God Bless America

Dangers With Technology

"I'm not suggesting that we give up anything.  I don't think that we're going to give up these devices.  They are giving us this possibility--this fantasy--that we never have to be alone even for a moment.  And there is something very seductive about that, you know, it's something that we--you know, it feels good...but it's not good." -Sherry Turkle, Prof. at MIT and author of Alone Together, from a CNN interview (2012)

How often are we working on making new friends as opposed to reading on facebook or some social media platform what some person clear across the country is doing?  How will we care enough to excitedly ask that person when we see them what they are doing if we've already been reading it.

"We learn to do by doing."
“It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.” 
"Do it."
-Spencer W. Kimball, now deceased prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Apostle Jeffrey R Holland Speaks at Harvard Law School

AUDIO-FILES: Episode 1 (Imagine Dragons)

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Congratulations to Imagine Dragons (Alt #17, Rock #34) and David Hopkins (for inspiring Dan Reynolds) and Elise Meservy (for being lead strategist at BYU and getting Alex Da Kid to post the episode to his blog)

A Happy Birthday

Yesterday, I went to work and one of my bosses had baked me AMAZING cinnamon rolls for my 27th B-Day. She is heavenly sent. In fact, I had been telling Julia the night before that I wanted cinnamon rolls (she was naturally in on it too) and so the surprise was really fun.

After work, we had the family over to eat a variety of cereals and have donuts. It was casual and fun just like an all around really good birthday. Julia, my parents, and my sister E all got me books!

Thank you everybody for the gifts, birthday wishes, and love!

Easter

Dennis Meservy: Certified Fraud Examiner

My dad is a practicing CPA and CFE with a handful of specializations. He recently audited the books of a charity as an expert/specialist for a case going to trail (with federal involvement). I know very very little about this whole thing other than that the story and a mention of my dad were front page of the Las Vegas Review Journal today. Other than that, my Dad hasn't discussed the books or client. My mom has told me that he feels very comfortable with his audit and seems to believe that she may be in the wrong.

Las Vegas Review Journal Frontpage

Las Vegas Review Journal second story

Dennis K Meservy, CPA can be contacted via his website.