@charset "UTF-8";

body  { line-height:18px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:100%;
	background: #fff;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #000000;
}
.header {width: 980px; margin: 0 auto; color:#5c7b86;}
.header a, .header a:link, .header a:hover, .header a:visited {font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color:#7c969f; text-decoration:none;}
.header a:hover {font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color:#4e6879; text-decoration:none;}
.nav {margin: 6px 0; padding: 6px 0; background: url(../nav_back.gif) repeat-x; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#FFFFFF; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.1em;}
.subnav a, .subnav a:hover, .subnav a:visited {color:#FFFFFF; text-decoration:none;}
.articletext a, .articletext a:visited {color:#5c7d90; text-decoration: none; font-weight:bold;}
.articletext a:hover {color:#6699CC; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold;}
#topiclist a, #topiclist a:visited {color:#ffffff; text-decoration: none;}
#topiclist a:hover {color:#afd0f4; text-decoration:none;}
#topiclist {padding: 0 5px 45px 10px;}
#authorlist a, #authorlist a:visited {color:#5c7d90; text-decoration: none;}
#authorlist a:hover {color:#6699CC; text-decoration:underline;}
#articletext {margin: 0 10px 0 87px; width: 575px; overflow:hidden;}
.subnav {width: 968px; text-align: right;}
/*
h1, h2, h3 { color:#b6b77a;
		margin:.8em 0 .2em 0;
		padding:0;
	}
	*/
h1 {font: 1.8em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;
  margin: 0; padding: 1px;color: #000;}
#title a {color: #069; text-decoration:none;}
#title a:hover {color: #069; text-decoration:none;}
#title em {font-style: normal;}	
.titleBlog {font: 1.8em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;
  margin: 0; padding-bottom: 0;color: #592f12;}
#titleBlog a:hover {color: #000;}
#titleBlog em {font-style: normal;}	

#info {text-align: center; font: .8em Georgia, serif;
  padding: 0.75em 0 0.5em; margin: 0.25em 0 0.5em;
  border: 1px solid #b76934; border-width: 1px 0;}
 #info li, #info p {display: inline; padding: 0; margin: 0; background: none; color: #999;}
 #info a {border-bottom-width: 0; text-decoration:none; color:#999;}
 #info a:hover {border-bottom-width: 0;text-decoration:none; color:#999;}
 #info b {margin: 0 0.5em;}
 #info p a {padding-left: 20px;}
#info2 {text-align: left; padding: 2px 0 0.2em 98px; margin: 0.1em 0 0.1em; font-size: .9em; color:#666;
   }
 #info2 li, #info2 p {display: inline; padding: 0; margin: -4px; background: none; color:#666;}
 #info2 a {border-bottom-width: 0; text-decoration:none; color:#666;}
 #info2 a:hover {border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration:underline; color:#666;}
 #info2 b {margin: 0 0.5em;}
 #info2 p a {padding-left: 20px;}
 #comments { margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;}
 #commentTitle { margin-top: 5px; border-top:1px solid #b76934; padding-bottom: 5px;}
 #commentFormTitle { margin-top: 5px; border-top:1px solid #f1a775; padding-bottom: 5px;}
 #commentForm { margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px;}
.byline {text-align:left; font: italic 1.1em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; margin: 0 0 1.4em .3em;}
.byline a:link, .byline a:visited {font: bold 0.85em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  text-transform: capitalize; letter-spacing: 2px;
  margin-left: 0.25em; color:#b76934;}
  .date {text-align: left; letter-spacing: 2px;
  padding: 1em 0 .1em .5em; margin:0;}
.date a {color: #333300; border: none; text-decoration:none;}
.date a:hover {color: #000; text-decoration:underline;} 
.featSnackBox { background-image:url(../images/chalkboard.jpg); background-position:left bottom; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-color:#339933;
/*border-left: 1px solid #cc0000; 
border-top: 1px solid #cc0000; 
border-bottom: 1px solid #cc0000; */
margin-bottom: 13px;
  -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 20px;
  -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 20px;
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 20px;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 20px;
border-top-left-radius: 20px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 20px;
}
.topColBox #container {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:#FFF;
	width: 980px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	padding: 16PX 0 8px 0;
	overflow: hidden;
	font-size: 0.80em; min-height:700px;
	
	
	
} 
.topColBox #sidebar1 {
	float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 243px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
	background: #f2f2d1; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 0 6px; /* padding keeps the content of the div away from the edges */

}
.topColBox #sidebar2 { background-color:#FFF;
	float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 269px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
	padding: 0; /* padding keeps the content of the div away from the edges */
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 13px; margin: 0;
}
.topColBox #mainContent { 
	margin: 0 280px 0 0; /* the right and left margins on this div element creates the two outer columns on the sides of the page. No matter how much content the sidebar divs contain, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the sidebar spaces when the content in each sidebar ends. */
	padding: 0 10px 0 4px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
	 min-height: 717px; 
	
}
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
	clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
}
p {padding:8px 3px; margin:0;}
.topColBox #news { background:url(../nav_back.gif) repeat-x #d99949; border-bottom: solid 1px #333; padding:3px 3px 3px 5px; margin-top: 4px; color: #fff; font-variant:small-caps;}
.topColBox #blog { border-bottom: solid 1px #333; padding:5px; margin: 11px 11px 11px 1px; color: #666; font-size:1.8em;}
.topColBox #searching {padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 5px;}

.topColBox #mainContent ul{ list-style-type: circle; margin-top: 15px;}
.topColBox #mainContent li{padding-top:8px;}
.submit {vertical-align: middle;}



.topColBox #sidebar2 ul { list-style-type: none; padding: 2px 2px 2px 8px;margin-top: 6px; line-height: 1.1em;}
.topColBox #sidebar2 li {padding-top:8px;}
a.news {font-variant:small-caps;}
.keyword  {
border: 0.5pt solid #000000;
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
font-size: 10pt;
height: 10pt;
margin: 0;
padding-bottom: 2px;
space: 0;
width: 0.75in;
z-index: 1;
vertical-align:middle;
}







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<!--[if IE 5]>
<style type="text/css"> 
/* place css box model fixes for IE 5* in this conditional comment */
.twoColBox #sidebar1 { width: 286px; }
.twoColBox #sidebar2 { width: 286px; }
</style>
<![endif]--><!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css"> 
/* place css fixes for all versions of IE in this conditional comment */
.twoColBox #mainContent { zoom: 1; }
/* the above proprietary zoom property gives IE the hasLayout it needs to avoid several bugs */
</style>
<![endif]-->