(Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Simon Shuster) Stocks Russia. CECT Receives an Award for Being One of the Most Competitive Brands of ChineseConsumer ElectronicsBEIJING, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ Qiao Xing MobileCommunication Co., Ltd. ("Qiao Xing Mobile" or "the Company") (NYSE: QXM), oneof China's leading domestic manufacturers of mobile handsets, through itssubsidiary CEC Telecom Co., Ltd. ("CECT"), announced that CECT received theaward for being one of the most competitive brands of Chinese ConsumerElectronics and VEVA S60 received the award for being one of the bestperforming consumer electronics products by China Consumer ElectronicsConference 2008.Mr. 
Tel: 86-10-6250-1706 Email: SOURCEQiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.Ma Tao of Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., 86-10-6250- 1706, . Quickly after the UFC 105 event had finished people started talking about Randy, the refs, and bad decision. I put together the following post for The Curtis and Kyle Show. It is doing very well, so I figured I would share it with you guys.When Michael Jordan played basketball, there was something called the Jordan Rules. This implied that there was a different set of rules for MJ than everyone else.I promise you, tons of people are going to complain about the Randy Couture decision win at UFC 105. They are going to say that Vera was robbed and that the UFC is rigged. I say they are completely wrong! Randy fought the fight his way, and the only was he was going to win. Machida decisions, this one actually makes sense.Going into the fight, we all knew that Randy Couture was not going to out strike Brandon Vera. It was no secret that Randy was going to return to his wrestling roots and turn this is into a grappling match.The grappling match never really showed up, but the dirty boxing Greco Roman wrestling did, a lot. No, he didn’t do a lot of damage, but he did enough to win. Like it or not, Randy controlled the fight for all but about thirty seconds.Those combined thirty seconds or so were not pretty for Couture fans. He was dropped, wobbly, mounted, and even taken down. The reason Vera did not win this fight in part is because he could not do anything with his positions. Sure he took Randy down and mounted him, but he never applied any damage. Sure, he had Randy on the brink, but he could never push him over the edge.Randy has shown throughout his career that he will not break. This fight was simply the case of put it into the judges hands. Brandon Vera had a very good fight. I actually had it two round to one in favor of Vera. You never want to leave it in the judges hands and that is exactly what Vera did.This was Randy’s game plan the entire time. He knew that the odds weren’t in his favor to finish Vera, instead he knew that he had to control the fight, use his strengths, and not get beat up. He did that and he earned this win.Again the link is from The Curtis and Kyle Show..

(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn called for changes in federal bankruptcy laws which he argues are thwarting the private investment which is more appropriate than public funds for reviving the banking system. Deals"Why should taxpayers foot the bill when there are trillions of dollars in private money on the sidelines in the world financial markets" Icahn wrote in the Wall Street Journal."Private investment is a far more appropriate agent to revive these institutions, yet little is coming in," he said, the reason being that distressed assets on bank balance sheets have artificially low values because of bankruptcy laws.In the bear market, the prospect of a bankruptcy puts a huge damper on investor appetite for debt securities in overleveraged companies, he wrote.Icahn argues the situation can be improved by eliminating the bankruptcy rule which "unfairly gives managements, with court approval, a monopoly in drawing up a reorganization plan for a minimum of 18 months."During the period, creditors languish in uncertainty as to what will happen to their investment, Icahn said."But why should the same management that got the company into trouble have the right to lock up its assets for an extended period of time" he asked.Without an exclusivity period, creditors and equity holders could propose different restructuring solutions, including the sale of assets overseen by a bankruptcy court, he said.The rule change would help assets of a company in Chapter 11 to be priced as though they could be sold, he said, adding it would raise distressed loan prices, bolstering balance sheets of banks and other companies that hold these loans."Furthermore, such a change would slash the need for ... bankruptcy lawyers, restructuring firms and other advisers, who can reap tens of millions of dollars in fees often at the expense of creditors and company treasuries," Icahn wrote.(Reporting by Ratul Ray Chaudhuri in Bangalore; Editing by David Holmes) Deals. Duke jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter as Tech came out flat (that happens almost every game) but the Yellow Jackets came out fighting in the second quarter and improved to 10-1 on the season, beating Duke 49-10.