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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233134906503095472018-05-28T20:26:39.280-08:00Team TsugaSiberian Husky distance racing team. Small kennel in Two Rivers, Alaska, after relocating from our dear home of Rumney, NH. We strive to do better tomorrow than yesterday, have fun, take the best care of our dogs we possibly can, and enjoy the ride! -Sue and Mike Ellis.Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-5194765972736688982013-01-03T06:39:00.000-09:002013-01-05T07:53:06.820-09:00Magic, Honor, and Respect at the Top of the World

Mike and the core of the race team are just back from an incredible experience at the Top of the World 350's inaugural run from Tok to Eagle Village on the Yukon River and back. A true distance of over 360 miles through endless hills and some of the most remote country anywhere a road passes. From the moment I heard about this race, I knew we'd be making the trip for several reasons. It's fairly close to home, only 231 miles from our doorstep to race headquarters at the Tok Dog Mushers Hall. It goes through incredible country, some which I had not seen, but some I have on Quest and wanted to see again. Despite being a little early in the season for such a long distance and especially since this season I am trying to slow our peak performance for another month, I had my concerns as the race approached that we were not really ready, but the excellent format of the event gave me the freedom to feel if I just ran my team to what they were ready for, we'd do fine...

The race was put together in no small part to honor the life of Chief Issac Juneby of Eagle Village who was killed last summer in Anchorage after being struck by a car while he was in the city visiting his sister in hospital, on her death bed. It's a very sad story in so many ways, now compounded by the killer getting a plea deal and looking at only a few years in jail for the murder of the Chief's sister. Justice is still far off it seems for so many... Mr. Juneby's family were major contributors to the race and spoke at all of the race functions. A very big thanks to them for their efforts putting on the race, but also making it much more than just a race. The end result of all of this for us mushers was that there was some higher meaning and purpose to this trip. Before the race, each musher was given a bandana that we were told to tie on to our sleds and carry with us to Eagle Vilage and that would act as a kind of dream catcher for the spirits. I looked at that bandana tied on my stantion often during the trip, held it several times for strength, and proudly gave it back in Eagle Village, full of good feeling and spirits. The divide between Natives and whites in Alaska is sometimes too big to imagine and some seem to like it that way. There are large cultural differences and attitudes but also many bridges, ties, common ground. Mushing is a bridge.

For myself, this was a special race becasue I decided to run all of the 12 Jim kids together, along with two of his grandkids. This meant my team consisted entirely of three consecutive litters our kennel produced, all of two of them and half of the third. Jim has been gone for just over a year, but he remains the spirit of our team and this kennel will never breed a litter that does not have Tsuga's Runaway Jim in the pedigree. He was that special, and always will be. This also meant I had a very veteran team that I know extremely well since I caught each and every one of them when they were born and have run with them for tens of thousands of miles. I know them better than I know myself and was ready to enjoy a good long trip with my best friends. I do have a few friends that don't have four legs, and some of them were also along for the trip. The field of mushers in this race had dwindled before the start due to all sorts of circumstances, but several folks made this a really special ride and I'd like to thank especially Paige and Cody, Abbie, Emily, and Jay for making some our camps extremely memorable. We didn't ever travel together, but we would talk about where we might stop next, and for how long, and then set off on our own saying, 'if all works out, we'll see ya there...'

Magic comes in many forms, and simply standing on the runners watching a team Sue and I have have created flow down the trail is pure magic for me. 12 brothers and sisters along with two of the next generation all working together as a team is nearly as good as life can be for this simple musher. Add the full moon, incredible scenery, great trail, good friends, campfires, and a higher purpose, and magic seemed to be everywhere you wanted to find it. My confidence in my training and myself was at a nearly all-time low going in to the race. Having just moved this summer, our training has been a bit off while we learn new trails. Weather had not been on our side either this season, and the team was considerably far behind our usual miles for the season. We are coming out of the darkest period of the year, and light had been hard to find for me for a while. I needed a bit of magic to help carry me along and it wasn't hard to find as leaders Wilson and Merlin ate up the early miles in the low, but bright sunlight as we climbed out of the -30 temperatures in the valley around Tok.

The format of the race was ideal for excellent dog care. Mandatory rest is often paraded out as the way to better dog care. I believe it leads to cutting corners, pushing dogs too hard between checkpoints, and not having time to make up for it. At this race, the only mandatory rest was 4 hours at Chicken on the return leg. Other than that, you could run the course as you wanted as long as you made the restart in Eagle Village at 2pm on the third day. Giving dog care along the trail is the best way to maintain a healthy, happy team. Streaking between checkpoints without stopping and pushing dogs to hurry up all the time causes stress and all the problems that come with it. Taking your time, stopping to deal with things in a timely fashion, and just being a relaxed musher makes a huge difference in a dog team's attitude and overall health. This race allowed that, and it showed. We rested more than we ran getting to Eagle Village, sharing campfires along the trail and moving again when we thought the dogs were ready. Good dogs.

Adeline Juneby Potts, sister to Chief Issac, spoke to us numerous times during the event. In Eagle Village, just before the restart, she had some words for us that will stay with me forever. She told us to "Respect the land, and the land will take care of you." Not in a 'you do this, I do that' sort of way, but in the true spirit of karma and good follows good. I believe in this, despite having been on a bit of a string of bad luck with my racing in our last few attempts. Hearing it from a respected and respectful elder of a completely different race and background from mine drove home a tie I felt to these people and their heritage on their land I am grateful to pass through. Respecting the land to me means, saying thank you for safe passage over the high mountains and their wind and past the icy overflows trying to push you off the trail. It means cleaning your campsite, picking up booties and trash, and leaving nothing behind but a bit of straw, dogpoop, and some ash in a firepit. I was extra careful on the trip out to not loose a candy wrapper and to pick up booties not even thrown by my dogs...

Respect was also shown throughout this race for various styles of mushing and mushers. Being that I was the only Siberian Husky team in the race, it was nice to feel respected by the majority of the mushers and race staff. When we first arrived in the north 6 years ago, we were not always greeted with such respect and I'm sure there is still talk behind my back from time to time. I've known several people to say very negative things towards my team simply because they are different and people have some pre-concieved notions. Heck, on my first Quest I was told flat out by a race judge during the race that she had a "prejudice against my team," despite not knowing me or my dogs. Mikhal Telpin was also at this race, A Native Siberian running his true Chukotka dogs, wearing their homemade harnesses, no booties, and thick coats and wide chests that make my dogs seem puny. Mikhal speaks nearly no English, but when he came to our campfires, he was welcomed and we tried some communication, which mostly led to shrugging shoulders and smiles, but little real understanding. One time when he came up behind us, I had finished my dog chores and had some extra hard-earned hot water, made from snow. I was done with what I needed for myself and my team. Mikhal had just pulled up and was starting his cooker. I walked back to his sled, showed him the water, and offered to pour it in his cooker. He smiled broadly and gratefully accepted the time-saving gift. He always had a nice smile for me the rest of the way and I was glad to pass on Respect. At the finishers banquet, Mikhal came to me, took my arm, looked me in the eyes, and simply said "Siberians!" with a big thumbs-up and smile. Thanks Mikhal, right back at ya, I guess we weren't the only Siberian team!

I could write for days about the dogs, the country, the people, and the journey, but I'll just add that we finished the race in tenth place. I had set midnight as the time I wanted to get to Eagle Village, at halfway, we got there at 11:50. I had set midnight also as when I thought we could get back to Tok with a good run, we got there at 11:45, after holding off most of the headlamps I'd been watching behind us for 50 miles. All 14 of my team finished the race strong and ready for more. My confidence was restored in my training, even with some pretty big changes this year. Most of all I found magic, honor, and respect wherever I looked and am grateful for an incredible journey through space and time with some of the best friends I'll ever know.

Respect your doG!!!

Mashi Cho.

(check out our facebook page at 'Team Tsuga Siberians' for more pictures and many more at the Top of the World 350's facebook page. full results are also on the TOTW website.)

Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-23727177667323612632012-07-25T14:58:00.000-08:002012-07-25T14:58:05.326-08:00Moving forward-Seems we're once again well overdue for a blog entry. "Team Tsuga Siberians" on facebook is still the easiest way to keep up with regular pictures and kennel updates but here goes another attempt at stringing some words together, sometimes forming sentences...

First, my shoulder is doing better. Not great, but better. Better enough to decide that we should plan on a full racing season in 2013. This led us to apply for the Seppala Heritage Grant this spring. It's an award given in the name of the legendary Siberian Husky musher, Leonhard Seppala, by the Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance to an Iditarod rookie. It's a significant process that we had completed twice previously, but the third time's a charm, and in early June we were notified that we had been awarded the grant. Thanks to the Alliance and the folks who wrote us the letters of recomendation. It's a great start but covers less than half of direct Iditarod race expenses. It is enough to get us started on the Iditarod trail to Nome and we were happy to sign-up on the first day we could!! We are really looking forward to the big show and almost 1000 miles of historic trail with our breathing time machine team.

Summertime is puppy time and we've now had two litters under the midnight sun. Eliza and Stump repeated their litter from last summer. Those 7 yearlings are so promising that we wanted to have a few more before Eliza got any older and be able to share a few with some friends. Two of the six are headed back to the east coast with racing and perhaps breeding futures, one will go to a 'sled-pet' home in California, and three will stay here to join our team. This will be Eliza's last litter and she is in town with Sue today for her spay, as I type this. She's had 17 pups in three litters, 14 of them will comprise the majority of our dog team for the decade to come. Both Stump's and Jim's genetics seem to be strong and we are line-breeding fairly heavily to produce predictable, consistent dogs.
Our newest litter is a new combination, although very similar in pedigree to last summer's Stinson and Wilson litter. This year we used Logan, instead of Wilson, with Stinson. Logan's never been dropped from any race, ever. He's been in all five of my Quests and always gone as far as I did. Both he and Wilson have Tsuga's Runaway Jim for a father, but Logan is from Mugs, not Gila, although those two are also from the same stud (Samhot's Jack) and have sisters for mothers. Hearing banjos plucking down by the river?? Well, we've got another litter of really great looking pups we expect all to be stars, as Stinson gave us 2 females and 6 males just yesterday. Pluck away, I love banjo! Some of these pups will be available for sale this fall to outstanding running homes, but if price or eye-color are among your first questions, you'll want to look elsewhere. We have a fairly long list of interested folks, but we will consider any chance to give our kids the absolute best home we can find for them, so contact us if you're looking to add a Tsuper doG to your kennel.

We are in the process of moving our home and kennel this summer. As Sue likes to remind me, this will be the 6th or 7th move of our kennel's life, not even including the winter moves we did for several years. Two Rivers has been a great home. We've trained here the last four winters and lived in our current house for three years. Our home here is well set-up and comfortable. Our kennel is flat and easy to maintain. Trails go in every direction and are mostly well-traveled. But in our hearts, Sue and I both love the hills and we think our dogs do, too. So in our continuing effort to simplify and focus, we're moving to an area with less population that is off the electric grid and a bit more out of the way. It's in a small neighborhood with several mushers who have been known to train a decent team from that location. Our new house is at the dead-end of a road, abutting nearly endless state-owned land with trails that stretch to the White Mountains, Minto Flats, and beyond. We're not looking forward to the work and timing of the move, but are grateful to be able to do it, and looking forward to the end result. Ohh, and our Two Rivers house is for sale...

For the first time ever, we are looking to 'hire' a handler for the fall and winter. Our new house has an outbuilding we plan to insulate and make livable for the right person. We are not looking for someone to race our dogs, although for the right person, that opportunity might present itself. We are looking for someone who thinks living in a 10x12 cabin with no running water in the sub-arctic sounds like a good idea. Hours will be long, we can't pay you, and there isn't much, if any, time for you to work in town. You will have a place to live, food to eat, an endless to-do list, puppies to play with, dogs to help feed, poop to scoop, dropbags to pack, nails to trim, dogs to run, fires to stoke, and little personal time to think about how much fun you are having. We want someone we can trust to stay at home and hold down the fort when we are away with the race team either training or racing. You will share our house often, both when we're there and when we're not. You will need to be a responsible, hard-worker who is able to get dirty, cold, and tired with a smile on your face and a kind word for your teammates. You will need to self-motivate and get things done, and done right, on time. We work on dog time and 8 hour days are a joke in this world. What you will get is 5 or 6 months of experience you will never forget, living and working in a professional, team setting at the edge of civilization, in an extreme environment and a world revolving around doG. Any body out there ready for the winter of thier lives??

For this year's racing plans, Iditarod is the focus. As a rookie, there is a lot of unknown which causes stress to a certain degree for both dogs, musher, and handler, but while we're rookies to Iditarod, the core of our team are all Quest veterans and most have finished numerous Quests and many other shorter races. Eliza's first litter of pups are 3 years old now and we expect Stinson, Bebee, Pemi, and Baker to join the 12 Jim kids (just about to turn 7 years old) in the core of the team. Ivy and Sparkle also will be ready to race this year, giving us 18 solid race dogs. After that in the depth chart, we have 11 dogs about to turn one year old. Their longest runs were this spring at only 8-10 miles. Making our 1000-mile race team is a very long shot for any of this group, but the likes of Frankie, Mule, Monkey, Fluffhead, Bug, Glide, Billy, Timber, Mango, Granite and Growler all seem like they're going to try. Perhaps one or two or three of them will mature quickly enough to convince me they can do it at this age. I can't wait to find out what they can pick up from our retired from racing dogs, Stump, Mugs, Gila, Hawkeye, Gecko, and Ambler, who they'll be learning from. We'll do as many of the early season races as we can afford time and money to attend, to get the young dogs out and about and keep the veterans interested and fresh for new trail. We won't put all our eggs in one basket, like last year.
While we love to see new trail, we also love 'our' dear Yukon Quest trail. A few kennels of Siberian Huskies have done both of the 1000-mile races over the years. No Siberian kennel has ever run both in the same year. I've always said that our team is usually just getting warmed-up by the finish line. Running Quest, then Iditarod a couple weeks later is the closest thing to a 2000-mile race in the world. I'd like to see how our team would handle this. We have the dogs, we have the desire, we've built this thing to a point where it's possible. Now we need your help to get it done. The one thing standing in our way is money, plain and simple. We need help to pull this off!! Please consider sponsoring our team for this upcoming season and join us in making history. Also look for us to offer some TeamTsuga gear in the coming months. For now, we'd love be signing up for Quest on opening day, August 4, but that would take a significant push in sponsorship between now and then... Entry fee is $1,500. Cost to run Quest is at least $12,000. Want to help us make some history??

Respect your doG.

Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-3318198072743056492012-04-09T16:14:00.000-08:002012-04-23T11:41:01.545-08:00Seasons change and so must mushingA disappointing 2011-2012 race season has come to an end for Team Tsuga Racing Siberians. Thankfully Sue had a couple very good, if very short for how we've trained, races right here in our back yard at the Solstice 100 and the Two Rivers 200, finishing in 4th and 3rd place, respectively. But, our main event, the Yukon Quest, was a complete bust this year. We still feel a sting from that moment of Mike falling and injuring himself, knocking our team out of the race we'd spent the whole year, in fact years, preparing for. We had a truly peaked team this year that was well trained, well conditioned, and with years of experience, right on the cusp of starting to slow down with the march of age. We were only getting started with the race when it ended. We never got to see if the changes we'd made in training would have paid off. We never got the reward of coming together as a team to offset all the struggle and strife of another year of trying to stay afloat in the sinking boat of distance mushing. It's going to be a long summer trying to avoid the 'what-if's??' and focus on the 'what now's??'

Mike should have been on his way to Kotzebue for the start of the Kobuk 440 this week, but after having signed up following some great post-Two Rivers 200 training runs and deciding the shoulder was doing better, the dogs were ready, and we should go ahead and do a race we've dreamed of for many years, the wheels fell off that plan as well and we withdrew our entry. Costs continued to add up, Mike's shoulder had been pushed a bit too much, several key dogs had various reasons for not going, and then the morning before we were going to be loading the truck, we found Hood and Merlin would join key leaders Eliza and Stinson in having to sit out the race. Not lasting problems, we hope, but things that were going to keep them from leaving for a big trip. With minimal money spent already but thousands to go in the next week, we decided to cut our losses and save the trip for another year. 'Kobuk' was our dear boy from our first litter born in 1998, named for a place we'd been dreaming of for a long time, even back then. 'Ambler' was later named because he was similar to Kobuk, but very different, too. Writing those names on checkpoint bags meant something to us, and we're saving them for future use…

Mike had a very interesting last couple of months watching both the second half of the Quest as well as the start and finish of Iditarod from an inside perspective of handling for another team and seeing the front ends of the biggest distance sled dog races in the world. After his injury, Mike went on to Dawson in the truck and joined the Wild and Free team of Brent Sass at the 36-hour, handler assisted half-way break in Quest. Our friend Christine, who had come up to handle with Sue, came along. With great help surrounding us doing the chores of winter campground life, and Brent's dogs that accepted us quickly, Christine and I were able to focus on dogcare in a way that made a serious difference, even more than we expected. Mushers, the more you do for your dogs, the more they can do for you. Don't ever doubt it. Coming off the heels of the feel-good vibe of Dawson was Pelly Crossing. We watched the front runners come through after having pushed hard on the 200 long, hilly miles from Dawson. Some of the dogs looked like they had been pushed past 'should' and into 'could.' Yes, they were still going and left after short rests with generally very minimal dog care given, but we need to do better as a sport. Vets swarmed the teams, but pulled none of the limpers or asked mushers to stay longer to get a better feeding in to dogs on the edge of 'too' skinny. More needs to be done. Pelly also revealed an extreme range of treatment given to teams by different race judges. By example, some mushers were allowed to have handlers chatting away in the dogyard, strategizing with those less sleep deprived than themselves, getting information, and having handlers verbally interacting with dogs that were obviously responding to them. In the same place, just a couple hours later, a handler from another team was prevented from approaching the sled or even talking to their musher to give public information that would have been time saving, at the least. Some teams were brought their drop bags. Others were told to go get their own bags, taking valuable minutes and effort in a race that was decided by seconds. Fairness isn't too much to ask for. Not asking back some race judges is a pretty simple fix. Fixing the front end of distance mushing racing isn't as easy, but there are some simple steps for improvement. More mandatory rest, although the obvious answer to some, is my least favorite idea. It takes choices out of the mushers' hands and makes teams race hard from rest to rest, defining a race and making it more like stage racing. This is not a good idea when trying to improve dogcare over long distance. Time for care needs to be given out on the trail and poor work on the trail can not be made up for in checkpoints. Less mandatory rest might be better than more. We feel the 36-hour rest in the Quest is too long and those hours would be better spread out so teams wouldn't push so hard coming in to, and leaving, the big rest. Mid-distance races would be better with little or no mandatory rest. This is easily done if races go back more to the old-school concept of not allowing so many dropped dogs. Perhaps a four drop-dog maximum should become standard for the1000 milers. If you start with 16, you must finish with at least 12. If you start with 14, you must finish with no less than 10. Perhaps for mid-distance racing, the standard should become two dropped dogs as a maximum. This, accompanied by plain, experienced Veterinarian enforced guidelines for which dogs can leave checkpoints based on body weight and condition would improve dog care throughout the field. Mushers need to bring dogs that can finish the race and then give them the care and rest they need to finish or go home and try again another time. Accidents happen and mushers make mistakes but the mushers need to accept all of the responsibility, every time. It is never the dogs' fault. Fairness and responsibility seem simple enough, don't they?

Hopefully, change will come to distance racing in some good ways, but we know change will come. Change is coming around here with melting snow and impending breakup. Eliza is pregnant with a repeat of last summer's litter with Stump. It will be her 3rd and last litter. We found such great homes for the few pups we sold last summer that we felt the litter was simply too good not to repeat. We won't count puppies before they're born, but we may have a couple of excellent pups available to the right homes later this year.

