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Vanvitelli è considerato uno dei maggiori interpreti del periodo del Rococò e del Neoclassicismo. Eseguì un cospicuo numero di opere che ancor oggi caratterizzano il paesaggio di varie città italiane: a Caserta la scenografica Reggia, alla quale il suo nome è tuttora indissolubilmente legato, e l'imponente acquedotto Carolino; ad Ancona il grande Lazzaretto, su un'isola artificiale pentagonale da lui realizzata, e la chiesa del Gesù; a Napoli il Foro Carolino, il palazzo Doria d'Angri, il Palazzo Calabritto e La casina Vanvitelliana nella vicina Bacoli; a Roma il difficile restauro della Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Si affermò in seguito alla partecipazione ai concorsi per la Fontana di Trevi e per la facciata di San Giovanni in Laterano: i suoi progetti, pur non risultando vincitori, furono molto apprezzati e ne rivelarono l'estro artistico. Assurto a notorietà, fu molto attivo in centro Italia, in particolare ad Ancona e a Roma, per poi essere assunto al servizio di Carlo di Borbone per il quale realizzò, a partire dal 1752, la Reggia di Caserta. Nel 2016 gli è stata intitolata la Seconda università degli studi Napoli, divenuta Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli".e la scuola primaria "Luigi Vanvitelli" a Napoli

Biografia

Origini e formazione
Nacque il 12 maggio 1700 a Napoli, da madre napoletana, Anna Lorenzani e da padre olandese, il pittore Caspar van Wittel, che si era trasferito per lavorare nel cantiere del palazzo Reale, su invito del viceré Luigi Francesco de la Cerda, duca di Medinaceli; fu proprio in onore del viceré che al fanciullo venne imposto il nome di Luigi.

Pochi anni dopo la nascita del figlio, Caspar decise di trasferirsi a Roma, portando Luigi e la moglie Anna Lorenzani con sé. L'iniziale formazione di Vanvitelli avvenne, nell'ambito artistico capitolino, sotto la guida del padre, che non di rado gli passava i propri album da disegno, invogliandolo a continuare, e del nonno materno Andrea Lorenzani; intanto, Vanvitelli poté costruire anche la propria cultura figurativa, sostanziata da un erudito classicismo derivato dal contatto diretto con gli antichi monumenti della città eterna.

Il precoce e versatile talento del Vanvitelli, tuttavia, venne nel 1715 definitivamente indirizzato verso l'architettura dall'architetto siciliano Filippo Juvarra, impegnato in quei mesi nella progettazione della Sagrestia Vaticana. Come testimoniato dallo scrittore Lione Pascoli, quando lo Juvarra esaminò alcuni disegni eseguiti dal Vanvitelli, rimase meravigliato dalle sue eccezionali doti grafiche: «glieli lodò assaissimo, e mostrò di meravigliarsi, che in giovanile età oprasse da provetto. L'esortò a perseverare ne' cominciati studi dicendoli che miglior fortuna fatta avrebbe in questi, che in quelli della pittura, perché molti erano i pittori che allora con fama esercitavano l'arte, e rari gli architetti». Fu grazie a queste lodi che Vanvitelli manifestò una sincera inclinazione all'architettura, che iniziò a studiare proprio sotto la guida dello Juvarra, del quale si sentiva un discepolo; proseguì i suoi studi da autodidatta, studiando i testi di Vitruvio e dei trattatisti del Cinquecento.

Il rapporto tra Luigi e il padre si trasformava intanto da un discepolato a una fattiva collaborazione: Vanvitelli, infatti, accompagnava papà Caspar nel lavoro e lo assisteva nell'esercizio della pittura, aiutandolo a disegnare e a colorare. Da lui Vanvitelli derivò una salda nitidezza di tecnica e uno stile fatto di ampi spazi pieni di luce, che avrebbe poi applicato molto spesso nelle sue realizzazioni architettoniche. Nelle vedute di Caspar van Wittel gli elementi architettonici e strutturali si impongono sulle figure, quasi come se le architetture stesse facessero parte del paesaggio naturale; questa contrapposizione tra il paesaggio ideale e la veduta reale è l'insegnamento più valido impartito da papà Caspar al figlio apprendista architetto. Accanto all'architettura, comunque, Vanvitelli si applicò anche alla scenografia (precisamente a Roma, al teatro della Pace a al Capranica) e alla pittura, conseguendo risultati mediocri: sue realizzazioni pittoriche, in ogni caso, sono la decorazione absidale della chiesa del Suffragio, a Viterbo, con Daniele nella fossa dei leoni, a Roma gli affreschi e la pala dell'altare delle Reliquie nella chiesa di Santa Cecilia e alcuni dipinti nella chiesa di San Bartolomeo dei Bergamaschi.

Dopo i primi passi come scenografo e pittore, in ogni caso, Vanvitelli nel 1726 fu nominato aiuto architetto di G. Antonio Valerio a San Pietro, affacciandosi nell'affollata scena architettonica romana: con questa carica l'apprendista architetto acquistò sempre maggiore prestigio nel mondo culturale capitolino, e la sua figura pubblica coincise definitivamente con quella di un uomo raffinato e brillante. In questo contesto si inserì l'ingresso nell'Accademia dell'Arcadia nel 1728, con l'evocativo nome pastorale di Cleante Fidiaco, poi mutato intorno al 1764 in Archimede Fidiaco. Vanvitelli, tuttavia, era alieno al mestiere della scrittura, e fu con rammarico che dovette comporre un «sonettaccio ridicolo» (come ebbe a definirlo egli stesso) poi pubblicato nel 1764 in una raccolta di poemi arcadi; ben più congeniale ai suoi interessi fu invece l'ammissione all'Accademia di San Luca nel 1733.

Le prime opere

Il primo concreto approccio del Vanvitelli all'architettura risale al 1728, quando gli venne commissionato in Urbino il restauro del palazzo Albani, ovvero del palazzo di famiglia del Papa Clemente XI; nella chiesa di San Francesco, sempre ad Urbino, inserì analogamente la cappella Albani, ove utilizzò un sarcofago paleocristiano con un bassorilievo del Buon Pastore. Questi interventi riscossero un'accoglienza assai calorosa, che gli valse la nomina della Reverenda camera apostolica e l'incarico di realizzare l'acquedotto del Vermicino, iniziato sotto Benedetto XIII, e completato durante il pontificato di Clemente XII nel 1731 con la collaborazione del coetaneo e amico Nicola Salvi.
A completamento dell'opera, realizzò la Fontana di Vermicino (1731), situata all'angolo tra Via della Mola Cavona e Via Tuscolana Vecchia, nella parte della località di Vermicino situata nel Comune di Frascati.

Gli viene inoltre attribuito probabilisticamente il disegno per la ristrutturazione della Fontana Bella o di Porta Furba, situata a Roma all'incrocio tra Via del Mandrione e Via Tuscolana, oggi conosciuta come fontana di Clemente XII, realizzata nel 1733.

Nel 1732 Vanvitelli partecipò ai due concorsi banditi dalla corte pontificia: l'uno riguardava l'esecuzione della fontana di Trevi, che fu vinto dal Salvi, mentre l'altro concerneva la realizzazione della facciata della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, aggiudicata fra accese polemiche ad Alessandro Galilei.

Pur non avendo vinto i due concorsi, Vanvitelli ebbe modo di farsi notare, giacché i suoi progetti furono giudicati assai favorevolmente dagli esaminatori.

Ad Ancona e Loreto

Dopo i concorsi romani, il nome di Vanvitelli era divenuto conosciuto e apprezzato; l'architetto si vide così commissionare, direttamente da papa Clemente XII, il suo primo incarico di rilievo: si trattava della sistemazione e dell'ampliamento del porto di Ancona, così da renderlo adatto a svolgere la funzione di scalo romano verso Oriente.

Nell'ambito dei progetti anconetani, si ricorda soprattutto il Lazzaretto, costruito su una grande isola artificiale a forma di pentagono: i lavori, sebbene iniziati subito nel 1734, si protrassero per lungo tempo, specialmente a causa di problematiche di natura politica. Oltre al Lazzaretto, ad Ancona Vanvitelli realizzò anche il Molo Nuovo, la Porta Clementina e la Chiesa del Gesù, che con la sua facciata concava e alta sul mare, riassume la curvatura dell'intero arco portuale.

Nel corso dei lavori anconitani, Vanvitelli fu costretto ad andare avanti e indietro dalle Marche a Roma con una certa continuità e regolarità, a causa della salute declinante del padre Caspar che, nel tentativo estremo di togliersi una cataratta, aveva perso la vista di un occhio. Il tracollo fisico seguì a breve, e Caspar van Wittel morì il 13 settembre 1736, all'età di ottantasei anni; tre mesi dopo fu seguito dalla moglie Anna, scomparsa il 16 dicembre.

Poco dopo queste vicissitudini familiari, Vanvitelli si sposò con Olimpia Starich, figlia di un contabile della fabbrica di San Pietro: il matrimonio, che si rivelerà molto felice e sarà coronato dalla nascita di otto figli, fu celebrato nel 1737. Sebbene allietati dall'affettuosità della consorte, tuttavia, questi non furono anni felici per Vanvitelli: la sistemazione del porto anconitano, infatti, fu accompagnata da costanti polemiche, sicché i lavori, alquanto avanzati, vennero sospesi nel 1740, dopo la morte del suo mecenate Clemente XII.

I progetti anconetani furono ripresi solo nel 1754, quando erano già quasi completati il lazzaretto, la Porta Clementina, la chiesa del Gesù ed era stato impostato nelle sue linee generali il molo nuovo; la prevista lanterna del porto, però, non era stata ancora iniziata. La direzione dei lavori della lanterna fu però affidata a Carlo Marchionni; Vanvitelli fu profondamente amareggiato dall'inattesa notizia di non poter proseguire l'esecuzione dell'opera, anche se Marchionni portò tutto a compimento secondo i suoi disegni, modificando solo le forme della lanterna.

In occasione dei lavori portuali, vennero commissionate a Vanvitelli anche altre opere nella città dorica: la cappella delle reliquie del Duomo di San Ciriaco, il Palazzo Bourbon del Monte (oggi Palazzo Jona-Millo) e il rifacimento della Chiesa di Sant'Agostino.

Inoltre, grazie alla testimonianza dei biografi, sappiamo che Vanvitelli operò in altre città delle Marche, oltre che ad Ancona: l'architetto, infatti, compì brevi viaggi a Macerata, ove lavorò alla basilica di Santa Maria della Misericordia, a Loreto, dove completò il loggiato del bramantesco palazzo Apostolico e il campanile della Basilica della Santa Casa (il campanile più alto delle Marche) e anche a Pesaro, ove fu autore della Chiesa della Maddalena.

Il periodo romano

Gli esiti della febbrile attività architettonica del Vanvitelli riguardarono anche l'Umbria, dove si recò per progettare la chiesa e il convento degli Olivetani a Perugia e per restaurare l'antica cattedrale romanica di Foligno, e la città toscana di Siena, ove fu impegnato nella progettazione della chiesa di Sant'Agostino. Non mancò, tuttavia, di recarsi a Roma, dove continuò a tenere la residenza in ragione della carica di architetto della Fabbrica di San Pietro, assunta intorno al 1735. Essendosi occupato in precedenza dell'acquedotto di Vermicino, Vanvitelli fu incaricato, nel 1741, del restauro della villa Tuscolana dei Gesuiti a Frascati, detta «Rufinella» dal nome dell'ex possessore Alessandro Ruffini; nel 1743, eresse presso il porto di Civitavecchia, alla Calata della Rocca, la fontana del Porto, che fu detta poi Fontana del Vanvitelli.

Uno dei problemi più impegnativi che interessarono il Vanvitelli a Roma fu, nel 1742, il consolidamento della cupola di San Pietro, che sin dal momento della sua costruzione (iniziata da Michelangelo Buonarroti nel 1546) aveva destato forti preoccupazioni. Per risolvere le gravi deficienze statiche della cupola Vanvitelli nel 20 settembre 1742 pubblicò un'accurata relazione ove suggerì di rinforzarla con dei cerchioni di ferro; inizialmente la proposta non riscosse i consensi di Benedetto XIV, assai scettico in quanto questa soluzione avrebbe alterato notevolmente la plastica del monumento. Il progressivo acuirsi delle polemiche, alimentata specialmente da Ferdinando Fuga, spinse il pontefice ad avvalersi della consulenza del matematico padovano Giovanni Poleni, che tuttavia preferì la proposta del Vanvitelli, lodando apertamente l'interesse tecnico della soluzione da lui suggerita. Pertanto, i cerchioni - sei in tutto - vennero fissati alla Cupola fra il 1743 e il 1748, in un totale di cinque anni di lavoro.

Negli stessi anni al Vanvitelli furono affidate la realizzazione della Cappella di San Giovanni Battista nella chiesa lisbonese di San Rocco e, a Roma, la costruzione del convento degli Agostiniani. Sempre nell'Urbe, nel 1748, il Vanvitelli fu impegnato nel restauro della basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri; nonostante ogni accorgimento, l'intervento vanvitelliano - che si occupò di decorare il sobrio interno michelangiolesco nello stile dell'epoca - suscitò ulteriori acerbe polemiche, mosse soprattutto dal monsignor Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, assertore del Fuga che era suo conterraneo.

Alla corte dei Borbone e la Reggia a Caserta

Il 1751 costituisce un punto di svolta per Vanvitelli, che in quell'anno inaugurò uno dei periodi più fecondi e laboriosi della sua esistenza. Carlo di Borbone, infatti, intendeva costruire una nuova residenza reale che emulasse Versailles nei pressi del borgo medievale di Casertavecchia. La scelta di questo territorio, nel cuore della pianura di Terra di Lavoro, fu dettata dalla volontà di offrire al governo napoletano un luogo salubre, fertile, valorizzabile dal punto di vista socio-economico e strategicamente sicuro, in quanto lontano dal mare e dalle attacchi che da questo potevano venire. Dopo aver bocciato il progetto di Mario Gioffredo, anacronistico e privo di qualità estetiche, Carlo di Borbone pensò di affidare l'esecuzione del palazzo a Nicola Salvi; le precarie condizioni di salute di quest'ultimo, tuttavia, fecero indietreggiare il sovrano dal primitivo proposito e lo spinsero ad affidare l'incarico nel gennaio 1751 proprio al Vanvitelli.

Vanvitelli fu ben felice di accettare l'invito di Carlo di Borbone; l'architetto raggiunse rapidamente Napoli ed effettuò un sopralluogo a Caserta, per poi avviare in brevissimo tempo la progettazione del palazzo commissionatogli. Dopo un breve ritorno in centro Italia, dove erano in corso diversi lavori, Vanvitelli ultimò finalmente i disegni definitivi e li presentò ai Sovrani, che furono subito infiammati dall'entusiasmo. Maria Amalia di Sassonia, moglie di Carlo, non si stancava mai di osservare, di chiedere, di guardare, e alla fine richiese espressamente a Vanvitelli l'elaborazione di un «disegno per la Città di Caserta e le strade, perché chi vi averà da fabricare vi fabrichi con buona direzione, né più alto né più basso, ma tutto con ordine».

Prima di iniziare la costruzione del complesso, Vanvitelli concordò con Carlo di Borbone la stampa di un vasto programma iconografico di comunicazione, così da mostrare a tutte le corti europee la grandiosità del sovrano di Napoli; frattanto, Vanvitelli prese alloggio a Caserta nel Palazzo dell'Intendente, presso il Boschetto. In poco più di un mese venne organizzato il cantiere della Reggia, e la posa della prima pietra venne celebrata in una solenne cerimonia tenutasi il 20 gennaio 1752, giorno genetliaco del Re; sulla pietra Vanvitelli fece incidere un distico elegiaco in latino, scritto dall'amico Porzio Lionardi, per alludere - ricorrendo a un adynaton - alla perpetuità che si voleva augurare alla reggia e alla stirpe borbonica. Esso recita:

Pochi giorni dopo l'inaugurazione del cantiere Vanvitelli iniziò un lungo e laborioso lavoro di ricerca delle sorgenti, così da garantire il funzionamento dei giochi d'acqua delle Reali Delizie e l'approvvigionamento idrico dell'intero complesso: alla ricerca delle sorgenti anticamente utilizzate dall'acquedotto romano dell'Acqua Giulia, l'architetto si spinse lontano da Caserta, sino a giungere nell'ubertosa valle Caudina, ove trovò le sorgenti del Fizzo, alle falde del monte Taburno.

Il cantiere della Reggia, nel frattempo, era diventato enorme: vi lavoravano infatti circa tremila persone, tra muratori, falegnami, fabbri, scalpellini, manovali, galeotti e schiavi musulmani, che per edificare il complesso si servivano anche della forza animale, impiegando cavalli, buoi, persino qualche cammello. Vanvitelli, dal suo lato, doveva provvedere ai disegni, ai calcoli, alle livellazioni, agli scavi, alla scelta dei materiali edilizi, al parco, alle statue, agli artisti chiamati a decorare gli ambienti (appartamenti, teatro, cappella), e all'acquedotto, battezzato Carolino in onore al sovrano. Intanto, tra Vanvitelli e la corte iniziarono già a sorgere i primi dissapori, specialmente con il marchese Bernardo Tanucci, al quale l'architetto dovette addirittura inoltrare una supplica per ottenere il rifornimento di carbonella, regolarmente distribuito agli altri uffici per il riscaldamento invernale ma non al suo: Tanucci, che era anche segretario di Stato, nutriva una profonda avversione verso Vanvitelli.

La reggenza di Tanucci e il declino

In virtù del prestigio acquisito con la direzione della fabbrica borbonica, Vanvitelli ormai non sapeva più come rispondere alle commissioni che gli piovevano da tutte le parti. A Caserta restaurò il palazzo Acquaviva, costruì il palazzo per il marchese di Squillace e la Vaccheria di Aldifreda, ampliò il palazzo dell'intendente per fare spazio agli appartamenti dei principini, rifece la chiesa di Sant'Agostino e restaurò il contiguo convento delle monache, nonché la chiesa del Carmine; a Capua, invece, mise mano al restauro il convento delle monache del Ritiro e la Fortezza. A Napoli diresse la ristrutturazione della basilica della Santissima Annunziata Maggiore, la costruzione del Foro Carolino al largo del Mercatello (l'odierna piazza Dante), della caserma di Cavalleria Borbonica, della facciata e della sagrestia della chiesa di San Luigi di Palazzo (distrutta nella seconda guerra mondiale), della chiesa di San Marcellino, di quella della Rotonda (pure scomparsa), del palazzo Fondi, del palazzo Doria d'Angri a via Toledo, e infine il restauro del palazzo Reale, di villa Campolieto a Ercolano e del teatro San Carlo. Lavorò alacremente anche a Benevento (progetto del ponte sul Calore), Foggia (palazzo della Dogana) e Barletta (saline), non mancando di disegnare anche apparati per feste, scenografie, addirittura illustrazioni per libri. In particolare lo stesso Carlo di Borbone nel 1754 incaricò Vanvitelli di occuparsi dell'ammodernamento e dell'ampliamento delle Saline di Margherita di Savoia, avvenuto anche con la creazione di nuove zone salanti, come quella Regina, dedicata a Carolina d'Austria (oggi dismessa e sede di un quartiere cittadino) e l'apertura di una foce verso Torre Pietra; nello stesso anno disegnò la sacrestia di Santa Maria di Pozzano, nell'omonima basilica, a Castellammare di Stabia.

La morte senza eredi di Ferdinando VI, fratellastro di Carlo di Borbone, e il trasferimento di quest'ultimo presso la corte spagnola colsero Vanvitelli nel pieno del fervore del cantiere casertano. Il passaggio di Carlo al trono di Spagna si frantumò il sogno di Maria Amalia, che ambiva a costruire «con buona direzione» una nuova capitale intorno alla reggia, già abbozzata tra l'altro dal Vanvitelli nel progetto generale: la città sarebbe sorta negli anni a venire in maniera disordinata, senza seguire le disposizioni vanvitelliane. Il nuovo monarca borbonico, Ferdinando IV (soprannominato sarcasticamente dall'architetto O rre piccirillo), non era certamente all'altezza del predecessore e, a causa della vegliarda età e della salute cagionevole, non poteva prendere decisioni; di questo inadeguato sostegno della committenza regale se ne approfittò Bernardo Tanucci, che persisté nel suo atteggiamento ostile nei riguardi del Vanvitelli.

Con la reggenza di Tanucci, infatti, Vanvitelli si ritrovò ad affrontare anni bui. Fatta eccezione per l'abate Galiani, l'intera scena architettonica napoletana preferiva parteggiare per Ferdinando Fuga, il favorito di Tanucci, toscano come lui. Numerose, inoltre, furono le commesse che gli vennero sottratte, come nel caso della chiesa parrocchiale di Caserta, progetto caduto in mano al capo mastro Bernasconi che lo firmò a proprio nome; addirittura, quando il Vanvitelli si recò al ponte sul Calore a Benevento per un'ispezione, gli venne negato il compenso e gli venne perfino chiesto il fitto del carrozzino per il sopralluogo.

Gli ultimi anni e la morte
Vanvitelli, sfiduciato dalla lentezza della costruzione della «sua fabrica», dall'apparire dei primi problemi di salute e soprattutto dagli intrighi di corte, in questo periodo raramente si allontanò da Caserta, preferendo rimanere nella sua abitazione del quartiere della Santella, adiacente alla chiesetta di Sant'Elena. La sua, tuttavia, fu tutt'altro che una vecchiaia di ozi, tanto che anche nella tarda età fu preso da incombenze e impegni: nel 1769 fu infatti chiamato a Milano per il restauro del palazzo vicereale, commissione per la quale propose un'armonizzazione della facciata della fabbrica con il Duomo dirimpettaio e un riassetto urbanistico della zona circostante: il progetto, tuttavia, non piacque, e Vanvitelli tornò in Sud Italia lasciando l'incarico allo scolaro Giuseppe Piermarini, che lo aveva seguito nel viaggio.

Intanto, Vanvitelli ritornò ad occuparsi di scenografia, allestendo nel 1766 gli apparati effimeri per il matrimonio di Ferdinando IV con Maria Giuseppa, e, dopo la morte di questa, con Maria Carolina, celebrato nel 1768. Fu così che si concluse la laboriosa carriera di Vanvitelli: quest'ultimo, ormai stanco e afflitto, si ritirò definitivamente a Caserta, dove morì duramente provato nel fisico il 1º marzo 1773. Quasi dimenticato, fu sepolto nella chiesa di San Francesco di Paola, nelle immediate vicinanze della reggia di Caserta da lui progettata. Le iscrizioni funebri furono commissionate allo storico casertano Francesco Daniele.

Stile

L'eclettismo delle sue realizzazioni e la versatilità del suo estro creativo rendono Vanvitelli un architetto difficilmente inseribile entro i ristretti orizzonti di una definita corrente artistica: la produzione del Vanvitelli appare pertanto non priva di contraddizioni, tipiche del periodo di transizione fra barocco e neoclassicismo. Generalmente, si può affermare che il linguaggio vanvitelliano da una parte raccoglie l'eredità delle esperienze tardo-barocche, e dall'altra promuove le nuove soluzioni architettoniche offerte dal neoclassicismo; in ogni caso, continuano i dibattiti per inserire il Vanvitelli nella schematicità scandita dalla suddivisione in stili artistici. Lo storico dell'arte Corrado Maltese, ad esempio, è categorico nel definire l'opera vanvitelliana marcatamente barocca:

Alla tesi di Maltese si oppone Renato Bonelli, che al contrario riconduce Vanvitelli verso esiti neoclassici:

L'uomo Vanvitelli

Luigi Vanvitelli jr., nipote dell'artista, autore di una biografia dell'architetto (denominata, per l'appunto, Vita dell'architetto Luigi Vanvitelli), ci offre un ritratto caratteriale del Vanvitelli assai vivido:

Dalle testimonianze, inoltre, sappiamo che Vanvitelli non era un assiduo frequentatore della vita mondana napoletana; ciò malgrado, quando il lavoro glielo permetteva, amava recarsi a teatro, specialmente al San Carlo. Per allontanarsi dalle normali occupazioni e ricrearsi, inoltre, spesso il Vanvitelli giocava a lotto, inoltrando al fratello Urbano soldi e istruzioni ben precise sui numeri da scegliere, spesso in riferimento a episodi bizzarri avvenuti a Napoli, seguendo così i dettami dell'interpretazione cabalistica.

Ascendenza e discendenza
Di seguito viene riportato l'albero genealogico di Luigi Vanvitelli:

Come già riportato dall'albero genealogico, Vanvitelli da Olimpia Starich ebbe i seguenti figli:
 Carlo (1739 – Napoli, 1821), anch'egli architetto, proseguì la reggia di Caserta dopo la morte del padre e realizzò diverse architetture di pregio;
 Pietro, nato nel 1741, divenne architetto militare e seguì Carlo di Borbone quando si trasferì in Spagna;
 Gaspare, nato nel 1743, divenne magistrato e visse a Napoli;
 Tommaso, nato nel 1744, morì dopo un mese di vita;
 Francesco, nato nel 1745, seguì le orme del fratello Pietro;
 Anna Maria, nata nel 1747, morì all'età di cinque anni, l'11 febbraio 1752;
 Maria Cecilia, nata nel 1748, andò in sposa all'architetto Francesco Sabatini, allievo del padre;
 Maria Palmira, nata nel 1750, convolò a nozze nel 1767 con Giacomo Vetromile, avvocato e Cavaliere dell'Ordine Costantiniano.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Architettura del Settecento
 Architettura barocca
 Architettura neoclassica
 Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Sito istituzionale della Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri (Roma)
 Sito istituzionale della Basilica dell'Annunziata Maggiore (Napoli)
 Luigi Vanvitelli architetto, Baroque.it

Architetti barocchi
Architetti neoclassici
Accademici dell'Arcadia


I drink coffee in the mornings and usually switch to tea in the afternoon. At least when I'm in the office. When I'm home (whether it be a work from home day or simply a day off), I'll make a pot of coffee in the morning, and since I'm the only coffee drinker in the house, that's usually more than enough for me for the day. Most of the time. If the weather is cold, I'm likely to make a cup of tea or two for myself in the evening. I'll also opt for tea if I'm feeling under the weather.
The last couple of weeks my husband and I have been fighting off some kind of virus. One or the other of us will get some cold symptoms one day, and the other comes down with the same thing a day or two later. The symptoms never last more than a couple of days, and we seem to get better for several days… until it starts again. But it's not just us. A number of my friends and several co-workers have been talking of experiencing the same thing.
On my most recent work from home day I woke up with the sinus headache making a comeback, so as I was getting things started, I set up the coffee maker to make a pot of coffee. But there had been just enough left over in the pot to fill my favorite mug, so I also stuck that in the microwave. And because I was feeling as if I were coming down with something again, I also turned on the electric tea kettle, which gets hot enough to make tea before the coffee maker can finish a pot.
I zipped off over to the bathroom to grab my morning meds and came back to the kitchen to find that everything was dark and silent. It took me a moment to realize what had happened. I'd actually tripped the breaker! At our old place we had to be very careful about not having certain appliances running at the same time as others. The place had been built in the 1950s and the wiring just wasn't really up to a modern set of gadgets. So we had been very careful here, and had tested a few times to see if we had a similar problem. I was delighted that we could have the microwave and the dishwasher running at the same time without a breaker going.
But we had never had the microwave, coffee pot, and electric kettle all going at the same time, along with the under the cabinet lights that are on the same circuit.
I grabbed my coffee mug out of the microwave and sipped warmish coffee while the real coffee maker perked. And when it was done, I turned the kettle back on and made one cup of tea, because now I was craving tea. I know it's weird, but when I'm not feeling well there is something soothing about tea that coffee just doesn't deliver.
And because if was nicely raining and foggy outside, and I had a little time before I had to call into my first meeting, I went out on the veranda to drink the mug of tea. It was cool and breezy out there, so if I had lingered over the tea too long it would have gotten cold. As it was, it was barely above tepid by the time I reached the end of the mug and headed inside.
More than one friend had commented on my love of the veranda. I'm sure it seems very odd. There are so many things I liked about living in our old neighborhood, and I'd been happy living in that specific building for over 21 years. But it wasn't perfect. There were things we didn't have, such as a nice spot to sit outside if the weather was at all amenable. I mean, yeah, sometimes I would set up one of the camp chairs on the front lawn, but the lawn was just right next to the sidewalk, and we had a relatively busy neighborhood, so there were always people walking by and I always felt as if I was in a public space. It was always a little odd.
But I really like being able to hear the rain and the wind and the birds and the sound of the neighborhood. And opening windows gives you some of that… but also makes your heating bills really high. Having the veranda–being able to be outside but not have others walk by just a few feet away all the time is really nice. So I go out there a lot. Even now that the weather is getting cooler.
I have been using the temperature of the coffee or tea I take out with me to keep track of the time. Which is especially important if I take more writing out there with me, because it's easy to lose track, and then wonder why my feet are swelling up with pre-gout because they've gotten too cold.
So I need the coffee to wake me, the tea to sooth and focus me, and the rain to inspire me.
Does that make me high maintenance? Or just human?
We are the same, a 1920s house, and the kitchen breaker is the one that always goes. It happens most commonly when the microwave is on. I would have looked down upon reheating coffee in the microwave before I had children but now I do it all the time. Love your descriptions!


