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Starting
tomorrow, more than 200 delegates to the Asia Pacific Economic
Conference (APEC) will converge here for a ministerial level
gathering. The provincial and city governments have joined
forces to ensure the success of the gathering which have been
kept under wraps for the past few weeks.
This
affair is as timely as Bohol is drumming up support for the
nomination of the Chocolate Hills as among the top new wonders
of the nature which on-line voting is going on in the Internet.
As
of the latest count, Chocolate Hills is at no. 7 spot in the
Top Ten. The Tubbataha Reef of Palawan was dislodged by Angles
Falls of Venezuela in the 8th place, according to www.new7wonders.com.
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We
already cast our vote yesterday by placing Chocolate Hills
in the no. 1 list. Since you have to vote for seven nominees,
we picked the other six from those natural wonders which are
not in the top 77 list.
Our
dear readers can vote on-line by just having an e-mail account
which is needed before casting your vote.
By
December this year, the top 77 Official Nominees will be eligible
for consideration by the New7Wonders of Nature Panel of Experts
for inclusion in the group of 21 finalists.
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The
first spot is still occupied by Ha Long Bay of Vietnam followed
by the Ganges River of Bangladesh and India. In the third
place is the Amazon River which spans in six countries including
Bolivia, Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil.
Mount
Everest in Nepal is still in the fourth place. Tailing at
the fifth place is Cocos Island of Costa Rica while Mount
Fuji of Japan remains at the sixth place.
Lake
Atitlan of Guatemala is now in the tenth spot.
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ADVISORY.
According to its website, the Supreme Court, through the Society
for Judicial Excellence, has officially launched the 2008
Search for Outstanding Judges and Clerks of Court.
The
public is invited to send in nominations for the different
awards with their corresponding resumés and the reasons
for the nomination on or before May 2. The categories are
Regional Trial Court Judges; Metropolitan Trial Court/ Municipal
Trial Court in Cities/ Municipal Circuit Trial Court/ Municipal
Trial Court Judges and Shari'a Circuit Trial Court Judges;
Clerks of Court (First and Second Level Courts) and Branch
Clerks of Court (First and Second Level Courts).
All
nominations should be addressed to the Permanent Secretariat,
Society for Judicial Excellence, 3rd Floor, Old Session Hall
Extension Room, Supreme Court Old Building, Padre Faura Street,
Manila, with Telefax No. (02) 523-1301 and Mobile No. 0918-9307585
or through e-mail at judicialexcellence.sec@gmail.com.
The Awards Ceremonies will be held on 19 September 2008 at
the Supreme Court.
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INBOX.
We wish to acknowledge receipt of the forwarded e-mails from
our good friend Hermes Quijada through our e-mail account
below.
Rodan
Alberto Matig-a has also continued his series on a glimpse
of Tagbilaran. His most recent e-mail tackled on the St. Joseph
Cathedral and the so-called Wadje.
We
shall re-print the same in this corner soon.
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For
comments and suggestions, just e-mail to the following e-mail
addresses: obiter@boholchronicle.com
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