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Kara McDonald took a kind of vision test and passed with flying colors and lighting, fabrics, finish, furnishings and other elements of health care interior design.

Kara McDonald, an interior designer with Miles Associates: Architecture Planning and Interiors, recently earned the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers Certificate. McDonald is one of 120 recipients of the certificate nationwide, and the only one in Oklahoma. She is shown at Miles Associates, 865 Research Parkway, Suite 100.

Actually, it was the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers Examination. McDonald, 33, an interior designer with Oklahoma City's Miles Associates: Architecture Planning and Interiors, is the first and so far only person in Oklahoma to earn the AAHID Certificate.

The exam covers acute care, ambulatory and outpatient care, long-term care, senior living, as well as medical, retail and hospitality support services, codes, guidelines and other aspects of health care interior design. Five years of experience, a portfolio review and professional references are required for anyone to attempt the exam.

McDonald's recent experience includes work at The Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center, the OU Children's Physicians Building and atrium, Presbyterian Tower and Edmond Medical Center.

Adding health care to interior design adds layers of concerns not addressed in, say, a regular office setting, such as infection control, patient health and safety and the welfare of physicians, staff and visitors, McDonald said, physical and emotional.

Thinking about the time all those people spend in a given space, and how they use it and respond to it, drives her vision, she said.

When a lot of people think about architecture, they might not think about the experience of somebody in the space, how they see it. But you're at work or using that space more than you are at home, and so it needs to be fitting to what the environment is, McDonald said.

Take a laboratory, for example.

Somebody might think that that's more technical, just dry space. But it still can be uplifting and energetic to somebody that has to be standing on their feet for long hours while they're doing research, she said.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Interior designer Nate Berkus has been adding fantasy to homes for 16 years, inspiring people with just the right creative touch. But he's been a dog-lover even longer, and he's turning his design expertise to a half-million-dollar fantasy dog park.

Berkus, 41, has joined the creative team for the 2014 Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest. Contestants have to answer one question: "If you had $500,000 to create a Dream Dog Park where you and your best buddy can play together, what would you do?"

In Lancaster, Pa., the answer included a doggy amusement park with a tennis ball tree and a 40-foot roller coaster bridge. The park there -- the third contest winner -- opens Aug. 6.

The first park was built in Johns Creek, Ga., with a family destination theme and includes a bone-shaped bridge, two splash pads, tunnels, rubberized mulch paths and shade trees. The second park in Alabaster, Ala., has synthetic turf, agility rings, a walking trail, a fetch football field, fire hydrant goalposts and a mulch adventure path with tunnels, said Brent Gleckler, brand director for Beneful dog food.

"There is nothing I love more than being with my dog," Berkus said of sidekick Tucker, a black mutt. Together, they visit a dog park nearly every night.

The parks in Alabaster and Johns Creek have been tourist magnets. In Georgia, the city had to make 72 new parking spaces next to the park to accommodate visitors.

In Alabama, people take good care of the park,

The dog park is part the city's flagship Veteran's Park, with a ball field complex, 2.5-mile walking trail, eight pavilions with picnic tables, two playgrounds, a skateboard park and veteran's memorial, Hamm said.

Every day, they get calls from tourists asking about hours and directions.

"The more people that come to our city, the more people will stop, eat and buy gas. We are all for that. Out-of-town users are great," Hamm said. "Anybody who wants to come, we more than welcome them in town."

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A dog shows off custom-designed splash pads in a $500,000 Beneful Dream Dog Park renovation that was unveiled last summer in Alabaster, Ala. The dog park, with a fetch football field, an exercise path and tunnels, is part the city's flagship Veterans Park, with a ball field complex, 2.5-mile walking trail, eight pavilions with picnic tables, two playgrounds, a skateboard park and veteran's memorial.

LOS ANGELES Interior designer Nate Berkus has been adding fantasy to homes for 16 years, inspiring people with just the right creative touch. But he's been a dog-lover even longer, and he's turning his design expertise to a half-million-dollar fantasy dog park.

Berkus, 41, has joined the creative team for the 2014 Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest. Contestants have to answer one question: "If you had $500,000 to create a Dream Dog Park where you and your best buddy can play together, what would you do?"

In Lancaster, Pa., the answer included a doggy amusement park with a tennis ball tree and a 40-foot roller coaster bridge. The park there -- the third contest winner -- opens Aug. 6.

The first park was built in Johns Creek, Ga., with a family destination theme and includes a bone-shaped bridge, two splash pads, tunnels, rubberized mulch paths and shade trees. The second park in Alabaster, Ala., has synthetic turf, agility rings, a walking trail, a fetch football field, fire hydrant goalposts and a mulch adventure path with tunnels, said Brent Gleckler, brand director for Beneful dog food.

"There is nothing I love more than being with my dog," Berkus said of sidekick Tucker, a black mutt. Together, they visit a dog park nearly every night.

The parks in Alabaster and Johns Creek have been tourist magnets. In Georgia, the city had to make 72 new parking spaces next to the park to accommodate visitors.

In Alabama, people take good care of the park, but the city does a walkthrough once a day, sprays it down twice a week and uses a biodegradable chemical once a month, city parks director Tim Hamm said.

The dog park is part the city's flagship Veteran's Park, with a ball field complex, 2.5-mile walking trail, eight pavilions with picnic tables, two playgrounds, a skateboard park and veteran's memorial, Hamm said.

Every day, they get calls from tourists asking about hours and directions.

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It could have all been very different for Claire Danes, had 'Homeland' producers not come calling.

Claire Danes was so disillusioned with the television and film industry before landing her award-winning role on the Showtime series Homeland that she considered becoming an interior designer. Danes' star appeared on the rise after her Golden Globe winning performance in HBO's 2012 move Temple Grandin, though what followed was a gruelling two year stretch without a job.

"It was confusing. I got a lot of plaudits, and it didn't translate into more work. I was really, really struggling during that time," Danes tells the latest issue of Vogue. "And a point came where I thought, 'I really like interior design.' Someone suggested, 'Maybe your real success is in your personal life.'"

Then a strange thing happened. Danes was offered the role of a driven CIA officer battling her own psychological demons on an intriguing new show named Homeland. The actress mulled over the offer. Producers were essentially building the show around the Romeo + Juliet actress - given she was the very first to be cast - though Danes was considering a role as J. Edgar Hoover's secretary in Clint Eastwood's movie J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Danes opted for Homeland and was probably dismayed to hear Hollywood A-lister Naomi Watts had taken the role of Helen Gandy in J. Edgar. Nevertheless, Homeland clearly had potential - bags of it.

Awards came thick and fast and at the Golden Globes in January, Danes had to juggle being one of the most acclaimed actresses in Hollywood with being a new mom. "I went on the red carpet, went upstairs, fed Cyrus. Went into the ceremony, got the award, went back to feed Cyrus, went out again. . Then it was, 'Now you meet the president,'" she tells Vogue.

"I had these new boobs; I'm wearing a big Jessica Rabbit dress, and I'd been living in sweatpants for so long," she added, "It was strange. It was dreamy, surrounded by my parents and my husband. It was one of the best nights of my life because of this perfect mashup."

The third season of Homeland will premiere on Showtime, on September 29, 2013.

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