I love reading, and I can give you a few reasons why: I like the escape, it's entertaining and relaxing and educational all at the same time, I get to experience things I perhaps would never have a chance to do otherwise. There are loads of reasons, but none of them really get to the heart of the matter, the why of it or what that thing is that drives us to pick up a book, let go of ourselves, and vanish into someone else's life for a few hours. Is it really just a hobby, something we go back to again and again because it's familiar and pleasant? Or could it be something more?
Galileo once said that reading is a superhuman power. It's a way to connect with people you've never met, and writing allows you to talk to people who haven't even been born. George Orwell said that reading gives "our souls a chance to luxuriate", and Marcel Proust said, "there are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with our favourite book". Reading means something to everyone and that meaning varies from person to person, but researchers have shown that there is actually a scientific reason behind why we read. There is something in us that drives us to pick up that book.
One of the things that our brains like to do is visualise (they're actually very creative things, brains), and there is little better to aid visualisation that reading. Watching a film or TV series doesn't work in the same way, because the brain isn't required to work – or at least, not so much. The visualisation has already been done for you. Books, on the other hand, are an amalgamation of 26 letters and a bunch of punctuation marks. Granted, they are quite clever amalgamations and they certainly direct you, but ultimately, it's you and your brain that turns those letters into real, living images in your head. Reading triggers complex visualisations, and that makes your brain very happy indeed.
It gets even better than that. You know those times that you feel like you're really there, going along on that journey or visiting that place with the characters in a book? When everything is just so real that it takes your breath away and makes you forgot about your own existence entirely? That's because your brain experiences what you're reading in the same way that it experiences the real thing. Studies have shown that the parts of the brain that are stimulated when reading about something are the very same parts that are stimulated when experiencing it – so it doesn't just feel real, but for you, it is real.
The science doesn't stop there either. A Carnegie Mellon study showed that reading actually increases white matter in the language area of the brain – and it's this increase that leaves readers less likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's as they grow older. It keeps the brain sharp and fighting fit, and it means that reading really is brain food at its best. Psychologists at Washington University, moreover, discovered that reading helps people to develop empathy as it makes them more alert to the inner lives of others. This, they claim, can explain why introverts are so often bookworms too – not only are they experiencing the joys of reading but they are inadvertently developing their social skills at the same time.
So why do we read? Because we need to, that's why!
In other news, I did my first ever Facebook Live for Bookshop Bistro today. Why not pop along to the group and tell me what you think?


The Arctic fox is well adapted to live in the cold Arctic. In winter its thick, bushy coat turns white. This makes it very hard to see the fox. The prey is not able to spot the Arctic fox until it is too late.
Because of its thick coat, it is able to survive in freezing cold temperatures. Thick hair on the pads of their feet protect their feet from freezing and help them to walk on the ice. The Arctic fox can walk on ice without slipping. It uses ice floes to travel in search of food in the winter.
It can curl up in the snow and cover its nose and face with its bushy tail to keep warm. In the summer the fox will hide food in its den or under rocks. This is how it stores food for later use.
The Arctic fox is small (about the same weight as a cat) with short legs and short rounded furry ears. The bushy tail is about 30 cm. long. Its bushy fur coat makes it look much larger than it really is. Near the end of summer the grayish brown coat of the Arctic fox begins to grow thicker. The color of the fur turns gray and then white. The oily fur sheds water and helps to keep the fox dry. More..
Weight: They weigh from 6 to 10 pounds.
Color: Normally white in winter and brownish grey in summer.
The arctic fox has the warmest fur of any mamma, even warmer than the polar bear and arctic wolf.
Mating occurs in early March and early April. Gestation lasts 52 days. Litters average seven pups but may contain as many as 15 pups.
Northern and western Alaska and Canada Northern Canada south to northern Northwest Territories, northeast Alberta, northern Manitoba, northern Quebec, Russia, and Greenland; a few records indicate presence farther south.
Arctic fox feed primarily on small mammals, including lemmings and tundra voles. Fox denning near rocky cliffs along the seacoast often depend heavily on nesting seabirds such as auklets, puffins, and murres.
Can arctic fox be different colors?
Arctic fox can be either gray-blue or white. The blue coloration is not as common as the white. Young of each color may occur in the same litter. More..
i think it would be very hard for this animal to hunt and hide….
They are so cute! I love arctic foxes!
du u have any feature of a baby and adult arctic fox?


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Q: connectedness of two particular set of matrices I need to know whether the  $1)$ The set of all symmetric positive definite matrices are connected or not?
Well I guess, This set is convex set, Let $M$ be a symmetric positive definite so $X^TMX>0, X\in \mathbb{R}^n$, now for any two such matrix $A,B$, we have $X^T[tA+(1-t)B]X=tX^TAX+(1-t)X^TBX>0, t\in[0,1]$ Hence This set is path connected.

A: It's correct (you just have to specify you take $X\neq 0$).

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Under the guidance of academy manager Alex Meechan the scholars have improved dramatically since this time last season. This time last season it would have been about keeping the score down, but today it was about pushing for the win. Ossett Town have a great development program and produce very strong teams and this team was no exception. Avenue started off the brightest with possession being shared in what was a frantic first half. The second half started pretty much the same as the first had ended with a fast paced game. Avenue continued to create chances but just could not deliver the final blow. At the other end some great saves from Avenue keeper Alfie kept the score at 0-0. In the last 20 minutes some poor discipline and lapses of concentration cost Avenue the game. A stunning over head kick from a free kick gave Ossett the lead and then a catalogue of missed tackles let them in for the second. Overall a number of positives from the game with clear areas to work on. The next academy game is on Wednesday away at Middleton Leisure Centre with a 1:30 ko.


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P.E.I. host communities ready to show off their Canada Games spirit
January 26, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ·5 min read
Cyriah Richard is one of two goaltenders selected to play on the female hockey team for the 2023 Canada Games. (Brittany Spencer/CBC - image credit)
Cyriah Richard has a little note pinned to her wall. It's a promise she made to herself many years ago.
She's had it since she could first fit into skates, and it says: "I hope I will be in the Canada Games."
Today, it's a dream come true.
The Tignish 17-year-old will compete against the nation's top hockey talent next month when the Canada Winter Games begins on Prince Edward Island. Better yet, she's playing on home ice.
"I always dreamed of playing in the Canada Games. I cannot wait," Cyriah said.
Her mom, Tina, added: "Since she was about three she's said: 'I'm going to play in the Canada Games.' It was her goal."
Cyriah said she found out she would be one of the team's two goalies last October. Since then, she's been training hard, and got to carry the torch during the final leg of the relay through Tignish.
Brittany Spencer/CBC
After years of chasing that goal of one day making it to the Canada Games, finding out she now has the chance to play in her western P.E.I. hometown makes that dream even more special. Hosting events in smaller Island communities means more people will have the opportunity to be part of the games who might not otherwise, she said.
"Everyone comes to support you. I know there were a lot of people walking behind me when I was carrying the torch that came to watch my hockey games, but I also didn't know some people… [They] just did it because they love the sport."
She said her hope is to inspire other young athletes from small towns to go after their goals.
Submitted by Tina Richard
Cyriah's mom, Tina Richard, is also Tignish's recreation director. She said she remembers the excitement back in 1991 — the last time the winter games were held on P.E.I. — and watching athletes from across the country come to compete. She said the opportunity to host an event in her hometown is an even bigger thrill.
"It's exciting for everybody," Richard said. "We'll have people from two to 100 years old out here at this rink watching, because people from Tignish love hockey."
Tignish will be hosting one of the female hockey games, something Richard said is a perfect fit for the community.
"We have a lot of girls playing hockey and it would be nice to see other girls competing at that level, and know they could do it in a few years time and maybe it would be their turn to make it on the big stage."
'We're excited to have that level of competition'
Richard said hosting events will also be a boost for businesses within P.E.I.'s smaller communities during the off-season. She said accommodations in western P.E.I. have been booking up and restaurants are preparing for crowds.
Apart from P.E.I.'s two cities of Charlottetown and Summerside, Canada Games events are also being hosted in O'Leary, Tyne Valley, Abram-Village, Three Rivers, Stratford and North Rustico.
Erica Wagner owns Backwoods Burger, which has locations in Tyne Valley and the rinks in O'Leary and Tignish. She said business always slows down in the winter, and having a boost like this is more than welcome.
"It's such an opportunity for us to reach people from all across the Island," she said.
"Sometimes it seems like — when you're a member of smaller rural communities — that everything is sort of very centralized to Charlottetown and those areas. So spreading the wealth across Prince Edward Island, showcasing all these different communities, is really awesome," she said.
Wagner's neighbour in Tyne Valley is Dillon's Convenience & Pizzeria, which is a popular spot for locals. Manager Betty Enman said she hopes the Canada Games will bring some new faces to the community as well.
"Hopefully a lot of people will learn [about] our little treasure here in Tyne Valley," she said. "In wintertime it's 'get in and get out, get to town and get home again.' But with the Canada Games, and being able to go to these smaller communities, you see the beautiful aspects of them, you meet the people."
It's such an opportunity for us to reach people from all across the Island. — Erica Wagner
She said she also hopes it will inspire people to come back and visit again.
Tyne Valley Mayor Jeff Noye said there are still some final touches that need to be added to the rink there. But overall, people in the community are excited to welcome new faces into the rink. He expects all 350 seats to be full.
"We're excited to have that level of competition come and to show off our great facility and our local businesses and just our town itself," Noye said.
'Spread the excitement'
"It's pretty exciting to see them getting enthusiastic about welcoming the nation to their community," said Wayne Carew, chair of the board of the 2023 Canada Winter Games Host Society.
"That was our mandate, to create Island-wide games."
Submitted by Wayne Carew
Carew said that while not all communities on the Island had the facilities necessary to host a competition, many will be hosting cultural events instead. He said many communities were part of the touch relay across P.E.I., and others, like Souris at P.E.I.'s northeastern tip, will be hosting festival events during the games.
He said a full schedule of festival events will be announced next week.
"We're trying to spread the excitement and the buzz right across Prince Edward Island... It is gratifying to hear back from those communities because they're all in," Carew said.
The 2023 Winter Canada Games will run at venues across P.E.I. from Feb. 18 until March 5.
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With only one month remaining in the regular season, the Boston University women's hockey team heads to the University of Connecticut Sunday afternoon to take on the Huskies (7-10-7, 1-9-4 Hockey East).
The Terriers (8-13-5, 4-10-4 Hockey East) have won only one of their last eight games, but look to rebound against a struggling UConn team in the two teams' third matchup this season. BU defeated the Huskies 6-2 in late October, and the teams ended in a 2-2 overtime draw just over two weeks later.
To BU head coach Brian Durocher, the most important recent development for the team has been the return of several key players. Senior forwards Victoria Bach and Rebecca Leslie led Team Canada at the 2018 Nations Cup while senior forward Nina Rodgers has recently come back from an injury that kept her out for nine games.
"Those are some of the good things — that we're getting people a little more healthy and maybe putting more than 14 skaters on the bench," Durocher said.
With crucial Hockey East contests coming up, and the annual Beanpot tournament quickly approaching, Durocher said he would like to see improvements on the defensive side of the ice.
In addition to defense, Durocher said playing well structurally is imperative.
One silver lining to the temporary loss of leaders like Bach, Leslie and Rodgers has been the opportunity for younger skaters to step up. In recent games, Durocher has been impressed by the line of freshmen forwards Nara Elia and Jesse Compher and sophomore forward Deziray De Sousa.
Additionally, Durocher noted the performance of sophomore defenseman Breanna Scarpaci, who missed the majority of the first semester due to injury. Since returning to the lineup, Scarpaci has played well, already doubling her points total from the entire 2016-17 season.
Looking to Sunday, Durocher noted that the goaltending and defense of UConn stands out most. The Huskies have held their opponents to 2.2 goals per game, equal to their own mark. In the net, senior goaltender Annie Belanger sits on a .923 goal save percentage and 2.26 goals against average.
Durocher also highlighted UConn freshman forward Natalie Snodgrass, who leads her team in points, goals, assists and shots.
With fewer than 10 games remaining on the season, the Terriers are still looking to break out and gain momentum. To Durocher, the best way his team can do that is by remaining focused and putting up one good period after the next.
If BU can turn things around, starting Sunday against the Huskies, then Durocher believes the sky is the limit for the team. Or more accurately, the rafters.


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Sweeki gains ground in Asia
By Matthew Jones2020-01-31T04:02:29+00:00
Despite trying growing conditions across Europe, Origine Group is optimistic about its prospects with kiwifruit in 2020.
The consortium, which brings together nine producers from Italy and Chile, has set its sights on expanding its kiwifruit sales programmes into Europe, North America and Asia, after marketing 4,000 tonnes of the fruit over the 2018/19 campaign.
While weather and pest issues have prompted a revision of the size of the overall European kiwifruit crop, Origine has reported a good start to the Italian season, with fruit arriving in Asia in the early parts of the new year.
The Italian-grown product will continue to be shipped to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore over the coming months, with fruit to be marketed under the group's Sweeki label in supermarkets, fruit shops and wholesale markets.
Origine's plans to grow market share for Sweeki in Asia are built around the pillars of constantly delivering a high-quality product, engaging consumers through eye-catching promotion and marketing services, and ensuring year-round supply for its customers thanks to supply bases in both Italy and Chile.
"The final objective is, on one hand, being the right partner for retailers and wholesale operators alike and, on the other hand, ensuring a perfect eating experience for the final consumer," according to a release from Origine Group.
"Sweeki is characterised by perfect shape, a high sugar degree and a high content of dry substance. Moreover, Origine Group commercialises the product of its member companies and therefore guarantees total traceability.
This article appears in the February edition of Asiafruit Magazine.


A MAN believes he met his maker in a shock encounter after a major heart attack left him fighting for his life.
The man, who only gives his name as Charlie, says that he suffered a "major life-threatening" heart attack.
Once Charlie arrived at hospital, his heart gave out and this is where he temporarily die.
However, he is still unsure to this day as to how long he was clinically dead for two seconds or two hours.
When Charlie reached the afterlife, he claimed to be in an all-white room where all the furniture was white, with two other men in there.
Charlie says he was sat down in an old, white wooden chair opposite the two men who were behind a desk.
Charlie writes on the website NDERF, which collects people's experiences of the afterlife: "Behind this large desk was a man who was intimidating and very powerful.
"On his right had was very large ring. The ring had inscriptions which I do not remember, but for some reason the ring stood out as something very important.
"This man and the desk were in the centre of the room. I do not recall anything on the desk.
"The third individual was seated in a chair on the right side of the room. This person looked similar to my father.
"When he spoke, it sounded like my father's voice. I do not recall what he said, but I do know that he and the man behind the desk were conversing.
At this point, Charlie was thrust back into the hospital room where he gained consciousness.
After spending years analysing the ring on the man's finger, Charlie believes that it could relate to the Old Testament.
In the Book of Esther, King Xeres was known to use his large signet ring to seal decrees.
According to the fable, King Xeres was sent by a God to rule over the nations, and he later went on to build the Gate of All Nations in what was Persia – a place where all visitors must pass on their way to "pay homage to the King".
Charlie speculates that he may have had to pass King Xeres on the way to God.


