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The committee page needed a bit of a overhaul I felt so it's been redesigned to look prettier and also provide more information. It's been sitting around for a week or so while it gets tweaked but it's finally live on the site now.

With Norm having taken over as secretary and doing an excellent job too we are now implementing minutes for the meetings (that we actually minute) being available online.

I'm still playing around with the style and how we are going to do it but the minutes from our last meeting are now available online.

I was speaking to Craig at the Christian Union lunch bar yesterday who claimed there was significantly less than a few million people in the world that called themselves atheist.

I ended up looking up coming over some statistics will looking for some statistics on Humanism which make for interesting reading. Adherents.com which seems to be the de facto standard for religious stats put the figure at "200 to 240 million."

World Almanac put the number at 205 million. I couldn't find the page on Encyclopaedia Britannica but depending on what figures you believe thet put the number somewhere between 40 and 150 million.

Meanwhile Landover Baptist Church puts the number at 300 ;).

We've been nominated for a Riley award! I'm actually disappointed, we were put forward for three but were only shortlisted for one of them. I've appealed against one of the decisions though, I mean losing our to product design society - what is that about?!?

The awards take place this Friday so we'll have to see what happens.

Congratulations to Norm for being elected secretary and Sarann for being elected social secretary!

Next year we will hopefully be able to do a whole lot more than we have this year (not that our schedule wasn't packed this year!) so be prepared for a kick-ass first semester in September.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with Rationalist Week! Thanks to the contributions of everyone in both time and resources the week was an amazing success for the society.

I think we learned a lot from running the event next year and will be having a meeting about what went well and what didn't sometime in the future.

Things are starting to come together for Rationalist Week. We've been busy planning, ordering and buying things and more exciting, things are starting to turn up.

I've just had an email letting me know that they have dispatched the megaphone so that should be here on Monday we should have a lot of other stuff arriving next week too.

The downside being that currently I have 12 stackable chairs and 3 tables in my room. It's a good job I have a fair bit of space!

The email problems have now been resolved. The error was traced down to a problem with the DNS config file on the server and all email is now being delivered correctly again.

I can't exactly tell but we appear to be suffering from some kind of email problem - no emails seem to be arriving in our inbox. Facebook me or use my personal email address for the moment, I'll keep you updated.

Hmm, well while our fund rasier was a wicked night, it didn't actually raise any money. Thanks to everyone who attended (that was basically none of you). Luckily, there were plenty of non-society members willing to turn up.

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