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An animal's inability to tell you when they aren't feeling well is one of the hardest parts of pet parenthood. Even when they're showing symptoms, you can't just ask them what's wrong. (Well, you canjust don't expect an answer.) Pretty Litter is a subscription-based litter service that wants to help when it comes to cats.

A litter box is a necessary part of coexisting with a cat, and Pretty Litter claims its crystals change color when your cat might have an illness, making it easy to tell when something might be wrong. The company's founder, Daniel Rotman, lost a beloved cat that showed no obvious signs of sickness. This litter is his solution to help monitor a cat's health at home, to hopefully prevent what happened to him from happening to other pet owners.

Iwith the help of my two cats, Huxley and Eely-Rueput Pretty Litter's crystals to the test for several weeks. I also spoke to veterinarians, cat behaviorists, and Pretty Litter customers to figure out whether the crystals accurately do their job. One thing I need to say before jumping into my experience is that Pretty Litter should be used only in addition to regular vet checkups. It is not a replacement for veterinary care.

Color Coded

Pretty Litter's crystals change color based on the pH level of your cat's urine. Normal pH urine will turn the crystals a yellow or olive green; a high pH, which could mean a urinary tract infection (UTI), makes the crystals turn blue; and low urinary pH turns them dark orange, and it could mean metabolic acidosis and kidney tubular acidosis, which can lead to kidney stones. Blood in the urine shows up as red, as expected, and could mean bladder inflammation, bladder stones, or a UTI.

It can be complicated to determine where on the scale the color falls, as it can look like it's somewhere in the middle. To test for high acidity (low urinary pH), I used vinegar. It turned the crystals a yellowish-orange, which could have been the mark of low urinary pH but could also have been the yellowish color of normal urine pH. After looking through my cats' used litter, I saw a similar color and couldn't quite determine its place between normal and low pH. I made an appointment with my vet to have both my cats looked at, just to be safe, and the doctor said they weren't showing any issues.

In my research, I found several Pretty Litter customers talking about false positives on Reddit. Their cats' litter crystals turned blue, but expensive vet visits concluded there was nothing abnormal. It's not all bad. I spoke to one customer on Twitter who regularly fosters cats and has been using Pretty Litter for around two years. She said when the color changed with a new batch of kittens, she took them to the vet and found they had worms. Another customer said the crystals turned blue, detecting a UTI that was later confirmed by a vet, who was impressed the litter caught it so early.

But there's also the possibility of false negatives. My friend's sister has a cat with a history of frequent UTIs, but the litter never changed color. When she called the company, a customer representative suggested buying more litter and boxes, a solution that didn't really make sense to her. (She noted that customer service really pushed her to buy more litter when she called to cancel her subscription, too.)

It's important to know that stress can also cause a change to a cat's urine pH level. And any number of factors could induce stress, like if you recently moved or if you're remodeling your kitchen, for example. Pretty Litter says you should wait 48 hours after seeing a change in color to see if it goes back to normal on its own. If it doesn't, make an appointment with a vet. If the crystals detect blood, make an appointment immediately.

Dust in the Wind

On top of the confusing color chart, the dust levels alone are enough to make me avoid using this litter going forward. All the veterinarians I spoke to said crystal litters generally create less dust than clay litters (which is what I usually use)and Pretty Litter claims to be low dust toobut I did not find that to be the case.

The crystals emitted clouds of dust so intense that I always waited for them to settle before I continued scooping. Other customers on Reddit also noted this. It's not just about my discomfort, either. My cat Huxley loves to scratch at the box for what seems like hours, so he's potentially inhaling these clouds of dust day in and day out, and that makes me nervous.

Shortly after I switched to Pretty Litter, Huxley started to get watery eyes. The vet and I both assume it's from the dust. For what it's worth, Eely-Rue hasn't had this issue, but I've switched them both back to their clay litter to see if the problem subsides. Dust-free clay litter formulas have come a long way (I typically use Arm and Hammer litter), so it's disappointing to see so much dust with Pretty Litter.

Crystal Clear

In my not-so-scientific survey of several cat owners, clumping clay seems to be among the most popular litter types. It's made of highly absorbent natural bentonite clay granules that clump together when liquid is absorbed. It's easy to scoop because everything is ... clumped. Scoop it daily and change out the whole thing about once a month (or more often, if you have several cats). Plus, it's widely available at a variety of price points.

Crystal litter is made of tiny silica gel beads that are highly absorbent but don't clump. You scoop out feces and mix the urine in so the beads absorb the odor. Pretty Litter recommends scooping and mixing daily, and replacing the box about once a month per cat. Since you aren't scooping away as much, you should be able to use less over time, which means less litter ends up in landfills. But it can get smelly if you aren't diligent.

You might be thinking, as I did, Isnt silica gel toxic? Thats a common misconception. The packs of silica gel you find in packages are labeled Do Not Eat, but Pretty Litter's founder says that's because it's a choking hazard, not because its toxic. If a cat licks its paws after using Pretty Litter, the silica should safely pass through their body. It's only a problem if ingested in large amounts, but that applies to clay litter, too.

Marci L. Koski, a feline behaviorist and training consultant, tells me she recommends Pretty Litter to her clients who have cats with a history of urinary issues. But, in general, she prefers fine-grained unscented clumping clay.

"My experience, and the problem I've run into with people, is they think its a very low-maintenance situation and they tend to forget about it," Koski says. "It leads to a buildup of solids in the litter box. At a certain point, the crystals stop absorbing and get really smelly."

Changing Your Cat's Litter

If you want to change the type of litter you're using, you should introduce it to your cat slowly. Vets recommend mixing old and new litter together first.

Some cats simply don't like the way it feels to walk on crystal litter. If you find your cat's bathroom habits are affected, don't force them. Go back to the litter they were using before. If your cat doesn't like Pretty Litter, or you don't want to be held to a subscription (which starts at $22 per month), you can still be aware of your cat's health at home.

"Usually by the time cats exhibit signs, it's well past the time to get them to the vet," Koski says. "You want to use a box you can scoop once or twice a day. Take note if the volume of urination has changed or if the frequency has changed. The only way you can note that is by scooping your cat's box every day."

Some other signs you can look out for, according to experts I spoke with, are:

I stopped using Pretty Litter due to the dust, but I still think it's worth trying, particularly if your cat has a history of urinary tract infections. (If you have a male cat, they're more prone to urethral blockages.) I suggest mixing it with other litter, as one customer recommended, to try and cut down on dust.

At the end of the day, there is no miracle litter. Pretty Litter could potentially help, but nothing will replace regular checkups with a vet and your own meticulous parenting.

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Two months into quarantine, all the issues with your home or apartment have likely become abundantly apparent. If you rent instead of buy and youre trying to limit contact with people, this is the time to take charge minimally. There are repairs and upgrades you can execute without going overboard; obviously you need to be careful so you can still get your security deposit back.

To start, you should consult DIY For Renters: Dont Call the Landlord (Creative Homeowner/Fox Chapel Publishing) by DIY expert Charles Byers., the just-released maintenance guide for anyone on a lease who needs some home self-help.

DIY covers everything from drywall repair to painting to electrical and plumbing issues, all with straightforward, step-by-step instructions and plenty of photos. Its a bit more advanced than a For Dummies book, but anyone whos even moderately familiar with tools should be able to follow along with ease.

Byers, a former carpentry instructor at the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology and a current teacher at the schools residential remodeling department, expanded on the books ideas for us during this time of being stuck at home when we really should be doing something useful with our time.

Five things we learned:

There are two basic repairs that take very little effort to do, and both deal with swinging doors, says Byers. The first is when the door sticks when its closed; there are multiple methods covered in the book, but the simplest involves removing the top-hinge short screw and replacing it with a 2 long screw of the same head diameter using a power screwdriver on low-speed. This will pull the door jamb closer to the framing behind it to secure the door, since during the doors life it shifted due to its weight.

