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  1. 2011.04.29 Top 100 Dividend Stocks by CEOinIRVINE 1
  2. 2011.03.31 my useful iPhone APPs by CEOinIRVINE
  3. 2009.03.31 Statins Dethroned by CEOinIRVINE
  4. 2009.03.25 Google's top execs keep $1 salaries amid turmoil by CEOinIRVINE
  5. 2009.03.12 Cable's top programs for March 2-8 by CEOinIRVINE
  6. 2009.01.11 Top Cash-Back Car Deals by CEOinIRVINE
  7. 2008.11.26 Hollywood's Top-Earning Couples by CEOinIRVINE
  8. 2008.11.17 Obama: Stimulating economy top priority by CEOinIRVINE
  9. 2008.11.17 How Obama's Tax Hikes Will Hit Baseball's Top Players by CEOinIRVINE
  10. 2008.11.17 Top Republican senators oppose automaker bailout by CEOinIRVINE

Top 100 Dividend Stocks

Business 2011. 4. 29. 07:01

Top 100 Dividend Stocks

We base our ratings off of the values of each column below. We’ve left these number in the chart so you can see how they rank for each data point. To get a better understanding of our rating system and definitions for the terms below see the bottom of the Top Dividends page.



Last Update: 4/01/2011


Company Symbol Dividend
Yield
5yr Dividend
Growth %
3yr Income
Growth %
Payout
Ratio
1 Year
Return %
DSO
Rating
1 Alliance Resource ARLP 4.04 15.27 23.51 47.98 102.15 100
2 AmBev ABV 9.19 99.53 28.78 47.78 69.35 100
3 Sunoco Logistics Part SXL 5.31 12 41.99 48.34 33.41 100
4 Greif, Inc. GEF.B 4.07 32.06 10.33 51.28 23.69 100
5 UniSource Energy UNS 4.4 15.47 24.07 55.32 19.97 100
6 Annaly Capital Manag NLY 15.01 20.57 45.15 129.9 16.82 100
7 Avista Corporation AVA 4.43 12.91 33.93 60.61 16.63 100
8 Royal KPN N.V. KKPNY 4.8 11.5 11.22 41.01 13.25 100
9 McDonald's Corporation MCD 3.05 27.53 27.35 49.34 17.52 100
10 Armanino Foods AMNF 4.24 8.98 25.03 61.57 92.5 98
11 Foot Locker, Inc. FL 3.04 13.75 55.44 56.07 35.11 98
12 Espey Manufacturing ESP 3.61 24.57 11.89 56.04 33.63 98
13 Greene County Bancorp GCBC 3.89 9.76 29.32 55.84 30.26 98
14 AT&T, Inc. T 5.52 5.39 18.46 52.48 25 98
15 Communications Sys JCS 3.9 15.26 8.96 51.3 23.67 98
16 British American Tobacco BTI 4.51 19.75 10.67 73.47 22.85 98
17 First of Long Island FLIC 3.1 14.07 17 36.52 18.71 98
18 CCFNB Bancorp, Inc. CCFN 3.87 9.78 33.54 41.84 18.17 98
19 NorthWestern NWE 4.55 6.34 13.31 63.55 18.16 98
20 Harleysville Savings HARL 5.03 5.48 15.55 56.22 14.1 98
21 Penseco Financial PFNS 4.54 4.94 20.51 46.93 13.43 98
22 Digital Realty Trust, Inc. DLR 3.82 15.18 36.08 297.06 11.37 98
23 Rogers Communications RCI 3.55 88.08 33.44 48.58 10.44 98
24 CenturyLink, Inc. CTL 6.98 64.6 31.33 92.65 25.35 97
25 TMX Group, Inc. TMXGF 3.87 17.33 9.74 58.33 45.02 96
26 Nstar NST 3.51 13.31 17.01 72.54 35.22 96
27 Northeast Utilities NU 3.02 8.71 16.32 46.8 28.96 96
28 Ares Capital Corporation ARCC 8.26 1.49 96.75 35.81 23.8 96
29 Flushing Financial FFIC 3.49 5.39 24.37 40.63 21.8 96
30 Brookfield Properties BPO 3.18 8.79 32.92 14.36 19.03 96
31 NextEra Energy, Inc. NEE 3.72 7.09 14.26 42.19 18.29 96
32 New Jersey Resources NJR 3.26 8.45 21.63 63.6 18.08 96
33 1st Source Corporation SRCE 3.09 6.49 10.54 50.41 17.72 96
34 Cato Corporation CATO 3.02 7.28 21.34 36.73 17.72 96
35 NB&T Financial NBTF 5.9 2.38 25.73 45.35 17.67 96
36 Pearson PLC PSO 3.04 6.76 66.14 22 16.9 96
37 Mattel, Inc. MAT 4.25 10.67 4.51 44.62 14.29 96
38 Corus Entertainment, Inc. CJREF 3.06 74.92 5.8 51.6 13.03 96
39 Bank of Montreal BMO 4.25 8.62 9.65 54.13 11.6 96
40 Community Bank System CBU 3.96 4.9 13.87 49.74 10.76 96
