sites. and attention, please. we seem to have an attention problem in the country. but do we really? we hear about it all the time. i need you to stick around to hear this one and decide for yourself. hi, everybody. good to have you with me. i'm thomas roberts. we'll have those stories coming up, but first staggering numbers for you. 68,000 americans currently deployed in afghanistan right now. more than 1,200 people in the u.s. military there have lost their lives. it's a war this country waged for almost a decade. and today president obama announced the results of a review on the u.s. strategy in that area, and it's getting a lot of attention. you know, the white house report reveals some critical gains in breaking the taliban's momentum. but says the progress is both fragile and reversible. president obama today cited progress, but said the mission ahead will not be easy. >> progress comes slowly. and at a very high price in the lives of our men and women in uniform. in many places the gains we've made are still fragile and

reversible. but there is no question we are clearing more areas from taliban control and more afghans are reclaiming their communities. >> the white house review of the war comes on the heels of our nbc news "wall street journal" poll that found americans virtually split on u.s. involvement. now 53% approve of some american forces remaining in afghanistan until at least 2014 while 45% disapprove. nbc's chuck todd joins me from the white house. is there anything to this report that we're learning about that significantly different from where things stood a year ago? >> you know, it's funny, thomas. a lot of what you heard did feel like deja vu all over again. you're hearing the same things. it's fragile. we're hoping to make some gains. we're confident, optimistic that the leadership in pakistan is more stable today than it was yesterday. so, you know, there's some parts of that that did sound familiar. but on some of the strategic things they pointed out, you

heard the president talk about al qaeda, and he use ad phrase by saying that they are hunkered down now. so they feel they've made a lot of progress on that front. as far as getting afghan security forces starting to stand up as nato and u.s. forces can stand down, they're feeling real progress in certain parts of afghanistan. in the report itself, if you head between the lines there, you know, there's an acknowledgment that things with pakistan could be going a lot better than they are now. and that it's unclear who is running pakistan. and they seem to gloss over the issues that have to do with karzai's government, and is it too corrupt. is he a partner that we can work with? so how is the president really squared the support, the money, the material that we provide to pakistan while the white house report goes along to say pakistan is allowing the taliban insurgents to freely cross its borders to kill americans?

>> well, and what they were emphasizing today. we had a briefing with secretary of defense robert gates and secretary of state hillary clinton. and both kept emphasizing, you know, pakistan two years ago. nobody would have thought there would have been 140,000 pakistani troops on the border of afghanistan trying to help here. so they were pushing back on this idea that somehow the taliban is freely able to cross the border. that pakistan is now engaged. they weren't engaged before and were making progress there. but you're right. that's a big question. certainly there's some intelligence reports that seem to kind of be contrary to some of the reports that we've seen. >> and the sad news about richard holbrooke. the loss there. what is the immediate impact of his death to the u.s. effort that is taking place in avg afghanistan? >> right now it's a huge voice in the room. he was somebody that wasn't afraid, i think the biggest loss there for them is on the permit

front. he was sort of -- he wasn't afraid to be the bull in the china shop. sometimes that what you needed to do to shake a karzai, that sometimes you needed to provoke them a little bit to get them to -- to react in a way that that hay hadn't. you know, to this get them off a stance they'd be holding strong on. so having the person that wasn't afraid to confront a karzai. wasn't afraid to confront sedari and had a personal relationship he had been developing. that's not going to be easy to replace. it's a group effort right now. and you heard from secretary clinton and secretary gates almost having to take more of a personal role. there's plenty of -- some of ambassador holbrooke's deputies. secretary clinton made sure to point them out today. they'll have to take a larger role. >> we heard biden talking to andrea mitchell about what a loss this is and something for all of us to pay close attention

to as we watch this report. chuck todd, always good to have you with us here. thanks. >> so it's one thing to hear from civilian leaders, even the president, but to really understand what our troops are going through in afghanistan, you have to talk to someone who has actually lived through this firsthan firsthand. he wrote the book "war" which offers a lifting look at the day-to-day combat of soldiers in war. this is a great watch for everybody. it was named after sergeant juan ristrepo? >> that's right. he was killed in july '07. they named the outpost after him. >> what is the most surprising thing to someone like yourgs who then comes back? what can you tell us that we're not getting out of the white house? >> on the ground the reality is there are certain areas where the fighting is more intense than anyone anticipated in the past few years.

there was a patrol that took 100% casualties during the time i spent in afghanistan. every guy killed or wounded. on the other hand, there's larger areas of afghanistan with little fighting. so you have to understand, it's not all the same thing. >> so this is specifically the valley. >> there's parts of afghanistan that have benefitted tremendously from development and economic activities. so it's a patchwork quilt. so it's sort of on the bigger scale. the afghans don't like the taliban in general. and they need -- but they need something worthy and good to fight for. the challenge is we want them to help the nato effort, but they're supporting a corrupt government. so afghans don't like corruption more than anyone else does. if you're an afghan, the choice that the u.s. is giving you is sort of an intolerable one.

like help nato and the karzai regime, the karzai government will endure. that's a terrible choice for them. i don't think there's a military solution if there's no political solution to that problem. >> so, you know, in this -- especially this time of year we need to stress how much americans do support the troops, how much we care about the troops and we want to see them safe. let's talk about the fact that these troops are trained to carry out the mission. they want to get the mission done. go they talk about the ones that you got to be with, do they talk about the politics we get caught up in here at home? >> they don't. i don't think that's a problem. they're very much like the police. the police in a certain precinct are focused on the problem in their precinct. they're not evaluating the war on crime. these guys are 19, 20 years old. they're given specific jobs. they don't really need to know

what's happening in kandahar or kabul. >> what's your prediction of where we'll be in afghanistan if five years? at the rate we're going now? >> listen, the u.s. military, nato can by force of arms can do almost anything it wants. we can be there in five years taking casualties. i don't think there's a good exhibit for us until the afghan people decide this is their fight and they have to make it work. they defeated the soviets with their help. they're not going to take on this fight until they're fighting for something good. the karzai government is not something good. >> it's good to have you in here. we appreciate your time. it's really well done. thank you, sir. we want to turn to greg mortenson, the author of the best seller "three cups of tea." and as of 2010, he has established 45 schools in rural

and volatile regions of pakistan and afghanistan which provide education to over 64,000 children, including 52,000 young girls. greg, it's good to have you with us. i want to find out from you, what's your reaction to this the president's comments about the slow but steady gain in the war. >> it's slow and uncertain. there's been progress recently as far as the military is concerned. one of the things that i really focus on is education. and education has been tremendous project. progress. they've gone from 800,000 students in 2000 to 9 million students. as he mentioned the police. the problem is there's no judicial system. so police are being trained at a very high rate. there's about 90,000. but 80% of them are illiterate. there's no judicial system. so again, they go back to their tribal justice. they can't take somebody to prison because they would have to buy their food.

and a lot of the ideas i see, which are happening, including with the military, is that they're really putting the emphasis on listening to the elders. i really don't think we could establish or afghanistan a very central stro strong centralized government. a lot of the emphasis which holbrooke stressed and, you know, has been a pioneer in and ls the u.s. military is to listen to the elders. one thing they talk about is they don't need brain power, or firepower, but they need brain power. one of my ideas is to pull six troops from afghanistan, which costs $6 million a year. build a school of technology. in 20 years they have their own mining engineers. >> i need to interrupt you for one second. we need to take you quickly to

washington, d.c. where we're listening to harry reid. >> we have a constitutional duty to do con gregsly directed spending. and i don't want to give up that responsibility. i can't understand why members want to give up their power. i don't understand that. on the issue that's before the senate, soon before the senate, dealing with how we'll fund the government over the next few years. i should say the next year. i can't accept the fact that people are saying why should we vote for this? it's got con congressionally directed spending. i have things in this that will help the state of nevada.

the there are things in this that help our country in addition to helping nevada. as was learned yesterday, some of the people who speak out against con gregressionally dird spending or earmarks are people who have more earmarks than others. they're hoping, of course, it will pass, and they can go home and do the press events. here i am. cut the ribbon. look what i did. you can't have it both ways. i bet if you went to age this in the dictionary and found rip krit. under that would be people who ask against earmarks but vote against them. i've not yet heard any of these

folks once they get an earmark that they ask for. i've not heard any of them ask to resend it. so i would hope that we would cut down the mean-spirited talk about this. and just do our jobs. the constitution we have doesn't have a lot of information in it, but what's in it run this is country. i'm convinced i do not want to give up more power to the white house. whether it's george bush or barack obama. and i'm going to fight as hard as i can against president obama on these earmarks and my republican colleagues who hate to vote for them but love to get them. questions? >> senator reid -- you talk about mean spirited talk -- >> we've been taking a quick listen to senator majority leader harry reid. he's just come out of the senate democratic caucus meeting this afternoon. hearing him talk about the fact

he's seeing senate gridlock. we're trying to find out what's happening with the start treaty, don't ask, don't tell, the dream act and the 9/11 health care bill. but again, earmark spending and the government spending bill, what we just heard from the senator there. i want to get back to speaking with greg mortensen. we were discussioning afghanistan and the reaction to what's coming out of the white house. i appreciate you standing by as we had to jump in there real quickly and hear what senator reid had to say. as sebastian said, there are important strides we cannot overlook. you've been quoted saying you can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, but until girls are educated, a society won't change. explain to all of us what you mean and why the girls, the young women are the key here. >> well, the taliban, one of

their primary recruiting grounds are illiterate society. in the last three years the taliban bombed, burned or destroyed 2,800 schools in pakistan. about 80% of those are girls school. the greatest fear is not a bullet but a pen. they fear if the girl grows up, becomes a mother without an education in the community, most of the educated women, even that throw their lives will refuse to allow their son to become a militant or a terrorist. that's pretty much the same anywhere. we expect our military to solve our problems. it's backwards that the military setting is strategic policy to president obama to evaluate. and we expect the soldiers to be diplomats, warriors and humanitarians. it is unrealistic. i have the upmost admiration for soldier who is i brief quite

extensively before going to afghanistan, and as i mentioned earlier, thomas, we put a big emphasis on empowering the elders, building relationships, which we've only started to do in the last two or three years. i'm talking with our government. >> education is key. i want to point out to everybody that you established 145 schools through your work with the central asia institute. 145 schools in rural and on volatile areas of pakistan, afghanistan, and to point out to everybody over 64,000 children are being educated by the work you're doing in that region. so, greg, thank you very much for joining me today. >> thanks, thomas. >> appreciate your time. >> so is washington, d.c. just broken? just a broken down place? next former senator's candid view of his time in office. [ male announcer ] this is charlie whose morning flight

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treasury secretary tim geithner told a congressional oversight panel that the high rate of foreclosures is no longer tied to the housing meltdown and suggested the government is to blame. >> the principle factor driving foreclosures today is not what was at the heart of foreclosures, which was, as you know, a set of broader lending practices. now it's really about unemployment. that's why it's very important to emphasize that the most important thing that's going to affect the trajectory of house prices, the overall number of foreclosures, people staying in their home is what the government is able to do to get the unemployment rate down much more quickly. >> former senator ted kaufman, democrat from delaware, is chairman of the congressional oversight panel grilling mr. geithner today. he joins necessary from washington. it's good to have you with us. i want to get to this.

secretary geithner says keeping more than americans in the home will come down to what the government does about unemployment. what is your stance on that? >> i know what he was saying. he was saying when we started out on this process, as you know, there was money for what we called a home affordability modification program. and the idea there was to get people in a position where we could reduce their interest payments, and that would be a good way to get housing going. the point he's making is those who had a job and are doing okay. they bought a house too big for them. now he's saying a big portion of the housing are people that did it by the rules, did not have a subprime loan, didn't have a balloon, but they become unemployed and cannot make the

payments. so his basic point is i think he's partially right. basically what he's saying until we get unemployment straightened out, we'll still have a housing problem. until we get housing straightened out, we're going to have a problem. we have the t.a.r.p., major changes in the t.a.r.p. can no longer be made after october. we have four more months. there's a number of housing programs we can do and tweaks we can do on the present housing program so we can get more people to stay in their home. people stay their home the housing market will get better. then people will be employed and we start the whole cycle which is what we have to do in order to get back to the place where we want to bring. the government's foreclosure prevention effort may ultimately aid between 700 and 800,000 borrowers. that's short of the 3 or 4 million it's aimed to assist. explain what went wrong for us. >> when people saturday down and

