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Post your tips for winning a medal in each trial below. I will only post tips for trials in which I received Platinum or Gold:
1. Kamino Drill Grounds:
Stormtroopers are coming from both directions; some have to run a long way, others a much shorter path. When I got platinum, I used nothing but lightning to dispatch them. It is better to go from one end of the room to the other using dash rather than guarding the end of the room that has the doors. That way, you won't have two parties of stormtroopers heading for the doors at once. Stay in the middle and you should be able to get 5 minutes pretty easily. Only shock each party of soldiers twice.
Crystals: Double Focus to conserve energy
2. Deadly Path:
Jump-dash to get across to the first big platform. Hit the dash button immediately after the jump button; you don't want to get very high. Dash once to get across the platform. GO LEFT.
For this next sequence of platforms, you have to use dash-blast (add the force push button on the end of each dash) after each jump. When you get to the second big platform, don't worry about dashing, just run about three quarters of the way across, jump and do another dash-blast. GO RIGHT. If you go left you will be caught on a low platform and forced to do a costly double-jump to get to the finish.
Dash-blast to the last step on the right and then do a double-jump dash-blast to get all the way across to the final platform (your last jump will be your longest and slowest). Then just dash into the light.
Crystals: N/A
3. Terror:
This is the easiest trial there is. It's just the basics: Use repulse on the spider droids. For the terror troopers, just shock them, grapple them while they're stunned (the grapple that uses your lightsabers to throw them), and finish them off before they get up.
Crystals: Double Focus to conserve energy or Focus/Disintegration
4. Retrieval:
EDIT: Thanks to a post by Qui-Gon Glenn, I was able to get Platinum for this trial using the dash-jump-dash-push technique.
Dash to the first static platform, then perform three consecutive DJDP moves to get to the fourth static platform. You can afford to wait for the rotating platforms to line up, then jump across to get the holocron and back to the fourth static platform. Then perform two DJDP moves to get to the second platform. At this point, you can try another DJDP, but you should be so far ahead that you may only need to use a more conservative jump-jump-dash-push move to get within dashing distance of the first static platform.
To perform the DJDP: You have to get to the edge of the platform. Let the full dash happen, then press jump, then dash near the top of the jump. The trick to getting all the way over to the other platform is to delay the push slightly. You have to wait to the very end of the second dash.
Crystals: N/A
5. Gauntlet:
Tip: You can afford to use the kill animations for the droids.
Round 1: Take off the battle droid's shield first. Then deliver a quick saber throw followed by a repulse. Rush in to kill the droid with a few shocks and saber strokes; no need to jump. Then shock any remaining riot troopers to death.
Round 2: Give a few bursts of lightning but make sure you jump right away. Always stay behind or on top of the terror droid. Strike it with your lightsabers from above. Try to get as many jumptroopers down as possible before the terror droid charges at you.
Round 3: Dash ahead and shock the scouts to death. Then take off the droid's shield. For this droid, you do have to jump up and stand on top of it while you slash. Lightning helps but is not needed.
Round 4: Dash forward to get to the acolytes first, spraying out lightning as you go. Grapple each one with the lightsaber grapple, then shock. Shock the terror troopers to death and grapple them as well if you have time.
Crystals: Shock for sure/ Incineration
6. Deflection:
Use grip rather than deflect for as long as you can. This is because it is much quicker. You have a certain number of enemies to defeat in a certain amount of time and if you cut off each rocket early with grip instead of waiting for all of the rockets to reach you, you can actually finish early and have a short rest at the end of each round. It is also much easier to grip a rocket than to deflect it.
When the scout walkers appear, use force grip to send some of the rockets at them. Grab a rocket, throw it at the scout walker, then jump to dodge the incoming rockets that you didn't grab. If you become overwhelmed by the sheer number of rockets and only have a few seconds left to your desired medal, just start hopping around and most of the rockets will miss you. Just don't fall off the platform.
Crystals: Double Healing
1. Domination:
For this one, I just used several repulses and that's it. I really have no advice except to use the repulses before they're on top of you because sometimes you can catch a riot trooper in mid-lunge with the repulse and he will actually fall forward into the circle instead of being blasted backwards.
