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[last updated 12 April 2006]
Twice yearly UK group meetings (late March and late September) started in 1995. Some people travel from continental Europe and from the USA in order to attend.
The following UK group meetings have taken place to date:
|Mansfield, Notts
|25 Mar 1995
|Mansfield, Notts
|2 Sept 1995
|Banbury, Oxon
|3 Mar 1996
|Huntingdon, Cambs
|21Sept 1996
|Richmond, Surrey
|22 Mar 1997
|Oldham, Lancs
|27 Sept 1997
|21 Mar 1998
|26 Sept 1998
|27 Mar 1999
|9 Oct 1999
|25 Mar 2000
|9 Sept 2000
|24 Mar 2001
|24 Sept 2001
|23 Mar 2002
|21 Sept 2002
|12 April 2003
|Lille, N. France
|7-9 Nov 2003
|20 Mar 2003
|19 Mar 2005
|8 April 2006
The first North American meeting was held in September 1996 and annual meetings now take place in the US every Summer/Fall. The Canadian group started holding meetings soon after. Some of the other overseas groups (e.g. Holland, Germany, Spain) also hold meetings. The Spanish group (GrApSIA - Grupo de Apoyo del Síndrome de Insensibilidad a los Andrógenos), in particular, does a very professional job considering they are a small group, with a proper meeting brochure (see Spain 2002 and Spain 2003).
Note: We do not advertise UK group meetings in advance on the web site (all current members receive personal invitations). Basic details of N. American meetings (dates, city, who to contact for details etc.) are often posted on our Announcements page in advance.
The meetings are for families and individuals affected by AIS and similar conditions. Guest medical/psychology specialists also attend part of each meeting to present information and answer questions, and there is also time set aside for private discussion between individuals/families. Other clinicians can attend as observers by arrangement. Parent/'patient' attendees must be subscribers to one of the support groups and can attend meetings in other countries.
Everyone feels extremely nervous and anxious at their first meeting, but will find that they quickly make friends. People often remember their first meeting as an event that had a profound effect on their lives; and the remarkable thing is the amazing sense of freedom in suddenly realising that there is no need to be secretive any more because everyone in the room is affected in some way or other by AIS or a similar condition!
UK and US meetings take place over a weekend. The UK meetings have the following format. People coming a long distance usually arrive on the Friday afternoon/evening and meet up with some of the others staying at our recommended hotel. On the Saturday morning we meet at the venue and our panel of invited guest clinicians talk briefly about their clinical/research work, after which there is a Q & A session. The clinicians leave at/after lunchtime and the afternoon is devoted to a general discussion amongst the affected adults/youngsters and parents. In the evening, people assemble for drinks at our recommended hotel, after which we eat together (sometimes in the hotel, sometimes in a local restaurant). There may be some spontaneous late-night hilarity in one of the hotel rooms (amongst the women at least, we don't know what the parents get up to). Over the course of the weekend there might be some tears, but there will also be quite a lot of laughter. This is a natural outlet for the emotional tension that builds up during the meeting.
On the Sunday we reassemble at the meeting venue and break two groups, 1) affected women, and 2) parents, for further informal discussion. There is space for other groups as required. At some meetings we have a psychosexual counsellor/psychologist to guide the adult women's discussion. The weekend usually ends late afternoon as people depart to catch trains, planes etc.
To put patients in touch with other AIS girls/women is probably the single most therapeutic remedy that doctors could prescribe; and yet this is the one step that they have historically been most reluctant to take. We cannot stress this too strongly.
A CAIS 39 year-old in the US wrote:
Meeting other women with AIS, finding them to be normal makes it easier to view yourself this way, I think this is what caused me to make great strides in coming to terms with AIS. When I started going to meetings in the UK, I would literally look around the room and think to myself This is a group of great women about whom I dont feel the least discomfort that they have XY chromosomes or once had testes. By being able to find this so utterly acceptable in them, I came to be much more accepting of myself. Its like the other group members are a mirror of ourselves and when we like what we see in the mirror it becomes easier to appreciate ourselves and to understand how others could find AIS acceptable in us.
A CAIS 30 year-old wrote:
Meeting another AIS woman [a CAIS 28 year-old] for the first time was the first time in my life I have ever felt a true kinship with another woman. I might warn you not to mention this idea to any of your regular friends, as my best friend didnt quite understand and it really hurt her feelings. But then, I dont think she could ever truly understand, which is precisely my point. To meet a person and immediately understand exactly what they have been going through their whole life is such a unique experience.
A PAIS 44 year-old wrote:
Prior to meeting AIS women, I had this impression that there were aspects of my physical looks, or a vibe I might put out that would make people think I was not a woman. Baggage. I'm overly sensitive to it, and it remains an issue.... And I remember regularly probing my face in the mirror from age 14 to 20-something, to see what was different. Was there something in my face that gave me away, that was subtle to me, but more obvious to those who looked at me especially women, since they'd be the first to know, I thought. Today I don't think so. It has been a big change since the day I first asked ____ [CAIS 39 year-old], at the NYC group meeting in Sept 96, Can you tell by looking at me? I had wanted to ask someone that question for three decades. I've been in solitary confinement for all that time. Yep, I got parolled last year. My only visitor was my mother. Kidding aside, in some ways I view my current life as restarting [last year] in Sept 96. I was 14 when I was given the story by the doctor. Maybe there is a part of me that is only 15 years old inside today.
A CAIS 54-year-old wrote:
I remember _____ [CAIS 28 year-old] once said to me that she feels like shes spent her entire life treading water in an angry sea with her feet tangled up in kelp. I had used that exact same analogy in trying to explain to my therapist how I felt about my life, and how I often wished the undertow would just go ahead and pull me to the depths. What a comfort it would have been to me all those years if I could have just once looked along the horizon and seen one of you struggling along with me. It might have given me the strength to try and pull myself free of that which entangles me and start swimming towards the shore.
A support group member, reporting on an AIS clinic 'open day' at the Middlesex Hospital, London (17th March 2000), wrote:
A nurse from Prof. ______s paediatric endocrinology clinic asked how could she get round the problem of parents who want nothing to do with the support group because they "....want their children to mix with normal people rather than be labelled as oddities by mixing with support group members".
This is a difficult problem that we encounter quite a lot. Parents need to get away from their fixation on a mirage of normality. Although their children have a good chance of leading normal lives, their very real deficiencies have to be acknowledged rather than denied. If this does not happen, their children are highly likely to experience psychological problems because they will know that all is not right with their bodies. And for parents and doctors to keep telling them they are normal will only make them more suspcious that there is something being hidden from them.
