A majority of the womens track and field team will be heading to Toledo while others will be spreading out around the country.

Freshman jumper Marsielle McBeam qualified for the Mid-American Conference championships last weekend in South Florida and will be making the trip to Toledo to try to build on her performance last weekend.

Ive been training hard; I expected to do better in Florida, said McBeam. The traveling wasnt the best experience going into a meet, but I did what I had to do.

The outdoor track and field season has just started, and McBeam has a positive outlook on her team and their competition.

Everybody has been coming together, McBeam said. The team spirit is there, and in terms of competition, we want to be in the top three.

McBeam stresses the importance of overall team performance in order to accumulate and for the team to finish near her goal at the top of the standings. Her work ethic has even been stepped up despite her qualifying results at USF.

Ive been preparing myself to do more reps and more explosive stuff to prepare me for next weekend, McBeam said.

As far as personal numbers and goals are concerned, McBeam does not shy away from being openly optimistic and blunt. According to her, achieving success is a necessity.

I need to be over 5-9, McBeam said. My aim right now is to be at least 5-10 and my expectations are high; I have to aim for that from now on.

The team will be splitting up from some of the runners and heading to Ohio for the Toledo Collegiate Invitational. CMU will be competing from Friday to Saturday in the two-day event.

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Theresa May took a political gamble today by scrapping the "troubled" UK Border Agency and taking personal charge of Britain's immigration controls.

The controversial organisation, which has faced concerted criticism since its creation five years ago, will be split into two parts reporting directly to ministers.

The Home Secretary was scathing about the failures of the arms-length agency, which she condemned as "closed, defensive and secretive".

Her surprise intervention was welcomed by MPs of all parties and will further fuel speculation over her ambitions to succeed David Cameron. But it also represents a high-risk move as she and her ministers will have to take responsibility for any failures or blunders in Britain's immigration system.

Just over a year ago, Mrs May hived off the border force from the UKBA following the disclosure that some passport checks had been secretly relaxed at time of maximum pressure at ports and airports.

But yesterday she went further by announcing the demise of the agency, which is sitting on a backlog of more than 300,000 unresolved asylum and immigration cases.

It will be divided into sections dealing with the visa system and with enforcing immigration laws, both of which will be accountable to her and to the Immigration Minister, Mark Harper.

The Home Secretary said: "The agency has been a troubled organisation since it was formed in 2008 and its performance is not good enough.

"In truth the agency was not set up to absorb the level of mass immigration that we saw under the last Government. This meant the agency has never had the space to modernise its structures and systems and get on top of its workload."

Mrs May said its sheer size meant it "all too often focuses on the crisis in hand at the expense of other important work" and condemned "its lack of transparency and accountability", as well as its inadequate computer systems.

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About 11,000 people receive treatment at emergency departments every day in the United States for injuries sustained during sports, recreation or exercise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In an effort to reverse that statistic, American Council on Exercise (ACE) has designed two Specialty Certifications aimed at helping personal trainers, group fitness instructors, health coaches, registered nurses, physical therapists and a wide range of other professionals prepare athletes for competition and millions of others for activities of daily living.

Many of the injuries people experience every day low-back pain, ankle sprains, Runners Knee, Achilles tendinitis can be prevented with proper conditioning, said ACE President and CEO Scott Goudeseune. Our specialty certifications provide in-depth information for health and fitness professionals who work with not only elite athletes, fitness enthusiasts and young competitors, but also a wide range of others who have trouble lifting groceries, playing with their children or even getting out of bed in the morning.

Curriculum for Specialty Certifications in Sports Conditioning and Functional Training addresses core strength, agility and balance coordination, specific resistance training movements for the upper and lower body, hydration strategies, nutrition, functional movement, program design, posture and flexibility.

The ACE Sports Conditioning Specialty Certification is intended for any professional interested in developing programs that help people improve their athletic performance. That could mean high school or community league athletic coaches who want players to improve speed and strength, first responders who need to boost their endurance, or fitness professionals preparing clients for a sports season or a personal goal.

Becoming an ACE Functional Training Specialist will help fitness and allied health professionals garner a deeper understanding of how to train the body to move more efficiently. Whether its improving core function to give clients an edge in athletic competition or boosting balance to help older adults work in their home gardens without pain, functional training can help all adults improve movement efficiency.

Specialty certifications were created based on public demand and the knowledge ACE experts believe a well-rounded specialist should possess. To earn a specialty certification, health and fitness professionals must complete a series of individual courses created by ACE and its educational partners. Sports Conditioning and Functional Training Specialty Certifications are each equivalent to 2.5 continuing education credits (25 hours of professional development).

About ACE

Since 1985, American Council on Exercise (ACE) has evolved from a small nonprofit dedicated to educating people about proper fitness to a 50,000-strong network of certified Personal Trainers, Group Fitness Instructors, Health Coaches and Advanced Health & Fitness Specialists. As the largest NCCA-accredited nonprofit fitness certification organization in the world, ACE provides quality continuing education to professionals and conducts independent science-based research to protect all Americans from unsafe and ineffective products. Our goal is to inspire people to live their most fit lives through free fitness resources including workouts, nutrition information and expert advice. For more information, call (800) 825-3636 or visit ACEfitness.org. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE, ACE and ACE logos are Registered Trademarks of the American Council on Exercise.

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ACE Specialty Certifications Help Professionals Prevent Injury, Boost Athletic Performance Among Clients

OCEANSIDE, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 27, 2013) - Citadel EFT, Inc. (OTCQB: CDFT) CEO Gary DeRoos is pleased to announce that he will be retiring 117,000,000 of his 168,000,000 common securities effective May 13th, 2013. This is two days prior to when Citadel EFT is due to post its second quarter results. The retirement of these securities on that date will effectively bring the Issued Capital to approximately 116 million shares.

Gary DeRoos, CEO, Citadel EFT, states, "We have retired significant amounts of compensation securities back into treasury, and the last responsibility was to retire 70% of my holdings. I will be in discussion with our other preferred stockholders who own the balance of the common to suggest retiring more of the common, so that we can bring our market capitalization more in line with the equity we are building on the balance sheet.

He further states, "We are extremely pleased with the improvements we are making to our balance sheet. We expect, in the next two quarters, to improve our cash position and our overall net stock holders equity. We have retired all compensation securities to management, and lowering the Issued Capital was always part of our agenda. The significance of choosing May 13th as the effective date is that it is before our second quarter results are due to be posted. And we have indicated in a previous press release that we would lower the issued capital before Q2 was posted. We are meeting that obligation, and look forward to any shareholder inquiries on the matter."

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