The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.

Outside of working on Indigo Girls-related projects, Ray has released solo albums and founded a non profit organization that promotes independent musicians, while Saliers is an entrepreneur in the restaurant industry as well as a professional author ; she also collaborates with her father, Dr. Don Saliers, in performing for special groups / causes.

Both Saliers and Ray self-identify as lesbian and are active in political and environmental causes.

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers first met and got to know each other as students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia, just outside of Decatur, Georgia, but were not friends because Saliers was a grade older than Ray.

While attending Shamrock High School ( now Shamrock Middle School ), they became better acquainted, and started performing together, first as " The B-Band " and then as " Saliers and Ray ".

This album is their first fully independent release since 1987's Strange Fire, and their first two-CD set since 1995's live album 1200 Curfews ; the first disc has the 10 tracks accompanied by a backing band, and the second includes the same 10 songs with only Ray and Saliers on vocals and acoustic guitars, and an additional track.

Ray and Saliers do not ordinarily collaborate in writing songs.

Finally, " I'll Give You My Skin ," which appears both on Tame Yourself ( Benefit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) and on the Indigo Girls release Rarities, is a collaborative work by Ray, Saliers, and Michael Stipe which is doubly rare, as Saliers and Ray usually write their songs without outside collaborators.

Ray and Saliers appeared in the latter half of the feature film Boys on the Side, playing short excerpts from their songs " Joking " and " Southland in the Springtime ," as well as singing " Feliz Cumpleaños " (" Happy Birthday " in Spanish ) with the gathered group of friends during the birthday cake scene, and standing on the far side of several shots over the next few scenes.

Ray and Saliers performed onstage in the 1994 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar in Atlanta, titled Jesus Christ Superstar: A Resurrection.

Ray played the role of Jesus and Saliers played the role of Mary Magdalene.

Both Ray and Saliers have long identified themselves as lesbians.

The Allmusic review noted that " Amy Ray and Emily Saliers continue to hone their signature lush melodies .... he Indigo Girls are no longer afraid to hit upon past relationships and personal emotion.

Amy RayBorn in Decatur, Georgia, Amy Ray met Emily Saliers when they both attended the same high school.

After graduation, Ray and Saliers went to different colleges with Ray attending Vanderbilt University.

Saliers first met her future Indigo Girls counterpart Amy Ray when they were students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia.

However other process philosophers such as David Ray Griffin have written that people may have subjective experience after death.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved ; authors including John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips.

Cooking shows such as Emeril Live and 30 Minute Meals have spawned Celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, Rachael Ray, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse who are famed for their culinary aptitude.

There have been numerous appearances from NPR personalities, including Bob Edwards, Susan Stamberg, Scott Simon, Ray Suarez, Will Shortz, Sylvia Poggioli, and commentator and author Daniel Pinkwater.

In the 2000s, biopics such as Ali ( 2001 ), Frida ( 2002 ), 8 Mile ( 2002 ), Ray ( 2004 ), Walk the Line ( 2005 ), and Milk ( 2008 ) have become popular among filmmakers.

Studies by Jeff Madura, Ray Sturm and others have demonstrated significant behavioral effects in stocks and exchange traded funds.

In science fiction, a large number of the practitioners and other professionals in the field, not only writers but editors and publishers, traditionally have themselves come from and participate in science fiction fandom, from Ray Bradbury to Harlan Ellison to Patrick Neilsen Hayden to Toni Weisskopf ; and the " fan " vs. " pro " dualism does not exist in the way it does in the media entertainment industry.

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Green Ray ".

This prediction has attracted debate and criticism from the AI research community, and some of its more notable members, such as Kevin Warwick, Bill Joy, Ken MacLeod, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, and Roger Penrose, have voiced their opinions on whether or not this future is likely.

Journalist Ray Martin made a documentary, Who Killed Harold Holt ?, screened in November 2007, which suggested that Holt might have committed suicide.

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Indigo Ray ".

Past winners have included Angela Lansbury ( 1988 ), Ray Charles ( 1991 ), Mel Tormé ( 1994 ), Bernadette Peters ( 1995 ), Frank Sinatra ( 2000 ), Stevie Wonder ( 2002 ), k. d.

Doug Harvey and Nicklas Lidstrom have won the award seven times, while Ray Bourque won it five times.

Writers such as Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, in The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World ( 2000 ), Fredrick Turner in A Culture of Hope and Lester Brown in Plan B, have articulated a critique of the basic idea of modernism itself – that individual creative expression should conform to the realities of technology.

Various theological and philosophical aspects have been expanded and developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ), John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin.

Three former premiers were found to have acted improperly and two of them, Ray O ' Connor and Brian Burke, were jailed.

SMTP can trace its roots to two implementations described in 1971, the Mail Box Protocol, which has been disputed to actually have been implemented, but is discussed in RFC 196 and other RFCs, and the SNDMSG program, which, according to RFC 2235, Ray Tomlinson of BBN " invents " for TENEX computers the sending of mail across the ARPANET.

In his first home game as the Padres ' new owner in 1974, Ray Kroc grabbed the public address system microphone and apologized to fans for the poor performance of the team, saying, " I have never seen such stupid ballplaying in my life.

Subsequently, Sarah Vaughan, Judi Dench, Grace Jones, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Zarah Leander, Tiger Lillies, Ray Conniff, Glenn Close, Cher and many other famous artists have recorded the song, and it became a jazz standard.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Some tracks from an abandoned album dedicated to Sun Ra and Ray Charles have also surfaced.

The image is calculated with 4D Ray tracing ( graphics ) | raytracing in a Morris-Thorne wormhole metric, but the gravitational effects on the wavelength of light have not been simulated.

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Violet Ray ".

The team's history also boasts the careers of Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis, and Ed Reed.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Second-year wideout Ray Renfro became a star in 1953 with 722 yards receiving and 352 yards rushing, also reaching the Pro Bowl.

Some of the most used methods are Path Tracing, Bidirectional Path Tracing, or Metropolis light transport, but also semi realistic methods are in use, like Whitted Style Ray Tracing, or hybrids.

Ray Charles also issued his Modern Sounds recordings, which departed from his well-known R & B and soul style to conceptually country music records.

Ray, Flouride, and Peligro also went on to solo careers.

Alternatives to traditional editing were also the folly of early surrealist and dada filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel ( director of the 1929 Un Chien Andalou ) and René Clair ( director of 1924's Entr ' acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray ).

As always, Hawks was an average student and college friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered him as spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying, although Hawks was also known to be a voracious reader of popular American and English novels in college.

" He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.

As a young man, Reagan raced boats and later also sold them at a Sea Ray boat dealership in Van Nuys, California.

John Ray ( 1627 – 1705 ) also known as John Wray, was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history.

Jewish variations of process theology are also presented in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ( New York: Anchor Books, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-3472-8 ) and Sandra B. Lubarsky and David Ray Griffin, eds., Jewish Theology and Process Thought ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7914-2810-9 ).

* Bobby Stevens ( singer ) ( born 1936 ), British singer also known by his real name Ray Pilgrim

" He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R & B artists who employed this feel.

The team also had a solid but not stellar supporting cast including Marquis Grissom ( 22, 90,. 279 ) and Pedro Feliz ( 22, 84,. 276 ), along with decent showings by Ray Durham, Edgardo Alfonzo, Michael Tucker and AJ Pierzynski.

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

While the focus was on writing, the journal also included reproductions of art, among them works by Giorgio de Chirico, Ernst, Masson, and Man Ray.

La Révolution surréaliste continued publication into 1929 with most pages densely packed with columns of text, but also included reproductions of art, among them works by de Chirico, Ernst, Masson, and Man Ray.

It is also influenced by Ray Lankester's theories about social degeneration.

The song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.

Many others also contributed, with their approaches flavouring the many models of the day, including: Tony Wasserman and Peter Pircher with the " Object-Oriented Structured Design ( OOSD )" notation ( not a method ), Ray Buhr's " Systems Design with Ada ", Archie Bowen's use case and timing analysis, Paul Ward's data analysis and David Harel's " Statecharts "; as the group tried to ensure broad coverage in the real-time systems domain.

The original line-up also returned to the studio for the final time, with Ray Manzarek reprising his role as producer, to record a cover of The Doors ' The Crystal Ship for the soundtrack for The X-Files: Fight the Future.

The newsgroup also follows various internet " mad scientists " and " crackpots " such as Archimedes Plutonium, Kurt Stocklmeir, and Time Cube inventor Gene Ray with a mixture of mockery and appreciation for the unintended humor they produce.

Ray also worked on Ornithologia which was published posthumously in 1713 as Synopsis methodica avium et piscium.