Golden handcuffs are a collection of financial incentives that are intended to encourage employees to remain with a company for a stipulated period of time.  Golden handcuffs are offered by employers to existing key employees as a means of holding onto them as well as to increase employee retention rates.  Golden handcuffs are common in industries where highly-compensated employees are likely to move from one company to another.  Will Kenton  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goldenhandcuffs.asp 

Gold-collar worker--introduced in the early 2000s---refers to a high skilled multi-disciplinarian or knowledge worker who combines intellectual labor—which is typically white-collar—with the manual labor of blue-collar positions.  Armed with highly specialized knowledge, gold-collar workers usually engage in problem-solving or complex technical work in fields such as academic/scientific research, engineering technicians and advanced technology industries.  Find eleven other collar designations for workers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_collar_color 

The first bag-in-a-box wine was produced in 1965 by Thomas Angove of Australia.  Mr. Angove’s creation—containing, initially, a blend of Cabernet, Grenache and Shiraz—came to be called a “wine cask.”  It didn’t include a spigot; rather, users closed the plastic bag themselves with a rubber band, clip or self-sealing tab.  Working with Penfolds manager Ian Hickinbotham, Charles Malpas, an English inventor transplanted to Australia, created a special flow-tap, introduced in 1967, for the Penfolds winery’s Tablecask box wine.  Lettie Teague  The Wall Street Journal  June 5, 2021  

Wolf Trap’s beginnings tie back to philanthropist Catherine Filene Shouse, who in 1966 donated money and the land that would become Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts to the National Park Service.  She had a fondness for music, specifically opera, which still has a visible presence at Wolf Trap through several programs and initiatives.  But over the years, Wolf Trap has played host to virtually every type of performer on the planet.  As Wolf Trap approaches its 50th anniversary, find facts about the sprawling 117-acre park’s history.  Lyle Lovett, Judy Collins and Mary Chapin Carpenter have played the venue more than 20 times.  Those three artists are some of the acts that have performed the most at Wolf Trap.  Others that played at the park frequently include John Prine (19 times), Emmylou Harris (19), the Beach Boys (18), Tony Bennett (18) and Bonnie Raitt (18).  The Indigo Girls return to Wolf Trap on Sept. 22 for their 19th appearance, in concert with Ani DiFranco.  Stephanie Williams  Find graphics and summer of 2021 schedule at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/wolf-trap-50th-anniversary/2021/06/22/7e80353a-cf75-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html 

Sheri Reynolds is the author of the novels Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan (an Oprah book club selection and New York Times bestseller), A Gracious Plenty, Firefly Cloak, The Sweet In-Between, The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb, The Tender Grave and the play, Orabelle's Wheelbarrow.  Sheri grew up in a large, extended family in rural South Carolina.  She graduated from Conway High School in 1985, Davidson College in 1989, and Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992.  She teaches creative writing and literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she serves as the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of Southern Literature.  She has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, The College of William and Mary, and Davidson College.  https://wombat-tarpon-g8xs.squarespace.com/#about 

Ahdele B. “Peggy” Young  (1923-2017), a graduate of the Univ. of Minnesota,  moved to Dayton, OH in the late 1940s and worked as an ad copywriter for Rike's Department Store.  On May 10, 1949, she married Gerald W. Young, the owner of G.W. Young Public Relations.  In 1957 they bought their farm in rural Miami County, outside Tipp City, and lived there raising Welsh ponies with their two children.  This was the subject of her first book, entitled Green Broke, written under the name of Carrie Young.  It received the Ohioana Book Award in 1982.  She continued writing and had published three subsequent books all set in the North Dakota Depression era of her childhood:  Nothing to Do but Stay:  My Pioneer Mother; The Wedding Dress:  Stories from the Dakota Plains; and Prairie Cooks (reminiscences and recipes) written with her daughter Felicia Young.  She also wrote essays for Gourmet Magazine and The Yale Review.  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tdn-net/obituary.aspx?n=ahdele-b-young-peggy&pid=187164534&fhid=17944  See also http://www.shortstoryinsights.com/home/the-wedding-dress-stories-from-the-dakota-plains-by-carrie-young 

The animals depicted, directly or indirectly, in the National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” include birds, snakes and elephants.  But the creature that dominates, while unseen in any of the artworks, is the one invoked in the show’s subtitle: “Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans.”  The first art exhibition of its kind in the museum’s 111-year history, the show is an unprecedented endeavor prompted by extraordinary developments—none of them favorable to the continued study of natural history.  The museum staff decided the situation is so complex that they had to turn to photography and conceptual art to address it.  Just seven artists are featured, but their pieces are large and powerful.  Unsettled Nature:  Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans  National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. naturalhistory.si.edu.  Dates: Through March, 2022.  Admission:  Free.  Advance, timed-entry tickets required.  Mark Jenkins  See graphics at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/national-museum-natural-history-unsettled-nature-art-review/2021/07/03/2e557b02-d505-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html 

-topia  also ‑topic and ‑topian.  A place with specified characteristic . Greek topos, place.  The key term here is utopia (Greek ou, not), an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect; dystopia (Greek dus‑, bad) was later invented as its opposite.  In recent decades, more words in this ending have appeared, such as ecotopia, a community whose environment is organized on ecological and environmentally sensitive principles; subtopia (from suburb), a British term for an unsightly, sprawling suburban development; and technotopia (from technology), a vision of a utopia brought about by science and technology.  https://www.affixes.org/alpha/t/-topia.html#:~:text=In%20recent%20decades%2C%20more%20words,technology)%2C%20a%20vision%20of%20a  Copyright © Michael Quinion 2008 

EURO 2020 has been a heck of a show this summer, with games held in cities across Europe to celebrate the tournament’s 60th anniversary.  The final game (Match 51) is Sunday, July 11. 2021:  Italy v England – 3pm ET (London)  https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2021/07/07/euro-2020-watch-live-stream-schedule-fixtures-odds-predictions-start-time-today-final-england-italy/ 

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