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Aleksandr Polyakov and his wife Ekaterina worked for Russia's Sberbank bank, local media report. They were in Africa on holiday, Ria Novosti quoted Sberbank as saying.
A third Russian victim was identified as Sergei Vyalikov.
Karoline Aadland, 28, was a programme finance co-ordinator for the Norwegian Red Cross. "Our thoughts are with her next of kin. Our focus is on providing them with assistance in this difficult time," the Norwegian Red Cross tweeted.
Michael Ryan worked for the UN's World Food Programme. His projects included creating safe ground for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and assessing the damage to rural roads in Nepal blocked by landslides.
Irish Prime Minister said: "Michael was doing life-changing work in Africa with the World Food Programme."
New Jersey native Matt Vecere was one of the eight American victims. On Twitter, his employer described him as a great writer and an avid surfer with passion for helping others.
Siraje Hussein Abdi was a 32-year-old Somali-American who had lived in the US since 2002 and was visiting relatives in Africa. He had spent three months in Morocco where his wife lived and had decided to go to Nairobi to see his siblings, his sister Ardo told Voice of America Somali.
She described Mr Abdi as open, sociable and likable. "People loved him, may Allah give him mercy."
Dr Manisha Nukavarapu was a second year resident doctor at East Tennessee State University's Quillen College of Medicine. She was visiting family in Kenya and her death was confirmed by the medical school's Dean Bill Block.
US Army Captain Antoine Lewis - seen here in two photos tweeted by a CBS Chicago journalist - was also on the flight. He was in Africa to do Christian missionary work, and reportedly leaves behind his wife and 15-year-old son.
Brothers Melvin and Bennett Riffel were also among the eight victims from the US. A family friend told NBC News that the brothers were "just wonderful and they're going to be missed deeply."
They were reportedly returning from a trip to Australia. Melvin's wife was expecting their first child, local media report.
Eight Chinese nationals died in the crash. The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said four of the victims worked for Chinese companies, two were working with the UN and another two were travelling privately.
Six prominent Egyptian nationals were on board the flight.
They included some of the country's leading scientists. Dr Ashraf El-Turki, head of the Department of Pesticide Research at Egypt's Agricultural Research Center, was killed.
Assistant researcher Abdul Hamid Farraj and engineer Du'aa Atif Abdul Salam were also on the ill-fated flight.
Two translators, Susan Abu Faraj and Esmat Aransa, had been on their way to join an official African Union mission in Nairobi.
The sixth victim was named as Nassar Al-Azb, a programmer on his way to a conference.
Nine of those killed held French citizenship. They included Sarah Auffret, who was also a British citizen.
French-Tunisian Karim Saafi, 38, was on a mission as a co-chairperson of the African Diaspora Youth Forum in Europe.
Xavier Fricaudet was a teacher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Before that he had taught in other countries, including Guyana and Russia.
Suzanne Barranger, 63, and her husband Jean-Michel, 66, also died in the crash.
Two others, Camille Geoffroy and Clémence Boutant, both worked for humanitarian groups.
The Austrian Foreign Ministry confirmed that three doctors travelling to Zanzibar had been on the flight.
Two people from Spain died in the crash. Jordi Dalmau Sayol, 46, was a chemical engineer working for a water infrastructure company.
Pilar Martínez Docampo, 32, was an aid worker for an NGO in Ethiopia.
Two men from Israel were on the flight - Shimon Ram, 59, and Avraham Matzliah, 49, were identified in Israeli media.
Emergency workers from the country were sent to help local teams with identification and recovery.
Dr Ben Ahmed Chihab was one of two Moroccan nationals to die in the disaster. The other was El Hassan Sayouty, a professor at Hassan II University of Casablanca.
Two Polish nationals were on the flight. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed the news, and said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would support their families.
Dr Kodjo Glato was a professor at the University of Lomé. In a statement (in French), the institution offered condolences to Dr Glato's family.
Ryan Brown, Johannesburg bureau chief for international news organisation CS Monitor, tweeted that Dr Glato had "a passion for sweet potatoes and how they could be used to improve food security in West Africa".
He also owned a non-governmental organisation called Farmers Without Borders, Ms Brown told the BBC.
Ghislaine De Claremont was the only national from her country killed on the flight. The mother-of-two, and grandmother to four children, had been on the trip as a gift from her former colleagues from ING bank, where she had just retired.
Djibouti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Serbia, Uganda, Yemen, and Nepal each had one victim die in the disaster.
Families with children facing illness and charity workers have had the first glimpse at a new £10m hospice near Norwich.
The topping out ceremony for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) came as the £10m nook appeal, for a new hospice in Framingham Pigot, reached its £8.4m mark, with the final tile now placed on the roof.
EACH chair of trustees John Pickering, chief executive Graham Butland and Jamie Carter, of RG Carter, poured a bottle of beer on the building in a construction tradition.
