controlling the android status bar icon

Question

I am trying to exercise a little control over the state of an icon in the status bar. I want to be able to do the following:

1. Keep the icon visible in the stat

Answer 1

1. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#FLAG_NO_CLEAR
2. The icon is removed automatically (at least when I forcibly kill an app on my phone).