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IT'S been more than eight years since "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show's approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show's striking evolution.
In 1999, the "Daily Show" correspondent Steve Carell struggled to talk his way off Senator John McCain's overflow press bus "a repository for outcasts, misfits and journalistic bottom-feeders" and onto the actual Straight Talk Express, while at the 2000 Republican Convention Mr. Stewart self-deprecatingly promised exclusive coverage of "all the day's events at least the ones we're allowed into." In this year's promotional spot for "The Daily Show's" convention coverage, the news newbies have been transformed into a swaggering A Team "the best campaign team in the universe ever," working out of " 'The Daily Show' news-scraper: 117 stories, 73 situation rooms, 26 news tickers," and promising to bring "you all the news stories first ... before it's even true."
Though this spot is the program's mocking sendup of itself and the news media's mania for self-promotion, it inadvertently gets at one very real truth: the emergence of "The Daily Show" as a genuine cultural and political force. When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN. And a study this year from the center's Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that " 'The Daily Show' is clearly impacting American dialogue" and "getting people to think critically about the public square."
While the show scrambled in its early years to book high-profile politicians, it has since become what Newsweek calls "the coolest pit stop on television," with presidential candidates, former presidents, world leaders and administration officials signing on as guests. One of the program's signature techniques using video montages to show politicians contradicting themselves has been widely imitated by "real" news shows, while Mr. Stewart's interviews with serious authors like Thomas Ricks, George Packer, Seymour Hersh, Michael Beschloss and Reza Aslan have helped them and their books win a far wider audience than they otherwise might have had.
Most important, at a time when Fox, MSNBC and CNN routinely mix news and entertainment, larding their 24-hour schedules with bloviation fests and marathon coverage of sexual predators and dead celebrities, it's been "The Daily Show" that has tenaciously tracked big, "super depressing" issues like the cherry-picking of prewar intelligence, the politicization of the Department of Justice and the efforts of the Bush White House to augment its executive power.
For that matter, the Comedy Central program which is not above using silly sight gags and sophomoric sex jokes to get a laugh has earned a devoted following that regards the broadcast as both the smartest, funniest show on television and a provocative and substantive source of news. "The Daily Show" resonates not only because it is wickedly funny but also because its keen sense of the absurd is perfectly attuned to an era in which cognitive dissonance has become a national epidemic. Indeed, Mr. Stewart's frequent exclamation "Are you insane?!" seems a fitting refrain for a post-M*A*S*H, post-"Catch-22" reality, where the surreal and outrageous have become commonplace an era kicked off by the wacko 2000 election standoff in Florida, rocked by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and haunted by the fallout of a costly war waged on the premise of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.
MR. STEWART describes his job as "throwing spitballs" from the back of the room and points out that "The Daily Show" mandate is to entertain, not inform. Still, he and his writers have energetically tackled the big issues of the day "the stuff we find most interesting," as he said in an interview at the show's Midtown Manhattan offices, the stuff that gives them the most "agita," the sometimes somber stories he refers to as his "morning cup of sadness." And they've done so in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language, while using satire and playful looniness to ensure that their political analysis never becomes solemn or pretentious.
"Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill," Mr. Stewart, 45, said. "In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about."
Offices for "The Daily Show" occupy a sprawling loftlike space that combines the energy of a newsroom with the laid-back vibe of an Internet start-up: many staff members wear jeans and flip-flops, and two amiable dogs wander the hallways. The day begins with a morning meeting where material harvested from 15 TiVos and even more newspapers, magazines and Web sites is reviewed. That meeting, Mr. Stewart said, "would be very unpleasant for most people to watch: it's really a gathering of curmudgeons expressing frustration and upset, and the rest of the day is spent trying to mask or repress that through whatever creative devices we can find."
The writers work throughout the morning on deadline pieces spawned by breaking news, as well as longer-term projects, trying to find, as Josh Lieb, a co-executive producer of the show, put it, stories that "make us angry in a whole new way." By lunchtime, Mr. Stewart (who functions as the show's managing editor and says he thinks of hosting as almost an afterthought) has begun reviewing headline jokes. By 3 p.m. a script is in; at 4:15, Mr. Stewart and the crew rehearse that script, along with assembled graphics, sound bites and montages. There is an hour or so for rewrites which can be intense, newspaper-deadlinelike affairs before a 6 o'clock taping with a live studio audience.
What the staff is always looking for, Mr. Stewart said, are "those types of stories that can, almost like the guy in 'The Green Mile' " the Stephen King story and film in which a character has the apparent ability to heal others by drawing out their ailments and pain "suck in all the toxins and allow you to do something with it that is palatable."
To make the more alarming subject matter digestible, the writers search for ways to frame the story, using an arsenal of techniques ranging from wordplay ("Mess O'Potamia," "BAD vertising") to exercises in pure logic (deconstructing the administration's talking points on the surge) to demented fantasy sequences (imagining Vice President Dick Cheney sending an army of orcs to attack Iran when he assumed the presidency briefly last year during President Bush's colonoscopy).
Gitmo, the Elmo puppet from Guantánamo Bay, became a vehicle for expressing the writers' "most agitated feelings about torture in a way that is not to be too cute that is not torture to listen to, and that is not purely strident," Mr. Stewart said. And the cartoon strip "The Decider," featuring Mr. Bush as a superhero who makes decisions "without fear of repercussion, consequence or correctness," became a way to satirize the president's penchant for making gut calls that sidestep the traditional policy-making process.
As the co-executive producer Rory Albanese noted, juxtapositions of video clips and sound bites are one of the show's favorite strategies. It might be the juxtaposition of Senator Barack Obama speaking to a crowd of 200,000 in Berlin while Mr. McCain campaigns in a Pennsylvania grocery store. Or it could be a juxtaposition of a politician taking two sides of the same argument. One famous segment featured Mr. Stewart as the moderator of a debate between then-Governor Bush of Texas in 2000, who warned that the United States would end up "being viewed as the ugly American" if it went around the world "saying we do it this way so should you," and President Bush of 2003, who extolled the importance of exporting democracy to Iraq.
