Local events feed (Happenings)

Resubmitting after review
This encapsulation leaks all over the codebase. You typically use it for the remember_token, which incidentally doesn't add any security at all (side note: lord security is hard...). If you did want to use it, though, you'd want to put it into the code that generates / retrieves the remember token, _not_ a separate method that is invoked from the outside.

As it stands, I see no reason for this method to exist.