/* general text appearance */

body {
background: #ffffff;
color: #000000;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", serif;
font-size: 100%; }

/* regular links */
A { text-decoration: none; }
A:link { color: #008800; text-decoration: none; }
A:visited { color: #770000; text-decoration: none; }
A:hover { color: #770000; text-decoration: underline; }
A:active { color: #cc0000; text-decoration: underline; }

/* title formatting */
.title {
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", serif;
font-size: 150%;
font-weight: bold;
}
.subtitle {
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", serif;
font-weight: bold;
}

.sectionheader {font-family: "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
   background-image: url(http://pics.livejournal.com/livredor/pic/000760yb);
   background-repeat: tile;
   background-position: top left;
   color: #ffffff;
   line-height: 200%;
   margin-top: 0;
   margin-bottom: 0;
   padding: 0.5em;
   }
   
.topicheader {background-color: #996666; color: #ffffff; 
border: 1px solid black; padding: 0.2em; 
margin-left: 50%; margin-right: 103px; text-align: center; margin-top: 0.5em;}
  
.minorheading {
color: #770000;
font-family: "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
font-size: 120%;
font-weight: bold;
}

/* page dividers */ 
.no {
display: none;
}

.thick {
width: 100%;
height: 4px;
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
border-left-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
}

.thin {
width: 100%;
height: 1px;
border-bottom: 1px dashed #cccccc;
}

/* Quotes and footnotes */
.footnote {font-size: smaller}

q {background-color: #ffffcc; color: #000000; font-style: italic; padding-left: 0;}
q q {font-style: normal; font-size: smaller; }
blockquote {width: 90%; 
background-color: #ffffcc; color: #000000; 
text-align: justify; 
border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 0.5em; 
margin-left: 4%; font-style: italic; }

/* Widgets */
.widget {border: 1px solid #cccccc; 
width: 250px;
padding: 2px;
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;}
.widget h3, .twitter-title {font-weight: bold; 
color: #770000; 
text-transform: uppercase; 
font-size: 110%;}

.ac-logo, .ac-logo a, .ac-logo a img {border: none;}

#twitter_update_list {list-style-type: none;
margin-left: 0;}

#twitter_update_list li {margin-bottom: 2em;}