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RIDGEWOOD,NJ 4/25/07 PICTURE THIS / GEESE PEACE: Jim Conboy holds off a mother goose with an umbrella as Pam Perrone applies vegetable oil to new eggs that have not developed an embryo, on the roof of the Somerville school. They are practicing Geese Peace, a humane method of controlling Canada Geese poulation with oiling eggs to prevent development. Volunteers are trained to work in teams, they scare the mother off her nest using umbrellas and then quickly oil the eggs. -Thomas E. Franklin / The Record