* Scientific American – Offerings to a Stone Snake Provide the Earliest Evidence of Religion by J. R. Minkel 01 / 12 / 06

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, critics blamed Sarbanes – Oxley for the low number of Initial Public Offerings ( IPOs ) on American stock exchanges during 2008.

* Robert Marasco – Burnt Offerings

Offerings to King Unas ( c. 2494 – 2345 BC ) were recorded as

( 1 ) Various Countries of the World bringing in their Offerings to the Exhibition of 1851 ; ( 2 ) Music ; ( 3 ) Sculpture ; ( 4 ) Painting ; ( 5 ) Princes, Art Patrons and Artists ; ( 6 ) Workers in Stone ; ( 7 ) Workers in Wood and Brick ; ( 8 ) Architecture ; ( 9 ) The Infancy of the Arts and Sciences ; ( 10 ) Agriculture ; ( 11 ) Horticulture and Land Surveying ; ( 12 ) Astronomy and Navigation ; ( 13 ) A Group of Philosophers, Sages and Students ; ( 14 ) Engineering ; ( 15 ) The Mechanical Powers ; and ( 16 ) Pottery and Glassmaking.

Offerings for fixed-rate inter-LATA and intra-LATA services are measured by zones and hours.

For candidates in the ITIL Intermediate Capability stream, the Service Offerings and Agreements ( SOA ) Qualification course and exam are most closely aligned to the Service Strategy ( SS ) Qualification course and exam in the Lifecycle stream.

Offerings to Agwe are left on constructed rafts which are floated out to sea.

Offerings of flowers, incense, and candles are given, and the spirits are consulted during changes or times of duress for protection and assistance.

Offerings of food and incense are made to Zao Jun on his birthday ( the third day of the eighth lunar month ) and also on the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month, which marks his return to Heaven to give his New Year's report to the Jade Emperor.

Offerings of snow are made to the gods as a prayer for good crops in the coming year.

The Prayer over the Offerings, however, and the Prayer after Communion, unless they are proper, may be taken either from the Common or from the weekdays of the current Season.

Offerings are mentioned in Genesis, but codified in the later four books of the Torah outlining their origins and history.

Offerings are made of petals, gold and silver coins, and precious stones.

The members of the Russell 3000E Index and its subsets are determined each year during annual reconstitution and enhanced quarterly with the addition of Initial Public Offerings ( IPOs ).

Offerings of food and water are given to the gods in order to appease them.

Offerings to the goddess are usually flowers, but might include animal sacrifices.

Offerings of sheep or goats are made to ancestors, and the help of Likube is invoked beforehand.

Offerings and prayers are made in these areas, along with initiations and vision quests.

Offerings to Takhar are deposited at the foot of the tallest trees in the forest.

Offerings to the spirit are also important, and Mami Wata prefers gifts of delicious food and drink, alcohol, fragrant objects ( such as pomade, powder, incense, and soap ), and expensive goods like jewelry.

Offerings are given to the Lord in hand, and Bhagvan places it in the coffer.

" He also elaborates on their additional similarities, which lead Sassoon to suggest that Bach used Handel's A minor fugue as a structural model or guide for the Musical Offerings Ricercar a 6, and that its musical concepts may also have influenced Bach's development of the Ricercar a 3.

Offerings were made to the stove god because it was his responsibility to make annual reports to heaven on the good deeds or sins committed by the family in question.

Beneath the mounds and plazas were found a vast array of offerings and other buried objects, more than 50 separate caches by one count, including buried jade, polished mirrors made of iron-ores, and five large " Massive Offerings " of serpentine blocks.

Offerings during a blót usually involve mead or other alcohol, sometimes food, sometimes song or poetry, specially written for the occasion or for a particular deity, is delivered as an offering.

As the name implies, Offering 4 is one of many ritual offerings uncovered at La Venta, including the four Massive Offerings and four mosaics.

# Korbanot ( Offerings ): laws for offerings in the Temple, excepting those of the whole community

# Menahot: ( מנחות, " Meal Offerings "); Deals with the various grain-based offerings in the Temple.

* Tuan Ch ' eng-Shih publishes Miscellaneous Offerings from Yu-yang in China.

Anderson is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie, as well as for her film roles ; as Vivian in Midnight Offerings, as Ginny in the cult classic slasher Happy Birthday to Me, and as Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine ?, for which she won the Emmy Award in 1979.

He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and Bette Davis.

Stock market bubbles frequently produce hot markets in Initial Public Offerings, since investment bankers and their clients see opportunities to float new stock issues at inflated prices.

She played supporting roles in Burnt Offerings ( 1976 ) and The Disappearance of Aimee ( 1976 ), but clashed with Karen Black and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two respective productions, because she felt that neither extended her an appropriate degree of respect, and that their behavior on the film sets was unprofessional.

Offerings to him include leaves and herbs, honey, and spiced rum.

" Mararu ": Offerings of gratitude to Tahitian goddess Hina. Woodcut by Paul Gauguin ( 1894 ).

Offerings of the produce of the land were made to the gods, including Rongo, god of cultivated food.

In the Maha Samaya Sutta, the defeated antagonist of the Buddha, Mara also known as " Namuci " or the " Dark One " is described as an Asura whose army consisted of " Sensual passions, Discontent, Hunger and Thirst, Craving, Sloth and Drowsiness, Terror, Uncertainty, Hypocrisy and Stubbornness, Gains, Offerings, Fame and Status wrongly gained, and whoever would praise self and disparage others " ( Sn 3. 2 Padhana Sutta ).

She also co-starred with Bette Davis in a horror film, Burnt Offerings.

His series of macabre films include House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker ( which inspired the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker ), Intruders, The Night Strangler, Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Norliss Tapes ( a 1973 pilot for an unproduced series starring Roy Thinnes ), Curse of the Black Widow, Dead Of Night, Scream of the Wolf and others.

The issuing of stocks through IPOs ( Initial Public Offerings ) by microfinance institutions has also been criticized.

Offerings of her company's Martha Stewart Everyday line at Kmart were expanded to include a new line of ready-made home furnishings, and its mass market interior paint line became available at the larger Sears stores.

Offerings burnt in the God pots included incense, food, and rubber figurines.