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By Emily Goldthorpe

Bart Koene, a Uden native, studied at HTS clothing and first began making his own beach shorts on a whim during a work placement in France. He wanted to make the most of his French visit so he began traveling along the coast to Saint-Tropez. Once there he started selling his homemade shorts and within six weeks his entire stock had sold out. This was the tiny beginning to what is now an international accessory brand.

Bart traveled to Bali next, buying up the beautiful fabrics in order to make more beach shorts. He returned to Saint-Tropez and continued to sell them, living in a caravan by the beach and enjoying a freeing, simple life. It wasn’t long before his shorts became so popular, Elton John bought himself a pair.

Upon returning to Amsterdam, Bart turned his focus to cold-weather accessories. He wanted each piece to be hand made, carefully designed and constructed from the highest quality materials. Besides Barts hats, the collection also includes scarves, gloves, socks and a children’s line.

A one man operation only 15 years ago, Barts has become the most popular brands for winter accessories across Europe and Canada. Their philosophy is rooted in entrepreneurship and doing things right the first time around. They value freedom and enjoyment just as much as success.

Barts also take an interest in environmental endeavours. The company started a ‘Respect the Mountains’ campaign that creates awareness and educates the public on preserving the Alps. By reducing the negative impact that tourism can have on nature, Barts hopes to conserve the beautiful mountains and promote green ski resorts. Creating conscious visitors will help preserve the natural beauty for future generations to enjoy.

The new 2012 collection has just come out and continues the tradition of producing amazingly crafted Barts beanie hats. the Barts Kamikaze Trapper hat is an extremely popular design that has been selling out online retailers everywhere. It comes in loads of colors so there is something for everyone. Both men’s and women’s designs are nylon shell with a beautiful, soft faux fur lining. The ear flaps can be worn up or down and fastened with either buttons or a cord fastener. The Barts trapper hat is a must have for any winter wardrobe.

Barts also has great designs for beanies. An easy-to-wear style is the Oscar Peaked Visor Beanie. Sporting the Barts logo near the brim, this cable knit looks carefully woven and comes with a fleece lining for added warmth. The soft gray color matches perfectly with practically anything. If that doesn’t seem to be your style check out the wide selection of Barts hats including fedoras, caps and more. Pick up a pair of gloves or a scarf for a pulled together look.

An online retailer and purveyor of fine merchandise UrbanExcess bring the latest trends, exciting products and artist collaborations including clothing garms, accessories, headwear and lifestyle gifts. They present major and independent cutting edge brands from around the globe including mens designer fashion brands Carhartt, Penfield, Obey Clothing, Edwin Jeans, Cheap Monday, Dr Denim, Suit Denmark, Velour, Farah Vintage, Garbstore, Original Penguin, b Store, The Hundreds Streetwear with footwear from Vans Authentic, Converse, Vans Trainers, Pointer footwear, Swear shoes, Superga and their own brand of U.E. by UrbanExcess bringing exclusive clothing accessories. Leading a way for Women’s designer fashions are Cheap Monday and Vans clothing.

Crossing gender boundaries, UrbanExcess offers contemporary unisex ranges such as Libertine-Libertine along with unisex accessories from Fjallraven, Herschel Supply co., Seil Marschall, Bailey Hats, Goorin, Kangol Hats, Barts, Coal, Ignite Beanies, Bhode & Company, Stetson, Christies, Sandqvist, Brady Bags, Seil Marschall, Eastpak, Ray ban Sunglasses, Retrosupefuture (Super Sunglasses), Sunpocket, Urbanears Headphones.

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About the Author: Barts Hats Fall/Winter 2011 by Emily Goldthorpe UrbanExcess PR http://www.urbanexcess.com Mens & Women’s Clothing Hats and Lifestyle Accessories

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By Ben Herman

Caravans of golf carts log numerous miles each day on golf courses around the country as they carry golfers to the next hole, pro shop, or the clubhouse for some grub. Golf carts are an integral part of operations at many golf courses. This is especially true on large golf courses or those that make their way through rugged terrains. Most golfers would find walking a course while toting the weight of a golf bag cumbersome and unappealing, and walking wouldn’t even be plausible at some golf courses. Most golfers would instead prefer to have a golf cart do the hard work of navigating over rugged terrain and up steep, mountainous elevations for them.

Okay, certainly we can agree that keeping as many golf carts as possible motoring is essential to happy golfers and for the golf courses bottom financial line. But is it better to repair golf carts? Or is it a wiser investment to continually purchase ‘new’ golf carts to meet ever-growing numbers of golfers? The answer of course is dependent in large part on the amount of money that a golf course wishes to allocate towards either the purchasing of new golf carts, or the repairing, repowering of golf carts already in inventory. A brand new golf cart may run longer before any problems prop up compared to a golf cart that has been refurbished. But keep in mind that with the demands placed upon the average golf cart, even ‘new’ ones will eventually need some repairs to keep them running smoothly. It might be wiser to implement a plan wherein ‘new’ golf carts are added to your ‘pool’ of golf carts when possible and ‘older’ carts repaired until their repair costs start to ‘outweigh’ the amount of time the carts are available for use on the fairways.

You can reduce the costs of golf cart repairs by opting to ‘repower’ your golf carts with small engines such as those manufactured by Briggs Stratton, Cushman, Kohler, and Honda, who have the small engines with the power you need to keep your golf carts running. The manufacturers of these small engines have designed them to withstand heavy workloads, even the workload placed upon the average golf cart. These small engines come in a wide assortment of sizes, available horsepower, and different transmission set-ups, to meet all of your power needs. These engines also use a variety of sources such as gasoline, diesel, and electricity from batteries for their power: making them quite adaptable to the course-specific needs of every golf course.

The Cushman line of small engines include: the Cushman Truckster and Cushman Haulster. . The Cushman Truckster small engine can provide a golf cart with all the power it needs to traverse rugged terrains with the weight of passengers and equipment on board with ease. The Cushman Haulster is also built to handle heavy loads.

The various manufacturers of these small engines have all worked hard to develop and design the small engines that can put out a tremendous amount of power for their size, stand up to the rigorous demands placed on them with less maintenance required, and at a reasonable enough cost to make them a viable choice for use in the repowering of golf carts. You will find these engines are a cost-effective choice for the other equipment used for the maintenance of golf courses such as seeders and mowers. Many of those in charge of keeping the motorized equipment on their golf courses running place their trust in these small engines for all of their power needs.

-2006 Ben Anton

About the Author: Repower Small Engine repair Specializing in products to Repower Onan Engines, Kohler, the Club Car Golf Cart models. Ben Anton, lives in Portland, OR, and writes for Repower.com. Ben works for Labworks Design.com, an Online Marketing and Design Firm.

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