Lake Tahoe Kidnapping Victim Asked to Take DNA Test

South Lake Tahoe kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has been staying at an undisclosed location with her daughters and family since her release from over 18 years of captivity at the hands of alleged kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Now, a man named Kenneth Slayton is asking Dugard to take a paternity test to confirm that he his her birth father. Slayton had a brief relationship with Dugard's mother, and says that the FBI has identified him as Dugard's father. Slayton says, "Now that she has been found, I want her to know that our hearts are open to her and we long to be the loving, supportive, and normal family to her and her children..." He also says that he has not heard from Dugard or anyone associated with her since she was released.

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College Football Rankings Week 5

2009-09-28 01:22

The college football rankings for week 5 look as topsy-turvy as ever. College football rankings in week 5 were complicated at the top 10, but the college football rankings for week 5 reorganized the top 10 as best they could.With pretty much every top 10 team losing this week, the college football rankings for week 5 were bound to look very interesting. In fact, they are so interesting that Boise State is in the top 5, and teams like Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are moving up the college football rankings again.

According to USA TODAY, the new college football rankings for week 5 of the coaches poll have Boise State as the new number 5, their highest ranking ever. The top 3 stayed the same - and was about the only thing that stayed the same - as Florida, Texas and Alabama are still 1-2-3. LSU is number 4, despite needing a goal line stand to beat Mississippi State.

According to ESPN, the AP college football rankings and the USA TODAY coaches poll are the same at the top. Both polls have Florida, Texas, Alabama, LSU and Boise State in the top 5, followed by Virginia Tech, USC, Oklahoma and Ohio State. Cincinnati rounds out the top 10 in the AP poll, while TCU has that spot in the coaches poll.

The college football rankings in week 5 now look most unusual, and have more question marks than ever. With all the top teams losing so much lately, Boise State is now in an early position to knock on the BCS door. LSU is in the top 5, despite almost no one being impressed with them this season. And Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are national title threats again, despite ugly losses in September.

Given what has happened this season, the college football rankings are sure to change again soon enough. Already, teams like Ole Miss, Cal and Penn State have been exposed as overrated. And teams like Miami and BYU have had big wins, only to get knocked back down to earth with ugly losses of their own.

No one in college football has shown any consistency this season, except for the top 3 teams - and Florida is in big trouble if Tim Tebow's concussion is serious. Now their game at LSU in two weeks looms even larger, with LSU in the top 5 now.

The college football rankings for week 5 now have Iowa and Oregon knocking on the door of the top teams, with Iowa at 13 in the AP poll and Oregon at 16, despite lower rankings in the coaches poll. Houston is now in the top 15 too - but can the surprise starts for these teams last much longer? Consistency has eluded everyone else in this college football season, except for a select few with question marks of their own.

College

College Football Rankings Week 5

2009-09-28 01:22

The college football rankings for week 5 look as topsy-turvy as ever. College football rankings in week 5 were complicated at the top 10, but the college football rankings for week 5 reorganized the top 10 as best they could.With pretty much every top 10 team losing this week, the college football rankings for week 5 were bound to look very interesting. In fact, they are so interesting that Boise State is in the top 5, and teams like Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are moving up the college football rankings again.

According to USA TODAY, the new college football rankings for week 5 of the coaches poll have Boise State as the new number 5, their highest ranking ever. The top 3 stayed the same - and was about the only thing that stayed the same - as Florida, Texas and Alabama are still 1-2-3. LSU is number 4, despite needing a goal line stand to beat Mississippi State.

According to ESPN, the AP college football rankings and the USA TODAY coaches poll are the same at the top. Both polls have Florida, Texas, Alabama, LSU and Boise State in the top 5, followed by Virginia Tech, USC, Oklahoma and Ohio State. Cincinnati rounds out the top 10 in the AP poll, while TCU has that spot in the coaches poll.

The college football rankings in week 5 now look most unusual, and have more question marks than ever. With all the top teams losing so much lately, Boise State is now in an early position to knock on the BCS door. LSU is in the top 5, despite almost no one being impressed with them this season. And Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are national title threats again, despite ugly losses in September.

Given what has happened this season, the college football rankings are sure to change again soon enough. Already, teams like Ole Miss, Cal and Penn State have been exposed as overrated. And teams like Miami and BYU have had big wins, only to get knocked back down to earth with ugly losses of their own.

No one in college football has shown any consistency this season, except for the top 3 teams - and Florida is in big trouble if Tim Tebow's concussion is serious. Now their game at LSU in two weeks looms even larger, with LSU in the top 5 now.

The college football rankings for week 5 now have Iowa and Oregon knocking on the door of the top teams, with Iowa at 13 in the AP poll and Oregon at 16, despite lower rankings in the coaches poll. Houston is now in the top 15 too - but can the surprise starts for these teams last much longer? Consistency has eluded everyone else in this college football season, except for a select few with question marks of their own.

