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NoneJubilation. Joy. Relief. Wonder. Pick your word for it — emotions, each and all of them felt by the masses, came pouring out as the clock struck zero inside Memorial Stadium. The Nebraska football program’s long eight-year bowl drought finally came to an end on a 50-degree November afternoon in downtown Lincoln. That achievement is worth celebrating on its own, but the way Nebraska got it done — dominating, rather than eking over the line against an opponent it knows well — made the accomplishment that much sweeter. Nebraska never trailed in a 44-25 win over Wisconsin on Saturday, securing the program’s first bowl game since the 2016 season. The victory also snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Badgers, and the four-game losing skid which NU entered the day with. For a Nebraska (6-5, 3-5 Big Ten) senior class which had never made the postseason before, their level of play on the field matched the seriousness of the opportunity in front of them. Particularly on the offensive side of the ball, improvements from last week’s loss to USC were evident. Offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen, calling his second game as a member of the Nebraska coaching staff, dialed up a blistering six-play, 55-yard touchdown drive to start the game. A 45-yard kickoff return from freshman Jacory Barney Jr. set Nebraska up on the drive, with junior Heinrich Haarberg scoring the 5-yard run to secure NU’s early 7-0 lead. Having parted ways with its offensive coordinator during the week, Wisconsin, (5-6, 3-5) showed no ill effects from that shakeup as it immediately responded with a scoring drive of its own. Helped by a key missed tackle near midfield, Wisconsin found the end zone on a 4-yard passing score from Braedyn Locke to Bryson Green. After the initial scoring drive, Wisconsin took three of its next four possessions into Nebraska territory but came away with just three points from those chances. A Janiran Bonner fumble deep inside Nebraska territory set up Wisconsin with a prime scoring opportunity, but a three-and-out and delay of game penalty contributed to a 34-yard field goal sailing wide. The Badgers pushed across a 33-yard kick later in the half but also missed a second field goal from 41 yards out, a miss which resulted in a 10-play drive netting zero points. Not all of Nebraska’s first-half drives were perfect — the Huskers punted twice and fumbled once — but when things clicked, Wisconsin could do little to slow down the surging Nebraska offense. Nebraska utilized its quick passing game during its second touchdown drive, with a 27-yard gain from Emmett Johnson on a screen pass quickly being followed by a 21-yard Barney gain on a touch pass in the backfield. Running back Dante Dowdell capped off the eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive with a 12-yard rushing score in which Jahmal Banks and Nate Boerkircher sealed the edge with a pair of punishing blocks. Nebraska also took advantage of Wisconsin’s field goal miscues by scoring touchdowns immediately following both misses. An efficient drive just prior to the halftime break ended with a toe-tap catch from Banks in the back of the end zone, a 5-yard passing score from Dylan Raiola which extended Nebraska’s lead to 21-10. Taking the ball with just 17 seconds left in the half, Wisconsin could’ve kneeled out the clock but instead opted to give running back Tawee Walker a first down carry. NU’s Nash Hutmacher made Wisconsin regret that decision by jarring the ball loose for a Bager turnover. One completion later and Nebraska brought kicker John Hohl onto the field for a 37-yard try, one he dispatched to give the Huskers a 14-point halftime lead. The 24 first-half points scored by Nebraska marked the team’s second-most all season, and the most since NU’s win over Colorado in September. The Huskers came out firing after the halftime break, too, forcing a Wisconsin three-and-out prior to putting together a scoring drive of its own. While the Nebraska drive stalled out prior to the end zone, a 45-yard Hohl field goal gave the Huskers a three-score advantage, 27-10 in their favor. Unable to trust its kicker in a similar situation, Wisconsin instead opted to keep its offense on the field for a fourth down outside the NU red zone. Walker’s carry up the middle was stuffed by the Blackshirts, resulting in a turnover on downs midway through the third quarter. When Nebraska turned that opportunity into a touchdown of its own, the game just about escaped Wisconsin’s reach. Another well-executed scoring drive, this time a seven-play march down the field which took three-plus minutes, ended in a Dowdell 3-yard touchdown run. As Nebraska’s lead reached 34-10, it marked the most points NU has scored against a Big Ten foe under head coach Matt Rhule. Wisconsin did fire back with a touchdown drive late in the third quarter and another midway through the fourth quarter. A third made field from Hohl helped keep Nebraska’s lead safe to the end, though. Nebraska can take away many positives from its win over Wisconsin, with the all-around performance of Johnson at running back and its much-improved offense taking center stage. Most important of all was the fact that Saturday’s win meant six on the season, a mark Nebraska fans hadn’t celebrated since the 2016 season. That major season milestone now secured, Nebraska’s regular season will come to a close during a Black Friday matchup against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
