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Obama's Former Foreign Policy Adviser Said – In 1997 – that the U.S. Had to Gain Control of Ukraine
Neoconservatives planned regime change throughout the Middle East and North Africa 20 years ago. Robert Parry correctly points out that the Neocons have successfully "weathered the storm" of disdain after their Iraq war fiasco.
But the truth is that Obama has long done his best to try to implement those Neocon plans.
Similarly, ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the U.S. has pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran.
In 1997, Obama's former foreign affairs adviser, and president Jimmy Carter's national security adviser – Zbigniew Brzezinski – wrote a book called The Grand Chessboard arguing arguing that the U.S. had to take control of Ukraine (as well as Azerbaijan, South Korea, Turkey and Iran) because they were "critically important geopolitical pivots".
Regarding Ukraine, Brzezinski said (hat tip Chris Ernesto):
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.
And now Obama is pushing us into a confrontation with Russia over Ukraine and the Crimea.
As Ernesto notes:
Late last year when Ukraine's now-ousted president Viktor Yanukovych surprisingly canceled plans for Ukrainian integration into the European Union in favor of stronger ties with Russia, the US may have viewed Ukraine as slipping even further out of its reach.
At that point, with the pieces already in place, the US moved to support the ousting of Yanukovych, as evidenced by the leaked phone conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland [arch-Neocon Robert Kagan's wife] and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. When peaceful protests were not effective in unseating Yanukovych, the violence of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party and Right Sector was embraced, if not supported by the west.
In today's Ukraine, the US runs the risk of being affiliated with anti-Semitic neo-Nazis, a prospect it probably feels can be controlled via a friendly western media. But even if the risk is high, the US likely views it as necessary given the geopolitical importance of Ukraine, as Brzezinski mapped out in 1997.
In other words, Obama is following the same old playbook that the Neocons have been pushing for more than a decade.
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Dudes with heavy European accents that have a lot of sway in US politics scare the shit out of me. Brzezinski, Soros and Kissinger. The triumvirate of economic and foreign policy death.
Again, the ZH drones revert to chatter about anything but the topic. So when is the new season of Game of Thrones starting?
Brzezinski is the epitome of everything wrong in America, him and Henry "do them quickly" Kissinger. I wonder if they ever have nightmares or if they sleep soundly like little psycopathic babies. This man brags about sucking the Soviets into Afghanistan and giving them "their Vietnam" as one of his greatest accomplishments. A million dead civilians is his greatest accomplishment. Wonder where a third world war will rank in his list of accomplishments.
Anybody notice in the new brad Pitt movie " wwz" that the entity that took control over the crisis was the UN AND the only country to "see it coming" was Israel,?
Revelation of the method... Cocky indeed ....
Try this on.... the world is faced with a disease, "Islam" and Israel has been fighting it for years. Israel has the walls and security checks points. Islam gets loose in the world and starts to take over civilization. It even bypasses the sick people, (muslim converts) but can't seem to be stopped. What stops it? A big dose of logic in the form of a vaccine.
Islam is the cancer of our world. It cannot be stopped without people becoming savages like the them. We cannot negotiate with people that believe that we are infidels and must convert or die. Negotiations are used to buy them time while they continue to kill.
"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East."
— John Sheehan, S.J
You should head over to Fox news.
And stay there.
yawn- when Congress prostrates themselves to "Islam" like they do to AIPAC and makes pilgrimages to Mecca instead of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to profess their undying love then I will believe it. Shouldn't you be tucked into bed by now with a nice, dry Depends on Rupert?
WWZ felt like a movie that was uncomfortable with its own overt propoganda as the audience was.
Was a grand bucket of shite that.
Too bad, the book, as usual, was great.
The more I think about this, especially in light of Brzeinsky, these bastards are probably back dooring something, something more than Venezuela. For some reason Obo's recently publicized comment to Isreal keeps coming to mind.... something to the effect "we are running out of time". Maybe Iran... Putin best be watching his 6.
I read that book a long time ago, would be reading it again if I wasn't in the process of moving. The thing I remember being emphasized the most was.... it's all about the Balkans. But we already knew this guy was a Project for a New American Century nutter.... sieze mars basically killed it with his comment. Oops Balkans not istans.
Brzezinski writes of the need "to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together".
"Keep the barbarians from coming together" means Sowing Discord by such actions as violent regime change in nations (such as those in Africa) with investments from nations such as China, or merely a military presence (in Afghanistan) between China and the energy resources of the Middle East.
And if Dante's Inferno is to be believed, Sowers of Discord end up in the Eighth Circle of Hell, which is where Obama and Brzezinski are bound to be sent along with the likes of Winston Churchill and the other British elites whose "balance of power" machinations fomented war among Europe's peoples for decades.
Zbig's renowned intellect is, imho, greatly over-rated. The only tool he has is militarism, therefore every problem requires a military intervention.
Russia is a natural ally. We should be buying their gas and oil and they should be buying our corn, beef, and "Who Farted?" t-shirts. A natural ally unless, of course, your political ideology calls for a one world dictatorship and war diplomacy.
Fuck Zbig and all those whose lack of intellect and creativity guarantees endless, useless death and violence and misallocation of resources to the machines of death and violence - and the rule of those who profit from it all.
"Russia... ...they should be buying our corn, beef"
there is a little problem with that. google Russia+gmo and you'll find that Russians are thinking about banning all GMO Food in their territories
meanwhile the US AgriBiz lobby is foaming from their collective mouths because the EU concession in the current transatlantic trade pact could look like a green light to import though with labeling
they seriously, seriously don't like labeling. perhaps it has something to do with "freedom to choose"
FOX News, lately, had a fit about what SNAP recipients should be allowed to buy. my impression was that they imply there are two sorts of food, those fit for humans and those fit for...
"Pivots" f'n Brzezinski should hurry up and die.
I'd like to seem him change a McPhearson Strut. The bastard never worked on anything his whole life. He found out we're stupid enough to pay him for what he says! Now if only that would stop acting on his steaming pile of shit words.
"For the past 18 months, I have been quite clear on one point. The establishment of martial law in the United States will precede any global conflict. The people and the resources of the United States must be secured and its people must be controlled prior to the roll out of the draft and total warfare."
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The best laid plans of the mice will fail with a mouse as President.
He does everything he is told to do by the PTB and, so far, he has been i rip-roaring success in pursuing the plans of the PNAC, so how can you say he has failed?
Have you ever heard of Wesley Clark? Shortly before retiring from the Pentagon he saw a written plan to destroy 7 countries in 5 years ... Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iran from memory.
So tell me how Obomber has failed to do the bidding of those who own him?
Currently he is being told what to say about Ukraine. Are you really still as naive as to believe that he has a mind of his own?
Ah, but Barry is a puppet. Look instead at those pulling his strings...
a little dated, but still a bare knuckle introduction to the puppeteers:
not a puppet, a publicist:
Both and consumate liar, a prerequisite for POTUS ... and not forgetting sociopathic narcissist, because that makes him immune to criticism and any change in him anyone could believe.
Neat trick on the part of the psychopaths who really run the Empire, e.g. Obomber cops all the flak from the lumpenproletariat - which just slides off him - whilst those with real power keep hidden and unaffected.
I would soooo hit Mika Brzezinski. She would be a cray cray lay.
It shoulda' read "I would sooooo hit Mika Brezinski and Robin Meade at the same time. That would be an awesome great lay, analogous to this whole crazy East vs West thing going on between Putin and Obama."
That way, you seem to stay on topic and it adds an air of sophistication to your otherwise irrelevant comment.
Just my thoughts on the matter, though.
Hot yes. But she has that sexless short hair going. Frigid IMO.
And to think Brzezinski was one of Jimmy Carter's boys....
Jimmy was one of Brzezinski's bitches... ;o)
the Russians would rather save 50 billion invest it in their military rather than the Crimean Gubmint, cuz honestly Crimea is obviously worth way more than they were paying for it
Crimea was a steal bitchez
"...the U.S. has pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran."
No, they offered up that as an excuse to steal trillions and kill millions more.
"My guillotine has three blades--Sharp, dull, really dull."
We're introducing some new varations on the theme to our line of high-performance guillotines.
Things like 'face up' client placement and webcam connectivity...it's the age of the 'Internet of Things'.
Your idea on edge options is good, though. I'll bring that up at the engineering meeting tomorrow...
is there some law that they have to go in head first? what, is it like in the constitution?
First of all, Brzezinski is a genius, and also a first class asshole. I read the Grand Chessboard, and in my opinion, it is about 90% smokescreen. He gives about two sentences of attention to Isreal's role in the world, and that's idiotic. He's much too smart to believe that.
Now, as for this:
In today's Ukraine, the US runs the risk of being affiliated with anti-Semitic neo-Nazis, a prospect it probably feels can be controlled via a friendly western media.
The US/UK empire doesn't give a fuck who it is seen as supporting. For God's sake they give money and arms to al-Qaeda in Syria, and then tell us that we must...um, "fight them" al over the world. They are obviously lazy, sloppy and so brazen that they just don't give a fuck. What are you going to do about it, not pay your income tax?
These are the same people who published a birth certificate so badly forged that a fucking high schooler could detect the Adobe layering.
"...controlled via a friendly western media."
Their propaganda is failing Mars, the jig is up. The West has been totally demoralized by the tribal media's over use of lies.
And meanwhile they are desperately trying to paint skepticism, dissent and whistle-blowers as the enemy of freedumb.
But not many people are buying that any more, and those that do, are mostly just doing it to maintain their station in that shitfest.
Some music to wash it all down.
Media control, banking control, and control of elite universities...
Its happened before, it will happen again
Unless and until "diversity" is extended to the media, banks, and a 2% group getting 20% of slots is also finally understood to not be 'diverse'.
Ahh yes, ignoring the zionists in world affairs is a huge tell.
we're right to worry about Muslim extremists - of course the "blowback" theory as to our support of Israel, something explicitly mentioned by Khalid and bin Laden themselves, was dismissed from discussion -why - because it reflected badly on Israel, and the media is practically speaking controlled by a rule about not implicating Israel. The horrors is visits on Arabs in the WB goes virtually unreported - in an Orwellian twist only possible due to Jewish power, advocating economic boycotts, even just for settlement products, is twisted as "anti-semitic" - as if it is racism to protest Jewish/Israeli racism.
But we should also be worried about End of the Worlders of all stripes, including our fucktard "Christian" Zionists and very much including Ultra Orthodox and messianic Jews
It's too bad that there's no way for the sane, secular people of the world to innoculate themselves from the religious nuts. They divide us from each other because when the chips are down, 90% of people will side with their own groups whackjobs against the 'other' side's whackjobs.
Zbig is a very well connected spider in a network that's been existing for at least the last 100 years. And you're right, he is a genius - we're talking abotu the guy who orchestrated the fall of the USSR, through the Jesuit Bankers of God, his native Polish Solidarnost etc. Which only means the plan has been laid out for much longer than it's official publication in The Grand Chessboard in '97.
Considering The Tribe's actions nowadays taking place out in the open, I don't know if it's hubris or if they really control every aspect of life. Let's see the facts, they own every major MSM propaganda vendor, they're continuously culling the herd through the educational system, have them drugged with SSRI's and fluoride in the water and the circuses have never stopped so they have the sheeple entertained.
The critical mass awaken to the cruel reality is too low; anything below 5% of the total population is insignificant in instigating any changes. Yeah, TPTB is riding the fuckin' wave...
All neocons speak on behalf of the Globalist order first and Israel second. They do not have allegiance to party but rather to their ideology. They dragged Busch into Iraq, wasted $4 trillion of borrowed money, helped to kill or wound 20,000+ US military personnel, untold number of Iraqis, and enabled a weak, untested Democrat to be elected President of the US as a reaction to sheer disgust by the American public to Bush war and economic policies. They are a scourge on the American political process. They have infiltrated key policy, governance and financial positions within the government bureaucracy.
They are the undead of the American political process, with unlimited resources contributed to them by the Davos Globalist crowd in order to control American Foreign Relations and Military Power for their benefit.
Incorrect. Neoconservatives, who are mostly Jews, is basically proxy Zionism. the problem is any old militarism, including neoclassical realism, is just called 'neocon'. Zbig is not a "neocon". Perle, Feith, Kristol, Kagan, Wurmser...are.
As to why they dragged us to war, see the Oded Yinon plan. Jewish neocons literally created an agency to fake evidence to get us into an Iraq war. I know something about this. The same crew has fabricated evidence, mostly amateurish, to try to lie us into iran (e.g. laptop of death, saudi amb. Plot)
There are certainly more kinds of militarists than just the neocons, but the neocons tend to be anti-putin because of his suppirt for iran^syria^hez. and because he largely frustrated the theft of Russia's wealth by mostly Jewish oligarchs, many of whom have deep ties to Israel and to western NGOs.
N was in Silicon Valley this past week promoting 150 ongoing Israeli company JVs. Divesting ourselves of AIPAC's a great idea but it will never happen. What do you want to bet our govt is providing the majority of the seed and Series A funding for them as well thru dark channels/Fed affiliated banks?
i only read the article to confirm that the headline referred to brezinski. these neocon totalitarians must be stamped out and the first place to start is by divesting ourselves entirely of israel. israel is a sworn enemy of the united states and will destroy us if we continue to support it and fight its wars.
Sorry but you are too late, mate!
First the Ashkenazi's colonised the USA; then they set about creating the "State of Israel".
The State of Israel is a tool of the US, not the other way around. It is a weapons development and testing laboratory, as well as a proving ground for mass-incarceration, abduction and torture techniques. The "history" of its creation serves to abrogate it of any blame - after all, that would be raycis ;o)
Or you may beg to differ?
17 years of planning and this is the best the US came up with? #winning
Yeah, no shit. "So much for the whole tolerance and brotherhood of man" bullshit. Let's make sure everyone has a gun (check) and then let's put them in a place where they feel they have to use it (check.)
Heck of a way to run an economy.
Thanks for this GW. One would hope by now that such reminders are not necessary, yet of course they are. It is so difficult for the average American to imagine the agents of his government involved in persistent pernicious meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
Yet it is so.
Obama is not pushing us into anything except watching him play golf. The bilderboogercons are a different matter.


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Fleckvieh Genetics East Africa (FGEA) imported the German breed from South Africa where it has faired well in cold and hot climates. In Kenya, the cow has taken off quickly, now numbering hundreds, around Malindi, which is arid, and in the chillier Central Province region.
On its first lactation, Fleckvieh produces 25 litres daily and between the second and third lactation it reaches optimum milk production of 40 litres. That places Fleckvieh in the category of high producing dairy breeds like Friesian. At its peak the Friesian produces 25 to 50 litres from its first to optimum lactation period. Even when the Fleckvieh is sick, the lowest the milk production will fall is 15 litres.
In Kenya, "the daily national average of Friesian is 25 litres," said Dr HK Wamukuru of Central Artificial Insemination Station at Kabete.
At the same time, Fleckvieh butter/fat content in milk is higher than that of either the Ayrshire or Friesian breeds. Across the various Fleckvieh cross breeds, the lowest butter/fat content is 3.97 percent - where that of pure Ayrshire's is 3.8 per cent and Friesian's is 3.5 per cent - making the newly imported cattle a stronger option for farmers interested in value addition butter processing.
Its milk also has lower numbers of somatic cells compared to other dairy breeds, meaning that it is less prone to Mastitis, the udder disease, and that milk lasts longer without refrigeration. Without chilling, "Fleckvieh milk last 24 hours before spoiling," said Peter Omoga of FGEA, compared to 7 to 10 hours for other daily breeds.
In addition, "its tough skin makes it resistant to tsetse fly attacks," he said.
For beef farmers, Fleckvieh accumulates more body mass faster than other beef and dairy breeds. "In six months a calf can weigh 300kgs," said Omoga. Yet its daily average consumption of feed is 40kg, while a Friesian breed can daily feed on 70kgs. The difference is genetic.
Fleckvieh is able to sustain its larger body mass on less feed because its body absorbs more of the food. "Its dung is less than for other breeds" said Omoga.
When pure Fleckvieh is crossbred with local beef or daily breeds, it's able to pass over 75 per cent of these genetic attributes to the offspring, where the general benchmark for heifers passing on genetic attributes to offspring is 50 per cent.
With a price tag of Sh250, 000 or more, the heifer nonetheless remains out of reach for most Kenyan farmers. However FGEA offers crossbreed services that cost from Sh800 to Sh4000, with the most costly inseminations pasing on 75 per cent of the Fleckvieh's advantages.


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He started his elementary education at Achimota Primary school and continued this level at his hometown. He had his "O" and "A" level education at Ghana Secondary School, Tamale and proceeded to the University of Ghana where he obtained a degree in History in 1981.
In 1986, he graduated from the School of Communication Studies, Legon. He pursued a two-year special post-graduate programme at the Institute of Social Sciences, Moscow, where he specialized in Social Psychology.
From 1991 to 1996, he worked as the Information, Culture and Research Officer at the Embassy of Japan in Accra. He moved to Plan International, Ghana Country office as international Relations, Sponsorship Communications and Grants Manager the same year. Mr. Mahama has had additional professional training both at home and abroad.
In 1993, he participated in a course for Overseas Public Relations Staff, organized by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also participated in a management development course organized by Plan International (RESA) in Nairobi, Kenya.
He was first elected to the Parliament of Ghana in 1996 to represent the Bole/Bamboi Constituency for a four-year term.
He was appointed Deputy Minister of Communications in April 1997 and rose to become the substantive Minister of Communications in November 1998, a position he held until January 2001 when the NDC Administration handed over power to the Kufour-led government of the New Patriotic Party.
As Minister, Mr Mahama served as Chairman of the National Communications Authority. In this capacity, he played a key role in stabilizing Ghana's telecommunications sector after it was deregulated in 1997.
He served as a member of the National Economic Management team and also a member of the implementation committee of the 2000 national Population Census, and a founding member of the Ghana Aids Commission.
He also served as deputy chairman of the Publicity Committee for the re-introduction of Value Added Tax.
Mr. Mahama was re-elected in 2000 as MP for Bole/Bamboi for another four-year period. He again won the seat in 2004 for a third term. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Minority Parliamentary spokesman for Communications. In 2002, he was appointed Director of Communications for the NDC.
In 2002, Mr. Mahama was among International Observers who watched the Zimbabwe parliamentary elections.
He is a member of the UNDP Advisory Committee on Conflict Resolution in Ghana.
Mr. Mahama attended numerous conferences and won many Fellowships, including a study at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He is also a Gates Fellow. He is married to Lordina and they have four Children.
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I'm aware that the time of the season for little flats is probably still quite a few weeks away. In fact, the weather right now is cold and I heard on the news that there is snow in the forecast. However, I believe that our winter will be over before we know it and trust me I can't wait. I also know that as soon as designers and retailers start saying "Spring!" You're going to be dropping your down coat off at the dry cleaners for it's annual re-fluff in preparation for the months ahead.
Anyways, cap toes! I have a feeling they're going to be a thing next season, so why not start planning and admiring the pairs of cap toe shoes that you want. You might have to wait till May before you are able to wear them but atleast you will know which ones you want to get. Or you can just trot around your house in them when you have people of for dinner and drinks.
Here's a few reasons to cap things off next season:
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3. Two tone is always better than one.
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Attorney General Eric Holder has issued new guidelines to give prosecutors more flexibility in decisions about charges and recommending sentences in criminal cases.
The May 19 memo, released publicly today, says that prosecutors ordinarily should charge the most serious offense. It also says prosecutors should generally advocate sentences within advisory federal sentencing guidelines. It replaced previous memos from then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey, which required prosecutors to charge the most serious offenses and follow the sentencing guidelines.
"Persons who commit similar crimes and have similar culpability should, to the extent possible, be treated similarly," Holder wrote. "Accordingly, decisions regarding charging, plea agreements, and advocacy at sentencing must be made on the merits of each case. …Prosecutors must always be mindful of our duty to ensure that these decisions are made without unwarranted consideration of such factors as race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation."
The Justice Department submitted the memo to the U.S. Sentencing Commission ahead of the commission's hearing Thursday on sentencing guidelines.
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in the Booker case that federal sentencing guidelines were advisory rather than mandatory.
At the commission hearing Thursday, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Quillian Yates, speaking on behalf of the DOJ, said the ruling has left federal prosecutors sidelined in sentencing decisions, as the "only ones in the courtroom who were still acting like the guidelines were mandatory."
