THE ROVING EYE.ONE of the best journalistic perks of the Democratic National Convention wasn't all the free food and drink or the possibility of rubbing shoulders with the political and powerful. The best bonus was the red tote bag. When 15,000 members of the media checked in at the Convention Center last week, they were given the goody bag that had been put together by Los Angeles Convention 2000, the official DNC DNC Democratic National Committee DNC Democratic National Convention DNC Do Not Call DNC Delaware North Companies DNC Domain Name Commissioner DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Do Not Change DNC Does Not Compute DNC Digital Nautical Chart host committee. The canvas bag was loaded up with all the essentials a good scribe needed to survive L.A. Not only were there maps of Metro Rail and Dash downtown bus routes, there was a mini-tour guidebook on what to see and do in the Los Angeles area. That included visiting the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by , Venice Beach and the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Also inside was a small bottle of SPF (1) (Stateful Packet Firewall) See stateful inspection. (2) (Sender Policy Framework) An e-mail authentication system that verifies that the message came from an authorized mail server. 30 sunscreen, courtesy of Tenet Health System, a blue-and-white plastic water bottle from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. , savings coupons from Universal Studios Hollywood, M&M candy courtesy of United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. and a Lakers T-shirt from the NBA champions. One of the more informative items was a little flyer explaining a perplexing per·plex tr.v. per·plexed, per·plex·ing, per·plex·es 1. To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt. See Synonyms at puzzle. 2. To make confusedly intricate; complicate. California law that many out-of-state visitors don't understand. It spells out where you can and can't smoke in the Golden State. Journalists being journalists, they weren't much impressed. "There's nothing fancy inside these bags," sniffed one journalist who asked not to be identified. "I'm just using it for all the over flow of papers I have." |
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