I am working in the L.A. area (this is my favourite L.A. site: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yukimura/living-california.html) and if you need more information about the most current developement/ engineering standards you can simply contact the govering agency of L.A. and ask...
Hm, I don't know, I would chose the old fashioned way of copy and paste in order to produce a slide show. There must be a was to do it faster I guess, but I wouldn't know how to do it.
