A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: cÃ rn [ËkÊ°aËrË nÌªË ] (plural cÃ irn [ËkÊ°aËrË É²]). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
Duffy, who is at the end of his third week of a lengthy criminal trial, is facing 31 charges in total, all but one of them for fraud and breach of trust. He also faces a bribery charge for accepting $90,000 from former chief of staff Nigel Wright to pay off his living expenses. Duffy also charged the Senateâs standard $50 fee for private accommodation to stay with âfriends,â totalling $150 over three nights. 2  According to his diary, Duffy stayed at least one night with his son Gavin in Vancouver.
1 Since 1978, the cost to taxpayers for the five executions the state carried out was $37.2 million dollars â each.â [Fox News]. â 2 Since 1983, taxpayers in New Jersey have paid $253 million more for death penalty trials than they would have paid for trials not seeking execution.â [Fox News]. âAn Urban Institute study of Marylandâs experience with the death penalty found that a single death-penalty trial cost $1.9 million more than a non-death-penalty trial. 2  Since 1978, the cost to taxpayers for the five executions the state carried out was $37.2 million dollars â each.â [Fox News].