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It had already been a long, nerve-wracking day for Adan Farias: A flight from Los Angeles to San Antonio where he was picked up and driven another 2 1/2hours south through Texas and into Mexico, then dropped off at restaurant just across the border.
So now on July 27, 2010, Farias, anxious and unsure of his surroundings, waited to be picked up for the final leg of a journey to meet a mysterious figure he only knew as the "Boss," the owner of a string of top-flight quarter horses Farias trained at Los Alamitos Race Course.
"I wasn't sure exactly where I was at," Farias recalled later, in federal court testimony.
Farias was eventually driven to a ranch where the mystery man emerged from a group of armed body guards to greet him.
"Zeta Cuarenta," the man said, introducing himself in Spanish with an alias familiar to millions on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Farias, however, did not know who "Zeta Forty" was until he googled the name upon returning to Southern California.
"Wow," Farias said, recalling his reaction.
Zeta Cuarenta is Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, aka "40" or "Cuarenta" in Spanish, one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the world. He is the head of the notorious Los Zetas drug cartel, considered by U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials to be the most powerful and violent drug organization operating out of Mexico today.
Three years after first meeting Treviño, Farias faces an uncertain future. Banned from the sport for a series of doping violations, indicted for laundering money for Los Zetas and forced into bankruptcy, Farias, 34, awaits sentencing in U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas. He received a recommendation for probation in return for testifying for the government in a trial in which Texas quarter horse owner Jose Treviño Morales – Miguel Treviño's older brother – and three others were convicted for their roles in a $60 million money-laundering scheme.
Jose Treviño faces up to 20 years in prison.
Because Farias admitted his role and described how Los Zetas funneled cash back and forth across the border, Los Zetas observers say Farias' life could be in jeopardy.
"I don't think he should even be (buying) green bananas," said George W. Grayson, author of "The Executioner's Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created." "Seriously, to have testified against Los Zetas he's going to need to go into a witness protection program because his life isn't worth, no pun intended, worth a plug nickel," Grayson continued. "The one thing Los Zetas will not allow are turncoats. You don't turn on Treviño."
The money-laundering case is but one in a series of major setbacks for Farias, the one-time boy wonder of quarter horse racing who gave up his boyhood aspirations of being an FBI agent to become one of the sport's most successful and sought-after trainers. The man who guided Freaky to the 2009 World Champion title now finds himself in the middle of the biggest scandal in quarter horse racing history, a controversy that has brought Mexican drug money to the barns, stables and auction floors of Los Alamitos and to horse racing tracks across the Southwestern U.S.
Six weeks after federal officers arrested him at his home in Norco in the early morning hours of June 12, 2012, Farias was banned by the California Horse Racing Board because six horses he trained had tested positive for a potentially fatal drug after races at Los Alamitos. CHRB necropsy reports obtained by the Orange County Register show that 11 horses trained by Farias died between June 28, 2009, and Nov. 10, 2011.
Farias, his wife Sally Khamo and sales agent Francisco Rubio Jr. are being sued for breach of contract in Riverside County Superior Court. The suit alleges LA Horses "engaged in unlawful business practices in which they acquire horses, race them in a way that causes severe physical problems, and then sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the false pretence that the horses will have a long and successful racing career."
Farias filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection for LA Horses LLC in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in July. He owes creditors more than $132,000, according to a filing in that case. A trustee in the case alleges in letters and reports filed with the court that Farias tried to hide assets with a $20,000 cash transfer to a relative in January 2011. The trustee characterized the transfer as a "an intentional fraudulent transfer or a constructive fraudulent transfer," according to court documents.
The arrests and indictment of Farias, Jose Treviño and 13 others in the Los Zetas case have rocked the sport and shocked participants in the quarter horse industry. Many of the owners considered Farias a 21st century American success story – a quiet, conscientious son of Mexican immigrants whose work ethic kept him amongst the national leaders in starts, wins and earnings.
"It really caught us off guard," said Juan Aguirre, son of Armando Aguirre, owner of the record-shattering Freaky. "(Farias) was always a straight up, stand up guy. You wouldn't have suspected anything like this. Never."
Daniel H. Wannamaker, Farias' attorney, declined several requests by the Register to interview Farias and members of his family. But Wannamaker agreed with the assessment of the horse owners.
"Adan could be the poster child for Republican, pull-yourself-up-by-your-boot-straps values," Wannamaker said.
But others in quarter horse racing view Farias as another type of symbol; emblematic of the series of doping scandals that have plagued horse racing for the past decade, a trainer whose world record triumphs and string of stakes race victories are every bit as suspect as Ben Johnson's record-shattering dashes and Barry Bonds' home runs.
"I think it's a good thing (for racing) that he's not in the sport anymore," said Danny Cardoza, a Hall of Fame jockey and trainer, the first person to both ride and train winning quarter horses in million-dollar races.
As a young man, barely out of his teens, Adan Farias rose before dawn each morning to get to Los Alamitos Race Track by 5 a.m. His father had trained horses in his native Mexico before moving the family to the U.S., where he got a job selling cars. Eventually the elder Farias returned to racing, at first bringing his son along to help and then later teaching him the trade.
The younger Farias saw training quarter horses as a way to pay his way through Cerritos College. His real goal in life, Farias told acquaintances, was to become an FBI agent.
Despite juggling school and the track, his gift for training horses was soon obvious. Shortly after getting his trainer's license in 2000 he had the highest winning percentage among trainers at Los Alamitos. Before long he was wearing the silver medal buckle awarded for being the track's 2000 Newcomer of the Year.
The sport of quarter horse racing doesn't have the same profile as Thoroughbred racing, with its storied history and pageantry. There are no tracks in postcard settings like Santa Anita or Saratoga. The sport's top races are not on network television. But the quarter horse remains lucrative for top owners, breeders and trainers.
"Horses are tricky," Aguirre said. "They all have different personalities. They're like people – no one is the same. They all have different attitudes. They all like different things and he was really good at figuring that out, figuring out the different personalities. His talent was that he really got to know each horse."
By 2002, horses trained by Farias were making over 400 starts a year. In 2006 his horses won more than $1 million for the first time. The following year his horses won $2.6 million and he had the nation's third-highest winning percentage for a trainer, beginning a run of Top 4 finishes.
"Quarter horse racing's wonder boy," ESPN called him.
Cardoza is among those in the sport who now question how much of Farias' success was the result of training and breeding and how much was the product of doping.
"There were a lot of red flags," Cardoza said.
