See below for details of an upcoming conference, “Regulating Financial Market Liquidity and Stability,” taking place on Friday, May 14 th , 5 pm – 7 pm, at the Irish Institute of Bankers in the IFSC. This is an outreach event intended for a mixed audience of practitioners, regulators and academics.

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Conference on Regulating Financial Market Liquidity and Stability

Here’s the Center for Disease Control press release . Excerpt: A data analysis released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underscores the disproportionate impact of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men in the United States. The data, presented at CDC’s 2010 National STD Prevention Conference, finds that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) is more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women.

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Why didn’t the media cover the new CDC study on HIV transmission?

From Hot Air . (H/T ECM ) Video: Transcript: We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned.

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Obama thinks there is a point where you’ve made enough money

From left to right: Slim Othmani President, Algerian Corporate Governance Task Force, Algeria; Majdi Hassen Executive Director, Arab Institute of Business Leaders, Tunisia; Abdulwahab Alkebsi, Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa, CIPE; and Yasser Akkaoui Editor-in-chief, Executive Magazine, Lebanon.

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The State of Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa

The California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Alliance ( CADVBE) proudly presents the  Annual Keeping the Promise (KTP2010) Conference and Exposition – bringing together 200 corporate and government procurement professionals meeting face to face with 400 qualified, competitive, certified disabled veteran businesses. Where: Irvine Marriott (Southern California) – 18000 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, California 92612 USA Starts: 9:00 a.m

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Southern California Disabled Veteran Businesses Government Procurement 2010 Event

Panel Discussion from the Milken Institute Global Conference: Global Financial Markets: Nouriel Roubini and Mike Milken Debate Where We’ve Been – Where We’re Going [81:52, panel discussion starts at 9:00] Speakers: Michael Milken , Chairman, Milken Institute Nouriel Roubini , Chairman, Roubini Global Economics, Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University Moderator: Matthew Winkler , Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg News

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Roubini and Milken on Global Financial Markets: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going

May 7, 2010 Stepping Stones Research Briefing 8:30 am – 12 pm Urban Institute Katharine Graham Conference Center 2100 M Street, NW, 5th Floor Washington, DC 20037 Shawn Fremstad, director of the Inclusive and Sustainable Economy Initiative at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, will participate in a panel discussion titled “New Approaches to Measuring Success for Low-income, Women-Headed Families” as part of Stepping Stones , the Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s multi-year initiative focused on increasing economic security and financial independence for low-income, women-headed families in the Washington metropolitan area. Registration is free and available here

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EVENT: Stepping Stones Research Briefing

Bloomberg — Roubini Interview on Greece Crisis, European Union (Click for Video [6:05] and Report )

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Roubini CNBC and Bloomberg Reports on Greece Crisis, European Union

Before we can understand the role St. Petersburg’s Chamber of Commerce plays in the flourishing of community businesses, it is important to first understand what a chamber is and what it does.   A chamber is an association of several businesses, local or national, that work together to stimulate economic growth within companies.

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St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce — serving the community

This is a major story in Europe right now . (H/T ECM) Excerpt: A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly a day later

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Baby boy survives for nearly two days after abortion

Yesterday, April 28, 2010 The Longview Partnership announced the finalists for the  Small Business of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year.  Finalists for recognition in 2010 are as follows:  Small Business of the Year:      Hudson Printing & Graphic Design Kirby Chemical & Restaurant Supply Entrepreneur of the Year:        J oyce Yuen and Debbie Fontaine , Edible Art Specialty Cakes & Cookies Mitch Wilson , Titanium Environmental Services, LLC Nominations were requested from members of the Longview Chamber of Commerce and two finalists were chosen for each category.  An awards committee of past honorees is finalizing their selections for this year’s recognition, which will be announced during the Longview Partnership’s Small Business of the Year Awards luncheon Tuesday, May 4.  The awards luncheon will commence at 11:30am and will be held at Maude Cobb Activity Complex (100 Grand Blvd) to kick off the Longview Chamber’s 14 th Annual Business EXPO, business-to-business tradeshow.  The awards luncheon will also include special recognition of the 2010 Tourism Partner of the Year award, which is given by the Longview Convention & Visitors Bureau, as well as the graduation ceremony for the 2009-2010 Leadership Longview class. Tickets/table sponsorships are still available for the May 4 luncheon and can be secured by contacting the Longview Partnership (903.237.4000 or www.longviewchamber.com).  The 2010 Small Business Awards are being sponsored by Spring Hill State Bank

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Small Business Finalists Announced

Posted by Alan Childress From a press release this morning: Recommendations for improving the training of lawyers to meet the challenges of the 21st century were explored at Equipping Our Lawyers: Law School Education, Continuing Legal Education, and Legal Practice…

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Joint Report Recommends Changes to Legal Education for Practice and CLE Training

Byron York writes about the law in the Washington Examiner. (H/T ECM) Excerpt: Contrary to the talk, it is a reasonable, limited, carefully-crafted measure designed to help law enforcement deal with a serious problem in Arizona. Its authors anticipated criticism and went to great lengths to make sure it is constitutional and will hold up in court

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What does Arizona’s immigration enforcement bill really say?

I’ve been watching lots of great videos lately–all entries to the Democracy Video Challenge that CIPE, the Dept of State and a number of democracy, youth, and film groups sponsor. This year’s entries offer some great insights into how democracy is viewed and discussed around the world. It’s a diverse opinion, sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant

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Video Screening at the Hirshhorn–Join us tonight!

I met Daniel Libeskind in a big conference room in his studio in Lower Manhattan. His profession was in deep decline���one in four architects had lost their jobs over the past two years, including 11 of his own employees last year���but Libeskind was unflappably upbeat as I interviewed him for …

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Architecture’s Ever-Optimistic Daniel Libeskind

Don’t miss Election Night Central: May 4, 6 p.m.-??? at www.indianachamber.com ; latest results; video commentary; blog and Twitter updates as primary results roll in through the night! For now, please enjoy Political Week on our blog, featuring popular guest bloggers from around the state!

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NOTICE: Don’t Miss Election Night Central on May 4!

Mitch Harper is author of the popular blog, Fort Wayne Observed . He is also a Fort Wayne City Councilman

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Harper: Northeast Indiana Races Favor Banks, Souder

Shell CEO Peter Voser has made a fascinating speech in China, where he highlights the length of time taken for new energy technologies to gain adoption. He says Shell’s research shows it takes ” 30 years for new energy types to capture 1% of the market “.

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Shell’s 30-year rule for new energy technology adoption

After the announcement that the €4 billion used to recapitalise Anglo Irish Bank last year has to be included in the General Government Deficit, I was surprised to see speculation on this blog and elsewhere that the €8.3 billion in promissory notes issued this year might not count towards the deficit. Yesterday in the Dail, Brian Lenihan made it clear that this full amount was being added to the general government debt: The recapitalisation of €8.3 billion by issuing a promissory note has been recorded as increasing Ireland’s general Government debt by that full amount in 2010 and, pending the agreement of the restructuring plan, it is appropriate not to include it in the deficit measurement until the matter can be reviewed on foot of any decision made by the European Commission on the plan

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Promissory Notes and Deficits

Although Dr. King was one of the greatest Americans whose impact on the U.S. history can hardly be underestimated, more and more students tend to write rather trivial essays on Martin Luther King

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Essays on Martin Luther King: Keys to an Outstanding Paper

Full Post – more pics Construction is currently in progress on what will be the largest sports park in China, featuring “picturesque and sustainable public spaces” as well an Olympic-size stadium inspired by the local flora found on the nearby banks of Hangzhou’s West Lake. Designed by NBBJ in collaboration with CCDI, the 400,000 sq meter Hangzhou Sports Park in Hangzhou, China began construction back in December and is expected to be completed in 2013. Read more: Gigantic Flower-Shaped Stadium Blossoming in China | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World

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Gigantic Flower-Shaped Green Stadium Blossoming in China

Today’s Daily Angle comes from  Wikinvest Wire member  Rob Powell of TelecomRamblings.com. You can read  the full article on Rob’s blog . Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now View the full S chart at Wikinvest  Well, perhaps ’sprints’ is a bit too strong but it has been such a long time in coming…  Sprint Nextel (S) finally returned to sequential revenue growth in its  earnings report for the first quarter of 2010 .

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Sprint Finally Sprints Forward

It’s not just Greece and Portugal. As Simon Johnson reports : This is not now about Greece (with 2 year yields reported around 20 percent today) or Portugal (up 7 basis points) or even Spain (2 year yields up 27 basis points; wake up please) or even Italy (up 6 basis points). This is no longer about an IMF package for Greece or even ring fencing other weaker eurozone economies

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Greek 2 Year Yields 20 Percent, Italy Up 6 Basis Points, Portugal Up 7 Basis Points, Spain Up 27 Basis Points

He's got the slide locked back, explaining gun safety rules. Story here from CBS News . (H/T Gateway Pundit ) Excerpt: Pistol-packing Texas Gov.

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Texas Governor shoots coyote with concealed handgun to save dog

In the wake of suing Goldman Sachs for fraud in the creation and sale of mortgage-backed derivatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will look closely at other similar transactions by other big Wall Street banks, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article by Carrick Mollencamp, Serena Ng, Gregory Zuckerman and Scott Patterson (Note: the WSJ appears to have double the usual number of reporters on this story).

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Wall Street’s "Moral Corruption" Goes Far Beyond Goldman Sachs