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• Participation Rights (a) Until the earlier of (i) such time as there is no SL Director serving on the Board of Directors and the Purchaser is no longer entitled to designate a director nominee pursuant to Section 4.07 and (ii) the eighteen (18) month anniversary of the Closing Date, whenever the Company or any of its Subsidiaries proposes to issue, directly or indirectly (including, through any underwriters) any Additional Securities that are not Excluded Securities (such proposed issuance, an “Additional Investment”), the Company will consult with the Purchaser reasonably in advance of undertaking such issuance and, if and only if the Purchaser notifies the Company within five (5) Business Days following such consultation of its preliminary interest in receiving an offer to participate in such issuance (which indication shall not be binding upon the Purchaser), the Company will provide written notice of such proposed issuance to the Purchaser (an “Offer Notice”) at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the proposed date of the purchase agreement, investment agreement or other agreement (the “Additional Investment Agreement”). Each Offer Notice shall include the applicable purchase price per security for such Additional Investment, the aggregate amount of the proposed Additional Investment and the other material terms and conditions of such Additional Investment, including the proposed closing date. The Offer Notice shall constitute the Company’s offer to issue such Additional Investment to the Purchaser substantially on the terms and conditions specified in the Offer Notice, which offer shall be irrevocable for five (5) Business Days following the date the Offer Notice is received by the Purchaser (the “Participation Notice Period”). The Purchaser may elect to purchase up to all of the Additional Securities on the terms proposed; provided that to the extent the issuance of Additional Securities to the Purchaser would result in a Stockholder Approval Requirement, the Purchaser may elect to purchase up to an amount of Additional Securities that would not cause the Stockholder Approval Requirement. If the Company believes the issuance of Additional Securities to the Purchaser would result in a Stockholder Approval Requirement, the Company shall notify the Purchaser reasonably in advance of undertaking such issuance, and the Company will consider in good faith any proposed revisions made by the Purchaser to the terms of the proposed Additional Investment that (i) would only be applicable to the Purchaser, (ii) would not result in the Company needing to obtain stockholder approval in connection with the Additional Investment as a result of the issuance of Additional Securities to the Purchaser and (iii) are not, in the aggregate, materially adverse to the terms of the Additional Investment. If the Purchaser elects to purchase all or a portion of such Additional Investment specified in the Offer Notice, the Purchaser shall deliver to the Company during the Participation Notice Period a written notice stating the aggregate amount of the proposed Additional Investment that the Purchaser offers to purchase (the “Participation Notice”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company is seeking stockholder approval for any Third Party in connection with the Additional Investment or for any other matter that may be needed to consummate the proposed issuance of Additional Securities, then the Company shall also seek stockholder approval in connection with the issuance of the Additional Securities to the Purchaser.

• Assignment and Participations (a) Subject to the terms of this Section 9.1, any Lender may make an assignment to a Qualified Assignee of, or sell participations in, at any time or times, the Loan Documents, Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations and any Commitment or any portion thereof or interest therein, including any Lender's rights, title, interests, remedies, powers or duties thereunder. Any assignment by a Lender shall: (i) require the consent of Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed with respect to a Qualified Assignee) and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, Borrower (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, that any assignment to Black Diamond Capital Management or any of its Affiliates shall require the consent of Borrower so long as no Event of Default pursuant to Sections 8.1(a)(i), 8.1(a)(ii), 8.1(h) or 8.1(i) has occurred and is then continuing), and the execution of an assignment agreement (an "Assignment Agreement") substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 9.1(a) and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, and acknowledged by, Agent; (ii) be conditioned on such assignee Lender representing to the assigning Lender and Agent that it is purchasing the applicable Loans to be assigned to it for its own account, for investment purposes and not with a view to the distribution thereof; (iii) after giving effect to any such partial assignment, the assignee Lender shall have Commitments in an amount at least equal to $5,000,000 and the assigning Lender shall have retained Commitments in an amount at least equal to $2,500,000; and (iv) include a payment to Agent of an assignment fee of $3,500. In the case of an assignment by a Lender under this Section 9.1, the assignee shall have, to the extent of such assignment, the same rights, benefits and obligations as all

• Participation Right From the date hereof through the two (2) year anniversary of the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, effect any Subsequent Placement unless the Company shall have first complied with this Section 4(o). The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4(o) is a right granted by the Company, separately, to each Buyer.

