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.
GOP poll: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett in bad shape
A newly leaked Republican poll shows Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) faces a steep uphill battle in his quest for reelection, and even many Republicans are unhappy with him.
The Public Opinion Strategies poll, which was obtained by the Philadelphia City Paper and conducted from April 30-May 2, shows Corbett trailing Rep. Alyson Schwartz (D) 46 percent to 34 percent.
The Senate is on the verge of considering another 10 amendments to the bipartisan immigration bill, four from Democrats, five from Republicans and one bipartisan proposal.
Every time that the Senate plans to vote on amendments, we'll provide a summary of each proposal and handicap its prospects for passage. Here's a look at what's up next on the docket:
The remarkable consistency of President Obama's job approval numbers
Here's the truth about President Obama's job approval numbers: They don't move around all that much.
New numbers from Pew Research Center tell that story. Forty nine percent of respondents approved of the job President Obama while 43 percent disapproved. Those numbers are remarkably unchanged from where Obama stood in a January Pew poll despite the fact that the past five and a half months have seen the failure of the White House's attempt to change gun laws, the IRS scandal, evidence of an improving economy, the NSA revelations and plenty of other "major" news events.
Capitol Hill post offices closures get final stamp
The fight over post office closures is hitting close to home for members of Congress and Hill staffers — the U.S. Postal Service is finally shutting down three Capitol Hill facilities.
Lawmakers and other Hill denizens may now have to (gasp!) walk to the next building to buy their stamps, now that the USPS on Wednesday issued “Final Determination to Close notices” (which means what you’d assume it does) at the post offices in the Rayburn, Cannon, and Capitol buildings.
In a conversation with The Washington Post's Brook Silva-Braga on The Fold, the freshman senator decried the bill for moving immigration policy to a two-tiered system that reduces people to points. Awarding foreigners for their level of education or work experience "institutionalizes and sets in concrete the unequal opportunities that women have in these countries," she said.
Rush Holt is no Cory Booker. And he's just fine with that.
Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), in his own words, is no Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D).
"I'll be the first to admit, I'm no Cory Booker," Holt says in an introductory campaign video released Wednesday. "I don't have a million Twitter followers, I've never run into a burning building, and I'm not friends with Mark Zuckerberg, though I did like him on Facebook."
Moniz taps veteran environmentalist as chief of staff
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has tapped highly regarded environmentalist Kevin Knobloch, most recently president of the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, to be his chief of staff.
Knobloch had also been the organization’s legislative director for arms control and national security and had worked on the Hill in the ‘80s as legislative director for former Democratic senator Tim Wirth of Colorado and legislative assistant and press secretary for former New York Democratic representative Ted Weiss.
Sequester furloughs avoided for Customs and Border Protection
Congress has approved a plan to avoid furloughs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees during fiscal 2013, according to a Wednesday statement from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Who will be the next Republican senator to embrace gay marriage?
Note: We originally posted this item on April 5. We're resurfacing it now, in light of Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Wednesday announcement that she supports gay marriage. With the Supreme Court expected to rule soon on cases involving gay marriage, the issue is front and center once again. So, it's worth revisiting which Senate Republican might be next to follow in the footsteps of Murkowski and Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). We've taken Murkowski off the list, and reached out to the offices of the remaining senators on it. We will update with any change in position.
Obama to reveal plan to combat climate change, aide says
President Obama will outline his plan to address climate change in "the weeks ahead," an effort that will focus on at least three broad areas in which the administration's rule-making powers can have significant impact, the White House's top adviser on energy and the environment said Wednesday.
Biden on emancipation: 'Finally, the message got to Texas'
Vice President Biden said Wednesday at a ceremony honoring abolitionist Frederick Douglass that it "took a long time" for emancipation to make its way to Texas.
Speaking at a ceremony unveiling a statue of Douglass in the U.S. Capitol, Biden talked about how Wednesday's Juneteenth holiday honors the day Texas became the last state to learn the Civil War -- and by extension, slavery -- was over.
WATCH: The biggest presidential speeches in Berlin
On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's speech of solidarity to Berliners, President Obama spoke at on the east side of Berlin's famous Brandenburg Gate to call for the simultaneous reduction of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. In his speech, Obama reiterated the reality of many post-Cold War challenges and but emphasized the importance of collaboration.
Americans don't believe in much of anything -- and why that's a terrible thing for politics
People no longer trust their government, their media or much of anything else to do the right thing.
That lack of confidence, which has accelerated in the last decade or so, is a major (and often overlooked) factor in the current political morass in which the country finds itself -- deeply divided along partisan lines without anything even close to objective force able to referee us through the mess.
White House softball team to suit up against pot lobby for a rematch
It’s rematch time for the White House softball team, which you might recall got smoked last summer by a team fielded by a coalition of pro-marijuana groups.
The two teams square off again on Wednesday night at the field on the Ellipse just off the White House’s front lawn.
House panel approves controversial immigration bill
The House Judiciary Committee approved a measure late Tuesday that would make it a federal crime for illegal immigrants to be in the United States.
The Republican-backed proposal also would permit state and local governments to draft their own immigration laws, as long as they are consistent with federal statutes.
A few items that caught our attention on Wednesday:
IRS is about to pay $70 million in bonuses despite administration directive. That's according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who said his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees' union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. A directive from the White House budget office tells agencies to not pay discretionary monetary awards under the sequester "unless legally required," according to an Associated Press article.
Murkowski becomes third GOP senator to back gay marriage
A third Republican senator has come out in favor of gay marriage, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announcing her support Wednesday morning.
"I am a life-long Republican because I believe in promoting freedom and limiting the reach of government," Murkowski wrote on her Web site. "When government does act, I believe it should encourage family values. I support the right of all Americans to marry the person they love and choose because I believe doing so promotes both values: it keeps politicians out of the most private and personal aspects of peoples' lives while also encouraging more families to form and more adults to make a lifetime commitment to one another."
Rand Paul seems to be crossing over to the mainstream — or maybe, it’s the other way around.
When Kentucky’s junior senator arrived in Washington just over two years ago, he seemed destined to inhabit the role of perpetual outlier. But now, he’s in the mix on just about everything that is happening, and talked about as a credible Republican presidential contender in 2016.
Obama calls for nuclear warhead reduction in U.S., Russia
BERLIN — President Obama on Wednesday called for the reduction of the number of deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads by one-third if the Russian government agrees to similar cuts, reviving a goal outlined early in his presidency to work toward a world without nuclear weapons.
Former congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) declined Wednesday to rule out a primary challenge against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in 2016, but also noted that it would be a "pretty heavy lift."
West didn't seem to relish the talk about a potential primary, noting that it would create a "schism" in the GOP that would help Democrats. But when asked directly whether he would rule out challenging Rubio, who has been working with Democrats to craft an immigration reform compromise, the ouspoken conservative paused and mimicked crickets.
Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and the politics of sports
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is a Dallas Cowboys fan in a New York Giants/Jets world. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is the guy with the off-the-mark NBA Finals prediction.
Those are both good things for them in the world of politics.
James Franco Criticizes 'Amazing Spider-Man' (Again), While Raving About 'Man of Steel'
The multi-hyphenate penned an op-ed for “Vice,” in which he says the Andrew Garfield franchise “arose even before there was time to bury the corpse of the old one.”
Baz Luhrmann Preps Another 'Great Gatsby' Album (Q&A)
The director talks to THR about "Yellow Cocktail Music," a companion to the gold-certified soundtrack featuring new tracks by the Bryan Ferry Orchestra along with period classics.
'Man of Steel': How Jon Peters Could Earn $15 Million -- for Doing Nothing
The studio mogul-turned-producer, blocked from working on the set, nonetheless scored a Kryptonite-proof check thanks to Hollywood's early adopter system.
The expansion follows a recent joint venture between the VFX major, Hong Kong-based AID Partners Capital and Chinese partner Zhejiang Jingqi Wenhua Chuanbo Company.
India, China to Explore Film, TV Co-Production Pact
China will be the guest country at next year's International Film Festival of India in Goa as the Asian giants look to increase interaction in the entertainment sector.
Jackie Chan in India: 'I Want To Be the De Niro of Asia'
Kicking off the Chinese Film Festival in New Delhi, the Hong Kong superstar also talks about the planned musical version of his memoirs and "The Expendables 3."
'Anchorman 2' Trailer: Ron Burgundy Is Back (Video)
Paramount releases the first full-length trailer for the anticipated follow-up, reuniting Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Christina Applegate.
