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Album for the 25th anniversary of the ISSKA in the Doubs

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Photo album

ISSKA excursion to the Doubs region to mark the Institute's 25th anniversary

  • Légarde chasm (MG)

  • On the way to the Ordons (MG)

  • First cave (MG)

  • Atmosphere in Ordons (MG)

  • Sampling (AP)

  • Spring of the Loue (AP)

  • Along the Loue (AP)

  • Tablée

    Shared meal (CB)

  • Aperitive in Ornans (EW)

  • Hiking to the Loue (EW)

  • Karstic spring (EW)

  • spéléo

    Thinking in Ordons (AP)

  • canoë sur la Loue

    Canoeing on the Loue (CB)

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Portfolio Underground memories

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Portfolio

Underground memories - project for LCDF swiss capital of culture 2027

  • 3D model of the Sieben Hengste Hogant caves network

  • Reproduction of a cave 1 to 1 at the Spelaion Forum22

  • Discovery of the underground ways of the city of LCDF

  • Exposition during the Spelaion Forum22 at LCDF

  • Acquisition of 3D data in caves

  • Support in underground environments

  • TM800, large cavity intersected by the Vue des Alpes tunnel

  • Cavity suddenly appeared in the city of LCDF

  • Underground spaces in the Crête de Vaas

Contact

Aman­dine Per­ret
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Contact

Maud Gal­let­ti
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Bones

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Bones

If you have found bones, you can re­port your find using the on­line form be­low. If you wish to send your finds di­rect­ly to the Ins­ti­tute, you can down­load the pa­laeo­card, fill it in and en­close it with the pa­ckage. In all cases, please fol­low the ins­truc­tions for col­lec­ting and iden­ti­fying bones and the ins­truc­tions on the pa­laeo­card.

Resources

Ins­truc­tions for col­lec­ting and iden­ti­fying bones

Pa­leo map

Contact

Ma­thieu Lu­ret
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Swiss Institute of Speleology and Karstology

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Current

  • Hiking in June

    ISSKA in­vites you to two karst ex­cur­sions in June, in col­la­bo­ra­tion with two re­gio­nal na­tu­ral parks: Doubs and Ju­ra vau­dois.

      Ins­crip­tions

    • Excursion guides

      With its six guides, ISSKA of­fers walks de­si­gned to help you un­ders­tand karst land­scapes, the ori­gin of wa­ter and how it flows un­der­ground.

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    • Award-winning image

      The Swiss Na­tio­nal Science Foun­da­tion has awar­ded a prize for an image do­cu­men­ting the field­work car­ried out as part of the Ca­ve­Seds pro­ject.

        More in­for­ma­tion

      • RTS programme

        Caves were the fo­cus of the pro­gramme *Dis, Pour­quoi?* on RTS La Pre­mière. Over five days, the ISSKA ex­plo­red five dif­ferent themes with Lu­cas Tho­rens.

          RTS pod­cast

        • New PhD graduate

          Congra­tu­la­tions! The pu­blic de­fence of our col­league Clau­dio Pas­tore marks the conclu­sion of the Ther­mo­Karst pro­ject.

            Ther­mo­Karst Pro­ject

          • Rapport Biodiversité CH

            A do­cu­ment avai­lable on­line about the bio­di­ver­si­ty of Swiss karst eco­sys­tems (in French).

              PDF do­cu­ment

            • What is karst?

              The SISKA pre­sents a short vi­deo in­tro­du­cing karst. A 7-mi­nute im­mer­sion in the sub­soil of karst re­gions.

            • Archaeozoology

              The eighth is­sue of our ar­chaeo­zoo­lo­gy bul­le­tin is avai­lable as a PDF in French.

                PDF do­cu­ment

              Recent scientific articles

              All ar­ticles

              The SISKA on LinkedIN

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              About us

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              Who we are

              SISKA is a non-pro­fit foun­da­tion re­co­gni­sed as being in the pu­blic in­ter­est.

