The profit rise was within expectations as the lender experienced solid growth based on good asset quality.

What do you do to both realize the value of that asset and save the building?

This has the potential to push prices higher. Gold has always had a traditional role as an asset which holds its value in times of uncertainty.

If he continues to do that, he'll be a valuable asset -- especially on a team like ours. You can throw him up front for a bit, put him at right wing and he'll get some energy going. Then you can throw him in the back, and he'll do the job there.

The building wasn't vacant that long. We tried to remarket that asset as soon as we could.

He's already done some things that's been a benefit to the county, like making a few changes in the budget so that maybe we can avoid a big tax increase. He and Justin are working on rewriting the land development code, which needed a lot of work done to it, but he's on top of the job and I think he's going to be a real asset to the county.

If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.

We have a number of traditional commercial lists for the rental market, but we also look at those names and the information associated with them as a tremendous database asset that's more synergistically tied to advertising. When this database enhances the leads we provide to advertisers, its value is much, much greater than it is as a revenue source for renting names.

People are worried the Bank of Japan will change its interest rate policy, but I don't think it is a negative for the stock market because the economy is moving out of deflation and that is positive for the stock and asset markets.

He's a very electrifying player, exciting player to watch, definitely. He could be an asset to any team in the league.