Often a video clip or news event is so absurd that Mr. Stewart says nothing, simply rubs his eyes, does a Carsonesque double take or crinkles his face into an expression of dismay. "When in doubt, I can stare blankly," he said. "The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?"
Given a daily reality in which "over-the-top parodies come to fruition," Mr. Stewart said, satire like "Dr. Strangelove" becomes "very difficult to make." "The absurdity of what you imagine to be the dark heart of conspiracy theorists' wet dreams far too frequently turns out to be true," he observed. "You go: I know what I'll do, I'll create a character who, when hiring people to rebuild the nation we invaded, says the only question I'll ask is, 'What do you think of 'Roe v. Wade?' It'll be hilarious. Then you read that book about the Green Zone in Iraq" "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran "and you go, 'Oh, they did that.' I mean, how do you take things to the next level?"
Mr. Stewart has said he is looking forward to the end of the Bush administration "as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal." Though he has mocked both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama for lapses from their high-minded promises of postpartisanship, he said he didn't think their current skirmishes were "being conducted on the scale that Bush conducted things, or even the Clintons; I don't think it has the same true viciousness and contempt."
SOON after Mr. Stewart joined "The Daily Show" in 1999, in the waning years of the Clinton administration, he and his staff began to move the program away from the show-business-heavy agenda it had under his predecessor, Craig Kilborn. New technology providing access to more video material gave them growing control over the show's content; the staff, the co-executive producer Kahane Corn said, also worked to choose targets "who deserved to be targets" instead of random, easy-to-mock subjects.
Following 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, the show focused more closely not just on politics, but also on the machinery of policy making and the White House's efforts to manage the news media. Mr. Stewart's comedic gifts his high-frequency radar for hypocrisy, his talent for excavating ur-narratives from mountains of information, his ability, in Ms. Corn's words, "to name things that don't seem to have a name" proved to be perfect tools for explicating and parsing the foibles of an administration known for its secrecy, ideological certainty and impatience with dissenting viewpoints.
Over time, the show's deconstructions grew increasingly sophisticated. Its fascination with language, for instance, evolved from chuckles over the president's verbal gaffes ("Is our children learning?" "Subliminable") to ferocious exposés of the administration's Orwellian manipulations: from its efforts to redefine the meaning of the word "torture" to its talk about troop withdrawals from Iraq based on "time horizons" (a strategy, Mr. Stewart noted, "named after something that no matter how long you head towards it, you never quite reach it").
For all its eviscerations of the administration, "The Daily Show" is animated not by partisanship but by a deep mistrust of all ideology. A sane voice in a noisy red-blue echo chamber, Mr. Stewart displays an impatience with the platitudes of both the right and the left and a disdain for commentators who, as he made clear in a famous 2004 appearance on CNN's "Crossfire," parrot party-line talking points and engage in knee-jerk shouting matches. He has characterized Democrats as "at best Ewoks," mocked Mr. Obama for acting as though he were posing for "a coin" and hailed MoveOn.org sardonically for "10 years of making even people who agree with you cringe."
TO the former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, Mr. Stewart serves as "the citizens' surrogate," penetrating "the insiders' cult of American presidential politics." He's the Jersey Boy and ardent Mets fan as Mr. Common Sense, pointing to the disconnect between reality and what politicians and the news media describe as reality, channeling the audience's id and articulating its bewilderment and indignation. He's the guy willing to say the emperor has no clothes, to wonder why in Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's "It's 3 a.m." ad no one picks up the phone in the White House before six rings, to ask why a preinvasion meeting in March 2003 between President Bush and his allies took all of an hour the "time it takes LensCrafters to make you a pair of bifocals" to discuss "a war that could destroy the global order."
"The Daily Show" boasts a deep bench when it comes to its writing, research and production and has provided a showcase for a host of gifted comedians who have gone on to other careers most notably, Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report," as well as Mr. Carell, Rob Corddry and Ed Helms. But while the show is a collaborative effort, as one producer noted, it is "ultimately Jon's vision and voice."
Mr. Stewart described his anchorman character as "a sort of more adolescent version" of himself, and Ms. Corn noted that while things "may be exaggerated on the show, it's grounded in the way Jon really feels."
"He really does care," she added. "He's a guy who says what he means."
Unlike many comics today, Mr. Stewart does not trade in trendy hipsterism or high-decibel narcissism. While he possesses Johnny Carson's talent for listening and George Carlin's gift for observation, his comedy remains rooted in his informed reactions to what Tom Wolfe once called "the irresistibly lurid carnival of American life," the weird happenings in "this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque" country.
"Jon's ability to consume and process information is invaluable," said Mr. Colbert. He added that Mr. Stewart is "such a clear thinker" that he's able to take "all these data points of spin and transparent falsehoods dished out in the form of political discourse" and "fish from that what is the true meaning, what are red herrings, false leads," even as he performs the ambidextrous feat of "making jokes about it" at the same time.
"We often discuss satire the sort of thing he does and to a certain extent I do as distillery," Mr. Colbert continued. "You have an enormous amount of material, and you have to distill it to a syrup by the end of the day. So much of it is a hewing process, chipping away at things that aren't the point or aren't the story or aren't the intention. Really it's that last couple of drops you're distilling that makes all the difference. It isn't that hard to get a ton of corn into a gallon of sour mash, but to get that gallon of sour mash down to that one shot of pure whiskey takes patience" as well as "discipline and focus."
Mr. Stewart can be scathing in his dismantling of politicians' spin he took apart former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith's rationalizations about the Iraq war with Aesopian logic and fury but there is nothing sensation-seeking or mean-spirited about his exchanges. Nor does he shy away from heartfelt expressions of sadness and pain. The day after the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, he spoke somberly of the tragic situation there and asked his guest, Ali Allawi, a former Iraqi minister of defense, how his country handled "that sort of carnage on a daily basis" and if there were "a way to grieve."
Most memorably, on Sept. 20, 2001, the day the show returned after the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Stewart began the program with a raw, emotional address. Choking up, he apologized for subjecting viewers to "an overwrought speech of a shaken host" but said that he and the show's staff needed it "for ourselves, so that we can drain whatever abscess there is in our hearts so we can move on to the business of making you laugh."
He talked about hearing, as a boy of 5, of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He talked about feeling privileged to live where you can "sit in the back of the country and make wisecracks." And he talked about "why I grieve but why I don't despair."
Mr. Stewart now says he does not want to listen to that show again: "The process of the show is to bury those feelings as subtext, and that was a real moment of text. It's laying bare the type of thing that is there hopefully to inform the show, but the show is usually an exercise in hiding that."
In fact, Mr. Stewart regards comedy as a kind of catharsis machine, a therapeutic filter for grappling with upsetting issues. "What's nice to us about the relentlessness of the show," he said, "is you know you're going to get that release no matter what, every night, Monday through Thursday. Like pizza, it may not be the best pizza you've ever had, but it's still pizza, man, and you get to have it every night. It's a wonderful feeling to have this toxin in your body in the morning, that little cup of sadness, and feel by 7 or 7:30 that night, you've released it in sweat equity and can move on to the next day."


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Niels Pagh Anderson, the editor of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing and Ai Wei Wei's latest film shares his philosophy and tips on how to edit a powerful film
Niels Pagh Anderson is a master film editor and has worked with some of the world's greatest artists and directors, including Joshua Oppenheimer and Ai Wei Wei. His ability to understand, collaborate, and challenge their visions has earned him his place in the documentary film halls of fame.
This week, DocsBarcelona hosted him–online, of course–for a masterclass in film editing. You can watch Niels for free on the DocsBarcelona website.
Niels is adamant about the importance of stories and storytellers: "We live in chaos, we need to make sense of it." The notion that every civilization has used stories, from creation myths to archetypal struggles, to make sense of the chaos is what informs Niels approach to editing, well as the title of his soon-to-be-released book: Order in Chaos.
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40 kids from the ages of 8-15 are put into the abandoned town of Bonanza City, New Mexico for 40 days. They have to build their own society by electing leaders, passing laws, and establish an economy.
The show, featuring 40 children aged 8 to 15, was filmed on location at the Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch, a privately owned town built on the ruins of Bonanza City, New Mexico, eight miles south of Santa Fe, with production beginning on April 1, 2007.
The show stresses the difficulty in creating a viable society. While each child received $5,000 for their involvement, Gold Stars valued at $20,000 and $50,000 were awarded to select outstanding participants as decided by the elected Town Council.
Speaking before an audience of television reviewers, producer Tom Forman acknowledged that Kid Nation would inevitably share some elements with William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, which depicted planewrecked children without adult supervision. But adults were present off-camera during the Kid Nation production, including cameramen, producers, a medic, and a child psychologist, although all interacted with the children as little as possible. Participants also missed a month of school, but Forman suggested that such real-world tasks as preparing a group breakfast, doing physical chores like fetching water, and making group decisions constituted an educational experience in its own right. Foreman said that all participants were cleared by a team of psychologists, any child could choose to go home at any time, and some did. – Wiki
'Kid Nation' Parents Gave Show Free Rein – New York Times
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CNN) -- Two 12-year-old girls inspired by Internet horror stories are accused of luring a girl of the same age into a wooded area near Milwaukee before stabbing the victim 19 times and leaving her to crawl to her own rescue over the weekend.
The victim, a 12-year-old friend of the suspects, was in stable condition at a hospital Monday, two days after a bicyclist found her on along a road in Waukesha, city Police Chief Russell Jack said.
The suspects were arrested hours after the girl was found Saturday, and they were being held on preliminary charges of attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
The girls were identified in a criminal complaint as Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier.
Police: Suspects inspired by Internet
They are being charged as adults and appeared in court Monday. Bail was set for each in the amount of $500,000, according to Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel.
The suspects attended the same middle school as the victim and had a sleepover at the home of one of the suspects Friday night, Jack said.
"Both suspects had a fascination with a fictitious character that often posted" to websites dealing with stories about death and horror, the police chief told reporters at a news conference.
According to the criminal complaint, the suspects had been planning the attack since February.
They first thought to kill the victim by placing duct tape over her mouth while she was sleeping and stabbing her in the neck, the complaint read.
Next, the plan was to kill her in a bathroom where there was floor drain that could make cleanup easier, it continued.
But, finally, the girls decided to do it in a park while playing a game of hide-and-seek, the complaint read.
It states: "As they left for the park ... (the victim) was walking in front of them and Geyser lifted up the left side of her while jacket and displayed the knife tucked in her waistband. Weier stated she gave Geyser a look with wide eyes and, when asked what that meant Weier stated, 'I thought, dear god, this was really happening.'"
Some of the girl's major organs were struck, but she survived.
One of the stab wounds was near her heart and she was "one millimeter away from certain death," the complaint read.
After the suspects left, the victim crawled out of the woods and onto a road, where the bicyclist found her.
According to the complaint, the victim stated: "Please help me. I've been stabbed." She was in extreme pain and could only answer questions with yes or no.
Authorities searched for the two other girls, and a sheriff's officer found them walking near Interstate 94, Jack said.
He declined to say whether the suspects had blood on their clothes, but added: "There was evidence that was readily apparent when the two were taken into custody."
That evidence included a large kitchen knife inside a purse that Geyser identified as one of her mother's old purses, according to the complaint.
Both girls spoke readily with police, the complaint said.
Attempts to contact an attorney, believed to be representing them, were unsuccessful Monday.
According to the complaint, Weier told authorities about a website known as Creepypasta Wiki, which posts horror stories. She learned about a man named Slenderman on the site. Many believe he is not real and Weier wanted to prove skeptics wrong, the complaint read.
She allegedly introduced Geyser to the site and they believed they needed to kill in order to prove their dedication to "Slenderman."
