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LOTD for February 12

North Korea conducted its 3rd underground nuclear test, this one with a bigger yield and other advances that show their progress:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130212-north-korea-s-conducts-its-third-nuclear-test


The Navy has decided to *not* reduce the number of aircraft carriers they will have built for them and will instead deal with budget cuts by not deploying or operating many of their ships.  So, they will keep buying ships but won't use them--an example of this is how they canceled the deployment of the USS Harry Truman that was supposed to go to the Middle East:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/navy-saves-money-to-build-aircraft.html


Atlantic Casino will become the first casino in the U.S. to allow guests to gamble over their hotel room TVs, betting up to $2,500 per day.  They are ready to expand that to include mobile devices anywhere on the casino property and even full Internet gambling (if the state of New Jersey approves it):
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-nj-casino-1st-have-betting-tv


Dish Network wants to partner with a wireless company to create their LTE Advanced network, but if they cannot find a partner they will sell their 40MHz of spectrum:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dishs-egren-without-wireless-partner-well-put-sale-sign-spectrum/2013-02-12
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