal anti-lynching legislation enjoyed majority support in the House in the 1920s and 30s, through the filibuster and other means, Southern Democrats were able to block federal anti-lynching legislation.

The topic of lynchings in America has been renewed recently by Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of the book Just Mercy, which has been made into a movie. Stevenson began his career by defending people on death row, primarily in Alabama. Here is how he explains the connection between that work and his efforts to document the history of lynchings in this country. Stevenson says that slavery didnt end in 1865, it just evolved.

There is a line from slavery through racial terrorism, through segregation, that is evident in what we see in our criminal justice system today. I am persuaded that we really wont eliminate the problems of discrimination in the criminal justice system, in the education system, in the employment system until we change the narrative of racial difference that we have all accepted These acts of humiliation and degradation created this desensitizing to victimization. We are indifferent to evidence of bias or discrimination. We are indifferent to innocent people being wrongly condemned on death row for thirty years. I think there is a historical root to that silence.

One of the results of Stevensons work is a report titled Lynchings in America, which documents over 4,000 instances of the racial terror between 1877 and 1950 predominantly (but not exclusively) in the South.

Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation. Lynchings were violent and public events that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials.This was not frontier justice carried out by a few marginalized vigilantes or extremists. Instead, many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators (including elected officials and prominent citizens) for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person. People who participated in lynchings were celebrated and acted with impunity.

One way we can re-sensitize ourselves to this history is to listen to the stories of people like Shirah. Hergreat grandfather was lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana. As part of Caddo Parish, it represents the community with the second highest number of lynchings in the country. That begins to bring this all home to me because I grew up in the town of Longview, Texas, which is just 60 miles west of Shreveport. Because none of these stories were included in the history classes I attended, I was interested in learning more about what happened in the area around my hometown.

One of the things I learned is that there was a race riot in the town of Longview back in 1919. It was actually part of what has become known as the red summer, which included anti-black white supremacists attacks in more than three dozen cities. Here is how the Texas State Historical Association describes the incidents that led to the riot in Longview.

Racial tension was especially high immediately before the riot because two locally prominent black leaders, Samuel L. Jones and Dr. Calvin P. Davis, had urged black farmers to avoid local white cotton brokers and sell directly to buyers in Galveston. Then an article in the July 10 issue of the Chicago Defenderdescribed the death of a young black man, Lemuel Walters, in Longview. The article reported that Walters and an unnamed white woman from Kilgore, Texas, were in love and quoted her as saying they would have married if they had lived in the North. Walters, according to the article, was safely locked in the Gregg County Jail until the sheriff willingly handed him over to a white mob that murdered him on June 17.Jones, a teacher in the Longview school system and a local correspondent for the Chicago Defender, was held responsible for the article, and on Thursday, July 10, he was accosted and beaten, supposedly by two brothers of the Kilgore woman.

The congressman who currently represents the district that includes Longview is Republican Louie Gohmert. He is one of the four House members who voted against the anti-lynching bill on Wednesday. History is alive and well in northeast Texas.

I hope youll forgive me for writing so much about my hometown. But this is exactly what Stevenson is suggesting that we all need to do. In order to shed our indifference to the way that slavery has evolved, we need to unlock the silence about our own past by putting it into human terms.

I grew up in a community that was scarred by what happened to people like Lemuel Walters, Samuel Jones, and Shirahs great grandfather. Their deaths are examples of the kind of terrorism that was designed to instill fear as a way to entrench white supremacy. That legacy lives on today, most notably in our criminal justice system.

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We all know Patty Mills as the spirited, towel flinging, three-point scoring, Spurs player that he is. And as I am sure most Pounders are aware, he is a dedicated humanitarian, using his celebrity to bring awareness to events where he can offer support. The water shortages and fires plaguing his native Australia are two recent events that have taken him back home.

But now, Mills has posted this message via Twitter:

Without notice and most likely unintentionally, Mills has evolved into an ambassador of goodwill on a global level. While speaking to his native Australians in this message regarding the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Mills exhibited the tone of a leader. The Indigenous baller has an unavoidable, charismatic clarity to his message. One that many political leaders never reach after lifetimes of service.

Stay positive and stay strong and lean on each other for support if needed. We are all in this together. If someone were to ask me if there were a call to action I would say this- whether you are an Olympic athlete, any athlete, or just someone that likes to participate in sports to stay fit and healthy, please stay at home and keep your distance. The better we can control this virus, the better we can look after each other.

This pandemic is bringing the best out of many, and Patty is one of those who always puts his best foot forward. We are watching his leadership continue to evolve on and off the court and may just be witness to the rising of a new voice in the worldview.

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Editors note: As an alternative to what you are getting pretty much everywhere else in the media at the moment,Evolution Newsis proud to offer inspiration, pointing to purpose and meaning in life. The profoundest mystery and thus the deepest inspiration is life itself. Discovery Institute Press has just published a greatly expanded edition of the 1984 classic of intelligent design science literature,The Mystery of Lifes Origin. Below is an excerpt adapted from a brand new chapter in the book by distinguished Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour.

Organisms have well-defined molecular assemblies, redox potentials across membranes, and metabolic pathways all operating in exquisite states that we call life.

Chemistry, by contrast, is utterly indifferent to whether anything is alive or not. Without a biologically derived entity acting upon them, molecules have never been shown to evolve toward life. Never.

While organisms exploit chemistry for their own ends, chemicals have never been seen to assemble themselves into an organism. Origin-of-life research keeps attempting to make the chemicals needed for life, and then to have those assemble toward something to which they are inherently indifferent. But try as they might, without preexisting life no researchers have ever seen molecules assemble into a living cell, or anything even remotely resembling a living cell. Contrary to the hyperbole of press reports, any synthetic molecularly derived structures that have been touted as being cell-like are in reality far from it. This situation might change in the future, but it is unlikely to change under the current course of research. Scientists have no data to support molecular evolution leading to life. The research community remains clueless.

Many scientists and professors who are outside boutique origin-of- life circles have been led astray by researchers claims and the subsequent press, thinking that far more is known about lifes origin than really is known. This has affected the highest seats in the academy where even some science professors confuse origin of life with biological evolution. Like a muddy prebiotic cesspool, confusion abounds in the academy.

Two-thirds of a century since the 1952 Miller-Urey experiment, where some racemic amino acids were formed from small molecules and an electrical discharge, the world is no closer to generating life from small molecules or any molecules for that matter than it was in 1952. One could argue that origin-of-life research is even more befuddled now than it was in 1952 since more questions have evolved than answers, and the voluminous new data regarding the complexity within a cell makes the target much more daunting than it used to be.

Consider what has occurred in other fields in the past sixty-seven years since Miller-Urey performed their experiments: human space travel, satellite interconnectivity, unlocking DNAs code and its precise genetic manipulation, biomedical imaging, automated peptide and nucleotide synthesis, molecular structure determination, silicon device fabrication, integrated circuits, and the Internet, to name just a few.

By comparison, origin-of-life research has not made any progress whatsoever in addressing the fundamental questions of lifes origin. Two-thirds of a century and all that has been generated are more suggestions on how life might have formed suggestions that really show how life probably did not form. Nothing even resembling a synthetic cellular structure has arisen from its independent components, let alone a living cell. Not even close.

In 1775, the French Academy in Paris refused to entertain any further proposals for perpetual motion machines; the devices just did not work as advertised. No one knew why not the mature science of thermodynamics, which gave us a theoretical account for why the perpetuum mobile schemes failed, lay nearly one hundred years in the future but the machines clearly failed. Today we need a French Academy-like directive toward origin-of-life proposals; for, like perpetual motion machines, such proposals just do not work as advertised. Instead we should explore why scientists have failed to produce life. Clearly life can exist unlike perpetual motion machines, we have the ubiquity of life surrounding us on this planet. But there needs to be a wholly different scientific approach to reveal lifes origin.

This is an appeal to the origin-of-life research community: Step back and consider the claims within the research, the true state of the field, the retarded state of the science relative to other research areas, and the confusion or delusion of the public regarding lifes origin. Many researchers in origin-of-life organic synthesis are superb scientists. However, overly confident assertions, exaggerated and spread by the over-zealous press, have led to gross public misconceptions regarding what is and is not known concerning the beginning of life.

Read the rest inThe Mystery of Lifes Origin: The Continuing Controversy, from Discovery Institute Press.

Photo: Stanley Miller of Miller-Urey fame, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

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Casey Jones sat down at his desk in the Belton Sports Complex at Wossman High School following the conclusion of the high school basketball season and let out a long sigh.

Its frustrating, he said.

For Wossmans head coach, he cant begin to grasp why Nick Traylor has an offer from LSU-Alexandria and a couple of prep schools... And thats it.

A year after dominating the interior with his natural strength and rebounding prowess, the 63, 190-pound forward moved to a wing position, where he was even positioned at the front of a press. He showcased an ability to play just about any position on the floor that his head coach needed, earning the senior his second consecutive Ouachita Citizen All-Parish Boys Player of the Year honor.

Its just very frustrating that a kid of that caliber who does things the right way isnt getting looked at like some others, Jones said. Hes a good kid on and off the court and isnt getting the opportunities to play at the next level, and I dont know why.

It certainly wasnt from a lack of production. As a senior, Traylor averaged 20.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 4.2 assists per contest. After a full offseason of hard work, Traylor polished off his game to where he became a better facilitator and shooter on the court.

He actually shoots the 3-ball a lot better than people think, Jones said. Hes one of our top 3-point shooters out there. But he takes what the defense gives him. Hes so strong and gifted. He can get to the basket pretty much any time he wants. He understood going into this year that he was going to be keyed in on a lot.

With Devonte Austins ascension to superstardom on the local high school scene, Traylor benefitted from a supporting cast at Wossman that went deep into the bench. Together, they made a run for the Class 3A State Championship and came a point shy of accomplishing that goal against Bossier in the state title game. In order to get there, though, fellow teammate Brandon Dennis had to hit a shot at the buzzer to beat Madison Prep.

I knew he was going to do something with it, Traylor said. Whether it was make that shot for himself or create a shot for someone else. When he made that shot it was like when Ray-Ray (Rayson Robinson) hit that shot last year. Except, instead of sending us to overtime, it won the game for us.

Robinsons 3-pointer against Peabody led to an eventual 71-67 victory against Peabody, which set up a state championship game against Madison Prep. The Chargers got the best of Wossman in the state title game a year ago, and Traylor and company didnt forget. As fate would have it, Wossman would have to go through Madison Prep to get to Bossier in the state championship game. Adding fuel to the fire was the fact Madison Preps Elijah Tate received an offer from ULM. That didnt sit well with Traylor and company.

I feel like Im as good or maybe even better, Traylor said. We all wanted to prove that we were in that game, and I think we did.

In Traylors senior campaign, he helped anchor a 33-4 season that saw the Wildcats win a stacked East Ascension tournament and Don Redden Tournament. The latter was the first time Jones led his Wildcats to a Redden victory as Wossmans head coach. Traylor swelled with pride about that.

And even though the Wildcats ultimately came up shy of accomplishing the main goal of winning a state title, its hard not to think back at a run of four consecutive trips to the state tournament and call it anything but successful.

When we came in as freshmen we said wed win a state title either our junior year or senior year, Traylor said. We had it in our mind to get there, and we avoided any slip-up to get there four straight years.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is priced at $91.13 after the most recent trading session. At the very opening of the session, the stock price was $93.19 and reached a high price of $94.84, prior to closing the session it reached the value of $98.12. The stock touched a low price of $90.55.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the companys stock is recorded $141.10 on 01/02/20, with the lowest value was $76.91 for the same time period, recorded on 03/19/20.

Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stocks existing status and the future performance. Presently, JPMorgan Chase & Co. shares are logging -35.41% during the 52-week period from high price, and 18.49% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stocks price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $76.91 and $141.10.

The companys shares, operating in the sector of financial managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 29.29 million for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.

When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) recorded performance in the market was -34.63%, having the revenues showcasing -34.46% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 301.62B, as it employees total of 256981 workers.

During the last month, 9 analysts gave the JPMorgan Chase & Co. a BUY rating, 0 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 14 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 1 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 2 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.

According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 126.80, with a change in the price was noted -36.67. In a similar fashion, JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a movement of -28.69% for the period of last 100 days, recording 15,711,087 in trading volumes.

Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the companys financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders equity. The total Debt to Equity ratio for JPM is recording 1.24 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 1.24.

Raw Stochastic average of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the period of last 50 days is set at 22.80%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 30.89%. In the last 20 days, the companys Stochastic %K was 35.79% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 29.16%.

If we look into the earlier routines of JPMorgan Chase & Co., multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the companys stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -34.63%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -22.13%, alongside a downfall of -9.51% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 1.00% in the 7-day charts and went up by 9.14% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -34.46% during last recorded quarter.

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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 30, 2020 4:17:21 pm The coronavirus has now infected every corner of the globe.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, infecting millions worldwide, a team of scientists has discovered that Covid-19 could have spread among humans for years or even decades before now.

According to findings published in the journal Nature Medicine, the virus could have possibly been transmitted from animals to humans much before it was first detected in Wuhan province of China. In fact, there are speculations that it could have been as long as a decade.

The study, which was conducted by an international team of scientists from Australia, Britain and the US, was released on March 17 in the scientific journal.

Then, as a result of gradual evolutionary changes over years or perhaps decades. The virus eventually gained the ability to spread from human to human and cause serious, often life-threatening disease, Dr Francis Collins, director of the US National Institute of Health, said in an article published on the institutes website.

The study was conducted by Kristian Andersen from the Scripps Research Institute in California, Andrew Rambaut from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Ian Lipkin from Columbia University in New York, Edward Holmes from the University of Sydney, and Robert Garry from Tulane University in New Orleans.

By comparing the available genome sequence data for known coronavirus strains, we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes, said the lead researcher Kristian Andersen.

Besides them, Italian professor Giuseppe Remuzzi had pointed at strange pneumonias in Italy since last November. This could mean that Covid-19, which proved to be equally fatal in the country, could have reached Europe before anyone knew about it.

Prof Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, said he would not be surprised if some asymptomatic carriers had travelled around China or even abroad before December last year.The unusual cases of pneumonia in November and December could mean that virus was already spreading in Lombardy, Italys worst-hit region, before Wuhan made headlines, he said.

Speaking on similar lines, a Chinese doctor working, who is treating Covid-19 patients in Beijing, said numerous cases of mysterious pneumonia outbreaks had been reported by health professionals across several countries last year.

There will be a day when the whole thing comes to light, the doctor said, preferring anonymity.

Doctors in Wuhan also noticed a surge in the number of pneumonia cases in December. Tests for flu and other pathogens returned negative.

Shortly after the epidemic erupted, Chinese scientists sequenced the genome of SARS-CoV-2 and made the data available to researchers worldwide. The resulting genomic sequence data showed that Chinese authorities had promptly detected the epidemic and that the number of cases were rising because of human to human transmission after a single introduction into the human population.

While an unknown strain was isolated, a team from the Wuhan Institute of Virology led by Shi Zhengli traced its origin to a bat virus found in a mountain cave close to the China-Myanmar border.

The virus has now infected every corner of the globe.

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Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (BHLB) is priced at $13.77 after the most recent trading session. At the very opening of the session, the stock price was $13.58 and reached a high price of $13.92, prior to closing the session it reached the value of $13.97. The stock touched a low price of $13.19.

Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the companys stock is recorded $33.72 on 12/20/19, with the lowest value was $11.43 for the same time period, recorded on 03/23/20.

Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stocks existing status and the future performance. Presently, Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. shares are logging -59.16% during the 52-week period from high price, and 20.47% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stocks price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $11.43 and $33.72.

The companys shares, operating in the sector of financial managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 690698 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.

When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (BHLB) recorded performance in the market was -58.12%, having the revenues showcasing -58.41% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 665.37M, as it employees total of 1550 workers.

According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 28.27, with a change in the price was noted -17.88. In a similar fashion, Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. posted a movement of -56.49% for the period of last 100 days, recording 236,153 in trading volumes.

Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the companys financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders equity. The total Debt to Equity ratio for BHLB is recording 0.06 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.06.

Raw Stochastic average of Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 11.29%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 16.52%. In the last 20 days, the companys Stochastic %K was 14.93% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 11.93%.

Considering, the past performance of Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc., multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the companys stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -58.12%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -53.79%, alongside a downfall of -50.14% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 2.00% in the 7-day charts and went up by 9.72% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -58.41% during last recorded quarter.

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Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (BHLB) is primed for evolution with the beta value of 1.47 - The InvestChronicle

Lets start up with the current stock price of The Toro Company (TTC), which is $63.06 to be very precise. The Stock rose vividly during the last session to $65.21 after opening rate of $62.42 while the lowest price it went was recorded $61.79 before closing at $64.46.

The Toro Company had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the companys stock is recorded $84.26 on 01/17/20, with the lowest value was $52.07 for the same time period, recorded on 03/18/20.

Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stocks existing status and the future performance. Presently, The Toro Company shares are logging -25.16% during the 52-week period from high price, and 21.11% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stocks price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $52.07 and $84.26.

The companys shares, operating in the sector of industrial goods managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 775369 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.

When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the The Toro Company (TTC) recorded performance in the market was -20.85%, having the revenues showcasing -21.02% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 6.77B, as it employees total of 9329 workers.

According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 77.10, with a change in the price was noted -14.58. In a similar fashion, The Toro Company posted a movement of -18.78% for the period of last 100 days, recording 449,935 in trading volumes.

Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the companys financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders equity. The total Debt to Equity ratio for TTC is recording 0.78 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.66.

Raw Stochastic average of The Toro Company in the period of last 50 days is set at 34.14%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 43.15%. In the last 20 days, the companys Stochastic %K was 41.57% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 33.30%.

Now, considering the stocks previous presentation, multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the companys stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -20.85%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -13.66%, alongside a downfall of -8.57% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 1.87% in the 7-day charts and went up by 9.78% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -21.02% during last recorded quarter.

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