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• BOSTON and NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Provident Healthcare Partners ("Provident"), a leading healthcare investment banking firm, announced it has advised Nightingale Services, Infusion, and Pharmacy ("Nightingale") in its partnership with Honor Health Network, a portfolio company of Webster Equity Partners.
• Nightingale is a leading provider of home care services in Georgia, offering personal care, skilled nursing, infusion, and pharmacy services.
• Provident Healthcare Partners Advises Nightingale Services, Infusion, and Pharmacy in its Partnership with Honor Health
  Provident's deal team was led by Managing Director Kevin Palamara and Vice President Jake Vesely .
• Bouhan Falligant served as legal counsel to Nightingale and Goodwin Procter served as legal counsel to Honor Health Network.

• The “news” offers commentary on current events and Lee’s particular interests and knowledge areas.
• “Reviews” can be of just about anything, ranging from books and articles to film and television, or fashion, architecture, events and miscellaneous “fancy things”.
• Lee notes it provides a useful way of generating regular income between her longer form, traditionally published writing.

How Substack works

• Rather than charge writers a fee, Substack takes a cut of revenue generated by reader subscriptions.
• Might Substack newsletters emerge as a viable alternative to print and digital books, and the conventional model of literary publishing?
• Read more:
  Is Salman Rushdie's decision to publish on Substack the death of the novel?

New writing by leading authors

• This seemed like a possible direction in 2021, when several prominent authors began to publish their new fiction through the platform.
• However, literary authors are not really using Substack as a replacement for conventional books.
• Often authors are using Substack for forms of writing that wouldn’t always be viable in other mediums.
• According to Saunders, discussion of the mechanics of writing and narrative construction should not just be confined to creative writing classrooms.

Immediacy and intimacy

• The appeal of author newsletters has probably come to reside more in the immediacy and intimacy of these kinds of writings, rather than the prospect of an advance look at forthcoming or developing fiction.
• Mackellar’s Sydney Review of Books essay on the merits of the newsletter as a literary form is worth investigating.

The Paris End

• The Paris End typically delivers two to three long-form essays each month (illustrated by cartoonist Aaron Billings) and a bi-weekly review section covering trends, books, dining and more.
• The Paris End is hyperlocal in its focus and very conversational in style.
• By contrast, the Paris End writers get involved – they put themselves into the stories.
• The Paris End is like the New Yorker if the entire magazine consisted of feature-length “Talk of the Town” pieces.

Is it sustainable?

• They are in good company with the unwatched shows on my Netflix list, and the unread books on my shelves.
• While there are benefits to the regular writing habits demanded by the newsletter model, it may not always be sustainable.
• The matter now appears to be resolved, but it demonstrates how the current volatility surrounding X can impact Substack writers.
• Its rapid adoption by both local and international authors has resulted in the creation of fascinating and innovative new content.

• AFS Logistics announces the selection of CEO Tom Nightingale as a 2023 Rainmaker by DC Velocity, a market-leading logistics magazine.
• The accolade recognizes Nightingale among the preeminent leaders of the industry for his 30-plus years of experience, multifaceted contributions and diligent board service.
• Nightingale has amassed an accomplished track record, driving growth at the companies where he’s worked and producing results for the customers they serve.
• “Tom has been a great addition to AFS and its continued growth in our space," says Brian J. Barker, Founder and Chairman, AFS.

• Or is it a case of that old mountaineering saying: the fog is thickest just before the summit?
• By this I mean how something as complex as housing can be reduced to one or two issues of the moment.
• Read more:
  To deliver enough affordable housing and end homelessness, what must a national strategy do?

But what about the new housing fund?

• The federal government says its new fund will provide A$500 million a year to build much-needed social housing.
• The Greens are demanding more direct funding of housing (at first $5 billion a year, now reduced to $2.5 billion) and a rent freeze.
• Read more:
  Albanese government tackles housing crisis on 3 fronts, but there's still more to do

Supply is only one piece of the puzzle

• It takes more than dollars to deliver a building.
• We must address all the phases: development, design, construction, operation and, after all that, end of life.

Development

New business and ownership models are needed. These include:
• Let’s not aim to centralise housing development.
• A final area for innovation in the development phase is planning.

Design

• Australian houses are among the world’s largest even though households are shrinking.
• As the Swedish saying goes: “The cheapest square metre is the square metre you don’t build!” Make houses more flexible and diverse.

Construction

• We need faster, cheaper and higher-quality ways of building.
• In contrast to building on site from the ground up, prefabricated, modular or industrialised house-building happens in factories.
• Up entering Swedish and German house-building factories, it is clear these are more inclusive workplaces.

Operation

• Improve building performance through better development, design and operation of housing.
• Occupants won’t be left with unaffordable “utility timebombs” with high running costs.

End of life

An increased focus on decarbonisation and sustainable use of resources will enable new approaches to reusing and recycling building materials. Re-using existing and obsolete buildings for new housing – adaptive re-use – is another way to provide more housing.

Where to from here?

Innovations like these could be applied tomorrow to help us do more with less. A final challenge to government: as we prepare to spend billions on building housing across the country, is it too outlandish to imagine we could invest a mere 1% of those vast sums in innovation programs? Innovation can deliver the increases in building productivity and capacity that Australia so badly needs.