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By Mike Mount
A hypersonic aircraft launched by the Air Force Tuesday spiraled out of control and was destroyed before it could reach its goal of speeding to 4,600 mph, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The third test of the X-51A Waverider was launched Tuesday off the California coast from a B-52 modified bomber aircraft and was to fly for 300 seconds, reaching hypersonic speeds of Mach 6, but only flew for 16 seconds, according to the Air Force.
Officials said a problem with a tail fin caused the missile-like vehicle to fly out of control before the main engine could be ignited, leading researchers to destroy it early.
"A fault was identified with one of the cruiser control fins. Once the X-51 separated from the rocket booster, approximately 15 seconds later, the cruiser was not able to maintain control due to the faulty control fin and was lost," said a statement issued by the Air Force.
It's unclear what, if any, information was gleaned from the test. According to the statement, "Program officials will now begin the process of working through a rigorous evaluation to determine the exact cause of all factors at play."
The Air Force plans to go public with details of the failed test in a few weeks, after researchers are able to analyze the data from the flight.
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"It is unfortunate that a problem with this subsystem caused a termination before we could light the Scramjet engine," said Charlie Brink, X-51A Program Manager for Air Force Research Laboratory. "All our data showed we had created the right conditions for engine ignition and we were very hopeful to meet our test objectives."
The Air Force had four X-51A Waveriders and has tested three. Officials said they do not yet know when or if the fourth Waverider will be tested.
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Soooo. The F-22s aren't fast enough-we need something that will go 4600 mph....Units are struggling due to budget cuts to make sure their people have proper SAFETY equipment but thats not important-–we need to focus on 4600 mph hyper supersonic crap that makes absolutely no sense....quite simple if you ask me
That's just it...it's not simple...so nobody asked you. Just because you don't understand the difference between a manned supersonic aircraft and an unmanned hypersonic missile doesn't mean everyone else is equally dense.
I thought tail fins generally were bad at high mach speeds, they usually cause some flight anomalies. It would be nice to be provided with the design of the fin to determine at what speed the anomaly occurred at, ie. subsonic, supersonic, or transonic speed. My bets are sock waves and wave drag due to improper design, meaning design was based on highly supersonic flight, but didn't fully account for enhanced maneuverability at transonic or subsonic conditions.
Wow, thanks for the input. I guess all the hypersonic specialists in the AIr Force don't know as much as you do about designing tail fins. It must have been dumb luck that they worked for the first two flights, huh? Maybe the wind just blew it the right way and they got lucky...twice. If only you'd offered to give them your boundless knowledge before, you could have saved the taxpayer millions of dollars!!!!
(or maybe, something just broke, and you have no clue what you're talking about. I'm thinking the latter is more likely).
matt you are right next to me in computer apps shut up
How many more days will CNN be reporting this ?? Move on to current new please on your header.
Adrian your threw
Well, you spelled ONE word right out of three. Might want to skip computer class and go back to English. Sigh...
Why is it so bad that it failed?
The numbnuts in the Air Force should get some engineers from NASA that just landed a vehicle on Mars.
Good coment...Makes you wonder...Where does all of our tax dollars go......
Not to your school, apparently.
Landing a vehicle on Mars has been done before, multiple times now, although there were some failures too. Scramjets have not. That's why they are testing. Oh, and NASA doesn't have a perfect record. Consider Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 8, Challenger, Columbia, NOAA-19, MCO, Deep Space 2, MPL, SBIRS, Genesis, Hubble (later fixed), Helios, DART, and OCO.
you space-x mf are real dumb
What does Space X have to do with this test?
retractable tail fin anyone, iq 157 and I know what has to be done, pay me half what you pay ur guys please. ps ur stabilizer
is off, ur figuring it for mach 4 speeds not mach 6 which cause increase "water vapour" build up on a certain section(different extreme temp. plus speed ice catch a fin anyone.) Good luck guys
Correction...IQ 15.7
Considering that the flight was lost 15 seconds after launch and BEFORE the scramjet engine could be ignited you are merely speculating, trying to sound knowledgeable, about things that did not happen. Since the vehicle never got anywhere near Mach 1, much less Mach 4, 5 or 6, there is no evidence that you are correct, which is probably why the USAF has not hired you even at the reduced labor rate.
well, it seems that we can figure how the marine life dies during the tests. maybge
After all the big bucks spent on this puppy and it fails because of a faulty tail fin. Give us a break!
just looking at the lack of stabilizing wings it seems obvious this thing would lose increasing amounts of ability once it started wavering. What idiocy. And what would be the use of such a thing? To deliver murderous payloads in the blink of an eye? What? We aren't killing people overseas fast enough?
Thanks for the objective and creditable assessment "michael el".. Mr Aerospace Engineer and Rocket Scientist.
To kill "bad guys" with greater efficiency and speed that are fighting and sometimes killing my fellow servicemembers? ABSOLUTELY...if thats what this project's objective is. Maybe in your spare time, you're also a military affairs journalist with access to some of the details of this project and your speculation is actually creditable.
I'll bet good money you're none of the above and therefore you're "critque" of this project has ZERO relevance...do you enjoy looking foolish?
Hay Trevor. You and your fellow servicemen should not be there in the first place. Wake up.
And where are all of your tax dollars spent??? Or are U in the top 1% like Mittens????
Trevor, I think you are right about Michael el. I have no personal knowledge about this particular project, but my guess is that the X-51A is merely a test bed to prove up the concept and engine design which will probably be enlarged for use on MUCH larger aircraft, not necessarily all of which will be for military purposes. The concepts for hypersonic commercial aircraft that can do transoceanic flights in a few hours have long been on the drawing boards of aeronautical engineers here and abroad.
CRP- "over there in the first place"? Deflection from the topic by taking this very specific issue about possibly giving servicemembers an advantage on the battlefield to save their lives and you turn it into a "political" one? How proud you must be...
It's funny how it's bad for the government to try and spur innovation in the energy industry by providing loans for alternative energy research, the findings of which would be beneficial for all of human kind. But it's ok for the government to spend $100+ million for each vehicle, that will be destroyed (so far 3), to test what is essentially a better missile that would only benefit our military in the near to mid-term future or until our "ENEMIES" develop a similar technology.
You telling me that they would ever be able to fly civilians at mach 6 for commercial purposes?! LMAO!!!
Our priorities are so screwed up it's comical!
Wow, I didn't know that the military "protected and served" itself... If this project produces weapons that benefits me and my fellow servicemembers and gives us an advantage on the battlefield this is a waste? I do really appreciate your support and everything you've done your country...
A least he's not out there killing women and children like your fellow servicemen. Do you feel big when you call in a jdam strick on a family?
CRP- INTENT is huge isn't it? Or do you just assume folks like us do this without discrimination? You have no idea of the ROE and restrictions placed on us to minimize civilian casualities over here pal...continue to call us "baby killers"...the vast majority of the American people have our support, you can continue with your assumptions about what really goes on over here from the safety of your home, we'll continue to defend your right to "mouth off" about things you know nothing about...
Well, LowNtellect, the very idea of hypersonic commercial space travel has already been widely promoted for a couple of decades, and a few wealthy individuals have already been able to experience speeds well beyond Mach 6, so yes, the idea of hypersonic commercial aircraft travel across oceans is very real and reasonable to expect in the near future.
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I am amazed that they were able to recognize a fault and abort the shot within sixteen seconds. They must have just launched it, focused their eyes on the screen and hit abort. A tail fin problem? You would think they would have gone over that potential and eliminated it after wind tunnel experiments with the form......that seems like negligence and is hard to believe. Same thing with that "lunar lander" that just blew up....I have sympathy for the designers and engineers for both these projects, in light of the Glorious Success of the Mars Curiosity Rover these guys must feel like they have egg all over their faces and they do.....they went off half baked. It shouldn't be allowed, they should be denied funding for future projects and be taken off these ones before they waste more precious time and money....a tail fin problem, and it took all of sixteen seconds in flight to determine that? Have they never heard of Quality Control? NDE testing of welds? Wind tunnel would tell about the fin's aerodynamic form and position, x ray or phased array would have told about the structural integrity of the fin......I don't believe this, not really. I may be just an uneducated old fool but I am observant of the testing that goes on when I am at work and while I know problems arise, this tail fin problem should never have arisen, due to the simple fact that it's a basic component of the flight capability.....how could it be problematic and them not know?
a teleporter wouldn't have any of these problems. sure, people may not rematerialize with all of their limbs and organs in the right place, but we could use Occupy Wall Street protesters as guinea pigs promising to teleport them all over the world each day to whatever the latest, greatest protest that is going on, until we get it right.
Exactly what kind of waves are you guys planning to ride? Electromagnetic waves, by chance?
Another 7.7 million down the drain.( I looked it up)So where's the tea bagger's and their government waste argument?
They were probably waving the flag as it crashed
Because waste due to a lack of oversight or by beaucratic design is something that shouldn't be tolerated...if you can point to where this project has either one of those characteristics let us know...
You are the one who said Lack of oversight and beaucratic design not the poster. Do you even read the comments befor you mouth off?
CRP- when the poster talks about the the Tea Party and alludes to money "down the drain", I'm telling him EXACTLY what their argument is and if he can point to "waste" with this project then do so...what EXACTLY is your point?
can't we act like North Korea and pretend everything went off without a hitch and we're now super-loaded with hi-tek space gizmos?
yeah, and then we'd be called Russia
Lol! Flew for 16 seconds. You mean fell out of the sky for 16 seconds. Faling is not equal to flying.
It did not fall thy blew it up reread the article
Why can't they just skip this missile stuff and bring back the Teleporter from Star Trek, that was way quicker, easier and didn't use so much fuel. There is the risk that a Klingon could attack you, but I'd rather deal with him than the fin coming off my rocketship at 4,600 miles per hour.
Meanwhile nearly 1 in 4 American children live in poverty; the second worst child poverty rate in the developed world, only slightly better than Romania's, and the United States ranks 49th in infant mortality, slightly ahead of Croatia.
Stopping R&D, like this test that failed is not going to stop poverty. The US spends about 40% of its budget on social programs, maybe better use of the money already allocated or better yet US citizens can get up and do something about it ,adding more money will not solve the problem.
Well, if you're smart, you probably aren't poor. And if you were smart, you'd know better than to have children that you cannot support.
You do the math.
Here are just some of the Federal and California social programs that benefit he poor.
. Medicare
3. Medicaid
4. Medi-Cal
5. Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (Food Stamps)
6. Aid to Dependent Children
7. Foster care
8. CalFresh -$54
9. CalWorks, the state's welfare to work program.
10. Unemployment compensation
11. K-12 education state funding
12. Section 8 housing
13. Supplemental Security Income/State Supplemental Payment (SSI/SSP
14. Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA)
15. Cash Aid for Families with Children
16. California Food Assistance Program (CFAP)
17. County Medical Services Program
18. Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (FSET)
19. Employment Development Department (EDD)
20. CalWORKS
21. Kin-GAP
22. Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program
23. Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP)
24. Emergency Welfare Services' Mass Care and Shelter Program
25. In-Home Care
26. In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
27. Adoptions Assistance Program
28. BabyCal, Breast and Cervical Cancer Programs
29. The Assistance Dog Special Allowance Program
30. The Access for Infants and Mothers (AIM)
31. Healthy Families Program
32. AVID Advancement Via Individual Determination
Okay, I'll play your game. You want to take $140 million (pick any number) from this program and give it to the poor. Right?
Then, we'll have $140 million spent on feeding people unable to feed themselves, or otherwise contribute to the economy. They'll sit around doing nothing...well, other than having kids they can't support. More money we'll need to spend.