"This new policy recognizes the reality of post-Booker sentencing and the need for an appropriate balance of consistency and flexibility to maximize the crime-fighting impact of federal law enforcement," said Yates in prepared remarks.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) praised the new guidelines.
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PEER 1 Hosting recently released a video tour of their new, 41,000 square foot flagship datacentre located in Toronto. Geoff Ois, senior account executive, provides the behind-the-scenes tour, starting from the security fencing outside to inside the datacentre server PODs, to the secured chiller water cooling system and UPS power generator rooms. I don't know much about datacentres, so it's neat to access one virtually like this.
It looks a little like a prison, but it's still impressive and definitely state-of-the-art. See for yourself below.
Some of the more interesting facts about the datacentre:
- Able to house 30,000 servers
- Over 15,000 miles of fiber around the world
- Trees were relocated during construction ("green" purposes)
- High efficiency white membrane roof reflects UV rays and heat
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Hey all! I haven't posted in a while. I have been pretty busy with work, school and the end of my D&D campaign. So here is a little something I am sharing with you guys form the latter end of my D&D game. I created a massive puzzle dungeon for my players and put them through hell and back I have the rough sketches here with the detailed info on each section/temple. The players had to use their heads for this one as there really only was 1 or two combat encounters. The rest was all mostly brain work and skill rolls. Once I have everything posted, if you have further questions feel free to ask about it.
The other great thing about this is that I am using this dungeon as a final project for my portfolio. I am going to get the finialized versions printed in large format so that they can be used as playable battle maps. I'm expecting to pay about $80 for printing for these four maps alone. I say, it's bloody worth it! I will get some pics later of the printed versions once I have them. So check these out, and I hope you enjoy them!


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We're having talks, sometimes at length, of our translations into Swedish, Danish and Norwegian in here, and some of the talk should or must be in our first language. I think we should have our own group in which we can chat in our own languages. Most people from Sweden, Denmark and Norway can understand oneanother, at least written, so it should pose no problems. Some of the translations should also be coordinated to use the same expressions where those are the same.
So what do you think of making a Scandinavian forum along with the German and French and so on?


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Terry and Samantha were in love. They knew they were in love because they had been dating for nearly a year, loved all the same music and movies, had all the same friends and almost never fought. Terry was in Matric and only three months away from turning eighteen, Samantha had just turned sixteen.
Terry and Samantha disappeared.
They didn't do it all at once. But eventually, bit by bit, Terry and Samantha went away.
It started on a hot, lazy Saturday afternoon. Terry took Samantha to a house party where one of his university friends lived. There was music blaring in from the lounge, but no one was dancing. No one ever danced. People sat in small, smoky clutches, drank from polystyrene cups, talked intensely about art, truth, life, music, and getting wasted.
Terry and Samantha liked to get wasted.
They took their polystyrene cups outside and found a cluster of acquaintances that they were better acquainted with. They smoked the weed that was offered and took two doves each, which Terry had bought off his friend, Richard. Later on, they found a couch inside the house and lay uncomfortably against one another, waiting for sleep that wouldn't come, watching and shivering as the sun bleached the colour from the night sky. They agreed that the doves were bad, that they had paid too much for them, and that next time they wouldn't bother with ecstasy at all. They had stoned sex in the bathroom in the early morning brightness while the rest of the household slept, or pretended to.
With her mind otherwise occupied on the upcoming Matric dance, Samantha didn't think about the doves again during the weeks following the party. But Terry talked increasingly about finding a man named 'Roach', a comical, if apt, nickname for a dealer in town who could get his hands on pills and poppers and papers from all over the world. Terry's friends, and friends of Terry's friends, all elaborated on the stories of Roach; how he had smuggled fresh Coca leaves from South America in the belly of a pig, and how one time he grew Peyote in the backseat of an old Toyota. Opium, mescaline, salvia, ayahuasca. Roach could get anything you'd ever heard of, and a few things you hadn't. He was a pharmaceutical magician.
Terry heard a rumour that Roach could be found in the VIP suite on the top floor of the Mimosa Hotel, a long-abandoned building that had been quickly colonised by vagrants, junkies and all manner of displaced wanderers.
Some of the girls at school had warned Samantha that the Mimosa Hotel was dangerous, but when she walked up the worn and stained orange and brown carpeted stairs, trying not to touch the waxy, chipped railing, she only felt excited. Terry held her hand and led her up floor after floor. Occasionally they would see someone shuffle down a corridor, their heads tilted and tucked away to avoid eye contact and they would both flinch at the sudden, shadowy movement. The electricity had been turned off inside the derelict building years ago and the higher they climbed, the darker it got until Samantha could swear she felt unseen eyes watching them.
Terry and Samantha finally stopped on the eleventh floor. They used the light from Terry's cell phone to find their way to the door of room 1167, knocked on it, and shared a small, private smile before the door opened into blackness. Frightened, but having come too far to turn around now, Terry took Samantha's hand and led her inside.
The room was dimly lit with cheap, dripping candles wedged into old bottles, illuminating clusters of people who watched the couple, some with hungry suspicion, others with deadpan indifference. The keen excitement that Samantha had felt climbing the stairs warmed to a hot terror that made her face flush and her legs feel wobbly. She wanted to leave. She wanted Terry to take her home. She wanted her mom.
She looked up at Terry, ready to squeeze his hand and quietly tell him that she wanted to go. But when she saw his eyes narrow and then widen with hazy recognition, she knew that he would want to stay, and she knew she shouldn't argue.
In the shadows and flickering light, Terry and Samantha saw Roach. He approached them from the far end of the room, navigating around the huddles of fallen humanity on the floor. They knew it was him before they saw his face. He had long, dark, unwashed hair that fell into his eyes and turned up at his collar, his clothes looked like they had been chosen entirely at random. He was extremely thin and bent over at the waist, like he had a massive weight on his shoulders. As he neared, the lines on his face revealed his age. He didn't smile as he greeted and shook hands with Terry. A gesture that seemed overly formal to Samantha in a room that had neither furniture nor curtains.
Terry talked to Roach about 'scoring', and Roach responded in hushed, despondent tones. While they negotiated Samantha smiled at a sad girl who sat on a windowsill, but the girl just stared ahead, turning her head from Samantha to the floor and then back to Roach. Samantha looked around the room as her eyes adjusted to the low light. Everyone looked like they had just come from a funeral. This wasn't like any of the parties Samantha had ever been to. There was no music, no one smiled, or laughed or drank from polystyrene cups. No one was talking.
Roach got up and left the room. Terry took out his wallet and started counting off the bills. Terry told Samantha that Roach had gone to get them something 'special'. Not E, not A, not H and not coke. Nothing bad, just… different. Something they'd never tried before. Something few people had ever tried before. Samantha was scared, but she knew that as soon as they had left the building with their stash, she'd feel better. They'd go home, get wasted, have quiet sex in Terry's bedroom, and in the morning everything would be fine and normal again. She tried to look relaxed and brave. She tried to look cool.
Roach came back with two tiny bags, each containing one tiny pill. Although she still couldn't see very well in the cramped, candle-lit room, Samantha felt the ears and eyes prick up all around her with fervent interest. Everyone watched as Terry handed over what seemed like too much money for the two tiny white pills. Terry pocketed the drugs and gave Samantha's hand a squeeze. They were finally going to leave.
But Roach stopped, and corrected, them. He told them that they took the pills here, in this room, or they leave without them, and without their cash. Terry was nervous. Samantha was terrified. Terry looked at Samantha across the dimly lit room, Samantha tried to beg him with her eyes. Terry looked back to Roach, to the pills, to the money. He agreed. They sat next to Roach, next to the girl perched on the windowsill. Terry was excited. Samantha paled. Roach started to explain what they were about to take. For the first time since they'd laid eyes on him, Samantha saw Roach's face light up. His explanation sounded like confused chemistry mangled with urban folklore, further obscured by Roach's own rambling embellishments. Samantha decided that Roach's introduction was less of a pharmaceutical indication and more of a metaphor.
After all, she thought, you couldn't actually travel through time with a pill.
But Roach seemed insistent that they could- and would. Terry handed Samantha her pill and washed his own with a mouthful of Roach's room temperature beer. Samantha swallowed hers dry. They made awkward small talk for a few minutes and then Samantha started to feel ill. Her mouth suddenly filled with bitter spit and her stomach reached up into her throat. She covered her mouth and lurched forward, trying not to vomit.
And then they were back on the stairs at dusk, wary of the shadows that dipped and swam in the fast-diminishing sunlight. Samantha looked at Terry and Terry looked back at her. She tried to ask him what had happened, how they gotten back onto the stairs. She couldn't remember anything beyond what had happened in Roach's room. Terry looked as confused as she felt. Terry checked his left pocket. It was still full of the money he had paid Roach for the pills. Samantha started to wonder if they had just dreamed Roach and his dirty, crowded room. The world around her felt real, but she felt slow and clumsy inside it, like someone coming out from under an anaesthetic.
It finally occurred to her that perhaps Roach hadn't been lying, and that if they had in fact travelled ten minutes back in time, they could still leave before they ever entered his flat. She looked at Terry again and tried to speak. As she did, she realised her mouth was full of hot sick and that she was no longer standing on the stairs, she was lying on her side, in her own vomit, on the floor of Roach's murky flat. People were laughing at her. Terry helped Samantha up. He looked dazed and unsteady. They stumbled down the stairs in the dark, Samantha slipping once and skinning her knee and elbow. She was sobbing breathlessly by the time they left the hotel. Samantha tried to talk to Terry in the car ride back, but he didn't say anything.
Things didn't get much better when they got back to school. Terry hung out with his friends and Samantha with hers, but they didn't all hang out together at break time, and Terry didn't wait for Samantha at the end of the day to drive her halfway home. Samantha was devastated. She had never felt bad about doing drugs before, especially not with Terry who reassured her that she was just opening her mind and that it was all just a bit of fun. But this time was different. She felt like she had seen something that she had to talk about, and the only person she could talk to about it, wasn't talking to her.
Samantha's friends asked her if they were going to break up. She told them that they weren't, but she wasn't sure whether she believed that or not. A rumour started going around the school that Terry had dumped Samantha so that he could take a university student to the Matric dance. Samantha knew it couldn't be true, but the words still twisted and burned inside her.
Samantha called Terry.
He still sounded distant and despondent, making her own tear-choked voice sound practically hysterical in comparison. Terry said they weren't broken up, that there was no university student, that he would still take her to the Matric dance. Samantha was elated at his words, if disappointed at their conviction.
Terry said that he wanted to go and see Roach again. Samantha shook her head over the phone. Terry started talking then, a lot. He said more in the following ten minutes than he had in the last five days. He sounded a little like Roach had when he was explaining the pills to them. Samantha didn't want to go back to the dark apartment filled with sad, frightening people. She didn't want to see their sneering, laughing faces again. She didn't want to go back in time. She just wanted things to go back to the way they were. Terry talked about seeing things clearly for the first time, about looking 'through' the world now, instead of just at it. He said that everything up until that moment in Roach's flat now felt 'fake'. He had to see more. He had to know more. He had to take more pills. Terry extrapolated and effused in disconnected bursts and rants. Samantha cried.
Terry and Samantha went back to the Mimosa Hotel that Friday. Or rather, Terry went back and Samantha waited in the car. She waited for a long time. Samantha drove them home in Terry's car that night, and the next. Terry didn't want to talk again when he got back from Roach's flat, but he did let Samantha lie quietly against him in his bedroom in his parents' house while they waited for dawn.
On the Sunday, as Samantha was waking, Terry started talking again. He explained to her that Roach had something new. Something different. He told her that it wasn't like the last time at all. He told her that she would like it, because he liked it and he wanted her to do it with him. He told her that it wouldn't make her sick like the other stuff had done. He told her that it would change her life and the way she thought about her life. He told her that if she loved him, she would try it because it was something that they should do together, to be closer. Samantha agreed to go with Terry next weekend, but Terry insisted that they go immediately.
Terry took all of the cash from his mother's purse and his father's wallet before they left. He asked Samantha if she had any money saved up. The new pills from Roach weren't cheap and he'd need more money if he was going to get a pill for each of them. Samantha drew what she could from the savings account her own parents had set up for her when she was just a kid. She gave all the money to Terry and felt very sad for it afterwards.
Roach's flat was less frightening, but more disgusting, during the day. Every mark and stain and burn on the carpets and walls was revealed by the blinding light that beamed through the uncovered windows. Roach himself looked older, thinner, meaner. The niceties and small talk between Terry and Roach had completely evaporated. Terry handed over the money, took his pills and claimed a spot on the filthy carpet. Samantha paused for a moment before joining him. In the unforgiving glare, Terry also looked thinner and meaner, like one of the shadowy figures they had passed on their first visit here. Terry looked up at her and smiled the first smile she had seen on him in over a week.
He handed her a pill.
She sat down and then Terry and Samantha washed their pills back with a swig of warm, bottled tap water. Terry had lied about the nausea. Samantha did feel sick again. Only this time she didn't wake up on the stairs- she didn't recognise where she woke up at all.
Terry wasn't there and she wasn't in the Mimosa Hotel. She sat in the middle of what looked like a modern office with sleek, silvery furnishings, high ceilings and tall, wrap-around windows. The city below looked clean, like the grime and misery had been simply sponged off to reveal shining white marble and mirrored glass beneath. Only when Samantha stood to look more closely at the view below, she realised she didn't recognise any of the buildings either. The streets weren't just cleaner, they were completely different. She wasn't just in a different building, she was in a different city entirely. She stared from the spotless window for what felt like a long time. Occasionally she spotted someone, small and faraway, exit one magnificent tower and cross the street to another. All the people looked as pristine and as purposeful as the buildings they worked in.
