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.
Obama says administration making ‘right trade-offs’ in surveillance programs
President Obama defended his administration’s right to engage in extensive surveillance of U.S. communications in an interview with PBS host Charlie Rose, saying the programs had disrupted multiple terrorist plots and had adequate checks and balances.
Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa on Monday, digging around in a suburban Detroit field where a reputed Mafia captain said the Teamsters boss’s body was buried.
Authorities used excavation equipment to root around in the Oakland Township property, about 25 miles north of Detroit. The FBI halted the search for the day at about 7 p.m., and planned to resume the effort Tuesday.
Obama and Putin fail to resolve differences over Syria
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, failed to resolve on Monday their significant differences over how to bring about an end to Syria’s civil war, as each leader steps up military support for opposite sides in the worsening conflict.
When the Loop wrote last week about the expanding women’s restroom off the Senate chamber, we had no idea just how important a venue we were talking about.
Forget stuffy conference rooms or even the Senate floor. It turns out that ladies’ rooms are where plenty of important conversations happen (and they have nothing to do with primping).
President Obama said in an interview airing Monday night that comparisons between his surveillance policies and the Bush Administration go too far, distancing himself in particular from former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Democrat Begich: I'm more like a 'Rockefeller Republican"
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) is a difficult politician to introduce. This isn't because of his lengthy resume or great oratory skills, it's more because Sen. Begich doesn't know how to label himself politically.
Pentagon spokesman explains ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ missive
Scripts aren’t just for Hollywood actors. We’re less than shocked to hear that government spokesmen also find that a few canned lines can come in handy.
Those questioning the access the Defense Department gave to the filmmakers of the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” which chronicled the successful hunt for Osama bin Laden, have sometimes pointed, among other things, to a friendly 2011 e-mail from a Pentagon spokesman to the film’s producer. In the missive, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs George Little tells producer Mark Boal that it had been a pleasure to “facilitate things,” presumably talking about helping the Hollywood types navigate the rather complicated innards of the DoD.
The transcript of congressional investigators' May 21 conversations with Holly Paz, who served as a top official in the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt organizations division until recently, just came to light Sunday. Paz was among the first IRS employees to be interviewed as part of an inquiry into whether or not the agency improperly targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. Here are some of the most interesting things she told the House Oversight and Government Reform and Ways and Means Committees' members and aides during the course of those discussions:
Ted Cruz promises amendment to overturn SCOTUS ruling
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a tweet Monday afternoon that he will file an amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill that would allow states to require identification for voter registration -- just hours after the Supreme Court struck down a law that did just that.
Former Obama administration official Berwick announces run for governor
Former Obama administration official Donald Berwick will run for governor of Massachusetts in 2014, he announced Monday.
"As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people I am ready to lead," said Berwick, the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
What the ‘Hastert rule’ fight tells us about House Republicans
A rump caucus of renegade Republicans, backed by well-heeled outside conservative groups, are pushing to change internal House GOP rules to prohibit the party leadership from bringing legislation to the floor that does not have "majority-of-the-majority" support.
Americans clearly against arming Syrian rebels, even after 'red line' crossed, polls show
The United States is moving to arm Syrian rebels following White House confirmation that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people, but the American people aren't on-board, according to new polls.
Follow all of the Fix's best state-based political reporters in one click!
Since we put out our list of the best political reporters in all 50 states last month, people just keep asking for a way to follow all of them on Twitter. The idea of a single Twitter list that provides you a fix -- see what we did there? -- on the politics of each state in the country seemed like a great one to us too.
Fifty days before the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comment about Americans who pay no income tax rocked the presidential race and arguably sank his candidacy. Both before and after Election Day, Romney struggled to explain the comment, emphasizing that he could have stated his proposals more eloquently but never really shaking his out-of-touch, rich-guy image.
How the immigration bill explains the Senate, in 10 anecdotes
A sweeping immigration bill months in the making is in the midst of its most crucial test yet, with the full Senate set to launch its second full week of debate over the matter and Majority Leader promising a vote on final passage by the July 4 recess.
Threats and attacks against public lands employees rise
Threats and attacks against federal employees who protect public lands rose in 2012, an increase those employees partly attributed to more use of those lands for purposes related to illegal drugs, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility organization said Monday.
Jeb Bush labels conservative critics 'the chirpers'
Jeb Bush says he's not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as "the chirpers."
A new study by the Pew Research Center raises an important question about that perceived momentum: Is it being created, at least in part, by positive news media coverage of the possibility of legalization?
Supreme Court says states may not add citizenship proof for voter registration
States may not require additional proof of citizenship on federal forms designed to streamline voter-registration procedures, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The court rejected a requirement passed by Arizona voters in 2004 that potential voters supply proof of eligibility beyond an applicant’s oath on the federal form that he or she is a citizen.
'Trainspotting's' Ewen Bremner Debuts Quirky Music Video (Exclusive)
The actor, who appears in the upcoming "Snowpiercer," is making his music debut with the album, "Sprinter," described as "a foray into David Bowie territory."
Online Movie Service Distrify Aims to Boost 'I Am Breathing' Doc Rollout
The U.K. online movie distribution and marketing platform partners with the Scottish Documentary Institute to mount a "portable fundraiser" campaign for the feature-length documentary.
Stephanie Sperber Re-Ups as President, Universal Partnerships & Licensing
The executive, who oversees the studio's global consumer products, digital licensing and theatrical and home entertainment promotions, has a contract extension through June 2016.
Writer Michael Wolff says that while second wife Anna had a legal stake to that much money, she instead agreed to accept less in exchange for securing her children's inheritance.
Douglas Trumbull, Natalie Wood's Last Director, Returns With Sci-Fi Project
The man who invented the visuals behind "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Blade Runner," who "just had to stop" when the actress died in an off-set accident as "Brainstorm" was in production, is helping "UFOTOG" at 3D, 4K, 120fps.
Idris Elba Channels Nelson Mandela in 'Long Walk to Freedom' Poster (Exclusive Image)
Based on Mandela's autobiography of the same name, The Weinstein Co. film follows the Nobel Peace Prize winner from childhood to his election as president of South Africa.
Rob Ford Scandal: Mayor Votes Against Toronto International Film Festival Subsidy
The $950,000 grant passed city council as Toronto police arrested two suspected drug dealers allegedly seen with the embattled politician in an infamous photo.
Now slated for a release in December 2015, the project will see one-third of its production done in China, said the managing director of a company partnering with DreamWorks Animations in the film.