41 Senior Housing Prop SNH 6.34 2.53 10.94 159.34 10.61 96
42 First Keystone Corporation FKYS 5.4 9.51 13.51 56.36 9.17 96
43 AstraZeneca PLC AZN 5.53 20.14 7.57 43.83 8.83 96
44 Southside Bancshares SBSI 3.18 14.54 33.27 26.77 8.31 96
45 Imperial Tobacco Group ITYBY 4.33 6.97 18.48 49.91 6.29 96
46 Elmira Savings Bank ESBK 4.64 10.06 38.76 50 4.94 96
47 Clorox Company CLX 3.07 12.7 6.37 85.01 12.6 95
48 Kimberly-Clark Corporation KMB 4.11 7.96 0.37 59.33 8.06 95
49 Procter & Gamble PG 3.13 11.83 7.19 51.39 0.41 95
50 Wayside Technology WSTG 4.52 4.48 6.09 62.24 57 94
51 Chesapeake Utilities CPK 3.17 2.83 25.45 47.8 44.09 94
52 New Hampshire Thrift NHTB 3.94 0.79 20.74 40.31 30.89 94
53 CenterPoint Energy, Inc. CNP 4.46 14.29 3.47 72.9 27.73 94
54 UGI Corporation UGI 3.04 6.72 8.51 38.3 27.73 94
55 Merchants Bancshares MBVT 4.23 0.73 12.5 44.62 27.13 94
56 Westar Energy, Inc. WR 4.73 6.15 6.59 68.89 24.08 94
57 Chemung Financial CHMG 4.26 0.82 11.64 35.71 22.25 94
58 Tompkins Financial TMP 3.27 6.52 8.66 43.73 17.63 94
59 NTT DoCoMo, Inc. DCM 3.1 19.17 2.51 38.59 17.6 94
60 Xcel Energy, Inc. XEL 4.23 3.29 9.39 62.27 17.45 94
61 Alliance Financial Corporation ALNC 3.54 6.67 7.04 46.77 17.13 94
62 First Capital, Inc. FCAP 4.61 5.6 4.24 53.24 16.58 94
63 Teche Holding TSH 3.92 8.6 2.05 41.47 14.94 94
64 Orrstown Financial ORRF 3.21 9.63 9.71 41.01 13.91 94
65 Dominion Resources, Inc. D 4.17 6.43 3.41 36.45 13.27 94
66 PS Business Parks PSB 3.04 8.7 7.51 123.94 11.8 94
67 Public Service Enterprise PEG 4.35 4.11 5.42 44.63 11.38 94
68 Shaw Communications SJR 4.15 38.48 11.1 87.34 10.44 94
69 Northwest Bancshares NWBI 3.19 12.09 5.42 75.47 10.32 94
70 Hickory Tech Corp HTCO 5.86 1.81 11.99 57.69 8.49 94
71 Getty Realty Corporation GTY 8.37 1.65 15.11 106.7 5.96 94
72 Turkcell Iletisim TKC 3.93 61.73 7.71 47.63 3.72 94
73 Westpac Banking Corp WBK 5.12 5.76 22.34 59.4 3.48 94
74 Eli Lilly and Company LLY 5.57 5.22 19.74 42.79 2.51 94
75 Fidelity National Financial In FNF 4.67 22.51 41.81 42.86 -0.2 94
76 Consolidated Edison, Inc. ED 4.7 0.86 2.59 68.59 19.23 93
77 Bank of Nova Scotia BNS 3.11 8.37 1.57 45.96 26.55 92
78 Peoples Financial PFIS 3.04 0.78 10.01 38.35 25.22 92
79 Atmos Energy Corporation ATO 3.96 1.56 6.9 66.27 24.08 92
80 United-Guardian, Inc. UG 4.17 23.42 2.35 78.75 23.86 92
81 MFA Financial, Inc. MFA 10.85 17.05 107.46 95.7 23.51 92
82 Penns Woods Banc PWOD 4.73 3.36 7.18 64.56 21.52 92
83 The Southern Company SO 4.78 4.09 5.57 76.38 20.42 92
84 MGE Energy, Inc. MGEE 3.69 1.6 5.74 59.48 18.73 92
85 Laclede Group, Inc. LG 4.2 2.82 2.75 64.36 17.73 92
86 M & T Bank Corporation MTB 3.16 9.86 4.01 49.21 14.98 92
87 HF Financial Corp. HFFC 4.03 2.5 2.19 60.51 14.95 92
88 Piedmont Natural Gas PNY 3.72 4.17 10.79 71.85 14.14 92
89 Westwood Holdings WHG 3.33 31.17 12.4 83.54 13.91 92
90 RGC Resources RGCO 3.89 2.11 5.31 65.44 13.5 92
91 H.J. Heinz Company HNZ 3.69 8.06 3.25 58.48 10.98 92
92 Middlesex Water MSEX 3.99 1.44 6.56 75.26 10.94 92
93 Edison International EIX 3.47 4.4 6.01 33.2 10.8 92
94 Scana Corporation SCG 4.85 4.02 5.52 63.76 9.82 92
95 National Bankshares, Inc. NKSH 3.15 5.09 7.1 40.63 9.43 92
96 Unilever PLC UL 3.69 18.73 2.96 59.23 8.43 92
97 Northrop Grumman NOC 3 12.75 4.68 27.18 8.29 92
98 AGL Resources, Inc. AGL 4.44 6.25 3.51 58.67 7.66 92
99 Consumers Bancorp, Inc. CBKM 3.33 2.13 17.31 37.38 5.98 92
100 DPL Incorporated DPL 4.52 4.74 9.39 48.4 5.37 92

