We're super excited to announce that Mr. President will be joining us in Portland this summer for our five-year anniversary event.If you've never been to WDS before, know that it's a gathering like no other. All that's missing is you—but we can fix that next week.
Boats take visitors through Penn's Cave, a quarter-mile subterranean waterway with ornate limestone formations and a bat colony, all underneath a working farm. It is also said to be the final resting place of the ill-fated suitor of a Lenni-Lenape chief's daughter whose name has been adopted by everything from a lake to college athletics.
Penn's Cave was opened as a show cave in 1885. An inlet of Lake Nitanee runs underground to a wide entrance where boats are moored. Tours use these boats to traverse the waterway into a cave with ceilings can go 55 feet high above the water. Visitors will have to keep their heads low in some areas and watch for resting bats right above them. The tour highlights limestone formations like "the Statue of Liberty," "Garden of the Gods," and "the Angel's Wing." The tour will also explore Lake Nitanee if weather permits. Aside from the astounding rock formations, the cave is also home to a legend that has spread its name all around the area.
A local legend has a young French trapper, Malachi Boyer, exploring the area until he met Nita-nee, a Native American chief's daughter. Wishing to marry her, Malachi could not get permission from the chief. One night, they tried to escape, but were captured by her seven brothers. Malachi would be thrown into this cave and guarded until he died. The brothers weighted down his corpse and sank it to the bottom of the cave's waters. Nita-nee's name lives on as the namesake of the lake, the nearby Mount Nittany, and Penn State's athletic teams, the Nittany Lions.
Penn's Cave also has a working farm, so tourists can watch the cows graze in a nearby pasture or see blooming sunflower fields once they experience the sights and slightly uncomfortable legend of the watery cave.
You've gotta love Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways' CEO. He's hands down the most prolific character in the airline industry. And I have such mixed feelings about him. On one hand I appreciate his passion and no-nonsense approach to things, on the other hand hand I don't appreciate the way employees are treated, and how he's dishonest about how he runs his airline.
But you've gotta love when other airlines joke about him.
Lufthansa is having huge issues with their unions at the moment, in particular with their pilots union. In 2014, Lufthansa's pilots went on strike 10 times over early retirement benefits, which apparently cost the airline over 200 million Euros.
So what solution does the Lufthansa CEO have, via Arabian Business?
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As I’ve written about in the past, Qatar Airways is unique in that they market the forward cabin of regional flights as first class. In other words, they use a lot of two cabin aircraft for regional flying (A330s, 777s, etc.), and when the aircraft flies within the Middle East the cabins are marketed as…
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US Airways announced that their miles would be combined into the American AAdvantage program next month. We’ve long known that the US Airways co-brand credit card would stop taking applications when the US AIrways and American programs combine. I’ve seen speculation on several sites recently that this week would be the last chance to apply […]
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