did it, we were thinking about there's a borrower and lender. you put them in the room. they say, look, i'll reduce the payments on your income and the loan -- and the borrower says great, that's perfect. but the problem is that what's developed during this, one of the reasons we had this meltdown in the beginning where people rather than having their mortgage with a local bank, it got tied up with a bunch of other things, now in the middle of the process is someone called a servicer. . they deal between the buyers and sellers and make it work. they don't want to modify it to give it to the borrower. they assume have the borrower go into foreclosure. the second thing is the servicer will many times make more money if the person is foreclosed on than if they have their mortgage

modified. so it's a much more complicated stew than we ever did. but treasury was late getting on top of it. and it's been a lot longer. and this is really important. now, some people say why don't we eliminate the program. 700,000 or 800,000 to people that get mortgages is a big thing. we were all hoping it would be bigger. >> i have to ask because you are no long ner the senate, but as you watch what's happening on capitol hill today, listening to what senator harry reid said about gridlock, do you view washington as completely broken or just broken down for the moment? >> thomas, look. i've been hanging around -- i came here in 1973 with senator biden. i was with him for 22 years. i've been a senator for the last two years. i taught about the congress for 20 years and the duke law school. and you know, you can't say that washington is broke when last two years the congress and the president passed more legislation than any other congress since fdr. so what the problem is that

there are very serious differences of opinion in the congress, which basically mirror the basic difference of opinion between the public at large. the real problem is what's going on with the tax deal and everything else is the economy is so bad. when the economy is bad, people get very upset with the process. the reason why so many people are upset with the governor, the mayor, is when you have a situation where we have the incredible unemployment, underemployed. people working jobs they don't want. people afraid of losing their homes, they are angry. they have a the right to be angry. and that's where it shows. i am absolutely convinced, and i know this isn't conventional wisdom, nothing will help this pros move forward that when the economy gets better, americans feel better about themselves and their country and members of congress can do more negotiations. >> people want to feel safe and secure. no doubt about it. >> they want a place to live.

they want food. if they don't get it, they're angry. and you can't really blame them. >> it's simple stuff. sir, i thank you for your time. former senator from delaware. appreciate it. >> agreement. thanks for having me on. >> plus heartbreaking letters to santa. kids are asking for the essentials. the bare basics. so is that a sign of how the economy is really doing? we're going to talk about that and explore what's going to the north pole here on msnbc. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. also available in small, easy-to-swallow petites. citracal.

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secret santas around the country. officials say half of those letters will never get answered. we want to bring in dylan ratigan. he's traveling the country with his steel on wheels tour with a live broadcast from philadelphia today. dylan, i'm sorry with lead in with a downer story about these kids writing to santa claus about the basics. you being in the field can explain the feedback from the parents trying to keep things together for their little kids when we're in such tough times, especially the holidays. >> yeah, it really hits home just how damaging some of these self serving policies in washington, d.c. and new york are. that may preserve the power structure and the job security for the short term of some of the powerful interests and politicians in this country, but boy the emotion was so real last night up in rochester when you look at the impact that these decisions are having on people

who are suffering tremendously through no fault of their own, but simply because they are the other end of the stick. they are the ones who are being stolen from effectively. take a listen to this one gentleman last night. >> you're going to want to throw me out after this. >> i'll have somebody else throw you out. >> how dare you blame these kids for the mess we made. then we look to them and say, fix it. you can't fix it. they're moving jobs out of this country as fast as you create them. why? cheap labor. simple. >> the people get it, thomas. and nothing brings it home more, weather it's the emotion of a man like corky at the town hall last night or the reporting you were just offering up as to those letters and the needy children that are unfortunately increasing in this country because of the lack of jobs. >> i like that guy. he has a lot of good things to say. he wasn't afraid to say them. we're going to see you at 4:00 eastern on the road.

