body {
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  background-image: url(./images/background.jpg);
  background-repeat: repeat-y;  
  color: #000000;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-right:0;
}

a:link {
  color: #000099;
}

a:active {
  color: #000099;
}

a:visited {
  color: #000099;
}

div.float {
  float: left;
  }
  
div.spacer {
  clear: both;
}

div.menuSpace{
  width:100%;
  height:20px;
  background-color: #E6E6E6;
  color: #000000;
}

div.buffer{
  width:100%;
  height:20px;
}

div.menu {
  background-color: #E6E6E6;
  color: #000000;
  visibility: hidden;
  position: absolute;
}

div.menu .menuHead{
  background-color: #E6E6E6;
  color: #000000;
  font-weight: bold;
  white-space: nowrap;
  padding: 0px 1em;
}

div.menu a.menuItem{
  background-color: #E6E6E6;
  color: #000099;
  padding: 0px 1em;
  text-decoration: none;
  white-space: nowrap;
  font-weight: bold;
}

div.menu a.menuItem:hover, div.menu a.menuItemHighlight{
  background-color: #000099;
  color: #E6E6E6;
  font-weight: bold;
}

#nav {
  background-image:url(./images/top_background.jpg);
  width: 100%;
}

#nav img {
  width: 900px;
  height: 185px;
  border: 0px none black;
  text-align: left;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

.talk-author-header {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

.talk-author-header + ul {
  margin-top: 0;
}