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SDM College of Engineering and Technology (SDMCET), Dharwad, in collaboration with Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, will organise the South Zone Inter-University Women’s Badminton Tournament from November 26 to 28 in Dharwad. Addressing presspersons in Dharwad on Saturday, SDMCET principal Ramesh Chakrasali said that over 600 athletes and around 200 coaches from 100 universities from across Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Telangana and Karnataka will participate in the tournament. The inaugural ceremony of the sports meet is scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. on Tuesday at the SDMCET auditorium. Prof. Chakrasali said that Vice-Chancellor of VTU S. Vidyashankar, secretary of SDM Education Society Jeevandhar Kumar, badminton players Mridula Prabhu, M. Vijaykumar and Vice-Chancellor of SDM University Niranjan Kumar will be chief guests for the inaugural ceremony. The tournament will be held from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the District Indoor Stadium in Dharwad and SDM College Indoor Stadium. He said that P.V. Rao and Suresh will be the referees for the tournament which is being held with the assistance of Canara Bank and Karnataka Bank. The college has made all the necessary arrangements for the smooth conduct of the tournament. Free accommodation and meals will be provided to the participants, he said. Published - November 23, 2024 07:53 pm IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit
Friday 3.20pm Irish time: Aer Lingus’ inaugural flight from Dublin to Las Vegas departs, passengers — influencers, hen parties, business trippers, lovers, and friends — ready to party having been treated to a set by ‘Elvis’. 6pm, Las Vegas: Ten-plus hours after leaving Dublin, we arrive wide eyed, the Sphere, brighter than the orange sunset, greeting us as we land at Harry Reid International Airport, with views of the Grand Canyon offering stunning entertainment for the final hour of the flight. It’s impossible to wrap your head around what exactly Vegas is. It’s a place that seems to exist as a fantasy; immortalised by The Hangover , Casino , and Elvis’s own Viva Las Vegas ; and a place that’s bigger, brighter, and wilder than where you’re coming from. We’re staying at Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino ( caesars.com/paris-las-vegas , rooms from $52); nearly every hotel in the city is themed and doubles as a casino. Across the road is Caesars Palace, where Adele is in residency at the venue within; it’s called the Colosseum, of course, with tickets going for around $1,500. Paris features a replica Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, and Montgolfier Balloon. Across the road are the famous Fountains of Bellagio. We’re off for Friday night dinner at HaSalon at the Palazzo ( venetianlasvegas.com/dining/restaurants/hasalon.html ) in the Venetian, a resort featuring gondolas inside and out. Be prepared to walk in the city. It’s either that or catch an Uber through stop-start traffic. You’re part of a crowd getting into party mode, with speakeasy bars — a callback to Prohibition-era USA — and drinks outlets peppered all along. By the time we arrive, things are already in full swing at HaSalon. The music is loud. Over in the corner, there’s a marriage proposal happening. One punter seems to be in a dance-off with a server. Every other person appears to be dancing on the tables. Like the city itself, there’s a lot to take in, so much so that you could forget about the food. But you shouldn’t. Note: The beetroot carpaccio is sensational. Though it’s tempting to keep going all night, we have an early start so somehow manage to make it back to, er, Paris in one piece. Saturday Founded in 1960, we get a Pink Jeep Tour ( pinkadventuretours.com/tours/las-vegas-tours/ ) to Red Rock Canyon. Brian is our guide – he used to perform on the Strip over the decades and has family in Roscommon and Cork. We get a potted history of Vegas in the 30-40 minutes it takes to drive there and, though it only dates back about 200 years, it involves mobsters, entrepreneurs, and entertainers. Billionaire businessman and hypochondriac Howard Hughes arrived in the 1960s and had an influence not just on gangsters’ grip of certain casinos, but bought huge tracts of land on the outskirts of the city and was key in the development of the sprawling Red Rock Canyon. It’s bustling on Saturday morning, with people on bikes, scooters, and foot exploring different trails peppered with creosote, Joshua trees, and yucca. Red Rock has its own microclimate and while summer might be a bit too hot for hikes and bouldering, if you’re into that sort of thing, Calico 1, Calico 2, and Ice Box Canyon are good beginner options. Freeclimber Alex Hannold, as seen in various documentaries, lives nearby and is out exploring often. One could imagine coming to Vegas just for the outdoor life. The Pink Jeep Red Rock tour takes four hours in all, but there are day trips offered to the Grand Canyon and Death Valley too. After lunch in Vanderpump á Paris ( caesars.com/paris-las-vegas/restaurants/vanderpump-a-paris ) – ask your reality TV-obsessed friends – and a rewarding couple of hours at the slots, we’re off to the all-seeing Sphere. U2 christened it with the inaugural residency last September through to March and while the Eagles are the current house band, V-U2 is an immersive concert film, shown throughout the week and featuring some of the show’s jaw- dropping visuals on the 580,000sq ft of LEDs. Below, it looks like the actual Bono et al onstage. Like Abba Voyage in London, it’s all just state-of-the-art technology and visuals. While the setlist is a little disappointing, we did enjoy the irony of ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’. (thesphere.com) Vegas has many names, the entertainment capital of the world among them (as well as the sports capital of the world - Formula 1 takes place in the city this weekend, for instance). Plan ahead and you can see the likes of Bruno Mars, Gucci Mane, and Usher in concert, or any number of shows. We catch DISCOSHOW at the LINQ on Saturday ( caesars.com/linq/shows/discoshow ), a fun dance-along journey of self-discovery with a killer soundtrack. Neon Museum on Sunday ( neonmuseum.org/ ) is a ‘boneyard’ comprising distinctive old signs of Vegas, some of which have been re-lit. Awakening at the Wynn on Monday ( wynnlasvegas.com/entertainment/awakening ). The latter is directed by Dublin’s own Baz Halpin, who has also worked on shows for Taylor Swift, among others. Big productions are what Vegas does — every night of the week. Sunday It’s easy to get lost among the high-rise nature of the Strip but head a little further north and there’s a reassuringly ‘normal’ feel to the place. After brunch at La Fontaine in Fontainebleau, one of Vegas’ newest hotels, having opened late last year – and gaping in wonder at the ostentatious chandelier in the lobby – we head to the Mob Museum ( themobmuseum.org/ ), obviously based in the former city courthouse, for a closer look at the city’s links to gangsters like Joe Pesci’s Nicky Santoro in Casino, based on Tony Spilotro. The museum, which gets about 2,000 visitors daily, is by the same people who did the Rock & Roll Museum in Cleveland and features talks by real mobsters like Frank Calabrese Jr. We weren’t expecting our Uber driver to tell us about his links to the mob though — I guess it added to the experience? The area is called the Arts District, with breweries and hipster bars more evident than downtown. After stumbling through the madcap Fremont Street with its LED screen canopy, we reach Esther’s Kitchen ( estherslv.com/ ). An Italian-inspired restaurant, it has more than tripled its seating after moving a couple doors down the road earlier in the year. The sourdough bread and pizzas will fill you up, the cauliflower alla romana a nice snack before you tuck into any number of great pasta dishes. The chocolate olive oil cake though: It almost made me cry when it was over. Pure joy. Monday Vegas has a population of some 2.9m but with about 150,000 hotel rooms, it’s noticeably quieter after the weekend. The mantra seems to be, we’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time. After lunch at Brasserie B by Bobby Flay in Caesars ( caesars.com/caesars-palace/restaurants/brasserie-b ) we head to the High Roller at the bottom of LINQ Promenade, styled to look like classic ‘Main Street USA’. The Ferris wheel is one of the biggest in the world at 550ft (167m) offering views right on top of Sphere — distinctly unadorned in the daytime — and much further afield. Hop onto the LINQ Zipline for a little thrillride above the street. Thanks to the staffer who whispered “It’s actually pretty fucking windy” as I set off; really appreciated that. A relatively sober and tame dinner is had that night at Kusa Nori ( rwlasvegas.com/dining/kusa-nori/ ), a modern Japanese restaurant in Resorts World, which features a mini Sphere. You couldn’t make Vegas up if you tried. Tuesday The last day in Las Vegas and we haven’t even seen one Elvis impersonator since Dublin! There’s only one thing for it: a trip to the wedding chapel. Bliss Wedding Chapel ( blisschapel.com/ ) to be precise. Tens of thousands of people get married in the city every year — we all remember Britney Spears’ shotgun wedding in 2004, annulled after 55 hours — and while that sounds fun, Bliss says it offers a more tasteful experience, with an hour-long ceremony and pickup in a stretch limo, livestreaming options for friends and family back home, and, of course, entertainment and officiating by Elvis. Renewal of vows is also popular here, with Irish people among those to