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Talk:The Lord of the Rings
At first I wondered how an empty page rated a link from the main page. So I added some quotes. Then I checked the history, realized that the page once held quotes and was divided into sub-pages. I had thought they were just links back to Wikipedia. At the least I think the list needs to explain where the bulk of the quotes are. I think a case can be made for having a selection of quotes on this page because the presence of the quotes from the preface makes it look unfinished or at least very unbalanced and because the complete quotes pages for each book are so extensive and hard to read through. That depends more on how you see the project though and I would not be upset to see them removed from here. But it should be more obvious where the quotes are. Rmhermen 04:41, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Moving of quotes from the "Foreword"[edit]
I don't agree with the idea that the foreword should be given its own separate page. The Volumes themselves were given their own pages for reasons of length, and I can see a rationale to that, but the quotes from the foreword of the "second" edition were just a few general comments about the work as a whole, and I believe that they should remain here, behind the general links to the body of the work itself, because they were actually written years later, as is reflected by the very subject of the quotes, and there is simply no need for a separate page. ~ Achilles 13:03, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I concur. And there is another big change; see Talk:The Lord of the Rings (fandom) please. I don't think this type of fandom quotes passes our "notability" criteria. --Aphaia 20:08, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Note that I didn't introduce the "fandom" quote, I just created a new section for them. But I agree that removing them (well, it, there's only one of them) is probably a much better move. About the foreword page I don't feel strongly either way. Jhi
Does anyone have the song they made when they thought Gandalf was dead?
- Err... What does this have to do with wikiquote?
- This can be an addition to wikiquote....because that was a significant moment in film. I am not sure if there is such song in books too. 188.8.131.52 21:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Err... What does this have to do with wikiquote?
Citing sources[edit]
Since this article has been added to Wikiquote:Good entries, I have been ruthless about restructuring and noting its sourcing failures. Most of the "sources" provided are too vague for any reasonable attempt at verifying them. I've also marked the "Forward to the Second Edition" section because a work as popular as LoTR probably has many editions and printings that include this forward, so we should have some specifics on at least one of them. I'm also concerned about the use of the term "portal", as we have no standards for such things here, but I'm more worried about the basics for now.
"Good articles" ought to be the best examples of well-formatted, well-sourced articles. Just as with Wikipedia's good- and featured-article system, nomination to this list should be a positive encouragement for improving articles to our highest standards (as opposed to Wikiquote's more traditional negative encouragement of VfD nomination). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
"Oh f--k, not another elf!"[edit]
Seriously? Seriously??
Let's remove that nonsense.
- I agree... we don't need that crap here. And no, I am not a sock puppet, though I have no WQ contribs I have made numerous WP contribs, you can check for yourself. - Robodude2000 15:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
- Like the humor of it or not, this has become widely quoted, is well-sourced, and does belong in a compendium of notable quotes. ~ Kalki 02:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
What about quotes from the book?[edit]
Instead of just real world ones?
- Quotes for each of the books are provided on the pages which are linked prominently at the start of the page. ~ Kalki 02:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
moving Faramir here?[edit]
The page shows that a discussion is going about moving Faramir here. But I don't see any. So am starting one. I don't think it's a good idea. Because if we do that, we can run into trouble...we will have to move Gandalf, Frodo, Samwise Gamgee, Bilbo, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merryadoc, Peppin and many other pages here too. Besides, it makes no sense to move the character's quotations here...because then we can get in trouble with characters like Elrond and Gladriel, because they were mentioned outside LoTR too. And what about the quotes from The Hobbit? So, I think it's better if we keep characters' quotations separated. But you are welcome to include interesting dialogues from the books. Aarsalankhalid 21:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- oops! I just realized that most of the pages don't exist! Then why the page about Faramir was created? Aarsalankhalid 21:43, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Why was any page created? Somebody thought it was a good idea at the time. Note that after Faramir was tagged for merging, a general policy for Fictional characters has been drafted, which indicates it is not such a good idea. To be clear, it would not be merged to this page per se, but to the listed articles on individual books. ~ Ningauble 13:18, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
i think we should move all the characters so we can fine em all
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What's the year?[edit]
Review by C.S. Lewis, as quoted in The Essential J. R. R. Tolkien Sourcebook: A Fan's Guide to Middle-Earth and Beyond (2004) by George W. Beahm, p. 28
Here, however, we find the book was published in 2003:
Only here we find "2004". So what's the correct year? Thanks. --18.104.22.168 22:04, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State men's golf team was tabbed to finish ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Poll. TSU was picked to finish ahead of Morehead State and Eastern Illinois. The poll is voted on by the conference head coaches.
The defending OVC champions, Austin Peay, picked up eight first-place votes and sits atop the rankings. Belmont received the final three, top votes, and is second. Jacksonville State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin, Eastern Kentucky, Murray State and SIUE follow and are just in front of the Tigers.
Senior Andrew Warner leads the Tigers into 2014 after posting a team best 73.1 average in the fall. Entering the spring, Warner is currently tied for 13th in the OVC. Junior James Stepp (73.7) finished third at the OVC Championships in 2013 and will team up with Warner to pace the Tigers. Senior Codie Welborn (76.6) and transfer Blake Burgett (74.4) will supply support to the TSU attack.
