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Adoption by lesbian and gay parents is becomingly increasingly common. This entry presents an overview of the limited research that has focused on lesbian and gay adoptive parents. Specifically, this entry addresses the experience of adoptive parenthood for lesbian and gay parents, with emphasis on the decision-making process (that is, choosing adoption, choosing an agency, choosing an adoption type, and specifying child characteristics), the transition to adoptive parenthood, the psychological adjustment of the adoptive parents and their children, and the adoptive parent–child relationship. We end with recommendations for future research and implications for practitioners and policymakers.
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Katy Perry's been Tweeting a lot about music lately. So, instead of sending fans more YouTube videos of her favorite new bands she decided to make a playlist on Spotify.
Her 12-track Spotify lists includes some more well known acts like Marina and The Diamonds, Passion Pit and Azealia Banks alongside newer bands like Los Angeles-based JJAMZ, which includes Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine, singer-songwriter Jessie Ware and buzzed about electronic acts like Purity Ring and M83.
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— Katy Perry (@katyperry) November 10, 2012
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M83, Purity Ring and The Weeknd are also featured.
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— Katy Perry (@katyperry) November 9, 2012
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Netflix is known for creating amazing original programming — but not everything the streaming service puts out finds success. Girlboss, a new series based on the bestselling book by Sophia Amoruso, launched its first season this past spring — and was officially canceled this summer.
The series (and the book) chart Amoruso's journey from floundering young woman to successful business owner and fashion icon, and the book was hugely successful, becoming a New York Times Bestseller. The #NastyGal story is inspirational, funny and smart, and shows how someone without any experience was able to build an empire by following her passion, which is what makes it such perfect fodder for a Netflix series.
So what happened? The show garnered a measly 32 percent on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, negative reviews and low viewer numbers. Although Amoruso herself isn't too concerned about the less than wonderful reactions, many fans are left wondering how #Netflix failed to make #Girlboss a success.
All The Right Ingredients: Why It Should Have Worked
On paper, this was a brilliant concept; the show included many of the same elements that are key parts of other Netflix success stories. It starts with Sophia at a low point: losing her job, struggling to make money, and being forced to figure out what she wants to do. It should have been a perfect underdog story to inspire viewers.
In fact, there are various ingredients in this mix that should've equaled in a hit:
- It's beautiful: This is a show about fashion, so it comes with a stunning wardrobe, bright colors and a unique style — all set against the backdrop of sunny San Francisco. The show is gorgeous, plain and simple.
- It's female-fronted: Female leads are increasingly popular (not to mention rare), and studios are finally waking up to the fact that women want to watch complicated, powerful women. Sophia created a business from scratch. Her interactions with other women are the core of the show, and she's creating a business by women, for women.
- It's got a fanbase: One of the reasons that literary adaptations are usually such a good move for studios is that they come with a ready made fanbase. Everyone who loved the book, who shops at Nasty Gal — they're a pre-existing audience, and that usually means higher ratings right off the bat.
- And a pre-existing plot: Another benefit to adapting a book is that there is no need to create a new story from scratch. The plot already exists and it's proven to work. It only needs to be translated for the screen.
- It's a classic underdog story: Everybody loves an underdog, right? The story of creating a business from scratch, of rising to the top through sheer pluck — that's a classic formula for success.
- It appeals to the core Netflix demographic: Finally, the story of someone in their early 20s searching for their bliss is something that should appeal perfectly to Netflix's core demographic, the majority of whom are trendsetting types in their early to mid twenties. If it had existed at the time, Sophia would have watched a lot of Netflix.
The Problem With Sophia
Sophia may be the perfect lead for the Netflix demographic in theory, but in practice she was deeply problematic. The series starts with Sophia losing her job, which should have garnered sympathy for the character, except that frankly she deserved to be fired long before the opening episode. And this isn't the only time that the audience fails to feel empathy for the character. Sophia is, at her core, just not a nice person in this series.
She wants to go to a job and get paid but doesn't want to do any work. She spends all her time at work online and taking personal calls. She's rude to her friends. She's rude to service staff at stores. She's horrible to her father, who seems to be trying his hardest to be patient with his entitled cow of a daughter. She's also a thief and steals something in almost every early episode for no apparent reason. At one point, she jacks a carpet from a store. A carpet. And then swears at the person working there, before wandering off to the park. She's selfish, late, and a godawful friend to bestie Annie.
All of these factors could still be salvageable, if Sophia had any redeeming qualities whatsoever, but she doesn't. Netflix has found success with other unlikeable female leads in shows such as Love, Orange is the New Black, Jessica Jones — but these leads have something that Sophia doesn't: The ability to inspire empathy. We feel for Love's Mickey and Jessica as they struggle with addiction and trauma. We pity OitNB's Piper as she becomes institutionalized and harsh. All these characters are flawed but trying their hardest, and aren't trying to hurt the people around them. Sophia misses that mark, and instead comes across as someone who thinks that they are simply better than everyone else.
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Thankfully, Sophia does eventually manage to redeem herself somewhat. By the series midpoint, she has started to put effort into her life and stopped being such an almighty bitch to everyone around her. She also stops randomly thieving from everyone in sight, and we start to see the better side of her as her business begins to grow. She's still unlikeable, but she becomes more intriguing than abrasive.
The first season is 13 episodes long, but Sophia doesn't become a truly watchable character until around the halfway point, and few people are willing to watch six or seven episodes of a show that they aren't enjoying. On a streaming service with thousands of other options available at a click, viewers usually make a decision to stick with a show somewhere between Episode 2 and 5 (with a few notable exceptions). If the show isn't appealing within the first few episodes, then, chances are viewers are simply going to switch off. With Girlboss, this meant that by the time the series really found its feet, it had already lost its audience.
Learning From Girlboss
Luckily, Netflix is nothing if not adaptable, and while this is the end for Girlboss, there are plenty of lessons to be learned.
For one thing, while flawed and unlikeable female characters are a big draw for the streaming service, viewers still need a reason to root for them, or relate to them. At the very least, there needs to be a desire to respect them, to understand why they are like that, or to see them cast down. Female characters don't have to be nice, but they have to be appealing, and an underdog story doesn't work if everybody hates the underdog.
Thankfully, Netflix's latest female-fronted offering is already proving that Girlboss was a blip, not a trend. GLOW, a comedy about women's wrestling, is another underdog story with a largely unlikeable central character (a miserable and somewhat self-destructive actress who sleeps with her best friend's husband). However, this is an unlikeable woman that inspires empathy, whose low points are inspired by anger at a sexist industry and by low self-esteem, and who screws up with (mostly) good intentions. Audiences don't necessarily want to watch her succeed, but they do want to watch her, and that's the point, after all.


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New Salted Caramel Mocha at Starbucks
I've got to admit, I was a little surprised that the new Salted Caramel Mocha at Starbucks actually contained sizable grains of salt. Ones big enough to crunch! The catch? They disappear in less than a minute.
You order a salted caramel mocha. (You feel the people around you in line sizing you up for doing so.) It's topped with whipped cream, a predictably sugary caramel drizzle, and: hey, there they are! Salt crystals. It's a little unexpected. And frankly, when you get a little salty crunch against the (too) sweet caramel, it's a pretty tasty moment.
But here's the thing. The whipped cream melts in about forty-five seconds. I'm impressed that photographer Alice managed to capture any of it on camera above. I'd gotten two of these to go, only to wonder, once I opened the lid a few minutes later, if they'd forgotten the toppings. Nope. Just melted. And once the whipped cream melts, caramel and salt grains dissolve away too.
The drink itself? There's no one thing really tastes like. Well, maybe there are three things it tastes like. On first sip, it's sweet enough I'd think it hot chocolate, of a reasonably decent, step-up-from-Swiss Miss persuasion. After a second, the coffee kicks in; and a second later—there's the caramel, sweet and simple and, well, Starbucks.
It's certainly a more coffee-like drink than their caramel macchiato, in which I have trouble sensing coffee at all. But the novelty of the salted caramel mocha is pretty much all in that first sip.
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Wiz Khalifa is having an eventful week. On Tuesday, the Taylor Gang captain dropped his Blacc Hollywood album and on Sunday, August 24, at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards Khalifa will find out if he wins the Best Hip-Hop Video award for "We Dem Boys." So you can imagine how pumped he is.
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Included in the 1970 Sculpture Exhibition organized as part of the Centennial for the Northwest Territories, Lucy Tasseor was also one of the Keewatin (tundra) artists selected for the key exhibition, "Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic", which toured internationally from 1971-1973. Immediately recognizable for her signature style, the artist has long been regarded as one of the principal exponents of the austere minimalist style that we have associated with the community of Arviat—and she has continued to show extensively at a national/international level for the last three and a half decades.
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- Carlos Sainz fastest car on opening stage of Dakar Rally in Peru
- Former world rally champion completes 13km in seven minutes 40 seconds
- Chile's Francisco Lopez wins motorcycling stage
- Annual race will take in 8,000km and three countreis in Latin America
Former two-time world rally champion Carlos Sainz showed his pedigree by claiming the first special stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally in Peru Saturday,.
Driving for team Buggy, the Spaniard completed the 13km leg from Peru's capital Lima in seven minutes 40 seconds.
He had an eight-second advantage over Argentina's Lucio Alvarez, in a Toyota, with French driver Guerlain Chicherit, in an SMG, taking third.
Sainz, who won the grueling endurance event in 2010, saw his team Qatari teammate, Nasser al-Attiyah, who was the 2011 champion, take fourth.
Reigning title holder, Stephane Peterhansel of France, driving a Mini, took eighth place in the short sprint section, but was already one minute and 42 seconds adrift of the 50-year-old Sainz.
Peterhansel claimed a remarkable 10th Dakar crown in last year's race, four in the cars and six in the motorcycle section.
American NASCAR champion Robby Gordon made a disastrous start in his Hummer, coming to a halt on course and despite eventually restarting came in over 10 minutes down.
Chile's Francisco Lopez, riding a KTM, took the honors in the motorcycle section with a clocking of seven minutes 51 seconds.
He edged out Dutchman Frans Verhoeven on a Yamaha by a single second with Pablo Quintanilla of Chile third for Honda at five seconds.
Last year's winner, Cyril Despres of France, who is bidding for a fifth Dakar crown, finished fifth on his KTM, 13 seconds back.
The field of cars, motorcycles, quad bikes and trucks will be negotiating over 8,000 kilometers across Peru, Argentina and Chile before the finish on January 20 in Santiago.
It is the fifth time the rally has taken place in South America, having formerly finished in the Senegalese capital of Dakar.


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If you've ever wondered what those air scoops on the roofs of rally cars are for, this clip of Russian driver Evgeny Novikov having a massive crash in last weekend's WRC Rally Mexico should help you understand.
On an extremely long 30-mile stage on the last day of the rally, Novikov went offroad and somehow tore the roof scoop off his Fiesta RS rally car. What the scoop is supposed to do is raise the air pressure inside the cabin, keeping the dust out while still allowing warm air to come out. When it goes away, dust pours into the car, visibility drops to nil, and Novikov has a seriously huge crash.


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Jeff Francis earned his first victory in more than a month and the Colorado Rockies used two unearned runs to beat Ian Kennedy and the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-1 on Wednesday night to conclude disappointing seasons for both teams.
Francis (6-7) allowed a run on five hits in five innings in his first victory since July 27. He had gone 0-3 in six outings since then.
Third baseman Chris Johnson's throwing error in the fourth led to both of Colorado's runs. D.J. LeMahieu singled in a run for the Rockies.
A.J. Pollock hit his second big-league home run for Arizona.
Kennedy (15-12) gave up no earned runs, striking out eight and walking none. He was 4-0 in his previous six starts.


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Some people believe that it requires some leap of faith to disbelieve god's existence. This is absolutely idiotic. Atheism is a lack of a belief in god. If you are religious, ask yourself: "Why do I believe in god?" Whether or not you claim to have evidence for your faith, the correct answer is because someone taught you about god. You did not know what god was until someone told you. Either you were taught, or you invented your own version of god, deluded yourself, and poisoned other minds with your falsehoods.
One cannot make the argument that atheism requires a leap of faith. Nonbelief is not an active conscious process. One would not continue throughout their day repeating "I don't believe. I don't believe. I don't believe." Justification of disbelief is a different process entirely. Rejecting belief is an active conscious process but maintaining disbelief is not because there is nothing to maintain. Belief is always an active conscious process. Belief requires constant reaffirmation e.g. "I believe because of this, that, and the other." Disbelief does not require this. Faith can only exist in the presence of a conscious appeal to the mind. If the conscious appeal is gone (or never existed in the first place) then one cannot believe. Arguing for the case of the opposite simply does not make sense. There is no conscious appeal to disbelief. The truth is, god is a concept invented by man.
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I get frustrated when someone tosses this statement at me. I have been trying to figure out if I indeed have faith in anything. I am amazed at how Christians sometimes say, "You just have to have faith," as if there's some button somewhere that can be pushed. I don't think it's a button but, at least in my case, a conscious Herculean effort to cajole my mind, which would go kicking and screaming, into believing something that makes no sense and for which I have no irrefutable evidence.
And why should I do that? Because people tell me I will be joyful if I do? Because then my soul will live on forever? Because it's just rude, stubborn and defiant to not do it? This is where I get really upset. How nice would it be to believe in an all-powerful and all-loving being who had my back 100% of the time, instead of feeling like a small, vulnerable, transient life form?
In difficult times I can almost see a path to faith. For me, it would most likely start with desperation and pain. I have been known to say that I may have to go insane some day and let myself believe to survive. I hope not.
I agree completely. Sadly, I was indoctrinated into this torturous mindset as a child. I am happy to say that I have escape from such ideologies, after getting out on my own, and not at all enjoying going to church and all of the strings that came attached to christianity.
Diane, unfortunately I think your comment does come close to the truth. Obviously there is no 'button' as such but there is evidence to suggest that we are predisposed, or pre-programmed if you like, toward some sort of faith.
It may be hang over as a method for parents to prevent children from doing dangerous things "don't go in the forest, the troll will get you" being scarier than the possibility of getting lost in the forest. It may be a method of practising social activities and language, playing with your imaginary friend if you have no friends your age living near. Maybe its just a coincidence the same part of the human psyche works for both.
I think that it is a phase we grow out of; I do not know many adults who have an imaginary friend or who are afraid of the dark. Religion, however, I think is so ingrained and consolidated by authority figures that many people accept it as true even when they are adults.
I am certain that if you told a religious person a story about someone at a party turning water into vodka he would not believe it was a miracle, just a clever trick, and they would scoff if you pleaded it was true because you saw it and there was no way that it could have been a trick, yet they are willing to believe that Jesus really did turn water into wine. It is ingrained 'knowledge' consolidated by years of doctrine.
I think that this is a matter of what "type" of non-belief you subscribe to.
There is the more agnostic/"soft" atheism area of the spectrum, where you simply have a lack of belief. This, as you point out, requires no faith. There is no feeling/belief either way. One does not believe that there is, nor that there isn't, a God. It's the lack of belief either way that allows this to remain a faithless viewpoint.
However, further along, toward the "strong" atheistic view (where I myself lean), one has an active belief that there is not a God. It is not that I lack a belief in God. I hold the belief that there is no God.
I lack belief in a lot of things, many of which might be possible, so I do not outright reject them. I do not actively believe, but I also do not actively disbelieve. I have no reason to strongly feel either way about these things. They may or may not be true. This applies to many things, mostly theoretical constructs, some of which have a firmer scientific ground to stand on than others, but still no real reason to accept nor to reject them.
God does not fall into that category. I firmly believe that there is no God. I have the profound lack of evidence to back that belief up, but ultimately, a lack of evidence is not proof. I have no objective reason to believe that there is no God, yet I believe that to be the case anyway.
Thus, it is a matter of "faith". I have no reason to believe in God, but I also have no reason not to. Yet I do not believe, regardless.
so true, atheism is not itself a belief but simply the lack of a belief or faith, it is to accept only what you KNOW, and to reject anything that demands you accept something as being true without the evidence to prove it. the things you know are the things you can prove, the things you dont know CAN fall into the category of being beliefs, and they fall into that category because they are things that have yet to be proven as either true or false. saying "i dont know" is a far FAR more intelligent answer than "i believe..."
Ray Gillies-Jones: I would argue that they are not reaffirming their disbelief. They simply have alternate beliefs, which do require reaffirming.
Daniel Rockwell: I hold this belief, as well, that there are no gods at all. See my previous blog post for my thoughts about that. :-)
My usual response to this assertion is to ask the theist how much faith it takes for them to be an Atheist when it comes to not believing in Zeus or Apollo. Ask them to explain the reasons for their "unbelief" in those gods and then use those very same arguments to explain why you don't believe in whichever god they believe in.
A leap of faith away from WHAT? From believing that the entire universe was created by some spirit magician?


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SBI PO Recruitment 2020 Notification for 2000 Probationary Officer Vacancies along with State Bank of India PO Online Application Form published to apply at www.sbi.co.in:
Now, here in this article we are sharing all useful information about SBI PO Recruitment 2020 process and its eligibility criteria!! Central Recruitment and Promotion Department, Mumbai has recently released a most awaited job Advt No CRPD/PO/2019-20/01 for the recruitment of Probationary Cadre Officers in State Bank of India. CRPD Board had disclosed this employment news through its official web portal to acquire best employees for 2000 vacancies of Probationary Officer jobs. This is an excellent opportunity for those candidates who since a long time searching latest SBI Bank PO Jobs 2020 after graduation. Here we advise all the interested & passionate candidates not to miss this rear chance. All the eligible job aspirants can apply online application for SBI Probationary Officer Vacancy on or before
22nd April 2019 at the official web page. All the brief details regarding State Bank latest recruitment are mentioned below. We kindly guide every willing candidate to read out this complete article for being sure about SBI PO 2020 eligibility and important dates.
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SBI PO Recruitment 2020 Notification | State Bank of India 2000 Probationary Officer Vacancies Apply Online @www.sbi.co.in
The latest State Bank PO Notification 2020 now released for total 2000 Category posts, 80 PWD posts & 53 Backlog vacancies. The authority officials have invited applications from eligible Indian citizens for filling up 2000 posts. All the candidates are informed that SBI PO Online Registration Process is already started and will continue upto
22-04-2019. The online registration of application & payment of fees will be hosted at the concerned website only. Contestants will have to register themselves online through Bank's official website, i.e. www.sbi.co.in/careers. Only after the successful registration, candidates can pay the application fee through online mode by using Debit Card, Credit Card, Internet Banking, etc. Contestants are strictly guided to furnish proper information during the registration process as afterward no changes will be possible. As per the advertisement, contenders who wish to apply for these latest central govt jobs must hold a Graduation Degree in any discipline from a recognized university. The age of suitable aspirant must not be below 21 yrs and not above 30 yrs as on 01-04-2020. A link to download SBI PO 2020 Official Notification and Apply Online URL Link is available here at the end of this article.
SBI PO 2020 Notification Overview
|♦ Job Highlights ♦
|Organization Name:
|Advertisement No.:
|Post Name:
|Probationary Officers (POs)
|Total No. of Vacancies:
|2000 posts
|Kind of Job:
|Banking Jobs
|Job Category:
|Government Jobs
|Job Placement/ Location:
|Anywhere in India
|Registration Mode:
|On-line mode only
|Application Submission Dates:
|SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER 2020 (tentative)
|Degree/ CA
|Age Limit:
|21-30 years
|Selection Stages:
|Online Exam (Prelims & Mains) and GD/ PI
|Official Websites:
|» www.sbi.co.in
|» https://bank.sbi/careers
SBI Probationary Officer Vacancy 2020 Details
|♦ Allocation of Vacancies Category wise ♦
|Normal Vacancies
|PWD Vacancies
|'d' & 'e'
|♦ Allocation of Backlog Vacancies Category wise ♦
Hello!! Here we notify all aspirants looking forward to apply for SBI Probationary Officer Recruitment that selection examination will be held in three phases, i.e. preliminary, main and GD or interview. All those who qualify in preliminary examination will have to appear for the main examination. All those aspirants shortlisted in mains exam will subsequently be called for group discussion & personal interview. The admit card for an exam will be uploaded to the online web portal. Contestants will have to apply after properly reading the official notification. Below, we have also provided the complete details about vacancies such as eligibility criteria, salary, fees, examination pattern, call letter and simple steps for State Bank of India PO 2020 Apply Online, etc.
State Bank of India PO Jobs 2020 Eligibility Criteria
EDUCATIONAL/ ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION (as on 31-08-2020):-
- All those who are applying must have a Graduation Degree in any discipline cleared from a recognized university or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.
- Candidates who are in a final year or semester of their Graduation can also apply for this vacancy.
- Those interested aspirants possessing the qualification of Chartered Accountant (CA) may also utilize this opportunity.
- Those who have Integrated Dual Degree (IDD) Certificate should ensure the date of passing is on or before 31-08-2019.
AGE LIMITATION (as on 01-04-2020):-
- The age of candidates should be above 21 years and below 30 years as on cutoff date. Applicants must have been born not earlier than 02-04-1989 and not later than 01-04-1998 (both days inclusive).
- The reserved category candidates will be given relaxation in upper age limit as per the norms and orders of State Government:-
- Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe (SC/ ST) – 05 (five) years
- Other Backward Classes (OBC) – 03 (three) years
- General Persons With Disabilities (GEN – PWD) – 10 (ten) years
- OBC Persons With Disabilities (OBC – PWD) – 13 (thirteen) years
- SC/ ST Persons With Disabilities (SC/ ST – PWD) – 15 (fifteen) years
- Ex-Servicemen/ Commissioned Officers – 05 (five) years
- Persons Ordinarily Domiciled of J&K during the period 01-01-1980 to 31-12-1989 – 05 (five) years
SBI PO PAY SCALE (Emoluments):-
- The selected candidates will receive starting basic pay of Rs. 27,620/- per month with 04 advance increments.
- The pay scale will be of Rs. 23700-980/7-30560-1145/2-32850-1310/7-42020 as applicable to Junior Management Grade Scale-I.
- The recruited officers will also be eligible for C.C.A, H.R.A/ Lease rental, Medical, D.A and other allowances as per rules.
- The total compensation would be minimum Rs. 8.20 lacs and maximum Rs. 13.08 lacs per annum on CTC basis.
APPLICATION FEE & INTIMATION CHARGE (Non-Refundable): Check out application fee category wise as shown below.
- For General, EWS and OBC Category: Rs. 750/- (rupee seven hundred & fifty only)
- For SC, ST & PWD Category: Rs. 125/- (rupee one hundred & twenty five only)
- Fee Payment Mode: The fee payments can be made by using Debit Card/ Credit Card/ Internet Banking. If any transaction charges for online payment occurred, then it will be borne by the applicants.
How to Apply SBI PO 2020 Online Application Form?
|♦ Steps to Apply On-Line Application ♦
|Step 01: First of all, open the State Bank of India's Official website (https://bank.sbi/careers or https://www.sbi.co.in/careers).
Step 02: In a homepage, go to "Career with us" section available at the top right corner.
Step 03: Now, click on a link named as "SBI PO 2020 Notification" and download it your device.
Step 04: Carefully go through eligibility criteria and other details mentioned the notification file.
Step 05: After going thoroughly, if you find yourself eligible then press on "Apply Online" link to start the registration procedure.
Step 06: Fill up the application form with mandatory fields such as Your Full Name, Father's/ Mother's Name, Category, Date Of Birth, Age, Nationality, Education, Address, Email ID, Contact Address, etc. without making any type of mistakes.
Step 07: Upload your scanned (digital) image of passport size photograph (file size – between 20kb to 50kb) and signature (file size – between 10kb to 20kb) as per the specifications along with other documents.
Step 08: Select the Option (i.e. Debit Card/ Credit Card/ Internet Banking) and pay your fee by providing information as asked on the screen.
Step 09: Don't forget to check all the inserted data before a final submission of application.
Step 10: Note down your newly generated Registration ID Number and Password.
Step 11: At last, download and print the hard copies of e-Receipt as well as Application Form after completing the registration process.
Download State Bank of India PO Notification PDF
Apply SBI PO 2020 Online Application Form (Link Update Soon)
Download State Bank of India (SBI) PO 2020 Admit Card/ Call Letter
Check SBI Probationary Officer Prelims Result 2020
Check SBI PO Mains 2020 Result
|NOTE: If a candidate has doubt about the successful Registration, then he/ she may visit the Page for Re-Print of Application or e-Receipt, generate the Printout and then preserve the soft copy as well as the hard copy (printout) of Application Form. If you face any problem in filling up your application form or payment of the fee, then solve it by using telephone no. 022-22820427 (between 11:00 AM to 06:00 PM on working days) or lodge your query on http://cgrs.ibps.in.
SBI PO 2020 Selection Process
About Selection Procedure: The final selection of all the applicants is to be done based on their performance and marks scored from the following selection process:-
- Phase-I: Online Preliminary Exam
♦ Preliminary Examination Scheme ♦ Sr. No. Test Name No. of Questions Maxi. Marks Time Duration 01. English Language (अंग्रेजी भाषा) 30 ques. 30 marks 20 minutes 02. Quantitative Aptitude (मात्रात्मक योग्यता) 35 ques. 35 marks 20 minutes 03. Reasoning Ability (तर्कज्ञान क्षमता) 35 ques. 35 marks 20 minutes Total Questions, Marks & Duration 100 ques. 100 marks 01 hour NOTE: The prelims consist of Objective Test to be conducted in online mode. As shown in this table, the test will have 03 (three) Sections with separate timings for each section. There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the preliminary exam. As a penalty, one-fourth of the marks assigned to that question will get deducted. If no answer marked by a contestant in the paper, then there will be no penalty for that question. Candidates will get more details from "acquaint yourself" booklet by visiting the official website link given on this web page.
- Phase-II: Online Main Exam
- Objective Test:
♦ Main Examination Scheme ♦ Sr. No. Test Name No. of Question Maxi. Marks Time Duration 01. Reasoning & Computer Aptitude (तर्क और कंप्यूटर अभिवृत्ति) 45 ques. 60 marks 60 minutes 02. Data Analysis & Interpretation (डेटा विश्लेषण और विवेचन) 35 ques. 60 marks 45 minutes 03. General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness (सामान्य/ अर्थव्यवस्था/ बैंकिंग के बारे में जानकारी) 40 ques. 40 marks 35 minutes 04. English Language (अंग्रेजी भाषा) 35 ques. 40 marks 40 minutes Total Questions, Marks & Duration 155 ques. 200 marks 03 hours
- Descriptive Test: The Descriptive test will be administered immediately after completion of the Objective Test. There will be 02 questions from Test of English Language (Letter Writing & Essay) for total 50 marks in the Descriptive Test of 30 minutes time duration. As the Descriptive tests will be held online, so candidates will have to answer Descriptive test by typing on the computer. Catch more details from the official notification pdf file attached with this article.
- Objective Test:
- Phase-III: Group Discussion (GD) & Interview
♦ Group Discussion & Interview Pattern ♦ a. Group Discussion (GD)/ समूह कार्य 20 marks b. Personal Interview (PI)/ साक्षात्कार 30 marks Total Marks ⇒ 50 marks
For SBI PO Recruitment 2020 final selection, the marks of Preliminary Examination (Phase-I) not be counted by the officials. Only the marks of Main Examination (Phase-II) added to the marks of Group Discussion & Interview (Phase-III) for the final merit list. The results of those aspirants who qualify for Main Examination and Group Exercise & Interview as well as the final select list will be made available online on the State Bank's website only. Lastly, candidates who selected for Probationary Officer Posts in the State Bank are liable to be posted anywhere in India. [Download State Bank of India PO Exam 2020 Syllabus]
sbi.co.in PO 2020 Recruitment Important Dates
|Key Dates
|Notification Date:
|September/ October 2020
|Starting Date to Apply Online Application:
|September/ October 2020
|Last Date for Online Registration of Application Form:
|September/ October 2020
|Closing Date to Edit Application Details:
|September/ October 2020
|Due Date for Payment of Application Fees:
|September/ October 2020
|Last Date to Print Application Form:
|September/ October 2020
|Call letter Download Date for Online Preliminary Examination:
|01 or 02 weeks prior exam date
|Dates for Online Prelims Exam:
|November/ December 2020
|Result of Online Preliminary Exam:
|December 2020
|Call Letter Download Date for Online Main Exam:
|01 or 02 weeks prior exam date
|Date of Online Mains Examination:
|December 2020/ January 2021
|Declaration Date of Main Result:
|January 2021
|Date to Download Interview Call letter:
|January/ February 2021
|Group Discussion & Interview Date:
|February/ March 2021
|Date for Declaration of Final Result:
|March/ April 2021
|« Pre-Examination Training Dates for SC/ ST/ Religious Minority Community Applicants as follows »
|Pre-Exam Training Call Letter Download Date:
|October/ November 2020
|Dates for Pre-Exam Training:
|October/ November 2020
ABOUT THE STATE BANK OF INDIA (SBI): It is India's Largest Bank in terms of deposit, profits, assets, branches, customers and employees. Since 1973, it is actively involved in a non-profit activity called Community Services Banking. All its branches as well as administrative offices around the India sponsor and participate in a large number of welfare activities and social causes. Its internet banking portal provides personal banking services that give complete control over all online banking demands. It is a Central Government owned body with more than 58% ownership. The head office of this bank is located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The bank has assets around INR 20,48,080 Crores and more than 14000 branches, including 191 foreign offices spread across 36 countries. On 07th October 2013, Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya was designated as a Chairperson and became the first woman to be appointed for such position in the company. The State Bank of India was ranked 59th in the list of "Top 1000 World Banks" in 2015. A large number of State Bank of India Jobs in posts like Specialist Cadre Officer (SCO), Probationary Officer (PO), Clerk, Junior Associate, etc. are filled up by the recruiting department by publishing employment notifications at an official website. All aspirants are suggested in their own interest to keep a regular watch on this page or official website for further details and updates.
|Communication Address:
Central Recruitment & Promotion Department
Corporate Centre, Mumbai
|Help Line Phone:
|022-2282 0427
|Official Email ID for Query:
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Local Student Receives SUNY Canton Outstanding Associate Level Graduate Award
A SUNY Canton Early Childhood student's enthusiasm for teaching and dedicated volunteerism led her to be recognized as the college's Outstanding Graduate at the Associate Level.
Kristina Kaiser of Colton received the accolade at the recent Harriet A. Beggs Honors Convocation. She was presented with a ceremonial plaque and a medallion to accompany her academic regalia for SUNY Canton's 101st Commencement Ceremony, to be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, outside across from French Hall.
"Kristina has enthusiastically demonstrated professionalism, leadership, and overall excellence when teaching children," said Early Childhood Program Director and Associate Professor Maureen Maiocco.
The Early Childhood Program Director mentioned that Kaiser has been working at Building Blocks Day Care in Potsdam, as the school-age program director. She works with young children before and after their typical school day. "Kristina not only gives to the college and her peers, but also to the community," Maiocco pointed out. "She even donated nine inches of her hair to an organization that makes wigs for children stricken with cancer."
Kaiser is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, the Vice President of the Early Childhood club, and has been on either the President's or Dean's list throughout her time at the college.
She has volunteered and assisted in many school-wide activities offered through the college's office of Student Activities and is a volunteer firefighter with the Hopkinton-Fort Jackson Fire Department.
"Kristina is always the first to take charge when given a group project," said Ashley Chevier, another Early Childhood student. "She is quick to encourage everyone and anyone to join in activities."
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While there are many types of mortgages, the biggest division is fixed rate versus adjustable. Although fixed rate mortgages are the most common in the United States, adjustable rate mortgages are the norm in many European countries and Australia.
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Fixed rate mortgages are mortgages that have a fixed interest rate. They're the most basic mortgage and the most common. You can get a fixed rate mortgage with almost any term length, but the most common are 30, 20 and 15 years.
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According to major home lender Freddie Mac, average interest in 1984 was 13.88 percent, compared with 7.44 percent in 1999, and 3.66 percent in 2012. Clearly, locking in a low interest rate is a good idea. Still, this type of mortgage, like any other, has pros and cons.
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- You get a fixed monthly payment. One of the main advantages of a fixed rate mortgage is that your monthly payment will never change. It's predictable from month to month and year to year, making budgeting much simpler.
- You don't need to worry about ballooning interest rates. If interest rates rise, your interest rate will still stay the same. This also means you don't have to worry about increasing payments as interest rates rise.
- You can probably pay it off early. As long as you don't have any prepayment penalties, you can pay off your mortgage early. In fact, making one extra payment a year can cut nearly five years off of a 30 year, fixed rate mortgage.
- You can find a good fit with flexible options. Standard fixed rate mortgage terms are 15, 20 and 30 years, with shorter terms becoming more and more common for today's borrowers. Shorter terms often come with lower interest rates, and you can ask for a nonstandard term that might better meet your goals, according to The Street.
Fixed Rate Mortgage Cons
- Your rate stays the same even if interest rates fall. If interest rates are rising, fixed rate mortgages are great. But if interest rates are falling, you'll be paying more than new borrowers or those with an adjustable rate mortgage.
- Your interest rate will likely start out higher than similar adjustable rate mortgages. Many adjustable rate mortgages start with a lower rate than fixed rate mortgages do. This means adjustable rate borrowers may be able to take out a larger loan than fixed rate borrowers.
- You'll have to refinance to take advantage of lower rates. While you can take advantage of lower rates, you have to refinance to do it. Though refinancing is often worth your while, it still takes time and usually costs money.
Pros and Cons of Adjustable Rate Mortgages
As you can probably surmise, adjustable rate mortgages have adjustable interest rates. When and how their rates adjust depends on the loan. Some loans adjust their interest rate every year, and others adjust every six months.
The bottom line is that when your mortgage rate adjusts, so does your mortgage payment. When interest rates are falling, this is a good thing because lower rates mean lower payments. When interest rates are rising, on the other hand, larger payments can bust your budget.
There are several types of adjustable rate mortgages, so you should learn about your options before signing up. Some can be easily converted to fixed rate mortgages when you want, and others start out with a fixed interest rate before moving to an adjustable interest rate.
Pros of ARMs
- You may be better able to borrow because of lower initial rates. ARMs often come with a lower interest rate than comparable fixed rate mortgages, which can make a big difference in initial payments.
For instance, as of this writing, Charles Schwab lists its average initial rate for a 5/1 ARM as 2.625 percent. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage is 4.25 percent. On a $100,000 loan, that's $402 per month for the 5/1 ARM and $491.94 per month on the 30-year fixed. That extra $90 takes away a lot of borrowing power for a homebuyer.
- Your payments will fall when market rates do. When interest rates are falling, ARMs are great because your mortgage payment will fall as well, even though you're paying down principal at the same rate. And this happens automatically, with no refinancing on your part.
Cons of ARMs
- Your payments will rise when interest rates do. On the flip side, if interest rates are rising, so will your interest rate and your payments. With most ARMs, you're expected to pay off the principal in a certain amount of time, usually about 30 years. So if interest rates go up, you'll have to fork over more money every month.
- Your payments may change rather unexpectedly. With many ARMs, rates change every 12 months. If you pay attention to interest rates, you should have some idea of which direction your payments will move. But even then, a sudden spike in interest rates could cause your payment to suddenly increase. Or if you settle into a fixed rate payment for the first few years while interest rates are going up, your budget could be seriously strained by a significant payment increase at the end of the fixed rate term.
