Other Interpretive Matters. Unless otherwise expressly provided, for purposes of this Agreement, the following rules of interpretation apply: # whenever the context requires, the gender of all words used in this Agreement includes the masculine, feminine, and neuter, and the singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular; # the words such as “herein,” “hereinafter,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” refer to this Agreement as a whole and not merely to a subdivision in which such words appear unless the context otherwise requires; the word “including” or any variation thereof means “including, without limitation” and does not limit any general statement that it follows to the specific or similar items or matters immediately following it; the word “or” shall be disjunctive but not exclusive; references to “written” or “in writing” include in electronic form; # the division of this Agreement into Sections and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and do not affect, and shall not be utilized in construing or interpreting, this Agreement, and all references in this Agreement to any “Section” are to the corresponding Section of this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and # each Party acknowledges that it and its attorney have been given an equal opportunity to negotiate the terms and conditions of this Agreement and that any rule of construction to the effect that ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting Party or any similar rule operating against the drafter of an agreement shall not be applicable to the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

Certain Interpretive Matters. Unless the context otherwise requires: # all references to Sections, are to Sections of this Agreement; # each term defined in this Agreement has the meaning assigned to it; # each accounting term not otherwise defined in this Agreement has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; # words in the singular include the plural and vice-versa; and # the term “including” means “including without limitation.” All references to laws in this Agreement will include any applicable amendments thereunder. All references to $ or dollar amounts will be to lawful currency of the United States.

Certain Interpretive Matters. Unless otherwise expressly provided, for purposes of this Agreement, the following rules of interpretation shall apply:

Certain Interpretive Matters. Unless the context of this Agreement otherwise requires, # “it” or “its” or words of any gender include each other gender, # words using the singular or plural number also include the plural or singular number, respectively, # the terms “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby” and derivative or similar words refer to this entire Agreement, # the terms “Article,” “Section,” “Annex” or “Exhibit” refer to the specified Article, Section, Annex or Exhibit of or to this Agreement, # the terms “include,” “includes” and “including” will be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation” (whether or not so expressed), and # the word “or” is disjunctive but not exclusive. Whenever this Agreement refers to a number of days, such number will refer to calendar days unless business days are specified and whenever action must be taken (including the giving of notice or the delivery of documents) under this Agreement during a certain period of time or by a particular date that ends or occurs on a non-business day, then such period or date will be extended until the immediately following business day. As used herein, “business day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or a United States federal holiday.

The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.

Other Interpretive Provisions With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

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Section # Definitions and other Interpretive Provisions.