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June 2004

 

06/22/04 - Photo Committee Announcement:

Congratulations to Rajeev Samuel for his winning photo of a Blacklace angelfish. To view his winning fish click here
 
Congratulations also goes out to Lori Carr for her winning photo of a Marble angelfish. To view her winning fish click here

The next contest will be of two separate contests.
 
First one is: albino (any type except pearlscale) 
The second one is: DD black.

Photo Entries will be accepted from June 21st through July 2nd. All entries will be posted on the TAS members only section for voting / judging.

Votes will be accepted from July 6th through July 16th using our new official forum's automated poll system. Click here for Rules and guidelines.

The photo committee Thanks you for your participation.

 

06/05/04 - Message from TAS President - coming soon in your TAS Members Bulletin #2:
 

The last board meeting (June 4th)had a full agenda with many necessary business & improvements to be made to the club. Most notably was the creation of an official TAS forum http://www.theangelfishsociety.org/members/forums/tas/index.php and creation of a presentation committee that will organize presentations for scheduled Members Meetings. It was formed with the intent to provide educational and information presentations for all scheduled meetings for members in keeping with the organization's mission statement. The presentations will also be archived on the TAS website. The importance of providing the presentations as a members benefit encompasses the focus and purpose and interests of the majority of all of the currently existing standing committees. This committee will also network with other organizations to develop additional resources and enhance the variety of presentations available.

 

A Members Agreement has been created:  http://theangelfishsociety.org/members/membersagreement.htm

and a Forum registration agreement: http://www.theangelfishsociety.org/members/forums/tas/index.php?action=register

 - Wayne DesLauriers, TAS President

 

 May 2004

05/29/04 - TAS Questionnaire #02 is now published (members click here)

5/28/04 -  finTAStic Issue #8 now available (click here)

 5/28/04 - May 2004 President's Message - BOD (members click here)

05/26/04 - Photo Contest - REMINDER
The current contest is two separate contests.

First one is: Black lace-  D/+

The second one is:
Marble without gold, for example: M/M, M/+, M/g, M/+ Sm/+, M/+ Z/+, M/Gm. 
One Stripeless gene will be allowed with any of these combinations.

Photo Entries will be accepted from May 15th through May 29th. All entries will be posted on the TAS members only section for voting / judging. Votes will be accepted from June 1st through June 11th. The Winner will be announced as soon as we tabulate the results.

Contest rules and guidelines

Sincerely,
The Angelfish Society's photo committee

05/08/04 - Photo Contest - Congratulations to the Winners! Excellent Photos from all of the entrants!

05/08/04 - Members Listing - All TAS members, please check your information on the Members List and send any corrections/changes to Heather King.

05/08/04:  Reminder - General Membership Meeting Sunday, May 16th, 9pm EDT :Encore presentation of A New Angelfish Color Mutation by Frank Grainer & Stuart Chale. You're invited to click here to view the research that is currently underway. Then, bring your questions with you to the meeting as Frank & Stuart share their findings in this exciting project. Don't miss your opportunity to learn about the research to verify a mutation. 

05/07/04: TAS Photo Contest - TAS Members, don't forget to vote for the entries in the April Photo Contest! Today is the voting deadline!

05/06/04: TAS Member Bulletin #1 was issued to inform members who aren't frequently online about TAS current announcements and events. The bulletin included a message from TAS President, Wayne DesLauriers.  If you didn't get a copy and would like one, please email updaters@theangelfishsociety.org.  Also, if you do not wish to receive future TAS Member Bulletins, please email updaters@theangelfishsociety.org, subject Bulletin OPT OUT.

05/05/04: TAS Website Update - The "Members Only Area" received its new menu and formatting.

April 2004

04/30/04: Wishing a Speedy Recovery:  We'd all like to extend wishes for a speedy recovery from surgery to Stephen Hopkins of Fresh-Fish in Worcester MA.  Steve is one of our contributors to both forums and FinTAStic for DIY projects he's done at their hatchery.  Drop some words of support to Christine christine@fresh-fish.us & Steve  steve@fresh-fish.us.  

