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Pachysandra procumbens, the Allegheny pachysandra or Allegheny spurge, is a flowering plant in the family Buxaceae, native to the southeast United States from West Virginia and Kentucky south to Florida, and west to Louisiana. The name Allegheny is sometimes spelled Alleghany.

It is an evergreen subshrub, growing to at most 30 cm high, usually less. The leaves are 5–10 cm long, with a coarsely toothed margin. The flowers are small, white, produced several together on a terminal raceme 2–3 cm long.

Description
Pachysandra procumbens is a shrubby ground cover which grows 8-12" tall and spreads indefinitely by rhizomes to form a dense carpet of matte blue-green leaves mottled with purple and white. It is native to woodlands from North Carolina and Kentucky south to Florida and Texas. Ovate to suborbicular leaves (to 3" long) are coarsely toothed at the apex but untoothed at the base. Leaves are typically deciduous in USDA Zones 5 and 6 but semi-evergreen to evergreen in Zones 7 to 9. Even where evergreen, the leaves may appear worn and tattered by mid winter. Tiny, fragrant, greenish white to white flowers bloom in terminal spikes (2-4" long) in early spring before the new leaves arrive.

Genus name comes is in reference to the male parts of the flower (thick stamens). Specific epithet from Latin means trailing in reference to the rhizomatous ground cover habit.

It spreads slowly to form a dense carpet 8-10" tall. Allegheny pachysandra performs well in a variety of soils from moist to dry and a range of soil pH as long as it is growing in partial to full shade. This woodland plant is also considered by many to be very deer and drought resistant.

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True, the press service said that on February 11 they would only show the livery. When will be rendered new items – it is not clear.
The team from Grou will present the "uniform" of the car on the same day as Toro Rosso, and at the same time they will also show renders, but so far only the livery was discussed. Williams posted a teaser video on his Twitter page.
Meanwhile, just before the season, the title sponsor left them – Martini did not want to renew the contract with the British team. Therefore, in the 2019 season they will have a new partner, whose name will also be revealed on February 11.
Recall that this year all the teams must prepare for participation in Formula 1 cars according to the new sports regulations of the FIA. It implies a more simplified aerodynamics, to improve the situation with overtaking. But not all the teams were delighted with this decision, especially after the first tests. The true state of affairs we will be able to see on the pre-season tests, starting on February 18.


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A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan
Badria El-Sayed*, Salah Eldin El-Zaki, Hamza Babiker, Nahla Gadalla, Tellal Ageep, Fathi Mansour, Omer Baraka, Paul Milligan, Ahmed Babiker
Background. In areas of seasonal malaria transmission, treatment of asymptomatic carriers of malaria parasites, whose parasitaemia persists at low densities throughout the dry season, could be a useful strategy for malaria control. We carried out a randomized trial to compare two drug regimens for clearance of parasitaemia in order to identify the optimum regimen for use in mass drug administration in the dry season. Methodology and Principal Findings. A two-arm open-label randomized controlled trial was conducted during the dry season in an area of distinct seasonal malaria in two villages in Gedarif State in eastern Sudan. Participants were asymptomatic adults and children aged over 6 months, with low-density P. falciparum infection detected by PCR. Participants were randomized to receive artesunate/ sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (AS+SP) combination for three days with or without a dose of primaquine (PQ) on the fourth day. Parasitaemia detected by PCR on days 3, 7 and 14 after the start of treatment and gametocytes detected by RT-PCR on days 7 and 14 were then recorded. 104 individuals who had low density parasitaemia at screening were randomized and treated during the dry season. On day 7, 8.3% were positive by PCR in the AS+SP+PQ group and 6.5% in the AS+SP group (risk difference 1.8%, 95%CI 210.3% to +13.8%). At enrolment, 12% (12/100) were carrying gametocytes. This was reduced to 6.4% and 4.4% by day 14 (Risk difference 1.9% (95%CI 29.3% to +13.2%) in AS+SP+PQ and AS+SP groups, respectively. Conclusion. Addition of primaquine to artemisinin combination treatment did not improve elimination of parasitaemia and prevention of gametocyte carriage in carriers with low-density parasitaemia in the dry season.
Dive into the research topics of 'A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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El-Sayed, B., El-Zaki, S. E., Babiker, H., Gadalla, N., Ageep, T., Mansour, F., Baraka, O., Milligan, P., & Babiker, A. (2007). A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan. PLoS One, 2(12), [e1311]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001311
A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan. / El-Sayed, Badria; El-Zaki, Salah Eldin; Babiker, Hamza; Gadalla, Nahla; Ageep, Tellal; Mansour, Fathi; Baraka, Omer; Milligan, Paul; Babiker, Ahmed.
In: PLoS One, Vol. 2, No. 12, e1311, 12.12.2007.
El-Sayed, B, El-Zaki, SE, Babiker, H, Gadalla, N, Ageep, T, Mansour, F, Baraka, O, Milligan, P & Babiker, A 2007, 'A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan', PLoS One, vol. 2, no. 12, e1311. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001311
El-Sayed B, El-Zaki SE, Babiker H, Gadalla N, Ageep T, Mansour F et al. A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan. PLoS One. 2007 Dec 12;2(12). e1311. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001311
El-Sayed, Badria ; El-Zaki, Salah Eldin ; Babiker, Hamza ; Gadalla, Nahla ; Ageep, Tellal ; Mansour, Fathi ; Baraka, Omer ; Milligan, Paul ; Babiker, Ahmed. / A randomized open-label trial of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for elimination of sub-microscopic P. falciparum parasitaemia and gametocyte carriage in Eastern Sudan. In: PLoS One. 2007 ; Vol. 2, No. 12.
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Last week the Pebble Project announced that it had reached a settlement with the EPA of pending litigation in conjunction with the agency's previous determination to block the development of the project. Essentially, the settlement means that Pebble will be able to resume the permit application process with the hope of ultimately opening a mine.
This good news, besides the obvious possibility of a major mine going forward in Southwest Alaska, is that it lets us dream of a turnaround in the attitude of the federal government with regard to the development of domestic resource projects, especially in Alaska.
It is fair to say that for too long the regulatory agencies have forgotten how to get to "yes" when it comes to dealing with permit applications. There can be no doubt that the EPA led the way in ballooning its statutory authority to envelope every effort on the part of the private sector to do virtually anything. The appointment of a new Administrator may put the brakes on to some extent; however, how long that will last and what good it will do is still an open question.
I am not at all sure that the EPA in particular or the regulatory agencies in general actually define their respective mandates as an obligation to bring domestic industry to its knees. On the other hand, that is the track record. Generally, it is called the Law of Unintended Consequences. Under that law "any action will have at least one consequence not intended by its author." In science, it is the Chaos theory.
Under the Chaos theory, every time a butterfly flaps its wings, the entire world is changed ever so slightly. So too, in our society, every time a bureaucrat taps a keyboard to implement some bright idea, the unintended and chaotic consequences often change our lives randomly and imperceptibly forever.
It is indisputable that Congress and the progressive administrations of the past several decades have given the federacracy ample fodder to flap its wings. The impact on Alaska has been palpable, but no more so than in the case of the Pebble Project.
With Pebble, there is a known deposit of significant size containing copper and gold, as well as other commodities, that are needed and in demand. The deposit is located in a remote region where unemployment is high, social services are marginal and infrastructure is non-existent. The impact of the environment on a mine will not only be minimal, due to Draconian oversight, but temporary, because even the largest mines will be exhausted over time.
The competing considerations include a huge Seattle-based fishery and a local culture oriented around a subsistence lifestyle. These critics feel an undifferentiated threat from Pebble; but, the region is already calamity prone - witness the local earthquakes, volcanoes and extreme weather conditions. Any theoretical hazard that might befall the mine would not pose an extraordinary jeopardy.
Despite how we arrived at the point where the Pebble Project and the EPA have come to an understanding as to how to proceed, at least through the permit application process, the very fact of that settlement should give us all comfort.
Alaska hosts tremendous reserves of natural resources, many of which are ripe for harvest. It is not uncommon for them to die on the vine. From the molybdenum deposit at Quartz Hill to the Chuitna Coal project on the west side of Cook Inlet, many mining opportunities have been defined and left for others to develop.
In the short run, the flap of a butterfly's wing in the District of Columbia can affect all Alaskans adversely. In the long run, it will not change either the demand for our commodities or our technical ability to recover them.
It is heartening that the new Administration has afforded the Pebble Project the opportunity to proceed with applying for permits for the project. We cannot forget, however, that it took developers of the Kensington Mine two decades and a trip to the U. S. Supreme Court to get that mine permitted. Pebble is just being allowed to take an early step down a very long road.
All that we can do now is extend our congratulations, cross our fingers and wish Pebble Godspeed.


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package cakesolutions

package api

import akka.actor.{ActorSystem, Props}
import akka.io.IO
import spray.can.Http
import spray.routing._

trait WithApi {
  this: Configuration =>

  def startupApi(api: RestApi)(implicit system: ActorSystem): Unit = {
    system.log.debug("Starting REST API")

    api.route map {
      case api =>
        val route: Route = api(system.dispatcher)
        val restService = system.actorOf(Props(new RestService(route)), "api")
        IO(Http)(system) ! Http.Bind(restService, interface = config.getString("application.hostname"), port = config.getInt("application.port"))
        system.log.debug(s"Started REST API services using handler $restService")
    }

    api.start.map(_())
  }

  def shutdownApi(api: RestApi): Unit =
    api.stop.map(_())

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Above: My health-conscious Taiwanese family have totally reverted to eating healthy husked unprocessed rice at home...something which i initially needed getting used to but which i grew to like..its much healthier than white rice..i'm sure most non-Taiwanese didn't even know there was such a thing given that white rice has been the only kind of rice we knew in China, HK, Malaysia, Singapore,Thailand,etc for generations who grew up after the 60s but actually before the 60s when Asian nations were still poor, non-white rice was the norm not white rice (which needs processing but which is actually not as healthy as unprocessed husked rice!).
Below: Chinese New Year Eve's Dinner....have my fav. Mi Tzu Huo Tui somemore leh!
This post shall be a post on the famous n CHEAP n DELICIOUS Taiwanese streetside cuisine which i ate whilst back in Taipei as well as other gourmet food eg. japanese, shabu-shabu, omurice,etc which i ate back there....It can be a guide serving foreign tourists or even local taiwanese and/or overseas taiwanese when in taipei on where to eat, just some of my personal gastronomy adventures and recommendations,heheh,...tons of pix below:-) Dun salivate too much yar...hehe..
Above: A delicious meal of Taiwanese-style noodles and my all-time favourite of any kind of Taiwanese soup, this time being Shimu Yu Tang.
Above and Below: The wetmarket at Dunhua-Renai area opp. Far Eastern Plaza Shangri-La..
Above: My supper again...love the steaming soups of Taiwan...haha..
Above: Shabu-Shabu which is popular in Taiwan...if in Taipei, u shld try the Ma-La Hotpot which is famous as you can choose two soup types together for ur steamboat meal or one thing i hihgly recommend is the 'buffet steamboats' 吃到饱 which are very common around Taiwan and which are immensely value-for-money which is again something unique to Taiwan (the concept was copied from Japan i think..cos its popular there too..)..another plus of Taiwan, u can get alot of delicious value-for-money meal deals here, even better than Malaysia and of course Australia..
Above: Sashimi at Keelung Miaokou Nightmarket...many ppl dun know, japanese sashimi stalls are a staple at many taipei nightmarkets! And they're very fresh too! (and of cos cheaper than restaurants) So u know where to head to for fresh n cheaper sashimi next time in Taipei! The sashimi served comes from the same source as those in restaurants but without high rental/staff costs added into ur meal price..
Above: Omg! they actually have Ootoya here too...this is a chain store in Japan serving affordable japanese teishoku..i found this in Bangkok too bck in 06..
Above: The longstanding Dinghao 哨子面and Gongwan 汤 at Zhongxiao East Road... Above and Below: Mantou and some ham (?) at Nanmen Shichang..
Above: Taiwanese ice crush....the one on the right tastes good, with my fav toppings of fen yuan and sweet potato,yummy!!!!!
Above: The flight back to Hong Kong, a typical Taiwanese meal on the airplane, Rurou Fan.
bean sprout's cafe: no worries:-) i will visit ur blog again soon!


There are always new Developments and Alpharetta Properties for sale in the North Fulton Counties of Atlanta GA. Some custom builders of Alpharetta Georgia Houses have been in the North Atlanta Real Estate industry for many years while others are new to our area.
I have worked personally with builders in my Real Estate career and I am always impressed with the details and quality craftmanship that goes into the Alpharetta Homes for sale.Below are current North Atlanta Builders building new homes in Alpharetta , including the new city of Milton as well as the Historic area of Crabapple.
Take a look at the Alpharetta GA mls listings and photos/virtual tours included for your preview.
I tried to include details about the communities and price ranges as well.
Feel free to call or email for more details or to personally visit any of these homes for sale in Alpharetta/Milton.