Since 2000 Farias has had 33 doping violations, according to CHRB records. Farias was suspended four times in 2008 for doping violations. When a horse named Wild Choice tested positive for clenbuterol in July of 2008, Farias was suspended for a year and fined $10,000. But the suspension was later reduced and Farias was back at the track in three months.
In January 2009, shortly after Farias returned, Armando Aguirre hired him to train Freaky, a horse he'd bought from Los Alamitos owner Ed Allred.
On March 19, 2009, Freaky ran his first race since being trained by Farias, covering 350 yards at Los Alamitos in a track record 17.143 seconds.
"Look at what he did with Freaky," Juan Aguirre said. "He took Freaky after we got him from Allred and turned around two months later and set a world record. People were like 'really.'"
Farias guided Freaky to the 2009 World Champion title and by 2010 horses trained by Farias were earning more than $3 million annually. Between 2006 and 2011, Farias-trained horses won 88 stakes races and $15.4 million.
Just as Aguirre turned Freaky over to him shortly after his return from suspension, other prominent owners were not deterred by Farias' disciplinary record.
"Adan had some bad tests but he was a really nice guy, really hardworking, treated us really well," said owner Kathy Meneely. "The message on his answering machine was 'Have a wonderful day.' How many badasses have that on their phone?"
"He was very honest, very good with the horses," owner David Hinkins, a Utah state senator, said of Farias. "He was very congenial, really polite, kind of quiet. You just never would have suspected him of being involved in a drug ring."
In January 2010, Farias was approached by Carlos Miguel Nayen at Ruidoso Downs, a horse track located in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest, where Billy the Kid once holed up. According to Farias' court testimony and interviews with federal prosecutors, Nayen told Farias he represented two racing companies.
"He had a few horses that didn't perform as he pleased, and he approached me, asked if I would train for him," Farias told prosecutors, recalling his initial meeting with Nayen.
Nayen agreed to give Farias 10 horses to train.
"They were really good horses," Farias testified.
One of the horses was called Number One Cartel.
Farias admits not only to training horses for Treviño and the Los Zetas but to advising members of the drug cartel on purchasing, training and racing horses, according to his testimony and court filings by the U.S. Attorney.
Farias ran LA Horses LLC, which according to the Department of Justice was a front for Los Zetas, funded by the cartel from the Texas border town of Laredo through a Bank of America account.
During the Austin money-laundering trial, Farias was asked by prosecutors why he didn't just quit after the 2010 meeting with Miguel Treviño.
"I couldn't quit," Farias said. "So I just, I was just hoping gradually they would go away, which they didn't."
The prosecutor pressed: Why couldn't he quit?
"Because you fear the name."
"The name of what?"
"Zetas," Farias said.
"You hear a lot of rumors that anything could happen."
Based in Nuevo Laredo, just across the Rio Grande from Texas, Los Zetas is the largest and most brutal of the Mexican drug cartels, trafficking thousands of kilos of cocaine and other narcotics into the U.S. each year, according to the Department of Justice.
Miguel Treviño, born in Nuevo Laredo but raised in Dallas, was hired by Los Zetas as a smuggler and enforcer, but quickly acquired a reputation for violence. Treviño assumed command of Los Zetas when its previous leader was killed in a firefight with Mexican marines.
While Los Zetas funneled as much as $1 million a month through the American quarter horse racing industry, according to the DOJ, racing was more than just a money laundering operation to Miguel Treviño.
"Treviño's passion is horses," Grayson said. "Yes, Los Zetas laundered money through racing but it's more than that. Horse racing is really a passion with Treviño. He loves driving fast cars, buxom women, hunting exotic game, weapons and horses."
On June 25, 2010, Farias opened a Bank of America business checking account #07349-69234 for LA Horses, LLC, according to bank records obtained by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Between Oct. 21, 2010, and Dec. 12, 2010, 13 deposits were made into the account from Laredo, Texas, all "structured," in federal court vernacular, to fly under the $10,000 minimum for reporting cash transactions to the government. The deposits ranged between $1,650 and $9,900, eight between $8,000 and $9,900, for a total of $95,150.
Through 2010, Nayen repeatedly urged Farias to travel to Mexico to meet the "Boss," the mystery man funding racing operations in the U.S., Farias testified.
"I was asked by Carlos Nayen to go to Mexico more than a few times, and I would just put it off, put it off," Farias testifed. "And then, one day, he approached me. He was all like, 'either you go or I'll take you.' I was like, 'OK.'"
So on July 27, 2010, Farias, reluctant and apprehensive, flew to San Antonio and then was driven into Mexico where he met Nayen, who took him to meet Treviño, according to Farias testimony and U.S. border-crossing records.
The purpose of the visit, Farias said, was, "One, to look at the horses that they have, the confirmation to give them my opinion and, second, to give them my opinion on what kind of horses I like for winning big races."
Treviño, Farias said, showed him "at least over 100 horses" on "three different ranches."
"They were very nice ranches and the horses were well-kept, and everything looked really good," Farias recalled.
As they toured the ranches they were accompanied by armed body guards.
"Big guns," Farias recalled.
Farias had reason to be concerned. Even in Mexico's drug war, where brutality is common place, Miguel Treviño has an unequaled reputation for cruelty. Treviño has ordered victims dismembered while still alive or thrown into boiling vats of acid or burning oil, according to government documents and media reports.
"He is sadistic," Grayson said. "He gets off on torturing people in the most vile ways possible."
Grayson recalled the case of a Nuevo Laredo female police officer Treviño suspected of working as an informant. Los Zetas has as much as 70 percent of the Nuevo Laredo police force on its payroll by some estimates. Treviño called a meeting of the officers employed by Los Zetas and had the female officer bound and gagged. With the rest of the police looking on, Grayson said, Treviño beat her up and down her body with a 2-by-4 until she was just a "a mass of blood and gore and body parts."
"That's the way he treats people," Grayson said. "He also sent a message to the rest of the 70 percent: you don't betray the Zetas."
Treviño sent a similar message to the horse-racing industry with the case of Ramiro Villarreal, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement say.
Villarreal's talent for spotting talented horses that weren't bred by well-known sires led to a job with Treviño. One of the long shots spotted by Villarreal for Los Zetas was Mr. Piloto. Racing with Miguel Treviño's brother Jose listed as its owner, Mr. Piloto won the 2010 All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, the last leg in the quarter horse racing's Triple Crown, in one of the biggest upsets in the race's history.
