html {
	height: 100%;
}

body {
	height: 100%;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10pt;
	background-image: url(../images/left_col_bg.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

a:link, a:visited, a:active {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#nav {
	background-color: #26386B;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 0px;
	border-bottom-width: 1px;
	border-color: #818bab;
	color: #ffcc00;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #ffcc00;
	height: 35px;
	vertical-align: center;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	width: 1000px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

#nav a:link, a:visited, a:active {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#nav a:hover {
	color: #ffcc00;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#topAd {
	background-color: #26386B;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 0px;
	border-color: #818bab;
	color: #ffcc00;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #ffcc00;
	vertical-align: center;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	padding-bottom:0px;
	width: 1000px;
	overflow: hidden;
	padding-top:5px;
	height:100px;
	text-align:center;
}

#bread {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #DDEEFF;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0;
	position: absolute;
	top: 10px;
	left: 150px;
}

#bread ul {
	margin-left: 0;
	padding-left: 0;
	display: inline;
	border: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
 }

#bread ul li {
	margin-left: 0;
	padding-left: 2px;
	border: none;
	list-style: none;
	display: inline;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
 }

#bread .separator {
	color: #FFCC00;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#bread ul li.first a {
 	color: #DDEEFF;
 	text-decoration: underline;
}

#bread ul li a:hover, a:visisted, a:active {
	color: #FFCC00;
}

#innerbread {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #DDEEFF;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0;
	position: absolute;
	top: 114px;
	left: 150px;
}

#innerbread ul {
	margin-left: 0;
	padding-left: 0;
	display: inline;
	border: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
 }

#innerbread ul li {
	margin-left: 0;
	padding-left: 2px;
	border: none;
	list-style: none;
	display: inline;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
 }

#innerbread .separator {
	color: #FFCC00;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#innerbread ul li.first a {
 	color: #DDEEFF;
 	text-decoration: underline;
}

#innerbread ul li a:hover, a:visisted, a:active {
	color: #FFCC00;
}

#nav #user {
	float: right;
	height: 35px;
	padding-top: 12px;
	padding-right: 8px;
}

#left-col {
	position: absolute;
	left: 0px;
	width: 135px;
	color: #999;
	font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	line-height: 14px;
	padding: 0 15px 0 15px;
	background: url("../images/left_col_hed.gif") no-repeat;
}

#left-col h1 {
	font-size: 10px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	weight: bold;
	margin-top: 8px;
}

#left-col p {
	margin: 5px 0 17px 0;
}

#left-col p a {
	color: #9CF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#left-col p a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#left-col p img {
	float: left;
	margin: 0 5px 10px 0;
}

#left-col p#caption {
	font-size: .9em;
}

#left-col ul {
	margin: 4px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-left: 4px;
	padding: 0px;
	padding-left: 12px;
	list-style-type: square;
}

#content {
	position: relative;
	margin-left: 165px;
	padding-top: 15px;
	width: 835px;
	clear: left;
	background-image: url(../images/blog_grad.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	background-position: top left;
	top: 0px;
	-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
	-moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
	-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;
}

#posts {
	float: left;
	margin: 0 15px 0 0;
	width: 475px;
	padding: 0 0 0 20px;
	font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
}

#posts {
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 17px;
} 

/* post title */
#posts h1 {
	margin: 0 0 0 0;
	font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;
	font-weight: 700;
	font-size: 24px;
	line-height: 25px;
	color: #26386B;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	visible: false;
}

#posts h1 a {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #26386B;
}

#posts h1 a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #990000;
}

/* posted by, date */
#posts h2 {
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 10px;
	margin: 4px 0px 20px 0px;
	color: #666;
}

#posts h2 a {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #666;
	font-weight: normal;
}

#posts h2 a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #666;
}

/* discuss, link to, trackbacks */
#posts h3 {
	background: #FFF url(../images/h3_grad.jpg) repeat-x;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #333366;
	margin: 0 0 38px 0;
	border-top: 1px #A4ABC1 solid;
}

#posts h3 a {
	color: #336;
	text-decoration: none;
	border: none;
	font-weight: normal;
}

#posts h3 a:hover {
	color: #C00;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#posts h3 a img {
	border: none;
}

#posts h3 .link-to {
	margin: 0 0 0 105px;
}

#posts p {
	margin: 1em 0 1em 0;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 17px;
}

#posts a {
	color: #0066CC;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 11px;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#posts p img {
	border: 1px #000 solid;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#posts span.intro-copy {
   color: #666;
   font-style: italic; 
   line-height: 15px;
   font-size: 12px;
}

#posts p a strong img {
	border: none;
}

#comments h2, #trackbacks h2 {
	  text-transform: uppercase;
	  background: #FFF url(../images/h3_grad.jpg) repeat-x;
	  font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
	  font-weight: bold;
	  font-size: 12px;
	  color: #333366;
	  margin: 40px 0 20px 0;
	  padding: 0;
	  border-top: 1px #A4ABC1 solid;
}

#comments h3, #trackbacks h3 {
	  background: none;
	  border: none;
	  color: #336;
	  font-family: Verdana;
	  font-size: 11px;
	  font-weight: bold;
	  margin: 0;
}

#comments p, #trackbacks p {
	  font-family: Verdana;
	  font-size: 11px;
	  font-weight: bold;
	  color: #666;
	  margin: 4px 0 10px 0;
}

#comments .comment, #trackbacks .trackback {
	  background: #F3F3C1 url(../images/comment_grad.gif) repeat-x;
	  margin: 0;
	  padding: 10px;
	  border: 1px #999966 solid;
	  border-bottom: none;
	  font-weight: normal;
	  font-family: Verdana;
	  font-size: 11px;
	  font-height: 17px;
	  width: 453px;
}

#comments .comment p, #trackbacks .trackback p {
	margin: 0 0 4px 0;
	padding: 0;
	color: #000;
	font-weight: normal;
}

#comments .comment-footer {
	  background: url(../images/comment_footer2.gif) no-repeat;
	  margin: -15px 0 20px 0;
}

#comments .comment-footer p {
	  font-family: Verdana;
	  font-size: 11px;
	  font-weight: normal;
	  color: #000;
	  margin: 15px 0 0 43px;
	  padding: 10px 0 0 5px;
}

#comments input {
	  margin: 0 0 5px 0;
	  background: #FFF;
}

#comments .checkbox input {
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-right: 2px;
	margin-left: 4px;
}

#trackbacks .trackback {
	  border-bottom: 1px #999966 solid;
	  /* background: url(../images/tb_corner.gif) bottom right no-repeat; */
}

#trackbacks .trackback-footer {
	  background: url(../images/tb_corner.gif) bottom right no-repeat;
	  margin: -20px 0 0 0;
	  padding: 2px 0 0 0;
}

#right-col {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0 15px 0 0;
	float: right;
}

#right-col a:link, #right-col a:visited, #right-col a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
}

#right-col a:hover {
	color: #C00;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#ad {
	margin: 0 0 20px 0;
	padding: 0;
}

#sponsor {
	margin: -30px 0 0 875px;
	padding: 0;
	align: right;
}

#ad p {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #666;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 0 4px 0;
	padding: 0;
}

div.c-col-box {
	margin: 0 0 20px 0;
	padding: 0 0 5px 0;
	border: 1px #A4ABC1 solid;
	width: 300px;
	z-index: 10;
	background: #F3F3F6;
	font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
}

div.c-col-box h1 {
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #FFF;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 11px;
	background: #8D96B2 url(/blogs/files/images/rc_h1_bg.gif) repeat-x;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 3px 0 0 4px;
	height: 17px;
}

div.c-col-box p {
	color: #000;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 11px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 14px 6px 0px 10px;
}

div.c-col-box p a {
	color: #0066CC;
	text-decoration: none;
}

div.c-col-box p a:hover {
	color: #C00;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

div.c-col-box td p {
	color: #000;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 11px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 5px 0px 0px 2px;
}

div.c-col-box ul {
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-image: url(/blogs/files/images/bul.gif);
}

div.c-col-box li {
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 15px;
	color: #C00;
	margin; 0;
	padding: 0 0 4px 0;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: normal;
}

div.c-col-box li a {
	color: #000;
}

div.c-col-box li a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #C00;
}

div.c-col-box a.rss-button, div.c-col-box a.rss-button:hover {
	font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #FFF;
	text-decoration: none;
	background: #F60;
	padding: 0 3px;
	font-weight: bold;
	border:1px solid;
	border-color:#FC9 #630 #330 #F96;
	/* margin: 0 5px 5px 130px; */
}

div.c-col-box ul li img {
	float: right;
	border: 1px #000 solid;
	margin: 0 10px 0 0;
}

div.c-col-box span.caption {
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666;
}

div.c-col-box hr {
	width: 90%;
}

div.c-col-box table {
	margin: 5px;
}

div.c-col-box td {
	font-size: 11px;
}

#footer {
	background-color: #ffffff;
	border-color: #a4abc1;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 0px;
	border-top-width: 1px;
	clear: both;
	width: 1000px;
	padding-top: 16px;
}

#msnbc-foot {
	background-color: #ffffff;
	font-size: 10px;
	text-align: center;
}

#msnbc-foot a:link, #msnbc-foot a:visited, #msnbc-foot a:active, #msnbc-foot a:hover {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#ms-foot {
	background-color: #ffffff;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 0px;
	border-top-width: 1px;
	border-color: #666666;
	margin-top: -5px;
}

#ms-foot a:link, #ms-foot a:visited, #ms-foot a:active, #ms-foot a:hover {
	color: #26386B;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#ms-foot ul, #ms-foot ul li {
	font-size: 11px;
	padding-left: 6px;
	margin: 0px;
	display: inline;
	padding-left: 6px;
}

#ms-foot ul#support {
	margin-left: 580px;
}
.search {
	position: absolute;
	top: 190px;
	left: 470px;
	font-size: 10px;
	z-index: 1;
}
.searchinside {
	position: absolute;
	top: 203px;
	left: 470px;
	font-size: 10px;
	z-index: 1;
}
.searchButton {
	background: url(http://st.msn.com/as/shell/i/9lite/search.gif) #00CC00 repeat-x 0 0; 
	border: 1px solid #2263A5; 
	color: #FFFFFF; 
	font-weight: bold;
}
#msnlogo {
	position: absolute;
	top: 3px;
	left: 940px;
}
#msnlogoinside {
	position: absolute;
	top: 110px;
	left: 940px;
}