mary m. goodman is our point person here and in an islamabad.we talked about anti-corruption efforts in the general financial state of afghanistan. the minister of education give a very encouraging report on the extraordinary progress that has been made. this was an impressive performance in these fields. the intelligence chief talked about the taliban a. she talked about that in her public comments in afghanistan which have been issued by the department. on the personal side, -- on the personnel side, we are dramatically increasing our personnel. when we came into office, there were about 300 american civilians in all of afghanistan. most of them were on six-month tours. they had very substantial leverage is to go to dubai or abu dhabi or somewhere else or regularly. there was no real continuity. there are no more a six-month tours. spouses are allowed to come and are encouraged to come if they take jobs. the school age children issue is a big problem but there are plenty of spouse is there now. that has multiple pay off. leaves have been chang