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my useful iPhone APPs

IT 2011. 3. 31. 05:05

1. qTweeter


2. iFlash Drive
I always forgot to bring USB. So, this is very useful app for me.


3. MoneyBook


Very Simple. You can also backup / restore data. You can see your graph from your webpage, too.(https://my.moneybookapp.com/)

4. myWi (use my iphone as wifi connect point)


5. mxTube

Download popular you tube clips and watch anytime. You can also watch by using stream.

6. Anyring

You can choose your own ringtone for each user (default also).
(customized ringtone)

 


7. iProtect
Set Password on App.



8. iBlacklist (Phone # blacklist)


9. ToneFXs


10. WiFi Sync
(no line itune iphone SYNC)
^^

11.
iNag

for Nagios


12. my3G


enables to download file via 3G network (some app requires WIFI conncection)

13. fake call
14. fake sms

15. Call log deletes (recent one) one by one



16. Lock Info
Show a lot of information even if your phone is lock status.

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Statins Dethroned

Business 2009. 3. 31. 06:18

Cholesterol medicines are no longer the top-selling drugs in the U.S.


ORLANDO--An era is grinding to a halt, as the best-selling drugs in the world begin their slow extinction as a financial force.

Cholesterol-lowering medicines, known as statins, lost their position as the top-selling drugs in the U.S. last year, thanks to the fact that two top brands have lost patent protection and are being replaced by cheaper generics, according to industry consultants IMS Health (nyse: RX - news - people ). That is a huge shift. According to IMS, statins and other cholesterol drugs first became America's top-selling drugs in 1999. Between 1999 and 2008, the death rate from heart attacks fell 30%, and statins and other heart drugs get a lot of the credit.