A few days after the victory, in September 2010, Villarreal was detained by DEA officials at a Houston airport while on his way to a horse auction in Oklahoma. Faced with federal prosecution, Villarreal agreed to work as an informant for the DEA.
In March 2011 his charred body was found in a burnt-out car on a roadside near Nuevo Laredo.
On March 27, 2012, more than three dozen law enforcement officers descended on Los Alamitos Race Course.
"There was a parking lot full of Cypress police, DEA, FBI, 40 armed law enforcement (officers)," said Brad McKenzie, the Los Alamitos track spokesman. "It looked like a movie or a TV show."
Among those arrested that day was Felipe Alejandro Quintero, a horse trainer the Department of Justice links to Los Zetas. Quintero had spent $442,000 buying horses for a front organization for Los Zetas at the Los Alamitos Equine Sales in October 2010, according to the indictment against the Treviño brothers and prosecutors' filings in the case.
By the time of the raid, Farias had been gone from Los Alamitos more than four months.
After an Oct. 23, 2011, race at Los Alamitos, In A Separate Class, a horse trained by Farias, tested positive for Zilpaterol, a drug intended to boost the size of beef cattle, according to horse racing board records. Five more Farias-trained horses tested positive for Zilpaterol after Los Alamitos races six days later.
In addition to the horses that tested positive that night, Farias also started horses for Hinkins, the Utah state senator; John Andreini, a former CHRB board member; Steve Burns, one of the nation's top breeders; and Cardoza.
Farias was kicked out of Los Alamitos in November 2011 shortly after the positive test results were confirmed.
Seven months later, at 4 a.m. on June 12, 2012, there was a bang on the door of his Norco home. Farias, who once dreamed of working for the FBI, was surrounded and arrested by federal agents.
Today Farias is awaiting sentencing in Austin in the money laundering case. He is suspended by the CHRB until at least July 2014, although racing insiders and Los Zetas observers question how safe Farias would be if he ever returned to the track. Like trainer Villarreal before him, he had once been a confidant of the most powerful drug lord in Mexico.
"He shared Treviño's passion and Treviño trusted him enough to have him consult with him about that passion," Grayson said. "As long as Treviño trusted him he was safe."
Now Farias must realize that, unlike the FBI, if the Zetas come for him they won't knock first.
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New process solves problem of mixing liquids in tiny volumes
|(Nanowerk News) Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.
|Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only "mixed" success. "In small devices," says Sandia materials scientist Jim Martin "people have tried all kinds of pillars and mixing cells to initiate mixing, but these approaches don't work well." Researchers need simpler and more reliable ways to mix in tiny places such as micrometer-sized channels, Martin said.
|"Mixing liquids in tiny volumes," Martin said, "is surprisingly difficult." When fluid is pushed down a big pipe, eddies are generated that create mixing. But if fluid is pushed down a small pipe no eddies are generated and mixing does not occur unless you subject the fluid to tremendous pressure, which isn't usually easy or feasible, he said.
|Video: Microfluids often must be mixed, but scientists have lacked a simple and reliable way to do it. Now, Sandia researcher Jim Martin and his colleagues have developed a new way to mix tiny volumes. Jim calls the approach vortex field mixing.
|Martin's discovery of how to mix tiny liquid volumes arose from LDRD-funded research directed at improving the sensitivity of the chemical sensors developed in his lab. That project, "Field-Structured Composite Studies," was a joint effort with Rod Williamson (now retired). While their LDRD project did not lead to the expected results, Martin and Williamson were surprised by the wide variety of physical effects they discovered along the way, including magnetic mixing. These effects, Martin said, ended up being much more interesting and important than the original goal.
|Since the project began, Department of Energy's Division of Material Science and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, has started a new project whose goal is to better understand the fundamental science of field-structured composites. So the program succeeded even as it failed, and eventually Martin and graduate student intern Doug Read developed better ways to increase sensor sensitivity.
|In the new method of mixing, when one turns on a particular kind of magnetic field, the magnetic particles suspended in the fluid form chains like strings of pearls. The chains start swirling around and that's what does the mixing. The particles are then removed magnetically, leaving a nice mixed-up liquid.
|More technically, the new mixing method, which Jim calls vortex field mixing, subjects a suspension of microscopic, magnetizable particles to a magnetic field whose direction is constantly spinning in a motion similar to a spinning top as it is about to collapse on its side, but much faster. In this "vortex field" the particles assemble into countless microscopic chains that follow the field motion, stirring every nook and cranny of the fluid. The vortex field stirs the liquid vigorously, and surprising fluid effects are possible, such as a kind of washing machine agitation where the spinning direction alternates periodically.
|Currently, Martin, Lauren Rohwer, and graduate intern Kyle Solis work with the vortex field mixing, among other projects. Their experimental report, recently appearing in the July issue of Physical Review, has generated interest, including a Physical Review Focus article and a Research Highlight in the September MRS Bulletin.
|This type of magnetic mixing with particles that assemble into micro-stir bars isn't like the magnetic mixing done in high school chemistry class.
|"In your high school chemistry class," Martin says "when you mixed a beaker of water on a stir plate, underneath the plate was a permanent magnet spinning around to make the stir bar spin. If that hidden magnet suddenly became twice as strong, the magnetic field would double but you wouldn't see any increase in the stirring at all.
|"With our process," Martin said "if we make the magnetic field twice as strong, the stirring becomes four times as strong because the stronger field makes the particle chains longer."
|With conventional stir-bar mixing you can increase the mixing torque by increasing the speed of the stir bar instead. It's easy to feel this effect by simply holding the beaker slightly above the stir plate. In vortex field mixing increasing the speed of the wobbling doesn't help, because the chains simply break into smaller pieces and the mixing torque doesn't change at all.
|Vortex field mixing stirs just as effectively with magnetic nanoparticles as with traditional micrometer-size powders. In fact, excellent mixing torques have been obtained using 100 nanometer particles. This means even the tiniest fluid volumes can be mixed, as well as the largest.
|As strange as these effects are, they were initially predicted by Martin in a theory paper published in the January 2009 issue of Physical Review. This paper also explains why a simple rotating magnetic field doesn't induce mixing, and predicts the optimal wobbling angle of the magnetic field.
|Vortex field mixing requires only the modest magnetic fields provided by simple wire coils that can be scaled to the size of the fluid cavity. After mixing, a researcher can trap the particles with a permanent magnet, decant the mixed liquid and recycle the particles endlessly.
|Source: Sandia National Laboratories
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Current State Of Add-Ons Post FF56?