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Like a familiar friend that stayed away too long, Arsenio Hall's return to late night was welcomed with open arms on September 9th. America and the rest of the entertainment world showed up for the late-night homecoming almost 20 years in the making. Ironically, not much has changed during that time as Arsenio still remains the only African-American host in the late night genre much like he was in the 90s. Plenty have come and gone during his absence, but none have been able to duplicate the success of the man responsible for taking urban America mainstream. Many of the stars, who got their initial exposure to Middle America via the original Arsenio Hall show, appeared on the 2013 version to help kick things off. Chris Tucker, Ice Cube, Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg), Magic Johnson, Paula Abdul, Angela Bassett and many others stopped by to give Arsenio some love. As a result, for its premiere, the Arsenio Hall show was the #1 talk show in the key 18 to 49 demographic. Even with the show's strong beginning, Hall doesn't have any delusions about his return to late night.
"So I've got a new show. Nobody knows if it's going to be good or not. Nobody, you know?" said Hall frankly. "I don't blame the people - there are people who are watching me and my return with apprehension -- agents, publicists, and managers. I've got to go out there and I've got to turn it out. And it was the same way the first time around." He added: You've got to turn it out because a lot of people are just waiting to see how you do. Sure my friends - Magic is coming, sure Eddie is coming. You know, people I put in the mix the first time around, Trisha Yearwood is coming and Mariah is coming. But there are a lot of people who just want to watch and see what is going to happen. And I know in that sense I don't get to come in, 'Well you know Arsenio Hall is back!' That don't mean sh-- to nobody."
While many Hollywood insiders appear skeptical of Hall's return, fans seem excited about the possibilities. "I used to always watch his show when I was younger," said Sherie Baylock of Los Angeles. "I don't really watch much late night anymore, so it'll be good to have him back maybe I'll stay up now." "I think with Arsenio, we'll start to see more of the acts we know," claimed David Nichols of Los Angeles. "I mean you always see the big stars, the Oprahs, the Jay-Zs, the Beyonces on the other shows but they're not the only ones out there and I think he'll give everybody a chance."
Breaking new acts and providing up-and-coming artists a platform was a part of the recipe that originally made his iconic show, well iconic. As the old adage goes, "if it ain't broke don't fix it," so you can expect that strategy to be included in Hall's winning formula this time around.
"One of the big differences is I'm not in it so much alone as I used to be back in the day…now we're in an era where you can turn on Jimmy Kimmel and hear him saying ladies and gentlemen, Rick Ross and, you know, ladies and gentlemen Kobe Bryant. There was a time when Johnny didn't care about sitting with Danny Ainge and, you know, the present mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson," Hall stated. "I think what happened with my show is it showed the viability of certain African American acts. There was a time in this town where we'd throw mama from the train if you could make money. And once they found out that you can put African Americans on TV of every element of entertainment and people will watch, people noticed." Hall continued, "So maybe my responsibility - because I understand that I don't come back into the game being the Arsenio of the 90s; I come back into the game as the new small guy and I'll probably have to earn my way back in again by maybe being the person who looks for the new or tries to get ahead of the curve…you know, there was a time when Dr. Dre would call me and say, 'I want to introduce you to this guy named Calvin from Long Beach' and on my show that later became ladies and gentlemen, Snoop Doggy Dog."
Once again, Arsenio is poised to fill a niche and provide for the masses what has for the most part been absent from late night television. Of course, this time around let's hope it doesn't cost him his show. For years in the African American community it has been a widely held belief that Hall's departure from late night came due to an infamous interview on his previous show with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
"First of all, my letter of resignation was written to a studio executive at that time who ran Paramount, his name is (Carey McCluggage). The letter went to Carey before Farrakhan ever appeared," Hall insisted. "I had a good relationship with Paramount so even after I resigned, I continued to do shows while they checked with Bill Bellamy and Jon Stewart and different people under the Viacom Paramount MTV banner to decide who would take over for me and take the show. I continued to do the show and during that period there was the Farrakhan booking." Hall went on to say, "there was an article written that said the show was cancelled. That confused a lot of people. And because the article came out around the time of the Farrakhan interview, the black public didn't get a chance to know the truth about the ending. The bottom line is when I left, there was really no drama. I left to seek some balance in my life as a man. I didn't know what that was at that time. I didn't know whether I wanted to do more acting, I didn't know whether I wanted to go on the road and do standup, I didn't know whether it meant that I just needed a break. But I did what I did for personal reasons."
In the end it turned out to be the personal pursuit of a man to change his family life, his love life and to have a child. "I was soul searching. It had nothing to do with business. I left because I had done it and I just wanted to find some balance in my life. And I've done some things, done a lot of things in my life, and I miss my show and I'm coming back to it. And I apologize to the black community for the journalistic misunderstandings and lies that were dispersed when I left," said Hall emphatically.
Regardless of the reason, it's safe to say that audiences around the country are genuinely excited for the return of one of Cleveland's favorite sons and so is he. "When you make that decision [to return] you look back on your life and you realize, you know what, I'm a standup comic and a talk show host and that's when I'm happiest. Basically, when I walk out there at night imagine seeing a woman that you loved, the one that got away, the only woman you've ever loved, that's who I'll see when I walk out."


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This chapter discusses the service composition capabilities of Oracle Service Bus. It highlights operational features that enable service configuration and key concepts associated with message structures and message flow modeling. It is intended for integration-focused IT architects responsible for messaging and service oriented architectures (SOA) and service modelers or designers.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Oracle Service Bus mediates service request and response messages between disparate heterogeneous service endpoints and intelligently routes messages between them. Content-based routing is a mediation capability supported by Oracle Service Bus based on conditional message processing and transformation capabilities. This routing capability allows loose coupling of SOA endpoints and is particularly useful and allows service enrichment and reuse by combining transformation and routing functions.
