Re: [Killietalk] AKA convention

["Erny May" <emay1 at wi_rr.com>]

I'm just catching up with my e-mail so this may have been suggested. How 
about
having two groups; young adults and mature adults?
Erny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Grady" <killienutz at killienutz_com>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: [Killietalk] AKA convention


> As Chair of the Convention Assistance Committee, I want to offer a few
> thoughts on how to increase the numbers of fish at the AKA National
> Convention.  This is for discussion purposes.
>
>  I think the AKA needs to step back a bit and look carefully at the 
> judging
> standards.  It is very difficult or perhaps impossible for young pairs of
> fish to place in a class and certainly have no chance at a major trophy.
> Perhaps we need to re-evaluate the way we judge the fish - instead of
> looking for the largest, most beautiful fish, start considering some 
> aspect
> of the potential also.  In this way, maybe younger pairs from those folks
> who withhold their champion breeders will arrive in the competition.
>
>  A second consideration would be to offer some sort of split for specific
> fish DONATED to the convention - not for the pairs entered in the
> competition.  This is a subject to consider - however, there must be some
> control mechanism - such as for each pair entered in the show, a person 
> may
> offer a pair for split.  Worth a discussion?
>
>  Third - and an area which I think we need to work on hard - Affiliate
> Clubs accepting the responsibility of sending a box of fish for the Show
> Competition from the folks who cannot attend.  Each Affiliate should make 
> a
> real effort to put together 10-20 pairs and send them in.  This would give
> the AKA a potential additional 100-200 pairs in the show.
>
>  Okay - discussion .. thoughts ...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Anderson [mailto:killiman at iquest_net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:43 AM
> To: killifish discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Killietalk] AKA convention
>
>
> It is in our schools and the subjects they are taught and how. German
> schools teach the kids science the American schools teach greed and how to
> get out of doing studies.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org]On
> Behalf Of Hubert Wischmann
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:00 AM
> To: killifish discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] AKA convention
>
>
> Germany is not as small as some people believe.
> There are a good number of german DKG-members living outside of the
> imaginary 300 mile driving-circle around Dresden. The western part of the
> "old Republik" holds the most members of our club. For example,the big
> cities like Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, Munich and the "Ruhrgebiet"
> (Industriel Region at the Rivers Ruhr an Rhein) are more then 300 miles
> driving from Dresden.
> Using aeroplanes is much more normal in your county. Most people here 
> would
> not think about using that way to travel within distances under 1000 
> miles.
> On the other hand, where the conditions different in the "old days", when
> the AKA-Convention used to have lots of fish?
> I think the motivation is different. Most people here go to the convention
> and they do not want to be there without their killis, just to show their
> friends, what they are breeding, how nice their fishes are, maybe to sell
> some more fishes over the year...
> If you come to the point, that people only send in killies, which really
> have a big chance to win a group, the quality of the fishes in the show 
> may
> rise, but the show will be less interesting, for a lot of species will not
> show up.
> Hubert Wischmann
> Oberhausen
> Ruhrgebiet
> Germany
>
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