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After a long morning on the links, this team was ready for some air conditioning. These were my teammates today in the golf tournament. Mike Wilson, Den Gardner and Lyle Orwig.

I think we birdied this hole seeing as how it was sponsored by Charleston Orwig.

We did get second place and were pretty happy with how things went. Three of us were playing with rented clubs even. Actually, I thought about buying my rented driver since I was hitting it better than my own!

The photo album has just been updated and Cindy and I will be at InfoExpo for several hours. We’ll have a lot more to come later.

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We had beautiful weather to play golf in today. We got some light drizzle once that just cooled us off, otherwise it was picture perfect Florida summer weather.

Here’s your winners of the tournament. The team of Atzenweiler, Mader, Moore and Steinbeck. They’re showing off their winning clubs. Second place went to my team, which included Gardner, Orwig and Wilson. Third place consisted of Behr, Bettner, Custer and Freebair. The highest scoring team was Grey, Henderson, Henderson and Lightfoot.

We had a lot of other winners, including closest to the pin #17, Tim Steinbeck, closest to the pin #2, Darrell Bruggink, longest drive #3, Molly Mader, longest drive #11, Tim O’Connell and straight drive #14, Andy Atzenweiler.

Thanks to the sponsors for making the tournament so much fun.

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Some people call them flip flops but they also go by the name thongs. I knew the title would get your attention.

In the theme of guessing things, here’s another one for you.

The first person to guess whose thongs these are will win an AgWired t-shirt.

Just use the commenting feature to post your guess.

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The golfers are back in the club house so I’m trying to get caught up on some posts before heading over to the InfoExpo session which just got started.

Here’s a question for you. Who’s wearing these fine Swiss Army watches they received at an IFAJ Congress in Switzerland a couple years ago?

If you guess correctly (first one to do so) by commenting then we’ll send you an “I’ve been blogged by AgWired” t-shirt.

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The opening reception of the AMS was a wonderful party that took place in two different locations. We started out with food in one place and the Quasimojo band in a tent at a different location. The fortunate people moved over early. The unfortunate came late and had to walk through the rain that persisted through the evening.

Cindy made it in finally and will be doing some posts tomorrow. It’s late and I’ve got to get up early to join the golf group so I’m this is all you get tonight. I have updated the photo album though.

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Right now the first educational sessions are taking place at the AMS. I believe this one is “Create a More Profitable Web Presence” with Don Nicholas, Mequoda Group, doing the presentation. Glad to see they’re blogging.

Both of the concurrent sessions seem to be well attended. Perhaps the rain has something to do with that? Surely not.

The other session taking place right now is “Make it Interactive-Tell Stronger Stories Online,” presented by Al Tompkins, Poynter Institute.

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We’re going to have a live blogging extravaganza from Tampa over the next couple days. Right now we’re about to get our second thunderstorm of the day. No need to water the yard here.

AgWired is set up in the media room and Cindy is on her way. She’ll get in late tonight and be posting during the day tomorrow while I’m out golfing.

Unfortunately she won’t get in by opening reception time but I’ll do my best to take up the slack. We had quite a few people in yesterday and the pool area got pretty busy last night. Tonight we’ll have a bigger party.

Thanks to Soren Erickson for taking my picture.

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The BASF Media Room is open for business and equipped with laptop computers and wireless internet access.

Our BASF greeting team is (l-r) Amy Fisher, Padilla Speer Beardsley, Allegra Sinclair, BASF and Soren Erickson, Padilla Speer Beardsley.

They’re hear to help journalists out with anything they need to get stories done. Right now it’s a little quiet with the board meetings taking place and people just getting checked in. I’m sure it’s going to change tomorrow.

I’m planning on having AgWired Live TV on during the conference so you can see professional ag journalists at work. I’ll post a schedule for it later.

Also, don’t forget to keep your eye on the Ag Media Summit Photo Album for the latest pictures of all the fun.

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