The charity launched its nook appeal in 2014, to replace its loved but tired facility at Quidenham. The new site will include more areas for clinical care, a hydrotherapy pool, state-of-the-art sensory room, larger en-suite bedrooms and therapy rooms - across one floor.
It means EACH, which supports children with life-threatening illnesses, can reach more families.
Among those benefitting will be four-year-old Rupert Wright, who lives with Hunter syndrome, a genetic condition affecting every part of his body.
His mum Naomi, who lives in Stanton, said when Rupert was diagnosed just shy of two years old, she didn’t think they were ready for EACH’s help, but realised what they could offer.
She said the charity had offered support for Rupert’s sister, as well as summer activities, a Christmas party and “absolutely phenomenal” respite care.
While she said there would always be a fondness for EACH’s Quidenham hospice, she said they were excited for the new one to open.
“Quidenham will always be really special to me,” she said, “that’s where we started, that’s where we went after diagnosis. I suppose that little building will never leave me. It will always have a special place but this is phenomenal.
Graham Butland, EACH chief executive, said it was a “very exciting” moment for EACH.
• For more information on how you can donate and get involved, click here.
Three-year-old Ava Weeks will be among those helped by the new hospice.
The little girl, from Brundall, lives with Apert syndrome, which affects how her bones develop and grow, meaning she has - and will continue to - undergo surgeries.
Her mum Carly, a former speech and language therapist, said EACH had been a huge support, with Ava joining a support group, and Mrs Weeks and husband Jonathan having counselling.
She said the counsellor had been a “life and sanity saver”, and helped her find coping strategies when people, both adults and children, stare and make rude comments.
“The trauma of Ava’s numerous surgeries and investigations has been difficult for us to manage, and the ongoing nature of her condition means we’re never quite sure when the next surgery will be, so the counsellor has helped me to deal with the endlessness and the uncertainty of her condition, and she’s helped me work through some of the more harrowing things we’ve seen Ava go through,” she said.
Ava has even met another child with a rare craniofacial syndrome at the hospice. And her mum said while Quidenham is such a “lovely, peaceful place”, it will be excellent to have a larger, more accessible site.
While the building may now be taking shape, EACH has launched a campaign to help them furnish it.
Shop for the nook encourages supporters to fund everything from tea towels and cutlery sets to table lamps and anti-allergy duvets.
The list of items the charity would like people to help fund is 21 long, with the cheapest £3 and the most expensive £210.
To shop for the nook, click here.
Canadian dividend growers showing good corporate governance relative to their global peers.
Sustainalytics Governance Score (a percentile score from zero to 100 measuring how well a company is pro-actively managing governance issues that are material to its business, relative the company’s global peers). Examples of corporate policies that affect this score include the independence of the board of directors, the level of gender/national diversity on the board, strong policies on bribery and corruption, amount spent on lobbying and political expenses, among many others.
To qualify, companies must have a dividend payout ratio of less than 80 per cent on expected earnings or less than 60 per cent of trailing cash flow. These limits ensure that the company is paying a reasonably sustainable yield.
More about Morningstar Research and Sustainalytics Inc.
Morningstar Research Inc. provides independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Its research tool, Morningstar CPMS, provides quantitative North American equity research and portfolio analysis to institutional clients and financial advisers. CPMS data cover more than 95 per cent of the investable North American stock market. Sustainalytics, a leading independent global provider of ESG research and ratings, is a strategic partner to Morningstar. The firm’s company-level ESG ratings underpin Morningstar’s sustainability rating for funds.
I used Morningstar CPMS to back-test this strategy from August, 2009, to March, 2019. During this process, a maximum of 15 stocks were purchased with no more than three per economic sector. Stocks were sold if their rank fell below the top 35 per cent of our universe of 200 companies. When sold, the positions were replaced with the highest-ranked stock not already owned in the portfolio. Over this period, the strategy produced an annualized total return of 9.5 per cent while the S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index gained 7.3 per cent across the same period. The same strategy without including the Sustainalytics Governance Score returned 7.9 per cent over the same period, which would imply that considering a company’s corporate governance might yield better results than not doing so.
Source: Morningstar CPMS and Sustainalytics Inc.
Celebration in Trafalgar Square with the International Olympic Committee's announcement that London has won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games,Wednesday July 6, 2005.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair reacts to the news in Gleneagles,Scotland, that London has won the right to host the 2012 Olympics,Wednesday July 6, 2005.
Singapore – London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on today, narrowly defeating European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948.
After Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated in the first three rounds, London beat its cross-Channel opponent 54-50 on the fourth ballot of the International Olympic Committee vote – capping the most glamorous and hotly contested bid race in Olympic history.
Paris had been the front-runner throughout the campaign, but London picked up momentum in the late stages with strong support from Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Part of London’s pitch was that it stepped in to help the Olympic movement by staging the games as Europe was still recovering from World War II.
London’s victory handed Paris its third stinging Olympic defeat in 20 years, following failed bids for the 1992 and 2008 Olympics.
Paris hasn’t hosted the games since 1924.
The results of the first three rounds came as no surprise.
Moscow was always considered the longshot, with New York and Madrid outsiders. Moscow went out with 15 votes in the first round, New York dropped out next with 16, then Madrid with 31.
Paris had the perceived advantage of bidding for a third time, especially since the IOC tends to reward persistence. The French capital also had a ready-to-go Olympic stadium in the Stade de France and embraced the IOC’s blueprint for controlling the size and cost of the games.
London centered its bid on the massive urban renewal of a dilapidated area of East London. It’s the fourth bid from Britain after failed attempts by Birmingham for the 1992 Olympics and Manchester for 1996 and 2000.
Millennials watch a lot of video content online, but does that content engender the same emotional connections as TV? A new study from the Video Advertising Bureau suggests TV is still king when it comes to forging emotional connections among millennial viewers.
The VAB study found that while 40% of millennials surveyed watch their favorite TV programming live, only 29% make an effort to watch their favorite YouTube shows on the same day they are posted.
The VAB defined YouTube originals as shows produced by established personalities and only available on YouTube.
The survey also attempted to quantify the emotional connections caused by content. It found that when it came to causing viewers to “laugh out loud,” “get angry or upset,” or have “cried,” more millennial respondents said TV programming caused those emotional responses than YouTube shows.
The area where YouTube shines is in its engagement.
The VAB report found that YouTube remains a popular place for millennials to watch content from TV shows, and to comment or post about those shows.
Similarly, the respondents said they make an effort to watch every episode of their favorite TV show and their favorite YouTube show in almost equal numbers.
Hundreds of Halloween aficionados waited in line this week for an invitation-only chance to shop the grand opening of the 2010 Roger's Gardens Halloween shop.
"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye — then it's hilarious," screeched "Mischievous Mort," the ventriloquist's dummy host of this year's "Funn & Gaems" Halloween shop who greeted all the customers.
Every year Roger's Halloween shop has a theme, and this year Mort is the star after he took over and twisted his bosses' factory to reflect his own peculiar ideas. Mort is seen blowing things up, jamming an assembly line — and of course, Mort dolls are on sale.
"We wanted to be more whimsical this year and less scary," said Eric Cortina, Roger's Gardens' creative director, who develops the themes each year.
Shoppers quickly grabbed items including "screaming mirrors" that moan when picked up, revealing a skeleton's face, fake spiders and rats, robots, candies, upscale black-lace table linens, skeleton-and-spider-themed vases, decanters and cake plates.
Wills Johnson, 13, of Newport Beach, immediately fell upon a silver chair shaped like a hand.
"I love the chair and need it for my room," he told his mother, Lisa Johnson. "There's like 100 things here I want, but I want this chair most of all."
His mother asked the price — $250 — and raised her eyebrows. Then she admitted that she, too, saw a ton of things she wanted.
Donna Buckley of Fullerton had grabbed four black resin witches' boots.
"I shop, and then I get inspired," she said. "At first I thought I'd fill the boots with black roses. But now, I'm going to make an invisible lady with them, using white gauze hanging down over them. I'll hang it in my picture window."
Kathy McSorley of Santa Ana clung to a wall hanging of a crescent moon with a sparkling black cat inside.
"Would you spend $80 on this?" she asked, unsure whether to take the plunge.
"I found it over there, and already three people have asked if I'm buying it because they wanted it," she said. She shook her head, then wandered back through the crowd.
"Things were selling out," said Rochelle Cunard of Downey, showing off a black twig basket that looked like an evil's bird's nest. "These were totally gone. They went really fast."
Roger's Gardens is located at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road. Call (949) 640-5800 for more information.
Newport Beach Central Library's newest art exhibit is "Shoreline Vision" by Marian Jones, an artist and photographer who has lived in Corona del Mar for 26 years.
The exhibit, sponsored by the Newport Beach City Arts Commission, shows a series of photographs that focus "on forms and designs found in nature, often revealed in close-up," according to the city's website.

Aleksandr Polyakov and his wife Ekaterina worked for Russia's Sberbank bank, local media report. They were in Africa on holiday, Ria Novosti quoted Sberbank as saying.

A third Russian victim was identified as Sergei Vyalikov.

Karoline Aadland, 28, was a programme finance co-ordinator for the Norwegian Red Cross. "Our thoughts are with her next of kin. Our focus is on providing them with assistance in this difficult time," the Norwegian Red Cross tweeted.

Michael Ryan worked for the UN's World Food Programme. His projects included creating safe ground for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and assessing the damage to rural roads in Nepal blocked by landslides.

Irish Prime Minister said: "Michael was doing life-changing work in Africa with the World Food Programme."

New Jersey native Matt Vecere was one of the eight American victims. On Twitter, his employer described him as a great writer and an avid surfer with passion for helping others.

Siraje Hussein Abdi was a 32-year-old Somali-American who had lived in the US since 2002 and was visiting relatives in Africa. He had spent three months in Morocco where his wife lived and had decided to go to Nairobi to see his siblings, his sister Ardo told Voice of America Somali.

She described Mr Abdi as open, sociable and likable. "People loved him, may Allah give him mercy."

Dr Manisha Nukavarapu was a second year resident doctor at East Tennessee State University's Quillen College of Medicine. She was visiting family in Kenya and her death was confirmed by the medical school's Dean Bill Block.

US Army Captain Antoine Lewis - seen here in two photos tweeted by a CBS Chicago journalist - was also on the flight. He was in Africa to do Christian missionary work, and reportedly leaves behind his wife and 15-year-old son.

Brothers Melvin and Bennett Riffel were also among the eight victims from the US. A family friend told NBC News that the brothers were "just wonderful and they're going to be missed deeply."

They were reportedly returning from a trip to Australia. Melvin's wife was expecting their first child, local media report.

Eight Chinese nationals died in the crash. The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said four of the victims worked for Chinese companies, two were working with the UN and another two were travelling privately.

