/*====== GLOBAL OVERRIDES FOR MAJOR ITEMS AND DIFFERING BROWSER DEFAULTS =====*/

/*body { color:#009; background:#fff; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif, MS Sans Serif; }*/
.menu table, .menu img, .menu button, .menu iframe, .menu ul, .menu li  { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; }
.menu table { text-align:left; }
.menu iframe { width:0; height:0; }

.menu ul { margin-left:20px; }       /* kill default 50px left padding and set 20px */
.menu li { margin-bottom:1em; }          /* set default inter-item vertical spacing */
.menu .tightlist li { margin-bottom:0.25em; }     /* tighter list for simple bullets */


.menu img{margin-left:15px; margin-right:5px;margin-top:7px;}
.menu a{color:#fff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;}
.menu a:hover{color:#6db43e}

.menu .multilevelmarker{float:right;padding-right:5px;}

  /*========================= TOP OF THE MENU CASCADE =========================*/

.menu {
	position:relative;        /* establish a menu-relative positioning context */
	float:left;                                     /* play nicely with others */
	/*margin-top:10px;
	margin:0px;*/
	padding:8px 0  0 15px;
	border:0;
	height:26px;                                  /* the menu's overall height */
	width:821px;         /* we always want our menu to fill the available space */
    background:#000 url(../images/bg-menu.gif) top left repeat-x;
    
	/*font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	/*font-size:12px;         /* this (and also below) sets the menu's font size */
	/*border-bottom:1px solid black;        *//* give us a black border underneath */
	text-align:center;
	z-index:500;
	margin-top:-20px;
	left:15px;
}

.menu img {
	vertical-align: top;      /* prevent images from being pushed down by text */
}

.menu ul {
	padding:0;
	/*margin:0;*/
	margin: 0 0 0 0px;
	border:0;
	list-style-type:none;          /* we don't want to view the list as a list */
	line-height:1.5em;           /* globally set the menu's item spacing. note */
}                               /* this must be 1.0 or 1.5 or 2.0 for Mozilla */

.menu li {
	float:left;    /* this creates the side-by-side array of top-level buttons */
	position:relative;    /* create local positioning contexts for each button */
	margin: 0px;
}

.menu ul li 
{
    margin:0 0px 0 0px;
}

.menu ul li ul
{
    margin:0;
}

.menu ul li ul li
{
    margin:0;
}

.menu ul li table {
	margin:-1px 0;              /* IE5 needs -1px top and bottom table margins */
	margin:0;               /* re-zero the table margins for everyone but IE5 */
	border-collapse:collapse;      /* IE5 needs this for the sub-menus to work */
	font-size:12px;        /* this sets the base font size for our entire menu */
}

.drop {
	display:block;
	padding:0px 0.33em;	       /* this sets the l/r margins for our menu item */
	margin:0;
	text-align:right;   /* this right alignment goes with the float:left below */
	cursor:pointer;      /* IE tries to switch back to an I-beam, don't let it */
	cursor:hand;           /* IE5 only knows about "hand", so set it both ways */
}

.drop span {        /* this simultaneously left and right aligns the text and */
	float:left;       /* the >> in the drop-down menus which link to sub-menus */
}

.rightmenu {
	position:relative;  /* establish a local positioning context for YAH label */
	float:right;                  /* and right-align it at the top of our page */
}

#research {            /* this rightmost "Research" button must be positioned */
	position:absolute;       /* absolutely so that the YAH (you are here) text */
	top:0px;               /* label will slide underneath it under Opera v8.54 */
	left:364px;    /* which has a z-order sequencing bug with abs-pos elements */
}

/*======================== TOP LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/

.menu ul li ul {
	display:none;                  /* initially hide the entire list hierarchy */
	padding:1px;                               /* this is our box border width */
}

.menu ul li a,
.menu ul li a:visited {                    /* unselected top-level menu items */
	display:block;
	float:left;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:30px;
	color:White;
}

.menu ul li:hover a,
.menu ul li a:hover {                        /* selected top-level menu items */
	/*border-top:1px solid #000;    /* these 2 lines create the push-in illusion */
	height:16px;
	color:#6db43e;
}

/*======================== 2ND LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/

.menu ul li:hover ul,
.menu ul li a:hover ul {                           /* 2nd level drop-down box */
	display:block;
	position:absolute;
	margin:0 0 0 20px;
	top:18px;              /* place us just up underneath the top-level images */
	left:-1px;       /* left-align our drop-down to the previous button border */
	height:auto;      /* the drop-down height will be determiend by line count */
	width:9em;
	color:black;                        /* this sets the unselected-text color */
	background:#3d3d3d;        /* this sets our menu's effective "border" color */
	font-weight:bold;
	text-align:left;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul.leftbutton,
.menu ul li a:hover ul.leftbutton {/* our first dropdown should not be skewed */
	left:0px;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul.skinny,
.menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny {             /* 2nd level skinny drop-down box */
	width:8.08333em;   /* with a 12px default font, this is 97px width (97/12) */
}

.menu ul.rightmenu li:hover ul,
.menu ul.rightmenu li a:hover ul {    /* 2nd level neighborhood drop-down box */
	left:auto;
	right:0;         /* nudge the right menu right to line up under the border */
}

* html .menu ul.rightmenu li a:hover ul {         /* IE5/6 needs a tweak here */
	right:-1px;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a {                   /* 2nd level unselected items */
	border:0;
	margin:5;
	padding:3px 0 0 5px;
	height:20px;
	color:#FFF;               /* this sets the unselected drop-down text color */
	background:#3d3d3d;       /* this sets the drop-down menu background color */
	width:9em;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover {                /* 2nd level selected item */
	background:black;
	color:#6db43e;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul.skinny li a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny li a,
.menu ul li:hover ul.skinny li a:hover,
.menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny li a:hover {     /* 2nd level un+selected items */
	width:8.08333em;
}

/*======================== 3RD LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/

.menu ul li:hover ul li ul,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a ul {             /* hide inactive 3rd-level menus */
	visibility:hidden;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-align:left;
	margin-left:15px;
}
     
.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover ul {             /* 3rd level drop-down box */
	visibility:visible;
	position:absolute;
	margin-top:-1px;	      /* bring the top edge of the 3rd level menu up one */
	top:0;
	left:8.08333em;
	color:#FFF;               /* this sets the unselected drop-down text color */
	background:#3d3d3d;       /* this sets the drop-down menu background color */
	width:9em;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul li a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover ul li a {     /* 3rd level unselected items */
	width:9em;
	background:#3d3d3d;
	color:#FFF; 
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul li a:hover,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover ul li a:hover {    /* level3 selected items */
	width:9em;
	color:#6db43e;
	background:black;
}

#text {           /* the Mac's standard Safari browser will not see this code */
	height:1.215em;           /* ...  but every other browser will and should */
} /* Safari barfs on the illegal pound sign (#) after the rule's property val */

.menu .seperator{
    margin-left:10px;
    margin-right:10px;
    color:#fa6400;
}