And if you have a door that wont stay open without an object holding it back? Per Byers: First, see if any hinge screws are loose. Next, remove the bottom hinge pin. Lay the pin on a solid surface using a wooden block under the pin, then use a hammer to strike the pin in the center of its length. This will deform the pin slightly so that when it is re-inserted into the hinge, it will create friction. If this helps but does not eliminate the issue, remove the bottom pin and create an additional bend in the pin by repeating the striking method.

I suggest doing any repair that does not involve a lot of expense or time, says Byers, who gave us a list of some of the simplest and less expensive repairs or maintenance items, which include: replacing furnace air filters and inline water filters; checking clearances for weeds and overgrown grass and leaves around the outdoor heat pump or central air compressor units; removing and re-screening window screens; clearing floor registers and cold-air wall registers of cobwebs; changing batteries in smoke/CO2 detectors; power washing the walkways outside; and cleaning the gutters for the spring rains.

My rule is that anything that requires a licensed professional to perform the task or anything beyond your comfort zone, says Byers. Some examples include repairing sewer lines, or anything that involves the live electrical service panel in a building. As well, renters should avoid any repairs that would majorly alter any part of the building,because if you attempt something like this (e.g., replacing the vinyl floor thats over a concrete slab in the bathroom with carpet), you are assuming the entire expense and the possibility of the landlord not liking the type or quality of work you performed. Instead, contact the landlord to get permission for a professional to come in.

With electrical outlets in a building, especially older outlets that may cause issues, I recommend a polarity plug tester, says Byers. It can come in handy when, for example, the toaster doesnt work in the morning. A plug tester in a three-prong outlet will instantly signal if the receptacle is live, in good working order and if theres any other issue (which will be detected and readable by the testers LED light sequences). So if those three things are good, you need a new toaster.

An issue in this writers apartment doesnt have an easy answer. If you have access to the bottom of the floor, Byers says there are solutions (long story short, they involve attaching 2x4 pieces of wood to floor joists). But in a third-level apartment in a larger rental building in Brooklyn, my options appear limited to noise-canceling headphones and realizing were all in this together and hey, I do have a door that wont stay open.

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QUARTET TO PERFORM Members of a Joyful Noise, from left, Brenda Cottrell, Lesa Costlow, Earl Tuttle and Chelsa Clegg will be among those performing at a singspiration set for Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Toronto High School parking lot.-- Contributed

Joyful Noise Singspiration

Sunday afternoon in Toronto

TORONTO The Toronto High School parking lot will be the site of a A Joyful Noise Quartet Singspiration.

It will be held Sunday beginning at 4 p.m. and feature A Joyful Noise, comprised of Brenda Cottrell, Lesa Costlow, Chelsea Clegg and Earl Tuttle; the Blest Trio with Laurie Brookes as accompanist; Tom Graham, Jefferson County commissioner; Doc Roe; and Ron Retzer.

Attendees can tune in their radio to 99.3 FM and are asked to remain in their vehicles. Those who exit must wear a mask, according to information provided. There will be no public restroom facilities available.

Community blood drive still

accepting donors for Sunday

WEIRTON Cove Presbyterian Church in Weirton is hosting a community blood drive as an outreach program to help support area hospitals and patients.

It will be held in the fellowship hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the church, which is located at 3404 Main St.

Participants must pre-register in order to donate. To do so, visit Vitalant.org and click on the make appointment button and search with group code G0010028 Another option is to download the Vitalant-Pittsburgh mobile app to a smartphone or call or call (412) 209-7000 or Rachel Bennett at (412) 736-5506.

No walk-ins will be accepted.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many blood drives have been canceled, resulting in decreased blood donations and supply, according to a news release. One unit of blood can save three lives. Blood is separated into red cells, plasma and platelets.

Weirton Medical Center blood services are provided by Vitalant, formerly the Central Blood Bank of Pittsburgh.

Donations will directly help our community of Weirton as well as other local communities, the news release adds. Social distancing will be practiced during this event.

