New Themes: Resonar and Scrawl

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Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m pleased to present two new free themes designed especially for longform writing.

Resonar

Designed by yours truly, Resonar is an elegant blog theme with full-screen Featured Images. It’s perfect for blogs about fashion, food, or design, and the layout works especially well for longform features with large images. The combination of gorgeous images and beautiful typography creates posts that make an immediate visual impact.

Read more about Resonar on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site from Appearance → Themes.

Scrawl

Scrawl, designed by Caroline Moore, is a clean, responsive theme with bold featured images, fancy image captions and pull quotes, and plenty of space for your content to shine. Post details fade in when you hover over them, so readers can focus entirely on your beautiful content when not navigating your site. A slide-out sidebar provides ready…

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365 Writing Prompts, Now in French, Spanish, and Indonesian

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The Daily Post

In a bid to make The Daily Post‘s writing prompts available to more and more people, we’ve translated our free ebook, 365 Writing Prompts, into French, Spanish, and Indonesian.

Each ebook comes in .pdf, .mobi (Kindle), and .epub (iBook) formats.

365 Invitations à Écrire

.pdf | .mobi | .epub

365 Apuntes Diarios Para Escribir

.pdf | .mobi | .epub

365 Hari Tuntunan Menulis

.pdf | .mobi | .epub

A Tagalog translation of the book is coming soon to our free ebook library.

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Coming up with Ideas for the perfect jingle! Blew My Mind!

Coming up with ideas for a jingle can be frustrating. To avoid hitting the proverbial brick wall, think of some jingles that stand out to you and why. This blog post looks at how you can apply these experiences in your own jingle.

Phillippe Coutinho belts Liverpool into top 4 and dents Manchester City’s title hopes

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Phillippe Coutinho scored his second wonder goal in seven days as Liverpool stretched their unbeaten run in the Premier League to 11 matches with a 2-1 win over Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday.

Eleven months ago, the corresponding fixture last season was a battle between two teams slugging it out for the title.

Even back then, it was the Brazilian Coutinho’s strike that decided a humdinger at Anfield as City fought back from two goals down, only to concede the winner with 12 minutes to go.

The situation in terms of the league table wasn’t so similar prior to the start of Sunday’s game.

Liverpool were in sixth position and involved in the scrap for Champions League football with Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton, while City were still in the title race, but five points behind leaders Chelsea.

With Chelsea involved in the Capital One Cup final…

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Chris Haynes: LeBron Wants To Prove He’s Still The Best

Pitt-Greensburg Women’s Basketball falls in AMCC Finals

The 3 Pitt-Greensburg women’s basketball team’s title run came up a little short on Saturday after falling to the 1 seeded Redhawks of La Roche College, 73-55 in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference tournament finals.

The Bobcats close the season with an 18-10 record as La Roche improves to 22-5 and earns the conference’s automatic bid to the Division III NCAA Tournament.

After trading baskets and the lead on four occasion in the opening minutes of Saturday’s finals, Pitt-Greensburg would post the games first run. Trailing 6-5 at the 16:58 mark, the Bobcats would outscore the Redhawks 17-6 to build a 22-12 advantage with 8:54 remaining in the half. La Roche would cut into the lead over the next eight minutes and regain it, 29-28 with :50 left. The Redhawks would add one more basket before the half and take a 31-28 lead into the break.

Pitt-Greensburg posted a solid…

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USF MBB takes on Houston

Chicago’s 1st black major league baseball player Minoso dies

Chicago’s First Black Major League Baseball Player, Minnie Minoso, Dies at 92

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Minnie Minoso was the first black Major League Baseball player to play in Chicago.
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Minnie Minoso, who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball’s first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday.

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