 ties to the community through sports sponsorships also gives us that brand recognition within the surrounding communities,” said Megan Barrera, a marketing specialist at Pulse Technology.
It makes sense then that Pulse has dedicated most of its sports marketing resources to the Schaumburg Boomers and Gary SouthShore RailCats, a pair of minor league baseball teams that are well supported in cities where the company has established long-term business and community ties.
Barrera said Pulse Technology’s team has used both teams’ facilities for a variety of networking and business events over the years. Being able to entertain clients, partners and employees during in-season games just icing on the cake, a morale booster that’s difficult to quantify.
Unlike the multinational corporations that spend billions of dollars each year to sponsor professional teams, players and leagues, Pulse Technology CEO Chip Miceli and his executive team believe that investing in local markets and teams makes more sense for both his company and the communities in which it participates.
“As much as we all like the national teams, they are less in need of local sponsorship so we see this as a hand up for a local team,” Barrera added.
Pulse Technology receives hundreds of sponsorship requests each year, so the company makes a point to thoroughly vet and analyze the value proposition offered by each potential sponsorship candidate.
“We will do our due diligence to determine what the organization stands for, what are the demographics of its audience, and whether we believe they represent the values of hard work, ingenuity and respect that we believe are important,” Barrera said.
Sorting through all these potential sponsorship opportunities is a team effort for Pulse. While Miceli ultimately makes the final decision on which teams and organizations to sponsor, he frequently solicits input from company leadership.
“For the companies that we do partner with, about 70% of the firms we contribute to are as a result of partnerships that we have initiated,” Barrera said.
Generally, Pulse Technology looks for companies or nonprofits – within or outside the sporting realm – with a compelling mission that involves helping people and making a difference in the region.
For Pulse Technology, there are no hard-and-fast, black-and-white numbers used to determine the value or return on investment of these sponsorships. Like so many of the sponsoring companies in the imaging channel, the experience of sponsoring local sports teams generates a variety of benefits – tangible and otherwise – that simply cannot be realized from traditional sales and marketing investments.
Hello, I have been getting the following error message while connecting to Oracle Exadata. I saw similar post regarding this issue and one of them mentioned to install ODP.net driver, I tried installing it but not sure whether it has been installed correctly or not as I am getting the same error message even after installing. Is there a specific location where this needs to be installed or something. Please help me with this issue.
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What version of Power BI Desktop do you install? 32-bit or 64-bit? Please firstly make sure that you install the correct Oracle client software on the machine that runs Power BI Desktop, for more details, please check this article.However, if the issue still persists, please check the reference of machine.config files in the following folders. There is a similar thread for your reference.C:\windows\microsoft.net\framework64\v4.0.30319\ConfigC:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0.30319\Config
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Today there are two ALJ Determinations, both involve claims that the Division owed the Petitioners money. And there’s one Decision involving one of the Petitioners from those same Determinations.
Matter of SoulCycle. Inc.; Judge: Russo; Division’s Rep.: M. Greg Jones; Petitioner’s Reps.: Kenneth Moore and Brian Linder; Articles 28 and 29.
If you were hoping for the sequel to Soul Plane, you really came to the wrong place.
This case considers whether New York City’s special 4.5% sales tax on receipts of gyms and weight-loss salons applied to Petitioner’s instructor-led, indoor, stationary-cycling classes. Judge Russo, discounting Petitioner’s spin (see what I did there?), determined that the explicit language of NYC Admin. Code §§ 11-2001, 11-2002 includes fees for admissions to participatory sports activities within the universe of receipts subject to the special tax. Refund denied!
Matter of Mostovoi; Judge: Gardiner; Division’s Rep.: David Gannon; Petitioner’s Rep.: pro se; Award of Costs, Tax Law § 3030.
Petitioner was not awarded the $315 of costs that he asserted he incurred in his case, notwithstanding the Division’s pre-hearing abandonment of the case. There were several reasons: 1. Timeliness—the first request for costs was premature and the second was too late. 2. Petitioner did not show that he had a net worth of less than $2 million at the time his petition was filed. 3. Petitioner represented himself pro se, and, therefore, he should not have incurred any legal fees. 4. Petitioners almost never have fees awarded to them.
Matter of Mostovoi; Division’s Rep.: Michele Milavec; Petitioner’s Rep.: pro se; Article 22.
Yeah, of course it’s the same guy. How many Mostovois do you think are out there with DTA cases?
According to the Tribunal, on March 15, 2017, Petitioner filed a petition challenging the liabilities shown on a Consolidated Statement of Tax Liabilities dated February 27, 2018 (the “Statement”) (Ed.: Petitioner has lost all of his tax cases, but apparently has conquered time-travel) and the liability shown thereon for his 2011 tax year. Since the Statement is not a jurisdiction-granting statutory notice, the Supervising ALJ issued a Notice of Intent to Dismiss the petition (the “NID”). In support of the NID, the Division noted: 1. that the assessment number listed on the Statement for 2011 was previously protested by the filing of a prior petition, 2. that the prior petition was dismissed by the Division of Tax Appeals, and, 3. after an exception was filed, that such dismissal was upheld by the Tax Appeals Tribunal. So the Division asserted that the 2011 assessment was previously adjudicated and sustained and that Petitioner was barred from relitigating the validity of the 2011 assessment. The ALJ accepted the Division’s reasoning, and Petitioner took this exception challenging the dismissal of his case.
The Tribunal found that the dismissal of the petition was proper for two reasons. First, the Tribunal found that the second petition was not in a form conferring jurisdiction on the DTA inasmuch as there was no statutory notice attached to it (again, a Consolidated Statement of Tax Liabilities is not a statutory notice). Second, it was determined that the Statement for 2011 had previously been litigated and that Petitioner had exhausted his administrative remedies through the pursuit of that prior litigation.
This looks to me like the right result. However, I question the second basis listed by the Tribunal for dismissing the petition. Is a pre-hearing dismissal of a case the functional equivalent of “litigating”? This seems like a stretch to me. But since the petition should have been dismissed anyway, no harm, no foul.Image of the feature "IV. Interior Features: 4. Vaulting/Roof Supports: b. Transept: N transept, W aisle (three bays)" at Ely.
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A brief description is given in section 2.b. (iv) above. The aisle vault is divided into three quadripartite groin-vaulted bays by plain, square-section transverse ribs. To the E, the transverse ribs are carried on half columns and capitals on dosserets against the arcade piers, while the diagonal groins have their own capitals, either sharing the arcade pier (pier 2) or on nook shafts (piers 1 and 3). On the W aisle wall the transverse ribs are again carried on half columns and single capitals on dosserets, onto which the diagonal groins also fall. All capitals are cushions, sometimes keeled. Imposts are hollow chamfered with a roll at the junction of face and chamfer. Neckings are squared off rather than rolls. There has been a good deal of restoration at the N end of the aisle following the collapse of 1699.How can I print via AirPrint in