To save time, donors can complete their health history questionnaire online on the same day as their donation. Go to Vitalant.org, select donate and then health history questionnaire.

Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood, according to a fact sheet provided. One in seven people entering a hospital will need blood.

Church parking lot service

Sunday at First Westminster

STEUBENVILLE First Westminster Presbyterian Church, 235 N. Fourth St., will be holding a Memorial Day Tailgate Service in the church parking lot on Sunday, beginning at 10:45 a.m., the regular church worship time.

Those planning to attend are asked to bring a lawn chair and join us. We will be following social distancing protocols and the masks are encouraged. Families/households may sit together but there will be 6 feet between the next family, according to a church spokesperson. Spaces will be marked in the parking lot. We will honor our veterans and our graduates.

The service will be on Facebook Live on Sunday at 10:45 a.m. and archived at firstwestminster.org.

Food distribution, thrift store

reopenings are announced

The Brooke-Hancock County Salvation Army, in conjunction with the Mountaineer Food Bank, will host a food distribution and has reopened its thrift stores in Weirton and Wellsburg.

A Just in Time food distribution will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Wellsburg service center at 401 Commerce St.

A state identification card is needed to show proof of residency.

The Weirton thrift store on Penco Road is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and the thrift store at the Wellsburg service center is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

In keeping with state restrictions spurred by the pandemic, customers will be limited to nine at a time. Because the stores have been closed since the stay-at-home order, no donations are being accepted at this time.

Faith in the Future scheduled

June 3 at Seventh Street Plaza

STEUBENVILLE Faith in the Future Ohio Valley has announced its next opportunity to meet, network and pray for our economic development has been scheduled for June 3 from noon to 1 p.m.

It will be held at Urban Missions Seventh Street Plaza, located at Seventh and Washington streets, Steubenville.

The Rev. Ashley Steele, Urban Missions executive director, will host the luncheon and lead us as well as share with us the exciting developments happening with the Urban Mission and happenings in the Ohio Valley.

Lunch will be catered, and there will be tents set up and outdoor seating necessary to comply with social distancing rules.

Its Facebook information noted Faith in the Future Ohio Valley is the faith community of Jefferson County, concerned for the spiritual and the temporal needs of our community, strives to create a climate for the economic development of our area through prayer, leadership, encouragement and teamwork.

For reservations, text to (919) 349-2038 or e-mail tmcmanamon@onesourcebenefits.com.

Mystery bag auctions winding

down for Salvation Army

STEUBENVILLE During May, the Salvation Army of Steubenville is hosting a mystery bag auction on its Facebook page every Monday and Friday.

The final two are approaching.

The auctions begin at 9 a.m. and end at 7 p.m. The mystery bags are filled with goodies for adults, children and your entire household, notes the post on the Salvation Armys Facebook page. All proceeds go toward food for those who need help during the pandemic.

Here is how to play: The first person to comment will put a $1 sign in their comment. Every person who comments after that will increase their donation by $1. The last person to comment before the auction closes at 7 p.m. will win and be contacted.

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Andrew Ivany says the relationship between the province he calls home and the province he's travelled to for work remains strong.

"Like they say, Fort Mac is the second biggest city in Newfoundland," he said, referring to Fort McMurray.

"Alberta and Newfoundland go hand in hand."

Ivany recently drove thousands of kilometres back home. Thetrip was bookended by quarantines at his job site in Sylvan Lake, near Red Deer, before he left, and at a relative's cabin on the Avalon Peninsula when he arrived in Newfoundland.

"Alberta has provided a lot of opportunity for Newfoundlanders," Ivanytold CBC News.

"I mean, it's a place for guys [who] don't grow up with much, and we go out and we work hard. Alberta is just like a second home.That's how I consider it,anyways."

Ivany is one of thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who've made the trek out west to seek out that opportunity.

And with the pandemic and oil crash sapping the economic lifeblood of Alberta, the ripple effects are being felt at home, too.

The problems come on top of already severe problems in Newfoundland and Labrador's own oil industry. Drilling has been halted at the Hibernia platform, the Terra Nova field has already been dormant for months, and an ambitious deepsea project has been put on the backburner.