Police: Wisconsin girl, 12, stabbed 19 times; friends arrest 6/04/2014 22:22
Himalaya at 6/04/2014 22:24
刺了19刀, 在野外两天,厉害。
Quincy08 at 6/05/2014 10:02
是挺可拍的, 我也喜欢看"stories about death and horro"。
|Quincy08 :
|刺了19刀, 在野外两天,厉害。
iDen at 6/06/2014 11:30
|iDen :
|是挺可拍的, 我也喜欢看"stories about death and horro"。
Quincy08 at 6/06/2014 12:48
太可怕了,以后还怎么敢让孩子去朋友家sleep over或者playdate啊
FreeStuff at 6/06/2014 15:26
tutu at 6/07/2014 09:19
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The Academy's voters ensured that Sunday's Oscars show made movie history, crowning the Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" with its top two awards, including the first Best Director ever given to a woman.
Kathryn Bigelow's groundbreaking victory was hardly a surprise, as she seemed to be the odds on favorite. Still, given the historical angle and the sideshow of her ex-husband, James Cameron, being nominated for "Avatar," there was an undeniable tension in the air just before her name was read.
"She was so pleased to be nominated with him, she sent him a beautiful gift basket with a timer," quipped Steve Martin, who co-hosted the show with Alec Baldwin.
And hats off to Tom Hanks for deciding in the wake of that moment to stay out of the way. Rather than blather on about what a great year for film it had been (it hadn't been) or recount the Best Picture nominees, Hanks just ripped open the envelope and declared "Hurt Locker" the winner. (The fact that the show was already running over helped too.)
"The Hurt Locker" was our consensus pick for Best Picture, for no reason other than it was so damn good. Still, there will undoubtedly be countless stories about how Cameron was punished for his "King of the world!" speech, or maybe the Academy saw a chance to finally honor a woman or some such nonsense. The simple fact of the matter is that it was the Best Picture among the 10 nominees.
Just the same, it was surprising to see "Avatar" only rake in awards for cinematography, art direction and visual effects. Cameron had said he hoped Bigelow would take best director and that his film would take best picture in recognition of his crew's hard work. Only for a James Cameron film would three Oscars seem disappointing.
The total haul for "The Hurt Locker" came to six awards. In addition to Director and Picture, it picked up Best Original Screenplay for Mark Boal, who based the script on his experiences embedded as a reporter in Iraq, and the Sound Editing and Mixing awards, which made Paul N.J. Ottosson, along with Bigelow and Boal the night's only multiple winners.
When Bigelow et al. finished celebrating on stage, co-host Steve Martin joked that the show had gone on so long that, "'Avatar' now takes place in the past." It was a little too close to the truth to be funny.
After delaying the start of the show until 8:30, viewers were forced to wait another 18 minutes until the first award of the night was given -- Christoph Waltz' Best Supporting Actor prize for "Inglourious Basterds" -- an outcome that was such a forgone conclusion that it was completely lacking in drama, setting the tone for most of the night.
The show opened with a meh song-and-dance number from Neil Patrick Harris. Ever since he wowed the universe with "Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog," NPH has been the go-to guy for such numbers, which is a shame, because he's a gifted performer and most of the people hiring him aren't nearly as talented as Joss Whedon.
Dragging the show down further still were the bizarre interpretive dances done to the Best Score nominees and the look back at dearly departed movie stars, which is normally a highlight -- of sorts -- but was this year accompanied by James Taylor playing the Beatles' "In My Life." That Taylor continues to get called on for such gigs is a puzzle.
One thing beyond the Academy's control was the speeches, which were atypically sedate. The husband and wife team of Bob Murawski and Chris Innis were just about the only life at the party before Jeff Bridges won his long overdue Best Actor Oscar for "Crazy Heart."
Bridges was one of the few to really whoop it up, but the "man"-laden speech was more Lebowski and less of a Cuba-Gooding-James-Cameron-Robert-Benigni-esque moment.
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"I've had ups and downs," Bridges laughed backstage about his career before referencing his iconic role as The Dude in "The Big Lebowski." "What does The Dude say? 'Strikes and gutters, man!' "


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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – September 17, 2007 – Beginning today, Hardee's® offers its guests a getaway from boring chicken sandwiches and a ticket to a lunch hour paradise: the new Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich. The new sandwich combines the irresistible taste of a Hardee's charbroiled chicken breast with a savory-sweet teriyaki sauce and a slice of grilled pineapple. Top it off with melting Swiss cheese, red onion, tomato, lettuce and mayonnaise, and it's a tropical temptation too good to pass up.
The Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich offers guests a refreshing alternative to the bevy of delicious Angus-beef Thickburgers™ also featured on Hardee's menu. It is the first new chicken sandwich for the chain since the popular Buffalo Chicken Sandwich launched earlier this year. With the introduction of the Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich, Hardee's re-confirms its commitment to bringing sit-down restaurant quality to the world of fast-food.
"Hawaiian chicken sandwiches are a common menu item at sit-down restaurants and we have had great success in recent years making those kinds of products available to fast-food customers," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of Marketing for Hardee's restaurants. "From the introduction of the original 100 percent Angus beef line of Thickburgers more than four years ago – which have now been copied by most other major fast-food burger chains – to the Patty Melt Thickburger introduced earlier this summer, Hardee's has really built a reputation as a premium quality burger place, and now we're expanding that to include distinctive chicken sandwiches as well."
The Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich is offered for a limited time only. It features a charbroiled chicken breast dressed with red onion, tomato, lettuce and mayonnaise; the chicken breast is then topped with teriyaki sauce, melting Swiss cheese, and a juicy slice of pineapple that has been grilled on the chain's signature charbroilers. The Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants for $3.79 or at $5.59 for a small combo which includes new Natural Cut French Fries and a small drink. Prices may vary.
