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Starlink Installation Bretherton

Starlink Installation Bretherton.This a Starlink fitted by Andy and Ethan in Bretherton near Leyland for a new ISH build that were struggling with a 1 mbs connection to BT so something had to give as the son was a gamer and trying to download the new FIFA which was a no go at 50 gig.He ordered Starlink from Currys which arrived within 24hrs but had booked us in for installation a couple of days…

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University Challenge hunk Ed Bretherton gets viewers' hearts racing

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[jtgrimm]

Images of poverty, war and disaster - what Susan Sontag calls the "iconography of suffering" - provoke a response. What these images invoke is sympathy, indignation and alarm (often accompanied by an unacknowledged yet ever present voyeuristic curiosity about the gruesome, the excruciating and the calamitous). As Sontag notes, the modern representation of the suffering other, whether of the dead soldier or famished child, is of an other who is "regarded only as someone to be seen, not someone (like us) who also sees.... The modern iconography of human suffering either invites the onlooker to envisage him or herself as the one who should stop the pain, or shocks them into greater awareness of what is going on. But what is not questioned is the onlooker's way of life or basic priorities. Sight of the poor does not catalyze different ways of living together. These images do not provoke mourning and humility, but activism and altruism..... Christians are to contemplate the suffering and death of Christ in order to become aware of their own complicity in that suffering. Sinful humans are the reason Christ suffers. It is our alienation and distance from the suffering body of Christ - our sinful, broken and disordered relationships with God and neighbour - that is the root cause of the suffering. Only by coming into a transformed relationship with Christ can we properly respond to the suffering body we contemplate. And we can only do this through repentance. Repentance requires a change of life and recognition that what we value materially is of little worth in contrast to the "pearl of great price" that coming into relationship with Christ enables. It is not the sinful human who has something to offer the one suffering. Rather, Christ's situation represents our true predicament if only we could see it: rather than us having a gift to offer the impoverished suffering other, rather than us having strength that the other needs, we are the ones who need the broken body we contemplate. Our life is precarious, impoverished and weak - we suffer an existential poverty through our sinfulness and only by coming into relationship with Christ can we gain riches of inestimable worth. By extension, the suffering and impoverished within an iconography of sorrow are not to become part of our world. Rather, an iconography of sorrow disrupts and reconfigures our practices of recognition. It is not our gaze in the form of Western media attention that determines who should appear as the subject of care - Ebola one day, something else the next. Rather it is proximity to Christ on the cross that determines who and what we should see. Uncoupled from contemplation of Christ crucified, we will misperceive what suffering looks like and who is the stranger to be welcomed. We will determine who appears and who does not appear by our own fallen and fad driven standards of what is worthy of our attention and sympathy.

Luke Bretherton, “The Iconography of Sorrow: How Easter Transforms our Response to Suffering”