A recent report predicted that Alberta's economy would shrink by an unprecedented 5.8 per cent in 2020, and unemployment could average more than 11 per cent.

All that bad news out west could have a big impact in the east.

While some people pull up stakes and move, many don't. For them, it's a commuter existence fly-in, fly-out earning Alberta dollars that help some Newfoundland outports stay afloat.

"It's very clear that COVID-19 is posing major problems for these workers and their families, in the sense that it's very difficult now to be mobile, to live in this province and work in other provinces," said Barbara Neis, a distinguished research professor of sociology at Memorial University.

Neis runs a project called On The Move, a national partnership that studies the mobile labour force.

That labour force has had a big impact on the economy in Newfoundland and Labrador.

"It's like an iceberg. We've had this particularly in some regions this large population, we're talking about thousands of workers, who have relied on being mobile in and out of the province and helped to sustain rural communities," Neis said.

Like an iceberg, much of the current data that would reveal the scope of the issue remains below the surface.

There is a years-long lag in Statistics Canada figures on how much workers who live in one province make elsewhere.

But historic numbers show that the contribution is significant.

In 2014, workers living in Newfoundland and Labrador made nearly $1.1 billion in earnings in other provinces. More than $700 million of that total was earned in Alberta.

Resident employees people who lived and worked in Newfoundland and Labrador made just over $11 billion.

So for every $10 made inside the province that year, about $1 was earned outside the province the vast majority of that, in Alberta.

That year, more than 19,000 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador earned income outside the province. More than half of them almost 11,000 did so in Alberta.

The number dropped in subsequent years, amid an economic downturn.

In 2016 the most recent year for which statistics are available the number of workers travelling from the province to the rest of Canada dropped to just over 14,000. They pulled in less than $700 million roughly half of that in Alberta.

At peak, in the economic boom time of 2008, 14,000 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador commuted to work in Alberta alone.

The oilsands have been a key destination for that mobile labour force.

In the boom times around 2008, the majority of rotational workers in the oilsands were from Atlantic Canada.

Fast forward a decade, to late 2017, and one in nine of those travelling workers called Newfoundland and Labrador home, according to an industry survey.

Today, the Alberta oilpatch is facing a double-edged sword dealing with the fallout of cratering crude prices on one side, and addressing health concerns caused by COVID-19 on the other.

"It has been, I'd say, a pretty unprecedented time," said Shafak Sajid, a policy analyst with the Oil Sands Community Alliance, an umbrella group representing the major industry players.

On the economic side, there have been billions slashed from planned capital investments, big voluntary production cuts, and project slowdowns.

"A number of companies have postponed scheduled turnaround or maintenance, just to reduce and minimize the activity on site while the pandemic guidance is in place," Sajid said.

On the health side, concerns have been expressed about the use of fly-in workers, and the possibility they could unwittingly spread the coronavirus.

An outbreak at the Kearl site near Fort McMurray has been linked to more than 100 COVID-19 infections across five provinces including one in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sajid said companies have been working to adjust their operations to conform with public-health guidance everything from altering shift rotations and work schedules, to changing how workers are fed (pre-packaged meals instead of buffets), to enhanced screening and physical distancing measures.

"I would say that camps continue to be a vital component of sustaining the oilsands operation. I don't see those going anywhere," Sajid said.

"And as far as fly-in, fly-out workers are concerned, that is a strategy that we need to effectively staff our operations. I don't see that shifting in a major way."

University of Alberta professor Sara Dorow says the western province is currently facing the "double whammy" of a health crisis and an oil crisis.

She saidthey are both separate and related issues, and have both separate and compounding effects on mobile workers.

"The pandemic has exacerbated what was already an oil downturn, and we're now in crisis mode in the oil economy which has been sort of happening over years, but has really come to a head with the decreased demand for oil," Dorow told CBC News in an interview.

Dorow is chair of sociology at the University of Alberta, and has been researching the political economy of the oilsands for over a decade.

She saidthe workforce has been reduced at some sites by up to 60 per cent, and there are questions about what happens next.

"We don't know if industry will return to the usual shutdown approach, where thousands of workers fly in for these two-month periods," Dorow said.

"So that means a lot of people who are relying on that are [on] pins and needles about future prospects for work."

Dorow saidthe current added stress and difficulty for fly-in, fly-out workers has been compounded by the financial and economic uncertainty they are facing.

"I think that we're in a very important turning point what I hope is a turning point which is that the confluence of the pandemic and the oil crisis should be a wake-up call," she said.

"That relying on one economy that is a fickle boom-and-bust economy is a real problem, and that we need to diversify. Not just here, but in the places from which [fly-in, fly-out]workers come."

This coverage is part of Changing Course, a series of stories from CBC Newfoundland and Labrador that's taking a closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting local industries and businesses, and how they're adapting during these uncertain times to stay afloat.

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To a window washer, social distancing is part of the job. Hanging off the side of a building, glass separating

To a window washer, social distancing is part of the job.

Hanging off the side of a building, glass separating the technician and the inside offices its a job that adapts well to the era of Covid-19. So long as clients are still paying for the service, that is.

Thats the challenge facing KEVCO Building Services. Kenny Cohn, president of the family-owned Gaithersburg company, says the next few months for his business hinge on whether the residential and commercial customers prioritize window cleaning, garage cleaning and power washing services. So far, business has remained relatively stable given the environment. Bookings are down around 15% some postponed, some canceled completely.

But Kenny built the company with conservative growth, with little debt weighing on his mind as revenue slows.

Its serving us well now, he says. This is a time that will definitely bring us closer together.

Kenny launched KEVCO in 1988 after years washing windows in college.

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Teenagers across the country will havethe opportunity next week to network with some of the nations most experienced entrepreneurs.

Why Entrepreneurship Now A Virtual Event for Americas Teens will run from 3 to 4 p.m. May 27 on the Microsoft Teams Live platform,.

Expect Ayden Lally, 16, of Cary to log on. He has been balancing homework with his business ideas for years.

At 9 or 10, I started washing cars and powerwashing driveways, he said. He then advanced his cash flow by reselling products on Amazon.

I sold computers and Kindles. Probably, in that first time, in under a month, I did over $3,000 in sales when I was 10 or 11, he said.

In his teens, Ayden added Christmas light installation to his portfolio of services.

I had to hire crews, train the crews after that. The most important thing and the main learning experience was probably generating leads through different social media platforms, he said.

Ayden says he did $50,000 in sales in under two months and was inspired to learn more about media marketing and business consulting.

Brian Hamilton, founder of the Brian Hamilton Foundation, has a similar story.

Entrepreneurship changed my whole world, he says. I want to teach people how to do it because its not that hard.

Hamilton is passionate about inspiring teens to become job creators.

Over the last 50 to 60 years, weve gone from about 25% of people who have owned their own businesses to today 9%, he said.

In effort to reverse that trend, Hamilton among the organizers of the upcoming virtual webinar event for teens.

His advice to teens: Start small and learn. Thats how this whole economic system runs. You look at the free enterprise system, capitalism. Its all based upon that person that goes out and tries.

The teen virtual summit is a partnership between Junior Achievement USA, the Brian Hamilton Foundation and the Mark Cuban Foundation.

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Lockdown also caused an upending of traditional social hierarchies. Celebrities have never appeared more vacuous or irrelevant. Kate Winslet undoubtedly meant well but attracted widespread derision when she gave advice after pointing out she played an epidemiologist in the film Contagion. It was real scientists, including that gentle, lofty brainbox, chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty, who were our stars now as well as the remarkable, chart-topping figure of Colonel Tom Moore. A youth-obsessed society rediscovered old people; not just as sad casualties of corona but as individuals of spirit and resourcefulness who could bring almost a century of perspective to our present problems.

In the years before corona, PPE meant philosophy, politics and economics, the subject that the elite read at Oxford before going on to run the country. Now, PPE means something entirely different. Its the safety attire of the people we soon came to see as the most important members of our society. It wasnt the political or professional elite who were on the frontline doing 13-hour shifts in masks that cut savagely into their faces. It was nurses, care assistants and paramedics who are poorly rewarded for work of inestimable value. Cicero, one of the Prime Ministers favourite philosophers, observed: In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. Never have we felt the truth of that so profoundly as during the Covid pandemic when exhausted medics joined the immortals and, every Thursday night, all the streets in all the land were filled with a great thunder of clapping for our shattered heroes.

When this is over will we return to worshipping at the tawdry altar of Fame or will the appreciation of human beings of genuine merit survive reentry to Planet Normal? It feels, at least for now, as if the specific gravity of the carers and the healers will continue to carry great weight. Public gratitude will reshape politics for a generation. Boris Johnson himself survived an attack by the invisible mugger, and paid tribute to the two nurses, Jenny McGee and Luis Pitarma, who monitored his vital signs for three anxious days and nights. Bursaries for nurses training were scrapped by Theresa Mays government, an act of wanton vandalism. Looking forward, you can be sure that a Johnson administration will reward the NHS that saved his life (while reforming its hopeless procurement arm) and deliver the 50,000 extra nurses we so desperately need. Yes, Covid-19 put the NHS under horrendous pressure, but the virulent new disease also forced medics to adapt and learn at great speed. Best practice is rolled out in a matter of days when normally it would take months or years, one consultant marvelled. Amazing what can be achieved when theres no time for paperwork, protocols or layers of useless management.

It wasnt just doctors who were learning on the job. Companies that stayed open had to rapidly develop new ways of operating. Staff meetings were held on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. For years, people like me who campaigned for better work-life balance were told that the old command-and-control model of major corporations would never accept mums and dads working from home in any numbers. The culture of presenteeism was stubbornly immovable. Well, Covid-19 smashed through the roadblock. During lockdown, WFH (working from home) instantly became the norm, with husbands and wives divvying up the chores. Gender equality acquired rocket boosters. No longer would men be able to claim that the world would end if they had to do their share of their childcare. Acknowledging the huge cultural shift, Jes Staley, the chief executive of Barclays, said that having thousandsof workers in one building may be a thing of the past. Instead of 7,000 employees travelling to the banks Canary Wharf headquarters, just a handful went to the office while the rest worked from home. Another CEO told me that her staff, who hadnt had to pay for travel or lunch for weeks, feel like theyve had a pay rise and dont want to go back to how things were. An exodus of jobs and people from London looks likely in the next year.

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When downtown L.A. restaurant Red Herring updated and upscaled its former Eagle Rock iteration, the project also became a bold debut for interior designer Marissa Zajack, who used her background in film and television to tell a vibrant and transportive visual story.

The relocated Red Herring opened in December 2019, the love child of husband-and-wife team Dave Woodall, the chef, and Alexis Martin Woodall, president of Ryan Murphy Productions. Zajacks credits include graphic design for shows and movies such as Zombieland, New Girl, Bombshell and the upcoming The Boys in the Band on Netflix.

Martin Woodall met her when they worked on Murphys 2006 movie Running With Scissors, and since then has tapped Zajack for design advice and small jobs at the old restaurant, which closed early last year. The scope and undertaking of Red Herring 2.0 was new territory for them both.

I didnt exactly know what I was getting myself into, but was so honored that Alexis asked me, Zajack said. Years working in the art department on TV and film is similar in some ways to the interior design process, but there were definitely things that didnt carry over, which were new and exciting for me, like understanding building codes and the durability of materials.

Her background in graphic design, however, proved a huge asset for detailed aesthetic continuity she digitally designed the interiors, furniture, fixtures and marketing, and even handled the branding, down to business cards and way-finding signs.

Zajack commissioned artist Mike Willcox for the restaurants show-stopping mural, a colorful art deco-inspired jungle scene spanning the entire back wall of the dining room. She printed his artwork on wallpaper, then aged it to make it feel vintage less computer-generated and more painterly and unearthed with history.

