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Posted at 5:44 PM, Nov 22, 2022
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Better Business Bureau has launched its "Shop Safe Shop Smart" campaign ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

"I do online shopping mainly for a lot of Christmas gifts for family, for friends," Regina Foti, who lives in Jupiter, said.

Foti told WPTV that means having her guard up.

"I never click on anything from Facebook ads or Instagram ads," Foti said.

Regina Foti does most of her holiday shopping online
Regina Foti does most of her holiday shopping online, but she avoids clicking on Facebook or Instagram ads.

The Better Business Bureau launched its campaign this week, warning consumer that they need to be careful who they trust while shopping online.

"We see a lot of issues when it comes to fake websites," Cinthya Lavin, vice president of communications and community engagement for the Better Business Bureau, said. "Really, anyone can advertise on social media now. Because you see it on social media doesn't mean that it's legitimate. So, scammers know this. They open up offers for gaming consoles and other things at a very, very attractive price."

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Lavin said consumers need to make sure they are using secure websites.

"Really, they need to check at the security connection of that website," Lavin said. "If it says HTTP, you have to close that website and not make use of it because, really, it's an unsecure connection."

The BBB also recommends consumers use their credit cards when making purchases online for extra protection. They should never use their debit cards in case their information gets compromised.

BBB holiday shopping tip: Use Your Credit Card

If it's too good to be true, it probably is, the BBB warns.

"I think it's sad because a lot of people need to rely on the internet to shop and the stores don't have much inventory, so you rely online and you always have to be cautious now," Foti said.


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Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper reports on the latest news stories from the Built Environment, however, as this is the last blog before Christmas, Lucy veers away from sector news and provides some updates and wisdom relating to libraries and information management.

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Best books of 2018 and ones to look out for in 2019

When confronted by textbook after textbook, reading for pure enjoyment can become an afterthought. In moments of respite, you may want to pick up a book but what to choose?

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Out of all the industries affected by COVID-19, healthcare probably felt the biggest impact. Not only did the pandemic cause an influx of patients in our nation’s care facilities causing our teams an increasing level of burnout, new protocols impacted how we recruit talent. Hospital bottom line income margins declined in direct correlation to the decline in elective surgeries. All of this at a time when we’re facing serious shortages of primary and specialty care providers. How has this affected the salaries of the teams we hire? What compensation trends will affect our recruiting efforts this year?

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The first trend that healthcare recruiters should pay attention to is the sheer lack of numbers available to place in positions. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts we will need 124,000 more physicians than are available by 2025. We know the average age of nurses is increasing, which puts us in a vulnerable position as these nurses begin to retire.

Having a competitive compensation package is both a goal and a necessity in today’s challenging healthcare talent markets. Organizations rely heavily on salary along with signing bonuses to attract top talent. The first trend to take note of is that these bonuses are rapidly increasing. A recent poll of UHC Recruiters found the average signing bonuses on several top specialties to be around:

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  • Ob-gyn $24,000

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We’re also seeing physician assistants doing well in this economy. If they’re working in the ER they average salaries of $123,000 yearly. Conversely, in family medicine, PAs make just over $100,000 on average.

Another compensation trend has to do with the new skills we’re searching for across specialties. Candidates who understand digital technologies and specifically have “webside manner” related to telemedicine generally are more popular with healthcare recruiting teams. We’re also seeing an increasing need for travel nurses, particularly to help alleviate some of the burnout our nursing and frontline teams are feeling now that the COVID crisis has reduced in scope. Of course, this increasing demand comes at a time when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects RN job growth at 7% annually, which is much higher than almost any other profession.

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How a university, its major funders and a newspaper killed research into the toxicity of aluminium adjuvants in vaccines

This long read was originally published in The Looking Glass, a New Zealand blog.

This is a story about how a British university stifled ground-breaking public interest science, ostensibly to satisfy powerful interests — and save their own bacon.

As far as the general public is concerned, universities, those hallowed halls, remain places where academics can pursue knowledge unhindered. But many universities and higher education institutions are compromised by the interests of their funders and an increasingly narrow and corporate view of science.

Professor Christopher Exley, a lauded biologist, the world’s pre-eminent expert on aluminium and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology — a recognition few scientists achieve — last year lost research funding for his longstanding work on aluminium toxicity in diseases like Alzheimer’s and autism, and its role as an adjuvant in vaccines.

It took place through a series of politically motivated moves that ultimately ended with his funding being completely cut off.

Aluminium is toxic

If you take the time to listen to one of Exley’s many lectures — and you should — you will learn that aluminium is ubiquitous. It is everywhere in the environment, and it is highly toxic to human beings.

In the 1980s, Exley was doing research into why fish were dying in acidified lakes and rivers; he came to understand they were dying of aluminium toxicity. Aluminium — previously locked up in rocks and clays or recycled in the environment by silicic acid — had, through the process of acidification due to acid rain, become bioavailable and entered into biological life cycles.

Today, we ingest aluminium through processed foods, drink it in water, and cook in aluminium pots and pans (many pans are now made of anodised aluminium). It is found in baby formula, cosmetics and is a key ingredient in many vaccines.

The important public health implications of Exley’s work

A tenured professor at Keele University in Staffordshire for nearly 30 years, with more than 200 papers under his belt, Exley and his team of research scientists had in 2017 established what he describes as an “unequivocal” connection between aluminium toxicity and Alzheimer’s disease.

 “Without aluminium, there would be no Alzheimer’s,” he says in his book, Imagine You Are An Aluminium Atom.

A few years later, in 2020, Exley’s group published their seminal paper comparing aluminium content in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and autism in Nature’s Scientific Reports.

The team had developed a protocol to measure the aluminium content of brains, which had shown that the brains of people with Alzheimer’s, autism and multiple sclerosis had elevated levels of aluminium. Importantly, access to the samples from a brain bank used in the research had been funded by charitable donations rather than more traditional funding sources.

Answering questions from The Looking Glass, Exley says that by the time this paper was published the focus of their research had already turned to aluminium adjuvants and vaccines, a field of study they had pursued for many years.

2021 paper measured the aluminium content of 13 infant vaccines and compared it with the manufacturer’s data. Only three vaccines contained the amount of aluminium indicated by the manufacturer, while six contained a statistically significant greater quantity, and four a statistically significant lower quantity.

Exley’s work is ground-breaking, and has obvious implications for public health. He and his team were the last research group left in Britain studying the impact of toxic exposure to aluminium, a field of study that just twenty years earlier was active.

Aluminium research quietly suffocated

Exley explains that in the early 1990s, the aluminium industry stepped up its efforts to influence government, charities and various industries to make it increasingly difficult for scientists to obtain funding to do research into aluminium toxicity:

Hence, group [after] group moved their attention from aluminium to other areas where funding was available. I have said this many times, but I did not become a scientist for science’s sake. I took up science to solve the paradox of aluminium and human life.

I was undeterred and worked harder and harder to win research funding from as wide a funding base as possible. I doubt that any scientist has worked as hard as I did in keeping research funding coming to my lab

While Exley had been able to be conclusive about the connection between Alzheimer’s and aluminium toxicity, sadly his work was scuppered before he was able be as conclusive about the link between aluminium toxicity and autism and nor could he continue his work on aluminium in vaccines.

In this 2020 interview, Exley talks about his research into aluminium and brain toxicity.

A less-than-lukewarm response

Autism and Alzheimer’s rates continue to climb decade after decade.

In 2021, the Centres for Disease Control reported that approximately one in 44 children aged eight in the US is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, according to 2018 data: an increase from the one-in-54 statistic reported in 2020 and an enormous increase from the first known US autism prevalence study in 1970, which established a rate of less than one in 10,000.

Rates of Alzheimer’s increased by more than 145 per cent between 2000 and 2019.

Despite the rising incidence of these diseases, his research on Alzheimer’s and autism had elicited nothing but silence from the major charities dedicated to these diseases. And the university he worked for, Keele, appeared only to tolerate him, he says, never promoting his findings or issuing press releases.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Exley had also been saddled with the label of anti-vaxxer. The slur was pinned on him by internet trolls immediately following the publication of research on aluminium in brain tissue in autism in 2017, he says:

Scrutiny of the paper in question and all of our published works provides no support for this label. Though, in truth, I do not understand why one cannot be against vaccination in the same way as one might oppose anything else. Anti-vaxxer seems akin to being labelled an atheist in a predominantly Christian world.

Exley says he is agnostic, in the tradition of one of his science heroes, T.H. Huxley: reluctant to claim certainty about things he cannot know or demonstrate. And yet, inconveniently, he has demonstrated that elevated levels of aluminium are found in the brains of people who died with autism.

A 2020 paper called ‘An aluminium adjuvant in a vaccine is an acute exposure to aluminium’ attempted to explain why the so-called “teeny weeny” amounts of aluminium in infant vaccines were in fact significant.

The paper concludes:

Exposure to aluminium through a vaccine is, in comparison to diet, an acute exposure and an infant’s physiology will respond differently to exposure to a high concentration of aluminium over a very short time period. The latter, acute versus chronic exposure, while not yet being taken into account in infant vaccination programmes, must now be considered to help to ensure that future vaccination schedules are safe.

Can science be ‘anti-vaccine’?

Exley’s work broadly examined the impact of aluminium on human biology, and was certainly not limited to exposure via vaccines, but his work was nevertheless attracting negative attention. Later, it became clear that the attention was unwanted, as far as the university was concerned.

Through a series of bizarre and drawn-out interactions with the university administration, and through what eventually became clear was an attack on his funding sources, Exley’s longstanding position at Keele began to unravel.

Exley told The Looking Glass that during his last few years at Keele, on more than one occasion senior management attempted “spuriously-founded disciplinary action” against him:

Only my use of world-class and expensive employment lawyers protected me from being ousted. Needless to say, these events did have a negative impact upon my health; but I did not give in, at least not while I had the funding to continue to do good science.

I am sure that if I had remained at Keele as a lame duck professor, they would have continued to hunt me down until I left.

But he was not pushed out; in the end, Exley resigned. Without the ability to continue his research, he had no enthusiasm to stick around.

“For over twenty years, I had the full and unconditional support of the University,” Exley wrote in his tell-all leaving statement.

So, what happened?

The beginning of the end

In 2016 the university set up a simplified portal for Exley’s team to receive donations, which he says worked well for a couple of years. But in 2018, senior management began to interfere. Excuses were made that the online portal was unsuitable and an alternative system should be set up.

Exley had been very successful at attracting independent and unsolicited funding for his research from traditional sources as well as from the public and philanthropists. He had brought in about £6 million over his thirty-year term at Keele, most of it from traditional funders (corporate, government and large charities).

This was unusual, at least at Keele, he says:

You need a profile to be able to obtain funding from, for example, philanthropic services, and you need to be prepared to work extremely hard in bringing in sponsors. For example, being prepared to travel the world giving talks in a wide variety of situations.

Researching the role of aluminium in vaccines was one of his main subject areas, but this research was not popular with major funders. Still, Exley had managed to bring in about £1 million in philanthropic donations in his last seven or eight years at the university, which had enabled their vaccine research to survive. It was this funding stream that Keele ensured was unable to flow.

He began to receive e-mails from potential donors that the portal was not working, and found out that it had been disabled. He was then told by administrators that there was a need for clearer rules with regards to ‘crowdfunding’: rules, he says, that applied within the university only to him. This despite the fact that he had never attempted crowdfunding and none of his funding was gained that way. Exley believes that rather, this was an impression that Keele wanted to make.

The role of the media

In 2019, the Guardian published an article scrutinising his funding via Keele’s online funding portal and drawing attention to his work on aluminium in vaccines and their potential link to autism. The article was clearly aimed at discrediting his work and casting doubt on the validity of its funding.

Guardian headline on Professor Exley

Exley told The Looking Glass he believes that someone from Keele almost certainly initiated the Guardian article and provided the financial information. He made numerous enquiries through his lawyers to the university asking for evidence of the reporter’s Freedom of Information request, but this has not been forthcoming.

The Guardian is clearly an arm of a greater body and is not averse to telling lies. Other mainstream media in the UK, such as the Times, are no better. Since 2016, I have only received negative publicity about our research. This was not always the case.

What triggered the change was probably the publication of this paper on the toxicity of aluminium adjuvants in clinically approved vaccines, he says.

At the end of 2019, a new portal was set up, now managed by the alumni office. This worked for around six months. But donors once again contacted Exley, this time to say his name did not appear in the drop-down menu on the donations portal. He says in his leaving statement:

Senior management at Keele seemed determined to make donations towards my research as difficult as possible for potential donors. This included refusing to inform me when a donation had been made.

I had to rely upon donors contacting me to inform me that they had made a donation. However, donations continued to be received and this unconditional support of our research by individual donors was only brought to an end in February 2021 when Keele’s senior management acted to prevent all donations to my group.

The Guardian article had led to internal discussion among senior management at Keele that labelled Exley as an anti-vaxxer, despite an email dated 25 February to Exley stating they took a neutral view:

As you are aware, from time to time, concerns have been raised by both our external and internal communities, as a result of press stories, about research undertaken at the University by you and its use to question vaccine safety in a manner which may undermine public health initiatives. On this we make no judgment.

The research group’s website, which compiled all of its research and housed the funding portal, was suspended. Funding would only be permitted from industry or government sources, prohibiting him from receiving funding from philanthropists, charities and personal donations — a rule that applied only to Exley.

Robert Kennedy and the politicisation of vaccine safety science

In 2021, this new rule led to a US$15,000 donation from Robert F. Kennedy being rejected by Keele. Robert F. Kennedy is the founder of Children’s Health Defense, an organisation working to shed light on vaccine injury and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its regulators.

Kennedy commented in an article in CHD:

Exley’s research efforts have documented grave toxic effects of aluminum exposures on human health. Towards the end of last year, I learned that future research in Dr Exley’s laboratory was in jeopardy if he was unable to raise further research funding. Fearing that his critical research would wither, I sent a personal check for $15,000 to Exley via Keele.

I never expected that my donation would be rejected. I’ve never heard of any university returning a donation from a private individual with no corporate conflicts […] I am an environmental and public health advocate and attorney who has spent years successfully suing the world’s biggest polluters and pharmaceutical companies in the public interest.

The rejection of Kennedy’s 2021 donation triggered another article in the Guardian by the same reporter, Patrick Greenfield, with the headline ‘Keele University accepting funds for researcher who shared vaccine misinformation’.

Guardian headline attacking Professor Exley

It contained this statement from Keele:

The university emphatically supports public health vaccination programmes and recognises the importance that current vaccines play in protecting health both in the UK and globally.

Exley told The Looking Glass that a clue to whoever may have pulled the strings at Keele came from a letter written to Kennedy by Keele, explaining why his donation was being turned down:

Mention is made of major funding partners. The obvious ones are the NHS — [which is] no more than an adjunct to the global pharmaceutical industry; AstraZeneca, who have a considerable presence on campus; and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

An internal e-mail between two university administrators that Exley was able to get hold of also indicated the university was trying to stay on the right side of another major funder. The e-mail said:

I think it is clear that the decision is in the best interests of the charity: accepting donations solicited by an individual supporting anti-vaccine misinformation risks a £9m research income per annum from NIHR being lost. The Guardian headline is spot on: Keele facilitates money flowing to a prominent anti-vaccine academic.

