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For those of you who incorporate your business using IPIU's exclusive Colorado Program, the question comes up asking "How much is my corporation worth each year?"

Here are some ideas to consider:

• If you do nothing with your corporation each year, except keep it's state fees and registered agent current, then you basically have a "Seasoned Corporation" which can be resold by you to a new stockholder later on.

  
  

• What is a Seasoned Corporation? It is a corporation which was incorporated more than a year ago. Sometimes seasoned corporations were incorporated 50 years ago.

  There are numerous reasons for purchasing a seasoned corporation or LLC. Some clients choose to invest in a seasoned corporation because they increase in value each and every year. Others choose to purchase seasoned entities to blend with their current business to gain increased business history, easily and effectively.

  
  

• Why would someone want to buy a seasoned corporation? The answer is typically that a seasoned corporation, otherwise known as an aged corporation, is shown on the public records as being in business for many years, thereby raising the liklihood that an owner can obtain unsecured credit for the corporation without having to use a social security card credit report. Having corporate credit instead of personal credit allows the owner to avoid personal liability for the debts.

  
  

• How much does a seasoned corporation sell for? They usually increase in value at a rate from $1000 to $3000 per year, and sometimes $5000 per year.

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In 1942, as the United States was entering World War II, the Office of Strategic Services -- the precursor to today's CIA -- was scrambling to find promising spies to go behind enemy lines. One of the aptitude exams it developed was the Belongings Test, in which candidates had to draw conclusions about a man based purely on items in his bedroom: clothes, a timetable, a ticket receipt.

Sam Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, has made a career of studying how such clues illuminate personality. His premise is that our personalities seep out in everything we do and that expert snoopers can draw remarkably accurate pictures of us by examining the traces we leave behind.

Gosling's conclusions are supported by rigorous academic research, but his engaging book is aimed at a popular audience; he presents it as a field guide to the "special brand of voyeurism" he calls "snoopology." Few readers may actually rummage through their neighbors' garbage in search of what Gosling dryly calls "behavioral residue," but Snoop's conceit makes for an entertaining tour of how people project their inner selves outward into the world.

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This may seem like just common sense, but it's not. We think people with messy, disorganized bedrooms will be unpleasant, but we're wrong. We incorrectly assume people whose rooms are highly decorated and cluttered are more extroverted. We make similar errors in judging people directly: We expect timid, grumpy-looking people with weak voices and halting speech to be anxious and easily upset, and we expect self-assured, smiling, stylish people to be open, imaginative and curious. But neither expectation is accurate.

On a date or job interview, you may succeed in presenting a misleading impression of yourself. But since the gradual accumulation of clues in your living space is hard to fake, snooping can yield a penetrating portrait. And that, says Gosling, is perfectly okay, because though we try to put our best selves forward, most of us, in the end, want to be known not for who we wish we could be, but for who we are.

Of course, one of the main ways we carve out our identity is by consuming. We surround ourselves with things that reinforce our conception of who we are, purchasing not just the objects we need but also symbols that help us articulate our personal narratives. That's why Ramones T-shirts outsell Ramones albums 10 to one and why, Rob Walker asserts, 75 percent of Viking's ultra-high-end kitchen ranges are never used.

In Buying In, Walker, who writes a consumer behavior column for the New York Times Magazine, makes a startling claim: Far from being immune to advertising, as many people think, American consumers are increasingly active participants in the marketing process. True, we've grown skeptical of traditional advertising, the clumsy, crass kind in which someone on Madison Avenue thinks up a soft-drink jingle and broadcasts it into ubiquity. And it's true that TiVo and the Internet have given us more control over the advertisements we see.

But Walker leads readers through a series of lucid case studies to demonstrate that, in many cases, consumers actively participate in infusing a brand with meaning. Consider the iconic mouthless cat known as Hello Kitty, used for marketing clothes, toys and bandages by the Japanese company Sanrio. She has no personality because the company painstakingly avoids defining her character, Walker says. The key to the mega-brand's success, he suggests, is ensuring that Hello Kitty remains an ambiguous symbol, a blank slate on which buyers can inscribe whatever meaning they want, from nostalgia to camp to subversiveness.

For the same reason, the makers of Red Bull never claim anything specific about the highly caffeinated drink's special ingredient, taurine, or which powers of athleticism, mental acuity or virility it supposedly bestows. They prefer marketing campaigns that promote the brand's "personality" by sponsoring such extreme sporting events as kiteboarding to Cuba, kayaking over waterfalls and street luge.