NEW YORK — Stoli Group USA, the owner of the namesake vodka , has filed for bankruptcy as it struggled to contend with slowing demand for spirits, a major cyberattack that has snarled its operations and several years of fighting Russia in court. The company in its bankruptcy filing said it is “experiencing financial difficulties” and lists between $50 million and $100 million in liabilities. Stoli vodka and Kentucky Owl bourbon will continue to be available on store shelves while the company navigates the Chapter 11 process, which only pertains to its U.S. business. Until 2022, Stoli was sold as Stolichnaya in the United States, which loosely translates to “capital city” in Russian. The company shortened its title following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and boycotts against Russian-branded vodkas . Stoli Group’s founder, Russian-born billionaire Yuri Shefler, was exiled from that nation in 2000 because of his opposition to President Vladimir Putin. Intel announced on December 2 that CEO Pat Gelsinger has resigned after a difficult stint at the company. The once-dominant chipmaker’s stock cratered as it missed the AI boom and was surpassed by most of its rivals. The liquor has long been marketed as a Russian vodka, but its production facilities have been in Latvia for several decades. Stoli Group is a unit of Luxembourg-based SPI Group, which owns other spirit and wine brands. “The Stoli Group has been targeted by the Russian Federation since it was formed nearly 25 years ago,” said Stoli Group CEO Chris Caldwell in a statement. “Earlier this year the company and our owner were both named by the Russian state as ‘extremist groups working against Russia’s interests.’” Its ongoing legal battle with the Russia government has forced Stoli to “spend dozens of millions of dollars on this long-term court battle across the globe with the Russian authorities,” according to its court filing. Caldwell also said that Stoli’s global operations has been a “victim of a malicious cyber attack” that has forced the company to operate “entirely manually while the systems are rebuilt.” A slowdown in demand for alcohol has crushed several company’s bottom lines following the pandemic when people were stuck at home and stocked up. Stoli’s filings said that it has seen a “decline and softening of demand for alcohol and spirits products post-Covid and especially beginning in 2023 and continuing into 2024.” Stoli Group USA, maker of Stoli vodka, has filed for bankruptcy due to slowing demand for spirits, a major cyberattack, and ongoing legal battles with Russia. The-CNN-WireTM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress to reject a fast-moving bill that would force TikTok's Beijing-based parent company to sell or be banned in the United States. On Tuesday, some influencers began a two-day advocacy event in support of TikTok, which arranged their trip ahead of a House floor vote on the legislation on Wednesday. But unlike a similar lobbying event the company put together last March when talks of a TikTok ban reached a fever pitch, this year’s effort appeared more rushed as the company scrambles to counter the legislation, which advanced rapidly on Capitol Hill. Summer Lucille, a TikTok content creator with 1.4 million followers who is visiting Washington this week, said if TikTok is banned, she “don’t know what it will do” to her business, a plus-sized boutique in Charlotte, North Carolina. “It will be devastating,” Lucille said in an interview arranged by the platform. In an unusual showing of bipartisanship, a House panel unanimously approved the measure last week. President Joe Biden has said he will sign the legislation if lawmakers pass it. But it’s unclear what will happen in the Senate, where several bills aimed at banning TikTok have stalled. The legislation faces other roadblocks. Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, who holds sway over both House and Senate Republicans, has voiced opposition to the bill, saying it would empower Meta-owned Facebook, which he continues to lambast over his 2020 election loss. The bill also faces pushback from some progressive lawmakers in the House as well as civil liberties groups who argue it infringes on the First Amendment. TikTok could be banned if ByteDance, the parent company, doesn’t sell its stakes in the platform and other applications it owns within six months of the bill’s enactment. The fight over the platform takes place as U.S.