"the dylan ratigan show" will be coming to you from pennsylvania, philadelphia, to be specific. dylan, again, thank you. so taking pictures on your cell phone then uploading them online to share with family and friends could reveal more about you than you might think. police say the criminals are using this technology to get personal information and find their next targets. wnbc's tom llamas is here with a warning about what and where you share. and you're here to properly scare me now. >> well, police are telling me people are putting way too much information on social media. consumer reports found 52% of social media users post information that could lead to a cyber crime. now our story is about telephones. most people don't know this, but cell phones made after 2005 have gps technology in them. it's the law. it's for first responders, but it also is helping criminals. new york banker patrick chang enjoyed his meal so much, he posted it on twitter. we don't know patrick, but we saw his photo, found the geo tag

and within minutes pinpointed where he was, even though his tweet said nothing about his location. >> i didn't know how accurate it actually is. it was startling to hear. >> geo tags are a gps stamp that smart phones like the blackberry and iphone encode on photos taken by the device. >> it's usually latitude and longitude coordinates. >> he runs the computer crime squad, one of the biggest in the country. he says tracking geo tags can be used for any crime. from stalking to burglarly. >> if you take pictures of your new flat screen tv that you want the share with your friends, you may have given away your street address. then you may mention that you're going away on vacation on thursday. then someone knows where you live, you're not home and you have expensive property. >> we found out about geo tags through the website, i can stalk you.com. they monitor social media and let people know when their photos are giving away their locations. >> when you start looking at someone's geotags over a period

of time, certain patterns start to emerge. you can start telling where people live, where people work. >> ben jackson developed the technology. i could probably train a grade schoolers to do it. we decided to put ben and his website to the test. right now on i'm on 50th between 6th and 7th avenue. i'm going to take a picture and send it to my twitter page. i want to see if ben can find me and how long it takes. from the moment i took the photo and it popped up, within 15 minutes ben was closing in on me. at the 20-minute mark he was next to me. >> it was more leaning towards the other side of the building, so i thought you were on 51st. i looped around and took two lefts. there we were. >> there is a way to prevent being tracked with geotags. lieutenant showed us on his iphone. >> go to settings, general, location services, and then turn location services off. also remember if you use social

media, and keep strict security settings, you're not completely protected. >> one of those friends could share the information themselves. they could cut and paste it to another application. you really have no control over the information. >> if you like to find out how to disable your phone, log onto icanstalkyou.com. they have instructions for the blackberry, iphone, droid and palm devices. we contacted twitter about geotags. they say they don't post photos on their site, so they have no control over geotags. i know you're on twitter and fais bob. careful about twitter. but facebook has security in their programs. >> and the site you recommend is free advice. it's created to help people. even though it has a creepy name. >> it's meant to help. tom, great to see you. thanks so much. as we continue to talk about there, there are over 500 million people around the world actively using facebook.

85% of people now use the internet to do their shopping, from online banking and e-mails to business transactions. every account needs to have a password. but a whopping 75% of computer users are using the same one, two, three, four, five, six code password to protect their information. 75%. can you believe that? michael is ceo of reputation defender.com. good to have you with us. i'm still tripped up thinking people use the password 123456. we think we're protected. explain why that isn't enough to really protect us. >> there are two kinds of hacking that we see in the internet today. one is an act of hacking where third parties are looking for personal identifiable information on social networks or on twitter or geo location services are really looking for information like password

information, credit card information. we know about wikileaks. we also know how it affects people when sites are hacked for passwords. there's passive hacking, which is much more problematic. all the social media sites that we use, that we think are free start to sell a lot of information about us. so we are share information. the social media sites sell either our personal information or descriptions about us that are not exactly personally identifiable to us to third parties. then those third parties match them up with other information we give to other sites. each of us have the nsa level dossier that is very detailed about aur lives. you need to take control over you passwords. i would not suggest a privacy setting on any social networking site really gives you protection from geo location or from any

other kind of probing technology. it's very, very remarkable how specific you can find, how specific the information you can find about individuals. we have shown that with a first name, last name, and e-mail address, a lot of time, between a half and two-thirds of the time we've been able to find an individual's full nine-digit social security number even without any other information. of course, we don't sell that service. we don't offer that service to our customer. we just show it for academic purposes. and other companies have done the same. my company makes technologies that prevent the oversharing of information and prevent the leakage of information and allow you to put tooth paste back in if tube. we can take it down from the web. as the technology continues to expand, something popular now, wifi allowing us to log onto laptops, i-pads anywhere and everywhere. explain why that makes us more vul herbal. >> in the book 1984 jovgeorge

