The Leclerc is equipped with a GIAT ( Nexter ) CN120-26 120mm smoothbore cannon.

Named after its initial weight of 13 tonnes, and featuring a tough and reliable chassis, it was fitted with an oscillating turret built by GIAT Industries ( now Nexter ) with revolver type magazines which was also used on the Austrian SK-105 Kürassier.

* Nexter THL-20 20mm chain gun ( chin mounted ) with 750 rounds

* Nexter NC-621 20mm gun pod with 180 rounds ( outer 2 hardpoints, used only on trials )

In 2010, Nexter completed the modernisation of 256 AMX-10RC vehicle configuration to RCR ( Renova ), a program that consisted of integrating various systems and additional armour, active self protection by Sagem, LIRE ( Leurre Infrarouge ) / Eirel, the combat management system SIT ( Système d ' Information Terminal ) V1, ASP device Galix smoke grenades, changes in the NBC protection and improvements in the suspension and the speed gearboxes and tactical communications completed with Thales Communications & Security PR4G VS4.

Designed by Hägglunds ( BAE Systems ) and GIAT ( Nexter ).

* Nexter Systems: 105 LG1 MkII

The FAMAS ( or " Assault rifle of the Saint-Étienne weapon factory ") is a bullpup-styled assault rifle designed and manufactured in France by MAS located in Saint-Étienne, which is now a member of the French government-owned Nexter group.

The AMX-56 Leclerc, commonly known as the Leclerc, is a main battle tank ( MBT ) built by Nexter of France.

Nexter ( formerly known as GIAT Industries or Groupement des Industries de l ' Armée de Terre, Army Industries Group ) is a French government-owned weapons manufacturer, based in Roanne, Loire.

On 22 September 2006 GIAT became the core of the new company Nexter.

Nexter continues to produce several former GIAT small arms, cannon, and anti-armour weapons.

Image: Nexter THL-30 p1220834. jpg | Giat 30M 781 mounted on the THL-30 Turret ( Eurocopter Tiger )

The LG1 is a modern 105 mm / 30-calibre towed howitzer designed and produced by GIAT Industries ( now Nexter group ) of France.

It is now part of Nexter.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

U. S. military-to-military engagement has been dormant since 1997 ( the year of the last Joint Combined Exchange Training exercise ).

It has been reported that at the 2008 Joint Propulsion Conference, where future space propulsion challenges were discussed and debated, a conclusion was reached that it was improbable that humans would ever explore beyond the Solar System.

This agreement led to the establishment of the Joint Political Military Group, which has since met regularly to " address " foreign military sales to Israel, joint exercises and simulations, and logistical arrangements.

Bulgaria has proposed to sign a treaty ( based on that 1999 Joint Declaration ) guaranteeing the good neighbourly relations between the two countries, to enable Bulgarian support for the accession of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union.

The area, which is called Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area, has of proven reserves.

Mali is one of four Saharan states which has created a Joint Military Staff Committee, to be based at Tamanrasset in southern Algeria.

It has a small genome size (~ 110Mb ) and its sequence was released by the Joint Genome Institute in early 2008.

Smoking PCP is known as " getting wet ", and a cigarette or joint which has been dipped in PCP may be referred to on the street as a " fry stick ," " sherm ," " leak ," " amp ," " lovely ," " KJ ( an abbreviation for ' Killer Joint ')," " toe tag ", " dipper ", " happy stick ," or " wet stick.

In the field of evaluation, and in particular educational evaluation, the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation has published three sets of standards for evaluations.

According to the Joint Congressional Committee on Presidential Inaugurations, George Washington added the words " So help me God " during his first inaugural, though this has been disputed.

Admiral Clark has also served as the Deputy and Chief of Staff, United States Atlantic Fleet ; the Director of Operations ( J3 ) and subsequently Director, of the Joint Staff.

At a meeting in Balamand, Lebanon in June 1993, the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church declared that these initiatives that " led to the union of certain communities with the See of Rome and brought with them, as a consequence, the breaking of communion with their Mother Churches of the East … took place not without the interference of extra-ecclesial interests "; and that what has been called " uniatism " " can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed nor as a model of the unity our Churches are seeking " ( section 12 ).

In Croatia the Joint Council of Municipalities is to Croatians a sui generis council of municipalities ; being formed after international agreement, it has no similar example in the rest of the country.

The Joint Committee's report recommended that " the time has come for the Government to act upon the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning the corporal punishment of children and the incompatibility of the defence of reasonable chastisement with its obligations under the Convention.

