The Heather Nova Online Magazine US edition for creative minds
The Heather Nova Online Magazine is a nonprofit unofficial website. Our office is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
We call our site the Heather Nova Online Magazine US edition because we want to let the Heather Nova fans in the USA know that we're right with you! Heather doesn't do many gigs in the USA, and we want to give you an active voice! Our mission is to popularize Heather's music in the States so that she will be able to do gigs in the States too.
We hope to achieve our mission by offering you the best you can get on the net and by providing you with lots of information about our idol & our figure head: Heather Nova, the shining star from Bermuda.
On our website, you can find lots of information about our figurehead Heather Nova and also about other interesting topics like science, world news, music, creativity, etc.
MTV NETWORKS SUPPORTING ENTIRE "300 DAYS..." ALBUM
Heather’s new single, “Save A Little Piece of Tomorrow” will officially be available today, on iTunes, in the U.S. and Canada. This will be the same edited version that will be serviced to Triple A radio in the states on Wednesday February 27th.
In conjunction with the new single, Heather's US and Canadian label, eOne, has secured a synch licensing deal with MTV Networks, for the entire "3OO Days..." album to be used for "music beds" across all of the MTV platforms. The first of which will be tonight at 1O pm central/9 pm eastern on the hugely rated "Snooki and JWOWW" episode 'Between A Rock and a Hard Place".
We were shocked about the terrorist attack on Boston on April 15, 2013.
Our thoughts are with the victims.
The old Heather Nova Flash site is back online!
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There's some great news for those of you who liked the old nova flash site, because we decided to bring the site back to life. There's a reason for this: we started the Heather Nova Online Magazine in '01. In '03, I registered heathernova.us and this site was a fact! So this is our tenth anniversary and what is the best way to celebrate? To bring back some of that old magic we all know as multimedia! So we proudly present the old heathernova website that I created in '08.
The flash site was online from '08 until '10, and now it's back with the original messages that Heather wrote...
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Our Heather Nova Online magazine is powered by Horizon Quick Content Management System, which we also offer as open-source software on sourceforge.net because we believe in sharing information with the rest of the world. Now, after more than a year of developing we created a new stable version of Horizon QCMS: version 4.
With Horizon QCSM it's simple to maintain a website...
Huge thanks to Sanja Gjenero who gave us permission to use some of her photos for Horizon QCMS 4.0.
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In the Washington Post, I read an article that the United States should step up its involvement in the conflict in Syria. Sen. John McCain, charged that President Obama has failed to follow through on a statement that the use of chemical weapons in the conflict would constitute a “red line.”
I agree with Sen. McCain that the use of chemical weapons is wrong. But is sending weapons to the rebels a good idea? I don't think so Mr. McCain. Why? Chances are that these weapons will be used against the USA in the future. Among the rebels, there are a lot of people fighting the "jihad." It's quite possible that some of them have connections with Al-Qaeda.
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In the New York Times, I read about the tragedy that took place in Newtown. On December 14, 2012, a maniac came shooting in the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
My thoughts are with the people in Newtown, Connecticut and I would like to offer my condolences on behalf of our website. I would also like to ask for a moment of silence for the 28 people who died because of a lunatic with a gun. Among the victims were 20 children. They had a whole life in front of them, and it ended brutally.
In my opinion it's way to easy for a lunatic to buy weapons, it's time to discuss gun control.
Attention: we use google translation to translate our website in your native language.
Please keep in mind that the translation isn't perfect, and it doesn't work on the Wikipedia page.
We won the PWA award
PWA stands for Popular Website Awards and the Heather Nova Online Magazine won this award. This is the second time, after 2003, that we win an award, and we're proud that we are selected by the Awards Manager of http://www.popularwebsiteawards.com.
If you want to verify our website than you will see the following message:
The website http://www.heathernova.us is a verified winner of our award.
They have been awarded as the #1 Popular site in their segment, based on feedback collected from a large sample of their users.
How popular are we on the Internet?
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Here you see a list of websites that links to our site.
Why do we share these links with you? Well, first of all, any site that mentions us deserves a link back, and secondly; it will help our site, and other sites too! to get a higher ranking on Google.