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Late to the show... last I heard Extensions marked "Legacy" won't be supported starting with FF 57. Still true?
If so it's like a death sentence for me. I have spent years compiling my lineup of critical add-ons and rely on them for EVERYTHING. 95% of them are marked Legacy.
This is a catastrophe.
It's not so much that I don't get that technology needs to be upgraded. It's just that I don't know how I can ever trust any add-ons again. If you get dependent on them then they evaporate, you are screwed. If they aren't important enough to depend on, they are useless. You can't win either way.
At least with most commercial software, when they upgrade to a new technology, if something provides critical functionality they usually either have a way to convert things to the new standard or they support the old legacy standard.
This is just an out and out abandonment of the add-on community. Feels pretty harsh.
not sure, which "catastrophe" you describe, i dont see any
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ppver=57.0
currently 9.663 available of 25.789 - not bad.
please rephrase what you are searching, but for whining or complaining it is much too late.
Means two thirds of the add-ons are not supported. For me it's 3/4 not supported.
I'm neither whining nor complaining. The post is a question. I think you missed that.
Well, I've found replacements for the majority of my extensions (have 22 enabled) and with Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx: Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox 57+ have been able to do most of the tweaks that I was using Classic Theme Restorer for.
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You do know that Web Extensions can be installed and work in Firefox 56?
Find replacements now. https://mozilla.github.io/extension-finder/
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I plan to stay with FF 56.0.2 or whatever the last version that supports the legacy add-ons is while I wait a while to see if my critical add-ons are going to be updated and explore alternatives to FF in case they are not.
Is there a place where I can get the actual full executable installation package for 56.0.2 for manual installation instead of using the official "installer" which I believe downloads the installation on the fly?
I have a 64 bit OS, but I am using 32 bit FF because I think the 64 bit may still have more issues at this time.
Thanks for the help...
Initially I had the same thought; then, I took a look at the 20+ extensions I used and came to the conclusion that only about eight were REALLY important to me. Of the eight four have already been ported for 57, I found replacements for two and the other two are in the process of being ported.
I seriously doubt that all your extensions are critical.
FF 83.0 - FF 84b4 - FF 85a - TB 78.5 - Mac OSX 10.13.6
While I don't recommend you stay with 56.0.2 for long, you can find the installer for that version here:
64-bit: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/rele ... n64/en-US/
32-bit: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/rele ... n32/en-US/
I assumed you were using the US English version. If not, navigate up a level and find your language.
Others recommend you try the ESR (Extended Support Release) version, which won't transition to the webextension era until June or July 2018.
NOTE!! If you decide to use the ESR version, you should create a new Firefox user profile, as going back from v56 to v52 causes problems, most noticeably that the favicons of your bookmarks won't work.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_set ... ew_profile
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Please do not PM me for personal support. Keep posts here in the Forums instead and we all learn.
&....Will Mozilla.org automatically upgrade/update 32 bit versions to those users running 64 bit OS?
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That was the point of the 56.0.1 update, I believe. If you were 64-bit capable, you were supposed to get moved to 64-bit if you weren't already there. From the WOW64 in LameBrains' UA, I assumed they were still using the 32-bit version for whatever reason.
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well, i think you miss the point that those 9663 are webextensions and written from scratch.
so you have additional 9663 extension and that makes 25789 together - an increase of ~60% from 100% to 160%.
just numbers - the majority of webextension is pure crap, just look at the latest contributions. maybe 1 of 100 is useful.
but i admit that a lot of legacy extensions disappear, author decision. and some were not converted to a webextension, no API present.
thats why i asked you for details, which extension you would hardly miss. for the most important legacy extension already exist a replacement or a combination of extension. if dont give us details is nearly impossible to help. then you should stay on ESR as long as possible and be happy.
* i also lost a lot of legacy extension i'd like to have back, on the other hand only for my personal comfort and not important for working with firefox. working with firefox ***as a browser*** has been fully and successful replaced.
Thank you for the links and good info smsmith. And to others for the help too.
I'm using Windows 7 64 bit and earlier today upgraded FF to 56.0.2. Had I known that it was supposed to automatically switch me to FF 64 bit, I wouldn't have done the upgrade and left it at 56.0.0 where it was before.
But fortunately, it is still showing FF as the 32 bit version which is what I want. So I am in my happy space for now. It's getting challenging just to stay there.
I don't have time to follow the progress of the 64 bit version, but I have read about some issues specific to that version. Don't know if they have been resolved yet of not. But in general I don't like to be a beta tester unless I volunteer, and also can't afford the downtime, so I pass on any major changes if possible until they have the kinks worked out and they mature to a point where I feel safe to use it. Not sure if FF 64 is there yet... maybe, but just not sure.
I do want to contribute to the improvement of FF, because at least until now it's been my favorite browser... going forward the jury is out. I just don't have the time, but of course I wish the developers good luck because I would like to see it succeed and I am sure this particular time is not an easy one for them. I have seen an awful lot of users who claim this change is the end for them with FF. I can understand why they are upset. Even things like not being able to support MAFF files at the moment (and maybe never again) is a problem for me and others. But whether FF will really lose all the users who claim they are leaving remains to be seen. I think some will go and some will stay. How that will affect the future of FF is an unknown at this point. If their user base takes a huge plummet, that isn't good.
I was as noted above skeptical of FF57 and the extension issue. Now, after using FF57 since it was released into the nightly channel and then the beta channel (13+ weeks) I am more than happy with the result. FF57 is definitely snappier in rendering and its native PW manager and form fill are a vast improvement. This allowed me to dump two extensions.
Beyond that I found an excellent cookie manager that allowed me to replace two other extensions. uBlock Origin has been ported which to me is one of those must haves. NoScript, Video DownloadHelper and Clippings (very useful to a moderator) ports should be released in about twelve days.
The ability to use userChrome.css to do some UI tweaks remains which is a plus.
I have a number of die-hard FF acquaintances who initially were assuming they were leaving FF experimenting with Chrome, Palemoon and Opera because they felt FF57 was going to be a catastrophe. In having a few beers with them over the weekend all eleven of them are sticking with FF since experimenting with Nightly and beta. That is a result of Chrome being crap, you can't trust Google, Opera isn't that great and it was sold to a Chinese consortium which may be a bigger trust issue than Google and Palemoon may or may not survive. Edge was never under consideration.
Is FF57 exactly what I want; no but nothing is. BTW your typical user uses very few extensions.
