US envoy hits China's stand in UN climate talks

DOHA, Qatar (AP) ? The top U.S. envoy to U.N. climate talks is challenging China's demand for favorable treatment in carbon emissions, rejecting the current division between rich and poor countries for a future treaty.

In his first remarks at the climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Todd Stern said Monday the planned agreement, set to be adopted in 2015, must be based on "real-world" considerations, not "an ideology that says we're going to draw a line down the middle of the world."

Beijing wants to keep a division between developed and developing nations, setting out different responsibilities to cut emissions. China notes that despite its roaring growth, millions of Chinese still live in poverty, and emission limits would limit its economic expansion.

Stern acknowledged it would be "enormously challenging" to resolve that dispute.

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Brown left Twitter last week after a verbal spat with comedian Jenny Johnson and came back on Sunday with some Instagram pics of Rihanna.
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Skiing Santas hit the slopes in Maine

A group of Santas ride a chairlift, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine. More than 250 skiers and snowboarders participated in the annual Santa Sunday event to raise money to benefit the Bethel Rotary Club's Christmas for Children program.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A group of Santas ride a chairlift, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine. More than 250 skiers and snowboarders participated in the annual Santa Sunday event to raise money to benefit the Bethel Rotary Club's Christmas for Children program.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A man dressed as Santa skiis down the slopes at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. More than 250 Santas participated in the annual event to raise money to benefit the Bethel Rotary Club's Christmas for Children program. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A Santa flashes a peace sign while schussing down the slopes at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. More than 250 Santas participated in the annual event to raise money to benefit the Bethel Rotary Club's Christmas for Children program. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

NEWRY, Maine (AP) ? A bunch of Santas have hit the slopes at a Maine ski resort.

Nearly 300 skiers and snowboarders decked out in red and white were gathering at the Sunday River resort for the annual "Santa Sunday" event. Spokeswoman Darcy Morse says 292 of them pre-registered.

The 13th annual event raises money for the Bethel Rotary Club's annual holiday toy drive.

Those who participated showed up in a Santa outfit and donated $10 or more to the toy drive. Participants got to ski free for the day and receiving another lift ticket good through Dec. 14.

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AP survey: Bonds, Clemens likely miss in Hall vote

FILE - At left, in a June 23, 2011 file photo, former San Francisco Giants baseball player Barry Bonds leaves federal court in San Francisco. At center, in a July 14, 2011 file photo, former Major League baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington. At right in a May 13, 2009 file photo, former baseball player Sammy Sosa attends the People En Espanol "50 Most Beautiful" gala in New York. Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame when the vote is announced in January. An AP survey shows that Bonds and Clemens, as well as Sammy Sosa, don't have enough votes to get into Cooperstown. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - At left, in a June 23, 2011 file photo, former San Francisco Giants baseball player Barry Bonds leaves federal court in San Francisco. At center, in a July 14, 2011 file photo, former Major League baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington. At right in a May 13, 2009 file photo, former baseball player Sammy Sosa attends the People En Espanol "50 Most Beautiful" gala in New York. Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame when the vote is announced in January. An AP survey shows that Bonds and Clemens, as well as Sammy Sosa, don't have enough votes to get into Cooperstown. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - This Aug. 7, 2007 file photo shows San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, right, celebrating after hitting his 756th career home run against the Washington Nationals during the fifth inning of their baseball game in San Francisco. Looking on at left is Nationals' catcher Brian Schneider. Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame when the vote is announced in January. An AP survey shows that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, as well as Sammy Sosa, don't have enough votes to get into Cooperstown. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

FILE - In this June 29, 2001 file photo, New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens throws to the plate in the first inning against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Yankee Stadium in New York. Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame when the vote is announced in January. An AP survey shows that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, as well as Sammy Sosa, don't have enough votes to get into Cooperstown. (AP Photo/Jeff Zelevansky, File)

FILE - This Aug. 4, 2004, file photo shows Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa watching a three-run home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Scott Dohmann during the seventh inning of a baseball game at Coors Field in Denver. Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame when the vote is announced in January. An AP survey shows that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, as well as Sammy Sosa, don't have enough votes to get into Cooperstown. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)

(AP) ? Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame in January. A survey by The Associated Press shows that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, as well as slugger Sammy Sosa, don't have enough votes to get into Cooperstown.

With steroid scandals still very much on the minds of longtime members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America as they cast their ballots, the trio failed to muster even 50 percent support among the 112 voters contacted by the AP ? nearly one-fifth of those eligible to choose.

Candidates need 75 percent for election.

So Bonds, the only seven-time MVP, and Clemens, the only seven-time Cy Young Award winner, are likely to remain outside the Hall along with career hits leader Pete Rose, who was banned for betting on baseball as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

"I'm not going to vote for anybody who has been tainted or associated with steroids," said MLB.com's Hal Bodley, the former baseball columnist for USA Today. "I'm just not going to do it. I might change down the road, but I just love the game too much. I have too much passion for the game and for what these people did to it."

The current ballot was announced this week and Bonds, Clemens and Sosa were on it for the first time. Votes will be cast throughout the month and results will be released Jan. 9.

Among voters who expressed an opinion, Bonds received 45 percent support, Clemens 43 percent and Sosa 18 percent. To gain election, Bonds and Clemens would need more than 80 percent support among the voters not surveyed and Sosa would need to get more than 85 percent.

"No one would dare say that Bonds, a seven-time National League MVP with 762 home runs, isn't a Hall of Famer," Thom Loverro, a columnist for The Washington Examiner, wrote in a column that explained his decision. "Nor would anyone say that Clemens, with 354 career victories, 4,672 strikeouts and seven Cy Young Awards, shouldn't be enshrined in Cooperstown. The same goes for Sosa, who finished with 609 career home runs, including 243 of them from 1998 through 2001.

"Except they cheated ? all of them. And this Hall of Fame is not just about numbers. Three of the six criteria for election to Cooperstown are sportsmanship, integrity and character. Bonds, Sosa and Clemens fail on all three counts."

The Denver Post's Troy Renck doesn't plan to vote for them, either.

"I understand that everyone has their opinion on this issue and I respect those," he said in a telephone interview. "For me personally, having coached kids for the last decade and talked to them about doing things a certain way, I would feel very uncomfortable voting for anyone that is a known cheater."

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Bruce Jenkins took the opposite view.

"The Hall of Fame's 'character' clause should be stricken immediately, because it's far too late to turn Cooperstown into a church," he wrote in an email. "Whether it was gambling (rampant in the early 20th century), scuffing the baseballs, corking bats, amphetamines or steroids, players have been cheating like crazy forever. It's an integral, if unsavory, part of the culture. I've always had the same criteria: which players were the best performers of their particular era ? so absolutely, I'll vote for Bonds, Clemens and Sosa."

Bonds and Clemens gained far more support than Sosa in the survey.

"I will definitely vote for Bonds and Clemens. I still need to consider Sosa's resume," ESPN.com's Jim Caple said. "Steroid use has nothing to do with my vote. Steroids were not banned during the majority of their careers when they achieved the vast majority of their accomplishments. All we can go by is what they did on the field. If Gaylord Perry is in the Hall for violating a rule that was in place 40 years before his career began, how can you justify withholding a vote from someone for a rule that wasn't in effect? (And personally, I would rather face a pitcher on PEDs than a spitballer)."

Hall voters are BBWAA members who have been with the organization for 10 consecutive years at any point. The BBWAA does not release the full list.

About 8-10 percent of the approximately 600 Hall of Fame voters are employees of the AP or freelance writers who work for the AP, the BBWAA said.

The AP contacted known voters by telephone and email from Wednesday to Friday. They were asked only how they would vote on Bonds, Clemens and Sosa: yes, no or unsure. About half asked not to be identified, and only those who agreed to be identified by name are quoted in this story.

Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids. A positive test was introduced as evidence during his criminal trial last year, when he was convicted of obstruction of justice by a jury that failed to reach a verdict on charges he made false statements to a grand jury when he denied knowing using performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens has repeatedly denied drug use and was acquitted this year on charges he lied to Congress when he said he didn't take steroids or human growth hormone.

Sosa was among the 104 positive tests in baseball's 2003 anonymous survey, The New York Times reported in 2009. He told a congressional committee in 2005 that he never took illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds and Clemens fared far better in the survey than Mark McGwire did when a sample of voters were questioned by the AP before his first appearance on the ballot in December 2006. The slugger with 583 home runs received 24 percent support in the survey and 23.5 percent in the BBWAA ballot.

Since then, McGwire's support has never topped 24 percent and dropped to 19.5 percent of the 573 votes cast last January.

Rafael Palmeiro, who topped 3,000 hits and 500 home runs, was suspended for 10 days in 2005 following a positive test for Stanozolol ? he said he didn't know what caused it. He received 12.5 percent in January.

Several voters said their decisions were for this vote only and they planned to reassess their position each year. Some said that they wouldn't consider voting for Bonds, Clemens or Sosa this year because they didn't want them to have the additional honor of being elected on their first ballot.

Players who have appeared in 10 seasons and have been retired for five years are eligible for consideration by a six-member BBWAA screening committee, and a player goes on the ballot if he is supported by at least two screening committee members. A player remains on the ballot for up to 15 elections as long as he gets 5 percent of the votes every year.

