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What is the best way to get from the Las Vegas strip -- the Paris, for example--to Springs Preserve and the state museum near it. I intend to go by bus. Will I get shanked along the way?

Here's an odd question: where on the Las Vegas strip would I be able to find a bank-owned ATM -- as opposed to a "white" ATM, which often fails to accept my Canadian bank card?

I'll have a few hours between the arrival of my flight and the depature of my coach for Hamilton. Is there a place in downtown TO where I can leave my luggage) and be assured there's a good chance it will be safe?

Size matters -- why is my PDF so large? I've just made a PDF of a newsletter that had been prepared with Microsoft Publisher. To my shock, the PDF is even larger than the original PUB file. Any tips on how to reduce its size?

When creating PDFs from Publisher 2010, a long period of satisfactory performance has mutated into one that sees me consistently producing PDFs that drop off material, sometimes individual letters, or put each page on an two-page backbground (that can't be changed.) I suspect some minor setting(s) have been inadvertently changed, with big problems resulting.

I plan to head to the Imperial War Museum in 2014 to camp in its reading room and look through materials donated to the museum by British airmen who learned to fly in Canada during the Second World War. Any tips on whether I need to make arrangements to have files brought in and request materials ahead of time? Good restaurants in the area? Hotels? What note-taking gear can I bring into the reading room?

Can anybody supply me with the names of good hotels in south Edmonton near the South Edmonton Commons area?

Need suggestions on museums, etc. to see in Winnipeg. Are the Exchange District walking tours still rolling?

Over the course of a year, when are Las Vegas hotels most full? Has there ever been a night or a weekend when every single hotel room in the metro area was full?

Do Las Vegas hotels aim their marketing and decor at specific markets -- i.e., gays, Asians, blacks, cowboys, big-time gamblers, soccer moms. If so, what hotels/casinos aim for which markets?

A question for PowerPoint virtuosos...

In putting together a PowerPoint when one has a choice of a photo for it that's, say, 2.2 M pixels vs. the same photo of 57K pixels, which is best to use?

Does clarity increase as you use bigger photo -- or is there a danger that you'll create a PowerPoint file so big that it's unwieldy?

Short of flying to Halifax for one hour of research, is there any way I can find out which passenger ships departed from Halifax for Britain and/or Norway in February 1926?

What cemeteries exist around the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Saint John??

Here's a question for railway history/genealogy buffs: a relative died aboard a CPR train heading into Saint John, NB, in 1926. Would the railway necessarily have filed and maintained a report?

Over the last three or four days, Yahoo email has been asking me at frequent intervals to supply my password to keep me signed in. Does anybody else have that problem or is there some 'net mischief at work?

The IWM reading room has some memoirs and tapes that interest me. Can anybody tell me about the practicalities involved in using this room next time I'm in the UK?

On maps or on websites, is there a formal or semiformal name for this collection of hotels?