Mirette is an opéra comique in three acts composed by André Messager, first produced at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 3 July 1894. Mirette exists in two distinct versions; the first version of the libretto was written in French by Michel Carré but this was never performed. English lyrics were written by Frederic E. Weatherly, English dialogue based on the Carré libretto was written by Harry Greenbank; this first English version of the opera ran for 41 performances, closing on 11 August 1894. This was the shortest run of any opera produced at the Savoy Theatre under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte; the second version, advertised as a "new version with new lyrics by Adrian Ross," ran for 61 performances, from 6 October 1894 to 6 December 1894. Both versions tell the same story, with the second version emphasising comedy over the romance of the first version; the music has been forgotten. However, one song became popular in the United States in the early years of the twentieth century, though it was not credited as being from Mirette.

The piece featured Savoy regulars including Courtice Pounds, Rosina Brandram, Scott Russell, Emmie Owen, Florence Perry, R. Scott Fishe, Walter Passmore. Richard Temple joined in the revised version, as did the experienced singer Florence St. John, who made her Savoy debut in the work. Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited was playing more weakly than its producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, had expected, he anticipated that he would need a new work for the Savoy Theatre for the summer of 1894. Messager was enjoying a growing international reputation, Carte had produced Messager's opera La Basoche at his Royal English Opera House in 1891–92. Carte commissioned Messager to write his first opera for British audiences. Messager works would prove to be more successful in England, including The Little Michus, Véronique, Monsieur Beaucaire; the libretto for Mirette was written in French by Carré. Some of the music was composed before Weatherly translated and rewrote the lyrics and Greenback translated the dialogue.

To assist Messager in what was for him an unfamiliar idiom, he enlisted the help of the songwriter Hope Temple, née Dotie Davis, who became his second wife. She may have written some of the songs; the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians lists her as possible co-author. The original version of Mirette opened at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 3 July 1894 and closed on 11 August 1894, it draws on Balfe's opera The Bohemian Girl and uses various shopworn theatrical devices and conventions, including the gypsy background, a romance across class and station, the desertion of the bride at her betrothal ceremony, the antics of the comedian. These would have been familiar to London audiences at the time. Furthermore, this romantic type of opera was out of place at the Savoy Theatre, the home of Gilbert and Sullivan and their unique kind of less sentimental comic opera. Carte asked the popular lyricist Adrian Ross to rewrite the piece with as much emphasis on comedy as possible. Ross reduced the romantic parts while boosting the comic part of Bobinet for Passmore, making the role of the Marquise lighter, emphasising past Savoy successes by strengthening the subplot regarding the past love between the Marquise and the Baron.

He rewrote existing lyrics and introduced more opportunities for dance numbers. Though Walter Passmore had created smaller roles in Jane Annie and Utopia Limited, the role of Bobinet was his first real starring part. In 1894, Passmore named his new daughter Mirette in acknowledgement of his success in this breakout role; the cast changes, including adding another Savoy favourite, Richard Temple, as the Baron and engaging the soprano Florence St. John as Mirette; the revised version ran for 61 performances, until 6 December. The early reviews for Mirette were mixed at best. Evening News and Post wrote that "There has been nothing at the Savoy for a long time prettier or more elaborate in a spectacular way than Mirette, it would be ungenerous to grumble at the quality of the humour when it affords such a feast of beauty for eye and ear." The Globe disagreed: "English audiences have been accustomed to expect something more in the librettos of comic operas than a mere dishing-up of old situations and conventional characters....

The story is singularly destitute of interest or originality." Daily Graphic was disappointed by both the libretto and the music, while The Stage thought that "Messager's music is invariably characterised by smooth melody and graceful expressiveness, but in Mirette one feels that a little variation from these commendable qualities would now and again be welcome." Vanity Fair called the plot "feeble" and "trivial", The Times unfavourably compared the piece with earlier Savoy operas, Daily Telegraph complained: "It does not appear that the composer is gifted with the keen sense of humour which works written for the Savoy have exemplified. In the merriest situations, his strains refuse to laugh, flow on elegantly, with perfect blandness and good breeding." The reviewer in the magazine Judy wrote, "Despite the poor book, the poorer lyrics, the poorest dialogue,—despite, the despe

Mary Lou Harkness was a librarian and a university library director, the first woman to hold that title at any Florida university. She was the fourth employee hired by the University of South Florida, she was born Mary Lou Barker in Denby, South Dakota, where her father was proprietor of a general store on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation. Mary and her brother would either walk or ride horseback to a two-room schoolhouse during her grade school years, but by her senior year she and her family had moved to Gordon, Nebraska to live with family friends, she graduated high school as valedictorian. Following that, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Next, she attended the University of Michigan for two semesters of post-graduate study, she earned the master's degree in library science from Columbia University. Her first employment in the field of librarianship was at the Georgia Institute of Technology, before her graduation from Columbia University. While at Columbia, she was recruited to work Florida’s newest state university, the University of South Florida.

She was hired in 1958 as the fourth employee of the university. Ms. Harkness and other library employees worked at a house in Tampa’s Hyde Park neighborhood, a house on campus, the university student union ballroom before the library building opened in 1961. In 1968, Harkness became the library's director – the first woman to hold such a position in the Florida university system, indeed one of a few to hold such a position nationwide, her career at USF saw her help create a library collection that started from zero, grew to 800,000 by the time she retired as library director in 1988. During this time she helped to implement automation technology, she fought to ensure that it received its fair share of funding, from Florida legislators who, she said, tended to favor older universities in the state. In 1962 Harkness traveled to Nigeria to assist with the creation of national system of libraries, she felt about women's rights and women in politics. She was member of the Athena Society, the USF Women's Club, she worked on the campaigns of former state Sen. Betty Castor, former Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio

Art mac Cuinn known as Art Óenfer, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. According to the legend, Echtra Condla, he was not Conn's only son: he had a brother called Connla, who fell in love with a fairy woman, went with her to Mag Mell, never to be seen again. After that, Art gained his nickname, Art Óenfer. Geoffrey Keating says he had two brothers and Crionna, who were killed by their uncle Eochaid Finn. Another fairy woman, Bé Chuille, banished to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé Danann, fell in love with Art, when she learned his father Conn was still alive and a widower, agreed to marry him instead, on the condition that Art be banished from Tara for a year; the injustice caused famine in Ireland, until Art forced Bé Chuille to leave as a forfeit in a game of fidchell. In another variant of the myth, Bé Chuille places a geis on Art, after he loses at a game of fidchell. Art travels to the Land of Wonder, facing untold dangers and is forced to kill Delbchaem's mother a fearsome and supernatural figure, foretold by druids that she would be killed by a suitor of her daughter.

When Art and Delbchaem return to Tara, Delbchaem banishes Bé Chuille from the land, returning fertility to the region. Art succeeded to the High Kingship after his brother-in-law Conaire Cóem, was killed by Nemed, son of Sroibcenn, in the battle of Gruitine, he ruled for thirty years. During his reign Conaire's sons took revenge against Nemed and his allies, the sons of Ailill Aulom, in the Battle of Cennfebrat in Munster. Ailill's foster-son Lugaid mac Con was wounded in the thigh in the battle, was exiled from Ireland, he made an alliance with Benne Brit, son of the king of Britain, raised an army of foreigners, returned to Ireland. He killed Art in the Battle of Maigh Mucruimhe in Connacht. According to legend, Art was given hospitality by Olc Acha, a local smith, the night before the battle, it had been prophesied that a great dignity would come from Olc's line, he gave Art his daughter Achtan to sleep with. Art's son Cormac was conceived that night. However, according to Keating, Achtan was Art's official mistress, to whom he paid a dowry of cattle.

The Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronises Art's reign with that of the Roman emperor Commodus. The chronology of Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 143–173, that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 165–195

Georgetown is a town in Price County, United States. The population was 164 at the 2000 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 53.7 square miles, of which, 53.6 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square miles of it is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 164 people, 65 households, 44 families residing in the town; the population density was 3.1 people per square mile. There were 117 housing units at an average density of 2.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 98.17% White, 0.61% Asian, 1.22% from two or more races. There were 65 households out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% were married couples living together, 3.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 32.3% were non-families. 23.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.8% had someone living alone, 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.05. In the town, the population was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 20.7% from 25 to 44, 30.5% from 45 to 64, 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 120.7 males. The median income for a household in the town was $37,500, the median income for a family was $47,083. Males had a median income of $31,667 versus $22,031 for females; the per capita income for the town was $14,222. About 17.9% of families and 23.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 38.1% of those under the age of eighteen and 33.3% of those sixty five or over

Zhang Yuxi is a Chinese actress. In 2013, Zhang made, she starred in the wuxia film The Taking of Tiger Mountain and youth romance film Forever Young. In 2016, Zhang became known for her role in the romance comedy drama My Little Princess. Zhang starred in both installments of the fantasy romance drama I Cannot Hug You and received increased recognition. In 2018, Zhang starred in the historical palace drama Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, portraying a famed courtesean. In 2019, Zhang starred in the period suspense drama Please Give Me a Pair of Wings; the same year, she was cast in Redemption. Zhang is set to star as the female lead in White Fish Girl, part of the Liao Zhai film series produced by Dongfang Feiyun, she was cast in the romance drama Intense Love as the female lead

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In the middle of the 2010–11 season, Buenafe was involved in a three-way trade where he, Ronnie Matias and Beau Belga were all traded to the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters. Though he still provided what the team needed, his numbers went down. Before the 2012–13 season, he got traded again, this time to the Meralco Bolts in exchange for its 2014 first-round draft pick and provide offensive firepower alongside the backcourt duo of Sol Mercado and Mark Cardona. Correct as of September 24, 2016