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If you get a chance, stop in at LaGuardia Airport's Marine Air Terminal (also known, much less romantically, as Terminal A) and take a look at James Brooks' 235-foot circular mural, "Flight."(1)

This was the last and largest mural produced under the Work Projects Administration. The WPA, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, was the nation's largest employer in the years leading up to World War II. Brooks painted several projects for the WPA in the 1930s.

"Flight" depicts man's dream to conquer the skies, from ancient mythology to the reality of transoceanic, multi-engine airplanes. Brooks completed it in 1942, a few years after the Marine Air Terminal - itself a WPA project - opened to become New York City's aviation gateway to the world. Pan American Airways' Clippers, on returning from Bermuda, Lisbon and other points, would land on the East River and tie up at a dock behind the terminal building, where passengers would disembark.

The terminal itself was a showpiece. The Art Deco building was completed in 1939, just as the World's Fair was opening a short drive away. It had a circular rotunda, restaurants, customs facilities, and a control tower that is still in use today. The exterior boasted a frieze of flying fish intended to represent the flying-boat Clippers of that era.

But artistic and political tastes can be fickle. In the early 1950s, just a decade after Brooks finished the mural, someone at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ordered that it be painted over. I have not found anything official giving the reason, but the widely repeated story is that, in the anti-Communist fervor of that era, someone saw left-wing sympathies in Brooks' work. Certainly, all sorts of creative people were being hounded for their real and imagined political beliefs at that time.

The painting was lost to a generation of New Yorkers - my generation. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. Air travel was still pretty much a luxury, and I never knew the Marine Air Terminal existed, let alone anything about a historic mural.

But in the late 1970s, a plucky publisher-historian, Geoffrey Arend, launched a campaign to restore the mural.(2) Arend published Air Cargo News, and had an office in the terminal building. According to a 1987 account in New York magazine, Arend placed old photos of the mural in the terminal lobby, in sight of the upper-crust New Yorkers who used the building to board private aircraft. Eventually he was approached by Laurance Rockefeller and Reader's Digest founder DeWitt Wallace, who agreed to finance the restoration.

I had a chance to look at "Flight" myself last week. My daughter arrived from Chicago on a Delta Shuttle that uses the Marine terminal. Most of her fellow passengers never even saw the building. They deplaned from a rudimentary annex that leads straight out to the parking lot. It was after 11 p.m., and only a handful turned the other direction, past the security screening checkpoint and into the original building.

We headed down a dingy fluorescent-lit corridor and then, suddenly, there we were - in the middle of the rotunda, which felt like a small Rockefeller Center lobby, gazing up at Brooks' long-lost work.

I'm no art historian, nor a scholar of the classics, but I know enough to recognize the references to Icarus and Daedalus, to DaVinci and the Wright brothers, and to the prewar aviators who navigated the seas with little to guide them but a compass, dead reckoning and the stars. In the representation of an ordinary man and woman, with the woman holding binoculars, I saw why someone might have felt uneasy amid the Cold War paranoia - because Brooks portrayed flight as being important for the common citizen and not just society's military, business and political elites. Not a socialist thought, necessarily, but pretty far ahead of his time.

The glamorous era of flying boats and gleaming airborne cutlery is long gone. We've gotten used to air travel as an everyday convenience and inconvenience, as the recent security-screening flap drove home. But if you find time to visit that rotunda, and look up at what James Brooks left for us, you can travel through time: first, back to when air travel for the masses was a glittering promise, and then to when it became a subversive idea.

Sources:

(1) The New York Times: James Brooks, An Artist, Is Dead; Abstract Expressionist Was 85

(2) The New York Times: Streetscapes: Marine Air Terminal; Restoring The Landmark Home Of The Flying Fish

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Current United State Unemployment Rate listed by state

Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work.The prevalence of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as the percentage of those in the labor force who are unemployed.

The unemployment rate is also used in economic studies and economic indices such as the United States' Conference Board's Index of Leading Indicators as a measure of the state of the macroeconomics.

Though there have been several definitions of voluntary and involuntary unemployment in the economics literature, a simple distinction is often applied. Voluntary unemployment is attributed to the individual's decisions, whereas involuntary unemployment exists because of the socio-economic environment (including the market structure, government intervention, and the level of aggregate demand) in which individuals operate.

Structural US unemployment is caused by a mismatch between jobs offered by employers and potential workers. This may pertain to geographical location, skills, and many other factors. If such a mismatch exists, frictional unemployment is likely to be more significant as well.

Productivity gains in steel may reduce the number of jobs in steel, but they create jobs elsewhere (if only by lowering the price of steel, and therefore releasing money to be spent on other things); advanced countries may lose garment industry jobs to developing-country exports, but they gain other jobs producing the goods that those countries buy with their new export income. To observe that productivity growth in a particular industry reduces employment in that same industry tells us nothing about whether productivity growth in the economy as a whole reduces employment in the economy as a whole.

Unemployed individuals are unable to earn money to meet financial obligations. Failure to pay mortgage payments or to pay rent may lead to homelessness through foreclosure or eviction. Unemployment increases susceptibility to malnutrition, illness, mental stress, and loss of self-esteem, leading to depression. According to a study published in Social Indicator Research, even those who tend to be optimistic find it difficult to look on the bright side of things when unemployed.

There is a connection between economic growth and unemployment. There is a connection between growth and inflation. Therefore, commonsense (and financial theory) goes, there must be a connection between inflation and unemployment. A special measure of this connection is the Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). Supposedly, this is the rate of unemployment which still does not influence inflation.

High unemployment can encourage xenophobia and protectionism as workers fear that foreigners are stealing their jobs.[citation needed] Efforts to preserve existing jobs of domestic and native workers include legal barriers against "outsiders" who want jobs, obstacles to immigration, and/or tariffs and similar trade barriers against foreign competitors.

The ILO describes 4 different methods to calculate the unemployment rate:

* Labour Force Sample Surveys are the most preferred method of unemployment rate calculation since they give the most comprehensive results and enables calculation of unemployment Statitics by different group categories such as race and gender. This method is the most internationally comparable.

* Official Estimates are determined by a combination of information from one or more of the other three methods. The use of this method has been declining in favor of Labour Surveys.

* Social Insurance Statistics such as unemployment benefits, are computed base on the number of persons insured representing the total labour force and the number of persons who are insured that are collecting benefits. This method has been heavily criticized due to the expiration of benefits before the person finds work.

* Employment Office Statistics are the least effective being that they only include a monthly tally of unemployed persons who enter employment offices. This method also includes unemployed who are not unemployed per the ILO definition.

Unemployment may have advantages as well as disadvantages for the overall economy. Notably, it may help avert runaway inflation, which negatively affects almost everyone in the affected economy and has serious long-term economic costs. However the historic assumption that full local employment must lead directly to local inflation has been attenuated, as recently expanded international trade has shown itself able to continue to supply low-priced goods even as local employment rates rise closer to full employment.

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How the hell did Geoffrey Arnand manage to get Christina Hendricks?

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I am better looking than this guy and I can't even pick up chicks half as good.

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"I think we'd both be excellent parents, but we've only been married a couple of months. One step at a time." MAD MEN star CHRISTINA HENDRICKS is looking forward to motherhood in the future. She married actor Geoffrey Arend in New York in October (09).

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