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Aiming to move back into the top six of the League One table , Huddersfield Town will welcome Charlton Athletic to the John Smith's Stadium on Saturday. On their return from the international break, the hosts trail the playoff spots by three points, while their visitors are four more points behind after a dip in form. © Imago Huddersfield will aim to extend a five-match League One unbeaten streak on their return to action on Saturday, having moved back within touching distance of the playoff places after a difficult run across September and early October. Four straight defeats left the Yorkshire outfit on 12 points from nine games in England's third tier, and they have since put three victories and two draws on the board in five further attempts, ending October with home triumphs over Barnsley, Bristol Rovers and Exeter City alongside a draw with fellow promotion-chasers Wrexham. Then following a shock FA Cup exit at the hands of Tamworth, Michael Duff's side visited strugglers Crawley Town in their last league outing and had to settle for a share of the spoils in a 2-2 draw, having twice fallen behind and drawn level through Rhys Healey and Herbie Kane . That result leaves the Terriers eighth in League One on their return to action at the weekend, trailing fifth and sixth-placed Barnsley and Lincoln City by three points with one game in hand and fourth-placed Stockport County by four with two in hand, having most recently met Manchester United Under-21s in the EFL Trophy last week and prevailed in a 4-1 victory with Ben Wiles , Healey, David Kasumu and Tom Lees on the scoresheet. Huddersfield Town will now bid to make it four straight home league wins at the weekend with the chance to move into the top six while keeping their games in hand if other results go their way. © Imago Their visitors, meanwhile, will also aim to climb back towards the top six at the weekend and end a tricky run of form in England's third tier. Pushing to win promotion back to the Championship under the management of Nathan Jones , Charlton Athletic enjoyed a pleasing start to the campaign, earning 12 points from their first six outings, but they have since added just seven more points to that tally in eight further attempts. After suffering three straight defeats across late September and early October, those points came in a four-match unbeaten streak for the Addicks last month, beating leaders Birmingham City and sharing the points with Stockport County, Barnsley and Wrexham. A trip to Exeter City then followed before the November international break, and the Addicks failed to make it five games unbeaten, instead seeing a league winless streak stretched to four matches in a 1-0 defeat as Tristan Crama netted the only goal of the game on the hour mark. Now returning to league action in 13th spot, on the back of a 1-0 EFL Trophy win over Bromley last week, Charlton Athletic will be keen to bounce back to winning ways on Saturday and begin to narrow the seven-point gap to the playoffs. © Imago Huddersfield Town were boosted by the returns of Rhys Healey and Michal Helik before the international break, but they should remain without goalkeeper Lee Nicholls and defender Lasse Sorensen , who has been sidelined since mid-October. In his absence, Oliver Turton will continue on the right-hand side of their 3-5-2 setup, while Helik will hope to displace either Matty Pearson , Tom Lees or Nigel Lonwijk and return to a back three from the outset. Healey and Josh Koroma will both push for starts in attack after Callum Marshall and Bojan Radulovic led the line for their trip to Crawley Town last time out in League One, while David Kasumu, Ben Wiles and Herbie Kane should continue in the engine room. Charlton Athletic were without Lloyd Jones , Tyreece Campbell , Will Mannion and Chuks Aneke before the break due to injuries, and while they are nearing returns they may not be deemed fit to start at the John Smith's Stadium. If Jones in not yet ready to feature, Alex Mitchell and Macaulay Gillesphey will partner up at the heart of the back four, while Conor Coventry will join captain Greg Docherty in midfield after spending the international break with Republic of Ireland. Allan Campbell should again take up an advanced midfield role, lending support to the front two of Matt Godden and Miles Leaburn . Huddersfield Town possible starting lineup: Chapman; Pearson, Helik, Lonwijk; Turton, Wiles, Kane, Kasumu, Miller; Marshall, Healey Charlton Athletic possible starting lineup: Maynard-Brewer; Z Mitchell, A Mitchell, Gillesphey, Edwards; Docherty, Coventry, Berry; Campbell; Godden, Leaburn Charlton Athletic do boast more quality than their position in the table and recent results suggest and will certainly pose a tough test for Huddersfield Town on Saturday. With both keen to regain ground in the climb towards the playoffs, we see a share of the spoils as the most likely outcome in Yorkshire. For data analysis of the most likely results, scorelines and more for this match please click here .
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FORT COLLINS, Colorado — Lilly Downs rolled out of bed in her new apartment and began setting up her morning’s IV fluids, which flow from a tube in her chest into her bloodstream to keep the 20-year-old hydrated. The Denver Post has chronicled Colorado resident Lilly Downs’ experience with long COVID for three years. 2021: “She is such a puzzle”: Colorado teen’s months-long ordeal spotlights mysteries of long COVID 2022: A Colorado teen’s long COVID isn’t just persisting — after 2 years, it’s getting worse Next, she crushed and dissolved pills so they could run through a separate tube into her intestines, which absorb the medicine better than her stomach. The steps Lilly took that October morning are necessary because her stomach stopped working properly following her first bout with COVID-19 four years ago. But her routine also served another purpose: It was content she filmed for a video that she later posted on TikTok , where she has amassed nearly 470,000 followers. Lilly added Tylenol to her mix of medicine that morning, she explained in the video, because her mom was going to be giving her an intravenous immunoglobulin, or IVIG, infusion, which doctors have found to be an effective treatment for patients who have long COVID. “I always have to pre-medicate with Benadryl and Tylenol so that I don’t have a reaction to the infusion,” Lilly said during the minute-long clip. For Lilly, TikTok has become a kind of a job — and definitely a distraction — while living with long COVID, the name given to the physical and cognitive symptoms that can persist for months and even years after patients’ initial infections. She’s become a social media influencer, earning thousands of dollars and brand deals by documenting what it’s like to face life with a chronic illness . She first fell ill with COVID-19 as a teen in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, and The Denver Post has followed Lilly since 2021 through multiple hospital stints and her search for normalcy and answers as to why symptoms, including a high heart rate and brain fog, still linger. The Post last caught up with Lilly in 2022, when she wasn’t just still sick, her symptoms were getting worse and she was hospitalized with life-threatening infections. Now, Lilly said in a recent interview, she’s doing better physically, living on her own and planning to resume her education in January while using her platform on social media to educate people about her life and illness. “Filming and editing my videos — it gave me something else to focus on,” she said. On TikTok, Lilly shares her experiences with feeding tubes, medications and being interviewed by news reporters . Hundreds of thousands — sometimes millions — of people watch her individual videos. But she also shares things you’d expect from a typical 20-year-old — moving into her first apartment , traveling with friends — and it’s these things that show how far Lilly has come. Two years ago, Lilly was an 18-year-old who just wanted to go home after spending months at Denver’s Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. Any travel and college plans she entertained were on hold out of fear she’d need to return to the hospital again. Now, she’s living life outside the hospital’s walls, on her own for the first time, traveling with friends to Utah, and volunteering at a camp for chronically ill kids — and she’s sharing it with the world. Lilly was 16 when she first became sick and was hospitalized during one of Colorado’s deadliest waves of the virus. Soon after, she began developing ulcers all over her body that doctors were unable to explain and struggled to treat. When she first became ill, pediatric doctors were unprepared for patients with COVID-19 to develop persisting symptoms. Long COVID was first seen in adults, and researchers and physicians didn’t know how common it was in children and teens. A lot has changed since Lilly first became sick, and even since 2022, when her symptoms worsened to the point she had to relearn how to walk on her own and she spent most of the year in the hospital. While COVID-19 is still around, vaccines and treatments are now available. Doctors and researchers have also learned more about long COVID, including how it affects adolescents, and are working on finding better treatments, such as IVIG, for patients with persisting symptoms, said Dr. Alexandra Yonts, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Doctors still don’t know why someone specifically develops long COVID, but there are risk factors, such as if someone has multiple symptoms when they first get sick or have autoimmune diseases, she said. Adolescent girls are at a higher risk of developing long COVID, although the condition also appears more in boys ages 5 and younger, said Yonts, director of the hospital’s post-COVID program. In 2022, researchers estimated that as many as 651,000 Coloradans had long COVID, with clinics struggling to keep up with the demand for treatment. Studies also show that the more times a person gets COVID-19, their risk of developing lingering symptoms increases, she said, adding that getting vaccinated decreases a person’s risk of getting long COVID. “We’re definitely in a much more knowledgeable place of this disease,” Yonts said. At Yonts’ clinic, doctors have found that patients can experience a range of long COVID symptoms. Fatigue and decreased exercise tolerance are among the most common. Patients also appear to fall into two groups, Yonts said. One group has more cardiovascular symptoms, such as heart palpitations and difficulty breathing. The other group has more gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms, such