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 7/29/2008  Website Attack
 Recently the URB website fell victim to a very bad hacker who had a lot of fun for a whole week. The hole has now been plugged, but in the process, the website looks goofy. My programmers are currently working on getting it fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
 8/30/2007  Have a MAC and want to use the URB database? - Solutions are on the way!
 The original URB application was written for the PC environment, but many MAC users have requested a version they could use. Great news...it''''s in the works. The progress will be posted on this home page - watch for the news flashes.
 
 8/23/2007  Latest Publisher Catalogs have been entered.
 The latest thirteen (13) publisher catalogs of new song titles have been entered into the Ultimate Ring Binder database. Updates can be purchased online on Tuesday August 28, 2007. If you have purchased the URB application, refer to the email announcement you would have received the last week of August 2007. For online URB subscribers, the same update is included in the online database for searching.
 
 8/6/2007  2007 Distinctly Bronze Rehearsal CD is ready. Order yours today.
 Click on "Catalog of Products" on left navigation bar. In the SEARCH box, type in 130020 which will take you right to the spot to quickly order your copy of the rehearsal CD for the 2007 Distinctly Bronze repertoire.
  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the URB at toll free: 888.438.6987.
 
 12/1/2006  Order a rehearsal CD for any ringing event - conducting, ringing, etc.
 

Planning a ringing event?
Going to a ringing event?
Preparing for a concert?
New ringers in your choir?
You need a rehearsal CD that only the URB can provide!
Included in the price is an allowance for royalties per song title paid to the music publisher(s) by the URB. Email your list of song titles to TheConductor@myURB.com and await further information by reply email. Or phone: 888.438.6987 toll free, central time zone.

 
 6/10/2006  Can''t find a song title in your stack of demo CDs? URB has a solution!!
 

IMAGINE:  You need to listen to a song before your next rehearsal. By using the URB database, you''ve found which demo CD it''s on, but you can''t find that CD in your growing stack at home. Don''t panic. The Ultimate Ring Binder has just the solution.

This service is also indispensable in getting all the song titles on one CD from the repertoire list of your upcoming Festival, Workshop, Distinctly Bronze, Bayview, Master Conducting Class, etc. Great for directors, for ringers, even clinicians!!

Contact TheConductor@myURB.com to find out how that song title could be in your mailbox tomorrow.

 
 6/1/2006  Book the URB class in your Area!-especially great for Director''s Seminars
 

Add something new to your class line-up for your next event – Director’s Seminars, Festival Conferences – Workshops, etc. The Ultimate Ring Binder class:

·        Offers something new and refreshing to your class schedules.

·         Highlights the “cool” new things in the handbell world.

·        Outlines a variety of ways to organize your handbell world. Everything from your music library, to your growing stack of music publisher''s demo CDs, to your collection of training texts and the CDs/Videos you’ve been collecting over the years of your favorite “professional” handbell ensembles.

·        Features the much sought-after resource of all the internet links, connecting you to the rest of the handbell world and its resources.

·        Illustrates how the Ultimate Ring Binder website and software can make your handbell life so much more fun!

·        can be adapted to any class time length.

Contact Alanna Teragawa
Minneapolis
 11/20/2005  Enter your own events in the URB calendar!
 As soon as you know the details of an upcoming handbell concert, festival, or workshop, let the rest of the handbell community know about it by entering it on the Ultimate Ring Binder global calendar of handbell events.

The URB calendar is displayed in such a way to make it easy to find something right in your own neighborhood. Check it out, and fill it up with your dates.

You will need to register a username and password which will enable you to edit the event you entered. This protects your event details from someone else changing it. [If you are already a subscriber to the URB community, use that username and password.]
 
 8/1/2004  Now Available! Handbell Devotional Book
 

NEW!! Bell Prayers - A Weekly Devotional for Handbell Choirs. The URB is proud to be an authorized distributor of this new devotional by Barb Younguist and Nancy Sandro, two friends from my home state - Minnesota. One devotional for each rehearsal of the year. One price. One book. Make copies for each ringer notebook in your choir. Notecards are also available of the colorful artwork used throughout the book.  http://myurb.sectorlink.org/eshop/10Browse.asp