For most, that means foregoing the work-week commute and stocking up on water and candles.
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Gingerbread craftspeople, who also made honey and candles, worked in the area of Northern Croatia.
Items that proved popular included electrical items, sheets and pillowcases, luxury towels and candles.
At the spring, holy water and candles are handed out to everyone present for good health.
Perhaps the most surprising budget black holes are room fragrances and candles, now a multi-billion dollar category.
Balloons were released into the sky and candles were lit at a memorial on the school grounds.
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Mr. SALVADOR PADILLA (Cousin of Geovani Padillaaleman): Right here you see all these flowers and candles, crosses, and a rosary.
Some people were clad in black, a symbol of mourning, but placards and banners about Neda and candles have not been seen.
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This requires a red-checkered tablecloth (try the dollar stores) and candles (a few tea light candles in mason jars will do the job).
Voters and election workers used flashlights and candles to see the voting machines -- which still worked -- until the polls closed at 8 p.m.
The Solar Electric Light Fund is demonstrating that you can provide poor families with solar power for roughly the same cost as old standbys such as kerosene and candles.
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There is also a dining area of divans and armchairs surrounded by potted plants and candles, where you can enjoy a glass of chilled Kefraya wine and a tasty, grilled shrimp and asparagus salad.
It looked to be entirely overgrown, but Sopheng knew a trail that wound through the vines, bushes and branches to a hollow under the tower itself, where I was surprised to find not only ancient inscriptions but also fresh incense and candles.
Gore's favorite was her description of an elegant family dinner table in Mississippi with much lace and candles and crystal and the elderly matriarch -- bedecked in rich brocade and a jeweled tiara -- making her way unsteadily to the table after a touch or two of bourbon and Seconal upstairs.
In addition to these, the grandest of liturgical candles, Italian producers have long profited from the brisk trade in altar candles, votive candles and memorial candles to be placed on graves.
In addition to the problem of fading devotion, electric lamps have replaced votive candles in many churches and memorial candles in many cemeteries.
He is followed by two friends with candelabra and others carrying candles and lanterns, five choral singers who sing the Lamentation of the Virgin Mary at several points along the way, and many worshippers of all ages from Croatia and abroad wearing the tunics of religious brotherhoods.
Then, the musical references to classics like the final trio of "Der Rosenkavalier, " to signal renunciation of youth and love (there's even a nonsinging character called Sophie), and the orchestral passage after Tosca murders Scarpia, festooning the corpse with candles and a cross (here, the diva burns her photographs and then snuffs all the candles in her apartment).
It's based on orange blossom, with notes of beeswax and frankincense (for the candles and incense in the procession).
Borders was egregiously bad at identifying consumer product and lifestyle trends, introducing candles and stationery, CDs and DVDs at a time when consumers were moving in other directions.
The coffins stood draped in Kurdish flags inside the community centre amid flowers and burning candles.
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The memorial event in Mackworth saw local people lighting lanterns and adding candles to a memorial shrine.
One of the most attractive of places -- Mediterranean-African in design, with a tented "garden, " earthenware dishes and flickering candles.
About 200 people of all ages came together for the service and worshippers were able to light candles and say private prayers.
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For the Wolves set, the band was partially obscured by a cloud of artificial smoke, and the stage was littered with candles and oil lanterns.
Fans flocked to his club's Niedersachsen Stadium overnight to lay flowers and light candles at the gates in memory of their captain, who joined them in 2004.
The museum was open that day, leaving Mr. van Vliet and his team half an hour to light almost 2, 000 red, white and blue candles on its central staircase.
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Jokela High School was closed for the rest of the week, but some of the 460 students gathered there overnight and into Thursday, crying and lighting candles for the victims.
Today, as cable shopping networks bloom like kudzu, we stuff our closets with Grip-N-Flip kitchen utensils, mixers with dough hooks, tanzanite bracelets and vanilla candles so rank they knock out power lines.
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