College

College Football Rankings Week 5

2009-09-28 01:22

The college football rankings for week 5 look as topsy-turvy as ever. College football rankings in week 5 were complicated at the top 10, but the college football rankings for week 5 reorganized the top 10 as best they could.With pretty much every top 10 team losing this week, the college football rankings for week 5 were bound to look very interesting. In fact, they are so interesting that Boise State is in the top 5, and teams like Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are moving up the college football rankings again.

According to USA TODAY, the new college football rankings for week 5 of the coaches poll have Boise State as the new number 5, their highest ranking ever. The top 3 stayed the same - and was about the only thing that stayed the same - as Florida, Texas and Alabama are still 1-2-3. LSU is number 4, despite needing a goal line stand to beat Mississippi State.

According to ESPN, the AP college football rankings and the USA TODAY coaches poll are the same at the top. Both polls have Florida, Texas, Alabama, LSU and Boise State in the top 5, followed by Virginia Tech, USC, Oklahoma and Ohio State. Cincinnati rounds out the top 10 in the AP poll, while TCU has that spot in the coaches poll.

The college football rankings in week 5 now look most unusual, and have more question marks than ever. With all the top teams losing so much lately, Boise State is now in an early position to knock on the BCS door. LSU is in the top 5, despite almost no one being impressed with them this season. And Virginia Tech, USC and Oklahoma are national title threats again, despite ugly losses in September.

Given what has happened this season, the college football rankings are sure to change again soon enough. Already, teams like Ole Miss, Cal and Penn State have been exposed as overrated. And teams like Miami and BYU have had big wins, only to get knocked back down to earth with ugly losses of their own.

No one in college football has shown any consistency this season, except for the top 3 teams - and Florida is in big trouble if Tim Tebow's concussion is serious. Now their game at LSU in two weeks looms even larger, with LSU in the top 5 now.

The college football rankings for week 5 now have Iowa and Oregon knocking on the door of the top teams, with Iowa at 13 in the AP poll and Oregon at 16, despite lower rankings in the coaches poll. Houston is now in the top 15 too - but can the surprise starts for these teams last much longer? Consistency has eluded everyone else in this college football season, except for a select few with question marks of their own.

ECB's Trichet: G20 must tackle global imbalances

Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:20am EDT

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The Group of 20 rich and developing nations must tackle global economic imbalances in its new role as the key international policy forum, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said in comments released on Sunday.

Trichet told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper that the G20's new role, backed up by advice from the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board, would allow a good combination of expert analysis and peer pressure.

"It is particularly important that the G20 is designed to be the premier forum for international economic cooperation," he said, according to an interview transcript published on the ECB's Web site on Sunday.

"The G20 has to address the issues of the domestic large imbalances between savings and investments, and of the set of unsustainable external imbalances.

"We know that these imbalances have been at the roots of the present difficulties. If we don't correct them, we'll have the recipe for the next major crisis. And this of course would be totally unacceptable."

Trichet said central bankers appreciated G20 leaders' commitment to fiscal responsibility and their comments in Friday's Pittsburgh communique that a sense of normalcy should not lead to complacency.

Failing to wind back public stimulus programmes at the right time would damage confidence and delay recovery, he said.

"One thing is sure. When time comes, systemic economies are not credible in going back to sustainable fiscal policy in the mid to long run," he said.

"We won't have the recovery which we are hoping for. Because governments would not inspire confidence to households and corporate business. It is the evaporation of confidence that created this dramatic turmoil. Now we have to do everything to rebuild confidence."

Trichet said U.S. policy makers' commitment to a strong dollar was important in keeping currency markets and the global economy stable, repeating a long-held position. The euro hit a one-year high against the dollar on September 23.

FINANCIAL REFORMS STILL NEEDED

The ECB chief said the recent improvement in financial markets was not surprising, given the actions taken by central banks and governments, and policy makers were keen to see how this would feed into the real economy.

"We monitor with great attention at this stage the interaction between the financial sphere and the real economy," he said.

Trichet urged banks to boost their capital bases and said the Basel committee's proposed new banking rules struck a good balance between taking a long-term view of capital needs and avoiding measures which would stop banks lending.

"With the improvement observed in the financial markets some institutions and market participants might think that there is no need for the reforms designed at global level. It would be plain wrong to think that," he said.

"More than ever it is extremely important to introduce the necessary reforms in the financial system, in order to strengthen its resilience and avoid excessive booms and busts."

The ECB has kept interest rates for the 16-nation euro zone on hold at a record low 1 percent, and no change is expected until after mid-2010.

In the euro zone, Trichet repeated the ECB's earlier assessment that 2009 economic growth would overall be very negative and 2010 would likely show a slightly positive result.

On a quarter-by-quarter basis, growth could turn positive and then relapse into negative territory.

"This doesn't change our main message. Namely, that we have a bumpy road ahead and that the level of uncertainty remains exceptionally high and therefore that prudence and caution are of (the) essence," he said.