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National Themes For September 12: National Video Games Day, National Chocolate Milkshake Day, National Day of Encouragement, and National Report Medicare Fraud Day.

📱National Video Games Day! From their very earliest days, video games have gone on to become an art form and industry. There was, at one time, a United States National Video Game Team, founded on July 25, 1983, in Ottumwa, Iowa, by Walter Day and the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard. The early games used interactive electronic devices with various display formats. Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed the first patent for an interactive electronic device in 1947. It was called the “Cathode ray tube amusement Device”. Some other early examples include: ✨The Nimrod computer at the 1951 Festival of Britain. ✨0X0 – a tic-tac-toe computer game by Alexander S. Douglas for the EDSAC in 1952. ✨Tennis For Two – 1958 – An electronic interactive game engineered by William Higinbotham. ✨1961 – Spacewar. A different means of display was used for each game from a panel of lights to a graphical display to an oscilloscope or the DEC PDP-1′s vector display. ✨Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, in 1971, was the first commercially sold, coin-operated video game. ✨Magnavox Odyssey was the first home console in 1972. ✨Atari’s Pong followed with an arcade version in 1972 and a home version in 1975. “The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, spawning the video game industry.”

🍫🥛National Chocolate Milkshake Day! Forget the calories in it for just this one day and enjoy a nice tall, thick chocolate milkshake! The first time the term “milkshake” was used in print was in 1885. During this period, milkshake referred to an alcoholic beverage which was an alcoholic drink described as a “sturdy, healthful eggnog type of drink” which was a blend of eggs, whiskey, and other ingredients served both as a tonic and treat at pharmacies. ✨By 1900 milkshakes were referred to as “wholesome drinks made with chocolate, strawberry or vanilla syrup.” ✨The early 1900s – People began asking for this “new treat” with a scoop of ice cream. ✨1911 – The Hamilton Beach’s drink mixers began to be used at soda fountains. ✨1922 – Steven Poplawski invented the electric blender or drink mixer. ✨Due to the invention of the blender, the milkshake began to take a chipped, aerated and frothy form as they are today. ✨It was by the 1930s that milkshakes became a popular drink in malt shops everywhere.

👏National Day of Encouragement was intended for all of us to do something to offer encouragement to those around us, whether it is someone at work or in our personal lives. The Encouragement Foundation at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas launched an effort to get Americans to participate in this Day of Encouragement. The first proclamation for the Day of Encouragement was made by Mayor Belinda LaForce of Searcy, Arkansas on August 22, 2007. In September Mike Beebe, the Governor of Arkansas signed a proclamation making September 12, 2007, the “State Day of Encouragement” for Arkansas. Later, President George W. Bush also signed a message making September 12 the official National Day of Encouragement.

🎗National Report Medicare Fraud Day. Medicare fraud affects us all. Ten percent of all Medicare funds are lost due to fraud. Because the government spends $650 billion a year on Medicare, $65 billion a year is lost to Medicare fraud. There are two very different ways of reporting Medicare fraud, with two very different results. One is to blow the whistle under the Department of Justice (DOJ) reward program, which pays 15% to 25% of the amount DOJ recovers. The average DOJ reward for reporting Medicare fraud is $690,000 and some rewards have been as high as $150 million! In addition, if you report fraud under the DOJ program, the government must open an investigation and inform you of the results. Today, over three-fourths of the government’s Medicare fraud cases are DOJ whistleblower reward cases. Thus, the government is counting on whistleblowers to bring Medicare fraud cases to DOJ and receive a reward in the process. The other way is to report fraud directly to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which runs the Medicare program. You can report fraud to CMS through its website or by calling its hotline. The National Report Medicare Fraud Day not only brings awareness to the amount of Medicare fraud but provides the public with detailed steps for reporting it. The National Report Medicare Fraud Day started in 2017. It was formed by The Hesch Firm, LLC after founding attorney, Joel D. Hesch, spent over 15 years working in DOJ’s whistleblower reward office. Mr. Hesch now exclusively represents whistleblowers nationwide in filing for rewards for reporting fraud.To help whistleblowers properly report Medicare fraud, he authored a free e-book and created a website to ensure that the public knows how to properly report Medicare fraud and follow the steps necessary to be eligible for a reward. Visit the website:www.ReportMedicareFraudDay.com.

Oh, the days of video games. I remember the Atari’s Pong game. I had the Atari console. My favorites for it were Froggier and Ms. Pac Man. Then Nintendo 64 came out and my new favorite became Donkey Kong and Mario Kart. Mario Kart was a two to four player game. And when I say Mario Kart I mean take no prisoners Mario Kart. It was two to four of us adults playing like we had a grudge against each other. But it was all in fun and laughs in the end. I had my chocolate milkshake a day early. Take of yourself my twin and feel better soon.

Warm Hugs!🐶🐶💕🌤