It assigned them a spot in Tri Delta Place, its hotel-like short-term patient residence on the campus. Taylr said the unit at Tri Delta had no oven or stove and St. Jude provided no grocery money, instead allotting them a $50-per-day credit at the hospital cafeteria, Kay Kafe – not enough to feed the family of five. As the weeks wore on, the Murphys split grilled cheese sandwiches and paid for food out of pocket. After ProPublica asked about the hospital’s food allowances, St. Jude said it would increase them as part of the changes scheduled to go into effect this month. The hospital switched from a $50-a-day cap per family to providing $25 a day to each family member. For a family of four, that would double the food benefit. A weekly stipend given to families in long-term housing was increased to $150 from $125. For the Murphys, it was the loss of their work income, more than out-of-pocket expenses, that put them into a financial hole as Peyton’s treatment went on.
But these seem like overly complex solutions to a problem that doesn’t really exist. Originally designed for reducing the bulk of lofty sleeping bags, compression sacks are stuff sacks modified with additional nylon end caps that can be pulled together by strings or straps to remove air and create a smaller, denser package that’s easier to pack. Most travelers use compression sacks to condense socks, underwear, and other stuff you don’t mind getting wrinkled into a package with half as much overall volume. For example, an 8- to 12-liter sack can compress a fleece jacket and a long-weekend’s worth of socks and underwear into something that fits in one hand. They also make a decent pillow in a pinch. It has a full-length zipper on its side that allows access to the bag’s entire contents. However, it doesn’t compress as tightly as traditional designs. Most compression sacks require you to empty out the stuff at the top to get to the stuff below it, but the side-zipper design on the Osprey StraightJacket allows access to the entire contents of the bag at once.
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Despite spending $25 million a year on temporary workers, Carlson Companies Inc. was coming up short. The hotel, travel and marketing company was working with a large number of staffing firms in hopes of maximizing choice and competition among suppliers. That didn’t work out. “Our spending was out of control, and we didn’t consistently use processes that would allow us to know what we were using or where,” says Gary Anderson, manager of enterprise supplier management at the Minneapolis-based company. The $8 billion firm had 160 staffing companies on its vendor list, and it managed them and associated temporary workers through a hodgepodge of spreadsheets, e-mail and paper. “It was terribly labor-intensive and inconsistent,” Anderson says. Perhaps the biggest gap was in performance monitoring and management reporting. Carlson had no systematic or timely way to track the performance of suppliers and to use those performance measures to negotiate better services and lower rates. Anderson found a better way, using a relatively new breed of software for contingent-workforce management.
At Roosevelt’s suggestion, Churchill drafted a communiqué stating their common aims. In the eight points of this Atlantic Charter, the leaders emphasized that they made no territorial claims and favored self-determination, reduced restrictions on trade, collective security, and renunciation of force. Wehrmacht loses its momentum: By August 1941, the Wehrmacht’s startling advance into Soviet territory had finally slowed. Overextended supply lines and the army’s high dependence on mobility — involving fuel, ammunition, food, vehicle spares, and railway access — necessitated a period of regrouping and replenishment. But this pause also provided an opportunity for the badly battered Soviets to regroup. Now, some 30 Soviet Far Eastern divisions — men accustomed to the rigors of winter warfare — began to be deployed west from Siberia. The Red high command planned a major offensive, in the Moscow area, for early December. Moscow spared from heavy bombing: At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, Moscow was one of the more important Nazi German strategic objectives.