Children will at some stage need to grow up into sexually functioning adults, whether their parents like this idea or not, and the groundwork for this is set in their childhood/teens. This development will not take place properly if the child is sentenced to solitary confinement, forever wondering if they are the only person on the planet with some strange condition that none of the adults around them will talk about.
The best way for parents and youngsters to get over their hang-ups and anxieties is to mix with others with a similar experience and discuss things.
See also Telling the Illness Story for an article on the healing power of telling one's story.


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Charlie never made any bones about it. He glommed onto Obama and the money, now saying it will rescue a state's budget that was falling off a cliff. He can now take our cut of the action with a straight face.
By embracing Obama, Charlie also is laying groundword for a national catastrophe fund, which is his only hope for bailing out of the mess he's made of the insurance market.


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UCLA was led on the day by juniors Chanelle Van Nguyen and Kaitlin Ray. Van Nguyen, who is ranked No. 11 nationally, cruised in her match at court No. 2, downing Lize Leenknecht, 6-1, 6-0. That win was quickly followed by Ray at court No. 5, as she registered a 6-0, 6-0 win over Cougar Charlotte Koning. It was a successful return to action for Ray, who prior to Friday had not seen any action since the Bruins' match against Baylor on March 10.
With UCLA leading 3-0, 16th-ranked freshman Jennifer Brady notched the clinching win for UCLA at court No. 3, where she downed Maria Biryukova, 6-2, 6-2. Robin Anderson (court No. 1), Catherine Harrison (court No. 4) and Kyle McPhillips (court No. 5) were all up a set at their respective courts when play was suspended.
Prior to singles, the Bruins claimed the doubles point with wins at court Nos. 2 and 3.
UCLA is in action again at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Saturday, hosting Oregon at 11:30 a.m. That match can be seen live on the Pac-12 Networks beginning at 1:00 p.m.
#2 UCLA 4, #53 Washington State 0
Mar 28, 2014 at Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Tennis Center)
|1. #1 Anderson/Brady (UCLA) vs. Leenknecht/Luzina (WSU) 7-7, unfinished
|2. #5 Harrison/McPhillips (UCLA) def. Biryukova/Musilovich (WSU) 8-3
|3. Courtney Dolehide/Van Nguyen (UCLA) def. Koning/Ognjenovic (WSU) 8-4
|1. #4 Robin Anderson (UCLA) vs. #106 Elizaveta Luzina (WSU) 6-1, 0-5, unfinished
|2. #11 Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA) def. Lize Leenknecht (WSU) 6-1, 6-0
|3. #16 Jennifer Brady (UCLA) def. Maria Biryukova (WSU) 6-2, 6-2
|4. #55 Catherine Harrison (UCLA) vs. Olga Musilovich (WSU) 6-3, 3-3, unfinished
|5. #40 Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) vs. Dajana Ognjenovic (WSU) 6-0, 5-3, unfinished
|6. Kaitlin Ray (UCLA) def. Charlotte Koning (WSU) 6-0, 6-0
|Match Notes
|Washington State 15-6; 1-4 Pac-12; National ranking #53
|UCLA 16-1; 4-0 Pac-12; National ranking #2
|Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (2,6,3)


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I went to my cousin's engagement party on the weekend and my aunty told me about her old boss and the unusual gift registry she had on her 50th birthday. She asked each of her friends to give her what they were currently into for a birthday present. For example a book they'd recently read, a TV series they were addicted to, a CD of their favourite songs, a voucher to a great new restaurant they'd discovered. It was such a great way to get to know her friends again and to discover new things she wouldn't have known about otherwise.
It inspired me to start a new segment of reader recommendations. I often run surveys to get more information on the Smagglets, like how old you are or if you have kids or not, but this time I want to know what your obsessions are. So each month, I'm going to ask you for your top 3 recommendations from that month. It can be anything; a vegetable that's been a staple in your weeknight dinners, a new workout that you're loving or a fabulous app that's changed your life. I'd love to hear about it!
July 2013 Top Three Favourites
1. Nathan For You.
It's shot in a kind of Ali G style where the main guy, Nathan, approaches real businesses and offers to 'help' them. It's hilarious. You've never seen dead pan delivery like this before. Oh and follow him on Twitter.
Just throwing this out there but im in NYC for 1 more week and id love to be invited over to a rich person's house for dinner.
2. Gelativo Coffee Ice Cream Cups.
Totally. Obsessed. They're a tiny little cup of espresso flavoured gelato. The perfect after dinner treat with the added bonus of being portion controlled so you don't go all gutsy on a full litre tub. Plus you can hold them and feel like a giant. Double winners.
3. Look At This Instagram.
I've literally been making everyone I know watch this on my iPhone… then I watch them watch it because it's EVERYONE ON INSTAGRAM! I'm pretty sure I've done all of them… except maybe the garden gnome. I've definitely done a duck though.
Melbourne Bonus:
Hooked on Chapel Street and Brunswick Street. It's a funky little seafood chain where you can get gluten-free salt and pepper squid. We've been huge fans for years but in the last few months they've had 2 for 1 meal deals on shopper dockets at Woolworths. We've eaten there once a week for at least the last two months because one of us eats for free. Highly recommended. Try the grilled fish with 1/2 salad and 1/2 chips. The perfect balance between naughty and nice.
Tell me… what are your top 3 recommendations from July? A product? A restaurant? A television show? What made July rock for you?
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Oooh, I love this idea! Here's some for me…
1. Greek Yogurt – I am lactose intolerant and have IBS (not TMI, right? RIGHT?) but after eating good quality Greek yogurt every morning, I'm finding I have a much better gut. Also, I think it's doing good things for my skin sooo win win!
2. Noxzema – Purchased purely for the line in 'Clueless' (Cher: Okay, so you're probably going, "Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?" But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl.) and it works beautifully. It smells like eucalyptus and is super thick.
3. I *hated* the way it looked on the ads, but 'Orange Is The New Black' has suckered me in.
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I'm a greek yogurt WHORE! I love that stuff. I might just give Orange is THe New Black a whirl! I've seen the ads and thought meh!
We can be Greek yogurt sluts together! The Chobani one? Freakin' yum.
I rolled my eyes so hard at the ads for it but it's turning out to be surprisingly good. We have Netflix so I can binge watch it and call my hubby out whenever there is a lesbian scene. He enjoys it, the ol perve that he is :p
1. Fun Runs. I did Run Melbourne, there was a Sri Chinmoy event at Princes Park, and I have signed up for the 10km at Sandy Point. It is a great way to keep yourself motivated to train and exercise during these colder months. [And missy, when am I gonna see your curly mop at an event, hmmm?]
