Politcal Maze Cartoons for Publication, By Yonatan Frimer

For immediate release -

May 31st, 2010 -

The link below contains 5 (five) maze cartoons on this weeks headlines that you may freely publish in your newspaper and/or website. They are pretty funny and each one is also a maze. Check it out...

http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

This week's maze cartoon topics:
* Politicians and lie detector.
* Sarah Ferguson and bribes.
* Arizona immigration law.
* Turkey-Iran nuclear fuel swap.
* Dow Jones.

Again, the link to get these at is http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

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Contact: Yonatan Frimer
Phone: +972-545-683-040
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URL for this weeks cartoons: http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Released Monday, May 31st, 2010

You may print or publish these cartoon mazes.

• Each of these cartoons is also a maze, entrance/exits marked by arrows.
• Links to printable version and the solutions are under each cartoon.
  
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• Yonatan Frimer is available for hire as a freelance cartoonist, fore more info click here.

Cartoon Maze Lie Detector Electricity, by Yonatan Frimer

Cartoon maze of Sarah Ferguson thinking about taking money out from a bear trap which is labeled "News Of The World" and says, "I am going to try and grab it, Hopefully it's not a trap." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Cartoon Maze of Sarah Ferguson taking bribes.

Cartoon maze of Sarah Ferguson thinking about taking money out from a bear trap which is labeled "News Of The World" and says, "I am going to try and grab it, Hopefully it's not a trap." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Editorial Maze Cartoon on Arizona Immigration laws.

Cartoon maze editorial bunch immigrants sneaking into America. Leader tells them "We are almost there folks, make sure you have plenty of water and get your fake birth certificate from Sanchez before the border." As they stand near a road with a sign that says, "Arizona 50 Miles." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Editorial Maze Cartoon on Turkey Giving Iran Nuclear Fuel Rods.

Cartoon maze editorial of a turkey reading the newspaper with the headline, "Turkey to supply Iran with fuel rods." The turkey has a sad face and says, "Lets hope I can make enough nuclear fuel rods by Thanksgiving." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Editorial Cartoon Maze on a Dow Jones Airline, by Yonatan Frimer

Cartoon maze editorial of an airplane, labled Dow Jones that has sand bags on its wings and tail and the sand is leaking out an labeled, "Glitch, EU, Greece and Reform" the co-pilot exclaims, "Sir! We are losing altitude! We gotta keep above 10,000 to avoid a crash!" Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Previous Weeks Cartoons:
Cartoons for publication (April A)
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Cartoons for publication (May A)
Cartoons for publication (May B)
Cartoons for publication (May C)
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Playing in dirt is good for kids, navigate maze faster than control group

Playing in dirt is good for kids

Smarter, less anxious: study; Outdoor learning experiences and school gardens help students relax and learn better, researchers suggest

By SHARON KIRKEY, Canwest News Service May 25, 2010 4:04 AM

Parents, here's another reason for your kids to play outdoors in the dirt: It might make them smarter.

And, as a side benefit, dirt appears to be a natural anti-anxiety drug, but without the side effects.

Mice exposed to a bacterium found in soil navigated a maze twice as fast, and with less anxiety, as control mice, in studies presented yesterday at the 110th general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego.

The researchers say we've become so urbanized we risk losing a connection with an organism in nature that may actually be beneficial to humans.

Dr. Dorothy Matthews became intrigued by Mycobacterium vaccae - a natural soil microbe - in 2007, when British scientists published a study showing that when mice were injected with a heat-killed version of the organism, it stimulated neurons in the brainstem to start producing serotonin.

"Serotonin is a molecule that has a number of different effects, but one of them is modulating mood and decreasing anxiety," says Matthews, an associate professor of biology at The Sage Colleges in Troy, NY.

Serotonin also plays a role in learning. "If you're nervous, if you're frightened, you just can't think straight," Matthews said. She wondered, could M. vaccae have an effect on learning in mice?

The bacteria-exposed mice consistently ran the maze twice as fast as non-exposed mice. They also showed fewer anxiety behaviours - less freezing, wall-climbing, stopping and grooming, returning to the start, or defecation.

After the bacteria were removed, the mice started running the mazes slower than they did when they were ingesting the bacteria. "They experienced a kind of serotonin withdrawal," Matthews said. They were still faster than the controls, on average, an effect that lasted for another month of testing.

Matthews says people are exposed to M. vaccae just by virtue of being outdoors. "It's only been the last 100 years or so that we've become more urbanized and are eating our foods in a different way."

We no longer eat foods that we grow or gather ourselves, she says - foods that haven't been "washed multiple times, and dunked in hot water, or processed or grown with pesticides."

Making time in school curriculums for children to learn outdoors might decrease their anxiety and improve their ability to learn new tasks, she says.

"There's a movement now in some schools to actually have gardens that are part of the school experience."

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

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Maze cartoons for publication, by Yonatan Frimer, Maze Designer

For immediate release -

May 24th, 2010 -

The link below contains 5 (five) editorial cartoons

http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

This week, the cartoon topics are:
* Obama's poor poll ratings.
* Financial reform effect on jobs.
* Gulf oil spill effect on oil's business environment.
* Obama administration's modus operandi.
* Times square bomber causes over-reaction.

Again, you can access these cartoons at http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

Hope you've enjoyed this weeks cartoons. More to follow next week! If you need a cartoonist at your paper, look no further, Yonatan Frimer is available for freelance, contact details below.


Contact: Yonatan Frimer
Phone: +972-545-683-040
email: yfrimer@yahoo.com
website:http://teamofmonkeys.com
URL for this weeks cartoons: http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

All Yonatan Frimer cartoons are also mazes. you are permitted to print or publish on-line in any of your publications:

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Released Monday, May 24th, 2010

You may print or publish any of these cartoons.

• Each of these cartoons is also a maze, entrance/exits marked by arrows.
• Links to printable version and the solutions are under each cartoon.
  
• Please attribute to Yonatan Frimer and RSL.
• Yonatan Frimer is available for hire as a freelance cartoonist, fore more info click here.

Maze Cartoon Obama sleeping and ignoring the polls:

Editorial cartoon maze of President Obama sleeping as a hot cup of coffee marked "Polls" is next to him and a caption that reads, "Wake up and smell the....." Created by Yonatan Frimer.
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Maze Cartoon of your job on drugs, I mean financial reform:
Editorial Cartoon maze poking fun at the 1987 commercial "This is your brain on drugs" by making the egg "jobs" and the frying pan is financial reform. Any questions? Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Maze Cartoon Oil Growing on Trees:

Editorial cartoon maze of a tree that grows oil, and a hard hat worker tells a suit that "This kind of tree won't survive if that oil slick damages the environment" Created by Yonatan Frimer.
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Maze Cartoon of all of Obama's eggs in the wrong basket:

Editorial Cartoon maze on the Obama Administration's modus operandi of putting all their eggs in the "Campaign Promises" basket and none in the "Strategic Decision" basket. Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Maze Cartoon of a ticking bum in Times Square:

Editorial cartoon maze of a cop calling off an alarm because it's just a "Ticking bum" not a ticking bomb. Created by Yonatan Frimer
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More Cartoons:
Cartoons for publication (April A)
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Cartoons for publication (May A)
Cartoons for publication (May B)
Cartoons for publication (May B)

Maze cartoon of feather in hat of Israel, the OECD

Maze Cartoon - OECD, Feather in Israel's Hat

Cartoon maze editorial of the OECD being a feather in Israel's hat.

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Maze Topic in the News:

Israel celebrates membership of OECD

Click here to read the article in Sydney Morning Herald

May 12, 2010

Israel has won a rare diplomatic victory in the face of stiff Palestinian opposition by being accepted into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Israel has tried for 16 years to join the exclusive club of prosperous economies.

The OECD said it invited Israel, Estonia and Slovenia to become members after they met specific criteria as developed, open economies. The three increase OECD membership to 34.The new members ''will contribute to a more plural and open OECD that is playing an increasingly important role in the global economic architecture'', the OECD secretary-general, Angel Gurria, said in Paris.