- You may eventually need to pay to lock in or refinance to a fixed rate mortgage. Recently, homeowners with ARMs have been doing well, since interest rates have fallen dramatically in the past few years. But now that rates are climbing back up, these homeowners may want to lock in their rate on a convertible ARM, usually for a fee, or refinance to a fixed rate mortgage, which will also cost money.
Which One Wins?
There's no absolute right answer in the fixed versus adjustable rate mortgage debate. Unless you can foresee interest rates, you can't know for sure whether a fixed or adjustable rate mortgage will serve you better.
There is, of course, a reason that fixed rate mortgages have tended to be more popular: the predictable payments. Budgeting for mortgage payments is easier when you know what you owe every month.
Plus, with a fixed rate mortgage, you can always kick extra funds into principal payments to pay down your mortgage more quickly. With an adjustable rate mortgage, you may have no choice but to scrape together extra money for higher payments if your interest rate goes up.
With that said, taking a bet on an adjustable rate mortgage could pay off, so long as you know you could handle higher payments in the future.
As a potential homebuyer, it's your job to carefully consider these two common mortgage options and to decide which option will work best in your situation.


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Whiskers wasn't your average sea otter.
Rather than hang out with his own kind off Nootka Island on the west coast of Vancouver Island, he would often come ashore to socialize with humans.
He'd crawl onto the lap or around the neck of the assistant lightkeeper's 14-year-old son, Gabe, and would even go after balls tossed into the ocean.
Sure, he was adorable. But Whiskers's behaviour also troubled Ed and Pat Kidder, who served 44 years on "the lights" before retiring in 2003.
"He was a real cute little guy," Pat recalls from their current home near Qualicum Beach. "But he's a wild critter and you don't know what he's likely to do. Those teeth can crack an oyster shell."
Whiskers also used to tease the dogs from the neighbouring First Nations reserve at Friendly Cove, where British explorer Captain James Cook made first contact in 1778 and the commercial slaughter of sea otters ensued shortly thereafter.
Whiskers would whistle from the water in the mornings so that the dogs would run to the shoreline and bark at him. The Kidders described them as "northern dogs" with Husky blood: Nipper, Killer and Tuk, the biggest and oldest of the three at an estimated 10 years of age.
One day the dogs were down by the rocks barking and Whiskers pushed a log towards them, daring them to jump onto it and come even closer.
Pat recalls thinking: "'Don't go out on there or he'll have you and you'll wind up dead.' Whiskers was a smart animal."
None of the dogs fell for it. Not then, at least.
A dark cloud descended on the cove a couple of days later. The Kidders heard more commotion and cast their eyes toward a ramp on a wharf.
Tuk was floating in the water — drowned.
Whiskers was there, too, copulating with the carcass while parading past the other two wildly barking dogs.
"He'd go back and forth, holding Tuk's head up out of the water," Pat relates. "He was humping it. It was so bizarre. We had never anticipated anything like that."
Who would? After all, cute and cuddly — not rapist and murderer — are mentioned in the typical bio on sea otters.
The Vancouver Aquarium, for one, has effectively used the charismatic species as a powerful marketing tool over the years.
Remember the 2007 YouTube video of two otters "holding hands" in their tank? Almost 20 million viewers at last count.
The aquarium also goes to great lengths to save sea otters, including the rescue last October of Wally, blinded by shotgun pellets near Tofino. It took numerous surgeries, including for a fractured flipper and broken teeth, but Wally survived. Total cost: $30,000 in staff time, medicine, supplies and food.
Wally is the fourth otter at the aquarium, while a fifth — Whiffen, rescued last February near Sooke Harbour — remains at a rehabilitation site.
"That's one thing we have with our visitors: 'Oh, they look adorable, like stuffed animals,'" explains Brian Sheehan, the aquarium's marine mammal curator. "But they definitely have the potential for being strong and aggressive."
Indeed, a disturbing darkness lurks beneath the sea otter's public image.
The incident with Whiskers happened almost 30 years ago, and is by no means an isolated incident of interspecies, or misdirected, sex involving male sea otters.
Brian Gisborne operates a commercial water-taxi service in summer for hikers on the West Coast Trail and also works for the Canadian government on contract, keeping an eye out for marine mammals on the west coast. In 2013 he documented only the second endangered north Pacific right whale on the B.C. coast in 62 years.
That was a remarkable discovery, worth bragging about. Others, less so.
In 2005 he was off Long Beach when he came across Rocky, a sea otter known for hanging out with Steller sea lions.
On this day, it was a cormorant seabird that caught Rocky's attention.
"He tried to copulate with it," says Gisborne, noting the bird was drowned. "He held it and you could see what was going on.
"I knew what sea otters are like. It didn't surprise me. I don't think that it was isolated."
Gisborne reported the incident and submitted photos to Linda Nichol, a sea otter biologist with the federal fisheries department in Nanaimo. "He was excited to send the photos but embarrassed at the same time," Nichol recalls today.
Almost a decade later, she continues to try to make sense of the incident. "Why would a behaviour like this persist? Well, there's no evolutionary disadvantage, so it could. It's not like it's killing a female conspecific (same species) and would therefore lose a real mating opportunity. It's an aberrant behaviour with no obvious negative consequence for the otter. Maybe it's practising, I don't know. I've heard, anecdotally, people saying they've seen it with harbour seal pups in B.C. as well."
Farther south, off California, researchers documented 19 cases of sexual behaviour between male sea otters and juvenile harbour seals in Monterey Bay from 2000 to 2002.
At least three different male otters were observed "harassing, dragging, guarding and copulating" with harbour seals up to seven days after death by drowning. The carcasses of 15 seals were recovered, showing evidence of severe trauma, including both vaginal and rectal.
Biologists in Alaska report sea otter males copulating with each other and with female otters that have drowned during mating, but not with other species.
The California study, published in the journal Aquatic Mammals, describes one incident in which a seal was resting on shore when an otter approach and bit it on the nose and flipped it over. The two wound up in the water where they struggled for 15 minutes before the otter thrust his penis into the seal. At 105 minutes into the encounter "the sea otter released the pup, now dead, and began grooming."
Researchers elsewhere have documented "mobbing" events when groups of male monk seals in Hawaii attempt to mate with a single adult female or an immature seal of either sex. At Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean an Antarctic fur seal was reported trying to mate with a king penguin. When it didn't work out, the seal ate the penguin.
Two of the male otters involved in the California attacks were identified by flipper tags. One had been stranded as a pup and rehabilitated at Monterey Bay Aquarium before release; it had been observed in attacks on six seals. The other was an older male that had been stranded after being wounded by another male; it had been treated and released after eight weeks.
The study also retrieved two female otters that had died during such mating, one with a full-term fetus inside. In the first such confirmation in animals, one of the dead female otters and two seals also suffered fatal pneumoperitoneum — a situation in which copulation forced air into the abdominal cavity. It is not normally fatal in humans due to medical intervention.
Sea otter sex is rough at the best of times.
Sheehan explains that male otters can weigh up to about 40 kilograms, females closer to the high 20s. Given the size difference, it's possible for an especially aggressive male to kill a younger, uncooperative female.
"The males will grab onto the females and hold them... while copulation takes place," he said. "Most females in the wild, you will see scars on their noses."
Sea otters are polygamous and can mate any time of the year. Females have the ability to delay implantation for up to eight months; actual pregnancy is four months.
The California study suggested an imbalance between males and females may cause some to divert their aggressions. In otter populations, where males establish a dominance hierarchy based on age, sex and fitness, subdominant males may have limited access to receptive females of the same species, which could cause them to look elsewhere.
Yes, even to dogs.
Back at Friendly Cove, Tuk's body was lost at sea, never recovered.
Ed Kidder repeatedly fired gunshots over Whiskers's head until he got the message and adopted another stretch of coastline.
Tourist season was coming and God knows what might happen if an unsuspecting child entered the water for a swim on a hot day.
The Kidders — the subject of the 2004 National Film Board documentary, Leaving the Lights — ultimately never felt the same way about the creatures again.
As Ed succinctly puts it: "Whiskers was the sea otter from hell."
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NEWS- Battle royale? GOP searches for Mark Warner's foe
Following Mark Warner's September 13 announcement that he's running for retiring Sen. John Warner's (R, no relation) seat in 2008, Democrats from Alexandria to Bristol have been jubilant over the former governor's chances to turn another of the Senate's seats from red to blue.
Both the state and national Democratic parties are already touting the popular Warner as their candidate, so their nomination process is expected to be little more than a formality. The same cannot be said for the GOP.
Names of several prominent Republicans have been bandied about as possible candidates for the open seat, but none have made as much noise as Representative Tom Davis (R-Fairfax County) and former Governor Jim Gilmore. Should both the moderate from Northern Virginia and the self-described "consistent conservative" from Richmond decide to seek the GOP nod, it could make for an intra-party battle royale.
Even before John Warner announced his retirement, Davis was on a tour of the Commonwealth meeting with local Republican groups. Just before an early August visit to Charlottesville, Davis told WINA's Coy Barefoot, "If [John Warner] does not run for re-election, one thing he's urged me [to do] is get around the state, be ready, be prepared."
Since first winning his seat in 1994, Davis has become one of the more visible Republicans in the House. For volunteering to lead the effort to retain a GOP majority by chairing the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1998 to 2002, Davis was assigned the chairmanship of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 1998. Appointed over far more senior colleagues, he issued over 1,000 subpoenas to the Clinton administration.
But like Senator Warner, that loyalty is tempered by an independent streak, as he also presided over high-profile hearings concerning the September 11 attacks, the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, the Abu Ghraib military prison scandal, and the government response to Hurricane Katrina.
Unlike his president, Davis has supported federal expansion of human embryonic stem cell research and opposed bills requiring hospitals to report illegal immigrants they treat and deauthorizing "critical habitats" for endangered species.
That bit of daylight between Davis and the party line is the hole through which Gilmore would likely try to run his candidacy.
Since ending his short-lived bid for the Republican nomination for president in July, Gilmore has had sharp words, too– but for Davis. "Certainly, Congressman Davis would like to be the senator," he told the Daily Progress in August. "We're pretty confident that the message I have and the record I have would make me the nominee."
Indeed, since attempting to roll back Virginia's car tax as governor, Gilmore has become a darling of the conservative set. During his run for the White House, Gilmore managed to garner slightly more ink than the average "also ran" for quips like "I represent the Republican wing of the Republican party," and for lumping together the three frontrunners for the nomination as "Rudy McRomney."
Since abandoning his run because of what he called "the front-loaded nature of the primary schedule," Gilmore has launched the "Gilmore Patriots Committee" and has begun to author a blog called "Virginia Patriot." A potential Gilmore candidacy has already garnered the endorsement of such groups as the American Conservative Union and the Free Congress Foundation.
According to UVA professor and political pundit Larry Sabato, the last thing the GOP wants is a Gilmore v. Davis showdown.
"They want to avoid a donnybrook, because the two of them would empty their treasuries and would then start out way behind a candidate like [Mark] Warner," Sabato says.
The landscape for such a battle will become clearer on October 13 when the Republican Party of Virginia decides whether to choose its nominee by a statewide primary vote or by a convention. Sabato says this decision has the potential to alter the outcome.
"It will be much easier for Tom Davis to win if it's a primary," he says. "A primary draws a small electorate, but broader than you will have at a convention, which attracts the most active party members, and they tend to be the most conservative and ideological, which would favor Jim Gilmore."
Davis has stated that he's waiting until after the November elections to reveal his plans, while Gilmore has set no specific timetable.
One man who won't make a run is former Senator George Allen. On September 12, Allen told a group of Martinsville Republicans, "I will definitively tell you that I am not interested in running for the U.S. Senate," according to the Martinsville Bulletin.
Since ending his presidential bid in July, former governor Jim Gilmore has expressed interest in running for statewide office.


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