RSS-Feed-Manual webmaster@jamahome.org http://www.jamahome.org/index_files/image4281.jpg http://www.jamahome.org/ 180 http://www.jamahome.org A terse feed of announcements of the Judging Association of Mid-America en The season is upon us. Email is an important communication mechanism for last minute changes (along with visiting this web site -- or using the RSS feed.) I will be sending out emails to all judges today. Please reply to the email by Wednesday night (January 20th.) If I don't receive a reply to the email, I will assume that the email address is not valid and will have to work to obtain a valid email address. During the season, try to get in the habit of visiting this web-site a couple times a week. Thanks and contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:45:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000029 On January 7th, the JAMAHome.org server will be changing Internet service providers. The server IP address should not change, so no DNS changes are involved. The service may be unavailable for several hours during the day. Any email that is sent, will be queued upsteam and delivered when the move is completed. Please contact Bob Berry if you have any questions or concerns. Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:45:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000028 2010 JAMA Judges' training will take place at Truman High School on December 12th. The clinicians are: Phil Madden, Cheryl Meyers, Chris Hestin and Frank Miller. The fee for the clinic is $25 (which includes judges manuals, lunch, and dinner.) Please RSVP to Chris Putnam at cputnam@jamahome.org. If you know of ANYONE interested in judging, get him/her there! For more details, see the JAMAHome.org website. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:45:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000027 Starting on November 1st, I will be using a weekly maintenance window to patch, harden, and back up the JAMAhome.org server. This window is between Noon and 2:00 PM each Sunday. During this period the server may be periodically unavailable. Email will be queued upstream (so no email will be lost.) If you have any questions please contact me at rberry@jamahome.org. Thanks -- Bob Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:45:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000026 The Judges Association of Mid America (JAMA) has finalized the training session sponsored by the Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) for color guard judges for the upcoming 2009 season. We are excited to announce that on December 13, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, Robert Solomon and Paul Lampkin will be training JAMA judges for another season serving the over 75 color guard units in MCCGA. Mr. Lampkin will be focusing on General Effect and Ensemble Analysis while Mr. Solomon will delve into the downstairs Equipment and Movement captions. Both will work together covering changes for the 2009 season and general judging topics. Following the terrific clinic last year with Kristen O’Melia and Eric Kitchenman, these two judges will bring even more insight to the judging process and will help us to develop our skills to an even higher level. Exposure to these two clinicians and the skills our judges will learn and hone will serve to make MCCGA’s membership even stronger. As always, we are looking for qualified judges, so if you know of anyone interested, please ask them to contact JAMA to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of color guard and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA’s members do the same with their performances! JAMA is entering its 9th season providing judges to color guard and percussion circuits across the country as well as marching band contest in the Midwest. Questions relating to JAMA can be forwarded to Susan Johnson, President, at sjohnson@jamahome.org or you can visit JAMA’s website at www.jamahome.org. The Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) is entering its 16th season serving independent and scholastic guards and percussion units in the Midwest, including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Iowa. Information regarding MCCGA can be found at its website, www.mccga.org. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:45:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000025 The Judges Association of Mid America (JAMA) has finalized the training session sponsored by the Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) for color guard judges for the upcoming 2009 season. We are excited to announce that on December 13, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, Robert Solomon and Paul Lampkin will be training JAMA judges for another season serving the over 75 color guard units in MCCGA. Mr. Lampkin will be focusing on General Effect and Ensemble Analysis while Mr. Solomon will delve into the downstairs Equipment and Movement captions. Both will work together covering changes for the 2009 season and general judging topics. Following the terrific clinic last year with Kristen O’Melia and Eric Kitchenman, these two judges will bring even more insight to the judging process and will help us to develop our skills to an even higher level. Exposure to these two clinicians and the skills our judges will learn and hone will serve to make MCCGA’s membership even stronger. As always, we are looking for qualified judges, so if you know of anyone interested, please ask them to contact JAMA to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of color guard and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA’s members do the same with their performances! JAMA is entering its 9th season providing judges to color guard and percussion circuits across the country as well as marching band contest in the Midwest. Questions relating to JAMA can be forwarded to Susan Johnson, President, at sjohnson@jamahome.org or you can visit JAMA’s website at www.jamahome.org. The Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) is entering its 16th season serving independent and scholastic guards and percussion units in the Midwest, including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Iowa. Information regarding MCCGA can be found at its website, www.mccga.org. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:45:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000024 As you may have noticed, the www.jamahome.org server was down again today. Only one mail message was bounced (and I forwarded it to the people involved.) The www.jamahome.org server has been migrated to a new PC (it's actually running in a virtual machine, so I should be able to migrate it quickly in the case of future problems.) Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:39:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000023 The server that hosts the JAMAHome.org website and email has developed hardware problems resulting in unplanned downtime this past week. I will migrate the site to a new server between Noon and 4:00PM on Sunday, November 2nd. During this time, mail will queue but be unavailable. No data will be lost. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:02:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000022 The Judges Association of Mid America (JAMA) has finalized the training session sponsored by the Mid Continent Color Guard Association (MCCGA) for percussion judges for the upcoming 2009 season. We are excited to announce that on December 13, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, Julie Davila and Ron Hardin will be training JAMA judges for another season serving the over 30 percussion units in MCCGA. Mrs. Davila will be focusing on Performance Analysis and the concert classes while Mr. Hardin will delve into the visual caption. Both will work together covering effect and general judging topics. Following the terrific clinic last year with Dennis DeLucia, these two judges will bring even more insight to the judging process and will help us to develop our skills to an even higher level. Exposure to these two clinicians and the skills our judges will learn and hone will serve to make MCCGA’s membership even stronger. As always, we are looking for qualified judges, so if you know of anyone interested, please ask them to contact JAMA to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of percussion and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA’s members do the same with their performances! JAMA is entering its 9th season providing judges to color guard and percussion circuits across the country as well as marching band contest in the Midwest. Questions relating to JAMA can be forwarded to Susan Johnson, President, at sjohnson@jamahome.org. Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:02:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000021 Hi All. There are several changes taking place at the JAMA website. First, there's a member's only site now available. If you're a JAMA member, you should receive an email with the details for accessing this new site. If you haven't received this email by Thursday, January 24th, please contact Bob Berry at berry@jamahome.org. Another change is that we have too many members!! We had several name collisions, so I had to change everyone's email address. Your JAMA emails address now includes your first initial. So John Doe who used to be just, doe@jamahome.org, is now jdoe@jamahome.org. If you use the web portal, your password has not changed. Also, if you were on the board previously, your last name will suffice for now (since we had published those addresses before.) At some point, I would like to eliminate those "last name only" addresses as well to cut down on spam. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:14:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000020 Hi All. The server that hosts the JAMA website has had a hard disk fail. This coming weekend, I will migrate the site to another server. The Site will be down Saturday, January 26th from Noon to 4:00PM. (Most of you should be working, so the impact should be minimal.) Until then, I'm making frequent backups, but if the site should disappear, it is because of a second hard drive failure. While I'm migrating the site, I will be updating the operating system as well, so the site may have a slightly different look (especially the web email portal.) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:14:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000019 JAMA has finalized the training session for percussion and color guard judges for the upcoming season and is excited to announce that on December 15 and 16, at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, the following WGI judges will be training our JAMA judges: Dennis DeLucia (WGI Percussion judge and steering committee member), Kristin O'Melia (WGI Equipment judge and steering committee member), and Eric Kitchenman (WGI EA judge). We are thrilled to have our first combined session with both percussion and guard judges, but it is even more thrilling knowing the quality of training our judges will receive this year. Each of these clinicians brings tremendous experience and exposure to our local judges which in turn will help to make MCCGA's membership stronger. As always, we are looking for qualified judges (guard and percussion), so if you know of anyone, please ask them to contact me to get a spot reserved in this upcoming clinic. This will certainly be an exciting season of color guard and percussion and JAMA is looking forward to raising the bar for our judges while MCCGA's members do the same with their performances! Best of luck to you this winter and please travel safely, Chris Putnam Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:14:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000018 JAMA Fall training will be held this weekend at the Mizzou Band Hall Google Maps Link from 12:30PM until approximately 5:00PM. The clinicians this year are Dallas Neimeyer, the DCI Brass caption head, and Sal Adamo, D CI Visual and WGI judge. Unlike previous years, tickets for the evening's show are not included in the training. Go od seats are still available, and we might be able to organize a short trip to the box off ice to purchase group seats at some point during the day. If you have any questions, pleas e contact Brad Simon at simon@jamahome.org. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:04:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000017 Hi All. Several of you have expressed interest in sitting together at BOA and/or WGI. I sent an email today with the details of an offer to put together a group purchase. If you didn't get the email, please contact me at: berry@jamahome.org. Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:13:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000016 Hi All. The schedule has been emailed. Please contact me ASAP if you didn't receive it. I've spent a lot of time trying to get everybody to all the regions we serve. If a date doesn't work for you, please try to work it out with one of your peers (but try to keep the geographical parity in mind.) Thanks for you patience. Thu, 1 Feb 2007 02:13:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000015 Really, I've been working on the schedule. Chris and Kevin have had a lot of helpful input and we're very nearly finished. You should have the schedule for February in your email by Wednesday, January 31st. If you don't receive it by then, please let me know ASAP since we might have an email problem. Thanks, Bob. Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:13:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000014 Hi all. I've sent out the test emails, but I've not received very many receipts. So either you're not getting the emails or your mailers are configured not to send receipts. If you haven't received a test email, please contact me at webmaster@jamahome.org ASAP. Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:07:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000013 December training is this weekend (12/09-12/10) at Hickman Mills High School. Saturday 9:00AM-9:00PM and Sunday 10:00AM-1:00PM. Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:07:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000012 Application forms (both Word and PDF format) are now available in the downloads section. Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:07:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000011 JAMA is making the reservations at the Residence Inn in Springfield for this weekend. There will be no pre-show meeting on Friday night. Report time Saturday morning is 8:00, please be on time!! Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:08:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000010 The following judges are at the MSU festival this weekend: Hudson, Sadler, Putnam, Kuchkinski, Oliphant, Smith, Kessinger, Kerr, Berry, Mahoney, Estelle, and Maben. Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:06:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000009 Now's the time to be practicing your running commentary, going over the notes from December training, and practicing numbers off video if possible. Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000008 If you haven't received a test email by Friday night (the 19th) please let me know ASAP at mailto:berry@jamahome.org. Thanks, Bob. Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000007 After several rounds with the DNS registrar, I finally figured out why the DNS wasn't updating. Hopefully you are now all seeing this page and have received your "all-judges" email. Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000006 I've posted the links to WGI's training materials on the "Training Materials" page. Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000005 This weekend JAMA will hold training at Hickman Mills HS starting at 9:30AM. Our clinicians are Sal Adamo and Eric Kitchenman. Make sure you attend for the latest training!! Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000004 We're just starting, so there's not much content righ now, but we're planning on adding things frequently. Please send any contributions to mailto:webmaster@jamahome.org Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000003 Because of tabulating problems at both shows, the scores from the contests were read incorrectly. The corrected recap from OTHS is at http://www.oths.k12.il.us/art/langm/Metro_East_Recap.htm Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000002 JAMA judges were used at two area competitions on the weekend of the 17th. Thanks to Farmington and O'Fallon for using JAMA judges. Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:00:00 GMT http://www.jamahome.org/#00000001