DISA has been awarded five Joint Meritorious Unit Awards and continues to offer DoD information systems support, taking data services to the forward-deployed warfighter.

Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC ( Joint Artists and Musicians Political Action Committee ).

, the largest experiment by means of magnetic confinement has been the Joint European Torus ( JET ).

Limassol also has an independent civilian Rugby Union team, the Limassol Crusaders, who play at the AEK Achileas Stadium and participate in the Joint Services Rugby League. There is a professional handball team, APEN Agiou Athanasiou.

After the 1997 transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China pursuant to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, an international treaty registered with the United Nations, independence of the judiciary, along with continuation of English common law, has been enshrined in the territory's constitutional document, the Basic Law.

Atwood has strong views on environmental issues, and she and her partner are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Club within BirdLife International.

The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation has developed standards for program, personnel and student evaluation.

The IUPAC / IUPAP Joint Working Party ( JWP ), however, has made no comment on whether or not the element can be recognized as discovered.

The bridge has a speed limit and is maintained by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.

Recent proposals to turn March Joint Air Reserve Base to a major commercial airport has been debated in 2005, but the plan was rejected by the Riverside county board of supervisors, until further notice.

As a result, Bermuda has been continuously inhabited since the wrecking of the Sea Venture, and claims its origin from that date, and not the official settlement of 1612.

* In the Cartoon Network animated series The Venture Bros., Dr. Byron Orpheus is referred to as a " necromancer extraordinaire ", although he has been shown to command a broad range of mystical powers.

Turbine was a privately held company backed by Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and other private investors since 1998 ; it has paid no dividends.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

The white and green shield has a red lion holding a scrolled shield showing the sinking of the ship Sea Venture one mile off the coast of Bermuda in 1609.

He has received many accolades for his philanthropic work and personal accomplishments including the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for community service, a spot on Alberta Venture magazine's list of Alberta's 50 Most Influential People, and the dedication of Rodney Ridge in his hometown, where he holds a spot on the sports hall of fame.

Venture capital, as an industry, has originated in the United States, and American firms have traditionally been the largest participants in venture deals, and the bulk of venture capital has been deployed in American companies.

Venture capital has been used as a tool for economic development in a variety of developing regions.

Canada also has a fairly unique form of venture capital generation in its Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations ( LSVCC ).

This has since been closed down, and the area is called the Westcott Venture Park.

Since 2000 Thirlwell has become more active as a composer, having written commissions for Bang on a Can, League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and Kronos Quartet, and scoring the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros.

UFA has over 120, 000 members and with 2007 revenues of over $ 1. 8 billion, UFA is ranked as the 37th largest business in Alberta by revenue according to Alberta Venture magazine.

Its campus newspaper, The Bona Venture, has been published continuously since 1926.

He co-starred as Chad in the BET animated sit-com, Hey Monie !, and has voiced many supporting characters in The Venture Bros., including that show's shell shocked and drug-addicted version of Jonny Quest.

As a voice actor, his distinctive deep voice has heard in roles including Ken in Bee Movie, Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove and its sequels, bodyguard Brock Samson on The Venture Bros., paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson on Family Guy, Steve Barkin on Kim Possible, Buzz Lightyear in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command TV series, and The Wolf in Hoodwinked, among others.

He has a private jet, a Bombardier Global Express, which is often referred to as Canonical One but is in fact owned through his HBD Venture Capital company.

However, they can't make it back to the Errant Venture in time, for it has to respond to a call from Luke Skywalker himself.

The Desjardins Group has over 20 subsidiaries offering products and services related to insurance ( Desjardins Financial Security, Desjardins General Insurance ), real estate ( Place Desjardins ), venture capital funds ( Desjardins Venture Capital ) and brokerage ( Desjardins Securities ).

The Dhamra Port, a Joint Venture between Larsen & Toubro and Tata Steel, has come in for criticism from groups such as Greenpeace, Wildlife Protection Society of India and the Orissa Traditional Fishworkers ' Union.

The Canadian Venture Exchange is today known as the TSX Venture Exchange and is based in Calgary, although still has offices in Montreal.

Naas has one of the largest scouting groups in Ireland, with 2 Beaver nights, 3 cub nights, 3 Scout nights, a very large Venture group and a rover group.

The Sintra is specifically based on the short-wheelbase version of the second generation U platform and has the same wheelbase, front and rear track as the short-wheelbase Chevrolet Venture and Pontiac Montana / Trans Sport, and similar exterior dimensions.