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Week 4 || Tech Week 2014!
by Triona Barrow 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

Hey all, It's finally Tech Week! A lot of effort has gone into this years events, and we hope that you'll all come and enjoy. Don't forget, you don't have be a Redbrick member to come along - if you know of anyone who's interested in any of our talks be sure to bring them along. This weeks announce will be dealing with all of the events we'll be putting on - you can also check out http://techweek.dcu.ie for the timetable! One important note also, to take part in the coding competition you must sign up first - use this link to book your place: http://bit.ly/1lt8w6Q = Monday = 12:00pm - Old Bar Tech Week: Activate 3:00pm - LG26 3D Modelling - Blender for Beginners with David Larkan (tziegler) 5:00pm - Old Bar Web Development 101 with Maximilian Hoffmann (tsov) = Tuesday = 1:00pm - Old Bar Intro to Mobile Development (iOS and Android) with Daniel Malone (ashaman) & Robert Lis (fofxo) 3:00pm - Old Bar Awesome Raspberry Pi Projects 5:00pm - Old Bar "How Hackers Changed the World" Screening = Wednesday = 2:00pm - Old Bar Virtualisation with Niall O'Connell from Openet 3:00pm - L101 Coding Competition with Openet 5:00pm - NuBar Coding Competition Results = Thursday = 2:00pm - Old Bar Accenture Tech Talk 3:00pm - Old Bar Building AWS Cloudfront with Amazon 4:00pm - Old Bar Test Driven Development with Amazon 5:00pm - Old Bar How does your Broadband Actually Work? with Colin Whittaker (grimnar) 6:00pm - NuBar Meet with Amazon Engineers and Recruitment = Friday = 2:00pm - Old Bar Web Security Attactics with Ciaran McNally (maK) 2:30pm - Old Bar Log Analysis & Intrusion Detection with Richard Dalton (d_fens) 3:00pm - Old Bar Challenges in Malware Reverse Engineering with Symantec 4:00pm - Old Bar E-Crime, Cyber Espionage and War with Symantec Wow, what a week! See you guys there. Techy regards, Tríona Barrow (polka) Redbrick PRO 2013/14 Connect with Redbrick and keep up to date with all of our news and events: Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU

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DCU TECH WEEK 2014 TIMETABLE IS LIVE
by Ciaran McNally 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

It's that time of year again ladies and gentlemen, Login, Lights on, Dial up and Link in, A technological cyber-cyclone of bits an bytes is headed your way! Brace your keyboards and restrain your iThings as Tech Week bursts through the walls of DCU flooding your networks. TechWeek Timetable - http://techweek.dcu.ie/ DCU President Brian MacCraith will be powering on this exciting week as DCU embraces a celebration of all things Technology. There will be inspiring talks covering a world wide web of topics delivered by the best in the Tech Industry. Companies such as Amazon, Openet and Symantec will be providing an excellent opportunity for students to get a real feel for the places they can go in the tech field. We have a coding competition run by Openet with uber prizes up to EURO 1000. Last year 5 students also got job offers as a result this event, it's not to be missed! Amazon will be blessing us with their expert insightful talks and will also be providing an opportunity to meet and greet with the experts in an informal environment, were students can ask questions and exchange their CVs :) Symantec will be delivering some very high-caliber talks, giving students an insider view of what its like to work on a Malware threat response team within Symantec. We have a large array of other inspirational talks spanning 3D Modelling, Web/Mobile Development, Security and Raspberry pi projects. Hopefully covering all the bases and filling you with technical lust for the hacker culture within which we live. I hope you are as excited as we are! Watch the events unfold at #TechWeekDCU Lets GO! https://www.facebook.com/events/280542745437765/

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Week 3: Openet Coding Competition - 2, 000 euro worth of cash prizes
by Richard Walsh 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Techweek is coming up and with that in mind the kind people at Openet are coming to do a prep session ahead of the Openet Coding Competition during TechWeek. With a prize fund of €2,000 up for grabs with a €1,000 1st prize it's definitely worth checking out. Last year saw Redbrick's very own Craig Duff walked away with one of the three great prizes on offer. This year to maximise your chances you should come along to the preparation workshop. Details: Date: Wednesday 26th February Time: 2PM Onwards Location: LG25 The Workshop will be hosted by some of the Openet team that are organising the competition, they will go over the questions and solutions from last year's competition as well as tell all those interested what to expect in the competition the following week. With last year's winner Ross Andreucetti and some of the markers for the competition going to be in attendance we think you'd be mad to miss this. Sign up for the competition here: http://techweek.dcu.ie/openet_coding_competition.html And to keep up to date with all of the TechWeek news check us out on: Twitter: twitter.com/RedbrickDCU Timetable: http://techweek.dcu.ie/ Regards, Richard Walsh Enterprise Computing Redbrick SysAdmin

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Week 1 - Openet Talk || Tech Week || Coding Competition
by Vadim Clyne-Kelly 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and that your exams all went swimmingly! This week we have a couple of things to announce to get the semester started. -- Openet Talk - 1pm - XG22 -- Tech Week - Week 4 (3rd - 7th March) -- Coding Competition - 5th March == Openet Talk == Openet are coming to DCU this Wednesday the 12th of February to talk as part of DCU Career's Service talk series. They have invited all member of Redbrick along to the event. They will be talking about the technologies used at Openet, "How DCU prepared me for my Job today" - Ross Andreucetti and also a brief run through of some of the problems that were presented at last year's programming competition - more below. Openet are looking for graduate hires and will be there to talk to anyone interested before and after the talk. The talk will take place in XG22 at 1pm. == Tech Week == Tech Week is back again this year with lots of techy goodness planned. We have something tech for everyone with topics such as 3D Modelling, Web Development, "Impact of Social Media", Top Raspberry Pi Projects, Web Security, Coding Competition all making an appearance throughout the week with more to be confirmed soon! Tech Week will be running from the 3rd to the 7th of March (Week 4). More information to follow soon! == Coding Competition == The Openet Coding competition is back again this year with cash prizes for the first three places! There will be a run through of the previous year's questions this Wednesday at the Openet talk and also a week before the competition. Sign ups and more details to follow soon. If you have any questions or queries don't hesitate to email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. Regards, Vadim Clyne-Kelly Redbrick Chairperson 2013/2014 --- Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events! Homepage: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU

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Announce Week 11 || Win a €20 NuBar voucher || EGM || Christmas Party
by TeaPott 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =Facebook Competition= =EGM= =Exams= =Christmas Party!= =Common Room= =3rd and 4th Year Project Services= =Facebook Competition= Link: http://goo.gl/bWKAh7 Our competition is up and running on our Facebook page! Want to win a €20 NuBar voucher? Like the page and enter using the app here http://goo.gl/bWKAh7 . Our competition closes at 1pm on Wednesday, and the winner will be announced at our EGM! =EGM= Date: Wednesday 11th December Time: 2pm Location: QG01 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/454988594620806/ Due to several positions on the committee becoming available we will be holding an EGM in week 11. The positions that will be available are: -Systems Administrator -Webmaster -Events Officer -Secretary -Helpdesk If you think you would be interested in running for any of the above positions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator, Helpdesk member or our Webmaster you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =Christmas Party!= Date: Thursday 12th December Time: 8pm Location: Matt Weldon's Pub Google maps link: http://goo.gl/maps/URqYY We will be hosting our annual Christmas party this Thursday, with Circus Arts, Anime & Manga, Airsoft and GamesSoc! Get your Santa hats, Christmas jumpers and tinsel at the ready, we'll have drink specials, and a very special visit from a man in a red suit with a big sack of goodies for everyone! =Common Room= If you have left your belongings in the Coomon Room or N109A you will need to take them home in the next two weeks as the room is being cleaned before Christmas and anything left behind will be disposed of. If you need to get belongings out of N109A you willl need to organise a pickup with a member of Room Committee, you can contact them here: commonroom(a)lists.redbrick.dcu.ie . =3rd and 4th Year Project Services= Making a web application for your Third or Fourth Year Project and need somewhere to host it? Redbrick provide free Virtual Private Servers (VPS) with port 80 and 443 publicly accessible from the internet for all members. More info can be found on our wiki http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Rbvm or by contacting admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events! Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Announce Week 10 || Pints || EGM || Christmas Party
by TeaPott 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =Monday Social Pints= =EGM= =Exams= =Christmas Party!= =3rd/ 4th Year Project Services= =Facebook Page= =Monday Social Pints= We're having a small get together this week, from 6pm onwards on Monday we'll be having a few pints together in the NuBar. It's a good opportunity to sit down, chill out, and escape assignments and exams for a short while! Keep an eye out for the Redbrick hoodies if you don't recognise anyone! =EGM= Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/454988594620806/ Due to several positions on the committee becoming available we will be holding an EGM in week 11. The date and time are currently unconfirmed, but we'll let you know as soon as we know! The positions that will be available are: -Systems Administrator -Webmaster -Events Officer -Secretary -Helpdesk If you think you would be interested in running for any of the above positions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator, Helpdesk member or our Webmaster you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =Exams= Interested in running for one of our open positions as System Administrator, Webmaster, or Helpdesk? Let us know! You must register to sit an exam before running for these positions. Email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie to register to sit one of these exams as soon as possible, if you are interested. =Christmas Party!= This year's Christmas Party will be in week 11 this year, with a number of other wonderful societies Get your Santa hats, Christmas jumpers and tinsel at the ready, we'll have drink specials, and a very special visit from a man in a red suit with a big sack of goodies for everyone! Refreshments will be provided on the night, we'll have more information for you all before then! =3rd and 4th Year Project Services= Making a web application for your Third or Fourth Year Project and need somewhere to host it? Redbrick provide free Virtual Private Servers (VPS) with port 80 and 443 publicly accessible from the internet for all members. More info can be found on our wiki http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Rbvm or by contacting admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. =Facebook Page= Our new Facebook like page is fully set up, and we'll be holding a competition before the end of the semester, so give the page a cheeky like and keep an eye out, just so you don't miss it! Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events! Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Week 9 || EGM || Christmas Party || HelpDesk & Admin Talks
by TeaPott 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =HelpDesk :Drop-in Help Session= =Admin Training: Exam Prep= =3rd/ 4th Year Project Services= =EGM= =Christmas Party!= =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =HelpDesk :Drop-in Help Session= Date: Tuesday 26th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 This week our helpdesk team are holding a drop in session. If you have any questions about Redbrick services, or you missed any of the talks, come along and ask and we'll be happy to help. There will be pizza! =Admin Training: Exam Prep= Date: Thursday 28th November Time: 6pm Location: L128 If you think you might be interested in running for either Webmaster or Admin in our next EGM, or perhaps you would just like to learn more about how these services are maintained, you can come along to this talk and any questions you have will be answered. There will of course be pizza! =3rd and 4th Year Project Services= Making a web application for your Third or Fourth Year Project and need somewhere to host it? Redbrick provide free Virtual Private Servers (VPS) with port 80 and 443 publicly accessible from the internet for all members. More info can be found on our wiki http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Rbvm or by contacting admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. =EGM= Due to several positions on the committee becoming available we will be holding an EGM in week 11.. The date and time are currently unconfirmed. The positions that will be available are: -Systems Administrator -Webmaster -Events Officer -Secretary If you think you would be interested in running for any of the above positions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator or our Webmaster you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =Christmas Party!= This year's Christmas Party will be in week 11 on the same day as the EGM (date and time, as of yet unconfirmed). So come along to our EGM, fill up on some pizza and then join us and several other societies for a great big party! As usual Santa will make an appearance with a big sack of goodies for everyone! =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= Website: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/katia_valadeaus_event/ Some members of Redbrick who have been affected by cancer are working together to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The members will be dying their hair, getting their legs waxed (ouch!) and getting cancer related tattoos. If you would like to donate, you can contact lithium(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Trip Away: FOSDEM= Dates: 31st January - 2nd February 2014 Location: ULB Campus Solbosh,Brussels, Belgium Website: https://fosdem.org/2014/ As you might be aware, a few years ago Redbrick went on the grand voyage to Brussels to attend FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developer European Meeting). This year the committee would really love to treat you and go again. The only issue is that we would have to leave Ireland on the final day of winter exams. This could pose a problem for some people, so we would love if you could email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with any alternatives that you can think of! Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events: Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Week 8 || HelpDesk Talk || Admin Training || EGM
