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The silk neckwear has gone over big. Both Bill Clinton and Al Gore own Garcia ties, and Whoopi Goldberg recently had a Garcia-patterned dress made. Stone Ltd., which makes and the ties, has done $30 million in retail sales on the Garcia tie over the past 11 months and hopes for similar success with the Davis line. The Lennon ties, introduced last December, have done well enough that, ‘Imagine’ just in time for Father’s Day, maker Burma Biebas has issued a new batch featuring sketches Lennon drew for his son Sean....

Most activity trackers monitor your steps and estimate calories burned and distance travelled. Some even take your heart rate on demand so you can check at various intervals how you’re doing. The Kinetik Energy EFT1 is different. It’s a dedicated heart rate monitor with a few extras. See also: The 15 best activity trackers you can buy in 2015 It uses Bluetooth to connect to an iPhone (from 4S onwards) or a 5th-gen iPod touch....

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, died peacefully in her sleep at Balmoral Castle, the royal family’s country retreat, on Thursday afternoon, aged 96. Since the queen died there have been continuous ceremonies in Britain, as well as in Commonwealth countries, to mark her passing and Charles’ ascension to the throne. On Sunday, the late monarch’s coffin took a six-hour trip through Scotland, from Balmoral to Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The procession drew thousands of onlookers to see the queen arrive in the Scottish capital....

One such example is Sora’s goal, which has commonly been to find or rescue his friends in past games. In Kingdom Hearts 4, Sora is instead the one who finds himself stranded and alone in the mysterious world of Quadratum. This modern-looking city is coming under attack by the forces of darkness, and whatever the Foretellers are planning will leave Sora with plenty to deal with. In the meantime, his friends are busy looking for a way to bring him home, but one series regular may find it harder than the rest to stay in the action....

RELATED: Kingdom Hearts: Moments That Didn’t Age Well Though some of Kingdom Hearts’ side characters have managed to earn themselves their own spin-off games, Sora remains the main protagonist of the series. There’s nothing wrong with this, as he is a compelling character, but it would be nice to see some of his friends and enemies take center stage occasionally. 10 Axel Axel is one of the most unpredictable characters in the Kingdom Hearts series....

RELATED: Kingdom Hearts: Every Summon In The Series (& How To Get Them) Some abilities are much more important to have equipped than others, especially for those who want to be as powerful as the game allows them to be. Kingdom Hearts 1 features some of the best abilities in the series, but some are better than others. Updated November 27, 2022, by Justin Flynn: The Kingdom Hearts series has evolved a great deal since the original game’s debut in 2002....

Among the few Windows-specific bells and whistles expected of most console-to-PC ports, the original lineup of Kingdom Hearts games on PC plays comparably to the console remasters. There are only very minor performance problems to speak of, none of which are game-breaking. The only major hurdle consumers will need to consider is the price vs. the value, as the classic Kingdom Hearts collection is still being sold at $49.99 MSRP on Epic Games Store....

The trilogy will include Kingdom Hearts - HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and Kingdom Hearts III. They will join Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, which was the first KH title to arrive on the Switch. All of these will be cloud games, that is, playable via streaming. Players will need a stable internet connection to fully enjoy the experience. All there is to know about the upcoming Kingdom Hearts trilogy The trilogy will be arriving on Nintendo Switch via Cloud on February 10....

Union Cross began as Kingdom Hearts Unchained X in 2015, before becoming Union Cross in 2017. Set before the events of the original 2001 game, Union Cross tells the story of a player-created Keyblade wielder in the events preceding the Keyblade War. Players could tackle the game’s mission-oriented gameplay either in single-player or with friends. Union Cross’ final chapter came out earlier this month, setting the stage for the story’s continuation in Kingdom Hearts Dark Road....

The segment recently decided to take it old school and pour through archives to figure out what were the best goofy moments from the 1980s, ’90s and ’00s (so, basically those Ahmad Rashad blooper tapes you had on VHS as a kid). MORE: Kobe calls Lakers ‘soft like Charmin’ | Kobe vs. MJ | NBA Quarter Poll The Kings wanted to take it to their former rival by turning the tables so they made a video of the Big Diesel messing up in games with current Sacramento players giving commentary on the blunders....

