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Harry Warren
|Harry Warren
Warren promoting songs
on Tin Pan Alley, 1920
|Background information
|Birth name
|Salvatore Antonio Guaragna
December 24, 1893
Brooklyn, New York
September 22, 1981 87) (aged
Los Angeles, California
|Popular music
|Composer, lyricist
Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.
Over a career spanning four decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Other well known Warren hits included "I Only Have Eyes for You", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Jeepers Creepers", "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)", "That's Amore", "The More I See You", "At Last" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (the last of which was the first gold record in history). Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers,and his songs have been featured in over 300 films.
Early life
Warren was born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, one of eleven children of Italian immigrants Antonio (a bootmaker) and Rachel De Luca Guaragna, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. His father changed the family name to Warren when Harry was a child. Although his parents could not afford music lessons, Warren had an early interest in music and taught himself to play his father's accordion. He also sang in the church choir and learned to play the drums. He began to play the drums professionally by age 14 and dropped out of high school at 16 to play with his godfather's band in a traveling carnival. Soon he taught himself to play the piano and by 1915, he was working at the Vitagraph Motion Picture Studios, where he did a variety of administrative jobs, such as props man, and also played mood music on the piano for the actors, acted in bit parts and eventually was an assistant director. He also played the piano in cafés and silent-movie houses. In 1918 he joined the U.S. Navy, where he began writing songs.[1][2]
Warren wrote over 800 songs between 1918 and 1981, publishing over 500 of them.[3][4] They were written mainly for 56 feature films or were used in other films that used Warren's newly written or existing songs.[1] His songs eventually appeared in over 300 films and 112 of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.[5] 42 of his songs were on the top ten list of the radio program "Your Hit Parade", a measure of a song's popularity. 21 of these reached #1 on Your Hit Parade.[4] "You'll Never Know" appeared 24 times.[6] His song "I Only Have Eyes for You" is listed in the list of the 25 most-performed songs of the 20th Century, as compiled by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).[7] Warren was the director of ASCAP from 1929 to 1932.[2]
He collaborated on some of his most famous songs with lyricists Al Dubin, Billy Rose, Mack Gordon, Leo Robin, Ira Gershwin and Johnny Mercer. In 1942 the Gordon-Warren song "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", as performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, became the first gold record in history. It was No.1 for nine weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1941–1942, selling 1.2 million copies.[8] Among his biggest hits were "There Will Never Be Another You", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "Forty-Second Street", "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)", "Lullaby of Broadway", "Serenade In Blue", "At Last", "Jeepers Creepers", "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me", "That's Amore", and "Young and Healthy".[1]
Early hits and film years
Warren's first hit song was "Rose of the Rio Grande" (1922), with lyrics by Edgar Leslie.[9] He wrote a succession of hit songs in the 1920s, including "I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me)" and "Seminola" in 1925, "Where Do You Work-a John?" and "In My Gondola" in 1926 and "Nagasaki" in 1928. In 1930, he composed the music for the song "Cheerful Little Earful" for the Billy Rose Broadway revue, Sweet and Low, and composed the music, with lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young, for the Ed Wynn Broadway revue The Laugh Parade in 1931.[1]
He started working for Warner Brothers in 1932, paired with Dubin to write the score for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, and continued to work there for six years, writing the scores for 32 more musicals.[5] He worked for 20th Century Fox starting in 1940, writing with Mack Gordon.[10] He moved to MGM starting in 1944, writing for musical films such as The Harvey Girls and The Barkleys of Broadway, many starring Fred Astaire. He later worked for Paramount, starting in the early 1950s, writing for the Bing Crosby movie Just for You and the Martin and Lewis movie The Caddy, the latter containing the hit song "That's Amore". He continued to write songs for several more Jerry Lewis comedies.[1]
Warren is particularly remembered for writing scores for the films of Busby Berkeley; they worked together on 18 films. His "uptempo songs are as memorable as Berkeley's choreography, as [sic] for the same reason: they capture, in a few snazzy notes, the vigorous frivolity of the Jazz Age."[11]
Warren won the Academy Award for Best Song three times, collaborating with three different lyricists: "Lullaby of Broadway" with Al Dubin in 1935, "You'll Never Know" with Mack Gordon in 1943, and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" with Johnny Mercer in 1946. He was nominated for eleven Oscars.[1]
Last years
In 1955, Warren wrote "The Legend of Wyatt Earp", which was used in the ABC/Desilu Studios television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. The last musical score that Warren composed specifically for Broadway was Shangri-La, a disastrous 1956 adaptation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon, which ran for only 21 performances. In 1957, he received his last Academy Award nomination for "An Affair To Remember". He continued to write songs for movies throughout the 1960s and 1970s but never again achieved the fame that he had enjoyed earlier. His last movie score was for Manhattan Melody, in 1980, but the film was never produced.[2]
Warren composed a Mass, with Latin text, in 1962. This was performed a decade later at Loyola Marymount University, but it has yet to be recorded commercially.[12] He also wrote nearly three dozen short piano vignettes. The sheet music was first published by Warren's Four Jays Music Co.[13] A dozen of these were released on a 1975 album titled Harry Warren's Piano Vignettes, played by Hugh Delain.[14] Several pianists have recorded the vignettes, including Warren himself.[15]
Personal life
Warren married Josephine Wensler in 1917. They had a son, Harry Jr. (1919–1938), and a daughter, Joan (b. 1925). His wife died in 1993.
Warren died on September 22, 1981 in Los Angeles.[16] He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. The plaque bearing Warren's epitaph displays the first few notes of "You'll Never Know".[17]
A theatre in Brooklyn, New York is named after Warren.[18]
Reputation and legacy
According to Wilfrid Sheed, quoted in Time Magazine, "By silent consensus, the king of this army of unknown soldiers, the Hollywood incognitos, was Harry Warren, who had more songs on the Hit Parade than Berlin himself and who would win the contest hands down if enough people have heard of him."[11] William Zinsser noted, "The familiarity of Harry Warren's songs is matched by the anonymity of the man... he is the invisible man, his career a prime example of the oblivion that cloaked so many writers who cranked out good songs for bad movies."[10]
At least three episodes of the Lawrence Welk Show were devoted entirely to Warren's music: Season 18, Episode 5, October 7, 1972;[19] Season 25, Episode 10, November 24, 1979;[20] and Season 27, Episode 17, January 2, 1982[21]
In 1980, producer David Merrick and director Gower Champion adapted the 1933 film 42nd Street into a Broadway musical that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1981, ran for 3,486 performances and has had several major revivals.[22] The score incorporated songs by Warren and Dubin from various movie musicals including 42nd Street, Dames, Go Into Your Dance, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Gold Diggers of 1935.[23]
Music by Warren, unless noted:
Academy Award nominations and winners
- Winners
- "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) w. Al Dubin for Gold Diggers of 1935[24]
- "You'll Never Know" (1943) w. Mack Gordon for Hello, Frisco, Hello[25]
- "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) w. Johnny Mercer for The Harvey Girls[26]
- Nominations
- "Remember Me?" (1937) w. Al Dubin for Mr. Dodd Takes The Air[26]
- "Jeepers Creepers" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer for Going Places[24]
- "Down Argentina Way" (1940) w. Mack Gordon for Down Argentine Way[27]
- "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for Sun Valley Serenade[28]
- "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for Orchestra Wives[29]
- "Zing a Little Zong" (1952) w. Leo Robin for Just For You[25]
- "That's Amore" (1953) w. Jack Brooks for The Caddy[30]
- "An Affair To Remember" (1956) w. Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey for An Affair To Remember[28]
#1 hits
- "By the River Sainte Marie" (1931) w. Edgar Leslie[28]
- "Too Many Tears" (1932) w. Al Dubin[30]
- "I Found a Million Dollar Baby" (1932) w. Mort Dixon[29]
- "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me" (1933) w. Al Dubin[25]
- "Forty-Second Street" (1933) w. Al Dubin[27]
- "Shadow Waltz" (1933) w. Al Dubin[31]
- "(You May Not Be an Angel, But) I'll String Along With You" (1934) w. Al Dubin[25]
- "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) w. Al Dubin[24]
- "She's a Latin from Manhattan" (1935) w. Al Dubin[31]
- "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs" (1936) w. Al Dubin[29]
- "September in the Rain" (1937) w. Al Dubin[31]
- "With Plenty of Money and You" (1937) w. Al Dubin[25]
- "Remember Me?" (1937) w. Al Dubin[26]
- "Jeepers Creepers" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer[24]
- "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer[25]
- "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1941) w. Mack Gordon[28]
- "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)" (1943) w. Mack Gordon[24]
- "I Had the Craziest Dream" (1943) w. Mack Gordon[29]
- "You'll Never Know" (1943) w. Mack Gordon[25]
- "The More I See You" (1945) w. Mack Gordon[30]
- "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) w. Johnny Mercer[26]
Other selected songs from films
- "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" (1932) w. Al Dubin for 42nd Street[25]
- "Forty-Second Street" (1933) w. Al Dubin for 42nd Street[27]
- "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" (1933) w. Al Dubin for 42nd Street[31]
- "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (1933) w. Al Dubin for Moulin Rouge[28]
- "Keep Young and Beautiful" (1933) w. Al Dubin for Roman Scandals[24]
- "Pettin' in the Park" (1933) w. Al Dubin for Gold Diggers of 1933[26]
- "We're in the Money" (1933) w. Al Dubin for Gold Diggers of 1933[25]
- "I Only Have Eyes for You" (1934) w. Al Dubin for Dames[29]
- (You May Not Be an Angel, But) I'll String Along with You" (1934) w. Al Dubin for Twenty Million Sweethearts[25]
- "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) w. Al Dubin for Gold Diggers of 1935[24]
- "September in the Rain" (1935) w. Al Dubin for Stars Over Broadway[31]
- "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" (1938) w. Johnny Mercer for Hard to Get[25]
- "Chica Chica Boom Chic" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for That Night in Rio[28]
- "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for That Night in Rio[29]
- "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for Sun Valley Serenade[28]
- "I Know Why (And So Do You)" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for Sun Valley Serenade[29]
- "It Happened in Sun Valley" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for Sun Valley Serenade[29]
- "At Last" (1941) w. Mack Gordon for Sun Valley Serenade[28]
- "I Had the Craziest Dream" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for Springtime in the Rockies[29]
- "Serenade In Blue" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for Orchestra Wives[31]
- "There Will Never Be Another You" (1942) w. Mack Gordon for Iceland[30]
- "You'll Never Know" (1943) w. Mack Gordon for Hello, Frisco, Hello[25]
- "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) w. Johnny Mercer for The Harvey Girls[26]
- "The More I See You" (1945) w. Mack Gordon for Diamond Horseshoe[30]
- "This Heart of Mine" (1946) w. Arthur Freed for Ziegfeld Follies[30]
- "(The Same Thing Happens with) The Birds and the Bees" (1956) Mack David for The Birds and the Bees[28]
American songbook songs
In his book American Popular Song, Alec Wilder notes that Warren "wasn't in the category as the best theater writers, but he certainly was among the foremost pop song writers." He discusses songs he likes: "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" (1930, with Mort Dixon and Billy Rose for Sweet & Low), "I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (1931, with Dixon and Rose for Crazy Quilt), "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" (1932), "Summer Night" (1936), "There Will Never Be Another You" (1942), "Serenade in Blue" (1942), "At Last" (1942), "Jeepers Creepers" (1938), and "The More I See You" (1945).[32]
- Other popular songs
- "Cheerful Little Earful" (1930) w. Ira Gershwin and Billy Rose for Sweet & Low[28]
- "Nagasaki" (1928) w. Mort Dixon[26]
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 PBS biography entry for Harry Warren. Accessed February 2009.
- 1 2 3 Jenkins, David. Biography at HarryWarrenMusic.com, accessed April 3, 2009
- ↑ List of Warren songs at HarryWarren.org
- 1 2 Jenkins, David. "Harry Warren – Hollywood's Unknown Composer", HarryWarren.org
- 1 2 Walls, Robert. "Who is Harry Warren????" GuideToMusicals, accessed April 3, 2009
- ↑ Forte, p. 265
- ↑ Zinsser, pp. 137 and 251
- ↑ "Chattanooga Choo Choo: The #1 Hits", allmusic.com, accessed March 31, 2009
- ↑ Harry Warren at Composers and Lyricists Database (1988)
- 1 2 Zinsser, p. 137
- 1 2 Corliss, Richard."That Old Feeling: We Need Harry Warren",Time Magazine, October 5, 2001
- ↑ Feinstein, p. 243.
- ↑ Thomas, Tony (1975). The Hollywood Musical: The Saga of Songwriter Harry Warren. Citadel Press. p. 341. ISBN 0-8065-1066-8.
- ↑ "Harry Warren's Piano Vignettes", Discogs.com, 1975, accessed December 6, 2014
- ↑ "Harry Warren: Piano Vignettes", allmusic.com, accessed December 6, 2014
- ↑ Holden Stephen, "Harry Warren, Songwriter, Is Dead", The New York Times, September 23, 1981, p. A1
- ↑ Warren, Westwood Village Seeing-stars, accessed March 30, 2009
- ↑ Harry Warren Theatre
- ↑ "Season 18: 1972–73", Welk Musical Family, accessed June 24, 2013
- ↑ "Season 25: 1979–80", Welk Musical Family, accessed June 24, 2013
- ↑ "Season 27: 1981–82", Welk Musical Family, accessed June 24, 2013
- ↑ "Westchester Broadway Theater Presents 42nd Street with Galantich, Stanley and More", BroadwayWorld.com, September 8, 2009, accessed October 7, 2014
- ↑ "42nd Street", Tonyawards.com, accessed May 27, 2014
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Songs J to M", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Songs UtoZ", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Songs N to R", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012
- 1 2 3 "Songs D to H", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Songs A to C", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Songs I", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 25, 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Songs T", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Songs S", HarryWarren.org, accessed February 26, 2012
- ↑ Wilder, pp. 395–404
- Feinstein, Michael (1995). Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme. New York City (NY): Hyperion Books. ISBN 0-7868-6093-6.
- Forte, Allen (1995). The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924–1950. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04399-X.
- Hemming, Roy (1999) [1986]. "Harry Warren". The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals. New York City (NY): HarperCollins. ISBN 978-1557043801.
- Zinsser, William K. (2006). Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Boston (MA): David R. Godine, Publisher. ISBN 9781567923254.
- Wilder, Alex (1972). Maher, James T., ed. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950. New York City (NY): Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195014457.
Additional reading
- Thomas, Tony (1975). Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical. Lyle Stuart. ISBN 0-8065-0468-4.
External links
- The Harry Warren website
- Biography at the Encyclopedia of Composers and Songwriters
- Chronology of some of Warren's best-known songs
- Harry Warren at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Harry Warren at the Internet Movie Database
- Harry Warren at the Internet Broadway Database
- Harry Warren at the TCM Movie Database Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer (1933)
- Biography at Guide to Musical Theatre
- HarryWarrenMusic.com site
- Harry Warren at Find a Grave


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Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) earlier this week shows that the average floor area of a new home is starting to fall which is most likely a response to escalating vacant land costs, smaller lot sizes and affordability pressures.
Between 2001-02 and 2012-13, the average area of a new house across Australia has increased from 227.50 sqm to 241.10 sqm at a rate of 0.5% each year. Conversely, the average area of 'other' residential properties (mostly apartments and townhouses) has increased at an average annual rate of 0.1% per annum over the same period from 132.6 sqm to 133.9 sqm.
Although the average area of new homes has trended higher, it is interesting to note the recent decline in the size of new homes. After reaching a peak in 2008-09, the average floor area of a new home has fallen from 247.7 sqm to 241.1 sqm.
The average size of new 'other' residential properties peaked much earlier in 2004-05 at 143.4 sqm and has since fallen to 133.9 sqm. It is likely that the higher cost associated with constructing new properties, largely attributable to land costs as well as costs associated with construction materials and labour, is the reason why we are seeing a shrinking in the size of new homes.
Sales of residential vacant land is a proxy for future development of a new house. Over the period from 2000-01 to 2012-13 the median price of a vacant block of land across the country increased from $66,000 to $197,000 at a rate of 9.5% per annum.
While the price of land increased at a significant rate, the typical size of land fell at a rate of -1.8% per annum from 750 sqm in 2000-01 to 600 sqm in 2012-13. The result of escalating prices and reduced land area is that you pay a lot more and get significantly less land this is highlighted by the fact that the median rate/sqm of vacant land has lifted from just $86/sqm in 2000-01 to $361.40/sqm in 2012-13 (an increase of 12.7% per annum).
Given that the cost of the vacant land has increased it is no wonder that the size of homes has started to reduce. The cost of buying a new home is getting quite restrictive and as a response developers and builders are reducing lot and home sizes in order to provide houses at a more affordable price point.
The trend towards smaller new house sizes can be seen across each state and territory. Across each region average new house sizes are below their previous peak and in each state except for Tasmania.
What is perhaps most interesting is that the state which includes our most expensive and populous capital city (New South Wales) has a significantly larger average new home size (266.20 sqm) than all other states, maybe there is scope for further significant reductions in the size of new homes in order to improve housing affordability, particularly within Sydney.
The average size of new other residential properties over time shows slightly differing trends. In all states and territories except for New South Wales and Tasmania the average size in 2012-13 was below the record high levels.
Although sizes are generally below their peak, average sizes recorded an annual increase in each state and territory over the year except for within Queensland, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.
New South Wales is again quite interesting with a large increase in the average size over the year and once again the greatest average size of all states. Perhaps the more affordable nature of residential properties that aren't houses is resulting in builders and developers offering increasingly larger floor areas as an incentive to purchase these types of properties.
Overall the data shows that the escalating cost of land which subsequently adds to the cost of the finished product is probably the driver of the reducing size of new homes. Over the coming years I would expect that we will see a further fall in the size of new homes as developers and builders seek new ways to attract price sensitive purchasers.
The 2011 Census showed that there was an average of 2.6 persons per household and 3.1 bedrooms, given this there is no doubt scope to reduce new home sizes and developers targeting price sensitive purchasers should potentially look to develop smaller floor areas with fewer bedrooms as a way to improve affordability.
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It is hard to miss what is going on in Wisconsin: a governor using the fiscal crisis (which, in his case, is a bit ginned up) to undo decades of work to improve the lives of employees through collective bargaining. Though the unions are the corporatists' chief antagonist, that's not the real target.
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Install the package
pip install buttercms-python
The source code is available on Github.
Set your API token:
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
Run this:
print client.posts.all({'page_size': 10, 'page': 1})
This API request fetches our blog posts. Your account comes with one example post which you'll see in the response. If you get a response it means you're now able to connect to our API.
- Need help? Contact us via email or livechat.
- Found a bug? You can open a GitHub issue.
Headless CMS
ButterCMS is a headless CMS that lets you manage content using our dashboard and integrate it into your tech stack of choice with our content APIs. You can use ButterCMS for new projects as well as add it to existing codebases.
If you're familiar with Wordpress, see how ButterCMS compares to WordPress.
ButterCMS provides a user-friendly UI for managing marketing sites, blogging, and custom content scenarios. We can be used for SEO landing pages, customer case studies, company news & updates, events + webinar pages, education center, location pages, knowledgebases, and more.
We are different from a traditional CMS like Drupal or Wordpress in that we're not a large piece of software you need to download, host, customize, and maintain. Instead we provide easy to consume, performant content API's that you add to your application.
For example, if you wanted to enable a non-technical person to be able to add customer case study pages to your marketing site, you might create a Case Study Page Type to represent these pages. The non-technical person would be able to manage these pages from our dashboard and the JSON API output would look something like this:
"data": {
"slug": "acme-co-case-study",
"fields": {
"seo_title": "Acme Co Customer Case Study",
"seo_description": "Acme Co saved 200% on Anvil costs with ButterCMS",
"title": "Acme Co loves ButterCMS",
"body": "
We've been able to make anvils faster than ever before! - Chief Anvil Maker
"
Use Postman to experiement
Postman is a great tool for experiementing with our API. We wrote a post about it here. Once you've installed Postman, click this button to quickly add our end point Collection to your Postman.
Webhooks are a powerful feature that allow you to notify your internal systems whenever content in ButterCMS has changed. You can learn more about Webhooks in this blog post.
Image Transformation
ButterCMS has integrated with a rich image transformation API called Filestack. This allows you to modify your uploaded images in dozens of ways. Everything from resizing, cropping, effects, filters, applying watermarks and more. Check out Filestack full documentation for more detail.
After you upload an image to ButterCMS, it's stored on our CDN. To create a thumbnail, here's an example:
Original URL = https://cdn.buttercms.com/zjypya5tRny63LqhHQrv
Thumbnail URL = https://fs.buttercms.com/resize=width:200,height:200/zjypya5tRny63LqhHQrv
Resizing is just one of the many different transformations you can do to your images. Refer to the Filestack docs for full details.
ButterCMS has full support for localization of your content. Locale names and keys are completely customizable and there's no limit to the number of locales you can have. View our API Reference to learn how to query by locale.
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Quickly launch a new marketing site or add CMS-powered pages to your existing site using our Pages.
Create a Single Page
Adding a CMS-powered page to your app involves three easy steps:
If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
Create the Page Structure
Create a new Page and define it's structure using our Page Builder. Let's create an example homepage.
Populate the Content
Then populate our new page with content. In the next step, we'll call the ButterCMS API to retrieve this content from our app.
Integrate into your application
With your homepage defined, the ButterCMS Pages API will return it in JSON format like this:
"data": {
"slug": "homepage",
"fields": {
"seo_title": "Anvils and Dynamite | Acme Co",
"headline": "Acme Co provides supplies to your favorite cartoon heroes.",
"hero_image": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV",
"call_to_action": "Buy Now",
"customer_logos": [
"logo_image": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV"
"logo_image": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV"
To integrate this into your app, create a route that fetches content for the page:
url(r'^/$', views.homepage, name='homepage'),
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
def homepage(request):
homepage = client.pages.get('*', 'homepage')
return render(request, 'homepage.html', {'homepage': homepage.data.fields })

{{ homepage.headline }}

Our Customers Love Us!

{% for logo in homepage.customer_logos %}

{% endfor %}
That's it! If you browse to your homepage you'll see your homepage populated with the content you created in Butter.
Create multiple pages using Page Types
Overview Video
Let's say you want to add a set of customer case study pages to your marketing site. They all have the same structure but the content is different. Page Types are perfect for this scenario and involves three easy steps:
If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
Create the Page Type structure
Create a Page Type to represent your Customer Case Study pages:
After saving, return to the configuration page by clicking the gear icon:
Then click on Create Page Type and name it "Customer Case Study". This will allow us to reuse this field configuration across multiple customer case study pages:
Populate the Content
Then populate our new page with content. In the next step, we'll call the ButterCMS API to retrieve this content from our app.
Integrate into your application
With a case study defined, the ButterCMS Pages API will return it in JSON format like this:
"data": {
"slug": "acme-co",
"fields": {
"facebook_open_graph_title": "Acme Co loves ButterCMS",
"seo_title": "Acme Co Customer Case Study",
"headline": "Acme Co saved 200% on Anvil costs with ButterCMS",
"testimonial": "
We've been able to make anvils faster than ever before! - Chief Anvil Maker
\r\n

",
"customer_logo": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV",
To create these pages in our app, we create a route that fetches content for the page by using a URL slug parameter:
url(r'^customers/(?P<slug>.*)/$', views.case_study, name='case_study'),
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
def case_study(request, slug):
case_study = client.pages.get('customer_case_study', slug)
return render(request, 'case_study.html', {'case_study': case_study.data.fields })
<meta property="og:title" content="{{case_study.facebook_open_graph_title}}" />

{{ case_study.headline }}

{{ case_study.testimonial|safe }}

That's it! If you browse to
/customers/acme-co, you'll see the Page you created in Butter.
If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
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Content Fields are global pieces of content that can be managed by your team. They can be used for content that spans multiple pages (header, footer) or platforms (desktop, mobile). Each content field has unique ID for querying via our API. Let's see how you can use them to power a knowledge base. Again Content Fields are great for content that can appear in multiple places so this knowledge base could appear on your website and mobile app. This example will focus on your website.
Two-step process:
- Setup custom content fields in Butter
- Integrate the fields into your application
If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
Setup content fields
Let's suppose we want to add a CMS to a static FAQ page with a title and a list of questions with answers. Here's the initial view and template code for a static FAQ page:
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
def faq(request):
return render(request, 'main.html', {})

When was this company started?

What forms of payment do you accept?

Credit cards and checks.

Making your content dynamic with Butter is a two-step process:
- Setup custom content fields in Butter
- Integrate the fields into your application
To setup custom content fields, first sign in to the Butter dashboard.
Create a new workspace or click on an existing one. Workspaces let you organize content fields in a friendly way for content editors and have no effect on development or the API. For example, a real-estate website might have a workspace called "Properties" and another called "About Page".
Once you're in a workspace click the button to create a new content field. Choose the "Object" type and name the field "FAQ Headline":
After saving, add another field but this time choose the "Collection" type and name the field
FAQ Items:
On the next screen setup two properties for items in the collection:
Now go back to your workspace and update your heading and FAQ items.
Integrate your app
To display this dynamic content in our app, we fetch the fields with an API call and then reference them in our view. Here's what the code looks like:
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
def faq(request):
response = client.content_fields.get(['faq_heading', 'faq_items'])
content = response['data']
return render(request, 'main.html', {'content': content})

{{ content.faq_heading %}

{% for item in content.faq_items %}

{{ item.question %}

{{ item.answer %}

{% endfor %}
That's it! The values entered in the Butter dashboard will immediately update the content in our app.
If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
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- Introduction
- Displaying posts
- Categories, tags, and authors
- RSS, Atom, and Sitemap
- Comments
- Social Sharing
- Migration
Learn how to quickly build a Django blog with great SEO. To get started even quicker, here's a set of sample blog templates you can use.
If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
Display posts
To display posts, add a
blog app to your Django project. This will serve as the basis of your blog home and individual post pages. The home page will display a list of 10 most recent posts.
python manage.py startapp blog
Set up a new url route to this blog app in our project's global
urls.py file (i.e.
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls'))
Define the blog
home route in
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.home, name='blog'),
url(r'^page/(?P<page>\d+)$', views.home, name='archive'),
Note there's also an
archive named route for letting users paginate through older blog posts. It points to
home view and passes in
page as a param.
Then set up our
home view in
blog/views.py and fetch blog posts from the Butter API. The response also includes some metadata we'll use for pagination.
from django.http import Http404
from django.shortcuts import render
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
def home(request, page=1):
response = client.posts.all({'page_size': 10, 'page': page})
recent_posts = response['data']
# In the event we request an invalid page number, no data key will exist in response.
raise Http404('Page not found')
next_page = response['meta']['next_page']
previous_page = response['meta']['previous_page']
return render(request, 'blog_base.html', {
'recent_posts': recent_posts,
'next_page': next_page,
'previous_page': previous_page
Next we'll create the
blog_base.html template that displays our posts and pagination links:

{% for post in recent_posts %}
{{ post.title }}
{% endfor %}

{% if previous_page %}
Prev
{% endif %}
{% if next_page %}
Next
{% endif %}
We'll also create an additional route + view for displaying individual posts:
# in blog/urls.py
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.home, name='blog'),
url(r'^page/(?P<page>\d+)$', views.home, name='archive'),
url(r'^(?P<slug>.*)$', views.post, name='blog_post'),
# in blog/views.py
def post(request, slug):
response = client.posts.get(slug)
raise Http404('Post not found')
post = response['data']
return render(request, 'blog_post.html', {
'post': post
The view for displaying a full post includes information such as author, publish date, and categories. See a full list of available post properties in our API reference.
<title>{{ post.seo_title }}</title>
<meta name="description" content="{{ post.meta_description }}">

{{ post.title }}

Posted by {{ post.author.first_name }} {{ post.author.last_name }} on {{ post.published }}

{% for category in post.categories %}
{{ category.name }}
{% endfor %}

{{ post.body|safe }}
Categories, Tags, and Authors
Use Butter's APIs for categories, tags, and authors to feature and filter content on your blog:
# In blog/views.py
client = ButterCMS('your_api_token')
def home(request, page=1):
# Query categories and tags to display in sidebar
categories = client.categories.all()
tags = client.tags.all()
return render(request, 'blog_base.html', {...})
def author(request, slug):
response = client.posts.all({'author_slug': slug})
recent_posts = response['data']
return render(request, 'author.html', {
'recent_posts': recent_posts
def category(request, slug):
response = client.posts.all({'category_slug': slug})
recent_posts = response['data']
return render(request, 'category.html', {
'recent_posts': recent_posts
See our API reference for more information about these objects:
RSS, Atom, and Sitemap
Butter generates RSS, Atom, and sitemap XML markup. To use these on your blog, return the generated XML from the Butter API with the proper content type headers.
# in blog/views.py
def rss(request):
response = client.feeds.get('rss')
return HttpResponse(response['data'], content_type='application/rss+xml')
def atom(request):
response = client.feeds.get('atom')
return HttpResponse(response['data'], content_type='application/rss+xml')
Butter doesn't provide an API for comments due to the excellent existing options that integrate easily. Two popular services we recommend are:
Both products are free, include moderation capabilities, and give your audience a familiar commenting experience. They can also provide some additional distribution for your content since users in their networks can see when people comment on your posts. For a minimalist alternative to Disqus, check out RemarkBox or for an open-source option, Isso.
Social Sharing
To maximize sharing of your content, we recommend using a free tool called AddThis.
They provide an attractive and easy to integrate social sharing widget that you can add to your website.
Butter integrates into your front-end so you have complete control over the design of your blog. Use the following CSS as boilerplate for post content styling.
.post-container {
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {
font-weight: 600;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-top: 1.5em;
ul, ol {
margin-bottom: 1.25em;
li {
margin-bottom: 0.25em;
p {
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line-height: 1.58;
margin-bottom: 1.25em;
font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: -.003em;
/* Responsive default image width */
img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
/* Responsive floating */
@media only screen and (min-width: 720px) {
.butter-float-left {
float: left;
margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;
.butter-float-right {
float: right;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;
/* Image caption */
figcaption {
font-style: italic;
text-align: center;
color: #ccc;
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padding: 2px 4px;
font-size: 90%;
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Global narratives on inequalities and how best to address them have not yet fully connected with the transition and developing economies of Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia.
This report explains how—despite relatively equal distributions of income, broad access to social services, and small gender disparities—many countries of this region are facing growing threats to their human development accomplishments.
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We are not epidemiological experts or scientists intimately familiar with flu viruses. We are, however, concerned about the emergence of this hybrid virus as much as anyone.
There is a chance that a suitable environment for this virus was found in a pig farm where animals are housed in extreme confinement. According to Biosurveillance, from February through April, there was a dramatic increase in acute respiratory infections in La Gloria, a small town in Veracruz. Nearly 60% of the small town's population was affected. As Biosurveillance warns, there is no epidemiological evidence to link the farm to the current swine-avian-human virus. That there is a correlation between the pig farm and the sudden spike in respiratory infections means just that. No causation has yet been established. It seems fair to point out that pigs, particularly those raised in intense confinement, can serve as an intermediary host, helping to spawn a virus that contains avian, human and pig genes....allowing for zoonosis, or a disease that can cross species.
Even if this particular farm is not the source point, our reliance on industrial agriculture does nothing but foster the creation of hybrid viruses. We could all do ourselves a world of good by eliminating the factory farming model of agriculture.
For an in-depth timeline of events, we encourage you to visit Biosurveillance, which includes information from Veratect Corporation.
We understand that tens of thousands of people die from the "normal flu" virus each year in the United States. This virus, though, is affecting people after the normal flu season has ended. It is also a virus that current flu vaccines are most likely ineffective against.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) both suggest simple measures to help reduce the likelihood of transmission - cover your mouth/nose when sneezing and wash your hands frequently. The CDC has information at their website.
We firmly believe that the current system of raising animals for their flesh, milk and eggs is not only animal cruelty but a breeding ground for contagious diseases.
And while we agree that "swine flu" is a misnomer, that this virus contains genetic material from birds, pigs and humans, we cannot help but read in wonder at the pork industry's cries of foul play at the term "swine flu". Their biggest fear? That people might reduce their consumption of pork. We hope their fear is realized - they do not care about your health, it is not the bottom line. More than that, we hope that this virus loses steam and causes no more further harm.
Stay safe and healthy, folks.
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- Anonymous said...
Industrial animal farming is also a very inefficient way of producing protein for human consumption. Large amounts of grains and soybeans, that could be easily used to produce healthy and high quality proteins for human consumption, are turned into animal feed that produces relatively smaller amounts of unhealthy protein.
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I stumbled across Milwaukee producer Lorn's sophomore album by accident while trailing through the 'recommended artists' section on Spotify.
(Side thought: does anyone else already feel nostalgic for myspace's heyday as one of the stand out ways of searching out new music on the web? Scrolling through bands and artists top friends was an easy, meandering and potentially endless way of discovering all kinds of fuzzy demo uploads, haphazard bedroom-DJ productions and more polished cuts from artists you were sure you should have heard of before by the time you finished listening. Or have I completely sugarcoated it because I was 16 at the time, in a band, and still a starry eyed NME-reading believer in THE POWER OF NEW MUSIC? I guess you can kind of replicate the experience with Bandcamp or Soundcloud – and to a lesser extent Spotify – but none of those seem quite as direct or personal as the experience on myspace was. But I do indeed digress…)
'Ask The Dust' marks the first release Lorn – real name Marcos Ortega – has put out for label Ninja Tune, having previously resided over on Brainfeeder. It's doubtful he would have received any more artistic licence since joining Ninja Tune – not least due to the connections between the two labels – but it's still hard to miss the sonic leaps in confidence and craftsmanship that are apparent from the first beat of 'Ask The Dust'. Previous LP, 2010's 'Nothing Else', while crisp, energetic and brimming with ideas, does play back as more generically tied down to the hip hop instrumentals/scratch beat scenes.
That being said, as 'Ask The Dust' opener 'Mercy' collapses into its rhythm it would be easy to imagine an of-the-moment-rapper like a Danny Brown or an El-P entering the fray to deliver some quirky spitfire bars. But as the beat festers, it's clear that there's something murkier - more subterranean – going on here. The beat alone, with it's thrusting, insisting snares, demands far more attentive ears than were required on 'Nothing Else'. And by the time the following track 'Ghosst' erupts, with its swaying and swirling bass lines, the notion of any need for an MC accompaniment has been cast to one side.
I've been listening to, and generally pursuing, more American rap than I ever have done recently. Part of the reason for this is it seems slightly difficult to ignore at the moment - and it we may just be in the midst of a minor golden age for hip-hop. And this is by no means only focused on the MCs and rappers. The notion, and appreciation, of the 'instrumental' feels really relevant at the moment: spurred on by the truly outstanding (and to my ears really quite beautiful) work of producers like Clams Casino (or just some of the straight up ridiculous production work by G.O.O.D Music's Hit-Boy). But Lorn's sound – coated in menace – in many ways transcends the charting of these trends, with its uncompromising desire to endlessly evolve and experiment. Lorn seems to sit on the fringes, and it appears that he rather likes it that way.
Some may sluggishly suggest that what he's producing here is dubstep. That's bound to be wide of the mark, although Lorn has spoken of the similarities between the emergence of the US scratch scene and the UK dubstep scene in the early noughties, mostly uniting the genres through experimentation in the 140 BPM range. Indeed to my ears, the metallic thrust of cuts like 'Weigh Me Down' and 'Dead Dogs' call to mind the ominous mood of South Londoners Vex'd on 2005's 'Degenerate' LP. Although that is not to suggest that Lorn is any way lazily imitating: the explosive 'Weigh Me Down', with its Marilyn Manson-esque vocals in the verses, straddles the worlds of metal and electronica (a cocktail of genres that I think is rarely carried out as successfully as it could be) in an ominous and refreshingly original manner. Perhaps put in less convoluted language, it just sounds plain nasty – for all the right reasons.
Course if this is dubstep in 2012, I'll take it over Knife Party every time. If you best like your beats harrowing and haunting, your frequencies dark and dingy – it may not get much better than this in 2012. Preferably experienced in total, all-encompassing, and unforgiving darkness.


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We had the opportunity to bring you a Brit Awards special like never before, thanks to the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, James Dauris, who joined Dino and Linn on the show.
"The impact of music in Britain has been tremendous"
British artists have left and continue to leave their mark on the world through their music (hence our Brit Award Special), and this fact was certainly not lost on the High Commissioner:
"We had huge success in pioneering waves of different musical styles, so from modern rhythm and blue, progressive rock, heavy metal, punk, rave, hip hop, all the way through to the sorts of things that you're hearing today, like dubstep and grime."
"Without music, life would be a mistake"
We also learned that High Commissioner Dauris is very passionate about music (he quoted Nietzsche, for crying out loud!), and has an extremely impressive musical background himself:
"Music, for me, has been a tremendously important part of life, since I was small. I started singing when I was 8, played the piano… I played bassoon for many years, including in orchestras, but most of all, I've sung… We sang with (Luciano) Pavarotti, with (Plácido) Domingo, and we sang with people like Phil Collins and made recordings in the Beatles' studio on Abbey Road".
"No one's ever called me 'the coolest Brit we know' before"
We don't know where we found the time, but we were also able to have a chat with the High Commissioner on topics outside of music. He was very enthusiastic about the fact that he's the coolest Brit we've ever met, the work he does here, and Sri Lanka itself:
"We've got lots and lots of people living in each other's countries, we have education and trade and history and language and sport and tea, and that really does make it a fun job to be doing. It's also fun because Sri Lanka is a country of such tremendous diversity… It's a good time to be here".
We also learned that our Special was not his first time on radio, and that Colombo traffic pales in comparison to the traffic in Peru, of all places:
"Before coming here… I was the ambassador in Peru, and in Peru I used to have my own radio program twice a year. I hosted it on Christmas Eve and I hosted it on the Queen's birthday… I was given a slot from 5 to 6 – I had a whole hour – because people were stuck in traffic jams, going around Lima. When people complain about traffic here in Colombo, I say, you don't know what real traffic's like."
All in all, it was an extremely fun and informative show and we can't wait for next year's special!
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Members of Audley Family A
How different members of the Audley Family 'differenced' their Coats of Arms
Members of Audley Family F
Members of Audley Family B
Members of Audley Family C
Members of Audley Family J
Audley End House, Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Members of Audley Family Z
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Minature of Elizabeth, Lady Audley (1510 - 1564) the 2nd wife of {Z142} Thomas Lord Audley Baron of Walden.
Artist Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 - 1543)
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Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Audley (1510 - 1564) the 2nd wife of {Z142} Thomas Lord Audley Baron of Walden.
Artist Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 - 1543)
Photographs of Audley Family Z
|The first four images below are copyright of the National Portrait Gallery, London www.npg.org.uk and are reproduced here with their permission
{Z142} Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden (1488 to 1544)
Lord Chancellor & Speaker of House of CommonsWatercolour, early 19th century attributed to Thomas Athrow after Thomas Phillips after Hans Holbein the Younger
{Z137} Margaret Audley Duchess of Norfolk (1540 - 1564) Daughter of Thomas Audley & 2nd Wife of Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk.Stipple engraving published 1792 Pietro William Tomkins after Lucas de Heere
{Z55} Mervyn Touchet; Baron Audley & 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)Line engraving published 1793 unknown artist
{Z56} Elizabeth Countess Castlehaven (died 1678/79). 1st wife of James Touchet, Baron Audley & 3rd Earl of Castlehaven.
Line engraving, mid 17th century by Pierre Lombart after Sir Anthony Van Dyck
{Z27} Sir James Audley
A founder Knight of the Garter
Photographs of Audley Family U
{U110) May Audley (1903 - 1979)
Photograph taken in 1916
{U155} Violet Audley (1905 - ????)
with 'Suzette'
{U150} Henry Audley (1910 - ????)
RAF Navigator
{U97} Mark Audley (1865 - ????) and son {U192} Percy Audley (1894- ????)
Living in Westfield, Massachussetts USA
{U109} Henry Mark (Harry) Audley (1900 - 1960)
{U100} William Henry Audley (1870 - 1960)
and Son {U108} William Henry Audley (1898 - 1952)
{U202} Henry Mark Audley (1930- ????)
possibly taken in 1939
|In many of the censuses members of Audley Family U are recorded as being whip mount makers the above image is of a whip and a whip mount
{U87} Ann Audley ( 1828 - ????) and her husband George Underhill used to live at High Street, Brierley Hill Birmingham
This photograph was taken after their deaths
|Business Card of {U97} Mark Audley (1866 - ????)
{U192} Percy Edward Audley (1894 - ????) and his
second wife Mary Weideman (1900 - 1970)
taken circa 1950 behind the family home
1945 East 34th Street, Brooklyn, New York
{U195} Robert E Audley (1926 - 2011)
taken 1944 - 1945
{U214} Herbert Audley (1931 - 1988)
on the deck of the USS Ranger circa 1925
From left to right
{U210} Arthur R Audley; {U195 Robert E Audley and {U211} Douglas E Audley
This photograph was taken in Sugar Grove Pennsylvania shortly before the death of {U195}
Photographs of Audley Family T
{T12} Elizabeth Lodge Ford (nee Audley)(1851 - 1926)
{T12} Elizabeth Lodge Ford (nee Audley)(1851 - 1926)
{T12} Elizabeth Lodge Ford (nee Audley)(1851 - 1926)
{T12} Elizabeth Lodge Ford (nee Audley)(1851 - 1926)
with two of her daughters
Photographs of Audley Family N
|{N7} Robert William Audley and his third wife Dorothy Lucy Voss with Tozer the dog
From left to right
{N101} Reginald Sidney Audley
{N102} Maurice Paul Audley
with Charles Sidney Voss their step brother
|{N100} Robert Percy Audley with Tozer the dog
Certificate of service for {N162}James Louis Audley He was an Intercept Operator in North Africa and Italy 1942 to 1945
Certificate created from the Bletchley Park Website http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
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VBS 2018 - Babylon
One of the best parts (and there are many!!) of VBS is the music! Each year, songs get stuck in our heads - and we LOVE IT! Want to relive past VBS songs? Click play on the playlist below to launch Spotify. This playlist has songs from every VBS that St. David's has done since 2008's Power Lab VBS. Enjoy!


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|1890 photo of original Bear Flag from Barbara Warner's Book
The original Bear Flag was constructed sometime between June 14 and June 17, 1846 and was intended as a statement of revolution against the ruling Mexican authority. War between the U.S. and Mexico had begun and the once welcomed settlers, many of them Americans, felt compelled to take action. They truly believed they were about to be expelled from their homes. On June 14th, they seized the town of Sonoma , which at the time was the military center of Northern California. Their bloodless takeover was so successful that they spontaneously decided to declare California a "Republic". Every new republic needs a flag and so it came to be. The "Bear Flaggers" proudly raised their new flag in the Plaza of Sonoma and there it flew until July 9, 1846. The flag's basic design was a rectangle of natural cotton cloth with a red stripe sewn to the bottom. In the upper left corner was a painted red star and next to the star was a red bear, on all fours, facing the star. Under the star and bear, the words CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC.were written in ink.
On July 9th the Bear Flag was lowered and replaced with the Stars and Stripes by Navy Lt. Joseph Warren Revere ( yes, that Revere Family). Revere handed the rebel banner to an unamed Bear Flagger who was standing by. That person, in turn, handed it to 16 year old, John Elliot Montgomery. John worked on the ship U.S.S. Portsmouth as a clerk to his father the Commander and had accompanied the Navy squad to secure Sonoma for the United States. The Bear Flag traveled back to the Portsmouth in San Francisco bay, with the young Montgomery. From there the flag traveled with the ship, all the way back to the Boston Navy Yard and was stored away as a memento of the Mexican War. The Bear Flag movement was so ingrained into early California history that its legendary symbol was never quite forgotten by the pioneers.
|1896 Replica at Sonoma State Historic Park
I had promised to list many of the people who claimed to have been involved in the creation of some sort of Bear Flag during the events of the Bear Flag Revolt. Some disputed which one was the true or first Bear Flag or who was involved in the design or execution of the well known surviving flag. So here goes, William L. Todd, Henry L. Ford, William J. Scott, Ben Duell, Thomas Cowey (Cowan), Patrick McChristian, Granville P. Swift, Peter Storm, ____ Currie, Nancy Kelsey, Chepa Mathews, Mrs.John Sears, Mrs.W.B.Elliot, Mrs.William Hudson, Mr.J. Grigsby. Next is a list of the various materials supposedly used in the Bear Flag's creation. I gleaned these from all the accounts I found , white cotton, brown domestic, unbleached domestic, Chilean flour sack, white petticoat, manta cloth, coarse cotton, red flannel (petticoat), red flannel (man's shirt), blackberry juice-brick dust-oil, poke berries, rusty nails, Venitian red, red chalk, Spanish brown, black ink, charcoal and grease, lampblack.
|Montgomery's drawing courtesy of
Society of California Pioneers
To this day, the one myth that survives, is that Nancy Kelsey was the Betsy Ross of the Bear Flag. A contemporary play has even been written about her involvement. There is a story that she might have been involved in helping Peter Storm craft a bear flag before June 14, 1846. A possible contender for the "first" bear flag, but there in no evidence that she was involved in helping create the Todd flag.
|My replica
photo Lindy Miller 2011
Now the best part of the story for those that don't know. The Bear Flag became our official State flag in 1911, so this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Flag of the Pioneers as our State's Banner. Although the current version is an "improved" facsimile of the original, the key elements remain.


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While we don't like to get all hoity toity around here, it's getting hard to ignore the number of awards that have been given to projects with which we've been involved lately. It's not like we're out there begging for awards in the streets, but heck, if they keep giving them out, we'll keep taking them!
This time, it's the Zookbinders web site we developed on behalf of SDM Marketing, with the design provided by PBR Design. Workshed did all of the information architecture, wireframes, slicing, XHTML/CSS templates, SEO, Flash development, PHP development and custom CMS development (built on our very own Pegboard platform), as well as providing dedicated hosting services in our colocation facility.
The award was from the Summit International Awards — in the category of Emerging Media. The site was presented a Leader award. Of the approximately 700 entries from numerous countries only 12% earned recognition. There are 3 levels that were recognized: visionary, innovator and leader.
Workshed is extremely proud to have been a part of this project and thanks SDM Marketing, PBR Design and most importantly, the fine folks at Zookbinders for allowing us to be a part of it.


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Tesla Inc said on Friday it had raised about $1.2 billion, roughly 20 percent more than it had planned, by selling common shares and convertible debt, ahead of the launch of the crucial Model 3 sedan.The company, led by Elon Musk, said it sold 1.3 million common shares at $262 apiece to raise $350 million and that it raised another $850 million though the sale of convertible senior notes due 2022. (bit.ly/2n5Bf8C)The electric car company said on Wednesday it planned to sell $250 million worth of stock and $750 million in notes.
Tesla had been expected to raise capital since late last year, with the expectations gaining steam last month after Musk said the company could be "close to the edge" on cash needs.
Musk had Tesla was considering a number of options, including raising capital, to reduce risk ahead of the upcoming Model 3 sedan, the $35,000 mass-market vehicle on which the company's future profitability hinges.Tesla said Musk, already the company's top shareholder with a stake of about 21 percent as of December, bought 95,420 common shares for $25 million in the latest stock sale.
The 1.3 million shares sold represents about 0.8 percent of Tesla's outstanding shares as of Dec. 31.Tesla's shares were up 0.3 percent at $262.71 in premarket trading on Friday. (Reporting by Rishika Sadam in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
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Just like the majority of individuals, many churches are heavily burdened with an unnecessary load of debt. While I cannot claim churches that use debt to finance their activities are wrong for doing so or that God won't bless them simply because they chose to borrow money (that's not my call to make), I can confidently say I have never found a verse in scripture where God used debt to bless His people. For me, this applies to both individuals and churches. Instead, I can find LOTS of references where God tells us debt is bad (Romans 13:8, Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 22:7, etc.). So, as plainly as I can put it, I do not believe churches should have debt. I believe churches should behave with their money just like people should, which means living below their means, saving for emergencies, and being prepared to say "no" periodically. Instead of teaching scriptural principles that will lead to debt free living, churches seem to cloud the issue further in a couple of ways.
On one side, many churches are just downright stingy. They may have millions (literally) in the bank and yet don't have any REAL outreach programs. This makes me angry! Many churches I find that have debt are also very generous. Just like in your personal life, I believe churches need to ensure there is a balance. Help those in your congregation and community who are in need, but do so in such a way that you don't put the church in the position of having to be enslaved to debt to do so.
Then there are the churches that promote debt to their congregation by encouraging them to give their tithe/offering by credit card. I love the convenience of online giving and used to give to my church that way, but I have no idea why any church would consider promoting giving with your credit card. Sadly, this has become a popular trend, especially in larger churches. While it may be a convenience to givers, it costs the church 2-3% in fees to receive the money (that's a huge chunk for a non-profit's budget) plus it encourages you to use a card when so many struggle with behaving with their money.
Hate me for saying this, but it is no wonder the people in most congregations struggle with debt. The church can't seem to figure out where it stands either.


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ECOWAS chair assesses Ebola-stricken region
from MASAHUDU KUNATEH in Accra, Ghana
ACCRA – THE Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, John Mahama, was on Monday scheduled to visit the countries worst affected by the Ebola virus to assess the impact.
Mahama, who is also the Ghanaian President, would visit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The one-day visit will enable the ECOWAS Chair hold discussions with his colleague heads of state on available sub-regional and international interventions to support the countries in their effort to contain and manage the Ebola outbreak.
With some countries and airlines discontinuing flights into the three countries, Mahama has been leading a strong advocacy against any international isolation of the affected countries, as it would make relief and humanitarian assistance to infected persons difficult.
Mahama has already decided to work with the United Nations to set up an international logistics centre in Accra to serve as the main hub for the fight against Ebola in the West African sub region.
Meanwhile, Mahama will, on behalf of the Government and people of Ghana, donate quantities of various "Made in Ghana" products to each country during the visit.
Meanwhile, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) warned that disruptions in food trade and marketing in the three West African countries most affected by Ebola have made food increasingly expensive and hard to come by, while labor shortages are putting the upcoming harvest season at serious risk.
Likewise, production of cash crops like palm oil, cocoa and rubber – on which the livelihoods and food purchasing power of many families depend – is expected to be seriously affected.
"Access to food has become a pressing concern for many people in the three affected countries and their neighbors," said Bukar Tijani, FAO Regional Representative for Africa.
"With the main harvest now at risk and trade and movements of goods severely restricted, food insecurity is poised to intensify in the weeks and months to come. The situation will have long-lasting impacts on farmers' livelihoods and rural economies," he added.
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Changing with a Growing Industry and Turbulent Times
The ACIDF Business Plan is constructed in segments. The basic document applies to the company,
its values and corporate objectives. The first appendix details policy and practices that apply across
the company's portfolio of initiatives and provides the basic structure for all of the other appendices.
Each numbered appendix relates to a funding initiative and lists all rules, commitments, goals and
objectives that relate to that specific initiative. Lettered appendices are company policy and internal
operations only.
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Updated annually, ACIDF's business
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It seems that I'm not the only one who's missing sidescrolling - and I mean the readily available variant - on the HP Mini 311. Although getting the Alps Glidepoint recognized as a real trackpad is still the ultimate goal for HPM311DP (HP Mini 311 Darwin Project), we are still at the crude stages - yes, the Alps Glidepoint is or can be seen as a trackpad under Snow Leopard but that's about it and in fact, as it turns out through the various feedbacks both at My MacBook Mini and InsanelyMac HPM311DP threads, this so-called progress turns out to be more of a step backward as of the moment.
That is, we'd have to resort to coerce people to acquire some strange haduken technique to just use sidescrolling on their machines. In the several weeks I've played with the "new" ApplePS2Trackpad + Trackpad.prefPane, I'd say it's not even real sidescrolling we're getting with this farflung method. It's just locking the cursor to the scrollbar and even if you choose any part of the vertical spread that makes up your Mini 311's trackpad surface to slide your finger up and down will do the trick. Once locked, that vertical strip is no longer relevant. Or better yet, since the advent of the "new" ApplePS2Trackpad + Trackpad.prefPane, it ceased to be relevant.
So I think you will agree that, for now and until a better solution is found, we'd be better off letting the Alps trackpad of the Mini 311 to continue with its identity crisis.
Here's an installer based off on Retail Pack 1.0, the HPM311DP's current stable release:
- It reverts to the old Alps Glidepoint as PS2Mouse which enables sidescrolling - real sidescrolling.
- Same GPU Power Management capabilities - supposedly can help improve battery life.
- Temperature monitoring - new FakeSMC.kext now installed in /S/L/E
- Audio - update from VoodooHDA 2.6.2 to VoodooHDA 2.7.1
- Matching newly revamped DSDT
- HF7c is basically the previous released HF7 BUT this time, we revert to the old
"Alps as PS2 Mouse" paradigm.
- Please go to : /Users/<your username>/Library/PreferencePanes/ to delete any existing VoodooHDA.prefPane BEFORE running the HF7c installer or you'd have audio issues upon reboot - It's a sloppy measure, but for the life of me, I did all the scripting haduken that I'm capable of and I still have this little bug. Please excuse me.
- I have 3 GB RAM and I have problems with HF7(c) so I use PC EFI 10.6. - Installer available here. PC EFI should be run AFTER running HF7c installer.
- New Chameleon RC5 with modules. - Although this installer does not include the Chameleon.prefPane (look for it inside Retail Pack 1.1a) because this installer is for EFI boot method and thus the prefPane is irrelevant. The Cham prefPane can access settings only when the Extra folder is in the "/" root directory - remember that in EFI boot method, the Extra folder is in, well, the hidden EFI partition, where the prefPane designed as it is, cannot reach it.
- Same features as introduced in HF7 and HF7c - DSDT.aml is different though as I've observed.
- Please go to : /Users/<your username>/Library/PreferencePanes/ to delete any existing VoodooHDA.prefPane BEFORE running the HF7b installer or you won't get audio working.
- Once I've put the 311 to sleep, wake it up again, and then restart it, the machine just won't properly execute restart - it hangs. I've 3 GB RAM though, so maybe that's where the problem is...


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By AMANDA VINCENT
Mary Scott, the widow of NASCAR Hall of Famer Wendell Scott, passed away Thursday at the age of 91. She was a lifelong resident of Danville, Va.
NASCAR relesed the following statement upon the news of Scott's passing:
"NASCAR extends its thoughts and condolences to the many family members and friends of Mary Scott, widow of Wendell Scott and matriarch of the Scott family.
"Loved by all, she was a friendly and welcoming presence in the garage during her husband's competitive days in NASCAR. Her love and support provided Wendell a foundation for his many years of racing excellence and helped guide his legend to NASCAR's pinnacle — the NASCAR Hall of Fame."
The former Mary Coles married Wendell Scott in 1943. They had seven children — Willie Ann, Wendell Jr., Franklin, Deborah, Cheryl, Sybil and Michael.
Over the years, she worked as a cosmetologist and ran a grocery store. She continued her involvement in the NASCAR Women's Auxiliary after her late husband's death in 1990. She also served as a church mother and worked with the church's usher board, missionary circle and senior choir at North New Hope Baptist Church and regularly visited the elderly and sick at Roman Eagle Nursing Home.
Wendell Scott passed away in 1990. He was inducted as the first African-American member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Jan. 30, 2015. Because of a health issue, Mary Scott was unable to attend the official induction ceremony during which her late husband was inducted.
Wendell Scott was the first African-American driver to compete full-time at NASCAR's top level after running his first race in NASCAR's premier series in 1961 and, to this point, is the only African-American driver to win in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. He won Dec. 1, 1963 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Fla. Over the course of 13 years, Scott competed in 495 top-level NASCAR races and posted a win, 20 top-fives and 147 top-10 finishes. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, Ala., in 1999.
Funeral arrangements for Mary Scott have not been completed, but according to the Danville (Va.) Register, her son Frank Scott expects a service at North New Hope Baptist Church.
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