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Nothing New This Week: I'm "Migrating" This Site to a New Web "Host"

If you visited this site in the past week, you probably know that my former Web "host" dropped the site from view for several days before again showing it, which made me mad - there was no good explanation - and I decided to find a new place for it. I told the story in the revised last news.

I've spent my Christmas vacation "migrating" - the Web, an interesting word in itself, has spawned its own vocabulary - my files to the new provider. It's mostly complete, and your MUM should functional by the second day of the new year, the last of the century and millennium (see the next item). I'm worn out and I decided to not put letters or exhibits on this week.

Have a good new year and I hope you'll visit next week!

It's ABOUT TIME! Is this the new millennium? This site has a good explanation - it walks you through, with tables yet!

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory [Washington, D.C., the timekeeper for the U.S.A.] the end of the second millennium and the beginning of the third will be reached on January 1, 2001 [not 2000!]

This date is based on a calendar created in 526 A.D. by Dennis the Diminutive, the head of a Roman monastery who forged a common calendar from the divergent dating systems of his day.

To read more about it please go to http://justclickandgo.com.do/millennium


Tell Your Congressperson You Support the Tampon Safety and Research Act of 1999! Here's How and Why


Help Wanted: This Museum Needs a Public Official For Its Board of Directors

Your MUM is doing the paper work necessary to become eligible to receive support from foundations as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. To achieve this status, it helps to have a American public official - an elected or appointed official of the government, federal, state or local - on its board of directors.

What public official out there will support a museum for the worldwide culture of women's health and menstruation?

Read about my ideas for the museum. What are yours?

Eventually I would also like to entice people experienced in the law, finances and fund raising to the board.

Any suggestions?


Do You Have Irregular Menses?

If so, you may have polycystic ovary syndrome [and here's a support association for it].

Jane Newman, Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine, asked me to tell you that

Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility and is linked to diabetes.

Learn more about current research on PCOS at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University - or contact Jane Newman.

If you have fewer than six periods a year, you may be eligible to participate in the study!

See more medical and scientific information about menstruation.


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