WOW!! Bumper batch of good news from the weekend.

Solar Impulse’s progress is great, can’t complain about the great news about rescued women and children, and one of the largest insurers in the world ending its investment in tobacco is certainly good to hear. However, the stories making me grin appeal to the gamer in me. First, the announcement that Ethiopia is getting its 1st skate park, but the big news is from GenCon.

As one of the world’s biggest and oldest gaming conventions GenCon has a huge amount of influence. As, hobbies and, industries tabletop gaming, roleplaying, video games etc. can be seen as male dominated and an occasional haven for misogyny; so it’s great to see that for the 1st time in its 48-year history over half the speakers at this year’s event will be women.

Enjoy the positive vibes and be sure to RT and Share:

• Solar Impulse reaches Ohio
• 97 Women & Children Rescued from Boko Haram
• India Launches Mini Space Shuttle
• Axa ends investment in Tobacco Industry
• Bone fragment from St. Thomas Becket returned to UK after 800 Years
• ‘Pants’ Campaign Helps boost numbers of Stem Cell Donors
• Ethiopia’s 1st Skate Park Opens in Addis Ababa
• Over half of this year’s GenCon speakers to be Women
• Ken Loach wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival
• Fossil Gives Clues to 250 Million-Year-Old Extinction
• Building of World’s Largest Radio Telescope
• Paraschutists Rescued from Phone Mast
• Ashes of Nobel Prize Winning Novelist Laid to Rest
• Wales’ Oldest Dated Timbered Town House & Garden Restored
• Remains of Early Christian Church near Glastonbury to be Aged
• Net Use Growing among Over-75s
• Man runs in Hamster Wheel for 24 hours for Charity
• Major Revamp at Aberdeen International Airport
• New Zealand Firemen rescue ducklings from Drain
• Haye knocks out Gjergjaj
• England win 1st Test vs Sri Lanka
• McIlroy wins Irish Open
• Relay Golds Cap great European Championships for GB