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Oct 19

Wanderfly

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Make travel planning effortless with a new user-friendly site

Simplifying the art of travel planning, the new website Wanderfly helps people choose an adventure best suited to their interests. Co-founder Evan Schneyer, who was personally frustrated with online user experience, explains they created Wanderfly because “We believe the fun should start from the very moment you decide to go.” The recommendation engine generates information from partners like Expedia, Foursquare, Not For Tourists, Lonely Planet and more, allowing people to fully customize their next trip or explore the options.

For users who want a general overview, choosing a departing city, time frame and budget will automatically find the best deals and supply an exhaustive list of destinations and activities. If your needs are more specific—maybe a four-day beach holiday in mid-January filled with culture, entertainment and parties—Wanderfly comes up with more precise suggestions, in this case Oranjestad, Aruba or Bathsheba, Barbados.

Modifying filters is easy too. Start with romance and food and add culture or change anything else by simply clicking the filter icons. Altering the time frame and budget, requires minimal effort too; deciding between locations requires little more than a click of the button to show multiple trips at once for comparison.

Also valuable is the rich, personalized information Wanderfly sources for each location. Along with news and weather, Wanderfly scans Facebook, showing you which of your friends are in each city you’re exploring.

If the intuitive design isn’t enough, Wanderfly livens search time up with inspirational travel quotes and helpful tips to get you excited about skipping town.

Oct 13

Soho Beach House

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The renowned British members-only club opens its doors to Miami surf and sun

by John Ortved

Despite sandy beaches and tropical influence, when it comes to social life, Miami isn’t known as the warmest of places. Inundated with velvet ropes, crowded clubs, big cars and bigger jewelry, the Florida metropolis recently received an attractive antidote with the arrival of the Soho Beach House.

Situated just a short distance north of the South Beach strip on Miami Beach, Soho Beach House—complete with Cowshed Spa—hopes to bring the brand’s mix of exclusive intimacy to a scene weary of its anti-poseur atmosphere.

Soho House has always been, first and foremost, about its clientele. The establishment itself is difficult to pigeonhole—it’s a members-only club, just like its fellow Houses in L.A., New York, London and Berlin; it’s also a boutique hotel, providing 50 rooms to paying guests who get to act like members; it’s an accessible spa, offering anyone massages, blowouts and pedicures, using their exclusive Cowshed products; it’s a beach club, with beds and full service on its own strip of sand; and it’s a restaurant, Cecconi’s, offering pricey but well-prepared Venetian delicacies.

The Beach House successfully blurs the boundaries between Miami old and new. With designer Martin Brudnizki (who redid London’s Club at The Ivy), they’ve taken over the space formerly occupied by one of Miami’s great Art Deco hotels, The Sovereign, gutting the interiors and building a second tower, but leaving behind the lobby detailing and flooring, as well as its classic façade. Santo Trafficante might feel at home, but so will you as you sink into the rich upholstered sofas that adorn its lobby, as you plug in your laptop and sip a café proffered by the Cuban coffee bar.

Light and unpretentious, the hotel’s 50 rooms feature giant rainforest showers, large flat-screen TVs and massive king-size beds. The rooms range in price ($500-$1475) with suites boasting stand-alone baths, ocean views and wraparound terraces inviting guests to relax both indoors and out.

Dim hallways house ink drawings and paintings by local artists, books piled on old wooden shelves, and antique desks—all a club-like rendering of the carefully curated, bric-a-brac collector’s aesthetic known well to shoppers at Jack Spade, and mastered by John Derian. The best example is the 8th floor lounge with its antique furniture, inviting couches, impeccable views and a rooftop swimming pool and bar just steps away.

With similar disregard for borders, the lobby’s unobtrusive but bright coloring, displayed under Brudnizki’s custom Deco-inspired chandelier, gives way to the outdoor restaurant, decorated with wood and Edison lightbulbs in Mason jars that form a glowing trellis with the tanglewood trees from which they hang. The break between the indoors and out, between work, lounging and dining spaces is nearly invisible.

