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Q & A with Dave Hoffpauir, LCSW We sat down with Dave Hoffpauir, a social worker at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and adjunct professor of Social Work at UA Little Rock to chat about work and tips for success. Can you speak to your education in social work? What do you do day-to-day? I have a Master’s Degree in Social Work and 25 plus years of training in the classroom and out in the field working with students, families, groups, and individuals, as well as community agencies and organizations. I am a clinician at the VA and our mission is to help Veterans get clean and sober while establishing a reliable support system
to help them maintain this. I also teach social work to undergraduate and graduate students. It is important to mention that I am currently and have been involved for many years as a volunteer/board member working with several non-profit groups. I love doing this work and it helps me to maintain balance in my life. What were some of the biggest hurdles you faced in defining your career? My biggest hurdle was going back to graduate school later in life after I had already reached some success in another career. It was a worthwhile risk! What is your favorite thing about what you do?
I love working with veterans and seeing them regain their lives and I love working with students who eventually become my colleagues. I do not take my role in their lives lightly and I try to do a good job as a gatekeeper for my profession but also as a mentor for future social work professionals. How do you stay up-to-date with the trends in your industry? There is not a lot of competition and I am lucky to have quite a bit of job security but I am constantly training by keeping current with social work literature and attending conferences, trainings and skills workshops. How do you like living in the capital?
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hy do you invest? If you’re like most people, you’d probably say that, among other things, you want to retire comfortably. Obviously, that’s a worthy long-term goal, requiring long-term investing. But as you journey through life, you’ll also have short-term goals, such as buying a second home, remodeling your kitchen or taking a much-needed vacation. Will you need to invest differently for these goals than you would for the long-term ones? To answer that question, let’s first look at how you might invest to achieve your longer-term goals. For these goals, the key investment ingredient is growth – quite simply, you want your money to grow as much as possible over time. Consequently, you will likely want a good percentage of growth-oriented vehicles, such as stocks and other stock-based investments, to fund your 401(k), IRA or other accounts. However, the flip side of growth is risk. Stocks and stockbased investments will always fluctuate in value – which means you could lose some, or even all, of your principal. Hopefully, though, by putting time on your side – that is, by holding your growth-oriented investments for decades – you can overcome the inevitable short-term price drops. In short, when investing for long-term goals, you’re seeking significant growth and, in doing so, you’ll have to accept some degree of investment risk. But when you’re after shortterm goals, the formula is somewhat different: You don’t need maximum growth potential as much as you need to be reasonably confident that a certain amount of money will be there for you at a certain time. You may want to work with a financial professional to select the appropriate investments for your short-term goals. But, in general, you’ll need these investments to provide you with the following attributes: Protection of principal – As mentioned above, when you own stocks, you have no assurance that your principal will be preserved; there’s no agency, no government office, guaranteeing that you won’t lose money. And even some of the investments best suited for short-term goals won’t come with full guarantees, either, but, by and large, they do offer you a reasonable amount of confidence that your principal will remain intact. Liquidity – Some short-term investments have specific terms – i.e., two years, three years, five years, etc. – meaning you do have an incentive to hold these investments until they mature. Otherwise, if you cash out early, you might pay some price, such as loss of value or loss of the income produced by these investments. Nonetheless, these types of investments are usually not difficult to sell, either before they mature or at maturity, and this liquidity will be helpful to you when you need the money to meet your short-term goal. Stability of issuer – Although most investments suitable for short-term goals do provide a high degree of preservation of principal, some of the issuers of these investments are stronger and more stable than others – and these strong and stable issuers are the ones you should stick with. Ultimately, most of your investment efforts will probably go toward your long-term goals. But your short-term goals are still important – and the right investment strategy can help you work toward them. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.
Jones v. Ark. Local Police & Fire Ret. Sys., 2018 Ark. App. 287 (May 3, 2018) This appeal comes from the Pulaski County Circuit Court, Honorable Timothy Davis Fox presiding. This case concerns whether a police officer working a part-time off-duty security position may, nonetheless, still be working for his or her police department. Ms. Jones became a police officer for the Little Rock Police Department (LRPD) in 2006. Subsequently, with the LRPD’s permission, she obtained parttime employment at Dillard’s providing security. While working at Dillard’s, she wore her full police uniform, and her duties were to deter crime and prevent shoplifting. Two separate incidents occurred that caused injuries to Jones while discharging her duties at Dillard’s. The first occurred in 2008 when she was investigating a possible theft of store property. On that occasion, the suspect got into an SUV and struck Ms. Jones with the vehicle as the suspect fled the scene. The next incident occurred in 2012 when Jones was trying to apprehend three shoplifters who resisted, resulting in a physical altercation in which Jones was dragged to the floor causing injuries to both her knees and her right ankle. Despite these injuries, she was able to continue her employment as a police officer with the LRPD until July 2015, at which time her injuries had advanced to the point where she could no longer perform her duties. She applied to the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System (LOPFI) for duty-related disability retirement benefits in November 2015. In support of
her claim, she submitted a letter from her physician stating that she was totally and permanently disabled from her job as a police officer as a result of her injuries. The physician went on to opine that he attributed the disability to the injuries she suffered while working part-time at Dillard’s. Jones also submitted copies of the felony information from the 2008 and 2012 incidents, which reflected that the perpetrators in each case had been charged with battery committed against Jones while she was acting as a police officer in the line of duty. Jones described the scope of her part-time employment with Dillard’s. She stated that she worked “off-duty” for Dillard’s, during which time she was in uniform but was paid by Dillard’s. Although her primary responsibilities were to deter crime and prevent shoplifting, Jones had the full authority, as a Little Rock police officer, to make arrests for any criminal acts she observed. She stated that, during the 2012 incident when she was injured, she was attempting to make an arrest. She further stated that she had gotten involved in other law enforcement incidents while working at Dillard’s which did not actually involve Dillard’s but occurred in the same shopping center. The LRPD has a General Order that covers off-duty employment and has two major parts -- police related work off-duty, such as security services, and then non-police related off-duty, such as an officer’s own private business. For the police related off-duty, the officers that want to work off-duty are required to submit the time they would work quarterly for each individual off-duty job they may have, and they must go through their chain
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of command to determine if the job is approved prior to being allowed to work. LRPD’s policy is very clear and requires officers that are working off-duty to recognize that the LRPD is their primary employer and that law enforcement is their primary duty even when they are working off-duty. They may not accept off-duty employment if they are asked to do anything that is related only to the business of the off-duty employer. Their job is to enforce the law and, when an officer is working off-duty in a security role, LRPD considers it under their authority as the LRPD. Even off-duty, the police officers are there to keep the peace and serve in a role as a police officer. There was no dispute that Jones was permanently and totally disabled from performing her duties as a police officer, but LOPFI found that Jones was not entitled to duty-related disability retirement benefits because her disabling injuries occurred while she was an employee of Dillard’s and not the LRPD. LOPFI instead awarded Jones nondutyrelated disability retirement benefits. Jones appealed pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act (“APA”) to Pulaski County Circuit Court which upheld the decision of LOPFI. Jones then appealed this decision to the Arkansas Court of Appeals. The Court noted that its review of an appeal under the APA is directed toward the decision of the agency, not the circuit court, and that the agency decision may be reversed or modified only if substantial rights of the petitioner have been prejudiced because the decision was not supported by substantial evidence or was arbitrary, capricious, or characterized by an abuse of discretion. Applying this standard, the Court concluded that there was no substantial evidence to support the LOPFI’s finding that Jones’s injuries did not arise out of and in the course of her performance of her duties as an LRPD police officer. The testimony before the Board demonstrated that, during her part-time employment with Dillard’s, she wore her full police uniform and was acting under her authority as a police officer. She was required to obtain the LRPD’s permission to work at Dillard’s, with the stipulation that her job was to enforce the laws pursuant to LRPD policy, keep the peace, and serve in the role as a police officer under the sole authority of the LRPD. Moreover, if she had failed to respond to criminal activity during her part-time employment, she would have been subject to disciplinary measures by the LRPD. In addition, the LRPD received the benefit a police presence from her working at Dillard’s. Finally, she was performing her duties as an LRPD officer when she sustained her injuries. For the foregoing reasons, the Court held that the Board’s finding that she was entitled to only nonduty-related disability retirement benefits should be reversed and remanded. v
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Guarding your memory Part 1. What to do BY NAN SELZ
Real Possibilities Executive Council, AARP Arkansas
The American Wine Society–Arkansas Chapter was co-founded by Robert G. Cowie and Mary Jane Cains in Ozark on May 16, 2005. With over 14 wineries in Arkansas, like the vines pictured above from Altus, the nonprofit has gained traction. (Photo courtesy of Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism)
This Week in Arkansas History MAY 14, 1852 An article published in the Arkansas Gazette noted that, of the people from Arkansas who had gone to California in the westward movement to seek gold in California, “It is calculated that out of every 100 persons…fifty have been ruined, forty no better [off ] than they would have been had they stayed at home, five a little better, and four still better, and one has made a fortune.” It was estimated that, by 1860, some 2,000 Arkansans lived in California while another 11,000 had immigrated to Texas as an effect of the general westward movement.
MAY 15, 2003 June Carter Cash, wife of outlaw country musician Johnny Cash, died of complications from heart surgery. Johnny Cash, the famous “Man in Black,” was born in Kingsland. His most wellknown songs include “I Walk the Line,” “Fulsom Prison Blues,” and “A Boy Named Sue.” The winner of fourteen Grammy Awards, including the Living Legend and Lifetime Achievement awards, Johnny Cash also starred in two TV series and three movies, and penned a best-selling autobiography, “Man in Black”. Almost four months after his wife’s death, Johnny Cash died in Nashville, Tennessee. Johnny Cash is buried near June Carter Cash at Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
MAY 16, 2005 The American Wine Society– Arkansas Chapter was co-founded by Robert G. Cowie and Mary Jane Cains in Ozark. This nonprofit organization is dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge about—and the cultivation of an appreciation of—wine and its role in culture and cuisine. Cowie is the founder and owner of Cowie Wine Cellars in Paris,
while Cains is from the family of the Mount Bethel Winery of Altus. When the national wine society was created in 1967, Al Wiederkehr of Wiederkehr Wine Cellars in Altus was a member of the organizing meeting. He and Justin Morris of the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville are honorary co-chairmen of the state chapter.
MAY 17, 1954 Christopher Columbus Mercer Jr., who served as an advisor to civil rights leader Daisy Bates during the 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, was issued his license to practice law on the very date of the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. With his legal background, Mercer helped Bates understand and respond to the flood of litigation against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
MAY 18, 1889 During a school board election in St. Francis County, Americus M. Neely—a black Republican politician and editor of Forrest City’s black newspaper—got into a fight with a white man near the polls. When he approached the former sheriff, Captain John Parham, for protection, Marshal F. M. Folbre interfered. Parham’s son Thomas saw his father and the marshal engaged in heated conversation and shot the marshal in the head. Before dying, Folbre shot Thomas Parham dead. Sheriff D. M. Wilson arrived on the scene and was killed by an unknown assailant. Despite Neely’s innocence in any of the deaths, armed mobs raged through town in search of Neely—finally riddling him with bullets the following morning. Newspapers called the events the “Forrest City Riot.” Source: Arkansas Encyclopedia of History & Culture v
As of this writing, there is no sure fix for memory loss. Researchers have, however, found several lifestyle factors that can influence your ability to remember things. This article will review some of the things that work. Next month the column will discuss things that are rumored to work but don’t. Physical activity works! You should aim to get 150 minutes of purposeful physical activity every week. You can walk briskly, play tennis, ride a bike, lift weights, swim laps or do something comparatively active. In
2017, the National Academy of Science determined that physical fitness may be the best way to avoid cognitive impairment and dementia. Additionally, it can make a difference in as little as six months. A healthy diet can help. There’s no single miracle food for brain health, but eating whole grains, fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts and olive oil are good for your heart, and a 2017 study of 6,000 participants published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicates that people who followed these dietary recommendations had a 35 percent lower risk of cognitive impairment than people who didn’t. It seems that your brain and your heart respond well to similar eating patterns. Manage your blood pressure. High blood pressure may damage the small blood vessels in your brain. A study published in the October 2017 issue of Neurology showed that women who developed high blood pressure in their 40’s experienced a 73 per cent increased risk of dementia compared with those with normal blood pressure.
Maintain relationships with friends and family. Activities like learning a new language can be helpful, but the importance of social interaction cannot be ignored. The feedback and encouragement you get from doing things with others make these new activities even better for your brain. Healthy interpersonal relationships help you avoid isolation which can lead to depression. A report, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2013, found that depressed older adults are more than twice as likely to develop vascular dementia and 65 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as those who were not depressed. Studies of the brain are difficult and require large numbers of participants over long periods of time. Scientists are gradually zeroing in on lifestyle patterns that can help you guard your memory. Next month we’ll explore some of the misleading claims and urban myths about avoiding dementia. In the meantime, AARP’s website (www. aapr.org) can keep you current on the latest research into brain health. v
Christopher D. Plumlee joins International Association of Defense Counsel Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. Member Christopher D. Plumlee has accepted membership to the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), an invitation-only organization of corporate and insurance defense attorneys and insurance executives. Plumlee specializes in corporate internal investigations and white collar criminal defense and leads an experienced team of attorneys within the Investigations and Corporate Compliance practice, undertaking complex investigations within the United States and throughout the world. As a former Assistant United States Attorney, where he served as Chief of the Criminal Division, Plumlee offers clients years of extensive experience in the defense of complex white collar litigation. Plumlee routinely represents clients in disputes with businesses, government and regulatory entities, including related litigation. He has specialized experience managing ethics-based investigations, sexual harassment internal investigations, employee misconduct/fraud investigations, hospital/health care organization compliance investigations, financial fraud and white collar investigations and immigration trafficking / commercial worksite enforcement cases. The International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) has been serving a distinguished
As a member of IADC, Plumlee will be connected to world leaders in corporate and insurance defense to develop professional skills and serve the civil justice system and legal profession. To learn more about Plumlee, visit mitchellwilliamslaw.com.
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Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. is a 92 attorney corporate law firm that provides strategic counsel in business, litigation and regulated entities matters. The firm offers comprehensive legal services along with decades of diverse professional experience and extensive relationships to help clients achieve their goals. Established in 1954, the firm has offices in Little Rock, Rogers and Jonesboro, Arkansas and Austin, Texas. Source: Mitchell Williams v
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