* { margin:0; padding:0; outline:0; }
#access { display:none; }
form * {font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;}
acronym, dfn { border-bottom: 1px dotted #333; color: #000; cursor: help; }
p, ol, ul, dl, table
{ 
	font: 0.85em helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

}
ol { margin-left: 3.7em; }
ul { margin: 1em 2.5em;  list-style:none; }
ul li 
{
	background: url(../images/blue/arrow.gif) no-repeat 0 3px;
	padding-left: 16px;
}
.center { text-align:center; }
.right { text-align:right; }
strong em { background: #deb;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal; }
body#search strong { background: #ffa;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal; font-size: 120%; }
/* ---------------------------------------------*/

div.container{
	width: 833px;
	position: relative;
	left: 50%;
	margin-left: -416px; /* half the width of the div */
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

a.button:link  
{
 font: normal 76%/140% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
 letter-spacing:-0.6px;
 font-size:11px;
 text-decoration:none;
 background-color:#64726b;
 width:135px;  
 color:#fff;
 padding:3.5px;
}


a.button:visited  
{
 font: normal 76%/140% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
 letter-spacing:-0.6px;
 font-size:11px;
 text-decoration:none;
 background-color:#64726b;
 width:135px;  
 color:#fff;
 padding:3.5px;
}

a.button:active  
{
 font: normal 76%/140% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
 letter-spacing:-0.6px;
 font-size:11px;
 text-decoration:none;
 background-color:#64726b;
 width:135px;  
 color:#fff;
 padding:3.5px;
}

a.button:hover  
{
 font: normal 76%/140% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
 letter-spacing:-0.6px;
 font-size:11px;
 text-decoration:none;
 background-color:#3a4c50;
 width:135px;  
 color:#fff;
 padding:3.5px;
}

.googletext {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 16px;
	font-weight: bold;
	letter-spacing:-1px;
	color:#2e2f31;
}
.minitext {
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

body
{
	font: 18px helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
	background: #dbe8f0;
	color: #000;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	background-image: url(http://www.conceptknot.com/images/bg.jpg);
}
a
{
	text-decoration:none;
	color: #bc1d1a;;
	background: url(../images/blue/dot.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
}
a:visited
{
	color: #bc1d1a;;
}
a:hover
{
	color: #000000;
	background: url(../images/blue/dot.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
}
#wrap
{
	clear:both;
	font-size: 1.5em;
}
#main
{
	width: 100%;
	float:left;
}
#header
{
	position:relative; z-index: 200;
	background: #dbe8f0;
	height: 35px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
}
#menu
{
	position:relative; z-index: 100;
	background: #f5f5f5;
	float:left;
	width: 100%;
}
ul.nav
{
	margin: 0 0 0 0px;
	float:left;
}
	ul.nav li
	{
		float: left;
		display:inline;
		background:none;
		padding:0;
	}
	ul.nav li a
	{
		display: block;
		padding: 40px 20px 10px 20px;
		color: #000;
		text-transform:uppercase;
	}
	ul.nav li a:hover
	{
		background: #fafafa;
	}
h1
{
	font-size: 1.8em;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	letter-spacing: -0.05em;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	margin: 0 0 0 0;
	width: 11em;
	text-align:center;
	display:block;
	border-width: 0 1px 1px 1px;
	border-style: dashed;
	border-color: #000;
	padding: 0 3px 3px 3px;
	background: #fff;
}
h1 a, h1 a:visited, h1 a:active
{
	color: #fff;
	background: #000;
	padding: 15px 10px 10px;
	display:block;
}
h1 a:hover
{
	background: #226c79;
	color: #fff;
}
#header p
{
	margin: 5px 0 0 0px;
	font: 0.8em helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	color: #fff;
	text-align:center;
	width: 25em;
}
#content
{
	clear:both;
	width: 470px;
	float:left;
	margin: 0;
}
#secondary_content
{
	position:relative;
	width: 180px;
	float:left;
	margin: 0px 0 0;
	padding: 0;
	font-size: 1em;
/*	border-left: 1px solid #ddd;  */
	background: url(../images/blue/bracket-back.gif) repeat-y;
}
	#sc_top
	{
		background: url(../images/blue/bracket-top.gif) no-repeat left top;
		padding-top: 20px;
	}
	#sc_bottom
	{
		background: url(../images/blue/bracket-bottom.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
		padding-bottom: 20px;
	}
	#sc_middle
	{
		background: url(../images/blue/bracket-center.gif) no-repeat left center;
		padding: 0 0 0 40px;
	}

#content h2
{
	position:absolute; top: 135px; left: 25px;
	width: 0px;
	display:block;
	text-align:right;
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 0.05em;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 1.9em;
}
#secondary_content h2
{
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	background: url(../images/blue/feather.gif) no-repeat left top;
	padding-left: 25px;
	color: #333;
	line-height: 1.3;
	letter-spacing: 0.05em;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 1em;
	margin: 25px 0 0;
}
	#content h2:before, #content h2:after
	{
		font-size: 1.6em;
		font-family: georgia, serif;
	}
	#secondary_content h2:before, 
	#secondary_content h2:after
	{
		font-size: 1.2em;
	}
	#content h2:before
	{
	content: "{  ";
	}
	#content h2:after
	{
	content: "  }";
	}


#secondary_content ol
{
	margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1.5em;
	color: #888;
}
#secondary_content ul
{
	margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0.8em;
}
#secondary_content ol
{
	margin-left: 2em;
}



