To answer the question which the title of this chapter poses we first
have to determine how intelligence comes about.
We bring it about.
We’ve got six years of chronological time and then it’s over.
Into those six years of elapsed or chronological time we can produce
very little brain growth if that’s what we want to produce.
All we need do is lock a baby in a closet and slip food under the
door. If you lock him in a closet and give him no information for the first six years of his life,
there’s only one possibility:
At age six he will be an idiot.
If, during the first six years of life, you don’t lock him in a closet but
treat him as if he were an idiot by ignoring him, he’ll do a little better.
He’ll be able to learn a bit on his own, he’ll at least learn all there is to
learn about his rubber duck, and he’ll pick up English by listening to
everybody around him talking. By the time he’s six he’ll be well below
average six-year-olds and he’ll have a true I.Q. of less than 100.
If you treat him exactly how average kids are treated he’ll end up
exactly average. In short, he will be intellectually six years old when he
is six years old chronologically. That’s what average means. He’ll have
an I.Q. of precisely 100.
If you understand the principles of how your child’s brain grows you
will deal with your child in a totally different manner during those vital
first six years than you would otherwise have done.
This is so whether or not you ever pursue an organized and consistent
program of reading, math or general knowledge.
If such were the case your child ought to arrive at six years of ability
by the time he is four years old chronologically. That will give him an
I.Q. of 150.

If you read this book and truly understand it and deal with him in a
totally different way through all those vital six years of life and also
teach him how to read and how to gain encyclopedic knowledge and
how to do math, then he ought to have gained the six years of ability
that an average six-year-old has no later than three years of age, and
that will give him an I.Q. of 200 or above depending on how much
before three years of age he reaches that all important sixth year of life.
What’s even more important is that he will have the brain growth of a
six-year-old by the time he is three years old. We will expand upon this
all-important point in a later chapter.
When parents really understand this point it is often difficult for them
to restrain themselves.
Frequently they find themselves saying to us, “Do you understand
what you are saying? Do you realize how important it is?”
We do understand.
Indeed, we have been saying it for a very long time.
This is the very heart of why tiny children think that it is absolutely
vital to grow up as quickly as possible.
There is a kind of neurological imperative within each child that
demands it.
Don’t you remember when you couldn’t wait to be a teenager, and
how desperately you wanted to be sixteen, and then to be eighteen, and
then to be, at long last, twenty-one? And then twenty-one, and then
twenty-one and then twenty-one?
All tiny kids want to grow up right now. It is adults who want tiny
children to stay tiny children. How often have you heard somebody
say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if they could just stay four years old forever?”
No parent of a brain-injured child ever said that.
They know the truth and it is their greatest fear that their four-year-
old will stay four years old forever.
Nobody ever told the parent of a brain-injured child that we mustn’t
steal his precious childhood. Not unless he wanted a black eye. Those
parents share a knowledge of the absolute truth. They share it with all
little kids.
Certainly childhood is marvelous, providing you grow a day’s worth
every day. The problem with hurt kids is that they don’t.
We have spent half a century finding ways to make hurt kids grow a
day’s worth every day.
When we found ways to make them grow  faster than a day’s worth
everyday, we did it so they could catch up.

When some of them did catch up and kept right on going faster we
found that to be remarkable.
In children who start out unhurt and therefore even with the board it’s
remarkable too. About twice the regular rate is very good—and faster
is even better. The name of this book is How to Multiply Your Baby’s
Intelligence and that’s what it means.
I.Q. means nothing more than this. It means how you compare with
your peers. The rest is nonsense.
If a two-year-old can do everything that an average four-year-old can
do and do it precisely as well, he’s  got an I.Q. of precisely 200. No
more and no less.
This is not based on some arbitrary and often ridiculous test he can
pass but on what he can do.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Thomas Edison had
been Thomas Edison three years sooner? Not three years added to the
end of his life but to the beginning?
You couldn’t get the same result by creating three Thomas Edisons
But then of course Thomas Edison  was Thomas Edison three years
sooner wasn’t he? I mean he was a genius, wasn’t he?
I don’t know whether or not Thomas Edison ever took an intelligence test in his life or not, but I know Leonardo
didn’t.
If we gave Linus Pauling an intelligence test and he got 100, would
we take away his Nobel Prize? Both of them?
Or would we conclude that it was the intelligence test which wa
wrong?
The only true test of intelligence is what a person does. Every minute
of every day is an intelligence test and we all take that test every day.
Intelligence is not a theory, it’s a reality. Genius is as genius does. No
more and no less.
If ever there was a person who scored as a genius on an intelligence
test but who never accomplished anything I would propose two things:
1. The world never heard of him;
2. The test doesn’t measure intelligence.
Genius is as genius does.
The test of whether you can swim is swimming.
The test of whether you can play the violin is playing the violin.
The test of whether you can read is reading.

