Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, as well as Delaware law, contain provisions that could discourage acquisition bids or merger proposals, which may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

Our principal stockholder is PAO TMK, a company organized under the laws of the Russian Federation. PAO TMK is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipe for the oil and gas industry and has one of the world’s largest steel pipe production capacities. Outside of our operations, PAO TMK operates 16 production sites in Russia, Canada, Romania, Oman and Kazakhstan and one research and development, or R&D, center in Russia. PAO TMK offers a full range of OCTG and line pipe as well as industrial pipe to serve the chemical, automotive, construction, utilities and agricultural sectors, amongst others. In 2017, PAO TMK’s overall steel pipe shipments totaled 4.19 million tons. The largest share of PAO TMK’s sales is from high-margin OCTG, shipped to customers in over 80 countries. In addition, PAO TMK is focused on providing customers with new innovative steel pipe and premium connections. It operates a major R&D center in the Urals (RosNITI) and is building another R&D center near Moscow. Through our agreements with the TMK Group, we have access to its leading technologies and products. Additionally, we import steel pipe from the TMK Group in sizes that we do not produce in the United States or Canada, which primarily include OCTG in sizes 7 inches through 13.375 inches.

When your career begins at age 11 as the youngest artist to reach #1 on the Billboard charts and continues on through adulthood, it’s almost difficult to believe one could still have professional firsts, but RI native and “The Voice” Alum, Billy Gilman, did just that with his first ever arena concert at the Dunkin Donuts Center.

Brandon Belt: "BOB"Ty Blach: "THE PREACHER"Ray Black: "BLACKOUT"Madison Bumgarner: "MAD-BUM"Brandon Crawford: "DJ BC RAW"Johnny Cueto: "EL JUCHO"

Santa Mouse arrived attached to an Avon bottle in 1962 and was one of my parents’ first Christmas ornaments. I would arrive six months later, so he was technically my first Christmas ornament, too.

On June 26, 2018, the Board authorized and declared a dividend of $56.0 million (the “Dividend”), payable to our stockholder of record as of the close of business on June 26, 2018, PAO TMK. The Dividend was funded with borrowings under our revolving credit facility and was paid on June 28, 2018. We did not declare or pay any dividends on our common stock during the six months ended June 30, 2018 other than the Dividend and did not declare or pay any dividends on our common stock during the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016.

THIS DISCUSSION IS A SUMMARY OF THE MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NON-U.S. HOLDERS ONLY AND IS NOT TAX ADVICE. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PURCHASE, OWNERSHIP AND DISPOSITION OF OUR COMMON STOCK ARISING UNDER THE U.S. FEDERAL ESTATE OR GIFT TAX LAWS OR UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY STATE, LOCAL OR NON-U.S. TAXING JURISDICTION OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATY.

Wisconsin in 2017 saw a slight decrease in suicides and homicides by gun, but the long-term trend has been a steady climb since 2011, when the state posted 445 gun deaths, 351 by suicide, 86 by homicide and the remainder by undetermined means.

We intend to furnish or make available to our stockholders annual reports containing our audited financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. We also intend to furnish or make available to our stockholders quarterly reports containing our unaudited interim financial information, including the information required by Form 10-Q, for the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year.

In addition, we expect that being a public company subject to these rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified individuals to serve on the Board or as executive officers. We are currently evaluating these rules, and we cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs.

On a Saturday in October, two days before he was set to reopen, Varsano invited me to a late dinner with two of his friends at a restaurant in Berkeley Square that was reserved through 2018. After we finished dinner a little after 11, Varsano suggested we visit his office for a sort of soft opening. The showroom was arrayed in muted sky blues and overcast grays, and we took our places in deep-set swiveling club chairs oriented in a semicircle before 32 tiled wide-screen panels of vivid high-definition display. Overhead was a large elliptical inset of soft eggshell leather, gently branded with the company’s geometric logo of intersecting flight paths, illuminated by a recessed orbit of dusky yellow.

For its March issue, Cosmopolitan’s Philippines edition posted a photo of “Riverdale” star Lili Reinhart with her midriff showing. As Reinhart posted in an Instagram story, her body was modified to look slimmer.