Crystals: Double Focus to conserve energy
2. Scout Trooper:
It isn't too hard to get Gold on this one, but Platinum seems distant. Quite simply, you have to be dashing (or hopefully dash-blasting) the whole time. Jumping isn't going to help much.
First set: Just dash-blast to the end; don't stop.
Second: Go to the barricade on the right just before they fire, collect the holocron, then quickly advance to the third holocron and pause only briefly behind the last barricade.
Third: Grip the boulder and give it a quick heave down the field before quickly dashing behind it. Don't throw it too far. Once you have collected the fourth holocron, just dash to the end.
Fourth. Collect the fifth holocron and then just ignore the scouts on the steps and use jump-dashes to get to the final platform. They might shoot you in the back but all you need is a tick of health left over.
Fifth: Dash-blast for your life to get to the light.
Crystals: N/A
3. Cloning Spire:
It's hard to explain because it happened so fast. All I can give you are some tips: Use lightsaber throw when you have energy. Give your energy bar a couple of breaks by smashing a few tanks the old-fashioned dashing way, but still try to throw as often as possible and never just spam the attack button because Starkiller will go into a chain move and use up time. You can get two or three tanks with one throw if you time it just right. Try to aim for two tanks at a time. Also, try to leave the tanks that are nearest to the next platform for last. That way you can hop over there immediately. I've noticed that you can take out two tanks right off the bat if you do a throw straight ahead as soon as the trial starts.
Crystals: Double Focus to conserve energy
As for the Combat Trial, Bronze is enough for me. You don't need to know any combos to beat the game, even on Unleashed, so I'm not going to go out of my way to do well on this one.
So post away. I know for a fact that some of you have gotten Platinum on almost every trial.
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FYI - I think this line is located here: wp-includes/default-widgets.php (line 383)
OK, attempting to remove the with jQuery is counter intuitive.
Modifying it via output buffering is inefficient.
And we shouldn't edit the actual widget code itself, since this will revert back next time we update WordPress.
I would suggest either creating your own text widget, or simply extend and modify the existing WordPress widget as follows (put the following code in your functions.php file):
If you're looking to remove the actual div with the textwidget class applied to it but not it's content, this is a simple method using jQuery:
As per the comment, in the case it is probably better to just remove or replace the class name using jQuery then a php function, since that class is hardcoded anyhow.
To remove it.
To set the css to hide it.
To change the class name
You can use output buffering (http://php.net/manual/es/book.outcontrol.php) to get the whole generated page in a variable and remove the offending before echoing.
But it seems overly complicated for this case. You can just copy all the widget code and create a new widget (in a plugin or your functions.php) without that hardcoded div. It's really not that much code.
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What I'm really looking for is a good set of examples for a semi-direct product of two (coprime) cyclic groups, with a non-trivial (not $1$ and not everything) center. What resource would you recommend for that purpose?
If you would like a complete classification following Jack's strategy, say your group is $G=C_n\rtimes C_m$ with $n,m$ coprime, $C_n=\langle c\rangle$, $C_m=\langle x\rangle$ and $xcx^{-1}=c^j$. The order of $j$ in $({\mathbb Z}/n{\mathbb Z})^\times$ has to divide $m$, and every such triple $(n,m,j)$ gives a valid semi-direct product $G$. Now
In the first case, $C_m$ does not act faithfully on $C_n$, and the elements in the kernel commute with both $C_n$ and $C_m$, so they are in the centre. In the second case, $C_p\lt C_n$ is central. If neither condition holds, then the centre must be contained in $C_n$ (by faithfullness of the action) and cannot contain any $C_p$ for $p|n$ (by the failure of the second condition), so it has to be trivial.
One can calculate the center of a semidirect product $U\ltimes V$ very explicit. Let $\phi: V\to Aut(U)$ the corresponding homomorphism. Then the following holds: $$(u,v)\in Z(U\ltimes V) \iff v\in Z(V), u\in C_U(V), \kappa_u=\phi(v^{-1})$$ where $\kappa_u$ is the conjugation with $u$. In particular $\phi(v)\in Inn(U)$. If $U$ is abelian, this gives $Z(U\ltimes V)=Z(V) \cap \ker(\phi)$. If $V$ is abelian too, then $Z(U\ltimes V)=\ker(\phi)$. Now all examples you're looking for can be easily written down.
I don't know of a resource with such a list, though you could easily make one with programs such as GAP or Magma. Since it is reasonably easy and interesting to analyze this problem, I'll outline how I suggest thinking about the examples:
Let ⟨a⟩ act on the normal subgroup ⟨b⟩ in the semi-direct product ⟨a,b⟩. Then z = aibj is in the center of ⟨a,b⟩ if and only if it commutes with both a and b. Just writing it out you get a⋅(aibj) = ai+1bj and (aibj)⋅a = ai+1(bj)a, so bj has to be centralized by a. Similarly to commute with b, b has to be centralized by ai.
You could try to use this in two directions: make ⟨a⟩ centralize part of ⟨b⟩, or let the kernel of the action of ⟨a⟩ on ⟨b⟩ be non-trivial (and proper).
The first direction runs into some trouble, but does let you produce pretty obvious examples. As a concrete family, consider:
This example is not particularly satisfying since it is just the direct product S3×k. For the verification, check that (b3)a = b(3k2+3) = b3 since 3 ≡ 3k2+3 mod 3k, but (bk)a = bk(k2+1) = (bk)2 since 2 ≡ k2+1 mod 3. This might make a good example to show that "a" and "b" are not uniquely defined by the abstract isomorphism type of the group meeting your requirements (since the "k" could just as easily have been part of the "a" as part of the "b").
Unfortunately you cannot do much better than this using the first direction, since if ⟨a⟩ centralizes a subgroup of ⟨b⟩ of prime order p, then ⟨a⟩ centralizes the entire Sylow p-subgroup of ⟨b⟩, and you get a direct product. This follows from your coprime hypothesis.
The other direction looks a bit different. Take any example semi-direct product ⟨A,b⟩ that has ⟨b⟩ normal, |A| and |b| are coprime, and Z(⟨A,b⟩) a proper subgroup. Let ⟨a⟩ be a cyclic group of order k|A| where k is coprime to ⟨b⟩, and define ba = bA. Then the center of ⟨a,b⟩ is still a proper subgroup and contains ⟨a|A|⟩ of order k. More concretely:
You can combine the two directions, but again because the first direction trivializes, the combined version looks pretty silly. Just take the direct product any example of the second direction and a cyclic group of order coprime to its |a|. This exhausts all possibilities, but I suspect most people would be irritated with the direct product aspect and only consider the second direction valid.
If you relax the coprime hypothesis, then you get another type of example that is reasonably interesting: take the Sylow p-subgroup of the holomorph of a cyclic p-group. The center will have order exactly p. If ⟨b⟩ has order pn+1, then ⟨a⟩ will have order pn, ⟨a,b⟩ will have order p2n+1, and the center of ⟨a,b⟩ will be ⟨bpn⟩ of order p. The action of a on b is easy to write down: ba = b1+p.
In Humphrey's Group theory, Chapter 21 gives the construction of Central Extensions. [A group G is a central extension of N by H with Z(G)=N.] You could use that construction to build appropriate examples.
Wreath products are also semidirect products. In Weinstein's Examples of Groups, Sec 4.4 on wreath products, Theorem 4.4.7 constructs and proves the restricted wreath product W=(G rwr A) such that Z(W) = Z (diag($G^A$) x {1}) where diag is the diagonal subgroup (result applies only if A is finite)
Meldrum's book on Wreath Products Chap 1 might provide more constructions.


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I love capturing panoramas on my iPhone and for this, I use Autostitch Panorama. But does anyone know of a "sweep style" App for the iPhone that mimics the technique used in the new compact Sony cameras? This would be a great App to have if it was effective.
This feature is now built in to the new iPhone 5, and is also available on the iPhone 4S (if you have updated to iOS6).
The same feature is also built into Android devices with the (little known) panoramic feature.
Camera > Settings > Shooting Mode > Panorama
Short video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txwdD11sW1s
There are two apps that are both seem to be well-liked that provide the pan/sweep functionality you desire.
360 Panorama (by Occipital - currently $1.99)
Photosynth (by Microsoft - currently free)
Both apps allow you to look at the phone's screen, pan/sweep the camera to record, and the app will stitch together a panoramic image based on the area you captured.
I was looking for something similar for my Android phone and I came across this in the Google search, maybe this is what you are after?
VideoPano makes panoramic images straight from videos!
There is a new app called You Gotta See This! that seems to be just what you are looking for. However, it is only available for the iPhone 4, because it uses the internal gyroscope to determine the direction so that it can stitch the photo correctly.


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First-time Image Loading Issue
I have three (header, body, footer) Containers inside my ViewPort (vbox or fit layout) so that all three are visible at once.
None of these containers have any height, width set explicitly. My header is docked at top.
In the header container, I set this.html = "[<img> with valid src, but no height or width]", and nothing else. Just that.
When I check on the browser, this image doesn't show up the first time, but then after that, it shows up on following requests.
But if I specify image height in the <img> html, it shows up properly (first time too).
[NOTE: By First-time, I mean the first time that Image is "used" or "opened" in the browser. Basically, an image that the browser had never loaded/cached before]
On inspecting I found that during the first-time, Sencha computes the clientWidth/Height of this header = 0.
I figured this may be because it takes some time to load the image and cache it???
THAT's the main problem!!!
Now testing this is a bit tricky. You HAVE TO give a new image "src" everytime you want to the check the "first-time" load. So, if you want to test below code too, please change the image marked bold below everytime...
MyViewPort = Ext.extend(Ext.Panel,{ fullscreen: true, layout: 'fit', initComponent:function(){ Ext.apply(this,{ dockedItems: [{ xtype: 'container', dock: 'top', html: '<img src="[my_image.jpg]" alt="" />' }], items: [ { xtype: 'container', html: 'this is my page body' }, { xtype: 'container', html: 'and the footer' } ] }); MyViewPort.superclass.initComponent.apply(this, arguments); } });
P.S.: :-) Please don't tell me why I can't live with adding the height/width attributes to the image. I CANT!!! Cuz I won't be the one adding that html in my app. It will be dynamic, and from an "end-user" .
Now we all know how stubborn (or sometimes stupid) end-users can be when we explain them these "limitations".
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Your hands are kind of tied. TO know what height it needs, it needs things to be loaded.
Do also note that you can clear the cache and that way you don't have to use a different image.
Also you can use src.sencha.io to resize images on the fly.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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28 Feb 2012 11:26 PM #3
Ok Thanks... but you do understand my problem, right?
Isn't this a very, very basic thing/requirement people may try out the first thing when they start learning Sencha? [i.e. to put an <img> in "html" property of an Ext.Container and see what happens]
So, I was actually hoping to know the existing Sencha standard-practices or good-code-practices that help achieve this, say, using XTemplates -or- someway to actually detect if image-resource is loaded or not and then load my container... -or- call doComponentLayout again??... or something like that.
... as I understand the trick is to somehow let Sencha Engine know the height and width involved with the resource files (even if they are not yet loaded).
Please let me know if you figure something out.! I sure hope you do!!
((PS: Ohh yes, clearing cache also works. I should've mentioned that too. T'was stupid of me ))
5 Mar 2012 3:36 PM #4
I also would like to know a solution or work around to this problem.. I posted on this forum about this before but got no reply.
There needs to be a proper way to deal with this since in a lot of cases we dont have image height/width.http://www.dev4.life - Software Development Blog
24 May 2012 10:52 AM #5
Sencha 2.0 handles this problem perfectly.. the way its layout-engine has been designed. All the more reasons to switch to 2.0 asap!! Cheers!
29 Apr 2014 7:36 AM #6
same Issue On ExtJS 4.2
I have the same issue with ExtJS 4.2. How did you resolve this problem?
By same problem, i mean that the first time i load an image, nothing happens, but after the images is loaded in the browser's cache it loads perfectly fine.
30 Apr 2014 1:27 AM #7
@krislogy : Thanks for your answer, but i found a solution this morning. I found out that the problem was not actually the image not loading, it was the panel where i put the image that did not resize after the image loaded. I fixed this by inserting the image direclty into the main panel of my window and not into an intermediary panel.


