Danny Yehia is the founder of Surface Products, a decorative glass and resin materials company that caters to North Americas most forward-thinking demographic. From curved escalators in the River Rock Hotel and Casino to a glass bridge that feels like walking on water, Danny has established himself as a glass expert contributing ideas to interior and exterior design. He’s worked alongside some of the world’s pre-eminent architects, designers and developers to contribute to unique new architectural projects, quickly growing his business into a successful, multi-million dollar enterprise. The road to success hasn’t always been easy, but Danny’s always found a way to make his clients’ visions become reality. “My dad was tremendously helpful,” he says. “I also enjoy meeting new people, building relationships, being part of a creative team to develop something new/innovative, and setting goals and exceeding them.” Danny also enjoys every aspect of his passion and especially working with his clients, explaining, “Fulfilling their project requirements means often finding unconventional and innovative ways to do this. I ascertain my clients’ needs,do my utmost to fulfill them, and respond very quickly to all requests." From the beginning, Danny has built a rock-solid reputation as the go-to glass man in Vancouver. He also believes in giving back to the city he loves: “It’s a friendly, small and safe city where I have made wonderful business contacts and great personal friends. I have also volunteered in local politics, donated to multiple charities, and do random acts of kindness whenever possible.”
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The Chinese Strive to Clean Up Their Act
How big is your footprint?
It was a couple of decades ago that global climate change became a major topic, glowing red with heat as soon as it entered the area. With political and economic undertones playing a hand in whatever argument supports it’s representative’s own convenience bias, if climate change was believed by many to be nothing short of a myth, and by many others, a serious threat. Today, it can be said with certainty that global climate change is indeed a force at work in our ecosystem, yet detractors and apathetic still remain. Easily stereotyped and oblivious to reality, those who shove environmental efforts by the wayside typically make one of three arguments to support their assertions.
The primary argument of course is that climate change doesn’t exist. A pretty convenient argument, but not one that’s grounded in proof, and quite the contrary, one that’s trumped by contradicting evidence. All the same, plenty of powerful people continue to subscribe to this belief.
The plan B for environmental apathetics is an exaggerated concern for the economy. Although sound economic theory would argue that the market will adapt to the consumers need in any situation, arguments fraught with scare tactics continue to pervade discussion surrounding global climate change and what we should do about it.
The beauty is nothing is irreversible…yet! We can still turn our world around!
The final line of defense is the argument that there’s no point in making such an effort if other contributors to global warming, namely China, don’t take action themselves. A valid argument, and a textbook example of the bystander effect.
But finally, China has announced it’s intentions to reduce carbon emissions. The language is vague, and China’s proposals don’t suggest enough of a reduction to make the difference environmentalists would hope for. On top, China has it’s own detractors of global climate change, and face imminent heat from a sizable portion of the population. But all others things aside, we can finally invalidate the third argument of apathetics here at home, because finally, the largest contributor to global warming is making efforts to clean up their act.
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A glamorous and modern bathroom faucet from Kohler. The brushed gold finish makes this a focal point of the room, and is an excellent feature to build around. Imagine the look with a white pedestal sink and black accent wall in an elegant powder room.
Get more information on the Kohler Purist faucet.
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Top DIY Christmas Wreathes
Candy Cane Christmas Wreath
Candy Canes encapsulate Christmas Cheer. What better than to bring two of Christmas’ most prominent symbols together in one package. Take the joy that candy canes bring, and bind them together in a great big ring; or more precisely: a holiday wreathe.
Option 1: Get a foam circle, get a hot glue gun, and glue on mini candy canes in a sort of collage.
Option 2: Get a sqaure plane of cheese cloth the size you imagine your wreathe to be. Next take your candy canes, and arrange them in a circle which looks pleasing to you. To secure the canes, poke a hole in the cloth, and tie them on using a bread tie or a decorative ribbon. See the picture as a reference.
DIY Clothes Pin Wreath
Another impressive way to break out of the box with new decoration ideas is to look through household objects, and see how you can fit them together. An additional benefit to this design, is that you can display Christmas cards from friends out in the open, hanging from your wreathe.
Clothes pin (50-100 pack), Wire hanger, Red beads, Paint, Red ribbon.
Paint the clothes pins green. Get a wire hanger, unravel it into a circle. Alternate putting clothespins on the wire with the red beads. When you are finished and have filled up all the space, add a ribbon to pull the wreath together at the top. Tie the ribbon into a bow, and hang from your place of choice.
Now hang Christmas cards from the clothes pins!
Snowman Wreathe
Three sized wreathes. Our recommendation is 20 inch wreath, a 24 inch wreath, and a 30 inch wreath.
When you have them all together, tie the wreathes together with the smallest wreath on top, and the largest on the bottom. Now you have a series of wreathes in the shape of a snowman, ready to be decorated by children and adults alike.
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ATI has revealed the new additions to their product line and they look great! Take a look for yourself!
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Surface Products has taken a step into the future with our redesigned and completely updated websites! To learn more and to find a link to the website, check out the link here!
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Update of Fracking and the Supposed Energy Bridge
One of the main arguments for fracking, where shale is “washed” and natural gas is recovered, is that it will eventually reduce the carbon emission output of the energy creation industry. The idea is that because natural gas burns so much cleaner than coal, the most widely used fuel for energy creation today, it will act as a bridge between fossil fuel based energy production and the even cleaner, greener, nuclear power and natural power (including solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric). The clean burning natural gas, which is becoming plentiful thanks to the fracking techniques debuted in the last 5 years, will lower emissions by up to half from coal and then the other power sources can step in and lower it even further in the future.
A tower built for fracking stands well above the tree line in rural Pennsylvania.
This seems like a great idea on the surface, but when it is explored, as researchers recently did in the scholarly journal Nature, it falls to pieces. It is true that natural gas burns cleanly but it’s effect on the energy production industry will almost certainly be negative. The reasons why are myriad but can be reduced to one, the ever increasing supply of shale natural gas and the ease of and opportunity for collecting more.
Because it is so cheap to and because there are so many places on the planet that are untapped, the supply of shale natural gas is skyrocketing. This propels the price for the gas down and that is where the problems begin. A lower price point means it will be adopted by many energy producers in the industry and those producers will be able to sell energy at very affordable rates. The competition for the energy market will increase and the natural, renewable sources of energy production will be pushed out of the market.
As one of the researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that published the study, Haewon McJeon, puts it, “[New] technology could double or triple the global natural gas production by 2050. But greenhouse gas emissions would continue to grow in the absence of climate policies that promote lower carbon energy sources.” So, unless governments step in and subsidize renewable energy sources to make them more affordable than the natural gas alternative, most consumers will choose the cheaper option. The lower price will also allow for more frivolous use of energy (it’s cheap so why not use it?) leading to more energy production and higher carbon emissions.
The energy “bridge” will be built by the frackers and their shale natural gas, yes, but it would seemingly go on forever, never reaching the other side where renewable energy waits. And, in the long run, that will do more damage to our environment than sticking with coal and moving more quickly to renewable sources.
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