In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: If your personal boat had a motor oil leak or you notice another small spill impacting birds in a confined area, call your local animal services office. Rescuing and washing birds is a dangerous operation even under the best of circumstances. Calling animal control gives the birds the best chance of being properly cleaned and released.  An unsupervised person with no training could actually increase the bird's risk of dying through stressful and improper washing. That's why it's best to call a professional and wait nearby until they come. When you clean oil-contaminated birds, you are working directly with animals that are confused, afraid, and not used to being handled. Working or volunteering with a professional animal rescue company means you will be trained and certified on how to properly approach, handle, and clean the birds in ways that won’t hurt or frighten them.  In many cases, a rescue organization will require you to get certified in avian rescue before they let you wash the birds. Improperly washing and cleaning birds can kill them, so you must know how to wash them in a way that minimizes any stress. When you join a rescue organization, they will provide you with their requisite training and certification. You do not need to seek this separately. Rescue organizations also have certain coverages and privileges that you wouldn’t as an individual. They may, for example, be allowed on an otherwise restricted beach after an oil spill. Working with them ensures that you’re in full compliance of the law. Oil contaminated birds will appear blackened, slick, and sticky. They may be trying to remove the oil by preening. If they are experiencing exhaustion, they may be on the ground showing little to no movement. Because of this, contaminated birds should only be picked up by someone who has training in handling both wildlife and hazardous materials  Your volunteer organization should have designated people you can tell if you see an oil-covered bird. They will ensure that the bird is recovered as safely as possible. Oil contaminated birds will preen constantly to the point of forgetting to drink and eat. As a result, oil-affected birds will appear dehydrated and emaciated. Oil-contaminated birds are generally dehydrated, exhausted, scared, and nearing hypothermia by the time they get to a rescue facility. Before they can be washed, the rescue group’s first focus will be ensuring the bird is warm, fed, and hydrated enough for further treatment. As a volunteer, you may be asked to help prepare and administer a rehydrating solution to stabilize the birds.  Medical treatments and tests will be performed by a vet or an experienced professional. As a volunteer, you will typically help prepare solutions before they are administered. This solution is often made from a mix of Pedialyte and a medication like ToxiBan that helps the bird excrete any oil it may have ingested. You may also be asked to assist in the process of testing blood and feather samples to gauge the levels of contamination.
Summary: Call animal services for small spills. Join a professional rescue operation. Point out oil-contaminated birds to a specialist. Stabilize the bird.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Look for signs of struggle as you place the net around the fish's body. If your fish is just sleeping, they'll wake up and try to wiggle their way out of the net. If they don't, they could be dead or very sick. Check the gills for most species. If they're not moving, the fish isn't breathing. Bettas and other labyrinth fish breathe through their mouths. If your fish is from this family, watch their bodies for up and down movements. Look at the eye as a whole. If they're sunken, your fish is dead or near death. Look for cloudy pupils, which is also a sign of death in most aquarium fish. If your fish is a pufferfish, walleye, rabbit fish, or scorpionfish, occasional eye cloudiness might actually be normal. However, you should contact your vet if the cloudiness persists for several days. Do this if your fish has jumped out of the tank. Look for cracking of the skin as you pick up the body. Feel the body to see if it has dried out. These signs are only present in dead fish.
Summary: Try to scoop the fish into your aquarium net. Look for breathing. Check the fish's eyes. Examine the fish's scales.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: This is also called the "apex" of the rack. Make sure the 1-ball is at the apex, the 8-ball is in the middle of the rack, and both a stripe and solid are at the bottom corner, but line up all the other balls in random fashion. If solids and solids are together, or stripes and stripes, that's okay.  One variant of this step in amateur play is to vary the edges of the rack so that the pattern is stripe, solid, stripe, solid, etc. This will result in the two corner balls being the same, i.e. either both stripe or both solid. Another variant of this step in amateur play is to order the balls down and from left to right, according to their number. This will always result in the 1-ball being at the apex, the 11 and 15 being at the bottom corners, and the 5-ball being in the 8's customary position. The center of the first ball should be in the middle of the table at one quarter of the length.  Some tables have this spot marked with a small dot.
Summary:
Start off with the 1-ball  at the front of the rack. Place all the other balls at random. Line the apex (the first ball) up with the middle diamond on the side of the pool table.