A friend of ours has Twin Boys & belongs to a group, a twins group, they are all very close and talk all the time.
One of the families in the group has a set of Twin Girls who are less than 18 months old and one of the little girls has just been diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, this is

Neuroblastoma is a Cancer that strikes 650 children a year and occurs before they are 2 years of age.  It is a Neuroendocrine Tumor and commonly begin in the adrenal glands but may also develop in the neck, chest, abdomen or pelvis of a child. The cause of Neuroblastoma is Unknown but is believed to be from accidental cell growth of the adrenal glands that occurs during development.

Debi from who says 8 is enough has taken the Philanthropic role of starting Auctions to raise Money for this little girls treatments, Family expenses etc.  This WEEKEND Debi will be putting up for Auction an Original Painting done by none other than my Husband!!
Aaron & I donated a Voucher for the Winner to have an 18×24 ready to hang canvas One Face Portrait done of anyone they choose Hand painted by JAaronAnderson.com.
This is an estimated $400.00 Value plus we will cover the cost of Shipping & Handling to the Winner.  I Blog all the time about our Paying it Forward initiatives and feel that this is by far the closet to home an endeavor has hit for us . I know first hand what Cancer does to a Family and Know what struggles they Face emotionally, financially and physically and if the only way we can help is to raise money for them and help make this bad situation a bit easier for them then by all means I am going to do it!!

PLEASE VISIT:  www.fundraiserblog.blogspot.com
Enter to Win  and make a difference in the Life of this Child and her Family!!

Here is some info to educate you on Neuroblastoma, who it targets and How

DIAGNOSIS or SIGNS of Neuroblastoma:
*   The First symptoms are often vague & may include Fatigue, Loss of Appetite & Fever
*   Later symptoms depend on the tumor location:

• In the abdomen, a tumor may cause a swollen belly and constipation.
• A tumor in the chest may cause breathing problems.
• Tumors pressing on the spinal cord cause a feeling of weakness.
• Bone lesions in the legs and hips often cause bone pain and limping.
• A tumor in the head may cause the eyes to start to swell outwards and turn black due to the pressure from behind.

STAGES OF Neuroblastoma:

• Stage 1: Localized tumor confined to the area of origin.

• Stage 2A: Unilateral tumor with incomplete gross resection; identifiable ipsilateral and contralateral lymph node negative for tumor.

• Stage 2B: Unilateral tumor with complete or incomplete gross resection; with ipsilateral lymph node positive for tumor; identifiable contralateral lymph node negative for tumor.

• Stage 3: Tumor infiltrating across midline with or without regional lymph node involvement; or unilateral tumor with contralateral lymph node involvement; or midline tumor with bilateral lymph node involvement.

• Stage 4: Dissemination of tumor to distant lymph nodes, bone marrow, bone, liver, or other organs except as defined by Stage 4S. ( this is Tuesday’s Stage)

• Stage 4S: Age <1 year old with localized primary tumor as defined in Stage 1 or 2, with dissemination limited to liver, skin, or bone marrow (less than 10 percent of nucleated bone marrow cells are tumors).

Survivors of intermediate and high-risk treatment often experience hearing loss. Growth reduction, thyroid function disorders, learning difficulties, and greater risk of secondary cancers affect survivors of high-risk disease. An estimated two of three survivors of childhood cancer will ultimately develop at least one chronic and sometimes life-threatening health problem within 20 to 30 years after the cancer diagnosis.

Again Please visit  :  www.fundraiserblog.blogspot.com
Enter to Win or see how you can help make a difference in the Life of thisChild
I am sure none of you could imagine what you would do if this where YOUR Child ! !

} The Mrs {

We were able to give the Painting to George Michael !!!

We are truly grateful to ALL the people who made that happen. Although we did not manage to meet him we were told by his Tour Manager that he checked with George, who doesn’t normally except gifts at shows, and George Michael said he would ‘accept it personally’.

We do hope that George Michael enjoys the painting or is able to use it for his
Goss-Michael Foundation

George Michael put on such a Great show!! He looks and sounds amazing in person !!
Here is an assortment of Photos Aaron and I took from the concert !

We were 5 rows from the stage!!

The pictures say it all……It was an evening full of dancing, laughing and all over Joy!!

} The Mrs {

Ps….I took this pic back stage!!

I was emailed the setlist from the 7/26/2008 Philly concert:

(to listen to the links you will need Itunes)

Setlist:

Waiting
Fastlove
Father Figure
Praying for Time
Hard Day
Everything She Wants
One More Try
First Time Ever
Too Funky
Star People

– Intermission —

Faith
Spinning the Wheel
Feeling Good
Roxanne
Kissing a Fool
Amazing
Flawless
Outside
Different Corner
Careless Whisper
Fantasy
Freedom 90
Freedom Reprise

We are gearing up for the Concert this Saturday (7/26/08) in Philadelphia.

We have been in touch with the Goss-Michael Foundation to try and arrange giving this painting to George Michael for use in their Charity Initiatives or to have him autograph it for us then we will sell the painting and donate the funds to one of our many Paying it Forward efforts.

Either way we are sooo thrilled to be able to see him in concert !!

Here is a picture of the Painting…

Est. Value of Finished 18×24 Painting: $ 450.00 (unsigned)

This was the Study Photo for the Painting.

If there is any interest in paintings we have posted on the site please do not hesitate to email us at Painting@JAaronAnderson.com

We are always happy to give quotes especially on your commissioned requests for Family Portraits, Stars you or you children may like, Family pets, Loved ones who have passed away etc…..

Aaron has many published pieces of Art and can work in any Medium and create almost any work of Art you request….

} The Mrs {

Batman The Dark Knight starts July 18th 2008

We are sooo excited to see this movie that TODAY I bought tickets for the 12:01am Showing (7/17/08) tomorrow evening (Friday Morning) for Aaron and I to be one of the First ones to see the latest Batman Saga.

It looks amazing, although it may be a bit sad too to see Heath Ledger in his final role….

Will give you our input on the Movie sometime Sunday…..got a busy weekend ahead!!
} The Mrs {

Every night I tend to my multitude of Gardens and last evening when I went outside there was the most Majestic Sunset!!  I wanted to share it with everyone….’Njoy

} The Mrs {

I found this incredible site where you can Design your own Dresses, Skirts and Shirts made to fit your size EXACTLY!!

Can you imagine never having to worry about trying something on, having to wear a blousier shirt because your chest in too big or looking like your wearing a tent instead of a dress?

Well if you go to StyleShake.com you can make anything Possible!!

You are the fashion designer! Step into their design studio, start designing and get exactly what you want. Create it online using their playful design tools, share it with their fashion-savvy community and when you are ready, just click on ‘buy’.

It only takes up to ten days to have your special design ready and delivered to your door.

Their pages feature slick and original content, which are constantly updated to fill you in with the latest looks, news and trends directly brought from the catwalk, so you can tailor them to your own needs, body type, or occasion.

This is the Perfect Site for women who cant find clothes to Fit their Body type or those Fashion Divas who want to be creative and design their own clothes but cant sew…..

Go forth and take Charge of your Fashion,

} the Mrs {

I admit webpages are REAL hard to find online sometimes. You only find what you are looking for if you are lucky enough to know exactly how to describe it with keywords in google to find it…

For instance, if I didnt know the phrase “Adobe Flash Player Settings Panels”
a novice user would have a hard time finding the Setting Panels on the Adobe website…

This is one space within Customer Support & Service relations where Adobe needs to improve greatly! If they make something a major component to Flash Player, and impose on users to immediately adopt; they need to make it more publicly accessible for users
to access and administer…

This URL isnt exactly the most friendly:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/

then the other course of action is always to tie up their phone lines::.
Adobe Customer Support 1/800-642-3623

This is soooooo perfect!
http://www.break.com/index/it-guy-vs-dumb-employees.html

To rename a MSSQL database, run this code in Web Analyzer::

sp_renamedb >oldname< , >newname<

remember you must first make the database accessible by ONLY  -m “one user”
then you can run this SQL script…

If a backup BAK is provided how to you go about restoring in Web Analyzer?

Here’s how

RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK
=’D:\Sites\…\***NAME HERE****.bak’

This revealed within your .bak file :
SQLDBName_Data  D:\Data\MSSQL\data\***NAME HERE****_Data.MDF

SQLDBName_Log   D:\Data\MSSQL\data\***NAME HERE****_Log.LDF

Then created all destination directories as desired to reflect intended instruction set of the next string::

RESTORE DATABASE ****NEW NAME HERE****

FROM DISK = ‘D:\Sites\***NAME HERE****_db.bak’

WITH REPLACE, MOVE ‘***NAME HERE****_Data’
TO ‘D:\Sites\databases\***NAME HERE****_Data.MDF’,

MOVE ‘***NAME HERE****_Log’
TO ‘D:\Sites\databases\data\***NAME HERE****_Log.LDF’, STATS

An application configuration file follows a specific XML schema. The appSettings section is a predefined section of the configuration file designed to make it very easy to retrieve a value based on a given name. This is the easiest way to add application-specific settings into an application configuration file. The appSettings section of the configuration file consists of a series of “add” elements with “key” and “value” attributes. While the appSettings section is predefined, it is not included in a configuration file by default and must be manually added.

A simple example of a configuration file would be the following:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

The AppSettings property of the ConfigurationSettings object in the System.Configuration namespace is used to get the settings.

For example, to read either of the settings above,
the following sample code would do the trick:

// Read appSettings string title = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[”ApplicationTitle”];

string connectString = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[”ConnectionString”];

Now, you could easily set a dynamic title value or read database connection string information from the application configuration file. This gives you the freedom to adjust settings without having to recompile any code. then just pass it into say a SQL connection like so :

SQLConnection cnn = new SQLConnection ( connectString );
// there ya go !