diff --git a/airflow/settings.py b/airflow/settings.py
index 5df04281de084..2296cc3199c27 100644
--- a/airflow/settings.py
+++ b/airflow/settings.py
@@ -35,14 +35,6 @@
 #engine = create_engine('mysql://airflow:airflow@localhost/airflow')
 engine = create_engine('sqlite:///' + BASE_FOLDER + '/airflow.db' )
 Session.configure(bind=engine)
-HEADER = """\
-       .__         _____.__                 
-_____  |__|_______/ ____\  |   ______  _  __
-\__  \ |  \_  __ \   __\|  |  /  _ \ \/ \/ /
- / __ \|  ||  | \/|  |  |  |_(  <_> )     / 
-(____  /__||__|   |__|  |____/\____/ \/\_/  
-     \/"""
-
 CELERY_APP_NAME = "airflow.executors.celery_worker"
 CELERY_BROKER = "amqp"
 CELERY_RESULTS_BACKEND = "amqp://"
diff --git a/airflow/utils.py b/airflow/utils.py
index 68c0a18a297d7..675edf2079891 100644
--- a/airflow/utils.py
+++ b/airflow/utils.py
@@ -74,3 +74,9 @@ def alchemy_to_dict(obj):
             value = value.isoformat()
         d[c.name] = value
     return d
+
+def readfile(filepath):
+    f = open(filepath)
+    content = f.read()
+    f.close()
+    return content
diff --git a/airflow/www/app.py b/airflow/www/app.py
index c388874d791f5..ed3fef6feb5cc 100644
--- a/airflow/www/app.py
+++ b/airflow/www/app.py
@@ -202,17 +202,18 @@ def graph(self):
                 'value': {'label': task.task_id}
             })
 
-        def get_downstream(task, edges):
+        def get_upstream(task):
             for t in task.upstream_list:
-                edges.append({
+                edge = {
                     'u': t.task_id,
                     'v': task.task_id,
-                    'value': {'label': ''}
-                })
-                get_downstream(t, edges)
+                }
+                if edge not in edges:
+                    edges.append(edge)
+                    get_upstream(t)
 
         for t in dag.roots:
-            get_downstream(t, edges)
+            get_upstream(t)
 
         dttm = request.args.get('execution_date')
         if dttm:
diff --git a/dags/examples/example1.py b/dags/examples/example1.py
index 2ceddb5215e99..6a23778e8d600 100644
--- a/dags/examples/example1.py
+++ b/dags/examples/example1.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 default_args = {
     'owner': 'max',
-    'start_date': datetime(2014, 9, 1),
+    'start_date': datetime(2014, 10, 20),
     'mysql_dbid': 'local_mysql',
 }
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 cmd = 'ls -l'
 run_this_last = DummyOperator(
-        task_id='run_this_last', 
+        task_id='run_this_last',
         **default_args)
 dag.add_task(run_this_last)
 
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 for i in range(5):
     i = str(i)
     task = BashOperator(
-            task_id='runme_'+i, 
-            bash_command='sleep {{ 10 + macros.random() * 10 }}', 
+            task_id='runme_'+i,
+            bash_command='sleep {{ 10 + macros.random() * 10 }}',
             **default_args)
     task.set_downstream(run_this)
     dag.add_task(task)