The test of whether you can speak Japanese is speaking Japanese.
The test of whether you are intelligent is whether you do intelligent
things.
The test of whether you are a genius is whether you do genius things.
And nothing else.
The fact is that most highly intelligent people do get high scores on
intelligence tests.
It does not mean that all people who get high scores on intelligence
tests are highly intelligent.
Neither does it mean that people who do not score highly on
intelligence tests are not highly intelligent.
It does mean that intelligence tests do not measure intelligence.
What you do in life measures intelligence— and genius.
Would you rather have a child who got a score of 150 on an I.Q. test
and who didn’t really do anything, or a child who could do everything
and did so at age four instead of at age eight or perhaps not at all?
What children can do and do, in fact, do is the only true test of what
they are. That’s what I.Q. really means.

Asia Supplier Development Engineer

Work Location?Shenzhen City? China

Role Summary:

Through general guidance of Supplier Development Asia Manager, you will have the responsibility for providing suppliers support in developing their performance & improving their global output. You will assist & support all transfer activity from Europe/US to Asia and take part in the implementation process of all supply chain activities within Asia.

Responsibility:

• Improvement of Suppliers’ Performance through standard processes
• Supplier Process Control Assessment Audits
• Parts transfer management
• New Product Introduction - Suppliers Rate Readiness
• Collaborative Cost reduction through CI and technical changes at suppliers’ side
• Issue regular Supplier Performance Packs (On time delivery & Quality performance)
• Review in Parallel internal schedules
• Stabilise Schedules And Lead Times
• Establish a Consistent Delivery Performance at expectations level
• Establish a Consistent Quality Performance at expectations level
• Establish Long Term View Of All Demand
• Review Material Procurement
• Identify Areas For Improvement & implement through lean activity
• Assist with the development of key strategic suppliers
• Establish a strong working relationship with strategic suppliers

Requirements:

Must have requirements

• Fluency English is required, fluency in Mandarin and in French would be a plus
• Must be a degree holder
• Must have ability to travel extensively (at least 2 weeks in a month)
• Must have Lean manufacturing/CI experience in operations manufacturing business (Aero, Automotive - preferred, Electronic industry)
• Only non local Chinese will be considered due to flexibility in getting Visa to travel overseas.
• Fluent in English & Mandarin is a MUST

Nice to have requirements

• Preferred to have experience working with foreigner in the past and enjoy cross cultural environment
• Preferred to have CI experience in Automotive industry / with suppliers

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Exploring Security Fundamentals

A “secure network” is a moving target. As new vulnerabilities and new methods of attack are discovered, a relatively unsophisticated user can potentially launch a devastating attack against an unprotected network. This section begins by describing the challenges posed by the current security landscape. You will learn about the three primary goals of security:

confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

This section also explains traffic classification and security controls. You will learn how to

respond to a security violation and consider the legal and ethical ramifications of network security.

Why Network Security Is a Necessity

Network attacks are evolving in their sophistication and in their ability to evade detection.

Also, attacks are becoming more targeted and have greater financial consequences for their

victims.

Types of Threats

Connecting a network to an outside network (for example, the Internet) introduces the

possibility that outside attackers will exploit the network, perhaps by stealing network data or by impacting the network’s performance (for example, by introducing viruses).

However, even if a network were disconnected from any external network, security threats

(in fact, most of the probable security threats) would still exist.

Specifically, according to the Computer Security Institute (CSI) in San Francisco, California, approximately 60 to 80 percent of network misuse incidents originate from the inside network. Therefore, although network isolation is rarely feasible in today’s e-business environment, even physical isolation from other networks does not ensure network security.

Based on these factors, network administrators must consider both internal and external

threats.

Internal Threats

Network security threats originating inside a network tend to be more serious than external threats. Here are some reasons for the severity of internal threats:

¦ Inside users already have knowledge of the network and its available resources.

¦ Inside users typically have some level of access granted to them because of the nature of their job.

¦ Traditional network security mechanisms such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)

and firewalls are ineffective against much of the network misuse originating internally.

External Threats

Because external attackers probably do not have intimate knowledge of a network, and because they do not already possess access credentials, their attacks tend to be more technical in nature. For example, an attacker could perform a ping sweep on a network to identify IP addresses that respond to the series of pings. Then, those IP addresses could be subjected to aport scan , in which open services on those hosts are discovered. The attacker could then try to exploit a known vulnerability to compromise one of the discovered services on a host. If the attacker gains control of the host, he could use that as a jumping-off point to attack other systems in the network.

Fortunately, network administrators can mitigate many of the threats posed by external

attackers. In fact, the majority of this book is dedicated to explaining security mechanisms that can defeat most external threats.

by Robert DiGiacomo, for Yahoo! Hot Jobs

Here are half a dozen essential tips for landing the right job in good economic times or bad:

Try a Sales Technique

Be prepared during a telephone screening or a first interview to make the “60-second sell,” a four- to five-sentence summary of your biography and career accomplishments, according to career counselor and author Robin Ryan.

“When they say, ‘Tell me about yourself, why should I hire you?’ you have a memorized statement about why you’d be good on the job,” says Ryan, author of “60 Seconds & You’re Hired!”

Work Your Personal Network

Networking doesn’t have to be confined to business contacts, especially when you’re trying to break into a big company that may use automated software to screen applicants.

Ask everyone you know if they have a connection to a specific employer; the goal is to get your resume forwarded to a hiring manager via the company’s internal network, rather than having it come from the outside and get lost in the shuffle of other applicants.

“Microsoft gets 100,000 resumes a month — how do you think they’re going to find you otherwise through that cyber hole?” Ryan says.

Expand Your Horizon

Julie Jansen, a career coach and author of “I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This,” recommends attending professional association meetings in a related field, as well as those in your own specialty.

For example, although your experience may be in marketing, add gatherings for finance executives or other fields in which you could apply your skills and experience to your regular schedule of ad and marketing group meetings.

Another networking strategy is to give it the old college try, by tapping alumni, even those you don’t know.

“Most universities have online directors of alumni, so I’d go that route if possible,” says Jansen. “If not, contacting the alumni office would be Plan B.”

Check Your Skill Set

Although you may not have the time or financial resources to pursue an advanced degree, taking additional coursework in your field to boost specific skills can get you noticed by a recruiter. Also, don’t forget to cite key experience gained from volunteering for community, school, or nonprofit groups.

“Look at your transferrable skills, including project management, budgeting, supervising others, and organizational planning,” Ryan says.

Know Your Worth

Even during a downturn, it’s a mistake to settle for less just to get the job. Before accepting an offer, consult a salary survey or online salary calculator to make sure the package is competitive within your field.

“It’s an outdated idea that you should take anything to get your foot in the door,” Ryan says. “It could take you 10 years to get a decent salary.”

Do It Daily

Whether it’s posting your resume in the common area of your apartment building, or sharing your job hunt with your doctor, dentist, dermatologist, or gynecologist, you should incorporate your search for work into every aspect of your daily life.

“Do something every single day that is about looking for a job,” Jansen says.

Career Paths With Plenty of ‘Me Time’

by Grace Chen, FindTheRightSchool.com

Training for a triathlon. Knitting. Playing in a rock band. Growing heirloom tomatoes. We each have preferences when it comes to using our precious hours of free time. Whether you choose to work on your political blog or lose yourself in a book, there’s no denying that we all could use time to pursue whatever hobby or interest helps us feel more alive.

Sadly, leisure activities usually can’t pay the rent or even cover the grocery bill. All too often, personal rejuvenation gets put on the back burner because career demands leave us with little time or energy left to devote to ourselves. Being employed doesn’t have to lead to a life dominated by work, however. In fact, there are careers out there that can offer you the freedom to use your “me time” to do exactly what you want.

1. Teacher, K-12

These days, newcomers to the teaching force include twenty-somethings just beginning their career as well as middle-aged workers who are switching to teaching after working in another field. Average earnings for elementary school teachers were just over $50,000 in 2007.

Prepare Yourself: If you have a bachelor’s degree, becoming a teacher can be as simple as enrolling in a year-long master’s teaching program which can make you eligible for certification as a teacher. Some schools even offer employment in conjunction with a training program, allowing you to earn your credentials while working in a classroom.

Me-Time Potential: Although the workload for teachers during the school year is often intense, extended winter and summer vacations can allow you time to reconnect with yourself and loved ones.

2. Emergency Room Nurse

The fast pace and high intensity of emergency room nursing is not for the faint of heart. However, for registered nurses who perform well under pressure and want a position that will keep their critical thinking skills sharp, ER nursing is an attractive option. The median salary for RNs was $60,010 in 2007.

Prepare Yourself: To become a registered nurse you’ll need at least an associate’s degree in nursing, available from vocational schools, community colleges, and even online institutions.

Me-Time Potential: Although working as an ER nurse could keep you challenged while on the job, many professionals in this field enjoy at least several days off a week.

3. Administrative Assistant

Offices of every size, in nearly every industry, rely on administrative assistants with strong communication and organizational skills to keep them running efficiently. Average salaries in this field were nearly $30,000 in 2008.

Prepare Yourself: Online diploma, certificate, and associate’s degree programs can prepare you for an administrative career, or allow you to specialize as a legal or medical secretary.

Me-Time Potential: Punch out at the end of the day and you should be able to leave most of your work behind, allowing you to spend evenings and weekends as you please.

4. Computer Support Specialist

Maintaining hardware, upgrading software, and keeping a network online are just some of the duties of computer support specialists, whose median earnings were $42,400 in 2007.

Prepare Yourself: Although some support specialists are self-taught, most employers look for candidates with at least an associate’s degree in a computer-related field. A bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems could offer you more career options, however.

Me-Time Potential: While unexpected tech problems sometimes arise at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon, computer support specialists for the most part enjoy a 40-hour workweek, with few out-of-the-office responsibilities.

5. Retail Sales Associate

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that over 500,000 new salespeople will be hired through 2016. Earnings in this field, while low overall, top $40,000 for sales professionals in the insurance and auto industries.

Prepare Yourself: No formal training is required for entry-level sales positions, but if you would like to be eligible for management jobs or promotions, a bachelor’s degree in sales and marketing is suggested.

Me-Time Potential: Hours for salespeople rarely follow a 9-to-5 workday, as most consumers make purchases on evenings and weekends. If your hobbies are best pursued during daylight hours, however, the schedule of a career in sales could be a perfect fit.

The Bottom Line on Making Time for Yourself

Social obligations, family activities, and household tasks can easily eat into the hours you hope to spend doing your thing. While you may find yourself feeling guilty carving out time for yourself, remember that in order to be an effective worker, friend, or family member, personal time is essential. Plan me-time into your weekly schedule and honor that commitment as you would any other. You deserve it!

The global rise in swine flu has showed few signs of slowing. Now in 11 countries, the H1N1 flu virus was confirmed on Thursday in the Netherlands and Switzerland; in Canada, cases rose to 27 and in the U.S., the caseload increased to 109 in 11 states, with hundreds of school closures that sent some 160,000 students home. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a new flu pandemic is imminent, yet some pharmacies (in New York City at least) are temporarily running short of the antiviral Tamiflu. So, no one would blame you for feeling scared about getting sick.

But when people get scared, they sometimes say or do dumb things. That includes Vice President Joseph Biden, who said Thursday morning on the Today show that the swine flu virus could spread easily on airplanes, and that he has advised his family against traveling anywhere on mass transit. “When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft,” Biden told Today host Matt Lauer. “I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.” (See the top 5 swine flu don’ts.)

In fact, as Dr. Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pointed out just a few hours later, there’s no real risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to ride mass transit - not with the outbreak as small as it is currently. It’s true that crowded trains and subway cars can be a vector for disease transmission if sick people are on board. You can catch the flu if you’re within about six feet of a sick person - otherwise known as the “breathing space” - who coughs or sneezes on you, and a small amount of the virus can survive on inanimate surfaces. But with just a tiny number of cases in the U.S. right now, there’s little risk that you’ll encounter a sick person - certainly not enough to make it worth becoming a shut-in. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine flu.)

(To the Vice President’s point about air travel: Aboard a plane, the air flows side to side, with air circulating in from above and traveling across rows - with little front-to-back air movement - before exiting the cabin. Most aircraft also ventilate the cabin with fresh air from outside and use HEPA filters to clean recirculated air.)

But misconceptions spread quickly during the early stages of a new disease outbreak. In Egypt, authorities culled some 300,000 pigs - even though there was no evidence that the H1N1 virus was circulating in these pigs or was actively passing from pigs to people. In France, authorities have said they want to ban flights to and from Mexico, even though WHO officials and other epidemiologists say such extreme measures are likely to hurt far more than they’ll help. (The E.U. rejected the French request on Thursday.) “The risk of collateral damage [on top of the flu] is very real,” says Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

With that in mind, click here for five things not to do in dealing with the swine flu frenzy.

See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.

See the world’s most influential people in the 2009 TIME 100.

View this article on Time.com

MEXICO CITY – Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people? The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly.

The never-before-seen virus was created when genes from pig, bird and human viruses mixed together inside a pig. Experts fear the virus that has gone from humans back into pigs in at least one case could mutate further before crossing back into humans again. But no one can predict what will happen.

“Could it gain virulence? Yes,” Juan Lubroth, an animal health expert at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, said Sunday. “It could also become milder. It could go in both directions.”

Canadian officials announced Saturday that the virus had infected about 200 pigs on a farm — the first evidence that it had jumped to another species. It was linked to a farmworker who recently returned from Mexico, where 19 people have died from the virus. The farmworker has recovered, and the mildly infected pigs have been quarantined.

Agriculture officials believe the worker may have sneezed or coughed near the pigs, possibly in a barn. About 10 percent of the herd experienced loss of appetite and fever, but all are recovering.

Experts say pork — even from infected pigs — is safe to eat.

Lubroth stressed that sick people should avoid contact with swine, but said healthy farmworkers don’t need to take any extra precautions because the chance of catching flu from a pig is small.

Unlike the H5N1 bird flu virus, which infects the blood, organs and tissue of poultry, most swine flus are confined to the respiratory tract, meaning the risk of a human getting infected by a pig is “probably 10 or a 1,000 times less,” Lubroth said.

But pigs are of special concern because they share some basic biological similarities with humans, and they have served as “mixing vessels” in which various flu strains have swapped genetic material. That’s what happened to create the current swine flu strain.

Scientists are unsure when the virus leaped from pigs to humans — possibly months or even a year ago — but it was identified as a new strain about a week and a half ago. Since then, nearly 800 cases have been confirmed worldwide. The only death outside Mexico occurred when a Mexican toddler died in a Texas hospital.

There have been sporadic cases of pigs infecting humans with influenza in the past. Most cases resulted in mild symptoms, typically among people who were in close contact with sick pigs. A few deaths have been recorded, and limited human-to-human transmission also has been documented, but nothing sustained.

Dr. Tim Uyeki, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who has worked on SARS and bird flu outbreaks, said there may be more pig-to-human cases that have gone unnoticed because surveillance among swine populations tends to be weaker than among poultry stocks.

Given that the past three flu pandemics — the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957-58 Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 — were all linked to birds, much of the global pandemic preparedness has focused on avian flus.

“The world has been watching and preparing and trying to prevent a pandemic from an avian influenza reservoir,” he said. “The focus has been on birds, and here is a virus that’s coming from a swine reservoir. Now it’s a human virus.”

Oleh margie Mason, AP Medical Writer Margie Mason, Ap Kedokteran Writer -

KOTA MEKSIKO - Setelah virus flu babi yang telah lulus dari farmworker ke babi, ia bisa kembali melompat ke orang? Pertanyaannya adalah penting, karena persimpangan spesies lagi bisa membuatnya lebih maut.

-Yang tidak pernah dilihat sebelum-virus diciptakan ketika gen dari babi, virus burung dan manusia bersama-sama dicampur di dalam babi. Ahli takut virus yang telah hilang dari manusia kembali ke dalam babi di setidaknya satu kasus dapat mengubah persimpangan selanjutnya sebelum kembali lagi ke manusia. Tetapi tidak ada seorangpun yang dapat memprediksi apa yang akan terjadi.

“Could it mendapatkan keracunan? Ya,” Juan Lubroth, seorang ahli kesehatan hewan di Organisasi Pangan dan Pertanian Dunia di Roma, mengatakan hari Minggu. “Ini juga dapat menjadi milder. Ini bisa di kedua arah.”

Canadian pejabat Sabtu mengumumkan bahwa telah terinfeksi virus sekitar 200 peternakan babi di - pertama bukti bahwa ia telah melompat ke jenis lain. Ia dihubungkan ke farmworker yang baru saja kembali dari Meksiko, di mana 19 orang meninggal dari virus. Farmworker yang telah kembali, dan sedikit babi telah terinfeksi dikarantina.

Pertanian pejabat percaya pada pekerja yang mungkin sneezed atau babi coughed dekat, mungkin dalam lumbung. Sekitar 10 persen dari rakyat jelata mengalami kehilangan nafsu makan dan demam, tetapi semua yang memulihkan.

Para ahli mengatakan babi - bahkan dari terinfeksi babi - aman untuk dimakan.

Lubroth menekankan bahwa orang sakit harus menghindari kontak dengan babi, tetapi berkata farmworkers sehat tidak perlu mengambil tindakan ekstra karena kemungkinan penangkapan flu dari babi kecil.

Berbeda dengan virus flu burung H5N1, yang infects darah, organ dan jaringan unggas, sebagian besar adalah babi flus dibatasi pada saluran pernafasan, yang berarti risiko manusia mendapatkan terinfeksi oleh babi adalah “mungkin 1000 atau 10 kali lebih sedikit,” Lubroth katanya.

Tetapi babi adalah perhatian khusus karena mereka berbagi beberapa persamaan dengan dasar biologis manusia, dan mereka telah menjabat sebagai “pencampuran kapal” di mana ada berbagai jenis flu swapped bahan genetik. Itulah yang terjadi saat ini untuk menciptakan babi flu strain.

Para ilmuwan tidak yakin ketika virus leaped dari babi ke manusia - mungkin bulan atau bahkan satu tahun lalu - tetapi telah diidentifikasi sebagai strain baru sekitar satu minggu dan setengah lalu. Sejak itu, hampir 800 kasus yang telah dikonfirmasi di seluruh dunia. Satu-satunya kematian di luar Meksiko terjadi ketika seorang Meksiko Bayi meninggal di rumah sakit Texas.

Ada kasus-kasus sporadis babi menjangkiti manusia dengan influenza di masa lalu. Kebanyakan kasus mengakibatkan gejala ringan, biasanya di antara orang-orang yang berada di dekat dengan sakit babi. Beberapa kematian telah direkam, dan keterbatasan manusia-ke-manusia transmisi juga telah didokumentasikan, tetapi tidak berkelanjutan.

Dr Tim Uyeki, seorang epidemiologist dengan Pusat Pengendalian dan Pencegahan yang telah bekerja di SARS dan wabah flu burung, mengatakan mungkin ada lebih babi untuk kasus manusia yang telah hilang tak ketahuan karena surveilans antara populasi babi cenderung lebih lemah dari unggas antara saham.

Mengingat tiga flu pandemics - 1918 di Spanyol flu, yang flu 1957-58 Asia dan Hong Kong flu dari 1968-69 - telah terhubung ke burung, banyak kesiapsiagaan pandemi global yang berfokus pada avian flus.

“Dunia telah mempersiapkan dan menonton dan mencoba untuk mencegah pandemi flu burung dari waduk,” katanya. “Fokus pada telah burung, dan di sini adalah virus yang berasal dari babi waduk. Sekarang virus manusia.”

MEXICO CITY – The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs — even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.

The virus spread to Colombia in the first confirmed case in South America, worrisome because flu season is about to begin in the Southern Hemisphere. More cases were confirmed in Europe and North America; health officials said at least 1,000 people have been sickened worldwide.

Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said swine flu is spreading just as easily as regular winter flu.

“The good news is when we look at this virus right now, we’re not seeing some of the things in the virus that have been associated in the past with more severe flu,” Besser said. “That’s encouraging, but it doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods yet.”

On Sunday, health officials raised the number of confirmed U.S. swine flu cases to 245 in 35 states. The new number, up from 160 on Saturday, reflects streamlining in federal procedures and the results of tests by states, which have only recently begun confirming cases, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC.

Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said late Sunday that the virus that has killed 22 people in Mexico, raising the toll from 19. The last confirmed death occurred on April 29, he said.

Cordova added that the virus had sickened at least 568 and apparently peaked in Mexico between April 23 and April 28. A drastic nationwide shutdown appears to have helped prevent the outbreak from becoming more serious, he said.

“The evolution of the epidemic is now in its declining phase,” Cordova said.

He said officials would decide Monday whether to extend the shutdown or allow schools and businesses to reopen on Wednesday.

Pablo Kuri, an epidemiologist advising Cordova, told The Associated Press on Sunday that tests have confirmed a swine flu death in Mexico City on April 11, two days earlier than what had been believed to be the first death.

Kuri also said there have been no deaths among health care workers treating swine flu patients in Mexico, an indication that the virus may not be as contagious or virulent as initially feared.

Cordova presented the most comprehensive description yet of the dead, although no conclusions have yet been drawn about how their characteristics may have contributed to their deaths.

He said 15 were female and seven were men. One possible explanation could be that women get poorer health care in Mexico, he said.

Cordova also said only 4 percent were unemployed; the rest either had jobs or were housewives and students. More than 50 percent had not graduated from high school and only 11 percent had university education.

The closed events made for a surreal Sunday in Mexico, as parishioners celebrated Mass via television, camera operators were the only ones in stadium bleachers and parks, museums, restaurants, theaters and other attractions were closed.

Sunday also marked the official start of campaigning for July 5 congressional elections — but all public campaigning was banned to prevent gatherings where the virus could spread.

Gabriela Cuevas Barron of the conservative National Action Party giddily claimed she was launching Mexico’s first virtual campaign, promising in a Webcast to work for a cleaner and safer Mexico City — for now, through Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Meanwhile, the leftist Democratic Revolution Party was already up with a Facebook page for its candidates.

The United States said it had sent 100,000 protection kits worth $1 million to Mexico for use by first responders. The kits include respiratory masks, protective goggles and overalls. In all, the U.S. has sent $16 million in aid to Mexico since the emergency began, the U.S. Embassy said.

Officials in New Mexico announced Sunday that 14 schools in four towns were being closed for at least a week after the state’s first swine flu case was confirmed, and the New Mexico Activities Association suspended all athletic and activity programs until further notice at member schools across the state.

In Arizona, all 10 public schools in the border city of Nogales canceled classes this week after a student tested positive for swine flu.

California officials, meanwhile, suspended all visitations at prisons pending results of tests on an ill inmate at Centinela State Prison.

In the Canadian province of Alberta, officials quarantined about 220 pigs that became infected from a worker who had recently returned from Mexico. It was the first documented case of the H1N1 virus being passed from a human to another species. Canada stressed that pigs often get the flu and there’s no danger in eating pork.

Egypt has ordered all pigs in the country slaughtered as a precaution, sparking riots Sunday by pig farmers who threw stones at police.

According to tallies by the CDC, World Health Organization and governments, there were 101 confirmed cases of swine flu in Canada; 40 in Spain; 18 in Britain; eight in Germany; four in New Zealand; two each in Italy, France, Israel, and South Korea; one each in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Fear spread in other parts of the globe, much of it directed at Mexican nationals or those who have traveled to Mexico.

China quarantined more than 70 Mexican travelers in hospitals and hotels there, and Mexicans on arriving flights were being taken into isolation, said Mexico’s ambassador, Jorge Guajardo. Even the Mexican consul in Guangzhou was briefly held after returning from a vacation in Cambodia, Guajardo said.

“In many cases we have gotten reports that they were being quarantined for the sole fact that they had a Mexican passport, whether or not they came from Mexico, whether or not they had been in Mexico, whether or not they had been in contact with someone else from Mexico,” Guajardo said.

Hong Kong isolated 350 people in a hotel after a Mexican traveler there was determined to have the swine flu.

In Trinidad, crew aboard a Mexican tanker had been isolated since Friday at the Point Lisas Port. The Ministry of Health said Sunday they were tested and cleared of any flu infection and that the vessel was expected to be released.

Health officials around the world cautioned that despite encouraging signs, swine flu still poses a very real threat.

“Most experts would agree that the current outbreak that we are experiencing is mild to moderate in severity,” Dr. Jon Andrus of the Pan American Health Organization said in a teleconference from Washington. “That is not to say that things cannot change very rapidly and very dramatically.”

Under one scenario, the virus could peter out now, only to roar back in the fall when flu seasons begins. That’s why health officials are watching the Southern Hemisphere so closely.

“Certainly, maybe, this current round of activity has peaked, but we are only 10 days into this outbreak,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told reporters in Switzerland. “I think we would want to wait a while before making a definitive decision.”