-China relations have shifted to that of strategic rivalry, especially in areas such as advanced technologies and data security, seen as essential to each country’s economic prowess and national security. The shift, which started during the Trump years and has continued under Biden, has placed restrictions on export of advanced technologies and outflow of U.S. monies to China, as well as access to the U.S. market by certain Chinese businesses. The Biden administration also has cited human rights concerns in blacklisting a number of Chinese companies accused of assisting the state surveillance campaign against ethnic minorities. TikTok isn’t short on lobbyists. Its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance has a strong lobbying apparatus in Washington that includes dozens of lobbyists from well-known consulting and legal firms as well as influential insiders, such as former members of Congress and ex-aides to powerful lawmakers, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will also be in Washington this week and plans to meet with lawmakers, according to a company spokesperson who said Chew’s visit was previously scheduled. But influencers, who have big followings on social media and can share personal stories of how the platform boosted their businesses — or simply gave them a voice — are still perhaps one of the most powerful tools the company has in its arsenal. A TikTok spokesperson said dozens of influencers will attend the two-day event, including some who came last year. The spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about how many new people would be attending this year’s lobbying blitz. The company is briefing them ahead of meetings with their representatives and media interviews. Lucille, who runs the boutique in North Carolina, says has seen a substantial surge in revenue because of her TikTok page. The 34-year-old began making TikTok content focusing on plus-sized fashion in March 2022, more than a decade after she started her business. She quickly amassed thousands of followers after posting a nine-second video about her boutique. Because of her popularity on the platform, her business has more online exposure and customers, some of whom have visited from as far as Europe. She says she also routinely hears from followers who are finding support through her content about fashion and confidence. JT Laybourne, an influencer who also came to Washington, said he joined TikTok in early 2019 after getting some negative comments on videos he posted on Instagram while singing in the car with his children. Laybourne, who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, said he was attracted to the short-form video platform because it was easy to create videos that contained music. Like Lucille, he quickly gained traction on the app. He says he also received more support from TikTok users, who reacted positively to content he produced on love and positivity. Laybourne says the community he built on the platform rallied around his family when he had to undergo heart surgery in 2020. Following the surgery, he said he used the platform to help raise $1 million for the American Heart Association in less than two years. His family now run an apparel company that gets most of its traffic from TikTok. “I will fight tooth-and-nail for this app,” he said. But whether the opposition the company is mounting through lobbyists or influencers will be enough to derail the bill is yet to be seen. On Tuesday, House lawmakers received a briefing on national security concerns regarding TikTok from the FBI, Justice Department and intelligence officials. AP Journalist Didi Tang contributed to this report. This story was originally published on March 12, 2024. It was updated on December 23, 2024 to clarify a quote by TikTok content creator Summer Lucille.
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Commentary: President Yoon’s actions have tarnished South Korea’s international reputationEastEnders is gearing up for another explosive Christmas Day, with Cindy Beale (played by Michelle Collins) at the centre of the drama. Regular viewers of the BBC soap will be aware that Cindy has been having a clandestine affair with her former step-son, Junior Knight (Micah Balfour), and their secret is about to spectacularly come to light. However, fans have noticed a similarity to a classic episode. The latest teaser reveals that the festive cheer in Walford will be short-lived when George Knight's (Colin Salmon) Christmas lunch descends into chaos as damning proof of Cindy's affair ends up in the wrong hands. Cindy isn't exactly popular among her Albert Square neighbours, but who could be blackmailing her? Anna Knight (Molly Rainford) unwraps a small gift to find a USB stick. When it's played, Cindy's secret is shockingly unveiled to the Beale family. This plot twist has led EastEnders fans to draw comparisons to the infamous 'Sharongate' storyline, where Sharon Watts' (Letitia Dean) affair had the nation hooked back in 1994, reports the Manchester Evening News . Almost 30 million viewers tuned in to witness the iconic Queen Vic moment when Sharon Mitchell's affair with her brother-in-law Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) was revealed by her husband Grant (Ross Kemp). Grant managed to obtain a taped recording of Sharon admitting to sleeping with his brother and tearing off his clothes. In an act of revenge, Grant made his appearance at the pub where Sharon was hosting Phil and Kathy's (Gillian Taylforth) engagement party. Grant's switcheroo with the music, playing Sharon's confession for all to hear, left Albert Square residents gobsmacked. Fast forward three decades, and it seems EastEnders is about to serve up a second helping of scandal as Cindy finds herself in the hot seat, her affair exposed through an audio message. Fans have been quick to draw parallels between the iconic Sharongate and Cindy's current predicament on social media. One viewer mused: "Who combined Sharongate and Lauren's festive present surprise (Outing Max and Stacey's affair) to out Cindy. Can we get a cat fight between Kathy and Cindy then Kathy can bold patch Cindy like she did Sharon. But seriously I need to know who is behind outing Cindy." Another chimed in: "Just like Sharon Phil and Grant with the interview Michelle did with Sharon." A third fan couldn't contain their excitement: "Audio played in the Vic about an affair yet again." "Looks like we're in for a Sharongate re-run and I am totally here for it!!!! #EastEnders", another fan tweeted, while someone else noted the significance of the timing: "30th Anniversary since Sharongate." EastEnders airs Monday - Thursday at 7:30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Daltonganj: A two-member team of the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of the state police questioned six members of an organised crime syndicate in jail here. Palamu SP Reeshma Ramesan on Monday informed that the six accused have confessed to police that they were working for the dreaded gangster, Sujit Sinha. The arrested are Ashfak Khan (25), Kush Kumar Yadav (21), Deepak Kumar Bhuiyan (30), Gulshan Kumar Vishwakarma (22), Aashif Ahmad alias Raja Khan (22), a street play actor, and Farhan Qureishi (24). The SP said, “All six arrested are part of an organised crime and also work for the gangster. Hence, the ATS came down here from Ranchi to question them.” Ramesan informed that except for Farhan Qureishi, who faces one Arms Act case and attempted assault on a maha Dalit, police have no records of criminal history for the other five. “Farhan Qureishi had met a pointsman of gangster Sujit Sinha when he was in the central jail here and he started working for the gang. Farhan then recruited Ashfak Khan and the others followed gradually,” he said. The gangster recruits young individuals to avoid police detection. The accused said they were planning to intimidate workers by firing in the air at Karso stone crushing plant in Chainpur on December 1. The SP said, “The accused told the police that the owner of the Karso stone crusher plant was delaying payment of extortion and they were planning to intimidate him.” We also published the following articles recently Six associated with dreaded gangster held in Palamu, sent to jail after being quizzed by ATS A two-member anti-terrorist squad team questioned six members of an organised crime syndicate in Daltonganj jail, all of whom confessed to working for gangster Sujit Sinha. The accused, caught planning a disturbance at a stone crushing plant, were arrested with weapons and motorcycles. Police noted the growing recruitment of young individuals in such criminal activities. Balyan arrested for links with gangster AAP MLA Naresh Balyan has been arrested by Delhi Police's crime branch on extortion charges. Allegedly collaborating with gangster Kapil Sangwan, who's notorious for his extortion racket and currently in the UK, Balyan purportedly discussed ransom demands and threats with Sangwan. An audio clip of their conversation led to the investigation, resulting in Balyan's arrest after his non-cooperation. Following gangsters' social media profiles to attract surveillance: Delhi Police Delhi Police have intensified monitoring of social media to identify and track 'bad-characters' who follow gangsters. Individuals engaging in such activities may face legal trouble. Criminals are often found sharing images with weapons online to increase followers. The police are also focused on preventing gangsters from recruiting young people through social media.