(1) Sweden is a sink of depravity by almost anyone's standards.(2) We had a bloom a couple of years ago in Jervis Bay, NSW so we know that they can be very abundant and in the oceans they're actually the major sink for carbon dioxide.(3) The sports minister later told the DÔö£├¡il it was wrong to assume that the failure to name two Irish venues would sink the bid.(4) Opponents of the regional assembly had called for North Yorkshire to be given a veto to sink the plans if a majority of the county's residents oppose them.(5) So, Ford wants to sink the ship rather than allow the flagship of the Russian sub fleet get into enemy hands.(6) I felt my fangs sink into flesh and I heard him scream.(7) they planned to sink a gold mine in Oklahoma(8) Where village welfare is concerned, these fishermen sink their differences and work together for the overall good of everyone.(9) The kitchen has fitted presses, a steel sink unit and a tiled floor.(10) Peyton stated as she saw the clothes and hair supplies by the sink .(11) he saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves(12) A complex land-swap deal will sink if the city reneges on existing deals.(13) they agreed to sink their differences(14) You want to sink into oblivion, and you can't find a way.(15) Frankly, I delight in seeing people eagerly sink their teeth into the soft, burning hot, yellowish vegetable, defying the scalding heat of the sweet, sticky juice oozing from under the crisp rind.(16) Subsequently, the two managed to sink their differences.
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Doesn't feel good, does it? Imagine how a farmer feels when he raises a crop. When my grandfather was still living, he tended these blackberry bushes. I don't know about you, but if the word "berry" comes up in conversation, my first reply is, "Where?" I love them. I really do. Straight off the bush. In smoothies. In yogurt. In pie. In cobbler. As wine. If it's a berry, me does want.
But when the season starts, my eager fanboy enthusiasm is tormented by the watching of the growth of the berries. They start as little flowers, but then the slightest resemblance of a fruit is evident. Tiny cells begin to show themselves. Tiny, pale-green cells on berries not ready to eat yet. Then they grow. Their size increases, and they turn red. Then finally, after weeks--heck, maybe a couple of months--they finally look like something. The deep, nearly-black-but-actually-violet hue, coupled with the obviously full size of the cells themselves, begin calling for you, letting you know that your patience has not been in vain, and that it's time to enjoy the [literal] fruits of your labor.
That was my childhood. Actually, it's also my now. Though my grandfather has moved from death here to life forever, we still tend his bushes, and though winter is coming and there are no more berries now, next season, should everything go right, there will be more. We'll prepare, prune, protect, and pluck for another harvest of berries. But yet again, we'll have to be patient.
It's almost instinctual to anticipate things that we know are headed our way, things that we know are good. Though it will be another year until I taste the freshness of blackberries fresh from the bush, it makes me hungry just to think about them. This, however, is not grounds to consider a person impatient.
But it is in the throwing of a tantrum, the loss of one's coherency, and the slinging of bitterness from the soul towards our surroundings that shows the world not only that we are incapable of waiting but incapable of controlling our empty hands, let alone whatever we may want to fill them with. The parable of the investor and his three accountants tells the tale well. He entrusted different accountants with different amounts while he was on his journey. Each one returned as much profit as was given him to invest... but the one who was given the least buried his wealth in the ground. He didn't even put it in the bank to gain interest. So his boss rewarded the other accountants, but the money that was entrusted to the unfaithful accountant was taken and given to the best investor. Oh, and the guy who buried the money, horded it rather than doing his job, was fired.
Impatience is the result of both not getting what you want when you want it and not knowing what to do with yourself until such a time approaches. The unfaithful accountant may not have had problems with patience, but he definitely had problems with trusting his boss. He didn't get the larger amount, which scared him because he might not get a return on such a small investment; and he didn't think about what to do with it in the mean time, if there was some other way to be successful with what was given to him. Similarly, by losing our minds when we don't get the things we want, aren't we baring our lack of faith in God, and our willingness to wait on his timing?
We may get what we want, and we may not ever. That part isn't really the point. Whatever it is that God has for us is worth the wait, but it's not just a matter of standing in front of the blackberry bushes until one day we notice that they're finally mature. No, God gave us much bigger lives with beauty not confined to a single item. Not even slightly.
Here's my story. I'm a musician. I fronted a band from 2009 until earlier this year. Nothing really ever came of it. We published an EP and played a few shows, but we never took off. That may seem like just something I tried once from the outside, but for me, this is more than a hobby, more than experience. Yes, I want it to be my career to sing, but it's more than that, still. It's my passion. It's my calling. I've always tried different things since I was very young that I thought I might want to do for the rest of my life, but nothing ever fit me like this. Nothing. Never.
I haven't really known why, but I know that all this time, God has been doing things in me to change my behavior, change my thoughts, overhaul my heart. I'm becoming more and more of a new creation, and I hope that it never stops. And all this time, He's given me opportunities to do things in the waiting for Him. I'm currently producing a 12-track record for a band called One Renown. I've done some interim music work with other bands, played solo several times at churches. Oh, and by day, I've been tutoring math at a community college.
No, God didn't plan for me to sit on my hands in the waiting. I don't know what form my performance will take in the end. I feel a call to resume full time solo work, and to do so very soon. I just don't know when, and I don't know what it's going to look like. All I know is I am where I am now, and I know God's taking me somewhere awesome. I've just got to tend to the rest of the garden while the blackberries grow. It's not time to worry. It's time to get back to work and let it go. Everything will be alright.
Whatever it is you're waiting for, it's okay to wait, and if you're waiting on Jesus for it, whether He takes you exactly where you want to go or not, wherever you go will be awesome, not because it will be what you thought it would be, but because He's taking you there.
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TLCtaxiapp is an iPhone & Android market app that quite simply enables the user to "hail" a London Taxi at the push of a button. There are no booking fees or "run-in" charges, just enter the details of your journey, push "hail" & a Licensed London Taxi will be with you in minutes.
TLCtaxiapp was born out of our @twitter based taxi booking service @tweetalondoncab. The only problem with using the twitter direct message system is the time consuption, making ASAP bookings very difficult. With our new app, this is now possible as the system puts your request out to the closest taxis to your location.


The Trump records were stored alongside similar documents pertaining to other celebrities' catch-and-kill deals, in which exclusive rights to people's stories were bought with no intention of publishing to keep them out of the news.
While Trump denies the affairs, his account of his knowledge of the payments has shifted. In April, Trump denied he knew anything about the Daniels payment.
In March, in response to a letter from House Democrats about the Daniels and McDougal payments, AMI General Counsel Cameron Stracher declined to provide any documents, writing that the company was "exempt" from U.S. campaign finance laws because it is a news publisher, and it was "confident" it had complied with all tax laws.
He also rebuffed any suggestion that the company had leverage over the president due to its catch-and-kill practices.


On my way to Manly Jazz on the weekend and simply sat back and enjoy the view. Shot this photograph while sitting down inside the ferry. The dirty glass makes an interesting texture. I brought it out further in Lighroom with the clarity slider.


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In 1948 werd het 44ste Campeonato Baiano gespeeld voor voetbalclubs uit de Braziliaanse staat Bahia. De competitie werd gespeeld van 8 april 1948 tot 3 mei 1949 en werd georganiseerd door de FBF. Bahia werd kampioen.