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text: Friday, June 28, 2013 Hawaii Becomes Final State to Require Regulation of PTAs In a move that also provides title protection for PTAs and the doctor of physical therapy degree (DPT), Hawaii Gov Neil Abercrombie signed a bill (SB 1074) yesterday requiring the licensure of physical therapist assistants (PTA) in the state. Passage of SB 1074 signifies another landmark moment for the physical therapy profession in that all 50 states and the District of Columbia now regulate physical therapist assistants. SB 1074, which was advocated for by the Hawaii Chapter of APTA (HAPTA), will promote patient safety and quality of care by ensuring that only individuals who have met specific criteria are licensed to act in the capacity of a physical therapist assistant. Prior to passage of SB 1074, Hawaii was the only state in the union that did not provide for the state regulation of PTAs. In addition to providing for the licensure of PTAs, the new law enacts a number of changes. It establishes title protection both for the regulatory designation "PTA" and for the doctor of physical therapy (DPT) educational degree. The legislation also provides for changes to the composition of the state physical therapy licensing board by eliminating the seat reserved for a physician and replacing it with a seat for a physical therapist assistant. See more in the full press release. Comments Much congratulations to the PT Assistants of the great state of Hawai'i. Thank you, Ed Ho, for your continued representation of the Assistants, in your fine state. Wonderful news, that the Board will have an Assistant seat, to represent our concerns. Best Wishes and A Hui Hou! Aloha, all. Posted by Cheryl Ann Jordan PTA on 6/29/2013 11:06 AM


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It was the second time the landmark cross, which opponents argue is a Christian symbol constituting an unconstitutional "establishment or endorsement of religion," has been ordered to come down.
In May 2006, U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson ordered the city to remove the cross from then city-owned property by Aug. 1 of that year or be fined $5,000 a day. Two months later, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy temporarily blocked Thompson's order. A month later, President George W. Bush signed into law a bill transferring the cross to the Defense Department as a war memorial. That law was subsequently challenged in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Jewish War Veterans and others.
In 2008, U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns ruled the cross could stay. In 2011, however, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Burns' ruling, finding that the cross, as currently presented and situated, violated the First Amendment.
The 9th Circuit didn't, however, order the cross to be dismantled. Instead, it offered the defendants an opportunity to alter the monument in some unspecified way so that it no longer violated the law. Litigants have attempted, unsuccessfully, to do just that.
Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court has twice declined to hear the Soledad cross case. But the highest court in the land has hinted that it remained open to hearing the case after the trial court had taken up the 9th Circuit Court's suggestion to look for alternatives.
Proponents of keeping the cross "where it is, as it is," said they'll challenge this latest legal attempt to move the Soledad cross.
"It's unfortunate that the 9th Circuit left the judge no choice but to order the tearing down of the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross," said Bruce Bailey, president of the Mount Soledad Memorial Association (MSMA). "However, we are grateful for the judge's stay that gives us an opportunity to fight this all the way to Supreme Court."
The U.S. Supreme Court is exactly where the Soledad cross case could — and likely will — end up, said Glenn Smith, professor of Constitutional Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.
"The cross is one of those things that has taken on a symbolic significance that far exceeds this particular set of facts, that's why the issue has taken on such life," Smith said.
The legal battle over the landmark cross is far from over, Smith said.
"I fully expect that Judge Burns' decision will be appealed to the 9th Circuit, and I would expect the 9th Circuit to affirm Judge Burns' decision, and that it will again be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court," he said. "This is likely to be the last round. Then, in two or three years, we'll definitely have a resolution."
Mount Soledad veterans have secured the support of the Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal group dedicated to defending and restoring religious liberty, in its continuing fight to keep the cross on its La Jolla mountaintop site.
"We will continue to fight for this memorial and the selfless sacrifice and service of all the millions of veterans it represents," said Hiram Sasser, Liberty Institute litigation director. "It is the least we can do for those who gave so much to us all."


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CHICO >> "Sacrament: Homage to a River" is a long, slow look at the Sacramento River through the lens of Butte Creek Canyon resident Geoff Fricker.
High water, low water. Water as a shaper of canyons and water shifted by man. Water as a tool. Water for fun. The river as the livelihood of former and future generations.
Fricker took his time with the book, decades in fact, gathering images that capture a single moment, and many photos that allow the viewer to go back in time.
Rebecca Lawton, of Sonoma, wrote the text for "Sacrament," and Fricker said he hopes people take the time to learn more about the river.
The format is a "coffee table," book, which certainly encourages people to flip through the dramatic black and white photos. Yet, Fricker said the writing and history of the river is important and Lawton's writing is worthy.
Both the writer and photographer will be at a reception Monday, 7 p.m. at Lyon Books, 135 Main St. They'll talk a little about the book and answer questions.
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A photographer by nature, Fricker grew up enchanted by water. In his childhood, he lived on a bluff above the American River, where he played and observed.
He taught photography at Butte College for more than three decades, including chairing the art department.
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As an observer for all this time, Fricker has some opinions about water issues. Yet, he generally can see that there are many sides.
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Talking with the photographer for a few hours, its easy to see that people wouldn't mind spending some time with him. Because he loves learning, he asks questions.
Sometimes he learned that there was more in his images than he originally saw.
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At the forefront of the photo is a picnic table and some chairs. These were owned by a man who lived in Butte Creek Canyon.
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Out of view, is a bridge.
Fricker learned later that when cottonwood trees drift downstream, they can gather at the edge of the bridge, perhaps harming it.
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"All of this is going on in my picture," he said.
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Several years ago, Fricker said he had amassed quite the photographic collection, and wondered what to do next.
With the help of Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Caroline Burkett, funding was gathered to work on the book. Fricker then researched for a great water writer and found Lawton.
Her work shows her love of the Sacramento River, including lyrical prose and an overview of the geology, changes to habitat, wildlife species and recent changes.
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Most Asian stocks rallied Monday as news that Cyprus and its international lenders reached a bailout agreement removed fears of the nation's exit from the euro zone, also helping boost U.S. equity futures, the euro and crude-oil prices.
The broad terms of the bailout agreement pave the way for Cyprus to receive up to 10 billion euros ($13 billion) in bailout funds, while protecting depositors holding less than €100,000 in their bank accounts from any losses.
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"The bailout deal will mean that the risks of Cyprus defaulting and leaving the euro zone will have significantly diminished," said Crédit Agricole's Asia head of global markets research Mitul Kotecha.
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Also, Moody's Investors' Service said the crisis in Cyprus was credit negative for all sovereign ratings in the euro area.
"Even if negotiations are successful and Cyprus remains within the euro area, policy makers' recent decisions raise the risk of deposit outflows, capital flight, increased bank and sovereign-funding costs and broader financial market dislocation ... even if those decisions don't disrupt financial market calm in the present," the credit ratings agency said in a statement.
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With Brian Bigelow leaving his District 2 seat on the Lee County Board of Commissioners to run for Clerk of Courts, the race to replace him is wide open, with four Republicans looking to win the Aug. 14 primary for the right to face write-in candidate Neal Moore and independent John W. Sawyer in the November election.
Cecil Pendergrass
Age: 49
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Pendergrass has Lee County in his blood, having been born and raised in Fort Myers and spending 25 years on the police force. He said that in-fighting and hard feelings have broken the commission.
"There are still the same problems with bickering and unprofessional behavior," Pendergrass said. "I have high expectations of our officials. We can't pick and choose who we treat well. We have to respect opinions and not hold grudges."
Like most of the candidates, Pendergrass is displeased with the way the commission spends money and dips into reserves to balance the budget.
"I don't like the way Lee County spends money. We need fiscal responsibility and to balance the budget by cutting spending," Pendergrass said. "We need a plan and direction."
Pendergrass said while tourism is vital, the best way to get more money into Lee County is to bring real jobs in, and not through baseball.
"We have to create jobs locally and get businesses that come here to get workers here," Pendergrass said. "We have properties here that need to be filled. A strong economy brings up property values."
Doug St. Cerny
Age: 65
Residence: Fort Myers
Occupation: Retired
St. Cerny brings leadership to the forefront as a District 2 commissioner from 1990 to 2006 and a current member of the FGCU board of trustees. He said he was asked to run when Bigelow decided to leave.
"I got an outpouring of support and they wanted me to go for it," St. Cerny said. "I bring experience, consistency and can relate with everybody."
St. Cerny's biggest concern is that the board has become too fractured and full of personalities to be effective. He says he can bring it together.
"Most important is that we come to a situation with the intent to work together, come to a consensus and have civility between the members," St. Cerny said.
St. Cerny said he doesn't go into the primary with an agenda, leaving that to the people.
"I never ran for office with an agenda. The citizens set the agenda and the goal is to do what the people expect you to do," St. Cerny said. "The people need help now. We've been through six years of hard times. There's a lack of jobs and we need to be creative in getting them."
Don Stilwell
Age: 73
Residence: Fort Myers
Occupation: semi-retired
Stilwell brings 16 years experience as a county manager in Lee County to the table, and said he's running because he has become frustrated with the way the commissioner has balanced the budget through spending reserves.
"I never thought of being commissioner, but we're having challenges with spending money," Stilwell said. "Over the last three years, Lee County has spent tens of millions more than budgeted and they're taking the reserves to balance the budget."
What's worse, Stilwell said the county isn't providing any better services than before.
"We're diluting services but not making cuts. You can't live off your savings accounts," Stilwell said. "Until you get your financial house in order, you can't do other things."
Stilwell calls for more transparency, bringing in more jobs and to continue the high quality of life in Lee County, again, through the ability of spending within your means.
"This is my home. I don't want to leave debts to my kids and grandkids," Stilwell said. "It will take a long time for revenues to increase. We need to create jobs and the only way to do it is by investing in the county."
Warren Wright
Age: 46
Residence: Fort Myers
Occupation: pharmaceutical sales
Wright, a former Fort Myers city council member and currently a councilmember on the Lee County Tourist Development Council, not only believes the commission is spending too much money, he also says the money is being used in a way it gets a poor return on its investment.
"We make $40 million a year on baseball, while fishing brings in almost $600 million. It's a poor choice of how we spend our tax dollars," Wright said. "Why are we building baseball palaces when we need to tackle the budget and spending?"
Wright said the county has to get with the times in regard to bringing in jobs, and he believes he has the answer.
"I have a clear vision for Lee County. The economy is in transformation. We can't go back to old ways," Wright said. "We have no plan to broaden the economic base and change our infrastructure."
Wright believes the commission spends too much and says the urban areas need to receive more attention.
"We promoted the suburbs for 20 years and it spread our resources thin. We failed to take care of our old roads," Wright said. "We need fiscal responsibility and I want a spread sheet identifying our reserves. I want staff held accountable."


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Greenwich advances past Ludlowe to FCIAC girls volleyball final
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FAIRFIELD -- The momentum swings were continuous, and the pivotal, advantage-turning points in each game came often as well in the FCIAC girls volleyball semifinal Wednesday night at Fairfield Ludlowe. In the end, Greenwich's final big plays were the most resounding as the Cardinals advanced to Saturday's conference final with 3-2 victory over Ludlowe in which two of the games went beyond regulation.
Ludlowe took the opening game 29-27, then Greenwich rallied for 25-16 and 25-17 wins in Games No. 2 and 3 before the host Falcons forced the deciding fifth game by wriggling to a 25-23 win in Game 4. Ludlowe had the early advantages in Game 5, but they weren't wide enough and Greenwich persevered for a 17-15 win after the Falcons seemed poised for victory with a 13-11 lead.
Greenwich, the tournament's No. 1 seed, improved to 19-1. The fourth-seeded Falcons, who edged Greenwich in the regular season in five games, dropped to 17-3.
"We've been there before," Greenwich coach Steve Lapham said about the conference final, "but we never seem to grab it. It was bedlam there at the end. This was making me sweat. We can be a little cleaner."
The Cardinals have lost three of the last four FCIAC tournament championships, each time falling to Darien.
