Birds banned from GOP pow-wow.Organizers for this year's republican national convention have taken great pains to ban birds from participating in the Republican National Convention. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's main post office on 34th Street, which will be the site of many news conferences, has taken great steps to make sure that birds will not be around to "drop bombs" on the president or any other republican. The post office has hired New Jersey based pest elimination company Bell Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, to install its revolutionary "Bell Strip," which uses a mild shock to discourage birds from congregating con·gre·gate tr. & intr.v. con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather. adj. 1. Gathered; assembled. 2. , to safely displace dis·place tr.v. dis·placed, dis·plac·ing, dis·plac·es 1. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: birds from the post office building. The system is based on the premise of operant conditioning operant conditioning n. A process of behavior modification in which a subject is encouraged to behave in a desired manner through positive or negative reinforcement, so that the subject comes to associate the pleasure or displeasure of the theory using a shock as the stimulus to decrease the likelihood of a particular behavior being repeated. Bell Environmental's Bell Strip system is able to displace birds by giving them a powerful, yet non lethal, shock upon landing on the electric device--causing the bird to be uncomfortable enough that it is forced to move off of the building. Similar to cattle fences that ranchers use to keep their livestock from wandering Wandering See also Adventurousness, Bohemianism, Journey, Quest. Ahasuerus German name for the Wandering Jew. [Ger. Lit. off, the strip alters the bird's behavior over a period of time through the electric shock--teaching the animal to never land on the building. "I may not be able to keep egg off President Bush's face, but I can make sure that a bird does not make its own political statement," said Phil Waldorf, president of Bell Environmental Services. |
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