One of the most fascinating studies I have read was conducted by a group of biologists who compared the randon mutations of rat mitochondria (the little fuel processing organelles in each of our cells that have their own, much…

To fix your font size, do the following:

1) Hit your templates buttons

2) Find and activate “Stylesheet” by clicking on it.

3) Find the following text:

.content {
padding: 15px 15px 5px 15px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;

color: #999999;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: x-small;
}

Change:

font-size: x-small;

to

font-size: small;

The easiest way is to simply delete the “x-”

4) Hit the Save and Rebuild button.

All said, this should be less than 5 minutes to adjust. If you don’t like the change, then just reverse the steps. That is, reinsert the “x-”.

And please feel free to delete my message.

Best regards,
Kevin

Kevin,
You are the hero of the day. Thanks! I will send this to Tiny right away. Have also increased the size of text on the site and darkened the text so old guys like Tiny and me can read it.
Appreciate the help.
best,
John

I urge you to read Dr. John Rutledge’s article Must Read; Genetic Sequencing of the 1918 Influenza A Virus on the Bird Flu. In reading John’s article, I appreciate how he separates facts from hysteria. Once you have read this…

THAT’S A HONKING BIG HINT.

Good point, Tiny. We are working on it now. Actually, I can’t read it either.
JR

(Shanghai Daily 17/November)–

CHINA will pay farmers to cull poultry and give tax breaks to poultry companies as part of nine measures issued by the State Council to help fight bird flu, Xinhua news agency said today.

The nine measures are:

(1) Continue to pay for vaccinating birds across the country

(2) Exempt poultry companies from income tax this year; give value-added tax rebates to companies for poultry processing and sales from November 11 to June 30 next year; cut involved companies and individuals’ urban land use tax, property tax and vehicle use tax in the first half of next year

(3) Temporarily exempt bird farmers and poultry breeding and processing companies from administrative charges and scrap quarantine fees for birds for export

(4) Postpone bank loan deadlines for poultry companies

(5) Expand production of vaccines to ensure supply

(6) Maintain male breeding poultry to protect bird species

(7) Maintain the sales of qualified poultry products

(8) Provide living stipends for employees in bird flu stricken companies

(9) Standardize poultry breeding, bird farm management and disease prevention.

The nine steps were rolled out by a State Council meeting yesterday chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. The session also agreed in principle to a draft of regulations on counter-measures to an animal epidemic.

Jeremy,
Good points. I saw the announcements when I was in China too. Problem is that many of the remedies are aimed at commercial poultry farms, not at the peasant farmers. And although there are payments authorized, the distribion of the payments is not certain (local officials) and could take too long for hand-to-mouth farmers. It does show, however, how seriously the Chinese government is taking the current version of the bird flu, something that I think would surprise most Americans. Thanks for writing.
JR