Additional information: Alfred L. Cralle was a Black American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his invention of the ice cream scoop. Cralle was born on the 4th September 1866 in Virginia.

CERCLA and analogous state laws generally impose liability without regard to fault or legality of the original conduct on classes of persons who are considered to be responsible for the release of a hazardous substance into the environment. These persons include the current owner or operator of a contaminated facility, a former owner or operator of the facility at the time of contamination, and those persons that disposed or arranged for the disposal of the hazardous substance at the facility. Liability for the costs of removing or remediating previously disposed wastes or contamination, damages to natural resources and the costs of conducting certain health studies, amongst other things, can be strict and joint and several. In addition, it is not uncommon for neighboring landowners and other third parties to file claims for personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by the hazardous substances released into the environment. In the course of our operations, we use materials that, if released, would be subject to CERCLA and comparable state laws. Therefore, governmental agencies or third parties may seek to hold us responsible under CERCLA and comparable state statutes for all or part of the costs to clean up sites at which such hazardous substances have been released.

A corporation may elect not to be subject to Section 203 of the DGCL. We have elected to not be subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL.

The Phone Company used to consider soldered connections as temporary and crimped as permanent. A properly done gas-tight, properly stress-relieved crimped connection is actually more robust from the mechanical and electical point of view.

In August 2015, the EPA also issued new regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power generation facilities. Under this rule, nationwide carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by approximately 30% from 2005 levels by 2030 with a flexible interim goal. Several industry groups and states challenged the rule. In February 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the implementation of this rule pending judicial review. In March 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the EPA to review the regulations, and in April 2017, the EPA announced that it was reviewing the 2015 carbon dioxide regulations. Also in April 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia stayed the litigation pending the current administration’s review, and the court has since continued to issue orders extending the initial hold. In October 2017, the EPA initiated the formal rulemaking process to repeal the regulations. The EPA’s proposal will be subject to public comment and likely legal challenge, and as such we cannot predict at this time what impact the rulemaking will have on the demand for oil and natural gas production and our operations.

In December 2017, the Company entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with certain lenders and an administrative agent providing for a $125,000,000 secured credit facility (the “revolving credit

Japan, or for the benefit of any Japanese Person or to others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to any Japanese Person, except in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and ministerial guidelines promulgated by relevant Japanese governmental or regulatory authorities in effect at the relevant time. For the purposes of this paragraph, “Japanese Person” shall mean any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan.

"This body is perfect. And not based on some mysterious formula of body parts that our society has concocted in order to simplify and objectify women. This body is perfect because it’s mine," Sinclair captioned a photo of herself from December 2016 lounging in a pair of jeans and a sports bra. Her abs are not flat in the photo because it’s not normal to have flat abs when you sit in that position and also because most women don’t have flat abs.

On February 21, 2017, we entered into a services agreement with TMK Premium, pursuant to which we agreed to perform certain threaded connections testing services and other scientific research and design work objects testing for TMK Premium. This agreement terminated on December 31, 2017.

Average depreciation periods, which represent estimated useful economic lives of respective assets, are as follows:

We are subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations including, but not limited to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and regulations promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. We are also subject to a variety of federal and state employment and labor laws and regulations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the Worker Adjustment and Restructuring Notification Act, or WARN Act, and other regulations related to working conditions, wage-hour pay, overtime pay, family leave, employee benefits, antidiscrimination, termination of employment, safety standards and other workplace regulations.

Parties, enforceable against such Persons in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law); and