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Opioids: Cause or Consequence of Disability?
Opioid painkillers are a double-edged sword for older workers. The medications allow them to keep working through their joint or back pain. But a slide into addiction would interfere with doing their jobs.
A new RAND study of workers over age 50 has identified some of the negative consequences of relying on opioids. Rather than promoting work, the researchers found that opioids can cause or exacerbate disabling health conditions, hindering users' ability to work and making them increasingly dependent on federal disability benefits over time.
Bad results from opioid overuse may seem predictable, given that doctors prescribe them to people who are in worse physical condition in the first place. But older workers' health is already in decline, just by virtue of their age, so it's not always clear how, or to what extent, opioids are affecting them.
The researchers sorted this out using a 2009 survey of older Americans in the long-running Health and Retirement Study (HRS). They matched people who didn't take the medications with similar people who did – similar in everything from their functional limitations and sociodemographics to their labor market histories. The HRS continued to interview both groups over the next decade, allowing the researchers to compare the opioids' effects over a longer period than prior studies.
For example, although the opioid users and non-users were in similar health in 2008, things changed dramatically – and quickly – the researchers found. As early as 2012, the opioid users were significantly more likely to have developed a disabling condition that limited their work capacity.
Opioid use or abuse is linked to myriad health problems. Overuse can exacerbate autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. Users also have less healthy lifestyles and are prone to infectious diseases and mental illness, and opioids can impair lung function. …Learn More
tags aging|arthritis|baby boomer|drug abuse|health|joint pain|mortality rate|musculoskeletal|opioid|overdose|Oxycodone|Oxycontin|painkiller|prescription|Social Security Disability|SSI|worker
Retirement Saving is Focus of Popular Blogs
U.S. retirement preparedness can best be described as mediocre: about half of workers are not saving enough money to continue their current standard of living once they retire.
Judging by a dozen blogs that attracted the most web traffic in the third quarter, our readers understand the importance of the issue. Some felt strongly that workers need to take responsibility for their retirement finances. Workers "disregard the notion of saving for the future," one reader said in a comment posted to "Onus of Retirement Planning is on Us." "They have lived their lives like there is no tomorrow and spend money on any and everything they want."
To boost savings, growing numbers of state officials and employers are taking charge. The article, "State Auto-IRAs are Building Momentum," was a roundup of states that are either implementing or weighing a requirement that employers automatically enroll their employees in an IRA. The workers can always opt out if they want to, but they often remain in the plans.
And automatic enrollment in 401(k)s and 403(b)s is gaining traction in the private sector. The plans, which were virtually nonexistent in 2003, now make up a significant minority of corporate and non-profit plans, according to a unique database that tracked the changes in plan design. A summary of this research appears in "401(k) Plans Evolve to Boost Workers' Savings."
Baby boomers never seem to get enough information about the nuts and bolts of retirement. In "Enrollment Trends in Medicare Options," readers had a vigorous debate about the advantages and disadvantages of supplemental Medigap plans versus Medicare Advantage insurance policies. The article revealed a major shift away from Medigap and into Medicare Advantage, which has the benefit of relatively low premiums, with the tradeoff being that Advantage plans tend to provide less protection from large medical bills than Medigap.
Our readers are also interested in the difficult decisions boomers are making about when to retire. The article, "Not Everyone Can Delay their Retirement," highlighted the racial and educational disparities driving these decisions. And "Disability Discrimination and Aging Workers" dealt with the choice facing aging workers whose bodies are breaking down but who can't afford to retire.
Here are a few more articles that attracted readers' attention – some about retirement and some not: …Learn More
tags 401k|403(b)|automatic enrollment|baby boomer|Medicare Advantage|Medigap|retired|retirement|saving|Social Security|worker
Wanted: Workers without College Degrees
The PBS NewsHour has some terrific reporting on an important topic: the job market for the two-thirds of working-age adults who don't have a college degree.
The problem facing many of them is that, despite their hard work, they will earn much less over their lifetimes than college graduates. In stories for the NewsHour, Paul Solman highlights the opportunities available to workers without degrees at a time that many employers are scrambling to find smart, energetic people to fill good-paying jobs with benefits in light manufacturing and the skilled trades.
Women of color are catching on and entering fields like carpentry and plumbing – in fact, they are over-represented in the trades. But Solman talked to employers early this year who cannot find enough young adults willing to consider working in the trades.
This new NewsHour video (above) features IBM, which has to compete for employees with flashy firms like Apple and Google. IBM created an internship program to train people like Reinaldo Rodriguez for "new-collar jobs" that don't require a bachelor's degree. The former supervisor for a drug store chain that cut his pay after he was promoted now works in an IBM electronics lab.
Opportunities like these pay enough for people to support their families. And they are a great alternative to borrowing a lot of money for a bachelor's degree that won't necessarily guarantee a job. …Learn More
tags bachelor's|blue-collar|carpenter|college degree|construction contractor|employee benefits|high school education|IBM|job market|master's|plumber|retail|skilled trades|white-collar|worker
$4 Billion in Pension Payments Returned
It's the employer's responsibility to find former employees and keep them apprised of any retirement benefits they left behind.
But that hasn't always worked out. Some employers don't have former workers' current contact information, and others don't bother to track them down. Worst-case scenarios are often fallout from a merger: the company being acquired has kept shoddy pension plan records and the acquirer doesn't update them. Some companies have even deleted a participant's name from the records.
Tyler Compton, an attorney with the Pension Action Center, which connects workers with lost pensions and 401(k) savings plans, said people frequently contact a former employer because they think they might have a plan. But if the worker is told he's not in the records, he might drop the matter, she said.
The U.S. Department of Labor decided several years ago that employers' efforts weren't good enough. The department's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) began investigating the problem and pushing companies to improve their methods for finding workers who had quit or been laid off but were owed pension benefits or had savings sitting in an old 401(k).
EBSA has gotten results. Since 2017, more than $4 billion in past due defined benefit pension payments have been returned to millions of plan participants.
By making clear what is expected of employers, regulators "put a lot of pressure, in a good sense, on plan administrators to really up their games," Jeffrey Holdvogt, a legal partner with McDermott Will & Emery, said in a recent webinar hosted by the Pension Action Center at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. …Learn More
tags 401k|corporate sponsor|Department of Labor|EBSA|employer|financial|lost|Pension Action Center|Pension plan|retirement system|unclaimed property|worker
5 Million Families Caught in an ACA Glitch
The states' health insurance marketplaces will sell subsidized family policies to workers who have employer coverage on one condition: their employer premiums are deemed unaffordable.
But this condition has a quirk. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a worker is eligible to buy a subsidized family plan only if he can't afford his employer's premiums for an individual policy, defined in the law as exceeding 9.83 percent of his income. Policymakers argue this is the wrong standard, because the ineligible worker needs a family policy, and employers' family policies usually have much higher premiums than their individual policies.
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates some 5.1 million workers are in this predicament, which is known as the "family glitch."
The majority of workers who are not eligible for the ACA's family coverage are buying the policies at work, and they spend an average of 16 percent of their income on premiums, Kaiser said. The people who can't afford the employer insurance are forced to go without.
Tina Marie Mueller's family is caught in the family glitch. She recently wrote in Health Affairs that her husband pays $1,500 per month for employer health insurance for the family, including their two children. "So, after paying for our family insurance, my husband brings home $400/wk," Mueller said. "We are beyond frustrated that this part of the ACA hasn't been fixed."
The COVID relief package passed in March did temporarily expand access to the exchanges for more middle-class Americans by dramatically increasing the premium subsidies. But "people in the family glitch will still not be helped," said Krutika Amin, a health care expert at the Kaiser Foundation. …Learn More
tags ACA|Affordable Care Act|Biden|COVID relief bill|deductible|employer health insurance|family coverage|family glitch|health insurance|premium|subsidized|worker
Smaller Pensions Don't Spur More Saving
Most state and local governments provide their employees with traditional pensions, which are nice to have. But not all pensions are equally generous.
The monthly benefits vary from one place to the next, and some governments have cut costs by reducing pensions for their newest hires. Further, one in four public-sector workers aren't currently covered by Social Security, because their employers never joined the system.
A logical back-up plan for these workers would be to contribute money to the supplemental savings plans that most public-sector employers provide. When the workers retire, they can add the money saved in their accounts – a 401(k), 401(a), 457 or 403(b) – to their pension benefits.
But researchers at the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) find that workers are only slightly more likely to participate in a savings plan if they work for government employers with less generous pensions – a criterion based on how much of the worker's current income will be replaced by the pension after they retire.
This lackluster response may not be surprising. Workers can see what's deducted from their paychecks every week but don't necessarily understand how these deductions – combined with their employer's contributions – will translate to a pension.
Public-sector workers are probably more aware of whether their employers are part of the Social Security system. But apparently workers don't consider that either. …Learn More
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This is one of the most effective options for a powerful course for a set of lean muscle mass. At the moment, such a set of drugs is actively used in mens physicist and in classical bodybuilding, where you simply cannot grow fat in the offseason, as a result of which athletes monitor the quality of the weight gain.
Testosterone Enanthate (HB) – 10 ml/vial (250 mg/ml) – improves overall tone, promotes saturation of muscles with oxygen, allows you to recover faster after active workouts. Also acts as a contraceptive.
Nandrolone Decanoate (HB) – 10 ml/vial ( 250 mg/ml ) – increases muscle mass up to 8 kg per course, a minimum level of recoil, strengthens bones and ligaments, eliminates joint pain, increases red blood cell mass, improves immunity.
Methandienone (Dianabol) (HB) – 10mg/tab, 100tabs/bottle – the maximum concentration of the active chemical Dianabol in the blood is reached an hour or three hours after it is taken. Already a simple intake of only 10 mg is manifested in a fivefold increase in the average amount of testosterone in men. A significant reason why Dianabol works well for every athlete is that endogenous cortisol production is reduced by 50-70%, as a result of which the breakdown of protein in the muscle cell is significantly slowed.
Tamoxifen Citrate (Nolvadex) – 20mg/tab, 50tabs/bottle – stimulates an increase in the production of natural GnRH. As a result, increasing testosterone production.
Clomiphene Citrate (Clomid) (HB) – 50mg/tab, 50tab/bottle – helps to speed up the restoration of the natural production of testosterone in the body.
Thanks to this course you will gain quality muscle mass. Of course, the process is not fast, but progress will be noticeable every week. The gain of dry muscles is immediately noticeable in the mirror, in contrast to the banal set of fat and water.
During the course, the main thing is to follow a few rules.Nutrition, moderate exercise and healthy sleep. Eating should be five to six times a day. The diet should include proteins in the proportion from 50% to 60%, fats & nbsp; up to 20%, but not less than 10% and carbohydrates from 50% to 60%.A couple of hours before the start of training, a portion of cereal, flour, or vegetables will give energy for practice.
After a workout, preference is given to slow carbohydrates such as cottage cheese or cheese.
Training should be 4 days a week for 45 minutes. If you get tired earlier, it is better not to overdo it and shorten the time of classes.
It is better to pay more attention to sleep, which should be more than eight hours.


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Q: How do I change the color of a parent layout when a fragment is created? Basically, I want to change an item in the layout that my viewPager is in, when a certain fragment is created.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".screen_main">

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/viewPager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="471dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark">
    </android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hello World!"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
    </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

So when fragment 1 is created, the text will read "Hello". And then when you swipe to fragment 2, the text will read "World".
Here is my main class.
public class screen_main extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_screen_main);

    ViewPager viewPager = findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
    viewPager.setAdapter(new CustomPagerAdapter(this));
}

public class CustomPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    private Context mContext;

    public CustomPagerAdapter(Context context) {
        mContext = context;
    }

    @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup collection, int position) {
        ModelObject modelObject = ModelObject.values()[position];
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);
        ViewGroup layout = (ViewGroup)
inflater.inflate(modelObject.getLayoutResId(), collection, false);
        collection.addView(layout);
        return layout;
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup collection, int position, Object view)
{
        collection.removeView((View) view);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return ModelObject.values().length;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object object) {
        return view == object;
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
        ModelObject customPagerEnum = ModelObject.values()[position];
        return mContext.getString(customPagerEnum.getTitleResId());
    }
}

public enum ModelObject {

    DEAD(R.string.dead, R.layout.fragment_fragment1),
    BORN(R.string.born, R.layout.fragment_fragment2);

    private int mTitleResId;
    private int mLayoutResId;

    ModelObject(int titleResId, int layoutResId) {
        mTitleResId = titleResId;
        mLayoutResId = layoutResId;
    }

    public int getTitleResId() {
        return mTitleResId;
    }

    public int getLayoutResId() {
        return mLayoutResId;
    }

}
}

And then here is one of the fragment classes.
public class fragment1 extends Fragment {

private static final String ARG_PARAM1 = "param1";
private static final String ARG_PARAM2 = "param2";

private String mParam1;
private String mParam2;

private OnFragmentInteractionListener mListener;

public fragment1() {
}

public static fragment1 newInstance(String param1, String param2) {
    fragment1 fragment = new fragment1();
    Bundle args = new Bundle();
    args.putString(ARG_PARAM1, param1);
    args.putString(ARG_PARAM2, param2);
    fragment.setArguments(args);
    return fragment;
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    if (getArguments() != null) {
        mParam1 = getArguments().getString(ARG_PARAM1);
        mParam2 = getArguments().getString(ARG_PARAM2);
    }
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_fragment1, container, false);
}

@Override
public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
    TextView textView = getActivity().findViewById(R.id.textView);
    textView.setText("Hello");
}

public void onButtonPressed(Uri uri) {
    if (mListener != null) {
        mListener.onFragmentInteraction(uri);
    }
}

@Override
public void onAttach(Context context) {
    super.onAttach(context);
    if (context instanceof OnFragmentInteractionListener) {
        mListener = (OnFragmentInteractionListener) context;
    } else {
        throw new RuntimeException(context.toString()
                + " must implement OnFragmentInteractionListener");
    }
}

@Override
public void onDetach() {
    super.onDetach();
    mListener = null;
}

public interface OnFragmentInteractionListener {
    void onFragmentInteraction(Uri uri);
}
}

A: On your screen_main activity, add a pageChangeListener to the viewPager. and override the onPageSelected method to change the text of textview based on position.
For instance:
viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onPageSelected(int position) {
            textview.setText(position == 0 ? "Hello" : "World");
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {

        }
    });

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Depreciation is the term used to explain the loss of value of certain products or goods. It is mostly an accounting term and it is reflected in company, business or personal financial income statements as an expense. The concept of depreciation is explained by the use that is given to the product over the years, that is, measuring the loss in value of an asset or property over specific periods of time until it has completely lost all value.
Depreciation is the loss of an asset's value over time.
The main purpose of depreciation is its use in itemizing income tax deductions. A Canadian citizen (or company) cannot deduct from his taxes the whole cost of a property that is used to earn income, but he can deduct a percentage of the property's cost: he can deduct the depreciated value of that property. The Capital Cost Allowance (CCA) is the tax term for depreciation, and it is the only allowable depreciation expense. It is the term used for the part of the cost of the property that can be deducted from the income taxes according to Canadian laws. The amount you can deduct gradually increases over time, decreasing the value of the assets of the company or individual. The CCA that can be claimed depends of the properties owned and the time of purchase.
The Canadian Costs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) defines which properties are depreciates and divides them into 15 different classes according to rates (tax rate) of CCA and usage. Some of the most important and common properties are buildings, computer hardware, motor vehicles, automobiles and passenger vehicles, leasehold interest, patents, franchises, concessions and licenses with time limitations, taxis, roads, and data network infrastructure equipment.
There are two types of methods to calculate tax depreciation. The straight line method is used for patents, franchises and licenses. The declining balance method is used for most assets. Its declining balance rate is specified in the different classes (the tax rate). There are some rules defined by the CCRA in the moment of calculating the deduction by depreciation. First the asset must be available for use before the allowance for deduction of CCA, and second, for newly purchased assets, only 50 percent of the cost may be used for CCA calculation.
It is not necessary to claim the maximum amount of CCA for the year. Any value between zero and the maximum established for the year can be claimed. CCA can not be claimed for lands or living things. In partnership, the CCA of properties owned by the partnership can not be claimed personally by any of the partners. The slips that are filled out to claim the tax deduction will show the amount of CCA the partnership claimed on behalf of one partner.