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.
In 2010 the NRA spent more than $1.79 million to elect him and an additional $1.15 million on negative advertising to defeat his Democratic opponent Joe Sestak Jr. Thanks in part to those court decisions that loosened campaign finance limits, the nearly $3 million the NRA spent on the Toomey race was more than three times the total amount spent by the NRA for all of Toomeyâs Senate colleagues combined between 2000 and 2010.