We want to be like everywhere else in Europe

The cornerstone of the first privately-owned stadium in French football was laid during a ceremony to celebrate construction of Olympique Lyonnais' new home on Tuesday.The foundation stone or in this case a reinforced glass stone contained a parchment with club president Jean-Michel Aulas's inauguration speech written on it.Lyon's new stadium will be a 58 thousand seater stadium and will replace the 40 thousand seater Stade Gerland.Not only is it a change of stadium but also a change of location moving from the south of the city to the eastern suburbs in Decines.Euronews' Julien Huet was at the ceremony and said: "This ultra-modern stadium will cost 405 million euros and will be the first privately-owned stadium in France. Construction will be completed at the end of 2015 or beginning of 2016, cheap Whisky stonesa few months before France host the 2016 European Championships."Lyon's Mayor Gérard Collomb was also present at the ceremony where Aulas told euronews that when the stadium is completed Lyon would no longer be a burden on the taxpayer.


He said: "We want to be like everywhere else in Europe and we were particularly inspired by what Germany did for the 2006 World Cup as well as what happens in England. In other words, to have a development model of the club which includes having your own stadium. That's a new thing here because traditionally Stadia have been built and developed by public authorities. Europe is more and more against investing public money in such infrastructures. When you are looking to set up a pension-type income stream using annuities, you can start the payments right now or sometime in the future. wholesale Soapstone Whisky StonesI call that Income Now or Income Later planning, and it is important to remember that your income stream will be based on your life expectancy at the time you decide to start receiving the payments.With any annuity-income plan, you are making a bet with the issuing annuity company that you are going to live longer than they think you are going to live. If you live longer than your projected life expectancy, then the annuity company is on the hook to pay you regardless of how long you live.