public static function getItems($catId, $limit)
	{
		$db = &JFactory::getDBO();
		$jnow = &JFactory::getDate();
		$db = &JFactory::getDBO();
		$jnow = JFactory::getDate();
		$user = JFactory::getUser();
		$now =  K2_JVERSION == '15'?$jnow->toMySQL():$jnow->toSql();
		$nullDate = $db->getNullDate();
		$query  = "SELECT id,title,alias,introtext,catid FROM `tc_k2_items` WHERE ";
		echo $query;
		$query .= "`catid` IN(".implode(',', $catId).") ";
		//echo query;
		$query .= "AND ( `publish_up` = ".$db->Quote($nullDate)." OR `publish_up` <= ".$db->Quote($now)." ) ";
		//echo $query;
		$query .= "AND ( `publish_down` = ".$db->Quote($nullDate)." OR `publish_down` >= ".$db->Quote($now)." ) ";
		$query .= "AND `trash` = 0 AND `published` = 1 ";
		$query .= "AND access IN(".implode(',', $user->getAuthorisedViewLevels()).") ";
		$query .= "ORDER BY `id` DESC ";
		//echo $query;
		$db->setQuery($query, 0, $limit);
		$items  = $db->loadObjectList();

		return $items;
 }