The chief executive of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), a government agency which funds research into health and social care, is Chris Whitty, who was also the chief medical advisor to the British Government at the height of the Covid response.

Following The Science

In the last decade, following the science has come to be something of a mantra in public discourse. A naïve public might suppose that would mean Exley’s findings would end up being reflected in public health policy, or that the public would at a minimum be made aware of the risks and sources of aluminium exposures — but Exley’s work has been largely ignored. He says:

There was no science-based backlash; no-one refuted our findings. However, the internet trolls seem to have the support of search engines such as Google, and so their attacks on our work are always on the first page of any search.

His work has also involved figuring out how to rid the body of the toxin, with rather startling results. Could it be that the solution is as simple as consuming mineral water rich in silicic acid? That, and avoiding it to begin with?

Exley says the aluminium lobby goes largely unacknowledged, unlike Big Pharma, Big Ag and Big Tech, but that it is arguably the most powerful of all:

It is a silent ‘big brother’ that, while rarely commenting at all on aluminium toxicity in humans, is always there to support the myriad industries that depend upon its product.

The science stands

Credulous members of the public who uncritically accept reporting in the Guardian, or any other legacy media outlet, are likely to perceive Exley as a charlatan. That is the point of such stories.

But despite his employer’s capitulation to powerful industry forces, Exley wasn’t openly ostracised by the scientific community:

Our research, over 200 peer-reviewed papers, is accepted as sound and, for example, led to an invitation to be a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. It is probably true to say that my fellow scientists have not rushed to support me at this time but they have not been at the forefront of any criticism either.

I might add that a letter was sent to the vice-chancellor at Keele signed by over 100 scientists asking for the reinstatement of myself and my funding at Keele. It was ignored. Other eminent scientists have written to the VC as individuals and received no reply.

The public remains largely unaware of the dynamics gripping science institutions (and science reporting): that they are controlled by money and that certain narratives are promoted, often through far-reaching, sophisticated public relations campaigns that have included capturing media.

What happened to Exley is a high-profile example of it, but we could equally point to the character assassination of epidemiologist Dr Simon Thornley in New Zealand or the widespread censorship of doctors and scientist speaking out against the Covid response that is taking place globally.

There is, in fact, a long history of censoring inconvenient science and defaming those who insist on doing it. Biochemist Árpád Pusztai, gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield and geneticist Gilles Éric Séralini are just three others who come to mind. All of them had highly successful careers before reputational smear campaigns, media hit pieces and institutional pressure were brought to bear on them.

The degree to which money has sullied the waters of public interest science is also evidenced by the fact that most funding is now channeled towards applied science, with commercial imperatives. Science like Exley’s, that explores environmental and human toxicity, does not generally lead to lucrative patents.

I asked him how this broken system might be fixed. He replied:

Science cannot flourish when funding comes from industry, government and major charities all of which have significant vested interests and cannot be trusted. Perhaps institutions supported solely by philanthropy could bring back some of the integrity that has been lost.

Exley is now retired, although should a willing philanthropist emerge, he says he would resume his research.


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Mass Propagation—Death Stress

It is not uncommon for a person, at some point in their life, to wonder or worry about death. At the end of the day, the only thing we can be certain of is that after birth, there’s a natural end in death. It is normal to consider our fate, whether it’s because we have an illness, fear an illness, or are putting our affairs in order for when we are no longer here.

However, there is a small percentage of the population who suffer with death anxiety, known as thanatophobia. The term is taken from the Greek thanatos meaning death, and phobos, meaning fear. It was first mentioned in 1915 by Sigmund Freud, who thought it may be related to an ‘unconscious’ belief in immortality. A feeling of separation, fear of dealing with a loss, and intense worry related to leaving loved ones behind can all contribute to extreme anxiety, especially when death appears inevitably accelerated.

If a fear is so prevalent and it affects your daily life, then it becomes appropriate to call it a phobia. Very few young children need to think about death: they are too busy exploring, learning and growing. However, I am shocked and saddened to discover that many young children under the age of seven are very aware and scared, of both their own death and that of their nearest and dearest relatives.

Once a fear is embedded into the psyche, it often remains and becomes pervasive. Remember the slogan ‘Don’t Kill Granny”? Trawling the internet offerings of peer-reviewed papers, I am struggling to find reference to death anxiety in young children. What has been a taboo subject appears to have almost infected and attacked the purest of innocence that only a young child can experience.

For many months, I have had the privilege of talking to many eminent professionals and experts. I have had many lengthy phone conversations with one doctor in particular, Dr Christian Buckland, Doctor of Psychology in Psychotherapy and Counselling (his interview with UK Column can be found here). We have been trying to disseminate the ‘cascade of information’ that we are receiving and observing with our own eyes.

Observation is what we are trained to do. Our phone conversations have often been extremely expansive as we compare research and bounce ideas off each other. It is a rare synergy that works, especially since we have never met in person. When Christian first started talking about a mass death anxiety, I was very intrigued. Had we normalised death anxiety? I knew he was onto something, so we researched and talked a great deal more.

We would like to 'propagate’ an idea for readers to consider. The term Christian came up with is ‘mass propagation’. You heard it here first, although full acknowledgement must be given to Christian for coming up with this term, which appears to dovetail nicely into what we are seeing and experiencing in our everyday lives.

How does it work?

The USA Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5 (DSM5) criteria for ‘phobia’—a term that would include a death anxiety—are:

  • Excessive worry or fear of death or dying that gets in the way of life
    (Covid death anxiety example: Has continual worry of death involving yourself or members of your family during Covid-19 got in the way of your life?)
  • To actively avoid any situation involving death or dying
    (Covid death anxiety example: Did the forced lockup ensure you felt safe, away from any risk to your health or that of your loved ones? Did you rely on supermarket delivery services too scared to venture out? Were you taking supplies and dropping them off on doorsteps of neighbours, then stepping back?)
  • To experience intense anxiety when thinking of death or dying
    (Covid death anxiety example: Did you constantly worry about potentially passing something onto one of your loved ones who may be elderly or vulnerable? Did you write a will? Did you put your affairs in order, just in case? Are you scared to get sick? Were you worried about yourself or your loved ones dying alone without friends or family?)

The relentless and unethical fear campaign we have undergone since 2020 has severely attacked many people’s psychological wellbeing, leaving them unhealthily preoccupied with avoiding death. We know that living in a constant state of fear not only impacts our emotional health, but also it damages the immune system and significantly contributes to physical health issues.

Therefore, has the fear campaign actually pushed a proportion of the population towards an early death because of being terrified of death? How did this happen? And how was this allowed to happen?

With so many questions to consider, Christian and I were led to the question of ‘what is propaganda’. Where did the word originate, and how have governments and corporations managed to change its meaning to suit their own narrative and to the detriment of all of us? What words and phrases do they use in order to propagate fear, or to propagate a fear of death?

Christian and I call it ‘death stress’. Could those three-word worry phrases we became so familiar with actually be the death of us? ‘Stay At Home’, ‘Protect The NHS’, ‘Hands, Face, Space’, and ‘Don’t Kill Granny’ are examples.

Attempting to plan, manage, attempt or influence people en masse to an idea or an action is propaganda.

A term (though not a concept) originating from the Vatican, propaganda was first used in the sense of ‘spreading faith’. However, in the 20th century and now the 21st century, its meaning has morphed into a something that we have been encouraged to interpret or view suspiciously as ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’—mostly allegedly coming from an unreliable source. But who defines what an ‘unreliable source is? Instilling ideas, manipulation, coercion or encouraging others to behave in a certain way could be called ‘persuasion’ or even ‘nudging’. When does ‘nudging’ become dangerous or ill-intentioned?

We all have the ability to ‘propagate’. Don’t the majority of us who still have the ability to think critically do it every day, with as many people as possible? We may call it ‘seeding’, when we—those of us who can see past the narrative—carefully and gently drop an idea that we hope may give that person a desire to find out more.

This is not malevolent propaganda if it is true, can be evidenced and is given with good intentions. Yet those that control the narrative, together with their appointed experts, have intentionally gone out of their way to disproportionately scare, fear and terrorise large swathes of the population. Locking up an entire country is a big deal, and terrifying your own citizens for no reason is unprecedented.

You may associate the word ‘propagate’ with gardens and horticulture; you would be correct to do so. The earliest Latin sense of the verb propagare is to graft or plant a cutting or shoot, in order for it to grow. The similarities between the derivatives propaganda (a gerundive) and propagation (a noun) are not coincidental.

Propaganda per se has been revamped, renamed and disguised. Currently, governments refer to it as ‘public relations’ or ‘strategic communication’—or perhaps even ‘behavioural science’. The inventor of the term ‘public relations’, Edward Bernays (son of Anna Freud, sister of Sigmund Freud) observed that the term ‘propaganda’ had become unusable in English-speaking countries because it was associated with the German effort in the First World War, and hence he had come up with that new term.

If we changed his term ‘counsel of public relations’ to ‘counsel of propaganda’, would we even give it the time of day? I doubt it. Deception that involves lying and distortion from the truth are frequently associated with propaganda campaigns. Note the UK Government’s eye-watering Covid advertising budget. It is alarmingly easy to exploit fear and desire with money. Did the ‘public information’ broadcasts suck you in?

If you are reading this, I doubt that too. If you are in any doubt, avail yourself of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale to reassure you. The first word of that phrase, though in this case a proper noun, happens to be a variant form of ‘Templar’, which denotes a member of a religious military order established early in the twelfth century.

I have reached the following definition.

Mass propagation is the deliberate, wilful and intentional act of propagating an idea in order to manipulate and create a global behaviour in reaction to a global ‘emergency’. Maybe we should add the word ‘malevolent’?

Personally, I am in favour of the concept of mass propagation—as long as the qualifying adjective ‘truthful’ is added.

Below are links to some articles that may be of interest. Ask yourself: are our friends, colleagues, loved ones and family suffering from a mental health condition forced upon them by their government? Many are seeing a manufactured ‘mental health pandemic’ looming. Are you, or someone you know, suffering death stress?

Perhaps you are an expert reading this and have more information on what is a raw and somewhat newly identified, prevalent condition that is sweeping across our planet, disguised as a contagion. Perhaps this article is posing more questions than answers? We would love to hear from you, and we invite you to propagate your ideas with us.

Dr Christian Buckland on Twitter

What is thanatophobia?

UK Government is the highest advertiser in the UK

Death Anxiety Resilience (DAR)

Death Anxiety Scale

Death Anxiety across the Adult Years: an examination of age and gender effect


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The oil industry will spend £20bn on decommissioning over the next decade, the leaders say

According to the industry, more than 2,000 oil and gas wells in the North Sea are expected to be decommissioned over the next ten years at a cost of around £20 billion.

A number of decommissioning projects have been brought forward, meaning costs rose to an estimated £16.6bn last year.

Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has published its annual Decommissioning Insight report, stating that an increase in decommissioning activity has begun this year and is expected to continue for the next three or four years.

It is estimated that about 2,100 North Sea wells will be decommissioned over the next ten years – about 200 per year – at an average cost of £7.8 million per well.

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Ricky Thomson, OEUK’s decommissioning manager, said much of the “remarkable” increase in expected spending was due to bringing work forward.

In a briefing to journalists, he said the industry had made “fantastic” savings of 25% on the projected decommissioning bill, saying the UK is a world leader in the industry.

The regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has challenged offshore energy companies to reduce costs by a further 10% by executing projects more efficiently.

Mr Thomson said: “The UK decommissioning industry is snowballing and will continue to grow for years to come.

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“But this is both a challenge and an opportunity. The growth of renewable energy sources and the demand for decommissioning services and expertise will put increasing pressure on resources.

“This is a major problem and it is vital that this opportunity is managed well across the industry so that UK companies can seize the lion’s share of this £20bn opportunity.

“With the right government support and industry action, the UK could reap big profits from decommissioning and maintain thousands of jobs for this growing sector.”

Decommissioning work is required by law and work to remove the oil and gas infrastructure from the North Sea is expected to last until about 2070.

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The NSTA said the industry should extend its progress in reducing cost estimates for decommissioning work.

It wants the total bill for all decommissioning work reduced to £33.3bn.

Pauline Innes, NSTA’s head of decommissioning, said: “We have rightly commended the industry for the work it has already done to save billions of pounds on decommissioning, but now is the time to capitalize on the benefit.

“This new target will help maintain momentum and strengthen our industry’s reputation for the safe, efficient and economic execution of offshore projects.”

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Basilica of St. Benedict

Basilica of St. Benedict

The Basilica of St. Benedict is located on the piazza of the same name in the centre of Norcia.

Tradition has it that this was the site of the house where the twin saints Benedict and Scholastica were born.

Dedicated to St. Benedict, the Patron Saint of Europe and the father of western monasticism (5th-6th century), the basilica is one of the region's most spiritually important sites. The façade is typically medieval and differs from the interior, which was entirely redone in the 18th century.

Constructed over the saint's crypt between 1290 and 1338, the first enlargement project – by the monks of Sant'Eutizio in Valcastoriana – dates to just a few years later. The bell tower was erected in the 14th century but an earthquake in 1703 destroyed the upper section, soon replaced by a smaller version. After the 1859 earthquake, the upper part of the façade underwent restoration.

The last work done on the church took place in the 1950s and revealed a 14th-century triumphal arch.
In 1570 a portico originally used as a roof over the cereals market was added to the right of the church.
The soft pink façade is bell-shaped and framed by two pilasters that end in pinnacles. It is divided in two parts by a frame that was originally decorated with multi-coloured inlays. The lower part is graced with a massive doorway under a lunette embellished with a group of sculptures depicting the Madonna with Child and two adoring angels. One of the niches beside the lunette houses a statue of St. Benedict and the other a statue of St. Scholastica.
A large rose window encircled by the symbols of the four Evangelists adorns the upper part of the façade.
The church has a Latin cross layout with a single nave and polygonal apse and was entirely redone in the 18th century. In the left wing of the transept is a large painting, St. Benedict and Totila, by Filippo Napoletano (1621), while over the altar in the right wing there is a Madonna and Norcia Saints done in the mid-1600s by the Roman painter Vincenzo Manetti. The apse is home to an impressive wooden choir from the 16th century that was taken from the church of the Annunziata.
The old crypt is under the nave and has three naves formed by pilasters crowned with rough capitals. The central nave has a lowered round vaulted ceiling and the more narrow side naves have cross vaulted ceilings. The left one ends in an absidiola which once belonged to a Roman public building dating to the first century C.E. that was eventually transformed into the primitive Oratory of St. Benedict. Some parts of the crypt walls are graced with opus reticulatum brickwork, while others show traces of 14th century frescoes (left apse) where, according to tradition, the twins, Saints Benedict and Scholastica, were born. A small door leads to the adjacent archaeological site that encompasses the remains of two more rooms of the Roman building.

Note that the church sustained significant damage in the 2016 earthquake and is awaiting restoration.

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Listen Here at 28:00 Tracy Beanz visits the Lars Larson show and discusses the Muller Mess, McCabe, Comey & Flynn.

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Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Beanz, is an investigative journalist. Focused on bringing integrity and ethics back to journalism, she is known for her factual research into the details few others pursue. Tracy hosts the popular podcast, Dark to Light. She is also a social media phenom who amassed nearly 900,000 Twitter followers with her video reports receiving millions of views before being banned by "Big Tech."


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Ukraine, Profita (UniCamillus) “Ready to welcome and support 20 Ukrainians students”

“UniCamillus is ready to welcome immediately 20 young Ukrainians, prospective students of healthcare disciplines, and support them in their academic path through scholarships, as well as grant them moral and psychological support” the Rector of the International Medical University in Rome, UniCamillus, Gianni Profita, declares.

“The tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, the madness of a war in the heart of Europe, cannot leave anyone indifferent: today more than ever each one of us is called to do their share.
Since the establishment of UniCamillus – the Rector continues – the openness to the world and the integration among peoples have been the focus of its mission, therefore, in agreement with the Centro Culturale Internazionale Giovanni XXII for foreign students, supported by the Vicariato of Rome, our University is ready to welcome 20 young Ukrainians aspiring to become doctors or health professionals. Furthermore, scholarships are provided in order to support them in the preparation to the admission test, as well as along the entire course of studies until graduation”.

“Our hope – Profita concludes – is that the young Ukrainians that will become UniCamillus students manage to find here the peace that today is missing in their homeland, and that they will soon remain just a memory of a war that we wish to see stopped immediately, in favour of dialogue, diplomacy and pacific confrontation, faded a few days ago.


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Gravitational Wave Detectors: How They Work

Simplified gravitational wave detectors

It’s official: this Thursday, February 11, at 10:30 EST, there will be parallel press conferences at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in Hannover, Germany, and near Pisa in Italy. Not officially confirmed, but highly probable, is that people running the LIGO gravitational wave detectors will announce the first direct detection of a gravitational wave. The first direct detection of minute distortions of spacetime, travelling at the speed of light, first postulated by Albert Einstein almost exactly 100 years ago. Nobel prize time.

Time to brush up on your gravitational wave basics, if you haven’t done so! In Gravitational waves and how they distort space, I had a look at what gravitational waves do. Now, on to the next step: How can we measure what they do? How do gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO work?

Recall that this is how a gravitational wave will change the distances between particles, floating freely in a circular formation in empty space: How distances change when a simple gravitational wave passes through a ring of particles. This is what gravitational wave detectors need to measure.The wave is moving at right angles to the screen, towards you. I’ve greatly exaggerated the distance changes. For a realistic wave, even the giant distance between the Earth and the Sun would only change by a fraction of the diameter of a hydrogen atom. Tiny changes indeed.

How to detect something like this?

The first unsuccessful attempts to detect gravitational waves in the 1960s tried to measure how they make aluminum cylinders ring like a very soft bell. (Tragic story; Joe Weber [1919-2000], the pioneering physicist behind this, was sure he had detected gravitational waves in this way; after thorough analysis and replication attempts, community consensus emerged that he hadn’t.)

Afterwards, physicists came up with alternative scheme. Imagine that you are replacing the black point in the center of the previous animation with a detector, and the rightmost red particle with a laser light source. Now you send light pulses (represented here by fast red dots) from the light source to the detector; let’s first look at this with the gravitational wave switched off:Simplified gravitational wave detector without gravitational wave

Every time a light pulse reaches the detector, an indicator light flashes yellow. The pulses are sent out regularly, they all travel at the same speed, hence they also reach the detector in regular intervals.

If a gravitational wave passes through this system, again from the back and coming towards you, distances will change. Let us keep our camera trained on the detector, so the detector remains where it is. The changing distance to the light source, and also the changing distances between the light pulses, and some of the changes in distance between light pulses and detector or source, are due to the gravitational wave. Here is what that would look like (again, hugely exaggerated): The same simplified gravitational wave detector, but now with a gravitational wave passing through.

Keep your eye on the blinking light, and you will see that its blinking is not so regular any more. Sometimes, the light blinks faster, sometimes slower. This is an effect of the gravitational wave. An effect by which we can hope to detect the gravitational wave.

“We” in this case are the radio astronomers working on what are known as Pulsar Timing Arrays. The sender of regular pulses are pulsars, rotating neutron stars sweeping a radio beam across our antennas like a cosmic lighthouse. The detectors are radio telescopes here on Earth. Detection is anything but easy. With a single pulsar, you’d need to track pulse arrival times with an accuracy of a few billionths of a second over half a year, and make sure you are not being fooled by various other sources of timing variations. So far, no gravitational waves have been detected in this way, although the radio astronomers are keeping at it.

To see how gravitational wave detectors like LIGO work, we need to make things a little more complex.

Interferometric gravitational wave detectors: the set-up

Here is the basic set-up: Two mirrors, a receiver (or “light detector”), a light source and what is known as a beamsplitter: Basic setup for an interferometric gravitational wave detector

Light is sent into the detector from the (laser) light source LS to the beamsplitter B which, true to its name, sends half of the light on to the mirror M1 and lets the other half through to the mirror M2. At M1 and M2, respectively, the light is reflected back to the beam splitter. There, the light arriving from M1 (or M2) is split again, with half going towards the light detector LD, the other half back in the direction of the light source LS. We will ignore the latter half and pretend, for the sake of our simplified explanation, that all the light reaching B from M1 or M2 goes on to the light detector LD.

(To avoid confusion, I will always refer to LD as the “light detector” and take the unqualified word “detector” to mean the whole setup.)

This setup, by the way, is called a Michelson Interferometer. We’ll see below why it is a good setup for gravitational wave detectors.

In what follows, we will assume that the mirrors and the beam splitter, shown as being suspended, react to the gravitational wave in the same way freely floating particles would react. The key effects are between the mirrors and the beam splitter in what are called the two arms of the detector. Arm length is huge in today’s detectors, running to a few kilometers. In comparison, light source and light detector are very close to the beamsplitter; changes of the distances between these three do not signify.

Light pulses in a gravitational wave detector

Next, let us see how light pulses run through this detector. Here is the same setup, seen from above: Simple interferometric gravitational wave detector, seen from aboveLight source LS, the two mirrors M1 and M2, the beamsplitter B and the light detector LD: all present and accounted for.

Next, we let the light source emit light pulses. For greater clarity, I will make two artificial and unrealistic changes. I will send red and green pulses into the detector, representing the light that goes into the horizontal and the vertical arm, respectively. In reality, there is no distinction, just light apportioned at the beamsplitter. Light running towards M1 will be offset a little to the left, light coming back from M1 to the right, for better clarity. Same goes for M2. This, too, is different in a real detector. That said, here come the light pulses: Simplified interferometric gravitational wave detector with light running through both armsLight starts at the light source to the left. Light that has left the source together, travels together (so green and red pulses are side by side) until the beam splitter. The beam splitter then sends the green pulses on their upward journey and lets the red pulses pass on their way towards the mirror on the right. All the particles that arrive back at the beamsplitter after reflection at M1 or M2. At the beamsplitter, they are directed towards the light detector at the bottom.

In this setup, the horizontal arm is slightly longer than the vertical arm. Red particles have to cover some extra distance. That is why they arrive at the detector a bit later, and we get an alternating rhythm: green, red, green, red, with equal distances in between. This will become important later on.

Here is a diagram, a kind of registration strip, which shows the arrival times for red and green pulses at the light detector (time is measured in “animation frames”): Arrival times at the light detector of a simplified gravitational wave detectorThe pattern is clear: red and green pulses arrive evenly spaced, one after the other.

Bring on the gravitational wave!

Next, let’s switch on our standard gravitational wave (exaggerated, passing through the screen towards you, and so on). Here is the result: Simple interferometric gravitational wave detector with a gravitational wave passing throughWe have trained our camera on the beamsplitter (so in our image, the beamsplitter doesn’t move). We ignore any slight changes in distance between beamsplitter and light source/light detector. Instead, we focus on the mirrors M1 and M2, which change their distance from the beamsplitter just as we would expect from the earlier animations.

Look at the way the pulses arrive at our light detector: sometimes red and green are almost evenly spaced, sometimes they close together. That is caused by the gravitational wave. Without the wave, we had strict regularity.

Here is the corresponding “registration strip” diagram. You can see that at some times, the light pulses of each color are closer together, at others, farther apart: Arrival times for light pulses in a gravitational wave detector

At the time I have marked with a hand-drawn arrow, red and green pulses arrive almost in unison!

The pattern is markedly different from the scenario without a gravitational wave. Detect this change in the pattern, and you have detected the gravitational wave.

Running interference

If you’ve wondered why detectors like LIGO are called interferometric gravitational wave detectors, we will need to think about waves a bit more. If not, let me just state that detectors like LIGO use the wave properties of light to measure the changes in pulse arrival rate you have seen in the last animation. To skip the details, feel free to jump ahead to the last section, “…and now for something a thousand times more complicated.”

Light is a wave, with crests and troughs corresponding to maxima and minima of the electric and of the magnetic field. While the animations I have shown you track the propagation of light pulses, they can also be used to understand what happens to a light wave in the interferometer. Just assume that each of the moving red and green dots in the detector marks the position of a wave crest.

Particles just add up. Take 2 particle and add 2 particles, and you will end up with 4 particles. But if you add up (combine, superimpose) waves, it depends. Sometimes, one wave plus another wave is indeed a bigger wave. Sometimes, it’s a smaller wave, or no wave at all. And sometimes it’s complicated.

When two waves are in perfect sync, the crests of the one aligning with the crests of the other, and the troughs aligning, too, you indeed get a bigger wave. The following diagram shows at which times the different parts of two light waves arrive at the light detector, and how they add up. (I’ve placed a dot on top of each crest; that is what the dots where meant to signify, after all.) Constructive interference of light wavesOn top, the green wave, perfectly aligned with the red wave (which, for clarity, is shown directly below the green wave). Add the two waves up, and you will get the (markedly stronger) blue wave in the bottom panel.

Not so if the two waves are maximally misaligned, the crests of each aligned with the troughs of the other. A crest and a trough cancel each other out. The sum of a wave and a maximally misaligned wave of equal strength is: no wave at all. Here is the corresponding diagram: Destructive interference of light wavesRecall that this was exactly the setup for our gravitational wave detector in the absence of gravitational waves: Red and green pulses with equal spacing; troughs of the one wave perfectly aligned with the crests of the other. The result: No light at the light detector. (For realistic gravitational wave detectors, that is almost true.)

When a gravitational wave passes through the detector, the situation changes. Here is the corresponding pattern of pulse/wave crest arrival times for the animation above: Interference pattern for a gravitational wave passing through the simplified gravitational wave detectorThe blue pattern, which is the sum of the red and the green, is complex. But it is not a flat line. There is light at the light detector where there was no light before, and the cause of the change is the gravitational wave passing through.

All in all, this makes a (highly simplified) version of how gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO work. Whatever the scientists will report this Thursday, it is based on light signals at the exit of such an interferometric detector.

And now for something a thousand times more complicated

Real gravitational wave detectors are, of course, much more complicated than that. I haven’t even started talking about the many disturbances scientists need to take into account – and to suppress as far as possible. How do you suspend the mirrors so that (at least for certain gravitational waves) they will indeed be influenced as if they were freely floating particles? How do you prevent seismic noise, cars or trains in the wider neighborhood and so on from moving your mirrors a tiny little bit (either by vibrations or by their own gravity)? What about fluctuations of the laser light?

Gravitational wave hunting is largely a hunt for noise, and for ways of suppressing that noise. The LIGO gravitational wave detectors and their kin are highly complex machines, with hundreds of control circuits, highly elaborate mirror suspensions, the most stable lasers known to physics (and some of the most high-powered). The technology has been contributed by numerous group from all over the world.

But all this is taking us too far, and I refer you to the pages of the detectors and collaborations for additional information:

LIGO pages at Caltech

Pages of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

GEO 600 pages

VIRGO / EGO pages

You can find some further information about gravitational waves on the Einstein Online website:

Einstein Online: Spotlights on gravitational waves

Update: Gravitational Waves Discovered


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Using Activecampaign Site Tracking Squarespace

This Chicago-based automation device is helping their 150,000 customers send out fewer emails while, at the same time, attaining better results. ActiveCampaign reported that their clients conserved 38.4 million hrs in between July 2020 and also July 2021 utilizing its automatic workflows. That certainly indicates good value for money, however considering it’s on the more expensive end of the spectrum, just how much bang for your buck do you truly obtain?

Boasting many features and also integrations, along with pleasant as well as quick assistance, they do sound like a giant e-mail advertising and marketing device. We’ll put ActiveCampaign under the microscopic lense in this ActiveCampaign review to see if they measure up to their bold cases.

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ActiveCampaign Review Summary

ActiveCampaign offer nearly everything you require within a e-newsletter advertising and marketing device, plus their advanced automations are hard to defeat. The entry-level strategy starts at $15 per month (for up to 500 clients, paid monthly), or if you wish to accessibility pro attributes such as the inbuilt CRM, lead racking up, landing web pages and SMS sending out, the Plus strategy starts at $70 each month.

Among their vital features is marketing automation. Besides autoresponders, which can be based on myriad conditions, you can automate list as well as get in touch with administration, in addition to offers, if you choose to use their CRM software program. This ‘Deals’ system (sales pipe) additionally allows you to include notes to contacts, established consultations, send direct messages to them, as well as far more.

The ‘Conversations’ function is another one to keep in mind. You can utilize it to send out targeted messages straight to your website site visitors in order to optimize the total client experience as well as create a kind of sales channel to help you transform a lot more visitors.

Having all your information and also activity in one area implies that you can swiftly obtain a all natural view of how your sales as well as advertising initiatives are performing. Not having to make use of a variety of companies for your different digital advertising initiatives will certainly additionally possibly conserve you cash.

Let’s dive in and also take a better consider ActiveCampaign:

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Pros and Cons

Exceptionally powerful automation:

One of the finest advertising and marketing automation devices out there. This key attribute of ActiveCampaign is not just exceptionally powerful however additionally easy to use.

Extensive reporting:

Deals reporting on all areas such as click-maps, geo-tracking and also web page brows through. Purchase monitoring is readily available on greater prepare for Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, etc, as well as the “Recommendations for you” section is a good addition to aid you increase acquisitions, commitment, and engagement.

Excellent deliverability:

In our deliverability examinations, ActiveCampaign shows to be among the best devices in obtaining emails provided.

Free migrations:

ActiveCampaign supplies to do the account movement for complimentary if you are coming from a various e-mail marketing software application.

Steeper discovering curve:

If you’re after a easy and also fast email option, this might only be taken into consideration a con. There are easier email newsletter services available, so you may wish to look in other places if this is all you need.

No cost-free plan:

There is no free plan available (only a cost-free test). There are if you’re looking for a simple device

Fees for client sneak peek:

You can sneak peek how your e-newsletter views on different e-mail clients, nevertheless, this is billed at $1 per test/client.

Is ActiveCampaign the appropriate e-newsletter solution for you?

Suggested if:

You’re severe about marketing automation:

ActiveCampaign is hands-down the most effective automation tool we’ve evaluated, allowing you to set up basically any automation you can consider– caused projects, sales follow-ups, automated division, vibrant email web content and so forth. You can currently instantly send one-to-one sales e-mails through your very own inbox.

