It was Peter's 70th birthday this week - cause for celebration and cake at coffee time. If you want to join in the celebrations at Developing Statistics in April, the registration deadline will be upon us very soon. We have a diverse set of talks on spatial and longitudinal statistics as well as presentations from our invited speakers, and a couple of social events. http://www.developingstatistics.org/programme/talks/ Registration details are here: http://www.developingstatistics.org/registration/ Conference co-chairs: Barry Rowlingson Chris Jewell You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.