body  {
	font: 100% Lucida Sans, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	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;
	background:url(images/headBG.jpg) repeat-x;
}
#container { 
	width: 900px;  /* 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. */
		background: url(images/mud-side.jpg) repeat-y;
	background-position: 710px 100px;
} 
#header { 
	padding: 0;
	height:249px;
	overflow:hidden;
		background:url(images/headBG.jpg) repeat-x;
        position:relative;

} 
#sidebar1 {
	float: left; 
	width: 165px; 
	padding: 20px 0 0 0; 
	}
#sidebar2 {
	float: right; 
	width: 130px; 
	padding:0px 50px 0 20px; 
	color:#FFF;
}

#mainContent { 
	margin: 0 220px 0 180px; /* 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 20px 20px 0; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
} 
#footer { 
	padding: 10px 10px 0 0px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#FFF;
	border:none;
border-top:1px solid #CCC;

} 
#footer p {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}
.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;
}

#logo { background:url(images/headerLogo.jpg) no-repeat; width:900px; height:150px; position:absolute; top:30px; left:0px; z-index:20;
}

/* General Text Styles */
a {color:#68171e; border:none;}
#mainContent a, .sectionBody a {color:#68171e; font-style:normal;}
a:hover{color:#000;}

p, .sectionBody p { font-size: 70%; color:#999; line-height: 1.5em;}
#sidebar2 p {color:#FFF; }
#sidebar1 p {padding-bottom:10px; border-bottom:1px dotted #666;}


h1, .sectionBody h1 {color:#341f08; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase; }
h2, .sectionBody h2 {color:#341f08; font-size:100%; font-weight:normal; }
#header h2 {margin-bottom:-20px;}
h3 {color:#341f08; font-size:100%; font-weight:900;text-transform:uppercase;}
h3 a {text-decoration:none;}
h3:hover {text-decoration:underline; color:#999; }

h4, .sectionBody h4 {color:#000; font-size:100%; font-weight:normal; line-height:20px; }
#sidebar1 h4 {color:#341f08; font-size:90%; font-weight:900;text-transform:uppercase; }
#sidebar2 h4 {color:#FFF; font-size:90%; font-weight:900;text-transform:uppercase; padding: 10px 0; }

#sidebar1 h4 a{color:#FFF; font-size:90%; font-weight:normal; margin:0px 0 0px 20px; padding:20px 0 0 0 ; text-decoration:none; display:block;}
#sidebar1 h4 a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}

.chronodata {
	font-size: 70%;
	color:#999999;
	margin:0px 0 10px 0;

	}

.itemhead {
	margin:20px 0 0px 0;
}
.storycontent {
padding:20px 0 20px 0;
}

.storycontent img {
	border:0;
	padding:5px 5px;
	background:#dfe2e4;
	border:1px solid #ccc;
	margin:5px 5px 5px 0px;
	}

.textwidget {color:#FFF; font-size:80%; font-weight:normal; line-height:20px;}



/* NAVIGATION STYLES */

#nav, #nav ul { 
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	list-style: none;
	line-height: 1;
}

#nav {
	position: relative;
	z-index: 19;
	float: left;
	width:auto;
	margin: 0px auto;
	padding: 0px;
}

#nav li {
	position: relative;
	float: left;
	width: 146px;
	margin: 0 0px 0 0;
	text-align: center;
}

#nav .last { margin-right: 0 }

#nav a {
	display: block;
	width: 146px;
	line-height: 230px;
	background: url(images/navBG.jpg) no-repeat;
	color: #000;
	text-decoration: none;
	background-position: -146px 0;
	font-size: .8em;
	font-weight:bold;
	padding-top:110px;
}

#nav a:hover, #nav a:focus, #nav a:active, #nav .active a,
#nav .current_page_item a:link, #nav .current_page_item a:visited, #nav .current_page_item a:active { 
	background: url(images/navBG.jpg) no-repeat;
	background-position: 0px 0;
	text-decoration: none;
	color:#FFF;
} 

hr, .item {
border:none;
border-bottom:1px dotted #000;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}



input#searchsubmit {
background: url(images/bootButton.gif) no-repeat 0 0;
width:64px;
height:59px;
color:#FFFFFF;
border:none;
margin:-50px 0 0 80px;
position:relative;
top: -5px;
padding: 20px 15px 0 0;
}
input#searchsubmit:hover {
color:#FFCC33;
}


#sidebar1 li, li .categories, li .linkcat, li .pagenav {
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 10px 0;
	font-size:80%;
border:none;
border-bottom:1px dotted #000;
}

#sidebar1 li a {
text-decoration:none;
}

ul {
padding: 0 0 10px 0px;
}


#wp-calendar {
	empty-cells: show;
	font-size: 90%;
	margin: 0;
	width: 90%;
	padding: 3px;
border:none;
border-bottom:1px dotted #000;
}

#wp-calendar caption {color:#341f08; font-size:100%; font-weight:900;text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; }

#wp-calendar #next a {
	padding-right: 10px;
	text-align: right;
}

#wp-calendar #prev a {
	padding-left: 10px;
	text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar a {
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	background:#ccc;
}


#wp-calendar td {
	color: #000;
	font-size: 70%;
	letter-spacing: normal;
	padding: 2px 0;
	text-align: center;
}


#wp-calendar #today {
	background: ;
	color: #0099DD;
}

#wp-calendar th {
	font-style: normal;
	text-transform: capitalize;
	padding: 2px 0;
	text-align: center;
}

#ft {
	text-align: center;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	color: #000;
}

#ft a:link, #ft a:hover, #ft a:visited{
	color: #000;
}

span.strong {font-weight:bold}