You need an incorporated sales and advertising platform for your company:

ActiveCampaign’s built-in CRM seamlessly connects to all your e-mail marketing information, enabling sales teams to act rapidly. Functions like lead racking up as well as social data can additionally help to enhance your sales follow-up procedures.

You need a tool that executes multi-channel advertising and marketing:

Aside from sending emails, ActiveCampaign also permits you to establish touchdown web pages, send SMS and also customized ‘Conversations’ to internet site visitors, set up chatbot automations and also even handle exactly how Facebook ads are presented to contacts. If you ‘d such as to be able to centralize a excellent chunk of your marketing and provide your consumers a far better all-round experience, it’s a terrific remedy.

Not recommended if:

You require a low-maintenance, beginner-friendly device:

ActiveCampaign is an advanced tool, and also getting familiarized with it takes a great deal more work than various other devices. Not to mention the normal upkeep you’ll need to set up, display as well as optimize e-mail campaigns.

You just need straightforward automations:

If you just wish to set up standard email sequences (for example, a welcome campaign), we ‘d recommend extra affordable options like MailerLite which is far easier to utilize. Or else, you’ll be spending for a tonne of extras ( as well as complexity) that you merely will not require.

You’re unsure:

Sadly, there’s no complimentary strategy, and also with a trial period of simply 14 days, they don’t offer you much time to evaluate whether it’s ideal for you.

Rating information

Ease of Use – 4 out of 5 stars

ActiveCampaign have a very user-friendly design, with conveniently accessible menus. The dashboard has a valuable ‘Getting Started’ slider to assist brand-new users, as well as it has demo data to offer you an suggestion of just how best to utilize areas. A nice function is the Content Manager, which shops all your assets in a centralized center, making it simple to maintain things organized.

With so much functionality, it might be a little challenging for outright newbies at.

Newsletter Creation

Editor – 4 out of 5 stars

The drag and decrease e-mail builder is fast and has a couple of helpful attributes. Surprisingy, there is no fast method to sneak peek your e-newsletter– you’ll require to go into the e-mail settings.

Personalization- Yes

An easy to use If/Then/Else logic is readily available using ‘conditional content’ which enables you to show certain clients various content based upon particular conditions like rate of interests, web links clicked in the past, and so on. You can currently add personalized signatures to your one-to-one emails with the brand-new trademark customization tag.

Email types – 5 out of 5 stars

Traditional e-newsletters, SMS, autoresponders, A/B screening, RSS triggered, progressed automation. ActiveCampaign do not have a dedicated transactional e-mail server.

Choice and also Flexibility of Template Designs – 4 out of 5 stars

ActiveCampaign have around 125 modern-day, responsive layouts to select from. You can conveniently sneak peek them in an additional home window, both on mobile and also desktop computer. Other devices offer somewhat a lot more features/content blocks within the email building contractor. They supply customers a complimentary personalized email layout on the Plus strategy as well as higher.

Email Marketing Automation – 5 out of 5 stars

Their marketing automation actually is unbeatable. It’s extremely effective, and also very user-friendly, allowing you to automate follow-up projects, modify multiple conditions as well as a lot more. This is all done by means of an easy-to-use flowchart-style automation building contractor. There are likewise pre-made ‘ dishes’ (templates) for you to use, or get concepts from. Otherwise, you can build your own automation from scratch.

Checklist Management- 5 out of 5 stars

Contrasted to a few other devices, managing contacts as well as listings is made a lot easier due to their automation functions which enable you to arrange individuals into lists. Discover more here.

Enrollment Forms/ Opt-in & Opt-out- Process – 5 out of 5 stars

Easy to use, allows you create your very own personalized fields. In addition to the common forms, which are fully receptive, it likewise enables you to produce floating types and modals. If you’re on Shopify, you can automatically install a form on your website rather than having to copy and also paste it right into your store’s code. This type can consist of a discount rate code to motivate users to purchase.

Deliverability – 4.5 out of 5 stars

In our deliverability examinations ActiveCampaign often tends to score quite extremely, touchdown emails in the main inbox of one of the most popular providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook as well as AOL. ActiveCampaign’s deliverability is rather regular, which is excellent news for e-mail marketing professionals.

Reports and Analysis – 4.5 out of 5 stars

Enables reporting on essentially every little thing ( opens up, click-maps, page visits, geo-tracking). Ecommerce records are likewise offered on particular plans for Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and extra. The “Recommendations for you” area offers handy tips on activities you can take. Other records include get in touch with patterns, bargain records, chat conversion, automation records, etc. Custom records are just available on the Enterprise plan.

Languages – 4 out of 5 stars

Their website and support are both offered in English, plus 5 other languages. You can change your customer account to one of greater than 20 languages (including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, and so on).

Additional Features

Spam and also Design-Testing – 3.5 out of 5 stars

An e-mail customer sneak peek is readily available, too, but at a price of $1 per test/client, which appears a little bit steep. You can currently send a examination e-mail for testimonial to up to 5 e-mail addresses.

Bounce Management – Yes

Soft bounces are counted as difficult bounces after three times, and also this after that places them in an exclusion list.

Blocklist – Yes

This is the abovementioned ‘exclusion listing’. You can import get in touches with straight into this checklist, and also export too.

Storage space offered for photos as well as data – Unlimited

Photos over 1000px will certainly be downsized.

Pro Features

Verification- Yes

SPF as well as DKIM are sustained.

Own Domain – Yes

It’s feasible to use your own monitoring domain name to enhance your newsletter’s business branding.

Various levels of account accessibility – Yes

This is a very versatile system, without certain levels. You specify the team names as well as additionally the precise access for each and every of those teams by means of tick-boxes. 2-Factor Authentication for an extra safety and security layer is offered too.

Assimilations – Yes

ActiveCampaign offer lots of combination options, such as PayPal, Shopify, Google Analytics, and WordPress. It also sustains all kinds of form and survey tools like Typeform as well as SurveyMonkey.

Landing Page Builder – Yes

The layouts are different and simple to edit. Touchdown pages are hosted on a custom-made domain or subdomain. On the Professional plan and also up, you can create individualized web experiences by concealing or eliminating particular elements. You can likewise include special switches, that include calling a phone number, downloading and install a documents or sending an email.

Customer Support – 5 out of 5 stars

They additionally have video clip tutorials available, webinars ( archived as well as real-time ) as well as individually training on the ‘Plus’ strategy. Live chat is likewise readily available on all plans, however no phone support.

General rating – 4.5 out of 5 stars

ActiveCampaign is among the most powerful e-mail marketing solutions on the market, rarely missing a point when it comes to pro features. Small companies will gain from excellent sales automation, customer monitoring with using automated process and the brand-new functions they’re frequently including

A More Detailed Look at ActiveCampaign’s Top Features

As you can see, ActiveCampaign uses a good range of pro attributes. Let’s damage those down a little as well as assess what jobs as well as what could be boosted:

ActiveCampaign Marketing Automation

We’ve examined the advertising automation capabilities of lots of ESPs and also have not yet found a suit for ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign’s rivals consist of advertising automation as part of their product, it isn’t always at the. ActiveCampaign, on the other hand, has made this their focus, enabling you to automate essentially anything: projects, deals, ecommerce automation, SMS, contact administration, and so on.

Advertising automation is included on all plans, nonetheless, sales automation is booked for customers on the Plus strategy (from $70/mo) as well as higher.

One-to-one email automation is quite one-of-a-kind to ActiveCampaign. You’ll be able to set off automations straight via your inbox communications with leads. The only drawback is that you’ll require to be on the Professional plan ($ 187/mo) or greater as well as this isn’t affordable in any way.

We’ve been keeping track of ActiveCampaign for years, and have actually seen them proactively add new features constantly, specifically around the area of automation. This is a excellent sign, as a few other ActiveCampaign competitors haven’t been quite so honest.