.first
{

	margin: 20px 0 0 20px;
}
	.post img
	{
		border-top: 0px solid #000;
		border-bottom: 1px solid #000;

		margin: 5px 10px 0px 0;
		padding: 0px 0;
	}
.column
{
	width: 210px;
	float:left;
	display:inline;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;
	overflow:hidden;
}
.c1
{
	margin-left: 5px;
}
p.article_id
{
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size: 0.7em;
	font-family: georgia, serif;
	font-style:italic;
}
.single .post
{
	padding-bottom: 50px;
	background: url(../images/blue/divider.gif) no-repeat 67% 98%;
	clear:both;
	font-size:140%;
}
body#default .single .post,
body#search .single .post
{
	padding: 0;
	background: none;
	clear:both;
}/*
body#default .single .post img,
body#search .single .post img
{
	margin: 5px 10px 0 0;
}*/
.single
{
	position:relative;
	width: 450px;
	float:left;
	padding: 20px;
	overflow:hidden;
}
.single ul, .single ol
{
	padding-left: 220px;
}
.single p, 
.single h3, 
.single .searchform,
.single .excerpt,
.single h5,
.single dl,
.single table
{
	margin-left: 0px;
}
blockquote p
{
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	font-style:italic;
	font-size: 1.1em;
	padding: 10px 0;
	color: #555;
}
p.pq
{
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	font-style:italic;
	background: #f28f18;

	margin: 0 20px 0 0;
	font-size: 1.3em;
	width: 250px;
	float:left;
	padding: 10px;
}
p.slogan
{
	background: url(../images/blue/divider.gif) no-repeat center bottom;
	text-align:center;
	font-style:italic;
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	padding-bottom: 20px;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
}
#post_meta
{
	background: url(../images/blue/divider.gif) no-repeat center bottom;
	padding-bottom: 20px;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
}
#post_meta p
{
	text-align:center;
	font-style:italic;
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
}
h3
{
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
 	letter-spacing:-0.6px;
	color: #bc1d1a;
 	font-size:12px;
 	text-decoration:none;
	font-weight:bold;
	margin: 5px 0;	
}

	h3 a:hover
	{
		color: #f28f18;
	}

h4 
{
	background: url(../images/blue/divider.gif) no-repeat center top;
	display:block;
	padding: 50px 0 0 0;
	margin: 20px 0 10px 220px;
	text-align:center;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-size: 1.1em;
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
}
h5
{
	margin: 2em 0 0 0;

}

.firstheading
{
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
 	letter-spacing:-0.6px;
	color: #bc1d1a;
 	font-size:20px;
 	text-decoration:none;
	font-weight:normal;
	margin: 5px 0;

}
	.firstheading a
	{
		color: #bc1d1a;
	}
	.firstheading a:hover
	{
		color: #f28f18;
	}
.single dl
{
	border-top: 1px dashed #ccc;
	background: #f7f7f7;
	padding: 20px;
}
.single dl dt
{
	font: 1.5em normal Georgia, serif;
}
.single dl dd
{
	margin: 0.5em 0;
}

.single table
{
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
	border-collapse: collapse;
	width: 460px;
	font-family: palatino, "times new roman", serif;
}
.single table th
{
	border-bottom: 3px double #555;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-style:italic;
	font-size: 1.3em;
}
.single table td
{
	padding: 0.5em;
	border: 1px dashed #888;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 0.9em;
}

p.caption
{
	width: 190px;
	float:left;
	text-align:right;
	color: #777;
	font-style:italic;
	font-size: 0.8em;
	margin-left: 0;
}
p.caption+table
{
	margin-left: 30px;
}
p.caption+dl
{
	margin-left: 30px;
}

p.pagination
{
	clear:both;
	text-align:center;
}

.excerpt 
{
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	clear:right;
}
	.excerpt p
	{
		margin:0;
		text-align: justify;
	}
	.excerpt a[rel="bookmark"]
	{
		display:none;
	}
	.first .excerpt a[rel="bookmark"]
	{
		display:inline;
	}


code
{
	font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;
	color: #c60c28;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size: 1em;
}
pre
{
	font: 1em palatino, "times new roman", serif;
	margin: 10px 0 20px 220px;
}
pre code
{
	font-size: 0.85em;
	display:block;
	color: #333;
	padding: 15px 0;
	margin: 0 0 15px -220px;
	border-top: 3px solid #000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
	overflow: auto;
	clear:left;
}






.searchform
{
	padding: 25px 0 0 0;
	/*  background: url(../images/blue/search.gif) no-repeat 0 3px; */
}
.searchform form
{
	border: 1px dashed #aaa;
	width: 175px;
	padding: 3px;
}
.searchform input#text
{
	border: 1px solid #888;
	width: 165px;
	padding: 5px 4px 4px;
	color: #888;
	font-size: 1em;
}
.searchform form #button,
.searchform form label
{
	display:none;
}
body#search .searchform
{
	margin-bottom: 20px;
}



#footer
{
	float:left;
	width: 700px;
	padding: 0 0 50px 0px;
	margin-top: 50px;
}
#footer p
{
	margin:0;
}
ul.footer_nav
{
	margin:0;
	float:left;
	width: 100%;
}
ul.footer_nav li
{
	float: left;
	display:inline;
	background:none;
	padding:0 5px;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}
p.credit
{
	width: 83%;
	float:left;
}
#feed
{
	width: 15%;
	float:right;
}
#feed a
{
	display:block;
	float:right;
	padding: 5px 5px 2px;
	margin: 0 5px;
	background: #000;
	color: #fff;
	font: 1.1em helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	line-height:1;
}
#natalie
{
width: 100%;
float:left;
}
#natalie a
{
	display: block;
	height: 47px;
	width: 84px;
float:right;
margin: 20px 0;
text-indent: -999em;
	background: url(../images/blue/natalie.png) no-repeat;
}