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		<title>Why my interest in the Bakken oil field is increasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite a while now I’ve been fascinated by the rapid increase in oil production in the Bakken field in North Dakota.  Have had a lot of posts on my blog Outrun Change.  Under 1% unemployment in one county. Production graphs that are going vertical.  More oil produced in ND than California. That kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2273&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to emasculate a man and walk away feeling warm and fuzzy – unintended consequences, part 3</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/how-to-emasculate-a-man-and-walk-away-feeling-warm-and-fuzzy-unintended-consequences-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Toxic Charity &#8211; How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (and How to Reverse It), Robert Lupton describes the harmful unintended consequences of the way we usually do charity. In 1981, he moved into the neighborhood where he was serving.  On Christmas Eve, he was visiting the home of some new friends. Mom, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2267&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Benefit Corporations – new form of incorporating that allows goals other than profits to be priority</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/benefit-corporations-new-form-of-incorporating-that-allows-goals-other-than-profits-to-be-priority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal discusses ‘benefit corporations’ in their article, With New Law, Profits Take a Back Seat. This is a traditional for-profit corporation modified to so the entity can have social or environment issues as a priority.  Profit or the interest of stockholders can take a back seat to those self-defined issues. Why take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2263&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reshoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a post on my other blog, Outrun Change, that discusses the reshoring trend.  More companies are bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. because of changing economics of offshoring.   One challenge in reshoring is improving the skills of American workers so they can use the latest technology. Reshoring – huge opportunity if we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2260&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danger for a church in the midst of success – Hubris</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/danger-for-a-church-in-the-midst-of-success-hubris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his article When Hubris Comes to Church, Thom Rainer describes the danger to churches of thinking they are the reason for their success, which can lead to pride and arrogance. He correctly labels this hubris: Simply defined, hubris means pride or arrogance. It has its origins in Greek tragedy, where an excess of ambition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2253&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impact on GIK values from change in accounting rules – part 3 – change in Feed the Children financials</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/impact-on-gik-values-from-change-in-accounting-rules-part-3-change-in-feed-the-children-financials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous post quoted disclosures made by Feed the Children in their 2010 audited financial statements. Essence of that note is that deworming medicine valued in the 2009 financial statements at $544M would have been valued at $21M if the 2009 financial statements had used the pricing information that was in use for 2010. This post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2232&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Showing my calculations for impact of FAS 157</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/showing-my-calculations-for-impact-of-fas-157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the spreadsheets that support my comments in this post. Remember your Algebra teacher telling you to show your work?  Well, here&#8217;s my work.  I&#8217;ve posted this here to keep the other post a bit less messy. My calculations for 2010: Calculations for 2009: Calculations for 2008: Filed under: Non-profit accounting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2236&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Feed the Children calculations 1</media:title>
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		<title>Supreme Court agrees religious protections apply to Christian schools</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/supreme-court-agrees-religious-protections-apply-to-christian-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a huge ruling today, the Supremes agreed that religious schools may hire and fire ministers of the gospel without being subject to court review of their decisions. Specifically, a terminated employee who is a &#8216;minister&#8217; role can not sue such an employer for discrimination. UPDATE:  After reading a few articles, it looks like this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2225&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tax pitfalls for nonprofit organizations, especially paying volunteers</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/tax-pitfalls-for-nonprofit-organizations-especially-paying-volunteers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of places NPOs can get themselves into trouble by violating rules they didn&#8217;t know about. Katie Thomas, CPA, has a great survey of a few places that can cause problems for NPOs in her post, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know, at the Nonprofit GPS blog. She mentions: Raffles Taxes on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2168&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impact on GIK values from change in accounting rules – part 2</title>
		<link>http://ulvog.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/impact-on-gik-values-from-change-in-accounting-rules-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ulvog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous post here discussed the impact of changes in valuation of GIK caused by new accounting.  I already discussed World Vision&#8217;s financials.  Next I will look at Feed the Children&#8217;s financials. The beginning point of my discussion was a Forbes article, by William P. Barrett: Donated Pills Make Some Charities Look Too Good on Paper. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulvog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15496778&amp;post=2216&amp;subd=ulvog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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