Aspen Woolf Ltd is a Investment company based in the United Kingdom specialising in identifying wealth building opportunities for investors of all levels, providing a range of real estate investment opportunities globally. It is headquartered in London and has offices in Dubai.
History
Aspen Woolf was founded in 2005 and incorporated in 2006. Their initial focus was on the emerging markets of Eastern Europe and South America where they secured their first development site - the Pipa Centro resort spa in Northern Brazil.
In recent years, they have focused on commercial, residential and purpose built student property in the UK and Dubai. In the Middle East, they have helped investors in the UAE purchase properties in Brazil.
Notable Projects
*Beaumont Square, Plymouth
*The Pavilion, Leeds
*Eldon Grove, Liverpool
*Cormorant House, Huddersfield
*Victoria House, Leeds
*Printworks, Sheffield
History
Aspen Woolf was founded in 2005 and incorporated in 2006. Their initial focus was on the emerging markets of Eastern Europe and South America where they secured their first development site - the Pipa Centro resort spa in Northern Brazil.
In recent years, they have focused on commercial, residential and purpose built student property in the UK and Dubai. In the Middle East, they have helped investors in the UAE purchase properties in Brazil.
Notable Projects
*Beaumont Square, Plymouth
*The Pavilion, Leeds
*Eldon Grove, Liverpool
*Cormorant House, Huddersfield
*Victoria House, Leeds
*Printworks, Sheffield
Leading Women for Shared Parenting (LWSP) is an international educational and advocacy organization that promotes shared parenting and the right of children to have both parents present in their daily life. The organization was founded to dispel the widespread myth that it is only - or even mainly - disgruntled fathers with limited access to their children who promote equal shared parenting as the default model for separating parents.
Mission
The organization has only one mission, to promote shared parenting where children live equal or close to equal time with their divorced parents. They think that children benefit most from the active involvement of both parents regardless of their marital status and they recognize that absent issues of abuse, neglect or abandonment, government policy and laws must be structured in such a way as to maximize the opportunity of all parents to contribute to the social, emotional, intellectual, physical, moral and spiritual development of their children. The organization does not take a stand on other issues, as it considers shared parenting to be an issue that is neither the domain of conservatives or liberals, poor or wealthy, and pays no attention to ethnicity or gender.
Advocacy and education
Leading Women for Shared Parenting have worked actively to dispel the attempt to brand shared parenting as a father's rights issue, emphasizing that shared parenting is in the best interest of children, including daughters. Among the members there are stories of the daughter who only got to “visit” her Father, the Grandmother who became an “every other weekend Grandma”, and the Step-Mother who watches her Step-Children struggle due to a “Custody Award”.
In many places, the organization has been an active and vocal advocate for family court reform in order to establish a legal presumption for shared parenting. For example, members have advocated for shared parenting laws in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Florida and Illinois.
The organization think it is important to make exceptions to shared parenting when there is child abuse, neglect or abandonment, but it does not think that this should be used as an excuse against a legal presumption of shared parenting for the majority of children. In fact, the membership includes some of the world's leading domestic violence experts and activists, such as Erin Pizzey, Denise Hines, Elizabeth Celi, Barbara Mills, Emily Douglas, and Nicola Graham-Kevan.
Family lawyers and bar associations have been identified by the organization as one of the leading obstacles to shared parenting reform. Citing Paul Bohannan's estimate that the size of the Divorce Industry rivals that of the Automobile Industry, the organization has lamented that the family law system is structured to make parents adversaries, entice Parents to fight over Custody of their Children and to prolong the process all for the sake of generating fees with billions of dollars going in to the pockets of attorneys, mediators, and the Court System, at the expense of the child’s future educational needs, medical needs or even basic lifestyle.
History and Organization
As an organization, Leading Women for Shared Parenting was conceived in March 2013 and launched on Father's Day, June 16, 2013, when more than 150 influential women lent their names in support of the equal shared parenting principle. It was founded to dispel the myth that only father are in favor of shared parenting.
Mission
The organization has only one mission, to promote shared parenting where children live equal or close to equal time with their divorced parents. They think that children benefit most from the active involvement of both parents regardless of their marital status and they recognize that absent issues of abuse, neglect or abandonment, government policy and laws must be structured in such a way as to maximize the opportunity of all parents to contribute to the social, emotional, intellectual, physical, moral and spiritual development of their children. The organization does not take a stand on other issues, as it considers shared parenting to be an issue that is neither the domain of conservatives or liberals, poor or wealthy, and pays no attention to ethnicity or gender.
Advocacy and education
Leading Women for Shared Parenting have worked actively to dispel the attempt to brand shared parenting as a father's rights issue, emphasizing that shared parenting is in the best interest of children, including daughters. Among the members there are stories of the daughter who only got to “visit” her Father, the Grandmother who became an “every other weekend Grandma”, and the Step-Mother who watches her Step-Children struggle due to a “Custody Award”.
In many places, the organization has been an active and vocal advocate for family court reform in order to establish a legal presumption for shared parenting. For example, members have advocated for shared parenting laws in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Florida and Illinois.
The organization think it is important to make exceptions to shared parenting when there is child abuse, neglect or abandonment, but it does not think that this should be used as an excuse against a legal presumption of shared parenting for the majority of children. In fact, the membership includes some of the world's leading domestic violence experts and activists, such as Erin Pizzey, Denise Hines, Elizabeth Celi, Barbara Mills, Emily Douglas, and Nicola Graham-Kevan.
Family lawyers and bar associations have been identified by the organization as one of the leading obstacles to shared parenting reform. Citing Paul Bohannan's estimate that the size of the Divorce Industry rivals that of the Automobile Industry, the organization has lamented that the family law system is structured to make parents adversaries, entice Parents to fight over Custody of their Children and to prolong the process all for the sake of generating fees with billions of dollars going in to the pockets of attorneys, mediators, and the Court System, at the expense of the child’s future educational needs, medical needs or even basic lifestyle.
History and Organization
As an organization, Leading Women for Shared Parenting was conceived in March 2013 and launched on Father's Day, June 16, 2013, when more than 150 influential women lent their names in support of the equal shared parenting principle. It was founded to dispel the myth that only father are in favor of shared parenting.
George Earl Hearn (September 21, 1926 - September 11, 2010) was, from 1965 to 2000, a professor of psychology at Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana, and a former two-term member of the Pineville City Council under then Mayor Fred H. Baden.
Background
Hearn was born to Thomas Watson Hearn, Sr. (1895-1962), and the former May Peters (1900-1990), who moved to Shreveport, where young George was active in the former Queensboro Baptist Church, located coincidentally on Hearne Avenue and now the African American Bright Star Baptist Church. Hearn attended public schools in Caddo Parish and served as a signalman in the United States Navy during World War II. Thereafter, he began work on numerous degrees and advanced studies at three institutions in Texas: East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, and Baylor University in Waco.
At Baylor, Hearn studied under Dr. E. O. Wood, a former chairman of the psychology department at Louisiana College. The U.S. government, according to Hearn's obituary, selected Baylor to direct research and experiments for the American space program, and Hearn was among those who worked in that endeavor Thereafter, Dr. G. Earl Guinn, as president of Louisiana College, hired Hearn to come to Pineville to develop the LC psychology department. Hearn used manpower and resources available through the Pineville-based Central Louisiana State Hospital for the mentally handicapped. On April 7, 1990, however, Hearn was unseated, 54-46 percent by the Republican Christian D. "Chris" Cunningham (born October 19, 1959). On March 26, 1994, Hearn won the District 3 council seat by a vote of 71-29 percent over fellow Democrat Arthur J. "Bud" Sweeney, Jr., to score a second nonconsecutive four-year term. In that same election, Cunningham was defeated in a race for mayor by Fred Baden, the last term that Baden would serve. In 1998, Hearn was unseated, 55-45 percent, by Republican Carol Jeukens Cunningham, the wife of Chris Cunningham. In 2000, Hearn unsuccessfully opposed, 66-32 percent, the Democrat Clarence R. Fields, a former city council member who became mayor in 1999 and ran for the remainder of the term vacated by Fields' predecessor, Republican Leo Deslatte. Fields, an African American who is still the Pineville mayor, expressed regret on former rival Hearn's death and said that Hearn had "served the city well."
Death and legacy
Hearn died at the age of eighty-three in Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He was survived by his wife, Gloria Williams Hearn (born ca. 1934), and a daughter and son-in-law, Gail Hearn Smith and Andrew Smith of New York City. George Hearn was predeceased by the couple's son, George Eugene "Gene" Hearn. Services were held on September 18, 2010, at First Baptist Church in Pineville, where Hearn had long been a long-term member. Hearn was also an ordained minister and served on an interim basis at numerous area churches. He is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>
At a ceremony in his honor upon retirement from the Louisiana College faculty, Hearn said that he encouraged students to work for the good of man and the glory of God and that he attempted to direct his students beyond the classroom but in their "overall Christian higher education."<ref name=hearn/>
Background
Hearn was born to Thomas Watson Hearn, Sr. (1895-1962), and the former May Peters (1900-1990), who moved to Shreveport, where young George was active in the former Queensboro Baptist Church, located coincidentally on Hearne Avenue and now the African American Bright Star Baptist Church. Hearn attended public schools in Caddo Parish and served as a signalman in the United States Navy during World War II. Thereafter, he began work on numerous degrees and advanced studies at three institutions in Texas: East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, and Baylor University in Waco.
At Baylor, Hearn studied under Dr. E. O. Wood, a former chairman of the psychology department at Louisiana College. The U.S. government, according to Hearn's obituary, selected Baylor to direct research and experiments for the American space program, and Hearn was among those who worked in that endeavor Thereafter, Dr. G. Earl Guinn, as president of Louisiana College, hired Hearn to come to Pineville to develop the LC psychology department. Hearn used manpower and resources available through the Pineville-based Central Louisiana State Hospital for the mentally handicapped. On April 7, 1990, however, Hearn was unseated, 54-46 percent by the Republican Christian D. "Chris" Cunningham (born October 19, 1959). On March 26, 1994, Hearn won the District 3 council seat by a vote of 71-29 percent over fellow Democrat Arthur J. "Bud" Sweeney, Jr., to score a second nonconsecutive four-year term. In that same election, Cunningham was defeated in a race for mayor by Fred Baden, the last term that Baden would serve. In 1998, Hearn was unseated, 55-45 percent, by Republican Carol Jeukens Cunningham, the wife of Chris Cunningham. In 2000, Hearn unsuccessfully opposed, 66-32 percent, the Democrat Clarence R. Fields, a former city council member who became mayor in 1999 and ran for the remainder of the term vacated by Fields' predecessor, Republican Leo Deslatte. Fields, an African American who is still the Pineville mayor, expressed regret on former rival Hearn's death and said that Hearn had "served the city well."
Death and legacy
Hearn died at the age of eighty-three in Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He was survived by his wife, Gloria Williams Hearn (born ca. 1934), and a daughter and son-in-law, Gail Hearn Smith and Andrew Smith of New York City. George Hearn was predeceased by the couple's son, George Eugene "Gene" Hearn. Services were held on September 18, 2010, at First Baptist Church in Pineville, where Hearn had long been a long-term member. Hearn was also an ordained minister and served on an interim basis at numerous area churches. He is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>
At a ceremony in his honor upon retirement from the Louisiana College faculty, Hearn said that he encouraged students to work for the good of man and the glory of God and that he attempted to direct his students beyond the classroom but in their "overall Christian higher education."<ref name=hearn/>
Samuel Ross Dunbar, Sr., known as Sammy Dunbar (November 5, 1931 - August 31, 2014), was a businessman, landowner, and civic figure in his native Alexandria, Louisiana.
Background
The son of Ita Davis (1897-1986) and Ross Hawkins Dunbar (1890-1967), he graduated second in his class in 1949 from Bolton High School in the Alexandria Garden District. In 1953, he was awarded with honors a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was president of Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity. He was the student body president of the School of Business and received the "Outstanding Graduating Senior" award. He was inducted into the Tulane Hall of Fame and Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Upon graduation from Tulane, he served two years in the United States Army with the occupation force in South Korea. He achieved the rank of first lieutenant.
In 1979, Dunbar was elected the youngest director of the former Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, housed in the tallest building on Third Street in downtown Alexandria. Subsequently, he was the city director of the former Hibernia National Bank. Guaranty merged in 1987 into Capital One; Hibernia did so as well in 2005. For twenty-eight years, Dunbar was president of Cotton Land Corporation of Alexandria.
The Dunbars are interred along with his parents at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana.<ref name=findagrave/>
Background
The son of Ita Davis (1897-1986) and Ross Hawkins Dunbar (1890-1967), he graduated second in his class in 1949 from Bolton High School in the Alexandria Garden District. In 1953, he was awarded with honors a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was president of Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity. He was the student body president of the School of Business and received the "Outstanding Graduating Senior" award. He was inducted into the Tulane Hall of Fame and Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Upon graduation from Tulane, he served two years in the United States Army with the occupation force in South Korea. He achieved the rank of first lieutenant.
In 1979, Dunbar was elected the youngest director of the former Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, housed in the tallest building on Third Street in downtown Alexandria. Subsequently, he was the city director of the former Hibernia National Bank. Guaranty merged in 1987 into Capital One; Hibernia did so as well in 2005. For twenty-eight years, Dunbar was president of Cotton Land Corporation of Alexandria.
The Dunbars are interred along with his parents at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana.<ref name=findagrave/>