With patents running out on old blockbusters and new medicines underperforming, drug companies are losing the appetite to do the big studies of thousands of patients that have been a major scientific driver of the blockbuster age. In 2008, cholesterol drug sales fell 12% to $14.5 billion.

"Is this area of pharmacology for cardiology dead?" says James Stein, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Have we maxed out with very powerful statins and excellent blood-pressure drugs? Is there going to be another cardiology blockbuster ever again?"

The buzz here at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology has been for a collection of old generics: a single capsule dubbed a "polypill" that some say could benefit the public health. Data are due out today.

The other big story is from a study that already made news twice. Last March, it was announced that Crestor from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) cut the rate of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in patients with inflamed arteries, as measured by the c-reactive protein (CRP) blood test. Full results were presented last November.

Sales of Crestor jumped 30% to $3.6 billion last year, even as Lipitor from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and the Vytorin combo pill from Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) saw their sales drop, largely thanks to those results.

In that same study, Crestor also prevented clots in the veins that can lead to blocked circulation in the legs or, if dislodged, can wind up in the lungs, potentially killing the patient. There were only 90 of these events, called venuous thromboembolisms (VTE), in the study, but patients who got Crestor were only half as likely to get them.

Crestor and the other statins are thought of as cholesterol-lowering drugs. But though burst cholesterol plaque in the arteries causes the blood clots that lead to heart attacks and strokes, cholesterol plays no role in VTEs. Paul Ridker of Brigham & Women's Hospital, the lead scientist on the Crestor study and pioneer of using c-reactive protein to measure heart risk (he has a patent on it), argues that this provides even more proof of the key role of inflammation in statins' effectiveness. Other drugs that prevent VTE are blood-thinners, which inevitably cause risky increased bleeding.

Roger Blumenthal, director of cardiology at Johns Hopkins University, says that the VTE results are "very impressive." But although he screens for CRP, he says that he won't yet be using the test as cholesterol used, upping a patients' statin dose until the CRP goes down. "I don't think we're there yet," Blumenthal says.

So what about new drugs? There was one with some impressive data, but it only seems to highlight the changes in the drug industry further, because it came from a tiny, privately held firm called Corthera, not from a big pharma or even a publicly traded biotech.

The drug is called relaxin, and it is a hormone released in pregnancy that was discovered at the beginning of the Great Depression. Now the idea is to use it to combat acute heart failure. Pregnant women, the idea goes, are dramatically increasing their blood supply, and the same kinds of biological changes might help people whose hearts are not pumping hard enough.

Preliminary results were encouraging, and even showed a benefit on reducing deaths in one dose--although experts warn to view that as preliminary until a larger study is done. John Teerlink of the University of California, San Francisco, who headed the study, says he's optimistic relaxin will help patients' hearts without causing other, pregnancy-like effects such as weakened tendons. "I was intrigued but not convinced," says Clyde Yancy, director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in Dallas.

In the past, heart failure drugs that have helped patients feel better have sometimes not helped them--and have even hurt them--in the long run. The last attempt at a treatment for hospitalized heart failure patients, Natrecor, wound up having its use severely restricted by its maker, Johnson & Johnson (nyse: JNJ - news - people ). The drug is currently the subject of two whistle-blower suits in which former employees accuse J&J of improperly marketing Natrecor before it became controversial.

As a result of controversies like Natrecor, industry is on the defensive. For the first time in years, the bags handed out to doctors here at the ACC meeting are not branded with any drug or company name. Neither are the lanyards from which badges hang.

Worse yet, this same story is repeating itself across medicine. Cholesterol drugs were replaced at the top of the U.S. pharmaceutical sales charts by schizophrenia drugs like Zyprexa from Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ) and Seroquel from AstraZeneca. Antipsychotics are nearing patent expiry too, and they are controversy magnets. A Harvard doctor who argued for their use in kids is under attack, and Astra is being accused of burying bad data on Seroquel.

Last week, the American Psychiatric Association decided to phase out drug-company sponsored lectures and meals at its annual meeting. And today, Eli Lilly's top hope for a new anti-psychotic failed in a clinical trial, a result that JPMorgan labeled "a major setback."





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Google's top execs keep $1 salaries amid turmoil

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , 03.24.09, 08:15 PM EDT
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Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin maintained their traditional salaries of $1 last year even as the value of their combined stakes in the Internet search leader plunged by nearly $26 billion.

The paltry paychecks, disclosed Tuesday in a regulatory filing, come as no surprise because Schmidt, Page and Brin have insisted on their annual salaries remaining at $1 since Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) went public in 2004.

The trio also don't get any bonuses or the stock awards that most of Google's other 20,000 employees receive.

That's because Page and Brin, who founded the company in 1998, already are Google's largest stockholders with about 29 million shares apiece.

Page, 36, and Brin, 35, made Schmidt, 53, a major shareholder when they hired him as CEO in 2001.

 
Schmidt received perquisites valued at $508,763 last year, mostly to cover personal security bills totaling $402,562. Google also paid a total of $106,201 to fly his family and friends on airplanes chartered by the Mountain View, Calif.-based company.

Including his perks, Schmidt's 2008 compensation package edged up 6 percent from 2007 when his package totaled $478,662.

The Associated Press formula is designed to isolate the value the company's board placed on the executive's total compensation package during the last fiscal year. It includes salary, bonus, performance-related bonuses, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year. The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, and they sometimes differ from the totals companies list in the summary compensation table of proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which reflect the size of the accounting charge taken for the executive's compensation in the previous fiscal year.

 

Limiting their salaries to $1 didn't seem like a big sacrifice for Schmidt, Brin and Page until 2008. That's because they became multibillionaires as their holdings in Google soared eight-fold between the time of the company's initial public offering in August 2004 and the end of 2007.

Although all three men remain among the world's wealthiest people, they suffered a major setback last year. Combined, their fortunes plunged by a combined $25.8 billion, or nearly 56 percent, in 2008, as investors began to fret that Google would be hurt by the faltering economy.

Google held up better than many people feared as its revenue rose 38 percent to $21.8 billion, but the company's stock price still plummeted from $691.48 at the close of 2007 to $307.65 at the end of last year.

Google shares have rallied along with the overall market recently, closing Thursday at $347.17.

The steep decline in Google's market value prompted the company to recently decrease its employees' cost to exercise a total of 7.64 million stock options. The re-pricing gives the 15,642 who participated in the program a better chance to strike it rich in future years.

Signaling its intent to hand out even more stock options as it expands, Google wants to add another 8.5 million shares to the pool of available awards. The request will be voted on at the company's annual meeting May 7.

Other Silicon Valley billionaires, such as Yahoo Inc. (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) co-founder Jerry Yang and Apple Inc. (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) co-founder Steve Jobs, also have limited their salaries to $1 while serving as CEO.

But mogul CEOs haven't been as egalitarian. For instance, Oracle Corp. (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) CEO Larry Ellison pocketed a $1 million salary in the company's last fiscal year and received an additional 7 million stock options valued at $71.4 million when they were granted.

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Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of March 2-8. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:

1. "Burn Notice" (Thursday, 10 p.m.), USA, 4.44 million homes, 6094 million viewers.

2. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 4.1 million homes, 6.29 million viewers.

3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.92 million homes, 5.76 million viewers.

4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.58 million homes, 5.25 million viewers.

5. "NCIS" (Monday, 7 p.m.), USA, 3.42 million homes, 4.67 million viewers.

6. "NCIS" (Monday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.4 million homes, 4.5 million viewers.

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Top Cash-Back Car Deals

Business 2009. 1. 11. 00:06

Top Cash-Back Car Deals

Hannah Elliott,01.09.09, 12:20 PM EST

Battered dealers this month are offering unheard-of buyer incentives.

The retail industry isn't the only one luring shoppers withhefty discounts. Battered car dealers this month are offeringunheard-of cash-back deals--in some cases up to 30% off the MSRP.