"We just served a lot better in the last two sets," Lapham said. "We put them back on their heels. We got a little tentative in the fourth game. I was talking to (Ludlowe coach) Meghan (Skelton) before the game how we always play long matches against them. We let the first game go. But there's not much difference between us -- one or two points. There was nothing magical (to the win). Nothing was changed. We were putting a lot of people on the floor. There middles (Casey Boatwright and April Cooke) are tough to stop, they're so tall."
"That was nerve-wracking," Greenwich senior Ashley Rispoli said while Darien and Staples were warming up for the second semifinal.
The Falcons opened a 7-3 lead in the fifth game before Lapham called timeout. Greenwich cut its deficits to 8-6, 9-7 and 10-8, then Ludlowe reasserted itself for an 11-8 lead while holding the serve. But the Cardinals Mirei Kato fired home one of her 14 kills and it was back to a two-point difference at 11-9. Soon after, a kill by Boatwright gave her team a 13-11 lead.
Greenwich responded by regaining composure on Catherine Cabano's deft return, and it was back to a one-point difference again at 13-12. The Cardinals rode that momentum to close out the game, taking a 16-15 lead on a Kato kill -- which was nearly a dig by Ludlowe from a dive to the floor -- and clinching it on a Xanthi Katsgiannis service when Ludlowe failed to return the ball during the ensuing volley.
"We didn't stay consistent or strong," Skelton said. "We did not play our game, and you cannot do that against a great team like Greenwich. It comes down to being able to reset yourself after a point or change in momentum.
"If we had played our game in the fifth set, I'm not going to say we could've, should've, would've won it, but I thought we were going to win."
Skelton talked to her team afterward, saying the result "stinks," but reminded them the season isn't over with the state tournament about to begin next week. And in looking at the potential pairings, she told the Falcons there's a possibility they'd meet up again with Greenwich.
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Greenwich 3, Fairfield Ludlowe 2
Records: Fairfield Ludlowe 17-3; Greenwich 19-1. Highlights: FL--Corrinne Lang had 41 digs, nine service points and four aces. Casey Boatwright had 18 kills, seven service points, four blocks and three aces. April Cooke had 12 kills and seven blocks. G--Mirei Kato had 19 digs, 14 kills and two aces. Xanthi Katsgiannis had 26 assists and 14 digs. Catherine Cabano had 12 kills and two blocks.


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Apple unveiled the newest line of its MacBook Airs Wednesday morning, keeping the same super-thin design while bumping up most of the specs.
The new line of MacBook Airs feature Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 processors, Thunderbolt ports, backlit keyboards and OS X Lion pre-installed. The cheapest model is the 11.6-incher, which gives you 64GB of storage, 2GB of memory and a 1.6GHz Core i5. The specs ratchet up from there to the 13-inch model loaded up with a 256GB SSD, 4GB of RAM and a 1.7GHz Core i5 for $1,599. For $100 more, you can bump that up to a 1.8GHz Core i7.
They're pricey, but if you're looking to get a new Apple laptop, these sure must be tempting.
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My Personal Thoughts on Heroes of the Storm as an Avid LoL Gamer
Guest Post By TheShadeBlade
Presented By HeroesOfTheStormBuildGuide.com
I'm known as TheShadeBlade in Heroes of the Storm and Katrian in League of Legends. Currently, I am ranked Platinum and ended last season as Platinum 1 after being dropped out of Diamond for inactivity during the last couple of months of the ranked season in League. I have been an avid MOBA player for the past 4 years and have experience in some of the most popular MOBAs to hit the gaming community. In my personal opinion, Heroes of the Storm has put its own unique twist on the MOBA scene and will be a big breakthrough for the casual player.
HotS Battlegrounds: A New Experience With Every Map
Stepping into Heroes of the Storm, the biggest change that has set this game apart from League of Legends and other similar MOBAs is the fact that they offer quite a few different maps to play on. League of Legends only offers a single 5v5 map, and then two less competitive maps that are hardly played. Heroes of the Storm randomizes the map that players are thrown into, which requires adaptability and strategy to achieve victory as each map has a unique set of objectives. This keeps the game interesting, and will be a big factor in professional play once Heroes of the Storm finally hits release and is able to make their mark in eSports.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We took a few weeks to get this published. Apologies.. Heroes Of The Storm is now officially out as a full release and the Eternal Conflict Diablo-themed content will be part of the ongoing efforts to draw in new players. We're very excited about what Blizzard is doing here! ~Yogizilla


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Getaway is a mission in Grand Theft Auto Advance, given to protagonist Mike by Vinnie from Chinatown, Portland Island, Liberty City.
Mike drives to Chinatown looking for Vinnie, so the two can finally leave Liberty City. He is then paged by Vinnie, saying that there is a change of plans and to meet him at Callahan Point. Mike drives to Callahan Point where he sees Vinnie's car explode. The police arrive, having been informed about the explosion, and Mike decides to lose the police attention and return to his hideout. He is then paged by 8-Ball, who informs Mike that the police are at his hideout and says that Mike should come to his home after he loses the police. Mike loses the police and drives to 8-Ball's. 8-Ball informs him that he will be investigating Vinnie's death by looking at what is left of Vinnie's car, primarily to see who is making bombs on his patch, and will page Mike when he finds something.
Mike: I'm here on time. Where the hell is Vinnie?
Vinnie (pager): Change of plans, Mike. Grab the getaway car from the hideout and meet me over in Callahan Point. Vinnie.
(Mike drives to Callahan Point, where he sees Vinnie's car blow up)
Mike: Oh my God! Vinnie!! NOOOOO!! Damn! Someone called the cops! I gotta lay low for a while. Better head back to the hideout.
8-Ball (pager): Mike, stay away from your hideout, the cops are looking for you. Come to my pad in Portland Beach but lose the cops first! 8-Ball.
(Mike loses the police and drives to 8-Balls home)
8-Ball: Sorry to hear about Vinnie, man. No one should go out like that. I have some ideas who might be behind it but it will take some time.
Mike: I still can't believe what just happened. What the hell am I going to do now? Vinnie had all our money.
