No? Well, then you should take a look at this amazing singer. Jon McLaughlin is a 26 years singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Anderson, Indiana. With two albums released by Island Def Jam Records, a major label subsidiary of Universal Music Group, Jon had his name made famous by his performance of the Oscar nominee song "So Close", from the movie Enchanted. Endowed with good looks, a beautiful voice and an incredible ability on the piano, Jon calls more and more attention every day. His songs talk about the human nature, love, our daily life in a pop rhythm dictated mostly by his piano. His most successful single is "Beautiful Disaster" from his first official album "Indiana". To find out more about Jon McLaughlin visit the fan website Trail Of Broken Hearts (http://trailofbrokenhearts.webs.com/), you will be able to read his full biography, listen to his songs, watch videos and much more. Check his official pages as well:

Official Site - www.jonmcl.com

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I have just watched "Night at the Museum: Battle of Smithsonian" and it was truly amazing. The sequel of "Night at the Museum" was even better than it because we already knew all about the museum coming to life at night so there was more action and less talk, if you get what I mean.

This movie does not happen on the same museum as the previous one but at the Smithsonian Institute, which is a complex of nineteen museums. In this movie most of the statues that were in the New York Museum are taken to be stored at the Smithsonian because the museum was being modernized. The problem is when the Egyptian stone is also takes there which means that the biggest museum in the world would become alive at night and as if it wasn't enough Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), an evil Pharaoh, decides to use the stone to bring his army back to life and take over the world.

Kahmunrah makes all the old museum people hostage and they call for Larry's (Ben Stiller) help. In the movie we come across Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), Al Capone (Jon Bernthal), Napoleon Bonapart (Alain Chabat), Abraham Lincoln (Hank Azaria), etc. Together, Larry and Amelia try to put everything back to its right place given us a lot of fun. In the end everything is right again and Larry learns the secret of happiness.

In overall the movie is very funny, which is no surprise when we are talking about a movie with Ben Stiller. The special effects were all amazing too and the music, composed by Alan Silvestri, is just perfect for the movie. "Night at the Museum: Battle of Smithsonian" was written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, and directed by Shawn Levy.

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is going to be in theaters worldwide in July 1st. The third movie of the sequence will bring our beloved characters into a new life during the dawn of the Dinosaurs, the family is going to grow and the fun is bound to increase together. The movie was directed by Carlos Saldanha (Brazil, yeah!!!) and co-directed by Mike Thurmeier (animator on the previous Ice Age movies). While we wait for the movie, what about enjoying the posters? Check them here: www.thalitacarvalho.blogspot.com

I read today at Globo.com about a research done by Vuze, the creator of one of the most popular clients of Bit Torrent. According to the results of the research those who download illegal material on the internet are the same ones that spend more money on off-line entertainment and also in DVDs. They interviewed 1.299 people from the age of 18 to 44 and found out that users of Bit Torrent clients go to the movies eight times a year while people who don't use P2P go only six times. Those that make downloads also rent more movies than those who don't and also buy sixteen DVDs against only thirteen of the others. Gilles BianRosa, chairman of Vuze, said this is probably something Hollywood is not aware of; maybe the ones they've been fighting against are their best consumers.

Finally we had a research like this because after all, not all people who make downloads do this because they don't want to pay for what they consume. Some really uses it as a way to choose better what to buy.

The Jonas Brothers released a new official video this week for the song "Fly With Me", it's the second song of the new album to get a music video. "Fly With Me" video wasn't as good as "Paranoid", it seems that it was shot during their rehearsals for shows (And that piano Nick was playing? The piano of my dreams!). Anyway the song is good but again, not as good as "Paranoid", which turned into my favorite song of them (you can buy it here ). The campaign for the new album "Lines, Vines and Trying Times" have been massive, with music videos, live webcasts on their Facebook page and a show which you can watch for free here: http://soundcheck.walmart.com/jonas-brothers .

The new album comes out on June 16th, and for what I've listened of it, it's going to be a far better album than the previous ones, the Jonas Brothers are certainly more mature. Let's wait and see, I mean, listen to. To watch the video click here .

Yesterday Shonda Rhimes wrote on Twitter that Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice writes would be back to work on that morning and I was already happy to know that they were back to write the new seasons! Today we learned on Grey's Anatomy's Facebook that the next season premiere will be on Thursday September 24th, which means we only have to wait another 108 days to know what happens to Izzie and George! Let's start the countdown to see how the best cliffhanger ever written will end.

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Well, I know that the question sounds weird itself but let's just explain it, I'm Brazilian, I live in Brazil and my first language is Portuguese. So, is it weird that I'd rather read in English than Portuguese? Two months ago I decided to read the Harry Potter books in Portuguese, it felt the right thing to do because I've read all of them in English and as a Brazilian (I'm proud to be Brazilian, by the way) I thought I should read them in my language.

But the thing is, Harry Potter just didn't seem right in Portuguese. I had a lot of trouble keeping myself going through the books especially because of the translation mistakes. I'm not a specialist in translation, I wouldn't dare to try to translate anything with more than two pages but as a Harry Potter fan I could notice things that weren't exactly what Rowling wrote in English, maybe because the translator wasn't into the books so she wouldn't notice these little details. Anyway I read all the books but I have no intentions to do it ever again, they will just be there in my library, untouched.

To test if my problem was specifically with the Harry Potter books I tried reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen in Portuguese and for no success, this was even worse if that's possible, I didn't even finish it.

Well, weird or not, the truth is that I can't make myself read in Portuguese a book that was originally written in English. I just hope that one day I can read more books in their original language than just the ones written in English.

Thalita carvalho

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"Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!" Mt 18:7

So Jesus said that "Such things must come, but woe to the man through such things come", He was talking about sins, I'm talking about the truth, maybe? Every Grey's Anatomy fan knows that Katherine Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens, said last year that she wasn't running for the Emmy because she wasn't given material good enough to show her talent and deserve it. Okay, Shonda said she wasn't insulted, everybody involved in the show denied that it could cause Heigl her place in the cast. And I truly believe that since the fifth season started with Izzie still working at Seattle Grace Hospital and went like this until the first moment Danny Duquette appeared. When she started seeing Danny and he said he was "there for her" I saw she dying and leaving to heaven (or hell?) with him. Well, Katherine said what she wanted and it was the truth, Grey's Anatomy was going down when she said that and the new season brought it back to its original place, right on top. But now the actress may pay for saying whatever she wanted by leaving the show, could they kill Izzie Stevens to have Katherine out of the way? Did they wait to do it so it wouldn't seem suspicious? Well, many people may be thinking about that right now but I don't think so. I think that maybe they intended to kill her but I don't believe they'll go through it because, let's just face it, Katherine did a great job (now she does deserve the Emmy) and Izzie turned out into a really nice and important character. I have to confess that the best storyline of this season for me was Izzie's, it was just amazing, specially having Danny back (oh I love Danny). So the rumor is that one of the two characters that ended the season fighting to live will really die and I do think it's George. The way I see it, George will die and Izzie won't leave the elevator to go with him but come back to the bright future she wanted. I may be wrong but something tells me, Izzie is not going to die even tough this was the original idea.

I don't believe in destiny like the unavoidable path we have to follow. I believe we all have a purpose which some of you could call destiny but we have a choice about it. You go through life building this destiny; your choices can take you closer to it or take you far away. The thing is, you've got to be ready when the opportunities appear to you and sometimes you are just not ready. Sometimes we are just too messed up to see the truth. Sometimes you just lose your way and not always you can take it back.

Births
1485 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of King Henry VIII of England, who bore him five children.
1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer.
1775 - Jane Austen, British author.
1863 - George Santayana, Spanish-born American philosopher/poet.
1899 - Sir Noel Coward, English actor, director, playwright, and composer.
1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist, who wrote 44 books and over 1000 articles.
1917 - Arthur C. Clark, English science fiction writer.

Deaths
1859 - Wilhelm Carl Grimm, German philologist and folklorist who teamed up with his brother, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Brothers Grimm) to write many folk songs and folktales.
1944 - Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader, presumably in an airplane crash (no bodies or wreckage were ever found) over water while in the military during World War II.
1980 - Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurants.
2005 - Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American newspaper columnist, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. He was 83.
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer and songwriter.

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Births
37 - Nero, Roman emperor.
1832 - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and builder of the Eiffel Tower.
1861 - Charles Duryea, American automobile inventor.
1883 - William A. Hinton, American developer of the "Hinton Test" for diagnosing syphilis.
1892 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company.

Deaths
1890 - Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), Indian chief of the Sioux tribes.
1943 - Fats Waller (Thomas Wright Waller), American jazz pianist and composer.
1966 - Walt Disney, American motion-picture and television producer and founder of the Disney Company.
2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.

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Births
1484 - Martin Luther, German religious leader, founder of Protestantism.
1730 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-born British playwright.
1925 - Richard Burton (Jenkins), British stage and movie actor.
1925 - Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.), Welsh actor.
1932 - Roy Scheider, American film actor.
1956 - Sinbad (born David Adkins), American stand-up comedian and actor.
1975 - Jim Adkins, lead singer and guitarist in the American band Jimmy Eat World.

Deaths
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first president.
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union political leader and Communist Party official.
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,") member of the Merry Pranksters, and prominent figure of the hippie movement of the 1960s.
2003 - Canaan Banana, served as first President of Zimbabwe.
2006 - Jack Palance (born born Volodymyr Palahnyuk), American film actor, known for his rugged facial features and gravelly voice.

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Births
1871 - Stephen Crane, American novelist and poet.
1880 - Grantland Rice, American columnist.
1935 - Gary Player, South African golfer.
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
1972 - Jenny McCarthy, American model, actress.

Deaths
1955 - Dale Carnegie, American lecturer and writer on self-improvement.
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, American first lady and the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1985 - Phil Silvers, American comedian and actor.
1999 - Walter Payton, American football player.
2000 - Sir Stephen Runciman, British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages.

Births
1795 - John Keats, English poet.
1860 - Juliette Low, American, founder of the Girl Scouts.
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, first constitutional president of the Republic of China and army general.
1912 - Dale Evans (Frances Butts), American singer-songwriter, actress, wife of Roy Rogers.
1931 - Dan Rather, American TV journalist.
1936 - Michael Landon, American TV actor, producer and director.

Deaths
1926 - Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born American magician and escape artist.
1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by Sikh members of her own security guard.
1993 - River Phoenix, American film actor.
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian film maker.
1994 - John Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and museum curator.

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Births
1735 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America (1797-1801).
1872 - Emily Post (Price), American etiquette expert.
1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet.
1893 - Charles Atlas, American bodybuilder.
1896 - Ruth Gordon (Jones), American actress.
1932 - Louis Malle, French movie director.
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor and director.

Deaths
1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, conservative British statesman and Prime Minister.
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, TV host, author, and composer.

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