04/28/04: Topic: Fintastic - issue 8 (TAS newsletter):
 Call for articles...share your dream tank ideas, passion for the hobby! It's that time to prepare for our Fintastic Newsletter issue #8. We would like to invite all TAS members to send us any of your write-ups, inspiration, frustration, pictures or articles of anything angelfish-related. Any suggestions, questions or comments are welcome.

We have received some good suggestions and we welcome any short article about:

1. "How you got started in the hobby" or How did you get to be an "angelholic"?
This would be a good opportunity to continue the "Angelholic Corner" started in Fintastic issue 6.

2. Planted/community tanks: send me pictures of your planted or favorite tanks. Appreciate if you can give the names of the plants, fish and short descriptions on the substrate, CO2 injection (if available), fertilizer, decors and other pertinent info.
send pics/info to my other email: ngonzaga@rci.rutgers.edu

This would really make the next issue very colorful 

Please email all submissions by May 15, 2004 to:
TAS_Newsletter_Committee@yahoogroups.com

If you have anything to sell or trade for our  "Trading Goodies" section, submit it at the above email address. All submissions may not make it depending on space. First come, first serve.

I look forward to another color-full and very informative newsletter.

Nick Gonzaga - Newsletter Committee

04/28/04: Topic: TAS Website - Links to TAS & Links to Members. The TAS web committee ( updaters@theangelfishsociety.org) has updated the page of TAS Member Links.  If you have a website you want linked that is not listed, please let us know.

If you have a website that is linked to TAS, please check & confirm that it is linked to http://www.theangelfishsociety.org.

http://theangelfishsociety.org/members_links.htm now has a link at the bottom that uses Google search to show all sites linked to TAS.

Web Site Committee

4/27/04: This Month's Photo Contest:
1) "Minding The Eggs" - mom and/or dad tending the eggs/wrigglers.
2) Streaked Zebra Lace D/+ - (Z/+ or Z/Z ) - (St/+ or St/St)

Photo Entries will be accepted from April 11th through April 23rd. All entries will be posted on the TAS members only section for voting / judging.

Votes will be accepted from April 26th through May 7th. The Winner will be announced as soon as we tabulate the results

 Vote (TAS MEMBERS ONLY): Please choose one of each category and submit your vote by sending an email to TASphotocontest@yahoogroups.com with vote in the subject heading. Please type in your choices for both categories.  For example:

                      Favorite minding the eggs picture # **
                      Favorite streaked zebra lace angelfish picture # *

Your participation will make this contest a success, the photo committee thanks you

Photo Contest Committee

04/25/04:  The TAS website is getting a facelift. We've still a couple of public areas "under construction" - past officers archives & the members meetings which will contain the instructions to access meetings & our meeting schedules.  Next on the agenda is to give the Members Only area the same menu modifications.

Let us know if you find the new menu changes to be helpful or if you have suggestions for improvement or new content you'd like to see.

Committees, please review your content and send any updates to the TAS Web Team.

 04/19/04: A New Angelfish Color Mutation:  The presentation by Frank Grainer & Stuart Chale at our April 18th General Members meeting was terrific!! Their painstaking process of verifying a new mutation is fascinating, to say the least.  If you'd like an encore presentation, please see "What's New" segment on the TAS home page.

Thanks for joining us!

December 2003

We would like to wish everyone a great Christmas and a fantastic New Year.  This Christmas sees the TAS website on its own server; in addition, we have personalised entry to the membership section.

Dougall Stewart

August  2003

We would like to welcome Danielle Robinette to the TAS board as our newest member. Danielle will be replacing Robert Leonard as the TAS Secretary and we wish her the very best in her new position.

TAS would like to thank Robert Leonard for his outstanding service as TAS secretary.  We wish him well for the future.

Dougall Stewart

May  2003

TAS now owns it's own domain.

(If you have news that you feel should be posted here or notice something I have missed, feel free to contact me.)

April  2003

TAS being incorporated and continues toward Non Profit Organization status.

Frank Grainer appointed by the B.O.D. to the Standards committee.

Herman Tekuelve  appointed to the vacant B.O.D. position by the B.O.D.

March  2003

TAS sponsors the Pterophyllum class at the ACA convention.

Nick Gonzaga resigned from the position of Secretary of the B.O.D. 

Robert Leonard was appointed the new secretary of the B.O.D.

Michelle Ricketts resigns from the By-Laws Revision Committee. No news on a replacement yet.

Feb 23rd, 2003

TAS's chat is still down. We are going to use TAFII's chat for tonight's meeting.

There are two ways to get there:

java/JavaScript; you have more chances to use chat successfully . Go here http://www.angelfish.net/yabbse/index.php and click on the chat link. There is a plug in that will need to load if it your first time, so be patient if its not working right away.

The other way is to use mIRC. You'll need to download it from http://www.mirc.com/ or http://www.download.com/ (Free)

mIRC -add a new server for you under mirc's File, Options, Connect:

Click on Add and enter....
Description:  EveryWhereChat
Server:  irc.everywherechat.com
Ports:  6667    (if there are other port numbers listed with 6667 delete
them, it will only work with the one port number)
Group & password: leave empty
Sign on and  type /join #angelfish

OR....... at the very bottom in the status box, type in:  /Server
irc.everywherechat.com and hit enter.
Next type into the status box:  /join #angelfish and hit enter.

Hope to see you there at 9:00 pm eastern.

Feb 22nd, 2003

Congratulations to Stuart Chale for his member?s choice winning photo of a super veil angelfish. Excellent job Stu! To view his winning fish, click here:  http://www.aquaworldnet.org/tas/sv13.jpg

To view all entrants, click here: http://www.aquaworldnet.org/tas/ASphoto.html

The Photo committee would like to thank all who participated. We had a record amount of members choice ballots submitted, 39 members voted!

Congratulations to Bruce Stephens for his Judged-winning photo of a super veil angelfish. Excellent job Bruce!
To view his winning fish, click here: http://www.aquaworldnet.org/tas/sv4.jpg

Here are the averages with a comment on the features that were marked
off the most points. 150 points is a perfect score.

1) 91.66 Looked small, pinched fins
2) 81.00 Hard to see, clamped position
3) 96.66 Focus not the best, eye and exposure marked down
4) 107.00 Small fin defects, but best combination of all other judging guidelines.
5) 99.33 Too dark, hard to see detail.
6) 103.66 Long body - closed finnage
7) 94.66 Poor angle, many fin defects
8) 99.66 Clouded eye, deportment was poor
9) 101.00 Poor head, small fin defects
10) 94.66 Longish body, clouded eye, looks weak
11)106.33 Poor body angle for viewing, pectorals slightly high. Would have been the run-away winner if positioning was better.
12) Too dark to judge
13)100.66 Finnage defects, distracting breeding cone
14) 89.33 Finnage defects, distracting background
15)102.33 Small fin defects, background


The next photo contest is Chocolate (Sm/Sm) and Any Bushing Pearlscale type. We will be accepting photos from Feb 23rd through March 9th. All entries will be posted on the TAS members only section for voting / judging on
March 10th. Ballots will be accepted starting March 11th until the ballot deadline on March 31st. The Winners will be announced as soon as we tabulate the results.

December 28th, 2002

Congratulations to the newly elected officers for TAS.

Richard Brice- President
Wayne DesLauriers- Vice President
Heather King- Treasurer
Nick Gonzaga- Secretary

Board of Directors:
Bill Swagler
Susan Edmonston
Bryan Finnemore
Scott Cumper
Ismael Quinones

December 21st, 2002

Congratulations to Alex Trahim  for his winning photo of a Pearlscale
Angelfish. Excellent job Alex!  To view his winning fish, click here: http://www.aquaworldnet.org/tas/ATPS.jpg/tas/ATPS.jpg

The Photo committee would like to thank all who participated.

We will be employing the new rules this next contest. Rule changes are highlighted on the rules & guidelines page  When submitting a pic, make sure your name is not on it. It will be placed on the pic after judging is over for the public photo contest page.

The next photo contest is of any Superveiled type. We will be accepting photos from Jan 1st-Jan 21st. They will be posted on the 22nd. Ballots will open on the Jan 23rd until Feb 13th. There will be two awards up for grabs this contest. One will be member?s choice - Pick your favorite angelfish from the ballot page. The ballot page can be accessed from the member?s only area on the TAS website. A judging panel has been created for the Judged winner. We will announce the winner(s) once tabulated.


Happy Holidays!

December 5th, 2002

Congratulations to Frank Grainer for his winning photo of a Gold (g/g)
Angelfish. Excellent job Frank!

The photo committee thanks all who participated. We would like to remind all the ballots will close on December 20th for the current contest, any non-blushing pearlscale type. Both picture entries and the voting ballot can be found in the members only section on the TAS home page.

November 25th, 2002,

Novembers/ Decembers contest is any non-blushing pearlscale type. We will be accepting entries on November 14th until November 29th. Pictures will be posted on November 30th. Ballots will open on December 2nd and close on December 20th. The winner will be announced once tabulated.

November  02, 2002

Temporary Forums created: The TAS Standards Committee has created new forums for TAS members and Forum members to temporarily participate in. Once Raffaele has the original forum back online, we will transfer the data and delete the forums. You can find the new forums at the Standards Committee Forum website. You will need to register to post to the forums.

On Thursday, November 31, 2002, Italy was shaken by an Earthquake registering 5.4 on the richter scale. Click here for further information regarding our host Raffaele, the forums, and the earthquake.

October 15th, 2002

The questionnaire with results and comments can be viewed on the TAS member?s only section.

October 13th, 2002

Announcement of the Septembers photo contest and next phenotype. Congratulations to Steve Rybicki for his SR1KOI KOI photo and Stuart Chale for his SC2BB Blue Blushing photo. Great job Steve & Stu!


October/ Novembers contest is underway, We are now accepting photos for the Gold phenotype (g/g) until October 25th. The ballots will open on October 27th using our new online ballot form which will be much easier and quicker to cast your vote. Ballots will be accepted up until November 13th and will announce the winners once tabulated.

Thanks to all who have participated,
TAS Photo Committee

September 9th, 2002

The next photo contest is underway, This months contest has two different types. Acceptable phenotypes are KOI (Gm/Gm-S/S or Gm/g-S/S) and Blue Blushing (S/S). Photos will be accepted from now until 11:59 PM EST on 09/22/2002. Ballots will be accepted from September 24th until October 7th. The Winner will be announced as soon as we tabulate the results.

The Photo Committee has decided on the next few phenotypes for upcoming contests and are as follow.
October / November ---- Gold (g/g).
November / December ---- Any Non-Blushing Pearlscale type.
January ---- Any Superveiled type.
February ---- Chocolate (Sm/Sm) and Any Bushing Pearlscale.
March ---- Any Albino Blushing and Any Albino Pearlscale.
April ---- Smokey (Sm/+ or Sm/g).
May ---- Silver (+/+) and Any Halfblack.
June ---- Any non-pearl and non-blushing Albinos.

All winners will be granted a certificate of excellence from the photo committee.
Also please note that a few rule changes have been made.

Rule change - A photo of an angelfish without all of its fins showing should be marked "0" in the finnage column. If it looks like the tiniest portion of the fin tip is hidden, then maybe a "1" would be okay, but anything approaching 1/2" or more should be scored a zero in the finnage column.
Rule change - Once a picture has been submitted, it can not be used again for a future contest

The Photo Committee Thanks all who are participating.

September 8th, 2002

Dougall Stewart is appointed to the BOD.

Membership dues have been decreased from $15 a year to $5 a year.

An appointment of a committee, Lisa H. and Richelle, to act on incorporation. Budget of $200 to $500 allocated.

A presentation to form an election committee was allowed. Contained wording ?to have all participating nominee submit a resume, have certain guidelines to be considered to run. we feel that people should not be handed the position, that they should fully qualify for the position they are seeking.

August 24th, 2002

In an effort to get more TAS members to participate and giving more of a notice for upcoming contests, the photo committee is working on a list of future contests.

September?s phenotypes has been chosen. These are KOI (Gm/Gm-S/S or Gm/g-S/S) and Blue Blushing (S/S).

A schedule has yet been determined and you will be informed when the committee has reached an agreement. When taking photos please take a pic of the whole fish at a side view including all of its fins.

I would like to also remind you all that the ballots are open for the August photo contest and will be accepted until August 31st. Please take a moment and vote.

Thank you and good luck!