2. Soup in a pouch – I like Pitango or Momos. They are yummy and a good way to get veggies in.
3. Offspring. That really needs no explanation.
cilla xx
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Oh I will! I've been meaning to for ages… might just sign up for one this weekend!
The blog 40 Days of Dating. I am SO OBSESSED and checkit every day then discuss it with my colleague like they're our good friends. Get. on. it. http://www.fortydaysofdating.com
If you have straight hair like me and want big curls for the next day, I recommend an evening hair wash then braiding your hair into two pigtails the nigth before. The next morning when you pull your hair out you have the body and wave before you start curling with a wand, making it a 5 minute job! Amazing results.
I can't think of another, so I will just say two coffees before 10am make a happy day.
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That site is RAD! What day are they up to? I'm a bit old school and their blog lay out is a little bit confusing!
Their layout is TOTALLY confusing, except for when you're addicted and you only want to see the most recent day (mecoughme). I didn't get it when I first started readin on day 7, but once I caught up it became much easier for me to process.
They're up to day 23 or something?
Love that Instagram video 🙂 I have two that immediately spring to mind – Breaking Bad (I'm a late adopter but friggen love it) and L'Oreal Elvive Instant Miracle: pop it on wet hair in the shower and rinse straight out for super silky hair and no residue. Winning!
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The instagram video cracked me up! I've been showing it to EVERYONE! Breaking Bad is amazing and I'll totally try that hair treatment! I'm always looking for something new to try!
Ah I could do with individual gelato cups! I love the stuff but could easily eat a litre in one sitting 🙂
Bloglovin – was really sad to say goodbye to Google Reader but I've now happily converted
Zombie Chews – I am addicted to these!
Scandal – was home sick last week and burned through both seasons. Kinda soapy but I just couldn't stop watching.
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To be honest, I'm not lovin bloglovin… it lost heaps of my favourite blogs in the move. Naughty. What are these Zombie chews you speak of???
oh that's so annoying about losing your blogs, would be such a hassle, especially when I think about how long it took me to build up my list!
Sour strips of chewy candy, terrible for your teeth but I love them! I buy them at the local newsagents. nice 3pm treat on a busy work day
1. Frozen prawns. The most convenient frozen food after peas and pizza. Just like tins of tuna but better!
2. Orange is the New Black. Thanks God, all eps were released at once. Fantastic show and no waiting 😉
3. Digital Daggers. This alternative duo that sound like Garbage cross with Sigur Ros. So you know, the bestest.
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I'm so down on the frozen prawns. I always have them in the freezer AND I JUST started watching orange is the new black last night! LOVE IT!
1. The "A Song of Fire and Ice" book series (because I can't wait a whole year to find out what's going to happen on Game of Thrones).
2. Dove Summer Glow body lotion. I'm not usually a self-tanning kind of girl, but this gives just the tiniest hint of colour to pasty winter limbs.
3. Twinings Earl Grey tea. So delicious!
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Have you read Game of Thrones (secret: I tried and found it too dense. Shhh!) That Dove lotion ROCKS because it's not stinky.
Oh, what a great idea!
1. TV Show – I feel in love with Newsroom when I was sick a few months ago, and I'm so excited that season two is currently showing on cable. That means it will be out on dvd soonish, and I can buy it and watch it and be happy.
2. Food – I have just learnt how to make risotto and it's the perfect thing to eat on cold winter days. I have three pans going on the stove at once, one fry pan to cook the chicken in, one little pot to have the stock warming in and one pot to stir the risotto in. It's really pretty easy and I love to make a lot to have for lunches. Plus you can hide a lot of vegies in it, making bacon and chicken risotto a little healthier.
3. Book – I'm reading Stephen King's The Dome. It's quite long, and has quite a large cast of characters, and I think it is a bit different to the TV show, but I'm seriously loving it. It's too big to lug around in my handbag every day, so I keep it next to my bed to read before sleep, and it's so good it makes me want to go to bed early to read.
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I quite like Newsroom actually, must get more into it. RISOTTO! YES! Might have to check that book out love, it's been a while since I've read a Stephen King.
Okay having had a think…
1. Mango sorbet is rocking my world right now, better for you than ice cream and no having to peel mangos (which lets face it is the worst bit).
2. We went to an awesome restaurant the other night called Circus sauce, its a restaurant attached to yep you got it a circus (Giffords Circus, curretly on tour here in the UK) so not only did I get to watch most brilliant circus, we got to eat afterwards, it was sensational!
3. TV wise total guilty pleasure Hollywood Me, some interior designer who claims to be huge in the US (no one ever recognises him) sends people who do lovely things off to the US to have strange beauty treatments with a pet celeb, meanwhile designer guy redoes their house. Best bit is designer guy has an long suffering assistant to frequently tell him certain things are out of budget at which point designer guy drops his eyebrows and mutters, "I am vvvvvvveeerrrrryyyy disappointed", it is hillarious 🙂
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I love mangos but I'm so weird about mango flavoured things. That show sounds right up my alley!
1. The song Royals by Lorde
2. Singing to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The musical very loudly
3. Pitango Organic Vegetable korma (2 for $4 at the NQR around the corner) with the best roti ever (from the Asian supermarket also around the corner)


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Map vandal bounty 15KBy Bala Shah
OpenStreetMap is an initiative to create and provide free geographic data, such as street maps, to anyone. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international not for profit organization supporting the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing geospatial data for anyone to use and share.
OpenStreetMap has blogged about how a Google IP from India has vandalized some of their Maps
"Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap
Last week Mocality, a Kenyan business data startup, caught Google scraping their data and the post made it to boing boing. Mocality tracked this down with some analysis of their logs and a sting operation, even recording phone calls that Google staff made which contained false information. Google have apologized and the incident looked closed, at least from the outside. Unfortunately we have to report something similar is still happening to us from the same source. Preliminary results show users from Google IP address ranges in India deleting, moving and abusing OSM data including subtle edits like reversing one-way streets.Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been vandalizing OSM in London, New York and elsewhere from Google's IP address, the same address in India reported by Mocality..."
The Techgoss article on the Google India link to the attacks on Mocality is at this link.
Over the years, Techgoss has announced a number of monetary rewards because of which we have got great leads and results. In 2010, based on our reward of Rs. 10,000, Techgoss got hold of exclusive photos of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, attired in Indian clothes, dancing at a wedding in India. This reward was profiled in an article in All Things Digital and the photo was picked up and republished by sites like Gawker.
Separately, our reward for information about iconic sexy Indian cartoon Savitha Bhabhi lead to its creator contacting us.
Today, Techgoss has been handed Rs. 15,000, to be given to anyone who can tell us the full story behind he employee(s) at Google India who was involved in the Mocality and OpenStreetMap incidents. Was it a rogue employee or a group? And how was the incident dealt with within the organization? Anyone who can give us all the details of what happened will be handed over Rs. 15000 in cash. Or in US$ via PayPal or an Indian bank. No questions asked. Anonymity guaranteed.
How to contact us? We are based in Sydney and 'Contact Us' on techgoss.com has all the details.
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We already saw that finance, the traditional home of spreadsheets, has begun to become full of ways of visualisation that exceed the typical pie or bar chart, like, for example Treemaps. But the work on novel experimental systems that go far beyond that is still going on, although without a widespread implantation.
Lisa Strausfeld, Harvard graduated architect turned information designer after working at MIT Media Lab between 1993 and 1995 is the person behind Financial Viewpoints, a 3D representation of 7 mutual funds. In this representation each fund is laid out on a plane, parallel to those of the other funds.
There are seven information categories, that lay on planes perpendicular to the former ones, in a way that allows you to see the value of each category for any fund. Moreover you can look at the evolution of the last 10 years. In fact it is certainly an interactive 3D spreadsheet. It's worth seeing the 1995 artícle where this system was presented.
What makes Strausfeld's work so interesting is the elegance and clarity of the representation. The underlying idea is that you can move freely in a 3D space where you are floating, surrounded by information that you can look up. You can move freely within the space looking up the details.
Financial Viewpoints uses conventional elements, like bar charts and photos of the managers combined with techniques of 3D spatial design along with dynamic objects, transparency and other computer graphics techniques in order to achieve the experience of being immersed in information.
Financial Viewpoints saw the light in 1995 and stands there as a visualisation experiment, whose base continues to be present in Lisa Strausfeld's work, now principal of Information Arts.
Another much more recent work of an extremely creative nature is the so called "Roots", designed and programmed by the New York company UnifiedField for the Goldman Sachs Training Center.
According to Cesar Martin, the art director of the project, the goal was to obtain a representation of the stock exchange that would serve as an inspiration and motivation for the people attending the training center.
Roots summarises 30 years of the U.S. market stock exchange quotation in an imaginative and elegant representation made up of a set of spheres and cones floating in space.
Each sphere represents one sector (capital, energy, services, raw materials…). The size of the sphere is proportional to the volume of exchange.
Within the spheres lie several cones that represent the particular sub sectors or industries (gas, electricity, oil, for example, are included in the sphere of energy) properly labelled in the cone.
At the base of the representation lies a grid on the XY plane that serves as reference. The Z axis represents volatility, so the spheres move up and down, some of them quickly, others slowly according to their volatility index.
Roots is not a tool, just a representation, where you don't get to see the values of particular stocks. Nevertheless it lets you get an intuitive idea of the evolution of the stock exchange on a per sector and per industry basis, in these last 30 years.
For those who have an acceptable speed connection, you can take a look at some interesting videos about Roots (Real Player required)
The future of financial visualisation is already being forged in some advanced circles. Nevertheless we will have to wait for some time until it solidifies in daily use products before we see it in our offices.
We are grateful to Cesar Martin for his help in writing this article and in providing the illustrations.
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Brand creators Dan DaDalt (RedRum) and Michael Machat (Vampire Vineyards) came up with the idea of a hemp infused rum while enjoying a reggae show in Los Angeles.
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3D Spirits and Company, founded in 1996, produces RedRum fruit flavored rum with mango, pineapple, coconut and cherry; VooDoo spiced rum with vanilla, clove and cinnamon; and Jolly Roger coconut and key lime rum.
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The largest art festival in Brighton, known as Brighton Fringe, starts during the month of May! This festival takes place every May, however, this year for the first time, it will last four weeks! The fringe festival is not only the largest in England but also one of the largest festivals in the world. The art festival promises not only to be a treat for the eyes, but also hopes to stimulate, educate, and entertain a wide audience by showcasing diverse art forms.
One of the most intriguing things about this festival is that it is a completely open access festival, which means anyone can come and put on an event! Last year over 50% of the events at the show were by Brighton & Hove artists. In addition there were 743 individual events, 171 free events, 3622 performances 193 venues!
The Fringe Festival welcomes all kinds of art; in fact, it encourages diversity! If you find yourself near Brighton from the 4th of May to 2nd of the June, make sure you stop by!
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Motorola ZN5 (or MOTOZINE ZN5, call it whatever you want), the first 5 Megapixel Moto phone, is finally available in the US, offered by T-Mobile.
We knew the ZN5 would someday land on T-Mobile, and that day has come.
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All Under-20s regulars have impressed for Stu Barrow's side this season and at least one of them will make his debut against Doncaster.
Heath L'Estrange (suspended), Jarrod Sammut (knee) and Brett Kearney (ankle) all miss out but John Bateman returns after a two-match ban.
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Hollie Senteney: Woman charged with giving marijuana, pills to 11-year-old
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- A Butler County woman faces multiple charges after allegedly smoking marijuana with and giving other illegal drugs to her boyfriend's 11-year-old daughter.
Hollie Senteney, 23, is charged with corrupting another with drugs, a fourth-degree felony, and child endangering, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to Middletown police.
The 11-year-old girl was "crying and upset" when she told officers Senteney gave her yellow pills and a "rolled up green substance and had her smoke it with her," according to the police report released Wednesday.
"They were sharing the marijuana, so she didn't smoke the entire joint," Middletown police Lt. Scott Reeve told the Journal-News. "I'm not sure how much of it she did smoke."
Reeve said there's some confusion as to what other drugs the girl may have been given.
"The 11-year-old is also alleging that she was provided some other medication, as well. I believe it was Xanax," Reeve said. "We haven't been able to confirm that she was in fact given Xanax. Holly is claiming that she actually gave her a non-prescription pill."
Court records show that Senteney pleaded guilty in September 2013 to attempted drug abuse methamphetamine and attempted drug abuse Xanax.
The report filed Wednesday indicates the girl's godmother, Sasha Thomas, first reported the incident, which occurred in the 1300 block of First Avenue, to police on Sunday.
