@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

body {
	font: 11pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #FFFFFFFF;
	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: #444444;
}

div
{
	font-size: 12px;	
}

#container { 
	width: 780px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	padding-top: 5px;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 

#header { 
	text-align: center;
} 
#header_tag {
	margin-bottom: 7px;
	padding: 5px;
	background-color: #0055A4;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: center;
	font-size: 13px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#footer { 
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	border-top: 1px solid #999999;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;
	margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
	font-size: 10px;
} 
#footer p {
	margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 5px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	text-align: center;
}
#footer_banner {
	margin-top: 10px; 
}
.float_right { /* 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;
}
.float_left { /* 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;
}

.sidebar_header
{
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 5px;
	background-color: #0055A4;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.side_box
{
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
	font-size: 11px;
}

.empty_side_box
{
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
}

.highlight_box
{
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	border: 1px solid #333;
	background-color: #CCC;
	font-size: 11px;
}

#nav
{
	margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
	text-align: center;
	font-family: arial, sans-serif;
	line-height: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #999999;
	color: #333333;
}

#nav ul
{
	list-style: none; 
	margin: 0px; 
	padding: 0px; 
}

#nav li
{
	display: inline;
}

#nav a
{
	font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	white-space: nowrap;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #333333;
}

#nav a:hover
{
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #0054AA;
}

.img_link
{
	border: 0px;
}

a
{
	color: #0055A4;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover
{
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
a.visited
{
	color: #0055A4;
}

.article_link li
{
	margin: 5px 0px;
}
.article_link a
{
	color: #00559A;
}
.article_link a:hover
{
	text-decoration: none;
}

.contact_form
{
	width: 350px;
	padding: 20px;
	font: 11px arial, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	border-color: #003366;
	border: 1px solid;
	background-color: #F2F2F2;
	color: #003366;
	text-align: left;
}

.contact_input
{
	border: 1px solid;
}

.sidebar_nav
{
	margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
	border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
}
.sidebar_nav h1
{
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	color: #333333;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-align: center;
}
.sidebar_nav ul
{
	list-style: none; 
	margin: 0px; 
	padding: 0px; 
}
.sidebar_nav li
{
	margin: 10px 0px 0x 0px; 
	padding: 4px 0px; 
}
.sidebar_nav a
{
	background-color: #666666;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
.sidebar_nav a:link, .sidebar_nav a:hover, .sidebar_nav a:visited
{
	display: block;
	padding: 6px 6px 6px 12px;
	margin: 3px 0px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.sidebar_nav a:hover
{
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	color: #666666;
}
.sidebar_ad
{
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.article
{
	color: #222222;
	font-size: 12px;
	text-align: justify;
}
.article_header
{
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #666666;
}
.article_intro
{
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	font-size: 14px;
	color: #666666;
}
.article_date
{
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #666666;
}
.article_attrib
{
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-style: italic;
	color: #666666;
}
.article h1, .article h2, .article h3
{
	text-align: left;
}

.content_messages
{
	background-color: #0055A4;
	margin: 10px 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	text-align: center;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
.content_messages a
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.content_messages a:hover
{
	text-decoration: none;
}
.back_issues td
{
	text-align: center;
}
.sidebar_search
{
	padding: 10px;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	border: solid black 1px;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
.sidebar_search h2
{
	margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align: center;
}
.search_results
{
	padding: 5px 10px;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	border: solid black 1px;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
	text-align: center;
}
.link_button
{
	font-size: 14px;
	text-align: center;
}
.link_button a
{
	padding: 4px 8px;
	margin: 3px;
	background-color: #555555;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.link_button a:hover
{
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #EEEEEE;
}
.form_field_desc
{
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px;
	margin: 0px;
	font-size: 9px;
	color: #000000;
}