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A high school journalist and a varsity basketball star find their friendship put through the wringer when they try to rip off a small-time drug dealer. Robert "Gar" Gartland (Haley Joel Osment) covers the sports beat for his high school newspaper. His best friend Matt Morrison (Ryan Merriman) is a point guard with a promising future in college sports. When Matt convinces Gar to take part in a breaking and entering scheme, their friendship starts to buckle under the pressure. Things go from bad to worse when they botch the job, and realize they've got nowhere to run. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Genre: Drama
- Category Crime Drama, Sports Drama
- Theme: Faltering Friendships, Basketball Players, Members of the Press
- Studio: Screen Media
- Run Time: 01 hr 41 min
- Language: English
- Picture Format: letterbox
- Release Date: April 6, 2010
- Lead Actor: Kenneth Mitchell , Ryan Merriman , Brent Briscoe , Haley Joel Osment , Danielle Panabaker
- Director: Rusty Gorman
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- Online Item #: 12225867
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 246-05-1627
- Made in the USA or Imported

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- Report: #611718
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Complaint Review: Sweepstakes Clearinghouse
Sweepstakes Clearinghouse1555 Regal Row Dallas, Texas United States of America
Sweepstakes Clearinghouse a division of Allied Marketing Group, Inc Sent voucher check on 2-10-2010 for $300.00 & a second voucher check for $210.00. Sent for a home safe that would have cost $269.95 but with the $210.00 voucher check it would on cost $59.95. Sent in Dallas, Texas
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I am vice president of a Resident Council for seniors. I was trying to buy a safe for our clubhouse and I thought the price sounded good with the rebate check. have not received the safe as yet. The check was sent in May 14, 2010.
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Changes to Funding Formula Could Improve Allocation of Funds to States
GAO-16-377T: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2016.
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In prior work, GAO identified alternative measures that could be used to allocate Medicaid funding to states more equitably than the current Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) formula, which uses per capita income (PCI) to calculate each state's federal matching rate. GAO found that PCI is a poor proxy for both the size of a state's population in need of Medicaid services and the ability of a state to fund Medicaid. GAO identified data sources, such as nationally representative federal surveys, which could be used to develop measures of the demand for Medicaid services, geographic cost differences, and state resources. These measures could be combined to provide a basis for allocating funds more equitably among states than the current FMAP.
GAO has found that, during economic downturns—when Medicaid enrollment can rise and state economies weaken—the FMAP formula does not reflect current state economic conditions, and that past efforts to provide states with temporary increases in the FMAP were not as timely or responsive as they could have been. To be effective at stabilizing states' funding of Medicaid programs during such periods, assistance should be provided—or at least authorized—close to the beginning of a downturn. Additionally, to be efficient, funds should be targeted to states commensurate with their level of need due to the downturn. To help ensure that federal funding efficiently and effectively responds to states' needs during economic downturns, GAO developed a prototype formula that offers an option for providing temporary automatic, timely, and targeted assistance during a national economic downturn through an increased FMAP. The formula's automatic trigger would use readily available economic data (e.g., the monthly employment-to-population ratio or EPOP) to begin assistance. Targeted state assistance would be calculated based on (1) increases in state unemployment and (2) reductions in total wages and salaries.
GAO Prototype Formula for Temporary Increased FMAP Assistance to States
Improving the responsiveness of federal assistance to states during economic downturns would facilitate state budget planning, provide states with greater fiscal stability, and better align federal assistance with the magnitude of the economic downturn's effects on individual states.
Why GAO Did This Study
Medicaid, a joint federal-state health care program for low income and medically needy individuals, is a significant component of federal and state budgets, with estimated outlays of $529 billion in fiscal year 2015. States and the federal government share in the financing of the Medicaid program, with the federal government matching state expenditures for Medicaid services on the basis of the FMAP formula. The FMAP is the percentage of expenditures for most Medicaid services that the federal government pays. In prior reports, GAO has examined multiple concerns regarding how the FMAP formula allocates funds among states, including during times of economic downturn, and has suggested possible improvements.
This statement highlights (1) alternative measures for allocating Medicaid funds across states, and (2) better allocating financial assistance to state Medicaid programs during economic downturns. This testimony is based on GAO reports issued between 2003 and 2015 on federal financing of the Medicaid program.
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To ensure that federal funding efficiently and effectively responds to Medicaid's countercyclical nature, GAO recommended that Congress could consider enacting an FMAP formula that targets variable state Medicaid needs and provides automatic, timely, and temporary assistance in response to national economic downturns.
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Hospital Uncompensated Care:Federal Action Needed to Better Align Payments with CostsGAO-16-568: Published: Jun 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2016.
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Drug Shortages:Certain Factors Are Strongly Associated with This Persistent Public Health ChallengeGAO-16-595: Published: Jul 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2016.
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Defense Health Care:Availability and Quality Measurement of Women's Health Care Services in U.S. Military HospitalsGAO-16-596: Published: Jun 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 2016.
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Federal Autism Activities:Agencies Are Encouraging Early Identification and Providing Services, and Recent Actions Could Improve CoordinationGAO-16-446: Published: May 20, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 20, 2016.
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Food and Drug Administration:Comprehensive Strategic Planning Needed to Enhance Coordination between Medical Product CentersGAO-16-500: Published: May 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 15, 2016.
Medical Product Oversight:FDA Needs More Strategic Planning to Guide Its Scientific InitiativesGAO-16-432: Published: May 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 15, 2016.
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Complaint Review: Kim Hodges Simmons Sparkling Diva's Pageants
Kim Hodges Simmons Sparkling Diva's PageantsHenderson, North Carolina United States of America
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Isometry (Riemannian geometry)
In the study of Riemannian geometry in mathematics, a local isometry from one (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold to another is a map which pulls back the metric tensor on the second manifold to the metric tensor on the first. When such a map is also a diffeomorphism, such a map is called an isometry (or isometric isomorphism), and provides a notion of isomorphism ("sameness") in the category Rm of Riemannian manifolds.
Let and be two (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds, and let be a diffeomorphism. Then is called an isometry (or isometric isomorphism) if
where denotes the pullback of the rank (0, 2) metric tensor by . Equivalently, in terms of the push-forward , we have that for any two vector fields on (i.e. sections of the tangent bundle ),
If is a local diffeomorphism such that , then is called a local isometry.
See also[edit]
- Lee, Jeffrey M. (2000). Differential Geometry, Analysis and Physics.


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- THE BEAT magazine in Los Angeles says "Energetic and kinetic...this music sounds as natural coming from the mountains of North Carolina as the music from the hills of Jamaica's Blue Mountain Range." Bob Marley biographer and Reggae Grammy@ chair Roger Steffens exclaims "Reggabilly at its best!" "Good work giving us positive vibes..." reports DJ Rankin of Radio Contrabanda in Barcelona, Spain. Asheville, NC's Mountain Express says "Joyful and reflective, trimmed with punchy guitar and Ras Alan's eminently likable voice...it's hard to imagine more pleasant listening…[than the] Neil Young-by-way-of-Kingston melodies," and Citizen-Times reviewers Jedd Ferris and Heather Rayburn add "Ras Alan's been able to blend vintage country and Appalachian folk with the steady grooves of Jamaican ska and roots reggae. Despite seemingly obvious culture clashes, the songwriter's personal ability to correlate the two genres makes the music breathe with authenticity. With his homemade acoustic guitar and steady percussive footbox, he revives the dusty mountain ancestry of the Carter Family while bringing a modern context to the soulful social outcry of the Marley message." "All original, homegrown, mountain roots reggae... weaving the traditional reggae sound with the front porch flat-pickin' generally associated with Carolina bluegrass musicians. This group is really something!" The Independent, of Durham, NC, sums it up this way, "Ras Alan is able to weave blues, bluegrass and country elements into his rootsy Reggae fabric. It works!"
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Key dates in the U. of Ill. admissions scandal
Events leading up to Thursday's report from the Illinois Admissions Review Commission:
– May 29, 2009: The Chicago Tribune reports that the University of Illinois maintains a list of politically connected applicants at the Urbana-Champaign campus, and that some members of the so-called Category I list have been admitted in spite of lackluster qualifications. The list in 2005 included a relative of convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko who was backed by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and admitted.
– June 1: University suspends Category I list.
– June 7: State Rep. Mike Boland, chairman of the House Higher Education Committee, calls for university President B. Joseph White and some trustees to resign.
– June 10: Gov. Pat Quinn creates the Illinois Admissions Review Commission to examine the university and appoints former federal judge Abner Mikva to lead the panel.
– June 18: Federal prosecutors are investigating possible contacts between Blagojevich and his political allies involving admissions at the U of I, Northern Illinois University and Southern Illinois University.
– July 6: University Chancellor Richard Herman tells the commission that he pushed for politically connected applicants but felt he couldn't refuse demands from trustees, particularly Lawrence Eppley, who often passed along candidates favored by Blagojevich.
– July 8: Former law school dean Heidi Hurd tells the commission that she agreed to admit well-connected applicants pushed by Herman in exchange for scholarship money.
– July 20: Commission chairman Mikva says he will focus on university trustees rather than state lawmakers, who made the vast majority of inquiries on the Category I list.
– July 21: Trustees chairman Niranjan Shah tells the commission he never pushed to admit relatives or was pressured by public officials to support applicants. E-mails released by the university indicated Shah sent lists of applicants to Herman with a request for help.
– July 27: University President White tells the commission that he found an environment in which who you know matters when he came to the university in 2005. Past presidents Stanley Ikenberry and James Stukel, meanwhile, say at least some trustees should be ousted.
– July 28: Trustee Lawrence Eppley resigns.
– July 31: Review commission says it will recommend that university trustees resign.
– Aug. 3: Shah resigns.
– Aug. 6: Review commission issues its final report, which recommends all trustees voluntarily submit their resignations and then let Quinn decide which ones to accept.


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Kwang-Sik Shin , Inha University, Korea
Wan-Oh Yoon , Inha University, Korea
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Our new multimedia transmission and synchronization scheme for parallel servers in a wireless environment enables servers to store MPEG-4 data according to video object plane type. In developing the enhanced multimedia transmission scheme to cope with load imbalance, congestion, and jitter, we investigated three issues: data striping, priority queuing, and multimedia synchronization.
Multimedia stream, data striping, priority queue, synchronization, MPEG-4
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Complaint Review: Safe Streets USA
Safe Streets USA5305 Raynor Rd Ste 100 Nationwide United States of America
Safe Streets USA Todd Herman Safestreets USA lied. Deceptive business practices. Rip off. Garner, NC , Nationwide
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Four phone calls to Safestreets with the promise of return phone calls and leaving voicemails with "supervisors" and I have not had one return phone call. Todd Herman, Joe Kenney, Michael Robson, Barry Simmons are running a company that refuses to return phone calls and will get you off the line by promising you something with no intention to living up to it.
Safestreets has said they will go take the equipment out of my old house and install it in my new house. How can there be two separate contracts on the same equiptment?
Safestreets has said if i sign a new 3 year agreement they will waive the $800.00 fee. However, six months have gone by since my last contact with them. We have a new system with a legitimate security company.
Todd Herman, Joe Kenney, Michael Robson, Barry Simmons are running a dishonest company that does not care about customer service and will threaten your credit score with outside collections.