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Go Kart Club of America - Vintage Karts In CompetitionWritten by on April 15, 2008 Contributors: The Rod & Custom Archives, Tom Medley, Faye Pierson The Heroes Of This Hobby Are Still Racing Old-Time Karts
Turn back the hands of time. The year was 1956 and Art Ingels was an employee of Kurtis Craft Company, Frank Kurtis' race car-building operation in Glendale, California. In his spare time, Ingels welded together a few steel tubes, added four wheels, and a small surplus two-cycle West Bend engine, and what would soon become known as a "go-kart" was born.
It wasn't long before a few others noticed what Ingels had put together, and decided to build similar racers of their own. Within a few short months, this group, which included Duffy Livingstone, started meeting at the Rose Bowl parking lot in Pasadena to run their new machines. The group quickly grew as more and more people became aware of the action taking place at the Rose Bowl. Among them were Tom Medley from Hot Rod magazine, Lynn Wineland from Rod & Custom, and Spence Murray, R&C's first editor.
When Livingstone and his business partners, Bill Rowles and Roy Desbrow, began manufacturing karts commercially, he commissioned Wineland to help design some promotional literature. Wineland also contributed suggestions for what to call the new little racers. They settled on Go-Kart.
Back at the Rose Bowl, nearby residents began to complain about the noise, and the Sunday racers were asked to take their fun elsewhere. The now large group relocated to the parking lot at the Eastland Shopping Center in West Covina. This location has come to be known as "the birthplace of organized karting." It was here that the first karting club, the Go Kart Club of America (GKCA), was formed in 1957. The location was perfect except for traffic jams on the adjacent San Bernardino Freeway (U.S. Interstate 10) caused by drivers slowing down or stopping in order to get a better view of the little buzz bombs racing around the parking lot. The resulting accidents led to the demise of go-kart racing at the Eastland Shopping Center.
By now, one thing was certain: Karting was here to stay. Any enthusiast could build a kart cheaply and quickly. There was no need for a trailer since a kart fit into the trunk of most typical '50s automobiles, and any paved surface free of obstacles could be turned into a racetrack. At Petersen Publishing in Hollywood, staffers from R&C, Hot Rod, and Car Craft turned the office parking lot into a raceway, and their interest helped spread the kart craze from coast to coast in just a short year.
R&C's editorial involvement began with the Nov. '57 issue, in an article entitled, "Putting Wheels Under the Peasants," but it was the July '58 issue that really ramped up the coverage. By the time Wineland was promoted into the editor's chair, the magazine had become, in his words, "the unofficial handbook of the karting sport." The Go Kart Manufacturing ad on the back cover every month was as familiar to many readers as the Rod & Custom logo on the front. The pages in between were full of promotions for the Bug, the Wee Bird, the Ingels-Borelli Caretta, the Reed Engineering Cool Cart, the Hellcat, the Dart Kart, the Bates Kart (with "built-in fun"), the Hovey Hawk, the Acer Racer, the Century Speed Kart, the Rocket Kart, the Swoopster, the Go-Boy Cart, the Pixie, the Bantam Kart, the Gopher, the Caper Cart, the Simplex Challenger, the Putt-Nik, the Scat Cat, the Cad Cart, and many others. There were some months during the late 1950s when entire issues were devoted to karting. The karters loved it, but many longtime readers wondered what happened to the rods and customs. In 1960, Petersen launched Karts specifically dedicated to the hobby.
In 1959, Livingstone and Go Kart Manufacturing built the first track dedicated exclusively to karting. The Go Kart Raceway in Azusa, California, was the site of the GKCA's first National Championship that July, covered by R&C in its November issue.
The following year, Frank and Mary Adams opened a track on their farm, located on the eastern edge of Riverside. Tom Medley and Randy Holt, both of whom worked at Petersen, made the trek to Riverside every Saturday night (along with many other enthusiasts) to race under the lights.
The Go Kart Raceway has long since disappeared, but the Adams Kart Track continues to this day, still owned and operated by the Adams family (it hasn't hurt that there were 11 offspring and dozens of nieces and nephews to keep it rolling). The 48-year-old facility has expanded and evolved, and continues to be the venue of choice for many major events.
Karts, likewise, have evolved into more sophisticated machinery, but it's the simple vintage karts that still have the most appeal for many veterans of the earliest days. The GKCA still exists as the International Karting Federation, and the trophy awarded at IKF Grand National events is called a Duffy, in honor of Duffy Livingstone. In 2001, the Vintage Karting Association (www.vintagepowersport.com/vka) was established to promote karts originally manufactured between 1956 and 1975. Today, the VKA has nearly 200 members.
Reset those hands of time to February of last year, when the VKA's 3rd annual Reunion/Race/Show, held at the Adams Kart Track, drew racers from every part of the country. The list of event organizers and participants reads like a who's who of karting, including Livingstone, Sets Kanamoto, and Dick Conners from the original 1959 Go Kart team, plus Faye "Ladybug" Pierson from the original Bug Team, and Jimmy Yamane, Dick Geer, Wendell Shipman, and other legends from the early days. Of course, Tom Medley (formerly with the Hot Rod and Rod & Custom teams) was there as the VKA's official photographer, with Randy Holt on hand to race and wrench. The passion and forever-young attitude of these legends continues to attract people of all ages to the vintage kart movement today.
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Almost 50 years later, everybody from old-timers to youngsters showed up to race vintage karts at the VKA Reunion at Adams Kart Track.This is part of the action from the first Go Kart Club of America (GKCA) Nationals, held at Go Kart Raceway in Azusa, CA, in 1959.Tom Medley and Randy Holt teamed up again to create these handmade trophies for the VKA Reunion. In addition to his contributions to karting, Tom Medley is well-known for the "Stroker McGurk" cartoons that appeared regularly in Hot Rod, and these awards feature a distinctive Stroker-like character.Bill Turnbeaugh was one of the competitors at the GKCA race in Alton, Illinois, covered by R&C 49 years ago. His kart features kill buttons on the steering wheel.Not every vintage kart racer is an old-timer. Fourteen-year-old Michael Thorin competed in a '72 Dart at the VKA Reunion. His father, Tom, is president of the VKA. George Friend, age 13, is the grandson of Randy Holt, and raced a '60s-era Faller kart at Adams.Ernie Fisher was the leaping flagman at the VKA Reunion. Ernie's been in karting since the early 1960s and can still start a race with style. His involvement extends to collecting and restoring vintage karts.Tom Medley has been involved with karting since the Rose Bowl days, and remains involved today. For decades, he raced with Randy Holt, including at this race at the Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas in the late 1960s.This is a reproduction of a '66 GP Muffler Sprint Kart by Duffy Livingstone, with a sidewinder Komet K-77 engine.
Back then, as now, there were advantages to a body-less, featherweight race car that could be lifted with one hand.Two of the greatest living legends in karting have raced together for years and are still making the rounds. Duffy Livingstone (left) was one of the founders of the Go Kart Manufacturing Co. more than 50 years ago, and Dick Connors was one of the top kart drivers on the Go Kart team.This Apache warrior from 1960, built by Precision Engineering, runs dual 5.3ci McCulloch super 55A chainsaw motors.The first owner of this Bug Wasp-with a Clinton Panther engine-got it as a Christmas present in 1960. It remains completely original and unrestored. It's now owned by the Tremper familyThe mid-'60s Bug Sprint was a common sight on kart tracks. A pair of Komet K-99 135cc engines powers this one.Each West Bend 580 on this '59 Percival Wildcat drives its corresponding wheel, a design made obsolete by a redesigned live axle in the late 1950s. This one came out of a 45-year hibernation in 2005.According to owner Mark Weaverling, the '70 Stinger was Bug's first sidewinder chassis. This kart was never run in competition until 2004.
Here's a Dart Grand Prix with a N.O.S. Chrysler West Bend 500, which also features internal expanding brakes.


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My father has a static website that he uses for political reasons. To add items to his RSS feed, he used to use the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet. Google Reader has been merged with Google+ and that feature no longer exists. Furthermore, it seems that it is no longer possible to share static pages on a Google Reader feed if they are not in the Google+ system. Are there any ways I can get events added to the RSS feed again?
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