Students' podcasts about cycling available online.Byline: The Register-Guard Students at the Center for Appropriate Transport The Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) is an innovative non-profit community center, dedicated to bicycles and alternative transport. It is near the most extensive river bike trail in the United States, at 1st and Washington streets in Eugene, Oregon. , or CAT, in Eugene have been writing and producing podcasts about bikes and bike culture based on a youth perspective. CAT is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. is committed to community involvement in manufacturing, using and advocating sustainable modes of transportation. Students in CAT's youth education program have been writing for Oregon Cycling, a statewide bicycle periodical periodical, a publication that is issued regularly. It is distinguished from the newspaper in format in that its pages are smaller and are usually bound, and it is published at weekly, monthly, quarterly, or other intervals, rather than daily. , and this year, they've turned those articles into podcasts, calling them Chainlinks Radio. The first podcast (iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are had a story about bicycle-car crashes in Eugene and an ``interview with a `Bikemonster.' '' The second podcast had on-the-street interviews about gas prices, stories about "mutant" bikes and the people who make them, students who design and build their own custom bikes, the origins of BMX BMX abbr. bicycle motocross BMX Noun 1. bicycle motocross: stunt riding over an obstacle course on a bicycle 2. , and bicycles made especially for travel on railroad tracks. The podcasts are at Chainlinks Radio, on the CAT Web site, www.catoregon.org. |
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