Six prominent Egyptian nationals were on board the flight.

They included some of the country's leading scientists. Dr Ashraf El-Turki, head of the Department of Pesticide Research at Egypt's Agricultural Research Center, was killed.

Assistant researcher Abdul Hamid Farraj and engineer Du'aa Atif Abdul Salam were also on the ill-fated flight.

Two translators, Susan Abu Faraj and Esmat Aransa, had been on their way to join an official African Union mission in Nairobi.

The sixth victim was named as Nassar Al-Azb, a programmer on his way to a conference.

Nine of those killed held French citizenship. They included Sarah Auffret, who was also a British citizen.

French-Tunisian Karim Saafi, 38, was on a mission as a co-chairperson of the African Diaspora Youth Forum in Europe.

Xavier Fricaudet was a teacher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Before that he had taught in other countries, including Guyana and Russia.

Suzanne Barranger, 63, and her husband Jean-Michel, 66, also died in the crash.

Two others, Camille Geoffroy and Clémence Boutant, both worked for humanitarian groups.

The Austrian Foreign Ministry confirmed that three doctors travelling to Zanzibar had been on the flight.

Two people from Spain died in the crash. Jordi Dalmau Sayol, 46, was a chemical engineer working for a water infrastructure company.

Pilar Martínez Docampo, 32, was an aid worker for an NGO in Ethiopia.

Two men from Israel were on the flight - Shimon Ram, 59, and Avraham Matzliah, 49, were identified in Israeli media.

Emergency workers from the country were sent to help local teams with identification and recovery.

Dr Ben Ahmed Chihab was one of two Moroccan nationals to die in the disaster. The other was El Hassan Sayouty, a professor at Hassan II University of Casablanca.

Two Polish nationals were on the flight. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed the news, and said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would support their families.

Dr Kodjo Glato was a professor at the University of Lomé. In a statement (in French), the institution offered condolences to Dr Glato's family.

Ryan Brown, Johannesburg bureau chief for international news organisation CS Monitor, tweeted that Dr Glato had "a passion for sweet potatoes and how they could be used to improve food security in West Africa".

He also owned a non-governmental organisation called Farmers Without Borders, Ms Brown told the BBC.

Ghislaine De Claremont was the only national from her country killed on the flight. The mother-of-two, and grandmother to four children, had been on the trip as a gift from her former colleagues from ING bank, where she had just retired.

Djibouti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Serbia, Uganda, Yemen, and Nepal each had one victim die in the disaster.

Families with children facing illness and charity workers have had the first glimpse at a new £10m hospice near Norwich.

The topping out ceremony for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) came as the £10m nook appeal, for a new hospice in Framingham Pigot, reached its £8.4m mark, with the final tile now placed on the roof.

EACH chair of trustees John Pickering, chief executive Graham Butland and Jamie Carter, of RG Carter, poured a bottle of beer on the building in a construction tradition.

The charity launched its nook appeal in 2014, to replace its loved but tired facility at Quidenham. The new site will include more areas for clinical care, a hydrotherapy pool, state-of-the-art sensory room, larger en-suite bedrooms and therapy rooms - across one floor.

It means EACH, which supports children with life-threatening illnesses, can reach more families.

Among those benefitting will be four-year-old Rupert Wright, who lives with Hunter syndrome, a genetic condition affecting every part of his body.

His mum Naomi, who lives in Stanton, said when Rupert was diagnosed just shy of two years old, she didn’t think they were ready for EACH’s help, but realised what they could offer.

She said the charity had offered support for Rupert’s sister, as well as summer activities, a Christmas party and “absolutely phenomenal” respite care.

While she said there would always be a fondness for EACH’s Quidenham hospice, she said they were excited for the new one to open.

“Quidenham will always be really special to me,” she said, “that’s where we started, that’s where we went after diagnosis. I suppose that little building will never leave me. It will always have a special place but this is phenomenal.

Graham Butland, EACH chief executive, said it was a “very exciting” moment for EACH.

