Can't say I know too much about all this or really care, but I wonder if this isn't some attempt at using the timing of a Holiday weekend to try and obscure this?
Hmmm. Interesting.... I see that John Donahoe never made the customary dump this past month of January 2011. Again, not sure what that may (or may not) mean, but it is a change, and I haven't seen anything about it mentioned elsewhere.
IIRC, the last one of 2010 was much larger than usual.