Article: The hardest part of starting your own cleaning service is obtaining those first clients. Most clients want to know how long you have been in business, and because they're trusting you with their belongings and personal affairs, they're going to want dependable references. Being new, you won't have any client references, but you still need to have some. For this, you can ask friends and family if you can clean their homes, and then get permission to use them as references. Not only will they be able to give you an honest reference, you'll also pre-thank them by doing a great job on their home. Let clients know that you are new to the business but that you have thoroughly researched all aspects of the cleaning business, have obtained any necessary training and that you are up-to-date with cleaning needs, including more demanding requests such as green or allergy cleaning. This may require research beforehand but is well worth the effort. Assure your clients that you know what you're doing and that you're quite capable of cleaning their home to their specifications. Be confidentthis can't be stressed enough, as clients respect and trust confidence. It relieves their worries and lets them know that their home is in good hands. Get character references as well, to reassure clients that you're a good, dependable person. A police check is also very wise; in some places, it's required by law. Consider offering a discount for the first clean, a loss leader approach whereby you can prove how excellent your services are. When cleaning the homes of your first clients, go for the very best quality you can give. This is not about how fast you can clean the home. Cleaning efficiently takes a long time, but you will get to the point where you can do a thorough cleaning in a short time. At the outset you may have to resign yourself to spending a bit more time than you'd like until you work out your own efficient systems but persevere as it won't take long to get your rhythm in place. After cleaning, go back and double check all rooms to make sure you didn't miss anything. Impress those first clients and word of mouth will soon spread. Tell them about your hopes for expanding your business, be enthusiastic without being pushy and you'll find many clients will be happy to let others know about how great your services are. Do reassure them that you won't leave them in the lurch thoughsome clients won't share word about you if they're afraid that you'll be poached and will no longer take care of their house.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Get your first clients. Go for quality. Don't be shy about letting your clients know that you're seeking more clients.

Problem: Article: Many cities and towns now have recycling drop-off points or even curbside municipal recycling collection. However, every community is different, so visit your local government's website to find out what facilities and options are available in your area. Most communities will at least have 1 or more recycling facilities, although these facilities may only accept certain types of plastic. If your community offers curbside pickup, you can leave your plastics in a recycling bin alongside your garbage bin on garbage day. In areas that don't have curbside pickup, there are often large recycling dumpsters around town, usually at public places like schools, churches, or municipal buildings. Make sure you're adhering to your local government's guidelines when dropping off your recyclables. Otherwise, this may constitute littering. Search online or call your local officials to find recycling centers in your area. Be sure to ask if there are any limits on what types of plastic you can bring to the center to be recycled. For example, some recycling centers may not be able to accept plastic bags. However, you can often take these to the grocery store to be recycled. Some recycling facilities will pay a couple of cents per item that you drop off. You can make a few extra bucks by collecting recycling from your friends and neighbors and bringing it in. Some recycling centers will do the sorting and cleaning for you, so you can just dump cans, plastics and papers all together. With others, you will need to separate different materials beforehand and drop them off into select containers when you take them to the facility. If your facility requires it, separate paper and cardboard, plastics, glass, and cans. This can be annoying, but like any household chore, it gets easier if you make a weekly habit of it. Note that you may be required to clean out your plastic and remove the labels as well.
Summary: Find out about the specifics of your community's recycling program. Leave your recycling at a drop-off point to have someone pick it up. Take your plastics to a local recycling center if there's no pickup option. Contact the recycling facility and ask if you need to sort your plastic.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You should read it without making any kind of marks. Instead, focus on really understanding what the author is trying to say. This might mean that you need to read one sentence or paragraph more than once. You might also want to reread the whole piece. That's fine. This will help you start to put the piece's arguments in your own words. You can also ask yourself what point or points or themes come up throughout the entire piece. The title can also give you a tip as to the main point of the piece. The author might also state their thesis more plainly by saying something like "my argument is...." or I believe... In a fiction piece, the author will more likely emphasize themes. So if you notice that love - discussions or descriptions of it, for example - come up a lot, one of the main points of the piece is probably love. Once you know for sure what the author's main point is, reread the piece, looking for the ways they support that point. You can find supporting material by looking for details that refer to the title, surprises in the argument or plot, repetition, or a lot of attention to details such as descriptions of characters (if any). Write down each time something like this occurs. To put something in your own words, write it down as if you were explaining or describing it to a friend. In that case, you wouldn't just read what the author wrote. Do the same when you're writing down the major points in your own words. You only need to know what they're arguing. So, for example, say the author's main argument is: "The U.S. Civil Rights Movement actually began in the 1950s." They might say that black women's boycott of mass transit is an example of this. You only need to note the black women's boycott, not the examples of that boycott that the author uses. For fiction pieces, this means avoiding rewriting every single thing that happens in the piece. Focus instead on the major plot points and the main motivator for those points. Don't include everything that happens to the character along the way.

SUMMARY: Read the piece thoroughly. Write down what you think the main point of the piece is. Reread the piece, taking notes on the major points of it. Don't focus on the evidence that the author uses to support those points.

Try to leave a little bit of space between the carrot round, so that air can flow through. This will reduce drying time. Turn it on to 125 degrees Fahrenheit (52 Celsius). Check them at six hours and then every two hours after that. They should be dry, leathery and brittle when they are dehydrated. Thinly sliced chips will take six hours to dry. Keep them in a cool, dark place to preserve them. Add as needed to recipes. The carrots will rehydrate after being placed in liquid for an hour or so.
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Fill the dehydrator trays with the carrot rounds. Insert the trays into the dehydrator. Dry them for 6 to 12 hours. Store them in sealed mason jars with an inch or less of headspace.