The 2nd floor, members-only cocktail bar—featuring a giant timber bar and tiled floor and tables is inspired by 1940s Cuban watering holes like La Bodeguita del Medio. The exterior seating seamlessly gives way to the swimming pool, and then to the beach. Accessed through a hallway of reclaimed wooden walls (from a barn in Wyoming), the bar leads to the airy Cowshed Spa and a 40-seat “Screening Snug” where they will show first-run films, like the upcoming “Carlos.” Your mouthwatering Manhattan can take you from your blowout to a film to the sand in barely a sip.

Founder Nick Jones’ aspiration to achieve “flip flop glamor” nicely embodies the challenge of Soho Beach House. These are things that either cannot, or should not, go well together: a ’40s Cuban bar and a high-end spa; a restaurant that gives way to a swimming pool; a private club that is, in some facets, open to the public. The success of Soho House will be in how they keep those borders blurred. That, and making sure the border between Soho Beach House and South Beach stays tightly guarded.

Oct 11

Chimera

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Have a weird Christmas with a bird-legged ornament

For a creepy Christmas, Conceptual artist Peter Eudenbach sculpted 100 of these pieces called “Chimera,” a sort of traditional Christmas ornament-with-legs. Eudenbach formed the globe itself from turquoise glass, attaching a set of cast pewter bird feet; the decoration is the perfect accessory for a darker holiday.

Released through Artware
and to be available online next month, each piece sells for $150, measures about 4″ tall and is signed and numbered by the artist.

Eudenbach is an assistant professor of sculpture
at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His installations have appeared around the world and are detailed on his personal site
.

Oct 01

Le Cointreau Privé

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One of our favorite Parisian hotels hosts Dita Von Teese for a month of burlesque affairs

Having visited the Hotel Particulier Montmartre when it opened in 2007, we recently returned for another stay in the artfully decorated private-residence-turned-hotel. While some of its charms remained the same—such as the view of the pétanque players in the neighboring courtyard, a curious collection of art books and fashion-forward magazines, and the feeling that you’ve stepped into an eccentric French fantasyland—the hotel’s ambiance and decor is consistently evolving, thanks to the vision of co-owner and conceptual artist Morgane Rousseau. (See more images here.)

As the former curator of the renowned Château de Bionnay, a massive castle near Lyon that’s now a residence for artists, transforming the hotel periodically comes naturally to Rousseau. Its latest incarnation, a tasteful burlesque theme, was designed to serve as the home to Dita Von Teese, who will perform there nightly for the month of October 2010.

The event, Le Cointreau Privé, is part of Von Teese’s ongoing collaboration with Cointreau dating back to 2008. Accessed by a bracelet, the exclusive cocktail club includes signature drinks and private meals held in each of the hotel’s five rooms (for guests who’ve been personally invited by Hotel Particulier).

A place where reality and dreams blur, Hotel Particulier Montmartre is the perfect place for a romantic visit to Paris.

Rooms span €290 to €590, to reserve visit Mr and Mrs Smith.

May 07

A Mother and Child Reunion

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Expressing to Mom just how much you appreciate her can stump even the most clever gift-givers. To help with the last-minute quest for the perfect gift, we reached out to some of our favorite mother-and-child partnerships to see how they celebrate the holiday in their family.

Emily and Joan Sugihara

Creators of one of our favorite on-the-go essentials, Baggu‘s Emily Sugihara and her mother Joan have been crafting together since Emily was a toddler, now regularly collaborating on new bag designs. For the enterprising duo, Mother’s Day means handmade gifts and personal touches. Emily tells us about making a small storybook about their family when she was 10, told from the point of view of her then two-year-old brother Nicky. With clever captions for photos of family members, pets and favorite items, the keepsake charmed her mother to tears.

Joan fondly remembers a Mother’s Day when Emily prepared lunch for the entire family, as well as a gift she gave her own mother. While in college, Joan (a consummate seamstress) crafted a Boho-style dress out of an rose-colored Indian batik bedspread. The gift delighted her mother, who wore the dress for the rest of her life.

Allison and Rhonda Kave

Peddling pies with more flavor than those found south of the Mason-Dixon Line, First Prize Pies‘ Allison Kave attributes much of her baking knowledge to her mother Rhonda, who also delights in the dessert business with her shop, Roni-Sue’s Chocolates. You can catch the both of them on weekends at the new Hester Street Fair, where this Mother’s Day they’ll be featuring Mother’s Day items and goods to benefit breast cancer in their shared booth.

The Kave family celebrates Mother’s Day by planting annuals in the yard, a tradition that formed during Allison’s youth. They also give gifts, which usually involve activities than can be done together, such as a cooking class taught by professional pastry chef Carole Walter or brunch at the James Beard house (where the above picture was taken last year). While Allison recalls the experiences, Rhonda remembers a symbolic sculpture of a mother and daughter that she says is “one of the loveliest Mother’s Day gifts” her daughter ever gave her.

Akaash and Jasleen Mehta

Contemporary Indian artist Jasleen Mehta moved to NYC with her son Akaash when he was just a baby. Her passion inspired her son, who created “a special sketch or drawing” every year for his mother on the holiday. Now an assistant director at Eden Fine Art gallery in NYC, Akaash first work at Sotheby’s and Christies, using these experiences to give his mother the ultimate Mother’s Day gift.

For the 30-year retrospective of Jasleen’s work in India last summer, Akaash helped to curate the exhibition while also creating the 100-page catalog for the show. This massive task included sifting through interviews and news articles from the past and present, getting some of her major collectors to add additional write-ups, and going through all the images and slides of her paintings from the late ’70s to the modern day for an incredible tome chronicling her entire career—”something she has never had before.”

Mar 23

My Haggadah: Made it Myself

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To help kids understand the story of Passover—one of the more popular holidays for Jews and non-Jews alike because of its humanitarian message of social justice and peace—Francine Hermaline and her husband Adam Levite created “My Haggadah: Made it Myself.” The 48-page book speaks in a language that both children and adults can relate to about the meaning behind Passover and its inaugural feast, the Seder.

Haggadah, the special prayer book for Passover and usually a historic text, often seems like a tedious read to children. The Levites, who run motion picture and print design studio Associates in Science, were having trouble finding a book that matched both their aesthetic and spiritual sensibilities, so for the past seven years Francine has been making a Haggadah for her family and friends in Lower Manhattan. With the help of her kids and other kids from the community, it has slowly turned into a full book for kids aged four to 10. This year the family made the book available for free as a downloadable PDF file, or you can purchase a print version online.

Francine explained to CH, “The goal for ‘My Haggadah: Made it Myself’ is for the kids to put themselves in the story and wrestle with the topics with their parents. Every year I step it up a bit more, and this year I wanted to make it more widely available.” Through her blog kids can download new pages to create and post their work for others to see. Francine plans to create theme days such as “Plague Day” or “Question 5: What’s On Your Mind.” With traditions that have evolved over the course of numerous years, she has only yet to “scratch the surface” on a Haggadah that the whole family can enjoy together.

Dec 04

22 Year Tradition: Aspen Boutique’s Fantastical Holiday Cards

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pa href=”http://www.aspen-traders.com/”Aspen Boutique/a (formerly Aspen Traders) has a long-standing tradition of mailing fanciful holiday cards to their customers. They have been doing it since 1987. The cards are designed by a href=”http://www.gardnerdesign.net/”Gardner Design/a of Wichita Kansas, run by Bill Gardner of a href=”http://logolounge.com/”LogoLounge/a fame. Bill was kind enough to share the entire collection of cards with us, and gave us some background about their unique, long-standing relationship with Aspen Boutique./p

pspan style=”color: #ff6600;”strongREUBENMILLER: /strong/spanemCan you tell us a bit about Aspen Boutique?/em/p

pspan style=”color: #cc0033;”strongBill Gardner:/strong/span Aspen Boutique started twenty three years ago as Aspen Traders. It has always been a womens apparel store with originally a slant towards natural fiber materials and a great deal of international and semi ethnic influence. They have always had a remarkable collection of jewelry again with a global influence and eventually the store moved into also carrying select home ware and body products that fit the mix. James and Monica Smits, the owners, had lived in Colorado and had a wonderful natural style that you might see in that area of the country. Now take everything that I’ve said and remember that this is generally a higher end store./p

p(continue to see the rest of the cards and interview…)/ppspan style=”color: #ff6600;”strongRM /strong/spanemHow did you first get to know Aspen Boutique?/em/p

pspan style=”color: #cc0033;”strongBG /strong/spanThey first approached me before they had settled on a name some 24 years ago. The owners were young and so was I and they had specific ideas about their identity that we ultimately incorporated. They wanted to include a violet and yellow columbine flower as it was the Colorado state flower. We had the name Aspen Traders and they wanted Aspen trees which are also indigenous to the state. The first identity included all of these elements in a refined manner./p

pA columbine is unique being a five petaled flower. One of the first pieces we designed for them was a five sided box for their jewelry. The five top flaps on the box closed down to form a columbine. This unique box became a true signature of the store and became so ubiquitous that people would save the boxes and occasionally put jewelry they purchased elsewhere in them to re-gift. This ultimately lead to some embarrassing moments as people would return to Aspen Traders with gifts they wanted to exchange or return, only to find out that it didn’t actually come from their store./p

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pspan style=”color: #ff6600;”strongRM /strong/spanemCan you tell us about the relationship with Aspen Boutique and the creative inspiration behind these cards?/embr /em/embr /span style=”color: #cc0033;”strongBG /strong/spanJames and Monica traditionally meet with myself and Brian Miller (our senior art director and vice president) in September each year after they have returned from market. They have ideas based on what is hot merchandise-wise and what they will be carrying in the store for the holiday. This is always great because we know the card will relate to what’s happening during their season. Sometimes it is a bit of a challenge but their ideas give us a toe hold on which way to go. One year henna tattoos were popular and they requested we make tattoos and Christmas work together. It was the four hands reaching upward with one holding a star. We were all surprised how well that worked out. Other times they have said things like tie the card to Moulin Rouge, or to Spanish Milagros, or to Russian Decoration, or to Western apparel and turquoise, or angels and mosaics. You get the general idea./p

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pThe store is still owned and operated by the Smits and we have always dealt with just them on the cards. They had no problem investing their entire marketing budget in the early years in nothing but the Christmas card. They wanted to make sure that folks realized this was a Christmas card and not a holiday card or a seasons greetings. Because they were investing in the piece being more than a traditional fold over card, we wanted to make sure that it would be something customers would hang onto throughout the season and even for years to come.br /br /On a monthly bases, someone will find out we design the Aspen cards and they’ll tell us they have every single one of them. They also tell us they bring them out each season and line them up on a mantle or a dining room table as decorations. You can not buy that kind of advertising. Really! At times the mailing list has reached 15,000+ cards per year. Customers that have not been to the store in years occasionally are removed from the list and then they throw a fit when their card doesn’t arrive. Then they com back to the store to do some shopping to make sure they don’t miss out again. We have had customers that unfolded a more complex card and then came into the store to have someone refold it for them. That’s one way to keep people coming in./p

pspan style=”color: #ff6600;”strongRM /strong/spanemWhat is the design process and how has the client been involved with that?/embr /
em/embr /span style=”color: #cc0033;”strongBG /strong/spanAspen Boutique’s owners are truly amazing to work with. After Brian and I and occasionally others brainstorm the theme, I pull out paper, xactos, tape and a cutting mat and i just start carving and folding. Three dimensional design has always come pretty easy to me. We always want the card to stand on it’s own when pulled from the envelope. We never ask the recipientnbsp; to do any folding because it may never happen. It also needs to fit neatly on our press sheet and folds down to fit in a practical size envelope. /p

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pAt this point we ask James and Monica to look at the blank paper folded up card and we talk about what we see as the surface printed area. Then Brian takes over and does his magic on all of the surface design. He really is amazing and I know he often invests more time than we have to, to make sure the card is stunning. They give us tremendous freedom in our design and we have never presented to them that they don’t say they love it, or after the season is over, they always say it was the best Christmas card ever. There is maybe a lesson here to be learned regarding placing implicit faith in your designer. The designer is so awestruck by the gesture of faith that they will work their fingers off to make sure it is amazing./p

pspan style=”color: #ff6600;”strongRM /strong/spanemHave you ever encountered any difficulties with the designs over the years?/embr /

em/embr /span style=”color: #cc0033;”strongBG /strong/spanWe have had minor issues over the years as you might imagine but nothing that stopped the delivery of the cards. Some years the folds are more challenging than others and they may take longer for the folders to assemble. Stuffing them in the envelope may be tougher some years. We try to avoid designs that require tape as it is an extra expense and occasionally creates problems if elements are not taped firmly enough. We traditionally have several families of folders working throughout the Thanksgiving holiday. Their holiday memories are of folding cards and stuffing envelopes and not of folding chairs and stuffing turkeys./p

