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He also said the New York state comptroller’s office would monitor Exxon’s response and could turn against Exxon directors if its promised report does not provide enough specifics.
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“There are any number of tools in our toolbox,” Doherty said.
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Representatives for Southwestern and Chesapeake declined to comment.
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Ceres, a Boston sustainability advocacy group, said it estimates about a dozen resolutions calling for climate impact reports have been filed so far at U.S. energy and utility companies for 2018. According to a count by Ceres of 16 public company votes on similar climate measures last year, most won support from more than 40 percent of shares voted.
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The higher-than-usual results reflected how many top investors have come to view climate change as a practical problem even as U.S. President Donald Trump has made plans to quit a climate accord brokered in Paris two years ago.
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At another climate conference in Paris, on Tuesday, fund leaders also described a new effort to push large corporations to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to take steps like disclosing more about their planning for a range of climate scenarios.
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In all, some 225 investors managing a total of $26.3 trillion have signed up for the campaign, accounting for about a quarter of the investment base of the typical large company where changes would be sought, said Anne Simpson, investment director of sustainability for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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She noted signatories go beyond public pension funds to include mainstream asset managers such as Pacific Investment Management and Manulife Asset Management.
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ARSENAL and Liverpool are both lying in wait for Karim Benzema with Real Madrid ready to cash in on the striker next summer.
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Recent reports indicated that Manchester United were leading the race to sign the French hit man, with Real preparing a stunning summer deal for Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller.
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Manchester United are also believed to be planning a major summer spending spree, with Louis van Gaal set to be handed a £150m war chest.
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And now according to reports in Spain, Carlo Ancelotti will hold discussions with the Real board about offloading Benzema.
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It is believed they will sell Benzema if a suitable offer comes in, although it is not clear whether or not Real will play hardball over the price.
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Arsenal and Liverpool however may face an uphill battle to sign Benzema, with Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain also thought to be lining up their own bids for him.
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Benzema has been in fine fettle for Real this term, notching up 13 goals in all competitions for Los Blancos.
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Sobocinski was one of the first graduates of Lodz’s cinematography department and had taught there since the 1980s. His son, Piotr Sobocinski, also was a celebrated DP, having scored an Oscar nod for Three Colors: Red and worked on such films as Hearts in Atlantis, Marvin’s Room and Ransom. He died in 2001.
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Among the directors he worked with and their films are Polański (Frantic, Pirates), Wajda (Wszystko na sprzedaż, Wesele), Zanussi (Życie rodzinne), Jerzy Skolimowski (Ręce do góry), Wojciech Jerzy Has (The Hourglass Sanatorium), Piotr Szulkin (O-bi, o-ba: The End of Civilization) and Andrzej Żuławski (The Third Part of the Night).
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Among his many career honors, Sobocinski received the International Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 2003, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Camerimage, the Special Award of the Association of Cinematographers and the Polish Filmmakers Association Award.
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Summary: Porsche is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 911 Carrera and Carrera 4 vehicles manufactured from March 7, 2012, through November 12, 2012, and equipped with a standard (not sport) exhaust system. The exhaust tail pipe may fracture and separate from the rear muffler.
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Consequence: If the exhaust tail pipe separates from the muffler it may become a hazard for other vehicles on the road, increasing the risk of a crash.
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Remedy: Porsche will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear mufflers free of charge. An interim notice was mailed to owners on May 9, 2013. The manufacturer has not yet provided a notification schedule. Owners may contact Porsche at 1-800-767-7243.
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Notes: Porsche's safety recall number is AD01. Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
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Summary: PORSCHE IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2011 911 SPEEDSTER AND 911 GTS RS 4.0; AND MODEL YEAR 2012 BOXSTER (INCLUDING S AND SPYDER); CAYMEN (INCLUDING S AND R); 911 CARRERA (INCLUDING S, GTS, 4, 4S, AND 4 GTS); 911 TARGA 4 AND TARGA 4S; AND 911 TURBO AND TURBO S MANUFACTURED FROM MAY 31, 2001, THROUGH JUNE 10, 2011. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT THE MOUNTING HOLES IN THE SEAT BELT ANCHOR PLATES FITTED TO THE VEHICLE ARE TOO SMALL. IF THE HOLE DIAMETER IS TOO SMALL, THE ANCHOR PLATE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ROTATE ABOUT THE FASTENING BOLT AS DESIGNED. SHOULD THIS OCCUR, THE SEAT BELT MAY NOT BE ROUTED OPTIMALLY AROUND THE OCCUPANT, OR MAY POTENTIALLY LOOSEN AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE INCREASING THE RISK OF INJURY DURING A CRASH.
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Consequence: SHOULD THIS OCCUR, THE SEAT BELT MAY NOT BE ROUTED OPTIMALLY AROUND THE OCCUPANT, OR MAY POTENTIALLY LOOSEN AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE INCREASING THE RISK OF INJURY DURING A CRASH.
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Remedy: PORSCHE WILL NOTIFY OWNERS, AND DEALERS WILL INSPECT THE ANCHOR PLATE AND IT FASTENING SCREW AND, IF NECESSARY, REPLACE THE SEAT BELT. THE REPAIRS WILL BE PERFORMED FREE OF CHARGE.
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Notes: PORSCHE'S SAFETY RECALL NUMBER IS AB02. OWNERS MAY ALSO CONTACT THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION'S VEHICLE SAFETY HOTLINE AT 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), OR GO TO HTTP://WWW.SAFERCAR.GOV .
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House Republicans pushing a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks in the District of Columbia aren’t allowing Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to testify at a hearing Thursday.
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The bill's lead sponsor, Arizona Republican Trent Franks, chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. Norton, a Democrat, wrote a letter to Franks last week asking to testify.
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But Republicans aren't repeating the mistake they made earlier this year, when a male-heavy panel during a hearing on contraception prompted Norton and other Democrats to walk out in protest. Christy Zink, a George Washington University professor who was forced to have an abortion late in her pregnancy due to complications, will testify.
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"The post-20-week D.C. abortion ban bill targets an entire group of individuals, women who live in the District of Columbia, and their constitutional rights," Norton said in a statement. "Using the women of one congressional district to reach for extreme encroachments on women’s reproductive rights has become a pattern of the House Republican majority, but also reflected nationwide. We will vigorously fight the bullying tactics of the Republican majority against the District’s women."
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Does online tech pose an unacceptable threat to our privacy?
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An internet service launched last week by Google to help cameraphone users to identify strangers in the street has been blocked because of alarm over its threat to personal privacy.
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The new service, called Goggles, is a picture search which uses images rather than words to trawl the web. By taking a picture of an object and clicking "search", owners of smartphones can recognise landmarks, identify a species of plant or animal, or obtain tasting notes for a bottle of wine.
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Users focus their phone's camera on the object, and Google compares elements of that picture against its database.
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When it finds a match, it provides the name of the object pictured and a list of results linking through to the relevant web pages and news stories. Goggles is claimed to be able to recognise tens of millions of objects and places and is growing all the time.
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But the most controversial aspect of the new visual search tool is its capacity to allow users to take a photo of a stranger to find out more about them.
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With millions of people having an online presence, complete with photos, on websites such as Facebook, it is possible to use the search tool to identify people, obtain contact information, and learn about their tastes in music, their friends and their background.
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Google has now confirmed that it is blocking this use of Goggles until the implications have been fully explored.
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Marissa Mayer, the vice-president of Google's search product and user experience, said: "We are blocking out people's faces if people try to use Google Goggles to search for information about them.
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"Until we understand the implications of the facial-recognition tool we have decided to block out people's faces. We need to understand how this tool affects people's privacy and we cannot change that decision until we do."
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Angela Sasse, professor of computer science at University College London, who is researching public perceptions of privacy, said Goggles created unease because it left people with fewer hiding places. "People manage their relationships by selective disclosure," she said.
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"Only people with certain mental-health conditions disclose everything all the time. These systems [such as Goggles] lose that. You might go somewhere on the assumption that you won't be recognised. But if people find out who you are they can see where you have been.
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"We have seen this problem on Facebook where people have uploaded pictures from a party, forgetting that their bosses can see them, too."
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She said people were prepared to accept risks attached to new technology, including a loss of privacy, provided they could see the benefits. But some developments got the thumbs down. When Facebook started broadcasting what people were buying, there was a backlash as the public judged the intrusion as a step too far.
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Professor Sasse said Goggles could potentially be used as a marketing tool. When surveillance cameras identified the face of someone who regularly passed by, the business might send them details of a special offer.
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"People tend to have a strong reaction to that," she said.
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Google has said it has the technology to recognise faces as well as millions of other objects but admitted the service is limited. Sceptics say existing face-recognition programmes are still basic and the capacity to discriminate different faces restricted.
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Professor Sasse said: "There does seem to be a certain threshold of accuracy for face recognition that has not yet been reached. At present, you need a full-face shot. The scary thing is that the next generation [of software] will be able to use a large number of images snapped from different angles so this technology is going to get more accurate."
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If Goggles proves successful, it would mark a breakthrough in the use of the mobile internet. It has a database of more than one billion images and can recognise landmarks, CD covers, logos, barcodes, books, shop fronts and business cards.
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It is less successful at identifying the natural world, but that is expected to improve. It is available on phones run by Google's mobile-operating system Android, and will later be introduced to other smartphones.
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Productivity improvement in East Anglia will require changes in organisational behaviour as much as mechanical processes, a conference has heard.
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The Productivity Journey welcomed companies and people who have been “at the coal face” of productivity improvement and public sector leaders assisting businesses to be more productive.
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Poor productivity is thought to have held back UK economic growth since the financial crisis, and addressing it to bring the country in line with its European neighbours continues to occupy businesses and academics.
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Simon Coward, director of Hethel Engineering Centre, told the conference at the University of East Anglia (UEA) that it was time for productivity to be put “centre stage”.
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Before coming to East Anglia he worked in chemical plants in the Midlands, focusing specifically on driving up productivity.
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“It is very important that we identify the opportunities and exploit them,” he said.
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“We have launched benchmarks, one of them with [US software company] Autodesk, so you can self-assess where you are on the productivity journey, where your gaps are and where you can achieve the greatest benefit from investing.
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Patrick McLaughlin of Cranfield University said more attention should be paid to “organisational culture”.
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“It is known about but not talked about. We ignore it in many companies and don’t try to understand it,” he said.
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Jamie Thums, chief operating officer at Lintott Control Systems in Norwich, said he and his business partner had to completely overhaul the firm when they took it over in 2012.
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He said continuous people development and strengthening the leadership were as critical to success and sustainability as its pioneering digital technologies.
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“If you have a strategic narrative, good leaders and the ethics for people to work to you can do great things, and we know this because we are working with the same staff, they have been incredibly loyal,” he said.
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Justin Coote, UK OEM sales team manager at global firm Rockwell Automation, said a main driver in the government’s industrial strategy – which Rockwell helped to inform – was “to have innovation not just in regard to product but in how we do business”.
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Antony Howell learned important lessons about leadership while spearheading a productivity improvement drive at a global manufacturer.
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Before founding his home maintenance firm TradeBee Mr Howell was chief operating officer and president at Hamlin, one of the world’s biggest air bag sensor manufacturers with premises in Diss.
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In shaking up the “traditional” working processes he created a new business engagement team, formalised factory processes and implemented more analytics – “pulse reporting” – across the business to assess performance.
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He said both leaders and employees must believe in the changes which are being made for them to be successful.
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“These types of change have to come from the top. You have to lead in that vision, go out to every employee and let them understand what part they play,” he said.
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Photographers Sought For "Windsor Wonderland"
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The Windsor Historical Society is seeking contestants for its Facebook Photo Contest. Participants are asked to submit up to five digital images of Windsor subjects that capture the theme of "Windsor Wonderland," from its architecture to its people and more.
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Photographers can email jpeg files to Christina Vida at [email protected] until April 5th and they will be posted on the historical society's Facebook page, where all voting will take place. The earlier that images are posted, the longer that people will have time to vote for their favorite ones.
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Prize winners will be announced on April 13th. First prize will win $100, second prize is $75 and third prize is $50. The winner will also have an image chosen to be archived and sold as a postcard in the society's gift shop.
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To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, Ewan and Colin McGregor meet people from throughout its history and take to the skies in some of the world's most iconic planes.
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To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, Ewan and Colin McGregor take to the skies in some of the world's most iconic planes. These are the planes that were involved in aerial combat at every stage of the RAF's story, from the biplanes used in the early days of dogfighting in World War I to the beautiful Spitfire of the Battle of Britain, the plucky Lysander and on to mighty Vulcan nuclear bomber, as well as the Chinook helicopter and supersonic Typhoon that are still in service today.
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It is a story of amazing machines and epic battles, but above all it is the story of the men and women whose courage and ingenuity have been at the heart of the RAF for 100 years. On their journey Ewan and Colin meet an amazing cast of characters. There is Geoffrey Wellum, who fought in the Battle of Britain as an 18-year-old and speaks with passion about what it meant to take on the might of the German air force.
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Mary Ellis and Joy Lofthouse were two of the pioneering flyers of the Air Transport Auxiliary who delivered thousands of planes to frontline units in World War II. These two ladies share their memories of their glamorous but dangerous role.
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Then there is Fred Bailey, who was plucked from a clearing in the jungles of Burma by an intrepid RAF pilot just as the Japanese closed in on him, and also the band of brothers, the Bomber Boys, who brought devastation to German cities in their Lancaster Bombers night after terrifying night.
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Their direct descendants were the Cold War aircrew like Jonny Tye and Martin Withers, who had the grim task of dropping the atom bomb and accepted their role knowing that, if they ever had to carry out their orders, it would be a one-way mission.
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While technology has changed with amazing speed, the need for bravery and coolness under fire has not. No-one displays these qualities better than David Morgan, who is the last RAF pilot to take part in a dogfight. He talks with chilling clarity about the day he shot down two enemy aircraft over the Falkland Islands but also with humanity about how he has had to live with the personal and emotional consequences ever since.
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Finally there are today's ground crew and pilots, who take Ewan and Colin on a supersonic flight in the Typhoon fighter as they make their own all-too-real preparation for deployment to the skies over Syria and Iraq.
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DAME JESSICA ENNIS-HILL is one of the most decorated British sportswomen in history, having conquered the world as a heptathlete.
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As a professional, she has won gold medals in the Olympics, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the European Championships.
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However after last year's Olympics in Rio, she retired from competing, leaving behind a glittering career that brought her vast amounts of success.
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How old is Jessica Ennis-Hill? What’s her background?
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The superstar was born on January 28, 1986 in Sheffield, where she is one of two daughters to father from Jamaica, and a mother from England.
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Both her parents had an interest in athletics - her dad was a keen sprinter, whilst her mum preferred the high jump - and they introduced her to the sport as a child taking her to the Don Valley Stadium to watch events.
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She ended up joining the City of Sheffield and Dearne Athletic Club aged 11 where she excelled, and attended King Ecgbert School, before graduating from the University of Sheffield with a 2:2 in psychology.
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What was Jessica Ennis-Hill’s career record?
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In junior competitions, Jessica won two silver medals in the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, and won in the heptathlon at the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships.
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Her professional career took off when she took home a bronze in the Commonwealth Games in heptathlon in 2006 at Melbourne.
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In 2009 she won the gold medal in World Championships, a whopping 238 points ahead of Jennifer Oeser in second, and in 2010 took won the gold in the World Indoor Championships and the European Championships.
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In 2011 she won a silver medal in the World Championships, although this has now been upgraded to a gold medal after Tatyana Chernova was proved of being a drugs cheat. She also won at the World Championships in 2015.
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After winning a silver medal at the 2012 World Indoor Championships Jessica cemented herself in Great British folklore after picking home the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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However, she couldn't defend her title in Rio last year as she had to settle for a silver.
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When did Jess get married? How many children do they have?
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In 2013, Jessica Ennis married Andy Hill in Derbyshire, and announced she would be known as Jessica Ennis-Hill.
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She was forced to withdraw from participation in the 2014 Commonwealth Games as she was pregnant with her first child - her son Reggie was born in July 2014.
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On March 16 Jess announced she's pregnant again on Instagram with a photograph of Reggie holding a book entitled "I'm Going to be a Big Brother!".
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She wrote: "Someone's going to be a big brother 😊 Another little Ennis-Hill on the way. So happy."
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She gave birth to to her daughter Olivia on September 23, 2017.
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