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The main purpose of Fx 56.0.1 update
for Fx 55.0 Release
The online stub installer is served on http://www.mozilla.org while the full setups for Windows are at https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
Only the Fx 56.0.1 was to update to Win64 version if user has 64-bit Windows and 2GB RAM. https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/56.0.1/releasenotes/
You say this as if the 32-bit Firefox Releases for Windows is no more. http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
64-bit (Win64) Firefox for Windows is not new as it has been available for Releases since Fx 42.0 and listed on http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ since Fx 43.0
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NORFOLK – Sara-Lynn Reynolds and Dylan Hayre faced off Tuesday, weighing in on questions about education, the minimum wage and the probation trial as they seek a Democratic state Senate nomination.
Hayre said he is a fighter, whether supporting veterans through his law practice, seniors through a tenure on Natick's Council on Aging or advocating for public school students and teachers.
On Beacon Hill, he pledged "to work hard for you (and) to fight for you every single day."
Reynolds pointed to her experience, including as a single mother, mentor to younger siblings and Attleboro city councilor.
"I understand many of the issues facing us today," she told a crowd gathered at the Norfolk Public Library for a forum sponsored by several Democratic town committees.
Reynolds of Attleboro, and Hayre, of Natick, are seeking the Democratic nomination for the Norfolk Bristol, Middlesex state senate seat in the Sept. 9 primary. The winner will battle incumbent Sen. Richard Ross, R-Wrentham, in the general election.
Both candidates identified growing the economy, enhancing education and improving healthcare as priorities if they are elected.
Responding to a question on standardized tests and the common core, Reynolds said there is too much focus on testing. Teachers went to college to learn how to teach yet are now being told how to teach.
"Although there is room for testing, I think it is way out of line," she said.
Hayre said there needs to be options to fairly measure progress.
"Whatever assessment we use, we need to have diverse options available for all our students and all our teachers" Hayre said.
The candidates responded to questions on the recently concluded probation trial that has shined a spotlight on lawmakers' policies around recommending candidates for state jobs.
Hayre said he would make sure the job was posted in an open, transparent manner and only write a letter of recommendation if he got to know the person and made sure they had adequate qualifications for the job.
Reynolds said she would encourage people to look for someone outside the State House to write a letter if the job relates to a lawmaker's role.
Regarding minimum wage, both candidates said recent action lawmakers took to raise the minimum wage to $11 per hour by 2017 did not go far enough and identified $15 as a goal.
Reynolds said a minimum wage needs to be one on which residents can afford to live. She said officials need to help small businesses find ways to meet the new wage requirements. They also need to ponder what happens to people who are earning $15 per hour now if the minimum wage is raised to that amount.
Hayre, who noted the importance of indexing the minimum wage to inflation, criticized Ross for voting against the minimum wage bill and filing an amendment that would have allowed businesses to pay a lower rate to seasonal teenage employees and teenage employees during their initial period of employment.
"This substantial increase to the minimum wage will have drastic and significant effects on the commonwealth," Ross said in a press release in November about the proposed $11 wage. "While I am in support of a more reasonable increase to the minimum wage, I cannot ignore the serious financial burdens this increase places on Massachusetts small businesses."
Reynolds pledged to be more accessible to her constituents than Ross.
"I will be your listening board and I will be paying attention to everything you say," she said.
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Senate Republicans push tougher border plans in U.S. immigration bill
Two leading Republican senators on Wednesday unveiled proposals requiring much tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border before undocumented immigrants could gain legal status under the broad immigration bill the Senate is considering.
The two separate amendments by John Cornyn, the second-ranking Senate Republican, and Rand Paul, a potential 2016 presidential contender, are likely to draw fire from many Democrats who have said such provisions would erode the path to citizenship at the heart of the White House-backed bill.
Both senators would establish strict benchmarks for border security that would need to be met as a condition of granting legal status and a path to citizenship for some 11 undocumented immigrants.
"My idea takes border security a step further than anybody else in Congress," Paul, of Kentucky, said in a statement. His proposal would require Congress to write a border security plan and take votes each year on whether it has achieved its goals.
Cornyn, of Texas, would require the government to have the capability to monitor all portions of the southern border and stop at least 90 percent of people trying to cross the border illegally.
The full Senate is expected to begin work next week on the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in nearly three decades. The bill would authorize billions in new spending for enhanced border security and would create new visa programs for high- and low-skilled workers.
Both Republican and Democratic senators are likely offer a crush of amendments to bolster border security, considered by critics to be a weak link in broad immigration reform.
Skeptics of immigration reform warn of the risk of a repeat of 1986 when President Ronald Reagan signed sweeping legislation that offered amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants, but failed to obtain the level of border security that backers of the measure had anticipated. These critics complain that the 1986 amnesty ended up attracting more illegal immigrants.
Democrats have vowed to fight any amendments – including those on border security – that would create too many obstacles to the 13-year path to citizenship in the Senate bill.
The bipartisan "Gang of Eight" senators who wrote the immigration bill are trying to preserve Democratic priorities in the legislation while courting enough Republican votes to ensure its passage.
Senator Marco Rubio, a member of the Gang of Eight and also a potential 2016 White House candidate, is leading the effort to reach out to Republicans.
An aide to Rubio said the Florida senator's staff has been "working closely with Cornyn's office" on parts of his border-security amendment for weeks. In a series of television and radio appearances, Rubio has defended the bill but also said he would like to some changes to it, including more stringent border provisions.
Rubio and Paul were among several Senate Republicans who met on Wednesday with conservative House of Representatives Republicans to discuss the immigration issue.
Comprehensive immigration is expected to face its biggest challenge in the Republican-led House, where many conservatives view the provision to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants as amnesty to people who broke the law.
In addition to Rubio and Paul, Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona, Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Sessions of Alabama were also scheduled to attend the meeting with House Republicans.
Flake is a member of the Senate Gang of Eight. Paul has signaled he is open to supporting the bill but wants to see stronger border-security provisions and other changes.
Cruz and Lee are both skeptics of the immigration bill and Sessions is one of the Senate's most vocal critics of the legislation.
At a breakfast with reporters on Wednesday, Representative Tom Price of Georgia, a leading conservative voice in the House, expressed skepticism that a majority of Republicans in his chamber would support a bill that included a path to citizenship.
"I think at this point that would be highly unlikely because I don't think there's any trust of our conference in the administration to enforce current laws that are on the books as they relate to much of immigration," Price said.