"This was an unusual complaint," Reeve said. "I don't recall us getting a complaint like this at least recently so thankfully this is not a common occurrence."
The godmother told police she became suspicious after coming across the girl's iPad and noticing a Facebook conversation between the girl and Senteney that referenced drug use.
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Why A/B Testing Will Increase Your Sales & How To Do It – with Paras Chopra
by Tim Jahn on March 1, 2011
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Paras Chopras founded Visual Website Optimizer, a site that makes it dead simple for you to A/B test elements of your website. His tool is so effective that his customer list includes Threadless, Foursquare, Groupon, Microsoft, Rackspace, and more.
Paras is the guy to know when it comes to A/B testing, so I invited him here to teach us why A/B testing is important to increasing sales, and some basic techniques to get started with A/B testing.
Tim Jahn: For those that don't know, what is Website Visual? I'm sorry, what is Visual Website Optimizer?
Paras Chopra: So Visual Website Optimizer is a A/B testing tool. And by A/B testing I mean, looking at different versions of your website. For example, if you had an ecommerce site and you want to increase your sales on the checkout page, you'd be surprised to know that changing even a single button that is used to check out, that can increase your sales by 20% just by changing the color of that button or the texture on that button.
So my tool allows you to create such changes from the site and then test the impact of those changes on sales and conversions. And the reason we call it visual is because it makes it really easy so it will, allows you to load the checkout page in a visual editor, which is similar to the they way Microsoft or the PowerPoint, or such tools where you are just changing stuff around without knowing a lot of technical knowledge for example, HTML or Javascript, which is made for marketers then it allows you to make changes on the website to do A/B testing really easy.
Tim Jahn: Yeah, I was looking at your testimonials page on the site and the top testimonial says, "Their elegant design and drop-dead simple approach designing, launching and monitoring tests is just sexy. I don't know how else to describe it." And those are my thoughts exactly from using Visual Website Optimizer.
It's just, it's so easy to point and click and change a simple portion of your page and then run the test and see if that works. Where did the idea for this come from? Do you have a background in this idea of testing, or research or how did you come about making this?
Paras Chopra: So it actually goes back to last year, last year, so I always wanted to do a startup and it was a particular dream after college that I wanted to do some sort of startup. And I did a couple of web apps after college. And after that during, I worked for two years but I — as I said I always wanted to do something of my own. And I started researching on my first serious startup, which field should I first start with?
And online marketing is a field that I thought interested me because it had the right elements of technology and web apps and the marketing. So in online marketing, I prototyped lots of different technologies. So online marketing is huge. You have analytics, like Google Analytics and then you have segmentation, you have behavioral targeting, A/B testing. So I read through lots of different technologies and then zero'd down to A/B testing as the first start up that we should then look.
So the companies name is actually Wingify and A/B testing is the first product that we have launched. The idea is to launch such complimentary products in online marketing space that make small to medium businesses make more money online. So the reason we chose A/B testing as the first product is because existing solutions for example, Google Website Optimizer, though it's a free product, it's quite hard to use, it requires you to know a lot of HTML and then it requires tying from you goals doing particular small groups networks on page.
So the whole — so we did a couple of A/B tests ourselves just to know how people are doing that, and we found it incredibly hard to use. It just takes a lot of time and effort and the whole — so it ends up being much more expensive even though it's free. With ours it's a good niche to launch a new product because A/B testing is something people have been doing for years. And since the brand we were doing is so hard to use, people will appreciate if we make it dramatically easier, really AB test, and they would be willing to pay $50.00 a month for that. So that's how — it was a very conscious decision. It's just not, we didn't do this just by chance.
Tim Jahn: Why is — so you made A/B testing very simple in terms of setting it up and implementing it. You don't have to know a lot of technical stuff, it's all visual. But why is A/B testing so important in general? If you have a website and you're selling products, why should you A/B test?
Paras Chopra: So as I said A/B testing is something that large enterprises have been doing for years. Since you take Amazon for an example. Amazon is really, Amazon and Netflix. So it's kind of what organizations are really testing driven. They will be testing each and everything on the page. They'll be testing how their product looks like, they'll be testing their checkout pages, add to cart, the logo height, logo size and layout should on left down by — and that's because they know even small changes can make a lot of difference. So small to medium businesses and startups online don't realize that A/B testing is important because traditionally web design is done by intuition. It's all about intuition of the designer. He designs something and then you have a website.
People come to your site, they may or may not buy the stuff, and there is nothing you can really change about it. You have a conversion rate, you can be happy or sad about it, but what are you going to do about it, right? So A/B testing is the matter that you can use to tactually do something about it. So you are not just sitting idle with your one person conversion rate on the site. But you are actually testing different parts of your website. So as to, so as to squeeze the maximum juice out of the traffic you are getting. So paying for traffic, right. Every visitor who is coming on your site, he has a value associated with him. He is a potential customer.
But if you site is not converting as well as it should, you are losing a lot of value. So just by keeping, just by increasing the conversions, you can create a lot of value. And A/B testing is the best method to increase conversions. Because as I said, even small changes can result in a, can have large impact on sales and conversions. So to give you a couple of examples, we have about 20 or 25 case studies on our website. So when you read any of those case studies, you'll find that very very pivotal changes was out there than almost doubling the conversions. It's hard to believe when I am saying that but people actually experience that on a quite regular basis. That's why —
Tim Jahn: What kind of tiny changes would double conversions? Are we talking like simply making the logo a few pixels bigger or are we talking big changes?
Paras Chopra: So of course if you are testing large changes, it has much more potential to give you large impact on the bottom line, on the profits, revenues, conversions. So if you can afford to completely design of the page, it's always better to do an A/B testing when you are changing something significant on the page. But sometimes, even insignificant or trivial looking changes such as changing the backing color.
So backing color change is very famous for this because typically when people — that is the first easiest test that people particularly do on their sites. That they'll try changing the call to action button color. If it is in green, they'll try to change it into red. So it sounds insignificant but they see that it typically increases or decreases the margins by a significant manner.
So people do this from to such significant changes for visitors. So those are the kind of changes. Or you can take for example, a headline change. You had some kind of headline on the page. You are changing into a different kind of headline and it increased conversions by 30% or 40%. So it's just a headline change, you're not doing any kind of design change, it's a textural change. But still, it changes your conversion rate. And it's very interesting just how small changes can also have an impact. Because we are the designer, a lot of gut feeling and induction I'm always right when our design is the best. But you actually need to test that. Your visitor clicks and actions can only validate your hypothesis whether it's the best or whether it can be proved even further.