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Q: How to Convert string in ICandle? C# MVVM , WPF , C#
I do TraidingPlatform and use FancyCandle.
I have ObservableCollection ICandle
Now i need save and open my file.
Saved was done
public RelayCommand SaveCommand
    {
        get
        {
            return _saveCommand ??
                (_saveCommand = new RelayCommand(() =>
                {
                    var result = new List<string>();
                    for (int i = 0; i < ChartView.Count; i++)
                    {
                        result.Add(ChartView[i].t.ToString());
                        result.Add(ChartView[i].L.ToString());
                        result.Add(ChartView[i].H.ToString());
                        result.Add(ChartView[i].O.ToString());
                        result.Add(ChartView[i].V.ToString());
                        result.Add(ChartView[i].C.ToString());
                    }
                    fileManager.RewriteAllLines(FilePath, result.Select(x => x.ToString()).ToList());
                }));
        }
    }

But now i dont understand how to Convet from list in ICandle
public List<string> GetManyFiles()
    {
        return fileManager.ReadAllLines(FilePath);
    }
    public RelayCommand LoadCommand
    {
        get
        {
            return _loadCommand ??
                (_loadCommand = new RelayCommand(() =>
                {
                    OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
                    openFileDialog.Filter = "txt files(*.txt)|*.txt|All files(*.*)|*.*";
                    bool? response = openFileDialog.ShowDialog();
                if (response == true)
                {
                    var vals = GetManyFiles();
                    var result = new ObservableCollection<ICandle>();
                    for (int i = 0; i < vals.Count; i++)
                    {
                    }
                    ChartView = result;
                }
                }));
        }
    }

Please help me, Thx.

A: Sorry
I was not quite right
I done
public RelayCommand LoadCommand
    {
        get
        {
            return _loadCommand ??
                (_loadCommand = new RelayCommand(() =>
                {
                    OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
                    openFileDialog.Filter = "txt files(*.txt)|*.txt|All files(*.*)|*.*";
                    bool? response = openFileDialog.ShowDialog();
                    if (response == true)
                    {
                        ChartView.Clear();
                        //$"{item.O}|{item.H}|{item.L}|{item.C}|{item.t}|{item.V}"
                        var vals = GetManyFiles();
                        foreach(var item in vals)
                        {
                            var args = item.Split('|');
                            ChartView.Add(new Candle(DateTime.Parse(args[4]),
                                                    Convert.ToDouble(args[0]),
                                                    Convert.ToDouble(args[1]),
                                                    Convert.ToDouble(args[2]),
                                                    Convert.ToDouble(args[3]),
                                                    Convert.ToInt64(args[5])));
                        }
                    }
                }));
        }
    }


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Please look out for this little one.
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Variations: An April 2009 version changed the missing girl's location to Tamworth, Australia.
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Unfortunately, the discovery of Cowen's body didn't shed any light on where Reachelle might be. But that doesn't mean investigators are giving up. As of May 26th, a force of 200 searchers continued the mission to find the little girl.
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The SEC is wanting the next chairperson to be independent and not beholden to Musk. Murdoch is the closest thing as he has more financial independence than another candidate, Antonio Gracias. The FT report says Gracias' venture capital firm, Valor Equity Partners was an early investor into Tesla, though it had sold its shares when Tesla had its IPO. Gracias is also a stakeholder in Musk's SpaceX, which clouds his independence.
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Sources tell the FT that Tesla is also looking outside of the company for a possible replacement.
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"This is incorrect," he wrote.
Ignore Musk, he is already trying to plant the seeds of distrust that anyone other than him could do the job. Murdoch while friends could also push to reign in Musk and his crazy side projects to focus on running a profitable company.
No matter what, I suspect it will be a fight to get a new Chairmen in place before the end of the year.
I suspect Musk would rather the board be leaderless while he is CEO than to have someone that try's to control him or will replace him.


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Q: WSO2 API Manager Tool: Unable to convert JSONtoSOAP and then SOAPtoJSON to communicate between mock backend and API Following the guidelines from WSO2 Documentation at: https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM260/Convert+a+JSON+Message+to+SOAP+and+SOAP+to+JSON
The intended response was
I revised it a couple times but keep getting "400: bad request error"
my curl and the error
EDIT¹: After running tests I found out that the issue is just with the SOAPtoJSON conversion. When I POST without the OUT (SOAPtoJSON) sequence, I get the XML answer exactly as intended as shown here
Thats my JSONtoSOAP.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sequence name="JSONtoSOAP" trace="disable" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
    <payloadFactory media-type="xml">
        <format>
            <soap12:Envelope xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                <soap12:Body>
                    <CheckPhoneNumber xmlns="http://ws.cdyne.com/PhoneVerify/query">
                        <PhoneNumber>$1</PhoneNumber>
                        <LicenseKey>$2</LicenseKey>
                    </CheckPhoneNumber>
                </soap12:Body>
            </soap12:Envelope>
        </format>
        <args>
            <arg evaluator="xml" expression="//request/PhoneNumber" literal="true"/>
            <arg evaluator="xml" expression="//request/LicenseKey" literal="true"/>
        </args>
    </payloadFactory>
    <property name="messageType" scope="axis2" type="STRING" value="application/soap+xml"/>
</sequence>

Thats my SOAPtoJSON.xml:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sequence name="SOAPtoJSON" trace="disable" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
    <log level="custom" separator=",">
        <property name="TRACE" value="Global Mediation Extension"/>
    </log>
    <payloadFactory media-type="xml">
        <format>
            <CheckPhoneNumber xmlns="http://ws.cdyne.com/PhoneVerify/query">
                <PhoneNumber>$1</PhoneNumber>
                <LicenseKey>$2</LicenseKey>
            </CheckPhoneNumber>
        </format>
        <args>
            <arg evaluator="xml" expression="//request/PhoneNumber"/>
            <arg evaluator="xml" expression="//request/LicenseKey"/>
        </args>
    </payloadFactory>
    <property name="messageType" scope="axis2" type="STRING" value="application/json"/>
</sequence>

I'm really new to the technology. And I just followed the steps from the documentation as mentioned. Maybe is was just a silly mistake (even though I revised it several times)
Maybe someone got the same problem and can help me out.
Thanks in advance.