In the meantime, you have $140 million worth of salaried people (about 1000 people) unemployed, since you just pulled their funding.
And you've lost incidental benefits from their research.
So, you rob Peter to pay starving Paul, and end up with a starving Peter and two Pauls who need continual feeding. Seems pretty obvious to me that it's a LOSING PROPOSITION!
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I guess this won't be the test flight that gets noticed by the Vulcans.....
It's the size of a missle...How it this any help to transportation? or daily life...it's not, it's great for destroying pre-emptive strikes agains the US using ICBM's or maybe other more traditional military hardwares. IDK...does anyone else think this?
We have ICBMs that go faster. If you want to carry more weight, like people or freight, you need to have an air-breathing engine that can go fast. This is an attempted proof of that concept. If it can be made to work, you can scale from there.
It is called R&D , this is how we learn, educate ourselves. The technology my be used in the future to power aircraft, missiles,or spaceships, etc......To learn....
Will this failure effect any of the upcoming 'flight's to the International Fake Station?
You have to be in the air for more than 30 seconds to fly from LA to NYC
Tell me how this is an improvement on the X-15 (which was successful and set world speed records) , which was launched form a B-52 decades ago. Are they trying to re-invent the wheel? Sure seems like it to me.
.... way different engine type.
The X-15 was manned and rocket-powered. The X-51 is unmanned and scramjet powered. Different engine technology that has great potential to change how you live.
@Blookerman, the vehicles in test are unmanned. The technology supports crew flights as well. @Tim, the X-15 traveled at maximum speeds of Mach 6. That's the maximum output performance capable of jet engines. The technology used in the new X-51A scramjet engines hold the potential of exceeding speeds of Mach 20 and is more environmentally friendly because it's engines run solely off oxygen instead of carbon based jet fuel.
Uh..no Matt....the scramjet doesn't just run on oxygen.
@Huh, unless you have some sort of insider knowledge, I can only go by what's reported. Try paragraph 12. ;)
It uses oxygen from the atmosphere for its engines, as opposed to carrying large fuel tanks that rockets require, making it a more efficient vehicle for military or commercial purposes...... This does not mean " because it's engines run solely off oxygen". Please research a bit more.
Very different type of engine.
Oh great!
It's funny how they try to hype up the mission's targeted flight time of 5 minutes with "300 seconds." Seems like a grossly misappropriation of the peoples tax dollars to destroy the $140 million vehicles after every test flight. The cost of search and recovery efforts can't possibly exceed that of building new ones.
eat your waffles
Um, these kinds of flights are ALWAYS timed in seconds. And for good scientific reasons. If you are recording data by the second, then you measure your flight time in seconds.
This being top secret military technology, probably it is destroyed to ensure that the technology doesn't get out. Whether you think that is a wise use of resources or not, you'll have to take it up with the military planners.
You and I have no clue how many untold millions and billions of taxpayer dollars were spent on military research since (random year) 1935. There is no progress without research and no research without money.
there goes another 140 million dollars down the drain. meanwhile our infrastructure crumbles. Some expensive 16 seconds.
Instead of the Air Force, perhaps NASA should be in charge of projects like this. They seem to have a better record of doing technological things right (and spend less money as well).
NAW! Why do that .. the Air Force wants to keep its' secrets ..not share them with NASA!
Please provide data on this better record and expenses. They both have had successes and failures. Here are some failures for NASA: Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 8, Challenger, Columbia, NOAA-19, MCO, Deep Space 2, MPL, SBIRS, Genesis, Hubble (later fixed), Helios, DART, and OCO.
it's primarily dealing with the force of the air, hence "air" force.
anyone going to the grocery store today?
Our rockets always blow up.
UHH, NO, they don't. Spend a little time actually researching a topic before you insert the foot.
Francisco was referring to Italy's rockets....not the USA. Take in the whole picture before reviewing.
You may want to read a book before replying and proving your ignorance.
It's a quote from a book. Google it and learn something.
Hooray! More of tax dollars gone! WOOOO!
Right, because it is much better to not try to advance our defense technology. Good call, Me.
What are we defending, the crumbling infastructure or miserable economy?
Defend against what? We spend more on our defense than the next 25 countries (the vast majority of whom we are allies with) COMBINED.
me = stupid
zon and experienced man – harsh on' ME.' Relax.
Defense spending should be as focused on anti-terro tactics as anything else. And NASA could do what the AF is trying. And by golly, there are times when our armed forces procurement system wastes lots of money...
Seeing as the prototype would have been destroyed regardless, and the purpose was the collection of data, then what we have here is instead of 300 seconds of data, we have 16 seconds of data, with that data, being from a failure, usually much more valuable in the long run than data from a success (as we always learn more from failure than from success).
So it certainly isn't tax dollars "gone". You could think of it as an unforeseen budget overdraft....
don't worry.
the military will just raid the social security trust fund to fund the next hypersonic flight. If that's not good enough they will just cannibalize other programs for funding.
maybe we all can set up a bake sale to fund the next hypersonic USAF flight.