And then she heard voices. She considered hiding underneath a table, but the slow, unstable feeling from the previous pill returned. She tasted bile and knew that the trip was over.
Samantha woke up on Roach's floor with Terry leaning over her, smiling in his new and distant way. She was surprised and relieved to find that she had not thrown up this time. Terry asked her she'd seen. She told him. He told her that he had gone to a place where there were no towering glass buildings, or freshly swept streets, there were no buildings or streets at all. The grass that he'd sat on was long and wild, and the sky seemed endless and untouched. Roach had sat with them, amused at that point, and explained in his babbling, incoherent manner that the sparkling city, the sprawling grasslands and Roach's own dingy little flat were all the same place, and all the same time. He started to talk about parallel dimensions, quantum possibilities and alternate realities. He spoke about the pills, the 'gateways' and how- for a while at least- they could go anywhere, and see anything with them.
And then Samantha did throw up.
Terry stopped going to school. Samantha only went because she had to. Terry and Samantha started going to Roach's place more and more often. Every time they took the gateways, they went somewhere different, experienced a different version of the reality that they knew. Sometimes the differences were minor- the colour of Roach's walls, the length of his hair or the language he spoke. Sometimes, like Samantha's first time, it was like being in a different city, in a different country, or occasionally, like the time Samantha woke up on the blackened, scorched surface of a recently-cooled volcano, it was like being on another planet.
Samantha had never seen lava before.
The pills only ever lasted a few minutes. Roach said they could extend their inter-dimensional visitations by taking a higher dose, but since they never knew where they were going to end up, they chose to keep their trips small, if frequent.
Samantha smiled to herself as she realised one Wednesday evening, climbing the darkened stairs to Roach's flat, that the Mimosa Hotel and its skulking, slinking residents no longer frightened her. But she stopped smiling when she realised that probably made her one of them. All of the people in Roach's apartment, and all of the people in all of the other rooms and corridors and nooks and niches in the Mimosa Hotel all had the same jaded, isolated look on their faces. Like they were prisoners of the hotel, unable to leave. What was this reality compared to the hundreds of others they had seen? What did it do to a person to see a thousand universes and yet remain unchanged in all of them? No matter how many times she or Terry or any of the other gateway users stepped into one of the endless universes, they would always take the step as the same people, with the same beliefs and fears and flaws. They would always return to their same selves. The world around them would change, but they would not.
That night, as Samantha walked through long-dead ruins of her city, she made a decision. The gateways had given her the chance to see so much more than she could have ever imagined, but what worth was a life that was all looking and no doing? In all of the universes and all the realities that she and Terry travelled, they never travelled to the same one together. The gateways were the best trip either of them had ever taken, but it was a lonely one. Samantha decided that she would rather live in just one universe with Terry, than a thousand without him. But Terry didn't feel the same.
Terry and Samantha broke up.
Samantha wailed to her friends and her parents, inconsolable that he had chosen the gateways over her, although she never told them why Terry had dumped her. Eventually though, she was able to conceal her grief. The night of the Matric dance Samantha was smothered by talk of dresses, and bags, and boys and bitchy teachers while she drowned in apathy.
Samantha had seen a world where people worked to create great, shining skyscrapers of glass and metal. She had seen a world where all the people died, a long time ago and left nothing of themselves except rocks and bones. She had seen the barren beauty of a world where people had never been, where the all the men died and left the women to survive- to thrive, she had seen places and people and possibilities that these girls could never dream of. She may have chosen this universe, but she didn't have to choose this life.
Samantha decided to find Terry.
She almost ran up the stairs to Roach's room in her Matric dress and glittery heels. The door was unlocked, as it always was, and hollow-eyed, hopeless wretches bedecked the floor, as they always did. Roach looked at her with vague recognition and nodded her over. Samantha asked for Terry, but Roach only shook his head. She asked again and Roach indicated for her to sit down. Samantha didn't want to sit down. She asked where Terry was again, feeling panicked tears prick her eyes. Roach stood to look Samantha in the eyes. His face was grave, robbed of the gentle, confused madness that had softened it before. Roach told Samantha that Terry was gone. He had taken too much, too many. He had gone through a gateway and hadn't come back.
Samantha's legs crumpled underneath her, and she sat then. Roach told her that Terry had been gone for days. Samantha cried. She should have called him, gone to see him, should have come looking for him sooner. She asked Roach where he had gone. Roach told her there was no way for anyone to know, no way for anyone to follow. But Samantha knew there was hope. Who better to find Terry than Samantha? They were in love. They loved all the same music and movies, had all the same friends and almost never fought. They were meant to be together, and she could follow him. She could find him.
Roach was resistant, but Roach was also reprehensible. He accepted all of Samantha's money, her phone, her bag and the pretty shoes that matched her Matric dress in exchange for an equal dose to the one Terry had taken. Samantha thought about calling her parents, or her friends to let them know where she was going, but she knew that they would want to follow her too. She knew she had to find Terry alone.
She took the gateways, took a deep breath, lay down and waited to wake up in Terry's universe.
Terry and Samantha disappeared.


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B4250/ B4350 Series printers from OKIPrinting Solutions are built for efficiency and speed, with expandability to meet your future needs. If youre looking to improve the productivity and lower the operating costs of your business, B4250/B4350 Series Digital monochrome printers are made for you. All four modelsthe stand-alone B4250, networkable B4350, and network-ready B4350n/ B4350n PSdeliver up to 23 ppm, with the first page printing in as little as 6.0 seconds.1 They produce black &white output thats clear and crisp in 1200 x 600 dpi resolution, using a two-piece consumables system for long-lasting, high-quality performance and a lower cost of operation. For fewer user interventions, each has a 250-sheet standard paper capacity, housed in a fully enclosed Letter/Legal/Universal tray, and can be outfitted to hold up to 750 sheets with an optional 500-sheet 2nd paper tray. In terms of durability, B4250/B4350 Series printers are toughwith a duty cycle of 40,000 pages per month. Fit for any work environment. With standard USB and parallel interfaces, the B4250/B4350 Series offers broad-based connectivity. All have PCL 6 emulation and the B4350n PS model has PostScript 3 emulation standard (the B4350/ B4350n models have a PostScript 3 emulation option). They all perform equally well with Windows XP, Server 2003, 2000, 98, NT 4.0 and most popular operating systems, including Mac 9.1 and higher/10.1 and higher. A B4350 Series printer equipped with an OkiLAN print server can make network printing affordable. That can translate into a much lower cost per seat, which can be a vital consideration as your office network grows and expands in functionality. And, with their compact size and style, B4250/ B4350 Series printers (most available in black) fit just about anywhere and with just about any computer accessory decor. Backed by unmatched support. OKI Printing Solutions is so confident in the reliability and performance of the B4250/B4350 Series that we provide an industry-leading 5-year printhead warranty and a 1-year limited printer warranty with Overnight Exchange4. Of course, if you need technical assistance, you can speak to a live expert24x7x365by calling 800.OKI.DATA (800.654.3282).4 The B4250/B4350 Series: perfectly suited to meet the demands of your business, now and down the road.