Not sure where we're going, but we're certainly going to try to get there... Onward-
Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-43746565949202116492011-10-20T10:19:00.001-08:002011-10-20T10:20:00.122-08:00It's beginning to feel a lot like winter-Wow, what happened to summer?? (geez, that'd be a whole 'nother post) As I type, it's 13 degrees, the moonlight is just giving way to the dawn, and there's a few inches of new snow on the ground. Dog chores are done for the morning, the yard is cleaned, dogs are fed and loved-up. Chores take about 90 minutes in the morning these days, including taking care of the three puppy kennels and their inhabitants. This August, Eliza, her mother Gila, and her daughter Stinson all had litters. Eliza had a litter by way of Stump, with 6 males and one female. They are named, just like Eliza's litter, for Phish songs. We have Frankie, Mule, Monkey, Glide, Fluff, Bug, and the girl who's one of the boys, Billy. We are keeping all of this litter. They are just awesome and we have needed some more boys on the team as the kennel had become pretty girl-heavy. Stinson, never to be out done, also had seven pups. Since she is younger, we decided some of her pups would be for sale. We found three new owners for 5 of Stinson's 7. We will keep a male and a female, who really need to get permanent names!!! (suggestions for a son and daughter of King Wilson and Stinson Brook??) Letting these pups go and deciding who goes where has been painfully difficult for us and although we are extremely happy with the folks who are taking them, we wish they all could stay here. Old lady Gila had just two pups and although she gave it her best effort, she could not deliver them naturally. A midnight c-section at After Hours Emergency Vets gave us two huge males. They were big at the start, and they still are as big as Eliza's litter that is over two weeks older!! In honor of the very special dog we decided to line breed on, Gila, her two boys are named for moutains that stand side by side, overlooking the Gila River valley, Granite and Growler. We will certainly be keeping both of these mountainous boys!! So, we have 11 new posts set out in the dogyard and 11 sheets of plywood, waiting to become doghouses once these guys outgrow the puppy pens just off our porch. The 'shed' is full of straw and kibble. The firewood is stacked. The snow tires are on. We still need to get meat, but are pretty ready for winter. Bring it on!!!

 Why'd I have to go bring up kibble?? After just one year, Momentum was no longer able to help us. Although we were mostly happy with the food, we could not afford to pay double what we had been paying. Step in Horizon Legacy, a family owned dogfood company from Canada that uses human grade ingedients and has their own mill! (www.horizonpetfood.com) We are in a trial period with their food after they got us a full pallet at an extremely good price, except for damn shipping that runs way more than the food!! Their food is designed to replicate a raw diet in a kibble. It is grain and potato free. We're really excited about the food and the potential of working with them. The dogs chow it! Just when we thought we were going backward, we're going forward-

 Speaking of going forward, training is well underway for this season. We are once again training for the Yukon Quest. It has been, and remains our ulitmate race. We'd love to experience the Iditarod and still hope to some day, but the extra $15,000+ it would take just isn't here. We won't give up a Quest to do an Iditarod and could do two or three Quests for the cost of one I-rod. The goal for the year is to be as competitive in the Quest as we can be. 2010 was a very competitve Quest for us, but it only finished us in 13th place. Last year, in a race where I was living by the motto "have more fun", I wasn't nearly as competitve and finished in 8th. Funny how things work out sometimes. This year I will have a few changes in the team and changes in my racing, and therefore, training strategies. I know we can still do much better than we have at getting down the trail for 1000 miles. I'm looking forward to continuing to see just what our team is capable of. It starts with changes even now as we build the team up in early training. We are adopting a bit more of a 'loose' schedule this year. No chance of us giving up on our overall structure, but we are getting there a different way. The five two year olds, Stinson, Bebee, Pemi, Baker, and Sparkle give the team a youthful infusion this year as they step up to Quest training after running over 2000 training miles last winter, but never racing. We need to get them out for some early season socialization and racing, but haven't made decisions on what races we'll run before, or after, Quest. Copper Basin and GinGin are always good choices for their timing and cold, tough trail for the dogs that get to go, but it's not so good for the ones left home that have to take a whole week off. We may try some other, cheaper training options this winter and just travel with the team. Then again you may see us out there racing in December and January. Just not sure yet. Thanks for checking in -

Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-23043920783553529882011-06-23T10:16:00.006-08:002011-06-23T12:53:42.385-08:00Solstice, Summer, Salmon, Social media, Sad realities

The solstice was just a couple of days ago. 21 hours and 49 minutes of daylight here in the Fairbanks area. Of course the other 2 hours and 11 minutes are far from dark. It'll be another 4-5 weeks before it even gets dark enough to see a star in the night sky. Although at first, we are only loosing a few seconds of light a day, soon it'll be close to seven minutes a day. Winter's on it's way!

Around here, summer is a time to prepare. Next winter's firewood is already cut and piled. Fencing projects to create an old-timers pen, bitch pen, and puppy pen, are all underway. I've been to the Kenai to catch enough fish to fill our freezer with fresh sockeye and king salmon fillets. Only the guts are thrown to the gulls, the heads and racks of all the fish become a supplemental food for dogs. In the week I was away, Sue's greenhouse exploded with growth and we are both really looking forward to reaping what we've sown. Speaking of sowing the seed, Yes!, I did say puppy pen! While we don't have anything to announce just yet, we have our fingers crossed!

I am sorry it has been so long since I've written here. Facebook (Team Tsuga Siberians) has taken over as such an easy way to communicate for us with our far-flung friends, that I forget that some of you don't go there. When I first started writing on our website 'doglog', it went out to a small audience and I wore my heart on my sleeve, as I usaully do. I'm not an actor, like some mushers. Mushing is an emotional thing and I'm an emotional person. As more folks were reading my posts once we became slightly more known from Quest, my more personal side began to win out and my writing trailed off. Pictures and videos seemed the easier way to focus on the dogs, and less on my thoughts, and the timing of the rise of social media fit this transition. I have been reminded recently that many folks still don't facebook or even have the ability to check videos online. I will try to get some more plain text writing back in to the mix... We'll also be making an effort to get our website updated in the coming weeks. We promise to continue to improve on keeping you ALL up to date.

Seems our kennel is at a tipping point. Last year's Quest was the first of our four Quest's that we didn't sell or mortgage our home to finance, and we are still in recovery mode. While we keep a very small kennel for a 1000-mile racing kennel, costs to prepare for and run the toughest races in the world are still very high and getting higher. We are looking for help to be able to continue racing. After finishing 8th in Quest and winning the Vet's choice award along with sharing the Sportsmanship award, you'd think maybe sponsors would show up at our doorstep. Not so. Our three finishes in the Quest are the top three fastest times in the history of the race for a team of registered dogs. We have an unprecedented record of winning at least one Vet's choice award at a major race in EACH of our last 5 years racing! Still, we don't win races and we don't do a very good job promoting ourselves, so we don't get many sponsors. (We are very grateful for the ones we have, but we are FAR from getting free dog food, booties, or sleds!) Another way many kennels make money, that we have not, is to breed dogs and sell pups and/or trained-up dogs for big money. Since our first litter in 1998, we have had just three more litters. All of the dogs produced from those three litters still live with us. We don't get more dogs, we get more from our dogs. I guess we have hoped that with time, our philosophy, record, and reputation would lead to sponsorship that would allow us to continue in this sport. It has not. I am not a fan of begging or expecting something for nothing. I also have been told again and again recently that if you don't ask, you won't recieve. Our kennel operation is a full-time job for one and a part-time job for the other. We don't use handlers and couldn't afford to. Besides the constant work of running the kennel, Sue has been working around 60 hours a week in town while I get part-time carpentry work where and when I can find it. We are not lazy and we have never accepted any government welfare of any kind. We also can't keep up with costs to race. This year is the first we have claimed our kennel as a business for tax reasons. They won't let us do that for many years!! We would desperately love to be signing up for Iditarod and Quest this year to there-by join a very small group of Siberian kennels that have done both thousand-mile races and the first to do them both in the same year. That is simply a dream, as of now. At one point, going to run our first Quest was just a dream, too. Now we have run 1000 miles over a day faster than any other team of Siberians, EVER! Dreams do come true and we are not yet done trying to make it happen, but we are asking for, and needing, your help. Do you know of a company, group, individual, or entity that would like to sponsor a team that may never win, but will always represent our ideals of respect, trust, taking pride in how we do it but always trying to do it better?? If you have ideas or can help yourself, please let us know- Thanks.