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Exorcism of Roland Doe
In the late 1940s, priests of the Roman Catholic Church performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy, documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or "Robbie Mannheim". The boy, born circa 1935, was the alleged victim of demonic possession, and the events were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond Bishop. Subsequent supernatural claims surrounding the events went on to inspire the 1971 novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty and the 1973 film adaptation.[1]
Origin of claims[edit]
In mid 1949, several newspaper articles printed anonymous reports of an alleged possession and exorcism.[2] The source for these reports is thought to be the family's former pastor, Luther Miles Schulze.[1] According to one account, a total of "forty-eight people witnessed this exorcism, nine of them Jesuits."[3]
According to author Thomas B. Allen, Jesuit priest Walter H. Halloran was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the events and participated in the exorcism. Allen wrote that a diary kept by attending priest Raymond Bishop detailed the exorcism performed on the pseudonymously identified "Roland Doe" aka "Robbie". Speaking in 2013, Allen "emphasized that definitive proof that the boy known only as "Robbie" was possessed by malevolent spirits is unattainable. Maybe he instead suffered from mental illness or sexual abuse — or fabricated the entire experience." According to Allen, Halloran also "expressed his skepticism about potential paranormal events before his death."[4] When asked in an interview to make a statement on whether the boy had been possessed, Halloran responded saying "No, I can't go on record, I never made an absolute statement about the things because I didn't feel I was qualified."[1]
Early life[edit]
Roland was born into a German Lutheran family. During the 1940s the family lived in Cottage City, Maryland.[1] According to Allen, Roland was an only child and depended upon adults in his household for playmates, primarily his Aunt Harriet. His aunt, who was a spiritualist, introduced Roland to the Ouija board when he expressed interest in it.[5]
According to Thomas B. Allen, after Aunt Harriet's death the family experienced strange noises, furniture moving on its own accord and ordinary objects flying or levitating when the boy was nearby. The family turned to their Lutheran pastor, Luther Miles Schulze, for help. Long interested in parapsychology, Schulze arranged for the boy to spend a night in his home in order to observe him.[5] When parapsychologist J.B. Rhine learned that Schulze claimed he witnessed household objects and furniture seemingly moving by themselves, Rhine "wondered if Schulze "unconsciously exaggerated" some of the facts."[1] Schulze advised the boy's parents to "see a Catholic priest".[5]
According to the traditional story, the boy then underwent a number of exorcisms. Edward Hughes, a Roman Catholic priest, conducted an exorcism on Roland at Georgetown University Hospital, a Jesuit institution.[1]
During the exorcism, the boy allegedly slipped one of his hands out of the restraints; broke a bedspring from under the mattress, and used it as an impromptu weapon, slashing the priest's arm and resulting in the exorcism ritual being halted. The family traveled to St. Louis, where Roland's cousin contacted one of his professors at St. Louis University, Raymond J. Bishop, who in turn spoke to William S. Bowdern, an associate of College Church. Together, both priests visited Roland in his relatives' home, where they allegedly observed a shaking bed, flying objects, the boy speaking in a guttural voice, and exhibiting an aversion to anything sacred. Bowdern was granted permission from the archbishop to perform another exorcism.
Before the next exorcism ritual began, another priest, Walter Halloran, was called to the psychiatric wing of the hospital, where he was asked to assist Bowdern.[6] William Van Roo, a third Jesuit priest, was also there to assist.[6] Halloran stated that during this scene words such as "evil" and "hell", along with other various marks, appeared on the teenager's body.[6] Ostensibly, during the Litany of the Saints portion of the exorcism ritual, the boy's mattress began to shake.[5] Moreover, Roland broke Halloran's nose during the process.[6] Halloran told a reporter that after the rite was over, the anonymous subject of the exorcism went on to lead "a rather ordinary life."[6]
Investigations and explanations[edit]
In his 1993 book Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, author Thomas B. Allen offered "the consensus of today's experts" that "Robbie was just a deeply disturbed boy, nothing supernatural about him."[7]
Author Mark Opsasnick questioned many of the supernatural claims associated with the story, proposing that "Roland Doe" was simply a spoiled, disturbed bully who threw deliberate tantrums to get attention or to get out of school. Opasnick reports that Halloran, who was present at the exorcism, never heard the boy's voice change, and he thought the boy merely mimicked Latin words he heard clergymen say, rather than gaining a sudden ability to speak Latin. Opasnick reported that when marks were found on the boy's body, Halloran failed to check the boy's fingernails to see if he had made the marks himself. Opsasnick also questioned the story of Hughes attempts to exorcise the boy and his subsequent injury, saying he could find no evidence that such an episode had actually occurred.[1] According to Opasnick, individuals connected to the incident were influenced by their own specializations:
"To psychiatrists, Rob Doe suffered from mental illness. To priests this was a case of demonic possession. To writers and film/video producers this was a great story to exploit for profit. Those involved saw what they were trained to see. Each purported to look at the facts but just the opposite was true — in actuality they manipulated the facts and emphasized information that fit their own agendas."
Opsasnik wrote that after he located and spoke with neighbors and childhood friends of the boy, he concluded that "the boy had been a very clever trickster, who had pulled pranks to frighten his mother and to fool children in the neighborhood."[8]
Skeptic Joe Nickell wrote that there was "simply no credible evidence to suggest the boy was possessed by demons or evil spirits" and maintains that the symptoms of possession can be "childishly simple" to fake. Nickell dismissed suggestions that supernatural forces made scratches or markings or caused words to appear on the teenager's body in unreachable places, saying, "A determined youth, probably even without a wall mirror, could easily have managed such a feat-if it actually occurred. Although the scratched messages proliferated, they never again appeared on a difficult-to-reach portion of the boy's anatomy." On one occasion the boy was reportedly seen scratching the words "hell" and "christ" on his chest by using his own fingernails.[8] According to Nickell:
"Nothing that was reliably reported in the case was beyond the abilities of a teenager to produce. The tantrums, "trances," moved furniture, hurled objects, automatic writing, superficial scratches, and other phenomena were just the kinds of things someone of R's age could accomplish, just as others have done before and since. Indeed, the elements of "poltergeist phenomena," "spirit communication," and "demonic possession"-taken both separately and, especially, together, as one progressed to the other-suggest nothing so much as role-playing involving trickery."
