Rina Risper

Oh Baby!  Social Security’s website has a list of the 1,000 most popular boys’ and girls’ names for 2009 and a list of the top 100 names for twins born in 2009.  The website also offers lists of baby names for each year since 1880.

In 2011, we may find the name Pippa or Jayden on the top ten list of popular baby name.   The Social Security Administration compiles names annually and recently announced the most popular baby names in Michigan for 2009. 

How does Michigan compare to the rest of the country?  Olivia and Jacob topped the list.  Nationally, Isabella and Jacob were the most popular baby names.

Home cooking for a new generation. Easy and elegant recipes from the heart and soul created for today’s family.

By Sharon Fox

LANSING, MI –  Marybeth Smith, mother to a son suffering from Bipolar Disorder, as well as someone battling the illness herself, writes a novel aimed at helping young adults understand mental illness.

“Too many teenagers today feel alone in coping with depression or other mental illnesses,” Smith comments. “They should know there are others out there who understand what they are going through.”

Finding out information about Social Security does not have to be difficult for you and your family.

Log on to www.ssa.gov and find answers to your questions before you call.

Lansing Social Security Office to Begin Closing at 3:30 pm Daily
Congressional Budget Cuts Force Reduced Public Hours

Effective August 15, 2011, the Lansing Social Security office will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. – a reduction of 30 minutes each weekday.

By Sandip Roy
newamericamedia.com

Synopsis: The slaughter in Oslo shows that immigrants — especially Muslims — are reviled as “The Others,” even as Europe needs them to mop its floors.

If you are an immigrant in Europe, especially a Muslim, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

By Manish Madan

Miles apart from India, here in Michigan I wake up. First thing, I open up India’s leading news website to catch up on what is happening in one of the most promising and an economically rising nation. I wish to read some good stories to begin my day but my morning is struck by a certain news item that I find almost every other day, on the front page – deeply engraved by a common theme “Violence and brutality against women”.

Dear Tamara:

I have a huge relationship dilemma. My boyfriend and I have been dating since our sophomore year in high school. Yes, we are your stereotypical match made in heaven. The captain of the football team and head cheerleader, the prom king and queen, voted most likely to be married, etc., etc. Everyone, thinks we are a perfect couple. The problem is, my boyfriend accepted a scholarship to a school out west and I am in Ohio. It feels like we are worlds apart and I think the distance between us has changed our relationship.