/***** GLOBAL FORMATTING *****/


* {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}

body {

	font-size: 12px;
	color: #000;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
	background: #fafafa url(images/background.png) top left repeat-x;
}
/**eric***/
a {
	color: #5B5A58;
	}
/**eric***/
a:hover {
	color:green;
	}
/**eric***/
a:visited {
	color: #5B5A58;
}

img {
	border: 0;
}

/***** PAGE FORMATTING *****/
#header {
	width: 1050;
	background: #fafafa url(images/background.png) top left repeat-x;
	height: 120px;
	margin-top: 0;
	color: #fff;
}

.blogtitle {
float:left;
width: 975px;

}
.rss{
float:right;
width:25px;
}

h1.blogtitle a{
	font-size: 45px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #F7F7F7;
	padding: 10px 10px 0px 17px;
	text-decoration: none;
	margin-left: 10px;
}

h3.slogantext{
	font-size: 18px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;	
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #F7F7F7;
	padding: 0px 10px 0px 17px;
	text-decoration: none;
	margin-left: 10px;
}

/****** RSS ICON ON HEADER ******/
.rssicon
{
  position: relative;
  display:block;
  float:right;
  background-image: url('images/rss.png');
  background-position: center right;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  margin: 5px 5px auto auto;
  height: 17px;
  width: 17px;
}

.title {
	padding: 5px 5px 5px 20px;
	color: #fff;
}

#NaviBar {
	display: block;
}

/**eric***/
#container {
	display: block;
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 1050px;
	position: relative;
	background: url(images/contentbackground.gif) repeat-y;
	border: 0px solid #484848;	
}

/**eric***/

#content {
	width: 545px;
	color: #000;
	padding: 10px;
	float:left;
}

#nextprev {
	clear: both;
	display: block;
	text-align: center;
	margin-top: 30px;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
}


/***** GENERAL TEXT FORMATTING *****/
/**eric***/
.post {
	padding-bottom:40px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
    border-bottom: 0px solid #ddd;
    
    text-align: justify;
	line-height: 20px;
	padding-top: 8px;
	font-family: Arial, Verdana;
	font-size: 14px;
}

.article {
	float:left;
	width: 538px;
}

blockquote
{
	border-color:#CCC;
	border-width: 1px;
	border-style: solid;
	margin:10px 10px 10px 50px;
	padding:5px 5px 5px 41px;
	background-color:#f8f9f1;
	background-image:url('images/BlockQuote.png');
	background-position:left top;
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
}

p {
	margin-bottom: 15px;
	line-height: 1.6em;
}

p a {
	border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;
	text-decoration: none;
}

p a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

p.center {
	text-align: center;
}

.postmeta
{
	font-size:9px;
	margin-top:2px;
	color: #666;
	padding-bottom:10px;
	float:left;
	width: 538px;
}

.commentCount
{
 text-align:right;
 margin-right:10px;
 font-size:10px;

}

.small {
	font-size: 10px;
}

code {
	font: 12px 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed;
}


h1.posttitle, h2.posttitle{
	font-size: 20px;
	text-align: left;
	font-weight: normal;
	margin-bottom: 8px;
	color: #333;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;	
	border-bottom: 1px solid  #CCC;
}

h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{
	border-bottom: 0;
	font-weight: normal;
}
h1 {
	font-size: 20px;
	text-align: left;
	margin-bottom: 8px;
	color: #333;
	font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;	
}
/**eric***/
h2 {
	font-size: 18px;
	text-align: left;
	padding:  3px;
	color: #4a4848;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	
} 


.title {
	margin: 0 0 8px 0;
	padding: 0px;
	line-height: 22px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
	
	color:green;
	}

#header h1 a, #header h1 a:visited {
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration: none;
	}



h3 {
	font-size: 16px;
	text-align: left;
	padding:  3px;
	color:  #333;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

h4 {
	font-size: 14px;
	text-align: left;
	padding:  3px;
	color:  #333;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

h5, h6 {
	font-size: 12px;
	text-align: left;
	padding:  3px;
	color:  #333;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/***** LISTS FORMATTING *****/

.post ul {
	margin-left: 0px;
	padding: 0 0 10px 30px;
	list-style-image: url(images/bullet.png);
	padding-left: 30px;
} 

.post li {
	margin: 7px 0 8px 10px;
}

.post ol {
	padding: 0 0 0 35px;
	margin: 0;
}

.post ol li {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
	
/**** TABLE FORMATTING ****/	
	
.post  table {
	background:#FFF;
	border:2px solid #CCC;
	border-collapse:collapse;
	margin:5px 0 10px;
}
.post  th, 
.post  td {
	border:1px solid #CCC;
	padding:3px 10px;
	text-align:left;
	vertical-align:top;
}
.post  tr.even td {
	background:#F7F7F7;
}
.post  th {
	background:#EDEFF0;
}



/***** NAVIGATION BAR FORMATTING *****/

ul#NaviBar {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 4;
	list-style: none;
	width: 100%;
	height: 30px;
	float: left;
	background: #394249 url(images/navBar.png) repeat-x;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 13px;
	border: 0px solid #484848;
#	 -moz-border-radius: 0 0 8px 8px;
#    -khtml-border-radius: 0 0 8px 8px;
#    -webkit-border-radius: 0 0 8px 8px;
 #   border-radius: 0 0 8px 8px;
 border-bottom: 6px solid #8cc4c4;
	
}

ul#NaviBar li {
	float: left;
	 margin: 0px 8px 0px 0;
}

ul#NaviBar li.first {
	border-left: none;
}

ul#NaviBar a {
	display: block;
	float: left;
	padding: 0 0.9em;
	line-height: 30px;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #fff;
}

ul#NaviBar a:hover {
	color: #fff;
        background:  #8cc4c4;
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
}

ul#NaviBar li.current_page_item a { 
	color: #fff; 
	background:  #8cc4c4; 
	text-decoration: none;
	text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #567979;
}

ul#NaviBar li.current-cat a { 
	color: #fff; 
	background:  #8cc4c4; 
	text-decoration: none;
	text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #567979;
}


/* NAVIGATION MENUS */

#pagemenucontainer {
	height: 32px;
	margin-top: 20px;
	}
	
#pagemenu {
	height: 30px;
    
	}

#pagemenu, #pagemenu ul { 
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	list-style: none;
	line-height: 1;
	}
#pagemenu {
	margin-bottom: 1px;
	}
	
#pagemenu ul {
	float: left;
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
#pagemenu li {
	float: left;
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
#pagemenu ul li {
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
#pagemenu li a, #pagemenu li a:link {
	color: #dce7f0;
	display: block;
    margin: 0px 8px 0px 0;
	padding: 6px 14px;
	text-decoration: none;
    font-style: italic;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman Times, Serif;
	}
	
#pagemenu li a:hover, #pagemenu li a:active {
	color: #fff;
	display: block;
    background: #586169;
	text-decoration: none;
	}
	
#pagemenu  li.current_page_item a {
	color:#fff;
    background: #586169;
	}

#pagemenu li:hover, #pagemenu li.sfhover { 
	position: static;
	}
	


#navcontainer {
	height: 32px;
	display: block;
	overflow: hidden;
    border-bottom: 6px solid #8cc4c4;
	}
	
#navcontainer .current-cat a {
	background-color: #8cc4c4;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #567979;
	color:#fff;
	}
	
	
/***** SEARCH FORM FORMATTING *****/

#search {
	display: inline;
	float: right;
	margin: 0px 5px 0;
	padding: 0px 0 0;
	text-align: left;
	top: 0px;
}

#searchbox {
	width: 180px;
	float:left;
	padding: 5px 0px 3px 0px;
	background: #fff;
	border: 1px solid #333;
	margin: 2px 2px 2px 0;
	color: #000;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
}

.go {
	margin-top: 6px;
	margin-left: -20px;
	padding: 0px;
	color: #000;
	display:inline;
}




/***** SIDEBAR FORMATTING *****/

#sidebarLeft {
	width: 210px;
	float: left;
	color: #000;
	padding: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
}