ActiveCampaign automation layouts

We checked into ActiveCampaign’s automation layouts, or else known as ‘recipes’ as well as discovered that they are both actually well assembled and easy to modify. There are loads to select from (750 in fact!), as well as the classifications make it easy to find what you’re searching for.

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Other tools often tend to provide fairly general templates, whereas ActiveCampaign provides a entire host of integration-specific design templates, like these automation recipes for Shopify:

activecampaign shopify automations

The only drawback is that, with numerous templates, you can feel overloaded by the options. It may appear that some dishes are repeated, nonetheless, after modifying the templates closely, you can see there are tiny distinctions between them. I can see just how this could be a little complicated for some, yet, at the end of the day, our experience informs us that the even more targeted you can be with your campaigns the much better.

ActiveCampaign SMS automation

SMS automation is included on the Plus plan as well as greater. You can incorporate with a number of tools, such as ClickSend, MessageMedia and Twilio, and ActiveCampaign provides you with a variety of automation design templates:

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Know that SMS sending out is just available on the Plus strategy and also greater, which starts at $70/month, so it’s not economical. You’ll also require to be on the pricey Enterprise account if you desire your own customized SMS number for sending.

ActiveCampaign CRM

As discussed over, ActiveCampaign includes a built-in CRM.

Local business proprietors seeking contact monitoring software will locate this function particularly useful, to utilize alongside the advanced e-mail advertising and marketing capacities.

After substantial screening, we located that the software was pretty easy to use. You can set up numerous bargain pipelines, as well as edit/add new stages to mirror your distinct sales process. The drag as well as decrease software program makes it very easy to manually move bargains with the pipe.

The more advanced individual can take advantage of this variety of CRM automation design templates, which covers everything from lead scoring to job monitoring:

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Rates starts at $70/month for this function, as it is reserved for those on the Plus plan as well as greater. It’s not precisely inexpensive, but when you think about whatever you’re obtaining (advanced sales as well as advertising lead, get in touch with & automation racking up, email & SMS sending, Facebook Custom Audience combination, etc) it’s actually not a bad deal.

When contrasted against the most effective CRM software for small businesses, we found that a lot of service fee per individual, whereas ActiveCampaign consisted of 25 customer accounts, which will actually assist keep costs down.

We likewise carried out a comprehensive comparison of ActiveCampaign vs HubSpot and also located that ActiveCampaign really had a great deal of benefits over the CRM titan. Most significantly, it’s value for money.

ActiveCampaign Landing Pages

There are a total of 56 receptive touchdown page design templates, as well as you can additionally develop your very own as well as save it as a custom-made web page for future use.

activecampaign landing web page design templates

After assessing the layouts and also editor, we ‘d claim they are appealing as well as contemporary , the only point is that it isn’t so simple to move blocks around the web page when editing. You can’t relocate an aspect up or down slightly, rather, you can only move it between the laid out areas. I think of ActiveCampaign has actually established it up similar to this to ensure that every aspect is lined up, yet it suggests you have much less creative freedom than with various other site as well as touchdown page home builders like Wix.

I additionally could not locate a way to include a web link to pictures, which isn’t suitable.

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The cool (and special) feature of ActiveCampaign’s touchdown web pages is that you can include vibrant material (web customization) to ensure that each customer sees exactly what’s relevant to them. This will aid you to target leads in an smart way, e.g. only showing users material that’s appropriate to their geolocation or industry or showing them items based upon their purchase history. You can also enable monitoring on your pages.

Do we advise ActiveCampaign?

It’s truly challenging to fault ActiveCampaign, not only do they offer nearly everything you need within an email advertising and marketing platform, yet they do it effectively.

The reporting provides you understanding right into almost all facets, such as page brows through, geo-tracking, openers, ecommerce and even more. One location that is a little doing not have is the e-mail builder, not using an experience as slick as other services available, with a few worrying attributes that could be done better (like the alteration background).

The support is as promoted: friendly, useful as well as quick . Chat as well as email support are excellent, with a individual feeling to the communications. Their knowledge base is easily searchable and also in fact returns appropriate results a high percent of the moment. With their ‘Plus’ intend you even obtain accessibility to individually training and helpful webinars, which is a good enhancement.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one electronic advertising and marketing device, I believe this ActiveCampaign evaluation shows that it is truly one of the ideal choices you might make. Their advertising and also sales automation is the genuine deal and also makes various other tools’ computerized process look pale in comparison. (See why it makes an exceptional Mailchimp option below.).

You’ll need to be prepared to place in a bit of time as a result of the a little steeper learning contour, and also possibly invest a little more cash, however your business will certainly gain the benefits. If, on the other hand, you’re just looking for a easy way to blow up out newsletters, a remedy like GetResponse or MailerLite could be a little bit less complicated to get your head around.

On a side note, ActiveCampaign supplies a series of really beneficial complimentary devices, regardless of whether you’re a customer or otherwise. You can discover whatever from content and social media sites calendar themes to a subject line generator. Take a look at the free tools right here.

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ActiveCampaign Alternatives.

# 1 MailerLite.

MailerLite is among one of the most budget-friendly solutions, in fact, their complimentary plan is very generous. Their technique to email advertising and marketing layout is exceptional, using modern-looking themes. It’s also one of the simplest devices we’ve ever used.

# 2 GetResponse.

GetResponse is a powerful option to ActiveCampaign with loads of pro options (e.g. a webinar tool) and also great automations. Unlike ActiveCampaign, they offer their platform in more than 20 languages, as well as their design and testing tools are outstanding. Check out the complete comparison in our GetResponse vs ActiveCampaign overview.

# 3 Sendinblue.

Sendinblue is just one of the most affordable all-in-one email marketing tools on the market. It’s available in 6 languages as well as features sophisticated automation choices as well as a integrated CRM.

Is ActiveCampaign a CRM?

You can use ActiveCampaign to handle your contacts, offers and leads. There are lots of automations to help you simplify your processes.

What is ActiveCampaign made use of for?

ActiveCampaign can be utilized for anything from newsletter production to contact administration. Including a myriad of features, this all-in-one marketing automation software program is a excellent choice for all business sizes.

What can ActiveCampaign do?

With ActiveCampaign, you can perform a whole host of tasks, such as send out e-mail newsletters, monitor bargains and manage your calls. Nonetheless, the most remarkable attribute is the sales and marketing automation abilities.

Does ActiveCampaign have landing web pages?

Yes! ActiveCampaign’s landing page building contractor permits you to create contemporary touchdown pages with vibrant web content blocks, suggesting you can personalize your material relying on who’s watching it.

Does ActiveCampaign have a mobile application?

Yes, ActiveCampaign’s mobile app is available for iOS as well as Android. You can watch projects as well as email automation information, timetable and send projects, track email performance metrics, manage contacts, as well as far more.

Is ActiveCampaign legit?

ActiveCampaign is a legitimate e-mail advertising solution for small companies. It safely stores your customer information and uses a safe and secure method to manage your clients.

ActiveCampaign deliverability – is it any good?

ActiveCampaign’s deliverability rates are among the top 5 lead to our bi-annual examinations. Rating in the early to mid-nineties, we ‘d claim they have very good deliverability.

We’ve reviewed the marketing automation abilities of dozens of ESPs and haven’t yet found a suit for ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign’s rivals consist of advertising automation as part of their product, it isn’t necessarily at the. ActiveCampaign, on the various other hand, has actually made this their emphasis, allowing you to automate virtually anything: campaigns, bargains, ecommerce automation, SMS, call management, and so on.

One-to-one e-mail automation is quite special to ActiveCampaign. GetResponse is a powerful choice to ActiveCampaign with loads of professional choices (e.g. a webinar tool) and also excellent automations.

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