A good cover letter can make the impressive first impression on hiring managers, increasing the chances of landing the interview and getting hired. In order to create the best cover letter for the yoga teacher, here are the do's and don'ts that you can follow.
First, do expound on the resume. A thing called cover letter is your chance to draw connections between the skills and accomplishments listed in the resume and the needs prioritized by the potential employer. Second, do not use the vague statements. Please take a note how the example applicant refers to the certain experience, including how to lead the wide range of classes and to provide the guided meditation. Apparently, the strong and detailed statements have the greater impact than the generic phrases. The third one is do describe what you can deliver. Even the thing called honesty is imperative in the cover letter, it is not important to draw all the attention to the skills or experience that you do not have. instead of it, you can highlight the strengths that will bring you to the position on day one. The fourth one is do not be too formal. For your information, the tone of the cover letter conveys just as much as the words. In order to demonstrate the sincerity and enthusiasm, please use the natural and clear language. For your reference, here is the sample of the yoga teacher for you.
In the first part, you can mention that it will be a great pleasure to work as a yoga teacher at Sitara Studio, a fitness studio that you hold in high esteem. Upon inquiring about possible openings, you discovered that you are actively searching for a yoga teacher. You have to assure the recruiter that you possess the skills and experience to back you up.
Furthermore, you can mention that you have worked as a yoga teacher at certain place for certain years. During the time, please state that you have worked extensively in many areas, such as technique demonstration, and adjustments. Aside from that, youc an also include that leading individuals and groups through various levels and types of yoga practice is your strong point.
The next thing that you can include is the statement about your knowledge. You can say that together with your knowledge of imparting yoga lessons, you are well-versed in guiding clients to paose in proper alignment. You also can say that you provide hands-on adjustments is another area that you are well-versed in. Since you are aware of instructional limitations as far as physical demonstrations are concerned, you have developed a great sense of providing verbal cues. In addition, you can say that you are trained in evaluating yoga exercises and regimes performed by clients, in order to ensure their efficacy.
The last part is as important as the previous parts. In this part, you have to ask the recruiter to invite you for the interview. Some candidate often miss this part but it is very important to be included on the cover letter.


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Libya must pursue its future on a solid grounding of equality, justice and respect for the rule of law and human rights.
Ensuring the safe return, protection and support of Tawerghans will greatly contribute to this effort and is vital to a successful attempt at national reconciliation.
Provide support for fact-finding organizations.
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Promote security & stability in the Tawergha area.
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If Libya is to build the state of law that was perhaps the animating demand of its revolution, the governing authorities must essentially take measures to compensate for the asymmetry of force and lack of dialogue between pro-revolutionary strongholds and utterly defeated towns such as Tawergha and Mshashiya. As a first step, the state is already being called upon to establish credible mechanisms for the investigation and prosecution of individuals accused of war crimes during the revolution.
Crimes committed during the conflict are fresh in memory, generating strong emotions among the communities that suffered the most. In some cases, perpetrators of past crimes became victims, while victims also became perpetrators. An example is the situation regarding Misrata and the Tawergha, which needs reconciliation based on truth and justice.


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Julien de Casabianca, Outings Project , Zagreb. Tržnica Dolac, kolaž s detaljem sa slike Vlaha Bukovca, "Moje gnijezdo" iz fundusa Moderne galerije u Zagrebu. Foto: Goran Vranić©Moderna galerija, Zagreb, 2017.
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French Institute in Croatia and Modern Gallery, Zagreb, Julien de Casabianca – Outings Project
OUTINGS is a participatory street art project created by the French photographer and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca. The Outings story began in 2014, while he was visiting the Louvre, and there was one lonely girl that caught his eye Mademoiselle Rivière painted by Ingres in 1806. "She was beautiful. She seemed lost amongst the many large paintings and looked bored", says Casabianca. "I had a 'Prince Charming' impulse to free her from the frame and the museum." This first collage on the streets of Paris has since led to hundreds of portraits from local museums being dispersed in cities around the world. Julien de Casabianca aims to do more than select portraits from museums,find interesting walls for the installations, and then photograph them. He strongly believes in engaging citizens in the process and has done so thanks to participatory workshops in cities across the world, encouraging inhabitants to connect to museum collections in their city. Thanks to the curator Stefani Markovic, the French Institute, the Modern Gallery in Zagreb and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Zagreb – the City Office for Education, Culture and Sports and the Zagreb Tourist Board, Julien de Casabianca is happy to be able to present his participatory art project in Zagreb. JULIEN DE CASABIANCA is French visual artist and movie maker. His work is always related to the street. Gao Xingjian, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote for him his first movie, a short-film, Night after the rain, totally filmed in imaginary city streets. The pianist Yaron Herman created the original soundtrack. For his first feature-length, Passing by (2011), he shot anonymous passers-by during three years in the streets of 44 cities in 22 countries. This movie was hailed by the famous director Costa-Gavras. Passing by also became an art video installation on forty screens on the facade of the 4th District Paris city hall, inaugurated by Mrs Charlotte Rampling. In 2014, he initiated Outings Project, street art and photography work, which has brought him regular invitations from museums.
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Albert Pujols; Albert Pujols and the Cardinals
By Danfiction Dec 8, 2011, 2:16pm EST
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I don't blame Albert Pujols for wanting a contract that said he was Albert Pujols; it's been clear all along that he's the kind of guy who is driven by nebulous ideas of respect and disrespect—a Tony La Russa player from the moment La Russa declared him the best he'd ever managed—and the Los Angeles Angels offered him more Respect Units, and a team that is a reasonable facsimile of a contending one, with players that used to be contending players, and that was that.
I don't blame the Cardinals, either, though I'm still a little mystified by the choices they ended up making; the Cardinals have drawn millions with successful teams before Pujols and they will after Pujols, and coming off a World Championship, with the NBA-wide turn on LeBron James still fresh in national sportswriters' Narrative Generators, this was the perfect moment to not resign Pujols and still, in 2012, be the best-fans-in-baseball Cardinals. Lance Berkman is popular enough to subvert the Albert Pujols comparisons and old enough not to fall victim to them.
Both parties concerned come out of this non-deal looking better than they might have in other years and with other teams—the Cardinals don't dump Pujols after a losing season and claim rebuilding, and Pujols doesn't dump the Cardinals in favor of Jeffrey Loria, whose final contract offer was, sources report, a hotel-stationary crayon drawing of both of them jumping into enormous piles of Susan B. Anthony dollars.
Both sides made the right move; both sides are in great position to achieve baseball and public-relations success next year. I think both sides made a huge mistake.
Now Albert Pujols is 32 and forced to prove himself again and to do it in Los Angeles, where proving yourself is a matter of constant reassertion of your desire to win, your desire to look like you desire to win, your desire to not piss off Bill Plaschke by failing to be Paul LoDuca again. He's got bad legs and he's past his nominal and observed prime and odds are good that he will be really great instead of really really great, and a really great player that watches his home runs and limps around the bases and makes unbelievably stubborn moves while rounding third base.
If he'd stayed in St. Louis all of that would be swaddled in all of this: Breaking team and MLB records, competing for division championships, the memory of those World Series wins and those accomplishments from his stint, between 2003 and 2009, as maybe the best first baseman who'd ever lived. In Los Angeles, short of a second peak, he won't be that—he won't be Alex Rodriguez, hated even with the Rangers, the master of creepy and noncommittal body language and interviews, but he won't be Albert Pujols either.
Now the Cardinals will have to prove every year that they're competitive. They have one of the most expensive outfielders in baseball on the roster but you won't recognize that from their press; without the easy pull of Pujols as shorthand for a contending team the Cardinals will lack, at least for a while, an obvious identity as World Series contenders.
Having just won the World Series, of course, they have a year or two to establish one. But these Cardinals have thrown off the popular identity that had been handed to them, and this is a team that's thrived, both in the moment and in the constant retellings of its famous history, on teams with identities—the Gashouse Gang, El Birdos, Whiteyball, Mark McGwire and company, MV3 and then just Pujols, alone, the best player in baseball.
The 2012 Cardinals are the 1996 Cardinals—competitive and diffuse, a team apart from what they'd be eventually and what they were before. That weird collective anonymity comes from the Cardinals making a mistake and Pujols making a different mistake, but if there's any consolation to take from this ugly, tangled mess of half-true PR statements and five-year-old interviews it's this: The 1996 Cardinals were fun to watch.
The 2012 Cardinals won't look like any Cardinals team we've seen since 2001, and by April I'll probably be okay with that.


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Q: Shipping Address for new Customers return blank on payment step checkout On payment step default checkout I am trying to get the customer shipping address. But sometimes returns empty (please see the image below).

