For the tune up we visited Dynamic Electric Vehicles in San Luis Obispo California where co-owner Vince Pacifico, gathered a few tools and tightened the brake cables with ease.

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Just a few miles from the slide which spurt Rob Wishon into a wave of sand is Pacheco Elementary School, a charter school in the college community of San Luis Obispo california specializing in a two way immersion program.

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This San Luis Obispo, California, company leaves those antics to the customers.

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Their rough-hewn prototype sits in a small room at Trust Automation's headquarters in San Luis Obispo, California, using a water-filled vitamin bottle as a shock absorber. ("It runs like a Corvette on a Pinto engine, " Safreno says, smiling.) The ratty demo reel first shows a 22-second clip of an actor walking on a grassy lawn, past a blurred van, squirting water with a hose, at 24 fps.

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When feedback is "not going to be used to judge you or your fate in the company, you are more likely to be open about where you need to grow and it's going to be far more effective, " says Dr. Coget of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

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We are delighted to have found in NRG a partner that shares our vision to build a solar power plant in San Luis Obispo County that enhances the local economy, protects local habitat and generates emission-free solar power for California.

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