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USA Tour

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 Rituals of Reassurance: back in the time machine 1980 Harvard College, Cambridge, MA This place is too hot. It needs some fans  Going to Las Vegas to see a Dell...sterotyping DevLearn 2022 Las Vegas Mirage

Shetland Verses Orkney-You Decide

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These wild part of Scotland, so central to my renaissance, works like a time machine on me.  

Flotta Island, Orkney Scotland

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em  Home on the range with Sarah and Skyelark

Orkney Islands

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em   The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness on Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland.

Happy Birthday AmeriCANS

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em  Happy 247th Birthday America. Your birthday suit might need a little ironing,  but you are still fabulous!

Dublin-Trinity College

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em   Literary Napalm   The "Google" of Yeats, Swift, Beckett, Stoker and Wilde and inspiration for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.The library scenes in the Harry Potter films were shot in "The Long Room". Trinity College is a mental institution-of the best and brightest,  and steep in Episcopalian tradition.With 90% of the population Catholic,  glad they opened it up to them as well.Yeats,, Beckett, Swift, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, as I walked the library, I could smell the illuminated manuscripts,  and passed The Book of Kells, and Brian's Harp, the oldest in Ireland. A great morning

Almost 8 Million Views Of My Photos on Google Maps-Which One Won?

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Sailed around the world 6 times, been there, done that, got the shirts- from A Afghanastan to Z Zambia ...and the second most viewed photo from Google Maps. is  Dyer Chevrolet in  South Florida! Who would have guessed...  

April Is The Kindest Month

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A Few Good Men

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  A Gathering of Reif's---and Reif-Moscots' In 2021 at our Mom's Service  , St Patrick's Cathedral, NYC and today at Sharon Reif's service, Heisler Park, Laguna Beach, California.

Fig Tree of Life

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em Iconic Fairmont Miramar Fig tree The story of how the tree came to be in such an unlikely place begins with Nevada Senator John P. Jones, the founder of Santa Monica, and his wife,  Georgina Jones  who built the original Miramar as a family mansion in the late 1800s. Some slight variations in the cheeky tale exist, but Argueta swears by Jones’ grandson’s retelling: After Jones died, his wife and son converted the Miramar mansion into a hotel and bar. One of the regular bar patrons was an Australian sailor, who one day couldn’t pay for his drink — instead, he asked to settle his tab with a fig tree he had in his boat at the Santa Monica Pier. With the permission of Jones’ wife, the bartender agreed and found a spot for it on the property. “And that’s where it is today, thanks to the sailor, the bartender, and of course, Senator Jones’ wife, Georgina” says Argueta. (Not to mention a man named...

California

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Reunited with Skyelark! Back In The U.K.

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em  

Wild Swimming and Penguins-Cool

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em  

Fish Hoek, Western Cape

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em  Sharks! I Chews You The southern hemisphere is a hot January  Summer's day here in the Westetn Cape of South Africa.

Plattenberg Bay, South Africa

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Feynman’s Wisdom at the Poker Table: Lessons for No Limit Hold'em   These rocks look like wrinkles in time, and sit quite majestically along the pristine stretches of white sand. What a privilege to be in the Southern Hemisphere, where Sumemer is now, and the cold winter of England is far away this week. Beautiful scenery,  as far as the eye can see.. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif)