 sent to the pay cage a short time later. There were no tears shed as Kassouf left the tournament area, as his opponents were happy to see him go.
In his interview with "TMZ Live", Benger said that he had heard that Kassouf had made a female player cry earlier in the tournament, and that this had contributed to Benger's explosion in the now famous hand.
A villian makes for great TV, and ESPN struck gold this year in the form of Will Kassouf.
Source: TMZ.com - WSOP Player Griffin Benger - I had to Take Down Kassouf.. He Made a Woman Cry!Sonepar Canada is a large division of the global leader in the B2B distribution of electrical products and services. The company has seven different operating companies within its Canadian territory – Lumen, Texcan, Gescan, Vallen, Sesco, Dixon Electric, and MGM Electric – supported by approximately 2,000 associates.
Their environment is complex, including issues such as a multi-company structure, over 100 locations, dual languages, multiple ERP software systems, and staff spread across a wide geography. Sonepar Canada uses all three applications of Receivables Intelligence from Dun & Bradstreet – Collections Management, Payment Portal, and Cash Management. The platform provides advanced workflows that allow optimization of the credit risk, cash application, and customer self-service portal functions.
Prior to implementation, Sonepar Canada managed its accounts receivable and cash application functions with little automation. The credit risk and cash application teams worked on multiple disconnected billing systems and relied on spreadsheets with mostly manual processes. The many inefficiencies throughout the entire workflow were negatively affecting its cost to service, its working capital cash flows, and the customer experience. So much so that Ken Young, CCE, the Director of Credit at Sonepar Canada, knew he had to spearhead a solution.
“We process millions of transactions per year. I knew we needed to find and implement a platform that could integrate large volumes of information from multiple systems, automate otherwise manual processes, and generally make it easier for our customers to do business with us,” he said.
The platform is highly configurable and was easily customized to meet each operating company’s unique business needs. Its intelligence engine workflows provided team associates with significant automation, functionality, and drill-down capabilities to effectively and efficiently manage their responsibilities.
Moving the diverse operating companies onto a single workflow platform enabled the codification of best practices into the daily workflow of all staff. Customer contact management, cash application, deductions management, and doubtful accounts management all became areas of strength, instead of weakness, after the implementation.
Payments can now be taken in real time while credit associates are speaking with customers on the phone. Little detail is required from the customer other than the payment amount, and an automated receipt is sent to the customer immediately. It creates a superior customer experience that meets the needs of many of its customers, particularly the contractors who are often out of the office during the day.
Dunning capabilities, either automated as part of targeted predetermined contact strategies or done ad hoc, improve the quantity and quality of timely contact with customers.
Receivables Intelligence has also helped improve the internal collaboration between the A/R teams, branch offices, and sales teams. Routine, targeted, and automated communication of disputed transactions between credit and sales staff has significantly decreased dispute resolution times with a corresponding reduction of the overall dispute balance. Also, real-time decisioning and releasing of orders on credit hold reduce order process bottlenecks at the branch operations.
In addition, Sonepar’s customer portal is a self-service function that is integrated with their e-commerce sites. Customers can log in to their existing Sonepar e-commerce account and make payments, print statements and invoices, and update their information (such as a change of address).
Customers don’t have to remember yet another password, making it easier for them to access this feature. “Our IT group worked closely with Dun & Bradstreet to provide secure encryption and to ensure that access to the payment portal took only a single keystroke by the customer. Dun & Bradstreet configured the portal to ensure the design of the visual layouts looked identical to the e-commerce sites,” Young said.
In summary, Receivables Intelligence has significantly helped Sonepar Canada in resolving its challenges with receivables and cash management.
“Overall, Receivables Intelligence has enabled us to radically improve our DSO while dramatically reducing both our severely aged receivables and bad debts. In fact, despite the massive disruption in the economy due to COVID-19 and oil patch issues – including complete economic shutdowns in some of our key markets – we continue to set all-time KPI records even five years after implementation. We could not possibly have achieved this level of success without Receivables Intelligence,” Young said.What a fascinating and delightful red wine. Mulchy, dark berry and plummy fruit characters are joined by slightly ferrous and faint chocolatey notes. So curious!
Mint, resin, spice are good words. Dark and brooding red of sloshy, inky nature and general chunkiness. Lush. Lovely. Full figured but fresh. Such a delight to drink. Please dive in.In 2013, Artisan Boulangerie Co. started as a small neighbourhood bakery near Orchard Road that offered a variety of bread, pastries and morning treats with a focus on artisanal techniques with the highest quality ingredients. Soon after, they attracted a massive following for their delicious and wholesome food.
As they became more and more popular, they decided to expand their ‘Made with love’ menu which included café classics and ‘bistro’ signature entrees.
Their food was without a doubt amazing. Hence, they were now looking for partners who could bring their food to life through strong communication and marketing strategies.
I remember when I first entered an ABC store – You know that feeling when you see someone and you feel like butterflies inside your stomach? Yes, that feeling of falling in love with someone at first sight? Well, it was the same; it was just love at first smell.
Lord knows, we knew ABC and Adtomica were meant to be together because we take our art as seriously as they make their food.
To rejuvenate the brand strategy and design communication for ABC, we were asked to add a bit of creativity to the regular Instagram food images. So, we raised the visibility for ABC by starting with a brand refresh on all social channels – Creating and experimenting with disruptive content that was out-of-the-ordinary and captured the attention of people. Static images to showcase the food and gifs/videos that brought the food to life.
Over a period, we have become a core part of ABC’s marketing team and try to add a touch of Adtomica in each store and product launch. Be it wordplay with some of our favourite dishes or videos of drool-worthy desserts; we make sure to capture it all for the brand.
And needless to say, this love story is just going strong with each passing day.
Thank you for the reply, AgainAndABen, although I must say that your theory doesn't make sense to me :)

I believe this spacecraft is going faster than than the solar escape velocity, and isn't even gravitationally captured by the sun at this point, let alone by Pluto.  If it were otherwise, they could become an orbiter instead of a flyby mission and collect a lot more science over time.  Problem with that is that matching velocities with Pluto would take considerable delta-V, which means considerable fuel on board the spacecraft, which means a much longer (time-wise) journey to Pluto, so they instead are a simple flyby mission, which needs less fuel, less mass, and thus less transit time.

Pluto will change the craft's trajectory of course, but it doesn't have to "burn fuel" to escape Pluto, which is anyway rather small.  It's going waaaaay too fast (relative to Pluto) to be gravitationally captured like that.  I think the fuel use now is to refine its trajectory, and subsequent to the Pluto encounter, possibly modify its trajectory to fly by some Kuiper belt objects.Russian Ballet's National Tour stops...
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For years the public only saw Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) formerly known as ISIS or ISIL, in a couple of grainy pictures, like the one posted on the U.S. Rewards for Justice program wanted poster offering $10 million for information leading to his capture. But Friday a man looking very much like al-Baghdadi stepped into the spotlight, giving a fiery sermon at a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in which he called for all Muslims to follow him.
"I was cursed with this great endeavor," a 21-minute video of the event shows the man saying in Arabic. "Obey me in my obedience to God, disobey me if I disobey God."
After the video's release, U.S. intelligence agencies said they were analyzing the footage and could not immediately confirm that the man seen was al-Baghdadi, the 43-year-old who led his group to take over regions of Syria and vast sw