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To make matters worse, we are beginning the new year with a moisture deficit in the high country.

Well the New Year was a new beginning for us and we're one point out of third place. So we just want to keep inching up the standings board and see how high we can get. And we've got the schedule in front of us right now to do a lot of damage. We need to be focused on one game at a time and not think past our next opponent and our next game.

This is the time of year, once the new year comes, that people start to look forward to winter being over and getting outdoors, and they start planning things.

Prices have fallen 25 percent since their record highs in September. After the New Year, motorists can expect prices to begin rising as refineries cut back production to conduct their annual maintenance and begin the process of producing the summer blend of gas, which must be completed by the end of February.

The Russian New Year exploit is by far the most serious of the increasing number of mobile code exploits appearing in the last six months. We cannot emphasize enough how important it is for anyone conducting electronic commerce to inspect all information coming into their company to look for these types of attacks before they cause damage.