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Israeli football, racism and politics: The ugly side of the beautiful game
The so-called globalization of sports by big monopolies and the sports cartels (leagues, associations) has self-serving aims. Along with striving for domination of the global market, including control over human talent, these include the justification of the unjustifiable, from the racist and fascist South African regime in the 1970s and 1980s to Zionist Israel and the Bahrein and Emirate dictatorships today. Israel's increasing integration into European competitions, despite its refusal to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, its violation of human rights and its illegal occupation of Historic Palestine, including illegal settlements in the West Bank, is contrary to the highest ideals of amateur sport. It should be met with international opposition of the kind faced by apartheid South Africa, writes JONATHAN COOK* from Nazareth – though not at the expense of the struggle of the Palestinian people themselves for their inalienable rights. – Tony Seed
[April 25, 2013] A DOZEN Palestinian teenagers from the West Bank village of Bilin stride forth in FC Barcelona jerseys, looking no different from thousands of other fans of one of the world's leading football clubs. But moments later, in the shadow of the oppressive concrete wall, the group remove their shirts and drape them over razor wire the Israeli army has uncoiled around the village. The youngsters then set fire to the jerseys.
This protest, captured earlier this month on a YouTube video, is one of many by Palestinians and their international supporters as they step up their opposition to Israel's increasing integration into world football, at a cost, say Palestinians, to their own sporting ambitions.
Israel is celebrating its biggest-ever footballing coup this summer, when it hosts a major international tournament for the first time: the European Under-21 Championship. The decision to select Israel as the venue was taken by the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa), European football's governing body.
Many observers have been surprised that, at a time when Israel is refusing to revive peace talks, it is being warmly embraced by international football.
"Football is an effective vehicle for Israel to rehabilitate its image with the international community," said Tamir Sorek, an Israeli-Palestinian sociologist at the University of Florida who has written extensively on Israeli football. "A large sporting event is an ideal opportunity for Israel to present itself as a normal country."
It is precisely this scenario that frustrates Palestinians, who fear that Israel is exploiting football as a way to distract attention from its occupation of the Palestinian Territories and the troubling record inside Israel of anti-Arab racism on the terraces and in the dressing room.
The touch paper for the torched jerseys was an announcement by Barcelona's club president, Sandro Rosell, that his team intended to play a friendly against a joint Israeli-Palestinian squad in Tel Aviv in late July to "help the two peoples to reach peace".
FC Barcelona infuriated Palestinians last October when Rosell made Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held for five years in Gaza, guest of honour at one of their matches.
Dozens of Palestinian clubs wrote to Rosell: "More than 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners remain rotting [in Israeli jails], many in isolation, many with no visits, many on hunger strike with no attention or care for them to be released."
Rosell revealed his plans for the friendly during a visit to Israel in February, as he was flanked by Shimon Peres, the country's president. Palestinian officials, it appears, were only consulted the following day, when Rosell travelled on to Ramallah.
In this Oct. 26, 2008, file photo, players of the Palestinian soccer team are seen on the field prior a match with Jordan at a stadium in the West Bank town of Aram, near Jerusalem.
Jibril Rajoub, a former head of Fatah's security services, and now the president of the Palestinian Football Association, was left looking decidedly uncomfortable at a joint press conference. A short time later, he rejected the proposal. "The conditions are not ready for this idea," he told reporters. "Israel does not even recognise us as a sporting entity."
One sports official in Ramallah, who wished not to be named, was even more forthright: "This proposal is a disaster for us and a dream for Israel. Israel gets to launder its image using the cliché that football can unify people. But the reality is that Israel uses every opportunity to undermine our sporting capacities, just as the occupation is being used to destroy us politically, culturally and economically."
A similar logic to Rosell's – fostering peace through football – appears to lie behind Uefa's decision to stage the under-21 tournament in Israel, from June 5 to 18. Michel Platini, the head of Uefa, wrote to the Israel Football Association (IFA) last year, saying the championship would "be a beautiful celebration of football that, once again, will bring people together".
At other times, Platini has stated, "I don't do politics, I do football", upholding a traditional sporting philosophy encapsulated in the slogan "Keep politics out of sport".
Yair Galily, an Israeli academic who heads the IFA's research unit, said in reality the Uefa decision chiefly reflected the success of Avi Luzon, the IFA president, in cultivating a good relationship with Platini. These ties apparently overrode Uefa's diplomatic and security concerns. Like Rosell and Platini, Galily believes that football has the power to heal divisions, particularly those that have beset Israel's relations with Palestinians in the occupied territories and with its own large Palestinian minority of 1.5 million citizens.
"Football provides a space where people can share a passion that transcends their differences. It is a place where you get to meet the 'other' and realise how much you have in common."
Such notions found their apotheosis in the First World War, when British and German soldiers famously declared a brief truce in December 1914 and left the trenches to play football.
Nonetheless, Uefa's choice of Israel has sharply divided opinion.
Last November, after Israel launched an eight-day attack on Gaza that damaged several football grounds, including the national stadium, 62 leading European footballers signed a statement protesting Uefa's decision.
Chelsea's Eden Hazard, Arsenal's Abou Diaby and Paris Saint-Germain's Jeremy Menez were among those who wrote that the tournament would be "seen as a reward for actions that are contrary to sporting values", adding that Palestinians "endure a desperate existence under occupation".
The statement also noted Israel's repeated attacks on Palestinian sporting venues, the jailing of its leading athletes and Israeli restrictions on Palestinian teams' freedom of movement.
In their letter to Rosell, Palestinian clubs similarly noted that players had been prevented from attending matches in Mauritania and Singapore by Israel, leading to their elimination from international competitions.
They wrote: "Many times the Palestinian team could not assemble, train or participate in tournaments because of Israeli illegal restrictions on player movement." The clubs added that Israeli actions were "reminiscent of the notorious racist 'pass law' in apartheid South Africa. This is a continuous systematic policy for all of us that has decimated our involvement in international sport."
In a more opaque protest last month, Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world's best-known players, refused to join his Portuguese teammates in swapping shirts with their Israeli opponents at the end of a World Cup qualifier in Tel Aviv. Ronaldo has a long record of supporting Palestinian causes.
The Uefa decision has come at a time when the movement to isolate Israel through a campaign of boycotts, divestments and sanctions – known as BDS – has begun to capture international attention.
The BDS movement, initiated in 2005, has started to win a growing number of advocates as Israel's unwillingness to countenance a Palestinian state has become more apparent.
Pressure has also grown on Israel since it opposed, along with the United States, a successful move late last year by Mahmoud Abbas to upgrade the Palestinians' status at the UN. Israel has continued to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank despite protests from the international community.
But it has not just been the treatment of Palestinians under occupation that has sparked opposition to Israel's staging of the tournament.
Scenes of extreme racial abuse on Israeli terraces in recent months have also raised questions about the degree to which Uefa's decision squares with its stated commitment to "zero tolerance for any form of racism and discrimination".
Galily accused Israel's critics of double standards, pointing to European clubs' own problems with racism. At separate recent hearings by the Football Association in England, former England captain John Terry and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez were found guilty of racial abuse.
Nonetheless, recent overt displays of racism in Israeli football have unsettled many observers, as has the muted response from public figures and the football authorities.
One premier league club in particular, Beitar Jerusalem, has long prided itself on being the only major Israeli squad never to have fielded an Arab or Muslim player, despite a fifth of Israel's population being of Palestinian origin. Cries of "Deaths to the Arabs!" and "Muhammad is dead!" are commonplace at its matches.
Yoav Borowitz, a sports columnist for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, has criticised both Luzon, president of the IFA, for "remaining inert" on Beitar's ostentatious racism and the authorities for failing to enforce anti-discrimination laws. "Have any of Beitar's managers paid a fine or sat behind bars on account of decades of discrimination?"
When in January Beitar finally signed two Muslim players from Chechnya, large numbers of fans vented their fury. The pair were greeted with a torrent of abuse and a large banner declaring "Beitar: pure forever", they have been spat at and they have endured walkouts. Shortly after the signings, the clubhouse was burnt down by a hardcore group of fans known as La Familia.
Last year Beitar also made headlines when hundreds of fans rampaged through a Jerusalem shopping mall, beating Palestinian staff and customers.
Rifaat Turk, the most successful Arab player in Israeli football and the first to be selected for the national team, in 1976, recalled that it "started to rain" every time he stepped on the pitch there was so much spitting.
"Things have not improved. Racism is endemic to the Israeli game. By staying silent, it's as if the [Israeli] football authorities, the government and state officials approve of the racism."
Israel's treatment of Palestinians under occupation – and, to a lesser extent, Palestinians such as Turk with Israeli citizenship – has been compared to apartheid-era South Africa's relations with its black majority.
Its image has not been helped by regular racist comments from senior politicians, such as parliamentary speaker Yuli Edelstein's recent characterisation of the Arabs as a "deplorable nation" and the revelation that Rabbi Shai Piron, the new education minister, had previously issued an edict that Israeli Jews must not sell their homes to fellow Palestinian citizens.
Similarly, public opinion polls show a hardening of attitudes. A survey this month revealed that more than a third of Israelis want Israel either to annex the occupied territories or to continue controlling them militarily while denying the Palestinian population civil rights.
As a result, international recording artists are reported to be turning down invitations to perform in Israel, academic institutions are facing boycotts, and a series of tentative church divestment campaigns have been launched.
Uefa's decision to stage the under-21 championship in Israel has served to expand such actions to include demands for a sports boycott modelled on actions during apartheid-era South Africa.
South Africa, where most sports were segregated based on colour, eventually found itself barred from the Olympics, suspended from world football, and excluded from cricket tours. International rugby teams also came under strong pressure to stay away.
Omar Barghouti, a leading BDS campaigner in the West Bank, admitted the movement had until now been slow to promote a sporting boycott. But, he added, the Uefa tournament had pushed Israel's abuses of Palestinian sports and athletes onto the BDS agenda.
"Just imagine the Commonwealth Games being held in South Africa at the height of apartheid. It is this kind of exceptionalism that Israel expects and receives from Europe," he said. "European politicians simply are not reflecting public opinion."
He pointed to a BBC poll last year that found two-thirds majorities or higher in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany viewing Israel's influence in the world as "mainly negative".
Palestinians hold a massive demonstration in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on May 5, 2012 to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The moral case for a boycott has been exemplified by Mahmoud Sarsak, a former Palestinian footballer whose flourishing career was cut short by the Israeli military authorities.
Sarsak was arrested in 2009 as he tried to leave Gaza using the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing point to attend a match in the West Bank. At the time he was a promising 22-year-old midfield player.
Mahmoud Sarsak
Although Sarsak was held in administrative detention for three years accused of membership of Islamic Jihad, he was never charged and his lawyers were denied access to the evidence against him. Such practices have been widely condemned by international human rights organisations.
He was finally freed last July after a 92-day hunger strike. According to Israeli sources, he was released – contrary to Israel's policy with other hunger strikers – following private lobbying by the IFA, itself facing heavy pressure from Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, world football's governing body.
Over the past few months Sarsak has been using his freedom to persuade Uefa officials to reverse their decision.
"Israel works endlessly to repress Palestinian football, just like it does many other forms of Palestinian culture," he said. "Israel does not behave like a normal state where citizens can play sport freely.
"Uefa is legitimising Israel's continued occupation, oppression and apartheid policies. There can be no place in football for segregation and oppression."
Palestine was admitted to Fifa in 1998 but was disqualified from hosting international matches until 2008, when an international stadium was built in Gaza. Sarsak pointed out that, a few months later, during the winter of 2008-09, Israel bombed the stadium, along with the Gaza Strip's other major sporting facilities and the Palestinian Paralympic Committee building. The stadium was attacked again last year.
Sarsak has also highlighted Israel's detention of other leading footballers, including goalkeeper Omar Abu Rois and striker Muhammad Nimr, again without charges. Another striker, Zakaria Issa, jailed for 16 years, died of cancer last year, a few months after being released on humanitarian grounds.
Honey Thaljieh, captain of the Palestinian women's team, echoed Sarsak's criticisms of Uefa at a press conference in Doha last month, saying: "It's very hard to understand why they [Israel] have been given such an honour."
Support for the Palestinian campaign has been spreading.
In European countries, Red Card Israeli Racism groups have been established, staging protests at Uefa offices to pressure officials. Last week 40 activists occupied the offices of the French Football Association after its chairman, Noel Le Graet, refused to meet them.
Red Card's biggest protest is due in London on May 24, when supporters will march to the Grosvenor Hotel, where Uefa is due to hold its annual congress.
International football officials have not been immune to these criticisms. In an apparent move to disarm opposition to staging the event in Israel, Fifa announced last month a plan to invest US$4.5 million (Dh16.5m) in Palestinian football.
The money, designed to provide a major fillip for the Palestinian national game, will be used to build a headquarters for the Palestinian Football Association; establish a football academy; and install two artificial pitches. A further $200,000 will be used to rebuild the national stadium in Gaza.
Thierry Regenass, one of Fifa's directors, observed of the massive investment that "football has become a key tool to promote social development in Palestine."
Meanwhile, Israel has been seeking to highlight its use of football to build bridges. This month it promoted a "meet your neighbour" tournament near Tel Aviv between young footballers from Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and Jordan.
Silvan Shalom, the regional cooperation minister, told reporters: "The tournament will teach Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians to be better neighbours in the future."
But Barghouti warned that the notion of peace-building through sport was an illusion, based on "the false premise that the colonisers and the colonised, the oppressors and the oppressed, are equally responsible for the 'conflict'".
Sorek, of the University of Florida, agreed, arguing that such initiatives "legitimise the status quo" rather than "addressing the issue of how to achieve justice for all."
In recent weeks, several power imbalances have been on show.
Last month, two Druze men were arrested when they protested against plans by the IFA to stage "friendly" matches between Israeli and local Druze teams in the Golan Heights, Syrian territory annexed by Israel in violation of international law.
And Israel disrupted the first official Palestinian marathon last weekend by preventing all 22 runners from Gaza from travelling to Bethlehem in the West Bank to take part.
Few expect Uefa to cancel the tournament at this late stage. But there is a debate about whether the struggle to stop the competition might yet become a defining moment for the BDS movement, galvanising support for a sports boycott and possibly leading Israelis to conclude that they are becoming a pariah nation.
This month, shortly after revealing that he had only months to live, following a diagnosis of cancer, prolific Scottish author Iain Banks wrote an impassioned plea for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. However, he warned that a sports boycott would be less effective in Israel than in apartheid-era South Africa.
"Rugby and cricket in particular mattered to them [white South Africans] profoundly, and their teams' generally elevated position in the international league tables was a matter of considerable pride … A sporting boycott of Israel would make relatively little difference to the self-esteem of Israelis in comparison to South Africa."
But Barghouti believes football matters more to Israelis than many assume. "BDS is not magic. The effect is slow and cumulative. Just as in South Africa, boycotts have a gradual psychological impact on the oppressor nation, weakening its resolve."
*Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 and the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His website is at http://www.jonathan-cook.net/about/
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Gamefam is an American video game publisher and is the first professional company to utilize Roblox as a video game development platform.

History
Gamefam was founded in 2019 in Los Angeles, California, United States by Joe Ferencz, the current CEO. Ferencz was originally involved with bringing Hot Wheels into the Forza series and Rocket League, and while doing so, he was observing Roblox'''s success as a free-to-play video game platform. Explaining his reason for founding Gamefam, Ferencz told TechCrunch "Roblox truly is the Metaverse for this younger generation. What that means is that each game needs to have a very distinctive and attractive immersion to it, in a way that mobile free-to-play doesn't." The company is described by Ferencz as the "first and only fully-dedicated, professional game publishing company on Roblox."

In November 2020, Gamefam partnered with Mattel to develop Hot Wheels Open World on Roblox, which is a Hot Wheels-themed open world racing game.

In October 2021, Gamefam partnered with WowWee to create toys for their popular Roblox game Twilight Daycare.

In November 2021, Gamefam announced in an interview with Forbes partnered with WildBrain to start integrating various brands into their portfolio of Roblox titles.

In March 2022, Gamefam announced they have raised $25 million in its Series A funding round, which was led by Konvoy Ventures and participated in by Play Ventures, Makers Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners and Galaxy Interactive.

In the same month, Gamefam also partnered with Sega to develop Sonic Speed Simulator on Roblox, which is a Sonic-themed game. The game peaked at over 350,000 concurrent users with overall positive feedback.

In December 2022, former employees accused Gamefam of crunching their employees while underpaying them, as well as laying some off without much warning, which was against the contract. Gamefam has released a statement denying this.

Games
Gamefam's current games include:

 All Star Tower Defense, a round based Tower Defense game inspired by anime characters
 Build to Survive Simulator, a round based survival game
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 Deathrun, a round based obstacle game
 Deliveryman Simulator, a delivery-based simulator.
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 Eating Simulator, a round based tower parkour game
 Funky Friday, a Friday Night Funkin' inspired game.
 Gym Tycoon, a gym based tycoon game
 Hot Wheels Open World, a licensed Hot Wheels open world racing game
 Junkbots Story, a licensed Hexbug story game based on one of their franchises, JunkBots.
 Little World, an insect adventure game
 Military Tycoon, a military shooter game which lets players build their own military base.
 War Tycoon, a military shooter game that uses the Advanced Combat System framework which lets players build their own military base.
 PolyBattle, a first-person shooter
 Red Light, Green Light, a game based on the popular Netflix drama series Squid Game RoBeats, a rhythm game
 Shoot Out, a western-themed third-person shooter
 Slashing Simulator, a weapon-based simulator in which involves the use of katanas.
 Sonic Speed Simulator, a licensed SEGA game based on their most popular franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog.
 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: You Have The Power!, a licensed Mattel game based on one of their most popular franchises, Masters of the Universe.
 Speed Run Simulator, a speed-based simulator game.
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"Hummer" is the second single by Foals and is the first single with Yannis Philippakis on lead vocals (the previous lead vocalist was Andrew Mears). It was released on 12 March 2007. It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at the Fortress and Metropolis recording studios, London. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on 23 April 2007.

Although initially released as a non-album single, it was added as a bonus track to later editions of Foals' first album Antidotes.

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In an 8/10 review, Drowned In Sound described the track as sounding "like Animal Collective rifling through The Rapture's audio files on electro night". It came 12th in a top tracks of 2007 list compiled by NME. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 142 on its list of "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

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A chronicler of the human soul
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Published at 12:02 am August 22nd, 2019
Putting life down on paper BIGSTOCK
What great writers like Rizia Rahman do for us
The death of writers leaves a void in the lives of those who have had the privilege of reading their works or simply known of them. There are writers, like Rizia Rahman, who lose themselves silently in the world of creativity without making demands on readers.
Those writers who outpace the departed ones in a prolongation of life are equally busy writing the stories of men and women they identify with, people who approximate them in the nature of their existence.
Rizia Rahman, who passed away only days ago, was in that class of people whose goal was an exploration of the human experience. That is what writers do. And by writers we do not mean celebrities touched with a dash of pomposity; we mean the chroniclers of the human soul.
It is in the world of Bangladesh's poetry where you come across a refreshing breeze on which wafts tales of the human spirit, at once cheering and inspiring and yet at times plunging into the morass of gloom.
When we speak of Shamsur Rahman, we speak of the substantive romance he wove through his poetry -- touching the many manifestations of love and the varied contours of politics.
There were Shaheed Quaderi and AZM Obaidullah Khan, who were for a generation the embodiment of literary sensibilities. There was something of a poetic outreach in them, in the way it was in Abul Hasan and Rafiq Azad.
With Syed Shamsul Huq, the diversity was vast, for he combined poetry with drama. If the former was an enumeration of the longings of his soul, the latter was a brilliant exposition of the society he saw around him, rising and falling and splintering and rising again.
Such poets and such writers have in our times given Bangladesh's literature the glow that has gone into an enrichment of it.
In the region of English writing in Bangladesh, Razia Khan remains a potent expression of literature encompassing the country's cultural heritage. Her writing was exacting in its formulation, in terms of language and theme.
Diction was an enormous presence in her expression and with it came a remarkable shaping of the characters peopling her fiction.
In her poetry subsisted a strong whiff of mythology dating back to the Greek era, which again was a broad hint of how Khan brought into her works a combination of Western and Eastern motifs, which in turn propelled readers into expanding their intellectual horizons.
A note needs to be made of the singular contributions made to modern Bangla literature by Selina Hossain, who has over the decades carved an enviable niche for herself on the canvas of creativity. Hers has been a quiet pursuit of themes that have always drawn her readers to her.
One could cite here as well the mass appeal which kept Humayun Ahmed in the limelight, fundamentally owing to the images he consistently drew of the happiness as well as the plight of the Bengali middle class. Losing Humayun was the creation of a huge chasm in Bangladesh's literary universe.
At the politico-cultural level, there was Humayun Azad with the justified indignation he based his writing on. He insisted on keeping readers in touch with values that were systematically being undercut in the country, essentially as a consequence of the rise of right-wing politics in the country.
Speaking of politics, indeed of values, there is the ubiquity of works which Shawkat Osman regularly sent the reader's way.
His satire, punctuated by mordant wit, was deliberately directed at arousing the conscience of readers against political tomfoolery and state repression. Irreverence was his underlying theme as he pushed the frontiers of thought.
In an earlier phase of literary creativity, Syed Waliullah went headlong into an exposure of the hypocrisy practiced by peddlers of religion anywhere and everywhere.
Into this group, place Anwar Pasha and what you have is a darkening horizon of the state weighing down on those it is supposed to lift to the heights of happiness.
And who can ever forget the tranquil Rashid Karim with his sense of aesthetics, the emblem of quiet nobility he was cheerfully injecting into his creative works?
Darkness brought on by her awareness of bigotry and male chauvinism is an idea Taslima Nasrin has experimented with over the years.
Conviction is what underpins her works, even if one is not willing to share her views of the parochialism she observes in her swath of literary explorations.
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, in a number of ways, takes a different route. He finds his way to science with the larger goal of reaching the hearts of the very young, indeed the children yet to step out of school.
The young Imran Khan finds happiness in teaching. He discovers ecstasy in producing fiction, in much a manner similar to that in Junaidul Haque, whose short stories and other aspects of fiction come couched in the humility that has been the raiment of writers through the centuries.
Anisul Hoque gives us large doses of wit in black and white. Rashid Askari speaks of a long-ago war, revisiting the age of brutality we emerged free of through beating back the denizens of darkness.
Away in distant London, Saleha Chowdhury travels frequently into realities that once defined the past but are now an eloquent voice of nostalgia.
Kaiser Haq's application of educated English in his works takes us a number of steps closer to the doorway of modern fiction, at home and beyond.
Meanwhile, Syed Manzoorul Islam rises and with him rise a plenitude of lives and the experiences which have defined the diverse worlds they have inhabited.
Long years ago, in distant Baluchistan, Rizia Rahman put pencil to paper, to bring Rabindranath Tagore out of the past.
She was Jonaki, the glow-worm, coaxing the sun to rise out of the gloom of a dark day. The work enriched the mantelpiece of a Bengali home in a bitter winter.
The future waited … for Rizia Rahman. The future came. Last week, it mingled with the past.
Syed Badrul Ahsan is a journalist and biographer.
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Video marketing is a huge and ever-growing part of the SEO world. YouTube bounces around the top 6 most visited websites in the world each month — for a while it even outranked Google and Facebook — and it's possibly one of the most effective traffic-driving sites in the world. But when you're an SEO guy, you don't really have the opportunity to build a whole lot of channel authority or even a stable presence, because each of your clients is going to have their own place for their own videos, and most of them are going to be brand new to the biz.
So how do you get YouTube to pay attention to a newbie's video marketing attempts? There are several factors that you can (ab)use — just be prepared to put the work in.
Create An Awesome Title: This is pure grunt work. You need enough understanding of the marketing to know what's going to get a decent click-through rate (i.e. humor, impressiveness, functionality, etc.), and then you just need to power through a lot of crappy titles and find the gold. I sometimes write up to 100 titles and then choose the best. The only really important rule is not to promise something that the video doesn't deliver.
Videos wherein the description is obviously cut-and-pasted between every video on that channel (and is often a simple URL or, at best, a URL with a call-to-action) are missing a huge opportunity. Your description should have a fairly detailed accounting of what the audience can expect out of the video, and it needs to include a few keywords. The same keywords that you (hopefully) did high-quality research on and are using on your client's website(s). Don't be Spartan with it, either: write 300-500 words, like a marketing article attached to your video.
There is no excuse for a video with zero tags. Every keyword you use in the description should appear as a tag — and because YouTube isn't Google and doesn't do Latent Semantic Indexing the way Google does, every major grammatical variant of your keywords should show up as a tag as well. That means plurals of nouns, past tense of verbs, adverbial forms of adjectives, and the passive voice of active phrases.
Not everyone realizes that YouTube has a transcription feature, and if you fill it out, the video will automagically become subtitled. Not only is that a good thing for the users (who sometimes have broken speakers or are watching from their cubicle at work), but it's a good thing for your video's SEO as well, because Google pays attention to your transcription. Obviously, you don't want to use keywords in your transcription unless they actually appear in the sound of the video, but people have done tests and proven that — if and only if you have an accurate transcription — a video can appear in Google search results for terms that aren't in the title, tags, or description. That's worth the extra effort.
Once you've done everything you can on the YouTube page itself, you're going to have to resort to normal off-page SEO tactics if you need a further boost up the SERPs. Hopefully, you know (or you know someone who knows) what you need to do at this point. Get your unique-to-YouTube on-page SEO right, and the off-page should be SOP from there.


In one of his efforts to "drain the swamp," President Donald Trump forbade his appointees from participating in matters involving their former employers in any professional capacity. But that's exactly what Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, did, according to an ethics complaint filed Thursday by a government watchdog group.
Lloyd runs the agency charged with resettling refugees and caring for unaccompanied children, including those separated from their families as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on immigration. He used to work for the Catholic charity group Knights of Columbus.
In June 2017, Lloyd sent one of his staffers an email he'd received in April from an employee at the Knights. That email — whose subject line read "Share with Scott Lloyd" — contained forwarded conversations between a staffer at the Knights of Columbus and a member of a Catholic religious order, the Franciscan Friars' Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Province, about the possibility of using one of the order's Wisconsin buildings to house refugees.
"Could you forward this to the appropriate person? It's in reference to a monastery that wants to house refugees in Wisconsin," Lloyd wrote in the email, which was obtained by the Campaign for Accountability through a Freedom of Information Act request and viewed by VICE News. The group filed the ethics complaint (in full, below) on Thursday with the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
"Sure. I will connect them with the State Coordinator," the staffer wrote back.


I'm absolutely loving my job - from recreating mini Titan hydrocarbon lakes in the laboratory, to field work in Iceland (a great analogue environment for Mars), the opportunities for contributing to meaningful science questions seem endless at JPL. I have also been fortunate enough to participate in several mission proposals, and am involved with the Europa Clipper mission, which will study Jupiter's most astrobiologically promising moon. I hope that we are able to discover life on an ocean world in our solar system within our lifetime! Such a discovery would revolutionize our understanding of how ubiquitous life might be in the Universe.
Looking back I can say that Caltech had prepared me for interdisciplinary work in a way that most places do not. Thank you HSS!!
Himanushu Mishra (MS '10, PhD '13) is an Assistant Professor in Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. His research investigates "chemical and physical phenomena on the surface of water, such as intermolecular forces, rates of reactions, and specific ion effects."


— New fighter jets: The Conservatives put the controversial purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighters on hold in late 2012 and have announced the existing CF-18 fighters will be refurbished, allowing them to remain in service until 2025.
— Fixed-wing search and rescue planes: Paul Martin's Liberal government first promised in 2004 to replace the aging C-115 Buffalo and C-130 Hercules with a single new platform of 15 planes. The program has faced multiple delays and a request for defence industry proposals went out last spring.
— Maritime helicopters: The previous Liberal government signed a contract with U.S. defence giant Sikorsky to deliver 28 CH-148 Cyclone helicopters by 2008. The program has faced delays and technical challenges, resulting in two contract extensions. The Harper government recently announced the five-decade-old CH-124 Sea Kings would begin retiring this year as the Cyclone is phased into operation.
— Drones: The air force's plan to field remotely piloted drones, first proposed in 2007, is still under consideration.
— Battlefield helicopters: The Conservatives promised in 2006 to fast-track the purchase of C-147 Chinook battlefield helicopters. The process took eight years, but the air force and the army have their aircraft.
— Heavy-lift transport planes: The Conservatives promised to buy a fleet of C-17 Globemasters. They purchased four transports through a sole-source contract in 2007-08 and added an additional plane this year.
— Medium-lift transport planes: The air force has received 17 C-130J transports through a sole-source contract with U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin, allowing it to retire its older model Hercules.
— Arctic Patrol Ships: A planned fleet of up to six light icebreakers is progressing with steel slated to be cut in September on the first ship, with an eye to having them operational in the 2018-19 time frame.
— Patrol Frigate Replacement: Still on the drawing board.
— Main Battle Tanks: The fleet of Leopard 2 tanks was replaced during the Afghan war.
— Light Armoured Vehicle Upgrades: The backbone of the army's combat vehicle fleet is in the midst of a $1.02 billion upgrade with General Dynamics Land Systems in London. Ont.
— Close Combat Vehicles: A $2 billion program to provide the army with vehicles in between a tank and a LAV III was cancelled due to budget restraint in the fall of 2013.


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Nuclear Regulatory Commission March 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
Sunshine Act Meeting
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Ross In-Situ Uranium Recovery Project in Crook County, Wyoming
By letter dated January 4, 2011, Strata Energy, Inc., (Strata) submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a new source materials license for the proposed Ross In-Situ Uranium Recovery (ISR) Project (Ross Project) proposed to be located in Crook County, Wyoming. The NRC is issuing for public comment a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Draft SEIS) for the Ross Project. The Draft SEIS is Supplement 5 to NUREG-1910, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities.''
Shielding and Radiation Protection Review Effort and Licensing Conditions for Dry Storage Applications
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requests public comment on Draft Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Interim Staff Guidance No. 26A (SFST-ISG-26A), Revision 0, ``Shielding and Radiation Protection Review Effort and Licensing Conditions for 10 CFR Part 72 Applications.''
Sunshine Act Meetings
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Notice of Meeting
Draft Program-Specific Guidance About Fixed Gauge Licenses
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its licensing guidance for fixed gauge licenses. The NRC is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 4, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance About Fixed Gauge Licenses.'' The document has been updated from the previous revision to include safety culture, security of radioactive materials, protection of sensitive information, and changes in regulatory policies and practices. This document is intended for use by applicants, licensees, and the NRC staff and will also be available to Agreement States.
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Planning and Procedures; Notice of Meeting
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Fukushima; Notice of Meeting
Advisory Committee On Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Materials; Notice of Meeting
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Future Plant Designs; Notice of Meeting
Request To Amend a License To Export High-Enriched Uranium
Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations; Correction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting a notice that was published in the Federal Register (FR) on February 5, 2013 (78 FR 8195), regarding the applications and amendments to facility operating licenses and combined licenses involving no significant hazards considerations. This action is necessary to correct an erroneous date.
Notice of Issuance of Materials License Renewal, Operating License SUA-1341, Uranium One USA, Inc., Willow Creek Uranium In Situ Recovery Project
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing notice of issuance of a license renewal for Materials License No. SUA- 1341 to Uranium One USA, Inc. (Uranium One) for its Willow Creek Uranium In Situ Recovery (ISR) Project in Johnson and Campbell Counties, Wyoming.
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Entergy Operations, Inc.; Biweekly Notice; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License; Correction
The original ``Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses, Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination, and Opportunity for a Hearing'' was published in the Federal Register on March 20, 2012 (77 FR 16274) and included Big Rock Plant. This notice corrects a notice appearing in the Federal Register on January 22, 2013 (78 FR 4475-4476), to include a missing facility operating license number and a missing amendment number. This action is necessary to include the license and amendment number for which the license amendment was issued.
URENCO USA (Formerly Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.) License Amendment Request: Notice of Opportunity To Request a Hearing and to Petition for Leave to Intervene, and Commission Order Imposing Procedures for Document Access
In November 2012, URENCO USA submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a license amendment request. The existing license (No. SNM-2010) authorizes operation of a uranium enrichment facility in New Mexico. The facility produces enriched uranium up to a maximum of 5.0 percent U-235, using a gas centrifuge process. If granted, the license amendment would authorize increased annual production capability from the present 3 million separative work units (SWU) to 10 million SWU.
In the Matter of Luminant Generation Company LLC, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Order Approving the Proposed Internal Restructuring and Indirect Transfer of License; Correction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is correcting a notice that was published in the Federal Register (FR) on March 5, 2013 (78 FR 14361), regarding the order approving the proposed internal restructuring and indirect transfer of license. This action is necessary to correct the date of a safety evaluation that was incorrectly referenced in Section II of this notice. The safety evaluation date was corrected by letter dated February 25, 2013, which is available in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML13056A266.
Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations
Physical Protection of Byproduct Material
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to establish security requirements for the use and transport of category 1 and category 2 quantities of radioactive material. The NRC considers these quantities to be risk significant and, therefore, to warrant additional protection. Category 1 and category 2 thresholds are based on the quantities established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources, which the NRC endorses. The objective of this final rule is to provide reasonable assurance of preventing the theft or diversion of category 1 and category 2 quantities of radioactive material. The regulations also include security requirements for the transportation of irradiated reactor fuel that weighs 100 grams or less in net weight of irradiated fuel. The final rule affects any licensee that possesses an aggregated category 1 or category 2 quantity of radioactive material, any licensee that transports these materials using ground transportation, and any licensee that transports small quantities of irradiated reactor fuel. The rule also considers a petition for rulemaking (PRM-71-13) submitted by the State of Washington that requested that the NRC adopt the use of global positioning satellite tracking as a national requirement for vehicles transporting highly radioactive mobile or portable radioactive devices.
List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: MAGNASTOR® System
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its spent fuel storage regulations by revising the NAC International, Inc., Modular Advanced Generation Nuclear All-purpose Storage (MAGNASTOR[supreg]) Cask System listing within the ``List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks'' to include Amendment No. 3 to Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1031. Amendment No. 3 includes changes that would revise authorized contents to include: pressurized water reactor (PWR) damaged fuel contained in damaged fuel cans that are placed in a damaged fuel basket assembly; PWR fuel assemblies with nonfuel hardware per the expanded definition in the Amendment No. 3 application; and PWR fuel assemblies with up to five activated stainless steel fuel replacement rods at a maximum burnup/exposure of 32.5 gigawatt days per metric ton of uranium (GWd/MTU). Additionally, Amendment No. 3 would revise paragraph 4.3.1(i) in appendix A of the CoC Technical Specifications (TS), to clarify that the maximum design basis earthquake accelerations of 0.37g in the horizontal direction (without cask sliding) and 0.25g in the vertical direction at the independent spent fuel storage installation pad top surface do not result in cask tip-over. Amendment No. 3 would make additional changes to appendix A, Technical Specifications and Design Features for the MAGNASTOR[supreg] System, and appendix B, Approved Contents for the MAGNASTOR[supreg] System, of the CoC TS.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its spent fuel storage regulations by revising the NAC International, Inc. (NAC) Modular Advanced Generation Nuclear All-purpose Storage (MAGNASTOR[supreg]) System listing within the ``List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks'' to include Amendment No. 3 to Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1031. Amendment No. 3 revises authorized contents to include: Pressurized water reactor (PWR) damaged fuel contained in damaged fuel (DF) cans that are placed in a damaged fuel basket assembly; PWR fuel assemblies with nonfuel hardware per the expanded definition in the Amendment No. 3 application; and PWR fuel assemblies with up to five activated stainless steel fuel replacement rods at a maximum burnup/exposure of 32.5 gigawatt days per metric ton of uranium (GWd/MTU). Additionally, Amendment No. 3 revises paragraph 4.3.1(i) in appendix A of the CoC Technical Specifications (TS) to clarify that the maximum design basis earthquake accelerations of 0.37g in the horizontal direction (without cask sliding) and 0.25g in the vertical direction at the independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) pad top surface do not result in cask tip-over. Amendment No. 3 also makes additional changes to appendix A, Technical Specifications and Design Features for the MAGNASTOR[supreg] System, and appendix B, Approved Contents for the MAGNASTOR[supreg] System, of the CoC.
Request To Amend a License To Export; High-Enriched Uranium
Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant, Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is granting the request of Florida Power Corporation (the licensee), through its owner Duke Energy, to withdraw its June 15, 2011, (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML112070659), application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-72 for the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant (CR-3), located in Florida, Citrus County. The proposed amendment would have revised the facility operating license and the technical specifications to support operation at an increased core thermal power level.
Notice of Sunshine Act Meeting
Compendium of Analyses To Investigate Select Level 1 Probabilistic Risk Assessment End-State Definition and Success Criteria Modeling Issues
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued for public comment a document entitled: Compendium of Analyses to Investigate Select Level 1 Probabilistic Risk Assessment End-State Definition and Success Criteria Modeling IssuesDraft Report for Comment.
Proposed Revision to Design of Structures, Components, Equipment and Systems; Correction
This document corrects a notice appearing in the Federal Register on March 1, 2013 (41 FR 13911), that announced the solicitation for comments of the proposed revision in Chapter 3, ``Design of Structures, Components, Equipment, and Systems'' and is soliciting public comment on NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.'' This action is necessary to correct the date of the document. This action also corrects an incorrect Agency Wide Document Management System Accession Number contained in the ``Supplementary Information'' section of the notice.
Charlissa C. Smith (Denial of Senior Reactor Operator License)
Maintenance, Testing, and Replacement of Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for Nuclear Power Plants
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1269 ``Maintenance, Testing, and Replacement of Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for Nuclear Power Plants.'' The draft guide describes methods that the NRC staff consider acceptable for use in complying with the agency's regulations with regard to the maintenance, testing, and replacement of vented lead-acid storage batteries in nuclear power plants.
Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations and Containing Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information
Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Consideration; Correction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting a notice that was published in the Federal Register on March 4, 2013 (78 FR 14126), regarding the applications and amendments to facility operating licenses and combined licenses involving no significant hazards consideration. This action is necessary to correct a missing NRC Docket ID in the ADDRESSES and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION sections of this document that was inadvertently omitted. In addition, this action makes minor editorial corrections to those sections.
Approval of Direct Transfer of Licenses and Issuance of License Amendment To Effectuate Such Transfers for American Centrifuge Operating, LLC
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing a notice of consent to the direct transfer of licenses and issuance of License Amendment 7 to Materials License No. SNM-7003 for the American Centrifuge Lead Cascade Facility (Lead Cascade), and Amendment 3 to Materials License No. SNM-2011 for the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP). This action authorized the direct transfer of these licenses from USEC Inc. (USEC) to American Centrifuge Operating, LLC (ACO).
License Renewal Application for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) an application for renewal of Facility Operating Licenses DPR-77 and DPR-79 for an additional 20 years of operation at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (SQN). Sequoyah Nuclear Plant is located in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. The current operating license for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 expires on September 17, 2020, and Unit 2 expires on September 15, 2021.
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public comment about our intention to request the OMB's approval for a new information collection that is summarized below. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Information pertaining to the requirement to be submitted: 1. The title of the information collection: Reactor Oversight Process External Survey. 2. Current OMB approval number: 3150-XXXX. 3. How often the collection is required: Once every 2 years. 4. Who is required or asked to report: Members of the public, licensees, and other interested stakeholders. 5. The number of annual respondents: 13. 6. The number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement or request: 13. 7. Abstract: The mission of the NRC is to regulate the nation's civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment. One way to support this mission is through the implementation of the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP), which is the agency's program to inspect, measure, and assess the safety performance of commercial nuclear power plants and to respond to any decline in performance. The NRC seeks to achieve continuous improvement of the ROP through the ROP self-assessment process. The CY 2013 and 2015 ROP self- assessments will rely, in part, on direct feedback from external stakeholders. The information collected through the voluntary survey will support this purpose, and a summary of the survey results will be included in the annual ROP self-assessment report to the Commission. Submit, by May 7, 2013, comments that address the following questions: 1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical utility? 2. Is the burden estimate accurate? 3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected? 4. How can the burden of the information collection be minimized, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology? The public may examine and have copied for a fee publicly available documents, including the draft supporting statement, at the NRC's Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC's Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ doc-comment/omb/. The document will be available on the NRC's home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be made available for public inspection. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions you against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed. Comments submitted should reference Docket No. NRC-2013-0018. You may submit your comments by any of the following methods. Electronic comments: Go to http:// www.regulations.gov and search for Docket No. NRC-2013-0018. Mail comments to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell (T-5 F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Questions about the information collection requirements may be directed to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell (T-5 F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, by telephone at 301- 415-6258, or by email to INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public comment about our intention to request the OMB's approval for renewal of an existing information collection that is summarized below. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Information pertaining to the requirement to be submitted: 1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 5, ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance.'' 2. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0209. 3. How often the collection is required: Part 5 follows provisions covered in 10 CFR part 4, Section 4.331 Compliance Reviews, which indicates that the NRC may conduct compliance reviews and Pre-Award reviews of recipients or use other similar procedures that will permit it to investigate and correct violations of the act and these regulations. The NRC may conduct these reviews even in absence of a complaint against a recipient. The reviews may be as comprehensive as necessary to determine whether a violation of these regulations has occurred. 4. Who is required or asked to report: Recipients of Federal Financial Assistance provided by the NRC (including Educational Institutions, Other Nonprofit Organizations receiving Federal Assistance, and Agreement States. 5. The number of annual respondents: 200. 6. The number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement or request: 3,600 hours (3,000 hrs for reporting (5 hrs per respondent) and 600 hrs for recordkeeping (3 hrs per recordkeeper)). 7. Abstract: The regulations under Part 5 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), implements the provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended, (except Sections 904 and 906 of these amendments) (20 U.S.C. 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, 1686, 1687, 1688), which is designed to eliminate (with certain exceptions) discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, whether or not such program or activity is offered or sponsored by an educational institution as defined in these Title IX regulations. Submit, by May 7, 2013, comments that address the following questions: 1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical utility? 2. Is the burden estimate accurate? 3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected? 4. How can the burden of the information collection be minimized, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology? The public may examine and have copied for a fee publicly available documents, including the draft supporting statement, at the NRC's Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC's Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ doc-comment/omb/. The document will be available on the NRC's home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be made available for public inspection. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions you against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed. Comments submitted should reference Docket No. NRC- 2013-0013. You may submit your comments by any of the following methods. Electronic comments: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket No. NRC-2013-0013. Mail comments to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell (T-5 F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Questions about the information collection requirements may be directed to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell (T-5 F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, by telephone at 301-415-6258, or by email to INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV.
Crystal River Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 3; Application for Renewal of License to Facility; Withdrawal
Temporary Scope Expansion of the Post-Investigation Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is expanding the scope of the post-investigation Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program for a 1-year pilot period. The NRC and its licensees are the parties to this form of ADR. Currently, post-investigation ADR is used in the NRC's Enforcement Program for cases involving discrimination and other wrongdoing after the NRC's Office of Investigations has completed an investigation substantiating the allegation. The pilot ADR Program will expand post-investigation ADR to include all escalated non-willful (traditional) enforcement cases with proposed civil penalties (this will not include violations associated with findings assessed through the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) \1\).
Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend the licensing, inspection, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees. The proposed amendments are necessary to implement the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, which requires the NRC to recover through fees approximately 90 percent of its budget authority in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, not including amounts appropriated for Waste Incidental to Reprocessing (WIR) and amounts appropriated for generic homeland security activities. The NRC is currently operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR) which is set to expire on March 27, 2013. Based on the FY 2013 budget submitted to the Congress, the NRC is proposing fees in this rulemaking based on the FY 2013 budget which is estimated to be $1,053.2 million. After accounting for billing adjustments, the total amount to be billed as fees is approximately $924.8 million. These fees are subject to change pending congressional action which may include sequestration, full-year CR or issuance of an FY 2013 appropriation which differs from the FY 2013 budget submitted to Congress which could result in higher or lower fees than those proposed in this rulemaking.
Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes: Meeting Notice
NRC will convene a meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) on April 15-16, 2013. A sample of agenda items to be discussed during the public session includes: (1) An update on the status of the Commission Paper on data collection for Patient Release; (2) an update on the proposed interim enforcement policy for Permanent Implant Brachytherapy programs; (3) medical- related events from fiscal year 2012; (4) an update on the 10 CFR Part 35 Rulemaking; (5) a discussion on the draft guidance for the 10 CFR Part 35 Rulemaking; (6) an overview of the NNSA's efforts to minimize the use of highly enriched uranium in molybdenum-99 production; (7) an overview of the 2013 reimbursement policy for non-HEU produced medical isotopes and (8) the Abnormal Occurrence Subcommittee Report. The agenda is subject to change. The current agenda and any updates will be available at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acmui/agenda or by emailing Ms. Sophie Holiday at the contact information below. Purpose: Discuss issues related to 10 CFR Part 35 Medical Use of Byproduct Material. Date and Time for Closed Session: April 15, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. This session will be closed for ACMUI training. Date and Time for Open Sessions: April 15, 2013, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and April 16, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Address for Public Meeting: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Two White Flint North Building, Room T2-B3, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Public Participation: Any member of the public who wishes to participate in the meeting in person or via phone should contact Ms. Holiday using the information below. The meeting will also be webcast live: video.nrc.gov. Contact Information: Sophie J. Holiday, email: sophie.holiday@nrc.gov, telephone: (301) 415-7865.
In the Matter of Luminant Generation Company LLC, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Order Approving the Proposed Internal Restructuring and Indirect Transfer of License
Tennessee Valley Authority; Notice of Acceptance for Docketing of Application and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing Regarding Renewal of Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-77, DPR-79 for an Additional 20-Year Period
Proposed Revision to Design of Structures, Components, Equipment and Systems
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising the following sections in Chapter 3, ``Design of Structures, Components, Equipment, and Systems'' and is soliciting public comment on NUREG- 0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition,'' Section 3.7.1, ``Seismic Design Parameters,'' Section 3.7.2, ``Seismic System Analysis,'' Section 3.7.3, ``Seismic Subsystem Analysis,'' Section 3.8.1, ``Concrete Containment,'' Section 3.8.3, ``Concrete And Steel Internal Structures of Steel Or Concrete Containments, ``Section 3.8.4, ``Other Seismic Category I Structures,'' and Section 3.8.5, ``Foundations.''


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It's the Final Countdown... to the MLS Playoffs!
Autumn has arrived in Charlotte, which means lovely hiking weather, pumpkin spice everything, and, soon, high-stakes late-season MLS matches! With playoff positioning on the line and the air crisp, this is when the games really start to feel different. More intense.
Six matches remain this season, and the home stretch starts this weekend. If you want to experience the drama before CLTFC is in the thick of it, here's what you need to know:
#1: New England Revolution are running away from the field
The only question now is whether they will break the all-time points record. With 65 points, the high-mark of 72 set by LAFC in 2019 is tantalizingly within reach.
The Revs could lose ALL of their remaining matches and still finish 8th all-time. That is just absurd.
With an eight-point cushion over Seattle, that's pretty much what it would take for them to somehow not win the Supporter's Shield (best regular-season team). They'll also probably win Landon Donovan MVP (Carles Gil), Coach of the Year (Bruce Arena), and Goalkeeper of the Year (Matt Turner). That said. Longtime MLS fans know such accolades won't matter to this club. We're talking about the Buffalo Bills of soccer, a club with a brutal 0-5 record in MLS Cup Finals. The Revs will not be satisfied unless they bring home what has repeatedly slipped through their fingers... MLS Cup.
#2: Nothing Else is Set in Stone
We know New England will be the #1 overall playoff seed and that Seattle will probably be #1 out west. That's your two first-round byes. Below the two flag-bearers, the other six playoff positions in each conference are still highly contested.
Here are the standings.
The Eastern Conference, our future home, is a big jumble. There is only one match separating #2 Nashville and #3 Philadelphia, only one match separating the Union and #4 Orlando City, and then a whopping four teams within a match of Orlando. At the moment, the fourth (Atlanta United) being narrowly cut out of the playoffs. Atlanta is in form, though, and could easily get back in. New York Red Bulls and defending champions Columbus Crew are still in the frame as well.
The Western Conference has a bit more definition. At the top, at least. A group of three have separated themselves in #2-4 for first-round home advantage (Sporting Kansas City, Colorado Rapids, Portland Timbers). However, for the final three playoff slots, it's shaping up for a mad scramble between SIX teams still in contention. One of which is Chicharito's LA Galaxy, who started the season on fire but have since plummeted. Other teams that face a grind to get in include expected heavyweights Minnesota United, and LAFC, both of which started slow and never quite hit their stride (partially due to injuries). Both are in jeopardy of missing the playoffs if they don't turn it on now.
#3: What to Watch This Weekend
Eastern Conference: New York City FC @ New York Red Bulls (Sunday 1pm on ESPN)
With a massive Hudson River Derby win, NYRB would draw level with their bitter rivals on 40 points, perhaps getting back above the playoff line. For NYCFC, their eyes are further up the table. With a win, they could push upwards into the top four (home playoff match).
Western Conference: San Jose Earthquakes @ LAFC (Saturday 3:30pm on Univision & MLS Twitter)
These California rivals are both two matches below the line. They both need to start winning streaks ASAP if they want to make a run back up the table. A draw helps no one here, so this should be an entertaining match with both teams desperate for all three points.
#4: Mark Your Calendars: Decision Day is November 7!
For the uninitiated, Decision Day is essentially Major League Soccer's annual Season Finale. All the teams in each conference kick off their final match of the season at the same time. With everything unfolding simultaneously, it's an exhilarating experience for fans. Each goal that comes in shuffles the playoff places on the live table.
This year's edition will take place on Sunday, November 7. All Eastern Conference matches will kick at 3:30pm, with the Western Conference at 6pm.
Check out this great compilation of Decision Day 2018 for a taste.
#5: Will the Golden Boot still be up for grabs?
Most seasons, it's already clear who will be the top scorer by Decision Day. That's not the case in 2021, though!
With a healthy helping of penalties, journeyman DC United striker Ola Kamara currently leads with 17 goals. However, deadly Seattle poacher Raúl Ruidíaz and breakout Kansas City winger Daniel Sallói are right behind Kamara with 16 apiece.
Six different players have 13 goals and could leap right into the conversation with a timely hat trick. One of those is teenage sensation Ricardo Pepi, who returns to FC Dallas in form after a brace for the USMNT in World Cup Qualifying. I can't remember a tighter Golden Boot race in my time as an MLS fan. Keep an eye on who's scoring the goals for these teams in the remaining matches. The prize that all strikers covet could add another interesting wrinkle to Decision Day this season!


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Pogba's "Song of Departure"
Veselin Trajkovic in English Premier League, La Liga, Transfer News & Rumours 6 Dec 2019
According to L'Equipe, Paul Pogba's days at Manchester United are (definitely) numbered.
After numerous speculations last summer about the Frenchman's future destination, the most prominent one of which was Real Madrid, the 26-year-old ended up staying at Old Trafford. However, L'Equipe now seems to believe time has come to reopen the subject of Pogba's move and has devoted its front page to the footballer with the caption "Chant du Départ", which literally means "Song of Departure". What is more, the French publication claims that, given that the French international will be in his last year of contract at the end of the current season, United are more likely to want to sell him.
This, however, is somewhat contradictory to the fact that, presently being eight points away from a top-four spot in the Premier League and continuing to struggle to win games, Red Devils should be looking to keep the currently-injured-but-soon-coming-back-from-an-ankle-injury midfielder rather than letting him go.
The publication goes on to claim that Pogba is determined to leave England, probably next summer, and that Santiago Bernabeu remains his first-choice destination.
Veselin Trajkovic
Vesko is a football writer that likes to observe the game for what it is, focusing on teams, players and their roles, formations, tactics, rather than stats. He follows the English Premier League closely, Liverpool FC in particular. His articles have been published on four different football blogs.
Categories English Premier League La Liga Transfer News & Rumours


December 3, 2018, 9:35 a.m.
When she was growing up, Shelby Prindaville thought she was going to be a marine biologist. Then by college, she was going to be a lawyer. But there was no law undergraduate program at the University of Pennsylvania where she was enrolled, so she turned to her childhood love: art.
"I was indeed creative as a child and fondly remember competing in county fair art contests. I didn't know it would be my career, though," Prindaville tells MNN.
Although she pursued law-related extracurriculars and internships, she focused on art.
"I graduated right when the 2008 financial crisis hit, which severely impacted legal professions, and I simultaneously realized that art was actually a viable career option for me, so I began to pursue it instead. I think societal scripts about starving artists may have contributed to the delay in realizing I wanted to be a professional artist, but it's been working out for me so far!"
Prindaville's art encompasses paint, sculptures and mixed media, but the underlying theme is always nature.
"I have always been drawn to the natural world. I grew up in a rural town and had a number of formative experiences immersed in and interacting with the outdoors," Prindaville says. "Nature can provide such a wealth of experiences that are just inaccessible otherwise. I have never felt so small and unimportant — in a strangely comforting way — than when out alone in a vast wilderness."
She compares the outdoors to an otherworldly experience.
"Visiting different ecosystems is like getting to visit alien worlds, rich beyond my own imagination with nevertheless real beings. I mean, have you read about mycorrhizal networks?! They are absolutely magic on Earth and you can't convince me otherwise."
Prindaville says each piece has its own story, but her entire body of work is intended to encourage environmental conservation.
"Some pieces celebrate the joy and beauty that is a part of a conscientious engagement with nature, and other pieces are darker, hinting at or outright showing the losses we suffer from ecological imbalance," she says.
She enjoys the responses she gets from people who enjoy her art.
"People have been really receptive to my work, though funnily enough there is absolutely a cultural preference for particular subjects," she says. "I bring along prints of my work to show and sell when I travel on artist residencies, and some prints that sell really well in the U.S. don't do so well in France or Spain and vice versa. U.S. audiences tend to have a little more of a soft spot for raccoons than European ones, for instance."
"Some subjects or concepts seem to me to be best suited to painting," she says. "Other ideas are better suited to relief or sculpture, and my favorite medium for those is an extremely versatile polymer clay that I helped develop with Louisiana State University chemistry professor John Pojman, called QuickCure Clay or QCC. I often end up using mixed media and a range of substrates because I enjoy the variety which also frequently draws in more diverse audiences."
Prindaville has several favorite pieces right now including the painting "Volcanic," shown above, and the sculpture "Albrechare," shown below.
"I like 'Volcanic' because I really think I nailed the color space and the juxtaposition between the hyperrealistic Gran Canaria giant lizard and the abstracted volcanic landscape, plus I had a connection with this particular lizard and I think it shows," she says.
"'Albrechare' speaks to me because it's layered with references. I decided to sculpt a famous watercolor by Albrecht Dürer called 'Young Hare' and then referenced North American folklore by giving the hare some jackalope-esque horns that also call to mind sheltering branches and a whole ecosystem."
Science plays a big role in Prindaville's work. She's collaborated with scientists on testing new art mediums and worked with the staff of several greenhouses and botanical gardens on acquiring the seeds and plants she's used in her living interactive installations.
"I always research the species that I'm working with, and I gather firsthand experiences observing and sometimes even interacting with them. (Holding a tame puffin is like holding an inquisitive marshmallow.) The fields of botany, ecology, environmental sciences, environmental ethics, horticulture and zoology are all relevant to my artwork and my research," she says. "I would like to collaborate with scientists even more, and have applied to a few artist residencies (and bookmarked a few more!) that would assist me in that goal."
Many of the subjects of Prindaville's pieces seem to approach the viewer from interesting perspectives.
"In some ways I reference scientific practices like taxonomic illustration in my work, but I also try to diverge from overly familiar perspectives or color palettes to entice the viewer and suggest that there's more to my subjects than they might otherwise have credited," she says. "I don't want people to take the environment for granted — coexisting with it requires active care but does come with great rewards."
Born and raised in Concordia, Kansas, Prindaville has worked as the art program director and assistant professor of art at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas, for more than five years.
When she's not instructing her own students, Prindaville is always learning — and that helps her arrive at some interesting conclusions.
"I would like to share that you can catch koala chlamydia if an infected koala pees on you, and it manifests in humans as a form of pneumonia. Imagine attempting to explain that to your boss," she says.
"Maybe adore koalas from a bit of a distance and don't take any impromptu naps under gum trees until we can help koalas sort out the plague of chlamydia that's decimating their wild population (in concert with habitat loss). Instead, if you're going to get peed on by a wild animal, choose a binturong. You'll end up smelling like buttered popcorn."


1.) Cut your bread into thin slices. Also cut your Canadian bacon. Peel and cut your kiwi.
2.) Using a spoon spread mayonnaise onto each pieces of bread, then place down a pieces of bacon and last but not least put your kiwi on top. Place on a serving dish and enjoy.
Kiwi sandwiches are great for preparing when you're going to have unexpected guests, It combines both taste and healthiness making a great combination.
Cut your bread into thin slices. Also cut your Canadian bacon. Peel and cut your kiwi.
Using a spoon spread mayonnaise onto each pieces of bread, then place down a pieces of bacon and last but not least put your kiwi on top. Place on a serving dish and enjoy.


The code lines that start with // are comments. They do not change the functionality of a program, but are used to provider helpful hints to the programmer. Comments are an essential part of writing good code. Effective comments let you understand what a program does before running it. This is especially useful if you plan on sharing your codes with others. The code lines that start with // are comments. They do not change the functionality of a program, but are used to provider helpful hints to the programmer. Comments are an essential part of writing good code. Effective comments let you understand what a program does before running it. This is especially useful if you plan on sharing your codes with others.
// this is a comment! tell me how your program works! // this is a comment! tell me how your program works!
/* This is a multi-lined comment. /* This is a multi-lined comment.
Don't forget to close me! Don't forget to close me!
- Let's take a look at the green light ellipse code first. + Let's take a make a green light ellipse first.
Run your application to double check your work. That position looks about right! Run your application to double check your work. That position looks about right!
- Much better! The red light is not positioned correctly at all, and is almost falling off of the screen. Can you guess what the correct x position is for the red light? By looking at our two previous ellipses, we can get the correct x position value of 50. When trying to adjust parts of your program, it is always useful to look back at the code you have already written, it usually contains hints about how to fix your current line of code! + Much better! Can you guess what the correct x position is for the red light? By looking at our two previous ellipses, we can get the correct x position value of 50. When trying to adjust parts of your program, it is always useful to look back at the code you have already written, it usually contains hints about how to fix your current line of code!


I'm sitting in the classroom and the gauge is on E. I'm not the only one though.
Being "on" all the time is simply exhausting. For those of us that expend every ounce of energy we have to be there for our students, the end of the year is tough. It's just trying to squeeze a few more miles out of a bone dry gas tank.
I've been away from Social Media for the past few weeks. I've just been too tired to be active. There are so many awesome things going on in my classroom, but I can't find the energy to write about them. I'm just on empty.
I've built a Makerspace for my school and have put together over 60K in grants and donations for it. I helped put together a video to make a sick student smile. I've set up TEDxGPSHS so students can share their stories. I've been a shoulder for many students to use as the burden of their lives gets too much to bare. Even though I know I'm not alone in these stories, it doesn't make feeling empty any better.
Is all of the energy expended during the year worth it if I'm a shell at the end? Am I "Highly Effective" if I crawl to the finish line? Should striving to be the best require so much that there is nothing left?
I wish I knew the answer to these questions.
I mean, I always come back for more.
What do you mean "Stress Free Teaching"?
Imagine feeling like you have created an individual education plan for every student without all the work! Personalized learning, engagement, and less stress are just a few of the benefits I have experienced through implementing blended learning. Join me as I share a journey that leaves students asking to skip recess and me leaving one sentence sub notes that say "the kids know what to do"!
Raised in Lawrence Kansas, Diana Bailey has taught elementary students for 11 years. Two years ago she began to utilize the blended learning model for 21st century learners. During this time she has won the Unusually Excellent Educator Award and the Lawrence School District Teacher of the Year for 2014. As regional semi-finalist for the state of Kansas teacher of the year, her peers seek her out as a role model, for collaboration, and blended learning practices to implement in their own classrooms. Her love of the outdoors, excersise, travel, and humor keep her in touch with the youth of today and constantly seeking out ways to improve her teaching strategies.
Pen, Paper… Robot? Ask Intel's Futurist what the classroom of 2025 will look like.
You read that correctly. It's Brian David Johnson's job to study and make predictions about the future, for governments, militaries, trade organizations, and corporations. When he's not researching, his articles appear in Scientific American, Forbes, and Popular Science, and he makes the occasional appearance on PBS and the Discovery Channel.
On May 20, Brian will take on the future of education. Have you wondered how to best prepare yourself for tomorrow's classroom, or how to prepare your students for their future education? Technology alone, Johnson says, won't make our kids smarter. So, what force will power education's future?
Well, sign up for Intel Education's free webinar, and you'll have the opportunity to ask a real futurist such questions yourself.
Intel is also giving away a WowWee MiP Robot RC Robot for those that are in attendance.
I have my question ready: When will Skynet become sentient and what I can do to prepare for this event to happily meet my robotic overlords?
What's yours? I hope to hear your questions next Wednesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PT. Sign up here. After all, how often do you get the chance to talk ask a professional futurist anything? See you there.
This is a sponsored post from Intel, but talking about the future is still really cool.


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using ::testing::_;
using ::testing::InSequence;
using ::testing::Return;
using ::testing::SaveArg;

namespace {

const char kTestBatteryPath[] = "/sys/class/power_supply/hid-AA:BB:CC-battery";
const char kTestBatteryAddress[] = "cc:bb:aa";
const char kTestDeviceName[] = "test device";

}  // namespace

namespace chromeos {

class PeripheralBatteryObserverTest : public InProcessBrowserTest {
 public:
  PeripheralBatteryObserverTest() {}
  ~PeripheralBatteryObserverTest() override {}

  void SetUp() override {
    InProcessBrowserTest::SetUp();
    chromeos::DBusThreadManager::Initialize();
  }

  void SetUpInProcessBrowserTestFixture() override {
    InProcessBrowserTest::SetUpInProcessBrowserTestFixture();
  }

  void SetUpOnMainThread() override {
    observer_.reset(new PeripheralBatteryObserver());
  }

  void TearDownOnMainThread() override { observer_.reset(); }

  void TearDownInProcessBrowserTestFixture() override {
    InProcessBrowserTest::TearDownInProcessBrowserTestFixture();
  }

 protected:
  scoped_ptr<PeripheralBatteryObserver> observer_;

 private:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(PeripheralBatteryObserverTest);
};

IN_PROC_BROWSER_TEST_F(PeripheralBatteryObserverTest, Basic) {
  base::SimpleTestTickClock clock;
  observer_->set_testing_clock(&clock);

  NotificationUIManager* notification_manager =
      g_browser_process->notification_ui_manager();

  // Level 50 at time 100, no low-battery notification.
  clock.Advance(base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(100));
  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, 50);
  EXPECT_EQ(observer_->batteries_.count(kTestBatteryAddress), 1u);

  const PeripheralBatteryObserver::BatteryInfo& info =
      observer_->batteries_[kTestBatteryAddress];

  EXPECT_EQ(info.name, kTestDeviceName);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.level, 50);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.last_notification_timestamp, base::TimeTicks());
  EXPECT_FALSE(notification_manager->FindById(
                   kTestBatteryAddress,
                   NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                       ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);

  // Level 5 at time 110, low-battery notification.
  clock.Advance(base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(10));
  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, 5);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.level, 5);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.last_notification_timestamp, clock.NowTicks());
  EXPECT_TRUE(notification_manager->FindById(
                  kTestBatteryAddress,
                  NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                      ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);

  // Level -1 at time 115, cancel previous notification
  clock.Advance(base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(5));
  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, -1);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.level, 5);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.last_notification_timestamp,
            clock.NowTicks() - base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(5));
  EXPECT_FALSE(notification_manager->FindById(
                   kTestBatteryAddress,
                   NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                       ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);

  // Level 50 at time 120, no low-battery notification.
  clock.Advance(base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(5));
  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, 50);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.level, 50);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.last_notification_timestamp,
            clock.NowTicks() - base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(10));
  EXPECT_FALSE(notification_manager->FindById(
                   kTestBatteryAddress,
                   NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                       ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);

  // Level 5 at time 130, no low-battery notification (throttling).
  clock.Advance(base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(10));
  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, 5);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.level, 5);
  EXPECT_EQ(info.last_notification_timestamp,
            clock.NowTicks() - base::TimeDelta::FromSeconds(20));
  EXPECT_FALSE(notification_manager->FindById(
                   kTestBatteryAddress,
                   NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                       ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);
}

IN_PROC_BROWSER_TEST_F(PeripheralBatteryObserverTest, InvalidBatteryInfo) {
  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived("invalid-path", kTestDeviceName,
                                             10);
  EXPECT_TRUE(observer_->batteries_.empty());

  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(
      "/sys/class/power_supply/hid-battery", kTestDeviceName, 10);
  EXPECT_TRUE(observer_->batteries_.empty());

  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, -2);
  EXPECT_TRUE(observer_->batteries_.empty());

  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, 101);
  EXPECT_TRUE(observer_->batteries_.empty());

  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, -1);
  EXPECT_TRUE(observer_->batteries_.empty());
}

IN_PROC_BROWSER_TEST_F(PeripheralBatteryObserverTest, DeviceRemove) {
  NotificationUIManager* notification_manager =
      g_browser_process->notification_ui_manager();

  observer_->PeripheralBatteryStatusReceived(kTestBatteryPath,
                                             kTestDeviceName, 5);
  EXPECT_EQ(observer_->batteries_.count(kTestBatteryAddress), 1u);
  EXPECT_TRUE(notification_manager->FindById(
                  kTestBatteryAddress,
                  NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                      ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);

  observer_->RemoveBattery(kTestBatteryAddress);
  EXPECT_FALSE(notification_manager->FindById(
                   kTestBatteryAddress,
                   NotificationUIManager::GetProfileID(
                       ProfileManager::GetPrimaryUserProfile())) != NULL);
}

}  // namespace chromeos


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