Basketball has gone a long way since its discovery in the year 1891 by James Naismith. Its discovery encouraged several basketball matches and the first official basketball match was at Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA Training School.

10 situations that call for an apology, and how they can put you in the limelight

Is your spouse too controlling? Are you too passive? Or are the roles reversed? Control issues refer to who’s in control, who’s in charge, or who’s getting their way. Significant control issues are always harmful to a relationship. Here are ten reasons you need to be concerned if you have unresolved control problems in your marriage.

Some of the happiest people I've ever met in my life are those that spend more time thinking about others than they do themselves. Living a life where you do not have to constantly apologise for your misbehaviour can only be fruitful in the long term, both for you and those around you.

But if you want love. Well that’s a different story. Love means naked, raw, honest, exposed, vulnerability. I hear people say, “I need to trust before I become vulnerable” and that is a horrible lie. The only person you need to trust in being vulnerable is you. Shame makes us worry about trust. Why would we be holding back anything if it weren’t for shame. Shame means we are not worthy of love, therefore, we can’t trust ourselves being open and natural and vulnerable. So we seek out people with the same ego issues and open up to them, only because they agree that we are victims.

All emotion is only half the truth, an illusion; a complete lie. Life is balanced, we distort it by projecting out opinion onto it. We interpret it with our ego and spin it left or right and therefore emotionalise it. By emotionalising things, we can make it safe. And from a love aspect, then we see where we are – out of integrity – and could bring our ego back to balance, if we chose to.

According to MSN Money (Sept. 2005), not counting Higher Education, which can mount to $150,000, and not counting private schools and hospital bills, a child costs $135K ($40K/year, income) ; $185K($40-70K/year income); and $270K (70K+/year, income). Children 15-17 years old are more expensive. Expensive? Mamma mia!

Here are a few laws, a few simple laws. If you apply these laws, you might change the cause of your own, and others unhappiness. I hope they are of interest to you. Then, instead of trying to fix and make yourself better (which you can’t) you might start to smile and celebrate the beauty of life, by trekking up to the summit of a hill in Nepal, or kiss a baby instead of trying to fix what isn’t broken.

My recommendation is to first establish a relationship with a woman before calling her. The cost of calling Russia and other CIS countries has dropped dramatically over the past few years.

The gift of roses has a history steeped in symbolism and mystery. Learn the meaning behind their colors, and send a more personal message.

Friendship in today’s world has lost much of its meaning. How has the concept of Friendship changed over the years. What it truly means to be a friend. Read on to know more about it.

The Internet has made connecting and re-connecting far easier than ever before. In fact it is now effortless, but the question I beg is should we contact old flames just because it is easy to do so? We have to think about the other person's life and the effect it may cause them before we do. This only gets more true as time goes on, your life has changed significantly, surely theirs has as well. What impact will your casual hello have on them? It could be wonderful or catastrophic.

All of us have had friends from the past that we lost contact with. Whether it is an old classmate, an old boyfriend or girlfriend or an old neighbor, we all have someone we have lost contact with throughout the years. Perhaps it is because you moved away, or changed schools. One day you decide to look at your old pictures or yearbook, and you remember one long lost friend. You decide that you want to get in contact with them again after years of no communication.If this is you, then you may be asking yourself what’s the first step in locating a long lost friend. Today’s advanced information technology will actually make it easy for you to find your friend. There are many websites on the Internet you can go to for help.

Some of the reasons why people form a relationship are: physical attraction and sex, glory by association, to avoid loneliness. There are some very vital points to consider before entering into a relationship: health, social, financial and legal obligations of the other person are some of them.

Sometimes we suspect that someone is lying to us about a very important matter. It could be a matter of where they spent a couple of hours, or they might be trying to cover up who they were with. How can we tell when someone is lying or bluffing?

A housewarming gift comes from cultural traditions the world over. But for the most part, a housewarming gift comes from the heart, an act of giving from one friend to another. The true meaning of housewarming can be found when one friend sees the need of another, and tries in however small of measure to give something to help.

The Sun always rises. No matter what is happening in our life, there is always new hope and new opportunities each and every day.

Why, in a family, do bad people, hurt good people? Although shocking, this is really the way many people think when relationships develop problems! This depicts a useless way of thinking.

Right there, on the floor, disguised as an antique carpet runner, conflict, resolution, intimacy and deeper understanding are enfolded all around us. Try as we would, we can’t hide. So why not open to the possibilities. After all, that’s what intimacy is all about.

Everyone seems to have been through a broken heart or two. With all the practice, you'd think breakups would become easier to deal with. Alas, being dumped is one of the crummiest situations we mere mortals have to surmount.

What part does history play in your relationship? Read on to discover how to be in charge of history instead of the history in charge of you.

We take for granted our role in American culture, but what does it really mean to be an American? How do we define ourselves among world cultures?