#sidebarRight {
	width: 210px;
	float:right;
	color: #000;
	padding: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
}
/**eric***/
#sidebarRight h2{
	margin: 29 34 33 0;
	padding: 12px 10px 10px 10px;
	background: url(images/sidebar-tab.png) top left no-repeat;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #fff;
        text-align: left;
        text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #047b9d;
}

#sidebarRight h2 a{
	color:  #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebarRight h2 a:hover{
	color:  #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
/**eric***/
#sidebarLeft h2{
        margin: 29 34 33 0;
	padding: 12px 10px 10px 10px;
	background: url(images/sidebar-tab.png) top left no-repeat;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #fff;
        text-align: left;
        text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #047b9d;
        
        
}

#sidebarLeft h2 a{
	color:  #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebarLeft h2 a:hover{
	color:  #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#sidebarRight a {
	color:#615b5b;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebarRight a:hover {
	background: none;
	color:  #49647d;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#sidebarLeft a {
	color: #615b5b;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebarLeft a:hover {
	background: none;
	color:  #49647d;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#sidebarLeft a:visited {
	color: #49647d;
}

.sidebar h2 {
	margin: 0 0 0 0;
	padding: 5px 0;
	background: url(images/sidebar-tab.png) top left no-repeat;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #fff;
    text-align: left;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #047b9d;
	}

.sidebar ul {
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.sidebar ul li {
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}

.sidebar ul ul {
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0;
	}
	
.sidebar ul li li {
	padding: 3px 0px 3px 15px;
	margin: 0px;
	background: url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat top left;
	}
	
.sidebar ul li ul li {
	background: url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat top left;
	padding: 2px 0px 2px 15px;
	margin: 2px 0;
	}
	
	
/* FOOTER */

#footer {
	background: url(images/footer-background.png) top left repeat-x;
	padding: 18px;
	text-align: center;
	color: #fff;
	font-size: 13px;
    border-top: 6px solid #8cc4c4;
	}

#footer a {
	color: #fff;
	} 

#footer a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
	} 
	
#footer2 {
	color: #656d72;
	font-size: 11px;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 10px;
	}
    	
#footer2 a {
	color: #656d72;
    text-decoration: none;
	} 

/***** IMAGE FORMATTING *****/

img.post {
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
	margin: 10px 5px 10px 5px;
	float: right;
}

img.aligncenter {
	display: block;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
}

img.alignright {
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
	background: #fff;
	margin: 10px 5px 10px 5px;
	display: inline;
}

img.alignleft {
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
	margin: 10px 5px 10px 5px;
	display: inline;
}

.aligncenter {
	display: block;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft {
	float: left;
}

.alignright {
	float: right;
}


/***** COMMENTS *****/

#comments {
	width: 100%;
	float:left;
	margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
	}
		
.commentlist {
	width: 100%;
	float:left;
	margin: 5px;
}
.commentlist li ul li {
	font-size: 12px;
	}

.commentlist li {
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #666;
	}

.commentlist li .avatar { 
	background: #FFFFFF;
	float: right;
	border: 1px solid #EEEEEE;
	margin: 0px 5px 0px 10px;
	padding: 2px;
	}

.commentlist cite, .commentlist cite a {
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #666;
	font-style: normal;
	font-size: 12px;
	}

.commentlist p {
	font-weight: normal;
	text-transform: none;
	}

.commentmetadata {
	padding: 5px 0 0 0;
	font-weight: normal;
	}

#commentform input {
	width: 170px;
	padding: 2px;
	margin: 5px 5px 1px 0px;
	}

#commentform {
	margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px;
	}
	
#commentform textarea {
	width: 98%;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #666;
	}
	
#respond:after {
	content: "."; 
	display: block; 
	height: 0px; 
	clear: both; 
	visibility: hidden;
	}
	
#commentform p {
	margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
	}
	
#commentform #submit {
	margin: 5px 0px 20px 0px;
	float: left;
	border: 1px solid #0CC;
	}
	
.alt {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	}

.commentlist {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.commentlist ol {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	}

.commentlist li {
	margin: 15px 0px 10px;
	padding: 10px 5px 10px 10px;
	list-style: none;

	}
.commentlist li ul li { 
	margin-right: -5px;
	margin-left: 10px;
	}

.commentlist p {
	margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.children { 
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}

.nocomments {
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.commentmetadata {
	font-size: 10px;
	margin: 0px;
	display: block;
	}

#author, #email, #url {
	background: #FFFFFF;
	color: #222222;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 4px;
	border: 1px solid #666;
	}
	
.thread-alt {
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.thread-even {
	background: #dfeaf2;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.depth-1 {
	border: 1px solid #E6E6E6;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}

.even, .alt {
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}

.pinglist {
	margin-top: 10px; 
	width: 500px; 
	float: left; 
	margin-left: 20px
}

li.pings {
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #CCC;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5px 0 5px 5px;
  width: 500px;
}

.pings:first-child { border-top: none; }
.pings:last-child { border-bottom: none; margin-bottom: 30px; }



/**** CAPTION FORMATTING ******/

.wp-caption {
	border: 1px solid #ddd;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
	padding-top: 4px;
	margin: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 17px;
	padding: 0 4px 5px;
	margin: 0;
}
/* End captions & aligment */
#wp-calendar {
	border: 1px solid #900;
	empty-cells: show;
	font-size: 14px;
	margin: 0;
	width: 90%;
}

#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;
}

#wp-calendar a:hover {
	background: #e0e6e0;
	color: #333;
}

#wp-calendar caption {
	color: #630;
	font-size: 16px;
	text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar td {
	color: #933;
	font: normal 12px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, sans-serif;
	letter-spacing: normal;
	padding: 2px 0;
	text-align: center;
}

#wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
	background: #fff;
}

#wp-calendar td:hover, #wp-calendar #today {
	background: #eee;
	color: #bbb;
}

#wp-calendar th {
	font-style: normal;
	text-transform: capitalize;
}
.custom_image img{float:left; padding:3px; margin:7px 10px 15px 0; border: 10px solid #e6e6e6; height:150px; width: 200px}



/* wp-pagenavi */
.wp-pagenavi a, .wp-pagenavi a:link, .wp-pagenavi a:active {
    color: #686868 !important;
    background:#dfdfdf !important;
    border: 1px solid #989898 !important;
    font-size: 10px !important;
    padding:  4px 8px !important;
}

.wp-pagenavi span.current {
    color: #434343 !important;
    background:#fff !important;
    border: 1px solid #b6b5b5 !important;
    font-size: 10px !important;
    padding:  4px 8px !important;
    font-weight: bold;
}

.wp-pagenavi a:hover {
    color: #494949 !important;
    background:#dfdfdf !important;
    border: 1px solid #626262 !important;
    
}

.wp-pagenavi span.pages {
    color: #676767 !important;
    background:#fff !important;
    border: 1px solid #b6b5b5 !important;
    font-size: 10px !important;
    padding:  4px 8px !important;
}

.wp-pagenavi span.extend {
    background:transparent !important;
    font-size: 10px !important;
    padding:  4px 8px !important;
    color: #676767 !important;
    background:#fff !important;
    border: 1px solid #b6b5b5 !important;
    font-weight: bold;
}

.postdate {
	font-size: 11px;
	padding: 1px 0px;
	font-family: Arial, Verdana;
	}
	
/* Social icons */
.addthis_toolbox {
    padding: 0px 0 0px 0;
	text-align: right;
	
background: #fafafa url(images/background.png) top left repeat-x;
	}
	
	.addthis_toolbox .custom_images a
{
    width: 32px;
    height: 32px;
    margin: 0 3px 0 3px;
    padding: 0;
}

.addthis_toolbox .custom_images a:hover img
{
    opacity: 1;
}

.addthis_toolbox .custom_images a img
{
    opacity: 0.85;
}

.right {float:left; width:270px;} 
.left {float:left; width:270px;}