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Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 4
Using Web Workers to speed up your mobile Web applications
Add multi-threaded JavaScript to HTML 5 for the win!
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About this series
HTML 5 is a very hyped technology, but with good reason. It promises to be a technological tipping point to bring desktop application capabilities to the browser. As promising as it is for traditional browsers, it has even more potential for mobile browsers. Even better, the most popular mobile browsers have already adopted and implemented many significant parts of the HTML 5 specification. In this five-part series, you will take a closer look at several of those new technologies that are part of HTML 5 and can have a huge impact on mobile Web application development. In each part, you will develop a working mobile Web application showcasing an HTML 5 feature that you can use on modern mobile Web browsers like the ones found on the iPhone and Android-based devices.
Getting started
Multi-threaded JavaScript on mobile devices
Multi-threaded or concurrent programming is nothing new to most developers. It is supported, in one way or another, in most modern programming languages. However, JavaScript is not one of the languages that supports concurrent programming. Its creator thought that it was too problematic and unnecessary for a language like JavaScript that was designed for performing simple tasks on Web pages. However, as Web pages have evolved into Web applications, the complexity level of tasks done with JavaScript has grown to put JavaScript on par with any other language. At the same time, developers working in other languages that support concurrent programming have often suffered and struggled with the extraordinarily high complexity that comes along with concurrent primitives like threads and mutexes. In fact, recently, a number of new languages like Scala, Clojure, and F# have evolved, all promising to simplify concurrency.
You even have to supply that external file as part of the constructor, as in Listing 1.
This process uses three things:
- The JavaScript for the Web page (I will call it the page script) executed on the main thread.
- The Worker object which is the JavaScript object that you use to perform the Web Worker function.
- The script that will be executed on the newly-spawned thread. I will call it the Worker script.
Let's start by looking at the page script in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Using a Web Worker in the page script
var worker = new Worker("worker.js"); worker.onmessage = function(message){ // do stuff }; worker.postMessage(someDataToDoStuffWith);
In Listing 1, you can see the three basic steps in using Web Workers. First, you create a Worker object and pass it the URL of the script that will be executed in the new thread. All of the code that the Worker will execute must be contained in the Worker script whose URL is passed in to the constructor of the Worker. The URL of this Worker script is limited by the browser's same origin policy—it must come from the same domain that loaded the page that loaded the page script that is creating the Web Worker.
The next thing you do is to specify a callback handler function using the
onmessage function. This callback function will be invoked after the Worker
script executes.
message is data that is returned
from the Worker script and you can do whatever you want with that message. The
callback function is executed on the main thread, so it has access to the DOM. The Worker
script runs in a different thread and does not have access to the DOM, so you need to
send data from the Worker script back to the main thread where you can safely modify
the DOM to update the UI of your application. This is the key feature of the
nothing-shared design of Web Workers.
The last line of Listing 1 shows how the Worker is initiated—by calling its
postMessage function. Here you pass a
message (again, this is just data) to the Worker. Of course,
postMessage is an asynchronous function; you call it and it
immediately returns.
Now, examine the Worker script. The code in Listing 2 is the contents of the
worker.js file from Listing 1.
Listing 2. A Worker script
importScripts("utils.js"); var workerState = {}; onmessage = function(message){ workerState = message.data; // do stuff with the message postMessage({responseXml: this.responseText}); }
You can see that the Worker script has its own
function. This is invoked when you call
postMessage from
the main thread. The data you passed from the page script is passed to the
postMessage function in the
message object.
You access the data by retrieving the
data property of the
message object. When you finish processing the data in the Worker
script, you invoke the
postMessage function to send data back to the main thread. That data is also available to the main thread by accessing the data property of the message it receives.
So far you have seen the simple, but powerful semantics of Web Workers. Next, you will see how to apply this to speed up mobile Web applications. Before getting into that, it's necessary to talk about device support. After all, these are mobile Web applications and dealing with the differences in capabilities between browsers is essential to mobile Web application development.
Device support
Starting with Android 2.0, the Android browser has had full support for the HTML 5 Web Worker specification. At the time of writing this article, most new Android devices, including the very popular Motorola Droid, are shipping with Android 2.1. In addition, this feature is fully supported in the Mozilla Fennec browser available on Nokia devices running its Maemo operating system, and on Windows Mobile devices. The notable omission here is the iPhone. iPhone OS versions 3.1.3 and 3.2 (the versions of the OS that run on the iPad) do not support Web Workers yet. However, this feature is already supported on Safari, so it should just be a matter of time before it shows up on the Mobile Safari browser running on the iPhone. Given the dominance of the iPhone (especially in the US) it is best to not rely on Web Workers being present and only use them to enhance your mobile Web applications when you detect that they are present. With this in mind, look at how you can use Web Workers to make mobile Web applications faster.
Improving performance with Workers
Web Worker support on smart phone browsers is good and improving. This begs the question: When do you want to use Workers in mobile Web applications? The answer is simple: whenever you need to do something that takes a long time. Some Worker examples show Workers being used to perform intense mathematical computations, like calculating ten-thousand digits of pi. It's fairly unlikely that you will ever need to perform such a computation on any Web application, much less a mobile Web application. However, retrieving data from remote resources is fairly common, and that is the focus of the example in this article.
In this example, you will retrieve a list of Daily Deals (deals that change each day)from eBay. The deals list contains brief information about each deal. More detailed information can be obtained by using eBay's Shopping API. You will use Web Workers to pre-fetch this additional information while the user browses the list of deals to pick the one of interest. To access all of this eBay data from your Web application, you will need to deal with the browser's same origin policy by using a generic proxy. A simple Java servlet was used for this proxy. It is included with the code for this article, but it is not shown here. Instead, let's focus on the code that works with the Web Workers. Listing 3 shows the basic HTML page for the deals application.
Listing 3. Deals application HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML>   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"> <title>Worker Deals</title>
Deals

More Deals

As you can see, this is a very simple piece of HTML; it is just a shell. You retrieve
the data and generate the UI using JavaScript. This is the optimal design for mobile
Web applications, since it allows for all of the code and static markup to be cached
on the device, and the user only waits for data from the server. Notice that, in Listing 3, once the body has loaded, you call the
loadDeals function where you load the initial data for the
application in Listing 4.
Listing 4. The
loadDeals function
var deals = []; var sections = []; var dealDetails = {}; var dealsUrl = "http://deals.ebay.com/feeds/xml"; function loadDeals(){ var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){ if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200){ var i = 0; var j = 0; var dealsXml = this.responseXML.firstChild; var childNode = {}; for (i=0; i< dealsXml.childNodes.length;i++){ childNode = dealsXml.childNodes.item(i); switch(childNode.localName){ case 'Item': deals.push(parseDeal(childNode)); break; case "MoreDeals": for (j=0;j<childNode.childNodes.length;j++){ var sectionXml= childNode.childNodes.item(j); if (sectionXml && sectionXml.hasChildNodes()){ sections.push(parseSection(sectionXml)); } } break; default: break; } } deals.forEach(function(deal){ var entry = createDealUi(deal); $("deals").appendChild(entry); }); loadDetails(deals); sections.forEach(function(section){ var ui = createSectionUi(section); $("moreDeals").appendChild(ui); loadDetails(section.deals); }); } }; xhr.open("GET", "proxy?url=" + escape(dealsUrl)); xhr.send(null); }
Listing 4 shows the
loadDeals function, and
the global variables used in the application. You use an array of deals plus an array
of sections. These are additional groups of related deals (for example,
Deals under $10). There is also a map called
dealDetails whose keys will be Item IDs (which you will get from the
deals data), and whose values are the more detailed information obtained from the eBay Shopping API.
The first thing you do is make an Ajax call to a proxy, which in turn calls the eBay
Daily Deals REST API. This gives you the list of deals as an XML document. You parse
the document in the
onreadystatechange function of the
XMLHttpRequest object used to make the Ajax call. You use two other functions,
parseDeal and
parseSection, to parse the
XML nodes into easier-to-use JavaScript objects. You can find these functions in the
downloadable code sample (see Downloadable resources), but they are just
tedious XML parsing functions so I didn't include them here. Finally, after parsing
the XML, you use two more functions,
createDealUi and
createSectionUi, to modify
the DOM. When you are done, the UI looks like Figure 1.
Figure 1. Mobile Deals UI
If you go back to Listing 4, notice that after the primary deals are
loaded, you call the
loadDetails function for each of the
sections of deals. In this function, you load the additional details for each deal by
using the eBay Shopping API—but only if the browser supports Web Workers. Listing 5 shows the
loadDetails function.
Listing 5. Pre-fetching deals details
function loadDetails(items){ if (!!window.Worker){ items.forEach(function(item){ var xmlStr = null; if (window.localStorage){ xmlStr = localStorage.getItem(item.itemId); } if (xmlStr){ var itemDetails = parseFromXml(xmlStr); dealDetails[itemDetails.id] = itemDetails; } else { var worker = new Worker("details.js"); worker.onmessage = function(message){ var responseXmlStr =message.data.responseXml; var itemDetails=parseFromXml(responseXmlStr); if (window.localStorage){ localStorage.setItem( itemDetails.id, responseXmlStr); } dealDetails[itemDetails.id] = itemDetails; }; worker.postMessage(item.itemId); } }); } }
loadDetails, you first check for the
Worker function in the global scope (the
window object.) If it is not there, then you simply do nothing. If it
is there, then you first check the
localStorage for the XML for this deal's details. This is a local caching strategy common to mobile Web applications, and is described in detail in Part 2 of this series (see Related topics for a link).
If the XML is found locally, then you parse it in the
parseFromXml function and add the details
to the
dealDetails object. If it is not found locally, then spawn a Web
Worker and send it the Item ID of the deal using
postMessage. Once that Worker retrieves the data and posts back to
the main thread, you parse the XML, add the result to
dealDetails, and store the XML
in the
localStorage. Listing 6 shows the Worker script, details.js.
Listing 6. Deal details Worker script
importScripts("common.js"); onmessage = function(message){ var itemId = message.data; var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){ if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200){ postMessage({responseXml: this.responseText}); } }; var urlStr = generateUrl(itemId); xhr.open("GET", "proxy?url=" + escape(urlStr)); xhr.send(null); }
The Worker script is pretty simple. You use Ajax to call the proxy, which in turn calls
the eBay Shopping API. Once you receive the XML from the proxy, you send it back to
the main thread using a JavaScript object literal. Note that, even though you can use
XMLHttpRequest from a Worker, everything will come back on
responseText property, never its
responseXml property. That is because there is no JavaScript DOM
parser in scope within the Worker script. Note that the
generateUrl function comes from the common.js file (in Listing 7). You imported common.js using the
importScripts function.
Listing 7. Script imported by the Worker
function generateUrl(itemId){ var appId = "YOUR APP ID GOES HERE"; return "http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping?callname=GetSingleItem&"+ "responseencoding=XML&appid=" + appId + "&siteid=0&version=665" +"&ItemID=" + itemId; }
Now that you have seen how to populate the deal details (for browsers that support Web Workers), go back to Figure 1 to figure out how this is used in the application. Notice that each deal has a Show Details button next to it. Click it to modify the UI as in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Deal details displayed
This UI is displayed when you invoke the
function. Listing 8 shows this function.
Listing 8. The showDetails function
function showDetails(id){ var el = $(id); if (el.style.display == "block"){ el.style.display = "none"; } else { el.style.display = "block"; if (!el.innerHTML){ var details = dealDetails[id]; if (details){ var ui = createDetailUi(details); el.appendChild(ui); } else { var itemId = id; var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){ if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200){ var itemDetails = parseFromXml(this.responseText); if (window.localStorage){ localStorage.setItem( itemDetails.id, this.responseText); } dealDetails[id] = itemDetails; var ui = createDetailUi(itemDetails); el.appendChild(ui); } }; var urlStr = generateUrl(id); xhr.open("GET", "proxy?url=" + escape(urlStr)); xhr.send(null); } } } }
You are passed the ID of the deal that is going to be shown and toggle whether it is displayed or not. When it is first called, it checks to see if the details have already been stored in the dealDetails map. If the browser supports Web Workers, then these details are already stored there and the UI for it is created and added to the DOM. If the details are not loaded already, or if the browser does not support Workers, then you make an Ajax call to load this data. This is how the application can work equally well whether Workers are present or not. This means that, if Workers are supported, then the data is already loaded and the UI will respond instantly. If there are no Workers, the UI still loads, but it takes a few seconds.
