Nick Jack (NJ): “A high-end brand needs to have a high-end look and feel. Value, [or lower-cost], products should have value package branding rather than an expensive look. A sleek, minimalistic approach could be a great way for a fractional distillation company to position their product in the market, while a fun and loud package design could place your edible brand into an attractive recreational position. Basically, your product packaging should support where you want your product to be positioned in the market.”

It was a white eggshell, drained and decorated to look like Santa’s face, complete with daintily drawn features, a faded red crepe paper hat and cotton for his beard and hat trim.

Our operations benefit from our broad, strategically positioned geographic footprint, which supports our ability to supply seamless and welded OCTG to the most active major oil and gas basins in the United States and Canada. We own and operate 11 production facilities in the United States and Canada that produce a wide range of OCTG in various sizes and grades and together offer approximately 1.5 million tons of annual steel pipe production capacity, approximately 1.5 million tons of annual threading capacity and 674,000 tons of annual heat treating capacity. We have finishing facilities in close proximity to our end-users’ E&P operations, which allows us to provide our customers with customized technical solutions and to synchronize our production and logistics with evolving demands. We also import seamless OCTG and line pipe in sizes that we do not produce domestically from the TMK Group. The following map provides an overview of our production facilities and broad footprint covering the most active oil and natural gas producing basins in the United States and Canada.

Shares Available for Awards. An aggregate of                         shares of our common stock will initially be available for issuance under the 2018 Plan. No more than                         shares of common stock may be issued under the 2018 Plan upon the exercise of incentive stock options. Shares issued under the 2018 Plan may be authorized but unissued shares, shares purchased on the open market or treasury shares.

Libresco: I think the primary misunderstanding is that it’s a retreat rather than a retrenchment. We’re called to be channels of grace, and that means making sure that the channel is open at both ends — we have to be deeply rooted in God and present among his people, so He can use us. But it begins with being rooted in God — as Rod says, “You can’t give what you don’t have.”

I’m blessed. Not only do I get emails each day from readers like you, but I also get questions from the Ask Tim page at my AsktheBuilder.com website. Believe it or not, these questions are never tiring, and it’s like Christmas morning when I open them. The high-resolution photos that often accompany the inquiries are like eye candy to me. My wife thinks I’m nuts!

From time to time, the Company is a party to ongoing legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business. The Company establishes reserves for specific legal proceedings when the Company determines that the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome is probable and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. The Company establishes reserves up to the amount of its remaining self-insured retention (“SIR”) for an insured claim subject to a legal proceeding unless its insurer has issued a reservation of rights letter relating to that claim. If a reservation of rights letter exists with respect to the claim, the Company estimates the amount of the provision based on its evaluation of the total estimated loss. The Company does not assume successful recovery under a third-party indemnification agreement when determining its reserves. The Company accrues for recoveries pursuant to its indemnification agreements only upon realization of such recoveries and does not accrue for potential or expected recoveries prior to realization. Management believes the results of these proceedings, individually or in the aggregate, after consideration of insurance coverage and indemnification agreements that the Company enters into with certain of its counterparties, will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.

“North Dakota Senate” – First-term Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) has now announced she will vote “no” on Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh. She was one of the last holdouts, and she is one of three Democrats who voted “yes” on President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment Neil Gorsuch. Heitkamp is in a tough reelection fight. The latest RCP composite poll has Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) with a 51 percent to 42 percent lead over Senator Heitkamp. Realistically in a solid red-state she might have scored points by backing Kavanaugh, but being a maverick bucking the trend may cut both ways. In fairness – politics aside – she may just have cast a principled vote, letting the chips fall where they may.

At the time of the interview, a Rhode Island trade mission was visiting Ireland led in part by Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian, who also appeared on LIVE.

Inventor(s): Darrell G. Hollis (Conway Springs, KS), Derrek Rae Burrows (Wichita, KS), John L. Dawkins (Derby, KS), Keith S. Kramer (Andover, KS), Rodney L. Klausmeyer (Wichita, KS) Assignee(s): Occidental Chemical Corporation (Dallas, TX) Law Firm: Renner, Kenner (2 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15311570 on 05/14/2015 (1097 days app to issue)

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requirements of the NYSE, with which we are not required to comply as a private company. Complying with these statutes, regulations and requirements will occupy a significant amount of time of the Board and management and will significantly increase our costs and expenses. We will need to: