Wexford University Offers Online Education for Growing Number of International Students

Wexford University now offers more online programs for students across the world. The university offers a variety of online health, exercise, sports and fitness degree programs of all levels to both U.S. and international students.

International students can transfer credits from other universities or begin their college education online at Wexford, which is now accepting registration for classes beginning January 2013 at http://wexford.edu/.

Wexfords online classes in health, exercise and nutrition truly have a direct application and impact for students interested in earning a degree in these growing fields, said Jack Bauerle, Chancellor of Wexford University. We are happy to welcome more international students from China, Japan and around the world to Wexford, where they can earn an affordable, world-class, real-world education that they can use for the rest of their lives.

Wexford University offers degree programs including an associate of arts degree in Fitness Training, a bachelor of science degree in Health and Fitness, a master of science degree in Nutrition and Exercise, a master of arts in Applied Sports Psychology and a doctorate degree in Applied Sports Psychology.

To earn admission to Wexford University, international students must be 16 years of age or older, complete an online admissions form and send official transcripts from previous educational institutions. A 10 percent discount is available when tuition is paid in full upfront, and military personnel can also receive an additional 15 percent discount on tuition.

As interest in a U.S. education continues to grow, we welcome students from around the world to Wexford University, Bauerle added. You can complete a self-paced online program on your schedule, at your convenience, increasing your global earning power and marketability.

About Wexford University Wexford University is dedicated to providing world-class education through cutting-edge technology, offering direct application degree programs in an accelerated format with 100 percent online learning to save time and money. Programs include an associate of arts degree in Fitness Training, bachelors degree in Health and Fitness, masters degree in Nutrition and Exercise as well as masters degree and doctorate degree in Applied Sport Psychology. Wexford University is the higher education division of NESTA (National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association).For more information, please visit http://wexford.edu/.

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Accelerate team members Stephanie Umbers, Sophie Bellman, Tiarna Drake, Gaby Carty, Aylish Auchettl, Samantha Stewart, Sarah Hill and Emily Lacey are ready to take on the world titles.

WARRNAMBOOL teenagers bound for world aerobics titles next month are balancing a heavy training and study workload.

The eight girls, members of EKB Fitness and Aerobics, will head to Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, for the championships from October 15 to 21.

Coach Emma Bellman said the Accelerate team was doing well to handle its increased training schedule.

The team placed second in its junior fitness category at national titles in Adelaide in July with its racing-theme routine, qualifying it for world titles.

Before nationals they were doing two routine sessions a week, plus their own home programs, Bellman said.

Now theyre doing three routine sessions, two gym sessions and theyre doing their own gym work.

Thats down at Action (Indoor Sports Centre). Theyre a sponsor, so the girls can go any time they want, they can use what they want. Theyre doing around 10 hours a week, if not more.

Bellman said she was conscious of ensuring the training and study workload did not become too much for the team.

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

To recognize Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) 75th anniversary today, four local not-for-profits each received a $75,000 grant to promote nutrition education and access to healthy foods. The BCBSMA 75th Anniversary Grants were awarded to the Urban Food Initiative; Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council; Project Bread in partnership with Lynn Economic Opportunity, Inc.; and Boston Natural Areas Network.

For 75 years, Blue Cross has maintained a deep commitment to improving health outcomes and the quality of life for residents of the Commonwealth, said Andrew Dreyfus, President and CEO of BCBSMA. Many families continue to face financial hardship as a result of the economic downturn. With growing demand and shrinking resources, the safety-net services they turn to are severely strained. The BCBSMA 75th Anniversary Grants will help advance critical programs in the communities at greatest risk.

The four not-for-profit organizations were selected after a competitive process challenging them to develop programs to improve the lives of struggling families with children school-aged or younger in Massachusetts. Each organization takes a unique approach to advancing the health and nutrition of families facing economic hardship throughout the state.

Boston Natural Areas Network

This important grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts enables us to expand community gardening in Boston, said Valerie Burns, President of Boston Natural Areas Network. We can now engage even more people in the shared purpose of growing fresh local food, being physically active and building stronger, healthier neighborhoods.

Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council

"Blue Cross support makes the Holyoke Kindergarten Initiative possible, said Anne Cody, Kindergarten Initiative Coordinator for the Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council. Here in Holyoke there is a large Latino population with strong preferences for culturally-familiar produce. Thanks to Blue Cross we can tie the students' cultural backgrounds to local farming and healthy eating, which is an excellent approach to real and meaningful dietary preferences. We can't thank Blue Cross enough for making the Holyoke Kindergarten Initiative a full, delicious adventure in local food and farming - kids learn better when they eat better!

Project Bread in partnership with Lynn Economic Opportunity, Inc.

Were pleased to partner with the Lynn Economic Opportunity Head Start program to introduce young children and their parents to healthy eating in an appealing and affordable way by bringing a trained culinary chef into the program, said Ellen Parker, Executive Director of Project Bread. This generous grant from Blue Cross helps us extend the successful work weve done in low-income schools to some of the youngest and most vulnerable children in the state.

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67 WALL STREET, New York - September 4, 2012 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Retail Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online.

Topics covered: Brick-And-Mortar Versus Online Retail Sales - Cautious Consumer Spending - Specialty Hardlines and Softlines Retail - Strong Secular Growth in E-Commerce - International Retail Platforms

Companies include: Under Armour, Inc. (UA), Nike Inc. (NKE), Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU), Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and many others.

In the following excerpt from the Retail Report, Piper Jaffray's Health and Wellness research analyst discusses the outlook for this unique investment category:

TWST: What is your retail coverage?

Mr. Naughton: My coverage universe is a little unique. I cover what we have termed active and healthy lifestyles. I have two relatively distinct sets of stocks that I follow. The one side focuses on organic and natural foods as well as the supplement business, which I would consider the health and wellness side, and then the second part is the active lifestyle side, which would be more focused on sporting goods as well as active apparel and active footwear. There are also some other pieces in here for fitness clubs that fit into the active side as well.

TWST: Are the active lifestyle and organic and natural foods/supplement spaces seeing the same kinds of trends right now, or are they experiencing two distinctly different situations?

Mr. Naughton: It's interesting. The active lifestyle space, in my opinion, is a category where the consumer is continuing to spend more money. I think that the fusion of fashion and function is well underway with what we've seen from apparel and footwear growth from Under Armour (UA), Nike (NKE), Lululemon (LULU) and those types of names. These are all companies that are clearly benefiting from trends within this entire lifestyle and the next leg of that growth is those brands continuing to offer the types of products that they do today with better fits, but also now introducing more technology. So whether it is chips inside of shoes or tracking on shirts to monitor heart rates inside of your body, I think those are the types of initiatives that will continue to drive innovation in that category and continue to drive share of wallet with the consumer.

TWST: What about with youth sports? Are sporting goods companies benefiting from that area as well?

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MIAMI & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

As part of its long-standing commitment to improving the quality of life of its members, AvMed Health Plans has agreed to a two-year extension through 2014 of its current contract offering Healthways (HWAY) award-winning SilverSneakers Fitness Program to eligible members. SilverSneakers, the nations leading exercise program designed to keep older adults active and healthy, is offered to more than 31,000 AvMed Medicare Advantage members in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Our members are extremely enthusiastic about SilverSneakers, said Winston Lonsdale, AvMeds Chief Medicare Executive. We are encouraged by their many success stories about how exercise and increased activity have improved their quality of life. At the end of the day, our mission is to improve the quality of life of our members. This is a good partnership for us. We encourage our members to make use of this unique opportunity to get fit, have fun and boost their overall health.

Using proven methodologies based upon more than 16 years of science and outcomes, the SilverSneakers Fitness Program increases physical activity in older adults, resulting in higher well-being and lower healthcare costs. The program engages participants in active behavior change through access to a variety of physical activity venues and senior-specific programming that incorporates physical fitness and social experiences.

The enduring success of the program is evidenced through the SilverSneakers Fitness Program 2011 AvMed Annual Member Survey. According to the results, AvMed SilverSneakers members report a reduced incidence of chronic conditions, such as arthritis, high blood pressure and diabetes, when compared to the national averages for older adults. Participants also rate their health status significantly higher than the national averages, with 59 percent of AvMed SilverSneakers enrollees reporting their health in 2011 as either excellent or very good, compared to 30 percent of older adults in the US.

By continuing to offer SilverSneakers to Medicare Advantage enrollees, AvMed has confirmed its long-standing commitment to the health and well-being of its older adult members in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, said Ben R. Leedle, Jr., Healthways president and chief executive officer. The AvMed member survey findings clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of SilverSneakers and its unique combination of exercise and social support, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with AvMed in leading their members to optimal health.

The SilverSneakers Fitness Program was founded in 1993 and serves more than 9 million eligible members. The Healthways fitness center network offers convenient access to more than 15,000 participating fitness and wellness facilities nationwide. AvMed has provided SilverSneakers access to eligible members since 2010.

About AvMed Health Plans

AvMed has been providing health care coverage to Florida citizens and businesses for over 40 years. AvMed offers health coverage options to large and small employers in most major markets around the state; Medicare Advantage products in Broward and MiamiDade counties, and Individual coverage in Broward, MiamiDade and Palm Beach counties. For more information about AvMed, visit http://www.avmed.org.

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Developers are working with city officials to bring a large retirement community to Altoona.

Scenic Development LLC plans to build a facility that would serve more than 100 senior citizens in the area, realizing a community effort that began 10 years ago to create a retirement center in Altoona.

The facility will offer temporary and long-term facilities with three levels of care: Independent living (38 units), assisted living (34 units) and skilled nursing (38 beds).

This is whats known as a continuing care retirement community, Scenic Development Partner Gib Wood said before Altoona City Council last week. Really it will fill all the senior housing needs that Altoona has right now.

With anonymous approval, City Council held the first of three readings to rezone nearly 40 acres of land directly east of Clay Elementary School, southeast corner of the intersection of First Avenue South and 24th Street Southeast.

Cheryl Laird Humphrey currently owns the property up for rezoning 23 acres from agricultural to multi-family residential use and about 14 acres from low-density residential to commercial land use.

Humphreys attorney Ed Skinner said the land owners anticipate retail and small commercial development on the additional land that Scenic Development does not purchase for the assisted living facility.

We anticipate with the advent of the assisted living community being established, there will be types of business that will relate to that, such as dentistry and health, Skinner said, adding that he began efforts to create a retirement community in the area in 2002.

Officials say the facility will create about 48 jobs in Altoona.

The second, and likely third, rezoning reading for the property will take place at City Councils Sept. 17 meeting. After that, the projects advancement will depend on a certificate of need that the state will issue or deny Scenic Development on Oct. 5.

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TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - There are many definitions of retirement based on the premise that it marks the end of your full-time career. One dictionary even defines retirement as "a withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from active working life." However, for many Canadians today, retiring is about much more than just leaving the workforce. People are living longer, working later into their lives, and are spending a larger portion of their lives in retirement than previous generations. If the reality of retirement is changing for many people, isn't it time the definition of retirement changed with it?

"Slowing down and enjoying your golden years means different things to different people," says Cynthia Caskey, Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Sales Manager, TD Waterhouse Private Investment Advice. "You can choose to continue working part-time, consult, volunteer, go back to school, open your own business - the sky is the limit. So with all these choices, we can see that retirement is changing. Shouldn't the definition change too?"

With this in mind, TD is asking Canadians to submit their own definition of retirement. Just visit http://www.redefineretirement.ca from September 10 until September 26, 2012, and provide your contact information and your own new definition of retirement in one sentence. For submitting your definition, you'll be entered into a draw to win $1,000, which could be used to help top up your retirement savings. The contest winner will be announced in a press release that will be issued the week of October 22, 2012, and on TD's Facebook and Twitter pages.

"In general, we're remaining healthier and more active longer in life, which means that many are spending more years in retirement. We're inviting Canadians to really think about what their 'ideal retirement' will be like, and consider how they want to spend their time, who they want to spend it with, and whether or not they will stop working completely," says Caskey.

"It's important for Canadians of all ages, not just those approaching retirement, to think about the lifestyle and activities they'll want to be involved in - and then consider the finances that will be needed to support this," adds Caskey. "The earlier you start thinking about your retirement dream, the sooner you can start saving to make sure it comes true."

About TD Bank Group The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches and serves approximately 22 million customers in four key businesses operating in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, including TD Canada Trust and TD Auto Finance Canada; Wealth and Insurance, including TD Waterhouse, an investment in TD Ameritrade, and TD Insurance; U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, including TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, and TD Auto Finance U.S.; and Wholesale Banking, including TD Securities. TD also ranks among the world's leading online financial services firms, with approximately 8.5 million online customers. TD had CDN$806 billion in assets on July 31, 2012.The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades under the symbol "TD" on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges.

About TD Waterhouse TD Waterhouse represents the products and services offered by TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. (Member - Canadian Investor Protection Fund), TD Waterhouse Private Investment Counsel Inc., TD Waterhouse Insurance Services Inc., TD Waterhouse Private Banking (offered by The Toronto-Dominion Bank) and TD Waterhouse Private Trust (offered by The Canada Trust Company). TD Waterhouse Private Investment Advice is a division of TD Waterhouse Canada Inc.

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LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 10, 2012) - MMRGlobal, Inc. ( OTCBB : MMRF ) ("MMR") today announced stronger than expected sales of its MMRPro document management and imaging system for healthcare professionals (www.mmrprovideos.com). The increase is based on agreements for third quarter sales and fourth quarter deliveries projecting installations and licensing agreements for more than 100 MMRPro systems in the last four months of this year. The demand was triggered by the release of the final rules for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) over the past few weeks. Despite significant pushback from hospitals and doctors, the rules require that patients have online access to their Personal Health Information within 36 hours after a hospital discharge and four days from seeing a physician, which is exactly what MMRPro with MMRPatientView was designed to facilitate (www.mmrpatientvideos.com). This means that starting in 2014, medical information must be available to patients online in as little as 36 hours. The government is sending a message to medical professionals that patient engagement is a top priority and to get it done.

The MMRPro system, which integrates with MMR's patient portal MMRPatientView, is one of the few solutions already responding to physicians' needs today by providing the necessary tools for patient engagement, facilitating the four day requirement for doctors and 36 hour time frame for hospitals. This has created higher than anticipated interest and demand for the Company's MMRPro systems from urgent care facilities and ambulatory surgical centers in addition to senior living centers. MMRPro represents the most cost-effective and easy way for healthcare professionals to move away from paper and begin the path to more streamlined and efficient operations in advance of delivering PHRs through patient portals and paving the way for the implementation of fully-functional EMRs.

"Healthcare professionals are realizing now is the time to buy, and we are in the right place at the right time when you consider that as late as 2011, only 10% of hospitals had a patient portal of any kind," said Robert H. Lorsch, MMRGlobal CEO. "We believe we are seeing greater interest in deployment of our professional products and services as a result of the final Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules issued last month. Moreover, physicians understand that because of healthcare reform they are about to be paid for services previously provided for free in emergency rooms and urgent care centers."

It is estimated that as many as 32 million Americans use emergency rooms and urgent care facilities in place of the family doctor. This means that smaller and medium size providers will need to begin eliminating paper by converting to digitized medical records as an entry-level strategy to deployment of EMRs. The increased patient loads are expected to also create consolidation in providers and many new urgent care facilities.

"MMRPro is the only low cost system of its kind that digitizes a medical office while offering a Personal Health Record complete with all the documents and images in a patient chart for an entire family's health history, meeting the new requirements in near real time. Additionally, the Company's MyMedicalRecords PHR connects seamlessly to the back end of any EMR system, including large scale hospital installations when integrated with our Interbit Connected Hospital module and MMRPatientView," Lorsch added.

Media interested in setting up a demonstration account can sign up at http://www.MyMedicalRecords.com and follow instructions to open a trial account using Registration Code: PRESSCREDENTIAL.

About MMRGlobal, Inc.

MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId/Specifid vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit http://www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at http://www.mmrtheater.com.

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Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature, including statements about Meaningful Use, and future performance, expectations, beliefs, intentions, estimates or projections, constitute "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause MMRGlobal, Inc.'s actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some can be identified by the use of words (and their derivations) such as "need," "possibility," "offer," "development," "if," "negotiate," "when," "begun," "believe," "achieve," "will," "estimate," "expect," "maintain," "plan," and "continue," or the negative of these words. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risk our products and services are not adopted or viewed favorably by the healthcare community and retail market, both in the U.S. and internationally; risks related to the current uncertainty and instability in financial and lending markets, including global economic uncertainties; product integration in physician practices and hospitals; timing and volume of sales and installations; length of sales cycles and the installation process; market acceptance of new product introductions; scheduling; ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships; ability to identify and integrate acquisitions; relationships with licensees; competitive product offerings and promotions; changes in government laws and regulations and future changes in tax legislation and initiatives in the healthcare industry; undetected errors in our products; possibility of interruption at our data centers; risks related to third party vendors; risks related to obtaining and integrating third-party licensed technology; acceptance of the Company's marketing and promotional campaigns; risks related to a security breach by third parties; maintaining, developing, exploiting and defending our intellectual property rights including those pertaining to our biotechnology assets; uncertainties associated with doing business internationally across borders and territories; and additional risks discussed in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. MMRGlobal, Inc. is providing this information as of the date of this release and, except as required by law, does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Samantha Fritz takes readers through the gyms, fitness events, studios and boot camps of New Orleans to discover the best ways to exhaust yourself, lose weight or just plain feel better. Don't be afraid to try something new! This week she demoed a personal training session and talked professional bodybuilding with Ivan Blazquez at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center, Uptown, nojcc.org.

When I walk up to Ivan Blazquez to meet for our personal training demo and a chat about exercise and nutrition, he is eating what looks to me like rhubarb pie. It is pink and gooey, in a plastic container.

"This is not one of my best," says the 33-year-old Health Fitness Specialist and personal trainer at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center (AKA the JCC), referring to his homemade lunch. He eats a vegetable or fruit at every meal and recommends to all his clients to increase their vegetable consumption, even if it's just throwing a carrot on your plate next to the etouffee. He tells me that the brightly colored lunch I interrupt for our interview is actually a mash-up of beets, cucumber, mushrooms and sesame seeds.

I first met Blazquez at Harrah's New Orleans Casino for an event called the American Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation 2012 Pro-Louisiana Bodybuilding, Figure, Men's Physique and Bikini Championships. Very tanned, very muscular men and women posed and performed choreographed routines to show off their incredible physiques. I attended with my friend Nicole, who credits her enviably flat stomach to weekly training sessions with Blazquez.

Blazquez was at the UNO gym in 2005 when he saw another member's picture from a natural (meaning no performance-enhancing drugs) bodybuilding show. He was intrigued and says the guy told him, "You can do it."

Thirty minutes later Blazquez signed up online for his first National Gym Association show.

With a Master degree in Exercise Physiology and years of experience in training and bodybuilding, Blazquez comes with a lot of expertise. This is good, since personal training packages can be pricey; the JCC charges $65 per session or $420 for 10. But that doesn't stop Blazquez's roster of writers, doctors, attorneys, students and more from seeing him at least once a week.

After witnessing Blazquez win the Men's Lightweight Division in the ABFF Pro-Louisiana, he nearly sold me on a personal training package with his sheer enthusiasm, but I settled on a 10-minute "demo" session instead.

During this 10-minute session, I worked out harder than I ever would have in my own 60-minute workout. We "warmed up" with a machine called Jacob's Ladder that looks like a vertical treadmill with a wooden ladder strapped to it. Blazquez asked me to crawl up it for 30 seconds. After he saw I could do that, he told me to go for a minute.

I kept going for a total of three minutes, which Blazquez said put me in the top percentile of his clients. He added that he recently trained a 20-something male who couldn't even finish two minutes. Does this guy know how to hook someone or what? I wanted more challenges! There is a good reason the Jacob's Ladder machine is safely tucked away in the personal training room, out of reach of people like me.

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The fearless dominance associated with psychopathy may be an important predictor of U.S. presidential performance, suggests an analysis published this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

"Certain psychopathic traits may be like a double-edged sword," says lead author Scott Lilienfeld, a psychologist at Emory University. "Fearless dominance, for example, may contribute to reckless criminality and violence, or to skillful leadership in the face of a crisis."

In fact, fearless dominance, linked to diminished social and physical apprehensiveness, appears to correlate with better-rated presidential performance for leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management and Congressional relations, the analysis showed.

Theodore Roosevelt ranked highest in fearless dominance, followed by John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford Hayes, Zachary Taylor, Bill Clinton, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson and George W. Bush.

The analysis drew upon personality assessments of 42 presidents, up to George W. Bush, compiled by Steven Rubenzer and Thomas Faschingbauer for their book "Personality, Character and Leadership in the White House." More than 100 experts, including biographers, journalists and scholars who are established authorities on one or more U.S. presidents, evaluated their target presidents using standardized psychological measures of personality, intelligence and behavior.

For rankings on various aspects of job performance, the analysis relied primarily on data from two large surveys of presidential historians: One conducted by C-SPAN in 2009 and a second conducted by Siena College in 2010.

The rich historical data on presidents, combined with detailed expert rankings, provided a window into an emerging theory that some aspects of psychopathy may actually be positive adaptations in certain social situations.

"The way many people think about mental illness is too cut-and-dried," Lilienfeld says. "Certainly, full-blown psychopathy is maladaptive and undesirable. But what makes the psychopathic personality so interesting is that it's not defined by a single trait, but a constellation of traits."

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