I am using a code similar to this to get the Shipping Address:
$quote = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote();
$address = $quote->getShippingAddress();
print $address->getPostcode();

Anyone know why this happens?
Thank in advance

A: If this is part of the one page checkout and you are working in a controller that extends Mage_Checkout_OnepageController, as the comments suggest what you should be able to do to get the shipping or billing information is call:
$this->getQuote()->getBillingAddress();
$this->getQuote()->getShippingAddress();

Another way of doing this could be to use the getAddressAction if you already know the address id then it might be worth considering this as this will return the address in json form:
/**
 * Address JSON
 */
public function getAddressAction()
{
    if ($this->_expireAjax()) {
        return;
    }
    $addressId = $this->getRequest()->getParam('address', false);
    if ($addressId) {
        $address = $this->getOnepage()->getAddress($addressId);

        if (Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getId() == $address->getCustomerId()) {
            $this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-json');
            $this->getResponse()->setBody($address->toJson());
        } else {
            $this->getResponse()->setHeader('HTTP/1.1','403 Forbidden');
        }
    }
}

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St. Joseph Academy lost a 7-2 lead as Christ's Church Academy rallied for 10 runs to defeat the Flashes 12-7 in Friday's baseball game.
The Flashes (1-4) had six hits, including two singles by Connor Crain.
St. Joe starting pitcher Sam Foley pitched four innings, allowed five hits, struck out four and walked one in a no-decision.
Bishop Kenny 2, Ponte Vedra 0: The Sharks collected five hits but couldn't score in the loss, falling to 4-2.
Matt Deegan allowed just one earned run in five innings pitched. He struck out four and walked three.
Creekside 2, Bartram Trail 1, 9 innings: Angel Camacho's squeeze bunt in top of ninth brought home the winning run.
Kade Rapoza pitched 6 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts. Tyler Wills pitched 3 2/3 innings with five strikeouts, including striking out the side in the in ninth. Creekside is 4-0. Bartram Trail is 1-3.
SAHS 2, Menendez 1: St. Augustine won a close one against Menendez for its first victory of the season.
Alex Atkinson pitched 4 2/3 innings for the win. Matt Morabito got the save.
Juan Narvaez had two hits for SAHS (1-3).
Aaron Dyson (0-2) pitched five innings for the Falcons.
At the Nease relays, Nease won with 103, followed by Menendez 49 and St. Augustine 38.
At the Nease relays, Nease won with 92 points, followed by SAHS 65 and Menendez 33.
St. Augustine improved to 2-0 with an 8-3 win over Atlantic Coast.
Robbie Gober IV had four goals and an assist. Drew Wamser scored once. Griffin Loughlin had a goal and three assists. Austin Kubart had a goal and three assists. Jeremy Harmon had a goal and an assist.
Joey Vaughn had 12 saves.
Creekside 14, Maclay 10: Nick Eccher had five goals and three assists for Creekside (2-0). Ryan Jennis, Robert Foster and Anthony Teixeira each had a goal and an assist. Gabe Torres scored once. Kevin McKernan had two goals and an assist. Gian Noto scored a goal and had two assists. Matt Jorgensen made eight saves.
Creekside defeated Flagler Palm Coast 19-12 on Thursday.
Lexi Narducci, Amelia Bennett ,Gabby Norkus and Allie Householder all scored for the Knights. Defensive leaders were Natalie Brown, Kendall Hogan, JC Householder and Kelly McCormack.
St. Joe defeated Father Lopez 12-9.
Erin Murphy was 2 for 4. Alex White went 3 for 5 with a triple. Rachel Hartley was 3 for 5. Caitlyn Considine was 4 for 4 with two doubles.
Maggie McGuire pitched a complete game with five strikeouts. St. Joe is 2-4.
Matanzas 4, Menendez 1: Sarah Cabam was 2 for 3 and scored a run as the Falcons took a loss. Heather Keane pitched a complete game for Menendez (3-4).


Four artists and illustrators present a colourful pop art exhibition exploring the changing face of London. Everything from the gentrification of high streets, to urban myths and constantly evolving trends and landscapes are observed in a graphic and thought-provoking way.
Daniel is a graphic and street artist, who was born and lives in Lewisham borough. His work has been exhibited at Tate and featured by Time Out. For this show, he's created new prints and paintings based on his sometimes dark, sometimes humorous observations of his ever-evolving hometown.
Tom Pearce's work is mainly inspired by the feelings and views which can be discovered around London's streets. He likes to explore the little details and idiosyncrasies which fill the city, and the way elements can interact to create unique moments.
Shaun is an artist from south London, based in south Bristol. Primarily a painter and printer his practise currently works around responding to his urban environment. Themes include change, loss, creation, nostalgia and mementos.
Ian Viggars in an artist who has lived all over London. His colourful paintings and illustrations are inspired by classic pop art, animation, and modern graphic design. He explores themes of food, nostalgia, and city-living.


