Gehry refines design for Eisenhower Memorial in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Additional stone or bronze carvings depicting Dwight D. Eisenhower's accomplishments as Army general and president mark the latest creative changes architect Frank Gehry has made to his design for a planned memorial park honoring Ike near the National Mall.

Gehry's design early last year featured an image of Eisenhower in the Oval Office with his hand on a globe, as well as an image of Gen. Eisenhower addressing his troops before D-Day. He planned to use bas reliefs carved on stone blocks. Gehry added 9-foot-tall bronze sculptures in May 2012 after members of Eisenhower's family said the memorial park needed stronger sculptural elements to show the 34th president's achievements more prominently.

Now Gehry is returning to his original concept of bas reliefs in stone or bronze to serve as backdrops for the heroic-sized sculptures. The sculptural pieces will further depict Ike's work as general leading the D-Day landings at Normandy and as president signing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to advance equal rights for African Americans.

A sculpture of a young Eisenhower sits on a wall nearby, looking out at his future accomplishments.

The Associated Press got an early look at the design changes, which were to be reviewed Wednesday by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission.

Gehry is still proposing that the memorial park be framed with large metal tapestries showing Eisenhower's boyhood home on the Kansas plains. But Eisenhower's family objects to the tapestry concept, saying last year that the metal material won't last forever and is "impractical and unnecessary."

Adding more images of D-Day and from a key moment of Eisenhower's presidency make the president's story more complete, said Daniel Feil, the project's executive architect.

"There's more of a dynamic going on because you have two different points in time depicted within one sculptural composition," Feil said of Gehry's revisions. "He's making it stronger. It's more powerful."

During his presidency, Eisenhower took a lead in desegregating public schools in Little Rock, Ark., and in Washington, D.C. So the imagery of him signing the Civil Rights Act, in particular, adds a new element of history to the memorial.

Above the presidential imagery, historians have proposed a quotation to be carved in stone to capture some of Eisenhower's values.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed," Eisenhower said in a 1953 speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, speaking about the rising cost of Cold War-level military spending and the nation's priorities.

For the imagery of Eisenhower as World War II hero, historians proposed an inscription with this quotation from D-Day: "The tide has turned," Eisenhower said in an address to his troops. "The free men of the world are marching together to victory!"

The 12-member, presidentially appointed memorial commission has kept Gehry's metal tapestries concept as part of the design, despite objections from some critics who called it an "avant-garde approach" to memorial architecture. Eisenhower's family has called for a simpler design. Others have praised Gehry's concept for its innovation.

Retired Air Force Gen. Carl Reddel, the executive director of the memorial commission, said the combination of imagery from Eisenhower's Kansas roots, his achievements as supreme Allied commander in Europe and his two-term presidency capture Ike's unique role in history.

"What you have here is the Eisenhower story as the American story. It's a great way to provide a narrative," Reddel said. "Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century and the first one to look at reconnaissance photographs taken from satellites in space."

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Ga. woman says she's certain suspect shot her baby

This photo provided Friday, March 22, 2013 by Sherry West, of Brunswick, Ga., shows her son Antonio Santiago celebrating his first Christmas in December of 2012. West says a teenager trying to rob her at gunpoint Thursday asked "Do you want me to kill your baby?" before he fatally shot 13-month-old Antonio in the head. West was walking with Antonio in his stroller near their home in coastal Brunswick. The mother was shot in the leg and says another bullet grazed her ear. Police are combing school records and canvassing neighborhoods as they search for the gunman and a young accomplice a day after the slaying Thursday. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sherry West)

This photo provided Friday, March 22, 2013 by Sherry West, of Brunswick, Ga., shows her son Antonio Santiago celebrating his first Christmas in December of 2012. West says a teenager trying to rob her at gunpoint Thursday asked "Do you want me to kill your baby?" before he fatally shot 13-month-old Antonio in the head. West was walking with Antonio in his stroller near their home in coastal Brunswick. The mother was shot in the leg and says another bullet grazed her ear. Police are combing school records and canvassing neighborhoods as they search for the gunman and a young accomplice a day after the slaying Thursday. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sherry West)

This Friday, March 22, 2013 photo provided by the Glynn County Detention Center shows De'Marquise Elkins, 17, one of two teenagers arrested Friday and accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and wounding his mother during their morning stroll in Brunswick, Ga. Elkins is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is a juvenile, Police Chief Tobe Green said. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Glynn County Detention Center)

Sherry West breaks down in tears as she describes the incident the day before where her 13-month-old son was fatally shot and she was wounded Friday, March 22, 2013 in Brunswick, Ga. West said Friday a teenager trying to rob her at gunpoint asked "Do you want me to kill your baby?" before he fatally shot her 13-month-old son in the head. (AP Photo/The Brunswick News, Bobby Haven)

Luis Santiago tries to comfort Sherry West at her apartment Friday, March 22, 2013, in Brunswick, Ga., the day after their 13-month-old son, Antonio Santiago, was shot and killed. West says she was walking her baby in his stroller when a teenage gunman demanding money shot the baby in the face and shot her in the leg. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Authorities investigate the scene of shooting in Brunswick, Ga. on Thursday, March 21, 2013. A young boy opened fire on a woman pushing her baby in a stroller in a Georgia neighborhood, killing the 1-year-old boy and wounding the mother, police said. The woman, Sherry West, told WAWS-TV that two boys approached her and demanded money Thursday morning. Brunswick Police Chief Tobe Green said the boys are thought to be between 10 and 15 years old.(AP Photo/The Morning News, Terry Dickson)

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) ? The mother of a baby gunned down in his stroller says she has no doubt a teenage suspect is the man who killed her 13-month-old son, but family members say he wasn't anywhere near the scene.

"That's definitely him," Sherry West said Saturday when she saw the jail mugshot of 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins, who is charged as an adult with first-degree murder. Police also arrested a 14-year-old who has not been identified because he's a minor.

"We're trying to determine which one actually was the shooter," police spokesman Todd Rhodes said Saturday.

But West said she was certain the gunman was the older suspect. "He killed my baby, and he shot me, too," she said.

On Thursday morning, West was pushing Antonio Santiago in his stroller after a trip to the post office. She said a teen, accompanied by a smaller boy, asked her for money.

"And he kept asking, and I just said, 'I don't have it.' And he said, 'Do you want me to kill your baby?' And I said, 'No, don't kill my baby!'" she said.

One of the teens fired four shots, then walked around to the stroller and shot the baby in the face.

Police announced the arrests of Elkins and the 14-year-old Friday afternoon. But Katrina Freeman, Elkins' aunt, said Saturday that he couldn't be the killer because the two were together at the time of the shooting.

Freeman said Elkins dropped by her home about 8:15 a.m. ? roughly an hour before the shooting ? and she cooked them grits, eggs and sausage for breakfast.

They stayed at her home until about 11 a.m., Freeman said, and then Elkins accompanied her and her children on some errands for about an hour. After noon, he left for classes he's taking to earn his GED, she said.

"He was with us the whole time," said Freeman, adding that she gave police the same account of her nephew's whereabouts. "There is no doubt in my mind that he is innocent."

Brunswick police have said little about what evidence led them to Elkins or the younger suspect. Police spokesman Todd Rhodes said Saturday that he's not surprised Elkins' aunt would try to protect him.

"That's what she's saying, but the evidence we're looking at says something else," Rhodes said. He would not elaborate. He said investigators still can't say what motivated the shootings.

Elkins' older sister said her brother had been living in Atlanta and returned to Brunswick only a few months ago. On Friday morning, as her brother made his way along the sidewalk to her home, police came to her door, she said.

"The police came pointing a Taser at him, telling him to get on the ground," she said. "He said, 'What are you getting me for? Can you tell me what I did?'"

On Saturday, police released recordings of three 911 calls made by West's neighbors right after the shooting.

One caller, sobbing, tells the operator she heard three gunshots. The woman says she saw the mother lay the child on the ground to try to revive him with CPR.

"Yes, I heard the shots. Somebody shot this child," the caller said. "She's got him on the ground. Please, we need everything we can get."

One caller solemnly tells an operator: "No, the baby's not breathing." He says the child was shot "right between the eyes."

A woman can be heard screaming in the background just before police arrive and sirens drown out her cries.

No callers reported seeing the shootings, and police said the three calls were the only ones they knew of.

At her apartment Saturday, West had filled several bags with her son's clothes and diapers to donate to charity. She said she hopes prosecutors pursue the death penalty in the case.

"My baby will never be back again," West said, sobbing. "He took an innocent life. I want his life, too."

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languagehat.com: IN PRAISE OF MINOR WRITERS.

IN PRAISE OF MINOR WRITERS.

I've long been a fan of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series (Wikipedia, publisher's site), now up to Volume 366 (Orientalist Writers), but I've had to consult them in libraries, since the damn things cost over $300 each. New, that is; a while back it occurred to me to add the ones for Russian writers to my private Amazon wishlist, and sure enough, they occasionally show up used for only a few bucks. So far I've accumulated volumes 198 (Russian literature in the age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose), 238 (Russian novelists in the age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), 272 (Russian prose writers between the world wars), and the most recently acquired, Early Modern Russian Writers (Volume 150, covering the late 17th and 18th centuries). It may seem odd to spend one's time reading biographical articles on obscure writers no one's given a thought to in a couple hundred years, but I find that in some ways reading about minor writers is more interesting and revealing than reading about major ones. You read about Tolstoy's life to understand Tolstoy, but you read about Andrey Bolotov or Vasily Kapnist to understand their times. These were people struggling to get by, most of them, who used literature as a means of getting a little money and renown at a time when that was just becoming possible. Irwin Titunik's introductory paragraph on Vasily Ruban (Russian Wikipedia) will give an idea of how these articles expand one's idea of Russian literature:

Vasilii Grigor'evich Ruban was an enterprising and prolific participant in eighteenth-century Russia's equivalent of Grub Street?a host of professional literary men willing and able to undertake any writing task, equally adept at producing manuals on agriculture or card playing, at composing panegyric odes to the high and mighty or Russifying the works of Homer or Horace, and at performing as compilers, editors, and publishers. Such hackwork was by no means necessarily of poor quality; reputable writers were produced in this way. In Ruban's case there were works compiled, edited, published, and also translated by him that received wide approval and appreciation. However, Ruban was notorious among his contemporaries for producing great quantities of occasional poems, especially those written for or to patrons whose protection, gifts, and monetary support he solicited and often gained. Ruban's more distinguished and independent fellow writers reviled and mocked these "obsequious" verses, and he was subsequently condemned as a sycophant[...] Although that reputation has survived into the twentieth century, an unbiased assessment, without denying his reprehensible traits, must also acknowledge Ruban not only as a literary entrepreneur of extraordinary energy and versatility (not to speak of productivity) but also a competent writer typical of eighteenth-century Russia and of interest in his own right, especially as a poet.

One of the sad aspects of literary history is the tendency of writers blessed with a good position in society, from Pushkin to Virginia Woolf, to sneer at the lowly scribblers who are unable to match their leisurely grace.

Some other tidbits from this volume: of the religious figure Gedeon (Russian Wikipedia), "the first to preach in Russian rather than Church Slavonic," Victor Zhikov writes:

Having become a grandee in his way, Gedeon also adopted the accepted cultural codes dictating how a magnate should act. One element of such behavior at mid century was apparently petty tyranny, and anecdotes about Gedeon ascribe such behavior to him. For example, it is said that while walking through the Trinity?Saint Sergius Monastery with his prot?g? Platon Levshin (the future metropolitan of Moscow; at the time a simple priest), Gedeon noticed the valuable silk cassock Platon was wearing and pushed him into a pond. Afterwards he reportedly made an admonition that someone of a lower rank should not be upset when a superior jokes with him and thereupon presented Platon with two expensive cassocks to replace the one that had been ruined.

Antiokh Kantemir had problems as a young man because his father "named as his heir whichever son excelled the most in his studies by the time of his coming of age," at the same time calling Antiokh, the youngest, "the best of all in intelligence and learning"; as you might imagine, "the indefiniteness of the will regarding the inheritance later resulted in lengthy family disputes." And it was fascinating to read David Gasperetti's article on Matvei Komarov (Russian Wikipedia), forgotten now but in his day "Russia's first best-selling literary figure," whose 1779 Van'ka Kain "reached more readers than almost any other Russian novel, with a publication history spanning close to one hundred years," and whose Milord George was even more successful: "Belinsky went so far as to call the novel immortal, and [...] Leo Tolstoy observed that the people were far more interested in Milord George than in the belles lettres and philosophy that the leading lights of Russian culture would have them read. Komarov's tale of the English lord remained a best-seller in Russia until the newly established Bolshevik state did what the cajoling of previous generations of critics never could: it confiscated an edition of the work that was at press in 1918, thus ending its remarkable 136-year publication history." Posted by languagehat at February 28, 2013 04:06 PM

Belinsky, apparently, was totally in the dark about the author of the "Milord", asking himself who was this lucky author of immortal fate, when did he live, if he was for real at all:

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I find that in some ways reading about minor writers is more interesting and revealing than reading about major ones. You read about [famous writers] to understand [them], but you read about [less well-known ones] to understand their times.

This is also my attitude in general.

I think this is also true of other forms of art: the great musicians, painters, etc transcend their times, the minor ones reveal them. You need to know some of the minor ones to realize what a difference the major ones made.

I was mostly thinking of those people's works, not just their lives.

One of the sad aspects of literary history is the tendency of writers blessed with a good position in society, from Pushkin to Virginia Woolf, to sneer at the lowly scribblers who are unable to match their leisurely grace.

I couldn't agree more with the sentiment but I'm surprised by the examples. What about Pushkin's "???????? ????????????? ? ??????"? And doesn't Woolf see Shakespeare's hypothetical sister as tragically and unjustly denied the leisure to write?

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Reminds me of how I had a lot of fun adding minor writers to the French Wikisource (gotten out of that lately, though). I wandered about pursuing works and writers alluded to in the texts I added or authors' biographies. It added a lot to my appreciation when I read Madame Bovary: I had read a bunch of sappy, pious early-nineteenth-century stuff, so I knew what Emma Bovary fed her mind on, I knew what Flaubert was reacting against, and I had a sense why his contemporaries were shocked.

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BP exec back on the stand in oil spill trial

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. McKay testified Tuesday that BP and its contractors share responsibility for preventing blowouts like the Macondo well blowout and rig explosion off Louisiana that killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, spawning the massive spill. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. McKay testified Tuesday that BP and its contractors share responsibility for preventing blowouts like the Macondo well blowout and rig explosion off Louisiana that killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, spawning the massive spill. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at the federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, left, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at the federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at the federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Another BP executive was expected on the witness stand Thursday to face more questions from attorneys for the U.S. government, which is trying to prove the oil company is mostly to blame for a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that led to a massive oil spill.

Mark Bly led the company's internal probe of its 2010 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, but said the investigation wasn't intended to look at the disaster through the "lens of responsibility."

"I think people should share information that could help learn about accidents," Bly said.

Attorneys for the U.S. government and lawyers for Gulf Coast residents and businesses have accused BP of putting profits ahead of safety on a project that was over budget and behind schedule. BP has said drilling in the Gulf is a team effort and its partners should share in the responsibility for the disaster. The trial is designed to assess the fault of each company involved, and billions of dollars are at stake.

On Wednesday, a well design expert and geophysicist who worked for Conoco and Exxon, said BP withheld critical information from oil and gas regulators and continued drilling despite clear signs of trouble before the blowout of the Macondo well.

Alan Huffman, the federal government's expert, said BP continued drilling in dangerous deep water conditions without keeping the Minerals Management Service fully informed about changes in its plans.

Huffman said his review of internal BP documents and MMS records showed the London-based oil giant engaged in a "consistent pattern of misreporting" to the federal agency and gave it a "very false impression" of what was happening on the drilling project.

"And this happened on multiple occasions ... not just on one or two," said Huffman, the second expert witness at a trial that started Monday and, barring a settlement, could last several months.

During his cross-examination, Huffman acknowledged he had never been asked to make a similar comparison of regulatory records before the Justice Department hired him.

"Are you in the business of determining whether or not regulations have been violated?" BP attorney Matt Regan asked.

"That is not my normal practice of work, no," Huffman said.

Regan also questioned why Huffman didn't thoroughly examine the actions of Transocean rig workers or compare BP's conduct to that of other offshore operators.

Huffman said BP did seek permission from MMS to change its drilling plans on some occasions. Other times, he testified, the company's engineers forged ahead with drilling the well when it was in a potentially unsafe condition without informing the agency.

"And that is not what a prudent operator does," he said.

Huffman said it was "unwise" for BP to continue drilling after rig workers detected a "kick," or unexpected increase of pressure in the well, the month before the April 20, 2010, blowout.

"This drilling ahead in this environment was not only unsafe, it violates every standard I can think of in how wells are drilled in the deep water and elsewhere in our industry," he said. "It is truly egregious to drill that extra hundred feet knowing that you could potentially lose the well in the process."

Former BP chief executive Tony Hayward also made a cameo appearance Wednesday, but he didn't attend in person. Instead, he showed up just briefly on a videotape in what may be his only appearance in the courtroom.

Hayward, who infamously said "I'd like my life back" at the height of the spill, isn't expected to take the witness stand in the high-stakes trial because he didn't have direct knowledge of the drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon.

Still, attorneys for the U.S. government and Gulf Coast residents and businesses showed a 20-minute snippet of his deposition, projecting the video on a large white screen in the courtroom.

"I believe that the role of leaders is very important in shaping the culture of an organization," Hayward said in the videotape.

Rig owner Transocean Ltd. and cement contractor Halliburton also are defendants and their lawyers have tried to minimize their roles in the disaster.

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All-American final at Match Play Championship

Hunter Mahan hits a tee shot off the 15th hole in the quarterfinal round of play against Webb Simpson during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Mahan won 1-up. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Hunter Mahan hits a tee shot off the 15th hole in the quarterfinal round of play against Webb Simpson during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Mahan won 1-up. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Matt Kuchar tips his cap to the crowd after winning 3 and 2 over Robert Garrigus in the quarterfinal round of play during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

England's Ian Poulter Putts on the seventh green in the semifinal round of play against Hunter Mahan during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Australia's Jason Day reacts after missing a putt on the third green in the semifinal round of play against Matt Kuchar during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

England's Ian Poulter reacts after chipping onto the eighth green in the semifinal round of play against Hunter Mahan during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

MARANA, Ariz. (AP) ? Hunter Mahan and Matt Kuchar gave the Match Play Championship its first all-American final in five years.

Mahan extended his streak to 166 holes without trailing and defeated Ian Poulter on the strength of his chipping. He holed a chip from just inside 70 feet for birdie on the 12th hole that gave him command of his match, and he went on to a 4-and-3 victory.

Mahan, the defending champion, had a chance Sunday afternoon to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners in the 15-year history of this event.

"I know I'm playing well," Mahan said. "That's the best thing I have going for me."

Kuchar advanced to the championship match for the first time and set up a rematch of last year's quarterfinals, when Mahan beat him, 6 and 5.

He fell behind briefly against Jason Day until the Australian started missing fairways and missing putts, a bad combination in match play. Kuchar took a 3-up lead on the par-5 13th hole when Day laid up into a bunker, flew the green and gave away the hole with a double bogey.

"This has been a lot of golf, and it's fun to continue to survive," Kuchar said.

That's what the four semifinalists had to do Sunday morning in the high desert ? survive.

A week already famous for a snowstorm that caused a one-day delay got another dose of desert weather when a strong, frigid wind showed up as the matches were making the turn. The gusts were 25 mph, and the 10th and 11th hole played dead into it.