Gaborik is set to miss his fourth straight game on Thursday night with an undisclosed injury believed to be in the groin/abdominal region. Jon Rosen reported Thursday Gaborik is likely to start skating early next week but was uncertain if he’d join the Kings on their next road trip. It’s early, and Gaborik dealing with injuries is nothing new, but the Kings certainly appear to need him. We went over this when he signed his seven-year deal in the offseason; Gaborik adds a goal-scoring punch that the Kings tend to lack, and he makes star center Anze Kopitar even better:...

Japan’s music industry has long been dominated by saccharine bubble-gum acts. The formulaic groups sell well at home but lack the edge and originality to appeal to Western markets. Years ago Japanese companies like Yamaha and Akai helped spawn a breakthrough musical genre–selling sophisticated digital-sampling machines and turntables to hip-hoppers in Europe and America. The music swept through the West, but was largely unnoticed by Japanese music fans. Now there is no escaping it....

Syndicators are the folks who sell shows to TV stations, clipping off a percentage of the price for themselves. if they have enough shows, and the shows get healthy ratings on enough stations, they can make a decent living. King World reaps an annual net income of $100 million and enjoys a cash cache of about half a billion. That kind of money-the kind David Letterman refers to as “Oprah money”-can buy a lot of flamboyance, presuming one has the appetite for it....

The NBA team announced Thursday it will showcase the league’s first 4K ultra HD center-hung video board at Golden 1 Center. The $10 million monster board features the largest screens in the league. The board spans 84 feet wide, coming very close to extending the length of both baselines. By comparison, the new board is seven times bigger than the team’s current center-hung at Sleep Train Arena. More dazzling specs: The 6,100-square-foot board contains more than 32 million pixels across the four screens with instantaneous replays in 4K ultra HD, which is four times 1080 HD resolution....

The Cardinals are reportedly considering selecting former Oklahoma signal caller Kyler Murray with the top selection and some have speculated Rosen will not fit into Kingsbury’s offense. But, Arizona’s first-year coach said that was not the case when he met with reporters on Tuesday. “People have said a lot of things that are misconceptions, if you will,” Kingsbury said, via ESPN. “But Josh is a tremendous player, I’ve always thought, watching him at UCLA....

The Indians have won 10 of their last 14 games. They have hit nine home runs in winning two of the first three games of a four-game series. Kipnis pulled a three-run homer that cleared the Texas bullpen in right-center and gave Cleveland a 4-0 lead in the top of the first. Pérez followed by slicing an opposite-field homer that landed just inside the right-field foul pole. Kipnis also homered down the right-field line in the fifth with two outs for his second two-homer game of the season and sixth of his career....

As expected, this mantra is a double edged sword as the lengthy periods of silence can leave fans wondering when a certain game may finally launch. On the other hand, once Nintendo does announe an upcoming game’s showcase, the community tends to get fairly excited to speculate. That’s what has transpired this week as a 40 minute Nintendo Direct showcase is set to arrive later today. While fans continue to theorize what could be shown, one Nintendo game has seemingly leaked out ahead of time....

Harvick was running in the top 10 when Matt Kenseth hit him on a Lap-227 restart, causing both drivers to spin. They weren’t alone in on-track crackups. Brian Vickers and Kasey Kahne exchanged damaging tags, leading NASCAR to order them to stop. Harvick slammed into the outside wall on Lap 227, heavily damaging his car and forcing him to take it to the garage. He returned to the race on Lap 270....

Harvick led 202 of the 250 laps in a race delayed nearly 3 1/2 hours at the start by rain Friday night. The victory was the 41st of his career in the series, and his record-extending seventh at 0.75-mile Richmond. MORE: Results | Sprint Cup qualifying rained out | Lineup breakdown | Junior’s jab | Bowyer sorry | Richmond picks Elliott, the Georgia high-schooler and son of racing great Bill Elliott, was looking to win his third consecutive race and pad his points lead, but managed to do just the latter when Harvick was too fast....

“It is England’s loss and the IPL’s gain. He could go upwards of £2.5-3m,” said Lalit Modi, while responding to a related question in a radio interview. Kevin Pietersen now carries the status of a free agent after being chucked out of the England squad for his alleged differences with the captain Alastair Cook. The England batsman, who represented Delhi Daredevils in IPL6, has also been a part of the now defunct Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore....