Hilton Head was sparsely attended by Unit 146 players.  We only found Muh-Sha Crawford, Hampton VA who won 17.44 masterpoints.  She said all the big guys were there and it was thrilling to play against them.  Congrats to Muh-Sha.

1. The January Birthday game will be combined with the February Birthday game on 2/22.  

2. The February Mentor-Student game will be on 2/8.

3. The Unit Board meeting previously scheduled for 2/1 will be held 2/8 after the game.

Each Director decides whether or not to cancel their own games based on inclement weather.  Many of you remember that we used to link Bridge Center status to Virginia Beach Public Schools: if they closed, we closed.  We eliminated that linkage a few years ago.  Now it's up to each Director for the given day.

Tracy Brines will will be having a lesson this Friday at 0915 before the game.  Topic will be Penalty Doubles.  This will be a 4-part series and is intended for advanced intermediates, however all skill levels are welcome.

1. Update Friday 1/23 4 PM:  The Unit Game on Sunday 1/25 is cancelled.  We'll celebrate January birthdays on Sunday 2/1. There's enough snow and ice in the forecast that I'm deciding to cancel what would probably be a sparsely attended game. If you'd like me to send you a text alert about the game please email me with your number at peterhaglich@gmail.com.

2.  Results from last weekend's Sectional can be found here:  https://live.acbl.org/events/2601341.  A few people have asked why they aren't on our website.  The answer is in the dichotomy between ACBL Live and the similarly named ACBL Live for Clubs.  Directors for our club games post results and hand records to Live for Clubs.  Bridgewebs, the platform for our website, checks Live for Clubs and pulls in these items, updating our website automatically.  When we have a tournament with an ACBL director, however, they post results to ACBL Live.  Bridgewebs has no way to access those results.  If your email is up to date with ACBL then you should receive notification when results are available on ACBL Live.  If you don't get it, then check your spam folder and your registered preferences at acbl.org.

Unit President Maureen Brines has called a regular meeting of the Unit Board of Directors for Sunday, February 1st after the Unit Game.  Unit members are invited to attend and participate according to the Unit Bylaws. 

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Many of you are receiving email from club owners about upcoming events and other bridge topics, even if you never signed up for them.  The club owners probably obtained your email from the ACBL roster.  The ACBL terms of use (found at https://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/about/termsofuse.pdf) allow them to send information about ACBL-sanctioned bridge events and announcements and newsletters discussing activities of the respective club, Unit, or District.  If you don't want to receive their emails then send them a note to direct them to remove you from their mailing list.  If they won't honor your wishes then let me know.

Emails from the Unit will be sent using the database we maintain on BridgeWebs, which is also updated with the ACBL roster.  If you want to opt out of those, you can either use the Contact Us form on the web page or else you can update your member profile in the Member Area (under Membership).  If neither of those work then contact the webmaster, Wrus Kristiansen, or myself.

P. Haglich