Curated News Edition - 10/10/11 http://www.LibertyNewspost.com Anti-Gadhafi fighters celebrate gains in Libya (USATODAY.com News) Ouagadougou Convention Center, Monday as fighters pushed easiest routes between east and report corrections and Submitted at 10/10/2011 12:03:11 PM an ornate complex that Gadhafi through residential areas that have west. clarifications, contact Standards frequently used for international been used as cover for the former Revolutionary forces launched an Editor Brent Jones. For SIRTE, Libya (AP) – Jubilant summit meetings. regime's snipers. all-out assault on Sirte on Friday, publication consideration in the revolutionary forces raised their The capture of the walled The transitional leadership, eager pounding the city with tank shells, newspaper, send comments to tricolor flag Monday over a complex was a symbolic victory to move forward with efforts to field cannons, rockets and heavy [email protected]. Include convention center in Sirte that because Gadhafi fighters have hold elections and establish a machine guns. Gadhafi loyalists name, phone number, city and served as a base for Moammar used it as a base and stronghold democracy more than six weeks have put up fierce resistance, state for verification. To view our Gadhafi's loyalists there, but throughout a weekslong siege of after seizing control of the capital, firing back with Grad rockets, corrections, go to fighting surged elsewhere in the the Mediterranean coastal city by has said it will declare that Libya sniper rifles, mortars and rocket- corrections.usatoday.com. We've fugitive leader's hometown. forces of the new government. has been liberated after Sirte falls. propelled grenades. updated the Conversation By Bela Szandelszky, AP Revolutionary forces also A team from the International The revolutionary forces also Guidelines. Changes include a Libyan rebels in the bed of their claimed significant gains in the Committee of the Red Cross have gained control of the brief review of the moderation country's ousted leader in a palace inland enclave of Bani Walid, entered Sirte's Ibn Sina Hospital University of Sirte on the city's process and an explanation on in Sirte, Libya, on Monday. after weeks of faltering advances Monday to evacuate wounded southern outskirts. As they push how to use the "Report Abuse" Col. Younis al-Abdally, a that resulted in part from the people left behind after three forward, Gadhafi loyalists are button. Read more. commander in Sirte, said his challenging terrain of desert hills weeks of fighting. fighting in an ever-shrinking This entry passed through the troops have surrounded pro- and steep valleys. 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This Intellectual Subculture' - George the ousted leader's regime are said Sunday that he expected both Sirte is key to the physical unity material may not be published, Monbiot Smears Chomsky, holed up in villas in Sirte. cities to be seized within a week. of the nation of some 6 million broadcast, rewritten or Herman, Peterson, Pilger And He spoke as tank, rocket and Similar predictions in the past people, since it lies roughly in the redistributed. For more Media Lens. machine-gun fire echoed through have not been fulfilled. center of the coastal plain where information about reprints & the streets around the Heavy fighting raged in Sirte on most Libyans live, blocking the permissions, visit our FAQ's. To 2 Headline/ Curated News Edition Digital library aims to expand kids' media literacy (USATODAY.com News) shadow of the downtown Loop, front door. But even kids who conversation are everywhere. Submitted at 10/10/2011 12:48:50 AM sees a steady stream of visiting stay put there absorb what's Poet and lead mentor Mike librarians, educators and scholars. happening in the other two. Hawkins says, "It's a constructive CHICAGO – On the ground floor "When people see it they're "If you're just 'hanging out,' your loud." of the city's main library, an odd completely gobsmacked," says awareness of the possibilities of Raymond Abercrombie, 17, experiment is taking place, one Mary Dempsey, library the things you could do just gets stumbled upon YOUmedia two that could determine what your commissioner. raised," he says. years ago while looking for "some neighborhood library looks like in Funded in part by the Chicago- On a recent afternoon, most random book" for a college-prep 10 years. based John D. and Catherine T. patrons were comfortably class. • Charnell Hemphill, left, plays MacArthur Foundation, the use "new media." After three "hanging out." Two girls in a Ten minutes into his first visit, he on a keyboard while Lauraah project sprang from research on years, her team concluded that beanbag chair shared a MacBook met Hawkins, widely known as McGuire, Dana Jackson and Jara how digital media affect kids' most kids shift between three they had checked out at the front "Brother Mike" — the name Rollins surf the Web. literacy. Simply put, it's changing stages of consumption and desk, tweaking their Facebook comes from his days on the city's the requirements. creation, informally dubbed statuses; a dozen boys egged each poetry scene — who introduced Charnell Hemphill, left, plays on "We are in one of these rare "hanging out," "messing around" other on as two button-mashers him to performance poetry. Soon a keyboard while Lauraah moments in time where what it and "geeking out." played the video game Infamous. Abercrombie was geeking out in McGuire, Dana Jackson and Jara means to be literate today, what it In the first stage, teens are mostly Nearby, Bayless sat with a group what he calls "the nerd space," Rollins surf the Web. meant for us, is going to be text-messaging or instant- of boys, helping them plan a discussing poetry. It goes like this: Take a very different from what it means to be messaging friends and haunting taping of their weekly podcast Then he was performing his own large room and fill it with the literate for our kids," says DePaul sites such as Facebook — what about video games. They were poetry and music. He now shows latest digital media — laptop University's Nichole Pinkard, who the researchers call a "lightweight somewhere on the border of up seven days a week, and you'll computers, music keyboards, first envisioned the space. Just as means" of maintaining stages two and three, "messing find him most afternoons "either recording equipment, video schools have always pushed teens friendships. "Messing around" around" but approaching geek making music or discussing cameras and gaming consoles. to read critically and pick apart begins when teens take an interest stage. One of the three was trying music." Invite teenagers. Apply a little authors' arguments, she says, in media itself: composing music, to get Bayless to think about how Ito, the anthropologist, considers pressure, pushing them both to educators must now teach kids editing photos or shooting video, the game Bioshock owed its the project "amazing on a lot of consume and produce media. how to consume media critically driven more by interests than a philosophy to the novels of Ayn levels." Watch what happens. and, ideally, to produce it. desire to be with friends. Rand. Clearly geeking out. Ito says the secret of Once a storage room at the "It's really a shift from thinking of "Geeking out" involves using new A few feet away, another boy YOUmedia's success is that it's Harold Washington Library a library as a repository to a media in an "intense, autonomous repeatedly played a fragment of based not on what adults think Center, the high-ceiling, 5,500- community center, a place where and interest-driven way" that percussive digital music, shaving students should be doing, but on square-foot space, dubbed things actually happen," says often leaves friends in the dust as off microseconds as he struggled "what kids actually do and how "YOUmedia — a Digital Library Taylor Bayless, 27, a librarian and teens seek out experts for help. to fit it into a larger composition. they engage" with media and one Space for Teens," has become a one of the center's mentors. YOUmedia is laid out to One thing you quickly notice: It's another. magnet for young people YOUmedia owes much of its accommodate all three stages. loud. Gone are the students This entry passed through the citywide, so popular and basic ideology to Mizuko Ito, a Drew Davidson of Carnegie studying quietly among the Full-Text RSS service — if this is influential that the library plans to cultural anthropologist at the Mellon University notes that he stacks. While bookshelves occupy your content and you're reading it replicate it citywide. 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