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New Mexico’s Legal & Financial Weekly

Nov. 25, 2011

Vol. 1.82 No. 48

FORECLOSURE SALES: 11

PROBATE:12

AUCTIONS: 8

NOTICE OF SUITS: 5

OTHER: 12

SPANISH NOTICES: 0

The 2011 New Mexico Book Awards Winners & Two Ties For Top Books in New Mexico

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he 5th Annual New Mexico Book Awards sponsored by the New Mexico Book Co-op, were announced November 18, 2011, at the MCM Elegante and for the first time the two top awards had two ties with very different books. For the first time, all of the authors/editors for the top four books live in Albuquerque Metro area. The Best New Mexico Book (dealing with a New Mexico subject) was a tie between Loretta Hall’s Out of This World and Turquoise by Joe & Dan Lowry. The top award – The Best Book was a tie between A Good, Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan To Die by Gail Rubin and The World Comes to Albuquerque: The Dream Takes Flight with editors Tom McConnell, Dick Brown, Kim Vesely, and Paul Rhetts. It was a collaboration between the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta and Rio Grande Books. In both of the top awards, there was a full-color, coffee table book and a black & white, more modest book. The judges found that the books were equal in scoring and presentation and scored the books with an exact tie. The Best New Mexico Books were a fraction of a point below the scoring of the Best Books. Turquoise is the history of the New Mexico gem and features the Turquoise Museum in Old Town. Out of This World is the history of space exploration in New Mexico. A Good, Goodbye is a humorous look at planning for the end of life. The World Comes To Albuquerque is a history of hot-air ballooning in New Mexico at the 40th Balloon Fiesta. 49 other books were honored as winners in their category. Of note, Dave DeWitt, The Pope of Peppers, tied with himself with two different books in the Cooking Category. Slim Randles won two different awards with two different books. Rudolfo Anaya won for Randy Lopez Comes Home. Howard Bryan, Joe Sando, and Father Tom Steele were honored with categories commemorating their literary works. All three died in the past year. The New Mexico Centennial Office sponsored a new

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Centennial Category which was won by the Historical Society of New Mexico’s Sunshine & Shadows. Senator Pete Domenici’s Legacy, the book on the proceedings of the Las Cruces conference, won best Political Book. The MC’s for the evening were Paul Rhetts and Gary Herron, both of whom received awards during the evening. Honored with the Friends of New Mexico Books & Authors were: Anne Hillerman, Jean Schaumberg, Sabra Brown Steinsiek, Max Evans, and David Steinberg. The 2012 New Mexico Book Awards program will be announced starting the end of January, 2012. For information go to nmbookcoop.com

Moving Operations To The “Cloud” Saves Time, Money

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he terms “cloud” and “cloud computing” are just about everywhere, but unless you’re in the information technology business, you may not be sure exactly what they mean. So what exactly is the cloud? It describes computing systems, data and infrastructure running on a server at an off-site data center that your company can rent or lease. Simply put, the cloud refers to the out-of-sight, out-of-mind computer tasks that happen on someone else’s equipment. It can replace or be an extension of the server—or servers—taking up valuable space in your company’s closet or costing a fortune at your company’s data center. The cloud can also serve as an extension of your company’s

IT team, freeing them to focus attention on strategic projects that help your business grow. With the cloud, IT infrastructure costs are predictable. Capital investments in hardware that becomes obsolete cease to exist. In fact, cloud computing lets your company increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly, without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel or licensing new software. Plus, your company’s reliability and uptime improve tremendously, leading to better business efficiencies. In addition, using the cloud enables employees to securely access data from anywhere, at anytime. While the advantages of moving to the cloud are numerous, many

businesses still have questions about safety, security, reliability and accessibility. Fortunately, reputable cloud providers take great pride in providing highly secure and faulttolerant environments, so you know your company’s proprietary information is safe. Data center environments are specially designed, private environments just for your business data. No one else has access to it. Some providers go further and seek third-party certification from independent auditors. It should also be noted that there are numerous reports of entire corporate servers being stolen, flooded and more. But the security at data centers is much safer than that at most small-business

environments. If you still have reservations, consider starting with a hybrid model. That way, your company’s older, archived information is stored in the cloud and your most current data is stored on your own private server or servers. All in all, the cloud offers your company greater agility, less frustration, better cash flow and more time to do what you do best— grow your business. - NAPSI

Mr. Salviski is the vice president of Data Center Services for EarthLink Cloud. You can learn more at www.earthlinkcloud. com.


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