FiLife Guru Response from Michael Kitces: There is generally no limit on the number of life insurance policies you can have (although a large volume just becomes difficult to manage!). However, there ARE some limits on the maximum AMOUNT of total coverage that you can have. There is no concrete amount for this - it varies depending on the person and the situation - but the basic idea is that the insurance company is willing to insure for the financial impact of your death, but not just to create an unreasonable windfall. For instance, a primary wage earner for a family might reasonably get $1M, $2M, or even $3M of coverage, but certainly getting $20 million of coverage would probably be unreasonable/unnecessary unless the family was incredibly affluent already. It is up to the insurance company to evaluate your insurance capacity or the total amount of coverage to put forward on your life.

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Experience: 4 years to 7 years

DBC Activities
. Install Oracle Release in specified user account;
. Application of maintenance and security patches to Oracle;
. Create Oracle Instances for the application;
. Create database files i.e. table spaces and all Oracle application user ids;
. Configure cold and hot backups using RMAN and TSM based on project requirements;
. Monitor and support the space growth of the database
. Retain DBA privilege at all times;
. Perform start-up / shutdown of instances and listeners on scheduled or on adhoc basis;
. Monitor the health of the database and its various components via Tivoli and other script
. Perform routine audits on security.

DBA Activities
. Installation of application schemas which include all the application database objects (eg. . Store procedures; tables and index)
. Import/Export of application database request;
. Planning, sizing of application data growth and on-going needs;
. Support hourly DB refreshing processes
. Performance monitoring and reporting issues to various support teams;
. Provide DBA support and consultation to CGI team.
. Troubleshoot production database related incidents
. Perform database reorganization as required to improve database performance
. Co-ordinate application of Oracle alerts with IBM DBC;
. Maintain application specific cleanups scripts and scheduling them for routine runs.
. Support regular database maintenance activities
. Participate in servicing database audit request

CGI Walkin Interview Venue:
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Tower -2, No. 95/1,
Electronic City Phase I(West),
Bangalore - 560100.

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The stockings that will hang in my parents house were all knit by my grandmothereven my Dad's which says instead of his name since he was a December baby and my grandmother knitted it ahead of time. I love the stockings so much because they are the only ones I've ever known and they have tiny sequins and bells on them, in addition to our names and the year that we were born. I'm not sure what I will do when I need stockings for my own family one day since my grandmother is no longer with us, but I do know that I will try to recreate a similar version to continue the family tradition.

When we were rounding up ideas for our Semi-Handmade Gift Guide, Jodi Abbott, an art director with Hallmark in Kansas City, sent this fantastic idea for the stockings that she made for her family.

I have a sewing machine in my spare room closet. It has seen the light of day only twice, and that was when it was pulled out to be repositioned in order to make room for more junk I think I need to keep. Obviously, it's not seeing much action. Last Christmas, though, I really got the urge to make some Hable Construction-esque felt stockings. See, being both creative and somewhat on the cheap side, I just couldn't pony up the bucks for my own set of four. But I wanted to make them by hand. And it had to beeasy. (8 months pregnant does not a patient woman make!) Anyhow, for about $100, I got three colors of heavy-weight felt, some yarn, a bunch of iron-on fabric adhesive and various other ribbons, etc. for embellishments. On one Saturday, my sister-in-law, mother-in-law and I made 6 stockings between us and had material leftover to spare. (My oldest son, an aspiring designer, art directed his. The project was easy, but not six-year-old easy.) Everything was bound together with the iron-on adhesive and I hand-stitched critical seam areas and design elements. They were easy, cheap, pretty and fun.

This project just reconfirms what I already suspectedfelt, which is officially my new favorite crafting material, is way under appreciated. Also, for the record, I LOVE Hable Construction, but I also love that Jodi found a way to use them as inspiration for her very own homemade creations.

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