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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thehill.com | Brian O’Neill
Tulsi Gabbard’s designation as director of national intelligence continues to invite skepticism. Critics question her qualifications and whether she has the experience needed to manage one of the nation’s most complex bureaucracies. Her foreign policy positions and combative political style add to concerns about her ability to build trust within the intelligence community and foster cohesion among its 18 components. The director’s responsibilities extend far beyond management.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
cleantechnica.com | Brian O’Neill |David Waterworth
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I have been meeting Brian O’Neill at our “Coffee, Cake and EV” mornings for the past couple of years, and recently our conversations have centred on his quest to solve reduced range problems with his 2018 Hyundai Ioniq EV. I kept saying to him: that would make a great article, write it up for me. Well, the issue has finally been resolved, and here is his story.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
inria.hal.science | Brian O’Neill |Anne-Lise Boyer
Article Dans Une Revue Ambiente and Sociedade Année : 2020 Water conservation in desert cities : from the socioecological fix to gestures of endurance Origine Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte Licence hal-04096602 , version 1 (08-07-2024) Brian F. O’Neill, Anne-Lise Boyer. Water conservation in desert cities : from the socioecological fix to gestures of endurance.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
frontier-enterprise.com | Brian O’Neill
The financial services industry is on the brink of a major transformation. With the rapid advancement of new technologies, banks now grapple with the critical task of bridging the gap between traditional banking services and the demands of a digital-first customer base while fortifying their operational resilience. At Standard Chartered, our goal is clear: We aspire to redefine what it means to be a client-focused, data-driven, digital bank.
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May 4, 2024 | 
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Brian O’Neill |Jennifer Morris |Jonathan Lamontagne |John P. Weyant
1 Introduction Scenarios developed for wide use in the climate and global change research community have played a prominent role for decades. Community scenarios reduce the duplication of effort that would occur if all research groups were left to develop their own projections of societal and environmental conditions on which to base their analyses.
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May 2, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Andrew Henderson |Glynn Barwick |Chris Ormond |Brian O’Neill
In our previous alert The FCA's Sustainability Disclosure
Requirements and Labelling Regime (SDR): A Flexible Regime for UK
Private Fund Managers, we examined the final framework under
policy statement PS23/16, on Sustainability Disclosure
Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.
The FCA is now consulting (CP24/8, open for comment until 14 June 2024) on
bringing portfolio management products and services into scope of
the SDR from December 2024.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Karen Chao |Bhargavi Mudakavi |Thomas Howard |Brian O’Neill
Key persons are investment professionals who are considered
indispensable to a fund's investment activities. The identity
and number of key persons depends on a variety of factors,
including fund type and size. For example, the key persons at a
start-up could be the founders. For institutional managers covering
multiple asset classes, key persons are more likely to be heads of
business lines or managers at a similar level.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Andrew Henderson |Chris Ormond |Glynn Barwick |Brian O’Neill
In our previous alert AIFMD II (Near) Final Text Agreed: What's
New? and in our recent update in our Horizon Scan, we noted that the Council of the
European Union (EU) had published the final
compromise amending text setting out amendments to the Alternative
Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to
the UCITS Directive.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
thenewstribune.com | Brian O’Neill
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” — Atticus FinchI have always admired this quote, uttered by a fictional white man in defense of a wrongly accused Black man. Though To Kill a Mockingbird is now banned in numerous states (perhaps ironically), it is a reminder that our discourse on race, the community and the police has been broken for a long time. There have been exceptions.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
nature.com | Brian O’Neill |Joe Williams
Desalination is one of the most important responses to global water challenges. Decision-making on where, how and why to develop desalination plants must focus more on addressing social issues, such as universal access, justice and sustainability. The UN World Water Development Report released this year states unequivocally that water stress and scarcity is endemic in many regions and is increasing globally.