Detroit'sBig Three in particular are offering buyers thousands of dollars incash, including $8,000 in total rebates to qualified buyers of Chevrolet's Tahoe and Suburban models. Those who buy a 2009 Mercedes CLK get $6,000 cash back. Drive off with a 2008 Saturn Vue XE and pocket $3,750. To expedite the sales process, cash-back incentives are usually applied directly to the purchase price.

n short, there has never been a better time to buy a new car.

In Depth: Top Cash-Back Car Deals

But don't get too comfortable with all that green. Automakers--notably Chrysler and General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people )--willlikely put the brakes on their incentive offerings this spring as the$17.4 billion rescue package begins to lessen their financial strain.

"Thesedeals won't be as plentiful going forward, as lots of the '08 stockwill be done in '09," says Jessica Caldwell, manager of pricing andindustry analysis for auto data source Edmunds.com. "There probablywon't be a time as good as this. Things will plateau, and there willstill be a lot of deals available, but it's going to look a little lessrosy."

Behind the Numbers
To find the best cash-back deals available, we used data from Edmundsand Cars.com, a Web site that provides auto advice. We sifted throughincentives offered on thousands of 2008 and 2009 models and thenselected vehicles with a high ratio between the amount of cash offeredand the vehicle's MSRP. A cautionary word: Incentive programs vary byregion and state, and many expire quickly.

Dealerincentives from manufacturers to dealerships reduce a dealer's cost ofbuying the car from the factory and are offered on a regional basis togenerate sales on specific models. Customer incentives involvecash-back rebates, low-interest financing or other perks offereddirectly to buyers.

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Hollywood's Top-Earning Couples

Lacey Rose and Lauren Streib

For these Tinseltown celebrities, one plus one equals millions.






Hollywood's Top-Earning Couples

Lacey Rose and Lauren Streib, 11.19.08, 04:00 PM EST

For these Tinseltown celebrities, one plus one equals millions.

What happens when you marry an $82 million hip-hop brand and an $80 million R&B empire? You get Hollywood's best-paid power couple.

Thanks to a monster year filled with music, movies, fashion and endorsement deals, Jay-Z and his new bride, Beyoncé Knowles, collectively raked in $162 million between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008. The jaw-dropping sum garners them bragging rights atop our first annual ranking of Hollywood's Top-Earning Couples, a list that also includes A-list pairings Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, David and Victoria Beckham, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, among others.

"Naturally, powerful people tend to gravitate toward other powerful people," explains clinical psychologist and celebrity researcher Jim Houran, for reasons that range from proximity (stars hang around other stars) to familiarity (people are attracted, at least initially, to others like them) to clearer expectations (shared priorities make it easier for celebrities to relate). No matter how they get together, the results are good for the bottom line.

Take Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. They hauled in some $85 million over the past year, making them No. 2 on our list. Though Jada's resume continues to grow, Will's the family breadwinner. He raked in $80 million in the year ending June 2008, thanks to another set of top-performing blockbusters: I Am Legend, The Pursuit of Happyness and this past summer's Hancock. Together the flicks banked $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office, making him Hollywood's most bankable star.

Jada pulled in $5 million during the same 12-month period, thanks to roles as an actress (The Women), producer (The Human Contract) and businesswoman (a stake in beauty line Carol's Daughter). 

Third: David and Victoria Beckham. Conquering fans on both sides of the Atlantic, the power couple brought in $58 million over the year-long period.

Becks' share was $50 million, proving the much-covered move to America has paid off for the British soccer star. Though his Los Angeles Galaxy salary was $5.5 million, the sum more than doubled when his cut of the team's ticket, merchandise and sponsorship revenues were factored in. He also pulled down a cool $35 million from lucrative endorsement deals with Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), Adidas (other-otc: ADDDY.PK - news - people ), Coty and PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ), among others.





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(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama said stimulating the economy is a top priority -- even if it means adding to the nation's growing deficit.

Barack Obama, joined by his wife Michelle, discusses his priorities and the impact of the election on his family.

Barack Obama, joined by his wife Michelle, discusses his priorities and the impact of the election on his family.

