.ddsmoothmenu{
			float: left;
			height: 50px;
			width: 860px;
			background-image: url(../images/navbar-bg.jpg);
			background-repeat: no-repeat;
			padding-left: 130px;
			font-size: 12px;
			font-weight: bold;
			text-transform: uppercase;
			text-decoration: none;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul{
			z-index:100;
			margin: 0;
			padding: 0;
			list-style-type: none;
}

/*Top level list items*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li{
			position: relative;
			display: inline;
			float: left;
			padding: 0px;
}

/*Top level menu link items style*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li  a{
			font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
			font-size: 12px;
			font-weight: bold;
			color: #555657;
			text-decoration: none;	
			height: 45px;
			line-height: 45px;
			padding-right: 18px;
			padding-left: 18px;
			text-transform: uppercase;
			display: block;
			background-image: url(../images/sep.gif);
	
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li  .nav a{
			font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
			font-size: 12px;
			font-weight: bold;
			color: #555657;
			height: 30px;
			width: 290px;
			text-decoration: none;
			padding-left: 15px;
			display: block;
			line-height: 30px;
			background-color: #f5f5f5;
			border-bottom-width: 1px;
			border-bottom-style:solid;
			border-bottom-color: #d8d8d8;
			text-transform: uppercase;
	}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li  .nav a:hover{
			color: #FFFFFF;
			background: #f14c52;

} 
* html .ddsmoothmenu ul li a{ /*IE6 hack to get sub menu links to behave correctly*/
	  display: inline-block;
}

	
/*1st sub level menu*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
}

/*Sub level menu list items (undo style from Top level List Items)*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li{
display: list-item;
float: none;
}


/* Holly Hack for IE \*/
* html .ddsmoothmenu{height: 1%;} /*Holly Hack for IE7 and below*/


/* ######### CSS classes applied to down and right arrow images  ######### */

.downarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 12px;
right: 7px;
}

.rightarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 6px;
right: 5px;
}

/* ######### CSS for shadow added to sub menus  ######### */

.ddshadow{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
}

.toplevelshadow{ /*shadow opacity. Doesn't work in IE*/
opacity: 0.8;
}

.news-text a{
			color:#000000;
			}
		
.news-text a:hover{
			color:#FF0000;
			}