If you know a website that links to us then please share the link with us so that we can put it on our list
TTFN
Cynthia
Webmaster tips and tricks
Perhaps sometimes you wonder where do the visitors come from and which webpages are of the most interest to your audience? I wrote a short article titled:
How to monitor your site performance?
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Google Analytics is a great tool, but Google Analytics doesn't show you all the details you might need to keep your website interesting to your audience, and that's when you can use PHP to measure your site.
If you really want to know what's happening on your site, then you can use PHP and MySQL to track your site.
First, you need to create a MySQL database to store the referring URLs.
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Due to spam, I decided to use Facebook as a "Guestbook" on our site. You cannot only comment on the many articles on our beloved website, but you can also use Facebook to tell us how you think about our site and add suggestions on how we can improve the Heather Nova Online Magazine and believe it or not, it really works!
Lots of spammers are abusing Google, Bing and Yahoo to find online guest books because they love to abuse a guest book with their spam.
However, since we decided to fight spam, we use Facebook as a "guest book" and I haven't seen spam on our site ever since we decided to change our policy.
Sure, spammers still know how to reach us by email, but no longer directly on our site.
It's also the reason why we no longer support a forum because you can use Facebook on our site to share your point of view. Still, if you need to "sign" our guest book, you can go to the section "Guestbook" and tell the world how you think about our site. It's not a problem for us to use Facebook, but for spammers it is because they will be exposed with their Facebook profile.
If you have a website and want to have a "guest book," book" then do the same thing as we do: use Facebook so that you know that you're dealing with real people.
Do you want to help us to keep this site alive?
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Hosting a website like the Heather Nova Online Magazine cost a lot of money. This price for the server is $ 900.00 a year. We host the site by a company in the USA because we also want to support the USA. We want to keep the site alive, and you can help us with that by opening your own homepage on our website for $ 10.00 a year.
What will you get? You will get a homepage powered by the latest version of Horizon QCMS, including a dozen templates to choose from. Your homepage will be automatically ranked by a dozen search engines and best of all: by ordering a homepage you're also supporting the Heather Nova Online Magazine to keep our site alive. We will also donate $ 1.00 from each purchase to the World Wildlife Foundaion.
- Full Facebook support
- Simple gallery, to share your photos with the rest of the world
- Full support for YouTube.
- Full support for various multimedia files, including mp3, flash and mp4.
- Your personal access code
Click here for a free demo of Horizon QCMS version 3.5.1
The username for the demo is admin, the password is : demo123
Did you know that the Heather Nova Online Magazine is powered by Horizon QCMS? Well, now you do!
Do you want to know how a homepage will look under the umbrella of the Heather Nova Online Magazine? Go to my personal homepage on "http://user.heathernova.us/cynthia/"
Heather Nova live at Paradiso on April 2, 2012
Picture of Heather Nova on stage in Amsterdam at Paradiso on April 2, 2012.
All pictures are taken by Cynthia Fridsma.
You can click with your mouse on an image to start a slideshow.
Voyager 1 Reaches Final Boundary Before Interstellar Space
The Voyager 1, operated by the U.S. space agency NASA, has entered a newly discovered region at the edge of the solar system, and is close to crossing a final boundary into instellar space.
Scientists are calling this region between between the solar system and deep space the "magnetic highway."
Astronomers say Voyager is still under the influence of our Sun, but that it has reached an area in which highly charged energy particles from interstellar space are beginning to stream in.
Project scientist Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology says astronomers did not previously know about this final boundary discovered by Voyager.
Attention: in order to improve our site performance, we decided to move
the Newsfeefds from Reuters to the "News Service".
Heather Nova Live At John Lennon Tribute
Washington Post Headlines
Disrupted ‘terrorist events’ detailed
In testimony before Congress Tuesday, senior intelligence and law enforcement officials said recently revealed surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 “potential terrorist events,” including at least 10 plots that were based inside the United States. Four of those cases have been made public. Sean Joyce, deputy director of the FBI, listed them in this order:
Officials: Surveillance programs foiled more than 50 terrorist plots
The U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior government officials testified Tuesday.
Black Louisiana state senator explains switch to GOP (VIDEO)
A state senator in Louisiana explains in a new video why he switched to the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP should be the new home for African-Americans like him.
In the video, state Sen. Elbert Guillory says Democrats use social programs like welfare and food stamps to monopolize the black vote. He urges them to "please join with me today in abandoning the government plantation and the party of disappointment."
Looks like Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has been working on his penmanship.
The Treasury Department on Tuesday tweeted an image of Lew’s signature as it will appear on U.S. currency beginning this fall. And it’s a vast improvement over his original, oddly loopy signature that garnered much mocking (including by the Loop, which enlisted a handwriting expert to plumb its deeper meanings).
GSA nominee Dan Tangherlini testifies before Senate committee
President Obama's pick to head the General Services Administration testified Tuesday before the Senate committee that will decide whether to support his nomination.
GSA acting administrator Daniel M. Tangherlini, who has led the agency for the past 14 months, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that GSA has improved its efficiency and accountability under his watch.
Rep. Elijah Cummings releases a full IRS interview transcript
The House Oversight Committee's top Democrat on Tuesday released the fulltranscript of a congressional interview that he said "debunks conspiracy theories" about the IRS targeting controversy.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the committee, produced a complete interview transcript in which an IRS manager in Cincinnati said he elevated the first tea party case that led the agency to begin singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
Rand Paul is the most interesting man in the (political) world
The first six months of 2013 have made two things very clear: 1) Rand Paul is running for president and 2) Rand Paul is the most interesting politician in the country at the moment.
From his filibuster over drones to his positioning on the immigration reform bill to his well-received trips to early presidential-voting states, Paul has shown a knack for simultaneously confounding expectations and drawing press attention. And, with the immigration fight in the Senate headed to a conclusion in the next few weeks and the debt ceiling battle looming this fall, Paul promises to be at the center of the political conversation going forward, too.
An October governor's election in New Jersey? Not going to happen.
Some New Jersey Democrats have come up with a novel idea: If Gov. Chris Christie (R) wants to spend millions holding an October special election, why not move his own election from November to October to save money?
Biden warns of ‘political price’ for lawmakers who oppose gun-control measures
Declaring that “we have not given up,” Vice President Biden on Tuesday warned that lawmakers who opposed the Obama administration’s proposals to stem gun violence “will pay a political price.”
Biden appeared in a White House auditorium to announce that the administration has completed or made significant progress on nearly two dozen smaller-scale executive actions aimed at strengthening existing background checks, improving record-keeping and providing schools and communities with emergency management plans.
Bill Ayers, whose relationship with President Obama was the subject of much intrigue during Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, now says the president should be tried for war crimes.
Ayers, the former Weather Underground member and University of Illinois at Chicago professor, told Real Clear Politics that Obama is "absolutely" engaged in terrorist activity by using drones and "absolutely" should be tried for war crimes.
At the Dutch embassy, cicadas are what’s for dinner
Typically, embassy soirees are a chance to sample the fine cuisines of the host countries. Fine wines at the French; the very freshest sushi at Japan’s...
So forgive us if an upcoming event at the Dutch embassy strikes us as a little unappetizing. On the menu? No artisanal edam or herring, but rather crickets, mealworms and cicadas.
Former senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is set to be named the State Department's special envoy to Central Africa.
Feingold lost reelection in 2010 to now-Sen. Ron Johnson (R) and since then has been running a liberal advocacy group called Progressives United. His move to the State Department was rumored last month.
Boehner: No immigration bill without majority GOP support
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) privately reiterated to colleagues Tuesday that the House will not vote on an immigration reform package that doesn't have the support of a majority of Republicans.
NSA head: Surveillance helped thwart more than 50 terror plots
Intelligence officials said Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance efforts have helped thwart "potential terrorist events" more than 50 times since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and the officials detailed two new examples to illustrate the utility of the programs.
The House abortion bill likely won't make it into law. But it still matters.
The House took up legislation Tuesday afternoon that would ban abortions starting at 20 weeks, issuing a clear challenge to federal law. But the White House has issued a veto threat, and the measure lacks the votes right now to pass the bill.
Alaska Lt. Gov. Treadwell to challenge Sen. Mark Begich
Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (R) announced Tuesday that he will officially challenge Sen. Mark Begich (D) in 2014, transitioning from an exploratory committee to a full-fledged campaign.
"This intense exploratory effort has convinced me that I have the support necessary to build a winning campaign," Treadwell said on his Web site. "Today I'm taking the next step by announcing that I will not seek re-election as Alaska's lieutenant governor and have begun to file documents required as a candidate for the United States Senate in 2014."
John Morton, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the past four years, on Monday announced plans to leave the agency at the end of July.
Morton, who was born in Scotland and raised in Loudon County, will take an executive-level position with Capital One bank in August. The Senate unanimously confirmed him to be ICE’s director in 2009.
After getting off to a sluggish start this year, the Senate is now approving judges at a rapid clip.
The chamber on Monday night approved two federal judges, Luis Felipe Restrepo in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Gonzalez in the District of New Mexico. This latest move puts it on a lively pace of giving the nod to two judicial nominees a week since Easter.
A congressional hearing on Tuesday will pit leaders from the nation's largest federal-employee union and proponents of smaller government against each other to discuss how federal agencies can run more efficiently.
Not too long ago I saw the fabulous one woman show "Ann," based on the larger-than-life Texas governor Ann Richards. Having had the pleasure of meeting Richards as a child while growing up in Texas, I was struck by how perfectly actress Holland Taylor managed to capture the essence of the legendary woman best remembered for her white hair and her one-liners. ("Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth," she famously quipped of the first President Bush.) But I was also struck by how shocked Richards would be if she were still alive to see just how much our home state has changed, and not for the better.
2 amendments to immigration reform bill passed, 2 defeated
Updated 4:32 p.m. ET
The Senate voted Tuesday on amendments to the bipartisan immigration reform bill, marking the first time since debate started that senators were making changes to the massive legislative proposal.
Laws fail to protect pregnant women who need special accommodations on the job
Heather Myers was fired from her job at a Wal-Mart store in Salina, Kan., for keeping a water bottle nearby -- even though she was pregnant and simply following doctor's orders to drink plenty of liquids.
Rome Fest Artistic Director Mueller Honored by Russo-Italian Premio Gorky
The literary competition, created to promote cultural ties between Russia and Italy, honored Mueller for helping to increase the visibility of Russian cinema.
'Monsters University' Premiere: A Frightening Good Time
Billy Crystal, Charlie Day and Sean Hayes celebrated at the El Capitan Theater on June 17 for the world premiere of Disney and Pixar's latest feature, the collegiate prequel to 2001's "Monsters Inc."
'Great Gatsby' Director Baz Luhrmann to Be Honored at Ischia Global Fest
The 50-year-old Australian will be presented with an award named for famed Italian director Luchino Visconti at a special ceremony at Visconti's former villa.
'World War Z': Brad Pitt Attends New York Premiere Without Angelina Jolie
While his Other Half works on behalf of U.N.'s "World Refugee Day," the movie star nearly shuts down Times Square to promote his long-delayed zombie thriller.
Ryan Gosling Starrer 'Only God Forgives' Wins Sydney Film Prize
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s revenge thriller divided the Sydney Film Festival jury, just as it has divided critics since its premiere at Cannes in May.
Gerard Depardieu Talks Heavy Drinking, His Seven Passports, Putin and Pussy Riot
Awaiting a decision Friday over a DUI charge from last year, the actor tells the French press: "It’s a bit of this hooligan spirit which pleases Putin."
Shanghai Festival: Veteran Producers Explore What 'Made-in-China' Means for Movie Quality
“The biggest rival of Chinese-language films is the fact that too many of them are low-quality, says Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" producer Bill Kong.
Activist Investor Raises Sony Stake, Continues Push for Entertainment IPO
Daniel Loeb in his second letter to CEO Kaz Hirai says that the conglomerate's film and music businesses lack the "discipline and accountability" of many peers.
