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		<title>October Bike Maintenance Classes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Bicycle Works will be holding another session of bike repair classes on Saturday mornings starting in October. Classes will be held at EBW from 9 am to 12 pm, Saturdays, October 2nd, 9th and 16th . Topics covered include: Basic Maintenance and Preventative Care Components Professional Tool Use Advanced Tuning and Repair The class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=948</link>
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		<title>Mobile Cannery Gears Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, Skinner City Farm, the community garden located two blocks from CAT&#8217;s shop, received a Eugene Neighborhood Matching Grant to have a mobile cannery constructed. Here are a few pictures from our first test run and canning demo. Tracy Gagnon, the cannery project&#8217;s coordinator, along with CAT staff and CAT&#8217;s two new apprentices, James [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=1130</link>
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		<title>Recent Goings-on at CAT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our second group of apprentices just wrapped up their session at CAT. Here, Barrett Hafner makes his exit on a brand new fully loaded HPM Long Haul and an HPM Hauler trailer. Barrett built the bicycle during the program and completed the trailer on his own time. We also built a Long Haul for Tyler [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=1115</link>
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		<title>Human Powered Network Established</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Appropriate Transport, through its Human Powered Machines Apprenticeship Program is establishing a distributed manufacturing program for its cargo and recumbent bicycles. Learn more here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>Comments from the Second Group of Apprentices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kayvon Bahramian, Gainesville, Florida via Brooklyn, New York Too good to be true? Maybe. Where else can you go to study welding, brazing, machining, farming, composting, vermiculture, sewing, and CAD? The CAT apprenticeship program offers all of the equipment needed, as well as a framework for exploring and honing ideas of what it means to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=1069</link>
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		<title>Comments from the first Apprenticeship Program Participants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leo &#8211; Chicago, Illinois I am fortunate to have found a place that acts based on its beliefs. We share a belief in healthy living through exercise, clean air, and fresh veggies. It doesn’t get any fresher than pulling it off the plant. I have read about motorbike, automobile, and human powered vehicle design, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=872</link>
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		<title>Apprenticeship Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first three apprentices are midway through their session at CAT. Here are some pictures of them in class at our shop and in the garden. Interested in our apprenticeship program? Our next session begins July 15th, 2010. For details, please see our Apprenticeship Information page&#62;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=724</link>
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		<title>CAT launches apprenticeship program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably heard of UBI and Barnett. Now the Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) and Human Powered Machines (HPM) are introducing the first cargo frame building school in the States.  Started in 1990, Human Powered Machines led the current revival of cargo bikes, trikes and trailers in the USA. This program will provide three apprentices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Build your own trailer at CAT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) and Human Powered Machines (HPM) is offering a series of workshops on building high-quality bicycle trailers. Participants will learn basic fabrication skills and come away with a finished trailer frame and hitch. The next workshop series will run on Saturdays in March from 1-5 PM at CAT. Students taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catoregon.org/?p=47</link>
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