Web Workers sound like an exotic new technology for Web developers. But, as you have seen in this article, they have very practical applications. This is especially true for mobile Web applications. The Workers can be used to prefetch data or perform other ahead-of-time operations to provide a much more lively UI. This can be especially true on mobile Web applications that need to load data over a potentially slow network. Combine this with caching strategies, and your users will be amazed by the snappiness of your application.
Downloadable resources
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- Article source code (Workers.zip | 8KB)
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- Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 2: Unlock local storage for mobile Web applications with HTML 5 (Michael Galpin, developerWorks, May 2010): Explore an important new feature in HTML 5 for wireless applications. With the standardization of local storage and a simple API, store large amounts of data on the client and improve performance.
- Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 3: Make mobile Web applications work offline with HTML 5 (Michael Galpin, developerWorks, June 2010): Enable your application to function with or without an Internet connection and learn to detect when your application goes from offline to online and vice versa.
- Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 5: Develop new visual UI features in HTML 5: Add Canvas, CSS3, and more semantic elements to mobile Web apps (Michael Galpin, developerWorks, June 2010): Provide full 2-D graphics in the browser with Canvas, the most eye-catching of the new UI capabilities in HTML 5. Learn to use Canvas and other visual elements in your mobile Web applications.
- HTML 5 Offline Application Cache documentation: Take a look at Apple's more detailed information on manifest files and application cache.
- Offline resources in Firefox: Offline is not just for mobile. Read about how Firefox implements this standard in Mozilla.
- Create Ajax applications for the mobile Web (Michael Galpin, developerWorks, March 2010): Explore how to use Ajax, a key part of any mobile Web application.
- New elements in HTML 5 (Elliotte Rusty Harold, developerWorks, August 2007): HTML 5 is not just about JavaScript. Read about some of the new markup in HTML 5.
- Android and iPhone browser wars, Part 1: WebKit to the rescue (Frank Ableson, developerWorks, December 2009): Do you like the mobile Web application approach using HTML 5 approach, but still want your application in the iPhone App Store and Android Market? See how you can get the best of both worlds in Part 1 of this two-part article series.
- Dive Into HTML 5: Check out this free book for a great look at HTML 5 detection techniques as well as the many features of HTML 5.
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A team of Iowa State scientists is the first to successfully use nanotechnology to penetrate plant cells, simultaneously delivering a gene and a chemical to activate it. The breakthrough creates a powerful new tool that could transform plant biotechnology.
Birrell named to new professorship
Stuart Birrell, associate professor in Iowa State University's agricultural and biosystems engineering department, has been named to fill a new professorship created by the founders and owners of KINZE Manufacturing Inc. in Williamsburg.
Getting real about biz options: ISU prof's study earns international research award
Amrit Tiwana, an associate professor of logistics operations and management information systems at ISU, has led research of more than 100 major technology companies on managers' behavior during high-tech failing projects. One of the studies earned the Best Article Award for 2006 by the editorial team of Decision Sciences.
Facts regarding status of tenure case at Iowa State
Guillermo Gonzalez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State, is appealing the university's April decision to not grant him tenure and promotion. The appeal of the final tenure decision is now with ISU President Gregory Geoffroy, who will evaluate the case and provide a final decision by June 6, 2007. Tenure is a complex process. It is among the most important decisions a university makes and is never taken lightly. Outside of academia, however, there is little shared understanding of tenure, its rigor and significance. For that reason, and because Gonzalez's appeal has generated a number of questions, the FAQ below may be helpful in understanding the tenure process at Iowa State.
Cyclones in mascot regional finals
The Cyclones have advanced to the regional finals of the lighthearted "most dominant college mascot" tourney sponsored by CBS SportsLine.com. The Cyclones face the Southern Utah Thunderbirds in the latest online vote, which is under way now. Voting ends May 18.
Canine conditioning program available
The Iowa State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital's Canine Conditioning Program can get your dog off the couch and in shape. Hospital clinicians have developed a program designed to address many health problems that affect sedentary dogs. Orientation is May 19.
Iowa State Formula racing team looks for another top-10 finish
The students of Iowa State University's Formula SAE team are ready to test their engineering and racing skills at an international competition May 16-20 in Romeo, Mich.
ISU student is national teacher of the year
Kendra Naef, an ISU doctoral student in family and consumer sciences, has been named National Teacher of the Year for 2007 by the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Iowa State's Women's Rugby Club wins national championship
Three scores by Iowa State's Ashley Cleveland helped lead the Cyclones to the Division II Women's Rugby National Championship, beating top-ranked and defending champion UC Santa Cruz 26-19 Saturday in Stanford, Calif.
ISU Catt Center sponsoring Ready to Run: Campaign Training for Women on June 1
The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State and the League of Women Voters of Ames, Iowa, are sponsoring Ready to Run: Campaign Training for Women on Friday, June 1, at the Scheman Center at the Iowa State Center in Ames.
CARD director testifies before house committee on crop insurance
In Congressional testimony last week, Bruce Babcock, director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, offered information on how federal crop insurance policy could be reformed to benefit both farmers and taxpayers.
ISU Psychology in Education Research Lab evaluates state technology teaching success
Officials from the Psychology in Education Research Laboratory (PERL) at Iowa State presented a recent report to the Iowa Department of Education showing how middle school students who received new technology-based teaching strategies became increasingly more proficient in mathematics on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS).
ISU study finds women expect to care for parents, but few prepare for it
A recent nationwide online survey of 400 women by Iowa State University sociologists and the marketing and analysis firm Gestalt Inc. in Nevada, Iowa, found that while 70 percent of respondents expected to care for their aging parents, few prepare for it.
Sesquicentennial fun
Iowa State's 150th birthday bash will span an entire year.
In the news
New York City ban feeds demand for trans fat free oils
New England Journal of Medicine
As bakers, cooks and chefs face the New York City ban on trans fats, they're trying out substitute oils in recipes. They're part of a nationwide rush to remove trans fats from foods that has boosted demand for new oils, like the low-linolenic soybean oil developed at Iowa State, says plant breeder Walter Fehr, distinguished professor of agronomy.
Bit parts on TV drill Home Depot brand into shows
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brand messages from top retailers like Home Depot are being written into your favorite TV scripts. Jay Newell, assistant professor of journalism in ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism and an expert on product placement, says it's a smart marketing tactic...and the viewing public has yet to protest.
With big money flowing to biofuels research, universities vie to harvest energy from crops
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The brown and black stalks of switch grass, miscanthus and kenaf are not much to look at, having weathered Iowa's winter snows. But Iowa State researchers see these crops as seeds of change in alternative fuels.


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Good grief?
Coinciding with the comic strip's 65th anniversary, Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" gang--that's Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and the rest, if your memory needs a reboot--will hit the big screens Nov. 25, 2015, a press release announced this morning. My first thought, of course, is concern that "Peanuts" will be adapted with the same pop culture references and obnoxious sense of humor as the recent movies based on "Alvin and the Chipmunks" and "The Smurfs." Fortunately the script for the as-yet-untitled movie has been written by Schulz's son Craig. Less encouraging: the direction of Steve Martino, who helmed the just-OK "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" and mediocre "Ice Age: Continental Drift."
As long as the movie doesn't feature CGI critters interacting with a clearly embarrassed actor, "Peanuts" will already have a leg up on its recent animated competition. If plans change and it does follow the "Smurfs" strategy, it will be like offering a football in front of us to kick and pulling it away at the last minute. And who would do such a thing?
Watch Matt on "You & Me This Morning," Friday at 6:55 a.m. on WCIU, the U
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Design Style: The modern and fashionable European style, specially designed for Europeans; The double-decked compound lock body, resulting in long service life and anti force-break from outside; Dissociate handle design, would effective protect against the malicious damages; Double lock function, the door can be locked up by simply rotating the knob and releasing the latch.
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Traditional hotel management software use PINs to login, ADEL hotel management software uses fingerprint as a login method which solves the loopholes in the management. Fingerprint QQ is an authentication device that connects to the computer with a USB port, replacing the traditional PIN number with fingerprint login which provide a simple, convenient and quick way in managing software security.
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brand.manager necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 177 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Touchstone: The Eureka Moment is perhaps the most sublime and powerful human experience . . .
Eureka is a start-up technology services company, delivering online desktop and infrastructure support. Clients say that Eureka's service far exceeds the closest competitor.
Join us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eurek…256427954/
browse our website: http://eureka123.com
The business card design does *not* need to match the website. The website will be redesigned next.
Residential and small/medium businesses clients on both PC and Mac platforms. Current clients are from around the world -- the majority from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Most clients are age 30 or older.
Imagine you are the owner of this online technology services business: How would you design your own business card?
The project is *not* for a traditional business card. Rather, it is for a mini-advertisement in a traditional 3.5 x 2 inch (89 x 51 mm) space. A good design will inspire people to contact Eureka when they have a technology problem or request.
What does the word Eureka mean to us? It's more important what it means to other people, but here are just a few thoughts: Eureka is the light bulb moment a scientist has when he invents something new, or when a student solves a complex math problem. It's the moment your level of understanding makes a quantum leap, you make new mental connections, and you 'get it.' Breakthrough thinking. Epiphany. It's an exclamation of joy. Triumph! Discovery! I found it!
According to legend, Archimedes, after long study, discovered a method of detecting the amount of alloy mixed with the gold in the crown of the king of Syracuse, and exclaimed: "Eureka!"
People often use computing technology in the pursuit of their own personal, triumphant Eureka Moments, and we help them do that by repairing whatever is broken and then optimizing the system for speed, security, and high functionality. Our Eureka Moment is helping others achieve theirs.
Speaking as an engineer, and not as some kind of marketing guy, I can say that we deliver an unmatched level of thoroughness and quality.
Two wikis for further inspiration:
The primary business card does *not* have an individual person's name on it -- rather it only has the company's contact info -- website: eureka123.com and phone: +1 (434) 202 4005. The card is a marketing vehicle that we leave at conventions, large meetings, retail stores, coffee shops, airports, train stations, sporting events.
The desired design says that Eureka is: Trustworthy, Expert, Friendly, and perhaps even a bit Soulful, in whatever way that resonates with you.
The desired design itself is: Creative, Authentic, Memorable, Fresh, Elegant, Warm, Human.
The desired design inspires people to go to our website when they need technology support or services.
Please design a logo and the elements you believe are needed for a great 'mini advertising card.' The designer is *not* required to use any style elements from the website nor from the collateral materials attached to the brief. They are just for context and perhaps to spark ideas. There is no old logo or file. We used a regular Calibri font for the "Eureka" in our ads and Times New Roman for the asterisk, but you do not need to replicate that. It probably makes sense to depart from the old look to create something better.
The desired design is two-sided. The back should have a light or white background so that any handwritten information is legible.
The desired design is not geeky nor overly technical. Do not show circuit board backgrounds, etc.
Show a secondary business card, based on the primary design, that includes an individual person's contact info: name, business address, phone number, email. This secondary card is physically separate from the primary card. It is a completely separate card.
A half dozen print ads are attached below for a little context and perhaps to spark new ideas. Each has a different tag line -- use your favorite, one of your own creation, or none at all. The business card design does *not* need to match the print ads in any way.
Attached is a file called "Eureka business cards.pdf." It's an inspirational rough sketch of this project -- not as a business card -- but rather as a as a mini advertisement on a 3.5" x 2" space.
Please enjoy full creative license on this project. We are creative people and enjoy working with other creatives. We frequently contribute refinement ideas and constructive feedback in a positive tone.
The moment we see a design that we can go with, we will make this contest Guaranteed.
Part of the power of crowd sourcing is ideas triggering other *new* ideas, without copying the work of the original artist. In that spirit, we see goodness from keeping the contest open. We expect artists to hold themselves to a high standard in this regard, and in any case, a copied idea will not be selected as the winner.
Required size:
We'll use us.moo.com to print the cards. Moo.com does not offer die cutting. Please size your designs according to the artwork and template guidelines on us.moo.com:
Please use us.moo.com's US business card Adobe Illustrator template:
Required file types:
- CMYK image in Adobe Illustrator AI and PDF format.
- Layered RGB file in Photoshop PSD, Fireworks PNG, and JPEG format.
- Designs must be submitted as vector based PDFs. Keep text in vector format.
-Pre-flight PDFs using the 'Adobe PDF/X-1a' preset.
-To set the correct color space for your PDF, click on the 'output' option shown on the left of your screen when you select the 'Adobe PDF/X-1a' preset. In the 'color' box, select 'Coated GRACoL 2006' from the destination dropdown.
In the comments for each submission, identify the name and size of all fonts used.
If you would like a jump start, open up the last attached file called "Eureka info draft.pdf". It contains the basic data for the card and one idea for placement of the various words and pieces.
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Forum Post: Low-Wage Workers' Movement Catches Fire
Posted 5 years ago on Dec. 3, 2013, 2:57 p.m. EST by LeoYo
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Low-Wage Workers' Movement Catches Fire
Tuesday, 03 December 2013 13:18 By Bethania Palma Markus, Truthout | News
Hundreds of Walmart workers and community allies across major US cities took to the streets on Black Friday to protest the multibillion-dollar corporation for poor working conditions, unfair labor practices and wages so low the retailer held a food drive for its own employees this Thanksgiving.
The nationwide campaign under the umbrella of Organization United for Respect (OUR Walmart), supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers, held protests in major cities such as Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Dallas and Seattle. It was part of a growing movement of increasingly organized and mobilized low-wage workers that include retail, fast food and restaurant workers. "I'm out here to show the workers not to fear retaliation, because it's our right to be able to organize and protest what Walmart is doing to its associates," said Richard Mendoza, an employee at Walmart's Duarte store in Los Angeles County. "The more times they get away with it, the bigger the problem is going to be."
As in the past, with consumers often stampeding and fighting for marked-down products, this year's Black Friday sales were marred by violence that has been deadly for low-paid workers who operate the stores so their employer can make billions in profits on Black Friday. Mendoza said he had to start work at 5:30 PM on Thanksgiving to accommodate a new practice whereby retailers push Black Friday well into the holiday.
In 2008, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, a Long Island, New York, Walmart employee, was killed on Black Friday when shoppers stampeded through doors and trampled him to death. Walmart was fined only $7,000 for this tragedy - but to date has not paid. Beyond Black Friday, public advocacy for low-wage workers is gaining steam. But the heightened push has raised questions: What is being advocated for? Is it specific rights and protections? A minimum wage? Increased unionization? Or is the goal a sea change in the way the economy operates - a larger shift toward real democracy?
High Stakes for the Lowest-Paid
The movement to mobilize the country's lowest-paid labor force kicked off early last year, seemingly picking up as Occupy was tapering off, and in recent months has swept through the country. Hundreds of workers at fast food restaurants walked off the job on August 29 in historic strikes. A 100-city one-day strike by fast food worker groups including Fight for 15 and Fast Food Forward is planned for this Thursday.
The stakes are painfully high.
As of November 1, 2013, the government cut billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formally known as food stamps). About 48 million, or one in seven, Americans rely on the SNAP program, up from 28 million in 2008, the beginning of the recession - an astounding 71 percent increase. More than half of low-paid fast food workers rely on public assistance programs like SNAP.
There's been talk of an economic recovery, but it hasn't benefited the majority of the population. Department of Labor statistics put the unemployment rate at 7.3 percent, but the real number, taking into account underemployed and discouraged job seekers, is roughly double that, hovering around 14 percent. Racial disparity plagues active job seekers, with black unemployment more than doubling white. Research shows the overwhelming majority of income gains from the "recovery," an astounding 95 percent, went directly to the richest 1% of the population.
Meanwhile wages, particularly in the lowest income brackets, have stagnated despite an almost 40 percent increase in worker productivity over the past two decades, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute. Simultaneously, labor unions and regulations protecting workers have been systematically hacked away.
But the fight to increase wages is gaining traction. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but workers are fighting for a significant boost: $15 an hour. In some locales, they are winning their fight. Meanwhile President Obama has shown support for raising the minimum wage.
"If you look at historical graphs, the decline of labor tracks very closely with the decline of purchasing ability by the middle class. So if we want to have a large [middle] class and broad prosperity in this country, we need to have a sound labor movement," said Paco Fabian, communications director for Change to Win, an organization of unions including SEIU and UFCW. "People are under extreme downward pressure right now when it comes to wages and the economy. A Walmart worker can't afford to go shopping at Walmart."
Questions Raised About Organizing Tactics
This miasma of gross economic inequality that now pervades American society highlights the pressing need to organize and empower the lowest-paid and most vulnerable sector of the work force. Excitement is growing over actions like the fast food workers' strikes Thursday.
But while the urgency seems apparent, journalist Arun Gupta raised concerns about the tactics and motivations behind the fast food workers movement in a deeply researched investigative piece for In These Times.
Gupta interviewed 40 sources, "over half of those are organizers, low-wage workers and officials," he said. The overriding issues workers and organizers raised are, "what are the end goals, what's the strategy to achieve them, who are the decision-makers and how does that play out on a day-to-day basis on the ground." His investigation revealed that while the campaign has been portrayed as being grass roots and built from the ground up, evidence points to the Service Employees International Union directing it and pursuing a series of specific strategies: In addition to throwing its weight behind campaigns to increase the minimum wage, which have been successful at the state and local levels, SEIU has a detailed strategy it hopes will lead to unionizing fast-food workers.
It's a four-part plan.
The first step is to challenge the legal distinction between the corporation and its franchise stores so that companies like McDonald's can be held accountable for workplace violations that occur among its franchisees. Second, SEIU is compiling data on wage theft. Third, it wants to use that information to pressure fast-food corporations to allow workers to freely unionize without retaliation and to pick up any increased labor costs for franchises. Finally, it wants to leverage support on an international level by enlisting the support of organized labor in other countries to pressure the fast-food companies through protests and possible use of union pension funds.
"Nobody had talked about the strategy because there's this conflation between the union leadership and the workers," Gupta said. But his sources questioned whether the union leadership's goals align with what's best for the rank-and-file workers.
"The feeling among many workers is they are not going to end up with much. It's not going to fundamentally change the industry or low-wage work," Gupta said. "People are excited that this could fulfill Occupy Wall Street's goal of challenging inequality, but there's skepticism about that inside the campaign."
Gupta's sources described a scenario in which union leadership's strategy is largely geared toward campaigning for the media but lacks the kind of shop-floor organizing needed at the work site and municipal level to build a strong, effective movement in which workers are united by solidarity, defend each other from employer retaliation and develop a democratic decision-making process. Instead there is the impression that SEIU wants to build its numbers and sees democracy as something of a luxury, which is alienating workers, he said. But Gupta says that workers told him, "Democracy is not a light switch you can turn on and off."
SEIU spokesman Carter Wright couldn't be reached by phone for this article to respond but sent an email pointing to a University of California study that outlines the public cost of low wages paid to fast food workers that is being used to demand accountability. He also pointed to two recent viral Youtube videos panning McDonald's for insulting advice given to workers to help them cope with their low wages, including "singing away stress" and selling Christmas gifts. "Workers continue to hold meetings and reach out to workers at other stores to build their network and get more people involved in the campaign," Wright wrote.
Despite the criticism, Gupta notes many workers are enthusiastic about the goals of being able to unionize and a $15 an hour wage, while being wary of what they see as questionable tactics pushed by SEIU's leadership.
One of Gupta's sources, who is part of the movement in Chicago, expressed concern about some of the tactics but credited SEIU for "pushing people out into the struggle."
"It's very easy to be critical of an organization like SEIU for its behind-closed-doors activities and top-down organizing," the source told Gupta. "This is an instance when the labor bureaucracy is encouraging people to demonstrate, to go on strike, to take action in the workplace. And I'm excited about that."


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Photographer Demanding Cash From Sites Using Palin's Official Governor Photo
from the copyright-gone-mad dept
However, it appears that Schultz is now claiming that those who use it are violating his copyright, and are demanding they pay up. And not just a marginal sum, but $11,750, according to the demand letter embedded below. The story covers a demand letter that was sent to a restaurant owner who, back during the last Presidential election, hosted an event where he showed the VP debate between Palin and Biden. In promoting that event at the restaurant, the owner pulled Palin's official pic and put it on his website, where it has remained "in the archives" where almost no one sees it. However, Schultz or his lawyers found it and demanded money from the restaurant owner. Even after the image was pulled, they still demanded money, and rather than fight it, the restaurant owner eventually paid up. Schultz's lawyers also demanded a gag order, that he not talk about the threat and the demand for cash, but he refused to agree to the gag order. Of course, this just makes you wonder how many other folks did pay up and can't talk about it...
Palin's deputy press secretary while she was governor notes that Schultz did, in fact, retain the copyright, but that seems silly. If you're going to post a headshot like that for an official government figure and use it as distribution material for all sorts of media, it seems like you should automatically relinquish any copyright on it. That Schultz is going around now, years later, and demanding cash (and silence!) from those using it seems like yet another story of copyright trolling.


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Just a llama in Times Square // photo:: Inge Morath
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::ROMAN & WILLIAMS:: design
I think this design duo is one of the most creative in the field.
Their designs and color use, never feels regurgitated.
There's a sort of macabre thread that they masterfully weave into beautiful and cerebral design.
This bathroom...is absolutely beautiful, in a haunting, 20s laboratory way. Gorgeous.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
We're back! And boy are we ever.......
When you take a small break it's always good to come back big. And that's exactly what we did at The Skirted Round Table. This week we have none other than Miles Redd. One of my top, top, top favorite designers. This is yet, another refreshing industry interview with someone possessing enormous talent and zero hubris.
|Miles Redd's home: The most adulated door in NYC.
You will love this man as much as you do his work. Oh, and speaking of which, Miles' recent book, or rather tome, "The Big Book of Chic" is discussed at length, as we maul the pictures with our eyeballs. So if you have a copy, go grab it, and then come sit down with us for an hour while we chat about the book and his work.
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PM recognises young achievers
PM recognises young achievers
Prime Minister John Key will meet the 100 participants in this year's Prime Minister's Youth Programme at a dinner in Auckland tonight.
The group of 14- to 17-year-olds from South and West Auckland were chosen to take part in the week-long programme of challenging, fun activities in recognition of making positive, life-changing choices.
Youth Affairs Minister Paula Bennett also attended the celebration dinner at the Ellerslie Events Centre with the Prime Minister, along with business leaders, celebrities and community leaders.
"Every year I am really impressed by the young people I've met and the inspirational stories I've heard through this programme," says Mr Key.
"These young people have made a real effort to turn their lives around. They've overcome numerous challenges and made a determined effort to change their behaviour and lifestyles."
The participants were nominated by community leaders, including school teachers and Youth Aid officers, after improving academic performance, or by moving away from anti-social behaviour such as truancy or low-level offending.
This is the fourth year of the programme, which sees the participants engaging in a number of activities, including mentoring from sports stars and local celebrities.
Participants in this year's programme will also benefit from follow-up mentoring for up to three months after it finishes this week.


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Chris38 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 107 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
JackHammer HR will provide a several different options for construction companies to utilize for their outsourcing needs such as payroll services, workers' compensation, back office support, and staffing solutions for many types of businesses. The owners have had a PEO brokerage for a decade and want to move into a more blue collar arena.
They're young business owners who want to aggressively seek other businesses who need an additional source to add to their bottom line.
They need to create a website too, but have to start with branding their company. However because the website is not built, they do not know what type of format the character/logo needs to be in.
Construction, staffing, roofing, most blue collar companies, but not just limited to construction arena either.
IE: our other company that we own is the (axisgroupllc.com).
Character should be a person using or holding a jackhammer and his expression should be that of confidence and perhaps with a smirk; like he knows something that you dont. Someone gave an idea that the jackhammer could be destroying prices rather than concrete.
Artist has the option to blend or combine the name JackHammerHR with the character or match the 2 in some way.
We'd like to incorporate a jackhammer and a person using it.
I have included a picture of a jackhammer, since some arent sure what a jackhammer is.
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The Herbert Park hotel
Phone: + 353 1 667 2200
Delegates Dinner:
HEAnet Ltd has arranged a delegates Dinner for the evening of Thursday 23rd May at 19:00 (GMT). The dinner was at:
The Restaurant At The Schoolhouse
2-8 Northumberland Road,
Dublin 4,
Accommodation for Delegates Meeting Venue (Herbert Park Hotel):
A special rate has been negotiated at the Herbert Park Hotel which is inclusive breakfast and WiFi.
€125.00 B&B with WiFi – single occupancy
€135.00 B&B with WiFi – double occupancy
The above Rates were available till the 22nd April 2013. Accommodation in Dublin fills up very quickly and we would advise bookings be made as soon as possible to secure rates.
A reservation can be made using the attached booking form – please use the group code EIRG210513.
Alternatively you can contact the hotel directly, please phone: + 353 (1) 667 2200 or email: email@example.com
Please note the Herbert Park Hotel is a 10 minute Taxi journey from the e-IRG Workshop venue (Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute).
Alternative Accommodation Options:
Please note that no pre-reservations have been made.
Below are some other hotel suggestions that are in the local area. These hotels are within walking distance from the Delegates Meeting Venue location:
Sandymount Hotel: http://www.mountherberthotel.ie/
Bewley's Hotel, Ballsbridge: http://www.bewleyshotels.com/ballsbridge
Clyde Court Hotel: http://www.clydecourthotel.com/
Ballsbridge Hotel: http://www.ballsbridgehotel.com/
Transport Options:
Dublin International Airport
Dublin Airport is conveniently located approximately 10 km north of Dublin city centre. It is served by a large number of buses, coach's and taxis all allowing you to get to and from the airport with ease.
Via Aircoach (up to 40 mins):
Aircoach offers services from Dublin Airport to the City Centre, South Dublin on a 24 hours basis each day. Their City Centre service stops at most of the major hotels around Dublin City. The service is operated from both Terminal 1 & 2 in Dublin Airport, for timetables and fares please view the website at http://www.aircoach.ie/
Cash Fares:
Tickets are available to purchase from Driver on the coach or Customer Service Team at Dublin Airport.
Single Fare: €8.00
Return Fare: €14.00
Via Taxi (up to 30 mins):
Taxis are available from the forecourts directly outside Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Passengers should follow Taxi signage to the designated taxi ranks. A taxi dispatcher is available at either taxi rank if you require any further information or assistance.
Meeting Location & Map:
Here are the links to the meeting locations for
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute - http://www.tcd.ie/biosciences/visiting/
Herbert Park Hotel - http://www.herbertparkhotel.ie/location


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Lentil Soup: Comfort in a bowl
A bowl of warm soup sounds so comforting in wintry weather. Curl up near a fireplace with a bowl of aromatic soup and a good book is heaven.
Enjoy the simple and healthy lentil soup recipe from my kitchen.
For lentil Soup: [for 4 servings]
Lentils (Whole masoor) dry – 1 cup
Dry Spices:
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Red chili powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp
Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
Kasoori Methi -1/2 tbsp
Wet Ingredients:
Onion -1/2 (finely chopped)
Carrots – ½ cup (finely chopped)
Celery – ½ cup (finely chopped)
Tomatoes -1 cup (finely chopped)
Ginger – 1 tbsp (finely chopped)
Garlic – 1 tbsp (finely chopped)
Green chili -1 tsp (finely chopped) [Optional]
Cilantro– 2 tbsp (finely chopped) for garnish
Vegetable stock or water – 6 cups
olive oil – 2 tbsp
Salt as per taste
- Wash and soak lentils in water for couple of hours.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oil. Add cumin seeds. Let it crackle. Then add chopped onions, carrots and celery. Sauté till it becomes translucent. Add ginger, garlic and chopped green chilies (optional). Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes, red chili powder and coriander powder and let it simmer for 5-6 minutes on medium-low heat.
- Add the soaked lentils and vegetable stock/water to it. Simmer the soup on low heat for 35-40 minutes.
- Finally, add kasoori methi and let it simmer for 2 more minutes.
Garnish the Lentil soup with freshly chopped cilantro and serve with halved lemons.
Enjoy piping hot soup in winter nights.
Note: This soup can also be prepared in slow cooker.
Also submitted this recipe for My Legume Love Affair-19th helping event roundup, hosted by EC/Susan in,


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Characters from "Frozen," Disney's next animated feature, will make appearances at Epcot's Norway pavilion and in a Magic Kingdom presentation later this year, Disney World announced.
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Rosewill RX81-MP External USB/eSATA 3.5 Review
With the amount of data being moved in and out of computers you can never have enough storage space. So you just upgraded to the latest terabyte hard drive and don't know what to do with the old one? One perfect solution is to turn it into an external drive. With an external drive you can now have a place to back up important files or even transfer files from computer to computer. With the high capacity drives these days, external drives are becoming more and more popular to hold movies, photos, or even the ever important business data. Sure you can go out and spend the money on a pre-assembled external drive, but in many cases these units cost more than making your own, and besides being the enthusiast that I am, I like to build my own versus buying it pre-made.
Rosewill has one of these types of external enclosures for a 3.5 inch drive with USB 2.0 and eSATA connections. The Rosewill RX81-MP Enclosure allows you to take any 3.5 inch SATA drive and turn it into a portable storage medium for anything your heart desires to put on it. You can even have a separate operating system on it as long as your PC supports booting from external devices. Today I am going to assemble my own external drive using the Rosewill RX81-MP enclosure and put it through some tests to see how well it works.
Closer Look:
The RX81-MP Enclosure comes packaged in a very sturdy box to protect the contents. The front of the box shows the two versions of the enclosure as well as some of the features. The back informs you of the specs, the features of the RX81-MP and the system requirements needed to make the enclosure work properly. Included with the RX81-MP is the enclosure itself, the power brick and extension cable, a USB 2.0 cable, an eSATA cable, and some misc screws.
The RX81-MP is made of aluminum and metal to help dissipate the heat created by the hardrive. Essentially it acts like one big heatsink. The front is ported with holes to allow air to flow into the enclosure and cool the drive passively. The back has an on-off switch, a USB 2.0 port, an eSATA port, and the power port.
Now that you have seen what the RX81-MP is, lets install a drive in it so we can test it out.


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On Oct. 13, Pope Francis welcomed the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima to St. Peter's Square. Visibly overcome with emotion, he used the opportunity to promote his favorite Marian devotion, Our Lady Undoer of Knots. His remarks lifted this powerful devotion out of its obscurity and generated new interest worldwide.
It was in their native Brazil that Edson Bosetti and his wife, Rosana, discovered the devotion to Our Lady Undoer of Knots. In 2001, a friend touted the novena's power and urged the couple to visit the national sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady Undoer of Knots in Campinas, Brazil. The Bosettis felt so at home in the chapel they decided to dedicate themselves to promoting devotion to Our Lady Undoer of Knots. In 2005, they moved to Toronto and have worked from a small distribution center there filling orders for novena booklets and other items. Edson Bosetti talks to Our Sunday Visitor about his family's journey with Our Lady Undoer of Knots.
Our Sunday Visitor: Can you explain the symbolism of the image?