              Its goal is to en­cou­rage and pro­mote spe­leo­lo­gi­cal work and know­ledge of the kars­tic en­vi­ron­ment with a view to sus­tai­nable ma­na­ge­ment.

              objectives

              To achieve its aims, the ins­ti­tute is pur­suing a num­ber of ob­jec­tives in the fields of science, geo­com­pu­ting, he­ri­tage, edu­ca­tion and scien­ti­fic ou­treach:

              • En­cou­rage ba­sic and ap­plied scien­ti­fic re­search pro­jects lin­ked to the un­der­ground world and the kars­tic en­vi­ron­ment.
              • Com­mu­ni­cate and teach about the spe­ci­fic fea­tures of karst and raise pu­blic awa­re­ness of the vul­ne­ra­bi­li­ty of the un­der­ground en­vi­ron­ment.
              • Es­ta­blish links with the va­rious sta­ke­hol­ders and users of the karst (uni­ver­si­ty ins­ti­tutes, pu­blic au­tho­ri­ties, en­gi­neers, po­li­ti­cians, spe­leo­lo­gists, lo­cal re­si­dents).
              • Be the swiss re­fe­rence bo­dy for the ma­na­ge­ment and pro­tec­tion of the sur­face and un­der­ground karst en­vi­ron­ment, in conjunc­tion with the Swiss Spe­leo­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty.
              • Pro­pose me­thods and tools for the sus­tai­nable ma­na­ge­ment of kars­tic en­vi­ron­ments.
              • Pro­mote the Swiss Spe­leo­lo­gi­cal Society's do­cu­men­ta­ry ar­chives and en­cou­rage the conti­nua­tion of this na­tio­nal ar­chi­ving work.

              Ser­vices

              Team

              Employees

              SISKA em­ploys staff in the na­tu­ral sciences (geo­lo­gy, hy­dro­geo­lo­gy, geo­mor­pho­lo­gy, ar­chaeo­zoo­lo­gy, bios­pe­leo­lo­gy), the hu­ma­ni­ties (geo­gra­phy) and ad­mi­nis­tra­tion (ac­coun­ting, se­cre­ta­riat and hu­man re­sources).

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              Pierre-Yves Jean­nin
              PhD. Hy­dro­geo­lo­gy

              Pierre-Yves Jean­nin

              Ma­na­ge­ment
              Head of Science

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              Do­mains:
              Science
              He­ri­tage
              Edu­ca­tion
              Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion

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              Marc Lüt­scher
              PhD. Pa­laeo­cli­ma­to­lo­gy

              Marc Lüt­scher

              Ma­na­ge­ment
              Pu­blic Re­la­tions Ma­na­ger
              and He­ri­tage

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              Do­mains:
              Science
              He­ri­tage
              Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion

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              Vé­ro­nique Mon­nard
              Se­cre­ta­riat

              Vé­ro­nique Mon­nard

              Ma­na­ge­ment

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              Do­main:
              Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion

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              Constanze Bo­nar­do
              Se­cre­ta­riat

              Constanze Bo­nar­do

              Ma­na­ge­ment

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              Do­main:
              Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion

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              Ar­nauld Ma­lard
              PhD. Hy­dro­geo­lo­gy

              Ar­nauld Ma­lard

              Geo­com­pu­ting Ma­na­ger

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              Do­mains:
              Geo­com­pu­ting
              Science

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              Aman­dine Per­ret
              PhD. Earth Sciences

              Aman­dine Per­ret

              Head of Tea­ching

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              Do­mains:
              Science
              He­ri­tage
              Edu­ca­tion

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              Ma­thieu Lu­ret
              PhD. Ar­chaeo­zoo­lo­gy

              Ma­thieu Lu­ret

              Ar­chaeo­zoo­lo­gy Ma­na­ger

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              ☎ +41 (0) 32 913 35 33

              Do­main:
              Ar­chaeo­zoo­lo­gy

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              Phi­lipp Häu­sel­mann
              PhD. Geo­lo­gy

              Phi­lipp Häu­sel­mann

              Pro­ject Ma­na­ger

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              Do­mains:
              Science
              Edu­ca­tion
              He­ri­tage

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              Eric We­ber
              MSc Hy­dro­geo­lo­gy

              Eric We­ber

              Pro­ject Ma­na­ger

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              Do­main:
              Science
              Geo­com­pu­ting

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              Maud Gal­let­ti
              MSc. In­gé­nieur Géo­lo­gie

              Maud Gal­let­ti

              Scien­ti­fic As­so­ciate

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              Do­mains:
              Science
              Edu­ca­tion
              He­ri­tage

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              Ema­nuele Mo­rot­ti
              MSc Hy­dro­geo­lo­gy

              Ema­nuele Mo­rot­ti

              Scien­ti­fic As­so­ciate

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              Do­main:
              Science

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              Ain­hoa Val
              Msc. Geo­lo­gy

              Ain­hoa Val

              Doc­to­ral student

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              Do­main:
              Science

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              Neal Mathes
              Msc. Geo­lo­gy

              Neal Mathes

              Doc­to­ral student

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              Science

              External staff

              Our Ins­ti­tute draws on a net­work of spe­cia­lists ac­ting as ex­ter­nal consul­tants: bio­lo­gists, fo­res­try en­gi­neers, geo­lo­gists, web de­ve­lo­pers, gra­phic de­si­gners and IT spe­cia­lists. Our team is re­gu­lar­ly sup­ple­men­ted by people doing com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice and in­ter­ns.

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              Cloé Cha­te­lain
              Com­pu­ter scien­tist
              Cha­te­lain in­fo

              Chris­tian Lü­thi
              di­pl. Ing. ETH/EPF
              Fors­tin­ge­nieurbü­ro na­tec

              Tim Win­kel­mann
              Full-stack web de­ve­lo­per
              Naito.one

              Ré­my Wen­ger
              Gra­phiste

              Urs Ei­chen­ber­ger
              Consul­ting geo­lo­gist

              Mi­chel Blant
              Bio­lo­giste
              Faune Concept

              For­mer em­ployees

              • Employees

                • Mi­guel Bar­to­lo­mé – Science
                • De­nis Blant – Science et pa­tri­moine
                • Mi­chel Blant – Science et pa­léon­to­lo­gie
                • Te­re­sa Do­min­guez – Mé­nage
                • Urs Ei­chen­ber­ger – Science et en­sei­gne­ment
                • Jean-Ma­rie Ga­cond – In­for­ma­tique
                • Hu­bert Gault – Science
                • Va­lère Gi­rar­din – Scè­no­graphe Spe­laion
                • Ur­su­la Goy – Tra­duc­trice
                • Ana Häu­sel­mann – Pa­tri­moine et en­sei­gne­ment
                • Char­lotte Jean­not­tat – Ap­pren­tie
                • Ca­role Met­tler – Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion
                • Georges Na­man – Res­pon­sable tech­nique
                • Ju­lien Op­pli­ger – Pa­léon­to­lo­gie
                • Ma­rie-Hé­lène Op­pli­ger – Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion
                • Dé­mian Ri­ckerl – Science
                • Sé­bas­tien Rot­zer – Science et in­for­ma­tique
                • Sil­via Schmass­mann – Science et Pa­tri­moine
                • Giu­lio Taiet­ti – Science
                • Ma­non Trot­tet – Science
                • Jo­na­than Vouilla­moz – Science et ad­mi­nis­tra­tion
                • Ré­my Wen­ger – Ad­mi­nis­tra­tion et sé­cu­ri­té

              • External collaborators

                • Pa­trick De­riaz
                • Alexandre Fe­lix
                • Phi­lippe Goy
                • Ri­chard Graf
                • Mar­tin Hel­ler
                • Oli­ver Hitz
                • Pierre-Xa­vier Meu­ry