"I think what's interesting about the time that we're in right now is that you actually have a consensus among conservative Republican-leaning economists and liberal left-leaning economists. And the consensus is this: that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we're gonna have to spend money now to stimulate the economy," Obama told CBS' "60 Minutes" in his first post-election interview which aired Sunday.

"And that we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after," he continued. "That short term, the most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession."

He said his goals would be to restore consumer confidence and re-regulate the financial market. His first legislative goal is to pass an economic stimulus package. He added that the potential collapse of the auto industry would be "a disaster" amid today's economic crisis.

"It's my belief that we need to provide assistance to the auto industry," Obama told veteran correspondent Steve Kroft. "But I think that it can't be a blank check."

The Senate is expected to vote this week on emergency loans to the auto industry, though the measure faces strong opposition from many Republicans. The bill would authorize loans to the auto industry from the Treasury Department's $700 billion fund to bail out the financial services industry.

Detroit auto executives are scheduled to plead their case in public hearings in the House and Senate.

Obama, joined by his wife Michelle, discussed the impact of the election on his family, as well as his priorities, including the economy, the Iraq war and other challenges he faces.

"I will say that the challenges that we're confronting are enormous," he says. "And they're multiple. And so there are times during the course of a given a day where you think, 'Where do I start in terms of moving -- moving things forward?'

"And I think that part of this next two months is to really get a clear set of priorities, understanding we're not going be able to do everything at once, making sure the team is in place, and moving forward in a very deliberate way and sending a clear signal to the American people that we're going to be thinking about them and what they're going through."

Another top priority: "Stamp out al Qaeda once and for all."

"I think capturing or killing bin Laden is a critical aspect of stamping out al Qaeda," Obama said. "He is not just a symbol, he's also the operational leader of an organization that is planning attacks against U.S. targets.

He reiterated his pledge to shut down the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials close to the Obama team have told CNN that the incoming administration is pondering whether to try some of the Guantanamo Bay inmates in existing federal courts; set up a special national security court to deal with cases involving the most sensitive intelligence information; or release others.

"I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo and I will follow through on that, I have said repeatedly that American doesn't torture, and I will make sure that we don't torture, and I am going to make sure we don't torture, those are part and parcel of efforts to regain America's moral stature," Obama said in the "60 Minutes" interview.

Obama, spending the last two weeks with his transition team in Chicago, Illinois, said he'll announce his Cabinet selections "soon." He confirmed that he's spoken to former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton recently, but wouldn't comment on whether she will be a member of his Cabinet.

On a personal note, Obama, sitting next to his wife, said he's still adjusting to "the loss of anonymity" that comes with being the next U.S. president.

"That's something I'll ever get used to, the loss of anonymity, and this is not a complaint, it's part of what you sign up for ... but being able to wonder around the neighborhood -- I can't go to my own barbershop now, I have to have my barber come to some undisclosed location to cut my hair," Obama said.

Michelle Obama said she's not sure whether the reality of moving into the White House has "really sunk in."

"But I remember, we were watching the returns and, on one of the stations, Barack's picture came up and it said, 'President-Elect Barack Obama. ' And I looked at him and I said, 'You are the 44th President of the United States of America. Wow. What a country we live in.'"

Added Obama: "Yeah. Yeah. And then she said 'Are you gonna take the girls to school in the morning?' "
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In Pictures: How Obama's Tax Hikes Will Hit Baseball's Top Players


Slugger Manny Ramirez, one of baseball's more quixotic characters, will likely receive this off-season's largest contract. The free-agent signing period doesn't begin until Nov. 14, but Ramirez's current club, the Los Angeles Dodgers, has already offered him a three-year, $60 million deal.

Signings before the first of the year are rare, though this season, with the prospect of a Democrat-administration tax hike on those making more than $250,000 annually, there are grumbles that athletes will angle for signing bonuses paid before the New Year. Such bonuses would be paid at the current 35% tax rate, not President-elect Obama's proposed 39.5% top marginal rate. It's only a 4.5% difference, but at Ramirez's income level, that adds up.


