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Gruelling weekend ahead for Workington Comets

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Last updated at 11:21, Friday, 29 August 2014

This weekend can change Workington Comets season, insists owner Laura Morgan.

Comets face a gruelling four fixtures in under 48 hours and will want something from all of them to keep their play-off dream alive.

They ride away at Plymouth tonight, welcome Rye House and Scunthorpe tomorrow in a double-header followed by an away trip on Sunday.

Morgan said: Its a worry having double-headers. Its difficult for everybody including riders, mechanics and machinery. Financially they are not really good for the club either.

But its not impossible to reach the play-offs and it has been our aim this season. Weve not had consistent track time and have been a five-man team for quite some time.

Comets need to bounce back after a disappointing run of only one win in their last seven meetings, including a dismal trip to Ipswich last Thursday and an even more disappointing home defeat to Glasgow the following night.

Morgan said: I still cant believe what happened. It wasnt good enough. Even in the last heat the noise in the grandstand was incredible. The fans found it from somewhere and that is what it is all about.

But she is positive looking forward to the weekends fixtures.

She said: Historically we go well at Plymouth and I dont see why we cant get at least a point. Tomorrow I simply expect to win both.

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Holiday.com domain name could sell for $A37 million at auction

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High in demand: The word "holiday" is considered to be well-used by travellers researching holidays online.

The domain name Holiday.com could fetch 21 million ($A37 million) when it is auctioned off at the World Travel Market later this year, it is claimed.

Holiday.com is described as the holy grail of the travel industry by Breathe Luxury, a company that brokers domain names and which is selling it.

It has the potential be a leading international travel brand, with the firm that buys it expecting to rub shoulders with existing brands that hold equally memorable, search-engine friendly names such as Booking.com and Hotels.com.As the word holiday is so well-used by people researching their trips online, any products and services on Holiday.com will be easily found by consumers, it is claimed.

More than 90 per cent of travel companies already try to capitalise on the popularity of holiday by making it one of the top five words they use to optimise searches for their own websites.

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According to the pre-auction promotional hype, major travel companies have been competing to secure the rights to Holiday.com for years, but so far, without success. The domain was held by an American company for the last 16 years but has been lying dormant.

Previous seven-figure bids have apparently been rejected in favour of an auction at the World Travel Market, a networking trade event for the global travel industry, to be held at the London Excel building on November 5.

It will be one of the first times that such a potentially lucrative domain name has been auctioned off with as many major industry players present.

Its in these companies best interests to acquire this domain name because they will lose their market share once Holiday.com goes live, Farad Laaforce, managing director of Breathe Luxury, told The Telegraph, London. They will end up having to spend more money optimising for that keyword for their businesses anyway.

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Calling Singapore space travellers

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LOOKING for an out-of-the-world travel experience? If you have US$100,000 to spare, lots of guts and a healthy heart, and are looking to get away from bustling Singapore, you could find yourself out in space within three minutes.

Singaporeans meeting these criteria could well be adding the tag "Pioneering space traveller" to their social media profiles by the end of next year.

US-based XCOR Space Expeditions is close to making commercial space travel a reality for private individuals through its space shuttle, the XCOR Lynx Mark II, which is slated to whisk passengers out to space by the fourth quarter of 2015. The spacecraft is to take up to four daily flights, with each round-trip taking under an hour.

The spacecraft, at 8.5 m long, 7.3 m wide and 2.2 m tall, seats only two - including the pilot, which leaves all of one seat for aspiring space travellers on each flight, so being a pioneering space traveller could be a lonely business.

There will, however, be little time for loneliness. The adventure begins with a horizontal take-off from the XCOR spaceport in the southern Caribbean island of Curacao, with the spacecraft being propelled across the boundary into space - 103 km above sea level - within three minutes, accelerating at the speed of sound.

Plonking down that US$100,000 would have just bought you the seat, but here is why you need some daring and a strong ticker: The pilot will switch off the engine of the space shuttle once it reaches space to go into a glide and to eventually allow for a smoother journey back.