Mike and Sue Ellis
PO Box 16149
Two Rivers, AK 99716

firstname.lastname@example.com Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-15116146156828642942011-03-24T09:40:00.002-08:002011-03-24T10:53:29.683-08:00TeamTsuga 2011 Yukon Quest VideoTeam Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-49799062759720655132011-02-16T15:14:00.002-09:002011-02-16T15:30:13.854-09:00Team in Mile One-O-OneThe team did a great job getting over Eagle Summit! WOW says it all. So proud of these dogs and Mike.
Have more fun!
Tsue, Tphil and ZirkleTeam Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-89385662791084302682011-02-13T11:27:00.004-09:002011-02-13T11:57:20.648-09:00The journey continues
A lot has happened since the last post. Too busy to update. I'll do my best to fill you in. After leaving Pelly Crossing Mike had to bag Isis for 80 miles. She got hurt in the jumble ice, but is doing well now. Then 10 miles out of Scroggie Stump went down and rode the rest of the way in to the checkpoint in the bag. Just as Mike got into Scroggie the plane landed and he was able to get them onto the plane and out of Scroggie immediately. Tphil and I drove up to Dawson and dropped the gear off at the camp site. The ice road was different this year and we spent some time driving around the ice race track. In the morning we went to set up camp. A huge thanks to Sarah McHugh and her friend Jason who showed up with shovels. The camp site was great. We were able to set camp up further up into the woods. Nice and quiet for the dogs! Later that night we picked up Isis and Stump from the vet shack and gave them some good loving time in the hotel room.
Camp was ready for the team to arrive. I waited in town and Tphil was at camp getting the meal ready. The plan was to rest the team from Scroggie before getting to Dawson. The team was doing great so Mike ran the 100 miles straight. He did catch us off guard by about 1/2 hour. All was good though.
Our camp site was great and the dogs rested well.
As the vets were checking the team for any issues or injuries they let out with their classic group howl. Almost brought tears to my eyes. Overall the team was in excellent shape. A few sore wrist and shoulders, feet looked great, and good weight on most of them. Moon was the one dog that was in the roughest shape. She got a lot of attention, but by 36 hours her wrists were still sore and she joined us on the truck. She slept well in the backseat.
The team was ready to hit the trail after 9 hours of rest and looked even better at 36 hours.
Well sorry this is a bit incomplete, but time to hit the road. Hope to have internet access in Circle.
Tsue, Tphil and ZirkleTeam Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-22892169482977478502011-02-07T12:18:00.002-09:002011-02-07T12:23:45.971-09:00Pelly CrossingGetting ready for bed in Pelly Crossing. Good long rest here before heading out to Dawson. The trail from Pelly to Dawson is 200 miles with one hospitality stop and one dog drop. While the team is traveling to Dawson, we will be setting up Hotel Tsuga. Hope you all are having more fun than usual.
Tsue, Handler Tphil, Zirkle and Esther.Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-23785409088488573782011-02-06T13:26:00.004-09:002011-02-06T13:37:47.484-09:00Braeburn Checkpoint 2011

The team looked very good coming into Braeburn. Moon and Gila were in lead. Mike stayed a bit longer in Braeburn, but this year is about having more fun and it seemed to be more fun to stay longer. Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-26268781760940961452011-02-05T15:17:00.003-09:002011-02-05T15:25:00.490-09:00And the race begins
Team Tsuga is on the trail. The team was very excited to hit the trail today. Just a quick video of the start. We will be heading to Braeburn in just a bit. Enjoy the ride.
Tsue and Handler Tphil
Zirkle and EstherTeam Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-54799790875909434782011-02-04T15:28:00.002-09:002011-02-04T18:05:16.768-09:00Getting ready to goHere we go!
The video is of the start banquet and todays training run. I will post as much as possible. Thanks for watching
TsueTeam Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-40018649011568792492011-01-25T19:21:00.002-09:002011-01-25T19:39:23.868-09:00January 25, 2011today's run, a bit compressed-

Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-73985779090263021662011-01-14T07:02:00.002-09:002011-01-14T08:28:38.347-09:00the good, the bad, and the beautiful-Hi all-
We're just back from the Copper Basin 300. It was a crazy weekend with lots of challenges, time with some great friends-both two and four-legged, a great many positives overall, but not the ending we wanted... Congrats to my many friends who had their own highs and lows on this race. Kyla and Cody get a special shout-out!! NICE!!!!

With the Yukon Quest dropbags needing about 24 hours of effort a day to get done right now, I don't have time to tell the whole story just now, but I'll try to cover a few bases quickly-

Our team was the subject of Donna Quante's film camera this weekend as she was telling the story of the Copper Basin 300, in part by following one team - TeamTsuga! Once it's done, we'll post links of how you can get the movie...

Our team that started had all finished the Quest at least once, with a very noteable exception of Isis. This was her first race since she finished the Can-Am 250 in 2007 on Sue's team. This was her test for Quest and I'll cut to the chase; she passed with flying carpets!!

I dropped Ambler at Sourdough after his left triceps had stiffened up. I'm positive I could have massaged it to the point he could have continued, but with Quest less than 3 weeks away, I opted to be safe rather than sorry. He is moving without any limp in the kennel now and will be in harness again this weekend.
The rest of the team acted and ran like the veterans they are. I was VERY proud of our dogs this weekend.

The Copper Basin trail always has it's challenges and this year was no different. We saw numerous spots with overflow water that was deep, not just a little wet on top. Wet feet at -20 has it's charm, and the dogs need more care with icing on their boots, too. This is just part of crossing this beautiful country, although it's not the best part... The weather was pretty darn nice and I think we only had a range from -25 to around zero. Very comfortable for mushing for dogs and ME. I had more trouble being too warm than cold.