B4250/B4350 Series Highlights:
As fast as 23 ppm print speed; 6.0-second time to first page 1 Clear, crisp 1200 x 600 dpi output Separate toner and image drum configuration for lower operating costs Compatible with Windows XP, Server 2003, 2000, 98, Windows NT 4.0, and other OS 266 MHz PowerPC processor Upgradable to 272 MB RAM 2 Standard USB and parallel ports Compatibility with Mac OS 9.1 and higher/ 10.1 and higher (B4350 Series) Up to 7,000-page toner capacity 3 Fully-enclosed 250-sheet paper tray to keep paper clean and free from curling Most models available in black to match todays popular computer accessories Optional 500-sheet 2nd paper tray 1-Year limited warranty with Overnight Exchange 4; 5-Year limited printhead warranty Live, toll-free technical support 24x7x365 4
The B4250 (shown here in black) prints pages at up to 23 ppm.1
P ublished performance results based on laboratory testing. Individual results may vary. 2 Additional memory sold separately.
B 4350 and B4350n/PS models only. All models ship with 3,000-page cartridge. Declared yield in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752. Available in the U.S. and Canada only.
Which Model is Right for You?
Operator Panel Standard RAM Maximum RAM1 Toner Cartridge Capacity
N/A 16 MB 272 MB 3,000 Pages2
B4350/B4350n/B4350n PS
Yes 16 MB 272 MB 7,000 Pages2 PCL 5e, PCL 6, Epson FX (9-pin) IBM ProPrinter III XL; PostScript 3 (std. B4350n PS) PostScript 3 (opt. B4350 and B4350n) B4350n/B4350n PS: Std. OkiLAN internal Ethernet print server; B4350: Opt. OkiLAN internal or external Ethernet print server
Ordering Information
Description Part Numbers B4250 (120V) 62422101 B4250 (230V) 62422102 B4350 (120V) 62422201 B4350 (230V) 62422202 B4350n (120V) 62422204 B4350n (230V) 62422205 B4350n PS (120V, PostScript 3 emulation std.) 62422206 B4250 Black (120V) 91619501 B4350 Black (120V) 91619701 B4350n Black (120V) 91619704 Options OkiLAN Internal Print Server (B4350 only) 70049701 OkiLAN External Print Server (B4350 only) 70036001 2nd Tray Mechanism 40834406 2nd Tray Mechanism Black MB DIMM Memory Expansion32 MB DIMM Memory Expansion64 MB DIMM Memory Expansion128 MB DIMM Memory Expansion256 MB DIMM Memory Expansion8 MB Flash SIMM (B4350/B4350n/B4350n PS) MB Flash SIMM (B4350/B4350n/B4350n PS) 70042601 PostScript 3 Emulation (B4350/B4350n only) 70049601 RS-232C Serial Interface CardOKIcare Warranty Extensions5 B4000 Series 1-Year Overnight Exchange Warranty Extension B4000 Series 2-Year Overnight Exchange Warranty Extension B4000 Series 1-Year Depot Warranty Extension B4000 Series 2-Year Depot Warranty Extension
Standard Emulations PCL 5e, PCL 6, Epson FX (9-pin) IBM ProPrinter III XL Optional Emulations N/A
Network Interface N/A
Additional Specifications
P rint Speed: Up to 23 pages per minute3 C PU: 266 MHz/32 bit PowerPC T ime to First Page: 6.0 seconds3 P rint Resolution: 1200 x 600 dpi Duty Cycle: 40,000 pages per month
Resident Fonts
calable Fonts: 80 TrueType 1, 136 TrueType 3 S (requires PostScript emulation) itmap Fonts: Line printer B
ize (WxDxH): S B4250: 14" x 15.6" x 7.9" (35.5 cm x 39.6 cm x 20 cm) B4350 Series: 14" x 15.6" x 8.5" (35.5 cm x 39.6 cm x 21.6 cm) eight: 22 lb. (10.0 kg) W
mulations: PCL 5e, PCL 6; IBM ProPrinter III XL E (9-pin); Epson FX; PostScript 3 emulation (standard on B4350n PS only, optional on B4350 and B4350n) Operating Systems: Windows XP (Home, Professional/ x64 Ed.); 2003 (Server/x64 Ed., Enterprise Server/ x64 Ed., Data Center Server/x64 Ed.); 2000 (Workstation, Professional, Server, Advanced Server SP4 or later); NT 4.0 (Workstation, Server SP6 or later); ME; 98/ 98 SE; Mac OS 9.1 and higher/10.1 and higher
rinter: 1-Year limited warranty on parts and labor P with Overnight Exchange;5 5-Year limited LED printhead warranty
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onnectivity: Universal Serial Bus (USB v2.0) and C IEEE 1284 bi-directional parallel standard; Ethernet via OkiLAN internal or external print server cards 4; RS-232C serial interface optional 6
For more information on Digital Mono printers and supplies from OKIPrinting Solutions, including OKIcare Extended Service Programs: 1.800.OKI.DATA (800.654.3282).5
tandard RAM: 16 MB S Maximum RAM: 272 MB 1
Paper Handling
tandard Paper Input: Standard 250-sheet Letter/Legal/ S Universal tray; single-sheet manual feed slot aximum Paper Capacity: 750 sheets with optional M 500-sheet 2nd paper tray aper Types: Letter, Legal, Executive, A4, A5, A6, B5; P C5, DL, Com 9, Com 10 and Monarch envelopes aper Size: 3.4" x 5.5" min. to 8.5" x 14" max. P tandard Paper Output: 150 sheets, face-down S lternate Paper Output: 50 sheets, face up A aper Weight: Main 250-sheet tray and optional P 500-sheet tray 16 lb. 28 lb.; single-sheet manual feed 16 lb. 32 lb.
Memory DIMMS sold separately. D eclared yield in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752. All models ship with 3,000-page standard toner cartridge. 3 ublished performance results based on laboratory testing. P Individual results may vary. 4 Standard with B4350n models; optional with B4350. 5 Available in the U.S. and Canada only. 6 Available with B4350 model only. 7 stimated life, continuous printing (may vary depending on E the number of printed pages per job).
Supplies (Type 9) Toner Cartridge (standard on all 3 models): Avg. life 3,000 pg.High-Capacity Toner Cartridge (B4350/B4350n Srs. only ): Avg. life 7,000 pg.Image Drum (all 3 models): Avg. life 25,000 pg.Print Media Sheets Per Box Bright White Proofing Sheets (32 lb.): 8.5" x 11" 500 Premium Color Transparency Film 50 SynFlex Paper (8.5" x 11" Waterproof and Tear-resistant) 100 Premium Envelopes (size #10): 100 Premium Envelopes (size #10): 500
The B4350 (shown in beige color option) provides increased productivity in a space-saving size.
Specifications are subject to change without notice. 2006 Oki Data Americas, Inc. OKI, OkiLAN, OKIcare Reg. T.M., M.D., M.R., Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Overnight Exchange logo, 7-Day/24-Hour logo, SynFlex T.M., Oki Data Americas, Inc. Windows, Windows NT, Reg. T.M., Microsoft Corp. PCL Reg. T.M., Hewlett-Packard Co. PostScript Reg. T.M., PostScript 3 T.M., Adobe Systems, Inc. IBM, ProPrinter Reg. T.M., International Business Machine, Inc. Epson Reg. T.M., Seiko Epson Corp. Mac, TrueType Reg. T.M., Apple Computer, Inc. USB-IFlogo T.M., Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum, Inc. Energy Star Reg. T.M., U.S. EPA.
Oki Data Americas, Inc. USA 2000 Bishops Gate Blvd. Mount Laurel, NJ 08054-4620 Tel: 800.OKI.DATA (800.654.3282) Fax: 856.222.5320 Canada 2735 Matheson Blvd. East Mississauga, Ontario L4W 4M8 Tel: 905.238.4250 Fax: 905.238.4421 Latin America and Mexico 2000 Bishops Gate Blvd. Mount Laurel, NJ 08054-4620 Tel: 856.231.0002 Fax: 856.222.5071 www.okiprintingsolutions.com/us
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Technical specifications
Full description
If you're looking to improve the productivity and lower the operating costs of your business, the B4350 Series Digital printer from OKI is made for you. It produces black and white output that's clear and crisp in 1200 x 600 dpi resolution - using a two-piece consumables system for long-lasting, high-quality performance and a lower cost of operation. For fewer user interventions, the printer has a 250-sheet standard paper capacity, housed in a fully enclosed Letter/Legal/Universal tray, and can be outfitted to hold up to 750 sheets with an optional 500-sheet 2nd paper tray. In terms of durability, the OKI B4350 is tough - with a duty cycle of 40,000 pages per month.
|Printer Type
|Workgroup printer - LED - monochrome
|14 in
|15.6 in
|8.5 in
|22 lbs
|Print Speed
|Up to 23 ppm - max speed
|Connectivity Technology
|Parallel, USB
|Max Resolution ( B&W )
|1200 dpi x 600 dpi
|PostScript Support
|Language Simulation
|PCL 5E, EPSON FX, PCL 6, IBM ProPrinter III XL
|Fonts Included
|80 x TrueType
|266 MHz
|RAM Installed ( Max )
|16 MB / 272 MB (max)
|Media Handling
|Media Type
|Envelopes, plain paper
|Max Media Size (Custom)
|8.5 in x 14 in
|Media Sizes
|Letter A Size (8.5 in x 11 in), Legal (8.5 in x 14 in), Executive (7.25 in x 10.5 in), A4 (8.25 in x 11.7 in), A5 (5.83 in x 8.25 in), B5 (6.93 in x 9.83 in), A6 (4.13 in x 5.83 in)
|Envelope Sizes
|US No 10 (4.1 in x 9.5 in), International DL (4.33 in x 8.66 in), International C5 (6.38 in x 9 in), Monarch (3.87 in x 7.5 in), US No 9 (4 in x 9 in)
|Total Media Capacity
|250 sheets
|Media Feeder(s)
|1 x autoload - 250 sheets - Legal (8.5 in x 14 in)
|Max Media Capacity
|750 sheets
|Duty Cycle
|Monthly Duty Cycle
|40000 pages
|Cartridge / Printhead Duty Cycle
|2500 pages
|Cartridge / Printhead Included Qty
|Expansion / Connectivity
|Expansion Slots Total (Free)
|1 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 pin USB Type B 1 x parallel - IEEE 1284 (EPP/ECP) - 36 pin Centronics
|Consumables Included
|1 x toner cartridge ( black ) - up to 2500 pages
|Works with Windows Vista
|Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running.
|Power Device
|Power supply
|Voltage Required
|Software / System Requirements
|OS Required
|Microsoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Windows 2000 / NT4.0, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows XP
|Environmental Standards
|ENERGY STAR Qualified
|Universal Product Identifiers
|Part Numbers
|62422201, 62422202, 62424901, 62424902
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ORLANDO — Fresh polling data from the retiree bastion of Florida suggests that hammering Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Perry on Social Security is a good strategy for GOP rival Mitt Romney — if they were running in a general election instead of a Republican presidential primary.
Romney has criticized Perry's stance on Social Security in the last two Republican debates and continued to blast the Texan on the issue Wednesday on the eve of tonight's nationally televised GOP debate here.
A Quinnipiac University poll released this morning shows Perry leading Romney among Florida GOP voters by a 28-to-22 percent margin. The poll shows Perry's Social Security views aren't popular with Floridians as a whole, but aren't hurting him with Republicans.
Perry's characterization of Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" for younger workers is called unfair by 58 percent of all Floridians, with only 33 percent calling it fair.
Among Republicans, however, 52 percent say "Ponzi scheme" is a fair way to describe Social Security and its long-term financing issues.
Perry's suggestion in TV interviews last year that Social Security could be handled by states rather than the federal government is unpopular in Florida, with 65 percent saying they'd prefer the feds to continue running the retirement program and only 24 percent favoring state-by-state programs.
Republicans, too, disagree with the idea of having states assume responsibility for Social Security. But the margin is less dramatic among GOP voters, with 49 percent disliking it and 38 percent favoring state-by-state retirement programs.
Republican voters aren't buying Romney's suggestion that Perry isn't committed to preserving Social Security. Asked if they think Perry wants to fix Social Security or end it, 60 percent of Florida Republicans say they believe Perry wants to fix the program, with only 14 percent saying they think he wants to end it.
Among all Floridians, 35 percent say they think Perry wants to fix Social Security, with 37 percent believing he wants to dismantle it and 28 percent saying they aren't sure.
Both Perry and Romney say Social Security should be preserved for current recipients and those approaching retirement age. As the program is now structured, its trustees project Social Security won't be able to pay full benefits for retirees beginning in about 25 years.
Romney said Wednesday he favors gradually raising the eligibility age for younger workers and slowing the growth of inflationary benefit increases for upper-income retirees in the future.
Perry had pledged to "work with citizens, experts and elected leaders to fix Social Security financing for future generations."
By a 52-to-42 percent margin, the new Quinnipiac poll finds Floridians oppose raising the retirement age for future Social Security recipients. Republicans, however, support the idea by a 53-to-43 percent margin.
The idea of "reducing Social Security benefits for future retirees to help bring more money into the Social Security system" is opposed by 66 percent of all state voters and 55 percent of Republicans.
Quinnipiac's poll of 1,007 registered Florida voters was taken Sept. 14-19 and has a 3.1 percent margin of error. The Republican sample has a 5.1 percent margin of error.