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The South Jersey Progressive Democrats condemn election manipulation by the Norcross aligned Camden County machine and affirm the publics right to determine their own representation. On June 17, 2022, Camden County Democratic Chair (and LD 6 State Senator) Jim Beach sent out an email to Camden County Democratic committee members informing them that Commissioner Carmen Rodriguez had resigned from office four days before the June 7th Primary Election and that her replacement would be named at a closed door meeting on June 29th. This is a decision that the public should make. The public has a right to determine who will represent them in their county government.

The Camden County Commissioners control a half a billion dollar budget. Thats over $70,000,000 per commissioner. County Commissioners oversee county roads, parks, tech schools, community colleges, libraries, and more. They also control millions of dollars in government contracts and have the ability to keep the pay to play system flowing, or to enact much needed reform, the sort of reform that South Jersey Progressive Democrats are working towards.

South Jersey Progressive Dems hoped that for a change, this primary would only feature individuals sincerely seeking office but apparently there was a phantom candidate on the ballot after all. That phantom candidate was Carmen Rodriguez who had already resigned from her office before the election. Over 85,000 Democrats participated in last weeks primary and they did so again without essential information, thanks to the Norcross machine. Those who voted for Carmen Rodriguez did so meaninglessly since someone else will be selected behind closed doors without their input. Over 12,000 Camden County voters cast their ballot for South Jersey Progressive Democrats candidate for commissioner, Rebecca Holloway, netting her the highest total of challenger commissioner votes in over a decade. The Norcross machine will install one of their own behind closed doors on June 29th and South Jersey Progessive Democrats will be there, rallying outside, calling out their underhanded tactics to silence the publics voices, said President of South Jersey Progressive Democrats, Kate Delany.

Resigning from a County Commissioner post in secret one week prior to the primary election is not only unethical and underhanded, it disenfranchises the voters of Camden County. At a time when a spotlight is shining on voting rights, the Camden County Democratic Committee chose to double down on backroom politics, hoping their constituents just wouldnt notice. We however are watching, said Camden County Commissioner candidate Rebecca Holloway.

Voters in the Democratic primary should have been informed that incumbent Carmen Rodriguez had resigned her Board of Commissioners position before the primary and that she did not intend to run if elected in the primary. As a member of the Camden County Democratic Committee in favor of good governance and an open and transparent process, I would like to see the Committee give Camden County Democratic voters the ability to choose who is on the ballot for the vacant position in the general election. Either a special election should be held, or Rebecca Holloway should be chosen to replace Ms. Rodriguez on the ballot in November because she had the next-most number of votes in the primary election, said Merchantville Democratic Committee member Joe Bouvier.

South Jersey Progressive Democrats invite community members who want to take a stand for fair elections and the publics right to determine their own representation to join them at a rally on June 29th outside the Camden County Democratic Committees closed door meeting. RSVP here to attend. For questions or more information, please contact info@southjerseyprogressivedemocrats.org

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Biden's admin just does not care: Bongino

Fox News host Dan Bongino slams the Biden administration for not caring to fix the 'problems' it created in the United States Saturday on 'Unfiltered with Dan Bongino.'

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Fox News host Dan Bongino broke down the Biden administration's "Five Stages of Grief" on "Unfiltered with Dan Bongino."

DAN BONGINO: The way the Democrats are responding to all these never-ending crises reminded me of something I had heard in graduate school, I hate citing education, but you get the point. "The Five Stages of Grief": It's a theory created by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Well, the Biden administration is slowly dying, they're losing their political power, and they know their time in power is short, and they've reacted in ways similar to "The Five Stages of Grief": They are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about inflation and the economy in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus May 10, 2022 in Washington, DC.

So let's look at the five stages of the Democrats' grief in this dying Biden administration. First, of course, they just deny everything. We've seen them deny it would be a problem from the very beginning when inflation was starting to become a really serious concern

So after denial comes anger, right? We could be here all day. It's only an hour show, showing you examples of Joe Biden going off the rails when asked about the crises he created but can't seem to fix

Then you get denial, you get anger, you get the third stage, bargaining. This is where they try to explain away during the grief process their guilt from their disastrous decisions, saying, "You know, no one could have predicted what happened and had they known, they never would have done what they did."

After bargaining comes depression. This is the part where everyone knows what's going on. The administration knows they messed up, the American people knows the administration knows they messed up. So they just don't talk about it

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Finally, there's acceptance. This is where Joe and Kamala start to acknowledge their popularity is finished, and they're moving forward with the failed agenda, and they don't really care what anyone else wants. Biden insists, hilariously so, by the way, that he plans to run again in 2024, despite his poll numbers plummeting in his own party infighting over his policies. You start to see members within the Democratic ranks start to break away and look for other ways to keep the power they've already squandered.

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SAN FRANCISCO The primary election in California last week conveyed a warning to Democrats about the political threat posed by rising public anger toward the increasingly visible poverty and disorder on city streets in this case, San Franciscos.

District Attorney Chesa Boudin became a scapegoat for the citys social ills. His loss in a recall attempt had much to do with Californias chronic failure to deal with homelessness, mental illness and poverty. These issues will persist without him.

What his ouster was not, despite claims to the contrary, was a clear rebuke to the movement for criminal justice reform in California: State primaries delivered victories for that very movement.

Still, the conflation of criminal-justice reform with urban disorder is a threat to Democrats across the country. The recall made Mr. Boudin an emblem of the citys dysfunctions, but its problems predate his election in 2019, and conservatives have long derided San Fransicko as a symbol of the Democratic Partys excesses and failures.

Democrats should heed the signal sent by voters here who directed their wrath at a neophyte politician. This vulnerability will persist in the wake of the recall because the citys problems provide an irresistibly visceral way to portray the shortcomings of Democratic leadership.

The citys value as a political symbol has never been more potent. Some of the most powerful Democrats in the nation have roots here. Vice President Kamala Harris rose to national prominence in part by serving in the office Mr. Boudin just lost. The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, represents the city in Congress. Senator Dianne Feinstein served two terms as mayor, as did Gov. Gavin Newsom.

No Republican has been elected here in decades. Its a city controlled entirely by Democrats in a state controlled entirely by Democrats. And anyone with an iPhone can walk down Market Street collecting troves of anecdotal evidence to prove the horrors of Democratic governance.

Some depict San Francisco as a failed city. Conservative media outlets have consistently highlighted its problems by providing anti-progressive cautionary tales.

For some San Franciscans, theres no better place to be than this Pacific peninsula with its amazing views, adorable neighborhoods and world-class culture.

But as Governor Newsom said after the recall election, People want the streets cleaned up. They want a sense of order, from the disorder theyre feeling in parts of the city.

Cities throughout California have struggled with addressing homelessness. San Franciscos mayor, London Breed, recently reported that homelessness had actually decreased here since 2019, but the unsheltered population is still strikingly large and conspicuous.

The city has endured a shoplifting and auto theft epidemic. Public drug use and urination are common. It is not unusual to see mounds of car window glass and to hear of burglarized garages.

There seems to be a growing sense of impatience and exasperation, a general feeling that the streets are unsafe, regardless of what statistics say.

But the thing is, data and statistics also say that Californias crime rates are at historic lows. Thats why Mr. Boudins overthrow probably represented an expression of frustration, not a true referendum on reform.

A poll conducted by my paper, The San Francisco Examiner, shortly before the election found strong support for the recall and strong support for the criminal justice policies he embraced. It also found that 66 percent of voters felt less safe than they did 10 years ago, with 64 percent indicating the presence of homeless and mentally ill people on the street as their top concern.

As Governor Newsom put it, And tag, the D.A. was it meaning that Mr. Boudin took the blame for the citys woes, many of which are beyond his jurisdiction.

Mr. Newsom, as lieutenant governor, supported Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot measure that reclassified certain nonviolent felonies as misdemeanors and which some people have blamed for contributing to the disorder that has plagued San Francisco.

Yet on the same day that 55 percent of San Francisco voters chose to recall Mr. Boudin, 56 percent of primary voters selected Governor Newsom, who will almost certainly cruise to re-election in the fall.

Another progressive reformer, the state attorney general Rob Bonta, won 76 percent of San Franciscos primary votes, vanquishing his tough on crime primary opponents. In counties neighboring San Francisco, criminal justice reformers racked up wins in races for D.A. and for sheriff.

And yet Mr. Boudins defeat is being portrayed as a sign of ordinary voters outrage, but the campaign to recall him was fueled by donations from a Republican billionaire and Peter Thiel acolytes like David Sacks.

Republicans have now uncovered a rich vein of Democratic voter discontent. Our progressive state has the fifth largest economy in the world and a roughly $97 billion budget surplus, but its longstanding apathy toward its most vulnerable residents has produced a humanitarian disaster that is activating voter anger. With enough political funding and strategy, San Franciscos voter revolt could spread, sending a powerful message to the rest of the nation about the failures of progressive policy in this liberal bastion.

Thats bad news for Californias most ambitious politicians. In Mr. Boudins fate, they should glimpse their own. They have a short runway to prove that their big Democratic ideas to create more shelter, expand mental health treatment, reduce inequality and build a California for all can work.

If they continue to fail, it will solidify the impression that California is where progressive dreams go to die.

Gil Duran (@gilduran76) is editorial page editor at The San Francisco Examiner.

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Quantum-computing outfit D-Wave has announced commercial access to an "experimental prototype" of its Advantage2 quantum annealing computer.

D-Wave is beating its own path to qubit processors with its quantum annealing approach. According to D-Wave, the Advantage2 prototype available today features over 500 qubits. It's a preview of a much larger Advantage2 it hopes to be available by 2024 with 7,000 qubits.

Access to the Advantage2 prototype is restricted to customers who have a D-Wave's Leap cloud service subscription, but developers interested in trying D-Wave's quantum cloud can sign up to get "one minute of free use of the actual quantum processing units (QPUs) and quantum hybrid solvers" that run on its earlier Advantage QPU.

The Advantage2 prototype is built with D-Wave's Zephyr connection technology that it claims offers higher connectivity between qubits than its predecessor topology called Pegasus, which is used in its Advantage QPU.

D-Wave says the Zephyr design enables shorter chains in its Advantage2 quantum chips, which can make them friendlier for calculations that require extra precision.

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"The Advantage2 prototype is designed to share what we're learning and gain feedback from the community as we continue to build towards the full Advantage2 system," says Emile Hoskinson, director of quantum annealing products at D-Wave.

"With Advantage2, we're pushing that envelope again demonstrating that connectivity and reduction in noise can be a delivery vehicle for even greater performance once the full system is available. The Advantage2 prototype is an opportunity for us to share our excitement and give a sneak peek into the future for customers bringing quantum into their applications."

While quantum computing is still experimental, senior execs are priming up for it as a business disruptor by 2030, according to a survey by consultancy EY. The firm found found that 81% of senior UK executives expect quantum computing to play a significant role in their industry by 2030.

Fellow consultancy McKinsey this month noted funding for quantum technology startups doubled in the past two years, from $700 million in 2020 to $1.4 billion in 2021. McKinsey sees quantum computing shaking up pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automotive, and finance industries, enabling players to "capture nearly $700 billion in value as early as 2035" through improved simulation and better machine learning. It expects revenues from quantum computing to exceed $90 billion by 2040.

D-Wave's investors include PSP Investments, Goldman Sachs, BDC Capital, NEC Corp, Aegis Group Partners, and the CIA's VC firm, In-Q-Tel.

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Flashes of what may become a transformative new technology are coursing through a network of optic fibers under Chicago.

Researchers have created one of the worlds largest networks for sharing quantum information a field of science that depends on paradoxes so strange that Albert Einstein didnt believe them.

The network, which connects the University of Chicago with Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, is a rudimentary version of what scientists hope someday to become the internet of the future. For now, its opened up to businesses and researchers to test fundamentals of quantum information sharing.

The network was announced this week by the Chicago Quantum Exchange which also involves Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin.

People work in the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, June 15, 2022, inside the William Eckhardt Research Center at the University of Chicago. The Chicago Quantum Exchange is expanding its quantum network to make it available to more researchers and companies. Quantum computing is a pioneering, secure format said to be hacker-proof and of possible use by banks, the health care industry, and others for secure communications. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

With a $500 million federal investment in recent years and $200 million from the state, Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, and Madison form a leading region for quantum information research.

Why does this matter to the average person? Because quantum information has the potential to help crack currently unsolvable problems, both threaten and protect private information, and lead to breakthroughs in agriculture, medicine and climate change.

While classical computing uses bits of information containing either a 1 or zero, quantum bits, or qubits, are like a coin flipped in the air they contain both a 1 and zero, to be determined once its observed.

That quality of being in two or more states at once, called superposition, is one of the many paradoxes of quantum mechanics how particles behave at the atomic and subatomic level. Its also a potentially crucial advantage, because it can handle exponentially more complex problems.

Another key aspect is the property of entanglement, in which qubits separated by great distances can still be correlated, so a measurement in one place reveals a measurement far away.

The newly expanded Chicago network, created in collaboration with Toshiba, distributes particles of light, called photons. Trying to intercept the photons destroys them and the information they contain making it far more difficult to hack.

The new network allows researchers to push the boundaries of what is currently possible, said University of Chicago professor David Awschalom, director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange.

Fourth-year graduate student Cyrus Zeledon, left, and postdoctoral student Leah Weiss, right, show senior undergraduate Tiarna Wise around one of the quantum science laboratories, June 15, 2022, inside the William Eckhardt Research Center at the University of Chicago. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

However, researchers must solve many practical problems before large-scale quantum computing and networking are possible.

For instance, researchers at Argonne are working on creating a foundry where dependable qubits could be forged. One example is a diamond membrane with tiny pockets to hold and process qubits of information. Researchers at Argonne also have created a qubit by freezing neon to hold a single electron.

Because quantum phenomena are extremely sensitive to any disturbance, they might also be used as tiny sensors for medical or other applications but theyd also have to be made more durable.

The quantum network was launched at Argonne in 2020, but has now expanded to Hyde Park and opened for use by businesses and researchers to test new communication devices, security protocols and algorithms. Any venture that depends on secure information, such as banks financial records of hospital medical records, would potentially use such a system.

Quantum computers, while in development now, may someday be able to perform far more complex calculations than current computers, such as folding proteins, which could be useful in developing drugs to treat diseases such as Alzheimers.

In addition to driving research, the quantum field is stimulating economic development in the region. A hardware company, EeroQ, announced in January that its moving its headquarters to Chicago. Another local software company, Super.tech, was recently acquired, and several others are starting up in the region.

Because quantum computing could be used to hack into traditional encryption, it has also attracted the bipartisan attention of federal lawmakers. The National Quantum Initiative Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2018 to accelerate quantum development for national security purposes.

In May, President Joe Biden directed federal agency to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography on its most critical defense and intelligence systems.

Ironically, basic mathematical problems, such as 5+5=10, are somewhat difficult through quantum computing. Quantum information is likely to be used for high-end applications, while classical computing will likely continue to be practical for many daily uses.

Renowned physicist Einstein famously scoffed at the paradoxes and uncertainties of quantum mechanics, saying that God does not play dice with the universe. But quantum theories have been proven correct in applications from nuclear energy to MRIs.

Stephen Gray, senior scientist at Argonne, who works on algorithms to run on quantum computers, said quantum work is very difficult, and that no one understands it fully.

But there have been significant developments in the field over the past 30 years, leading to what some scientists jokingly called Quantum 2.0, with practical advances expected over the next decade.

Were betting in the next five to 10 years therell be a true quantum advantage (over classical computing), Gray said. Were not there yet. Some naysayers shake their canes and say its never going to happen. But were positive.

Just as early work on conventional computers eventually led to cellphones, its hard to predict where quantum research will lead, said Brian DeMarco, professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who works with the Chicago Quantum Exchange.

Thats why its an exciting time, he said. The most important applications are yet to be discovered.

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