Oracle Service Bus performs dynamic message routing based on a message content, for cases when services or responses need to be directed to multiple destination service and in scenarios where different versions of a service have to be provisioned based upon business service requests. Dynamic routing is useful when business requirements dictate that certain conditions of a request define where it should be processed. For example, a financial institution's request for a credit report on a customer may use any of several credit services based on where the customer or organization resides.
In dynamic routing, a message is analyzed using conditional checks in conditional branching statements, to retrieve the value of a data element or multiple data elements that determine the routing logic. Different business service destinations are assigned to different value combinations resulting from this conditional check. The message is dynamically routed to one of multiple destination business services based on the data element value. Transformations may be applied to the response message going to one or more of these destinations depending on business-service requirements.
Oracle Service Bus routes message between business services (such as enterprise services and databases) and service clients (such as presentation applications or other business services) through proxy services. The following sections detail the Oracle Service Bus features available for designing and implementing proxy services that support content-based routing.
Proxy services are definitions of generic intermediary Web services, that are hosted locally on Oracle Service Bus. A proxy service communicates with other services in the IT infrastructure through interfaces, which may or may not be identical to that of a service provider or service consumer business service. Proxy services can route messages to multiple business services, using their configured independent interfaces. For more information on proxy services, see "Proxy Services: Creating and Managing" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Proxy services can be defined and configured using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console. They are configured by specifying its interface, type of transport it uses, and its associated message processing logic. Message handling capabilities of a proxy service are implemented with message flow definitions. For more information on message flow definitions, see "Modeling Message Flow in Oracle Service Bus" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
When a proxy service interfaces with multiple business services, a message flow definition is configured to route a message to the appropriate business service and map the message data into the format required by the business service's interface. For more information about the structure of proxy services, see Section 5.2, "Message Flow Modeling."
Business services are Oracle Service Bus definitions of the enterprise services that exchange messages during business processes. A business service and its interface can be defined and configured using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console. A business service is configured by specifying its interface, type of transport it uses, its security requirements, and other characteristics. A business service definition is similar to that of a proxy service, but it does not have a pipeline. For information on how to configure a business service using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console, see "Business Services: Creating and Managing" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
A service account can be created to provide authentication when connecting to a business service. It acts as an alias resource for the required username and password pair. Oracle WebLogic Server can be used to directly manage security credentials for a business service requiring credential-level validation. For more information on business service security considerations, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Oracle Service Bus provides the ability to create a generic proxy service that accepts any SOAP or XML messages. This helps masks the underlying complexity of protocol specifications from the service consumer. The proxy service can be configured to analyze SOAP or XML messages that it receives and dynamically route the message using content-based routing logic. Generating proxy services from a generic template, also promotes dynamic protocol switching, which allows end-point protocol selection to be made at runtime.
Message flows are definitions used for implementing proxy services within Oracle Service Bus. Message flow modeling involves configuration of message processing logic in proxy service message flow definitions. This logic includes such activities as transformation, publishing, reporting and exception management. Each of these activities are configured as individual actions within the message flow. The graphical modeling tools available in Eclipse and in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console can be used to perform message modeling.
Oracle Service Bus proxy service implementations are defined in message flow definitions using components such as pipelines, branch nodes, and route nodes. The following figure shows a high-level view of the message flow definition components.
For more information on message flow modeling, see "Modeling Message Flow in Oracle Service Bus" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Figure 5-1 Message Flow Components
A pipeline is a named sequence of stages, representing a non-branching one-way processing path. It is used to specify the message flow for service requests and responses. Pipelines fall into one of the following three categories:
Request Pipelines: used for processing the request path of the message flow
Response Pipelines: used for processing the response path of the message flow
Error Pipelines: used as error handlers
A single service level request pipeline in a stage might optionally branch out into operational pipelines (at most one per operation, and optionally a default operational pipeline). The operation is determined by user-selected criteria. The response processing starts with the relevant operation pipeline which then merges into a single service-level response pipeline. The following figure shows an example of operation pipelines in a proxy service.
Figure 5-2 Sample Operational Pipeline
For one-way operations, the response pipeline is executed with an empty message. This permits a response to be constructed for the proxy service, enabling bridging between request/response and one-way operations. The bridging mechanism means that proxy service input can be one-way while its output is request/response or vice versa. The proxy service either absorbs the response from the invoked service or generates one for the client. Actions in the response flow may also be used to do post processing on the message after it has been routed to the business service or the proxy service.
A branch node allows processing to proceed down exactly one of several possible paths. Branching is driven by a simple lookup table with each branch tagged with a simple but unique string value.A variable in the message context is designated as the lookup variable for that node, and its value is used to determine which branch to follow. If no branch matches the value of the lookup variable, then a default branch is followed. The value of the lookup variable must be set before reaching the branch node. This approach ensures that exceptions do not occur within the branch node itself. A branch node may have several descendants in the message flow tree: one for each branch including the default branch.
Figure 5-3 Branch Nodes in a Message Flow
The route node is used to perform request and response communication with another service. It represents the boundary between request and response processing for the proxy service, and therefore, cannot have any descendants in the message flow tree. When the route node dispatches a request message, request processing is considered finished. When the route node receives a response message, response processing begins.
The route node is very flexible in its specification and supports conditional routing as well as outbound and response transformations. It allows
if structures and
case structures to be combined (and nested) to define a single endpoint and operation to route the message. For information about how to configure route nodes, see "Adding Route Nodes to Message Flows" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Figure 5-4 Proxy Service Route Node Communicates With Services
Echo node is a route node that routes (or echoes) a message from the end of the request pipeline to the start of the response pipeline. The message is not routed from the proxy service to another service, but remains within the proxy service.
Pipeline logic occurs in pairs of definitions consisting of a request pipeline definition and a response pipeline definition. The request pipeline definition specifies the actions that Oracle Service Bus performs on request messages to the proxy service before invoking a business service or another proxy service. The response pipeline definition specifies the processing that Oracle Service Bus performs on responses from the service invoked by the proxy service before the proxy service returns a response. Routing is performed by a route node at the end of the message flow.
To create the request and response paths, request and response pipelines are paired together and organized into a single-rooted tree structure. A branch node allows these pipeline pairs to be executed conditionally, and route nodes at the ends of the branches perform the request and response dispatching. A pipeline tree chains together instances of the following top-level components - pipeline pair node, branch node, route node or echo node.
A pipeline pair node ties together a single request and a single response pipeline into one top-level element. Only the request pipeline is executed during request processing, and only the response pipeline is executed when reversing the path for response processing.
Each pipeline is a sequence of stages that contain actions. An action is a user-configured processing step such as transformation or publishing. Messages fed into the message flow are accompanied by a set of message context variables that contain the message contents and can be accessed or modified by actions in the pipeline stages.
The following tables describe the actions supported in Oracle Service Bus pipeline stage, branch, and route nodes. For information about actions, including how to configure them, see "Proxy Services: Actions" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Table 5-1 Oracle Service Bus Communication Actions
|Summary Description
Dynamic Publish
Publish a message to a service identified by an Xquery expression
Publish a message to a statically specified service.
Publish Table
Publish a message to zero or more statically specified services. Switch-style condition logic is used to determine at runtime which services will be used for the publish.
Routing Options
Modify any or all of the following properties in the outbound request: URI, Quality of Service, Mode, Retry parameters.
Service Callout
Configure a synchronous (blocking) callout to an Oracle Service Bus-registered proxy or business service.
Transport Headers
Set the transport header values in messages.
Table 5-2 Oracle Service Bus Flow Control Actions
|Summary Description
For Each
Iterate over a sequence of values and execute a block of actions.
If... Then...
Perform an action or set of actions conditionally, based on the Boolean result of an XQuery expression
Raise Error
Raise an exception with a specified error code and description
Specify that an immediate reply is sent to the invoker; can be a reply with success or failure
Resume message flow after an error is handled by an error handler.
Specify that at runtime, the execution of the current stage is skipped and the processing proceeds to the next stage in the message flow.
Table 5-3 Oracle Service Bus Message Processing Actions
|Summary Description
Assign the result of an XQuery expression to a context variable
Delete a context variable or a set of nodes specified by an XPath expression
Insert the result of an XQuery expression at an identified place relative to nodes selected by an XPath expression
Java Callout
Invoke a Java method from within the pipeline.
MFL Transform
Convert non-XML to XML or XML to non-XML in the pipeline.
Rename elements selected by an XPath expression without modifying the contents of the element
Replace a node or the contents of a node specified by an XPath expression
Validate elements selected by an XPath expression against an XML schema element or a WSDL resource
Since message flow is typically used with WSDL-based services, operation-specific processing must frequently be performed. Rather than requiring manual configurations of a branching node based on operation, the Oracle Service Bus provides a zero-configuration branching node that branches automatically. In other words, if no operational branching is configured for a service end point, message processing will automatically branch to the appropriate operation based on the operation specified in the message context.
Oracle Service Bus provides a service callout action that offers greater flexibility for more sophisticated message flows. Service Callouts are message processing request actions from one message flow, that invoke other services registered within Oracle Service Bus. This action is generally used in response to decisions made in complex dynamic-routing processing, or to perform message enrichment. The service callout action is used inside a message flow routing stage, to call on the destination service to perform some action on the message. The destination service returns a response to the message flow, which gets assigned to a local variable. The variable may be used within the current message flow for conditional branching.
For information about the Service Callout functionality, see "Constructing Service Callout Messages" in "Modeling Message Flow in Oracle Service Bus" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Service callouts allow custom Java code to be invoked from within proxy services. Oracle Service Bus supports a Java exit mechanism through a Java Callout action that allows call out to a Plain Old Java Object (POJO). Static methods can be accessed from any POJO. The POJO and its parameters are visible in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console at design time; the parameters can be mapped to message context variables. For information about configuring a Java Callout to a POJO, see "Adding Java Callout Actions" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Transformations are used when disparate message data types exist between source and destination services, requiring data mapping to ensure service compatibility. Oracle Service Bus supports data mapping using XQuery and the eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) standard. Messages can be transformed in two ways:
Using XQuery or XSLT to reformat the message structure
Manipulating message content by adding, removing, or replacing certain data elements
Transformations can be created by a developer and imported into Oracle Service Bus, or scripted using XQuery in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console. Transformations can occur at different locations depending on the message-flow configuration of the proxy service.
In Oracle Service Bus, the Message Flow defines the implementation of a proxy service. You configure Oracle Service Bus proxy services in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console, which is described in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Oracle Service Bus supports data mapping that uses XQuery and the eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) standards. XSLT maps describe XML-to-XML mappings, whereas XQuery maps can describe XML-to-XML, XML to non-XML, and non-XML to XML mappings. For more information on transformations, see "Performing Transformations in Message Flows" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
For more information, see "XQuery Transformations" and "XSL Transformations" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus. For information on using the Oracle XQuery Mapper to create XQueries, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Transformation maps describe the mapping between two incompatible data types. Oracle Service Bus supports data mapping using either XQuery or the eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) standard. XSLT maps describe XML-to-XML mappings, whereas XQuery maps can describe XML-to-XML, XML to non-XML, and non-XML to XML mappings. In addition, MFL described data is automatically converted to the equivalent XML for transformation with XQuery or XSLT. The resulting XML is automatically converted to MFL if the target service requires it. For more information, see "XQuery Transformations" and "XSL Transformations" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus. For information on using the Oracle XQuery Mapper to create XQueries, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Message manipulation is a kind of transformation in which the contents of a message, rather than its whole structure, are manipulated to make the message compatible with the destination service. This is performed by adding, replacing or removing actions to the request or response pipelines of the message flow. The different actions available to transform a message through content manipulation are described in the following table:
Inserts a data element into the message. This insertion may occur anywhere within the message context as specified during configuration.
