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RALEIGH -- They are loath to praise her by name, but Republican legislators really do like what Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue has done with the state Department of Transportation.

So they are enshrining in state law a number of Perdue changes that have been credited with making DOT more open and less political.

Public trust in DOT had ebbed when Perdue took office three years ago after ethical abuses by Democratic transportation board members. Two had been forced to resign one after influencing road-improvement decisions that benefited his familys business interests, another after mingling his DOT duties with his role as a Perdue campaign fundraiser.

Perdue issued an executive order in early 2009 that beefed up ethics standards for board members and stripped away their authority to award contracts and make spending decisions. These powers were shifted to the DOT secretary, who is appointed by the governor.

Perdue decreed that DOT would start using clear, objective criteria for deciding how road money should be spent and which projects would be built first, and that local leaders would get a new say in the process.

Her executive order made changes that easily could be reversed by the next governor. Three bills that have sailed through two committees without dissent in the past week would make that less likely, by turning Perdues changes into law. The measures are expected to pass both chambers easily.

Two Republican senators echoed Perdues statements from 2009 Wednesday, but they balked at referring directly to her role in the DOT reforms.

I think theyre great ideas, said Sen. Bill Rabon of Southport, the transportation co-chairman, after his committee approved the changes. What were trying to do is get the politics out of transportation.

Sen. Kathy Harrington of Gastonia, vice chairman of the transportation committee, also focused her comments on the ideas and not their origins.

I support a transparent, data-driven process, Harrington said. I think DOT should be allowed to prioritize projects based on their criteria.

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29-05-2012 23:21 It's a reel of commercial samples from actress, Jennifer Holman. Included is Speedway Gas, Ed Schmidt Used Cars, Safe Auto, Dot TV and Cincinnati Bell 4G service (Jenn is the redhead who says "Holy fast").

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Paul Ceglia claims that he has a 2003 contract that makes him a partner in Facebook.

The number of Internet connections will reach 18.9 billion by 2016, up from 10.3 billion in 2011, driven by a proliferation of smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices, according to an annual survey by Cisco Systems.

The number of connections works out to almost 2.5 for each person on Earth in 2016. India is expected to have the fastest rate of Internet traffic growth, followed by Brazil and South Africa, the survey found.

"More and more mobile devices are coming on the network that are causing this growth," said Doug Webster, a vice president for San Jose's Cisco who discussed the report at a news briefing Wednesday in Washington.

In 2016, the volume of Internet traffic is expected to be measured for the first time in zettabytes - or 1 trillion gigabytes, Webster said.

Traffic that year is expected to reach 1.3 zettabytes, or 110 exabytes per month, almost a fourfold increase from about 31 exabytes per month in 2011, the survey found.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is set for questioning by the Federal Trade Commission as the agency speeds up its antitrust probe of the world's most popular search engine, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Schmidt's deposition is scheduled to take place as soon as next week, one of the people said. FTC investigators are also interviewing two lower-level Google officials this week, another of the people said. The three people declined to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

A law firm is seeking to withdraw from a New York man's lawsuit claiming half the Facebook holdings of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to Dean Boland, another of the man's lawyers.

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