/* Custom background and image */
body.custom {
    background: #fff /* url('images/background-blue.jpg') 50% 0 fixed no-repeat; */
}

#header #logo a { display: block; height: 200px; width: 539px; background: url('images/thesis-wordpress-design.png') no-repeat; outline: none; }

/*---:[ header and nav menu ]:---*/
#header_area { border-top: 0px solid #afe4f8; }
	#header { position: relative; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 3em; border-bottom: 0px solid #e8e3c8; }
		#header ul { list-style: none; float: right; }
			#header ul li { margin-left: 0.4em; float: left; }
			#header ul li.current { cursor: default; color: #2b2b2b; } 
				#header ul li a { display: block; font: 1.6em Calibri, Verdana, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; padding: 0.333em 0.667em; color: #2b2b2b; }
				#header ul li a:hover { /* background: #e2f4de; */ color:#000}
				#header ul li.current a { color:#000 }
				#header ul li.current a:hover { color:#000 }

.custom .menu, .custom .menu a, .custom .menu li ul {

-moz-border-radius: 10px ;

-webkit-border-radius: 10px ;

border-radius: 10px ;

}


/* This line gets rid of the site title & tagline by casting them out to far left field */
.custom #header #logo, .custom #header #tagline { text-indent: -9999px; }


.custom #container {
    margin-top: 2em;
    margin-bottom: 2em;
}


/* change #comments block */
.custom .to_comments {font-size: 100%; text-align:right; }


/* This line gets rid of the site title & tagline by casting them out to far left field */
.custom #header #logo, .custom #header #tagline { text-indent: -9999px; }

/* This line collapses the vertical space of the tagline so that there isn't unnecessary white space after the header image */

/* This is a bit of a kludge, but it seems to work. */
.custom #header #tagline { height: 0; }


/* This line removes the padding from the header so that the background image sits close to the nav menu, the bottom border of the header, and the sides of the content */
.custom #header { padding: 0; }

/* remove comments closed tagline */

.custom .comments_closed p { display: none; }

/* remove sidebar top padding 
.custom ul.sidebar_list {
     padding-top: 0em;
}
*/

/* raise nav bar*/
.custom .menu {

   z-index:6;

   }

/* remove header from navigation pages */
.custom #post-421 .headline_area, .custom #post-404 .headline_area, .custom #post-425 .headline_area, .custom #post-19 .headline_area { display: none; }

.custom .to_comments a{
	color:#2b2b2b;
}

.custom .to_comments a:hover{
	color:#000;

}

.custom img#wpstats{width:0px;height:0px;padding:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden}

.custom #coffee {
left:748px;
position:absolute;
top:12px;
z-index:100;
}