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CRM stands for customer relationship management, and it's an online system for managing your relationships with existing and potential customers.
A lot of acronyms are just noise and really mean nothing for your day-to-day as a small business owner. But if you want to grow your sales, it's important to drill down on CRM.
What is CRM and what does CRM stand for?
The backbone of CRM is the ability to store a directory of your customers' information online through CRM software. The acronym stands for Customer relationship management, commonly shortened to CRM.
Why use CRM software?
If you're now manually collecting customers' contact information and entering it into an Excel doc, you understand how big of a time-saver this is. The latest CRM tools (including Square Customer Engagement) store your customers' information in the cloud — which means it's accessible anytime, across any device. Bye-bye clipboards at the countertop.
With everything in a centralized place, you have a command center to help you deepen your relationship with your customers after they've left your store. Most CRM solutions are hooked up to email marketing templates so you can easily send groups of customers things like promotions or event announcements. Some CRM software also includes a customer feedback tool and support component — a place where you can respond directly to customers who have written in for one reason or another.
But CRM's special sauce is all the insights it can help you glean about your customers. CRM tools can track powerful data about how people interact with your business on and offline. You can analyze how many people opened a certain email, for example, or how many of them bought stuff as a result of what you sent.
If your solution includes a feedback or support center, there's likely data around customer sentiment, as well as the most common complaints — so you can focus on the key areas where you need to improve.
How can a CRM solution help you?
Pouring over all the numbers in your CRM helps you spot trends in your customers' behavior and sentiment — which is invaluable as you make important business decisions. All this data can help you respond better to customer feedback, create more effective email marketing campaigns, and overall, improve your business. (Square's Customer Engagement suite of tools offers feedback, email marketing, and customer insights.)
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What are common CRM features?
The most effective CRM systems capture a range of quality customer information to help build robust profiles for everyone in your database. Commonly tracked data includes:
Customer Contact Info: customer name, email, address, phone number, preferred mode of contact (email, text), and how the customer learned about your business (online search, store visit, social media—all of which can be gleaned from signup forms)
Complete Transaction History: items purchases, value of purchases, time of purchases, and method of payment (all collected at point of sale)
Demographic Info: region where customer lives, birthdays, income levels, technology usage, hobbies and interests (can be gleaned from signup forms or collected over time with repeat customer interaction)
Customer Interaction Details: feedback on what customers like, what types of products or services they purchase most often, overall sentiment towards your business, type of messaging they respond to best (these things can be gleaned from surveys, ratings, reviews, and recorded dealings with customer support)
What should a CRM cost?
It's difficult to say what a CRM should cost. Not the answer you want, but it's true. Initial CRM costs vary widely, so the only way to determine what a CRM for your business costs is to research vendors and then talk to them directly.
When you do start researching CRM options, you want to look at the software cost, the hardware cost (i.e., a computer to run the software), any customization costs (does it cost money to add additional tools or format the directory in a specific way?), training costs, and support costs.
Many CRM software vendors charge a monthly fee per user. With Square Customer Engagement, the core CRM features are built right into our POS for free: Customer Directory & Feedback. Square sellers have the option of then adding Square Email Marketing (starts at $15/month) or Square Loyalty (starts at $25/month).
What are CRM tools?
CRM tools are applications that tap into your customer directory so you can better communicate with your customers. Some examples of CRM tools include:
Email marketing: includes targeted messages about promotions, sales, collection launches, new store openings, birthday announcements, and other communications tailored to engage customers
SMS messages: texts can be used to confirm appointments, update customers about service changes, and make occasional announcements about timely information
Customer retention tools: loyalty programs, personalization, promotions, gamification; a Harvard Business Review study has shown that increasing customer retention by 5% can ultimately increase profits by 25% to 95%
Customer support: making your business available to customers 24/7, whether through online chats, 800-numbers, or email support; the less you leave your customers hanging, the more likely they'll come back to you again, even if they've had a problem with a product or service in the past. Using Twitter to reply to customers: makes customers, especially Millennials, feel heard in real-time and lets them know that your business values each individual customer enough to respond to personal inquiries via a social and very public platform
Of all the things your CRM can do for you, email might be the most important for growing your sales. Some data to illustrate: A recent study by consulting firm McKinsey & Company found that email is nearly 40 times more effective than Facebook and Twitter combined for acquiring customers. Which makes sense when you think about it — email is arguably a more direct avenue to reach people than are social media posts.
In fact, the same McKinsey study found that 91 percent of all U.S. consumers check their inbox daily. What's more, the study found that when email prompts purchases, the average order is 17 percent higher.
Should you get CRM software for your business?
Should you get CRM software for your business? In most cases, it's time to jump on the CRM bandwagon. Joanne Correia, the research vice president at Gartner Group, predicts that "CRM will be at the heart of digital initiatives in coming years." And the authors of a recent Gartner study concluded that if you don't have a cloud-based CRM solution on your roadmap, you're playing things too safe.
Square's CRM software is uniquely positioned to help brick-and-mortar stores grow sales. Learn about how you can put Square Customer Engagement to work for your business. And if you have any questions about Square's CRM software, get in touch any time.
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This year there was no rain…well none until about 1 hour after the last finisher! I was a bit sceptical about this mass start for the first race and was not really looking too forward to it. I started off conservatively joining in on the fight at the first 3 controls!I waited until the long leg to pull myself up to the front, by the time I hit the butterfly I was in the lead by myself! Tom and I ran around the loops, but then I took a better route choice and was hot on the heels of Tim. I wasnt sure of where exactly we were in terms of placing but I knew we had to run hard. I slipped into first place at the top of the hill before the finish, then Tim slipped past me with a better route on the 3rd last control. I remained conservative til the end checking the codes and finished at the same time as Tim who had trouble with the Finish punch! First over the line was the winner however and I had to settle for second.
That afternoon we headed out to Napier for quite a cool race around the main city centre. I made a couple of errors which cost me a small amount of time, enough to slot me back a few places. Apart from that I had the speed and managed 4th equal place.
Sunday morning I was feeling good, I was wearing my yellow Jamaica singlet, and once I flipped the map over my legs just exploded, I carried that speed right around the course navigating an almost perfect race. I lost about 10-15 seconds on one hestitation but it was good enough for me to finish with the fastest time….so far. Tim came flying in to finish also in the same time! Twice in the same weekend! This time there was no doubt and it was a clear cut equal 1st place.
That afternoon the pressure began to build and I started to get a little bit nervous. I had a good start to the race at Frimley, but got a little ahead of myself and a little into oxygen debt and forgot how to navigate cleanly. I missed a crucial route choice which I should have stopped and figured out properly before panicking and running off…whoops, the last few controls I fell to pieces and was a bit messy. I still managed to carry myself through to 11th place. I was pretty disappointed with that considering the last few races…so I was keen to resurrect things on Monday morning at Te Mata Peak….
So around came Monday morning…and the pressure built. I felt I was on top of it but it got the better of me. I once again got ahead of myself, lost focus and made a mistake, once I made the mistake I panicked. I lost 5mins and was left feeling deeply disappointed, angry and frustrated. I still finished strong but it was all a bit pointless in the end.
It was a long depressing wait that afternoon until it was time to run in the final race. I came out of the starting gates going fairly quick and fairly accurately. I knew Carsten had a bit of a jump on me and I ran super fast across the paddock to try to make it up a bit. In the process I again got ahead of myself, lost my way on the navigation front and made another big mistake. 1min down in that terrain, which was fast and flat was impossible to get back, but I gave it my best, and ran hard down to the wire.
Overall I was left really quite disappointed by the weekend, even with some good results. But as Carsten and Chris said the most important thing is to learn from the mistake and not to make it again…so I have something to work on and somewhere to go from here now!


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Celebrating Mr K's birthday in Berlin!
This is one of the few stories that we remember and laugh hard every time we tell it to someone who is willing to listen.
1st of September was our first day in Berlin. It also meant that I had less than 24 hours to plan Mr K's birthday. You see, his birthday is on the second. With me getting into the habit of planning everything in advance I already knew in theory what we were going to do.
First part of the birthday.
Mother nature, however, had different plans. It rained and was extremely windy for us to fly anywhere the whole next day. Later, the whole experience made me realize something very important about my significant other: sea and air sickness are the same thing and very cruel in closed confinements. As soon as we took off our little Cessna was bombarded with wind and air pockets making my birthday guy vomit all over pilot's headphones, the microphone (yes it was a stereo system in full throttle), all the spare bags I could find (all two of them), the dashboard, and of course, his coat.
How can one person create so much bodily fluids in less than 15 minutes is beyond me.
The second part of the birthday.
It was so bad that I started laughing hysterically instead of crying. When he saw what happened he had the same reaction.
We just scrapped everything we could and ate it regardless. The apartment's floor was clean enough and we didn't touch the floor part.
This day I will never forget. Everything went wrong for the right reasons.
Now, even if we were both sick and exhausted that day, we have the best memories that make us actually happier as a couple.
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SpaceX and NASA are investigating a parachute issue that occurred on the last two capsule flights.
One of the four main parachutes was slow to inflate during the return of four astronauts to Earth last November. The same thing happened last week as a Dragon cargo capsule was bringing back science experiments from the International Space Station. In both cases, the sluggish parachute eventually opened and inflated—although more than a minute late—and the capsules splashed down safely off the Florida coast.
Officials for SpaceX and NASA said Friday they want to better understand what's happening, especially before launching another crew in a month or two. They're looking at photographs and inspecting the parachutes for clues, taking "extra caution with this very critical system," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's commercial crew program.
"We're not taking anything for granted," SpaceX's William Gerstenmaier, a former NASA official, told reporters.
SpaceX's first private flight to the space station, with three ticket-buying businessmen and their retired astronaut escort, is set to blast off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 30. NASA's next astronaut ferry flight would follow on April 15.
Officials said the lagging parachutes also occurred during development and in previous cargo missions, and could just be a natural feature of the multiple-chute design. Despite the slow opening of one of the four large chutes, the capsules still descended at a safe rate, they noted. The descent data was near normal, Gerstenmaier said.
Only three of four parachutes are needed for a safe splashdown off the Florida coast, according to officials.
Similar parachutes are used on Boeing's Starliner crew capsule and NASA's Orion moon capsule, neither of which has launched astronauts yet. These, too, sometimes lag when inflating, Stich said, and so the results of the SpaceX investigation will be shared.
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Flashpoint . . . smoke billows from houses on Yeonpyeong island
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NORTH KOREA has burnished the leadership credentials of its 26-year-old dictator-in-waiting with a deadly artillery attack on South Korean territory, causing its neighbour to return fire and scramble F-16 fighters.
Two South Korean marines died, and at least 12 were wounded. There were reports of civilian injuries and houses were set ablaze as scores of shells fell on Yeonpyeong island.
A North Korea expert at Beijing's Central Party School, Zhang Liangui, told the Herald that Kim Jong-un was deliberately destabilising the environment in order to mobilise the military and consolidate his power.
The South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, held an emergency meeting and told officials to ''respond sternly'' but to avoid aggravating the situation. The military were placed on high alert.
North Korea accused South Korea of firing first. ''The South Korean enemy, despite our repeated warnings, committed reckless military provocations of firing artillery shells into our maritime territory near Yeonpyeong island,'' the military supreme command said.
The north's military ''will continue to make merciless military attacks with no hesitation if the South Korean enemy dares to invade our sea territory by 0.001 mm'', it said in the statement carried by the official news agency. ''It is our military's traditional response to quell provocative actions with a merciless thunderbolt.''
There have been previous skirmishes along the border - including the deaths of 46 South Korean sailors when the corvette Cheonan was torpedoed on March 26 - but the stakes are getting higher.
The exchange follows the revelation last week of a hitherto unknown North Korean uranium enrichment plant to a visiting US scientist. Siegfried Hecker, who previously directed the Los Alamos National Laboratory, told The New York Times he had been ''stunned'' by the plant's sophistication. North Korea said it was operating 2000 centrifuges.
If verified, this would take Pyongyang towards creating a far more powerful arsenal than the estimated eight to 12 plutonium-based warheads that have been built over the past five years.
The US special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, arrived in Beijing last night to brief officials on North Korea's new enrichment facilities.
Chinese North Korea specialists believe the brinkmanship is designed to mobilise the country around the anointed successor of Kim Jong-il, his son Kim Jong-un.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed ''concern'' at yesterday's attack and warned against further escalation. He said it was ''imperative'' that six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions be resumed.
A French diplomatic source said the United Nations Security Council would hold an emergency session.
The White House said it was ''firmly committed to the defence'' of its ally, Seoul.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was briefed on the situation last night. She condemned the attack and said Australia was consulting closely with South Korea, Japan and the US.
Professor Zhang said the latest incident was unlikely to escalate because the North was mainly ''venting anger''.
Beyond the succession, he said the North wanted concessions from the South and to be acknowledged internationally as a nuclear state.
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Wow! And while this is going on, a false flag will occur on the West coast of America and they will blame it on North Korea?
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Music Research >> Luke Donnellan's Dance Music of Oriel – a graphic and aural interpretation, realization and critical re-presentation of the work of an early-twentieth century music collector.
Luke Donnellan's Dance Music of Oriel – a graphic and aural interpretation, realization and critical re-presentation of the work of an early-twentieth century music collector.
Gerry O'Connor
The aim of the research programme is to apply technology and a specialist music knowledge to an existing archive of music in order to render it accessible to musicians and academics.
The objective of the research is to make the music available to modern-day performers and music historians and enthusiasts by publishing the 106 pieces of music (1) in digitized Sibelius notation, and (2) as performed pieces on CD format, done by local musicians from the region in counties Louth and Armagh in which the music originally evolved.
(a) Ethnomusicological reading programme relevant to the areas of local music and identity, and field collection as a component of a sense of 'national' culture.
(b) Library and archive searching to assemble and collate all extant data on Luke Donnellan and his work.
(c) Collation and computer transcription of the dance music.
(d) Assessment and documentation of Donnellan's Classical music associations.
(e) Comparison of Donnellan collection with period collections
(f) Comparative analysis and interpretation of Donnellan's collection.
(g) Selection and coaching of artistes in the performance, arrangement and recording of the repertoire
(h) Production of CD of music, and an indexed CD ROM and text forms of the same material
(i) Public performance of the collected works.
The South Ulster area has a significant local repertoire of instrumental music and song. Some of this has filtered out into the mainstream of Irish music (such as the song Dúlamán popularised by the group Clannad). Much of it however remained local and has gone into decline. Song is significant in the area – such as that which forms the basis of singer Padraigín Ní Uallacháin's 2004 major research work A Hidden Ulster (ix 02 : Four Courts Press, 2002).
The area's dance music has not been highlighted during the revival of Traditional music which has taken place since the 1950s, despite the fact that a quantity of it has been recorded on ediphone cylinder and is available for research. It is believed that the editing for performance of this material, and its translation into modern, accessible media will be of inestimable benefit to both music scholars in Ireland and its diaspora, and to performers of Irish music in the area, neighbouring regions, and within the Irish music genre as a whole.
It is intended to undertake research into, analysis of, editing of, and recorded performance of the hand-scribed collection of traditional Irish dance music known as Oriel Songs and Dances which was collected by Rev. Luke Donnellan, and published as hand transcription in the Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal ,1909.
Because this is a unique body of music which represents a repertory of music which was familiar to the population of South Ulster / North Leinster at the turn of the 20th century , it is proposed to
• Research the origins of the music
• Identify and study the backgrounds of the contributors to the collection
• Research the life and associations of Rev. Luke Donnellan and his classical musical compositions
• Cross reference the tunes and tune titles with contemporaneous collections of music
• Publish the 106 pieces of music in Sibelius notation, and as performed pieces on CD format, enlisting local musicians from the region in counties Louth and Armagh in which the music was originally evolved.
Other research in this area
Song of this area has already been researched substantially by Padraigín Ní Uallacháin in her 2003 book A Hidden Ulster. The proposed instrumental music work would greatly complement this.
The research project requires the practised ear of a highly competent musician who has a deep empathy with the music of this region, and has commitment to reintroducing its voice to the broad spectrum of Irish music. It also demands a high level of awareness of extant music talent, together with competence at organization of musicians and determining suitability of applicability. As a fiddle player and acknowledged major stylist in Irish music, Gerry O'Connor, from Dundalk, Co. Louth is uniquely suited to these roles. He has played and taught all over the world in his genre. Solo, and also with his group Lá Lugh , he has also been a major interpreter of the music of Oriel since the 1960s. His background in work-related methodology is of immense value to the organizational dimension of this project, as is his knowledge of music transcription. His recordings and group work are each intense workings of music and information-linked ethnography. His Irish music history knowledge and experience, his wide experience of the major varieties of folk music in the Western world, and his high level of achievement in a largely oral manner, come together in him as an academic and skills-base which is far in excess of undergraduate demands or standards.
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SICO Egypt smartphone maker to export to Germany next month
Egypt's first smartphone maker, SICO, said it will begin exporting its devices to Germany in November as part of its expansion plan to sell its products in Europe and Africa, its chairman told Reuters.
Silicon Industries Corporation (SICO), which already exports to the Gulf and aims to start selling phones in other European countries, said it signed an agreement in October with a company operating in Europe to market its products.
"We will begin exporting from Upper Egypt to Germany, Holland, Austria, and then Sweden, Norway and Finland," its chairman Mohamed Salem said.
SICO, which was set up in December 2017 and has 200 million Egyptian pounds ($12.43 million) in paid-up capital, sells phones under the brand name Nile X and has said it uses a Chinese design of 3G/4G U.S. technology.
Its plant in Assiut, Upper Egypt, has a production capacity of 2 million devices annually.
"We signed agreements with three Chinese companies to manufacture phones for them for export to Africa and to offer on the Egyptian market," Salem said.
"We started manufacturing them a month ago and the first of these products will be distributed inside the Egyptian market next week."
Private investors own 80% of the company and the remaining 20% is held by Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
SICO currently exports around 25% of its capacity, Salem said. It aims to export 50% of its products by the end of next year.
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GOP Sen. Josh Hawley loses top donors after trying to overturn election
The Missouri lawmaker cheered on pro-Donald Trump rioters shortly before they violently attacked the Capitol.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has lost the support of another prominent GOP megadonor over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
"Sometimes politicians deceive their donors," billionaire Jeffrey Yass recently wrote in an email, published by the Guardian on Monday, explaining his disappointment in Hawley's actions. Yass, co-founder of trading firm Susquehanna International Group, has donated tens of millions to the right-wing Club for Growth, which spent millions of dollars on Hawley's 2018 victory.
A Hawley spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry for this story.
Former supporters and media outlets have urging significant punishments for the first-term Republican senator after he helped spread false claims about the 2020 election, cheered on violent insurrectionists not long before they mounted a deadly attempted coup, and voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Since Election Day, Hawley elevated debunked conspiracy theories suggesting that Donald Trump — not President-elect Joe Biden — was the real victor.
He was the first senator to say he would object to certifying the Electoral College results.
"Millions of voters concerned about election integrity deserve to be heard," he tweeted on Dec. 30. "I will object on January 6 on their behalf."
As pro-Trump extremists gathered outside the Capitol prior to the joint session of Congress, Hawley greeted them with a fist pump and a thumbs up.
Another disappointed top GOP donor, roofing magnate David Humphreys, told the Missouri Independent earlier this month that he now believes Hawley to be a "political opportunist" who provoked the riots through "irresponsible, inflammatory, and dangerous tactics" and should be censured by his colleagues.
Humphreys gave millions to Hawley's campaign for Missouri attorney general in 2016 and backed him in his 2018 Senate race by more than $2 million in donations through outside political committees.
Cerner, a Missouri-based health information technology company, told the Kansas City Star last week, that its PAC would suspend donations to Hawley and other GOP lawmakers who "took part in or incited violence." The political action committee has previously given at least $10,000 to Hawley's leadership PAC.
Hawley's mentor, former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), also denounced his former protégé.
"Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after the riots. "Yesterday was the physical culmination of the long attempt [by Hawley and others] to foment a lack of public confidence in our democratic system. It is very dangerous to America to continue pushing this idea that government doesn't work and that voting was fraudulent."
Hawley is not the only Republican facing significant blowback for trying to overturn the election results.
Former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA), the former mentor of current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, called out his one-time employee on Friday for backing Trump's "phony lies" about the election.
Dozens of major corporations have announced that they are suspending PAC donations to Republicans who voted to object to Biden's electors being counted, according to a round-up by Popular Information. And more than a dozen newspaper editorial boards around the country have urged those who stoked the insurrection be expelled from Congress.
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Not CoolJames Charles Accuses 'Cameo' App Of Trying To Make Money Off The Coronavirus
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It looks like James Charles is not happy with the celebrity shout out platform Cameo. The social media star took to Twitter to slam the app on Saturday, March 14, and accused it of trying to make money off of the coronavirus.
For those who don't know, Cameo is a platform celebrities can use to communicate with their followers. For a small fee, fans can purchase a personalized video message from their idol.
James posted a screenshot of an email he allegedly received from the company in a now-deleted tweet that said, "I don't know if your events have been affected by the pandemic, but we've seen a growing number of talent joining Cameo to stay connected with fans from the safety of their homes, while also having an additional revenue stream as things get postponed."
"Hi @BookCameo I've asked you privately to stop emailing me and now I'm going to do it publicly!" he captioned it. "I interact with my fans for free every day because it's my job and I love them! Your website that charges for that is pathetic and so is your email pitch to profit off a deadly virus."
He added in another tweet, "The whole website concept is disgusting and I've avoided discussing it because I don't want to shade any of the influencers that do choose to use it but this email sent me over the edge."
The whole website concept is disgusting and I've avoided discussing it because I don't want to shade any of the influencers that do choose to use it but this email sent me over the edge
— James Charles (@jamescharles) March 14, 2020
For those who missed it, the World Health Organization has reported that more than 170,000 people have contracted virus so far, resulting in more than 6,000 deaths. Medical professionals have called for "social distancing" to prevent further spreading of the illness, which is defined as "trying to keep yourself away from other people, especially large crowds."
Because of this, many concerts, events and festivals have been canceled. Miley Cyrus, Louis Tomlinson, JoJo Siwa, Billie Eilish, BTS, Ally Brooke, Niall Horan, Selena Gomez, Jeffree Star, Meg Donnelly and more are among those who were forced to cancel their shows due to concerns over the disease. For the first time since September 11, 2001, every Disney theme park and cruise line worldwide will be shut down due to the coronavirus, plus, all Broadway shows and sports games have been called off.
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13 to 15 million people have been diagnosed this flu season.
Flu season is here and schools are feeling the effects.
Two public school districts and one private school in northern mississippi, are closed because of an increase in flu cases.
The north tippah school district and the south tippah school district, canceled classes because of the illness.
Tupelo christian preparatory school was also closed.
North tippah school district superintendent bill brand, said closing the school would allow staff to clean each classroom thoroughly, to help remove the germs that cause influenza.
Across state lines-- the lamar county school district is closed today after reports of the students getting sick across the county.
As of tuesday, about 12% of the school district's students were absent.
Quentin smith will have more from lamar county tonight on wcbi news.
This map from the centers for disease control shows widespread flu activity in mississippi and alabama.
The cdc reports 13 to 15 million people in the u.s. have been diagnosed this flu season.
About half of those patients went to a doctor, and more than 155 thousand were hospitalized.
The flu is especially dangerous for infants, the elderly and those with pre- existing conditions.
Dr. william davis in vernon tells us many of his patients were diagnosed with influenza a.
There is a difference between a cold and the flu.
Symptoms the mississippi state department of health says people with the flu often have a high fever for days, along with head and body aches.
Patients also have to deal with extreme exhaustion and sever coughing.
See your doctor for treatment options.
Flu season has been extended in Nevada. It typically ends on March 31. The CDC says the state has seen moderate flu activity. There have been 22 flu deaths this season, including 4 people 17 years old..
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Flu activity is still elevated in California, so much so that a local medical center has set up tents outsie to hold the flu patients watiting to be seen.