{Rwandan teams have demonstrated good playing at the beginning of East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) games that commenced yesterday in Kigali.}
Only three EALA country members have participated at the beginning of the matches while Burundi and Tanzania teams had not shown up by yesterday.
The games were preceded by the meeting of organizers of the competition with representatives of EALA country members which participated. The meeting was meant to come up with common plans of making a good arrangement of games that put emphasis on unity and promoting awareness among peoples of the member states.
The competition began with a tug of war, won by Kenyan Female team, followed by Rwanda. In athletics, the 100 meter sprint was taken by a Kenyan, Isaac Melly emerged the first, a Rwandan, Gatabazi JMV emerged the 3rd.
Commenting on the absence of Burundi and Tanzania Daniel Fred Kidega, the EALA Speaker said that their absence is justified.
“The absence of Burundi can be understood, you know it is in political crisis. In Tanzania, the parliament has a new administration and has not yet normalized the situation. This is the reason behind their lateness as they are still organizing themselves,” her said.
Rwandan parliamentarian Mukazibera Agnes, said that the first day of the games has been successful adding that they will keep up efforts to show good performance.
{Bishop Rukamba Philippe of Butare Diocese has been elected to head the Episcopal Conference of Catholic Bishops of Rwanda, replacing bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege who has been leading the Conference for six years.}
Elections of the new leader were held during the 4th Episcopal trimester closing the year, held from Monday to Friday this week.
Thadée Ntihinyurwa, the archbishop of Kigali Diocese has been elected to be the vice chair of the Conference.
Harorimana Vincent, the bishop of Ruhengeri diocese and Antoine Kambanda ,the bishop of Kibungo diocese have been named advisors of the Conference.
On the previous Council, Bishop Thadée Ntihinyurwa was the vice president, while bishops Rukamba Philippe and Harorimana Vincent were advisors.
The conference has approved three-year dedications thus; 2016 will be dedicated to actions of benevolence, 2017 will be marked by celebrating 100 years since the first Rwandan became a priest while 2018 will be dedicated to actions of unity and reconciliation where it will be linked with the commemoration of the 24th Genocide perpetrated against Tutsi in 1994 .This will go hand in hand with the evaluation of the scale of unity and reconciliation among Rwandans.
The conference deliberated on issues related to the management of seminaries in Rwanda where priests acknowledged that the number of people willing to become priests surpass what the available facilities can accommodate.
Family disputes and Catholic Church contribution to the resolution of domestic violence also emerged on the agenda of discussion.
Bishop Philippe Rukamba also assumes duties of Catholic church spokesperson in Rwanda.
{MTN Rwanda yesterday handed over a cheque worth Rwf 3 million to support the families of vulnerable ex-combatants under the Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission.
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The cheque was received by the Minister of Local Government (MINALOC), Francis Kaboneka at the Ministry offices in Kacyiru.
“This gesture is part of the company’s long tradition of giving back to society because we at MTN Rwanda, realize and understand the importance of continued support towards the communities where we operate in a sustainable way,” said MTN’s Chief Executive Officer, Gunter Engling at the handover ceremony.
Honourable Kabonekat thanked MTN for its efforts and commitment in supporting vulnerable families.
According to Engling, MTN has supported a number of initiatives in the areas of Education, Health, Economic empowerment, Environment and Community Development through its Corporate Social Responsibility platform, MTN Foundation. The Foundation was created to focus on giving back to society and “Impacting the quality of lives in our communities” in a meaningful way.
{Police and students currently in their holidays in Kayonza District held a half-day meeting on December 3 in Mukarange Sector to discuss ways to reinforce the partnership in community policing and to fight drug abuse.}
While speaking to the students, AIP Eraste Niyibizi, the District Community Liaison Officer of Kayonza told the holidaymakers that the Rwanda National Police proactive concepts of community policing binds everyone in fighting and preventing crimes, which they should actively be part of.
“Through this community-based policing, Rwanda has become one of the safest places, but we still encounter challenges related to illicit drugs, and most of the cases we find involve your generation including students,” Niyibizi said.
“It’s both my role and yours to fight crimes, report wrongdoers like drug traffickers and users, but first be free from drugs and any wrongdoings and set an example,” he added.
The meeting came days after some of the holidaymakers and other youth in the district were arrested in drug-related crimes
Niyibizi took them through types of drugs that are common in Rwanda like cannabis, illicit gins like Kanyanga, Chief Waragi and locally made illicit brew; their consequences on users; the role of the youth in fighting drug abuse and the mode of timely information sharing.
One of the students, Emmanuel Ntambara proposed that such a meeting should be held regularly either with police officers and local leaders or among the youth themselves.
“This is not the only number of students from Kayonza, meaning that the more we pass on this message to many of our colleagues to more results we will get in fighting drug abuse,” Ntambara said.