Or consider how the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand was hijacked by young, anti-corporate types. PBR's fan base grew not from aggressive marketing, Walker says, but from the lack of it. Long neglected, PBR had virtually no image at all, which helped make it an underground darling among people who attached a blue-collar, honest-workingman, anti-capitalist ethos to the brand.

Walker's analysis breaks down in places. He can't fathom why people would pay more for a Viking range or an iPod when competing products are cheaper. Most iPod buyers have never heard of such features as "Smart Playlists" and thus, he concludes, do not understand "all the functions that they paid a premium to obtain" -- as if those functions, and not the device's sleek form, are what drew 100 million purchasers. He considers the notion that people can pay for aesthetic pleasure but then dismisses it, saying it sounds more like a "rationale" than a rational choice. He's likewise baffled by why anyone would buy Method's leaky but beautiful, hourglass-shaped bottle of dish soap. Since we don't parade around town impressing others with elegant cleaning products, there's no "purely rational defense" for buying one, he says, seemingly oblivious to the possibility that we can rationally spend money on aesthetic pleasures we will enjoy alone.

But his major argument is convincing: In this new era of participatory marketing, many brands' meanings -- once crafted and maintained from atop the peaks of corporate hierarchies -- now originate from consumers. We once feared an Orwellian future in which big, scary corporations secretly manipulated our thoughts and desires. But commercial influence has become an open-source project. "We have already met the new hidden persuaders," writes Walker, "and they are us."
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"Who is Eligible for Social Security Disability?

"If you work long enough at a job, which is covered under the provisions of the Social Security Act, and become disabled, you are probably eligible for Social Security Disability benefits.

"According to the Social Security Administration, a "disability" can be:

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"The government makes the process very difficult. Waiting lines are long. Forms are complicated. Social Security Disability Benefits are often denied to people who have legitimate Disability claims. As a result, many people who apply for Social Security Disability Benefits on their own become discouraged and intimidated, so they simply back off, give up, and go away even when they are genuinely entitled to their Social Security Disability benefits. But Advocates do not let the government intimidate their clients. They are always active, aggressive advocates for their clients. It is a tough job, but they have been doing it for a long time. They are good at it and proud of the fact that they win such a high percentage of cases.

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IPIU's Private Investigator Forums Rated the BEST for PI's by Liam Deantoni.

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[I]"Since the trustworthy growth of the internet proceeding the dot com era, private investigators are now highly involving themselves on the internet. They're doing everything from networking within their own community, to providing expert advice (free download private investigator courses) and picking up new clients.

"Private investigator forums have started to be a great resource on the internet due to the private investigator industries "private" tendencies. It is not necessarily easy to find information on things that are supposed to be private. However, private investigator forums bring a whole new light to the industry, without damaging the industry at the same time.

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"The question is, which private investigator forum do you use?

". . . IPIU is an excellent forum. With over 39,000 members, it's is highly active. It is strictly made for private investigators, which does leave out consumers and clients. www.ipiu.com [/I]

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Dominic V. Ferraro has joined the Private Investigators Forums. His personal introduction is here: Dominic V. Ferraro Link

For those of you who do not know of Dominic's interesting family history, below is a copy from his home page:

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[I]"Our family's private investigation and security service heritage begins with my father,
Thomas E. Ferraro, Jr. My father had served as a highly decorated and recognized Police
Officer/Detective in the Northwestern Chicagoland Suburb of Niles, Illinois. While serving
the citizens of Niles, my father also continually indulged his entrepreneurial spirit by starting a
variety of businesses including an ice cream and sandwich shop, a private airplane company,
a flower store, and game rooms. In addition to starting and operating his own businesses, he
also worked as Director of Security for a major department store as well as a major food and
catering business.

"One night, while reading in bed, my father finished a book written by G. Gordon Liddy and
decided right then and there that he wanted to start a Private Security Agency with him. My
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to be certified in Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM).

"Still coping with my father's death, I began a journey to "real-world" educate myself in a
variety of industries and was successful in obtaining multiple high-level management positions
with different companies. Having not achieved my life-long dream of becoming a Police
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September 15, 2007"[/I]

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We provide all necessary training, orientation, and assignment managers for your local area.

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If an "Amber Alert" is announced, go to our new Ambert Alert Feed:
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• The AMBER Alert Plan provides law-enforcement agencies with a powerful tool to help recover abducted children and quickly apprehend the suspect. When an AMBER ALERT is activated, law-enforcement agencies immediately gain the assistance of thousands of community members who provide additional eyes and ears.

  
  

• The AMBER Alert Portal is provided as a free public service. Through the AMBER Alert Portal, law enforcement may directly issue and update AMBER Alerts, which are then immediately sent to mobile phones, pagers, fax and email to anyone who signs up.
  

AMBER ALERT empowers law enforcement, the media and the public to combat abduction by sending out immediate, up-to-date information that aids in the child's safe recovery.

The AMBER ALERT Program has helped in successfully recovering over one hundred children since it was established statewide in California on July 31, 2002.

The AMBER ALERT Program originated in Texas in 1996 after 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted and murdered. Texas organized a system that encouraged law enforcement agencies to alert the media following a confirmed child abduction.

California introduced the AMBER ALERT concept in 1999 as a regional program. In 2002 it was adopted statewide after legislation established procedures to assist law.

AMBER ALERT Guidelines

• AMBER ALERT may be activated only by law enforcement agencies.
  
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• AMBER ALERT is not intended for cases involving runaways or parental abduction, except in life-threatening situations.
  

• The investigating law enforcement agency confirms an abduction has occurred.
  
• The victim is 17 years of age or younger, or has a proven mental or physical disability.
  
• The victim is in imminent danger of serious injury or death.
  
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Could anybody tell me where IPIU functions from..I see Admin posts from London, England..would this be there origin?
Just curious it doesnt really matter the world needs Investigators.

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Montana gets hit again - this time with fast roving fires.
As soon as we just got through the last disaster, our state moved on the become the Number 1 in major fires this weekend.

So far, your PI Union Office in Bigfork, Montana, is safe. But surrounding communities are feeling the pressure of mandatory evacuation, smoke filled skies, and raining ash!

Your prayers and thoughts will be appreciated by the one million residents in Montana and nearby states.

“At this time, honestly, for the next five hours, it’s in the hands of God,” Gov. Brian Schweitzer said in a telephone interview from the scene. Schweitzer canceled his sched-uled speech Saturday night at the Montana Democratic Party’s officers’ convention in Helena to remain on the scene. He received a call mid-day at the convention and left to ride a state helicopter to Seeley Lake with state Forester Bob Harrington.

People fled the area in cars piled high with vacation gear and towing boats and camp-ers. Southbound traffic on Route 83 backed up 30 deep at Clearwater Junction. On their way out of the area, they passed people water-skiing on Salmon Lake, as an ominous plume of grey- and rose-colored smoke rose in the sky.

The governor said residents in the area were being told to shut their propane tanks, shut off their electricity, open their gates to possibly save their livestock, and to grab their pets and head to Clearwater Junction, where emergency shelters were being set up by the Red Cross and other organizations.

Firefighting crews were pulled off the fire as it headed toward the resort town of Seeley Lake.

“You can’t put good crews in front of fire,” Schweitzer said.

Even before the evacuation order was given, Kirby said that some people in area campgrounds had hitched up their trailers in preparation for leaving, while others simply drove home, said Jamie Kirby, fire prevention specialist for the state Department of Natu-ral Resources and Environmental Control

“That’s a big help to us,” Kirby said.

The evacuation order affects several dozen homes in the Placid Lake area, about half of them seasonal, she said.

Mark Williams of Lake Country Builders has constructed a good many of the homes affected by the evacuation order west of Boy Scout Road. Three generations of his family were in the midst of a two-week-long at his own cabin east of Boy Scout Road on the banks of Seeley Lake.

Originally, Williams was told to evacuate, but the order was lifted in favor of the evacuation of just those residents to the west.

“It’s a little bit of Chicken Little going on right now,” said Williams. “I don’t think the places down as low as the lake are in danger - the fire has a long way to go and lot of open space in between before it reaches this point,” he said.

Shortly after the evacuation order for east of Boy Scout Road was lifted, Williams said a breeze came up and lifted the smoke. “We saw the column of smoke - it’s pretty good-sized but it’s west of here, definitely,” said Williams.

Thursday, July 19, 2007
A severe tornado and lightening storm paralyzed parts of Western Montana Wednesday evening with loss of power, office phones, cell phones, and internet. Full restoration of all utilities is not expected until late Thursday evening.

The USA office for the International Private Investigators Union in Bigfork, Montana was among several businesses affected by the huge storm. A spokesman for the union stated the office is expected to reopen on Friday.

It is extremely rare for Western Montana to suffer the loss of all three vital utilities at the same time, including the loss of cellular phone service.