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(Pocket-lint) - The Hasselblad name tends to conjure up images of studio pros snapping celebrities with the company's £25,000 HD-series medium format cameras. But Hasselblad is undergoing something of a change: when company CEO Larry Hansen took to the stage at Hasselblad's Photokina press conference he promised not only a full-frame DSLR and high-end compact camera in the future but also unveiled - drum roll please - the company's mirrorless compact system camera, the Hasselblad Lunar.
It came from outer space… well, it came from Sony by the looks of things. The clues are there en masse: the Lunar uses Sony's E-mount lens fitting, while sensor duties are catered for by a 24-megapixel, APS-C-sized CMOS sensor - we suspect the very same one as found in the NEX-7. The electronic viewfinder, too, is the same OLED panel as found in the NEX-7.
Although most of the Lunar models - and we're talking cameras here, not NASA space robots - were tucked away behind glass on the Hasselblad stand, Pocket-lint was able to get our mitts on a fully functioning prototype. Yup, despite the numerous designs that Hasselblad has been tinkering with - just take a look through the gallery below to get an idea - we were surprised to have one up and running to such a level of completion.
But when it came to it, we were less surprised: from the rear the Lunar is very much like the Sony NEX-7, but with a large, over-designed grip attached to the side. This camera sure looks like it came from the future, or certainly a spaced-out mind.
The two dials on top of the camera are also a little awkwardly placed for single-hand use, as the second one doesn't offer that thumbwheel-style control.
The Lunar makes use of a 25-point autofocus system - we presume this is much like the hybrid AF system in the Sony NEX-6, but there's no confirmation of this at the moment - which is matched with a near-instant shutter.
When we first got to grips with the model we had a brief heart-in-mouth moment when we thought that Hasselblad had started to make its own set of E-mount lenses. But, alas, the Hasselblad-branded lens on the front of the Lunar we played with is nothing more than a re-branded Sony 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.
Then there's the Lunar's astronomical - c'mon, it had to be said - 5000 Euro estimated price tag. Although it might be a jazzed up NEX-7, how it can possibly be five times the price is beyond us. Unless, of course, it came from far into the future where inflation is more in line with the high price.
We love Hasselblad kit, but this mirrorless model doesn't really bring much to the party. If anything it's just a rebranding of a Sony product under a "partnership" that's not going to bring a great deal to the consumer in practical terms, and particularly not at that price. Yep, we're making that unimpressed face.


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Bring two gallons of water to boil in a large pot. Add the bay leaves, onions, salt, and peppercorns. Add the lobsters to the boiling water and simmer, covered, for about 10-12 minutes.
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The design of the DX735-D3201 is a mirror of the by-the-book DX1210. Glossy black trim rules the day, and while its looks won't win any design awards, it's not particularly offensive, either. As with the smaller model, the DX735 has a set of buttons on the side, on the left in this unit, that allow basic display and audio output control (display settings, volume, etc.). It's better to have them than not, but when you're seated in front of the system you can't immediately see what button does what.
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Next to its competition in the same price range, the Toshiba DX735-D3201 seems like a fair enough deal, although it also makes me question the price tag on the similar DX1210 and its smaller display. Last year, 23-inch screens were common at this price, and CPU options ranged from the slow AMD low-power chips in the
This year, the lower-end chips seem to have fallen away, and 21.5-inch displays stand next to the 23-inch models in the same price scale. I suspect the screen size spread is due to the fact that 1,920x1,080-pixel 21.5-inch displays have fallen in price, and they allow vendors to save costs on the smaller screen while still allowing to claim 1080p HD resolution. In any case, and despite its own confusing product lineup, Toshiba deserves credit for continuing to offer a 23-inch all-in-one with a decent CPU for under $1,000.
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I call the Toshiba's CPU decent because, as our performance charts demonstrate, it falls at or near the bottom when you compare its speed with that of similar all-in-ones. It's not so far out of contention that it's a complete dog, and in fairness, it's also one of the least expensive systems in this chart. I wouldn't use the DX735 for any kind of serious content creation or other performance-sensitive work, but it should serve ably for most day-to-day computing tasks.
Like most all-in-ones these days, the Toshiba DX735 offers an HDMI input, which means you can directly connect an external video component and display its output on the Toshiba's screen. This is a useful feature for dorms, small apartments, or any other space-constrained locale, since it lets you go without a separate TV.
As with the D1210, Toshiba also added a pair of USB 3.0 jacks to this unit, along with four USB 2.0 jacks, an Ethernet output, and an analog audio input/output set. That will satisfy most of you, although those with more exotic audio or data connection needs will of course want to look elsewhere. Also like the D1210, you get only a basic assortment of touch screen apps with the DX735, essentially only Microsoft's spare suite of marginally useful/entertaining Surface apps. The software doesn't hurt at all, but you might also ask why include a touch screen, and its associated costs, to begin with?


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I am still playing BoA every now and then. I guess as it turned out, this was the only Ageod game I needed. I really like the period.
I get all sorts of crazy stuff happen in these games. For instance, I recently started the 1776 Campaign, and Howe's army at Boston boarded the fleet and set sail for some where. I wasn't sure where (probably New York).
I moved Washington's Army to Hartford to wait and see, and then a new British Army landed at Boston (again). Eventually this army seperated into two groups and I sent Washington's Army moving from Hartford to Boston ASAP, with the red assualt posture enabled, and this was the result.


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Sri K. Pattabhi Jois died on Monday May 18 2009.
The official site announced a public memorial for the end of the month:
Students may come and give respects to Guruji's soul on Sunday, May 31, 2009 in Mysore.
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The outpouring of affection and emotion in response to the passing of beloved yogi Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is deeply moving. Ashtanga studios areound the world are holding tributes: Jivamukti in New York is devoting a week of chanting to him; the Shala in Los Angeles is having a ceremony tonight at 6pm; and many individuals and teachers are dedicating their next practice to him.
At my local studio (in Mountain View, California), we are holding a 30 minute meditation every day before class this week at 6 am.
News of his death was found almost immediately on blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. The conversation on Twitter has now increased in pace, with more than 10 tweets an hour.
It took 3 days for the news to percolate to the mass media, but has now reached major media outlets such as the New York Times, UK's Guardian, the Times of India, BBC News and more.
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Thousands of devotees of ashtanga yoga will perform their primary series with a heavy heart today after learning of the death at 93 of the influential teacher in the movement, Krishna Pattabhi Jois. – The Guardian


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The days leading up to Anna Nicole Smith's death were filled with booze, late-night partying and a hotel room stocked with prescription pills.