Deletes a data element in the message. This is used when the target destination does not expect a specific data element in the message.
Replaces a series of text within the message with a different series. This can be used, for example, to replace the namespace of a message.
Oracle Service Bus provides robust and flexible error handling for configured services. It can handle errors in the following ways:
Testing whether an assertion is true and sending a reply with failure in the request or response pipeline.
Configuring the service to catch and handle the error at multiple levels including the stage, route node, pipeline, or service levels. The level configured to catch the error depends on the service behavior desired.
Letting the default system error handler handle the error.
Oracle Service Bus provides the capability for incoming or outgoing messages to be validated against a WSDL or XML schema with a validation action. This action can occur at any time within the message flow and ensures that the incoming or outgoing message is in the format expected by the destination service's consumer or provider. Messages that fail validation can log the failure or create an error. In the latter case, an error stage can be used to apply alternative actions.
Message validation can be used for service versioning to validate messages against different versions of a schema or WSDL. This is to ensure the message is routed to the proper version of the service end point, or to check whether transformation must be applied prior to sending the message.
Oracle Service Bus provides a mechanism to handle errors by allowing error handlers to be defined. An error handler is a pipeline that allows various actions such as logging, transformation, and publishing to be performed to handle errors appropriately. If an error occurs within a stage a sequence of steps are executed. This sequence of steps constitutes an error pipeline for that stage.
The error pipeline allows you to handle the error in the following ways:
Publish the original message to an alternate endpoint
Formulate an error response message to be returned to the invoker of the proxy service
Log the message
Continue processing the message through the pipeline after modifying the context
Raise an exception. Raising an exception transfers control to the next higher scoped error pipeline.
Errors can occur during message flow processing for various reasons. For example, security errors occur if a username is not correctly validated or authorized; transformation errors occur if Oracle Service Bus is unable to successfully transform or validate a message; a routing error is raised if a routing service is unavailable, and so on. Typically, these errors originate from a specific stage, route node or from the proxy service, as this is where most of the message flow logic is implemented.
Each stage can have a sequence of steps to execute if an error occurs in that stage. This sequence of steps constitute an error pipeline for that stage. In addition, an error pipeline can be defined for a pipeline (request or response) or for an entire proxy service. The lowest scoped error pipeline that exists is invoked on an error.
Figure 5-5 Stage, Node, and Service-Level Error Handlers
The Oracle Service Bus Administration Console can be used to track messages to obtain an accurate picture of a message flow. This could enable error visibility; for example, the original reported message could be viewed, indicating it was submitted for processing, and then the subsequent reported error could be viewed, indicating that the message was not processed correctly. This would provide a complete view of both the message flow and error flow.
"Modeling Message Flow in Oracle Service Bus" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus
"XQuery Mapper" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus
"XQuery Transformations" and "XSL Transformations" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus
"Adding Java Callout Actions" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus


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They took Monday and Tuesday off after a 22-day stretch with seven games, five of them victories, and were relishing a seven-day break before Sunday's second leg against the Seattle Sounders at CenturyLink Field.
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In-Home Shift Nurse RN - $1000 Signing Bonus
RN POSITIONS | New Haven County | Full Time and Part Time
January Only - $1000 Signing Bonus
Allume currently has several shifts available in several locations including BRIDGEPORT & NEW HAVEN, and throughout Western Connecticut. We are offering new hires who work 24+ hours/week and complete the onboarding process by January 31st, will receive a signing of $1000. To receive this bonus, apply today and schedule an interview!
- 8-hour ongoing consistent shifts in one location (no driving from place to place)
- Work 1:1 with the patient in their home
- Flexible hours - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift
- Full-time, part-time, and per diem opportunities available
- Medical & dental
- Paid Time Off
- BJ's/Costco Membership
- AAA Membership
- Wellness Reimbursement Program for gym, yoga, meditation, WeightWatchers, or Noom
Allumé is looking for a dedicated nurse who seeks the chance to better someone else's life and provide relief to families. Allumé is dedicated to providing Remarkable Care™ by providing nursing care that impacts others in a positive way.
We are looking for someone who is interested in learning the specialty of complex, continuous care, an in-demand and growing area of expertise.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone that would like to be a part of a committed care team where your voice is valued and appreciated. Someone who wants to deliver care the "right" way with a team committed to high standards.
- Excellent compensation package
- Shadowing and mentoring program
- Performance-based bonuses
- Opportunities to grow and advance your career
- Regular & flexible hours
The Mission of the Allumé Shift Nurse is to provide hands-on Remarkable Care™ for a medically fragile child or adult and enhance their quality of life through in-home shift nursing.
Immediate Goals
1. Complete the Allumé shadowing and mentoring program during the first 90 days of employment, enabling you to feel successful in your job
2. Learn to document using our electronic medical records system and to utilize good documentation to communicate with your team Work together with a nurse mentor to support you in developing a career growth plan
3. Participate in a committed care team for 1-2 medically fragile patients and learn the clinical skills needed to care for their specific needs
4. Demonstrate the ability to handle emergent situations that may arise with medically fragile patients in the field
5. Identify ways to improve and maintain the wellness and well-being of your patients by contributing to their Curated Care Plan - a plan of care specifically designed for their needs (that goes beyond the medical)
Primary Functions:
- Complex Nursing Care - Nursing care for medically fragile children and adults who may require the following interventions: tracheostomies, ventilators, g/j-tubes, respiratory vest treatments, nebulizers, catheters, etc.
