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SERVING MONMOUTH OCEAN COUNTIES BRANCH WINS WRESTLING TITLE. D1 ALL THINGS GUITAR AT COLLEGE. B1 read the press online: www.app.com ASBURY PARK PRESS PRESIDENTS DAY SINCE 1879 MONDAY, FEB. 16, 2009 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 75 CENTS The bayfront property Mantoloking Cove Trader's Cove Storage Repairs Launch Ramp known as ARINA In will Brick be 732-920-7373 Sips preserved, MAILABLE NOW rather than developed. SUPS (PRESS PHOTO: TIM McCARTHY) Bayfront property preserved By MATTHEW McGRATH TOMS RIVER BUREAU Map area Ocean BRICK No condomini- County ums, McMansions or apartments will be built on the grounds of the former Mantoloking Cove Marina, known as Trader's Cove.

A Herring deed recently signed by the mayor will preserve forever the 10.5 acres on the mainland side of the narrows between Mantoloking and the township as a recreation site. "We need to give people an opportunity to do things that will not cost them money," Mayor Stephen C. Acropolis said. "This is a way for them to go out and sit out by the water. There isn't anything like this on the northern part of the See Brick, Page A3 Island BRICK La.

SITE TRADER'S COVE OF Barnegat Herbert St. Ave. Mantoloking Rd. Bay (35) Ocean Buy Burnegar Atlantic MANTOLOKING Staff graphic The pine siskin is I becoming less common in New Jersey as a result of climate change. (PHOTO: AUDUBON SOCIETY) Change in climate alters range of birds By KIRK MOORE species, 177 or 58 percent of STAFF WRITER the species showed significant northward movement The effects of climate in their range, they rechange are seen at back- ported.

yard bird feeders, as winter migrants in New Jersey "Every bird species has shift their range by 200 a range between heat and miles or more in response cold," said Greg Butcher, to decades-long tempera- Audubon's director of bird ture trends, Audubon sci- conservation and a lead entists said in a report is- author of the report. It's sued this week. not just each species's simResearchers tackled 40 ple temperature preferyears of records from the ences that set that range, Audubon's annual Christ- but also the influence of mas bird count, which en- climate on the ecosystems lists volunteers to note in which they operate, he birds they observe across said. the country in the last days of the year. Of 305 See Birds, Page A3 APP.com LOTS MORE ON THE WEB FIND MOVIE TIMES Select GET PUBLISHED Share news, ODDLY a local movie theater photos and events in your strange or movie title online to community on our from see show times on the hometown pages by and Entertainment home submitting your articles under page.

through Get Published on the Home page. WORKING WITH RED BANK Richard L. Canas, New Jersey's director of homeland graders at Red Bank Middle School. Canas, a native among Hispanic students. (STAFF PHOTO: BOB BIELK) security, speaks to a group of seventh- and eighthof El Salvador, Is working to reduce the dropout rate A role model seeks to keep Hispanic students in school By JENNIFER BRADSHAW STAFF WRITER RED BANK Richard L.

Canas grew up a Salvadoran immigrant in California with a dream of working in law enforcement. He went to college and became a police officer. Today, he heads New Jersey's Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. Canas is a role model to any teen wondering whether college is the right path to pursue, but for Hispanic students, he serves a larger purpose. Hispanic students, who are dropping out of school at a greater rate than their non-Hispanic peers, are able to relate better to someone like Canas.

That's why HISPA, a national nonprofit organization, has been working to "Learning you will do until you die. Learn like you will live forever." Richard L. Canas, N.J. director of homeland security port a 4.3 percent dropout rate for Hispanic students statewide, rising from 3.8 percent in 2005-06. The purpose of bringing speakers like Canas into schools, HISPA President Ivonne Diaz-Claisse of Freehold explained, is to slow dropout rates by showing students living proof that they can succeed in life if they make their education a priority.

HISPA has visited districts statewide on a monthly or bimonthly basis. The districts include Perth Amboy, Summit, West New York and Red Bank. In Red Bank, where Canas made his first stop Jan. 30, HISPA works in partnership with the district's new Advancement Via Individual Determination program, which tries to help students enhance their self-esteem, realize their college potential, accelerate their learning and begin planning for college, while still in middle school. Nearly two-thirds of the students in Red Bank's schools in 2007-08 were Hispanic.

provide professional Hispanic role models for students. HISPA Hispanics Inspiring Students' Performance and Achievement encourages educational growth by sending role models into the classrooms of school districts with a 50 percent or higher Hispanic student population. The latest numbers re- Mice can assess risk as quickly as humans And female lab rats learn faster than males do Those mice coming in from the cold this winter have more in common with us than just an appreciation for cozy warmth, cognitive scientists at Rutgers University found in two reports on brain research. An experiment that compared human and mouse abilities to assess risk left researchers surprised to see that "they're just as good as the humans," said psychology Professor Charles R. Gallistel, co-director of the university's Center for Cognitive Science.

Gallistel, lead author Fuat Balci and David Freestone compared how human subjects anticipated left-to-right moves in a simple computer game that rewarded them with points and cash prizes, and how mice made similar decisions to win food pellets. "Our subjects were not looking at their watches. They were relying on their internal sense of time," said Balci, who is now conducting post-doctoral research at Princeton University. The human subjects got good at the game very early in the experiment, Balci said, but the mice, too, had it figured out before they were halfway through the exercise: "It turns out the humans and mice are both very close to the optimal point." See Mice, Page A3 APP.com Breezy, clouds. cold CLASSIFIED ADVICE B5 C1 Decreasing B6 WEIRD Read the DATEBOOK B3 and unusual news EDITORIALS A13 across the country LOTTERIES A2 TEMPERATURES around the world BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER MOVIE TIMETABLE B4 Nation and World.

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