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Occupy Calgary protesters entrenched in Olympic Plaza have put out a call for donations from the public, asking for medical supplies, toiletries and condoms. The group, which expanded from its city-granted camp on St. Patrick’s Island following a Saturday protest at Bankers Hall, posted the plea for supplies on Facebook as city officials kept a close watch on the latest annexation of public property. Donations from the public have been coming in for the movement, which organizers say will be used to buy supplies such as food, but a plea has also been posted on Facebook for condoms, antibiotic ointment,...

Eugene, Ore., social service agency salvages airport toiletries The Associated Press   EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Airport discards in the response to a terror plot have turned into balm for the homeless in Eugene. The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County has started picking up some of the things people have jettisoned for security reasons as they board flights at the Eugene Airport. Charley Harvey, assistant executive director of the charity, dug through trash bags Tuesday and took every bottle of shampoo and shaving cream he could find. The items will be distributed at the organization's First Place...

A British citizen has gone on trial alongside five Chinese accomplices accused of producing and selling counterfeit name brand shampoos and other toiletries, a Shanghai court official and newspapers reported Tuesday. Suraj Jagtiani, whose hometown wasn't given, went on trial Monday at the Shanghai No1 Intermediate People's Court, said a court official. No date for sentencing has been set and no details of the case could be released, said the unnamed official. Such trials usually last just one day. However, the Shanghai Daily said Jagtiani and the others produced more than two million yuan (HK$1.92 million) worth of bogus goods...

KURTZ: FBI DOCUMENTS GOT TOO LITTLE ATTENTION?!? By Michelle Malkin   ·   May 27, 2005 07:57 AM Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz seems to tell Glenn Reynolds that the MSM is paying too little attention to newly disclosed FBI documents that contained the latest Koran-in-the-toilet allegation: I don’t contend that these FBI papers, unearthed in an ACLU lawsuit, get Newsweek off the hook. But you’d think they would be getting more attention. Of course, you probably don't know what FBI papers Kurtz is talking about, because, you know, hardly anyone paid attention to them. Kurtz's employer, The Washington Post Co.,...