Dumaguete's Chinese Bell Church

I've been residing outside Dumaguete for three years, and before moving here, I had traveled here - off and on - for nearly 17 years. I was certain that I knew all there was to know about the city and its sights. However, I was very surprised, recently to learn of the Chinese Bell Church.

The church is located in an area where I hadn't roamed until a few weeks ago, and I probably would never had discovered the church had it not been for the repair work being done on one of the bridges that crosses the Banica River. It was while taking this detour that I first spotted the Chinese Bell Church.

This afternoon, I drove out to the church for photos - I took more than 75 photos. Of course, I won't be posting all of those here.

Naturally, I wanted to post a few of these onto the Google Maps website. In addition to these sample photos, I'm also including a map to the church which can be found following the photos below.

Uncle Meat

Speaking of Facebook notifications, I learned yesterday, that April 21 was the 48th anniversary of the release of The Mothers of Invention's fifth LP, (Zappa's sixth) Uncle Meat.

Although I was a fan of the Mothers, it was only recently that I listened to the entire album. When Uncle Meat was released, I had copies of Freak-Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money. As far as I can recall, I had only heard portions of the LP that an acquaintance of mine owned. The little I heard at the time did not convince me to run out and get a copy for myself.

That's my loss, of course.

Listening to the LP today (thanks to Spotify) I understand that the work was ahead of its time. I could not appreciate the LP at the time. There are many today that still cannot appreciate Uncle Meat, but after years of listening to Zappa, Edgard Varèse, and Igor Stravinsky, I can say, although it's hardly Easy Listening, I do easy listening to Uncle Meat .

Scheduled Brownout for Tomorrow

The photo accompanying this post is of a press release from Negros Oriental II Electric Cooperative (NORECO II) informing us of a scheduled power outage coming tomorrow, Sunday, April 23, 2017. The text of the press release was posted onto Facebook and follows below:









ADVISORY FROM NATIONAL GRID CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (NGCP) for Negros Oriental:

NORECO II regrets to inform you that there will be a scheduled power service interruption

Date of Interruption : April 23, 2017 (Sunday)

Time : 7:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Areas Affected :
Part of Tandayag, Amlan
Entire area of San Jose, Sibulan, Dumaguete City, Valencia, Bacong, Dauin, Zamboanguita and Siaton

(Pulantubig, Bagacay, Dauin and Siaton substations will be
affected)

REASON : NGCP will de-energize its Amlan-Siaton 69kV transmission line which conveys power to our Pulantubig, Bagacay, Dauin and Siaton substations to conduct the following activities:
1. Replacement of parallel groove clamps to wedge type connectors at str. # 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 24, 32, 43, 45, 48, 49, 57, 58, and 59;
2. APMS of Amlan-Siaton 69kV transmission line HVE’s and
protection;
3. Replacement of line PT phase-B and C.

(This is a re-scheduling of the canceled power service interruption last February 19, 2017)

All works may be finished ahead of time and power may be restored earlier than scheduled, so please consider the lines always energized. Member-customer-owners in the affected areas are advised to take the necessary precautions.

NORECO II apologizes for this inconvenience.

Thank you.

More Strange Behavior from Google Maps

In one of yesterday's posts, [Google Maps' Strange Behavior] I posted a number of screen shots of the number of individual places Google Maps which had credited me for having photographed. The numbers ranged from 619 - down to 613 - up to 630 and back to 619, without my having added (or deleted) any photos after 619 was reached. At the end of that post, I wrote that I believed the final total of 619 to be the correct number.

Later, yesterday afternoon, I uploaded a photo for a motorcycle dealer located near St. Paul Univ. - Wheeltek. I was given credit for that photo, putting the total at 620. I did not, however take a screen shot of that total.

When I awoke this morning, I went to the Google Maps website and discovered that I am now being credited with having uploaded photos for 632 places. I have no explanation as to why 12 additional places were credited last night while I slept.

The Patrol Boat Outpost

As I mentioned in an earlier post, while on my morning walk today, I took a detour in search of the AA Prawn Hatchery. I was unable to locate the elusive hatchery and speculated in the earlier post, that it may been an invisible hatchery in much the same way as Biringan City is believed by some to be an invisible city in Samar province.

Not having located the prawn hatchery, I could not photograph it. I did, however, come upon an outpost for a patrol boat. Not only was I able to photograph the outpost, but I managed to get a photo of the patrol boat as well.