The spacecraft will hover in space for about six minutes. This is when you experience weightlessness and can view Earth from up high. On the descent following, the pilot will perform a "pullout manoeuvre", creating the thrill of 4G gravity forces for 10 to 20 seconds. After this, the glide back home will be at a more sedate speed for about 40 minutes.

The pilot can even customize the descent for you, by steering the aircraft during the return trip towards a particular spot that you want to see from Out There - be it the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall of China.

The adventure element is heightened by your on-board "duties": Yes, even at the price of that ticket, you are not to just sit there. You will be co-pilot, perform navigational tasks such as reading instruments and ensuring that the dials are holding steady.

The icing on this cake is that you are eligible to call yourself an astronaut after the trip, for having breached the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, which is more than 100 km above sea level.

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Shotover Jet ride rated in top 19 in the world

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Queenstowns world-famous jet boat thrill Shotover Jet has once again been rated amongst the best in the world for tourism experiences.

Global media giant CNN has just published a scrap all those other bucket lists collection of the top 19 most amazing travel experiences in the world.

Shotover Jet is the only New Zealand activity to make the global list, which includes a range of bank-busting activities at around the US $5,000 to $6,000 per person, making Shotover Jet look extremely good value at US$108.

The 85km per hour ride, according to CNN, is right up there with swimming with blue whales, sledding in Antarctica and renting Richard Bransons personal island, among other unique experiences.

CNNs latest list is part of its Elite Escapes pages, covering luxurious and often pricey travel destinations and must-dos.

Shotover Jet General Manager Clark Scott said the company was proud to be among the top-rated in the world.

Shotover Jet is one of New Zealands most iconic activities and its great to see it rubbing shoulders with experiences that are simply beyond the reach of most tourists, said Mr Scott.

Its not just about being an exclusive thrill; being affordable for families and our visitors from all around the world is really important to us. I think weve found that balance between being a fantastic activity, but without the heavy price tag.

Were constantly developing and incorporating new and exciting products and tweaks to what we do so well, to keep Shotover Jet one of the top-rated activities around.

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15 funniest travel books ever written

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"Sylvia lurched toward the railing. She threw up. And then she eased her way back to her familiar perch in the aft compartment, her head dangling over the rail, her eyes closed, muttering darkly. I felt the moment needed recording, and I took out our camera. 'Say cheese.'" -- The Sex Lives of Cannibals, J. Maarten Troost "'Livorno was a swamp,' he shouted over the road noise kicked up by the Mhari. 'But when Pisa's harbor silted up they decided to build the new harbor here. It was populated by criminals, hookers and scum. That's why we Livornese are so lively!'" -- A Vroom With a View, Peter Moore "I used to like Pella when I was little because many of the residents put little windmills in their front yards, which made it kind of interesting. I wouldn't say it made it outstandingly interesting, but you learned from an early age to take what pleasures you could find on any trip across Iowa." -- The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson "Dirk Flinthart's 'Coasting' (is) a sort of surf and drugs tour of eastern Australia," says author John Birmingham. "I seem to recall the entry for Ipswich, my old hometown, was something like, 'Don't. Just don't. They all play banjo with their toes out there." "I join them for some Midwestern Power Drinking. There are a lot of drunks in this world, but people in the Midwest drink differently than everywhere else I've ever been; it's far less recreational. You have to stay focused, you have to work fast and you have to swallow constantly." -- Killing Yourself to Live, Chuck Klosterman "One of Lawrence's enduring pleasures was to rant on about the awfulness of wherever he happened to be. Perhaps this is why Italy held such a special place in his affections: it provided constant fuel for his temper." -- Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer "(The British) are embarrassed that they lost their empire; even more embarrassed that they had it in the first place; but would secretly like to have it back, if only for the weekend, or for a few hours on Boxing Day." -- Queenan Country, Joe Queenan "It's not a holiday. It's traveling. They're completely different." -- Are You Experienced? William Sutcliffe 'I'm going to be sick.' 'Of course you are. We are all sick when we drink too much. But my dear friend, I beg you not to take it so seriously.'" -- Into the Heart of Borneo, Redmond O'Hanlon "Aided by Hirschfeld's expert knowledge of gems and my own shrewd bargaining sense, I was enabled to pick up -- at a fraction more than twice what I would have paid for them in America -- three emeralds. I had them appraised later in Bombay and was told they had been cut down from a very rare Coca-Cola bottle." -- Westward Ha!, S.J. Perelman "I had managed to avoid those so-called cultural evenings during which one was held captive in a hot room to applaud the degenerate spectacle of dancers and singers in feathers and beads performing numbers whose badness asked to be excused on the grounds it was traditional." -- The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux "If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal for a year." -- The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain "The many things on the Nadir that were wood-grain but not real wood were such marvelous and painstaking imitations of wood that a lot of times it seemed like it would have been simpler and less expensive simply to have used real wood." -- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace "Instead of cathedrals, mosques and ancient temples, we have duty-free shops ... I never knew there was so much stuff I didn't want." -- Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke "All the books tell you that if the grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it to you." -- A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

15. "The Sex Lives of Cannibals"

14. "Vroom With a View"

13. "The Lost Continent"

12. "Coasting"

11. "Killing Yourself to Live"

10. "Out of Sheer Rage"

9. "Queenan Country"

8. "Are You Experienced?"

7. "Into the Heart of Borneo"

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Cumberbatch steals the show

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Benedict Cumberbatch steals the show from Reese Witherspoon and Jon Stewart in Telluride

Aug. 30, 2014, 12:38 PM EST

On an opening night that found the Telluride Film Festival hosting three Toronto-defying world premieres, Jon Stewart enjoyed newfound star power as an off-camera writer-director with the debut of "Rosewater," while Reese Witherspoon had some festivalgoers supposing that "Wild" could have her walking a red-carpet line to another Oscar nomination.

But the man who might have gotten the biggest boost on Friday wasn't there to enjoy his acclaim. Benedict Cumberbatch's ears should have surely been burning, as "The Imitation Game" opened at Telluride to the kind of near-universal kudos that nearly eclipsed the somewhat mixed reactions to the day's other bows.

See video from TheWrap: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley Race to Break Nazi Code in First 'Imitation Game' Trailer (Video)

"Imitation" director Morten Tyldum did turn up to usher in the film's first public screening, as did Harvey Weinstein. As Oscar bait, this "Game" has nearly everything going for it, combining a critical historical moment the cracking of the German Enigma code, which some say made the difference in the Allies winning WWII with a contemporary hot-button topic, as found in the eventual persecution of Cumberbatch's war hero character for the mere fact of being illegally homosexual.

Gritty and glossy at the same time, in the tradition of some of Weinstein's biggest successes, "Imitation" also has the virtue of being quite good. Weinstein may actually have an easier job than usual, at least when it comes to collecting nominations. Predicting whether Cumberbatch will earn one kind of counts as a "no s t, Sherlock" no-brainer.

Earlier in the day, "Wild" premiered up in the blue yonder at the mountaintop Chuck Jones Cinema, where it was warmly if not wildly received by an invitational patrons-only crowd. Among the well-wishers were Oprah Winfrey, who helped popularize Cheryl Strayed's source memoir by making it a book club selection.

Although reaction to the film among bloggers was as divided as the response for last year's ultimately unsuccessful opener, "Labor Day," "Wild" certainly stands a better chance of making an incursion into the awards picture via Winfrey's support and all the residual good will for Witherspoon. As the story of a woman who walks the entire length of the Pacific Crest Trail in response to the death of her mother (played by Laura Dern in dozens of regularly-scheduled flashbacks), "Wild" is likely to divide critics into camps of those who respect it as a tale of spiritual self-enlightenment and those who wonder how it's even possible to trail-walk while doing that much navel-gazing.

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