Nickell also dismissed stories of the boy's prodigious strength, saying he showed "nothing more than what could be summoned by an agitated teenager" and criticized popular accounts of the exorcism for what he termed a "stereotypical storybook portrayal" of the devil.[8]
Religious perspectives[edit]
Two Christian academics, Terry D. Cooper, a professor of psychology, and Cindy K. Epperson, a professor of sociology, wrote that advocates of possession believe that "although they are not frequent, exorcisms are necessary for casting out the demonic" and "cases of genuine possession cannot be explained by psychiatry". Cooper and Epperson devoted a chapter of their book Evil: Satan, Sin, and Psychology to the case and dismissed skeptical explanations in favor of a theological perspective regarding the nature of evil.[9]
Literature and film[edit]
This exorcism case inspired the 1971 novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, which in turn was adapted into the classic 1973 film of the same name.[10] The case also inspired the 2000 movie Possessed, which is said to be closer to the "real" story since it is based on Allen's book.[10] A documentary was also made of the case, titled In the Grip of Evil.[11] Another documentary movie was made in 2010 named "The Haunted Boy: The Secret Diary of the Exorcist" where a group of investigators travels to the location in question and uncovers the diary that is said to be kept by William S. Bowdern.[12]
- ^ a b c d e f g Opasnick, Mark. "The Cold Hard Facts Behind the Story that Inspired "The Exorcist"". Strange Magazine #20. Retrieved 2014-09-25.
- ^ Brinkley, William (20 August 1949). "Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ The dark side of God: a quest for the lost heart of Christianity. Element. June 1999. ISBN 9781862044586. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- ^ Zagier, Alan Scher. "Exorcism of 1949 continues to fascinate St. Louis". AP.org. Associated Press. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ a b c d Thomas B. Allen (11 November 2013), Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, BookCountry, ISBN 978-1-4630-0367-8
- ^ a b c d e "Jesuit Priest Walter Halloran". The Washington Post. 2005-03-09. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
- ^ Dennis Drabelle., Book World; The Demon Within: Was It . . . Satan?., The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1993. HighBeam Research 27 Sep. 2014,
Allen is careful to delineate the symptoms of possession, thus softening the blow when, at the end of the book, he offers the consensus of today's experts: Robbie was just a deeply disturbed boy, nothing supernatural about him.
- ^ a b c Nickell, Joe. "Exorcism! Driving Out the Nonsense". Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 25.1, January / February 2001. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ Evil: Satan, Sin, and Psychology. Paulist Press. 2008-09-02. ISBN 9780809145362. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ a b Cinema of the occult: new age, satanism, Wicca, and spiritualism in film. Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp. 2008-12-31. ISBN 9780934223959. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ^ In the Grip of Evil. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ^ "The Haunted Boy: The Secret Diary of the Exorcist (Video 2010)". IMDb. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
External links[edit]
- The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Exorcist" - Diabolical Confusions
- Dean, Eddie (February 26, 1999). "Mr. Satan's Neighborhood: After 50 years of silence, Cottage City finally lets go of its demons". Washington City Paper. Retrieved May 21, 2012.

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Microsoft makes Samples and Documentation Public for Concord, Visual Studio Debug Engine
Visual Studio debug engine documentation is now available online, along with two samples. This debug engine, codenamed Concord, is Visual Studio's new debug engine that originally shipped in Visual Studio 2012.
Facebook Stetho: Debugging Any Android App with Chrome DevTools
Facebook has open sourced Stetho, an Android debugging bridge enabling developers to debug their apps using Chrome DevTools.
IntelliJ IDEA 14 Arrives
JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 14 a month ahead of schedule. This release introduces a wealth of innovative features, including a new decompiler, debugger improvements, editor enhancements, support for Android Wear/TV, and support for many JavaScript frameworks.
Introducing Rodney Viana's WinDbg Extension for .NET Debugging
When a .NET application fails in production the developer is often left with just a memory dump. Since Visual Studio cannot handle dumps, you have to instead look at a tool called WinDbg. Though powerful, these can be difficult to use so developers occasionally create their own extensions. Once such developer is Rodney Viana, who has just released netext 1.6.1 as an open source project.
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio with Editor, Debugger Extensions and Project System Support
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio has been released with features such as syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, code folding, function navigation, script Output in addition to support for breakpoint, locals, stack frame and project system.
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Improved JavaScript development in Visual Studio 11
Microsoft intends to make JavaScript development easier in Visual Studio 11 by significantly enhancing Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.
Google Dart Roundup: Dartium Binaries Available, I/O Libraries, Book and Docs
The first binaries of Dartium, Chrome with a built-in Dart VM, are now available for download. Dartium has the beginnings of debugging support in Dev Tools. Meanwhile, a lot of documentation resources have become available both from Google and outside.
Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation
Debugger Canvas, the tool that introduced 'Code Bubbles' to the Visual Studio Ultimate debugger, debuted last summer. Debugger Canvas 1.1 launches with new features including an easy on/off switch that can be used while debugging, and the ability to view multiple threads at once.
Chronon 2.0 Offers Post Execution Logging
Chronon Systems has recently released version 2 of their recording JVM debugger which allows for post execution logging.
Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging Minified JS As Well As CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
Debuggers for Javascript are powerful - but only for plain Javascript. Minified Javascript and languages compiling to Javascript are not supported, ie. that means no breakpoints or accurate log messages for CoffeeScript, ClojureScript etc. InfoQ looks at the current situation and at the recently launched projects at WebKit and Mozilla that aim to fix it.
Debugging Mobile Web Apps: Weinre and JSConsole Now, Remote WebKit Eventually
Debuggers in mobile web browsers are anemic at best. InfoQ takes a look at existing workarounds and tools like Weinre and JSConsole, as well as the upcoming changes in mobile browsers that will bring full debugging support. Also: the two mobile browsers that already live in the future and ship remote debugging support.
RedGate Will No Longer Offer .NET Reflector for Free
RedGate has announced that .NET Reflector is going to become a commercial product starting with version 7 which is to be made available in the first part of March, 2011, having a price tag of $35. Reflector Pro which allows developers to debug through disassembled code is currently offered for $95.
Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.8, Rubinius 1.2, MRI 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 Updates
A whole batch of new Ruby VM releases is available. MacRuby 0.8 fixes bugs and begins the path to 1.0. Rubinius 1.2 improves memory efficiency and the debugger. MRI received new patch levels: 1.8.7-p330 and 1.9.2-p136, the first big bug fix update to 1.9.2.
is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android's?