He said Israeli politics and Middle East tensions were ''not the main focus of discussion'' but acknowledged ''the entire process of membership is political''.

The OECD's legal director, Nicola Bonucci, said on Monday a study will ''quantify the impact'' of data included by Israel from the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and West Bank settlements. Ms Bonucci said that issue ''was discussed at length''.

The head of Israel's central bank, Stanley Fischer, said membership ''is an important step towards Israel's integration into the global economy, and is an expression of Israel's commitment to meet the highest international standards''.

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: ''Today, a new investment avenue has been opened for us.'' He said he hoped to make Israel one of the world's top 15 economies over the next decade.

Since its formation, Israel has evolved from a tiny farming nation into a high-tech powerhouse. Palestinian officials said Israel's occupation of the West Bank and discriminatory treatment of its Arab citizens put the country at odds with the OECD's commitment to human rights.

maze cartoon on off shore drilling

Gulf Oil Spill Nail in Coffin for off shore drilling - Maze Cartoon

Maze Cartoon editorial on how the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the nail in the coffin of off shore drilling. Created by Yonatan Frimer

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The topic of this Maze Cartoon in the news:

How off shore drilling is affected by this gulf oil spill

Schwarzenegger Revokes Support for Expanded Offshore Oil Drilling

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As the environmental disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday that he no longer supports offshore drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara, NPR reported.

"You turn on the television and see this enormous disaster, you say to yourself, 'Why would we want to take on that kind of risk?' " Schwarzenegger said at a news conference.

Despite the fact that state democrats blocked a proposal last year to allow expanded drilling, the governor had supported a new plan to allow 30 new slant wells off Santa Barbara, the site of an oil platform explosion in 1969 that polluted miles of shoreline.

On Monday, Schwarzenegger said his support had been based on numerous studies finding it was safe to drill. But now, "I see on TV, the birds drenched in oil, the fishermen out of work, the massive oil spill, oil slick destroying our precious ecosystem," the governor said.

Meanwhile, Louisina Governor Bobby Jinal reported that the oil had made its way to Louisiana's Chandeleur and Breton sounds, but officials were having trouble finding it, nola.com reported. “Newspaper photojournalist Chris Granger said he could see no concentrations of oil on the barrier islands' beaches, currently a key nesting sight for a wide array of shore and water birds,” the article stated.

“Two birds found in the oil slick were recovering at a rescue center — a gannet found Friday and a brown pelican found sometime between then and Tuesday,” according to the Associated Press. (To see how trained officials clean birds, check out this article.)

“'We’re preparing for the worst,' said Jim Hood, the attorney general of Mississippi, referring both to the spill itself and the possibility of fierce legal struggles. The state has been taking photos and video of coastal areas and counting fish and birds, he said, to have a record of what exists before the oil arrives," a New York Times article stated.

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Maze Cartoon on the Economy of Greece.

Maze Cartoon for Editorial use on the Economy of Greece. A 747 marked "Economy of Greece" flys while chained to two bags of debt that are carried by the IMF and EU. Created by Yonatan Frimer

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Maze Cartoon topic in the news:

EU/IMF Greece Plan Sees Around EUR110 Billion In Funding Gap

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Greece faces a funding gap of around EUR110 billion over the next three years, according to the details of a bailout plan from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union seen by Dow Jones Newswires Sunday.

Earlier Sunday, Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said that the new measures imposed to secure access to the unprecedented bailout package are the harshest and most austere ever imposed in European history.

The plan, dated May 2, didn't give details of how much each euro-zone country and the IMF will give in loans.

"We anticipate covering the program's financing requirements with financial support from euro-area member states and the IMF while strengthening access to the private capital market," the document said.

"Notwithstanding the significant fiscal adjustment, we project a public financing gap of around 110 billion (euros), for the program period, which we expect to cover through matching bilateral lending support from euro area member states and through IMF support," said the plan.

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