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“Slow down, there, hot-shot,” I’d say. “These things take time.” Then I’d give ‘em a quarter and tell ‘em to scram. Later, the quarter would come to life, steal their parents’ wallets and bearer bonds and so forth, and bring it all back to me. (A supervillain should have a plan for every scenario.)

Even though I’d gleefully be setting those kids up for some thievin’, the advice I’d give them is spot-on: Rushing the process of becoming a comic-book bad guy is sure to set you up for a life of obscurity fighting D-list superheroes like the 3-D Man. You can’t just wave your hand and be the top dog (unless you can, and we’ll get to that in a minute). You’ve got to hit all the right (wrong) notes with your name, your costume, the location of your hideout, and maybe most importantly of all, your superpowers, if you choose to have them.

First, you figure out how you’re going to acquire your powers. That’s a topic I dig into deeply in my new book, The Supervillain Handbook [Skyhorse Publishing, $12.95]. For instance, have you considered taking a bunch of drugs all at once and seeing what happens? I understand that’s how Jim Morrison acquired the ability to speak to reptiles for a short period.

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Martin Griff / The Times of TrentonTrenton Mayor Tony Mack speaks to City Council in their chambers on Tuesday, April 3, 2012.

TRENTON — Citing “persistent noncompliance,” Mercer County has taken control of a state-funded drug prevention grant away from Trenton, which it says has mismanaged through failure to report expenditures, unreliable leadership and poor documentation dating back nearly three years Tattoo Ink Kits, according to a letter sent to Mayor Tony Mack.

The Trenton Municipal Alliance Committee (TMAC) grant is renewed annually and is funded by $126,273 in state money, with the city providing $31,569 in matching funds.
County officials said they will assume control of the money July 1, the earliest date possible, given notice requirements. They stressed all the programs will continue and be fully funded through the end of the year.

“No programs will be cancelled prematurely,” county spokeswoman Julie Willmot said yesterday.

The programs most recently funded by TMAC included Hooked on Fishing not on Drugs, which provided five-day prevention programs, CampFire Boys & Girls, which provides direct education to kindergartners, first graders, and their parents, and a leadership training program called the Willow Tree Teen Institute.

The city’s handling of the money recently attracted scrutiny after a supposedly part-time consultant paid for by the state award was effectively running the recreation department and also being paid out of city coffers.

But the county’s concerns, as detailed in a letter from county counsel Art Sypek, focused on frustration with the city’s perceived inability to effectively manage the programs, mostly recreational activities designed to keep kids off drugs.

Sypek’s letter, a copy of which The Times obtained through an Open Public Records Act request, was hand-delivered to Mack April 30.

“Your continued noncompliance has placed us at risk of losing funding for the residents of Trenton as well as the other Mercer County municipalities,” Sypek wrote.

Trenton may recover its administrative control of the funding once it demonstrates the ability to do so effectively, county officials said.

“This cancellation does not signal a permanent revocation,” Willmot said last week. “At such time when Trenton believes it has the resources necessary to administer the grant, the city can reapply for funding.”

Mack could not be reached on his cell phone last night.

A coalition of local leaders sits on the committee to oversee the anti-drug programs, but in Trenton the committee held no meetings between August 2010 and last month Tattoo Guns, when the city sought to reconstitute the group in a last-ditch effort to retain control of the grant.

The grant money has not been applied consistently under Trenton’s control.

Boxing program Team Hope was funded with $12,300 of TMAC money but did not receive any of it through the first quarter of 2012, according to records. In late March, the program was moved out of a city building following conflict between the city administration and a retired police officer who runs it.

Sypek’s letter documents alleged failures in the supervision of the TMAC grant dating back to the administration of former Mayor Douglas Palmer.

In September 2009, county officials met with the TMAC coordinator at the time, Maria Richardson, regarding late submissions of mandatory reports. Richardson said she was the only person working in the parks and recreation department and could not report on expenditures until approval from the state Department of Community Affairs, according to the letter.

No reports were received in the first two quarters of 2010, and over $7,000 of grant money went unspent that year, Sypek wrote. No records or minutes of meetings were found.

“Mercer County suggested that the Alliance coordinator and the fiscal officer sit down and complete the report with Mercer County together to address the persistent reporting inadequacies,” Sypek wrote. “However, we were advised that this was impossible due to time constraints.”

The county also complained of problems communicating with the TMAC coordinator, saying it was never notified that Richardson took a medical leave in June 2011. She was laid off in September and later filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against Mack, alleging she was laid off for refusing to follow improper and illegal directives while she worked at recreation.

Sonya Wilkins, who had a title as senior clerk typist in the city’s health department until she was temporarily elevated to head the recreation department, became the new coordinator and also displeased the county with her lack of reporting, according to the letter.

“The report which was due in August was not submitted until November 23, 2011 and was incomplete,” Sypek wrote.

A meeting last October where the county coordinator went over reporting guidelines with Wilkins failed to produce a change. Reports that were already late were not handed in, and Wilkins’ promise to have all the forms by the end of the week went unfulfilled.

“The city failed to spend over $57,000 of the grant, and that was primarily due to poor coordination and lack of attention on behalf of the city,” Sypek wrote. “This report, in February 2012 was the first time the City of Trenton reported any expenditures for the entire 2011 year. Trenton continued to be far outside the guidelines of compliance and it had become clear that the municipality was unable to meet the basic requirements of the grant.”

The city’s hurried attempts to reassemble the TMAC board in late April were apparently in vain, as a report filed a week late seems to have been the final straw.

“The report was submitted on April 23 Tattoo power supplies, 2012 but it failed to report programmatic and fiscal information for the first quarter, and was otherwise plagued with issues of non-compliance,” Sypek wrote.

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There is something terribly socially stigmatic about feminism that invokes images of bra-less, hairy armpitted women prancing around campfires in forests and denouncing the male species. But the reality of it all is that feminists are essentially me or you or anyone else with a shred of common sense who doesn’t believe it’s fair to pay women 70% of what men earn in the same jobs. I’d even go as far as to say, perhaps naively, that the majority of us are feminists, we’re just scared to use the label.

Thankfully, slivers of gender equality hope have begun to slip through the mainstream, feminist hating cracks. This week, Stylist magazine started calling for #fairgame to start trending on Twitter in support of women’s football. Having written an article for my student paper on how sportswomen are overlooked in favour of their male counterparts just months before, it’s great to see this cause getting some acknowledgement on a wider platform.
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What really might change perceptions would be for men’s mags to follow suit. I appreciate a picture of a pair of knockers might be more interesting to certain readers, but I don’t think it would hurt for more widespread inclusion of the witty pieces women are quite clearly capable of writing.

Something still needs to click for the general public that makes them realise that feminism isn’t some kind of lost cause for ugly women who have been jilted by a million ex-boyfriends, but rather a simple idea that shouldn’t be treated with the disdain it still is. I stumbled across a quote several years ago when reading Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own that, for me at least, encapsulates the very essence of being pro equal rights for women. Rebecca West wrote, “I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” And I think that says it all.

Online records, hotel receipts and flight itineraries for former U.S. General Services administrator Martha Johnson show that she was in Williamsburg, Va., and Portland, Ore., during the lavish Las Vegas conference that eventually led to her ouster, not meeting with Solyndra company officials in California, as government testimony from a senior official at GSA claims.

Jeff Neely, a regional administrator now on administrative leave Christian Audigier Clothing sale, testified in March 2011 that Johnson missed the 2010 Western Regions Conference to attend “a meeting with Salindra [sic],” according to ABC News’ Tuesday reporting on the transcripts.

But travel records show that Johnson flew coach on United Airlines from Washington National Airport, connecting through Chicago Wednesday Bandage dresses sale, Oct. 27, 2010. Johnson left Portland Oct. 29, flying non-stop to Washington-Dulles International Airport. Hotel records also show that she stayed at a Courtyard Marriott. Johnson was in Portland to visit a GSA-sponsored construction project that taught women new job skills with stimulus money.

Johnson was in Williamsburg for a leadership conference and panel discussion during the first two days of the Vegas conference.

GSA and Obama administration officials disputed Neely’s testimony Tuesday, but provided no records showing Johnson’s whereabouts until this morning.

The agency spent about $823,000 on the 2010 convention for 300 employees, including thousands of dollars spent on items such as a commemorative coin set, a mind reader, a comedian and a clown.

Johnson resigned abruptly after the GSA inspector general presented findings of abuse and waste of taxpayer dollars from the conference. Seven other officials have resigned, been fired or suspended in the wake of the scandal.

Multiple congressional hearings are scheduled to investigate the matter when Congress returns to session next week.

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Although Michigan was the 10th contest of the 2012 Republican primary, it was the first two-man race to test the fault lines of the Republican Party: a battle between the establishment candidate, Mitt Romney, and the populist candidate, Rick Santorum. In the end, both men weakened themselves. Romney underscored his fundamental vulnerability: He struggled to win party stalwarts in a head-to head fight despite superior finances, a vast organizational advantage, and local roots. Santorum’s opposition to everything from college to contraception frightened Republicans who think his values-laden and ideologically strident tone would not only cost him the presidential election but hurt House and Senate Republican candidates, too.

In another election season, Romney’s victories in Arizona and Michigan would suggest he has momentum. Perhaps it will this time. It didn’t after he won in New Hampshire or Florida. In this race, candidates have shown bursts of speed, but just as someone seems poised to break away, they run out of breath. So the race continues: one runner with emphysema (Santorum), the other with asthma (Romney). For the moment, Romney is back in the lead, lungs open and face rosy. But if past is prologue Cheap Herve Leger v neck, he might soon feel a tickle in his throat.  

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Santorum did very well with evangelical voters and those who identified themselves as “very conservative.” He won both groups by double digits. He also scored well with die-hard Tea Party members, but Romney was able to split the vote among the 52 percent who say they support the Tea Party. Romney showed that outside of the Party’s ideological purists, he could find support. Romney also won self-identified Republicans by 10 points. In the final days, he was able to grow his vote into Santorum’s territory more than Santorum was able to do the opposite.

Romney’s organization paid off the way it had in Florida. He identified his voters and encouraged them to vote by absentee ballot. CBS estimated that 22 percent of them did and Romney won that group 41 percent to 35 percent. He also won among independent voters and moderates.

Santorum did not benefit much from Democratic mischief-makers, though the pranksters did show up in the exit polls. Democrats voted overwhelmingly for Santorum, with 53 percent picking the former senator vs. the 17 percent who chose Romney. Among those self-identified as “somewhat liberal,” Santorum beat Romney 32 percent to 27 percent. But there just weren’t enough of them to change the outcome. Nine percent of the voters identified as Democrats, hardly more than the 7 percent who participated in 2008.

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“Uganda is a major infidel country supporting the so-called government of Somalia,” said Isse, a commander of the Taliban-like Somali militia known as al-Shabaab. “We know Uganda is against Islam and so we are very happy at what has happened in Kampala.”

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None of these interventions had much to do with the majority of Ugandans.

Even the two-decade reign of terror by the predatory shaman Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army was something of an abstraction to all but the few northern tribes who bore the brunt of the LRA’s mad violence. After 20-plus years of fighting and more than 20,000 children kidnapped by the LRA, most Ugandan legislators still have never visited the affected northern region, even though it’s just a 20-minute flight from Kampala.

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