flustrated  adjective  Blend of flustered +‎ frustrated  (comparative more flustrated, superlative most flustrated)  Frustrated to the point of being flustered, or vice versa.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flustrated 

Diane Seuss was born in Michigan City, Indiana in 1956 and raised in Edwardsburg and Niles, Michigan.  She studied at Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University, where she received a master’s degree in social work.  Seuss is the author of five books of poetry, including frank:  sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry; Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf Press, 2018), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry; Four-Legged Girl (Graywolf Press, 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), recipient of the Juniper Prize for Poetry.  A Guggenheim fellow, Seuss was writer-in-residence at Kalamazoo College for many years, and has been a visiting professor at Colorado College, the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, and Washington University in St. Louis.  In 2021, she received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  https://poets.org/poet/diane-seuss   

People with diabetes can likely eat a serving of 2–3 dates at a time.  However, a person should speak with their doctor to confirm this is safe.  Those with this condition need to limit their carbohydrate intake to keep their blood sugar levels stable.  The fiber in the dates may help the body absorb carbohydrates slowly which may reduce the risk of blood sugar spikes.  Pairing dates with a source of protein and fat, such as almonds, may further slow down digestion and help manage blood sugar levels.  The glycemic index (GI) is another factor to take into account when considering if dates are suitable for those with diabetes.  A food’s GI reflects its effects on blood sugar levels.  Foods that cause faster and greater spikes in blood sugar levels have higher GI values.  In contrast, foods with a lower GI will cause lower blood sugar spikes.  Healthcare providers consider foods with a GI value below 55 to be low-GI foods.  According to research from multiple studies, the average GI of dates is 42.  This classifies them as a low GI food and safe for those with diabetes when eaten in moderation.  However, what does “in moderation” mean when it comes to dates?  We need to consider a food’s glycemic load (GL) to answer this.  The GL considers the serving size of a certain food when calculating its effects on blood sugar.  To determine a food’s GL, multiply its GI by the amount of carbohydrates it contains and divide it by 100.  Therefore, two dried dates (48 g) contain 36 g of carbs, giving them a GL of 17, which constitutes a medium GL.  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/are-dates-good-for-diabetics#dates-and-diabetes   

In March, 2022, two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Carrie Pirmann stumbled upon a website dedicated to Ivan Mazepa, a 16th century Ukrainian politician and patron of the arts.  A librarian at Bucknell University, Pirmann had joined an international effort of fellow archivists to preserve the digital history of a country under siege, and the contents of Mazepa’s website, though obscure, seemed worth saving.  The site held a number of things:  Lord Byron poems written about Mazepa’s life and a catalogue of centuries-old articles detailing his various conquests.  Pirmann opened her website scraping tool, backing up the site and preserving its content.  Now, the original website is lost, its server space likely gone to cyberattacks, power outages or Russian shelling.  But thanks to her, it still remains intact on server space rented by an international group of librarians and archivists.  “We’re trying to save as much as possible,” Pirmann said.  “Otherwise, we lose that connection to the past.”  https://unitednewspost.com/news/technology/meet-the-1300-librarians-racing-to-back-up-ukraines-digital-archives/   

Francis Mattson Hines (1920-2016) was an American artist known for his large-scale public wrapped works.  Many of his paintings and drawings were found in a Connecticut dumpster in 2017 and will be re-exhibited in 2022.  Hines' artworks were found in a dumpster on an abandoned property in Watertown, Connecticut being cleared out by contractor George Martin.  Since many of the canvases featured illustrations of automobile parts, he contacted Jared Whipple, a car mechanic from Waterbury, Connecticut.  Whipple contacted friends and family of Hines to research the pieces.  He was given permission by Hines' sons to keep and sell the artworks.  Some of the pieces were exhibited at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury in 2021 with a larger gallery show planned for 2022 with Hollis Taggart Galleries.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hines 

British author Jack Higgins, who wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” and other bestselling thrillers and espionage novels, has died.  He was 92.  Publisher HarperCollins said that Higgins died at his home on the English Channel island of Jersey surrounded by his family.  Higgins served in the military before studying sociology at the London School of Economics.  He became a teacher in the northern city of Leeds and a writer in his spare time, with novels that sold modestly starting in the late 1950s.  That changed with the 1975 publication of “The Eagle Has Landed,” about a fictional World War II plot to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.  In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, Higgins recounted a pivotal call from his accountant.  “He asked me what I wanted to get out of my writing,” Higgins said.  “I replied that I wasn’t really sure, before adding as a joke it would be nice to make a million by the time I retired.  He then said:  ‘Well you’re a bloody fool.  Because you’ve just earned that much this week.  So what are you going to do about it?’”  He was advised to leave England because of 1970s taxation rates and settled with his family on Jersey.  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/jack-higgins-author-of-the-eagle-has-landed-dies-at-age-92 

Jack Higgins (27 July 1929–9 April 2022) was born Henry Patterson in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  In 1959, Higgins began writing novels.  One of his aliases was James Graham.  The growing success of his early work allowed him to take time off from his teaching, which he quit eventually to become a full-time novelist.  Patterson's early novels, using his own name (as "Harry Patterson") as well as the pseudonyms James Graham, Martin Fallon, and Hugh Marlowe, are thrillers that typically feature hardened, cynical heroes, ruthless villains, and dangerous locales. Patterson published thirty-five such novels (sometimes three or four a year) between 1959 and 1974, learning his craft.  East Of Desolation (1968), A Game For Heroes (1970) and The Savage Day (1972) are notable among his early work for their vividly described settings (Greenland, the Channel Islands, and Belfast, respectively) and offbeat plots.  See bibliography and filmography at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Higgins 

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