              • PhD students

                • Ar­naud Ma­lard

                • Clau­dio Pas­tore

                • Amir Se­da­ghat­kish

              • Civilistes

                • Da­vid Bach­mann

                • Yves Ba­der

                • Maxime Beck

                • Syl­vain Be­let

                • Lu­cas Bel­lin

                • Paul Ber­claz

                • Mar­tin Bo­chud

                • An­drea Bor­ghi

                • Ju­lien Briand

                • Ni­co­las Brütsch

                • Ma­rio Bu­cev

                • Au­gus­tin Bus­sy

                • Ke­vin Bü­ti­ko­fer

                • Di­dier Car­dis

                • Va­len­tin Cha­puis

                • Mi­chael Cho­pard

                • Ar­naud Chuard

                • Eliot Cou­cet

                • Ma­thias Cu­di­lei­ro

                • Bru­no Da Cos­ta

                • Ju­lien De­bache

                • Swann Des­touches

                • An­toine Dol­lat

                • Pa­trick Dur­rer

                • Guillaume Frund

                • Phi­lipp Fü­rholz

                • Elias Ga­jo

                • Ma­thias Gaut­schi

                • Va­lère Gi­rar­din

                • Niels Gi­roud

                • Ra­fael Graf

                • Vincent Gru­ber

                • Si­mon Hayoz

                • Fa­bian Hirsch

                • Flo­rian Hof

                • Oli­vier Jaer­mann

                • Mar­tin Jean­mo­nod

                • Sté­phane Ju­nod

                • Phi­lip Klin­ger

                • Lio­nel Kopp

                • Sté­phane Le­resche

                • Steve Im­feld

                • Cé­dric Im­feld

                • Gil­lian Lü­thi

                • Duc­cio Ma­lin­ver­ni

                • Mi­guel Mar­tin

                • Cha­di Mess­mer

                • Tom Mül­ler

                • Klé­ber Ni­co­let

                • Pier­rick Ni­co­let

                • Co­lin Pel­le­tier

                • Ni­co­las Plu­mey

                • Ni­co­las Praz

                • Lio­nel Re­ga­mey

                • Ra­fael Ri­chard

                • Ben­ja­min Schaub

                • Loïc Seu­ret

                • Va­len­tin Sor­det

                • Louis Stä­he­lin

                • Sa­muel Thi­baud

                • Sé­bas­tien Toth

                • Alex Von Gun­ten

                • Ma­thieu Wen­ger

                • Tim Win­kel­mann

                • Clark Win­kel­mann

                • Se­ve­rin Zoll

              • Interns

                • Da­niel Bal­les­te­ros

                • Cé­dric Bapst

                • Luc Ba­rast

                • Tho­mas Boi­leau

                • Sa­rah Bouillet

                • Ali­zée Car­di­nal

                • Di­dier Car­dis

                • Jean-Bap­tiste Ca­verne

                • Mi­chael Cho­pard

                • Bas­tien De­la­cou

                • Ele­na Du­bois Gil

                • Clé­ment Du­rieu

                • Badre El­had­da­ji

                • Pau­line Fa­bre­goule

                • Jo­hann Fleu­ry 

                • Ju­lia Ga­ra­gnon

                • Hu­bert Gault

                • Ma­thieu Ge­noud

                • Ju­lien Go­bat

                • Vincent Gran­deau

                • Te­re­sa Ha­me­din­ger

                • Pau­la Ja­na Vei­ga

                • Ja­vad Ash­ja­ri

                • Eline Jo­bert

                • Sté­phane Le­resche

                • Ar­thur Louis

                • Da­vid Lou­ren­co

                • Ar­naud Ma­lard

                • Jean Ma­si­ni

                • Ted Mc­Cor­mack

                • Jeanne Mer­cier

                • Giu­lia Mes­si­na

                • Mar­gaux Meyer

                • Ele­na Obert

                • Loic Pal­pa­cuer

                • Di­mi­tri Pa­ratte

                • Si­mon Pet­te­lat

                • La­ra Pie­tra

                • Alain Pi­que­rez

                • Erich Platt­ner

                • Ni­co­las Plu­mey 

                • Dé­mian Ri­ckerl

                • Lau­ra Sca­pu­so

                • Di­dier Schürch

                • Sté­phane Kock

                • Léa Tal­lon

                • Ma­rie Val­late

                • Yi­wei Wang

                • Lu­kas Zur­bu­chen

              Civil Service

              SISKA re­gu­lar­ly wel­comes ci­vi­lian staff on long-term as­si­gn­ments, with or wi­thout prio­ri­ty. The tasks as­si­gned va­ry de­pen­ding on the sea­son, the skills of each in­di­vi­dual and the needs of the Ins­ti­tute.

              Cahier des charges n° 63080
              • Clean-up of ca­vi­ties and sin­kholes.
              • Sup­port for the edu­ca­tion sec­tor (ex­cur­sions).
              • Sup­port in the va­rious areas of the ins­ti­tute.
              Cahier des charges n° 85467
              • Main­te­nance et dé­ve­lop­pe­ment de visualkarsys.com, ou­til de si­mu­la­tion et vi­sua­li­sa­tion des eaux sou­ter­raines kars­tiques créé par l’institut.

              Por­tail e-zi­vi

              Por­tail e-zi­vi

              For more in­for­ma­tions, please contact us.

              Les ca­hiers des charges re­la­tifs aux postes de ser­vice ci­vil dis­po­nibles sont mis en ligne sur le por­tail e-Zi­vi. Avant de rem­plir une conven­tion d’affectation, veuillez tou­jours prendre d’abord contact avec l’Institut.

              Annual Reports

              Since its foun­da­tion SISKA has pu­bli­shed an an­nual re­port on its ac­ti­vi­ties. It contains in­for­ma­tion on the pro­jects car­ried out by the Ins­ti­tute, the an­nual ac­counts and ba­lance sheets, a list of the mem­bers of the Foun­da­tion Board, and other in­for­ma­tion on SISKA's ac­ti­vi­ties and iden­ti­ty.

              Since 2016, the an­nual re­port has been struc­tu­red around a cho­sen to­pic, high­ligh­ting a cur­rent theme that is par­ti­cu­lar­ly re­le­vant or re­pre­sen­ta­tive of the year's pro­jects.

              An­nual Re­ports

              History

              Why create a Swiss Institute of Speleology and Karst Studies?

              In Au­gust 1997, the World Congress of Spe­leo­lo­gy in La Chaux-de-Fonds was a re­soun­ding suc­cess. With 1650 par­ti­ci­pants and al­most 500 scien­ti­fic pa­pers, it was the lar­gest spe­leo­lo­gi­cal event ever held in the world. A si­gni­fi­cant part of this suc­cess was due to the ex­cellent in­ter­na­tio­nal re­pu­ta­tion of Swiss spe­leo­lo­gists, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in the fields of un­der­ground to­po­gra­phy, ar­chi­ving, in­ven­to­ries and scien­ti­fic ob­ser­va­tions.

              The mem­bers of the Swiss Spe­leo­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty (SSS) ob­serve, do­cu­ment and ar­chive eve­ry­thing re­la­ted to caves in Swit­zer­land. Be­fore the crea­tion of the SISKA, this re­search was car­ried out en­ti­re­ly on a vo­lun­ta­ry ba­sis and was not sup­por­ted by any of­fi­cial struc­ture with a pro­fes­sio­nal ba­sis. As a re­sult, the vast amount of in­for­ma­tion col­lec­ted by the SSS re­mai­ned ge­ne­ral­ly unk­nown and un­der-ex­ploi­ted, by both go­vern­ment de­part­ments and aca­de­mic circles, as well as pri­vate of­fices and the ge­ne­ral pu­blic. SISKA was born to es­ta­blish a link bet­ween ca­vers and these circles.

              The SSS has be­come aware of the pu­blic in­ter­est role it can and must play in all mat­ters re­la­ting to the un­der­ground en­vi­ron­ment (science, do­cu­men­ta­tion, sa­fe­ty, pro­tec­tion, edu­ca­tion, etc.). By crea­ting the Swiss Ins­ti­tute of Spe­leo­lo­gy and Kars­to­lo­gy (SISKA), the SSS has gi­ven it­self the means to achieve this ob­jec­tive by pla­cing its know­ledge and skills at the ser­vice of the au­tho­ri­ties and the pu­blic.

              Founding member

              The SISKA was foun­ded on 4 Fe­brua­ry 2000 by 7 foun­ding mem­bers. The foun­ding ca­pi­tal was CHF 120'000. Its re­gis­te­red of­fice is in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

              • Swiss Spe­leo­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty

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              Partnerships

              Our Ins­ti­tute main­tains part­ner­ships, un­der agree­ments, with va­rious ins­ti­tu­tions:

              Collaborations

              Since its in­cep­tion, our Ins­ti­tute has for­ged a num­ber of col­la­bo­ra­tive links. Our most re­gu­lar part­ners in­clude :

              The SISKA lives thanks to your donations

              Your do­na­tions en­able us, for example, to date bones, clean up conta­mi­na­ted ca­vi­ties and raise awa­re­ness of karst and caves in schools. They al­so sup­port us in su­per­vi­sing dis­ser­ta­tions and theses, as well as pro­vi­ding scien­ti­fic sup­port to Swiss ca­vers who re­quest it.

              Our ac­count: CH12 8080 8004 4839 3207 3, ISSKA, Swiss Ins­ti­tute of Spe­leo­lo­gy and Kars­to­lo­gy.

              A do­na­tion re­ceipt for your tax de­duc­tions will be sent to you au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly.

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