• For more information on how you can donate and get involved, click here.

Three-year-old Ava Weeks will be among those helped by the new hospice.

The little girl, from Brundall, lives with Apert syndrome, which affects how her bones develop and grow, meaning she has - and will continue to - undergo surgeries.

Her mum Carly, a former speech and language therapist, said EACH had been a huge support, with Ava joining a support group, and Mrs Weeks and husband Jonathan having counselling.

She said the counsellor had been a “life and sanity saver”, and helped her find coping strategies when people, both adults and children, stare and make rude comments.

“The trauma of Ava’s numerous surgeries and investigations has been difficult for us to manage, and the ongoing nature of her condition means we’re never quite sure when the next surgery will be, so the counsellor has helped me to deal with the endlessness and the uncertainty of her condition, and she’s helped me work through some of the more harrowing things we’ve seen Ava go through,” she said.

Ava has even met another child with a rare craniofacial syndrome at the hospice. And her mum said while Quidenham is such a “lovely, peaceful place”, it will be excellent to have a larger, more accessible site.

While the building may now be taking shape, EACH has launched a campaign to help them furnish it.

Shop for the nook encourages supporters to fund everything from tea towels and cutlery sets to table lamps and anti-allergy duvets.

The list of items the charity would like people to help fund is 21 long, with the cheapest £3 and the most expensive £210.

To shop for the nook, click here.

Canadian dividend growers showing good corporate governance relative to their global peers.

Sustainalytics Governance Score (a percentile score from zero to 100 measuring how well a company is pro-actively managing governance issues that are material to its business, relative the company’s global peers). Examples of corporate policies that affect this score include the independence of the board of directors, the level of gender/national diversity on the board, strong policies on bribery and corruption, amount spent on lobbying and political expenses, among many others.

To qualify, companies must have a dividend payout ratio of less than 80 per cent on expected earnings or less than 60 per cent of trailing cash flow. These limits ensure that the company is paying a reasonably sustainable yield.

More about Morningstar Research and Sustainalytics Inc.

Morningstar Research Inc. provides independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Its research tool, Morningstar CPMS, provides quantitative North American equity research and portfolio analysis to institutional clients and financial advisers. CPMS data cover more than 95 per cent of the investable North American stock market. Sustainalytics, a leading independent global provider of ESG research and ratings, is a strategic partner to Morningstar. The firm’s company-level ESG ratings underpin Morningstar’s sustainability rating for funds.

I used Morningstar CPMS to back-test this strategy from August, 2009, to March, 2019. During this process, a maximum of 15 stocks were purchased with no more than three per economic sector. Stocks were sold if their rank fell below the top 35 per cent of our universe of 200 companies. When sold, the positions were replaced with the highest-ranked stock not already owned in the portfolio. Over this period, the strategy produced an annualized total return of 9.5 per cent while the S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index gained 7.3 per cent across the same period. The same strategy without including the Sustainalytics Governance Score returned 7.9 per cent over the same period, which would imply that considering a company’s corporate governance might yield better results than not doing so.

Source: Morningstar CPMS and Sustainalytics Inc.

Celebration in Trafalgar Square with the International Olympic Committee's announcement that London has won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games,Wednesday July 6, 2005.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair reacts to the news in Gleneagles,Scotland, that London has won the right to host the 2012 Olympics,Wednesday July 6, 2005.

Singapore – London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on today, narrowly defeating European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948.

After Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated in the first three rounds, London beat its cross-Channel opponent 54-50 on the fourth ballot of the International Olympic Committee vote – capping the most glamorous and hotly contested bid race in Olympic history.

Paris had been the front-runner throughout the campaign, but London picked up momentum in the late stages with strong support from Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Part of London’s pitch was that it stepped in to help the Olympic movement by staging the games as Europe was still recovering from World War II.

London’s victory handed Paris its third stinging Olympic defeat in 20 years, following failed bids for the 1992 and 2008 Olympics.

Paris hasn’t hosted the games since 1924.

