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    • After crash, Australian woman has French accent

      By Mike Krumboltz | The Sideshow – Tue, Jun 18, 2013

      An Australian woman is believed to be suffering from foreign accent syndrome, one of the rarest syndromes in the world, abc.net.au reports.

      The woman, Leanne Rowe, was involved in a serious car crash eight years ago. While healing from her wounds, including a broken jaw, Rowe began to speak in what sounded like a French accent.

      At first, doctors and family assumed the injury to her jaw was to blame. But, even now, eight years later, the accent has stuck, according to Reuters.

      Rowe spoke to Reuters about her unusual affliction. "It makes me so angry because I am Australian," she said. "I am not French, [although] I do not have anything against the French people."

      While the syndrome is undeniably fascinating, it has had a serious effect on Rowe. She told abc.net.au that she has become withdrawn and depressed. She is sometimes so self-conscious that she asks her daughter to speak for her in public.

      Doctors believe foreign accent syndrome occurs after an injury causes tissue damage to a

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    • "Sunrise in the Office" (Karim Nafatni/500px.com)Dubai-based pilot Karim Nafatni has posted several pictures that provide a stunning view from inside a commercial cockpit at 37,000 feet.

      Nafatni told the website PetaPixel that he began bringing his Nikon D300s aboard flights when he worked as first officer to capture images from inside his own unique version of an “office.” Nafatni's website explains that when he began flying professionally in 2007, he became fascinated by the unique perspective of how the world looks from an aerial view and became inspired to capture the images with his photography.

      The horizon is domianted by brlliant rays of sunlight (Karim Nafatni/500px.com)

      Along with the images taken from within the cockpit, his website also showcases several breathtaking images taken from rooftops across Dubai.

      To capture the images, he told PetaPixel that he shoots a number of bracketed exposures then combines the images into HDR views.

      Most of the photos are taken aboard an Airbus A320 and capture stunning landscapes taken above Dubai and other regions. Nafatni was recently promoted to captain and now

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    • Morris poses for a campaign photo. (Facebook)

      There’s another fat cat running for political office. But this one is actually covered in fur, has claws and purrs when he gets his way.

      All hail “hissoner.”

      Morris the Cat declared his candidacy for mayor of Xalapa, a university city with a population of 450,000 in eastern Mexico. Xalapa, the capital of the state of Veracruz, has suffered through high crime rates and corruption in recent years.

      Which helps explain the 10-month-old kitten's campaign slogan: "Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat."

      "He sleeps almost all day and does nothing, and that fits the profile of a politician," said Morris’ human owner, Sergio Chamorro, in an interview with The Associated Press.

      Morris is also not the only cat to seek elected office.

      For example, Stubbs the Cat has famously been the mayor of a small Alaskan town for more than 15 years. And in 2012, a cat named Tuxedo Stan ran for mayor of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada (he didn't win).

      Chamorro says Morris is running for office to protest

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