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Muniferral (llamada oficialmente San Cristovo de Muniferral) es una parroquia española del municipio de Aranga, en la provincia de La Coruña, Galicia.

Otras denominaciones

La parroquia también es conocida por el nombre de San Cristóbal de Muniferral.

Organización territorial

La parroquia está formada por veintitrés entidades de población:

Entidades de población

Entidades de población que forman parte de la parroquia:

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Despoblado que forma parte de la parroquia:
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The prize for "excellence in environmental reporting by a media organization" was awarded by the Singapore Environmental Council, a powerful regional NGO, for a series of 10 reports comprising text, photo and video.
The AFP series included a report on Malaysian tribes' people in the jungles of Borneo whose traditional lifestyle is being torn apart by a giant hydroelectric dam at Bakun.
It also includes a video report about the fight by residents of the Japanese coastal town of Iwaishima to stop a nuclear power plant, a multimedia report on efforts by Cambodians to protect their forests from illegal logging after the murder of an environmental campaigner, and work by a Philippine entrepreneur who has installed "solar light bulbs" in hundreds of thousands of slum dwellings.
AFP was rewarded because of "its diverse coverage and high potential for the stories to mobilise real change due to strong human-centric stories supported by policy and scientific facts," the Singapore Environmental Council said.


Frank Farfan, a lawyer practising as Farfan Law restricts his practice to Intellectual Property law and is counsel to the firm of Sanderson Entertainment Law.
Frank has practised exclusively in intellectual property since 1983. Frank has been a registered patent agent in Canada since 1985; and a registered trade mark agent in Canada since 1983. His experience covers the full range of intellectual property services - from litigation to licensing to agency work in the mechanical, electronic, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other arts.
Frank is a member of the Canadian Bar Association (the Intellectual Property Section and Biotechnology Committee), and the Intellectual Property and the Patent and Trade-mark Institute of Canada.


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Q: What are dependencies required for cucumber-selenium-testng framework I have started using cucumber framework with selenium-testng. Please, let me know the maven dependencies to start with. I am using Intellij IDE. One more thing, does cucumber support JDK11?

A: Make sure you have the following dependencies added to your POM file:
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
          <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
          <version>6.8</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>3.141.59</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.0</version>
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There shouldn't be an issue with running Cucumber with JDK11.

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With the extreme cold weather we have had recently I didn't get any pictures posted of the new batch of lambs but we had one event by an awesome ewe I wanted to tell about. We had a lamb that was born with weak pasterns which basically means the ligaments and tendons that join the hoof to the leg wasn't hardened as it should be when they are born so the lamb is walking on the front hooves and the lower portion of the leg.
We don't mess with our lambs until they are a couple of days old so we didn't know she had a problem and only realized it after we observed the mom behaving strange. The lamb would try to lay down and the ewe would hook her leg over or under her and force her to stand. She would also only let the lamb stand still for short periods and then would take and push the lamb with her head. In the picture you can see her left leg bent as she was forcing the lamb to stay on her feet.
We went and got some meds to give the lamb a shot but by the start of the next day, the lamb was just about back to normal and the pasterns were firming up. We told our vet about her behavior and he said that ewe keeping her on her feet is what made her heal so fast and normally.
Wow! What an amazing story. She is one smart and beautiful ewe. Her instincts has given her sweet little lamb a good start.
Thanks Mike. I always enjoy hearing and seeing what is going on with your flock.
Thanks. I have been around sheep a long time but I haven't seen this one before. The ewes dam is also pretty smart which is why we have her. She was on a farm that only had electric fence and she figured out that if she ran through the wire it would only hurt for a second. They couldn't keep her in and offered her to us for a good price since we have solid fencing.
That's a wonderful story Mike. I see by the picture that she is not only smart, but beautiful as well Isn't it inspiring how animals "know" how to do such things. Our Creator is so amazing.
Love this story. I didn't know all of that and she is most beautiful too.
Thank you. The lamb is getting around like she never had a problem. All of the current batch of lambs are on the creep feeder free choice and they are getting big fast.
Are all your babies born by now? All us fans of this thread are needing an update!!
How about the guardians? We haven't seen any pictures of them lately either.
We were having a battle with parasites when it became our normal breeding time so we split all of the ewes into two groups and put the bigger group in a dry lot to make making sure they were clean easier before breeding them. The first eight have lambed with 8 ram lambs and 6 ewe lambs. The next group of 12 won't be lambing for another month or so.
We worked the lambs a couple of days ago and they are growing like weeds. On average they are gaining .7 pounds a day on milk and that should jump to a pound a day since we put out the creep feeder over the weekend. I'll grab a couple of pictures when I go down to feed.
A quick tale of people not thinking before acting.
I was down feeding the sheep in the nursery paddock yesterday morning when I heard our dogs with the other sheep raising hell. I went up and saw a power line crew of 6 men inside the perimeter fence and crossing the electric netting inside the paddock to check out a power line pole. We knew they were coming out but I expected them to let me know they were there before they went into a paddock that had two 100# pound dogs that obviously didn't want want them there. One of the not so smart workers had a big piece of cloth on a stick and was slamming it down trying to drive our Akbash off but it was literally infuriating the dog. The more the idiot slammed that cloth down the more Thor was enraged. By the time I got close enough to call him off the dog was lunging at the guy trying to get him and my calling him off wasn't working. Finally, the guy in charge heard me yelling at them to get out and he got his guys out. He finally had enough sense to back off and fell back over the electric fence. I went in with them so they could finish up their work but they have no idea how close they came to being mauled. Thor has no fear of anything so I guess we were all lucky. Teresa called the power company and talked to the manager since it was obvious their people had no idea how these dogs react.
Here is a picture I took of Thor the other day. The other is when Maisy ad adopted him and Thor was 3 1/2 months old.
Thanks for the update, Mike. The power worker is lucky his boss got him out of there when he did. Dogs with protective instincts can inflict sever damage. Hopefully in the future they will be more careful. By the way, both of the dogs are gorgeous!!
MikeM....cannot believe someone would keep at such a big dog....can we say "dumb as a post?" Your dogs are beautiful!!
You would think they would have some "Training" about dealing with a guard dog.They are on private property often enough working on the power lines to be aware of WHY they are in the fenced area.
Would he have done the "stick banging" thing if it was a German Shepard or a Rottweiler or a pit bull on guard in someones yard?.
You should be proud of Thor He didn't bite the fool he handled himself properly. Barking even lunging letting the dumba** know to BACK OFF. You do not belong here.


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The Prospector 16'6″ is considered our most "user friendly" canoe. It's best known for it's stability, maneuverability, and all-round performance. Great in any conditions and perfect for long interior trips, this canoe is the choice with children or with dogs aboard. If you have gear for photography or have a nice fishing trip planned you will retain the responsiveness even with the extra weight. Thanks to the shallow arch design, coupled with moderate to high rocker, solo, tandem, or loaded, the prospector 16'6″ can do it all!
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M&M's® is calling all fans to show off their love for M&M's® and their favourite screen time activity, with the first ever M&M's® Screen Bite Awards 2017. The regional competition is being launched simultaneously in three countries - Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand - and will see M&M's® fans vying for a chance to win a trip for two to Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan.
From 1 - 22 August, M&M's® fans and Malaysian consumers will be asked to share their fun "screen" moments by submitting either a photo or a short 20-second video based on three categories - #BestWOW (action), #BestLOL (comedy), or #BestXOXO (romance) - featuring their favourite M&M's®. Six nominees from each country will be shortlisted to move on to the voting phase, where they will need to achieve the highest votes to become the Grand Prize winner.
"M&M's® recognizes the role screen time activities play in the lives of Malaysians; whether its watching a movie in the cinema, TV at home or vides on YouTube, posting on social media or playing mobile and console games. So, we decided to organize the M&M's® Screen Bite Awards to help our fans share their special screen time moments with friends and family. We believe this campaign is a great platform for us to not only connect with fans of M&M's®, but also bring them together in the spirit of fun and entertainment with their perfect screen time companion, M&M's®, " commented Yee Pek Kuan, Category Director of MARS Chocolate SEA.
In conjunction with the launch of the M&M's® Screen Bite Awards, friends of M&M's® Malaysia were treated to an exclusive screening of Baby Driver, one of the most anticipated movies to hit the silver screen this summer, at MBO Cinemas in Starling Mall. As the perfect screen-time companion, the cinematic experience was further enhanced with a special assortment of M&M's® goodies to enjoy during the show. Friends of M&M's® who were present included YouTube sensation Lugmannulhakim Kamaruddin (Luqman Podolski) and actor, Shaheizy Sam of 'Polis Evo' fame.
Two finalists for each category will be selected to represent their country for the voting phase from 7 - 21 Sept 2017, during which consumers will get to vote for their favourite screen time moments. The Grand Prize winner will be announced on 29 Sept 2017.


You may know him as Power Man, the hero for hire, or Carl Lucas, but he wants you to know his name is Luke Cage. Luke is back after the events of The Defenders and ready to tackle his second solo season. Several season one favorites have returned including Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Rosario Dawson (Claire), Simone Missick (Misty) Alfre Woodard (Mariah) and Theo Rossi (Shades) they are joined by Mustafa Shakir as the primary season 2 villain John 'Bushmaster' McIver. I can't wait and see who will survive and what surprises we will encounter over the 13 episode season.
I think Claire sums it up perfectly when she talks about Luke throughout this episode Luke is a hero through and through and he is corny. Which makes it hard to tell if it is the character, the writing or the acting that causes some of Luke's lines to hit with a thud instead of being smooth or intimidating or whatever the situation required.
This first episode was fine, but it existed to mark things off a checklist. They want us to know how Luke, Claire, and Misty are handling themselves after The Defenders. Losing Matt, Misty losing her arm and saving the city, if not the world, could have lasting impacts outside of the obvious that may unfold throughout the season. We get to catch up with our main villains from last season and get an idea of what new schemes they are running. We get a brief intro to this season's main bad guy and learn he is the anti-Luke, he is a bulletproof mobster.
While we are on the subject of bulletproof, apparently sometime between the events of season one and this episode Luke became impervious to the Judas bullets. Maybe it's like an immune response or a what doesn't kill him makes him stronger situation, or perhaps without Diamondback, the weapons are of lower quality. No matter the reason it was poorly handled, he is hit with one and brushes it off like it wasn't his only real weakness in his nearly 30 episodes in the Marvel Netflix universe.
Despite a few shortcomings, I found this episode enjoyable and it was nice to be back in this world. It may be telling of my reaction to season 1 that I'm most excited for the cameos that may be coming from Jessica, Danny, Jeri or anyone else in this world. However, I am still very excited to see where the creative team takes us and how our characters will evolve over the next 12 episodes.


Ryan Vachon on Jedi Mind Tricks (M14). Photo by Beth Goralski.
11/11/14 - Ryan Vachon, a 42-year-old climate scientist, has redpointed Jedi Mind Tricks outside Lake City, Colorado, making the probable fifth ascent and only the second without using heel spurs on his crampons. Vachon, who has climbed hard M13 in the past, including the route Stratofortress (M13+) in East Vail, Colorado, said Jedi Mind Tricks was "by far my hardest ascent to date."
Jedi Mind Tricks was put up in 2004 by Jared Ogden and Ryan Nelson, using heel spurs as was commonly done on hard dry-tooling routes at the time. (The spurs make it much easier to heel hook with crampons.) The climb exits a huge cave called God's Crag at about 10,500 feet in the San Juan Mountains, dry-tooling on tiny pockets in hard volcanic rock. The route is about 30 meters long and is protected with 20 bolts.
God's Crag, near Lake City, Colorado. Jedi Mind Tricks (M14) exits near the center of the cave. Photo courtesy of Ryan Vachon.
Scottish climber Scott Muir, who repeated the route in 2006, also using spurs, told Planet Mountain the route "required great care and precision due to the hard, skittery nature of the rock. Normally the picks bite into the soft schist or limestone, but this stuff required accuracy and complete control. The crux—five totally horizontal meters—is very technical, involving multiple strenuous and delicate foot changes to keep the feet on the roof, as the tool edges are not good enough to support dynamic moves or total body weight."
With heel spurs, the route was considered M13. In 2008, after winning the Ouray Ice Festival comp, Frenchman Jeff Mercier did the first ascent without spurs and said it felt like M14 in that style, making it perhaps the hardest dry-tooling route in the world at the time.
"The long roof is an endurance test, but there were two technical cruxes," Vachon said of the climb. "One after the first 30 feet, where feet become useless and you have to move upward and sideways on tiny slots. Then the route goes completely horizontal. There is a second crux in the roof that forces you to spin around in neat-o circle."
Vachon made three trips to God's Crag to redpoint the route, climbing with Chris Snobeck and Beth Goralski.
"The route has been done with redirected water over the edge, but it was ice-less when I did it," he said. "However, the blowing mist from the falls totally soaked me."


The new Ford GT Supercar is a technological marvel, but anytime you start messing with tradition, you're going to alienate a few long standing fans. Okay, so we're hip and we have no problem with the fact that the new Ford GT comes with an EcoBoost V6, but we might have preferred a more macho engine name like the 'Alienator V6' or something along those lines.
We understand the government restrictions weighing down on automotive manufacturers, and can certainly respect any car with over 600 horsepower, no matter how those numbers are achieved. But it takes more than horsepower to make a great supercar. It actually begins with a competent chassis and lightweight body and frame.
Ford plans to take care of the weight problem by using hand-laid carbon fiber body panels throughout. And these panels are not only lightweight, but also painstakingly designed to move with the drivers needs to produce just enough cool air and down force to keep its over 600 horsepower in check. And speaking of power to weight, Fords design team claims the new GT will have the best power to weight ratio of any production car available today. Yes, 'the best'.
That is a gutsy claim to make for a supercar that the Ford team has only been working on for around one year. And if you believe these boasts and put two and two together – we can deduce that the new Ford GT must be awfully light (carbon fiber wheel rim possibility included). But what about the chassis and suspension? Clearly there must be something special about it.
Well, Ford will be running plenty of electronics to its four wheels, enabling the GT to adjust its own ride height depending on how it is being called to use. And yes that means making it over large parking lot speed bumps without damage to those sleek carbon ground effects. And while its show is all carbon and its go is a twin-turbo Ford 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6, its stop will be all ceramic carbon, thanks to a collaboration with Brembo.
Some fans might suspect that a rear-powered V6 would pair rather nicely with a front wheel electric engine, but Ford has no intention of making the GT a hybrid just yet. In fact, Ford would have a bit of a difficult time branding their 'EcoBoost' flagship with the addition of a electric motor, so rather than gum up the production release with excuses, Ford is going all petrol power for now. But what's the hurry, you might be asking?
Well, Ford does plan on entering the Le Mans in 2016 and needs a good 'homologation' excuse to take on Ferrari – again – just like old times. And while these prototype images are fairly fresh, Ford has no intention of making us wait unnecessarily until a production version is caught by the spy photographers. In fact, by our calculations, those spy photos should start to emerge this Spring.
Ford, we sure do love it when a plan comes together!


Miracles happen all around us, often in the ordinary everydayness of life, like on a morning walk. Sometimes we stroll right past these natural phenomena, neither seeing nor comprehending. Perhaps our minds are preoccupied or our attention locked on the little mobile gadgets we carry around that keep our eyes downcast and fingers tapping. We can stare a miracle right in the face and not even recognize it as such because we are so disconnected and know so little about the natural world surrounding us. Then something startles us—a flash of color or a bird's melodic song—and we look up and around, suddenly more conscious of what's around us. If our curiosity were aroused and we chose to learn more, we would be utterly spellbound by the sheer wonder of it all.
Consider the monarch butterfly. Weighing less than half a gram, this fragile insect, along with millions of others, takes off—propelled by some instinctual urging—for an unknown destination three thousand miles away, guided only by a mysterious inner GPS. With wings as delicate as rose petals and a black-and-white polka-dot body about the size of a slivered almond, the monarch glides on thermal air currents and tailwinds to conserve energy for the world's longest journey made by an insect. When sunlight strikes an outstretched wing, it highlights the distinctive patterns of orange outlined in black that resemble panes in a stained-glass window.
This miraculous journey is what inspired Leigh Ann Henion to start what she calls "phenomenon travel." "I learned that a monarch butterfly flies thousands of miles across a continent to the same place—and sometimes even the same tree—of its ancestors. What I experienced on a mountain in Mexico in the presence of millions of butterflies was among the most moving and emotional experiences of my life. I could not let go of it. I thought, what else do I not know about?" she shares in a New York Times interview. Like most of us, Henion had no idea how phenomenal nature can be.
What I experienced on a mountain in Mexico in the presence of millions of butterflies was among the most moving and emotional experiences of my life.
According to the New York Times, the number of monarchs migrating from the United States has dropped by 90 percent in the past twenty years. Since my family and I moved to the Florida Panhandle about twenty years ago, we have sadly witnessed their dwindling numbers firsthand. Here, you don't need a calendar to know it's October; monarch butterflies arrive every fall in clouds of fluttering wings. They dance through the air before raining down onto masses of golden wildflowers stretching for miles along wide margins of a scenic highway skirting the beach.
Wildflowers act like bright lights lining an airport runway, steering butterflies down to a succulent feast.
With a superabundance of native wildflowers, the Florida Panhandle is one of the important "wildflower corridors" where exhausted monarchs rest up and refuel for the next leg of their journey. It's no accident that wildflowers bloom in such large masses and high-voltage colors, for that makes them highly visible to butterflies soaring above. Wildflowers act like bright lights lining an airport runway, steering butterflies down to a succulent feast.
Wildflowers in the Gulf coastal flatwoods are a butterfly haven.
Monarchs showed up on schedule year after year in the same spectacular display—that is, until the practice of mowing began. Large industrial mowers clipped native grasses and wildflowers as short as a military crew cut, in places scraping down to barren patches of sand. Before long, this intensive mowing eradicated most of the wildflowers, which in turn drastically reduced the number of butterflies passing through, except at Florida state parks, where native vegetation is preserved. "During migration season, you can observe monarchs clustering in large numbers on salt myrtles blooming around the park," says Patrick Hartsfield, the assistant park manager at Grayton Beach State Park.
A group of locals met with county public works officials to express their concerns. The locals explained it's still possible to mow and not harm the flowers if blades are set higher and mowing is restrained until flowers reseed. County officials agreed to comply, yet they continued on with the same destructive practices.
Perhaps they didn't understand the importance of wildflowers in attracting major pollinators like bees and butterflies, and what that means to humans. As pollinators collect nectar, they carry pollen from one flower to the next, resulting in reproduction of the species. Monarchs and other pollinators "help pollinate over 75 percent of our flowering plants, and nearly 75 percent of our crops," states the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service home page.
The movement has spread beyond the States. In 2014, the United States joined Canada and Mexico in a shared commitment to conserve the monarch by restoring its habitat from Canada to Mexico. First Lady Michelle Obama planted the first pollinator garden at the White House with milkweed and other plants that butterflies feed on. "The following spring, the White House released a plan to promote similar gardens to foster the insects' nourishment and reproduction across the country," states Sallie Lewis in The Atlantic.
Everyone is able to participate in this miracle.
Let's get on the bandwagon and help sustain life instead of destroying it. Everyone is able to participate in this miracle. One way is to retain native habitats when possible; another is to replant with native species instead of introduced ones. We can also plant pollinator gardens that attract monarchs and some of the nearly two hundred butterfly species native to Florida, as well as other pollinators like birds and bees. We can also stop using pesticides that kill beneficial insects along with pests.
Once we step out of the often stressful and chaotic artificial world we have manufactured and into the one created by God, we might be like Leigh Ann Henion and wonder what else do we not know about? That curiosity might inspire a lifetime of getting outdoors and exploring the natural world where we will recognize that miracles are happening all around us.
To learn more about wildflowers, visit www.FlaWildflowers.org.


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Generation Spark
To really wrap your mind around the work of Generation Spark, you first need to get a handle on the nones and the dones.
Let's start with the "nones," a term used in the media as a shorthand way to talk about those who identify themselves on surveys and polls as having no religious affiliation. In other words, they check the box that says "none." Many of these nones are young people (age 16–24) who grew up in the church but didn't stick around.
The "dones" is a term that's far less common. Dones are people age 45 and older who, in the words of Virgil Gulker, director of Generation Spark and a lecturer for Hope College's Center for Leadership, "have been in most cases pillars of the church, but they've grown weary of the institution." They're done.
The nones and the dones. Two vastly different age groups that present the same problem: After spending years in the church, people are leaving.
Generation Spark aims to do something about it.
Supported by a 2017 grant of $458,502 to the college from the Lilly Endowment Inc., this intergenerational mentoring program with a twist is currently being piloted in five churches in the Christian Reformed Church in North America and the Reformed Church in America denominations. (Additional denominations have already expressed interest in using the model.)
One year into the grant period and several months into the pilot program, five participating churches have brought church members from the nones generation and the dones generation into formal mentoring relationships, with each pair supported by a prayer partner.
The research-based idea behind this mentoring model is that by giving young people meaningful relationships with older adults — and giving older adults an opportunity to share their life experiences and influence the younger generation — each group could be an antidote to the other's declining participation in church life.
That's one of the reasons VictoryPoint Ministries in Holland, Michigan, got involved. "We were intrigued by the idea of the cross-generation relationship and how much these pairs could speak into each other's lives for personal growth and for bridging gaps within our church community, leaving both feeling valued and cared for," said Wendi Kapenga, director of the church's Generation Spark program.
"Intergenerational mentoring is very popular right now," Gulker said, "but the problem is that when you take a 60-year-old and put them with a 16-year-old, it's just flat-out weird. They have nothing in common."
The primary purpose is to create relationships where youth and older members come together and begin to explore life issues.
Virgil Gulker, director of Generation Spark and a lecturer for Hope's Center for Leadership
To help ease the potential awkwardness that comes with intergenerational relationships, the Generation Spark team took inspiration from a consultation model that the Center for Leadership has been successfully practicing for years, in which students are paired with an adult mentor to solve a problem in a local organization.
It's here, in the combination of a mentoring relationship with a problem-solving purpose, that Generation Spark really shines.
The youth-and-mentor pairs in the pilot group have spent 12 weeks addressing practical issues in their own churches. Generation Spark has provided a list of project ideas, but each group instead developed its own ideas to pursue.
At VictoryPoint Ministries, 18-year-old Drew Deur was previously involved in weekly worship at Benjamin's Hope, an intentional community in Holland, Michigan, that serves adults with autism and other developmental and intellectual differences. Together with his mentor, Tom Buursma, he worked to bring awareness about autism to VictoryPoint.
"Most of the church has a general understanding of what autism is, but they don't know everything about the condition and the programs that exist to help the people it affects," Deur explained. Together, Deur and Buursma researched and presented ways to connect their church with the ministry of Benjamin's Hope, with the long-term aim of establishing a missional community to serve those with autism.
Casey Shannon is a 23-year-old at VictoryPoint who works full time as a machine operator and attends school part time. He and his mentor worked to create an online tool to build relationships among church members who, like Shannon, have schedules that don't allow them to connect with the church's regular Bible study sessions.
Faith Church in Zeeland, Michigan, became involved with Generation Spark when church leaders were approached by Matt VanDyken, a Hope College junior and member at Faith who was involved in launching the Generation Spark pilot program.
"It just fits with who we are as a congregation and with what we believe is absolutely necessary," said Pastor Jonathan Elgersma.
The research-based idea behind Generation Spark's mentoring model is that by:
giving young people meaningful relationships with older adults
and giving older adults an opportunity to share their life experiences and influence the younger generation
each group could be an antidote to the other's declining participation in church life.
One project at Faith Church has taken the youth leadership question head-on. With help and encouragement from his mentor, a student attended a recent consistory meeting to present an idea about forming a youth leadership team that has a crossover conversation with the church's governance.
"They didn't say 'We want to lead the church,' but, 'We want to learn with you about what it means to lead the church,'" Elgersma recalled. "Here we have a junior in high school doing the whole presentation in front of the consistory, and a great response from one of our elders was, 'You had me at hello.'"
Other projects from the pilot group include exploring the feasibility of a church-based food bank and a community-based garden, promoting random acts of kindness within the church body, addressing the issues of suicide and self-harm among high school students in the community, and developing a structure for small groups based on special interests.
"It's important to remember that problem-solving is merely the glue for the relationship," Gulker said. "The primary purpose is to create relationships where youth and older members come together and begin to explore life issues."
The measure of success, then, is not whether a team or a church implements a lasting solution for, say, housing pregnant teens (although that would be great). Rather, the measure of success is whether a church has developed thriving intergenerational relationships.
At VictoryPoint, each team has completed its project, but Kapenga is quick to point out that the projects "became secondary to the relationships that grew out of their consistent weekly meeting time."
In a focus group, Gulker and his students asked young participants why they were part of Generation Spark. None of them said they were involved to solve the problem; instead, they showed up for the relationship.
"When we start thinking intentionally about the next generation, we're thinking about ministry the way God thinks about ministry," Elgersma noted, pointing to several biblical examples: Moses and Joshua, David and Solomon, Elijah and Elisha, Paul and Timothy, Jesus and the disciples, Elizabeth and Mary.
"Ultimately, we want this to be part of our culture here at Faith," Elgersma said. "We're not just talking about this as a program, we're talking about this becoming part of our DNA."
That's about as perfect an outcome as Gulker could imagine. "I just hope God uses us to be one small step in that direction," he said.
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Congratulations to the following Schools, which have qualified to participate in the Final Round of Competitions. This will be held on Saturday, September 9th 2017 at USP's Laucala Campus (Western and Central Competitors) and Labasa Sangam (SKM) College (Northern Competitors). The qualifying schools are to confirm their participation via email to the CSSP Secretary.


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Q: Full and half cycle calculation using simple array My program takes in random array inputs where the array has values of integers from 0-n and the letter "M" which stands for markers. Based on this array I have to determine how many cycles are in the array. The Input are

[M,1,2,3,4,5,6] = One half cycle
[M,1,2,3,4,5,6,M] = One full cycle
[1,2,3,4,5,M] = One half cycle
[1,2,3,4] = One half cycle
[M, 1,2,3,4] = One half cycle
[M,1,2,3,4,M,6] = One Full and one halfcycle
[M,1,2,3,4,M,6,7,8,M] = Two Full Cycles
[M,1,2,3,4,M,6,7,8,M,M,9] = Two Full Cycles and a half cycle

How can i write code for this sort of logic?

A: To answer this question you need to structure your thoughts.
Let's take your lists and re-arrange it first.
First lest look at the group "One half cycle".
[M,1,2,3,4,5,6] = One half cycle
[1,2,3,4,5,M] = One half cycle
[1,2,3,4] = One half cycle
[M, 1,2,3,4] = One half cycle

As you can see they share some properties.  They have zero or one M at maximum.  This criterion is enough to identify them.  We will see later how.
The group "one full" has two "M" on the list. Although if the "M" is not the last we need to add "and one halfcycle".
[M,1,2,3,4,5,6,M] = One full cycle
[M,1,2,3,4,M,6] = One Full and one halfcycle

More than two "M" ends in the "Two full".  Again if the "M" is not the last we need to add "and a half cycle".
[M,1,2,3,4,M,6,7,8,M] = Two Full Cycles
[M,1,2,3,4,M,6,7,8,M,M,9] = Two Full Cycles and a half cycle

How can we implement this?
We need to count the number of "M" in the various examples.
Given the list:
a=["M",1,2,3,4,5,6]

you can use:
a.count("M")

On the list "a" it will return 1.
Now, for all the cases we can write a simple routine. Please read the comments in the code.
def find_cycles(alist):
    # we define the events, half, one or two cycle
    ares=["One half cycle", "One full cycle", "Two full cycle"]
    half=" and one half cycle"
    # here we count the number of "M" in the list
    indices = alist.count("M")
    # we define a counter "r" that will be used in "ares"
    r=-1
    # zero or one "M" are the "one half cycle"
    if(indices==0 or indices==1):
        r=0
    # two "M" are the "One full cycle"
    elif(indices==2):
        r=1
    # more than two "M" are "Two full cycle"
    elif(indices>2):
        r=2

    ### BUT we need to check if there is an "halfcycle" more
    ### in the case where there are more than 1 M
    ### to do this we need to check that the last element
    ### in our array is not a "M" and we r should be different than 0
    if(alist[-1]!="M" and r!=0):
        return(ares[r]+half)
    else:
        return(ares[r])

Now to test it (note that M needs the quotes):
a=["M",1,2,3,4,5,6]
b=[1,2,3,4,5,"M"]
c=[1,2,3,4]
d=["M", 1,2,3,4]
e=["M",1,2,3,4,5,6,"M"]
f=["M",1,2,3,4,"M",6]
g=["M",1,2,3,4,"M",6,7,8,"M"]
h=["M",1,2,3,4,"M",6,7,8,"M","M",9]

all_lists=[a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h]

for i in all_lists:
    print(find_cycles(i))

Output:
One half cycle
One half cycle
One half cycle
One half cycle
One full cycle
One full cycle and one half cycle
Two full cycle
Two full cycle and one half cycle

Take in mind that this works only for the example you gave.  Much more "M" will all end up in "Two full cycles".  From the question, it's unclear if you want to generalize to more than two full cycle.


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When I told the editor-in-chief of Seasoned Cooking about this dessert, she nearly accosted me and demanded I write and share this article and these recipes with you. And who would I be to turn down the chance to gloat at what may be one of my finest desserts? So, without further hesitation, prepare your kitchen gear and set aside some afternoon this coming weekend to make a dessert truly worthy to be called "Summer in a Shell."
This dessert is great for many reasons. But first I will share how I came to know it -- its roots.
You may be familiar with one of the Discovery Channel's cooking shows called "Great Chefs." One Saturday morning, while flipping through various cartoons, I stumbled across a particular episode I had not seen previously. The featured dessert was a collection of French creme brulee served in various flavors. The chef, a Hawaiian, made a chocolate, vanilla, and a coffee (with Hawaiian Kona coffee) brulee; each were served in ceramic spoons. Well, you might imagine how seriously my eyes were glued to the television. One hour and one bag of groceries later, I was prepared to make my own batch of crème brulee.
What followed was literally one of the worst kitchen messes I had ever made! Every pot and pan, several various smaller utensils, and many sticks of butter, pints of cream, and copious amounts of burnt (not caramelized) sugar later I had concocted a batch of what was to be the premier dessert of the year. Vanilla crème brulee.
Please read this article. Copy the recipe. Learn from my mistakes. And I promise you that you too can make a crème brulee to wow your guests and win the favor of all family members close to you.
2 cups heavy cream- shop around. Look at the ingredients. There should be only one: cream. Look for cream with upwards of 30% more of milk fat. Seaweed juice is not a substitute.
1 Vanilla bean- if you are unable to locate a whole bean, substitute PURE vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons.
4 egg yolks, slightly beaten.
1 1/2 tablespoons of cold, UNSALTED butter, chunked.
A double-boiler. If you have not a double-boiler, substitute with one large pan of water and use smaller pots atop.
In a heavy-bottomed sauce pan, place cream and vanilla bean. Bring to a quick boil, without boiling over, then simmer for five minutes, infusing the Vanilla bean.* Set aside.
Add granulated sugar to egg yolks. With gently simmering water in the double-boiler, whisk together the sugar and egg until it becomes light and fluffy. Constantly whisk and keep the heat low! You're trying to avoid making sweetened, scrambled eggs. If scrambling begins, believe me, scrap it and start again. There is no salvaging at this point.
Place the cream infusion on to the double-boiler. Temper the eggs by slowly adding small spoonfuls to the cream, while constantly whisking. With a wooden spoon, stir the rest of the eggs into the cream and continue stirring until the concoction begins thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. This may take upwards to ten minutes or more.
*If using the substitute, leave out until final step, then stir in gently.
The "Summer" portion of this dessert is in its presentation and topping.
Using your own recipe or a boxed mix, make 12 tart shells. Fill each shell with 2 tablespoons of crème brulee. Top with your favourite summer berry that's in season. Raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries make this dish spectacular! The berries may be served whole, or pureed and sweetened. Serve chilled. Bon a petit!


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can be safe from people, road mortality, and deliberate killing." The site initially proposed for the sanctuary was Mount Zion, a large, rocky island on the east side of Quabbin Reservoir, the 40-square-mile wilderness area that protects Boston's water supply. Mount Zion was abruptly transformed into an island during the 1930s, when the Swift River Valley was taken over by the state and flooded during the reservoir's creation. Like the Quabbin's other islands, it has been closed to the public and nearly undisturbed for the past 80 years. At 1,400 acres, Mount Zion is large enough to sustain a healthy rattlesnake population, and it offers ideal habitat, including hardwood forests full of prey species, sunlit ledges, and most importantly, deep, rocky den sites.
The plan was to release no more than 10 snakes annually to Mount Zion beginning in 2017, with a long-term goal of developing a population of 150 individuals. In an enclosure at the Roger Williams Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island, the first phase of the project is already underway. Here, newborn snakes, taken from existing colonies, are being raised in captivity for two years until they grow large enough to increase their otherwise slim odds of surviving in the wild (only about one in five reach adulthood outside of captivity).
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