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Our new Tumblr launches today: NPR Shopped 

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WFAE and public radio stations around the country are exploring what keeps people in place and what motivates them to move, and we want your input. Here’s how it works: Post a photo on Instagram of something that makes you stay (or go) along with a caption explaining it and the hashtag #WhyIStay, and your photo may be featured on WFAE.org, our Instagram, and other member station sites. Find out more at http://bit.ly/WhyIStay

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Our quiz has been taken almost 70,000 times and shared on Facebook 24.5k times. Which public radio host are you?

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Former WFAE staffer PK Donson with the station’s first computer in 1986.

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"We walk much slower when handling a cell phone (even moreso while texting than reading), and we’re not very good at sticking to a straight line. Not surprisingly, we tend to keep our heads down, our necks immobile, and our arms locked at our sides. We don’t swing our arms, which can be a crucial part of staying balanced while moving."

Read: Texting Changes the Way You Walk

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Visit the miniature world of Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida, where raisins swell into grapes and lemons light the sky

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50 years after “I Have a Dream,” Charlotte is (and many other American cities are) still quite segregated.

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(via In the Beginning, There Were … Dumplings?)

IT’S DUMPLING WEEK AT MORNING EDITION! #NPRDumplingWeek

Photo: What’sAllThisThen/Flickr

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Lake Powell, Utah

The contrast of colors and textures is quite exquisite.

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Little did we know until years later, that every single conference call we had, every single telephone conversation related to the march and other matters, was wiretapped and the contents transcribed by the FBI. So while we would be having so-called confidential conference calls, there was another party that was also a part of everything we did. The contents were wire recorded, transcribed and written into a daily running transcript.

Clarence B. Jones: A Guiding Hand Behind ‘I Have A Dream’ (via npr)

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"This whole legislative season has been like living in a surrealist world. Every morning I woke up I was expecting to see something more ridiculous than I saw yesterday." - Belmont Abbey College Professor Rajive Tiwari.

Read more of WFAE's report here.

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Is it too late to submit a recording for the Charlotte Accent Project? Please advise.

Hi! I'm so sorry I'm only seeing this now. You're welcome to! We can post it on our Tumblr, but we published the wfae.org piece already. If you'd like to listen: http://wfae.org/post/trifling-place-episode-9-and-charlotte-accent Thanks so much for your interest!! -Tasnim 

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Happy National Radio Day!

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The second floor of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center exhibits art from its eight sister cities (above, Voronezh, Russia). Are you city looking for a city? There's something like a dating service, just for you! Listen to our story here: http://www.wfae.org/post/cities-dating-cities

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This is the first time cat DNA has been used in a criminal trial in the U.K

Sure, why not. (via wnycradiolab)

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Mecklenburg County’s mental health patients are being denied care they have grown accustomed to, after a statewide reorganization cut money available for Medicaid mental health. Mecklenburg County set up the agency, MeckLINK, to manage the remaining funds. The agency's officials blame the state for cutbacks, but providers say denials to patients for service exceed the amount cut by the state. 

17-year-old Taylor Christie was coming home to Matthews, after a year in a locked treatment facility and then in a therapeutic foster home. Her mother Barbara was worried.

“She has all this anger pent up and when it erupts, it erupts toward me,” Christie says.

Taylor’s been diagnosed with a variety of mental health conditions, including a mood disorder and oppositional defiance disorder. Taylor’s therapist had recommended Intensive In-Home treatment, where counselors visit the family a few times a week. MeckLINK denied the request.

Read more here: http://wfae.org/post/frustrations-mecklink-grow-denials-care-increase