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Commercial
Promissory Note
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Norfolk,
Virginia
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November 29, 2005
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the
undersigned (whether one or more, “Borrower”) promises
to pay to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. (“Bank”), or order, the
sum of Thirty-Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($37,500,000), or so much thereof as shall have been disbursed from
time to time and remains unpaid, together with interest at the rate
and payable in the manner hereinafter stated. Subject to compliance
with the Loan and Security Agreement (defined below), Borrower may
borrow, repay and reborrow from time to time under this Note.
Principal and interest shall be payable at any banking office of
Bank in the city or town indicated above, or such other place as
the holder of this Note may designate.
Article I. Interest Rate.
Section 1.1. Rate of
Accrual . Interest will accrue on the unpaid principal balance
at the rate set forth in Section 1.2.1. until maturity
of this Note, whether such maturity occurs by acceleration or on
the Maturity Date; and, at Bank’s option, interest at the
foregoing rate will accrue on any unpaid interest before such
maturity. Interest will accrue on any unpaid balance owing under
this Note, whether principal, interest, fees, premiums, charges or
costs and expenses, after maturity at the rate set forth in
Section 1.2.2. All accrual rates of interest under this
Note will be contract rates of interest, whether a pre-default rate
or a default rate, and references to contract rates in any loan
documents executed and delivered by Borrower or others to Bank in
connection with this Note shall be to such contract
rates.
Section 1.2. Interest
Rates.
1.2.1.
Pre-Default Rate . Subject to the provisions of
Section 1.2.2. below, interest payable on this Note per
annum will accrue at a variable rate per annum equal to the LIBOR
Market Index Rate plus 1.75%. “LIBOR Market Index
Rate”, for any day, is the rate for 1 month U.S. dollar
deposits as reported on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m.,
London time, on such day, or if such day is not a London business
day, then the immediately preceding London business day (or if not
so reported, then as determined by Bank from another recognized
source or interbank quotation). The rate may be adjusted from time
to time in Bank’s sole discretion for then applicable reserve
requirements, deposit insurance assessment rates and other
regulatory costs. Bank’s determination of such interest rate
shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
1.2.2
Default Rate . Upon the nonpayment of any payment of
interest described herein, Bank, at its option and without
accelerating this Note, may accrue interest on such unpaid interest
at a rate per annum (“Default Rate”) equal to the
lesser of the maximum contract rate of interest that may be charged
to and collected from Borrower on the loan evidenced by this Note
under applicable law or five percent (5.0%) plus the pre-default
interest rate otherwise applicable hereunder, as set forth in
Section 1.2.1. After maturity of this Note, whether by
acceleration or otherwise, interest will accrue on the unpaid
principal of this Note, any accrued but unpaid interest and all
fees, premiums, charges and costs and expenses owing hereunder at
the Default Rate until this Note is paid in full, whether this Note
is paid in full pre-judgement or post-judgement.
1.2.3.
Variable Rate; Calculation of Interest .
1.2.3.1 Variable Rate . This is a
variable rate note. Any change in the rate of interest payable
under this Note will equal the change in the variable rate index to
which such rate is tied, but the rate at which interest accrues
under this Note shall never exceed the maximum contract rate which
may be charged to and collected from Borrower on the loan evidenced
by this Note under applicable law. Bank shall have no obligation to
notify Borrower of adjustments in the rate of interest payable
under this Note. Adjustments to the rate of interest will be
effective on the day of any change in the variable rate index, with
the rate being adjusted to reflect the most recent change in the
variable rate index.
1.2.3.2 Calculation of Interest . All
interest payable under this Note shall be calculated monthly and
will accrue daily on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed
and a year of three hundred sixty (360) days. In computing the
number of days during which interest accrues, the day on which
funds are initially advanced shall be included regardless of the
time of day such advance is made, and the day on which funds are
repaid shall be included unless repayment is credited prior to
close of business. Payments in federal funds, immediately available
in the place designated for payment, received by Bank prior to 2:00
p.m. local time at said place of payment, shall be credited as if
received prior to close of business on the day the funds are
immediately available; while other payments, at the option of Bank,
may not be credited until such payments are immediately available
to Bank, in federal funds, in the place designated for payment,
prior to 2:00 p.m. local time at said place of payment on a day on
which Bank is open for business.
Article II. Payment Terms.
Section 2.1. Interest
Payment Terms . Payments under this Note include an interest
component and a principal component. The principal component is set
forth in Section 2.2 below. The interest component
shall be paid as follows: interest shall be payable monthly, in
arrears, beginning January 1, 2006 and continuing on the same
calendar day of each consecutive month thereafter until the
Maturity Date, when all accrued but unpaid interest is due and
payable in full.
Section 2.2. Principal
Payment Terms; Maturity Date . As stated in
Section 2.1 above, payments under this Note include an
interest component and a principal component. The interest
component is set forth in Section 2.1 above. The
principal component shall be paid as follows: if not sooner paid,
then principal shall be payable in one single payment on the
Maturity Date (as defined in the Loan and Security Agreement), as
the same may be extended from time to time in accordance with the
terms of the Loan and Security Agreement.
Section 2.3.
Prepayment . This Note may be prepaid in whole, or in part
at any time without any prepayment premium.
Section 2.4. Application
of Payments . All payments made on this Note shall be applied
first to payment of all late fees, charges, premiums and costs and
expenses due but unpaid under this Note, then to accrued but unpaid
interest and finally to principal, in the inverse order of the
payment dates therefor, unless Bank determines in its sole
discretion to apply payments in a different order or applicable law
requires a different application of payments. The partial
prepayment of this Note, if permitted, shall not result in a
payment holiday or any other deferral of any regularly scheduled
payments under this Note, all of which shall be made as and when
the same are scheduled to be paid.
Article III. Loan Agreement and
Security.
Section 3.1. Loan
Agreement . Borrower and Bank have entered into a loan and
security agreement of even date herewith (“Loan and Security
Agreement”). Capitalized terms used in this Note and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Loan
and Security Agreement. This Note is one of the promissory notes
originated to evidence Credit Extensions under the Loan and
Security Agreement. Borrower shall perform and abide by, as and
when so required, each and all of the covenants, terms and
conditions imposed upon or applicable to Borrower in the Loan and
Security Agreement and all security documents and other agreements
referenced in the Loan and Security Agreement.
Section 3.2. Security
Documents . This Note is secured by (1) the Loan and
Security