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Usher, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were no religion, Anglican, Roman Catholic and Uniting.


Abe Anellis

Anellis attended Crane Technical College in Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning his tuition and living expenses working in a spice factory and as an usher at the Chicago Civic Opera.

Angella Reid

As White House Chief Usher, she is responsible for management of White House operations in collaboration with several organizations, including the White House Historical Association, the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the White House Curator, and the National Park Service.

Arthur Yorinks

Yorinks was Philip Glass’s librettist for the operas The Juniper Tree and The Fall of the House of Usher, both of which have been performed all over the world.

B. H. Fairchild

His most recent book is Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The Sewanee Review.

Barry Weiss

Weiss continued working for Jive in various capacities helping establish such blockbuster pop acts as Britney Spears, Usher, Backstreet Boys, Justin Timberlake, 'N Sync and T-Pain.

Bill Dudleston

Multi-Grammy award winning producers Rick Rubin, Antonio L.A. Reid, and renowned mastering engineer, Herb Powers, have utilized and publicly touted the Legacy designs as assisting in producing artists Sheryl Crowe, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mariah Carey, and Usher.

Carl Gottlieb Reissiger

A famous piece known as Weber's Last Waltz was actually written by Reißiger (one of his opus 26 Danses brillantes) and is mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) as one of Roderick Usher's favorite pieces of music; it is also the title of a 1912 film.

Casting By

It focuses on casting pioneer Marion Dougherty, an iconoclast whose exquisite taste, tenacity and gut instincts brought a new kind of actor to the screen that would mark the end of the old studio system and help to usher in this revolutionary new period.

Curtis Harrington

His casting of Nikolas and Zeena Schreck in his updated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s ”Fall of the House of Usher” is in keeping with the magical thread that runs through the film-maker’s career.

D. J. Mbenga

He saw coach Avery Johnson's wife being disturbed by some fans, and reportedly went into the stands with owner Mark Cuban to help usher Mrs. Johnson to the locker room.

D'Mile

Usher's 16-year old protégé, Justin Bieber sings on a D'Mile production, "Favorite Girl" which is the fourth single from the youngster's debut album My World.

Dan Fraga

Some career highlights include spots for Hershey's, Lee Jeans, Mentos, Victoria's Secret, Ford Motors and music videos for top artists Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Usher, Gwen Stefani, Jamiroquai, Lady Gaga and T.I., to name a few.

Exclusivo

Exclusivo is Alberto Stylee's first release, and one of the albums to usher in the second wave of Puerto Rican reggaeton artists.

Gentleman Usher

The Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod, established 1714, is the usher for the Scottish Order of the Thistle, currently Rear Admiral Christopher Hope Layman.

Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone is an American biographical action film directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz, stars are Robert De Niro, Édgar Ramírez, Usher and Ellen Barkin.

Hits Now!

Its playlist is composed of mostly Top 40 (CHR) music from artists such as Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ke$ha, The Black Eyed Peas, and Usher among others, that mainly targets listeners ages 18–49.

IME, New York City

Artist like Francis Dunnery, Tower of Power, Stephen Harris, Sae1NYC, Usher, SpaceHog and even the Famous Robert Plant were known to have dropped in for a visit, or even to record with the local bands while they were in the studio.

KHTE-FM

Musically, featuring Top 40 core artists such as, The Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Lady Gaga, Usher, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Daughtry.

La chute de la maison Usher

La chute de la maison Usher is the French translation of the title of Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).

Lo-Key?

Tolbert continued to work with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, appearing as a songwriter and background vocalist on albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Janet Jackson and Usher.

M. E. Sprengelmeyer

Outside from reporting, he was once a Wrigley Field usher, accordion player, and played in a band called "News Hole".

Max Loong

Shows he has hosted in Europe include Fanta Fiesta (teleprompter), McMusic (requestshow), FreaX (gameshow), Popschau (newsshow), Sunrise (latenightshow) and his own produced hit show Interaktiv (liveshow) where he has interviewed famous artistes such as Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Usher, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Robert Downey Jr. and Pierce Brosnan to name a few.

Michael Usher

Usher was the Nine Network's correspondent in New York when the Twin Towers were attacked in September 2001, and less than two years later was in Iraq, travelling north from Kuwait to reach Baghdad the day after the Coalition seized the city.

For the rest of 2008, Usher filled-in on various Nine News bulletins as well as reporting for 60 Minutes, filling in for Tara Brown who was on maternity leave at the time.

Microsoft India PL

The company first entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market.

Myrna Fahey

Her image branched out in the 1960s, helped by House of Usher and a role on the Boris Karloff-hosted TV series Thriller that same year entitled 'Girl With A Secret'.

Nadine Ramkisson

During this time, she interviewed many of show business' hottest stars, such as Wyclef Jean, Destiny's Child, Shaggy, Usher, Denzel Washington and many more actors, singers and athletes, often receiving very positive feedback from them.

Nanuet, New York

The opening of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87/287), the Tappan Zee Bridge, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway in the 1950s helped usher in decades of population growth and real estate development, including the construction of the Nanuet Mall and local shopping centers.

Nemer Saade

In 2010, Nemer Saadé became the first Lebanese Fashion Designer to dress up celebrities for the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles such as Adam Lambert, Slash from Guns N' Roses or Tonex, while other celebrities like Usher and David Guettachose to wear his brand for their private events .

Nikita Koshkin

Koshkin's most celebrated guitar work is "Usher-Waltz." a piece inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher, in which Poe wrote, "I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar." Koshkin's piece was written for the famed guitarist Vladislav Blaha.

Qwanell Mosley

The song was both written and produced by HyerHytz Production League and engineered by Ken Lewis whose work includes albums such as Jay-Z and Kanye's Watch the Throne, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Usher's Confessions Album.

Randall Terry

When Kansas obstetrician George Tiller was murdered while serving as an usher in his Wichita church on the morning of May 31, 2009, Terry immediately issued a statement critical of Tiller.

Randy Gill

He has also written and performed with a variety of artists, including Teddy Pendergrass, Usher, Shai and his brother Johnny Gill.

Reuben Burrow

A year later he became usher in a school of B. Webb, the ‘celebrated writing-master.’ He next set up as schoolmaster on his own account at Portsmouth, and, after giving up this place in 1770 to become engineer to a projected expedition to Borneo, was appointed assistant to Maskelyne, then astronomer-royal, at Greenwich.

Robert Hegyes

He also appeared in the award-winning Volkswagen Passat commercial "The Chase" for director Kinka Usher.

Sidesperson

A sidesperson, correctly known as a sidesman or usher, in the Anglican Church is responsible for greeting members of the congregation, overseeing seating arrangements in church, and for taking the collection.

Sorry, Sorry

Nick Bass, who has worked with international stars like Usher and Justin Timberlake, choreographed the dance for "Sorry, Sorry" with assistant staff Trent Dickens, showing the single's strong musical prominence.

Soulshock

Throughout the 1990s he wrote and produced, inter alia, Brandy, Usher, Monica, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, Craig David, Sting, Toni Braxton, JoJo, and 2Pac.

Steven Nissen

The lipoprotein enhanced the ability of HDL, or “good” cholesterol to usher fat out of the arteries and into the liver for excretion leading to the purchase of Esperion Therapeutics, the tiny company that had produced recombinant Apo-A1 Milano, by Pfizer for $1.3 billion.

Talay Riley

Talay has toured with many UK/US artists including; Ndubz, Chipmunk, Skepta, Usher's sold out Arena tour & Trey Songz.

Terrance Christopher

Terrance Christopher, OMM, LVO, CD is a retired Canadian Naval Officer and former Usher of the Black Rod for the Senate of Canada, the most senior protocol office in Parliament.

The Peanut Butter Conspiracy

The band's first album, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading, followed, also produced by Usher who brought in studio musicians including Glen Campbell and James Burton to bolster the group's sound.

Traci Hale

In 2001 Hale wrote a song for the Chris Rock film Down to Earth and songs on albums for Tyrese (RCA), Ginuwine and Usher.

Viggers

Freddie Viggers, former senior British Army officer and current Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

White House Chief Usher

The current and ninth Chief Usher is Angella Reid, a former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton at Pentagon City, Virginia.

Wired Smart List

Beginning as a recommended list of 15 individuals that the next president should listen to (the first Smart List was published just before the 2008 United States presidential election), the Smart List has evolved into a list that seeks to identify influencers and ideas that will shape the evolution of the global economy, define future business trends, and usher in new paradigms of thought.


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