Operation Desert Lion was a U.S. military operation that began March 27, 2003. Troops from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and 82nd Airborne Division scoured the Kohe Safi Mountains and surrounding areas in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. Their mission was to hunt for members of the Taliban and Al-Qaida.
Relaxed pronunciation (also called condensed pronunciation or word slurs) is a phenomenon that happens when the syllables of common words are slurred together. It is almost always present in normal speech, in all natural languages (not in some constructed languages such as Loglan or Lojban, which are designed so that all words are parsable).
Some shortened forms of words and phrases, such as contractions or weak forms can be considered to derive from relaxed pronunciations, but a phrase with a relaxed pronunciation is not the same as a contraction. In English, where contractions are common, they are considered part of the standard language and accordingly used in many contexts (except on very formal speech or in formal/legal writing); however, relaxed pronunciation is markedly informal in register. This is also sometimes reflected in writing: contractions have a standard written form, but relaxed pronunciations may not, outside of dialect spelling.
In the slang of consumers of [...], shotgun ("shotties" is also used as a friendly reference to the slang) can have one of a number of meanings. The most common meanings refer either to smoking methods that require that one person exhales through lit herb while another inhales the resultant smoke, or to devices that rapidly increase the speed with which smoke passes through a smoking implement.
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Tom Jackson is a Hamilton City Councillor in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Born and raised in Hamilton, Jackson is a past owner of two Second Cup stores in Hamilton and a past employee of Stelco Hilton Works. He attended Westmount Secondary School and graduated from McMaster University in 1979 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He is currently a member of Hamilton City Council, Hamilton Police Services Board, Bay Area Restoration Council and the Chedoke Ski Hill Working Group.
Jackson was the candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Hamilton Mountain Conservative Association in the 2004 federal election, but decided not to seek renomination, and was replaced by Don Graves.
Jackson is a supporter of finishing the Red Hill Creek Expressway, further recreational and commercial developments at Hamilton harbour and the growth and expansion of Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport.
Jackson currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife Barbara Jackson and his son Jesse Jackson.