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Do! Run Run
|Do! Run Run
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|Maze, Platform
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|Main CPU: Z80 (@ 3.9 MHz), (2x) Z80 (@4 MHz)
|Raster resolution 240 x 192 (Horizontal) Palette Colors 256
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Do! Run Run (1984, also known as Super Pierrot in Japan) is the 4th and final incarnation of Mr. Do!, the Universal video game mascot. Returning to his Mr. Do! roots, the clown has a bouncing powerball with which to hurl at monsters. What makes this game novel is that instead of burrowing through the ground to get at cherries, Mr. Do runs along the playfield picking up dots, and leaving a line behind him, which the player is encouraged to create closed off sections with, which turn any dots left behind into cherries. Gone are the giant apples to crush foes, but the multi-tier stage design has two precariously balanced log traps, which roll downslope if either pushed from above or closely approached from the propped up stick side. The resulting game is somewhat of a cross between Mr. Do!, Congo Bongo, Pac-Man, and Qix. The title is a reference to the song Da Doo Ron Ron.
Goal[edit | edit source]
The goal of Do! Run Run is to rack up points while completing screens. A screen is completed whenever all the fruits/dots are eaten, or when all of the regular monsters (not Alpha-monsters or their sidekicks) are defeated. Using the rope that follows Mr. Do to inscribe dots will convert them into cherries, a familiar fruit for Mr. Do to collect. Cherries are worth more points than dots, and eating them restores the powerball more quickly than eating dots would. Each time Mr. Do inscribes fruit, they progress to a higher tier, dots become cherries, cherries become apples, apples become lemons and lemons become pineapples. Eating a dot awards 10 points and 1/16th of a powerball recharge; eating a pineapple is worth 160 points and 1/4th of a powerball recharge.
Players are additionally encouraged to inscribe sections of the playfield by the letters E, X, T, R, A, a constant feature of Mr. Do! games. Randomly, one of the inscribed fruits will turn into a flashing letter spot, corresponding with the movement of the Alpha-monster at the top of the screen. If Mr. Do! runs over this spot, the monster sporting that letter will release from the top of the screen with three blue henchmen, and chase after Mr. Do. Defeating the Alpha-monster will lock in that letter, and once all 5 letters are earned, the player earns an extra life (as well as progressing to the next stage, you also earn a 5,000 point bonus).
Points are also awarded for defeating monsters. Directly firing the powerball at a monster awards 500 points and consumes the powerball, which needs to be replenished by eating fruit. More points are earned if the powerball bounces off of a surface; each bounce raises the bonus by 500 points until a maximum of 3000 points are earned. Smashing monsters with a rolling log earns 1000 points; it is possible to roll over multiple monsters and earn a cumulative bonus of 500 per extra monster (so, 1500 for the 2nd, 2000 for the 3rd, etc.). Apparently there is a 10,000 point bonus for smashing 5 monsters.
Monsters[edit | edit source]
Like other Mr. Do! games, the monsters are nameless (except Alpha-monsters) and defy easy description. Two types of monsters attempt to foil the clown's efforts, a green clam-like monster, and a blue snake-like monster. Neither are particularly sophisticated, although the clam monsters have some seemingly clever moments where they bumble into your path or out of the way of the powerball. The blue snakes will, if you linger too long on a direct path from them, convert into a fireball and charge across the playing field. In this state, they are immune to the powerball. As is common with arcade games, contact with monsters is instantly fatal, with Mr. Do shown to be electrocuted, complete with visible flashing skeleton and then reappears as a black skeleton.
After some time on each stage elapses, the music changes and any surviving monsters convert into a different form; the clam monsters become blue and armored with spines, the snake monsters essentially become different looking snake monsters. The speed of each monster, and the willingness to chase Mr. Do, are about the only other major changes; they can be fairly easily eluded so long as the player does not simply run away from them. Instead, Mr. Do should climb up or down the terrain if too closely chased; monsters lose a lot of time changing levels on the playfield whereas Mr. Do gets a slight speed up for going downslope. After a short duration, the music resumes, and the monsters transform back into their old selves, with the pattern of transformation repeating.
Alpha-monsters, when they are summoned by the letter circle, are released with three henchmen. The henchmen home in on Mr. Do! and typically precede the alpha-monster. Killing the Alpha-monster rids the playfield of the henchmen, although it is easier to lure all four into the path of a log and smash them. Alpha-monsters are also released every time the score reaches increments of 5,000 points unless there is already an alpha-monster on the playfield.