Based on Ramirez's 2008 salary of $18.9 million, Obama's tax plan would mean $850,500 less in take-home pay for Ramirez. Prorate that out over a four- or eight-year deal, and you're talking $3.4 to $6.8 million lost to the government.

Scott Boras, Ramirez's agent, told the Associated Press last week, "There's some consideration to be had with the impact of the election." But is there any reason to think that athletes are going to succeed at renegotiating contracts around tax policy?

Not really. Chances are, even star baseball players will have to pay up.

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"I think there are a lot of agents who like to think they're creative and like to hear themselves talk," says Matt Sosnick, founder of Sosnick Cobbe Sports, a baseball player agency. "It's a meaningful amount, but teams not only have budgets, their cash flow is very carefully considered. It's hard for me to imagine that teams are going to be willing to part with $5 million or $10 million early for some of these long-term deals."



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Top Republican senators said Sunday they will oppose a Democratic plan to bail out Detroit automakers, calling the U.S. industry a "dinosaur" whose "day of reckoning" is coming. Their opposition serious raises doubts about whether the plan will pass in this week's postelection session.

Democratic leaders want to use $25 billion of the $700 billion financial industry bailout to help General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC.

Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama and Jon Kyl of Arizona said it would be a mistake to use any of the Wall Street rescue money to prop up the automakers. They said an auto bailout would only postpone the industry's demise.

"Companies fail every day and others take their place. I think this is a road we should not go down," said Shelby, the senior Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

"They're not building the right products," he said. "They've got good workers but I don't believe they've got good management. They don't innovate. They're a dinosaur in a sense."

Added Kyl, the Senate's second-ranking Republican: "Just giving them $25 billion doesn't change anything. It just puts off for six months or so the day of reckoning."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said over the weekend that the House would provide aid to the ailing industry, though she did not put a price on her plan.

"The House is ready to do it," said Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. "There's no downside to trying."

But Democrats have only a narrow majority in the Senate and President George W. Bush opposes the idea. That raises the possibility that any help for automakers will have to wait until 2009, when Barack Obama takes office and the Democrats increase their majority in the Senate.

At least two Republican senators support an automaker bailout -- George Voinovich of Ohio and Kit Bond of Missouri. But if the Republicans are seen as neglecting an industry that inevitably collapses, they risk lasting political problems in Midwestern industrial states that can swing for either political party.

Obama won most of the manufacturing states in the presidential race, including Ohio, a perennial battleground, and Indiana, which had not voted for a Democrat for president since 1964. Obama easily won Michigan after Republican John McCain publicly pulled out weeks before Election Day.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said automakers are working to adapt to a changing consumer market, but they need immediate help to survive the nation's current economic crisis.

"This is not a Big Three problem alone," Levin said. "This current crisis is a crisis in the economy where there is no credit available to purchase, and where people are not buying cars because they are afraid."

The companies are lobbying lawmakers furiously for an emergency infusion of cash. GM has warned it might not survive through year's end without a government lifeline.

"It's not the General Motors we grew up with. It's a General Motors that is headed down this road to oblivion," said Shelby. "Should we intervene to slow it down, knowing it's going to happen? I say no, not for the American taxpayer."

Obama said he believes that aid is needed but that it should be provided as part of a long-term plan for a "sustainable U.S. auto industry" -- not simply as a blank check.

"For the auto industry to completely collapse would be a disaster in this kind of environment," Obama said in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" that was set to air Sunday night. "So my hope is that over the course of the next week, between the White House and Congress, the discussions are shaped around providing assistance but making sure that that assistance is conditioned on labor, management, suppliers, lenders, all of the stakeholders coming together with a plan -- what does a sustainable U.S. auto industry look like?"

Automakers say bankruptcy protection is not an option because people would be reluctant to make long-term car and truck purchases from companies that might not last the life of their vehicles. But lawmakers opposed to the bailout say Chapter 11 might be a better option than government loans and they cite the experience of airlines that have gone through the process of reorganization.

Shelby and Levin were interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press" and Shelby also appeared with Frank on CBS' "Face the Nation." Kyl spoke on "Fox News Sunday."

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