Michelle awarded Billie Jean King Contribution award
Michelle was awarded earlier this month by the Women’s Sports Foundation for her contribution in developing women’s sports.
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for helping the development of women’s sports. Kwan is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, winning five world titles, nine U.S. titles and two Olympic medals. Kwan was named the first U.S. public diplomacy envoy in 2006 by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a post that takes her around the world to meet with youth about social and educational issues.
Reference: Ochoa, Kwan among those honored by sports foundation, USA Today
No comments Digg thisMichelle on ESPN’s “My Wish”; on Wed, June 27
On Wednesday, June 27, Michelle will take part during ESPN’s “My Wish” series, which airs during SportsCenter. The first airing is during the 6-7p broadcast of SportsCenter, but the piece will air on other SportsCenter airings throughout the night. Don’t miss it!
For more info, check out the “My Wish” thread:
http://www.mkforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18504
Restarted MKF; Expect S/W Upgrade Maintenance this weekend
MKF has started to act funny again. The “quick” fix is to always perform a reboot, which I just performed. Will take a while for board to run properly again.
I’m not sure why the board keeps on having such weird problems. We didn’t have any problems when we were on a dedicated server. Ever since I downgraded (due to their not being as much activity when Michelle was skating) to a virtual private server, we’ve had these intermittent problems which are frustrating to all of us, I know.
The visibility into the problems are hard to debug, but I will certainly try. Thanks for everyone’s patience
No comments Digg thisWatch for Michelle on NBC May 28, 2007!
Michelle will be a judge for Miss Universes 2007 on May 28, 2007
“Celebrity judges this year include NBC’s “Heroes” James Kyson Lee, NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” briefcase model Lindsay Clubine, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, rocker Dave Navarro, World and Olympic figure skating champion Michelle Kwan, celebrity hairstylist Ken Paves, fashion designer Marc Bouwer, “Project Runway” judge and Elle magazine fashion director Nina Garcia, and former Miss Universe (1993) Dayanara Torres.”
No comments Digg thisExperiencing Server / Forum Problems
Update: All is well now in MKF land : ) Sorry about the board being down. I think things are running more smoothly too.
As I was trying to upgrade to 3.6.4, the latest version of vbulletin, it looks like the code in the latest s/w is disliked even more by what is installed by default with ASO. A program called Eaccelerator is making all the pages crash. Just letting all of you know that I’m aware of the problem. Please be patient.
No comments Digg thisMichelle’s visit to China as Public Diplomacy Envoy
Michelle is in China for her first oversees trip as the US Public Diplomacy Envoy! She will be in Beijing from January 17-21, in Guangzhou from January 21-23, and in Hong Kong from January 23-25.
Check out pictures of Michelle’s trip (continually updated as the pictures come in)
Come join the discussion about the trip: OFFICIAL thread - MK visit to China as US Envoy!
No comments Digg thisMichelle has posted on the forum!
Michelle has just posted on the forum wishing everyone at the forum a Merry Christmas. Come read!
Merry Christmas xoxox Michelle Kwan
No comments Digg thisMichelle to be named a U.S. public diplomacy ambassador!
From the AP report:
Michelle Kwan, the American figure skater who owns nine national championships and five world titles, is about to become a nonsalaried U.S. diplomat.
On Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to name the 26-year-old Californian and daughter of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong as a public diplomacy ambassador, said a senior U.S. official who spoke anonymously pending the formal announcement.
Kwan, the biggest star in her sport for a decade, will represent American values especially to young people and sports enthusiasts and is expected to travel widely, the official said.
The announcement will be made Thurs, Nov 9, at 4pm. Come join the discussion about the appointment: Condoleezza Rice to Announce Michelle as nonsalaried U.S. diplomat
No comments Digg thisNew Section At The Forum! : )
Come join.. you know want to come join in the fun! 
You can see it under MK Chat titled “Join in the fun at MKF!”. I’ve set it so only moderators can start threads but anyone can respond to them; this is mainly just to keep it organized and uncluttered. So report us if we start spamming that forum =P
If you have any other ideas for what other uses that this section could be (like what other activities) we’d be happy to hear them! Right now there is two polls going on, and Bonnie just started with her first assignment of discussing “Romanza”. The idea was thanks to a wonderful member here, and we decided to call this “Trip Down Memory Lane”. If you have any questions or comments, please comment to this post or in Forum Feedback.
No comments Digg thisVote: Skaters Subforum?
VOTE!
Right now we’re having a poll at the forum to decide whether or not we should have a Skaters Subforum. Make sure you make your input here:
Would you like to see a Skaters Subforum?
Other Changes to the Forum
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More small changes will be coming in the future, so be sure to look for them 