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A high-end wedding photographer and his Indian American family were subjected to the wrath of a fellow traveler who hurled sickening insults at them after their United Airlines flight landed in Los Angeles, disturbing footage shows . Pervez Taufiq said he had just flown into Los Angeles from Cancun last week with his wife and three sons when he was confronted by another flyer, who had been on the same flight, onboard a transfer bus. He said the foul-mouthed woman “harassed” his son who was seated next to her on the plane and then shouted racist taunts during the bus ride that he caught on camera. “Your family is from India, you have no respect, you have no rules, you think you can push everyone, push, push, push,” the woman told him as he recorded on Nov. 24. “That’s what you think you are. You guys are f–king crazy.” After Taufiq told the woman she should tell him again to have “more curry, right?,” she replied she was going to pull out her phone “to record your f–king tandoori ass,” according to the video he posted on social media. When the father told someone off-screen that the woman should be removed from the bus for being “rude and racist,” she accused him of being “racist” toward her, according to the video. The loudmouth woman implied he wasn’t American, but Taufiq shouted back that he was born in the US. At the start of the video, she also flashed both middle fingers at him. “It’s one of those things you feel like an out-of-body experience with,” Taufiq told The Post on Sunday. “We’ve seen things like that on the internet, we just never thought we’d be in one.” Taufiq, who grew up in Boston, said he first interacted with the fellow passenger during the flight when he went to check on his 11-year-old seated a few rows ahead of the rest of the family. As he checked on his son, the woman, who was sitting in the same row as his son, was annoyed as she tried to brush past him, asking if she could get to her seat, he said. “I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, sorry’ and then I moved to the side and she got to her seat and that was it,” Taufiq said in an interview. Taufiq said he learned only after the plane landed that the woman had allegedly asked her son if he was Indian, where he was from in the country and threatened that she was going to talk to his parents. On the shuttle bus between the plane and the terminal, Taufiq accused the woman of telling his children to shut up as the family was talking, sparking the on-camera verbal altercation. The footage shows United staffers going up to the woman as Taufiq shouted, “Get off the bus, racist.” A bystander told United workers the woman was instigating the trouble, and she was eventually removed from the vehicle, according to Taufiq. Taufiq believes the woman was “clearly” drunk during and after the flight. An email to United was not returned Sunday night. Taufiq and his wife work as photographers for fancy events around the world, including more than 200 weddings per year. Because of their jam-packed travel schedule, the couple homeschool their three young boys. Taufiq has received dozens of supportive messages after he posted about the incident, including journalist Katie Couric commenting, “Good God. What is wrong with people? (Actually you don’t need to answer that.) What a sick, sick person. And so sorry your children had to be exposed to this.” “It’s been refreshing to see how many people have reached out and just made sure we’re OK,” Taufiq said. Originally published as High-end wedding photographer and family shocked as they’re berated with sickening ‘racist’ insults from fellow United passenger: videoThe meeting with Collins was closely watched as she is seen as more likely than most of her Republican Senate colleagues to vote against some of Trump’s Cabinet picks.ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for violations that included taking bets on unauthorized events, and on games that had already ended. In information made public Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It also levied $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting technology company Kambi. According to documents released by the state, Rush Street accepted 16 bets worth $1,523 in Nov. 2021 on a college basketball game between the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Tennessee Tech University after the game had already concluded with a UNC victory. Kambi told the enforcement division that a trader had failed to manually remove that game from its betting markets, saying it had stopped receiving messages from its own sports data provider due to a network connectivity error. Kambi said it has updated its guidelines and retrained its traders to prevent a recurrence. Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Monday. Rush Street declined comment, and DraftKings had no immediate comment Monday. DraftKings stopped using Kambi in 2021. In March 2022 Rush Street took seven bets totaling just under $2,900 on three Magic City Jai Alai games after the results were already known. Kambi told the division it experienced a connectivity issue that allowed the bets to be accepted after the games were over. An explanation of what Kambi did to address the situation was blacked out in documents released by the division. A month earlier Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match odds on a Professional Golf Association match after the event had already begun. In this case, Kambi told the division a newly hired trader failed to enter the correct closing time time for bets on the event. The trader and a supervisor underwent retraining. DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events including Russian basketball for nine months in 2020 and 2021. It eventually voided over $61,000 in bets and returned the money to customers after being directed to do so by the state. In this case, Kambi told the division it misidentified this particular Russian basketball league as one that was approved for wagering in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not catch the error, either. In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi incorrectly enabled the events for wagering without conditions required by the state, the division said. In Feb. 2022, the division said DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets involving specific players but did not give the state specific information on what information was to be included in the bets, drawing 182 wagers worth nearly $7,000 that were later voided and refunded to customers. Follow Wayne Parry on X at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC
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LAS VEGAS – Max Verstappen returned to the Las Vegas Grand Prix as the defending winner of the Sin City spectacle and a fourth consecutive Formula 1 championship well within his reach. The Dutchman needed only to finish Saturday night's race ahead of Lando Norris of McLaren to make it four straight for the Red Bull driver. Verstappen starts fifth and Norris is sixth. Recommended Videos Norris can additionally lose the title if he fails to outscore Verstappen by three points on the neon-lit street circuit that zips down the famed Las Vegas Strip. The race is back for a second year and again promoted by Liberty Media, the commercial rights holder of F1. The debut event was a bit of a disaster in that locals were livid for months over ongoing construction, as well as traffic detours and delays, the inability to access many local businesses, outrageous price gouging by the tourism industry as well as LVGP ticketing, and then a loose valve cover that nearly destroyed Carlos Sainz Jr.'s Ferrari minutes into the first practice. It caused an hours-long delay for repairs, fans were kicked out of the circuit, and F1 ran practice until 4 a.m. — when it legally had to reopen the streets to the public. This year has been far less hectic, in part because all of the infrastructure headaches were a year ago, but also that last year's race was spectacular. Despite all its speed bumps, the actual running of the race was one of the best of the F1 season and could produce a similar show Saturday night. George Russell of Mercedes starts from the pole ahead of Sainz , who wants redemption after the valve-cover fiasco last year. He had to serve a penalty because his car was damaged in the incident. Ferrari is expected to be the class of the field, which could tighten the nail-biting constructer championship battle. Red Bull, the two-time reigning winners, have fallen to third in the standings behind McLaren and Ferrari. But with Las Vegas the first of the final three races of the season, McLaren is clinging to a 36-point lead for a championship worth an estimated $150 million in prize money. McLaren last won the constructor title in 1998, while Ferrari last won it in 2008. The race is the final stop in the United States for F1, which has exploded in American popularity the last five years. The trio of races in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Las Vegas are more than any other country. After the race completion, F1 next week is expected to announce it will expand the grid to 11 teams to make room for an American team backed by General Motors' Cadillac brand. The team was initially started by Michael Andretti, who could not receive approval from F1 on his expansion application. Andretti has since turned over his ownership stake to Indiana-businessman Dan Towriss and Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They would run the Cadillac F1 team that would likely join the grid in 2026. The announcement of the American team did not come during the weekend to not derail from the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which is the showpiece of the Liberty Media portfolio. With one-time infrastructure costs last year, the debut event was believed to cost Liberty nearly $1 billion. Expenses are down this year, but Liberty put in as much glitz and glamour as possible, anyway. There are nightclubs around the course and on top of the paddock, an ice-skating rink, top-level musical acts and a 10 p.m. local start to make it feel like a true Las Vegas big Saturday night event. ___ AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racingIndiana Gov.-elect Braun ripped by GOP colleagues for missing U.S. Senate votes