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<field name="name">functional</field>
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<field name="name">website</field>
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<field name="name">The Future of Emails</field>
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<field name="subtitle">Ideas behind the Flectra communication tools.</field>
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<field name="website_meta_keywords">Flectra, email</field>
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<field name="website_meta_description">The Future of Emails</field>
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<section class="s_text_block">
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<div class="container">
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 mb16 mt16">
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<iframe width="100%" height="250" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EkbBFmIWoTE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>
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Emails are broken.
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</p><p>
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Emails make me waste my time. But I need them.
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Given the importance that emails have in our lives,
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it's incredible it's still one of the only software
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areas that did not evolve in the past 20 years!
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</p><p>
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Reading my inbox is the most unproductive task I do
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on a daily basis. I have to spend one full hour a
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day to process my emails. All the junk flows in the
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same inbox; spams, information that doesn't matter,
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quoted answers of quoted answers, etc. At the end
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of the hour, only 10 emails actually requested an
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answer from me. With a good tool, I could have done
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my job in 10 minutes!
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="s_text_block">
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<div class="container">
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 mb16 mt16">
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<p>
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At Flectra, we build tools to bring productivity to
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enterprises. As emails and information flows are one of
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the biggest wastes of time in companies, we have to fix
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this.
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</p><p>
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To disrupt emails, you need more than just another user
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interface. We need to rethink the whole communication flow.
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</p>
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<h3>The Communication Mechanism of Flectra</h3>
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<p>
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Here are the ideas behind the Flectra communication tools:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Get Things Done: your inbox is a
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todo list. You should be able to process (not only
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read) the inbox and easily mark messages for future
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actions. Every inbox should be empty after having
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been processed; no more overload of information.
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<img class="img-responsive" src="/website_blog/static/src/img/mail-sc-00.png"/>
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</li><li>
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Keep control of what you want to receive or don't want
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to receive. People should never receive spam. You
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should follow/unfollow any kind of information in one
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click.
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</li><li>
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Productivity is key: our smart user
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interface does not require you to click on every mail
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to read a thread. Reading a full thread, replying,
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attaching documents is super fast.
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<img class="img-responsive" src="/website_blog/static/src/img/mail-sc-03.png"/>
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</li><li>
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A mix of push & pull: Today, people
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are victims of what others decide to push to them.
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Flectra differentiates:
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<ul>
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<li>
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Messages "for information":
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you can pull them when you need some specific
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information; they are not required to be read
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every day.You receive only what you decided
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to follow.This accounts for 90% of your daily
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emails.Use the "Inbox" menu for these.
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</li><li>
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Messages "for action": they
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require your immediate attention and you need
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to process them all. This accounts for 10%
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of your daily emails. Use the "To: me" menu
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for these.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li><li>
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Focus on the Content: Everything is
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stripped to emphasize on the real message. No more
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welcome introductions, greetings, signatures and legal
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notes.We standardize the layout of each message.
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(signatures are on the profile of a contact, not in
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every message)
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</li><li>
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Folders and mailing lists are great tools but too
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complex in traditional email clients. In Flectra, a
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group of contacts that share a discussion can be
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created with one click. Every group should have it's
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own email address.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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]]>
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</record>
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<record id="blog_post_2" model="blog.post">
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<field name="name">Integrating your CMS and E-Commerce</field>
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<field name="subtitle">Building your company's website and selling your products online easy.</field>
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<field name="blog_id" ref="blog_blog_1"/>
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<field name="website_published" eval="True"/>
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<field name="published_date" eval="time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"/>
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<field name="tag_ids" eval="[(6, 0, [ref('blog_tag_1'), ref('blog_tag_2')])]"/>
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<field name="content"><![CDATA[
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<section class="s_image_text">
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<div class="container">
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-6 mt16">
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<img class="img img-responsive mb16" src="/website_blog/static/src/img/CMS_WMS_screens.jpg"/>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-6 mt16">
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<h3>New Features Launched</h3>
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<p data-chatter-id="counter_0/section/div/div/div">To add to an already comprehensive set of Flectra
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features, a website content management system (CMS or WMS) has been developed and a beta release is
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available from today, 31st January 2014.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="s_text_block">
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<div class="container">
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 mb16 mt16">
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<p>
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Flectra claims to be 'the Open Source software that makes
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building your company's website and selling your products
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online easy'. So how true is this statement?
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</p><p>
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"Flectra's latest launch will allow a business to go from
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zero to trading online quicker than ever before,” Stuart
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Mackintosh, MD of Open Source specialist and Flectra
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integration partner, OpusVL, explains. “The investment
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required to have a fully automated business system is
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dramatically reduced, enabling the small and medium
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enterprise to compete at a level of functionality and
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performance previously reserved for the big IT investors."
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</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>
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"Finally, the leading edge is being brought to the masses.
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It will now be the turn of the big players to catch up to
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the superior technologies of the SME."
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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"This is another clever and highly disruptive move by
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Flectra,which will force other technology providers to
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take another look at the value they are providing to ensure
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that their 'solutions' can still compete."
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</p><p>
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"Flectra now competes on many fronts, with no real
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competition out there to knock them off the top spot.
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With the launch of their integrated CMS and Ecommerce
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systems,it only elevates their position as one of the leading
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lights in the open source revolution. It will be at least 5
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years before another ERP or CMS provider will be able to
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compete at this level due to the technology currently
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employed by most industry providers."
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</p>
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<h4>Adding to industry leading technology</h4>
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<p>
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Like many modern website editors, with Flectra you can edit
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content in-line, enabling you to see exactly what you are
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changing and ensure your changes suit the context.
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</p><p>
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However, unlike other web content management systems, it
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fully integrates into the back-end database. This means
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that when you edit a product description, image or price,
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it updates the product database in real time, providing a
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true self-service window into the business.
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</p><p>
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This provides a single source of data for your company and
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removes the need to create offline synchronisation between
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website and product database.
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</p><p>
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As it comes, there is a default website based on Bootstrap
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3, the latest industry standard for rapid development of
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multi-device websites backed by Twitter, so can be directly
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integrated with many web tools and works across all devices
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by default.
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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</flectra>
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