body {
 background:#ffffff url(images/global/bg_stripes.png);
 margin: 0px;
 padding-top:3%;
 color:#6E6E6E;
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 7.5pt;
 line-height:1.1em; }

a {
 color: #666;
 font-weight: normal;
 text-decoration: none; }

img {
 border: 0px; }
 
ul {
 text-align: left; }

#wrapper { 
 background: url(images/global/top_border.png); 
 background-repeat: repeat-x;
 height: 35px;
 position: relative;
 margin-bottom: -5px; }
 
#content {
 background: #fff url(images/global/footer_border.gif);
 background-repeat: repeat-x;
 background-position: bottom left;
 width: 100%;
 min-width: 1200px;
 min-height: 900px;
 padding-bottom: 15px; }
 
#content_wrapper {
 min-width: 1000px;
 max-width: 1200px;
 width: 90%; }

#left_column {
 margin-left: 10px;
 margin-right: 10px;
 margin-top: 15px;
 min-width: 400px;
 width: 51%;
 float: left; } 

.blog {
 margin-bottom: 35px;
 padding-bottom: 1px;
 background: url(images/global/LR_corner.png);
 background-position: right bottom;
 background-repeat: no-repeat; 
}

.post a {
 color: #666666;
 font-weight:normal;
 text-decoration:underline;}

.post img {
 margin: 3px;
 border: #4E0607 1px solid; }
 
.post {
 text-align:justify;
 margin: 0px 15px 15px 15px; }
 
.date {
 font-size:14pt;
 letter-spacing:0;
 text-align:right;
 margin-top: 10px;
 padding-bottom: 3px;
 margin-right: 16px;
 font-family: georgia, serif;
 float: right;
 color: #743233;
 overflow: visible; }
 
.title {
 background: url(images/global/UL_corner.png);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 padding-top: 6px;
 padding-left: 8px;
 font-size:1.5em;
 text-align:left;
 font-weight: bold;
 line-height:1.0em;
 float: left;
 color: #4E0607; }
 
#right_columns {
 float: right;
 width: 45%;
 min-width: 456px; }

#right_column_1 {
  float: left;
  min-width: 300px;
  padding-top: 0px;
  margin: 0px; }

.flickr_badge_top img {
 padding: 5px;
 margin-bottom: 2px;
 border: #4E0607 2px solid; }

.flickr_badge_bottom img {
 padding: 2px;
 margin: 2px;
 border: #4E0607 1px solid; }

#right_column_2 {
 border-left: #CCC 2px dashed;
 float: right;
 width: 33%;
 min-width: 100px;
 padding-left: 5px;
 margin-top: 42px; }

#right_column_2 ul {
 padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;
 margin: 0px;
 list-style-type:none; }

#ribbon {
 background: url(images/global/ribbon.png);
 background-repeat: repeat-x;
 margin-top: 15px;
 margin-bottom: 15px;
 padding-left: 15%;
 height: 15px; }

#blog h2 {
 font-size:1.8em;
 letter-spacing:0;
 font-weight:normal;
 padding-top: 10px;
 padding-left: 10px;
 margin-bottom: 5px;
 color: #C2B7C7; }
 
#content h3 {
 text-align:center;
 font-size:1.2em;
 letter-spacing:0;
 margin:0;
 color:#e65f59; }

#image
 {position:absolute;
 top:250px;
 right:0px; }
 
.posted {
 padding: 2px; }
 
.posted a {
 text-decoration: underline; }

.comments {
 text-align: justify;
 width: 350px; }