Ballots must be submitted to the BBWAA by Dec. 31. Inductions will take place July 28.

Voters were contacted by telephone and email from Wednesday to Friday.

Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza and Curt Schilling also are among the 24 first-time eligibles, and Jack Morris, Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines are the top holdover candidates.

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AP Sports Writers Janie McCauley, Noah Trister and Ben Walker contributed to this report.

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Ariz. mom sought after taking child from cancer ward

Police in Phoenix are searching for an 11-year-old girl who was removed from the hospital by her mother, where she was being treated for leukemia and still has a catheter in her chest.

Police said the little girl, who has been only been identified as Emily, also had her arm amputated due to an infection. The authorities are not sure why the mother removed the child from Phoenix Children's Hospital on Wednesday night, but are worried about the catheter still in Emily's chest.

"Our concern right now is for that catheter to be medically removed. We understand that there is the possibility that the catheter could get an infection and thereby result in the death of this child really in the matter of days," Sgt. Steve Martos told ABC News affiliate KNXV Thursday night.

Surveillance footage from the hospital shows the mother, identified as Norma in a police press release, leaving with Emily around 10:30 p.m. local time Wednesday. Police say Norma removed Emily's IV before walking her out of the hospital in street clothes.

A young boy was also seen leaving with Norma and Emily.

Police believe the family then left the hospital in a black van and have not been seen since. Detectives have made an effort to contact the family but to no avail, according to the statement.

It's not clear how long Emily had been a patient at the hospital. Police have not released the family's last name.

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Should We Be Able to Patent Human Genes?

Depending on how the Supreme Court decides on the case it decided to take up Friday afternoon, biotech companies might soon be able to patent ownership of essential parts of our bodies. Actually, one company, Myriad, already has patents for two genes, BRCA 1 and 2,?that when found in women signal a higher likelihood of breast cancer. Weird, right? Because of that legal ownership, Myriad claims exclusive rights to genetic screenings for the disease, which,?as NYU's Miles Jackson points out, makes it very expensive for women who might not have the money. It also makes getting a second opinion impossible. In addition, holding onto the isolated gene could prevent further research and breakthroughs on the gene.?

RELATED: Genetic Evidence for a Human 'Sister' Species; Malaria Vaccines Don't Work

The Court will rule on The American Civil Liberties Union versus Myriad next year, hearing oral argument in March, the justices announced Friday. The ACLU, on behalf of "researchers, genetic counselors, women patients, cancer survivors, breast cancer and women's health groups, and scientific associations representing 150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals," asserts that human genes can't be patented because they are a "product of nature." That falls under physical phenomena and not discoveries or inventions. But the company argues that isolating the gene took "significant skill, insight and invention on the part of Myriad's inventors."?

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Risk Management Procedure: Setting Usage Policies | Business 2 ...

Insurance agents are often referred to as risk management professionals, because they focus on risk first. The modern insurance agent does so much more than sell insurance. Most agents get involved in staff training, look at procedures and advise on equipment. The role of the modern insurance agent is to implement risk management procedure.

One of the most common and most effective procedures your agent will help with is the instigation of usage policies. These policies, usually attributed to things like commercial vehicles and mobile devices, outline the safety requirements and responsibilities on each member of staff. Each policy will be unique, but there is a basic structure that most will follow. Let?s look at the structure and how it works as an effective risk management procedure.

Set parameters

The first step in any policy is to set the parameters for that policy. It?s important that you make clear exactly what is covered under the policy. Any ambiguity here can lead to abuse of the policy by staff who think they?ve spotted a loophole. In order for risk management procedures to work, they need to be specific. The same goes for usage policy.

Business Usage

The meat of the policy will be defining what constitutes business use. It will define which functions are allowed and indeed expected to be used and which are forbidden. The most effective risk management procedures acknowledge the risk and define how it?s avoided. This section essentially does the same thing, acknowledging prohibited usage and defining proper usage.

Personal Usage

Whether it covers email, mobile devices, cars, there should be some allowance for personal use in every usage policy. In most cases you are providing a function that your employee would like to use in their personal life. If you ban it outright, you encourage abuse, which creates risk. Since this is supposed to be a risk management procedure, that?s counter productive.

Management Responsibility

The key to every risk management procedure is implementation and enforcement. Once you put policy in place, you need to ensure it is followed. The policy itself should outline the responsibilities of management and any related disciplinary procedures for breach of the policy. That breach should extend to negligence on behalf of management in upholding the policy.

Setting usage policy and enforcing risk management procedure follow very similar guidelines. To get the most out of either, you should contact your local insurance agent.

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