Bridge Club of Houston 299'r Sectional Results

The Bridge Club of Houston held it's 299'r sectional tournament this past weekend. They had, by all appearances, a very nice turnout. The results, with pictures, are available here.

Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson, who was a member of Unit 174 for a short time prior to 2007, passed away Sunday, June 21st.

The obituary is here.

Madelyn Mary Marino Caskey

Madelyn Caskey, Sharon McCollum's mother, who once was a member of Unit 174, passed away on June 23rd.

The obituary is here.

District Web Server Virus Infections

I have been fighting an infection of the District web server by a Trojan called JS/IFrame.gen for the past three weeks.

It is not clear where it came from, but I believe it has now been removed from the server.

Most of you probably don't know (or care) that all the Unit web sites in District 16 share the same web server with the District site, but this means that when the District site has a problem, so do all the Unit sites.

Unfortunately, even though I believe the site to be clean as of today, Google has the District site and all it's sub sites flagged as probable attack sites. I've had many reports of people being warned by their Norton Anti-Virus software, and those of you who use Firefox and/or Safari may have seen similar messages. It will take some time for Google to change the designation.

If you will use www.ACBLUnit174.org instead of www.d16acbl.org/U174/, you will avoid the warnings. Please change your favorites to the new address.

Trust that all the District webmasters are working hard to clean up the server, and hopefully this episode will be history soon.

Ace of Clubs Moves

John Zilic reports that his game has moved to 1133 Brittmoore, and that the Tuesday night game will start at 7:00 pm, not 6:30 as has been recently the case. All the information is on the Ace of Clubs web page.

On-Line Unit Directory

A new On-line Unit 174 Directory has been added to this site for the convenience of the members.

To use it, you must

• Register with your ACBL number and a password of your choosing,
• Log in using your ACBL number and password, and
• Click on Unit Pages/Unit Directory to access the directory.

The last two items can be done in either order.

This is intended to augment the current printed directory, providing convenient access to members' contact information.

Only members of ACBL Unit 174 can gain access.

Try it out! As always, if you see something that doesn't work, please let me know ASAP by clicking on the e-mail link at the bottom of the page.