Edson Bosetti: In the image, Our Lady is untying the knots in a long ribbon. The ribbon is the ribbon of our life. On the one side, there are many knots, which represent the many problems we have and the sins that cause them. On the other side, there are no knots. This represents what happens when we turn our lives over to Our Lady. She unties all the knots.
OSV: How did the novena come to be?
Bosetti: In the late 1980s, a Brazilian named Denis Bourgerie and his wife, Suzel, discovered the image and devotion. They were so drawn to it that they built a chapel to Our Lady Undoer of Knots in Campinas, about 160 miles from São Paolo. They hung the image there and Suzel was so inspired by it that she wrote a novena to Our Lady Undoer of Knots. Then things started to happen.
OSV: What happened?
Bosetti: At first the novena was just on paper, and the Bourgeries started to hand it out. More and more people wanted copies, and eventually it was made into a booklet and was translated into 19 languages. People started to experience graces from the novena, and the number of people coming to visit the chapel grew so that they had to put up a loudspeaker so people could gather outside for Mass and prayers.
They realized that they needed a new chapel. There was an empty piece of land in front of the chapel, but there also was a nightclub next to it. On Friday nights, there would be drinking and noise, and on Saturdays the chapel members would have to go out and pick up all the empty bottles, syringes and condoms that had been left. Denis and Suzel decided that something had to be done, and so they prayed the novena for this.
The nightclub's business started to decline and finally it had to close down. The building was up for sale for seven years, but the chapel didn't have enough money to buy it. Finally, the owner agreed to sell the property to the chapel for 20 percent of the asking price. ... That was a miracle.
With that deal, the chapel was able to renovate the nightclub and build the new sanctuary, which holds 3,000 people. But it keeps growing. Now, so many people come that they have to use the loudspeakers again for events. Our Lady opens doors more and more.
OSV: Besides the Bourgeries, who is behind this initiative?
Bosetti: In Brazil, things are organized by the Servants of Mary. In Toronto, we have become a lay movement registered with the Archdiocese of Toronto.
OSV: How did you end up in Toronto?
Bosetti: In 1992, I was transferred by my employer from Brazil to Canada. In 1998, we moved back to Brazil because we missed our family and the harsh winters were difficult for us. We wanted our daughters, who then were 3 and 8 years old, to know their family. But, in 2004, the economy got bad in Brazil and so on St. Joseph's Day, March 19, in 2005, we moved back to Canada, where we started our lives again.
OSV: What happened to your commitment to the Our Lady Undoer of Knots ministry?
Bosetti: Immediately we began working to make Our Lady Undoer of Knots better known in Canada. We built a website and began selling the booklets and other items on the Internet and it just kept growing. Then we became a registered lay movement.
OSV: How has your work grown?
Bosetti: We are reaching 200,000 booklets distributed since 2005. That comes to about 2,100 a month. We ship to countries all over the world with English speaking people — Australia, England, India, even to the Philippines, Hong Kong and Thailand as well as the United States and Canada, of course.
We also distribute booklets through EWTN, Spirit Daily and other outlets.
OSV: What keeps you going with such a demanding schedule and the inevitable setbacks that come with it?
Bosetti: We do it for the love of Jesus Christ and his Mother. When we get tired or face a difficult situation, we direct our thoughts to the Passion of Our Lord and to Our Lady's suffering during his Passion. We find great comfort in uniting our tears with Our Lady's tears. Giving everything to our Lord and Our Lady gives meaning to our suffering. Without that we would suffer like animals.
Marge Fenelon writes from Wisconsin.
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Democrats: Buono Taps Female Labor Leader As No. 2
Two Democratic officials say gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono has picked labor leader Milly Silva as her running mate.
The officials, one of whom got a call from the candidate Thursday, spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement is not scheduled until Monday.
The all-female ticket is a first for New Jersey.
Silva is a 43-year-old Hispanic from Montclair who leads a private union of low-wage health care workers.
Her selection for the lieutenant governor slot was first reported by PolitickerNJ.com.
Buono and Silva will face Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno on Nov. 5.
Silva appeared with Buono at an anti-foreclosure event earlier this month in Newark.
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April 23, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In the inaugural meeting between both programs, MIT emerged with a 17-11 win over the University of Redlands in a non-conference women's lacrosse tilt on Thursday. The victory raised the Engineers' ledger to 11-4 on the year as they eclipsed the previous standard for wins in a season which was set in 1995. Samantha O'Keefe and Edith Reshef powered MIT's attack with seven and six goals, respectively. Christy Smith paced the Bulldogs (6-6) with three goals and an assist.
Redlands raced out to a 5-1 lead after 7:23 elapsed in the opening frame. Following 10 minutes of scoreless play, a free-position shot by Reshef ignited a 6-1 run which put the Cardinal and Gray ahead, 7-6, at the 5:14 mark. Megan Prickett notched the equalizer 23 seconds later, however, MIT countered with two goals during the final 27 seconds of the half. Casey Flynn recorded an unassisted marker and then set up O'Keefe to give the hosts a 9-7 edge at the break.
Haley Kern's solo effort early in the second stanza brought the Bulldogs within one, but the Engineers posted three straight goals in a span of 1:26 to extend their lead to 12-8. An extra-man goal by Liza Gray and a free-position strike from Smith cut Redlands' deficit in half (12-10) with 18:37 left to play. An unassisted goal from Erica Little and a blast by O'Keefe that was set up by Lynne Tye gave MIT some breathing room. Another free-position shot from Smith brought the Bulldogs within three (14-11) with 13:56 remaining. Back-to-back goals from Reshef and a solo effort by O'Keefe thwarted any hopes of a late rally for Redlands.
Flynn finished with two goals and two assists as Little totaled two goals and three draw controls for the Engineers. Lauren Rodda led the defense with four groundballs and two caused turnovers while Reshef added three groundballs. Tye registered a game-high six draw controls as Stephanie Brenman notched four of her own. In net, Molly McCartin collected seven saves.
Lauren Matta recorded a hat-trick and three draw controls while Gray paced the Bulldogs with four draw controls and three groundballs. Julia Chope contributed two groundballs as Smith tacked on two draw controls. Katrina Hostak amassed 13 saves in net.
MIT will wrap up regular-season play on Saturday, April 25 when it hosts NEWMAC foe Wellesley College. Redlands returns to the West coast for a road game at Whittier College on Monday, April 27.


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