I don't know if we feel guilty, but we certainly feel as if it's the first year we've cancelled winter. We've gone years without summer, but never winter.

This is all just a part of the roller-coaster ride of a winter we're having this year.

The easy answer is the fact that the source of cold air this winter tended to be more in Eurasia and not North America. So what we got was more Pacific air and not Arctic air.

This was certainly a successful launch for the 30-year bond.

I feel that the first five years of the foundation have been extremely successful. In the coming year, we plan to increase the number of donor-advised funds as well as contributions to our endowment fund.

For a first-year event, I'm very pleased with it. It brought new technology, new ways of doing things, but it is coming together very well.