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.
A pair of Democratic-aligned groups waging an effort against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is kicking off the push with a new TV ad that argues it's time for a new senator after nearly three decades in the upper chamber by the Republican.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $6.1 million in May, finishing the month with $11 million in the bank and $2.1 million in debt, according to a committee aide.
The National Republican Congressional Committee hasn't yet released its May numbers. The NRCC had $8.7 million in the bank and $6.3 million worth of debt at the end of April.
While the group does not disclose its donors as a general rule, it does reveal which companies and interest groups sponsor its annual fundraising dinner -- which takes place Thursday night at the J.W. Marriott -- along with how much they contribute. CEI provided a copy of its dinner program to the Fix, which ranks donors according to the value of five metals -- chromium, tungsten, nickel, copper and tin -- which ecologist Paul Ehrlich bet economist Julian Simon would be more scarce in 2005 than in 1980, the year of the wager. (Ehrlich lost the bet.)
The ‘SNAP Challenge:’ The claim that food stamp recipients get by on $4.50 a day
“Why would Members of Congress commit to spend only $4.50 a day on food and live on the budget of the average SNAP recipient? . . . Almost 30 of my colleagues and I are taking the SNAP Challenge — spending, on average, $1.50 a meal to highlight how critical this lifeline is for so many families.”
How much money did Customs and Border Protection need to avoid furloughs?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Customs and Border Protection employees on Wednesday that they would not be furloughed this year, despite the agency's initial estimate that its employees would have to take 14 days off because of the sequester.
Republican aide challenges Democrats in real-life 'hunger games'
Can you feed yourself on $31.50 a week, the average the USDA says a beneficiary of SNAP gets per week?
Some staff members of Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) think so.
SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program. Some Democrats who are seeking increased funding for the program are asking people to try living on a food budget of $4 a day, or $28 a week.
Big Apple’s big battle: Democrats vie to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor
Anthony Weiner paused from his campaign spiel about “being a middle-class kid from New York” when he saw something he didn’t like.
“Stand by,” Weiner said as he broke off an interview on a bustling corner in his old congressional district of Forest Hills. He eyeballed the “Weiner for Mayor” volunteers drifting aimlessly and turned to his young press secretary. “Umm. Hey, Barbara, are you teeing them up? Because if not, I want to give them a little bit of a pep talk.”
Proposal would allow more women to come to U.S. under immigration bill
A group of female senators is planning to introduce a proposal Thursday that would ensure that more women would be admitted to the United States under a comprehensive immigration bill, representing an early attempt at leverage by the Senate’s emerging bloc of women.
Former special agents sentenced to 8 months in prison for fraud
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced two former special agents for the Commerce Department Office of the Inspector General to eight months in prison for submitting false expense claims and clocking hours they didn’t work.
The Obama administration completed two days of talks with Cuban officials Wednesday on resuming long-dormant direct mail delivery to the island.
Since Fidel Castro came to power more than five decades ago, the U.S Postal Service has been unable to deliver mail directly to Cubans, and has had to route letters and packages through third countries. The service is widely known to be slow and unreliable. International express mail is not available.
The Internal Revenue Service is in talks with its employees union regarding $70 million in bonuses despite a directive from the White House budget office telling agencies not to issue such awards, according to a Republican senator.
The relocation of Yellowstone National Park bison to tribal lands in Montana can resume, under a Wednesday ruling from the state’s Supreme Court that could revive a stalled conservation initiative for the animals.
That was the unlikely slogan coming from thousands of cheering tea party supporters who came to the Capitol to highlight the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative political groups.
It was rematch time for the White House softball team, which, as you might recall, got smoked last summer by a squad fielded by a coalition of pro-marijuana groups.
The two teams squared off again Wednesday night at the field on the Ellipse, just off the White House’s front lawn, and again the One Hitters — you guessed it, that’s the pot lobby’s team — beat STOTUS, which is shorthand for “softball team of the U.S.”
Customs and Border Protection avoids sequester furloughs
Congress has approved a plan to avoid furloughs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in fiscal 2013, according to a Wednesday statement by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
CBP also will continue to pay for “administratively uncontrollable overtime,” which applies to Border Patrol agents when they work unscheduled extra hours to fulfill their duties, according to the announcement.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns apologizes for naming Tsarnaev as gun violence victim
Attendees of the "No More Names" event in Concord, N.H., gathered on Tuesday to hear names of gun violence victims read aloud. What they didn't expect to hear was Tamerlan Tsarnaev's name announced alongside those of their families and friends. The Boston Marathon bombing suspect died from injuries sustained in a shootout with the Boston police department and his name angered many in the crowd.
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 considered several more amendments Wednesday to the bipartisan immigration bill.
Every time that the Senate plans to vote on amendments, we're providing a summary of each proposal and handicap its prospects for passage. Here's a look at what transpired today:
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.
Durban Film Festival Unveils Lineup With 72 Features, 48 Docs
The South African festival will screen Asghar Farhadi's Cannes competition entry "The Past" and films from the likes of Wong Kar Wai, David Cronenberg and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Shanghai Film's Ren Zhonglun on the Challenges of Running a Chinese Entertainment Major
The long-time champion and financier of Cannes winning director Jia Zhangke, shares his approach to fusing art and commerce while heading one of China's largest state-backed entertainment conglomerates.
Box Office Preview: 'Monsters University' Pacing to Beat 'World War Z'
"Man of Steel" could also beat Brad Pitt's zombie extravaganza, but even rivals agree that a predicted opening in the $45 million to $50 million range would mark a good start for "World War Z."
The Weinstein Co.'s film is based on the true story of art couple Margaret and Walter Keane, who both claimed to have painted the famous big-eyed children's paintings.
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.”