- Shift Nursing - Provides visits or shifts (typically 8-hours) for clients as directed by the RN Case Manager and articulated in the physician-ordered Plan of Care.
- Timely Communication. Communicates information on a timely basis. Communicates verbally, as needed, and through complete and accurate documentation in the clinical record.
- Change in Condition. Communicates appropriate status/condition changes to the RN Case Manager per agency guidelines.
- Clinical Documentation. Completes clinical documentation within 24-hours of shift.
- Reporting. Ensure safe continuity of care by communicating clearly to the next nurse or caregiver of the patient status, stats, activity, behaviors, etc.
- Safety Measures. Recognizes and responds appropriately to potentially unsafe situations. Demonstrates safe practice in the use of equipment. Makes recommendations on improvement of safety.
- Emergency Preparedness. Participate in regular planning and activities to ensure patient safety during any type of emergency.
- Curated Care. Works together with the RN Case Manager to develop the 10 Step Curated Care Plan, incorporating the 6 levels of need.
- IDT Meetings. Participates in regular Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Meetings for each patient you serve.
- Weekly Check-Ins. Receive support from your mentor of RN Case Manager every week.
- Monthly Mentoring. Meets at least month with Mentor or RN Case Manager to receive support and develop clinically and professionally
- Patient-Specific Skills Training. Participates in all necessary training specific to each patient to ensure competence and safety, including trachs, vents, g/j-tubes, nebulizers, etc.
- Monthly Training. Participates in a minimum of one hour of Allumé in-services training monthly
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse in the state of Connecticut.
- Minimum of one (1) year experience in an acute care setting or equivalent experience.
- CPR certified.
- Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Licensed driver with an insured automobile.
- Good driving record.
Cultural Fit
Remarkable Care.
- Overtly demonstrates one cares about the company, employees, patients, and the larger community.
- Going above and beyond what is expected in everything done, large or small. Noticeably does things above the rest. Elevated excellence.
- Earns trust and maintains confidence. Does what is right, not just what is politically expedient. Speaks plainly and truthfully.
- Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of best.
- On Time. With appointments, phone calls, patient visits, documentation, deliverables, and projects – able to be on time.
- Attendance. Impeccable attendance. Rarely ever calls out, is never late, and always is where needed when needed.
- Teamwork. Reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working environment.
- Enthusiasm. Exhibits passion and excitement over work. Has can-do attitude.
- Attention to Detail. Does not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project.
- Teachable. Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information.
- Flexibility / Adaptability. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
- Communication. Speaks and writes clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative. Maintains this standard in all forms of written communication, including email.
- Calm Under Pressure. Maintains stable performance when under heavy pressure or stress.
- Work Ethic. Possesses strong willingness to work hard and sometimes long hours to get the job done. Has a track record of working hard.
- Relationship Building. Capable and interested in building meaningful, successful relationships with co-workers, patients, family, and extended community.
About Us:
Allumé Home Care surrounds patients, families, employees, and communities with Remarkable Care™. We are a Connecticut licensed home health agency serving Western Connecticut with skilled medical services 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Allumé specializes in continuous, long-term care of children and adults with complex, high-tech needs.
Our mission is to gather, nurture, develop, and match people who love caring for others, with families who need them.
Our core purpose is to surround patients, families, employees, and our community with Remarkable Care. This means doing things Right. Different. Making a difference.
Allumé is an equal opportunity employer. We employ the most qualified individuals for all positions within the organization and will provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, age, handicap, sexual orientation, marital status, or veteran status. Allumé is committed to maintaining compliance with state and federal laws and regulations regarding non-discrimination.


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Big Week For UFO Stories
Driving back home from Valparaiso, Indiana last night, I caught Richard "Face On Mars" Hoagland on Coast To Coast. He's always good for a chuckle (Apollo crews recovered a severed C3PO-like robot head on the Moon and have spent the last 40 years trying to communicate with it. That kind of stuff.)
But it did come out in the course of the talk that three UFO stories hit the mainstream news last week, and not just college kids spotting glowing objects shaped like blunts over their dorms. These involved things at a slightly higher level. And Hoagland is convinced they all point to a struggle in the closed rooms of government over whether to finally admit to the public that Earth has been visited by aliens, and the slave ships are on their way.
On September 21st, Guy Consolmagno, a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican observatory, told the Guardian newspaper that he would happily baptize an alien, "no matter how many tentacles it has."
From Pope's Astronomer Would Baptize Aliens:
Though he concedes the odds of finding and communicating with other intelligent life is essentially zero, Consolmagno would welcome the event. "Any entity -- no matter how many tentacles it has -- has a soul," he said. Asked whether or not he'd baptize an alien, Consolmagno replied: "Only if they asked."
A financial scandal at the Vatican's bank also erupted last week, and Hoagland naturally sees some sort of connection between the two. A juicy scandal would effectively shove this "important" leak about the Vatican admitting there are aliens to the back page.
Next up was an announcement that the United Nations has named 58-year-old astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, the current head of the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), as an envoy for any future extraterrestrial contacts.
From UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens:
The United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth's first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.
Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society's Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before - and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity's response to any "first contact".
During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: "The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.
"When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination."
Professor Richard Crowther, an expert in space law and governance at the UK Space Agency and who leads British delegations to the UN on such matters, said: "Othman is absolutely the nearest thing we have to a 'take me to your leader' person."