Thematically, Zajack said the whole decor was about celebrating the spirit of California, past and present a place that was fun and sexy, timeless yet modern, where you could go day to night.

She even imagined a fun back story: Some fabulous woman owned it that had wonderful dinner parties for all of her fabulous friends; a Dorothy Parker type. Decadent, elegant and whimsical, but nothing too serious. It had to be joyful.

How did you get your start in design?

I grew up in Southern California; my dad was an advertising photographer and my mom worked in his studio. I went to college for fine art at ArtCenter in Pasadena, and then got interested in fashion and worked for Libby Lane in Beverly Hills. Then I segued to working in the art department for film and television for about 15 years. I was really interested in graphic design in film because you could really tell a story through the graphic elements, especially if youre working on a show or film thats based in a different time period.

What are some of your aesthetic trademarks?

The graphic element, like custom wallpaper and adding graphic geometry into a space. For furniture, I really like soft curves and use a lot of blush and brass elements. Ive called upon some of the artists I worked with on the restaurant in other projects, like the lighting designer Dora Koukidou, who is out of Greece. I loved her light fixtures and I wanted a custom piece for the bar area at the restaurant, for a bold statement.

The color scheme is amazing.

I love the way Mike Willcoxs work and the rest of the colors go together. Theres a delineation from the bar area to the dining area, which is a lot more jewel-toned because theres a lot going on with the mural. But in the bar area there are more pastels and washed corals. They feel cohesive but also two very different spaces at the same time.

What projects are you working on right now?

Im working on my own home at the moment, which is really exciting. Its in a historic building in Koreatown on Wilshire called the Talmadge. Red Herring was a full build-out, but this is working on a historic interior and beautifying something that is already beautiful. One of the first rooms you walk into is filled with molding and hidden bookcases; its pretty spectacular.

Because youre working on your own home during social distancing, could you offer any advice on ways we can all elevate our spaces during this time?

A lot of it is being super frugal and using whats on hand. Im organizing and finding treasures that might have been hidden in a closet. Or repurposing something out of the archives and breathing new life into your space. And water your plants, because you want to keep them around during this.

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Chet Callahan of Chet Callahan ArchitectureLos Angeles

Blending historical precedents with progressive ideals, architect Chet Callahan imbues spaces with what he calls romantic functionalism.

We create form through careful consideration of the natural, the built environment and the future uses of the site, he said. We aim to create environmentally sensitive buildings and enhance our clients and our communitys experience.

A case in point is Mr. Callahans renovation of a 1934 Spanish-style home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles to fit the needs of its new ownersa young family of four.

He preserved the historical architectural details of the house, including the plaster cove moldings, the wooden floors and the wrought-iron embellishments. And he made it one with the landscape by adding large picture windows to, as he said, bring green leafy views inside.

He treated the interior spaces as a blank slate, painting the walls art-gallery white to accommodate the familys colorful contemporary art collection and added sleek yet comfortable furnishings.

The living room, for instance, features a faux-beamed ceiling with plaster corbels that is illuminated by a glittering crystal chandelier reminiscent of a full moon. The furnishings, which include a plum-colored tufted sofa in velvet, speak of the past, while the spare white bookshelves, where volumes are arranged by the color of their covers, bring the room into the present tense.

The new interventions, he said, have been rendered with minimal ornamentation as a juxtaposition to the existing features of the home, the clients vibrant art and the surrounding garden.

Before opening his eponymous firm in 2017, Mr. Callahan, who is 39, worked for Marmol Radziner + Associates, XTEN Architecture and AGPS.

His firm has worked on a variety of projects, including a multi-generational compound in Culver City; an artists complex in North Hollywood; and the re-envisioning of Los Felizs oldest estate.

A two-time winner of Interior Design magazines Best of Year (2007 and 2014), Mr. Callahan, became interested in design at a young age.

I used to watch my dad build furnitureand just about everything else, he said. And I went antiques shopping with my mom.

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