At Sourdough checkpoint, our last, I left with 11 dogs, that I had given a bit of extra rest beyond our mandatory to make the stop a bit over 4 hours. They had all eaten a full meal when we first got in, just before 9am. We left in the afternoon sun and I knew the first miles would be slow with the temps as warm as it had been all race. We were leaving in 18th place in a field of 51 mushers. We were the only Siberian team in the race. With friend, and driver of very speedy dogs, Jodi Bailey, right behind us, I expected her, and maybe another team, to pass us on the last leg to Paxson. At worst, I figured we had 20th place. I had said, and had heard said by several others, that a top 20 finish in this field would be a huge accomplishment for about any team.
The first miles out of the checkpoint are on the road that runs along the pipeline. It was plowed and fast, but wide open to the sun. I enjoyed the view and knew we'd pick up the pace once the sun got down a bit. I stopped a couple times within the first hour to let the dogs roll in the snow to cool down. They all looked happy. In a narrow section of bush trail that had very soft snow, Mugs squatted to pee and stumbled a bit. I thought it was the soft snow. She ran another half-mile and her back end gave out and she fell to the snow. She looked at me when I got to her, but she was weak and pretty limp. I knew she was in trouble and needed more help than I could give her. I was pretty sure she was going through sled-dog myopathy, and it's as serious as it gets. A million thoughts ran through my head as I loaded her in to the sleeping bag in the sled and got moving to find a place to turn around because I knew it was too far to go forward. Just then, I heard a car in the distance, and remembered that this was the only spot on this leg where the trail gets near the highway. Once up along-side the road, I waited for traffic. As I waived my arms frantically from the ditch, I realized the first truck coming by was Sue and TJ!!! It was a bad spot (a whole other story) to do it, but we decided loading the whole team and sled right there to get us all out of there and to the vet staff at the checkpoint was the best thing we could do. Once up at Meiers Lake, we had fast action from the vets who gave her really the only thing can help, which is a flush of the system by pumping a lot of fluids in to Mugs. I can't say enough about the help of Sam, Karsten, Tabitha, and Nina- by phone. Mugs has recovered, and is really enjoying her time in the house.

When something like this happens, it's impossible for me not to feel responsible and wonder what I could have done differently or better. It is hard on confidence. I've thought my way all around this and have tried to move on in head, but if timing hadn't worked out so well, I fear the outcome could have been much worse. This is extemely difficult for me. I would risk my life for these dogs, I somehow need to accept that they would do the same for me, but I'm not sure I can......
We're glad to have the support of the vet staff, race organizers, other mushers and handlers, and especially our friends on all of this. We've been told time and again there was nothing else we could have done, but is there??????

We will move forward.
We are deep in to Yukon Quest dropbag prep.
TJ is here and helping for a few more days. He had quite a weekend handling his first race in Alaska. I hope the experience helps his dogs, down the trail. He followed me around 30 miles of Two Rivers trails yesterday, with Stump and Moon in lead. Now for that 800 pounds of meat that still needs to be cut and bagged!
Gotta get busy-

Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-15169219817716965842010-12-17T13:54:00.002-09:002010-12-17T14:06:23.658-09:00Well life at Team Tsuga has had a few challenges including no internet access at home. The weather has been very cold lately and we have not been able to get the dogs out as much as we would like. Mike continues to do all the training and dog chores. Yesterday I got cleared to walk without crutches and I will soon be able to do more around the dog yard. The dogs are in good shape so the few days off won't be too hard on them.
 We are looking forward to the race season with Gin Gin starting us off on December 27th. Then we are heading to Copper Basin the first week in January. Our friend TJ is coming up to help with the race and also help prepare drop bag for Quest, and probably a few other things too. So happy he will be joining us soon. Then the focus will be on Quest. We are so happy that our good friend Phil Cook will be joining Team Tsuga for the race. He is our Tsuper Phan and will be a huge help this year. Thanks Tphil!
 It feels like life is creeping up on us. Quest is not that far away. The house is littered with dog gear, drop bag contents and a variety of other things. We are working daily to get everything done in time. Drop bags are due January 22nd. Just over a month to get it all in a few bags. Needless to say we are pretty busy and loving every minute off it.
Hope to keep posting as much as possible.
Sue
Mike
And the rest of
Team TsugaTeam Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-82894054228310823362010-11-24T11:17:00.004-09:002010-11-25T07:37:20.681-09:00Thanks-'Bad weather' to most, is fun to me. I like blizzards. I like windstorms. I like the bitter cold. I like the challenge of moving comfortably through the country in any weather with my dogteam, well, almost any weather. There's nothing I dislike more in the realm of our glorious natural world than rain in winter. Nothing ruins a good snowy trail like rain. After several straight days of snow last week that had our trails approaching mid-winter conditions, Alaska has just had a 100-year weather event in the way of 3 straight days of winter rain. The powder has turned to slush. The streams and rivers and ponds are overflowed with water that had nowhere to go on the frozen ground. Any plowed or trampled surfaces are glare ice as the frozen ground held it's cold. It's been dubbed the 'Icepocalypse.' Most of Interior Alaska has been shut down since Monday. We haven't run dogs since Sunday and will need at least a couple inches of snow before we can safely take them out, even with the atv. Some grooming has already started as things froze up yesterday afternoon and we've gotten a skiff of snow overnight, with more in the forecast. We'll take today off too, in hopes of some accumulating snow, while we share the day with friends and think of all our friends and family that are so far away. We wish you all the best and are forever grateful to you that help us do what we do. This season looks to have some serious challenges in store for us, but it's not what happens to you in life that makes you who you are, it's how you deal with what happens to you...

All our best to you and yours for a fantastic Thanksgiving. Be well, our friends-Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-24569274873125039142010-11-21T13:29:00.003-09:002010-11-21T14:12:20.112-09:00When the going gets tough-It's been a bit of a roller-coaster around here this week...

After a little over 1000 miles of atv training this fall, I started riding the sled last Saturday, November 13. (Coincidentally, that was the same date I first rode the sled last year, as well.) The sheer joy I feel on the runners with my pals is hard to explain, but there is nothing like it!! I started slow with 8 dogs and short runs as the dogs got their 'sled legs.' As the snow kept coming throughout the week, I worked up to running 14 dogs as we broke trail and then broke it again on the way home. We did some long runs and some back to backs, with the race team doing our first 100-mile day of the season. The team is going strong, staying happy, and working hard. That's the good news!

In the challenging news of the week, Sue has been dealing with a bum knee since she crashed the atv out with a team of dogs earlier this year. On Wednesday, she went in for arthroscopic surgery on her left knee, her fourth surgery on this knee. Well, the good Doctor found more problems than he thought he would and a quick little 'scope and scrape' with Sue on her legs the next day, turned in to a micro-fracturing procedure on the end of her femur and an big ACL scrape. This means she is on crutches for a while and is looking at having to keep the leg braced essentially straight for 6 weeks. Maybe she'll be back to running dogs by January. This is a big blow to how things work around here and will force some new challenges on us both. If it was easy, everybody'd be doin' it-

Onward!!!

Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-78005251220204713652010-10-26T15:04:00.002-08:002010-10-26T16:28:36.024-08:00Waiting for snowTraining miles are adding up and the team is doing great.
Here's another video, from today's run-
Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-71617951135198856062010-09-19T20:01:00.002-08:002010-09-19T20:24:30.173-08:00Today's runFall in Fairbanks has been pretty warm so far, but we have been steadily running teams every morning, when temperatures are coolest. Last year at this time we already had our first snow. Today it was another sunny and 65 degree day, after a frosty start. We're waiting for the door to slam shut on summer very soon and will be glad when it does. Here's a video from today's run-
Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-24199078722944563632010-08-26T12:53:00.004-08:002010-08-26T13:25:33.893-08:00August 26, 2010Ready???

We're off and running, well walking actually. We've run 8 of the last 9 days and already see big changes in the dogs. Today we ran two teams, both 5 miles. Although the Quest pool is much smaller (realistically around 18), we are training 29 dogs right now, including several retired-from-racing dogs. I consider all the Quest finishers from last year and Stump to be our best 12 race dogs. After that, there are a lot of question marks in our team for this year. Hopefully Ambler and Cassin will be back from their injuries, with force. Jay and Ivy certainly have the potential to make the team. The yearlings are full of youthful energy and excitement, but only time will tell how quickly they mature. Esther and Isis look great this time of year and we wonder if this will be the year they finally want to keep up come February. Boom and Togo are both still lurking on the sidelines, too. We hope they may decide to get in the game this season. So many questions... For now, it's just slow, controlled runs with lots of different leader pairs. We'll mix up the turns and trails as much as possible and really look forward to distances increasing as tempertures allow. It's great to be back doing what everyone here loves to do!!

Let's go-

Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-53708262107255851262010-08-24T18:05:00.002-08:002010-08-24T18:30:13.169-08:00August 24, 2010Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-57876314261831105552010-08-24T18:04:00.000-08:002010-08-24T18:05:19.281-08:00August 23, 2010Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-79666291436621368492010-07-24T10:07:00.002-08:002010-07-24T10:44:50.999-08:00Howdy-

We have a new dog food sponsor!! We have joined some of the best mushers in the world on Team Momentum and are glad to have a deal on such a great food for our team. After trying to negotiate the web of corporate-America with our last food company, it's so refreshing to be able to call up the owner of the company (an Iditarod finisher) and talk directly about the food and business. Dr. Tim Hunt has worked hard to overcome some early problems with production of his foods, and now has it dialed-in and is producing a high quality, consistent feed. It comes highly reccomended from our friends Brent and Sonny and our dogs have made an easy transition to Momentum. As a friend noted, it's the perfect time for our team to keep our momentum rolling, after a great season last year and we're glad to make the change just before training begins in a week or two. So thanks, Dr. Tim, for helping us help our team!!

Yukon Quest sign-ups are just around the corner, on August 7th. Anybody out there got an entry-fee sponsorship?? We'd gladly promote your business, give you a dogsled ride, and/or just be forever grateful...

In some other recent news around here, we will be featured in the July/August 'Mushing' magazine, in an article entitled "Smoking Sibes." Although I haven't read the article yet, I've heard it's pretty good. Thanks to Joseph Robertia who wrote it after an email-interview with me this spring. And for the third year in a row, our team is featured in the Mushing Alaska calendar, that just became availble for 2011. It's a nice shot of Reba and Eliza leading the team into the Quest finishline wearing smiles!! Maybe we should sell some from here? Anybody interested?

all for now. Thanks for checking in- Mike.Team Tsugahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-47672621555968618582010-07-09T12:50:00.003-08:002010-07-09T13:22:14.572-08:00Quest video, part 2part two, Dawson to Whitehorse.
Ohh, and all photos and videos are by Sue and Mike Ellis, Peggy Grass, and Bill McKee.
'Run Like an Antelope' by Phish.

Team Tsugahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-23313490650309547.post-17964869978005235872010-07-09T11:40:00.005-08:002010-07-09T12:37:39.284-08:00TeamTsuga 2010 Yukon Quest video, part oneWell, I've spent WAY too much time trying to get this thing put togther and then processed to get it online, but here's a rough version of our trip down the Yukon Quest trail in 2010. I really had to degrade the quality to make this work, but hope you'll enjoy anyway.
Second half coming soon-

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A dual citizen of the United States and Jordan has been arrested for allegedly conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
Nader Saadeh, a former resident of Rutherford, New Jersey, has been charged following an FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) investigation into a group of individuals living in New York and New Jersey allegedly conspiring to assist ISIS.
Saadeh was arrested Monday morning.
According to the indictment, between 2012 and 2013 Saadeh, in "electronic messages," expressed his hatred for the U.S. and aspirations to form a "small army." By July 1, 2014 he was posting images of the ISIS flag on his Facebook page.
The indictment describes how Saadeh became ever more radicalized from 2014 through 2015. His Islamic radicalization was reflected in his dress, behavior and statements in support of violent extremists and ISIS in particular.
As laid out in the indictment, an informant told investigators that Saadeh said that ISIS's execution of a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot by burning him alive and the murders of the Charlie Hebdo staff in Paris were "justified." Investigators further found computer files on ISIS propaganda videos as well as research on flights to Turkey, which borders Syria.
On May 5, accordion to investigators, Saadeh boarded a flight from John F. Kennedy Airport to Amman, Jordan. Saadeh was subsequently apprehended in Jordan.
His co-conspirators include his brother Alaa Saadeh who was arrested on June 29, Samuel Rahamin Topaz who was arrested on June 17, and an unnamed conspirator named CC-1.
The indictment notes that the Saadeh brothers' parents were deported from the U.S. "after sustaining criminal convictions. As of the date of the 2015 interview, Saadeh and Alaa's father lived in Oman, and their mother lived in Jordan."

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Woodgrove Bank is a financial institution that operates in the Netherlands. The
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The Company wants to offer its customers secure Internet access to a mortgage
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Physical Location
The Company's main office is located in Amsterdam. The Company has two branch
offices in the following Locations:
1. Utrecht
2. The Hague
The Company has 200 local banks that are located throughout the Netherlands. The
number of users in each location is shown in the following table:
You are designing a forest structure to meet the business and technical
requirements. How many forests should you create?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
Answer: B
Using more than one forest requires administrators to maintain multiple schemas,
configuration containers, global catalogs, and trusts, and requires users to take complex
steps to use the directory. How-ever, you might need to consider using multiple forests in
the following situations:
1. Network administration is separated into autonomous groups that do not trust each
2. Business units are politically separated into autonomous groups.
3. Business units must be maintained separately.
4. There is a need to isolate the schema, configuration container, or global catalog.
5. There is a need to limit the scope of the trust relationship between domains or domain
The case states: "Developers need to be able to test the NewApp schema modifications
without affecting any other servers." For this reason you would need a different forest.
You are designing an organizational unit (OU) structure to manage the New App
servers. What should you do?
A. Create one OU that includes both the web servers and the database servers.
B. Create one OU that includes the web servers and one OU that includes the database
C. Create one OU that includes the web servers. Then Place the database servers in the
Computer Containers.
D. Place the web server and the database servers in the Domain Controller OU.
Answer: B
Organizational Units (OUs) provide a way to create administrative boundaries within a
domain. Primarily, this allows you to delegate administrative tasks within the domain.
OUs serve as containers into which the resources of a domain can be placed. You can
then assign administrative permissions on the OU itself.
OUs are containers within a domain that allow you to group objects that share common
administration or configuration.
You are designing a new NETBIOS naming strategy for the corporate environment.
Which domain name should you use?
A. ad
B. woodgrovead
C. woodgrovebank
D. woodgrovebank.com
Answer: B
The name "woodgrovead" conforms to the NetBIOS domain naming rules.
Incorrect Answers:
A: The name "ad" is not descriptive enough
C: The company already has 200 Windows NT 4.0 domains. The possibility that
woodgrovebank is already in use is thus high.
D: A NetBIOS name can only by 15 characters long. Woodgrovebank.com is 17
characters long and is therefore not valid. In addition, the use of a dot in the NetBIOS
name is not recommended.
You need to configure the security settings for the new app servers. Which two
actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solutions.
(Choose two)
A. Create a Group policy object (GPO) for the web servers.
B. Create a Group policy object (GPO) for the database servers.
C. Modify the Default Domain Policy.
D. Modify the Default Domain Controllers Policy.
Answer: A, B
You are designing an Active Directory site infrastructure to meet the bussiness and
technical requirements. What should you do?
A. Create one site for each office and each local bank.
B. Create one site for all offices. Create one site for all local banks.
C. Create one site for Amsterdam. Create one site for all branch office and all local
D. Create one site for Amsterdam. Create one site for the Utercht brach office. Create one
site for that Hague branch office. Place half the local banks in the utercht site and half the
local banks in the Hague site.
E. Create one site for Amsterdam. Create one site for the Utercht brach office. Create one
site for each local bank that has more than 50 users. Place all the other local banks in the
Amsterdam Site.
Answer: E
For the Main and branch office you should create a site for each one, since the number of
user on each is mandatory to do so, and you need local authentication. You should also
create a site for each local bank that has more than 50 users, since you need to do local
validation (Technical Requirements : "Domain controllers will be placed in all locations
that supports more than 50 users"). Regarding the rest of local bank locations, since they
do not have so many users, you should point all of them to the Amsterdam site. The
network topology is in a "star mode", so all the communications have a central point
which is Amsterdam.
You are designing a strategy to ensure that DNS queries always take the most
efficient route to get resolved. Which action or actions should you perform? (Choose
all that apply)
A. Configure conditional forwarding on the corporate DNS servers to point the
development DNS servers.
B. Configure conditional forwarding on the development DNS servers to point the
corporate DNS servers.
C. Configure conditional forwarding on the perimeter network DNS servers to point the
corporate and development DNS servers.
D. Configure forwarding on the corporate and development DNS servers to point the
perimeter network DNS servers.
E. Disable root hints on the perimeter network DNS Servers.
Answer: A, B, D
Since you have created two separate forest infrastructures, you should configure
forwarding on the Development DNS Servers to point to corporate DNS Servers, since
these are the ones that would be in the production environment.You should also
configure forwarding on the corporate and development DNS servers to point to the
perimeter network DNS servers, since this should be the ones that would communicate
with the internet.
The Forwarders tab allows you to forward DNS queries received by the local DNS server
to upstream DNS servers, called forwarders. Using this tab, you can specify the IP
addresses of the upstream forwarders, and you can specify the domain names of queries
that should be forwarded. The process of forwarding selected queries in this way is
known as conditional forwarding.
You are designing a remote access strategy to meet the business & technical
requirements. Which authentication mechanism should you use?
A. MS-CHAP v2.
B. Internet Authentication service (IAS).
C. Multilink & Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP).
D. Remote access policies on all servers running Routing & Remote Access.
Answer: B
IAS performs the following for dial-up, VPN, and wireless connections:
1. Centralized accounting: IAS collects usage or accounting information from all
network access servers.
2. Centralized authentication: IAS supports many of the standard authentication
methods such as Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), Microsoft
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP versions 1 and 2), and
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). IAS interoperates with network access
devices from different vendors regardless of the access method used. If IAS is configured
as a member of an Active Directory domain, the user account database is used to
authenticate and authorize access to the network.
3. Centralized auditing: IAS logs all authentication Accepts and Rejects, as well as
usage information such as logon and logoff records.
Instead of having your dial-up server or VPN server performing these tasks and storing
accounting and auditing information, you can configure them to be RADIUS clients, each
forwarding all connection requests to your IAS server. Any remote access policies stored
on these RADIUS clients are no longer used. Instead, these policies, which are stored on
the IAS server, will be used.
You are designing a VPN Server strategy to meet the business and technical
requirement. What should you do?
A. Configure all client computers to point to a VPN server in Amsterdam.
B. Configure all client computers to use Multilink Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP).
C. Create a network Load Balancing cluster of VPN servers.
D. Create a shutdown script for the VPN servers to delete the host(A) resource record of
the VPN sever from the DNS database when the VPN server are shutdown.
Answer: C
Clustering is a group of machines acting as a single entity to provide resources and
services to the network. In time of failure, a failover will occur to a system in that group
that will maintain availability of those resources to the network.
Load balancing is using a device, which can be a server or an appliance, to balance the
load of traffic across multiple servers waiting to receive that traffic. The device sends
incoming traffic based on an algorithm to the most underused machine or spreads the
traffic out evenly among all machines that are on at the time.
High Availability is the essence of mission-critical applications being provided quickly and reliably to clients looking for your services. Five Nines is the term for saying a service or system
will be up almost 100 percent of the time. To achieve this level of availability, you need
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- Conitue to ensure safe neighborhoods, education excellence, and quality community services
- Continue to foster strong economic opportunities and job growth
La Verne is a great city, not by accident, but by design. La Verne voters have always elected high quality citizens who have demonstrated their commitment to the quality of life that exists in our city today. I have been honored to represent you for the past 8 years as your Mayor. Together we have built a beautiful city, we are proud to call home. Together #WeAreLaVerne.
It is important that the quality of leadership continues. I have demonstrated a high dedication to the safety of our citizens, fiscal responsibility and dedication to our city employees, who constantly respond to the needs of all citizens in a highly trained, sensitive and understanding way. These priorities are critical for our continued quality of life. I ask for your vote and confidence on March 7th.
- Financial stability for our City and our residents
- Transparency for all of the residents on all City matters
- To have quality retailers as we will be getting a Gold Line Station in La verne