Egypt Adrift Five Years After The Uprising

As Egypt approaches the fifth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, one would be forgiven for assuming that a major challenge to the regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was gathering coherence and force, based upon its panicked and paranoid current actions. But such a conclusion would be misplaced. The regime's overblown fears of a largely neutered opposition raise a pertinent question: What is driving the Egyptian security establishment's overbroad and suffocating repression?The run-up to January 25 has seen a major crackdown that has included arrests, disappearances, random searches (including random surveillance of social media accounts), the shuttering of nonpolitical cultural fora, such as art galleries, and a heightening of visa monitoring for foreigners. For this upcoming symbolic date, the regime will not be caught unaware and flat-footed -- it believes that the mistakes of 2011 will not be repeated any time soon.Speaking to Reuters, an official at Egypt's Homeland Security Agency explained the state's motivations for the crackdown quite bluntly, stating that "We have taken several measures to ensure activists don't have breathing space and are unable to gather, and several cafes and other meeting places have been closed, while some have been arrested in order to scare the rest."Whereas late 2010 was marked by creeping dissatisfaction, increasing boldness, and stepped-up organizational efforts among opposition actors, there are no corollaries in today's Egypt. While the government continues to fare poorly in terms of overall performance, political life is stunted by fear and fragmentation, and there are few avenues that allow for the amplification of dissatisfaction into a broad-based challenge to the regime. Opposition forces are fragmented and intimidated, while the regime, the state, and social elites retain a baseline of cohesion, and domestic and regional instability have produced quiescence in some sectors of society.It is clear that 2016 will not be the year of the next Egyptian uprising, let alone revolution. Yet, despite indications that, for the time being, the regime is safe from any popular threat, it is behaving as if it faces an imminent challenge. Its actions reveal a deeply ingrained worldview in which even minor forms of dissent and nonconformity are no longer permissible

A MANAGED APPROACH OF INTERACTION BETWEEN AGILE SCRUM AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

In current age the agile software development is one of the most popular software development methodology but due the mismanagement and lack of efficient handling of agile scrum and software configuration management system our software industry is facing a high rate of failed product, keeping this as my motivation, I have designed a efficient checklist which will help the industry to organized the interaction between agile scrum process and software configuration management system in a efficient and managed way and definitely that will increase the successful project in the software industry. Index-term : Agile Scrums, Software development, Software configuration management system, Checklist, Successful project

Mapping seagrass from satellite remote sensing data

This paper reviews some early results on a method adopted in mapping seagrass using Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper data. Seagrass information was extracted from satellite remotely sensed data using depth invariant index (DII) where the sea bottom features were expressed as index (i.e. each bottom type was represented by one index). DII was determined from radiance values recorded in band 1, 2 and 3 which taking into account the effect of water attenuation. Sea truth samples collected during the satellites overpass were used in calibrating DII and an independent accuracy assessment of information extracted

PENGARUH MOTIVASI DAN SEMANGAT KERJA TERHADAP PRESTASI KERJA PEGAWAI BADAN PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DAN PEMERINTAHAN DESA KABUPATEN KONAWE

Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendapatkan bukti empiris pengaruh motivasi dan semangat kerja terhadap prestasi kerja. Teknik sampel adalah sensus, yakni 25 orang pegawai Badan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat dan Pemerintahan Desa Kabupaten Konawe. Setelah dilakukan analisis regresi berganda, maka  diperoleh hasil bahwa motivasi dan semangat kerja terhadap prestasi kerja, baik secara simultan maupun parsial. Semangat kerja memiliki pengaruh dominan dibandingkan dengan motivasi. Hasil ini juga didukung oleh statistik deskriptif yang mendapatkan tanggapan responden tinggi. Kata kunci: Semangat Kerja, Prestasi Kerja, Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Abstract: The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence of the effect of motivation and morale on work performance. The sample technique is a census, namely 25 employees of the Konawe District Government and Community Empowerment Agency. After doing multiple regression analysis, it is found that motivation and morale towards work performance, either simultaneously or partially. Morale has a dominant influence compared to motivation. These results was also supported by descriptive statistics that get high respondent responses. Keywords: Spirit of Work, Job Performance, Community Empowerment

Testing performance of standards-based protocols in DPM

In the interests of the promotion of the increased use of non-proprietary protocols in grid storage systems, we perform tests on the performance of WebDAV and pNFS transport with the DPM storage solution. We find that the standards-based protocols behave similarly to the proprietary standards currently in use, despite encountering some issues with the state of the implementation itself. We thus conclude that there is no performance-based reason to avoid using such protocols for data management in future