A: Here is a new feature which generates a REST interface for your SOAP service. Try that. It supports SOAP-REST conversion automatically.
https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM260/Generate+REST+APIs+from+SOAP+Backends


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Right in Columbus, there's a four-star defensive end at Hardaway High School, Mykel Williams. WLTZ put the junior defensive end's power and speed to the test. Williams is extremely athletic, and he credits his speed to the COVID-19 offseason footwork drills.
"A lot of footwork. Most linemen don't worry about that, but that's what I pride myself on," said junior defensive end Williams. "I'm on that ladder like two times a day. Mostly getting off the ball. My get-off got faster, and power came with it."
Williams works hard off the field and in the classroom. Hardaway Head Coach Michael Woolridge really noticed Williams potential in fall 2019 against the big city matchup against Carver.
"He played the third game of the season last year, and his first sack I was like, 'Man this kid is a monster!,'" said Woolridge. "His first game he probably had 2 or 3 tackles for a loss, and 2 or 3 sacks. We were like he's ready."
The junior stands tall at 6'5", 255 pounds, and has multiple college offers from Power Five schools, such as Georgia, Alabama, Auburn and Clemson to name a few. Plus, he joins the elite 2022 All-American Bowl roster.
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Q: What is Emergenetics and what is its major role in a team?
A: Emergenetics theory says that the way we prefer to think and behave emerge from our life experiences and our genetics traits – hence the name, "Emerge + Genetics". In the late 1980's, I was working with a man, Dr. Wendell Williams, to research the premise that thinking and behavioral attributes could easily be separately measured to provide a more accurate, nuanced look at how an individual approaches his/her world.
My background is in education; I was really interested in finding a way to impact students, educators, and the world of education in general. Wendell is an industrial and social psychologist who wanted to provide a valid thinking and behavioral psychometric tool that adults could use across the business spectrum. Together we developed the Emergenetics model, which is made up of four thinking attributes (Analytical, Structural, Social, and Conceptual) and three behavioral attributes (Expressiveness, Assertiveness, and Flexibility). The Emergenetics Profile provides a measure of these attributes.
Because Emergenetics applies to people, the model can then be applied to all aspects of life and in any situation that involves people. When it comes to teams, well, they're made up of multiple people! So not only is it critical for each individual to have self-awareness, understand their own strengths and what they bring to the situation, they also need to understand the other people on the team. Emergenetics creates a common language within a team, by which people can more effectively understand each other, communicate, and work together. It helps teams work together more effectively and productively because they're not having to navigate as much of the interpersonal issues that can get in the way of a team's success.
Q: How does this instrument differ from other existing tools?
A: Well, I could talk at length about this! I think my favorite differentiator is that our tool is simple but not simplistic. It's easy to understand, to get it and know what it all means and what to do with the information, but at the same time there is also a wealth of useful, applicable information to be derived just from a simple, 1 page document.
Many models and tools on the market have 4 attributes and most of them blend thinking and behavior to measure one's "personality". By separating thinking and behavior, we were able to create a seven attribute psychometric tool that accurately reflects how someone may choose to approach their world.
Emergenetics is spectrum based. A person's position on the spectrum is where they're most comfortable, but we understand that people can, and will, flex to both ends of the spectrum depending on the situation. We don't box people into a certain category.
Emergenetics measures preferences. Emergenetics is strength based. It measures a person's preferences for thinking and behaving. Every person has all 7 of the attributes. So even if someone does not have an analytical thinking preference, they can and do still use analytical thinking during their day. It just might not be your go-to mode of thinking, feel as natural, or be as enjoyable. It's likely an energy drain. Whereas when you're operating in preference, the energy abounds!
One other differentiator is the application piece. There are some really great tools out there that provide wonderful information about who an individual is, but then what do they do with that information? Emergenetics talks about how to leverage your Profile to achieve your best self and high performing teams.
We have a mobile app, Emergenetics+, which is free for any person with an Emergenetics Profile. We are currently the only company in our industry with a dynamic mobile app that allows you to see not only your own Profile, but compare individual profiles, create teams, and get tips based on the unique dynamics of the group.
And then finally, some tools out there just aren't built on solid science or they haven't kept up with the research. We are very proud of the research that went into the creation of our tool. Our reliability and validity are quite powerful, and remain strong because we are committed to renorming our database every two years. We are so proud of it, we've placed our Technical Report on our website (www.Emergenetics.com) for you to review if you are interested!
Q: Could Emergenetics help someone find his or her greatest strengths and biggest weaknesses?
A: Emergenetics brings a great sense of self-awareness to the individual. It also brings a sense of awareness for that individual about others, so that every interaction can be made more positive and productive. Because the Emergenetics Profile is not looking at anything to do with skill or ability, we don't focus so much on the word "weakness," because really you may just find that some ways of thinking or some ways of behaving will just take more energy for you than your preferred way of thinking and behaving. Even if some tasks take more energy, you can be very good at it…it is just outside of your preferences. Having this awareness allows you to manage your day much more effectively. And that in and of itself is a strength!
Q: Which are the strengths that Emergenetics identifies?
A: Emergenetics focuses on preferences, and we take a strength-based way to work with them. We are measuring four thinking attributes (Analytical, Structural, Social, Conceptual), and three behavioral attributes (Expressiveness, Assertiveness, Flexibility) our research has shown all of us exhibit in some varying degree. Our report then showcases which combination of these attributes you show a preference for.
Q: A person can get Certified in Emergenetics. what are some of the ways that Emergenetics certification can improve the work of a HR specialist and other professionals?
A: When a person gets certified in Emergenetics they become an Emergenetics Associate. Our Associates are able to facilitate all of our Emergenetics programs and debrief the Emergenetics Profile, and they also have the knowledge to create custom development programs based on the Emergenetics model. Associates can create more effective, collaborative teams, diagnose potential sources of team conflict or inefficiencies, and identify gaps in a group's approach or foresee potential groupthink situations.
Q: Owning an Emergenetics certificate could bring about a salary increase and other job related opportunities for HR executives and other professionals?
A: We work with a great deal of organizations all over the world who use Emergenetics in their day-to-day business life. This creates a wonderful opportunity for those certified in Emergenetics, as they can quickly integrate into other organizations who use our tools and solutions. Another benefit is that our certification goes with you! No matter if you are looking to change departments, change countries or change careers, you will be able to practice Emergenetics in a variety of settings.
Q: Can knowing your Emergenetics Profile help us to make better career decisions?
A: Absolutely! If I know I have a preference for conceptual thinking, I might think twice about applying for a job that is very routine and mundane. That's not to say, for example, all accountants have an Analytical thinking preference, or all sales people are third-third expressive, but it helps you to narrow your focus to the types of jobs and functions that you will enjoy.
Q: Is there an ideal Profile of a leader?
A: I get this question often, and I am glad it is asked and explored. After years of looking at leader's profiles and understanding their positions, all the way from an entry-level manager to the CEO, there simply is no "ideal leadership profile" when it comes to Emergenetics. There are such brilliances built into every single profile that it all comes down to the self-awareness the tool brings to leaders that makes the biggest difference. I also think this is where the importance of a team comes into play. A great leader recognizes the areas where they can have the most impact, but also recognizes where and how others can contribute. They put together a team of smart, hardworking people. With knowledge of their own Emergenetics Profile, they can build our a diverse team comprised of various profiles to make sure the group collectively is sound and thinking through situations from all angles and approaches.
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During the Intensive Field Phase (IFP) of the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) lasting from 15 February to 26 March 1999, a large number of pollution outbreaks from India and southeast Asia were observed with a unique six-wavelength aerosol lidar at Maldives International Airport, Hulule (4.1 degrees N, 73.3 degrees E). An example is presented here. Above the polluted marine boundary layer a 3-km deep aerosol layer was advected from the Indian subcontinent. The aerosol optical depths of the marine boundary layer and the free-troposphere layer were approximately 0.2 and 0.4 at 532 nm, respectively. Inversions using spectrally resolved particle backscatter and extinction data indicate an effective particle radius of 0.17 mu m, volume and surface concentrations around 13 mu m(3) cm(-3) and 600 mu m(2) cm(-3), respectively, and considerable absorption by the free-tropospheric particles.


Well it seems that a few of you lovely followers have been busy nominating Andrew for an ESMA!!
First, thanks to those of you who have been kind enough to support Andrew and nominate him for the Professional Rider section, and second, lets all get behind Andrew and nominate him to win!
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