HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff)
Subject: Gender denoting pictograms on restroom doors
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:26:32 GMT


Restroom doors generally have either a figure in a dress or a figure
in pants to denote the mens' and women's restrooms (of course that is
in itself culturally and/or sexually biased; not all women wear
dresses and not all men wear pants).

In 1984 I made two week trip to Poland. In Poland, mens' restrooms
were maked with a circle, womens' with a triangle. I don't remember
seeing many pictograms used anywhere.

When I returned to the U.S. I began to notice (and still notice) that
often, the plaque with the pictogram on restroom doors would have the
same shapes I saw in Poland; triangular for the womens' room and
circular for the mens' room.

I suggest you start looking at restroom doors to find this out for
yourself.

So, what's the deal? Did this start in Poland and migrate around the
world? Is there some organization that regulates standards for
bathroom gender indentifying pictograms and plaques? Is this a
success of the mostly failed International Communist Conspiracy?


ObUL: Humananity's loss of fur as insulation over the millenia
directly coincided with the need to use toilet paper.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
From: bwendt@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brian Wendt)
Subject: Re: Calvin/Hobbes diagnosed as clinical schizophrenic
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 23:04:10 GMT

>The incident to which Stewart refers is an earlier, less-violent (though
>still displaying prototypical sociopathic tendencies) occurrence of
>joint role-playing activities, in which Calvin imagines a temporal
>displacement for both himself and his id Hobbes.  I appreciate the
>further supporting evidence.

  You just don't get it, do you? Calvin *really did* travel in time,
and Hobbes is not just in his imagination...

Brian
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From: dkelly@bio2.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Keywords: phillidelphia experiment cream cheese
Date: 10 Nov 92 04:15:43 GMT
Reply-To: dkelly@bio2.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban


By the way, Charles Berlitz was the same guy who brought us those highly
documented reports of Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle. Some of his
in-depth research on the Philadelphia Experiment turned up that the Navy
had several"mad scientists" working for them at the time. These crazed
harbingers of doom were none other than Dr. Isaac Asimov, Robert
Heinlein, and the still living L. Sprague DeCamp. The three of them had
to finally threaten legal action to get Berlitz to apologize.
							
								Diane Kelly
								Duke Zoology
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Trilateral commission
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:31:02 MST
Distribution: na,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <1992Nov11.053958.13102@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter) writes:
>We all know what ELSE TLC stands for...
>WHAT DOES THIS TELL US?

Terries Love Chicken?

Greg "or maybe it stands for Tiberius Lecture Commission" 
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Port Out Starboard Home -- That's the Life for ME!
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:57:23 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Nov5.185634.7375@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer) writes:
>In article <9162@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>>
>>Terry "Does anybody know what IBM and DEC stands for?" Wood
> 
> Well, DEC stands for Don't Eat Candy, a warning to children who might
>otherwise unthinkingly bite into a gasoline (okay, petrol) soaked raison.
>
>Vance "raisin in the sun" Kochenderfer

And IBM is the Itty Bitty Machine company.

-Kristy 
-- 
   +==========================+============================================+
   |Kristy Patterson          |"One more date and we would have had a Greek|
   |kristyp@mac.dartmouth.edu |tragedy on our hands."     -Jeffrey Anderson|
   +==========================+============================Soapdish========+
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: UL in a Time Warp!
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 11 Nov 92 06:31:32

Yes, i'm back. 

Before i left, i was on a bus downtown, sitting behind a local who was
describing the history of the city to his English-speaking companion.
I thought the folks here would be interested in the twist he put on
the story, if only fow entertainment purposes (and what other purpose
does this group serve?  i ask you).  My comments in [].  This is just
a paraphrase, since i didn't exactly record this and it's been a
while.

"During the Middle Ages, there were many big fires that destroyed much
of the city.  Each time the people rebuilt the city basically the same
way they had before, and it burnt down again.  [This is true.  I don't
know what it says for medieval tr|nder intelligence.  Not to mention
my spelling.]  Finally, they hired a French architect called Cicignon.
He told the people to build the streets wide, and to seperate the
warehouses along the wharf from the houses where people lived.  This
meant the fires wouldn't spread as easily [The fires had a tendency to
start in the warehouses].  But while he was overseeing the rebuilding,
some people decided they didn't want to waitfor his workers to build
houses for them, and so they built houses along narrow little streets
in between the streets Cicignon had laid out.  These are still around
today; we call them 'veita'."

So far, so good; this is the story as i've heard it several times
before.  But here's the kicker:
"When Cicignon saw that people were doing this, he thought the city
would never be safe from fire after all.  He was so disappointed to
have failed that he threw himself into the river and drowned."

Hey, at least they didn't build any buildings backwards.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway



Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,alt.fan.lemurs,alt.cascade
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:04:48 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Nov11.071852.26520@mr.med.ge.com>, hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>Roy (vcsc458@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu) wrote:
>: In article <1992Nov10.212428.100792@watson.ibm.com> rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers) writes:
>: >In <1992Nov10.203818.14246@dsd.es.com> pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes:
>: >>In article <BxIEtG.AEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, miles@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Derick) writes:
>: >>>In article <1992Nov10.051247.26359@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>: >>>>In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes:
>: >>>>>Tiberius
>: >>>>Terry
>: >>>Timmy
>: >>Testicular
>: >Tasteless
>: Transvestyte
>
>Taliesin

No, no, you've got the wrong "a.f.u"!
The one you're looking for is automatic.frank.usonian .


-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
From: v462etnn@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Microwave Death
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:37:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov10.213605.8772@ac.dal.ca>, egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes...
>I'm really not sure if this story is true urban folklore
>as  I am certain I read it in the newspaper.  
> 
>The story was about an 
>employee in a submarine sandwich shop who rigged a microwave so that 
>it would continue to work even when he
>opened the door etc...supposedly as it would take less time to heat up the subs 
>if he didn't have to continue to set the timer and so on.
>As he continued to use the microwave in this manner, after
>about three hours he died suddenly.  Apparently he had cooked his intestines.
> 
>I guarantee that I read this in the paper.

Uh huh.  I just finished reading an excellent book -- perhaps
you should check it out.  It's called _Curses!  Broiled Again_
by Jan Harold Brunvand.  Any large bookstore should have it.

The title refers to a UL involving too much suntan-booth time
in one day, with results similar to you microwave story.

Can you find the article?

David "Having my name legally changed to Terry" Anderson
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tool (Was Re: 2+2 and carrots)
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:28:54 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 4153@midway.uchicago.edu, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple) writes:
> I recall [the use of "tool" for "prick"] from Shakespeare, so it can be
> all too new.

It's even older than that:
"And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of
hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted
it." -- Exodus 20:26

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Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sorry to Inject Some FAQs
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:52:09 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

Citing the FAQ below:

  +>Fb.Driver runs over exotic animal,wraps in coat for fun photo;it revives
  +>   off!  Similar story: A hunter poses for picture w/deer w/rifle in ant

harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter)  writes:
  
  +A variation on this is true - a guy hit a deer, stopped his car, got out
  +and put the deer in his car.  The deer revived, bit him on the neck, and
  +kicked the crap out of the interior of his car.  He killed the deer with
  +his knife, and a big dog came up, and wanting the deer, also bit him.
  +
  +I've heard the tape of the driver's call to 911, with expletives bleeped.
  +The caller sounded drunk, but sincere.  As a matter or fact, I have it as
  +a digitized sound file.  It's a big 'un.

Sounds amusing enough.  Do you have news reports or anything to check
on?  I'd love to get a copy of a story if only for its entertainment
value.

Terry "Is it a *.wav file?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple)
Subject: Re: POSH
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 10:03:29 GMT

In article <721161644.AA07843@csource.oz.au> Terry.Smith@f870.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Terry Smith) writes:
> ES> What about POSH?  I hear it's an acronym, too.
>	Port out, Starboard home dear chap, so we always have the sunny side
>when visiting the colonies.
>Terry.
>(What's the suprise?)

The surprise is that I can no longer merely scan a.f.u. for posts written
by a Terry, but have to do a more complex search through my threaded
newsreader.

Ted "ah, for the days when life on a.f.u. was simpler" Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: forpost-WWII Japanese soldiers
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:17:33 GMT

In article <jberger.40.0@novell.com> jberger@novell.com (John Berger) writes:

>ObUL:  The seven residents of Gilligan's Island can be equated to the seven 
>deadly sins -- Sloth (Gilligan), Anger (the skipper), Greed (the 
>millionaire), ?? (his wife), Lust (the movie star), Vanity (the professor), 
>and Envy (Mary Ann).  That's how they were able to come up with seven years 
>of plot lines!
>[that's the problem with these darn memory tricks -- you have 
>to remember them!  What's that seventh deadly sin?]
>

The way I heard it, Skipper was Gluttony (pretty obvious).  Some of the
others are not so obvious, and eventually you end up pairing Mrs. Howell
with Anger, simply because they are all that's left.  I think you got
the rest of them right, though.

************************************************************************
I've been told to back off on the diode jokes, but I still don't
like smileys ;-)

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: 1950's Darryle, damnit.
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <Bxrs4z.IEB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (kauta) writes:
>In article <97719@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>>In article <9652@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, pmmst8+@pitt (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>
>>>Is such a difficult thing to infect 30 or 40 year old serum with any virus?
>>
>>The British sailor who died ~1962 had symptoms that we would today
>>recognize as AIDS.
>
>There is a simple explaination to all this...this sailor had AIDS-like 
>symptoms without the HIV virus. So Mweenes hypothesis still holds.

Except that the sailor (and the St. Louis male prostitute from three years
later, etc.) did have the HIV virus.  

Why is it that y'all are trying so hard to believe something that's so
blatantly not true?
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: wbrown@access.digex.com (William Brown)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:37:08 GMT


Alan, in my article, I said AIDS WILL kill more than the previous plagues
- not HAS killed more.  In addition, the infectivity rate in the adult
populations of several African countries is predicted at 80% by the year
2000 - and please remember that there is a WHOLE LOT of people in Africa. 
Medically speaking, I really don't call a "call to arms" against this
disease hysteria.  This is EXACTLY the kind of disaster that can be
prevented by EARLY intervention.  The same argument against hysteria was
raised when the AMA sharply criticized the Reagan adminstration's
reduction of tuberculosis treatment funding based on the low numbers of
active cases.  The result - tuberculosis is rising dramatically,
especially in the poor in and homeless communities.  

   Transmittable diseases like AIDS have a tendency to explode into
populations unless you very tenaciously track and attack them, either via
prevention, or treatment.  It would be a tragic mistake to wait until the
U.S. heterosexual population was heavily infected to start a MAJOR
campaign against this disease.  

   You know, this is really an argument for an epidemiologist, which I am
not.  I'd love to hear from one, if one's out there.  I think I step out
of the "what should we do about AIDS" thread and leave it to the
statisticians, who really have a much better grasp on the magnitude of the
problem.

Peace

Bill
  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: ATM fraud
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:31:40 GMT

In <xbscrb@Unify.Com>, Perry Clarke writes:
>
> My experiences in the UK and the US would lead me to believe that the PIN is
> stored on the card in the UK and in the host computer in the US (it is used
> to certify the transaction).  
>
> Proof of this is in the way that invalid PINs at foreign ATMs are dealt
  ^^^^^
> with.  In the US I have to get all the way to end of the session (entering
> PIN, amount of money, etc) before it reports that my PIN was invalid, in the
> UK the report is given as soon as the bad PIN is entered.

This _is_ alt.folklore.urban, isn't it?

Well, he proved it, so it must be true...

---
YuNoHoo   "I was told we didn't do empirical science for a.f.u"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (!Colin Chapman)
Subject: Automotive wonders
Keywords: Ol an baine, a-stoirin
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Coventry Automotive Works, Ltd.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:43:47 GMT


In article <BxFDCE.5x3@rahul.net>, phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
...
|>Phil "I tried to trade my Humber Super Snipe for a Hiroo Onada, but
|>Nolan popped up with a Wolseley, or something.  Anybody got a good
			 ^^^^^^^^
It was a Stan Mott creation. Can you say _Road and Track?

|>line on a Rover Three?" Gustafson

Have I gotta deal fer you. Nearby, (San Antonio Road between Leghorn and
Middlefield) is a '67 Lotus Elan SS/SE freshly restored and copiously
documented, only $22K. The bad thing is that there're a Japanese and a German
both looking to take the thing out of the country. Phil, jump in and rescue
this beauty!

--
Nolan "Man enough to do woman's work" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"Be careful,..., or I'll use a plunger on your face untul you burp shit."
   A. Banta, alt.peeves
"Never fight with your wife. Just dicker" Harry Maulsby
"Anything that disorients you is good for you"  Tiny Doctor Tim
"Illiterati non Carborundum(tm)" Mise me fein
"Grab Dick and come on down"  Don Pette
"You can't combat illiteracy with soap" Jenny Gutbezahl, alt.peeves
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr)
Subject: Situation Normal: AFU'd Up
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 06:33:36 GMT

Just an observation: the signal to noise ratio of alt.folklore.urban is
getting realllll low.  Shows what happens when you force a Terry through a
diode not built to handle it, or something, I guess.  Maybe.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What is IT? (Was: Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture...)
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:34:49 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Nov8.072514.20465@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton) writes:
>: 
>: >other head-space if I found myself heading off to hard Ionised Vacuum 
>: 
>: Can anyone explain to me how to ionize a vacuum?
>
>Easy - there is no such thing as a perfect vacuum. There are always
>atoms present that may be ionized.


Well, the Electrolux isn't too bad.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:27650 alt.conspiracy:11977 alt.tasteless:12204
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy,alt.tasteless
Subject: Frozen Waste
Date: 7 Nov 92 14:49:13 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Chicago Tribune, 11/7/92, p.16

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A stinking basketball-sized chunk of frozen waste that
	smashed through the roof of a suburban Seattle home came from a
	United Airlines DC-10 flying overhead [...]
	The FAA said such incidents occur occasionally...
	Leroy and Gerri Cinnamon were watching a football game on television 
	in their living room when the block of bluish ice smashed through
	their roof and ceiling and shattered on the floor.
	The Cinnamons summoned firefighters and a hazardous materials
	response team [note to PvdL: idea for new reality-based TV show?]
	to their home.
	But as the ice melted, the fragments were identified as frozen waste
	from an airliner [United Airlines Flight 461 from Chicago to Seattle] 
	passing above.
	"It stunk real bad," Gerri Cinnamon told reporters. [a.f.u. motto of
        the week?]
	[FAA Spokesman Dick] Meyer said service records indicated a plumbing
	problem did exist and it was fixed.
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: 2+2 and carrots
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:35:57 GMT

In article <Bx3B34.4LE.1@cs.cmu.edu> jdravk+@cs.cmu.edu (Jeanette Dravk) writes:
>
>Oops.  It's just a 'Z' pattern, it's not backwards.
>
>Mea culpa.

It's backwards in the Southern hemisphere, because of Coriolis force.
-- 
Now's the time on Schprockets when we dance.  |hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
                                              |WWIVNet 1@2750 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Port Out Starboard Home -- That's the Life for ME!
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Somewhere West of Nowhere
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:12:24 GMT


In article <1992Nov5.185634.7375@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer) writes:
[materia deletia]
|> Well, DEC stands for Don't Eat Candy, a warning to children who might
|>otherwise unthinkingly bite into a gasoline (okay, petrol) soaked raison.
								    ^^^^^^
Raison d'eat 'er?

--
Nolan "Man enough to do woman's work" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197