8-Ball: You can do a few tasks for me until you straighten things out. Right now though, I need to bring what's left of that car back to my pad. I want to know who's making bombs on my turf. I'll page you when I come up with something.
Post Mission Pager Message
8-Ball: I figured out what to do with Vinnie, Mike. Come on back. 8-Ball.
There is no monetary reward for completing the mission. The mission Twisted Metal is unlocked by completing the mission.


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In winter black is always the new black for me! I am also partial to rich chocolate brown, deep reds or bright colours, cream or beige tones just wash me out so if I see something I like in a choice of colours black usually wins the day. Here are a few things that have caught my eye on my internet wanderings, I always opt for good quality classics that will look good and last for years, all the following items are makes that I have tried and tested...
Boots from Ecco
I love to wear a boot with a high heel, I am of average height 5 '6 but I find my deportment instantly improves with a heel, which makes me feel more elegant not to mention the leg lengthening qualities. I also like to walk for miles so I need to marry comfort, height and style, sometimes this is not easy to achieve but a few years ago whilst walking past the shop Ecco during a visit to my home town, a store I had previously overlooked as most of the shoes and boots looked very sensible and I avoid sensible shoes like the plague. I purchased a lovely pair of black, plain, high heeled ankle boots, which had caught my eye in the window. They are without a doubt the most comfortable boots I have ever worn and I have walked for miles in them, three years later although they have been re heeled and soled they are as good as new. This season these Victorian style ankle boots are tinkling my bell.
Tory Burch
I love Tory Burch Tunics in the summer so I am lusting after this cashmere twist for winter which you can dress up or down, this neckline is so flattering.
Of course with an all black outfit you need some colour to break it up, coloured silk, patterned or cashmere scarves usually work for me. Jewellery wise I favour bold, statement pieces and I love vintage. I am loving Michal Golan Jewellery. I bought a piece a couple of months back, they did not have the piece in stock so they made it up for me, their service was excellent and when the piece arrived (swiftly) the quality was superb and the price extremely reasonable...I will be purchasing some more for myself and for Christmas gifts.
From the Turkish Bazaar collection.
From the Multi Bright Collection
"A lady always wears gloves" so my Mother tells me, she even wears them in the summer for driving. Not only do they keep your hands warm but they can also help protect you from nasty winter viruses. I think smart leather one's round off a winter outfit beautifully, especially the longer one's which look fabulous with a swing coat or three quarter length sleeves.
Dents have even brought out a touch technology version, so you don't even have to take them off whilst using a phone or tablet. Available here.


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I am NOT an expert on this. If my notes here don't quite fix your problem, then probably someone else on this forum can help you better than I can.
The PC had a previous Linux distro which I wanted to dual-boot into after LMDE was installed. (No M----Soft Windows )
The motherboard was by MSI, and I don't remember its UEFI firmware having any problems that interfered with this conversion & OS installation.
The reason for converting the disk from MBR to GPT was:
- The LMDE installer requires a FAT32 EFI partition, which didn't exist on the disk, so I had to add one;
- The disk already had 3 primary partitions & 1 extended partition, so I couldn't just add another primary partition;
- If I were going to add the EFI partition & leave the disk as MBR, then I would want to add the EFI partition as a primary partition (my own preference).
- So I chose to convert the disk to GPT.
Also, at first, the LMDE version of GRUB wouldn't boot because it didn't properly handle the Btrfs partitions on that PC. This problem & my solution are documented in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=854326
I had to use the prior OS's GRUB until I got LMDE's GRUB fixed.
After using "gdisk" to convert the drive from MBR to GPT (step 2 of Portablejim's posting), I used an LMDE 2 "live" USB stick and the prior Linux OS (an Ubuntu version) to install GRUB with the following commands.
Commands in bold will be explained at the bottom.
The hash character (#) introduces comments.
Commands in bold are used (if changing the GRUB configuration is needed) to run "update-grub" after the first run of "update-grub". Running "update-grub" on the prior Linux OS without the USB stick didn't seem to work. I'm not certain of the reason, but possibly the prior OS was old enough that it didn't have /dev/disk/by-uuid/
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[b]sudo -s[/b] # Not conventional, but most or all of the following commands require root privilege, so I did it this way.
[b]mount -o subvol=@ /dev/sda2 /mnt[/b] # /dev/sda2 had the prior Linux OS that formerly booted from master boot record (MBR)
# In this case, /dev/sda2 was a Btrfs partition, and all of its data was in a Btrfs subvolume called "@".
# I think of /mnt as a "virtual folder" (not technically the right term) in the USB stick "live" OS. (This /mnt folder doesn't exist on the hard drive.)
[b]mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc[/b]
[b]mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys[/b]
[b]mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev[/b] # "--bind" means "make a reference to the existing folder & its subfolders, rather than making an entirely new set of /dev subfolders".
mkdir /mnt/boot/efi
# This folder (with nothing in it) stays on the hard drive.
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
# /dev/sda1 is the EFI system partition.
cp /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /mnt/run/resolvconf/resolv.conf
# So APT can access the network.
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
# Symlink to the above resolv.conf file.
[b]chroot /mnt[/b] # From this point on, the binaries being run are on the HDD, not on the USB stick!
apt-get install grub-efi
# On that Linux distro, this un-installed the "grub-pc" package.
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi
# This writes to the EFI system partition. This only needs to be done once, which is why commands related to it aren't in bold (explained in "Commands in bold..." below).
[b]update-grub[/b] # This generates /boot/grub/grub.cfg based on /etc/grub.d/* and /etc/default/grub (all of these files are on the prior OS's partition /dev/sda2).
Anyway, once I dealt with the 2 issues noted above (Debian bugtracker links) in LMDE's GRUB, I could run "update-grub" in LMDE without either the prior LInux OS or the USB stick.
My Web browsing to get my questions answered was done using the LMDE 2 "live" USB stick, so the pages I visited aren't in my Web browser's history.
I know some of the following webpages helped me, although I don't remember the whole list perfectly: