EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) — A pair of Northwestern University alums may have created the next big thing in football training, at least when it comes to skill position players. The Seeker has some big time NFL players not only using their invention but investing in the company. READ MORE: Chicago Weather: Weekend Warmup Continues As CBS 2’s Matt Zahn reported Thursday night, it’s a cool payoff after about five years of fine tuning. George Kittle, N’Keal Harry, and Hunter Henry are just a few of the NFL stars using the Seeker – or as they nicknamed it during the pandemic, the quarantine QB. Northwestern alums Bhargav Maganti and Igor Karlicic created the device. “We had a number of NFL athletes – they were home. They weren’t able to go to their camps. Things were shut down, and they didn’t really have a way to train alone,” Maganti said. “It’s kind of like an older sibling you never had, except this one throws, you know, 60 miles an hour,” Karlicic said. Maganti and Karlicic call the Seeker the world’s first robotic quarterback. But it’s not like a robot Tom Brady. READ MORE: Three Hospitalized After High Rise Fire In Ford City It is a sophisticated, highly accurate football-thrower. “You have a number of machines – passing machines – in different sports, in football as well, where the technology hadn’t changed for a really long time; where you have a person manually loading a device, pushing it through, and then the ball landing kind of wherever,” Maganti said. “I mean, sometimes in some of our demos we tell them, take a trash container, put it anywhere on the field, and that mark location -and we’ll hit it.” “It’s such a different experience compared to anything that they’ve had before, so we lot of people get just so excited using it,” Karlicic said. And now it has come full circle, as Maganti and Karlicic got to bring their seeker back to Northwestern – where the Wildcats are one of seven college football programs using the robotic QB to ...
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Justice Democrats call moderates’ votes against minimum wage hike ‘unconscionable’
The progressive organization Justice Democrats slammed the eight senators who bucked party lines to vote with Republicans against increasing the minimum wage to $15, calling it “unconscionable.” The Senate voted 58-42 on Friday against an attempt to waive a procedural objection to including the measure from Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders McConnell makes failed bid to adjourn Senate after hours-long delay Senate holds longest vote in history as Democrats scramble to save relief bill Democrats break COVID-19 impasse with deal on jobless benefits MORE (I-Vt.). Sanders's amendment would have added the minimum wage hike to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. Sens. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) Manchin Senate Democrats vote to provide 0 unemployment benefits into September Senate GOP gets short-lived win on unemployment fight McConnell makes failed bid to adjourn Senate after hours-long delay MORE (D-W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Jon Tester Jonathan (Jon) Tester Democrats break COVID-19 impasse with deal on jobless benefits The eight Democrats who voted 'no' on minimum wage COVID-19 relief debate stalls in Senate amid Democratic drama MORE (D-Mont.), Jeanne Shaheen Cynthia (Jeanne) Jeanne Shaheen The eight Democrats who voted 'no' on minimum wage Justice Democrats call moderates' votes against minimum wage hike 'unconscionable' Senate rejects Sanders minimum wage hike MORE (D-N.H.), Maggie Hassan Margaret (Maggie) Hassan The eight Democrats who voted 'no' on minimum wage Justice Democrats call moderates' votes against minimum wage hike 'unconscionable' Senate rejects Sanders minimum wage hike MORE (D-N.H.), Chris Coons Chris Andrew Coons The eight Democrats who voted 'no' on minimum wage Justice Democrats call moderates' votes against minimum wage hike 'unconscionable' Senate rejects Sanders minimum wage hike MORE ...
Senate to vote next week on Garland’s AG nomination
The Senate is teeing up a vote for next week on Merrick Garland Merrick Garland Biden's justice reform should influence prosecutor appointments Politics in the Department of Justice can be a good thing What's worse, violence on the left or the right? It's a dangerous question MORE 's nomination to lead the Justice Department. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck Schumer Lawmakers demand changes after National Guard troops at Capitol sickened from tainted food Ron Johnson forces reading of 628-page Senate coronavirus relief bill on floor Senate panel splits along party lines on Becerra MORE (D-N.Y.) laid the groundwork for the next tranche of President Biden Joe Biden Senate holds longest vote in history as Democrats scramble to save relief bill Ex-Trump appointee arrested in Capitol riot complains he won't be able to sleep in jail Biden helps broker Senate deal on unemployment benefits MORE 's Cabinet picks, including Garland's nomination to be attorney general. Under the schedule laid out by Schumer, the Senate could take an initial vote on Garland's nomination as soon as Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The votes come after Garland's nomination was delayed amid roadblocks from Republicans. Democrats had hoped to confirm Garland this week after voting him 15-7 out of the Judiciary Committee on Monday. Sen. Tom Cotton Tom Bryant Cotton DeSantis, Pence tied in 2024 Republican poll Republicans blast Pentagon policy nominee over tweets, Iran nuclear deal The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - Lawmakers face Capitol threat as senators line up votes for relief bill MORE (R-Ark.), a member of the committee who is viewed as a potential 2024 contender, disclosed in a string of tweets that he was objecting to speeding up Garland's nomination. "Democrats are trying to expedite Judge Garland’s confirmation vote. I’m blocking them because Judge Garland has ...
Biden’s ‘America is Back’ pledge leaves the world unimpressed
Among Democrats, it was an article of faith that the election of Joe Biden would trigger resounding cheers throughout the world and expressions of profound gratitude that America was resuming its historic role as leader of the free world. It didn’t happen. Although America’s allies and enemies shed few tears over the electoral demise of Donald Trump Donald Trump Trump announces new tranche of endorsements DeSantis, Pence tied in 2024 Republican poll Lawmakers demand changes after National Guard troops at Capitol sickened from tainted food MORE , it is abundantly clear that there are deeper explanations for the fact that the world today is looking at America through very different eyes — a reappraisal that dramatically accelerated during the stunning events that characterized the United States’s “annus horribilis” of 2020. Evidence of this remarkable attitudinal change is found in the recent survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations of public opinion in its 11 member states. The most startling finding of this poll is that “majorities in key member states now think the U.S. political system is broken, that China will be more powerful than the U.S. within a decade, and that Europeans cannot rely on the U.S. to defend them.” Particularly alarming is that among America’s historically closest allies, the conviction that the U.S. political system is “broken” is strongest — 66 percent of the French, 71 percent of Germans, and a shocking 81 percent of the British. ADVERTISEMENT In light of these numbers, it is less surprising that by margins well over 2-to-1, European public opinion is that in conflicts between the U.S. and China, or Russia, their countries should remain neutral. The practical consequence of this new reality was well illustrated by the tepid reception received by President Biden Joe Biden Senate holds longest vote in history as Democrats scramble to save relief bill Ex-Trump appointee arrested in ...
Jonathan Turley: Scandalous failure of big city public schools has created a lost generation of kids
close Video 'Baltimore HS student fails all but 3 classes over 4 years, ranks near top half of class' 'A Baltimore high school student passed all but three classes over four years and still graduated near the top half of his class with a 0.13 GPA, according to Fox 45 Baltimore.' Tiffany France is understandably upset. She is a mother of three who works three jobs to support her family. Her 17-year-old son failed 22 classes in Baltimore and was late or absent 272 days over his first three years of high school. As recently reported, France's son almost graduated near the top half of his class at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts after failing every class but three in four years. He has a 0.13 GPA. She thought her son would be graduating from the school in June. According to Fox45 News "only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened." BALTIMORE HS STUDENT FAILS ALL BUT 3 CLASSES OVER 4 YEARS, RANKS NEAR TOP HALF OF CLASS France ultimately had to pull her 17-year-old son out of the school and enroll him in an accelerated program to allow him to graduate from high school in 2023. Her story is tragically all-too-familiar. The coronavirus pandemic led to the closure of an already failing public school system, as evident with France’s children. We have a lost generation of kids who have neither the education nor the trained skills to succeed in society. As teachers' unions fight to keep schools closed, the true cost is being felt by students who are racking up failing grades , dropping out of virtual classes , increasing drug use , and, in rising numbers, committing suicide . Watching this happen to the public schools has been particularly hard for some of us who are ardent supporters of public education. Growing up in Chicago during the massive flight of white families from the public school system, I remained in public schools for ...