orwell imagine ad world with cameras on every wall. the social networking sites, the sites that we think are free have much more probing information abouts. much more probing feelers to all different parts of our lives. whether using a browser, social networking site, a free media site. the business of media companies, there's nothing evil about it. but the business of media companies is finding a lot of information about us, and then selling that information to third party who is want to market to you so when you think you're using a free service, you are the product being sold. so as more and more of our lives go to more and more devices. to more and more site sore andss to more and more site ites. we have to be extra careful about what we're sharing. the uses of the data will also be for insurance, review purposes as the "wall street journal" reported a few weeks ago. for romantic purposes. dating sites will have scores for all of us depending on our

eligibility based on where we eat and what kind of lifestyle choices we make. any number of uses we have when we do research on somebody for every day lives, every life transaction, whether dating or school or romance or professional life. all those things are going to be based on data sets being collected about us every time we switch on our machines to surf the web and enjoy the web. so be very thoughtful about this. of course, definitely use a sophisticated pass words. mix numbers and words. don't use the same username as password. change your password frequently. and be very smart about how you surf the web. remove yourself from people search sites. and sign up with reputati reputationdefender.com. we'll take care of it for you. >> we choose to elect to put this information out there. we have to be selective when we elect to put this information out there. >> very selective. thank you, sir. appreciate your time and help with this one. >> thanks so much. the truth about adhd. i need you to keep your

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welcome back, everybody. most of you may be multitasking as you watch and listen to me now. just for a few seconds i want you to stop. just focus on this next story. and use it as a test to test yourself and see if you can do it and complete the task at hand without another distraction. then think about what attracts you to focus on this and what interrupts you to ignore and it return to multitasking. have you stopped? untangling the myths about attention disorder is the subject of a recent article in "the new york times" written by dr. perry class. he's a trained paid y trigs also the director of graduate

studies. she joins me in studio to talk about this. it's good to have yo with ugs. there's a lot of misconceptions about adhd. let's break down myth from fact about what this disease really is. >> i think one of the reasons i wrote the piece is that in modern life just as you said, we all feel we're paying attention to many things at once. and we've gone over time from the idea that some people don't think there is such an idea of adhd. both of those approaches missed the idea that there are a lot of children and a lot of adolescents and adults with a very real and very difficult problem that they're struggling with. >> so what are the signs, and explain how to get diagnosed. >> if you have a child who is having a lot of trouble focusing and paying attention, don't jump

to the idea that that's adhd. a child who can't focus in school, can't concentrate, needs someone to look at her and figure out why. >> let's talk about the difficulty people do have living with a diagnosis like this and the things they face in their day-to-day lives. >> well the children, and again i'm a pediatrician, although many of these things carry over to adulthood. the children with adhd. some have hyper active impulsive form of adhd. that's more the boys. they're the kids who can't sit still. i don't mean the way most kids. they are the kids who truly can't calm down, sit down, focus on anything long enough to get something done. they're impulsive. they're always in trouble, always getting hurt, always in the emergency room getting stitched up. there's also an attempt to form which is more common in girls in which people may not look like

they're moving around all the time, but they're still having terrible trouble focusing, completing tasks, thinking things through. >> let's talk about diagnosis. when should kids be diagnosed? >> the reason to think about a diagnosis is because somebody is having problems. because somebody is suffering. and we're taking for granted here that you've looked at the school and you've tried to see if the teacher, you know, and everything that's going on for the child makes sense in school for this child, and you've make kid who can't do the things he wants to do. cant focus enough to be an a team, to play a sport. the kid who's struggle or suffering, you want to get help and i would say you want to go to a clinic where a bunch of smart people are going to look at your child. start with your pediatrician, with somebody at the school, but eventually, you want somebody with real experience.

a documental behave yal pediatrici pediatrician. whoever it takes to really figure out what's going on with that child. >> do you think we live in a world that provides a -- you know, that gives adhd? that is now set up to give birth to this disease? >> you could just as well say we live in a world where people can find happy, productive, useful lives even if they have short attention spans. again, it's about the person who's struggling and suffering, but one of the things i said in the column is we've got stories of kids with adhd looking just the way they do today. going back to the beginning of the 20th century and into the middle of the 18th century. they were still suffering and struggling. >> very interesting. i'm sure a lot of parntss were

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