His colleague, Jean Claude Sindikubwabo echoed the same message urging all the participants to be agents of change in their respective communities.
The students agreed to rich out to other students in the district to have another meeting next week in big number, to share ideas on how to fight drug abuse and criminality in general.
SOURCE:POLICE:[Police, holidaymakers in Kayonza discuss on fighting drug abuse->http://www.police.gov.rw/news-detail/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=5735&cHash=b1652b37d90552bf1c45b308a27e7225]
{A two-week United Nations Police peacekeeping course ended on December 4 at the Police Training School (PTS) Gishari in Rwamagana District with a call for the officers to aim for perfection and peace building in conflict-ridden nations.}
While presiding over the official closing of the international peacekeeping course, the Rwanda National Police Deputy Inspector General in charge of Administration and Personnel, Juvenal Marizamunda thanked participants for their “dedication and enthusiasm to learn” which he said will help in shaping peacekeeping operations.
“What you learnt here is for your own benefit, the benefit of your respective institutions and people in missions where you will be deployed, so endeavor to put to use what you have learnt as we strive to make the world safer for all,” DIGP Marizamunda said.
He thanked the PTS leadership for conducting the course successfully and wished participants safe return back home.
The course organized in partnership with the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) and the British Peace Support Team (BPST), brought together 60 Police officers from eight countries, seven from Africa and Denmark.
Participating countries were Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda Demark and Rwanda, the host.
The course was designed to offer participants with the overview of the UN and AU, the dynamics of peacekeeping operations, the expected challenges in the missions and techniques of overcoming them, the skills, knowledge and attitude mandatory for any police officer in a peacekeeping mission among other subjects.
It is intended to produce more skilled police officers to support the consolidation of the recently achieved full operational capability of EASF.
The EASF is one of the five regional multidimensional Forces of the African Standby Force (ASF) consisting of Military, Police and Civilian components with a mandate to enhance peace and security in the Eastern Africa region.
It was established as a regional mechanism to provide capability for rapid deployment of forces to carry out preventive deployment, rapid intervention, peace support operations and peace enforcement.
The New Horizons probe has at last returned some of the super-sharp pictures it took of Pluto during its historic flyby in July.
The images released by the US space agency on Friday show details on the surface of the dwarf planet at a resolution better than 80m per pixel.
On Earth at this scale, one could easily discern a city park.
With New Horizons, we see crystal clear views of mountains, craters and smooth ice fields.
“These close-up images, showing the diversity of terrain on Pluto, demonstrate the power of our robotic planetary explorers to return intriguing data to scientists back here on Planet Earth,” said John Grunsfeld, the head of Nasa’s science directorate.
“New Horizons thrilled us during the July flyby with the first close images of Pluto, and as the spacecraft transmits the treasure trove of images in its onboard memory back to us, we continue to be amazed by what we see.”
The probe got to about 12,500km from the surface of the dwarf and acquired a mass of pictures and other instrument data.
But because of the vast separation to Earth, and the modest transmitter on New Horizons, the flow of information back home has been extremely slow.
Indeed, it is expected to take until late 2016 to get everything in the probe’s memory back on the ground.
The mission team prioritised what it wanted to see first, which included some general impressions of Pluto – the broad context. Now, nearly five months on from the flyby, we are being treated to some spectacularly detailed offerings.
Friday’s pictures come from a photographic strip that incorporates a segment of its icy flat terrain informally known Sputnik Planum, and the adjacent rugged al-Idrisi mountains.
“These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology,” said New Horizons’ chief scientist, Alan Stern, of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.
“Nothing of this quality was available for Venus or Mars until decades after their first flybys; yet at Pluto we’re there already – down among the craters, ice fields and mountains – less than five months after flyby! The science we can do with these images is simply unbelievable.”
All the pictures were acquired by New Horizons’ telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (Lorri).
The probe continues to move deeper into space. It is now about 167 million km beyond the dwarf planet and some 5.2 billion km from Earth.
The spacecraft has been put on a course to fly by another object known simply as 2014 MU69. This will occur in just over three years’ time.
However, the team does not yet have a budget from the US space agency to operate the probe at the roughly 45km-wide body. The scientists plan to submit a formal request for funding in the next few months.
SOURCE:BBC:[New Horizons: Sharpest images of Pluto’s surface->http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35013190]
{You can be as happily married as can be, there will always be some people that you meet throughout your life who catch your attention. And that’s okay. It doesn’t mean that you don’t love or value your partner, nor that you have interest in acting upon the attraction you feel towards others. It’s normal and totally human; don’t feel guilty about it. However, it is important to control how you react to it; only a fool will submit to the feeling or let everyone they are attracted to know it and if you do that, you are guaranteed a dysfunctional relationship. Don’t let it become more than just an attraction.}
First of all, pretending that you aren’t attracted to others, acting as if your partner is the only man on earth, is unhealthy. Openly discussing your emotions with your partner will eliminate the mystery of that other person, and, in my opinion, deter the pressures of adultery. Therefore, you’ll start to see him or her as just another good-looking person that asked you out while you happened to be with the love of your life.
