body  {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #77111c url(/images/giadaBG.jpg) top left repeat-x;
	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:link, a:visited, a:hover {color:#831928;font-weight:bold}

.images {border: 0 none}

/*
=Quotations
*/
blockquote {
	margin:1em 0;
	padding-left:30px;
	color:#555;
	background:url(/images/bq.gif) no-repeat;
}


/* Hide from IE5-mac \*/ 
* html q { 
font-style:italic; 
} 
/* End hiding from IE5-Mac */


.tags {display:none}

.comment {font-size:12px;}
.commentDate {font-size:10px;color:#999;}
.commentBody {margin:5px auto;padding:5px;}

blockquote.example[cite]:after { 
content: "Source: " attr(cite); 
border-top:1px dotted #999; 
padding-top:0.25em; 
display:block; 
color:#000; 
}

.story{
	clear: both;
	padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px;
	font-size: 80%;
}

.story p{
  padding: 0px 0px 10px 5px;
}

.storyTitle{
	background: #FFF url(/images/titleBG.jpg) top left repeat-y;
	padding:4px 4px 8px 18px;
}

h2 a{text-decoration:none;color:#000 !important}

h2 {font-size:24px;margin-bottom:0px;}


h5{
margin:2px 0px 0px 5px;
 font-size: 95%;
 color: #CCC;
}

.thrColAbs #container { 
	position: relative; /* adding position: relative allows you to position the two sidebars relative to this container */
	width: 955px;  /* 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 */
	border-right: 2px solid #999;
	border-left: 2px solid #999;
	border-bottom: 2px solid #999;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 

.thrColAbs #logo { 

	position:relative;
	width:955px;
	background:#990000 url(/images/giadaLogo.jpg) top left no-repeat;
	height:152px;
} 

.thrColAbs #sidebar2 {
	float:right;
	text-align:left;
	width: 160px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
	background: #FFF; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 12px 10px 11px 0px; /* padding keeps the content of the div away from the edges */
	margin-right:5px;
}
.thrColAbs #mainContent { 
	float:left;
	border-right:dotted;
	border-color: #c4c2c2;
	border-width:1px;
	width: 730px;
	margin: 0 5px 20px 5px; /* 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: 10px 10px 10px 10px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
.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;
}