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pspan style=”color: #ff6600;”strongRM /strong/spanemIs the vendor that produces the cards involved? If so, what do they bring to the creative process? It must be technically challenging to produce these!/embr /

em/embr /span style=”color: #cc0033;”strongBG /strong/spanOur vendors have always been very helpful from suggesting unique paper stock or print techniques. Over the years the card have used embosses, foil stamps, thermography, and silk screening, in addition to the lithography and die cutting. When we were first doing these cards the dies were cut by hand and not laser. That meant we had a bigger margin of error. Now we will have the die cutting house mock up a sample on their CAD table with all of the cuts and scores in place on the stock we anticipate using. This gives us a much higher level of confidence in the final product.br /br /I almost hate to dispel this myth about all the die cutting and folding, but this is just another printed piece to me. When you take a finished card and you unfurl it and lay it out flat, it’s just a piece of paper with a funny shape. I guess the magic is figuring out the shape. For Brian, the challenge is designing panels on a piece of flat art for the printer, with graphics running right side up, and up side down, and front right next to backs, and knowing that in the end all the pieces will fold up to make all the panels make sense./p

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pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2004abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”2004abcard_1″ title=”2004abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2004abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2004 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2004abcard_2.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”2004abcard_2″ title=”2004abcard_2″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2004abcard_2.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2004 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2002abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”2002abcard_1″ title=”2002abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2002abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2002 card, front/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/span/p

pa onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2002abcard_2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2002abcard_2.jpg” title=”2002abcard_2″ alt=”2002abcard_2″ //a

span style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”br /emnbsp;/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2002 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2001abcard_1.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2001abcard_1.jpg” title=”2001abcard_1″ alt=”2001abcard_1″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2001 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2001abcard_2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2001abcard_2.jpg” title=”2001abcard_2″ alt=”2001abcard_2″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2001 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2000abcard_1.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2000abcard_1.jpg” title=”2000abcard_1″ alt=”2000abcard_1″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2000 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/2000abcard_2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/2000abcard_2.jpg” title=”2000abcard_2″ alt=”2000abcard_2″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em2000 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1999abcard1.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1999abcard1.jpg” title=”1999abcard1″ alt=”1999abcard1″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1999 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1999abcard2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1999abcard2.jpg” title=”1999abcard2″ alt=”1999abcard2″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1999 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1997abcard_1.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1997abcard_1.jpg” title=”1997abcard_1″ alt=”1997abcard_1″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1997 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1997abcard_2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1997abcard_2.jpg” title=”1997abcard_2″ alt=”1997abcard_2″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1997 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1996abcard_2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1996abcard_2.jpg” title=”1996abcard_2″ alt=”1996abcard_2″ //a

br //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1996 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1996abcard_1_2.jpg”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1996abcard_1_2.jpg” title=”1996abcard_1_2″ alt=”1996abcard_1_2″ //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1996 card, back/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1995abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1995abcard_1″ title=”1995abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1995abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1995 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1995abcard_2.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1995abcard_2″ title=”1995abcard_2″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1995abcard_2.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1995 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1994abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1994abcard_1″ title=”1994abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1994abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1994 card, front/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1994abcard_2.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1994abcard_2″ title=”1994abcard_2″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1994abcard_2.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1994 card, back/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1993abcard1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1993abcard1″ title=”1993abcard1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1993abcard1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1993 card/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1992abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1992abcard_1″ title=”1992abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1992abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1992 card/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1991abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1991abcard_1″ title=”1991abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1991abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1991 card/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1990abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1990abcard_1″ title=”1990abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1990abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1990 card/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1988abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1988abcard_1″ title=”1988abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1988abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1988 card/em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”ema href=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/03/1987abcard_1.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=700,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”img width=”450″ height=”450″ border=”0″ alt=”1987abcard_1″ title=”1987abcard_1″ src=”http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/12/03/1987abcard_1.jpg” //abr //em/span/p

pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”em1987 card – the very first one!/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/span/p
pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/span/p
pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/span/p
pspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/spanspan style=”font-size: 0.8em;color: #999999;”emnbsp;/em/span/p

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