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TYLER DAVIS Daily Egyptian Nearly 54 years after being built, the Fuller Geodesic Dome Home is getting a $300,000 facelift.

Located at 407 S. Forest Ave., the dome is named after R. Buckminster Fuller, an SIU professor in the School of Art and Design for over 20 years. Fuller built the home in 1960 and designed the dome-shaped home as an answer to the housing crisis of the 50’s and 60’s.

The structure was donated to the R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewrett Dome Home Not-forProfit Organization in 2002, and was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 2006.

The organization plans to repair the many problems that ail the house. Jon Davey, a professor in architecture and president of the Fuller Dome NFPO, said their efforts are more for preservation than restoration because the group’s effort is to make sure the dome is here to stay.

“We’re going to put a new rubber roof on it, rebuild the windows, the doors, the sky lights,” he said. “Turn the inside into a museum with a multimedia show … to show off the sight itself.”

Davey said the proposed museum will have furnishings similar to Fuller’s original home, as well as a gift shop and activities for children.

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Jose Hernandez, of Carbondale, constructs a counter Monday at the former Jewel of India building on 600 S. Illinois Ave. in Carbondale. The building was closed after the new location, now Reema’s Indian Cuisine, opened further down the Strip. Hernandez said the construction in the building should be complete in two weeks.

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Solomon Adufah, a senior from Chicago studying architecture, stands in front of his portrait “Wise Man” Thursday. “Wise Man” is a part of his “Homeland” series.

The collection includes a variety of different paintings that embody the beauty and culture of Africa. Adufah’s work is displayed in the Art Alley of the Student Center until April 17.

Passing through the Art Alley on the second floor of the Student Center, it is hard not to notice the colorful paintings of vibrant reds and yellows.

The collective series is called “Homeland” and includes portraits of people who embody the beauty of Africa. The man behind these works is Solomon Adufah, a senior from Chicago studying architecture.

Adufah’s love for art started as a four year old. He grew up in Odumasi, a small village in Ghana with a population of roughly1,000.

Adufah said he would keep a diary to draw characters from the Disney channel or SeaWorld commercials “Since I didn’t watch television too much because it wasn’t available to everyone where I grew up, I would keep this diary to create images,” he said.

He and his brother moved to the United States to join their mother who was earning her doctoral degree. They lived in Virginia before moving to Olympia Fields in 2007.

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Central High School he attended Harold Washington College and Prairie State College before deciding to join the architectural program at SIU. “I came to SIU, not necessarily to study art. I came here to study architecture,” he said. “SIU has a great undergraduate and graduate program, but not until last winter, I was compelled to do something with the talent that I have, which is to create this series “Homeland.”

He began painting five years ago and uses vibrant colors to represent Africa through his art.

“The red represents the blood that was shed from slavery and civil war,” he said. “The green represents the wealth of the land and the gold or yellow represents the wealth of Africa.”

Adufah has presented many pieces in exhibitions including the C4 Art Exhibition Archives and a presentation to Angela Davis.

Adufah said giving Angela Davis his portrait of her is one of his greatest accomplishments. He is preparing a portrait for Cornel West for when he arrives on campus.

The self-taught Adufah said being a full-time student and having a job forces him to use his

time wisely. He paints through the night, taking about three to four hours on each painting.

“I believe that the more you do it, the more you perfect your craft and the easier it becomes when you do it,” he said. “I paint all the time, so that when people hear, ‘Oh my gosh, you finished these paintings in a matter of hours.’ That’s just because I do it a lot.”

Adufah said he tries to make the painting flow naturally and prefers a more impromptu approach.

“I don’t necessarily have to think about it,” he said. “It’s all impulsive. I don’t determine what my pallet is going to be. I just pick up my paintbrush.”

There are many subjects represented in the “Homeland” series. Adufah said the people are from Nigeria, Ghana and West Africa and are all drawn from memory.

“The characters that I pick are indigenous people, beautiful people who come from all various countries of Africa,” he said. “I pick these characters because of their emotional energy that I see and I try to capture that artistically with my use of vibrant colors.”