The results of the first three rounds came as no surprise.

Moscow was always considered the longshot, with New York and Madrid outsiders. Moscow went out with 15 votes in the first round, New York dropped out next with 16, then Madrid with 31.

Paris had the perceived advantage of bidding for a third time, especially since the IOC tends to reward persistence. The French capital also had a ready-to-go Olympic stadium in the Stade de France and embraced the IOC’s blueprint for controlling the size and cost of the games.

London centered its bid on the massive urban renewal of a dilapidated area of East London. It’s the fourth bid from Britain after failed attempts by Birmingham for the 1992 Olympics and Manchester for 1996 and 2000.

Millennials watch a lot of video content online, but does that content engender the same emotional connections as TV? A new study from the Video Advertising Bureau suggests TV is still king when it comes to forging emotional connections among millennial viewers.

The VAB study found that while 40% of millennials surveyed watch their favorite TV programming live, only 29% make an effort to watch their favorite YouTube shows on the same day they are posted.

The VAB defined YouTube originals as shows produced by established personalities and only available on YouTube.

The survey also attempted to quantify the emotional connections caused by content. It found that when it came to causing viewers to “laugh out loud,” “get angry or upset,” or have “cried,” more millennial respondents said TV programming caused those emotional responses than YouTube shows.

The area where YouTube shines is in its engagement.

The VAB report found that YouTube remains a popular place for millennials to watch content from TV shows, and to comment or post about those shows.

Similarly, the respondents said they make an effort to watch every episode of their favorite TV show and their favorite YouTube show in almost equal numbers.

Hundreds of Halloween aficionados waited in line this week for an invitation-only chance to shop the grand opening of the 2010 Roger's Gardens Halloween shop.

"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye — then it's hilarious," screeched "Mischievous Mort," the ventriloquist's dummy host of this year's "Funn & Gaems" Halloween shop who greeted all the customers.

Every year Roger's Halloween shop has a theme, and this year Mort is the star after he took over and twisted his bosses' factory to reflect his own peculiar ideas. Mort is seen blowing things up, jamming an assembly line — and of course, Mort dolls are on sale.

"We wanted to be more whimsical this year and less scary," said Eric Cortina, Roger's Gardens' creative director, who develops the themes each year.

Shoppers quickly grabbed items including "screaming mirrors" that moan when picked up, revealing a skeleton's face, fake spiders and rats, robots, candies, upscale black-lace table linens, skeleton-and-spider-themed vases, decanters and cake plates.

Wills Johnson, 13, of Newport Beach, immediately fell upon a silver chair shaped like a hand.

"I love the chair and need it for my room," he told his mother, Lisa Johnson. "There's like 100 things here I want, but I want this chair most of all."

His mother asked the price — $250 — and raised her eyebrows. Then she admitted that she, too, saw a ton of things she wanted.

Donna Buckley of Fullerton had grabbed four black resin witches' boots.

"I shop, and then I get inspired," she said. "At first I thought I'd fill the boots with black roses. But now, I'm going to make an invisible lady with them, using white gauze hanging down over them. I'll hang it in my picture window."

Kathy McSorley of Santa Ana clung to a wall hanging of a crescent moon with a sparkling black cat inside.

"Would you spend $80 on this?" she asked, unsure whether to take the plunge.

"I found it over there, and already three people have asked if I'm buying it because they wanted it," she said. She shook her head, then wandered back through the crowd.

"Things were selling out," said Rochelle Cunard of Downey, showing off a black twig basket that looked like an evil's bird's nest. "These were totally gone. They went really fast."

Roger's Gardens is located at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road. Call (949) 640-5800 for more information.

Newport Beach Central Library's newest art exhibit is "Shoreline Vision" by Marian Jones, an artist and photographer who has lived in Corona del Mar for 26 years.

The exhibit, sponsored by the Newport Beach City Arts Commission, shows a series of photographs that focus "on forms and designs found in nature, often revealed in close-up," according to the city's website.