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I work hard to ensure my clients' success, with a focus on engaging in a direct and personalized way. My approach to real estate is modern and straightforward, tailored around listening and understanding, communicating in a way that is both clear and concise while providing the most creative thinking in a city that demands nothing less. |
Patrick helped us first sell and then buy in San Francisco. During the process he was very available to us and quick to respond. I felt confident that there were no stones un-turned and that he was on top of every detail. When he helped us buy a home In this competitive market, he was especially savvy in coordinating our offer to stand out from the pack. The proof is in the pudding in that our offer was accepted despite my understanding that there were others with similar or even slightly higher offer prices. |
Patrick helped us through the difficult process of buying our first home in San Francisco. As first time buyers it was an intimidating prospect and Patrick's support throughout were key to getting us through it. |
Patrick is an excellent resource for all things real estate in SF. We've worked with him on both sides of the transaction and he's professional, trustworthy, and truly goes above and beyond what is expected from a broker. After working with him on multiple projects over many years now (most recently, he sold a project of ours), it's safe to say that we consider him a long time friend who would we recommend to anyone...and would most certainly use for our next project. |
Patrick recently helped me to sell my condo in the Mission and then buy a new home in lower Pac Heights. From start to finish, Patrick was great to work with. Patrick's attention to detail and thoroughness throughout both the selling and buying process was outstanding. He made what can be a very complex and frustrating process feel straight forward and relatively stress free. During the Pac Heights purchase in particular, Patrick was a real advocate for me following issues that arose a day or two before the closing (a leak in the roof occurred during a rain storm). Patrick immediately assumed ownership of resolving the issue with the sellers agents and ultimately the sellers spent quite a bit of money patching and re-painting siding on the building. I can't recommend Patrick highly enough. His knowledge of the market was clear and he gave me great advice and assistance throughout during both transactions. |
Patrick is honest, knowledgeable, well-connected, and helps you get the most out of your investment. When we wanted to sell our house Patrick gave us advice that ultimately made our sale the ""highest sale in the neighborhood, Ever"". This could not have happened if it weren't for his experience and insight. |
Patrick's experience was a key factor in why we decided to work with him. He's seen the market go up and down, understands the subtle variances from neighborhood-to-neighborhood, and you just get the sense his focus is less about the sale and more about helping you find the right home. We never felt pressured by Patrick, and we always knew he was on our side. |
We can't thank you enough for guiding us through the stormy seas of home buying. We'd have been lost without you! |
Patrick is a very knowledgeable and dedicated agent. He was extremely accommodating given that I was looking for property long distance. I felt I was getting individualized attention. He was able to quickly focus in on what I was looking for and effectively use our time together. He is detailed oriented and was always on top of things, patiently guiding me through the buying process and beyond. I can't recommend him highly enough; he is such a pleasure to work with. |
It was a pleasure working with you again Patrick! You helped me find this place more than 6 years ago, and gave me some very valuable advice on the sale. Thank you for your time and effort and all the knowledge you brought to the experience! |
Patrick Lowell is an amazing real estate agent. He is apprised of market conditions, attune with agents who may have potential buyers and he markets properties in a manner wherein buyers are attracted to the respective property. From initial visit, through preparing to sell and finally during open houses, his advice was sound and intelligent. During the entire process, a record sale, Patrick exhibited extreme professionalism. |
We were so incredibly fortunate to work with Patrick to sell our home! Patrick's expertise helped us navigate through the sale of our home in the complex market in San Francisco. Patrick is keenly aware of the dynamic real estate market in San Francisco and it was that knowledge, intuition and overall sense of the market proved that proved to be invaluable. Patrick was incredibly attentive to every detail to get our home prepared to go on market, and he was present and deeply involved throughout the entire process. We felt protected knowing that our best interest was Patrick's ultimate goal. We could not be happier with the experience of working with Patrick and would recommend him to anyone looking to buy or sell their home in the future. Thank you Patrick! |
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Patrick & Compass. Nobody gets San Francisco like we do. |
Compass is the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry's top talent with technology to make the buying and selling experience intelligent and seamless. They are a global community of forward-thinking industry experts, built on a foundation of trust and respect. |
I joined Compass because they are truly reinventing real estate. Together we collaborate, share knowledge, and inspire fresh ideas to shape the future of the industry. Compass is building the largest private luxury real estate brokerage in the country and I truly am excited to be a part of that journey. |
A global network of industry professionals at your service. |
As a Broker Associate at Compass, I work alongside some of the brightest people in real estate, technology, and design. A nationwide community of forward-thinking industry experts. |
With more than 2,000 professionals spread over 11 cities throughout the nation, Compass is on track to be the largest private luxury real estate brokerage in the country. |
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Note: This will only be true on devices that have MedAssure enabled laptops. |
When an administration is performed on a MedAssure enabled laptop, the record may not synchronise immediately with other MedAssure enabled laptops, and therefore you may notice a delay in a residents picture turning grey if their medication administrations were recorded on a different device. |
Note: The delay will be considerably longer if the administrations were recorded whilst the device was offline and the device did not return to an offline state before the application was closed. |
The Medication Management server is the primary source for all data. This data is secure and backed up in a variety of ways to ensure the safety of your data. Ultimately, all data needs to reside on the data server. |
With MedAssure, your most important data is copied to your laptop from the server. Resident information, drug orders and login information, as well as other data. The data is copied so that it resides on your computer; typically to the following location - C:\Program Files (x86)\Medication Management\Data. |
This process is repeated regularly throughout the day, to ensure that your computer always has the very latest data. |
Before you begin a drug round, Medication Management grabs all drug round data from your computer - which is a copy of the primary database. It does this regardless of the status of the internet. |
As you administer medications, the Med round results are stored in a cache. If you administer 5 medications in total, you would have that number of transactions waiting in the cache. Then, every thirty seconds, the information in the cache is sent up to the primary server. |
The duration of this upload process will vary according to the number med round results stored. So, the longer the device has been offline, the longer it will take to send this data. |
If that process is successful, the cache is emptied and stays that way until you administer further medications. |
If the process is not successful due to one of the above reasons, the administration records will remain cached and will continue attempting to synchronize until a connection is restored. |
Once the upload is complete, the rest of the devices, provided that those devices are online too, will then check for any pending downloads, and downloads this set of data. The check happens every thirty seconds and the duration for this download depends on the number of results previous uploaded." |
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About The Practice Dr. Aileen Alleyne Psychotherapy Workplace Consultancy Diversity Training Publications Location |
Aileen is a UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) registered psychodynamic psychotherapist, MBACP (Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) registered counsellor and qualified clinical supervisor in private practice. She is a full professional member of FIP (Forum for Independent Psychotherapists) and BAATN (Black and Asian Therapy Network). |
The Riverside Therapy Practice is based in the Newhaven Marina and managed by Aileen who has over 30 years' experience in the helping professions. She brings to her practice, extensive knowledge of working psychotherapeutically with adults presenting with a wide range of psychological, emotional and mental health problems. Her expertise also extends to providing high quality clinical supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists, and practice managers in the heling professions. |
Aileen's work is enriched by her diverse professional background. She is both psychiatric and general-nurse trained, progressing to a senior management position of a psychotherapeutic resident community in Kent in the 70's. After training as a counsellor at both the University of London, Goldsmiths' College and Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, she widened her range of specialisms to include alcohol and drug addiction, HIV/Aids, and student counselling. She employed these specialist skills within the National Health Service and various voluntary sectors in London. Aileen subsequently trained as a psychotherapist at the University of Hertfordshire, and as a Clinical Supervisor at WPF (Westminster Pastoral Foundation). She received her Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Professional Studies from the University of Middlesex and Metanoia Institute in 2006, researching black worker's experiences of stress in the workplace. Aileen set up her private practice in 1990 and is proud to have maintained a diverse clientele since then. |
Alongside her therapy and clinical supervision practice, Aileen also offers consultancy to organisations and educational institutions wanting to address difficult and sensitive issues relating to race and cultural diversity in the workplace. |
Doctorate in Psychotherapy |
MA Counselling and Psychotherapy |
Dip. Psychodynamic Supervision |
Dip. Psychological Counselling |
Email: [email protected]" |
"During a recent holiday on the Isles of Scilly I visited Tresco Abbey Gardens and discovered that they had been created by a man whose name was familiar from my childhood. Augustus Smith (1804-72) was the hero who defended the commoners rights in my home town of Berkhamstead when Lord Brownlow attempted to enclose the common land. Lord Brownlow erected steel fences, so Augustus Smith brought in a trainload of navvies who uprooted the barriers, rolled them up and dumped them on his lordship's front lawn. Berkhamstead Common remains unenclosed to this day. |
Then I read the quote under the picture of Augustus above – an image where he looks every bit the handsome and sensitive young Regency gentleman. Given that, amongst other things, I write Regency romance, I couldn't help feeling that Lady Sophia Tower's description of Augustus Smith sounded almost too good to be true: |
""A man of good presence, above the middle height, lithe in figure, firm in step, upright in carriage, with well-cut, handsome features closely shaven (it was the English fashion then) and an eye cold, grey, observant; he looked as if he had been accustomed to command, or was born to be a ruler, whilst his gentlemanly address was prepossessing, conversation with him quickly added to the good impression he first made; nature had well moulded him, education and refinement aided him to please and to reform others."" |
So, who was this paragon? Augustus was born in 1804 to a wealthy banker, raised in Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire and educated at Harrow and Oxford. He soon developed an interest in social reform and in education and these passions were allowed free rein when, in 1834, he acquired the lease of the Isles of Scilly from the Duchy of Cornwall. The islanders had suffered dreadfully from the neglect of generations of absentee landlords and were without education, support or resources. Agriculture was at a subsistence level and the only industry was the burning of kelp to create soda ash, although by the time Smith took over it has been almost overtaken by industrial processes on the mainland. A niche business supplying the very fine white beach sand for sanding wet ink was also foundering with the use of blotting paper. Most families existed on fishing and scavenging from shipwrecks. |
Smith descended like an incoming monarch – his word became law on the islands, regardless of what the islanders had to say. He made education compulsory up to the age of thirteen, built a church and a pier, renovated dwellings and built himself a magnificent house on the island of Tresco next to the ruins of the 12th century abbey. |
Harbour on St Mary's with the church that Augustus Smith had built (copyright A J Hilton) |
Undoubtedly he raised the living standards of the islanders, but he also created considerable controversy by what the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls his ""mix of liberalism and authoritarianism….In public life his reputation was for over-persistent and often footling controversy."" Many applauded his approach, but John Stuart Mill described it as ""detestable"". |
Tresco & Smith's Abbey (copyright A J Hilton) |
He began work on the fabulous gardens on Tresco in 1834, importing plants from all over the world to create what is now an internationally famous collection. |
The Abbey Gardens on Tresco (copyright A J Hilton) |
Smith certainly expected high standards from everyone else, but I wondered about his own character. He never married, but he had two children by islander Mary Pender who was twenty years younger than Smith and whose first child was born when she was seventeen. He is also reputed to have fathered children on his domestic servants. How consensual were those relationships, given that Mary was a shop girl and the servants probably had no other employment prospects? How do you say No to the King of the Islands? |
So, not the perfect hero, certainly deeply flawed, but also the man who rescued the Isles of Scilly when their inhabitants were virtually starving. The image below (unknown artist or date) seems to show a man who had no doubts about his own rightness! |
After my last visit to The Isles of Scilly I wrote a trio of books linked by the shipwreck of an East Indiaman: you can find the Danger and Desire series here. |
Filed under Employment, Gardening, Gentlemen, Historical Romance, Uncategorized |
Tagged as Augustus Smith, Berkhamstead, Isles of Scilly, Regency romance, Tresco, Tresco Abbey Garden |
The Road to Waterloo – Week Eight. The Tricolour Floats Throughout the Empire – and Is Lady Roseberry To Be Turned Naked Into the Streets? |
Londoners would have been cheered to know just how Napoleon was struggling to produce a new constitution and hold the government together. On Saturday 22nd April he finally published the new document, breaking with the European-wide ambitions of his previous two Imperial constitutions by making it clear that this version was designed to ""increase the prosperity of France by the strengthening of public liberty."" The new constitution was to be approved by a public plebiscite – always supposing the various disputing factions ever showed enough interest to vote. But at least the Emperor was cheered up on the 18th to receive the news that the Duke of Angoulême had capitulated. Grouchy wrote from Avignon, ""Sire, I have the honour to announce to Your Majesty [that]… the tricolour flag floats throughout the territory of the Empire."" |
The Monday newspapers carried reports that 200,000 Russian troops were marching towards the Rhine in support of the Allies but were not expected to be in position until May. ""The same number of Prussians will very shortly be upon the French frontiers and it is asserted that 80,000 of them are already on the borders of the Rhine."" |
At home there were reports in the papers of the inquests on seven American prisoners of war shot attempting to escape from Dartmoor prisoner of war camp, a bleak institution high on the moors. The print above is from Ackermann's Repository in 1810 when the prison was newly built. The smaller enclosure to the right is the barracks for the troops guarding the prisoners. |
The court and fashionable news included the scandalous information that the Consistory Court had ""pronounced a sentence of divorce in favour of Lord Roseberry, on the grounds of adultery between Lady Roseberry and Sir H. St. J. Mildmay."" The case was so splendidly lurid that I think I will have to devote an entire post to it later. When the bill of divorce reached the Committee stage in the House of Commons in June, the question of Lady Roseberry's allowance from her husband arose: |
According to Hansard, ""Mr. M. A. Taylor rose and said, he did not think the sum proposed in this clause sufficient to provide Lady Roseberry with the common necessaries of life. He was one of those who could not accede to…an opinion…that after a woman has committed an act of adultery, she ought to be turned naked into the streets, without the means of sustaining existence…He would appeal to the feelings of the House, whether it was; possible for Lady Roseberry, after the splendour in which she had been accustomed to live, to support herself upon the miserable pittance of 300l. per annum. It might be said, that this limited income must be considered as a part of the punishment of her crime."" |
On Monday the Morning Post writes of receiving a report ""of a petition of peace with Bonaparte been clandestinely circulated for signatures in the City of London. We cannot believe this rumour or that any considerable number of citizens would put a their name to so degrading a paper."" |
In the House of Commons Mr. Bathurst proposed an Aliens Act to protect against subversive French aliens. It was rejected as unnecessary – apparently the House shared the Morning Post's opinion of the loyalty of British citizens. |
A proclamation from King Louis XVIII to all French citizens was widely reported. He promised to welcome back ""into his arms"" all who had previously supported Napoleon and warned that ""already does Europe advance to dethrone him. She advances Frenchman! Her innumerable phalanxes will soon pass your frontiers…"" |
Under the heading ""Pugilism"", the Morning Chronicle stated on Wednesday that ""for years we have not had to report a fight so determined and so desperate as that which brought together by amateurs yesterday on Hounslow Heath, between Harry Harmer, of first rate science, and Shelton the navigator."" The vast crowd watched 28 brutal rounds lasting 26 minutes ending in the defeat of Shelton following ""a dreadful blow to the side of the head."" |
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