body  {
	font: 100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background:  url("../images/bckg-patch.jpg") repeat;
	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;
}
a {
	color:#af2525;
	text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
}

.thrColAbsHdr #container {
	position: relative;
	width: 1024px;
	background:  url(../images/globe-anim-01.gif) no-repeat right top;
	margin: 0;
	text-align: left;
}
.thrColAbsHdr #container-a {
	position: relative;
	width: 1024px;
	background:  url(../images/globe-anim-02.gif) no-repeat right top;
	margin: 0;
	text-align: left;
}
.thrColAbsHdr #container-b {
	position: relative;
	width: 1024px;
	background:  url(../images/globe-anim-03.gif) no-repeat right top;
	margin: 0;
	text-align: left;
} 


.thrColAbsHdr #header { 
	height: 150px; 
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
} 
.thrColAbsHdr #header h1 {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
	padding: 65px 0 0 115px; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
	font: 215% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.thrColAbsHdr #sidebar1 {
	position: absolute;
	left: 0;
	width: 140px;
	padding: 0;
	background:  url("../images/shade-bg.png");	
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;
}
.thrColAbsHdr #sidebar2 {
	position: absolute;
	right: 0;
	width: 195px;
	height:auto;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
	top: 150px;
	background:  url("../images/shade-bg.png");
	
}
.thrColAbsHdr #mainContent { 
	margin: 0 230px 0 205px; /* 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. */
	padding: 0 10px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
.thrColAbsHdr #footer {
	margin-left: 25px;
	padding-top: 0;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 0;
	padding-left: 0px;
	border-top: 1px dotted #666666;
} 
.thrColAbsHdr #footer p {
	margin: 0;
	font: 70% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding: 10px 0 10px 20px;
}
.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;
}

/**** HEADING TAGS ****/
h2 {
	color:#af2525;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 10px 0 0;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 100%;
	display: block;
	height: auto;
	width: auto;
	border-top: 1px dotted #666666;
}
h3 {
	font: 75% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color:#af2525;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 5px 0px 3px 10px;
	background: #333333;
}
h3 a {
	color:#CCCCCC;
	font-size: 80%;
}
h3 a:hover {
	color:#af2525;
	text-decoration: none;
}
h4 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 85%;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-top: 15px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: -5px;
	margin-left: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
/**** END HEADING TAGS ****/

#header p {
	font: italic 90% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0 0 0 315px;
}

#mainContent p {
 	font: 75% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-align:justify;
}

/**** NAVIGATION SIDEBAR ****/
#sidebar1 p {
	font: 75% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#sidebar1 ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 7px 0 0 15px;
}

#sidebar1 li {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type:none;
	font: 80%/170% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;		
}
#sidebar1 a {
	color:#000000;
	text-decoration:none;
}
#sidebar1 a:hover {
	color:#af2525;
}
/**** END NAVIGATION SIDEBAR ****/

/***** NEWS SIDEBAR ******/
.newsletter {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 70%;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
}

#news-entry {
	margin: 0;
	padding:0;
}
#news-entry p {
	font: bold normal 70% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
	padding:0;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}
#news-entry ul {
	margin: 0px;
	padding:5px 10px 0 23px;
}
#news-entry li {
	font: 70% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color:#000000;
	list-style: square;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 7px 0px 0px;
}
#news-entry a {
	color:#CCCCCC;
	text-decoration:none;	
}
#news-entry a:hover {
	color:#af2525;
	
}
.news-title {
	font: bold 140% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #000000;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
.news-date {
	font: 95% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #333333;
}
.rss {
	font: 70% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
}
.rss a {
	color:#af2525;
	text-decoration:none;
}
.rss a:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
}
/***** END NEWS SIDEBAR ******/

ul {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
li.main-bullets {
	font: 75% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	list-style-type: square;
	list-style-position: outside;
	padding-top: 0px;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	padding-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 20px;
}
.bodytext {
	font: 75% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #000000;
}
#promo-box {
	padding: 0px;
	height: auto;
	width: auto;
	margin: 10px 0px 0px;
}
#promo-box img {
	margin:0px 15px 0px 0px;
	padding:0 0 0 10px;
	display: block;
	border-top: 0;
	border-right: 0;
	border-bottom: 0;
	border-left: 1px solid #333333;
	float: left;
}
#promo-box p {
	display: block;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	float: left;
}
#signup-box {
	display: block;
	height: auto;
	width: auto;
	margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px;
	padding: 0px;
}
.join-button {
	height: auto;
	width: auto;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px;
	padding: 0px;
}

/***** NEWS ARCHIVE *****/
.horz-div {
	width: 100%;
	display: block;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	border-bottom: 1px dotted #333333;
	height: 20px;
}
.item-return {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
.item-return a {
	font-size: 90%;
	color:#333333;
}
.item-return a:hover {
	color:#af2525;
	text-decoration: none;
}