Then on September 23rd, the National Press Club hosted a presentation by retired air force personnel who made the claim that UFOs have been neutralizing US nuclear missile sites for decades.
From Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes, Worry Ex-Air Force Officers:
Captain Robert Salas was on duty in Montana in 1967 when a UFO shut down the nuclear missiles on his base. And he's hardly the only one to make such a claim.
On Monday, six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about similar events at the National Press Club, all centering around unidentified flying objects and nuclear missiles. They plan to urge the government to publicly confirm the incidents, stating that they were ordered never to discuss the events.
"We're talking about unidentified flying objects, as simple as that," Salas told FoxNews.com. "They're often known as UFOs, you could call them that," he added. Salas, a former U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch officer, will host the event along with researcher Robert Hastings, author of "UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.
According to the pair, witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby.
Then there's the news that the SETI program has been shut down (no, it hasn't - most of it is privately funded) and that giant "ark ships" are headed towards Earth right now! According to Pat Parrinello at Bombshock,
At the present time the object(s) are beyond the orbit of Pluto. It is estimated that the objects are in the neighborhood of 150 miles across by 30 to 50 miles wide. Not long ago a Russian Mars probe photographed an object fitting this description just before it was destroyed for unknown reasons. Later, an American Mars probe was destroyed just before it reached that planet.
The people that were associated with SETI are in a unanimous opinion that, yes, we are not alone in the universe. A few of those people are now continuing SETI with private funding. However, reports indicate that some antenna sites have been taken over by government and those antennas in particular are heavily guarded.
It is reported that the US Navy in conjunction with the NSA are attempting to keep the public unaware of what is going on. A few people who are in the know are concerned that the Navy, as a first line of defense may be attempting to convert the antennas for military purposes. It is a fact that some frequencies in the microwave band have been known to affect UFO's and destabilize their propulsion systems. It stands to reason that such measures may be true in light of Ronald Reagan's statements about the need for the star wars program and his inference that we may soon have to face something from "out there!"
Finally, a so-called "Goldilocks Planet" has been detected ("This one is juuuuuust right!") that might be able to sustain life. From the AP story Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life?:
It is about three times the mass of Earth, slightly larger in width and much closer to its star - 14 million miles away versus 93 million. It's so close to its version of the sun that it orbits every 37 days. And it doesn't rotate much, so one side is almost always bright, the other dark.
Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between - in the land of constant sunrise - it would be "shirt-sleeve weather," said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
It's unknown whether water actually exists on the planet, and what kind of atmosphere it has. But because conditions are ideal for liquid water, and because there always seems to be life on Earth where there is water, Vogt believes "that chances for life on this planet are 100 percent."
The astronomers' findings are being published in Astrophysical Journal and were announced by the National Science Foundation on Wednesday.
The planet circles a star called Gliese 581. It's about 120 trillion miles away, so it would take several generations for a spaceship to get there. It may seem like a long distance, but in the scheme of the vast universe, this planet is "like right in our face, right next door to us," Vogt said in an interview.
Not exactly a vacation spot. And in spite of zero evidence of any kind of thing even remotely qualifying as "life" being discovered on any other spinning rock in the universe apart from our own, co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz made the somewhat remarkable remark, "It's pretty hard to stop life once you give it the right conditions."
Or the imagination, for that matter.


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Katie Allen K-State Research and Extension
MANHATTAN - High daily temperatures at 20 and 30 degrees confirm the arrival of winter. A week or more of cold temperatures, particularly below freezing, can take a toll on the cow herd. A bodily response to cold stress in cattle is an increase in dry matter intake, said Dale Blasi, professor and beef cattle extension specialist for Kansas State University.
Blasi recommends that cattle producers, if they haven't already, make a list of the forages they have available for the winter months, know the quality of those forages, take a look at the body condition and hair coat condition of each cow, and prepare for winter winds by providing shelters or windbreaks for the herd.
Forage testing can help determine the quality of the forages producers have on hand, Blasi said. During a string of days with sub-freezing temperatures, the higher quality forages should be used to increase the herd's caloric intake, but producers should keep in mind that, depending on the harshness of winter, increased animal requirements might continue well into spring.
"Especially with those spring-calving cows, they are starting to enter into their third phase of gestation," Blasi said. "We have to make sure we keep those pregnancies as healthy as possible."
If producers are feeding a co-product such as distillers dried grain, Blasi said, they would provide some additional protein and fat to the cows. Providing more corn to the herd is fine to a certain level.
"You get too much corn into the diet, you start to impact the rumen's ecosystem, and you start to hurt the fiber digesting capability of the lower-quality forages being consumed," Blasi said. "My recommendation is not more than a half of a percent of the animal's weight. So, a 1,000-lb. cow you would not feed more than 5 lbs. (of additional corn). Make sure there is adequate protein coming elsewhere so you're not driving a protein-limiting ecosystem."
Body condition and hair coat
Assessing the body condition and hair coat for each cow in the herd can help producers determine how much more energy requirements are needed in the winter months. According to a K-State Research and Extension publication (http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/bookstore/pubs/C842.pdf), body condition scores are numbers used to suggest the relative fatness or body condition of the beef cow. The score system ranges from 1 to 9, with 1 representing a very thin cow and 9 representing an extremely fat cow.
If a cow currently has a body condition score of less than 5, Blasi said, she might be at a health risk for the winter. Furthermore, her low body condition might compromise the health of the calf she is carrying. The effects from a hard winter on that cow could last into the spring, as she might lack in the quality of her first milk for the calf and the ability to breed back in a timely manner.
