Judges

... to visit 22 countries on five continents. Sometimes we will travel by air, other times by train, cargo liner, ferry or kettavalum houseboat. Welcome to our story! "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord." Judges 18

I had my first tutoring session with the judges last night. I'm pretty excited to be working with them.  It’s less of me tutoring them and more of we all sit around and chit chat.  They occasionally will stop me to have me repeat a word ...

... the first one in really). Anyway, we were at a table and to cut the long story short, the manager asked if we wanted to be judges! We were given all the proper forms and free entry! As it is such a long story, just look at the pictures which explains it ...

Up for breakfast - toast, croissants, lots of yogurt and TONS of juice to combat my dehydration.  Off to Girona by car, with a stop in Tarragona.  We took the long, scenic route (i.e. - I got us lost).  It should have been simple getting ...

Arrive at York Station, just a 10-minute walk from The Judges Lodgings, my hotel, an early 18th-C. Georgian house, once the residence of a doctor (whose son, also a physician, was the very same one who lived at Ravenscar and treated mad King George III - ...

... had to answer I dont know, but now I have the answer, proved scientifically and democratically. An international panel of judges were convened to study this question and characters randomly assigned to groups as no prior records were available for seeding ...

... Brahma for the crotch. Mary Whitehouse, where are you!!!! Saying that, with dancing girls in Braham Beer Colours and more regatron, the Judges where starting to tire. And I didn't blame them. Best of all were a couple, who decided to get really drunk ...

... festival, but the judges tent was ten feet below our balcony!  After a 10 minute performance, the band stopped while the judges made their scores.  Following a quick beer or two, the band re-assembled and played further into the barrio.  ...

... not get to see it this year and and sadder still is that I've missed out on taking that whole "journey" with the judges and prospective idols. What fond memories I have of cosy Winter nights, putting of writing mid year reports and just indulging in this ...

... to make it fair because there wasn't enough time to break apart each scoring category per contestant. Seriously, I think the other judges were just pulling numbers out of their asses and holding them up because as soon as the contestant finished speaking ...

... for an observational visit to the courts. Needless to day, the trip was a huge success! Even better than I ever imagined. The judges arrived on Sunday, October 30. Unfortunately, they had a lot of trouble getting to NYC. The flights were delayed, the ...

... do the in-house announcements during the competition, from welcoming dignitaries and spectators, to introducing skaters and judges, announcing scores, calling the medal award ceremonies and doing the farewells.  Thankfully I was not ...

... ourselves, appeal to the crowd, put on a little show, basically do anything we wanted and then we would be inspected by the judges.  Great, I knew something like this was going to happen.  What was I going to do?  Give me some loud trance ...

... 3 judges-2 from Beirut and 1 from Doha. The 2 guys stayed at Melissa's apartment and the women stayed with me. There was a judges social at Brian Lahan's home that they went to while I went to another event. Seriously, my life is not normally this ...

... next morning! The day went well, with 10 students heard in the morning, and 10 in the afternoon.  But all the judges agreed we had quite a difficult task.  We made some judging criteria ourselves, as we had only been told the maximum score ...

... occasionally a judge would call a woman off stage to correct the situation, but everything stayed in place for the one piece round. The judges again called up a few groups of three or four women. Again, my friend was not called to be in one of those ...

... Gisozi, just outside of Kigali. It was supposed to start at 9am, but only a few people were gathered and there were no judges or inyangamugayo, meaning "honest people," present. By 10am the 9 judges were out and a large number of people had gathered - ...

... also wore wigs, though no-one else did- I presume this is a nod to the judicial tradition of their home jurisdictions.  The judges wear red and black- its a panel of three, each from a different country.  In fact there were at least 10 ...