by TeaPott 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= =Admin Training= =EGM= =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= Date: Tuesday 19th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 In this talk our Helpdesk team will be introducing you to our development server Pygmalion. They will be walking you through the selection of compilers and interpreters available on our systems (javac, gcc, python). If you're a code junkie or an aspiring developer, this is not something to be missed! We especially recommend this talk to anyone who has just started programming. =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 21st November Time: 6pm Location: L128 We'll be finishing off our install of the LAMP stack and taking you through setting up PHP and MYSQL. Then we'll have a beginners look at Shell scripting. As usual there will be pizza. =EGM= Due to several positions on the committee becoming available we will be holding an EGM in the coming weeks. The date and time are currently unconfirmed. The positions that will be available are: -Systems Administrator -Webmaster -Events Officer -Secretary If you think you would be interested in running for any of the above positions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator or our Webmaster you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= Website: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/katia_valadeaus_event/ Some members of Redbrick who have been affected by cancer are working together to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The members will be dying their hair, getting their legs waxed (ouch!) and getting cancer related tattoos. If you would like to donate, you can contact lithium(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Trip Away: FOSDEM= Dates: 31st January - 2nd February 2014 Location: ULB Campus Solbosh,Brussels, Belgium Website: https://fosdem.org/2014/ As you might be aware, a few years ago Redbrick went on the grand voyage to Brussels to attend FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developer European Meeting). This year the committee would really love to treat you and go again. The only issue is that we would have to leave Ireland on the final day of winter exams. This could pose a problem for some people, so we would love if you could email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with any alternatives that you can think of! Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events: Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Announce Week 7 || Web Development Talk || Linux InstallFest
by TeaPott 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =Web Development Talk= =Linux InstallFest= =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =Admin Exam= =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= =Admin Training= =Web Development Talk= Date: Tuesday 12th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 This week instead of our helpdesk talk we will be having our very own Maximilian Hoffmann (tsov). Max is currently working for Terminal4 while finishing his final year, and he'll be showing us how to create a good looking website easily. We will be going from the very basics upwards, so if you have no experience don't worry! There may be a sneaky surprise as well at the talk, so bring along your friends. We will be covering a number of topics during the workshop, including: - HTML5 and CSS3 - The box model - Cross browser compatibility - Introduction to Bootstrap There will of course be pizza! =Linux InstallFest= Date: Thursday 14th November Time: 5pm Location: L101 If you would like to install Linux on your own personal machine, join us next week when our Helpdesk and Admin teams will help you to do so. We will provide installation discs to those who attend and if your laptop doesn't have a cd drive please bring a USB stick that's at least 2GB in size. We will be offering copies of OpenSUSE, MInt and Ubuntu with both Dual Boot and VM options available. =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= Website: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/katia_valadeaus_event/ Some members of Redbrick who have been affected by cancer are working together to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The members will be dying their hair, getting their legs waxed (ouch!) and getting cancer related tattoos. If you would like to donate, you can contact lithium(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Trip Away: FOSDEM= Dates: 31st January - 2nd February 2014 Location: ULB Campus Solbosh,Brussels, Belgium Website: https://fosdem.org/2014/ As you might be aware, a few years ago Redbrick went on the grand voyage to Brussels to attend FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developer European Meeting). This year the committee would really love to treat you and go again. The only issue is that we would have to leave Ireland on the final day of winter exams. This could pose a problem for some people, so we would love if you could email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with any alternatives that you can think of! =Admin Exam= If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator please email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= Date: Tuesday 19th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 In this talk our Helpdesk team will be introducing you to our development server Pygmalion. They will be walking you through the selection of compilers and interpreters available on our systems (javac, gcc, python). If you're a code junkie or an aspiring developer, this is not something to be missed! We especially recommend this talk to any first years who have just started programming. =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 21st November Time: 6pm Location: L128 We'll be finishing off our install of the LAMP stack and taking you through setting up PHP and MYSQL, we will also show you some cool tricks! Then we'll have a beginners look at Shell scripting! As usual there will be pizza. Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events: Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Week 6 || Helpdesk Talk || Admin Training || InterPints || InstallFest
by Jessica Anne Mc Gowan 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =Helpdesk Talk= =Admin Training= =NUIG CompuSoc InterPints= =Linux InstallFest= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =Helpdesk Talk= Date: Tuesday 5th November Time: 6pm Location: LG25 This weeks talk is about hosting Wordpress on your own Redbrick site! Always great to know how to do this, a lot of people use their Redbrick sites as personal blogs. Be sure to come along, especially if you have any questions. There will of course be pizza! =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 7th November Time: 6pm Location: L128 This week our admins will be introducing you to Virtual Machines and our web services. You will also learn how to use a LAMP (Linux,Apache,MySQL and PHP) setup as a backend for websites. As always there will be pizza afterwards! =NUIG CompuSoc InterPints= Date: Friday 8th November Time: 10pm Location: Mac Turcaill's Pub, Townsend Street NUIG's CompuSoc will be in town next week for a few pints and hope to meet up with some of us lovely 'Brickies. It should be a great night and a good chance to meet some fellow nerds for a bit of craic! =Linux InstallFest= Date: Thursday 14th November Time: 6pm Location: L128 If you would like to install Linux on your own personal machine, join us next week when our Helpdesk and Admin teams will help you to do so. We will provide installation discs to those who attend and if your laptop doesn't have a cd drive please bring a USB stick that's at least 2GB in size. We will be offering copies of OpenSUSE, MInt and Ubuntu with both Dual Boot and VM options available. =Trip Away: FOSDEM= Dates: 31st January - 2nd February 2014 Location: ULB Campus Solbosh,Brussels, Belgium Website: https://fosdem.org/2014/ As you might be aware, a few years ago Redbrick went on the grand voyage to Brussels to attend FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developer European Meeting). This year the committee would really love to treat you and go again. The only issue is that we would have to leave Ireland on the final day of winter exams. This could pose a problem for some people, so we would love if you could email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with any alternatives that you can think of! =Admin Exam= If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator please email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events: Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3 Redbrick Secretary 2013/14

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