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The Ph.D. in Technology and Humanities (formerly the Ph.D. in Technical Communication) at Illinois Tech aims to educate a new type of humanities Ph.D., who will bring original contributions to scholarship, thinking, and learning to better understand the complex relationships between humans and technology. The program prepares students for faculty-line and alternative academic careers in university research and teaching, as well as for advanced research and development positions in the private and government sectors.
You'll establish a strong foundation in the quantitative and qualitative research methods necessary to deeply investigate the unique problems surrounding humans and their relationships to technology. Additionally, you'll learn to consider technology through the theoretical lenses of a number of core humanities disciplines, such as history, language, information science, communication, and philosophy.
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after typing in my username and password, the wheel spins (as if logging in) and then clears out the date.
nothing happens.
anyone else? it worked yesterday?
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after typing in my username and password, the wheel spins (as if logging in) and then clears out the date.
nothing happens.
anyone else? it worked yesterday?
I'm getting the same thing...I fill in my Instagram login info in the widget panel, click "Save" and then the login info disappears and I don't get the widget showing up in my sidebar...
Hey guys,
thanks for reaching out! Could you please check this again? There have been some issues with the Instagram API. If the issue persists, please let me know and I'll check.
Continue the same problem:
"I'm getting the same thing...I fill in my Instagram login info in the widget panel, click "Save" and then the login info disappears and I don't get the widget showing up in my sidebar... "
Same here:
I installed this plugin today and am getting the same issue - widget will not retain my user/pass details, so cannot display images. Any suggestions or fixes?
I am WordPress version 3.3.1.
I use Instagram for WordPress since 2 days, since yesterday I can not log in anymore. I find no solution (I remove and reinstall and remove from Instagram API)
Thank you for your help
I'm having the same issue, after I input my login credentials it just goes back to blank and nothing happens.
Anyone know why this issue says resolved?
Hi all,
I spent some time debugging this today and found that the API access (client_id and secret key) that the developer is using has started hitting Instagram's API authentication limit. The actual message returned from the API was "XAuth rate limit exceeded".
Basically, the plugin has become popular enough that there are too many people trying to authenticate their Instagram credentials with the developer's API Client_ID.
The simplest fix (all though certainly not the best as it requires hacking the plugin directly) is to get your own Instagram API credentials and replace the developer's with your own.
You can do this by first getting a developer account and then registering a new application here: http://instagram.com/developer/.
After that, replace the
client_id and
client_secret keys around line 194 of
wpinstagram.php in the plugin's code.
Again, this is a less-than-ideal solution, but or those of us in a hurry to get the login working again, this should do it.
@jbenders, Maybe its worth adding a settings page to the plugin where you can help user get and enter their own API keys? Just thinking aloud about a long-term fix. I love the plugin. If you're interested, you can see how I used it over here: http://canalparkbrewery.com/
Hi DaveE
Thanks for your quick fix tip. Until the plugin is back on track I would like to use your quick and dirty method, but I'm a bit confused about exactly what steps to take when signing up for the Instagram API. Any chance you would bother taking your time and guide us (me anyway :-D) a little further.
Thx in advance.
Any news on the login problems - Tried DaveE's solution but it i still got the same error
Thanks DaveE!
This doesn't seem to be working for me. In the Instagram developer section I went to manage clients > register a new client, got the Client ID and Secret, and replaced theirs with mine in the plugin.
Same issue. Bummer.
Mine too. I tried the Dave E trick but it didn't work for me either.
Same! I deactivated the plugin as it was seriously effected my website speed (loading time 14 seconds, with plugin deactivated loading time 2 seconds) now it won't let me log in when I redownloaded it. DaveE's way didnt work for me :(
I finally gave up and went with this plugin.
I did too on one site, sucks you can't have it be a slideshow though. Too much real estate showing all those pics.
Also, Instagram for WordPress works on antother site that I haven't logged out of, but the new version has a link in the viewer to some crappy web viewer for instagram photos, you know... because the world needs another one of those.
If you go back to the version before there is no linky.. i think it's 0.3.5
Why is this topic marked as "resolved"? Anyone got how to fix the login problem?
after typing in my username and password, the wheel spins (as if logging in) and then clears out the date.
nothing happens.
Same. Tried to change
client_id and
client_secret keys as DaveE said, but it didn't solve the problem.
Can anyone help?
sorry for the latest issues and inconvenience I might have caused. @DaveE is correct: we're hitting Instagram's API authentication limit. Thanks a lot for the input and suggestions. I appreciate this very much.
I have fixed the wordpress plugin to allow you to enter your own client information. This means you'll have to register a client so that you can use it without being limited by other users of the app.
I need two more days to make this all nice and deploy it to wordpress. So by Sunday evening everything will be fine again.
For the time being if things get urgent. You might wanna use this 'instagram gallery widget': http://ink361.com/#!/promote. Scroll down to the bottom off the page, specify how you would like it and click 'get code'. Then paste this code inside a widget box on your blog.
Please stay tuned. When I have pushed everything to WordPress, I'll inform you all.
Happy photo viewing!
Hi all,
I just pushed another change to fix the authentication issue. It should be fine now.
Please let me know if it works for you.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
once i updated the plugin - and added the client ID and client secret - i'm receiving this error. Any ideas?
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DId you check the manual? It contains a probable redirect_url that can be used. It should end with authenticationhandler.php.
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To add my 2c worth, I bought an SB-400 for travel purposes. I knew the limitations so was not disappointed. I still love the pocket size simplicity. Regularly bounce it indoors but only in landscape. It also eliminates lens shadow that happens with the built-in flash at closer ranges as the hotshoe elevates it enough.I then added the SB-700. Will add another in due course. Maybe even an SB-910 to cover more bases. Always knew it would come to that. More grunt and capabilities. Travelling around Europe from March. Would love to take the SB-700 but sanity will prevail. The SB-400 will make the final cut on packing day.


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Winners of four straight and six of seven, if the Nets are going to continue their recent surge under interim head coach P.J. Carlesimo on Friday night against the Phoenix Suns, they may have to do so without one of their top offensive weapons. At shootaround on Friday morning, Joe Johnson was labeled as a game-time decision for Friday evening with what the team is calling an illness. The 12th year shooting guard was not present at PNY Center.
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A little part of the history of East Mississippi State Hospital disappeared Wednesday.
EMSH said goodbye to what it calls a living icon, a Southern Magnolia Tree, planted there on the grounds back in 1893.
The tree split in two earlier this month, and a contractor was brought in to take it down completely.
Records on file with the Mississippi Forestry Commission say the tree was one of the largest Southern Magnolias in the south.
"It's sad, it really is, because it's been here since the hospital has been here," said Glenda Slay, EMSH horticulturist. "So it's kind of sad to, during that time, to take something like that down. "
Hospital officials plan to preserve some cuttings from the tree for the history of the hospital.


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Allardyce is not a Newcastle manager - is is a thick headed slob who will bring back the Jackie Charlton football to SJP -- His image is not good and he doesn't seem be able to string a sentence togather. he reminds me of a cross between Lawrie Mcmenenmy and Benny (Off Crossroads soap opera)His appointment will set the image of the club back --(BESIDES!! he has to face court hearing for the corruption scam regarding transfer fees _ THIS IS WHY HE QUIT BOLTON _ Watch this Space!!)
yep, newcastle are already up to there eyes in debt,, big sam is gonna spend millions on new players, no doubt he will pay well over the odds for average players, his last signing for bolton was 7 mill on anelka, omg lollong ball for the geordies now, and plenty of draws, going down,


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Now that Apple AAPL -0.11221245558256966% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD106.82 -0.12 -0.11221245558256966% /Date(1472504400415-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 24687141 AFTER HOURS USD106.62 -0.199999999999989 -0.1872308556450103% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 283159 P/E Ratio 12.478971962616823 Market Cap 575593465845.812 Dividend Yield 2.1344317543531175% Rev. per Employee 1990500 More quote details and news » is no longer a high-growth company, it may be time for it to stop hoarding cash and return more of its still-ample earnings to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.
Either move could help Apple shares, which tumbled 12%, to near $440, last week, 38% below their record high of $705, hit in early September. Apple is the S&P 500's biggest percentage loser this year.
Apple (ticker: AAPL) looks cheap, despite analysts' profit-estimate cuts for its 2013 fiscal year, ending in September. The cuts are based on disappointing current-quarter financial guidance suggesting earnings of $9 to $10 a share, well below prior consensus expectations of $11.78 and last year's $12.30. The tech leader fetches almost 10 times projected fiscal-year earnings of $45 a share. Before the earnings release the consensus estimate was near $49.
CEO Tim Cook is watching Apple's cash pile grow, up $16 billion in the most recent quarter alone. Noah Berger/Bloomberg News
Apple's P/E is just seven, when the company's $137 billion, or nearly $145 a share, of cash is worked into the equation. Cash, which rose by $16 billion in the quarter, accounts for more than 30% of Apple's stock-market value.
That cash keeps climbing because earnings way exceed Apple's modest dividends and buybacks. Apple initiated a $2.65-a-share quarterly payout last March, which now equates to a 2.4% dividend yield. It finally started buybacks in the quarter, repurchasing $2 billion worth of stock.
Only in the technology sector do companies hold so much cash, and Apple is the champ, with more than twice as much as No. 2 Microsoft MSFT 0.12062726176115803% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD58.1 0.07 0.12062726176115803% /Date(1472504400137-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13408903 AFTER HOURS USD58.2 0.100000000000001 0.1721170395869191% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3008304 P/E Ratio 28.341463414634145 Market Cap 452745174291.205 Dividend Yield 2.478485370051635% Rev. per Employee 742939 More quote details and news » (MSFT). Tech outfits view cash as a security blanket, and Apple's struggles in the 1990s have made it especially conservative. The cash could hit $200 a share or more by the end of its fiscal 2014. Investors don't give Apple full credit for it, however, partly because they doubt they will ever get it.
"There's a strong belief among investors that a higher return of cash is warranted," says Toni Sacconaghi, a technology analyst at Bernstein. He argues that Apple should "significantly increase the dividend" to 3% or more. "The real magic number is 4%," which would mean an annual dividend of about $18 a share, which could boost the stock by attracting income investors. Such a payout would equal roughly 40% of Apple's projected 2013 earnings, versus 25% now. A 40% payout ratio would be in line with those of many other big companies, including Pfizer PFE 0.832854681217691% Pfizer Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD35.11 0.29 0.832854681217691% /Date(1472504410911-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14839795 AFTER HOURS USD35.11 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 285090 P/E Ratio 31.07079646017699 Market Cap 212965040347.688 Dividend Yield 3.417829678154372% Rev. per Employee 534076 More quote details and news » (PFE) and General Electric GE 0.41626641050272173% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE USD31.36 0.13 0.41626641050272173% /Date(1472504434197-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20921182 AFTER HOURS USD31.32 -0.0399999999999992 -0.12755102040816327% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 327672 P/E Ratio 22.982777574203006 Market Cap 281024284844.503 Dividend Yield 2.933673469387755% Rev. per Employee 381222 More quote details and news » (GE).
One sticking point: Apple generates an estimated 30% of its profits in the U.S. A 40% payout ratio would require it to repatriate foreign earnings and pay taxes on them, dip into its domestic cash reserves of $43 billion–the other $94 billion is overseas–or sell debt. Sacconaghi says Apple should consider selling $50 billion of debt—enough to repurchase more than 10% of its 947 million outstanding shares or double its dividend for five years. Apple's debt cost would be low, at under 2%, for a combination of 5-year and 10-year bonds. Most other major techs carry debt. Microsoft has $14 billion, against $68 billion in cash and marketable securities.
Apple was noncommittal on dividend and buyback increases in its earnings conference call Wednesday. Said CFO Peter Oppenheimer: "We do consider increasing these programs, and we'll do what we think is in the best interests of shareholders." He pointed out that Apple is committed to returning $45 billion to holders over the next three fiscal years. That's not a lot, however, for a company earning more than $40 billion annually.
The Bottom Line
To lift its stock, Apple will have to be more shareholder-friendly. A big dividend hike would be best, says analyst Toni Sacconaghi, because it would provide an ongoing benefit.
Other techs, including Intel INTC 0.8224617129892229% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD35.55 0.29 0.8224617129892229% /Date(1472504400362-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13613702 AFTER HOURS USD35.55 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1650598 P/E Ratio 17.17391304347826 Market Cap 168187046390.533 Dividend Yield 2.9254571026722926% Rev. per Employee 527624 More quote details and news » (INTC), Microsoft, and Cisco Systems csco 0.733652312599681% Cisco Systems Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD31.58 0.23 0.733652312599681% /Date(1472504400253-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19574486 AFTER HOURS USD31.52 -0.0599999999999987 -0.18999366687777075% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1527243 P/E Ratio 14.89622641509434 Market Cap 158838301862.357 Dividend Yield 3.293223559214693% Rev. per Employee 685576 More quote details and news » (CSCO), have higher dividends. And Apple's P/E ratio is below those of Cisco, Google and IBM. IBM 0.8842849924204144% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD159.72 1.4 0.8842849924204144% /Date(1472504531061-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2318594 AFTER HOURS USD159.72 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 157285 P/E Ratio 12.92128468570504 Market Cap 152667403910.942 Dividend Yield 3.506135737540696% Rev. per Employee 212467 More quote details and news » IBM, which has had minimal revenue growth in the past year, boasts a higher P/E than Apple, in part because investors like its aggressive buybacks, which account for a good chunk of its per-share earnings gains.
There are legitimate concerns about Apple. For one, it may have lost smartphone market share in the December quarter, and profits in this fiscal year may be flat with last year's $44.15 a share. But there are promising developments, too, including possible new products, such as much-discussed Apple TV and a lower-priced iPhone that might draw new customers. Says David Rolfe, chief investment officer of Wedgewood Partners, a Missouri investment firm that holds the stock: "Apple is a broken growth stock, but it's not a broken growth company."
Still, broken growth stocks tend to trade at low valuations. When Apple was the world's biggest growth story, dividends didn't matter. Now they do.
Getting Little Respect
Despite still having strong earnings, tons of cash, and a reputation for innovation, Apple trades at a lower valuation than a number of other big technology companies.
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|Cisco Systems / CSCO**
|Google / GOOG
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|E=Estimate. *Sept. fiscal year end. **July fiscal year end. ***June fiscal year end.
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Skip to comments.The heat is on
Posted on 09/10/2006 12:35:39 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
The uncertainty surrounding climate change argues for action, not inaction. America should lead the way
FOR most of the Earth's history, the planet has been either very cold, by our standards, or very hot. Fifty million years ago there was no ice on the poles and crocodiles lived in Wyoming. Eighteen thousand years ago there was ice two miles thick in Scotland and, because of the size of the ice sheets, the sea level was 130m lower. Ice-core studies show that in some places dramatic changes happened remarkably swiftly: temperatures rose by as much as 20°C in a decade. Then, 10,000 years ago, the wild fluctuations stopped, and the climate settled down to the balmy, stable state that the world has enjoyed since then. At about that time, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, mankind started to progress.
Man-made greenhouse gases now threaten this stability. Climate change is complicated and uncertain, but, as our survey this week explains, the underlying calculation is fairly straightforward. The global average temperature is expected to increase by between 1.4°C and 5.8°C this century. The bottom end of the range would make life a little more comfortable for northern areas and a little less pleasant for southern ones. Anything much higher than that could lead to catastrophic rises in sea levels, increases in extreme weather events such as hurricanes, flooding and drought, falling agricultural production and, perhaps, famine and mass population movement.
Nobody knows which is likelier, for the climate is a system of almost infinite complexity. Predicting how much hotter a particular level of carbon dioxide will make the world is impossible. It's not just that the precise effect of greenhouse gases on temperature is unclear. It's also that warming has countless indirect effects. It may set off mechanisms that tend to cool things down (clouds which block out sunlight, for instance) or ones that heat the world further (by melting soils in which greenhouse gases are frozen, for instance). The system could right itself or spin out of human control.
This uncertainty is central to the difficulty of tackling the problem. Since the costs of climate change are unknown, the benefits of trying to do anything to prevent it are, by definition, unclear. What's more, if they accrue at all, they will do so at some point in the future. So is it really worth using public resources now to avert an uncertain, distant risk, especially when the cash could be spent instead on goods and services that would have a measurable near-term benefit?
If the risk is big enough, yes. Governments do it all the time. They spend a small slice of tax revenue on keeping standing armies not because they think their countries are in imminent danger of invasion but because, if it happened, the consequences would be catastrophic. Individuals do so too. They spend a little of their incomes on household insurance not because they think their homes are likely to be torched next week but because, if it happened, the results would be disastrous. Similarly, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the risk of a climatic catastrophe is high enough for the world to spend a small proportion of its income trying to prevent one from happening.
And the slice of global output that would have to be spent to control emissions is probably not huge. The cost differential between fossil-fuel-generated energy and some alternatives is already small, and is likely to come down. Economists trying to guess the ultimate cost of limiting carbon dioxide concentrations to 550 parts per million or below (the current level is 380ppm, 450ppm is reckoned to be ambitious and 550ppm liveable with) struggle with uncertainties too. Some models suggest there would be no cost; others that global output could be as much as 5% lower by the end of the century than if there were no attempt to control emissions. But most estimates are at the low endbelow 1%.
What Kyoto did The Kyoto protocol, which tried to get the world's big polluters to commit themselves to cutting emissions to 1990 levels or below, was not a complete failure. European Union countries and Japan will probably hit their targets, even if Canada does not. Kyoto has also created a global market in carbon reduction, which allows emissions to be cut relatively efficiently. But it will not have much impact on emissions, and therefore on the speed of climate change, because it does not require developing countries to cut their emissions, and because America did not ratify it.
The United States is the world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases, though not for long. Every year China is building power-generating capacity almost equivalent to Britain's entire stock, almost all of it burning coalthe dirtiest fuel. It will shortly overtake America, and India is not far behind. Developing countries argue, quite reasonably, that, since the rich world created the problem, it must take the lead in solving it. So, if America continues to refuse to do anything to control its emissions, developing countries won't do anything about theirs. If America takes action, they just might.
Two measures are needed. One is an economic tool which puts a price on emitting greenhouse gases. That could be a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, such as Europe's Emissions-Trading Scheme, which limits how much producers can emit, and lets them buy and sell emissions credits. Ideally, politicians would choose the more efficient carbon tax, which implies a relatively stable price that producers can build into their investment plans. The more volatile cap-and-trade system, however, is easier to sell to producers, who can get free allowances when the scheme is introduced.
Either of these schemes should decrease the use of fossil fuels and increase the use of alternatives. In doing so, they are bound to raise energy prices. To keep down price rises, and thus ease the political process, governments should employ a second tool: spending to help promising new technologies get to market. Carbon sequestration, which offers the possibility of capturing carbon produced by dirty power stations and storing it underground, is a prime candidate.
Although George Bush now argues that America needs to wean itself off its dependency on oil, his administration still refuses to take serious action. But other Americans are moving. California's state assembly has just passed tough Kyoto-style targets. Many businesses, fearing that they will end up having to deal with a patchwork of state-level measures, now want federal controls. And conservative America, once solidly sceptical, is now split over the issue, as Christians concerned about mankind's stewardship of the Earth, neo-cons keen to reduce America's dependency on the Middle East and farmers who see alternative energy as a new potential source of energy come round to the idea of cutting down on carbon.
Mr Bush has got two years left in the job. He would like to be remembered as a straightshooter who did the right thing. Tackling climate change would be one way to do that.
I am suprised they allowed that second paragraph to go to print. They took a survey?
It goes downhill from there
But the first paragraph is a keeper.
I take that back. I just reread that first one and it wont fly either. Why would a "serious" paper allow this garbage?
I do, I do.
It's $4.00 an hour because Pascal is an illegal!
This ALL about partisan politics and economics (as in destroying the economies of the West) and nothing about science.
Twenty years ago the same quality of "scientists" were telling us we were absolutely causing a brand new ice age--and they were just as positive about that as they are about global warming.
Check out some of the global warming sales groups like that group of "Concerned Scientists". See how many of their "scientists" have degrees in Library Science, Psychology, Sociology, etc. and how few in the hard sciences.
Are you aware that over 17,000 REAL scientists have signed a petition questioning the authenticity of the science re: global warming?
I disagree. Having a strong economy is the key to our security. That is how we won WWII and how we defeated the Soviet Union.
The most important thing for our economy is the use of the most economical source of energy. Right now that is oil. Doesn't matter if it comes from Saudi or Alaska or Nigeria.
No, paying for a more expensive fuel while others use a more economical one is not good for our security. Producing our own resources would be good for our security. Instead we let environmentalists and democrats hold us hostage while we fund our enemies.
It also coincides with an exponential increase in the number of humans that die every year. So, clearly, human death causes global warming. It also coincides with an exponential decrease in the number of pirates in the world. So, clearly, piracy was keeping global warming in check.
Association isn't causation, my FRiend.
"Reading comprehension my FRiend.' - how about a bit of historical comprehension?
The "minor" changes which have occurred resulted in Greenland going from a place where Vikings lived in a grazing based farm system to a frozen wasteland.
To assume that man can control climate reminds me of what Robert Ardrey called the "Illusion of Central Position". It is a reference to the infantile assumption that the world revolves around the infant.
Perhaps Ardrey was correct when he said that many of the Liberal delusions can be traced to arrested development and retention of the Illusion of Central Position into adulthood.
"Fifty million years ago there was no ice on the poles and crocodiles lived in Wyoming."
Fifty million years ago Wyoming would have been on the equator.
The liberal mindset at its finest.
"The fact that it is happening about 100 times faster than naturally and coincides with an exponential increase in CO2 in the atmosphere which just so happened to coincide with an exponential increase in human burning of fossil fuels is what leads me to believe that humans are affecting the change to some degree."
There's correlation, yes, but not necessarily causation.
For example, humans first started developing agriculture at the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution. At this time, humans started living in permanent settlements and finally gained control of their food supply, which led to a skyrocketing of the human population. Now, hominids have been using fire since Homo Habilis, but never in the numbers that our Neolithic ancestors did. The rate of usage of firewood jumped enormously at that time.
The time period in question also corresponded to a dramatic rise in Earth's temperatures and the receding of the glaciers. Could the increased prevalence of fire use by Man have dumped enough CO2 into the atmosphere to perhaps trigger the end of the last Ice Age?
Uh. No.
Because Earth's climate exhibits a bi-stable state, like the author describes (i.e. either very hot or very cold, never in between), then the transition from one state to the other HAS to be fast. It would be fast with or without our intervention, regardless of whether we try to help it along or try to hold it back.
We would do much, much better to allocate our hard-won intelligence to trying to figure out how to live in the soon-to-be warmer planet, rather than bickering about why it's happening or, even worse, exerting Herculean but ultimately futile efforts to stop it.
Humans thinking that they can adjust the gasses in the atmosphere by ANY MEANS is arrogant.. Just ONE volcano will change it again..
We don't know for certain. Right now, based on evidence we've accumulated, we believe that we're in a rare temperate plateau between normally hot and cold extremes, and that we're accelerating in a slide towards the hot state.
This is all based on large amounts of inference. It could be completely wrong, but right now it matches the accumulated evidence to the best of our ability to compare and analyze.
Of course, just because you know your world model may be faulty, doesn't mean you should live your life catering to the possible faultiness. In other words, just because you can hedge your bets on your belief doesn't mean you should hedge your actions. I recognize that there's an outside chance that I may be hallucinating the chair in front of my computer desk right now, but I'm still going to sit on it without even pausing. :)
Are you saying you don't understand a changing environment and evolutionary changes thereof?
Why would wood smoke be cleaner?
The city of Spokane, located in a broad valley and troubled occasionally by temperature inversions, often on such occasions bans heating with wood stoves, of which there are many in that city, or imposes regulations requiring what is called "clean" burning, which, as I understand the matter, is detectable by the visual density/color of the smoke emitted. This is done for air quality considerations (i.e., human health, livability), not because of the Global Warming Syndrome.
(I don't live in Spokane, but nearby in Idaho and every day get news from Spokane TV)
The result, in the case of large glaciers, can depend on whether the ice has accumulated on land or on(in) water.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov is chief of the Space Exploration Department of the Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the supervisor of the Astrometria project of the Russian part of the International Space Station, Doctor of Physical Sciences.
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Solar Cycle 25 peaking around 2022 could be one of the weakest in centuries.
May 10, 2006: The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "It's off the bottom of the charts," he says. "This has important repercussions for future solar activity."
The Great Conveyor Belt is a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the Sun. It has two branches, north and south, each taking about 40 years to perform one complete circuit. Researchers believe the turning of the belt controls the sunspot cycle, and that's why the slowdown is important.
Right: The sun's "Great Conveyor Belt" in profile.
"Normally, the conveyor belt moves about 1 meter per secondwalking pace," says Hathaway. "That's how it has been since the late 19th century." In recent years, however, the belt has decelerated to 0.75 m/s in the north and 0.35 m/s in the south. "We've never seen speeds so low."
According to theory and observation, the speed of the belt foretells the intensity of sunspot activity ~20 years in the future. A slow belt means lower solar activity; a fast belt means stronger activity. The reasons for this are explained in the Science@NASA story Solar Storm Warning.
"The slowdown we see now means that Solar Cycle 25, peaking around the year 2022, could be one of the weakest in centuries," says Hathaway.
This is interesting news for astronauts. Solar Cycle 25 is when the Vision for Space Exploration should be in full flower, with men and women back on the Moon preparing to go to Mars. A weak solar cycle means they won't have to worry so much about solar flares and radiation storms.
Above: In red, David Hathaway's predictions for the next two solar cycles and, in pink, Mausumi Dikpati's prediction for cycle 24.
On the other hand, they will have to worry more about cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from deep space; they penetrate metal, plastic, flesh and bone. Astronauts exposed to cosmic rays develop an increased risk of cancer, cataracts and other maladies. Ironically, solar explosions, which produce their own deadly radiation, sweep away the even deadlier cosmic rays. As flares subside, cosmic rays intensifyyin, yang.
Hathaway's prediction should not be confused with another recent forecast: A team led by physicist Mausumi Dikpata of NCAR has predicted that Cycle 24, peaking in 2011 or 2012, will be intense. Hathaway agrees: "Cycle 24 will be strong. Cycle 25 will be weak. Both of these predictions are based on the observed behavior of the conveyor belt."
How do you observe a belt that plunges 200,000 km below the surface of the sun?
"We do it using sunspots," Hathaway explains. Sunspots are magnetic knots that bubble up from the base of the conveyor belt, eventually popping through the surface of the sun. Astronomers have long known that sunspots have a tendency to driftfrom mid solar latitudes toward the sun's equator. According to current thinking, this drift is caused by the motion of the conveyor belt. "By measuring the drift of sunspot groups," says Hathaway, "we indirectly measure the speed of the belt."
Right: Hathaway monitors the speed of the Conveyor Belt by plotting the drift of sunspot groups from high to low solar latitude. This plot is called "the Butterfly Diagram." The tilt of the wings reveal the speed of the Conveyor Belt. [More]
Using historical sunspot records, Hathaway has succeeded in clocking the conveyor belt as far back as 1890. The numbers are compelling: For more than a century, "the speed of the belt has been a good predictor of future solar activity."
If the trend holds, Solar Cycle 25 in 2022 could be, like the belt itself, "off the bottom of the charts."
Thanks for the "ping".
From the article, I gather that "The Economist" needs a new "science editor".
The following excerpts are especially goofy:
"...Then, 10,000 years ago, the wild fluctuations stopped, and the climate settled down to [a] balmy, stable state..."
[Tell that to the Greenland's Viking settlers!]