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Mobile push notification only on wifi
Can you tell me if you have meet this kind of problem.
My SMS notification works perfectly, but when I try to send test push notification (from Todoist.com, top right corner, clicked on the gear icon --> Settings --> Reminders --> send test notification) only what i get is silence.
When I turn my wifi (in home) on - push notification is alive!
For sure it's strange, my mobile internet works great, only issue i have is with Tosodist push notification.
To avoid question from staff, I've already done:
--> clear me cache,
--> uninstall,
--> install again Android app,
--> in app: Settings/Notification - ON,
--> in app: Settings/Todoist/Default reminder - Mobile notification.
--> in Todoist.com, top right corner and clicked on the gear icon --> Settings/Reminders/Default Reminder - Mobile Push.
Thanks in advance for help.
All responses
Hi Tomasz,
To clarify, all notifications work except for PUSH on mobile data? That is a unique issue. Normally we see issues with notifications on WiFi networks, as they can sometimes have security measures.
Can I ask which mobile provider you are using, does it have any kind of security, maybe an app installed for Android?
My mobile provider is - Poland T-mobile.
I'm not aware of any kind of security, from my provider.
Ffor example "Daily review" works correct, but I don't know if this notification works by push system.
Hello Tomasz,
Our push notifications are sent via the internet through Google's servers so the only issue that could cause this would be if your mobile network couldn't connect to the internet to accept an incoming notification-type message.
As Brendon mentioned, that's unusual and in fact the first report of this kind. I will pass it to our developers, but before I do, please tell me - do you see your device at the bottom of the list in the web-app's Settings -> Reminders? Only then will it be capable of receiving push notifications correctly?
Best regards,
Yes, I see my device at the bottom on mentioned list:
"Nexus 4"
I try to delete that device and try one more time to sync, but no success.
Thanks for solving the issue.
Please note, if you have removed that device listing, you will need to re-install the mobile app again, as now sync will for sure not work.
- Device removed from Settings,
- on Android app re-installed.
Nothing happened - still only wifi reminders works.
I'm passing this issue to the developers and we'll let you know as soon as they reply.
Best regards,
The only options that could cause this are:
- not being connected to 3G/4G at the time the notification may arrive
- Google server/delivery issues.
Right now we're working on a big update to our service which will be released in near future and address this issue as it will make notifications independent from network connectivity (generated offline by the app just as the "Daily review").
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Tarte Lip Scrub
8 reviews
75% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.1
Price: $$
Package Quality: 3.1
Price: $$
on 3/26/2015 4:50:00 PM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
It works fine but there is a lot less expensive stuff- particularly diy- that works the same. I prefer to spend money on actual makeup.... all things being equal.
on 3/26/2015 3:47:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Best lip scrub on the market! It's got a finer grainy texture than the Fresh sugar lip scrub. This tastes great and removes all the dry flakies.
on 8/10/2014 7:01:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This product is okay. I bought it to help get rid of the dry flakey skin on my lips. It didn't do anything to help with that but the smell and taste is nice and I enjoy wearing it as more of a lip balm.
The packaging isn't great. It comes in a little tin that looks super cute but is somewhat difficult to open and close.
Beware if you have pets, my dog also thinks this smells amazing and, in addition to always trying to lick it off my face, she will grab the tin and run away with it if I leave it out (I know, what a brat!). Even she has a hard time opening it though since everytime she gets it, I find it with another tooth mark in the container but it's never open.
on 3/3/2014 8:54:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
This stuff- I love!! It saved me from my dry winter lips. Trust me when I say I have the worst chapped lips in the winter time!! I bought this at ulta for around $15 I believe... The container tin is cute, but I agree with others it is kinda hard to open... The product itself is amazing though!! It's like a minty hydrating sugar scrub that tastes amazing!! It does a great job at removing dead skin and providing me smooth lips. I always put Chapstick on after applying this to ensure smooth lips! Will definitely repurchase in my winter months...
on 1/15/2014 2:27:00 PM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
First, I have to talk about the packaging. This comes in a tin that you need to be Houdini to open. Seriously, this is just the container from hell. It isn't just me either- my husband and 21 yr old had an issue opening it as well as a lot of reviewers at Sephora. This should be repackaged by tarte in an easier to open tin or squeeze tube.
Okay, with that out of the way - this product is amazing. It exfoliates, hydrates and renews your lips. Mine were a chapped, dry, flaky , winter-in-Chicago , 17 degrees below zero mess and after 2 uses of this stuff they look like they do on a nice warmish spring day. They look better, younger, wonderful.
Finally , I have super- sensitive skin with pores that clog easily. I used this not only on my lips but up onto a bit of the skin surrounding them that was a little chapped . Not only did it work, I felt no stinging and no pores were clogged.
Thank you, Tarte, for a great product. Now repackage this!
on 3/20/2013 2:30:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
I was a loyal user of their Frixtion lip scrub but they discontinued it and replaced it with this new maracuja scrub. I am happy to say that I really like it. I first apply a drop of their maracuja oil on my lips, rub the scrub on my lips, rub it off with a tissue and apply a lip balm. It works and leaves my lips baby soft.
on 2/11/2013 2:20:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I loveeee this exfoliate for my lips. I have searched for this all week and could not find this at any sephora let a lone in any other beauty store. I had to order it on beauty.com and it was a dollar cheaper. Due to this item, I am now purchasing everything by Tarte. Love it!!
on 6/20/2012 11:40:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Very Oily, Tan, Warm
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I got this in a qvc kit. This product comes in a purpe oval shaped tin container, its pretty! I use a qtip instead of my finger. This product doesnt really scrub instead feels like a lip balm. Its very minty and I do find that it dries out my lips. However since its a scrub I go over with a balm afterwords.
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MS Dynamics CRM 3.0
If I only have native controls on the modal form, I do not see this behavior (e.g. cannot bring up the parent form while the modal form is showing).
The odd thing is that if I call the modal form using Form.ShowDialog(this), the application behaves properly.
So it's probably something to do with the 3rd party control. Could it be messing (is it even possible) with the ownership of the form?
For what it's worth, the default parent is whatever the "currently active window" is. Obviously in the case of the 3rd party control, there's some extra window running around that is treated as the "currently active window". Assuming the 3rd party control is really just a control, this seems wrong to me, but then there's lots of 3rd-party stuff out there that's wrong.
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Can I write a check to send somebody money through western union?
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Posted 03/26/2012 08:33:34 EDT
Turco da man! Timmy can step back now and spend more time with the Santorum campaign.
Posted 03/23/2012 07:46:15 EDT
Timmy Tuck sucks cuz he can't see the pucks. He should go and have a cup of tea with Santorum.
Posted 03/22/2012 08:40:44 EDT
Muddy II, You are one smart dude. Are you also at MIT?
Posted 03/16/2012 08:36:53 EDT
Tim Thomas the idiot could not black any of the goals! He should go become Santorum's vice-presidential running mate.
Posted 03/13/2012 10:32:02 EDT
Thomas is an idiot.
Posted 01/01/2012 03:01:44 EST
Fast and Furious -- Watergate meets Iran Contra, with actual DEAL BODIES -- doesn't rate in the top ten? Nope, no liberal bias here.
Posted 07/10/2011 03:22:07 EDT
But of course in America we wouldn't just use a rattan cane. No, it would be a high-tech, hypo-allergenic synthetic, engineered to exact specifications, and the flogging would take place in a sterile more »
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"The gaming industry's current champion hasn't announced any plans to debut a new console." What does this have to do with Microsoft? How are they gaming's current champion? The Wii and DS have killed more »
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Don't lose heart - it is just another bump in the road. We WILL win the World Series this year. more »
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We will kick butt today and send the Cubs scurrying. more »
Posted 05/07/2011 04:53:17 EDT
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Posted 05/05/2011 09:57:46 EDT
It's high time they stem the sucking sound of cancer research. Cancer research gets a disproportionately high amount of research funds at the expense of other research areas that do not have as much p more »
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Only in Massachusetts. To paraphrase Abe Maslow, to a society whose biggest feature is an irrational phobia, every problem looks like their favorite boogeyman. The rest of us, who live out in America, more »
Posted 03/28/2011 06:31:17 EDT
If these people were from Ireland, Italy or England, we would feel compelled to help them. But hey, these people are dark-skinned. The xenophobia and racism is obvious in the comments by the ignorami. more »
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" They give citizens the power to elect their rulersâ¦"I've voted in every election since I attained the age of majority, and not one have I ever voted for anybody to be my "ruler." more »
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@bimmergal - you have that handle you're calling people in Newton "snooty"? Where do you live - Brookline? Wellesley? more »
Posted 01/02/2011 12:39:38 EST
Task for today: write your Representative and ask him why the Massachusetts state house has what may quite possibly be the last human-operated elevator in the free world. See if he admit's the real an more »
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"In 1910, Congress enlarged the House to 435 members â and there it has remained, even as the number of Americans has more than tripled⦠The Framers reckoned congressional districts should contain more »
Posted 12/24/2010 09:50:11 EST
Kashmir is just a distraction. If Kashmir was not there, Pakistan would find another issue as an excuse. America has to wake up and smell the coffee and realize that Pakistan has never been and will n more »
Posted 12/19/2010 02:06:21 EST
THe answer is simple. What answer is most likely to get Mitt Romney elected at any given time? That's the answer you will get from Mitt Romney. The man is not just an empty suit -- he has an expensive more »
Posted 12/15/2010 03:03:56 EST
Sorry, Jeff, but here we part company. This is the language of imperialism, interventionism, paternalism, the "white man'd burden," call it what you will. You want a politician to make speeches, annou more »
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The proliferation and increasing power of handheld devices and rising expectations among enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM) users for constant mobile access to business data is creating new demands and challenges for corporate information technology (IT) departments. With the trend toward bring your own device (BYOD), IT departments are finding it increasingly difficult to dictate the hardware platform used to access enterprise data, which presents new security challenges and forces a more collaborative relationship between IT departments and end users.
There are legitimate reasons for end users to need always-on access to ERP on their handheld device. ERP is transitioning from a purely transactional system into one that facilitates real-time business decisions based on enterprise data. In a time when business is moving more rapidly than ever before, relevant data must be available to an executive anytime, anywhere. But mobile access is not just essential for those in the C suite. More knowledge workers and managers are working remotely or while traveling. And our consumer-driven culture also dictates that the attractive devices and user-friendly interfaces will spur an increased demand for enterprise data in the palm of the hand. This is not a matter of junior employees going rogue and using non-sanctioned hardware. Senior executives who are in a position to disregard IT directives are perhaps the most likely to be involved. The consumerization of enterprise IT is under way.
One of the most daunting challenges posed by this mobile revolution is data security. When mobile devices are used to access financial data, customer records, and other sensitive files, how can an IT department ensure that data is secure?
Not a New Problem Mobile data security is not a new problem. It was not so long ago that all data was disseminated on paper, and we had the same problem. Executives carried sensitive customer information on paper in their briefcases, which were also easily lost, stolen, or compromised. More recently, laptops with huge hard drives full of corporate information have posed an even greater data security threat. This is an old problem with new technological challenges. What is different is the rate of change. Management of laptops evolved along with the use of those laptops, allowing IT to (more or less) keep up. Not so with the mobile revolution; the technology is evolving faster than IT can keep pace.
As we entered the digital age, traditional IT organizations were built around servers and conventional workstations, which are now well-managed and mature technologies. Laptops also are typically well managed, even though they are mobile devices. When laptops initially became mainstream corporate devices, they were costly and complex to network, and as a result, IT departments had to drive the rollout of these devices. But smart phones, smart devices, and tablets are comparatively low-cost devices and consumer-oriented, which means it does not require a skilled IT staff to get them into users' hands. Some early smart phones such as BlackBerry included corporate control mechanisms, but these devices are rapidly being supplanted by iPhones and Android devices, which due to their consumer-oriented nature are less secure. These newer devices can be made secure, but the rapid rate of adoption of these devices has IT staff scrambling. Android devices can be secure, but they are vulnerable in part because of their openness and because of the wide variation in the devices.
Different technologies can be used to access data in the mobile world. From a security standpoint, a browser-based application may be most desirable. A browser-based interface is preferred because data is not stored on the mobile device. But browser-based apps lack the optimization for mobile devices that native apps provide, often because they are not designed for the small screen and tend to have a keyboard-centric approach. Native apps—those that reside on the phone or tablet itself—require some distribution of enterprise data. But they can offer a highly optimized user experience and are easier to use on mobile devices. Native apps can take full advantage of the device's capabilities, including cameras and global positioning system (GPS) services. Finally, native apps tend to work better on mobile networks, which can be slow or spotty, than browser-based apps do. From a usability standpoint, the preferred approach is to use native apps with data that has been distributed to the device.
The IT department has some choice in how it manages the details. But it has little choice but to address the challenge head on or risk alienating its user community.
From the viewpoint of a chief information officer (CIO), this is a sea change in terms of the basic security model and who has access to what. If the company owns the servers and the data is on the servers, the company has pretty good control. But when mobility is introduced, the data is distributed across multiple devices that may not even be controlled or owned by the company. The CIO has just lost his or her single point of control. Proprietary and potentially valuable customer information is now being carried around on devices that are easily lost, hijacked, or stolen.
Striking a Balance These facts dictate that the relationship between the IT department and end users can no longer be a command and control affair. It must evolve into a collaborative relationship that strikes a balance between access and security. This collaboration can start with shared decisions as to the types of applications to use to support the enterprise, the data that ends up on these devices, and the management policy for mobile devices.
It is apparent that mobile applications are used very differently than traditional business applications. An individual will not sit down and churn through long jobs on a mobile device. Mobile applications are characterized by support for very lightweight tasks—what is increasingly referred to as information grazing. A user approves things, rejects things, and defers things; mobility is not about heavy usage of deep application functionality. The mobile application needs to avoid application bloat and focus on the key lean features that need to be accessible at all times to support the business, while minimizing the data that ends up on a handheld device.
The realities of the mobile device user experience and connectivity means that native apps are the most intuitive and desirable way to work on mobile devices. The rate at which native apps are being produced specifically for the different mobile platforms versus traditional Web applications being optimized for mobile devices makes it apparent that this is the way enterprise application end users will be working.
While IT may have to relinquish some control over which mobile devices are used to access enterprise data, it still must track—and demand an appropriate level of administrative control over—mobile assets that have access to corporate data. Fostering a collaborative, rather than a dictatorial relationship between IT and users is key to making this happen. If IT implements and documents best practices around mobile security, and makes sure end users understand and adhere to them, most end users will cooperate. Policies must cover basic practices, such as the need to lock devices or wipe the data on them when they are lost. A collaborative decision as to what apps are to be used to access enterprise data can also help minimize vulnerability and achieve the business agility users are demanding.
Work with Your ERP Vendor Most organizations need only a fairly limited set of apps to drive business value, and until recently most organizations had their own IT departments build their business apps. Homegrown apps can be difficult to support and maintain, and may not be as elegant as something developed for a broad community of users. Further, homegrown apps tend to tunnel in directly to an ERP or other enterprise solution, which can create security issues. Fortunately, today increasing numbers of vendors of ERP, EAM, or field service solutions are delivering packaged mobile applications.
The approach we have taken at IFS is to offer a series of native mobile apps with built-in provisions for device security, encryption for data that is on the device, and basic user management features, for users to manage elements such as user IDs and personal identification numbers (PINs). These applications are also designed to limit the amount of data that is on the device to the minimum necessary to accomplish specific lightweight tasks. Our focus is on understanding what mobile tasks drive business value, building the apps that are sufficient for these tasks and the types of users, and then securing that data, particularly in the event the device is lost.
The cloud can also play a role in reducing both IT management cost and security vulnerabilities. With many homegrown mobile apps, mobile devices have direct connections into an ERP or EAM solution or database. An IT department must then deal with a number of firewall-related questions, which adds complexity. Of course, the need to navigate a firewall can result in a connection that is finicky and still expose security vulnerabilities.
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Our approach has been to use a cloud-based intermediary between the mobile device and a customer's enterprise environment. This approach implements a secure connection between the cloud and a customer's enterprise servers, and between the cloud and users' mobile devices (Figure 1). No data is stored in the cloud, and no mobile device connects directly to the customer's enterprise servers. This yields a secure method of mobile access, but also greatly reduces connectivity and provisioning overhead. Users obtain their apps from the usual sources, including iTunes or the Android market, so users manage their own devices and use their credentials to connect to the cloud, which in turn acts as a broker to talk to the back-office application. Meanwhile, our customer's IT department uses a cloud portal to control which users are allowed to use various apps, and to disable access quickly in the event a device is lost or an employee is terminated.
Conclusion Mobile apps—not just Web-based apps, but native mobile apps—are here to stay. They are the workstation of the future—the new normal. Increasing out-of-office productivity by allowing mobile access to enterprise data and systems can drive business value by taking non–value-added time out of business processes. Today's organizations need to support mobile devices, whether this means adapting current enterprise solutions or evaluating new enterprise solutions. A CIO and IT department of an organization of any size must plan to allow for BYOD and the growing consumerization of enterprise IT. Because if they don't, users will find a way to circumvent whatever controls are put in place. IT departments must collaborate with end users to find a balance between control and access, and then look to enterprise software vendors for a technology platform that meets business needs and user expectations while mitigating security concerns.
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