According to the New York Daily News, a bouncer from the Hard Rock Hotel says Anna Nicole was wasted early Tuesday morning. "She was messed up. She couldn't walk on her own," he says. "Her bouncer was on one side and her lawyer friend on the other."
And just hours before she died she was seen doing shots at the hotel's Central Bar. A bartender says the blonde bombshell looked "plastered" and was slurring her speech. She then moved the party upstairs, where her room looked like a "pharmacist's shop" allegedly stocked with Xanax, Provigil, Fentanyl and Methadone.
Another Daddy for Dannielynn: A Dead Billionaire
As if things weren't confusing enough -- now there's a fourth possible baby daddy for Anna Nicole's daughter, Dannielynn: J. Howard Marshall, who's been dead more than 10 years.
The bombshell was dropped by Anna's half-sister, Donna Hogan, in a manuscript –- aptly titled "Train Wreck" -- she wrote, reports the New York Daily News. She alleges that her deceased sis froze the sperm of her 90-year-old hubby before he died, and used it to become pregnant as a "trump card" in winning the ongoing legal battle for the billionaire's estate.
Stern Steers Clear of Bahamas Drama
As the custody battle for Dannielynn heats up, People magazine reports that, despite Anna Nicole's mother touching down on Bahamian soil, the baby is with Howard K. Stern's mother and sister in the Bahamas while the supposed father stays in Florida. "Of course he wants to be with [Dannielynn]," says Smith's lawyer Ron Rale, "but I don't know exactly when he will get there." Before Anna Nicole died, a high-ranking Bahamian official was watching the baby.
Gawkers Can't Get Enough of Anna
In the wake of her death, DVD sales for Anna Nicole's reality show are skyrocketing. Since Thursday, its ranking on Amazon.com has soared an amazing 180,000 percent, moving from number 27,014 to 15.
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For Sale By Owner
This story appears in the January 1998 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
It wasn't until her two daughters were grown and out on their own that Diana Lautens started to notice how dependent her third offspring was. It was demanding most of her time and attention. Even though she had birthed, nurtured and groomed this one, much as she had the older two, she was starting to feel tied down and a bit resentful.
Finally, she put the kid up for "adoption," as she now calls it. Early in 1996, Lautens decided to sell Sunday Afternoon Gallery, her 15-year-old high-end art prints and custom framing business in Winnetka, Illinois. She had already shuttered the profitable branch location in nearby Lake Forest the previous fall because the effort it took to keep both locations running had become too much for her. Then, as the new year dawned and she could see her work schedule cramping her plans to help her daughter plan a June wedding, she realized, "I didn't want to lie on my deathbed some day thinking, `I wish I'd done the wedding instead of the framing,' " she recalls.
By March, Lautens' business broker had found a committed buyer (one of Lautens' former employees); by May, the deal was complete, and Lautens took the month of June off to handle wedding details. Returning to work at Sunday Afternoon as a three-day-a-week employee--under the terms of the sale--was "divine," she says now. "I take orders from somebody who worked for me for many years, and nobody ever asks me to work Saturdays."
Lautens had piloted her thriving business for more than a decade, and when she tired of it, she smoothly parachuted to an easier life. That can happen for sellers who follow a few common-sense rules that also make sense for businesses that aren't for sale. Enjoy the ride, experts say, but know it will inevitably end. Keep the business in sound shape, keep quiet about your plans for a sale, and keep a realistic eye on what a sale looks like. These and a few other practices can make your exit as smooth as Lautens' was.
Dennis Rodkin is a writer in Chicago.
When The Ride Is Over
Lautens was lucky; she noticed right away that she was no longer enjoying her once-beloved business. "When it stops being fun, that's the number-one sign it's time to sell the business," says Barry Merkin, clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois.
Speaking not only as an academic but from the experience of building and selling his own metal furniture manufacturing business, Merkin says, "If the business isn't making you delighted to get up in the morning anymore, then you're probably not doing the good job you used to do, so it's a marvelous time to sell."
But it's also a dangerous time, Merkin says. "When [an entrepreneur decides] to sell, some kind of emotional `click' happens--and it gets out of control fast. Instead of spending your days and nights trying to build your business and keep it healthy, you are focused on selling it and getting out. But if you start neglecting the business to try to sell it, your need to sell it increases and the interest in [keeping it up] is gone." This vicious circle is self-defeating; it's important to maintain a healthy business even if you know you are letting it go.
The realization that it's time to sell can dawn any day, so the smart business owner is always prepared. In fact, experts advise having your eye on the exit from the day you open for business; it's a tactic they say keeps the business in its best shape to be sold and handed over.
"If you know you want to retire when you turn 65, you can plan on that as a sale date, but most people can't fix their horizons that precisely," says Frederick D. Lipman, a Philadelphia mergers and acquisitions attorney and author of How Much is Your Business Worth? (Prima). "That's why they should always be preparing for the day they will leave the business."
A sound business is easier to sell--and to keep. If you're in a retail business where value is based on how many locations you have, boosting the number of locations sweetens the pot both for potential buyers in the future and for you in the present. Similarly, if your company has developed a product or process but you haven't gotten a patent, you're exposing yourself to risk and potentially driving down your company's eventual sale price.
Money Matters
Even a well-kept business may need tidying up before it's put on the market. "Two key things to clean up are the balance sheet and the profit-and-loss statement," says Jack R. Sanders, a business broker who gathers sales data on small businesses and publishes it in his annual Bizcomps studies. "[Move off the balance sheet] all nonoperating assets, anything that won't go with the business, like a boat or a plane," Sanders says. "Next, if you haven't been reporting some of your income--and everybody knows some businesses don't--that's a fatal error. If you're making the money, you should put it on the books and pay for it." One big reason: Most sale prices are figured, at least in part, on the business's income. Underreporting it will undervalue the business.
Valuing the business may be the hardest part of preparing to sell. As with residential real estate, no two businesses can be priced exactly alike because of the unique nature of each offering. Sanders' Bizcomps is the closest thing there is to a real estate agent's list of comparable recent sales. Tabulating data on some 2,500 sales of businesses each year, Bizcomps offers some insights into what businesses of your type have recently sold for. For example, if a business in your field is listed as having sales of $1 million and as selling for $400,000, you can calculate that your own business might go for about 40 percent of your annual sales. Of course, comps are only approximations; the actual sale price is the result of negotiations.
"Almost all small businesses go for between one-and-a-half and three-and-a-half times earnings," Sanders says.