• Assignment and Participation Lender may pledge or otherwise hypothecate all or any portion of this Agreement or grant participations herein (provided Lender acts as agent for any participants, except as provided below) or in any of its rights and security hereunder to an Eligible Assignee; provided, that in the absence of an Event of Default, Lender shall not grant such a participation to an Eligible Assignee (other than an Affiliate of Lender) without Borrower’s consent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed. Lender may also assign all or any part of the Loan and Lender’s obligations in connection therewith to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided, that in the absence of an Event of Default, Lender shall not assign all or a portion of its Loan to an Eligible Assignee (other than an Affiliate of Lender) without Borrower’s consent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed. Lender shall notify Borrower in advance of the identity of any proposed Eligible Assignee. With respect to assignments (and not participations) of this Agreement or any of the rights hereunder, upon delivery to (and in the absence of an Event of Default, the consent of Borrower contemplated above, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed) Borrower of an executed copy of the Eligible Assignee’s assignment and acceptance (a) each such Eligible Assignee shall be deemed to be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned and delegated to such Eligible Assignee, such Eligible Assignee shall have the rights and obligations of Lender hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents and other related documents (b) Lender, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned and delegated by it, shall be released from its obligations hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, the obligation to fund the Eligible Assignee’s share of the Loan) and other related documents. Within five Business Days after receipt of a copy of the executed assignment and acceptance document, Borrower shall execute and deliver to Lender a new promissory note, as applicable (for delivery to the relevant Eligible Assignee), in the form of Exhibit A hereto but substituting Eligible Assignee’s name and evidencing such Eligible Assignee’s assigned portion of the Loan and a replacement promissory note, as applicable, in the principal amount of the Loan retained by Lender (such promissory note to be in exchange for, but not in payment of, the promissory note then held by Lender). The replacement promissory note shall be dated the date of the predecessor promissory note. Lender shall xxxx the predecessor promissory note “exchanged” and deliver it to Borrower. Accrued interest on that part of the predecessor promissory note evidenced by the new promissory note held by the Eligible Assignee, and accrued fees, shall be paid as provided in the assignment agreement between Lender and to the Eligible Assignee. Accrued interest on that part of the predecessor promissory note evidenced by the replacement promissory note held by Lender shall be paid to Lender. Accrued interest and accrued fees shall be so apportioned between the promissory note and paid at the same time or times provided in the predecessor promissory note and in this Agreement. Borrower authorizes Lender to disclose to any prospective Eligible Assignee any financial or other information pertaining to Borrower or the Loan subject to standard confidentiality provisions and Lender’s obligations of confidentiality set forth in Section 9.18. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, and without the need to comply with any of the formal or procedural requirements of this Agreement, including this Section 9.2, Lender may at any time and from time to time pledge and assign all or any portion of its rights under all or any of the Transaction Documents and other related documents to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release Lender from its obligations thereunder.

• Assignments and Participation (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement, the Notes and the Security Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) with the prior written consent of the Borrower to the extent the assignee thereunder is not then a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) to the extent the assignee thereunder is not then a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, the amount of the Commitment or Note(s) to be held by such assignee (after giving effect to such assignment and any other assignments being made concurrently therewith to the same assignee by one or more other Lenders) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000, unless such assignment is of the entire amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment, and (iii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, a Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $2,500. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Lender Assignment, which effective date shall be at least five Business Days after the execution thereof, (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Lender Assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (y) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it to an assignee pursuant to such Lender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of a Lender Assignment covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto); provided, however, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Administrative Agent shall have declared all Advances to be immediately due and payable hereunder a Lender may assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations without the prior written consent of the Borrower but otherwise in accordance with this Section.

• COOPERATIVE PURCHASING PROGRAM PARTICIPATION Arkansas' Purchasing Law provides that local public procurement units (counties, municipalities, school districts, certain nonprofit corporations, etc.) may participate in state purchasing contracts. The contractor therefore agrees to sell to Cooperative Purchasing Program participants at the option of the program participants. Unless otherwise stated, all standard and special terms and conditions listed within the contract must be equally applied to such participants.

• Development Rights The Employee agrees and declares that all proprietary information including but not limited to trade secrets, know-how, patents and other rights in connection therewith developed by or with the contribution of Employee's efforts during his employment with the Company shall be the sole property of the Company. Upon the Company's request (whenever made), Employee shall execute and assign to the Company all the rights in the proprietary information.

• Registration Rights; Rights of Participation Except as set forth on Schedule 6(b) to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has not granted or agreed to grant to any Person any rights (including "piggy-back" registration rights) to have any securities of the Company registered with the Commission or any other governmental authority which has not been satisfied. Except as set forth on Schedule 6(b) to the Registration Rights Agreement, no Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

• Program Participation By participating in the CRF Program, Grantee agrees to:

• Assignments and Participations The Lenders will be permitted to assign loans and commitments under the CPLV Mezz Facility with the consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, but which consent under the CPLV Mezz Facility shall be deemed granted if the Borrower fails to respond to a request for consent by a Lender within ten business days of such request being made); provided, that such consent of the Borrower shall not be required (i) if such assignment is made, in the case of the CPLV Mezz Facility, to another Lender under the CPLV Mezz Facility or an affiliate or approved fund of a Lender under the Term Facility or (ii) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an event of default relating to payment default or bankruptcy. All assignments will also require the consent of the Agent (subject to exceptions consistent with the Documentation Precedent) not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Each assignment, in the case of the CPLV Mezz Facility, will be in an amount of an integral multiple of $1,000,000. The Agent will receive a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, payable by the assignor and/or the assignee, with each assignment. Assignments will be by novation. The Lenders will be permitted to sell participations in loans subject to the restrictions set forth herein and consistent with the Documentation Precedent. Voting rights of participants shall (i) be limited to matters in respect of (a) increases in commitments of such participant, (b) reductions of principal, interest or fees payable to such participant, (c) extensions of final maturity or scheduled amortization of the loans or commitments in which such participant participates and (d) releases of all or substantially all of the value of the Guarantees, or all or substantially all of the Collateral and (ii) for clarification purposes, not include the right to vote on waivers of defaults or events of default. Notwithstanding the foregoing, assignments (and, to the extent such list is made available to all Lenders, participations) shall not be permitted to ineligible institutions identified to the Agent on or prior to the Closing Date and, with the consent of the Agent, thereafter; provided that the Agent shall not be held liable or responsible for any monitoring or enforcing of the foregoing. Assignments shall not be deemed non-pro rata payments. Non-pro rata prepayments will be permitted to the extent required to permit “extension” transactions and “replacement” facility transactions (with existing and/or new Lenders), subject to customary restrictions consistent with the Documentation Precedent. Assignments to the Sponsors and their respective affiliates (other than the Borrower and its subsidiaries) (each, an “Affiliated Lender”) shall be permitted subject to customary restrictions consistent with the Documentation Precedent.