Kuchar gave Day a flicker of hope when he drove into the desert on the 10th, but neither could make birdie on the par-5 11th. And when Day chopped up the 13th, it was only a matter of time. Kuchar closed him out with a birdie on the 15th.

"Just wasn't quite as sharp," Day said. "I played great golf yesterday and just came out this morning a little flat and made a lot of mental errors out there, and just pretty much gave the game to Kooch."

The featured match was Mahan and Poulter, two of the best in this format over the last few years.

Mahan wound up winning his 12th consecutive match, dating to his singles win over Day in the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in 2011. Poulter brought a 19-3-2 record into the semifinals dating to his Match Play Championship win in 2010.

Mahan went ahead for good on the fifth hole. Poulter drove into a bunker, and from about 245 yards into a cold wind, he played an aggressive shot that wound up in a desert bush. He did well to have a 6-foot bogey putt. Mahan couldn't reach the green, but hit a good pitch from 45 yards to 7 feet and made par.

On the par-5 eighth, Poulter went to the left with his layup and couldn't hit his third shot any closer than 18 feet. Mahan, short of the green, hit a delicate chip that settled about 2 feet for a conceded birdie, and Poulter missed.

The strength of the wind and difficulty of the conditions were best illustrated on the next two holes.

Poulter drilled a hybrid and still couldn't reach the 10th green. And on the par-5 11th, Mahan had 106 yards to the flag and hammered a 9-iron that didn't quite get there.

"Guess our 160 club wasn't enough from 106," his caddie said.

They halved the hole with a bogey.

The match effectively ended on the par-3 12th, when Mahan went so far long that the ball rolled under the mesh skirt of a corporate chalet. After getting a free drop, he lofted his chip on the green, over a ridge, and it dropped into the center of the cup with the pace of a putt.

Mahan pumped his fist, as Poulter tried to block it out, showing no emotion as he knelt to place his ball on the green. His 50-foot birdie putt never had a chance.

"It looked perfect as soon as I hit it and it just trickled in, so it was obviously a big turning point," Mahan said.

One other wedge shot from Mahan won't get as much attention. He was 75 yards short of the green in two on the par-4 ninth, with Poulter safely on the green. Mahan's third shot checked up 2 feet away, which allowed him to keep momentum and go to the back nine with a 2-up lead.

Mahan has not trailed in any match since the sixth hole of the opening round last year against Zach Johnson.

"Hunter played very solid today," Poulter said. "He chipped it unbelievably well when he had to."

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Show with Pistorius' dead girlfriend to go ahead
By GERALD IMRAYBy GERALD IMRAY, Associated Press??

This is an undated portfolio photo supplied by Ice Model Management in Johannesburg of Reeva Steenkamp, during a photo shoot. Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs. Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the home, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said. (AP Photo/Ice Model Management) EDITORIAL PURPOSE ONLY

This is an undated portfolio photo supplied by Ice Model Management in Johannesburg of Reeva Steenkamp, during a photo shoot. Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs. Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the home, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said. (AP Photo/Ice Model Management) EDITORIAL PURPOSE ONLY

This is an undated portfolio photo supplied by Ice Model Management in Johannesburg of Reeva Steenkamp, during a photo shoot. Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs. Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the home, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said. (AP Photo/Ice Model Management) EDITORIAL PURPOSE ONLY

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius leaves the Boschkop police station, east of Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Pistorius was taken into custody after a 30-year-old woman, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot dead at his home. (AP Photo)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South Africa's national broadcaster says it will screen a reality TV show featuring the dead model girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, two days after she was shot and killed at the home of the double-amputee athlete.

In a statement Saturday, SABC confirms it will air the Tropika Island of Treasure program "which features the late Reeva Steenkamp."

Pistorius has been arrested and charged with the Valentine's Day murder of Steenkamp, who was shot multiple times in the predawn hours of Thursday at Pistorius' house in a gated community in the South African capital, Pretoria.

The show's executive producer, Samantha Moon, tells The Associated Press that Steenkamp's family wants the show to go ahead. Moon says that the family "wants it on. This is how they want to remember her."

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