Tim Jahn: What if someone is just — let's say they just started their store, they have their first few products going. Where is a good place to start testing? Is it, is the button color the best place to start or is there a good place to start or is it different for everyone?
Paras Chopra: It's different for everyone. So A/B testing ties to your website goals. Even before doing A/B testing, there are a couple of requirements. For example, you need to have at least some sort of traffic on the site. Because if you are just starting out and your daily visitors are like five or ten a day, I think that's not sufficient to do proper A/B testing because you do, because in A/B testing, you need to calculate statistical significance.
So it's a mathematical concept. It says that the difference in conversion rate is not random. Because if you have small traffic, people may on your original page, people may buy two products and on your variation page, people may buy three products. So you can't claim that my conversion rate is 10%.
We're always going to land 15% on the, on the variation and there was a 50% inclement because they weren't marked a lot of conversions in the first place. So if you are just starting out and you have low traffic, then doing A/B testing is not recommended. But if you have traffic in say 100 visitors or 50 visitors a day, or thousands or millions. So anything above 50 or 100 visitors per day, then it's okay to do A/B testing.
Okay, to do A/B testing, that's my opinion. So that is when and the second is before doing A/B testing goals of the website should be clear. So you can't just do, you can't just start doing it on AB testing, let me try A/B testing but let me try AB test the menu, let me try and AB test the headline.
So the first thing is to layout the goals of the website whether you want to increase the sales, whether you want to increase the signups, whether you want to increase newsletter or newsletter signups or whether you want more people to watch the video. Once your goal is clear, the next step is to see which elements on the page are actually impacting that goal. So if you want to increase signups perhaps the best thing would be to tweak your signup form a bit, so try removing some form fields, try changing the form fields, try changing required option form fields or try moving around the form.
So having a clear rule is very important. But having said that, there are a few quick fixes that people can try to have broad goals on the site. For example, headlines and call to actions are very important on a page. So if you don't have any other idea on what to test, perhaps the best idea is to first test your website headline and the call to action button.
Tim Jahn: How long is appropriate to run an A/B test before making a decision on the results? You know so if I change the color of my button from red to blue and start a test, how long should I let that test run before deciding whether or not I should keep the color change?
Paras Chopra: Most tools are including our Visual Website Optimizer. They have some sort of metric to tell them that the results are statistically significant or not. So there's a metric or chance to read original. And only if bad metric is more than 95%, you should conclude that your results are significant. And then almost all tools would have a test duration calculator. So based on your conversion rate and other metrics you enter, it will tell you that you need to run tests for x number of days.
So there is not a rule for this, that's why I am not providing any direct answer. It is based on some calculations and there's a online calculator available there you can enter your conversion rate, the expected improvement and the number of versions in the test. And it will count out the number of days you should wait on on the test.
Tim Jahn: Okay so like Visual Website Optimizer doesn't alert you after a certain period of time in the test and say, "Okay, we've come up with some results. Now is a good time to maybe use this specific variation." It's kind of up to you?
Paras Chopra: Yes, yes exactly. So Visual Website Optimizer will both tell you if results have come and you are, we document those results on the site and it will also alert you saying that enough time has been spent on this test and we don't think you have any good results there. So you don't have to do a lot of thinking. You're tool can handle that; all the mathematics behind it. So you can safely save the test and check reports that it's good to stop the test whether to keep it running or what to do. So you don't have to do any kind of manual calculations.
Tim Jahn: And I assume that you've done some A/B testing with the Visual Website Optimizer site itself, right, in terms of converting customers?
Paras Chopra: Yeah. I do a lot of —
Tim Jahn: What's you're — I'm sorry, what?
Paras Chopra: I say we do a lot of A/B testing.
Tim Jahn: Oh you still do. You, it's on an ongoing basis?
Paras Chopra: Yes, almost pretty much ongoing. So we were to have one, all the other test almost every time running. That's what we need to do to make it.
Tim Jahn: And what kind of results do you see on average in terms of improvement in conversions to sales? These ongoing tests, I mean, are they providing just one or two percent improvements or are they providing a much greater percentage?
Paras Chopra: It depends on the, on the designer variations, on the level of changes you are making. If you are making small changes that says our headline is worth easiest A/B testing tool — if I change it to the best A/B testing tool your company can afford, I cannot expect huge amount of changes. So I expect a small but significant change, but I won't expect that my conversion read off will say five percent goes to 15% because it's a small change. If I want larger changes, I need to do a complete redesign of homepage or any other page that I'm testing.
Because larger the changes you are making, the more chances you have are the significantly increasing the conversion rate. Because of course, if you are doing a small change, the visitor may or may not notice that change or may or may not — it may or may or may not influence his decision to convert. But if you are doing multiple different changes and a large amount of changes that is completely removing some parts or resigning the coloring and completely designing the whole page, then there are much more chances that you'll see huge shifts in conversion rates. So you're conversion rate can jump from five percent to 20% and it's quite possible.
Tim Jahn: And I — I'm sorry, you go ahead.
Paras Chopra: Yeah, I was just saying for usually the way we work is that we do lots of small changes and a big change every now and then. And that's what we recommend to our customers also because you cannot always be doing large changes. You cannot be so unpredictable to your repeat or new visitors. So we do lots of small changes and a couple of big changes.
Tim Jahn: Yeah, that was actually my question is what's a good amount of changes? I mean, is there a point where you're doing too many changes at once, is it good to just start with a button color change and then maybe add on a headline change at some point rather than completely shifting all the elements on the page at a time?
Paras Chopra: To start off, I would recommend changing one thing at a moment. Because if you — so it depends on our goal whether you want to see which elements are impactful on conversions or whether you don't care about it and you just care about increasing the conversions. So if you want to know whether my button color or whether my button is significant to conversions, you would just test that button.
But if you don't care which element on the page is actually responsible for the conversion rate, you can do any sort of changes you want. But we'll start off with — I always recommend to start changing one thing at a moment, not do a lot of changes. Because then attributing success or failure to anybody until the change becomes difficult. If you have changed three things at the moment, how do you know what mattered in the test?
And it also becomes a — also such kind of tests don't have any kind of lessons for your next test because if you're changing in multiple changes you can end up likely saying lessons and learning to other tests, right? Because you do not understand what matters on the page as far as conversion is concerned. So one thing to counteract this is something called Multivariated testing. So multivariated testing is sort of extension to A/B testing. In A/B testing you do multiple different changes on a page as you said, and then try to see increase or decrease in conversions. But multivariated change or what happens is that every change on the page gets combined by every other change you make and combinations are made.
I'll give you an example. For example, if you're changing headline and the image and the button, right, you may make two variations of each three elements. So Visual Website Optimizer will create eight combinations in total where the variation headline is combined by original made, and originally made and so and so forth. So if we change the XCombine by every other change and lots of different combinations are made. And then Visual Website Optimizer splits traffic to those, to these combinations. And in the reports you can clearly see which element mattered to you conversions and which didn't.
Tim Jahn: Oh, I see. Oh so multivariate you're seeing which of the elements is the most important as apposed to just testing variations of one element?
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Michael Bay's latest Transformers installment, Transformers: Age of Extinction, opened yesterday to less than stellar reviews by the critics.
The critics have spoken and apparently Michael Bay's latest Transformers, isn't very good. As far as highly anticipated summer blockbusters go, Transformers: Age of Extinction, was among the most talked about heading into the summer season. As it currently stands, Michael Bay's latest live-action Transformers, is the worst reviewed film of the franchise.
On the heels of a cast and theme reboot, the franchise underwent a few changes from the previous releases, that did little to boost the recent releases appeal to critics. The fourth installment of the Transformers franchise is currently at a 17% on popular critic review aggregation site Rottentomatoes.com, while noted movie critic Richard Roeper gave the film a D, claiming "the longer the movie goes on, the less interesting it becomes; it just wears you down".
The biggest change to the franchise came in the form of Mark Wahlberg, who was brought on to play the lead Cade Yeager, while Shia LaBeouf's character, Sam Witwicky, was retired after three films. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the previous three Transformers films received reviews of 57%, 19%, and 36% respectively. One thing worth noting, is that with each film, the "audience" reviewed the films much higher than the critics with Transformers: Age of Extinction receiving a respectable 72% by the 155,752 users that rated the film to date.
The good thing for Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures (the film's production company) is that the previous Transformers may have been shunned by the critics but still performed very well at the global box office. The first film raked in over $709 million dollars while the 2nd and 3rd films brought in $826 million and $1.1 billion respectively (Wikipedia - Transformers films).
As it currently stands, according to Hollwoodreporter.com, Transformers: Age of Extinction is nearing $1 Billion dollars at the global box office. Positive movie reviews do not always equate to box office dollars. Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures can attest to that. If Age of Extinction is to reach $1B (only $110M away), it would be the second, billion dollar installment of the franchise.


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Strawberry Pineapple Sorbet
1 10-ounce bag frozen strawberriesBlend all ingredients except fresh strawberries in a high-powered blender. Pour into sorbet glasses and top with sliced fresh strawberries. Serves 2.
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Shea, Shae, Shay – Girl Names or Boy Names?
|July 12, 2010
This question has been bringing a lot of traffic to my blog lately, so I thought I'd post about it and see what everyone thinks.
Most of us know of Shea as a surname and/or a stadium name. Shea doesn't currently rank in the top 1,000 for either boys or girls, but the name and its various spellings do appear further down on the SSA's list:
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Most versions are used more often for girls than for boys.
What do you think — is Shea a boy name or a girl name? How about other versions of the name? (Does spelling matter?)
*Commenter Panya correctly notes that Shai also happens to be an unrelated Hebrew name. It's impossible to know which Shais are which, though, so I just counted them all as versions of Shea above.
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It's male, no matter the spelling, or how many girls have it.
Oh, and I'd assume Shai was the Hebrew name, pronounced 'shy' not 'shay'.
I only know girls with this name, so I think of it as a girl's name.
On a slightly different note, I often see it paired with Skye/Skylar/Schuyler. Do you have any idea why these names suddenly became popular in the late '80s & early '90s, particularly Schuyler?
The first Shae I ever knew was actually named Shaelyn, so my instinct is to say girl. However, since Shea is an anglicized form of Séaghdha, that version seems very male.
(I don't actually care for the name, unless it's a nickname for Séamus/Shamus, simply because it makes me think of shea butter.)
I agree with Panya. It's male, no matter how many girls have it.
I only know male Sheas so I'd vote boy.
Julie, it reminds me of Shea butter, too!
It can go either way but it's a very feminine name in my opinion. So more for girls.
My boyfriend is called Shay, so for his sake I will say male. My unlce said it was a girl's name.
obviously i love the name. heard it when i was about 9 years old and i knew then if i ever had a daughter her name would be shay. i think it could go either way just like alot of names these days ie shawn, donnie, and even mike.
ps i paired it with danielle which i believe adds the femine
I know many girls named Shay/Shae and one boy named Shea, he hates it because he claims his parents gave him a girls name, which I would have to agree with…
@shays mom:
I'm sorry, but Shawn is absolutely a male name. Naming your daughter Shawn is just trying to make it more acceptable for them to wear men's boxers and cargo pants.
I think it can go wither way!!
And I have a question myself, Do you think Julz is a boy or a girls name?
We named our daughter Jillian Shai. Shai is Hebrew and means gift from God. We thought it was a very pretty name with such a beautiful meaning. We were going with Grace but the name has become way to popular and we wanted something a little more unique. Just as my name is universally used for both male/female, so is Shai (however you choose to spell it).
My name is Shae and i know very few with the same name but the few i do are girls i think it's a girl name
p.s i'm a girl
it doesn't really matter whether it's a girl's name or a boy's name. many names like jessie and alex started out as boys' names but have become girls' names.
The origin of the name Shea is Irish/ Gaelic. I live in Ireland and Shea/ Shay are very popular names for boys but I have never heard them being used for girls in Ireland (but I have in America).
Correct Niamh my son is called Shay.iam English but have some Irish background.
Well my names Shaye. Ima Girl and I would of thought that this name is a unisex name but boys would spell it different from girls
My name is Shea. Last name begins with a Mc
Can't get any more Irish than that. Let me make
this very clear… Shea is a MALE Irish name. So go
ahead and keep naming your girls Shay (if this
spelling of the name justifies you reason for naming a
girl a boys name) because almost all girls I have met
with the name Shay not the correct Shea are HOT!!!
We have a son named Shaye. We liked the hebrew meaning ift from God because he was. Born 2 pounds 2 at 31 weeks – he's now 3 running around like a cheeky monkey! It can go either way I say – just for him, nothing suited until we held a card with his name on it beside his incubater and when we said "Shaye" to him, it was the only name he responded to with a wee sigh and smile :)
Ooops – meant "gift from God" not "ift"! People are surprised by our choice as our children are a mix of Samoan, German, Asian (my side) and European, Maori, Irish, Scottish, English (husband's side). Shaye went will with his last name – Ormsby :)
my name is Shay, I am a female. This is a really common name for girls my age (29) so I have notice in my home town. My middle name is Rochelle, works for me now, but as a kid I hated it.
Hi im a boy called Shea and had this discussion with several people. Here is what i have come to believe that SHEA is a boys name short for sheamus(irish, my name isnt sheamus its shea but i have irish blood)however it can be a girls name aswell it just depends on how you want to spell it like SHAY and SHAE and SHAI and typically the more feminine version of shea(however you want to spell it) and too be honest i really dont think it matters what gender it is, it can have the name.
Being Irish, I named my son, Shea Daniel Mc…. Ignorance would have people making comments that it is a girls name because of…whatever. Gaelic Origin, NOT AMERICAN…It means Hawklike, Irish form of John. Yes, in America they like the sound and give it to girls with different spellings, but it does not change that it's origin is Gaelic, means Hawk like and Irish form of John.
my name is Shea and so you know I'm a girl … I don't think it honestly matters how you spell the name or if it's for a boy or girl it's a unisex name just like Jamie or Ashley or Shaun or anything like that … I've never met anyone with my name nor has anyone ever said to me it's a boys name I also have Irish blood but that doesn't mean I have a boys name specially cause I how it's a spelt … my middle name is adele so it goes lovely together they only problem is people never pronounce it properly bit annoying!
My maiden name was Shea, originally it was O'Shea, family is also originally from county cork ireland. I love the name and I hate when it's spelled incorrectly. I had a time growing up and teachers pronouncing my last name. They would say Sheeee-uuh? I would say "no" have you ever heard of Shea's stadium? So then they understood. I think the name sounds femanin. But the name is Irish and if the Irish say its a male name then it's a male name. Enough said. Haha.
I'm from Derry, Ireland the name shèa is for a boy. My sons names Shea-Liam Breslin full Irish name never in my life if heard a girl called Shea, but my son got called she a in Scotland were my partner from if drive me crazy
I am a girl and i have to say I have NEVER met guy with the name Shea, Shay or in any form of those names. But does it really matter if it is a guys' name or girls' name? In my opinion no it doesnt matter. I just like to think people who are named Shai or however you wanna spell it are just as special as children with other names. One thing though about the name Shea only spelled Shai, people always say it wrong they say Shy.
It's a traditioal Irish male name. However many inner city American's with little to no education have given it to girls. Thanks a lot, you make my life difficult.
It's not a name it just makes me think of Shea Butter like calling a child Jojoba or Hibiscus what are we naming children from cosmetic and bathroom washes these days honestly
Its a boys name, my sons name is Shay and I know its a boys name because we have family in Ireland and asked them to make sure, there are other ways to spell it like (Shea) Neary the Liverpool boxer
It's a boys name, of Irish descent.. I'm Irish, born in Ireland & still living here, 100% boys name!
Definitely a boys name. It's atrocious on a girl. I think americans need to stop disrespecting other nationalities names' and using them on the wrong genders.
My name is Shea and I am a female. Love my name! Does anyone else that is named this have problems with people thinking its pronounced as She-ah???
I am 16 , a female and called Shaye – Erin. I love my name, have met a couple of boys – Shea, but no girls. Love bein unique and not one of the Stacey, Danielle, Hayley, Courtney, Chelsea brigade.
I have a sister named Shaylon and we call her Shay. I never thought it could be a boys name but I guess it could. But Shaylon is a good suggestion if you are looking for a boy or girls name.
My name is Shayla short Shay. My Mom heard it on the Price is Right!
By the way I am a female.
I had a friend at primary school called Shailene. Now that's a very girlie version of Shay/Shae/Shea…& if you think that's a modern version let me tell you I am now 64 ! Shailene was born in 1948 like me !
I have named my son O'Shae (Originated from Ireland) and i have had mixed responses. Do you think this name is feminine or masculine or both???? Hsve I spelt the name in a feminine way?? What are your thoughts???
Please share your thoughts and opinions…..
I love the name Shae for a boy or a girl. I flirted with the idea of calling my first son Shae but went for Callum instead. I associate it with an Irish name for a boy but my boss's gorgeous daughter is called Shay and that's what got me thinking if I ever have a little pink one- this would be just as lovely for a girl!
I think Shea is defiantly a girls name. I'm biased because I am a girl and that's my name, but I also lived with a girl in college with the same name and spelling.. I have only met one guy named Shay, spelt differently.
If you look up the meaning of they name Shay or my full name which is Shaylynn it will obviously come up Irish, and Hebrew decent. Irish meaning fairy palace and in Hebrew meaning a gift, or gods gracious gift… This meaning speaks volumes to me and is clearly on the feminine side especially when you compare it to other Irish boy names like Brian.
Shay is male, nothing feminine about it. Its even in the irish top 100 for the boys, so.
The Irish Shea/Shay does *NOT* mean anything like "fairy palace". Depending on the word being anglicised, it means either "hawk", "admirable", "fine", or "fortunate".
Siodh/siog [pronounced 'shee' not 'shay'] means "fairy" and palas means "palace".
Shea is definitely a boy's name. That's what we named my son because we are huge hockey fans and love Shea Weber on the Nashville Predators. We wanted something unique, but not really strange or weird, but for some reason people sometimes think his name is pronounced like Shia which I hate. I'm just like really? How does that look like it would be pronounced that way. I also hate it when people see his name and think he's a girl. I don't know where people are getting the Fairy Palace meaning from. We've always seen it's meaning as admirable or hawk-like. Shea is actually a more popular name in Ireland and Canada.
Shae is the name of a prostitue in George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy novel series and now " Game of Thrones" TV show. She ends up being a snitch who is murdered by her lover. So, whether the name is boy or girl, do you really want your kid to be associated with this piece of pop culture?
For those saying that Shay is a boys name, I take some offence. Shay/Shea/Shae is a gender neutral name and is used by both girls and boys. I haven't met a bunch of other people by the same name (given it's not overly used), but those that I have are usually feminine. It's kinda insulting to look up your name and see that people are declaring it to be the opposite gender, no matter what.
One of the meanings of Shay is "a gift" and that is the reason my mom loved the name. Not because she wanted to be different. But because she thought it would be a lovely name for her baby. And I love the name and am always excited to meet anyone by the same name (even if their of different spelling).
So, for those saying that this name is destined for boys: Don't deal with absolutes.


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