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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) ? Union workers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa who have been locked out of their jobs for 20 months at American Crystal Sugar Co. have voted to ratify the company's proposed contract.
Fifty-five percent voted to accept the contract offer. It was the workers' fifth time voting on the contract.
Employees last voted on the contract in December, when 55 percent voted to reject the offer.
Nearly 1,300 employees were locked out on Aug. 1, 2011, after rejecting the cooperative's proposed contract. Company officials say many of those workers retired or resigned.
The union originally focused its complaints on contract provisions regarding seniority and job security. The company says it's a good contract with substantial increases in wages and other benefits.
American Crystal is the country's largest sugar beet processor.
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Billionaire awarded $12M: Florida billionaire William Koch won a $12 million jury award in a case involving his purchase of counterfeit bottles of Bordeaux.
Florida energy magnate William Koch smiles as he leaves Manhattan federal court, Thursday, in New York. A jury agreed that California businessman Eric Greenberg had sold Koch 24 bogus bottles of vintage wine at a 2005 auction and awarded him $12 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
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EnlargeA jury awarded a Florida billionaire $12 million Friday in his dispute over phony vintage wine, and he vowed to do more to expose wine frauds. He also proclaimed it his happiest day since winning the America's Cup in 1992.
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"Out of sight! Over the moon!" William Koch said as he described his feelings after emerging giggling with glee from a courtroom in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. "We weren't even expecting any damages and we got $12 million. Unbelievable!"
The verdict came against businessman Eric Greenberg, who insisted that he never intentionally sold a fake bottle of wine in auctions that generated about $42 million for him over an eight-year period. The trial involved alleged counterfeit bottles of Bordeaux labeled as if they were made from 1864 to 1950.
In a statement, Greenberg called the verdict "a disappointment because I believed all the consigned wine to be authentic."
Outside court, Greenberg declined to comment beyond his statement.
Koch's lawyer, John Hueston, suggested that a criminal probe of Greenberg was underway, saying: "We're cooperating with the FBI." He declined to elaborate.
In a chilly drizzle outside court, the 72-year-old Koch celebrated with his lawyers, posed for pictures and met briefly with at least one of the eight jurors who decided on Thursday that Koch had been defrauded, awarding him $380,000 in compensatory damages.
Jurors returned Friday to hear Koch and Greenberg testify again and deliberate over punitive damages.
"I'm very sorry I had counterfeit wine," Greenberg told them. "It's a horrible thing. Both of us have lost millions of dollars."
The verdict was another blow to Greenberg, a former billionaire who built two Internet consulting companies before the 2000 collapse of those stocks reportedly reduced his net worth by as much as 90 percent.
Koch said he planned to use the $12 million to continue his crusade to clean up the wine auction industry, including by creating a website that highlights fake wines and who sells them.
Koch said he would include in the list the 421 bottles he had identified in his own collection as fake after buying them for $4.4 million over the years.
"I'm sad at the amount of fakes," he said. "That's why I stopped buying very old wines."
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday called for joint efforts with the United States to safeguard cyberspace, an area of tension that the U.S. says is its top national security concern.
Repeating the government's oft-stated position, China opposes any form of hacking, Wang was quoted by Xinhua news agency as telling visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Beijing and Washington have traded accusations in recent months of massive cyber intrusions. The U.S. says hacking attacks emanating from China have targeted U.S. government and corporate computer networks among others, stealing government and commercial data.
A U.S. computer security firm released a report in February saying a secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a wave of hacking attacks against the United States.
China claims that it is the victim of large-scale cyber attacks from the United States, though it has given few details.
In recent weeks, both sides have included calls for dialogue and cooperation. Officials and business executives attending a China-U.S. Internet Industry Forum in Beijing this week sought to find common ground.
"It's important to have a dialogue on this, but it's also important that the dialogue be a means to an end, and the end is really ending these practices," Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Robert Hormats, who spoke at the forum, told Reuters in an interview.
Cyberspace should be an area where China and the United States can increase mutual trust and cooperation, Wang told Kerry, according to Xinhua.
Kerry arrived in Beijing on Saturday with nuclear threats from North Korea at the top of his agenda in talks with Chinese officials.
(Reporting by Terril Yue Jones; editing by Jonathan Standing)
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I drive a two-seat roadster known for its great handling. The last thing I want is for a machine to take the steering wheel out of my hands. My car company isn't into self-driving cars, but others are: Ford, BMW, Audi. And, of course, Google is moving quickly forward with road-worthy autocars that have accumulated 300,000 miles with only one (human error) accident. The advantages of cars that drive themselves are multiple and compelling.
Automobile intelligence already assists the driving experience by warning of dangerous situations and taking control of parking, which is, for some people, the most difficult maneuver to perform. We are gradually ceding control to our cars. When a completely automated consumer car launches, some drivers will hand over the reins gladly. But for me and other enthusiasts, driving a car isn't just about reaching a destination; it's about the journey and operating a beautiful machine. Unfortunately for people who feel that way, the greatest social benefits of self-driving cars would kick in if everyone were herded into a new era of hands-off driving.
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BlackBerry, the beleaguered Canadian handset maker, today said it is contacting the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission for formal reviews of the analysts Detwiler Fenton, after its analysts issued a statement saying that its new flagship handset, the BB Z10, was seeing record-levels of returns in retail sales -- reports that BlackBerry today says are "false and misleading."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/XJ4bRuUKBGQ/
