Rumors

Ibrahim and Omar Ali were sitting in their home in Minnesota, scrolling on Instagram when they came across Kyrie Irving’s page. The Dallas Mavericks guard had posted a new profile picture back in April: a Palestinian child in the occupied West Bank, sitting while holding a book, fenced in by barbed wire. His path to school is impeded. The child is fearfully looking behind him, as three Israeli soldiers approach. Ibrahim and Omar intimately understood the photo. The feelings behind it. The fear. The uncertainty. The fences. The soldiers. The frustration in simply trying to relax. To read. To exist.

New York Times

Hugo and the New Orleans Hornets' Honeybees recently visited Ochsner Medical Center on the West Bank to raise diabetes awareness through the 2013 Dribble to Stop Diabetes Initiative. The Hornets partnered with the American Diabetes Association, Sanofi U.S. and Ochsner Health System to host a support group that provided attendees with information on how to prevent and take control of the disease. Ann Moll, hospital education manager for Ochsner Medical Center and site coordinator for the Diabetes Management Center, said activities such as these are beneficial to participants. “It’s important, because it energizes people and it allows them to review important information,” she said. “They might fall off of their schedule with their diet and this gives them that little nudge to get back on track and know that it’s OK, because nobody is perfect 100 percent of the time.”

New Orleans Times-Picayune