With national and local computer models forecasting a major winter storm — including heavy snow, strong winds and coastal flooding — for
Long Island this coming
weekend, Central Veterinary Associates (CVA) is reminding pet owners that freezing temperatures and blustery weather can have an adverse
effect on the well - being
of their animal.
Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse
of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part
of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium
of the Pacific in
Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as
of Memorial Day
weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental
effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.
Fact:» [1] Fathers who reported strong authoritarian views were involved relatively less in weekday caregiving, playing, teaching, and nighttime soothing and in
weekend teaching during early infancy... Attitudes consistent with authoritarian parenting, in which demands for obedience and behavioral control
of children are prominent, appear to have lasting, negative
effects on fathering even early in life,
long before parent - child conflicts and matters
of discipline become common...» [2] Consistent with prior work linking maternal attitudes and father involvement, fathers engaged in relativelyless caregiving, playing, and teaching on
weekends during early infancy when their partners held highly protective attitudes... Although an initial lack
of experience or support might be expected to diminish father involvement over time, relations between maternal protective attitudes and fathers» relative involvement did not hold longitudinally... the lack
of longitudinal relations may suggest that father involvement is primarily self - determined and that mothers» attitudes are in part a consequence
of how involved fathers actually are in childrearing.»