Sentences with phrase «as yule»

Rather than Father Christmas, in Iceland children are visited by 13 Christmas trolls — also known as the Yule Lads.

The poster for a group Christmas show (a staple gambit on the mistaken theory that people will buy art as Yule presents) features John Chamberlain, Lucas Samaras, the protean clown Aristodemus Kaldis «and others too numerous to mention!»

This is a nod to the Finnish legend of Joulupukki, translated as the Yule Goat, a hideous horned creature that used to demand presents and frighten children at Christmas time.

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Since the third century BC the man, myth and legend known variously as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, La Befana, Yule Tomten and Christkindli has been an amazing entrepreneur each and every startup founder can learn from.

You know: when most people get ready to write a little something for the Christmas season, they fire up the Yule log, and they have a little eggnog, and toss a little tinsel, and eat a cookie, and then they have this sweet smell on their breath as they talk about how joyful a season this....

As such they lit lights and burned a yule log to celebrate the return of day.

We do however know that this is the time of Yule and when christianity reared its head they created this holiday as a way of converting.

Well, in this case, we used the classic ubiquitous yule log as our inspiration and literally turned it on its side to create this more modern Winter Birch Log Cake.

I love the idea of cookies and cream as the base to a yule log — such a simple idea and it would work well with other flavours too.

The busiest day of the year for us is Christmas Eve I try my best to get as much of the jobs done as possible, peeling vegetables, baking muffins for Christmas morning decorating the Christmas Cake and Yule log etc... and that leaves a little time to spend with the kids.

In other cultures, this full moon is also known as the Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon that follows Yule.

Yule celebrates the Horned God, who is reborn as the new Sun God on the winter solstice.

Over the years, The Yule Log has spawned many imitators, but none as cute as this new one featuring Lil Bub.

To help you get into the holiday spirit the gapingvoid team made a couple of our own «Yule Logs» as animated GIFs.

As noted on CA, I checked RE statistics for «reconstructions» using two of the most famous examples of spurious regression in econometrics: 1) Yule (1926) which shows a relationship between mortality and proportion of Church of England marriages; 2) Hendry (1980) which shows a relationship between cumulative U.K. rainfall and inflation).

And while we are being pedantic Yule actually distinguished between «nonsense» correlations — correlations which exist between two quite unrelated variables as in the 1926 paper, and «spurious» correlations which he had identified in 1897 — where two variables are related but only because they both depend on a third variable which is not being considered.

But that's an entirely different issue from the very simple one about Mann's correlation of sediments from Finnish bridge building with global climate fields — something that may qualify as a classic example of spurious correlation, up with Yule's original alcoholism and C of E marriages.

Guild Yule LLP is honoured to have been named in The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory 2014 as one of Western Canada's leading insurance defense firms.

Mr. Yule has extensive experience as an arbitrator of personal injury and insurance disputes and particularly as arbitrator of Underinsured Motorist claims under s. 148.2 of the Insurance (Vehicle) Regulation.

Lance graduated from the UBC Law School in 1962, and articled to Frank Collier, Q.C., of Guild Yule Schmidt Lane Collier and Hinkson, as the firm was then known.

I have to say that great minds think a like and I started up the ole tv yule log as well.

So get your yule log video fired up and pour some mulled wine to set the mood as you join us for the Christmas Sparkle home tour!