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Hi Everyone, Marcello Giorgi gave an update on SuperB at the opening session of the BaBar Collaboration Meeting today at SLAC. His slides are available at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rfc/Giorgi_SuperB_Update_24Jan2011_at_BaBar_Collab_Mtg.pdf Highlights are that the Italian government has approved 650M euro for the project plus an additional 50M euro to be distributed in 2011. The funding profile is not yet completely determined, but the report does include a proposed profile (p. 13). Marcello says the 650M euro though is "protected". Other items of note are that the site selection is still open. Maybe Frascati, but maybe elsewhere. Next SuperB workshop is in April, with first detector collab meeting planned for early June. The anticipated influx of new students and postdocs needing to do flavor physics analyses is making for some revision of the long-term BaBar schedule over the next few years. The thought is that a lot of students will do detector work on SuperB and thesis analyses on BaBar. On another note, Persis opened the CM this morning with a surprisingly positive five-minute talk. She noted several things, in particular the continuing large number of papers being published by BaBar and that this is likely to continue into 2012 and beyond. She also noted that in a conversation this past Saturday with the CERN DG on another topic, he mentioned former BaBar students and postdocs are playing a surprisingly significant role in the LHC experiments. Thank you, --Ray