I want to thank Kano along with everyone else in this thread.  I spent a good many hours reading through a lot of the posts here and have learned quite a bit.  I bought my first Antminer S9 2 months ago and have been using Slush.  As of 30 minutes ago, I've switched over to the Kano pool.  I'm looking forward to mining with you all and slowly but surely expanding my home mining operation.  Thanks again.