'Send an event that will be received by event listener
subprocesses subscribing to the RemoteCommunicationEvent.
@param  string  type  String for the "type" key in the event header
@param  string  data  Data for the event body
@return boolean       Always return True unless error'

def sendRemoteCommEvent(self, type, data):

    if isinstance(type, unicode):
        type = type.encode('utf-8')
    if isinstance(data, unicode):
        data = data.encode('utf-8')
    notify(RemoteCommunicationEvent(type, data))
    return True
