We may draw the circles of responsibility differently, but don't think for a moment that others don't have it. I will take care of my parents in their old age and they will take care of my children. We are always responsible for one another.
Hey, free childcare ain't nothing to sneeze at. These days it might not even be worth keeping a low-paid job if you have to pay daycare costs. Also, if mom's always bowing out of the workforce to watch the kids (and it usually is mom), this easily derails her career and long-term earning...
No, but any place influenced by Confucianism is going to have some major filial piety going on. This includes China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore... anyplace Confucian values have travelled to over the last 2500 years.
The NFL season is much much shorter than the NHL's, so it's much easier to sustain that sort of intensity. At most a Super Bowl winner plays 20 games. A Stanley Cup winner plays at least 98. If the Leafs played only 16 games a season I think this city would plotz.
edit: I assume NCAA teams play...
My dad got one of them. First he built his own; got a fair amount of channels but he thought he could do better. Now there's a pretty big antenna on the roof and he gets quite a few more. This is out in Mississauga by Applewood Heights, so it's high-ish ground with not much blocking the way of...
I like the Oceans. What I've had of the hot food was way better than T&T's, and they have a wider variety of products -- not just East Asian stuff.
If I recall correctly, the ceiling is painted a dark colour, but it's not exactly dark in there.
But surely there are many, many ways to design a voluptuous, twisting building. Nobody gives up building boxes because there exists one particularly spectacular specimen of box.
It's just disappointing to me that some of the reaction is not "hey, that's cool -- let's build something even...