Strategy[edit | edit source]
Do! Run Run is a fairly simple game; points can easily be earned simply by running around the playing field and inscribing as many fruit as possible four times, thus turning them all into melons. Once this is done, the player can dispatch monsters in the most profitable manner possible, or simply wipe out all but one, evading the surviving monster until the Alpha-monster displayed is a letter the player wants, then picking up fruits until the score reaches an increment of 10,000. Delaying too long will mean that the surviving monster becomes inescapably fast, however, so sometimes it is better to move on to the next round rather than risking being killed.
Free games[edit | edit source]
While this can be configured by the ROM to not occur, infrequently, a bonus diamond worth 10,000 points will show up in the same manner as the letter circles when fruit are inscribed. If the player collects this, the stage ends and they are awarded a bonus credit. This feature was also in the original version of Mr. Do.
Playable characters
Ports[edit | edit source]
The game has been ported to MSX in 1987 and to Commodore Amiga and Atari ST in 1990.
References[edit | edit source]

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Summer School in Archives 2018Back
Over forty participants attended the Summer School which got off to a wonderful start on the morning of 7 June, with a workshop entitled 'Archives and Principles: Practical Care for our Future'. This workshop was given by Sr Rosarie Lordan, pbvm, who is the Congregational Archivist at the Presentation Sisters Congregational Archives (PSCA) which is located at Nano Nagle Place.
In the afternoon, Sr Anne Coffey, pbvm, led a moving and informative reflection at St Finbarr's cemetery in the city, where 20 ladies of Miss Nagle's Asylum are interred. Dr Danielle O'Donovan, of Nano Nagle Place, gave a hands-on workshop on the topic 'Lives at South Pres School: Bringing Our School Registers to Life'. She then led a guided walk in the nearby locality, stopping at the homes of a number of the former pupils. She invited participants to share on what they had learned about the pupils from their research into the school registers and 1911 census.
On 8 June, after the official Launch of the Nano Nagle Digital Project and online Tercentenary Exhibition, Professor Deirdre Raftery and Deirdre Bennett, a PhD Researcher in UCD, spoke to the gathered participants and guests on 'the Significance of the Digitization of the Letters of Nano Nagle'. This was followed by Orna Roche, a Metedata Librarian in UCD and Dr John Howard, University Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD, who both spoke on the story of the digitization process.
The first workshop on 9 June was given by Dr Elizabeth Mullins, Lecturer/Assistant Professor at UCD, on 'The Significance of the Archives of Religious Congregations – some Historical Perspectives'. Professor Deirdre Raftery gave an hour long workshop on 'Presentation Archives and Research Today', and the afternoon held 2 parallel workshops. Sr Marie Therese King, pbvm gave a most informative workshop on 'Insights into the Missionary Zeal of the Presentation Sisters' while Margaret Lantry, a Freelance Information Professional, gave her workshop on 'The Early Ursuline Foundation in Cork'.
Sr Catherine O' Sullivan, who attended the Summer School for all three days wrote the following account of her experience:
"It is at least ten years since Sr Sheila Kelly, former Congregational Archivst, asked me if I keep Annals of my life here in The Glen – and to my shame, I had to admit that I didn't! After we continued to talk for a while, I had my first insight into the importance of our archives. So, when the notice came last February about the Summer School, I booked and I am glad I did so. It was a wonderful few days, not only because it gave us an opportunity to be with Presentation Sisters from so many places, but with our Ursuline Sisters also, in our beautiful Nano Nagle Place. We got such clear, practical guidelines from Rosarie Lordan, on what to keep, not to keep and how to recognise every 'scrap of enduring value'.
The problem for me was how to choose which workshop to attend! All four were so interesting and appealing…but choices had to be made and for me, Anne Coffey's 'Women from Nano's Almshouse' and Margaret Lantry's early Ursuline Sisters won out! Our prayer service in St Finbarr's Cemetery, where we each adopted one of the ladies buried there, will stay with me forever, as we remembered our own beloved dead also.
Having the opportunity to be present for the special historic event of 'The Gifting of Seven Letters of Nano Nagle' was a privilege and another lasting memory from these wonderful days. My 'post Summer School' resolve is to be faithful to the initial insight of the personal responsibility we each have, to keep these 'scraps of enduring value', so they can be collected and added to our rich and valuable archive."
Our gratitude to all who made it such a rich and varied few days, in particular the Planning Group: Sr Anne O'Leary, pbvm, Sr Rosarie Lordan, pbvm, Sr Anne Coffey, pbvm, Danielle O'Donovan, Tom Lonergan and Aisling Moran and the Communications Team: Br Donal Leader, CFC and Sr Anna Sheehy, pbvm.
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New gas pipeline linking Libya to Italy opened
New gas pipeline linking Libya to Italy marks new era of friendship as Gaddafi thanks Italy's role in lifting EU arms
Italia's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi opened a gas pipeline between their countries, calling it a new era of "friendship and cooperation" across the Mediterranean. The two leaders inaugurated the 540 km (335-mile) West Libyan Gas pipeline at Mellita.
"The date of October 7 used to remind the Libyan people of the launch of the Italian invasion in 1911 and the
evacuation of the Italians in 1970," Gaddafi, wearing a Bedouin robe, said in a speech at the ceremony under a tent.
"We now want to make it a day of friendship and cooperation between Libya and Italy, a cooperation which has been
cemented by the gas project which we are inaugurating today," he said.
"Today, a new era of rapprochement and cooperation starts between out two peoples thanks to this project which will supply Italy with 10 % of its energy needs," said Berlusconi.
The project, started in 2003, has been built by Italian oil groups ENI and Agip in partnership with Libya's state oil
company NOC. It will carry some 10 bn cm (353 bn cf) of gas a year from Mellitah on Libya's west coast to Gela in
Sicily and then on into southern Europe.
Fuad al-Kreikshi, president of EN-Libya, said the total investment on what he called the longest gas pipeline under the Mediterranean amounted to $ 6.6 bn. According to ENI, it is also the world's deepest underground gas pipeline passing east of Malta at a depth of 1,127 metres (3,700 feet). Revenues are projected at "$ 20 bn over 20 years", Kreikshi said.
In his speech, Gaddafi, who has been in power ever since 1969, also announced that Libya would allow the return of
Italians who had been expelled by his regime in 1970.
"Our friend Berlusconi... made a modest request to the Libyan people... to allow the elderly Italians who colonised Libya and were expelled on October 7, 1970 to come and visit Libya," said ColonelGaddafi. "I call on the Libyan people to accept this request... And those who want to come and work in Libya can do so," he said.
Almost 20,000 Italians born in Libya were expelled 34 years ago and had all their possessions seized, according to
Giovanna Ortu, president of an association for Italians repatriated from the north African country.
Gas exports are at the heart of an opening up of Libya's economy, as the former pariah state returns to the international fold after its public renunciation last year of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Gaddafi thanked Italy for its role in lifting an EU arms embargo which has been in force against Libya since 1986, a
move which due to be confirmed by European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on October 11 or 12. Rome pressed
its EU partners to lift the embargo to allow Libya to beef up its border controls with patrol boats, all-terrain
vehicles and surveillance equipment to combat illegal immigration to Europe via Italy.
Berlusconi held talks with Gaddafi before the pipeline ceremony. The talks were expected to be dominated by the pressing issue of would-be immigrants heading for southern Europe.
Rome has identified Libya as being the main launch pad for crossings by sub-Saharan and north African migrants trying
to reach Europe via Italy, and has been pressing Tripoli for more than a year to take action.
Thousands of potential asylum-seekers have been intercepted by Italian border guards in recent weeks, mainly on the tiny island of Lampedusa off the Sicilian coast. Italy resumed its controversial response of flying the would-be immigrants en masse back to Libya, although few originate in the north African country.


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In today's No Limit games even the most passive players tend to know that betting on good textured boards after raising preflop usually shows a long term profit. The simple fact of the matter is that with only two cards it is difficult for anyone to make a strong hand. When you continue with the betting lead you have a good chance to win because everyone has missed.
This concept, however, is really only understood at the most basic of levels at the lower and mid stakes. Many times, especially with nittier opponents, players will only fire one bet as a bluff after being the preflop raiser. Often times this can easily be exploited by calling with a very weak hand on the flop—a concept that is called floating. If you pay close attention you will find that an opponent will almost never check the turn on a blank card, especially if the board is wet, when they have a hand. This all comes back to the idea of them not wanting to be drawn out on as most, tighter recreational players hate bad beats.
Let us take a look at an example of a hand I witnessed a few weeks ago at $5-10 no limit. I actually came behind my friend to say hello and was able to sweat the following action. A very tight, older player opened under the gun for $45 and my friend called him heads up on the button with 6♦ 7♦ with about $2000 effective stacks. The board ran out K♠ 2♦ 5♠ and the UTG player bet out $50. Now obviously this is not a good flop for my friend. But recognizing the rather small bet sizing he decided to float and call. The turn was the 9♥ and now the preflop raiser checked. My buddy interpreted this as weakness knowing that his opponent would not check a king because of the front door flush draw. Sure enough his opponent folded rather quickly to his turn bluff.
You can see that the actual holding in my friend's hand was almost irrelevant. He did have some backdoor draws on the flop and if the villain did fire on the turn had a chance to pick up some equity. But the main point of this concept is that if you know that a player will only fire once and then check when he is bluffing than you can float him profitably with a wide range, sometimes with holdings that have entirely missed the flop.


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13 Feb TheatreFIRST announces director Domenique Lozano for third show of the season, The Drawer Boy, by Michael Healey
The third show of TheatreFIRST'S 09/10 season will open June 12th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building.
Oakland, Calif., April 6, 2010 – TheatreFIRST today announced that Domenique Lozano will be directing the third show of their 09/10 season, Michael Healey's poignant comedy The Drawer Boy, which will open June 12th, 2010 in The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre at 531 19th Street on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. The show runs Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2pm, through Sunday, July 4th. Tickets start at $10 and are on sale now at brownpapertickets.com.
Ms. Lozano is an Associate Artist at the American Conservatory Theatre and the California Shakespeare Theatre. She has directed ACT's Main Stage production of A Christmas Carol for the past two seasons and recently adapted Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle for ACT's production, which ran from February to March this year. Other directing credits include The Countess with Center REPertory Company, Two for the Seesaw with Marin Theatre Company, Inspecting Carol and the West Coast premiere of Jane Martin's Anton in Show Business with San Jose Stage Company, and The Norman Conquests, Holiday, The Real Thing, and She Loves Me with Napa Valley Repertory Theatre, of which she was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director. Acting credits include work with such theatres as Cal Shakes, ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose Stage Company, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The Drawer Boy, one of the most successful plays in Canadian theatre history, tells the story of two aging farmers and their long-buried family secret, which is uncovered when an actor visits them to research life on a farm. The actor takes their stories back to his theatre group, profoundly affecting the trajectory of the farmers' lives and forever altering their understanding of their past and their future. The Drawer Boy entices audiences with its quirky humor and questions the role of art in our day-to-day lives. Since its premiere in 1999 at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille, The Drawer Boy has won countless awards, including Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and The Helen Hayes Award. It continues to delight audiences across Canada, The United States, and around the world. In 2001, The Drawer Boy made Time Magazine's top ten list as "a new classic".
Michael Healey trained as an actor at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties. He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won Toronto's annual theatre prize, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, for best new play. The Drawer Boy, Healey's first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999 and won the Dora Award for best new play, a Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor General's Literary Award. It has been produced across North America and internationally, and has been translated into German, French, Hindi, Portuguese and Japanese. His other plays include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B (which won the Dora in 2002), Rune Arlidge (which was nominated for the Governor General's award in 2004), and The Innocent Eye Test.
Michael continues to work as an actor, and is a writer-in-residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. His latest play, Generous, won the Dora when it premiered at the Tarragon in September 2006.
The Drawer Boy will run Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8:00pm with Sunday Matinees at 2pm from June 12th through July 4th. Tickets are $30 for Fridays, Saturday and Sundays, and $25 on Thursday evenings. Previews are on Thursday, June 10th and Friday, June 11th and tickets for those two shows are $10. Patrons under the age of 30 pay only $15 for regular performances. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com and more information can be obtained at www.theatrefirst.com or by calling 510.436.5085.
Since 1993, TheatreFIRST has been one of the most interesting and dynamic theatre companies around. TheatreFIRST's history of Bay Area premieres includes Blue Remembered Hills, Via Dolorosa, The Great Celestial Cow, Fronteras Americanas, Making Noise Quietly, and The Arab-Israeli Cookbook. Awards include Best Small Theatre by East Bay Express and the Bay Guardian's Goldie Award For Theatre. Finishing up its first season in the Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, in the newly renovated Fox Oakland Building, TheatreFIRST is coming off its very successful run of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and continues its commitment to remain Oakland's resident professional theatre company.
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Attention Calendar Editors
What: The Drawer Boy, by Michael Healey
Who: Directed by Domenique Lozano
When: Previews Thursday and Friday, June 10th and 11th at 8:00pm
Opening Saturday, June 12th at 8:00pm
Runs Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2pm
Closes Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Where: The Marion E. Green Black Box Theatre
Located at 531 19th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building, just one block from the19th Street BART station in downtown Oakland.
Regular Ticket Prices: $30 for Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees
$25 for Thursday shows
Under 30 $15
Previews $10
More information is available on our website at www.theatrefirst.com