Blasi recommends that producers separate the herd by body condition scores, so the cows with less flesh can be supplemented with more nutrients. Also, younger and likely smaller females should be watched closely.
"We are hopefully going through a herd rebuilding now, and a lot of folks have some optimism for the future," Blasi said. "If at all possible, split the herd up by the age and also the body condition. Monitor, evaluate and be mindful that you can slip a lot of body condition over periods of time when it is wet, windy and cold."
All cows should have a winter coat by now, Blasi said, but when cows are wet from snow or cold rain, their coats become matted and their insulation breaks down.
Prior research at Kansas State (http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/bookstore/pubs/MF2673.pdf) showed that the critical temperature for a cow with a summer coat or wet coat is 60 degrees Fahrenheit (60 F). It is 45 F for cows with a fall coat, 32 F for those with a winter coat and 19 F for those with a heavy winter coat.
Be strategic
Wind chill, based on temperature and wind speed, can make cattle even more compromised, Blasi said. With temperatures at freezing and winds at more than 10 mph, cows could need a 15 to 20 percent increase in forage requirements.
"The amount of hair will help those females combat the impact of wind chill," Blasi said. "But, as she starts to shiver, an increase in maintenance requirements ensue."
While many producers have turned their cows out on grazing stocks-sorghum and corn-they have to keep in mind that many of those crop fields don't have places for the cows to keep out of the cold wind. Blasi said that a windbreak can provide up to a 70 percent reduction in wind velocity and can change the wind chill from -5 F to 7 F, a 12-degree swing.
"Any kind of shelter is a tremendous step forward for helping them withstand and coast over these inclement weather events," Blasi said.
If cows are grazing stocks, producers might consider supplementing those stocks on extremely cold days, Blasi said. Producers might also want to strategize when they feed hay and any supplements.
"A well-known phenomenon with feeding pregnant beef cows is that feeding them in the afternoon and evening hours has a corresponding effect on calving in daylight hours," Blasi said. "Obviously, when we're expecting babies coming, it's nice to be there if the cows should need help. Feeding in the evening also increases the heat of fermentation for the cow as we see these nighttime lows."
K-State Research and Extension's Beef Cow Nutrition Guide (http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/bookstore/pubs/C735.pdf) includes more information about winter cow diets and supplements producers can consider for use.
Cow Herd Nutritional Adjustments for Winter
Katie Allen K-State Research and Extension


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Steven Tyler apologizes to Nicki Minaj for 'cornfield' comment, which almost certainly wasn't racist
Not only is Nicki Minaj starting trouble with the American Idol judges sitting next to her, but she has also started beef with people who are no longer with the show.
Last week, Aerosmith frontman, former Idol judge, and scarf industry propper-upper Tyler gave Minaj—and the rest of her Idol cohorts—what for during a conversation with MTV News. "I know that they've got something going on on the judges' panel, [and] it shouldn't be that, it should be just the opposite: They should have something going on, which is called camaraderie," he said.
"They should have something going on so thick and beautiful that they can lay it over the new talent that's trying to birth itself. It needs to be birthed, not judged by 'entertainment' factors, it needs to be judged by people that [are] honest, true, that have the 'it' factor. Not the 'it' factor because they can fight. The f— is that all about?"
Tyler took particular umbrage with Minaj's approach, saying, "These kids, they just got out of a car from the Midwest somewhere and they're in New York City, they're scared to death; you're not going to get the best. If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield! Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out, as we did with Phillip Phillips. Just saying."
Obviously, Tyler was continuing his "Midwest" riff when bringing up the idea of a "cornfield." But Minaj didn't see it that way:"LOL lets make him a shirt that says 'No Coloreds Allowed' then escort him down 2 Barbara Walters so he can tell how he was threatened w/guns," she tweeted, conflating two of her most recent beefs with old people into a single message.
For his part, Tyler responded today during an appearance on a Canadian talk show. "I apologize if it was taken wrong, Nicki. But I am the farthest thing from [being a racist] … I am the last thing on this planet as far as being a racist," he said. "I don't know where she got that out of me saying I'm not sure how she would have judged Bob Dylan."
So now that they both have this non-controversy behind them, they can focus on trying to give mouth-to-mouth to their most recent albums: Nicki's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded — The Re-Up sold a mere 36,000 copies out of the gate last week, and Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension! shifted 31,000 units in its third week out.
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Calendar: Inside|Out Community Weekend
Event Description
Residents in Biscayne Park, Opa-Locka, Overtown, North Miami Beach and Surfside receive free admission to Pérez Art Museum Miami for free during our PAMM Inside|Out Community Weekend.
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Inside|Out Community Weekend Celebration
September 16, 1–4pm
Celebrate the close of PAMM Inside|Out's second year with live music by OIGO, art-making on the terrace, and giveaways. Explore the galleries and enjoy a focused tour of some of the Inside|Out works in the museum's permanent collection.
Inside|Out is a program generously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that brings high-quality reproductions of works from PAMM's permanent collection to communities throughout Miami-Dade county.
The following zip codes receive free admission to PAMM with proof of residence. Check in with Visitor Services desk to gain entry.
Biscayne Park: 33161
Opa-Locka: 33054, 33167
Overtown: 33136, 33128
North Miami Beach: 33162, 33160, 33179, 33169, 33181
Surfside: 33154
- PAMM is directly adjacent to the Miami-Dade Metromover, Museum Park station. Take the Omni Loop train to Museum Park station, and arrive steps from the museum entrance.
- Limited on-site parking available; rates apply.
- Self-parking at the Omni garage located at 1645 Biscayne Blvd (rates apply).