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2014년 10월 25일 토요일

사진으로 본 금주의 세계: Photos of the Week: 10/18-10/24

This week we take a look at puppets from Sri Lanka and France, attacks on ISIS militants in Kobani, a partial eclipse of the sun, a foamy raisin weekend at St Andrew's University, the shooting in Ottawa, Diwali celebrations, and much more. 

Friends Aanka Batta (left) and Kelly Vaduka take a selfie in front of illuminations as they celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali in Leicester, England, on October 23, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A couple stops to take a picture of the autumn colors at Loch Faskally on October 24, 2014 in Pitlochry, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
The Conservative Party caucus room, barricaded shortly after shooting began on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, on October 22, 2014. Photo taken and provided by MP Nina Grewal. A gunman, now believed to have been the only shooter, was shot and killed after a series of incidents on Wednesday near the Canadian war memorial and nearby Parliament Hill, a spokesman said. The suspect killed one soldier in the attack, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, who was guarding the war memorial. (Reuters/MP Nina Grewal/Handout)
Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers is applauded in the House of Commons in Ottawa on October 23, 2014. Vickers was credited with shooting the suspect during a shooting incident October 22, in which a gunman killed a soldier and ran through Parliament shooting before being shot dead himself. (Reuters/Chris Wattie)
Students from St Andrew's University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honor the "academic family" on October 20, 2014, in St Andrews, Scotland. Every November the "raisin weekend" which is held in the university's Lower College Lawn, is celebrated and a gift of raisins (now foam) is traditionally given by first year students to their elders as a thank you for their guidance and in exchange they receive a receipt in Latin. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) 
A volunteer of the German forces Bundeswehr gets sprayed with a bleach mixture on his protective glove during training to handle the Ebola virus in Appen, Germany, on October 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Sunspots are seen on the Sun as the Moon crosses during the peak moment of a partial eclipse of the sun, as seen from the Mt. Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) 
A US Air Force B1-B bomber plane flies above the Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, on October 18, 2014 as seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
(1 of 4) ISIS militants stand near their flag on Tilsehir hill, in Syria, near the Turkish border on October 23, 2014, at Yumurtalik village. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
(2 of 4) ISIS militants are caught on the edge of an air strike explosion on Tilsehir hill on October 23, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
(3 of 4) ISIS militants are caught in an air strike on Tilsehir hill on October 23, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) 
(4 of 4) Kurdish fighters stand by a flag of the People's Protection Units (YPG) on Tilsehir hill in Syria, near the Turkish border, after an air strike hours before, on October 24, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) 
National Diving School director Jerome Vincent, wearing a Gandolfi space suit, trains in a swimming pool in Marseille on October 22, 2014. The underwater test session develops European expertise in spacewalk simulations in partial gravity for exploring the Moon, asteroids and Mars. (Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier)
African migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories, between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla, as golfers play on a course in the foreground, on October 22, 2014. Around 400 migrants attempted to cross the border into Spain, according to local media. (Reuters/Jose Palazon)
A combination photograph of windows of homes destroyed after shelling in Ukraine's Donbas region during the month of October, 2014. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
The Swedish corvette HMS Visby during a search for suspected "foreign underwater activity" in Mysingen Bay, Stockholm, on October 21, 2014. Sweden's military was working on observations that could be evidence of suspected "foreign underwater activity" near the country's capital, a senior naval officer said on Tuesday. The search has now been called off, the suspected submarine undiscovered. (Reuters/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency) 
"Dew viewer", 2014, by Olafur Eliasson part of the FIAC, the International Fair of Contemporary Art, during a presentation to the press in Paris on October 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Dancers attend a dress rehearsal for the new grand show "THE WYLD" at Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, Germany. (Reuters/Hannibal)
The sun rises from behind the Hajjar Mountains as one of the world largest hot air balloons carries 24 passengers flying over the Margham desert about 60 km (37 mi) southeast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) 
In this frame grab taken from video provided by the New York Police Department, an unidentified man approaches New York City police officers with a hatchet on October 23, 2014, in the Queens borough of New York. The man injured two with the hatchet before the other officers shot and killed him, police said. A bystander was wounded in the gunfire. Investigators were still trying to confirm the identity of the assailant and determine a motive. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)
Indian students of Delhi Public School perform yoga in Hyderabad on October 20, 2014. Nearly 5,000 students including teachers perform seven yogic postures, with religious prayers for world harmony and peace. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
Bayern Munich's supporters cheer during their Champions League soccer match against AS Roma at the Olympic stadium in Rome on October 21, 2014. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)
Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, stuck in a chimney, on October 20, 2014. Nunez-Figueroa tried to sneak into a house through the chimney, got stuck and had to be rescued by fire-fighters, who used dish soap to help extricate the soot-covered intruder, authorities said. The woman tried to enter the Los Angeles-area house of a man who said he met her online, and that when she got stuck she started screaming for help. Nunez-Figueroa was arrested for illegal entry and providing false information to a police officer. (Reuters/Ventura County Sheriff Department) 
Fog covers the Inntal valley in front of snow covered mountain summits in Tulfes, Austria, on October 24, 2014, following the first snowfall of the season the previous day. (Reuters/Dominic Ebenbichler)
Oscar Pistorius arrives outside the court in Pretoria, South Africa on October 21, 2014. Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (AP Photo/Antoine de Ras, Independent Newspapers)
Toy Lego characters depicting a scene of protesters confronting riot police, on a table outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on October 20, 2014. A deepening sense of impasse gripped Hong Kong on Monday as pro-democracy protests entered their fourth week, with the government having limited options to end the crisis and demonstrators increasingly willing to confront police. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
A Yemeni policeman walks on motorcycles that were seized after their owners violated a ban on motorcycles on October 20, 2014, at the police headquarters in the capital Sanaa. The day before, Yemen began enforcing a temporary ban on motorcycles in the capital to prevent blasts or attacks. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images) 
A man yawns in a bus as it passes a billboard displaying a scenic Chinese capital city against a construction site in Beijing on October 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
An activist throws a chair towards a window at the Municipal Palace during a demonstration to demand information for the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teachers' training college, in Iguala, the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, on October 22, 2014. Authorities fear that the 43 missing trainee teachers could have been massacred by police in league with gang members. The students went missing in Iguala, in the southwestern state of Guerrero on September 26 after clashing with police and masked men, and dozens of police have been arrested in connection with the case - which has sent shockwaves across Mexico. Authorities say many of the missing students were abducted by police. (Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) 
Thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, on October 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) 
A man holds up a paper lantern before letting it float away at the RiSE Festival near Jean, Nevada, on October 18, 2014. Thousands of people attended the festival and released paper lanterns into the sky. (AP Photo/John Locher)
French-made "Long Ma", a mechanical dragon horse, spews fire during a performance between the Bird's Nest National Stadium and Water Cube (at rear) in Beijing on October 19, 2014. The performance, which was attended by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, was held as part of celebrations of 50 years of Sino-French diplomatic relations. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)
Natanael Candido poses for a photo as he stands in the entrance to his house in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A woman (center) who had called for pro-democracy protesters to leave, and was being jeered at by the crowd as she shouted at them about Chinese history, is reflected in a mirror held up by activists in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on October 21, 2014. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)
Traditional Sri Lankan Puppets belonging to puppeteer Premin hang backstage before a puppet show in Colombo on October 18, 2014. Puppet shows have become less popular since the 1980s, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to make a living as a puppeteer, according to Premin. He believes the puppeteer profession is facing a natural death, due to new technology and westernization. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

2014년 10월 19일 일요일

간암을 극복한 혜각스님의 건강 식탁

우리나라 암 발생빈도 5위, 사망률 2위이자 예후가 좋지 않은 대표 암으로 손꼽히는 간암. 조기 발견 시 완치될 수 있지만 별다른 증상이 없어 병을 키우는 경우가 많다. 간암 수술 후 올바른 식이요법과 운동으로 건강을 회복한 혜각스님의
맛 좋은 암 치료 식단과 전문가들의 비밀 레시피를 담은 간암 완전 정복기.


 혜각스님
침묵의 암, 간암
국내 암 사망률 2위, 환자의 5년 생존율이 채 25%가 되지 않는 예후가 좋지 않은 암이 바로 간암이다. 침묵의 장기라 불릴 만큼 특별한 증세가 없어 간암을 조기에 발견하는 것은 매우 어렵다. 잦은 음주와 흡연 등이 간암의 원인으로 지목되고 있지만 우리나라 간암은 대부분 바이러스(B형 혹은 C형)에 감염되거나 간경변을 앓고 있는 이들에게서 나타나기 때문에 이에 대한 항체가 없는 보균자라면 정기적인 검사와 치료가 필요하다. 발생률에 비해 사망률이 높긴 하지만 조기에 발견해 치료하면 간 절제 후 동반되는 합병증이 다른 암에 비해 거의 없어 제때 발견해 치료한다면 완치가 가능하다.
 간암에 좋은 식재료
간암에 좋은 식재료
요리닥터 최정희가 제안하는 간암에 좋은 식재료
현미, 두부, 닭 가슴살, 청국장, 깻잎, 표고, 우엉, 아티초크, 감초, 불미나리, 인삼
콩, 두부, 청국장이나 닭 가슴살 등과 같은 양질의 단백질 식단은 간 건강에 유익하다. 우엉의 망간과 이눌린에는 항염 효과가 있고 면역성을 길러주어 간이 약한 사람이라면 꾸준히 섭취하는 것이 좋다. 떡갈나무에서 자란 표고는 항바이러스, 항암 물질을 작용시키는 필수아미노산과 베타글루칸이 함유돼 간암 예방에 효과적이다. 서구에서 수세기 동안 간질환 치료제로 사용된 아티초크를 비롯하여 간염 합병증을 예방하는 감초, 내장을 보호하는 깻잎과 불미나리 등은 이미 여러 실험을 통해 간 건강에 유익함이 밝혀진 대표 식재료다. 식품으로 먹을 때는 우리 몸에 유익하지만 정제된 건강보조제나 약으로 다량 섭취할 경우 해독 작용을 담당하는 간에 무리가 갈 수 있으니 정제된 보조제를 먹을 때는 반드시 전문가와 상담한 후 섭취하기를 권한다.

 연자미음, 배추치즈전, 청국장버거, 깻잎나물
연자미음, 배추치즈전, 청국장버거, 깻잎나물
연자미음기본재료 연자육 1큰술, 찹쌀 4큰술, 물 6컵, 죽염 약간
만드는 법 1 연자육은 찬물에 담가 10시간 정도 불린 뒤 껍질을 깐다. 
2 찹쌀은 잘 씻어 찬물에 1시간 정도 담가 불린다. 
3 ①과 ②를 믹서에 넣은 뒤 물을 약간 넣고 곱게 간다. 
4 ③을 냄비에 담고 남은 물을 3~4번에 나누어 넣으며 주걱으로 저어 부드러운 미음을 쑤어 죽염으로 간한 뒤 낸다.
배추치즈전기본재료 배추잎 3장, 양파·적양파 ¼개씩, 파마산치즈 간 것·식용유 약간씩
반죽옷 메밀가루·물 ½컵씩, 콩가루 1큰술, 죽염 약간
만드는 법 
1 부드럽고 작은 크기의 배춧잎을 골라 밑동을 다듬고 양파와 적양파는 곱게 채 썬다. 
2 분량의 반죽옷을 만들어 배춧잎을 앞뒤로 적신 뒤 양파채를 섞어 식용유를 두른 프라이팬에 올린다. 
3 앞뒤로 노릇하게 지진 뒤 따뜻할 때 파마산치즈 간 것을 뿌려 낸다.
청국장버거기본재료 간 하지 않은 재래식 청국장 1컵, 모차렐라치즈 2큰술, 죽염·식용유 약간씩
만드는 법 1 청국장은 볼에 담고 대충 으깬 뒤 죽염과 모차렐라치즈를 넣고 섞는다. 
2 ①을 동글납작하게 빚어 냉장고에 넣고 굳힌다. 3 달군 팬에 식용유를 약간 두르고 ②를 노릇노릇하게 구워 낸다.
깻잎나물기본재료 깻잎 20장, 들기름 1큰술, 표고가루 ½작은술, 집 간장·통깨 약간씩
만드는 법 1 깻잎은 잘 씻어 끓는 물에 데친 다음 찬물에 헹군 뒤 물기를 꼭 짠다.
2 ①을 냄비에 넣고 들기름을 넣어 향이 배게 볶는다. 3 표고가루와 집 간장을 넣어 간을 한 뒤 통깨를 뿌려 낸다.
혜각스님의 Healing Life

절기별 자연이 주는 건강한 식재료를 활용한 맛 좋은 제철 식단으로 간암을 극복한 혜각스님. 지금은 자연치유식 전도사로 그 누구보다 건강하지만 어릴 때부터 잔병치레가 많은 허약체질이었다.
“제 기억 속 어린 시절은 늘 누워 있던 모습이에요. 속세를 떠나 불교에 귀의한 뒤에도 늘 감기약과 소화제를 달고 살았죠. 특히 소화가 안 돼 자주 공양을 걸렀고, 몸은 물에 젖은 낙엽처럼 나른하고 힘들었죠.”
어릴 때부터 아파 누워 있던 기억이 많던 터라 병원을 자주 내원했던 스님은 조기에 B형 간염을 발견했고 빠른 조치로 항체 치료를 받았지만 몇 년 뒤, 간암 말기 판정을 받았다. 등이 결려 병원을 찾았던 스님은 암이 척추까지 전이되었다는 청천벽력 같은 소식을 전해 들었다. 간 절제술이 없던 25년 전, 척추로 전이된 암을 제거하고 항암치료를 받았지만 전보다 통증의 강도는 더해졌고, 살아 있는 송장처럼 몸이 말라갔다. 손발이 잘려 나가는 아픔이 이런 것일까 싶을 만큼 극심한 고통을 견뎠지만 병원에서는 희망이 없으니 퇴원해 남은 생을 정리하라는 통보를 할뿐이었다. 병원을 나온 스님은 지인의 소개로 함양 인산 김일훈을 찾았다. 죽염과 뜸, 그리고 건강한 먹거리로 치유하기를 권한 그의 방법을 그대로 따랐던 스님은 차츰 몸이 회복됨을 느꼈다.
“쑥 뜸을 뜨고 연자, 마늘, 다슬기 등 자연에서 나고 자란 건강한 음식을 채집해 정성 들여 조리하고, 그렇게 몇 년간 자연에 의지한 삶을 살았더니 어느새 몸이 건강해지는 것이 느껴졌어요.”
하지만 집안의 막내로 어릴 때부터 반찬 투정이 심해 주전부리로 끼니를 때우던 스님에게 식(食)을 고치는 건 말처럼 쉽지 않았다. 포기하고 싶을 때마다 죽지 못해 견뎠던 통증의 기억을 떠올리며 미련하다 싶을 만큼 알려준 식단을 철저히 지킨 스님은 몇 년 뒤 간뿐 아니라 척추에까지 전이되었던 암도 말끔히 사라졌다는 완치 판정을 받았다.
“암은 어떤 한 행위만으로는 완치될 수 없다고 생각해요. 극단적으로 암에 걸렸다는 건 한 생(生)이 끝날 수도 있다는 의미잖아요. 죽음을 넘어 새 생명을 얻으려면 그전과는 다른 삶을 살아야 한다고 생각해요. 시작은 몸에 에너지, 생명을 불어넣는 음식이겠죠. 음식이 바뀌면 생활이 바뀌고, 생활이 바뀌면 자연히 몸도 바뀌게 되죠. 저 역시 간암에 걸린 후 자연식 생활로 바꾸면서 전보다 훨씬 건강해졌어요. 늘 누워 생활했던 제가 지금은 새벽 5시부터 밤 10시까지 남보다 몇 배를 더 움직이고도 힘든 줄 모를 만큼 체력이 좋아졌거든요. 믿기 어려우시다면 오늘 저녁 밥상부터라도 자연에서 나고 자란 건강한 식재료를 활용해 식단을 구성해보세요. 건강한 먹을거리가 곧 모든 질병을 치료하는 약이라는 것을 금방 체감할 수 있을 거예요.”

 

 혜각스님과 자연의 삶
요리닥터 최정희 교수의 조언
“25년 전, 말기 간암을 극복하셨다니 정말 놀랍습니다. 아무래도 자연에서 얻은 좋은 채소와 맑은 공기, 스님의 정신적 수양이 암 극복에 큰 영향을 준 듯합니다. 대개 간암 수술 후의 환자들은 멀미와 구토로 음식을 잘 먹지 못해 병을 더 위중하게 하는 일이 많은데 이럴 때일수록 양질의 단백질을 넉넉히 먹는 것이 간세포 재생에 효과적입니다. 스님처럼 고기를 섭취하기 어려운 경우, 기름기를 걷어낸 사골국을 권합니다. 진하게 우려 물처럼 자주 마신다면 수술 후 떨어진 체력을 보충하는 데 큰 도움이 될 거라고 생각합니다. 사골국은 복수를 빼는 데도 매우 유효합니다.”
간암 명의 백승운 교수의 조언
“스님처럼 우리나라 간암 환자의 65%가 B형 간염에 의해 발생합니다. 일반인보다 간암에 걸릴 확률이 100배 더 높죠. 황달이나 우상복부 통증과 같은 B형 간염 증상이 간암의 증상과 비슷해 B형 간염 보균자는 늘 주의해 자신의 몸을 살펴야 합니다. 특히 간암은 상당히 진행되기 전까지는 증상이 없는 데다 간 기능 검사나 간단한 피검사만으로는 진단하기 어려워 예방이 어려운데요. 가족 중 어머니가 B형 간염 보균자라면 반드시 예방백신 접종을 통해 B형 간염 항체를 생성하는 것이 좋습니다. 스님처럼 만성 간질환자로 진단되었다면 간암의 조기 발견을 위해 정기적인 초음파와 혈액검사를 권합니다.”
/ 여성조선 (http://woman.chosun.com/ )
취재 고윤지 기자 사진 권오경, 이종수 도움말 백승운(삼성서울병원 소화기내과분과 교수), 최정희(백석예술대학 외식산업학과 교수, 요리닥터) 요리스타일링 김영빈(수랏간) 어시스턴트 김은선

2014년 10월 18일 토요일

금주의 세계(10/11 -10/17/2014) : Photos of the Week: 10/11-10/17

This week we have photographs from Nepal, China, Venezuela, Siberia, Israel, Ukraine, Missouri, Nevada, outer space, and many more locations. Also, this week, I'm playing with visual rhyming—couplets and triplets of images that relate to each other or play off each other, either visually or contextually (or both). Several pairs and trios of images within today's essay are deliberately sequenced in this manner, some more subtle than others. Please let me know, in comments or directly, if you like this, or if it feels a bit gimmicky, thanks. 

Blind student Marina Gimaraes, of the Association of Ballet and Arts for the Blind, warms up backstage before performing "Corsario e Paquitas" during celebrations marking Brazil's Children's Day at the Italo Theater in Sao Paulo on October 12, 2014. The Association was founded by Brazilian ballerina and physiotherapist Fernanda Bianchini in 1995, when she decided to teach classical ballet to the blind for free. Since then, her classes have been opened to the deaf and mute, and even to children and youths with other handicaps. Bianchini says that the school's main goal for their students is for them to improve their posture, balance, spatial sense and self-esteem, in addition to breaking barriers and prejudices about people with handicaps. (Reuters/Nacho Doce)

Theater students take part during a protest in support of missing Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos students, outside the building of the office of Mexico's Attorney General in Mexico City October 15, 2014. On September 26, police allegedly linked to a criminal gang shot dead at least three students and abducted dozens of others during clashes in the southwestern city of Iguala. Forty-three of the students are still missing. (Reuters/Edgard Garrido) 
Mount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke, seen from Tiga Pancur village on October 13, 2014 in Berastagi, Karo district, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Mount Sinabung, which has lain dormant for over 400 years, has been intermittently erupting since September 15 last year, killing 15 people and forcing hundreds to flee their homes. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) 
A picture taken on October 14, 2014 shows a large explosion allegedly hitting a Syrian army military outpost in the southern part of the city of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province. The explosion was reportedly caused by rebel fighters belonging to Ahrar al-Sham brigade of the Islamic Front coalition who dug a tunnel underneath the outpost and loaded it with explosives. (Ghaith Omran/AFP/Getty Images)
The Philae lander, still attached to the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, snapped a selfie at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from the surface of the comet. Philae will be deployed on November 12, landing on the comet about seven hours later. (ESA) 
A man takes part in a fashion show before participating with hundreds of other men and women walking through downtown wearing high heel shoes as part of an event called "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" to help raise awareness of domestic violence in San Diego, California, on October 9, 2014. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
Queen Elizabeth II visits the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red evolving art installation at the Tower of London on October 16, 2014. 888,246 poppies will be planted in the moat by volunteers with the last poppy being planted on the 11th of November, 2014. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Revellers share a moment while they take part in the 70th Annual Columbus Day Parade in New York on October 13, 2014. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)
Activist Cornel West is knocked over in a scuffle with police during a protest at the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri, on October 13, 2014. Hundreds of protesters converged in the pouring rain on the Ferguson, Missouri, police department on Monday as they launched another day of demonstrations over the August killing by police of an unarmed black teenager. (Reuters/Jim Young) 
Activist Cornel West is knocked over in a scuffle with police during a protest at the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri, on October 13, 2014. Hundreds of protesters converged in the pouring rain on the Ferguson, Missouri, police department on Monday as they launched another day of demonstrations over the August killing by police of an unarmed black teenager. (Reuters/Jim Young) 
A Colombian Army Special Forces soldier rappels with a dog in a military exercise during the visit of US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon at a military base in Tolemaida, Colombia, on October 10, 2014. (Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images)
A member of "El Sistema" plays on a harp, as part of the "New Members" program, next to a newborn baby at a public maternity hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 1, 2014. In a nation awash with guns and with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela's hugely successful classical music program, called "El Sistema", has for decades sought to counteract poor children's exposure to violence with the gentle and inspiring influence of classical music. It used to only admit children aged at least 5. But under its latest "New Members" projects, hundreds of smaller infants can receive voice lessons, musical initiation with paper-made instruments, and free concerts, at its base in Caracas. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins) 
A woman jogs with her dog through a park during a sunny autumn day in central Sofia on October 14, 2014. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
A man rests under a tree in front of the Alps during warm and sunny autumn weather near Muensing south of Munich, Germany, on October 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) 
Nicolas Ivanoff of France performs during the finals for the seventh stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Red Bull, Joerg Mitter)
Pro-Russian rebels fire artillery toward the Ukrainian position at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport outskirts the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) 
Boys play with toy guns near an area where shelling killed several people in Sartana village, on the outskirts of the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on October 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A model has her makeup done backstage during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev on October 15, 2014. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
Radical protesters clash with Interior Ministry and law enforcement members on the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, marked by activists and supporters of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda (Freedom) Party and far-right activists and nationalists to honor the role of the movement in the history of Ukraine, during a rally near the parliament building in Kiev, on October 14, 2014. The protesters demanded the release of political prisoners in Ukraine. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko) # 
Riot police officers stand guard at a main road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on October 17, 2014. New scuffles broke out Friday night between Hong Kong riot police and pro-democracy activists in a district where police cleared protesters earlier in the day. The chaotic scenes unfolded hours after police moved in to clear tents, canopies and barricades at Mong Kok, a smaller protest zone across Victoria Harbor from the main occupied area in the heart of the financial district. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A man, bottom, jumps into the water to rescue a woman who fell due to strong waves on the Bay of Bengal coast at Gopalpur, Orissa, India, on October 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
Palestinian women gesture at an Israeli man during a protest by Palestinian women against Jewish visitors to the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on October 14, 2014. The site in Jerusalem's walled Old City has seen repeated disturbances over the years over what Palestinians say are fears of an Israeli threat to the site. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)
An Israeli woman (center) and a Palestinian woman gesture at one another during a protest by Palestinian women against Jewish visitors to the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount on October 14, 2014. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)
Riders compete during the "Kings of the Off-road" quad bike amateur regional race in a Siberian boggy district near the village of Kozhany, southwest of Krasnoyarsk, on October 11, 2014. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
Police officers gather near a pro-democracy protest in the Central district of Hong Kong on October 13, 2014. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images
A food truck crosses a pro-Russian rebel checkpoint in the town of Donetsk, Ukraine, on October 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Firefighters try to extinguish flames after the state capital building was set on fire by protesting college students in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on October 13, 2014. Hundreds of protesting teachers and students demanding answers about the 43 students who went missing on September 26 during a confrontation with police, clashed with police at the local congress and outside the state government palace Monday. Officials are attempting to determine if any of the missing students are in newly discovered mass graves. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Christian pilgrims from Brazil embrace after they are baptized in the water of the Jordan River during a ceremony at the Yardenit baptismal site near the northern Israeli city of Tiberias on October 15, 2014. Yardenit is one of the sites along the Jordan River where it is believed Jesus was baptized. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)
A great white heron stands on a pier as Hurricane Gonzalo approaches Fajardo, Puerto Rico, on October 13, 2014. Hurricane Gonzalo formed Monday in the Caribbean and was on course to move out over open ocean after buffeting Antigua and nearby islands with heavy rain and wind. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) 
Stefan Mitrovic of Serbia grabs a flag depicting so-called Greater Albania, an area covering all parts of the Balkans where ethnic Albanians live, that was flown over the pitch during the Euro 2016 Group I qualifying soccer match between Serbia and Albania at the FK Partizan stadium in Belgrade October 14, 2014. The politically-sensitive Euro 2016 qualifier between Serbia and Albania was then abandoned following a brawl between players from both sides after the flag stunt. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
A surfer walks from the water as a severe storm hit Sydney at Bronte Beach on October 13, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. (Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
People on a motorcycle ride through a thick cloud as a fumigation truck from the Sucre municipality works to control the spread of Chikungunya and dengue fever, spread by mosquitoes, in the Petare slum district of Caracas. Medical shortages have complicated Venezuela's efforts to treat outbreaks of mosquito-borne fevers, creating long lines at pharmacies to buy analgesics and leaving the ill without ways to control the swelling joints and aching bones that the diseases cause. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
Boys run from the blowing dust as a U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor departs the site of an Ebola treatment center under construction on October 15, 2014 in Tubmanburg, Liberia. The center is the first of 17 Ebola treatment centers being built by Liberian forces under American supervision as part of Operation United Assistance to combat the Ebola epidemic. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Chinese commuters crowd onto a subway car on the metro during rush hour in Beijing, China, on October 16, 2014. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
People stand on a hilltop under a tree at Khokana in Lalitpur, Nepal, on October 15, 2014. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)