Some ideas, many of which probably have been mentioned in various posts already:

• "Dark Sky Lighting" or similar - supposedly designed to minimize light spilling all over the place - http://www.seagulllighting.com/Dark-Sky-Qualified-Lighting.htm
• Motion-sensor lights + reduced wattage bulbs - reduce how long an outdoor light stays on and how bright it is
• Mr. Beams (http://www.mrbeams.com/) has a collection of battery-powered outdoor spotlights and accent/path lighting, useful if you can't or don't want to run electrical wires. Downside of course is you have to change the batteries every so often, depending on use.

Hope this helps!

Maybe it's ABC, maybe it's advertisers, or maybe it's Nielson, but these guys all need to understand that the whole point of advertisements is to convert customers to their product.

To the companies advertising their products through commercials, the whole point of ads is to convert customers to their product. To ABC, the whole point of ads is to generate money. I don't think ABC cares whether or not a viewer watches a beer ad and goes out and buys a case of that beer. ABC does care if the millions of viewers they promised their advertisers for that 30 second spot are actually there, otherwise ABC wouldn't be able to charge as much. I would say Nielsen facilitates ABC to charge as much as they charge for their commercial slots, by providing a rough estimate of people watching their shows.