ODDS… Sunderland to win: 2.06 Reading to win: 1.69 Draw: 3.55 CLASSIC MATCH Kenywyne Jones scored his first goal for Sunderland in their last victory over Reading in September 2007, on the day the Stadium of Light paid its respects to one of its favourite sons.
My friend and I would greet the morning with a pan au chocolat, piecing together our agenda for the day before we strolled and meandered through this city of light, paying homage to monuments, memorials, museums, and memory.
The promise of those lights pays off once inside, in a cascade of decorative details — densely patterned wallpapers and carpets, carved moldings and flashes of gilt and sunflowers — that tell us we have traveled back 130 years, to the early 1880s.
The degree of attention lavished on every aspect of this production (which included flying Laurent Naouri, the Escamillo, to Madrid to be fitted for an authentic matador's suit of lights) pays off in a rare example of a filmed version that holds up to camera close-ups with near-cinematic veracity.
On a recent morning, Stephanie Thayer walked across the soft surface of the park's lawn to the concrete pads, where contractors were preparing to install solar-powered lights, paid for with $260,000 from the concerts.
The new lights pay for themselves within five to 15 years, depending on where and how they are used, and their expected useful life is at least 40 years.
Mr Brown tackled the latter sufficiently competently to prevent the Conservatives winning outright, but light pay packets and long dole queues nonetheless sealed his fate.
She gets caught in fussy, manic activity (here mirrored by Nicole Pearce's dramatic, busy lighting) and pays too little attention to craft, especially when it comes to her clunky transitions.
Transcend's light fixtures go for $999 each, and the company projects that each light will pay for itself in energy savings in the span of a year.
For example, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport no longer buys light fittings; it pays Philips Lighting to provide light over a specified number of years.