Because market conditions and the needs and finances of both buyer and seller vary from deal to deal, Lipman advises always selling by auction in order to nail down the right price. With the auction approach, multiple bidders in an open market establish the ultimate sale price by bidding against one another. Lipman says sellers should rely on the auction method so completely that they don't even establish a minimum opening bid: "That tips your hand as to where you expect to go."
Go For Broker
Should you sell the business yourself? The consensus among experts and entrepreneurs is, Don't waste your time trying. "If the business is something with general value and a high market, maybe you can sell it on your own," says Alex Oziran, a Chicago-area entrepreneur who previously built and sold a medical-transportation firm and now owns three Pearle Vision franchises. "It's more likely that a small business is attractive to only a small group of buyers. Get somebody who knows how to network to those buyers."
Or, as Lautens says, "I know how to sell a serigraph or a frame, but I know nothing about how to sell a framing business."
Both entrepreneurs agree a business broker can be an invaluable aide in selling your business. Like a real estate agent, a business broker knows not only where the buyers are but also what they want to buy and how to make your company stand out from the others. "Even a business that isn't large involves a deal that is complex enough that you ought to have a business broker to guide you through it," says Merkin. "What if [you're a novice] at selling and you wind up dealing with a buyer who's bought four businesses in the past six years? There will be an imbalance of skill that works against you in the negotiations."
Whenever possible, Lipman and Sanders say, it's best to hook up with a broker who has experience selling businesses in your field. If you can't find such a specialist, Sanders urges using a broker who is a member of the International Business Brokers Association and, even better, one with the Certified Business Intermediary designation. Both are marks designating brokers who have sufficient training to sell businesses in various fields.
Leonard B. Sis, owner of Sis Investments Inc., a business brokerage firm in Oak Brook, Illinois, explains that a broker also plays the crucial role of gatekeeper. "Try to sell it yourself, and you'll be overwhelmed by phone calls from people who want to meet with you but who don't have any money or people who have no understanding of what you're trying to sell--unqualified buyers that a broker can screen out quickly and effectively."
Keeping It Quiet
Screening potential buyers is especially important when you don't want your employees to know the shop is for sale. A broker can guarantee that only serious buyers will visit your site and can ensure they'll sign confidentiality agreements before those visits.
Is the cloak-and-dagger routine necessary? Absolutely, the experts concur. "No one else in the company needs to know you're looking for a buyer," Lipman says. "There is no advantage to telling the employees beforehand." Tell them, he says, and you risk seeing them jump ship, possibly taking important customers or suppliers with them. Even if they stay, they'll be understandably antsy about the future and distracted from their work.
"If I'd told my staff members, their anxiety would not have been good for the business and I'd have less to sell," Lautens says. "So I waited until I could tell them I'd sold it to a great guy."
Oziran once sold a business to one of his employees and knew he was taking a risk. "If I had found out he didn't want to buy or couldn't, I couldn't have stopped him from letting word get around that I was selling," Oziran says. He suggests sellers who want to take this risky route protect themselves by investigating the employee's finances and interest in entrepreneurship as thoroughly as possible before broaching the subject.
Merkin says this closed-mouth policy should extend to suppliers and others outside the company, as well. "If they've been depending on you and you tell them you want to sell, they'll be less likely to rely on you, and there goes your business's value."
Finally, Sanders cautions business owners against indulging in the fantasy that they can sell the business for a heap of cash and retire to a beach somewhere. He finds that about three-quarters of the transactions listed in Bizcomps involve some form of seller financing. "People need to get rid of the idea that somebody's going to walk in and cash them out," he says. One important effect of seller financing is that it encourages the seller to stick around and provide training and other consultation services while the new owners get going, which helps keep the business successful.
But, as Lautens found, hanging around can spark a new round of fun. "I'm doing the framing I love," she says happily, "and I have none of the worries of business ownership."
Price Points
"No one knows what a particular business will sell for," says Frederick D. Lipman, a Philadelphia mergers and acquisitions attorney and author of How Much Is Your Business Worth? (Prima). Lipman outlines many pricing methods in his book, the top six of which are described below.
1. Rule of thumb. Some industries have accepted yardsticks for measuring each business's worth. It might be the number of subscribers or a formula multiplying gross sales by an accepted figure.
2. EBITDA. The business's Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization is multiplied by a figure that is the result of a "backward" calculation on sales of other companies in the same industry. Lipman cautions, though, against carrying over the multipliers from large companies for calculations on small ones.
3. Discounted cash flow. Here's where your business's future, as well as its track record, count most. Revenue projections and operating profits are discounted in line with the level of risk that faces your business. Various formulas exist for determining the discount rate.
4. Comparable company valuation and
5. Comparable transaction valuation. Both methods attempt to translate figures from similar sales to match the financials and other relevant data on your business.
6. Asset accumulation. Your business's value is assumed to be the sum of the ongoing value of each component of the business. Real estate and trained employees, among other things, get separate evaluations. This method is valuable if individual assets are eliminated from the sale; recalculating the price to reflect those subtractions is a straightforward process.
Contact Sources
Bizcomps, P.O. Box 711777, San Diego, CA 92171, (619) 457-0366
Frederick D. Lipman, c/o Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, 4 Penn Ctr. Plaza, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 569-5518
Pearle Vision Inc., 322 Skokie Blvd., Northbrook, IL 60062, (847) 714-9500
Sis Investments Inc., 2311 W. 22nd St., #102, Oak Brook, IL 60521, (630) 571-1505
Sunday Afternoon Gallery, 548 Chestnut St., Winnetka, IL 60093, (847) 446-3970


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Sony will soon launch a white PlayStation 3 in the U.S. and Canada, postings on Best Buy's site indicate.
Best Buy's Canadian and U.S.-based sites today posted white versions of the PlayStation 3. The 500GB console is bundled with three games -- Little Big Planet 2, Infamous 2, and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. In addition, the bundle includes six PlayStation Vita games and a one-year subscription to PlayStation Plus.
In both the U.S. and Canada, the bundle will set customers back $299.99.
In North America, Sony has stuck to shipping black versions of its latest console. Late last year, however, the company launched a white version of its recently redesigned PlayStation 3 in Japan. It appears that same console will be coming to North America. It's just not clear for how long.
According to Best Buy's site, the "Crystal White" PlayStation 3 will come with limited edition availability. In Canada, Best Buy is showing a January 27 launch date.
CNET has contacted Sony for comment on the White PlayStation 3. We will update this story when we have more information.
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