But realize that this goes both ways. You can’t cringe when your partner starts telling you about someone who walked up to him to flirt.
{{Equality is key in a relationship.}}
Always be honest. Honesty is the key to trust. If you physically, mentally or spiritually feel attracted to another person, don’t keep it a secret or lie about it. I mean, of course you wouldn’t go home and say: “Hey babe, I saw this hot guy at work today…” but don’t be secretive about it either. That’s what most likely will get you tempted. We all know that we want what we can’t have, so don’t even put yourself in that position. Just keep it real with yourself and your partner.
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Don’t act upon the attraction.}} I think there’s a fine line between it being okay to feel attracted to someone and it not being okay. The key element here is to always respect your partner, yourself and your relationship. Another person may get the looks you’re giving them but let it stay at that. Don’t be one of those people who go out after just having an argument with their partner and start flirting with the person they’ve been eyeing – only to wake up to one of the biggest mistakes of their lives. That’s the easy and weak way out. If your relationship needs work then focus on that and don’t get distracted by eye-candy; it’s not worth it. Accept compliments. Smile and politely turn down the invitation to a date, remind yourself of your partner home waiting for you.
A lot of the discomfort we feel when we’re attracted to someone else other than our partner comes from the over romanticized notions of love, where the first flush of intoxication translates to “and they both lived happily after…”
{{It’s simply not realistic.}} Even putting the topic of this article aside, there is no perfect relationship. Every relationship has it’s ups and down’s, but don’t let that be a downer for the effort you were once willing to put in to make it work. There is nothing more rewarding than getting through the hard times together, pushing through and to still stand strong together – as a team, after all.
SOURCE:MADAME NOIRE:[When You’re Married With Children, Is It Cool To Flirt With Someone Other Than Your Spouse?->http://madamenoire.com/602506/when-youre-married-with-children-is-it-cool-to-flirt-with-someone-other-than-your-spouse/]
{After months of speculation, Usher Raymond confirmed that he is, in fact, married to Grace Miguel. The singer made the revelation during a recent interview with Elle DeGeneres.}
“Congratulations to you – he got married!” said Ellen.
“Thank you!” Usher replied. “In Cuba – it was really great.”
In September, the rumor mill began swirling with marriage talk, but Usher insists that he and Grace didn’t tie the knot when everyone thought that they did.
“Did you get married here and then go to Cuba for your honeymoon?” Ellen asked.
“No, we were in Cuba,” Usher said. “You know what’s funny? We put this picture up, and we were actually just in Cuba on a cultural exchange and people were like, ‘Hey, they got married.’ But you know, the ring is on the other finger, you guys. But we had a great time. [Grace is a] wonderful woman.”
{Canadian scientists have found that breastfeeding cuts a woman’s risk of getting diabetes by a quarter.
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The researchers also found that breastfeeding also reduces a baby’s chance of developing diabetes in adulthood by almost a fifth.
The researchers believe breastfeeding helps protect a woman from diabetes by using up excess fats and sugar in a mother’s body.
Professor Gary Shen of the University of Manitoba analysed the records of 334,553 babies born over a 24-year period in that region, Daily Mail reports.
Women who breastfed their babies are 23 per cent less likely to develop diabetes while babies who were breastfed are 18 per cent less likely to develop diabetes when compared to children who have been given formula milk.
Babies who are given breast milk are far less likely to become obese.
Diabetes occurs when the body either does not produce enough of the hormone insulin or does not properly react to it.
The study was presented at the World Diabetes Congress in Vancouver.
SOURCE:ELCREMA:[BREASTFEEDING REDUCES A WOMAN’S RISK OF DIABETES->http://www.elcrema.com/2015/12/04/breastfeeding-reduces-a-womans-risk-of-diabetes/]
{New analysis quantifies global impact of evaporation, runoff.}
Humans’ global water footprint is up to 18 percent greater than previous estimates, researchers from Sweden report in a new study.
An analysis of water and climate data from 1901 to 2008 from 100 large water basins around the world revealed more water loss to the atmosphere and less water runoff compared with conclusions from earlier studies. The researchers link both water impacts to human activities. Water management techniques such as irrigation and damming rivers to create reservoirs, rather than climate conditions or geographic location, better explain the findings, they say.
On a global scale, the new results suggest that humans use about 10,700 cubic kilometers of water per year, more than all the water in Lakes Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie combined. That’s about 18 percent more than a 2012 estimate for current water use. The level is increasingly unsustainable, the scientists report December 4 in Science.
SOURCE:SCIENCE NEWS:[Humankind’s water use greater than thought->https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humankind%E2%80%99s-water-use-greater-thought]