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UAAC fills SIU with Asian-American culture SARAH NIEBRUGGE Daily Egyptian The United Asian Awareness Council is celebrating Asian-American Awareness month by tackling some of the complex racial issues AsianAmericans face every day, including the “model minority” complex.

The UAAC is a Registered Student Organization for AsianAmerican students to come together and partake in educational, cultural and social programs.

UAAC President Alexander Soriano, a junior from Downers Grove studying business management, said he joined because he wanted to be a part of something bigger and work towards resolving social injustices Asian-Americans face every day.

Soriano said as the president of UAAC he helps set up programs for Asian-American Awareness month with help from the Center for Inclusive Excellence.

The theme this year is “I am Beyond: Evoking the American Spirit.”

“It’s not really settling for what we have now,” he said. “Some might perceive that Asian-Americans have it

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ociologically speaking, the model minority is a way through which politicians try to deal with the tensions of race relations. This raises the question of whether or not the people who are succeeding as model minorities, if they are succeeding because there is something inherently culturally different about them compared to the other minorities that are not doing well.

pretty good in this country and that our stereotypes aren’t as bad as other people. But we are still grouped into groups that can limit us.”

Soriano said the month challenges Asian-Americans to keep moving forward and remember there are still injustices, but also celebrate their accomplishments in this country and honor those triumphs.

More than 50 percent of AsianAmerican students are bullied compared to other ethnicities, which leads to low confidence creating more bullying in an endless cycle, he said. “(Asian-Americans) came to America before the Polish and Irish immigrants,” Soriano said. “But because we were different from the Caucasians or Saxons from

— Jean-Pierre Reed Assistant professor in sociology Europe, we haven’t assimilated yet into America as well as other migrant groups.”

Asian-Americans have the second highest undocumented immigration rate in America next to the Hispanic community, he said.

One issue the UAAC is addressing this month is the term “model minority.” The model minority describes Asian-Americans as the racial minority to look up to. It stems from the idea that AsianAmericans are more academically, economically and socially successful than any other minority group.

Jean-Pierre Reed, an assistant professor in sociology, said the term is used as a way to make some races seem better off.

“The model minority is basically

predicated on this idea that there are some people of color that are doing better than others,” Reed said.

He said politicians use the term as a way to dismiss racial disparity.

“Sociologically speaking, the model minority is a way through which politicians try to deal with the tensions of race relations,” Reed said. “This raises the question of whether or not the people who are succeeding as model minorities, if they are succeeding because there is something inherently culturally different about them compared to the other minorities that are not doing well.”

Reed said from a sociological perspective, this is not the case.

He said most of the Asians who came to the U.S. after 1965, came

with the right education and skill set, giving them an advantage from the beginning because before then, America had strict quotas on how many Asian immigrants were allowed in the country.

Reed said the term “model minority” might not hurt AsianAmericans or other minority groups, but prevents people from understanding there is such a thing as racial oppression in American society.

“If you aren’t able to see or understand the structural reality behind the success of the model minority groups, than you’re not going to be able to come to terms with the reality that is the fact that we are a racialized society,” he said.

The UAAC will host a discussion on the book “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups of America” and discuss “Model Minority Complex” at 6:00 p.m.

April 16 in the Ohio Room of the Student Center.

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He said he hopes for repairs to be finished in fall of 2015.

Davey’s group has not raised the $300,000 needed to cover all the preservation efforts yet, but they have received substantial help.

Davey said the National Park Service gave them the Save America’s Treasures grant worth $125,000 before the grant was discontinued in 2010.

The group also received $10,000 in matching money from the city of Carbondale. Acting Mayor Don Monty said the money was approved years ago but he is still in favor of the fund allocation because of Fuller’s impact on Carbondale, as well as the world.

“It’s important to memorialize somebody who was a very influential thinker in the 20th century,” he said. “It’s a concrete example of something he had designed, built and lived in.”

Monty said Carbondale tourism could benefit from the dome home, but he does not count on it as a substantial source of revenue.

Carbondale Tourism Executive Director Cinnamon Wheeles-Smith said the sight has a specific demographic.

“Fuller does have a following and people familiar with him that would be interested in seeing it,” she said. “Any time we can add something cultural to Carbondale that shows more about the people who live here, we always have the opportunity for growth.”

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Adufah said he wants his arts to display the typically unseen beauty of Africa. He said Africa is doomed to be a place only remembered for poverty, war and disease.

Davey said the dome was a great breakthrough not only for architecture but for society. The dome’s design is much more space efficient, energy efficient and cost-effective than the conventional square house, he said.

The home takes up less space than conventional, box-shaped homes and it’s lit naturally in most rooms by the use of skylights and side windows.

Davey said the home is heated by underground tubes that run warm water as well as good insulation. In the summer, the home is cooled by opening the skylights and side windows, which would constantly circulate cool air, Davey said.

Fuller’s ideas, such as the dome home and “dymaxion” car – which could seat 10 and got an astounding 40 miles to the gallon in 1933 – were groundbreaking inventions but never gained mainstream popularity because of the unconventional design, he said.

“It’s simple: curb appeal,” Davey said.

“As Americans we have a concept of what a homestead should look like.”

Even though the geodesic dome never caught on in America, Fuller’s contributions to the university and to the arts and sciences are long-standing, Davey said.

Fuller was a professor in the School of Art and Design for 21 years and thought of many of the inventions and ideas he became internationally renowned for while teaching at the university.

Davey said to this day people still associate

“These I painted because I believe there is beauty in the innocence of children,” he said. “There is this image here in America that all young children of Africa need to be cared for or do not have a good life. When I lived in Odumasi, I was happy and I had my family.

Jon Davey, an SIU graduate in environmental design and professor in the ASA School of Architecture, shows off the Buckminster Fuller Dome Home Monday in Carbondale. Buckminster Fuller, who was a research professor during his time at SIU, built the dome in 1960, which he lived in with his wife for 11 years, said Davey. The Dome Home will undergo reconstruction April 19 to be turned into a community museum displaying the life of Fuller.

“One of the recognized, intellectual figures will have a physical grounding in the city of Carbondale where people can come experience it,” Davey said.

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Fuller with SIU. “When I go around the world to Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt or India and I deliver papers, people come up to me and when I say ‘SIU,’ they say ‘Buckminster Fuller,’”

I only hope to allow people to see that through my work.”

He said support and criticism from his brother keeps him motivated to use his art for a greater purpose. He said it was a heated debate at the dinner table over Christmas break that sparked the

Davey said. “SIU is known worldwide because of Fuller.”

The groundbreaking ceremony and party will be held April 19 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

creation of “Homeland.”

“We were arguing. He was telling me about how I wasn’t investing in my art,” he said. “At first, I took it in a negative way, but later I realized he was only trying to motivate me and not discourage me. Ever since, I made the decision

to never look back.”

His brother now helps critique pieces and helps with marketing strategies for future exhibitions.

His art will also be presented during the lecture of Cornel West at 7 p.m., April 17 at Shryock Auditorium.

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Improv musicians build on film JAKE SAUNDERS Daily Egyptian It could be said music is one of the most important elements in a film. Composers often spend months perfecting their scores to match a film’s mood.

But several musicians did not have time on their side Sunday night when they prepared music on the spot for Improv Squared, part of the university’s Outside the Box music festival. Kathleen Ginther, a senior lecturer of music composition, directed the festival, designed to showcase contemporary pieces coming from SIU’s School of Music. But the pieces aren’t meant to be School of Music-exclusive, she said.

“We always try to do something that involves other entities on campus,” she said. “We’ve worked some with filmmakers before and these are some very terrific, likeminded people who are creative artists but in a different medium.”

Ginther said professors and students in different educational units within the university can be so focused on their own school that they miss out on creative work happening elsewhere at SIU, and the event aimed to rectify that disconnect.

John McCowen, a senior from Herrin studying music composition, is part of the four-piece SIU Improv Unit, the group that provided the evening’s music.

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e always to try do something that involves other entities on campus. We’ve worked some with filmmakers before and these are some very terrific, like-minded people who are creative artists but in a different medium.

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As short films created by cinema and photography students and faculty played on a screen, the unit created music emulating the audience’s reaction to the images.

“When the audience would applaud, it would cause a shift in us immediately,” he said. “We were eventually just reacting to everything going on in (the) space.”

Ron Coulter, SIU Improv Unit leader and senior lecturer of percussion, improvisation and jazz studies, said the group had never seen the visuals before and did not see them during their collaborative performance. Coulter was responsible for creating a series of feedback sounds to work as background for the piano and woodwinds. “(Improv Squared) was a presentation of simultaneity, two equal things, rather than just video with sound accompaniment,” he said.

But Coulter is no stranger to this type of improvisation — he has created both composed sound for video and freely improvised sound in real-time with visual

media. However, improvised music is the best kind of music — it’s made by the player, for the player, without any interferences, he said.

“People talk about music as expressing emotion,” Coulter said. “If you agree with that perspective, then this is the most purely expressive music possible because it’s coming from the people that are making it, rather than some composer from hundreds of years ago telling us what to do through the score.”

Ginther said the organizers geared the event to stimulate and inspire, while also directing an artist in one medium to view the work of an artist in another, to gain an appreciation, in this case, for improvisation.

“Sometimes working together results in surprising, unpredictable correspondences,” Ginther said.

Jake Saunders can be reached at jsaunders@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @saundersfj or at 536-3311 ext. 254.

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Julie Williams, of St. Louis, MO., glues minerals to toy cars Sunday at the Annual Gem and Mineral Show at the Pavilion in Marion. Williams said she has been decorating toy trucks with ore for 24 years, combining her love of minerals with her father’s love of toy cars. The show is an annual event held by the Southern Illinois Earth Science Club in which exhibits of minerals, fossils, Indian artifacts and jewelry are displayed.

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Net neutrality is a must

DRAKE HALL SENIOR, JOURNALISM STUDENT

How many times a day do you use the Internet? If you’re a college student, that might be a difficult question to answer. You might use your iPhone to check Facebook or Twitter first thing in the morning to see what your friends did last night. Maybe you want to stream some music while you get ready and check the weather so you know what to wear. Did you get all of your homework done? Better check Desire2Learn before you head out. While you’re at the computer you might as well respond to some emails and make a credit card payment.

For college students, and most millennials for that matter, online activity is such a part of daily life that it’s hard to quantify.

For a generation so dependent on the Internet, net neutrality is mostly taken for granted. A recent decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, however, has weakened the Federal Communications Commission and might mean the end of net neutrality.

This could fundamentally change the way consumers access the Internet. College students, it’s time to pay attention.

Net neutrality refers to the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally

by Internet service providers. Without it, companies could manipulate Internet access to benefit their corporate interests. For example, Comcast, a telecom company that owns NBC Universal and operates as an Internet service provider (ISP), could start slowing down their Internet customers’ download speeds when they try to access sites like fox.com or cbs.com.

Since 2010, net neutrality has been the law, albeit a weak one with lots of exemptions and exceptions (especially for mobile providers) under the FCC’s Open Internet Order. On Jan. 14, the D.C. Circuit Court of

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Appeals decided the FCC had overextended its authority and struck down the order.

Until the courts decision in January, the FCC was regulating the Internet much like it does phone companies. The FCC considers phone companies common carriers, which allows for greater regulation. Verizon began arguing in 2011 that the FCC had already placed broadband in a different regulatory category than phone service and thus couldn’t impose common carrier restrictions on ISPs. The court agreed, citing the FCC’s prior decision to separate broadband and telephone service.

What does this mean for you? Well for one thing, things could start getting more expensive. Service providers could start charging more for content that takes up a significant amount of bandwidth, such as streaming video.

For many college students a cable bill isn’t in the budget so they turn to services like Netflix and Hulu, which provide a very similar experience at a fraction of the cost.

The content provided by services like these takes up a substantial amount of space on a network, so companies like Verizon or Mediacom are now allowed to start charging more. They might charge Netflix and Hulu more for uploading the content, a charge that will be passed on to the consumer.

They can also charge customers more for downloading that content, meaning consumers will pay more in two separate transactions for the same service.

Television and movies aren’t the only things that might become more expensive.

There could eventually be surcharges for online gaming, video sharing (think YouTube and Vimeo) and even social networking.

Robert Spahr, an assistant professor of cinema and photography who teaches

classes on web design and new media said, Internet service might start to look a lot like cable service. “The web would become like cable TV where you pay for packages of bandwidth,” Spahr said. You buy a package that has the New York Times, the Washington Post, and then you want to read the Huffington Post and you have to pay extra.

That’s a very real thing.”

Your checking account might not be the only thing to take a hit if net neutrality becomes a thing of the past. Your opportunities are also at stake. Say you’re an eager young developer with the next great photo sharing site. Huge companies like Facebook (which owns Instagram, the current number one photo sharing network) and Flickr could pay service providers extra to make sure competitive sites are harder to access. Maybe you’re a blogger with some great insights about cars or fashion or gender inequality or Star Wars. Unless you pay a premium for producing content, your ideas might never get beyond your laptop.

All of these troubling scenarios, while entirely legal and certainly possible, are unlikely to happen all at once. For one thing, part of the court’s ruling says that ISPs have to disclose when they engage in discriminatory behavior and none of them are particularly eager to be the first to start enraging customers with video surcharges.

Also some companies, like Comcast, are contractually (but temporarily) bound to net neutrality as part of a corporate merger deal.

Even though Netflix isn’t going to suddenly be more expensive tomorrow, the court has paved the way for some drastic changes to the way people access online content. Now is the time for consumers, especially those who can’t remember life before the Internet, to demand net neutrality.

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Starting lineup becomes more concrete

JENNIFER GONZALEZ · DAILY EGYPTIAN

Junior Parker Osborne takes a swing March 22 during SIU’s 5-4 win against Purdue University at Itchy Jones Stadium. Osborne has a 10-game hitting streak and a .316 batting average. The Salukis play Tuesday at Southeast Missouri State University and will open a weekend series Friday against Indiana State University at Itchy Jones Stadium. (Image created using in-camera multiple exposure technique.)

SIU baseball is in the bottom half of the Missouri Valley Conference standings, but still clinging to an over .500 record.

The Saluki baseball team (17-14, 2-4) dropped its second consecutive conference series, but solidified two-

thirds of the starting outfield.

Freshman center fielder Dyllin Mucha played harder than anyone on the team last weekend. Mucha battled every atbat and collected six hits, two of which came on bunts.

Coach Ken Henderson said Mucha earned the starting spot in center field.

He has started the last 15 games and leads the team in batting average and onbase percentage, but only has 46 at-bats.

Regardless, Mucha has the potential to be productive.

Henderson said he doesn’t want to move Mucha up in the batting order because he doesn’t want to interfere with his success. If Mucha keeps batting the way he is now, he should

move up a spot or two. He could be a good leadoff hitter after senior Jake Welch graduates, but when regular starters play, the first five spots in the lineup are occupied.

Henderson said one other freshman has also claimed a starting role going forward. Freshman Will Farmer was the best defensive option at third base going into this season, but has become the best overall option.

Farmer has similar numbers to freshman Ryan Sabo; so either of them could potentially start every game.

Henderson said he wants to play his best defenders, so Farmer will start, at least temporarily. Henderson said he also wants to figure out a way to

put freshman Connor Kopach in the lineup more often.

Kopach is one of the best defenders on the team, and a great base runner.

If he can figure out how to hit better, he will easily start the majority of next year’s games at either middle infield position. Both starting middle infielders are seniors.

The team’s top-two outfielders are locked in, but after that, it is up for grabs. Junior outfielder Parker Osborne is productive on the field and at the plate.

Osborne has a 10-game hitting streak, and has made some of the best defensive plays on the team this season.

With Osborne in left and Mucha in center, right field is left open.

Henderson has been playing the matchups. When the opposing team starts a left-handed pitcher, Henderson starts senior Donny Duschinsky.

When the opposing team starts a right-handed pitcher, Henderson starts junior Tyler Rolland.

It makes sense to do so. Their stats are similar, and batters traditionally hit better against a pitcher throwing with the opposite arm. Duschinsky brings more power than Rolland, but Rolland gets on base more than Duschinsky. It’s a coin toss. The only thing Henderson can do is manage the matchups.

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Junior put in place to lead Saluki softball TONY MCDANIEL Daily Egyptian A familiar face will be the first to the plate in the Saluki lineup.

Junior center fielder Kalyn Harker is hitting the ball well as of late, so well Coach Kerri Blaylock moved her to the top of the order.

Harker said being a leadoff hitter comes naturally to her.

“I used to hit first in high school and in travel ball,” she said. “I’m familiar with the position and I like it. I feel comfortable in it, I’m glad that she put me there and we’re able to be successful that way.”

Harker earned the honor of being the Salukis’ first hitter because of her performance in the last nine games.

Harker was hitting .255 with six RBIs before the March 23 matchup against Drake University. Harker went 2-3 with two RBIs and a triple against the Bulldogs.

Her average has ballooned to .318, second best on the team. She has also more than doubled her RBI total from six to 16.

In the games since March 23, Harker has hit .424 with nine RBIs. Blaylock said when Harker hits leadoff, the team is stronger throughout the order.

“It puts everybody in their natural spot,” she said. “I think Kalyn is a natural leadoff and Michelle [Glenn] is that natural two-hole hitter, and then you get Taylor Orsburn into a RBI spot, which she should be. It just kind of lets things flow the way you want it to.”

Orsburn, a senior, previously held the leadoff role for the Salukis and had moderate success. Orsburn is hitting .246 on the season with 17 RBIs. With Harker stepping in, Orsburn could slide down in the lineup to the fifth spot.

Blaylock said Orsburn is not a typical leadoff hitter and Orsburn agrees.

“I’ve always been down in the lineup, and I feel more comfortable down there,” Orsburn said. “Leading off kind of adds pressure. I think anywhere that you feel more comfortable is the best.”

The Salukis saw immediate success with their new lineup in the game against Murray State University April 1. Harker was 3-4 with three RBIs and Orsburn was 1-3 with four RBIs. Orsburn’s lone hit was a grand slam over the center-field wall.

This will not be Harker’s first time hitting at the top of the order as a Saluki. Last season, Harker hit leadoff in most of SIU’s games while hitting .288 for the season.

Harker’s 2013 season was cut short when she dove for a ball in practice and landed awkwardly, fracturing her pinky finger and fourth metacarpal in her left hand.

Blaylock said she thinks Harker was one of the best players in the Missouri Valley Conference before the injury.

“She was one of the best outfielders in conference, there is no doubt. She broke her hand at a very inopportune time for us and her,” she said. “She’s one of those athletes that can hit, run and throw. She’s a very, very good athlete.”

Blaylock said her speed makes her an

even more ideal choice to hit first in the batting order. Harker has 28 stolen bases in her career and has only been caught stealing five times.

“Her and Michelle Glenn both can create havoc at the top of the order,” Blaylock said. “But the thing about [Harker] is she’s sneaky. She’s got power too, so she can do things both ways.”

The Salukis will get another chance to show off their lineup tonight when the Salukis take on the Southeastern Missouri State University Redhawks at Charlotte West Stadium at 5 p.m.

Tony McDaniel can be reached at tmcdaniel@dailyegyptian.com, @tonymcdanielDE or at 536-3311 ext. 282