take part. We head back to the still frankly ridiculous – in the best way – Venetian Hotel for a browse around its high-roller Grand Canal Shoppes. Our last supper is at Smith and Wollensky ( smithandwollensky.com/locations/las-vegas/ ), a steakhouse where the prices ain’t cheap but, well, it might be the best thing you eat in your life. With locations along the east coast and one in London, this is the only one out west. We finally get our hands on some local craft beers and tuck into the Wagyu NY Strip. We don’t want it to end – the meal as well as the trip. 8.25pm: We head back to Dublin from Harry Reid, the overnight flight much more subdued than Friday. Las Vegas is many things to many different people - and a weekend here is whatever you want it to be. And don’t forget, what happens in Vegas... Escape notes
The last paycheque from a decades-long career arrives next Friday and the nest egg you built during those working years will now turn into a main source of income. It can be a jarring switch from saving for retirement to spending in retirement. Financial experts say that transition is a process. People need to psychologically prepare for retirement, says Kurt Rosentreter, senior financial adviser at Manulife Wealth. "It's not just stop one day and all of a sudden, start living off your savings," he said. Forecasting how much money you'll need for the next two to three decades and figuring out how to spend that money in your golden years can be challenging. Rosentreter said setting up a plan for retirement spending starts at least two years before bowing out of the job. That means knowing your cost of living, tax impacts and how to live off passive investment income or rental property income for the rest of your retired life. "All of a sudden, your food money and everything else -- your fund money -- is now tied to the stock market, bond market, politics, economics, tax rates," Rosentreter said. "That's pretty intimidating." Having confidence in your planned retirement cashflows is crucial when switching from saving to spending mode -- and helps maintain calm when stocks and bonds aren't doing well, Rosentreter said. "A written plan that says, 'Here's how much you have, here's how you will access it over the next month, next year, next 10 years, the rest of your life,"' Rosentreter said. Rosentreter asks his clients to split their costs of living into four categories -- fixed core costs such as shelter, utility bills, gas and food; fixed variable costs such as birthday gifts; discretionary expenses such as dining out and luxury costs such as driving an expensive SUV. "You start with the mathematics of what their cost of living is," he said. "You can't head into retirement without the numbers." Rosentreter then helps forecast cash flows to age 100 with all the information on expenses and income, he said. Marlene Buxton, the principal fee-only certified financial plannerat Buxton Financial for Retirement, agrees that having a plan is important in reducing the stress of spending. People often move a large amount of money into a checking account and spend from that, she said. "But when that happens, watching the value decrease each month, it's not psychologically good." Deciding which pot to tap into first depends on a person's retirement goals, Buxton said. For example, if a person has a locked-in retirement account, Buxton recommends moving it to a life income fund upon retirement and drawing income from it every month. A retiree can also withdraw a minimal amount from a registered retirement fund to supplement their income. Other income sources can be defined benefit pension plans and tax-free savings. Then, move to CPP and OAS at age 70, she added. Even when people think they have ample savings, there's a level of stress and some even begin to limit their day-to-day spending, Buxton said. But day-to-day spending is not what puts a dent in savings, she added. "It's the larger decisions around how long before downsizing or when to begin certain benefits such as CPP or OAS or what age to retire," that affects retirement cash flow, she said. Rosentreter said retirees need to revisit their cash flow plans once a year and gauge their progress. "You need some kind of dashboard that isn't just investment statements that come at the end of the month and show you (whether you're) up or you're down," he said. Financial plans can also change if someone gets divorced, widowed, or has health issues, Rosentreter said. "Whatever the factors are, you just have to kind of work that into the mathematical calculations," he said. "In the end, it's putting all this on a spreadsheet and working with it and moving the numbers back and forth to see where it works based on what starts the conversation," Rosentreter said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 21, 2024.
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