"...Climate change is complicated and uncertain...climate is a system of almost infinite complexity. Predicting how much hotter a particular level of carbon dioxide will make the world is impossible....the precise effect of greenhouse gases on temperature is unclear...The system could right itself or spin out of human control [HUMAN control? LOL!!]...This uncertainty is central to the difficulty of tackling the problem. Since the costs of climate change are unknown, the benefits of trying to do anything to prevent it are, by definition, unclear..."
"The uncertainty surrounding climate change argues for action, not inaction."
[Yes, indeedy, let's do SOMETHING so we can all "feel" self-righteous!]
"...The Kyoto protocol...was not a complete failure...[because]...Kyoto... created a...market in carbon...which allows emissions to be cut...But it will not have much impact on emissions, and therefore on the speed of climate change..." [ and the difference between "not much impact" and "failure" is?? LOL!]
"Carbon sequestration, which offers the possibility of capturing carbon produced by dirty power stations and storing it underground [but NOT in the continuing low-cost re-forestation of places like Vermont], is a prime candidate."
IMHO, if there were more "truth" to the global warming story, there would be no need for such breathless "hyping" of the issue by profit-seeking entities like "The Economist".
Indeed, I pointed out some of those problems as well.
Ultimately, it seems like regardless of the certainty or lack thereof of human involvement we are going to get action on it.
Better to have a Republican do it to minimize the impact rather than a leftist who will maximize the power-grab.
I think we have a difference in opinion of whether it is better for America if Republicans:
(1) Cooperate with Democrats to enact harsh "Environmental Laws" or
(2) Resist (perhaps futilely) efforts by Democrats to enact harsh "Environmental Laws".
I believe that Republican cooperation with Democrats on this issue, will:
(a) result in harsher, more damaging environmental laws because conceding [in error] that a "global warming problem" actually exists will also concede "leadership" to the Democrats on this political issue and
(b) mean that Republicans will have to share the blame when those harsh laws cause massive job losses in the US -- while doing nothing at all to effect either CO2 levels or global temperatures. Moreover, this "shared blame" will make it harder for Republicans to use the "I told you so" argument to rally support to repeal those damaging "feel-good" laws.
As they say: "Sleep with dogs, catch fleas."
Agreed, to an extent. I wholly agree that allocating the quantities of mankind's effort to the kind of reforms that the environmentalists advocate is a huge, huge mistake, especially if they intend to put the power of government (i.e. the use of force) behind them.
Rather, I take a quintessentially capitalistic approach to this whole thing. If you really believe that the Earth is warming, then rather than screaming your head off like a little sissy about it, invest in beachfront property in Nevada. Buy futures in tropical-friendly foodcrops. Sell off your time-share in Honolulu. Put your money where your mouth is!
The whole point of having a human brain is to use it, with some modicum of reliability, to predict the future. You can't guarantee that the sun will rise tomorrow, but that's certainly the way to bet! You don't know that winter will follow fall this year - maybe some heretofore unknown gravitational wave of gargantuan proportions will fling the Earth backwards in its orbit! - but fall is still when you should harvest and store your crops.
So, insofar as we can use our brain to process the information of our senses, some people "know" that the Earth's temperature is rising. And if that's their knowledge, then they should damn well act on that knowledge, just as someone who knows that winter is coming should start harvesting their crops in fall.
P.S. Interesting articles about that Russian guy and about the solar storm cycle!
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Q: What role did Greek mythology and Homeric poetry play in creating a lasting conception of the Mediterranean?
A: The seas described in Homer's Odyssey are a strange amalgam of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, of east and west. Circe the sorceress seems to live in the east, where the sun rises, while Scylla and Charybdis are often identified with the straits between Sicily and mainland Italy.
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Q: Beyond the historical, military significance of the Mediterranean, what happened culturally that we tend to overlook?
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"A comprehensive, fair-minded history." -- The National Interest
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January 22nd, 2008, 05:29 PM
Here you go guys and gals...post 'em if you got 'em
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Here you go guys and gals...post 'em if you got 'em
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Look Mommy, now she doesn't look so much like the mailman. :D :D :D
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Here's the marker you were looking for. . . . .I just found her like this:noidea: . . .grandma must have taught her how to put on makeup:D
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How Alice Cooper really got his start
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(pardon the Pokemon reference....)
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(pardon the Pokemon reference....)
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you like...totally lost me...dude
Jigglypuff is a Pokemon that likes to sing.... but unfortunately whenever it sings, it puts everyone around it to sleep. Once it finishes singing, it looks around, sees everyone asleep, and then it gets angry and doodles on people's faces with a permanent marker.
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January 24th, 2008, 01:29 AM
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I had installed this on a blog to help me choose only three categories to appear in a sidebar widget. I've entered all of the category ids I want to exclude (comma delimited, as specified in the default usage link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories) and I've entered all the category ids for the ones I wanted to include. I still get the entire list of categories.
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The Red Cross blood donation bus is in Port Pirie today and is heading to Balaklava and Whyalla next week.
Recent critical shortages of blood mean that every donation is greatly appreciated.
The Red Cross says that each donation of blood made, can help save up to three lives.
Kylie Meznar from the Red Cross says it's always harder to get enough donations in the winter months.
"This time of year being winter is always particularly challenging time for us", says Ms Meznar.
"Whenever the cold season hits it's always harder to find healthy donors," she added.
The blood bus will be at Northern Festival Centre in Port Pirie taking blood donations today Thursday July 10th and tomorrow.
"Today we've extended our session to 2.30 this afternoon in Port Pirie," Kylie Meznar told North and West Mornings.
The blood bus will be at the Whyalla Oasis Ballroom next week from July 14th onwards.
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