Later work by Yule, Morton, DeRose, Guthrie, and others has shown his methods unreliable, and even his basic counts to be flawed ( for example, he counted a word as unique to the Pastorals even when very close cognates occur in the remainder of the Epistles ; a particularly unfortunate error for Greek ).

He worked very closely with his friend Udny Yule, who had developed some of the basic theory and was interested in the same kind of applications.

Yule recalled how Hooker " joined with me in the early days of our acquaintance to form a very select Statistical Dining Club of two members, which met fairly regularly after meetings of the Society.

* M. spilota ( Lacépède, 1804 ), Carpet or Diamond python, six subspecies found in Indonesia ( southern Western New Guinea in Merauke Regency ), Papua New Guinea ( southern Western Province, the Port Moresby area of Central Province and on Yule Island ) and Australia ( excluding much of the center and north west of the country ).

Murray confirmed again that the album was still coming out, and was due out sometime in Spring 2011, and that there'd be a holiday preview of a song off the album with a " Yule Log " video, much like how they had done previously on New Year's Eve 2009.

The Yule Log was created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, President and CEO of WPIX, Inc.

* George Yule ( 1829-1892 ) an early President of the Indian National Congress

In Europe, this is particularly the case with the various customs of Carnival or Fasnacht and the Yule traditions surrounding Santa Claus / Sinterklaas.

Yule or Yuletide (" Yule time ") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples and some neighboring peoples, before later being absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas.

Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are used in the Nordic countries for the Christian Christmas ( with its religious rites ), but also for other holidays of the season.

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

Yule was an indigenous midwinter ( winter solstice ) festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples, absorbed into celebrations surrounding Christmas over time with Christianization.

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

Saga of Hákon the Good credits King Haakon I of Norway with the Christianization of Norway, as well as rescheduling the date of Yule to coincide with Christian celebrations held at the time.

" In time, Haakon had a law passed that established that Yule celebrations were to take place at the same time as when the Christians held their celebrations, " and at that time everyone was to have ale for the celebration with a measure of grain, or else pay fines, and had to keep the holiday while the ale lasted.

" This saga is set soon after Iceland converted to Christianity and identifies Yule with Christmas: " No Christian man is wont to eat meat this day Eve, because that on the morrow is the first day of Yule ," says she, " wherefore must men first fast today.

In Germanic Neopagan sects, Yule is celebrated with gatherings that often involve a meal and gift giving.

The Yule log was originally an entire tree, that was carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony with the purpose being to provide maximum warmth and endurance.

The Yule log has frequently been associated with having its origins in the historical Germanic paganism which was practiced across northern Europe prior to Christianization.

However, some historians have disagreed with this claim, for instance the Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow attacked Frazer's theories, claiming that the Yule log had never had any religious significance, and was instead simply a festive decoration with practical uses.

* " The Yule Log ", a page with information about the Yule log

** Earliest date for Yule in the northern hemisphere, and Midsummer in the southern hemisphere.

In addition, Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule ( see winter solstice for more ) are also celebrated around this time.

Yule had previously been celebrated on midwinter night for three nights, according to the saga.

Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the pagan Yule feast " had a pronounced religious character " and comments that " it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European Stone and Bronze Ages.

In modern Germanic language-speaking areas and some other Northern European countries, the etymological cognates to Yule are employed for the Christmas.

Additionally, Yule is the traditional name used for Christmas in Scotland in the Scots Language.

Haines's marble was cut from the same Yule Quarry where the original gold-veined marble for the Tomb of the Unknowns was mined nearly 80 years ago.

He doesn't live on the North Pole, but perhaps in a forest nearby, or in Denmark he lives on Greenland, and in Finland he lives in Lapland ; he doesn ’ t come down the chimney at night, but through the front door, delivering the presents directly to the children, just like the Yule Goat did ; he is not overweight ; and even if he nowadays sometimes rides in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, instead of just walking around with his sack, his reindeer don ’ t fly-and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway some still put out a bowl of porridge for him on Christmas Eve.

" The name the " Old Woman " ( Latin vetula ) for such " corn dolls " was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " not make vetulas, ( little figures of the Old Woman ), little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

De Góis died in Suzhou, Gansu-the first Ming China city he reached-while waiting for an entry permit to proceed toward Beijing ; but, in the words of Henry Yule, it was his expedition that made " Cathay ... finally disappear from view, leaving China only in the mouths and minds of men ".

* Ocean Highways ( 1874 ) for a memoir by Colonel Henry Yule

Juleaften ( Danish for Christmas Eve ) or Yule Eve starts around 6 p. m. when a traditional dinner is served.

Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.

The Yule Log is a television program which is broadcast traditionally on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning ( except for the 1990s and the year 2000 when the program wasn't broadcast ), originally by New York City television station WPIX but now by many other Tribune Company-owned television stations, including WGN America, and by Antenna TV starting in 2011.

In 2010, The Yule Log was broadcast on the Gospel Music Channel ( GMC ), for 24 hours starting at 8: 00 P. M. Christmas Eve until 8: 00 P. M. Christmas night.

WPIX and KTLA had The Yule Log on Christmas Morning for 4 hours.

WKBW-TV in Buffalo ( not owned by Tribune ), as a replacement for that day's morning newscast, introduced the Yule Log as a replacement in 2008 ; it did not return in 2009.

In its early years, the Home Shopping Network also aired a Yule Log for the network's only non-broadcasting day before moving to a loop of Tampa Bay Area choirs singing Christmas carols and host wishes in subsequent years.

Some of the stations and cable channels that have broadcast imitations of the Yule Log simulcast the Christmas music from a radio station that is playing it, and before 1989, the WPIX version also secondarily promoted the playing of the same Christmas music in a simulcast over their sister FM station, WPIX-FM ( 101. 9 ), for those unable view the Yule Log on television.

Robert Chambers, in his 1832 work, Book of Days notes that " two popular observances belonging to Christmas are more especially derived from the worship of our pagan ancestors — the hanging up of the mistletoe and the burning of the Yule log.

" James George Frazer in his work on anthropology, The Golden Bough ( p. 736 ) holds that " the ancient fire-festival of the winter solstice appears to survive " in the Yule log custom.

Beyond this, the work brought together for the first time the work on individual processes by English statisticians, principally Udny Yule, and the theory of stationary stochastic processes created by Russian mathematicians, principally A. Y. Khinchin.

Burnell had died before the work was finished, and most of it was finished by Yule, who, however, deeply acknowledges Burnell's contributions.

For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning, but his work was later extended by Udny Yule and Karl Pearson to a more general statistical context.

In the work of Yule and Pearson, the joint distribution of the response and explanatory variables is assumed to be Gaussian.

There he investigated the health problems associated with factory work, one result of which was an influential study of accidents which he produced with Yule.

After a year in Bonn doing research in experimental physics under Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Yule returned to University College in 1893 to work as a demonstrator for Karl Pearson, one of his former teachers.

Pearson was beginning to work in statistics and Yule followed him into this new field.

According to tradition, children who had done mischief had to take special care, since Lussi could come down through the chimney and take them away, and certain tasks of work in the preparation for Yule had to be finished, or else the Lussi would come to punish the household.

Indeed Yule commented, " The importance and value of Hooker ’ s scientific work ... was never, in my opinion, appreciated at its proper worth by the Ministry at the time when he was still in its service.