TAS Photo Committee

August 9th, 2002


The Welcoming Committee will be holding their next meeting on Sunday, August 11th, 2002 in the TAS Meeting chat room at 9 pm EST. to discuss the implementation of the Newsletter Committee as well as other agenda items as yet to be determined. All TAS members and non-members are invited to attend. Anyone wishing to join the Newsletter Committee is encouraged to attend this meeting or email Nathan Tibbetts at mtnviewangels@aol.com to be included in the Newsletter Committee.

See you there,
Nathan Tibbetts
Welcoming Committee Member           
Associate Keeper of the web site

August 8th, 2002


Announcement of the Angelfish Society?s Photo Contests winner and next phenotype. The photo contest committee has finished tabulating the votes and has determined a winner. Congratulations to Steve Rybicki for his SR1 photo as the winner. Great job Steve!


The next photo contest will be of two phenotypes, the Zebra Lace (D/+-Z/Z or D/+-Z/+) and Black Blushing (D/D-S/S or D/g-S/S). Members are encouraged to participate and may submit entries for both phenotypes.
Photo Entries will be accepted from now until the deadline on August 17th. All entries will be posted on the TAS photo contest page on August 20th. Ballots will be accepted from August 20th until August 31st. Announcement of the winner and next contest will be on Sept 7th.

Good luck to all,
  TAS Photo Committee

June 30, 2002

    The Next Welcoming Committee Meeting!

    The next Welcoming Committee meeting will be on Sunday July 14, 9-10 PM EST in the TAS Meeting room. Everyone is invited! Members and people considering membership are invited to attend as well. Topics thus far; ways to generate participation, a quarterly hard copy newsletter content, cost and approval), and of course an open discussion at the end. See you there!

-Shawn
The Welcoming Committee Secretary

June 30, 2002

    The photo committee has agreed to extend the deadline of the photo contest. The new deadline for submitting photos of Gold Marble angels is Thursday JULY 11th. The photos will be put on the TAS website during the 12-14th. Voting will be done from July 15th through July 28th. As soon as we tabulate the results, a winner will be announced, as well as the next contest ( which we hope will run much smoother)."

Good Luck,

TAS Photo Committee

June 23, 2002

    Announcement of the Angelfish Society?s Photo Contest

This month?s representative?s phenotype is the Gold Marble. Acceptable genotypes are Gm/Gm; Gm/g; Gm/Gm S/+; or Gm/g S+.

Hello TAS members,

    I just wanted to remind everyone that since the third Sunday of June is a holiday in the US (Fathers day) that our membership meeting will take place on the fourth Sunday 6/23/02 at 9:00 eastern time in the TAS meeting chat room

    I am looking forward to seeing you all there.

    Richard Brice
    TAS President

June 1, 2002

    Fellow TAS members,

    New photo contest rules and a few more photo contest entries have been posted. Go to the Photo Contest page to view the photos. There is a link there to the rules as well.

    Photo Committee and General membership meeting minutes have been posted on the Meetings page.

    Tom Krehel
    Keeper of the web site

May 25, 2002

    Fellow TAS members,

    Standards Committee and Board of Director meeting minutes have been posted on the Meetings page.

    Tom Krehel
    Keeper of the web site

May 10, 2002

    Fellow TAS members,

    The first meeting of the TAS Welcoming Committee was held on May 5, 2002. The minutes from that meeting have been posted on the "Meetings" page. Click here to go directly to the meeting minutes.

    Tom Krehel
    Keeper of the web site

May 7, 2002

    Fellow TAS members,

    Article II, Section 2 of the TAS By-laws has been updated to reflect changes in the annual membership dues. To see the new language click here.

    Tom Krehel
    Keeper of the web site

April 30, 2002

    Fellow TAS members,

    Several members have expressed an interest in serving on the TAS BOD. They have agreed to share their qualifications, views, experience and interests with us all. To see the bios each candidate has written click here.

    Tom Krehel
    Keeper of the web site

April 23, 2002

    Hello TAS members,

    New members as of April 22, 2002 have been added to the web site. Welcome aboard!

    Lisa Harwood is our new Treasurer...thanks for volunteering your services to TAS Lisa. The organization page and the how to renew/join page have been updated to reflect the change.

    The minutes from the April 8 BOD meeting have been posted on the Meetings page.

    Tom Krehel
    Keeper of the web site

 

 

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