To DIY or not to DIY—is it better to invest time, or invest money instead? If you're anything like me, this question haunts you when you think about crafty projects and home decor. When are you going to find time to learn how to make that white macrame wall hanging for the bedroom, or should you just hop on Etsy? (Literally my current dilemma).
If there was ever a skill that you should spend time learning to get the best bang for your buck, I submit: You should absolutely learn some kind of hand-lettering. Calligraphy's uses are wide-ranging and money-saving. You don't have time not to learn hand-lettering! I say this at least half tongue-in-cheek, but still, here's some reasons why, illustrated with real-life examples from some of my favorite people on Instagram.
Why keep an inventory of every kind of greeting card message that there is? I can't tell you how many minutes I've spent rummaging through my box of cards trying to find a wedding card, only to find 50 that say 'thank you' and two that say 'congrats.' Make your own! Even if your card still says 'Congratulations' just like every other graduation card, if you lettered it by hand, it is still an incredibly thoughtful gesture, and it will be appreciated as such!
In this hipster age, so many card recipients love the idea that they received a one-of-a-kind card, rather than just a print that you bought in a pack of 30 from Target. This also means that little imperfections are cherished. Your card isn't store-bought; it doesn't have to look like it came off a printing press—really, it shouldn't, because it didn't! It came right from your hand!
Making your own greeting cards doesn't require you to be a DIY superhero or anything, unless making your own envelope out of patterned paper and folding fresh card stock is your thing. I always keep some blank cards with envelopes around, and pull one out when the occasion arises.
A simply lettered chalkboard is the perfect addition to a party or event. It's a great way to communicate some directions to your guests, like "sign the guest book," while also contributing to the decor. I've walked into a handful of bridal or baby showers now, only to be immediately recruited to quickly scribe something onto a chalkboard sign. I love doing it! It's a great skill to have, whether you're hosting or are a guest!
Hand-lettering and gift-giving are besties. You can add a sweet little touch to any gift by creating a hand-lettered gift tag out of card stock. Take it to the next level with a tag-maker punch, which will create a hole for your string and shape the edge of your tag for you. Or, buy blank card stock gift tags, (I really like these round tags, too) or write directly on the package itself! You can also make your own wrapping paper—bust out the kraft paper and watercolor. Black and white gouache are my favorites for this use.
Create a baking mix as a gift (brownie, cake, bread) or cocktail mix and write out the recipe in calligraphy.
Create a print of your friend's favorite recipe(s) to hang on the kitchen wall, so they'll never have to pull out the cookbook again!
Create your friend his/her own handmade stationary set with a tutorial from The Postman's Knock.
Write a custom message on a mug with oil-based Sharpies and bake for 30 min so that the paint won't wash away in the dishwasher (let the mugs cool fully in the oven).
Calligraphy spices everything up! Turn your journal—of any type—into a work of art! Add creative headers to your journal entries; hand-letter quotes into your journal that you want to remember. Calligraphy also pairs well with Bullet Journaling or dot journaling. Writing out the headings to your daily entries in calligraphy can be a great way to practice daily, since it can be built into your routine as part of your planner.
Bible lettering has also become very popular; it can be a great way to memorize Scripture. Creating hand-lettered sermon notes and class notes can help some people focus. Lettering makes seminars or workshops an opportunity to be creative and remember what you learned, as well.
This is the most obvious use for hand-lettering, so I've saved it for last. However, it doesn't include just making your own prints, but you can easily make your own wood signs too (and if you know how to hand letter, you can eliminate the transfer paper for tracing someone else's design). Or, calligraph your favorite recipes and hang them in the kitchen for quick and stylish reference. Create a nifty sign reminding kids to wash their hands—you can even create a print out a cute poem that, when said aloud, functions as a timer to make sure they wash long and thoroughly.
Forget bland sticky notes, you can add hand-lettering to any notes you want to leave for yourself or your spouse. You can calligraph Bible verses to memorize on pretty kraft index cards and put them on your mirror and in your car! If you have a list of tasks you are trying to make into daily habits, create a hand-lettered print and hang it in a spot you'll see every day. Create motivational quotes and put in your home gym and your office!
Have I convinced you yet? Maybe you need to hear that the learning curve is less than you might think. Just print out my free printable eBook Simple Script and jump in—even if you never learned cursive! I've created a brand-new, innovative method for learning hand-lettering that does not depend on having beautiful cursive already.