This week saw the European Investment Bank officially announce a Mediterranean Solar Plan Project Preparation Initiative (MSP-PPI), aimed at providing a green energy framework for financing efforts across member states.
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Alan Brown, another of Mr Sheridan's witnesses, told the court he met the ex-MSP in Glasgow at the time he is alleged to have visited Cupid's.
Mr Kerr, now press officer for Mr Sheridan's Solidarity Party, said he contacted police after a bug was allegedly found on the ex-MSP's car but was told there was not enough evidence on who had apparently hidden the device.
"The VIA EPIA-P910 features the most advanced technology from VIA with the latest VIA VX11H MSP and VIA QuadCore E-Series processor, " said Epan Wu Head of the VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc.
ENGADGET: VIA EPIA-P910 stuffs 3D display support, quad-core into a Pico-ITX size
The Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP won the five-year job in a ballot of Holyrood's 129 members.
The Dundee-based MSP has called for the city to now be included in the zone and is claiming such a move would benefit improve the amount of investment and visitors to Dundee.
Labour MSP Ken Macintosh, Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, SNP MSP Gil Patterson and Green MSP and party co-convener Patrick Harvie all paid warm tributes to the retiring ministers and wittily welcomed the new appointments.
But signs that all was not well began to surface when the colourfully-dressed Socialist MSP Rosie Kane took time out to cope with depression.
Jackie Baillie, who was re-elected as Labour MSP for Dumbarton, said Labour's defeat in Scotland was "quite considerable".
Mike Russell is currently a list MSP for the South of Scotland - but is contesting Argyll and Bute at the elections in May.
The former Labour MSP made 53 recommendations in the first part - focusing on the grassroots - of his Scottish Football Review.
When Ms Davidson launched her successful campaign for the Scottish Conservative leadership in 2011, the Glasgow MSP described proposals on new Holyrood financial powers - which have since been agreed - as "a line in the sand", and strongly opposed calls for full fiscal autonomy.
Cue the Tories' Annabel Goldie, who, along with Labour MSP Kez Dugdale, embarked on a chat show-like questioning of some of them.
Labour MSP Ken Macintosh claimed the government was spending 10-times as much "pushing" people out of work than it was on finding people jobs.
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Scottish Labour MSP James Kelly, who is also a co-convener of the cross party group on fairtrade, said the debate was an excellent way to start the fairtrade fortnight.
Scotland's sports minister, Stewart Maxwell MSP added his views to the debate, re-stating the Scottish Government's view that the problem of sectarianism and bigotry in football needs to be stamped out.
Joining Mr Kennedy was Menzies Campbell, Mr Dewar's university friend, and the Lib Dems' foreign affairs spokesman, who walked beside former Tory minister and Tory MSP for the Lothians region, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, another of Mr Dewar's lifelong friends.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie MSP accused the Liberal Democrats of having "turned flip-flopping into an art form".
Mr Salmond, who is the MSP for Gordon and the MP for Banff and Buchan - both north east Scotland constituencies - said there would now be a full investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Bureau.
Based on the incredibly compact Pico-ITX form factor, measuring 10 cm x 7.2 cm, the VIA EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX combines a 1.0GHz VIA QuadCore E-Series processor and the latest VIA VX11H MSP to offer superior computing performance for ultra compact systems.
ENGADGET: VIA EPIA-P910 stuffs 3D display support, quad-core into a Pico-ITX size
Seventy-one MSPs backed the amendment, with one MSP against it and there were 46 abstentions.
Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, and long-term supporter of the scheme, said the high interest in the Tweedbank-based jobs was a good sign.
Green MSP Robin Harper's amended motion, which said Grameen-type banking could provide an opportunity to tackle the growing problem of unemployment among 16 to 19-year-olds with the establishment of a microcredit scheme for young people in Scotland, was unanimously backed by the parliament.
Holyrood's all-party culture and education committee is chaired by SNP MSP Stewart Maxwell.
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jamie Stone, the MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, said an urban-rural divide in provision remains.
The MSP also said he was "broadly speaking" in favour of Scandinavian-style public services, but which would need to be funded through higher taxes.
Liberal Democrat MSP Alison McInnes saw her amendment, which supported community transport and demand-responsive transport schemes in areas where public transport availability was limited, fell.
The former MSP, who is representing himself in the perjury trial, was cross-examining Mr McCombes for a second day at the High Court in Glasgow.
Labour's Jenny Marra, a North East MSP, returned to the subject during first minister's questions, re-phrasing the question to ask if Mr Russell favoured the merger of Abertay and Dundee universities.
The VIA EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX is the first VIA board to include the VIA VX11H MSP which provides the latest in graphic capabilities, including DirectX 11 support, for richer textures as well as 3D stereoscopic display.
ENGADGET: VIA EPIA-P910 stuffs 3D display support, quad-core into a Pico-ITX size
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