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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This example demonstrates the following aspects of the core Enterprise Integrati
 * Router (SpEL based)
 * Service Activator
 
-Messages are simply being emitted by the **Poller** (**Cron-based**) through triggering the **next()** method of the *org.springframework.integration.samples.oddeven.Counter* class. The messages are sent via the **numbers** channel to a *Spring Expression Language* (SpEL) based **Message Filter**. The filter discards any messages that contain a payload whose value is less than the number one (1).  
+Messages are simply being emitted by the **Poller** (**Cron-based**) through triggering the **next()** method of the  *org.springframework.integration.samples.oddeven.Counter* class. Every 5th number generated by the **Counter** class will be negative. The messages are sent via the **numbers** channel to a *Spring Expression Language* (SpEL) based **Message Filter**. The filter discards any messages that contain a payload whose value is less than the number one (1).  
 
 Via the **positives** channel messages are sent to the a SpEL expression-based router. All that the router does is to simply route messages to one of the following two  **Service Activators**: