The Affordable Care Act deadline has come and gone.  Now what?

If you are one of those citizens who didn’t get your act together to sign up for an insurance plan by March 31st, the your wallet will suffer the consequences (ie.penalties). There are, however, some exceptions to this deadline that you can see here.

With a initial goal of 7 million new enrollees, President Obama declared in the Rose Garden that 7.1 million Americans had signed up for new health plans through federal exchanges. 

Obama announced,

“This law is doing what it’s supposed to do. It’s working. It’s helping people from coast to coast.”

Despite numerous technical errors and a messy rollout, President Obama defended his bill saying it has already improved health care for millions of Americans. 

As of Monday, 80% to 90% have already paid their premiums. 

All these numbers are encouraging to ACA supporters particularly considering its disasterous launch which led the Congressional Budget Office to predict only 6 million people would enroll. 

Many analysts are saying the young population helped the ACA in its late surge across the finish line.  They point to President Obama’s appearances on “Between Two Ferns” and LeBron James’ endorsement video as two effective campaign moments.

Regardless of this current success, the coming months ahead are sure to be bumpy. There are still many unanswered questions about the future of the ACA.

What question do you have?

Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: “Compassion does not enter into anything without beautifying it, and is not removed from anything without making it ugly.” (Muslim)

The Prophet (saw) was a man who showed compassion to EVERY living being especially orphan children and those with special needs. Now who wouldn’t want to beautify their souls and the souls of those around them by showing this same compassion?

Join the MSA on Wednesday, April 2nd, insha’Allah from 11 AM – 2 PM in the QUAD for “Open Worship”. This will be a special edition of our weekly open spaces discussion as it will be open to the entire public (Great Da’wah!) and led by the honorable Sister Madiha Tahseen-Hammad, a student pursuing her PhD in Psychology. The topic of this interactive discussion will be the importance of showing compassion to orphan children and those with special needs. Afterwards, we will be praying Salatul Dhuhr in congregation on the quad! Don’t miss out on this awesome conversation and opportunity to give da’wah!

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is the first smartphone that can use a fingerprint to authorize payments in stores and online.

Anyone with an iPhone 5 can use its fingerprint reader to unlock the device and pay for apps or music in Apple’s iTunes store. Owners of Samsung’s latest flagship device, the Galaxy S5 smartphone, which launches on April 11, will be able to make much broader use of their fingerprints to pay for things. If they visit a website or app that accepts PayPal using the device, they can authorize payments by swiping a finger across the phone’s home button. And PayPal’s own mobile app can be used to pay for goods in some physical stores in the U.S.

Sencha is providing a team based meet and greet for the folks behind the Breakthrough Platform for Managing and Securing Mobile HTML5 Apps over at their booth in this year’s Interop 2014 being held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Nevada Today and tomorrow the 2^nd.

This article will touch upon the history of TWAIN and its wide use before diving into developer planning considerations. With a focus on developing image capturing applications to use within web-based document management applications, the article will uncover 8 rules for TWAIN-based application development.