as headaches, vomiting and stomach pain. While there had been a period in 2021 when Lilly appeared to be doing better, she took an unexpected turn as she began vomiting and had trouble swallowing and eating. She landed in the hospital again at the end of summer 2021, missing the first days of her senior year at Lakewood High School. Lilly was eventually diagnosed with gastroparesis, which means food doesn’t move through her body when she eats, and was placed on a feeding tube. But her central line — the very thing that gave her nutrients — kept causing life-threatening infections that put her in repeatedly in the intensive-care unit. So when the autumn of 2022 rolled around and Lilly’s friends left for college without her, she decided to make the best of the situation by posting on TikTok. The social media app became not just a distraction, but a way to meet people. Lilly has met others living in Fort Collins who also follow her videos, she said. “It was a way to connect with people because it’s a lot harder in real life when your friends are gone,” Lilly said. TikTok helped Lilly not only make new friends, it also let her friends from high school better understand her illness, she said. The TikTok videos help show “that I am a normal person,” she said. Elisa Downs, Lilly’s mother, said she didn’t quite understand when her daughter started making TikToks — even as she helped make Lillly’s dance videos in the hospital. “When she really started to pick up momentum, I was, of course, worried because this world is cruel,” Downs said, noting how controversial the topic of COVID-19 can be online. But then, Downs said, she witnessed the community her daughter found online. “I saw that it was giving her a sense of purpose,” she said, adding, “She was able to really find a great network of people there who understood.“ Lilly has also been able to earn money for her TikTok videos via the platform’s Creator Fund, which pays users based on how many people view and engage with their posts. To join the fund, a person must be at least 18, have a minimum of 10,000 followers and at least 100,000 video views in the past 30 days, according to the social media app. Lilly’s videos about her illness — especially the ones about how she receives supplemental nutrition — earn the most views. One of her clips about her nighttime routine received more than 60 million views, bringing in about $5,000 alone. Lilly said she is “technically” a social media influencer — she has a manager and has started getting brand deals, such as with BeeKeeper’s Naturals, which sells natural remedies. Lilly posted a video showing her using one of the company’s products to help with her brain fog. But Lilly has other plans, too. She moved to Fort Collins from Golden in August and is adjusting to living on her own for the first time. She wants to get another job and start college next semester at Colorado State University, studying nutrition science in hopes of becoming a pediatric dietitian. “I’m excited to have a routine,” Lilly said. “Being in class — I’m nervous just because my brain... is just not where it used to be.” Physically, Lilly said, her symptoms have gotten better. She still has days where they flare and she struggles with brain fog, which makes her lose her train of thought. “I’m definitely having better days,” Lilly said, adding, “Just taking care of myself is a full-time job.” Her gastroparesis has also improved to the point where Lilly can sometimes eat food without getting sick. She craves things that she didn’t like before, such as condiments and ranch dressing, and is on a self-proclaimed cream cheese kick, especially with pizza. “It’s so good,” Lilly said. There was a time, Lilly said, when she expected that her life would go back to the way it was before the pandemic, before she got COVID-19, when she used to play soccer and go to school. “For so long we were just holding out for the normalcy,” she said. But, Lilly said, “This is my new normal.”None
Jimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency of anyone to hold the office, and one of the most active. Here is a look back at his life. 1924 — Jimmy Carter was born on Oct. 1 to Earl and Lillian Carter in the small town of Plains, Georgia. 1928 — Earl Carter bought a 350-acre farm 3 miles from Plains in the tiny community of Archery. The Carter family lived in a house on the farm without running water or electricity. 1941 — He graduated from Plains High School and enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College in Americus. 1942 — He transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. 1943 — Carter’s boyhood dream of being in the Navy becomes a reality as he is appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. 1946 — He received his naval commission and on July 7 married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. They moved to Norfolk, Virginia. 1946-1952 — Carter’s three sons are born, Jack in 1947, Chip in 1950 and Jeff in 1952. 1962-66 — Carter is elected to the Georgia State Senate and serves two terms. 1953 — Carter’s father died and he cut his naval career short to save the family farm. Due to a limited income, Jimmy, Rosalynn and their three sons moved into Public Housing Apartment 9A in Plains. 1966 — He ran for governor, but lost. 1967 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s fourth child, Amy, is born. 1971 — He ran for governor again and won the election, becoming Georgia’s 76th governor on Jan. 12. 1974 — Carter announced his candidacy for president. 1976 — Carter was elected 39th president on Nov. 2, narrowly defeating incumbent Gerald Ford. 1978 — U.S. and the Peoples’ Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. President Carter negotiates and mediates an accord between Egypt and Israel at Camp David. 1979 — The Department of Education is formed. Iranian radicals overrun the U.S. Embassy and seize American hostages. The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty is signed. 1980 — On March 21, Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled in Moscow. A rescue attempt to get American hostages out of Iran is unsuccessful. Carter was defeated in his bid for a second term as president by Ronald Reagan in November. 1981 — President Carter continues to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Iran. Minutes before his term as president is over, the hostages are released. 1982 — Carter became a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta, and founded The Carter Center. The nonpartisan and nonprofit center addresses national and international issues of public policy. 1984 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteer one week a year for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes, until 2020. He also taught Sunday school in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains from the mid-’80s until 2020. 2002 — Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2015 — Carter announced in August he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain. 2016 — He said in March that he no longer needed cancer treatment. 2024 — Carter dies at 100 years old. Sources: Cartercenter.org, Plains Historical Preservation Trust, The Associated Press; The Brookings Institution; U.S. Navy; WhiteHouse.gov, GallupAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas defensive tackle Alfred Collins surveyed the wreckage left by the No. 2 Longhorns' total domination of Texas A&M. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas defensive tackle Alfred Collins surveyed the wreckage left by the No. 2 Longhorns' total domination of Texas A&M. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas defensive tackle Alfred Collins surveyed the wreckage left by the No. 2 Longhorns’ total domination of Texas A&M. Then he summed up the message he believes it sent to the rest of college football about the Texas defense. “We’re the best in the nation,” Collins said. It’s hard to argue with the evidence the No. 2 Longhorns (11-1, 7-1, No. 3 CFP) have produced week after week in earning a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday against No. 6 Georgia (10-2, 6-2 No. 7 CFP). The winner also earns a first-round bye in the 12-team College Football Playoff. Texas opened the season with a shutout. Three more times the Longhorns did not surrender an offensive touchdown. The defense has surrendered a total of 17 points over the last three games. The Longhorns rank No. 3 nationally in total defense, No. 2 in scoring defense, No. 1 in passing yards allowed and No. 3 in total interceptions while allowing just six passing touchdowns. Against Texas A&M, in the first game in the rivalry since 2011, Texas allowed just 248 total yards and made two critical touchdown-saving stands, one early and one late, that sealed a 17-7 victory. On the second one, Texas stuffed the Aggies on fourth-and-goal from the Texas 1 with less than five minutes left. “We feel like nobody’s getting in the end zone with us,” Texas linebacker Anthony Hill Jr. said after the game. “If you think you’re going to just run right at us for 1 yard, I feel like you’ve lost your mind. I feel like that’s not going to happen.” Most notable against A&M was how the defense turned momentum and rescued a sputtering offense after the Aggies had scored their only touchdown on an interception return, and then blocked a punt. Backed inside their 5, the Texas defensive line mauled the Aggies and stuffed four consecutive run plays. “It’s just like a common theme at this point,” Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers said after the game, “they continue to save our butts on offense.” The game against Georgia is a rematch of the Bulldogs’ 30-15 win on Oct. 19. Texas will be playing in the title game in its first year in the league. The Bulldogs are in the championship game for the fourth consecutive year and for the seventh time since 2018. The Bulldogs’ 30 points was the most the Longhorns allowed all season. But even then, the Texas defense mostly excelled, holding Georgia under 300 total yards and intercepting three passes by Georgia quarterback Carson Beck. Georgia ran out to a 23-0 lead after two Texas turnovers set up the Bulldogs with short drives for a pair of touchdowns. Arguably the only time the Texas defense truly broke this season was a second half touchdown drive by the Bulldogs that put the game out of reach. The Longhorns had pulled within 23-15 when Georgia marched 89 yards in 11 plays for Trevor Etienne’s fourth-down 1-yard TD run. “Georgia had a bunch of short fields and took advantage of those,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. If anything, the Texas defense has gotten better since then. And Georgia coach Kirby Smart won’t count on Texas being starstruck playing in the SEC title game. “I think defensively they’ve been at a high level the entire year,” Smart said. “I’m just saying that the previous matchup does not determine this matchup,” Smart said. “You can’t overstate that to your players because the flow of that game was different in the first three, four, five drives. And then, you know, after a turnover it went the other way a little bit.” ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football Advertisement Advertisement
Qatar tribune Agencies Every Wednesday, retiree Zhang Zhili travels an hour by bus to an education center, drawn by the pulsing rhythms of the African drum she plays there in a classroom filled with fellow retirees whose hands move in unison, every beat lifting her spirits. Zhang, 71, has found joy and new friends at the “elderly university” in Beijing. Besides African drums, the former primary school teacher joins social dance classes, paying about 2,000 yuan ($280) for two courses this semester. Seeing herself standing tall in dance class boosts her confidence. After class, she hangs out with her friends. “When we get old, what do we need?” she said. “To love ourselves.” Many older Chinese are looking beyond traditional nursing homes, afraid of abandonment by their families and quality issues. That’s driving a boom in universities, home care services, and communities catering to older adults. Though some providers struggle to turn a profit, they persist because they see promise in the growing market. China has a rapidly aging population. Last year, about 297 million people were aged 60 or above, over one-fifth of the population. By 2035, this number is forecast to exceed 400 million, or over 30% of all Chinese. That’s fueling growth in services and products aimed at older adults in what Beijing calls the silver economy, which is projected to balloon from about 7 trillion yuan (about $982 billion) currently to approximately 30 trillion yuan (about $4.2 trillion) in 2035, raising its share in the economy from about 6% to roughly 10%, Hu Zuquan, a researcher at the State Information Center, a public institution affiliated with China’s main planning agency, told state media. Du Peng, dean of the school of population and health at Beijing’s Renmin University, said the government is expanding basic care services to all older people who need them, moving beyond its traditional focus on those without family support. Last year, officials compiled a list of basic care services they aim to make available nationwide, including providing ability assessments for those over 65 and care training subsidies for family members of those who are disabled. Filial piety runs deep in China and most older people prefer aging at home with family after they retire, typically when they’re 50 to 60 years old, one of the youngest retirement ages among the world’s major economies. Many help care for their grandchildren, and for some, nursing homes are seen as a kind of abandonment, except in cases of serious disability. In January, Beijing issued new guidelines calling for expanding home care services and meal deliveries and more clothing, food and tech products tailored for older adults. They include enriching their lives through education. Home-based services offer a more affordable alternative to nursing homes, alleviating accommodation costs, Du said. Most older Chinese are relatively healthy, and these able people perhaps need richer cultural lives rather than disability care, he said. Cai Guixia, 60, said she has found fulfillment in African drumming and modeling classes. She thinks she would feel “forsaken” in a conventional nursing home, preferring to hire a domestic helper. Liu Xiuqin, an owner of two care homes, saw business opportunities in meeting those needs. She invested more than 800,000 yuan (about $112,000) to open a school in Beijing. Cai and Zhang are among its 150 students attending classes in dance, singing, yoga and modeling training for about 1,000 yuan ($140) per course each semester. Outside the classroom, her team organizes gatherings where students can socialize. Liu expects to break even in another year and is prepared for the wait. She believes in the market’s future, given that the generation born in the 1960s and later values quality of life and health more than their parents did. “It’s not about making quick money,” she said. “It requires persistence.” Turning a profit is proving challenging for some silver economy businesses. In the southern city of Guangzhou, Wu Tang co-founded a school last year after his geotechnical investigation and surveying business was hit by the downturn in China’s property market. His school offers courses to help people achieve some of their childhood dreams, but he has yet to cover his costs. He also faces competition from cheaper government-run courses. And there’s Cui Yang, who runs a care station in Beijing, sending helpers zigzagging across the district to provide 30 yuan ($4.20) haircuts at home; accompanying people on hospital visits for 50 yuan ($7) per hour and other services. Even with government subsidies including free rent, Cui is losing money. Without the subsidies, the business would fail, she said.The struggles aren’t limited to small operators. Wu Wenjing heads the home care department of a healthcare subsidiary of state-owned financial conglomerate China Everbright Group in southwest China’s Chongqing. It has been in the red for 13 straight years, spending 5 million yuan (about $702,000) annually and still losing 1 million (about $140,000) a year, she said. Wu’s business employs 70 workers who visit homes as caregivers, rehabilitation therapists and psychotherapists. The industry is competitive and it has a high turnover rate given the difficulties of working alone in clients’ homes. Wu hopes to break even in five years, and is delighted about the government’s efforts to grow the silver economy. “The spring of China’s elderly care business has finally come,” she said. Various companies are looking to grab a slice of this government-backed market. Property developers like Vanke Co. and Sino-Ocean Group and insurance companies such as Taikang Insurance Group have built high-end communities for older adults with amenities such as movie-screening and mahjong rooms and dining services. China’s also working to tackle the problem of dementia, providing cognitive screening tests and training staff who work in memory clinics or as social workers. Several Chinese pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are working on drugs targeting Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Some vacant schools and kindergartens -- casualties of the country’s declining birthrate -- are meanwhile being transformed into care facilities for older people. Government efforts to back the silver economy are paying off: official data showed the country had 410,000 care facilities by June, double the number in 2019. Still, questions remain about the spending power of many older Chinese. A 2021 national survey co-conducted by China’s Civil Affairs Ministry found older adults had a median annual income of 11,400 yuan ($1,574). In rural areas it was less than half of that. More than one in 10 older Chinese are living in poverty, with living standards much lower in rural areas and western China, according to data from surveys conducted by Beijing University. China’s silver economy is still in its infancy, said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis Corporate and Investment Banking. If they lack enough insurance to cover medical and other expenses, many older Chinese must set aside funds for such costs, limiting their spending capacity, he said, and it takes time to build industries producing senior-focused products and people trained to provide such services. Tax incentives and investments in training a skilled workforce would help, he said. “There are prospects here, but it seems there’s still much that needs to be done,” he said. Copy 03/12/2024 10
Some Canberra backyards have pools, some garden sheds, some well-worn lawns indicative of hours of activity. And some have full-scale replicas of famous spacecraft - also indicative of hours of activity. Black Friday Sale Subscribe Now! Login or signup to continue reading All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox Interactive Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue For seven years, Australian Army veteran Barry Armstead has devoted nearly every spare moment to building a full-scale replica of the Mark II Colonial Viper . Inspired by the 2003 reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica , Mr Armstead took on the mission of building the 8.3-metre viper in his shed. "I go til midnight, one o'clock, two o'clock every night, I've been doing that for 20 years. If you can't sleep and don't want to waste your time ... then go do something with it," Mr Armstead said. Mr Armstead entered this project as a cutler at the Tharwa Valley Forge, instructing knifemaking, blacksmithing, and metal sculpture courses. Drawing on his knife-making background he taught himself complex skills including fiberglassing, metalwork, and design. "Every stage forced me to learn something new. If I'd finished today with the same set of skills I had started with seven years ago, I wouldn't have gotten it finished," he said. Mr Armstead prioritised reusing discarded materials from local industries, such as plywood and polystyrene, which became the foundation of his eight-metre viper. "Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve feeds all their bird life and aquatic life with fish, and they come in these big polystyrene boxes, which is a really hazardous and hard thing to get rid of and usually costs money to get rid of," he said. Barry Armstead with his full-size replica of the famous Battlestar Galactica. Picture by Gary Ramage Throughout his journey, Mr Armstead received support from local craftspeople, industrial suppliers, and even the original Battlestar Galactica design team. "I've had a lot of help from a lot of people, because you get to certain stages where you go - you know what, this is just beyond me, and that's when you go to somebody else and you start outsourcing," Mr Armstead said. As he prepares to showcase the viper at the Canberra Knife Show, he hopes his story will inspire others to pick up their tools and build something lasting. "Knifemaking's about using your hands and manipulating steel and wood and making something beautiful and practical, and something that's going to last longer than you," Mr Armstead said. The replica will be on display at the annual Canberra Knife Show, held Sunday, December 1 from 10am to 3pm at the historic Cuppacumbalong Homestead. 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