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COSTA MESA, Calif.: 13 July 2016 — As hotel guests increasingly come to expect amenities that used to be special perks, such as free Wi-Fi, complimentary breakfasts and premium bed linens, the industry may be reaching a customer satisfaction plateau, according to the J.D. Power 2016 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study,SM released today.

The study, now in its 20th year, measures overall guest satisfaction across eight hotel segments: luxury; upper upscale; upscale; upper midscale; midscale; economy/budget; upper extended stay; and extended stay. Seven key measures are examined in each segment to determine overall satisfaction: reservation; check-in/check-out; guest room; food & beverage; hotel services; hotel facilities; and cost & fees. Satisfaction is calculated on a 1,000-point scale.

Although overall satisfaction has improved for a fourth consecutive year, increasing by 2 points from 2015 to average 806, this represents a much smaller increase than in recent years. In past years, strong improvements in cost & fees played a key role in improving satisfaction overall. While satisfaction with cost & fees improved by 25 points between 2014 and 2015, this year it has improved by only 1 point.

“Customers have responded well to the enhanced offerings provided by some hotel brands to create value, but as those perks become standard, customers are quick to ask, ‘What have you done for me lately?’” said Rick Garlick, global travel and hospitality practice lead at J.D. Power. “When guests no longer see added value in the quality of amenities they receive, the only option to truly differentiate a brand is to develop a strong service culture that makes guests feel special and appreciated.”

Interestingly, while satisfaction in most segments has remained flat, the luxury segment has improved by 12 points overall. Much of this improvement is attributed to a 20-point improvement in cost & fees.

“Despite luxury hotels typically being the most expensive, this segment has been able to show guests that they’re providing additional value, which is clearly resonating,” said Garlick.

The study also finds that while satisfaction is higher among members of hotel rewards programs than among non-members, younger guests are less likely to be members than older guests. Only 39% of Gen Y guests belong to a rewards program, compared with 56% of Gen X and 66% of Boomer guests.[1] In every generational group, customer satisfaction is significantly higher among guests who are rewards program members.

“We’re finding that every succeeding generation seems to be less likely to be a member of a hotel rewards program than the one before,” said Garlick. “As we’ve seen across numerous industries that J.D. Power tracks, younger guests in particular are especially driven by the value proposition, underscoring the importance for hotel brands to make a stronger case for the benefits of loyalty to these travellers.”

Following are some of the key findings of the study:

• Online/Mobile check-in: Only 3% of guests take advantage of online or mobile check-in, though check-in/check-out satisfaction is highest among these guests than among those who used any other method.

• Most important amenities: The three most important amenities cited by guests are free Wi-Fi, breakfast and parking. In terms of hotels providing these amenities, 71% of guests say they received complimentary Wi-Fi; 56% received complimentary breakfast; and 61% received free parking. Luxurious bedding and linens, the fourth-most important amenity, is becoming increasingly important; however, only 37% of guests say this was offered in their room.

• Social media feedback: Among guests who posted something about their stay on social media, 75% of the posts were positive, compared with 13% that were negative. Overall satisfaction is 40 points higher among guests who post comments to social media.

Hotel Segment Rankings

The following hotel brands rank highest in guest satisfaction in their respective segments:

  • Luxury: The Ritz-Carlton (for a second consecutive year)
  • Upper Upscale: Omni Hotels & Resorts (for a second consecutive year)
  • Upscale: Hilton Garden Inn
  • Upper Midscale: Drury Hotels (for 11 consecutive years[2])
  • Midscale: Wingate by Wyndham (for a second consecutive year)
  • Economy/Budget: Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham (for a fourth consecutive year)
  • Upper Extended Stay: Hyatt House
  • Extended Stay: Home2 Suites by Hilton

Notably, The Ritz-Carlton earns the highest score in the history of the study at 896.

The 2016 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study is based on responses gathered between June 2015 and May 2016 from more than 63,000 guests in Canada and the United States who stayed at a hotel in North America between May 2015 and May 2016.

For more information about the 2016 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study, visit

About J.D. Power

J.D. Power is a global marketing information services company providing performance improvement, social media and customer satisfaction insights and solutions. The company’s quality and satisfaction measurements are based on responses from millions of consumers annually. Headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., J.D. Power has offices in North/South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information on car reviews and ratings, car insurance, health insurance, cell phone ratings, and more, please visit

J.D. Power is a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial.

Contact: John Tews / 248-680-6218

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It’s Friday (in case you hadn’t noticed) and I’m feeling a little burnt out. Being the excellent mental health worker that I am, I know this means I should try to do some “self-care”. So I figured in order to lighten things up, I’d find something funny to post to the ol’blog.

Unfortunately, my .02187345 second internet search revealed that good humour about mental health is hard to find. I decided anyway to go with this classic, borrowed from

Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline:

If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.

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I've purchased a new end cap for a trunk I'm refinishing.

To make it match the other end caps, I sanded it down and soaked it in a solution of ammonia, peroxide and salt. Took it out if the solution and let it dry. Repeated this a bunch of times to get the look I need.

The problem is, it's looks pretty good until you touch it. Then the coloring comes off. Not completely but enough to not want to attach it.

Anyone have a better way so the 'patina' doesn't come off?

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let it set around about 70-100 years always works:-)

depends on what color your trying to get, if it was a brass plated pc normal brass tarnisher won't work, if it is one of the steel pc silver colored some paint works or gun bluing or browning, then again it depends on the color you are trying to get

pictures always help

Pictures are not available just yet, but I looked into your recommendation and think I'll try the  Gun Browning. There's some on Amazon with free shipping.

The mixture I used works and maybe if I keep dipping and drying it will eventually harden on the end cap.

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Here the pic. The cap on the left is a new one. The one on the right is the same one but rusted. I'm trying to match the one on the trunk. I was trying not to use paint but the solution I used isn't getting darker, just more rustier.

I ordered the Gun Browning so I'll see what that brings.

Anyone try to do this before?

I can see nothing much happens around here.

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

The Blogger and the Shape-shifter movement

My worst fears about the religious exploits of my former church, the International Churches of Christ (ICOC) are shaping up nicely since this blog started in February 2006.

It’s quite overwhelming!

At least it’s official, Douglas Arthur, will not act as Kip’s “right hand cranker”! McKean may have the “glue of the World Sector Leaders” – Steve Johnson – by his side, but on the whole, it’s a sticky issue concerning unifying the former brotherhood.

I am certain, since McKean probably no longer has to be tied to “lifelong friends who used to support” his leadership, the opportunity will come for him to re-introduce former leadership structures of the ICOC in the Portland family of Churches. McKean to the determent of his life long friends, still reasons “there are no Scriptures against World Sector Leaders, Lead Evangelists, Women’s Ministry Leaders, Bible Talks and Discipleship Partners.” Perhaps now Pope Benedict XVI feels more comfortable with his leadership role in the Catholic Church! And Archbishop Tutu can safely hold his title!

In my article, entitled, A Renovator, not an Innovator, “Kip’s current ministry is about renovation, renovation and more renovation from here to eternity!” I was amazed to compare my notes with McKean’s ideals as stipulated in Partners in the Gospel – Part 1-3. Here I strongly recommend all concerned parties to view Roy Davison’s treatise (Check the sidebar) concerning Kip McKean’s “own version” that “we are free to implement any methodology that is not explicitly forbidden in the Bible” based on Kip’s own reformed slogan “Speak where the Bible is silent!”

Interestingly, many ICOC’ers like the “mainliners” now start to see Kip McKean as a type of “boogieman”! But we must not lose sight of leaders who have signed up their churches with the ratification plan of the United Cooperation Group that now “embraces discipleship”. The majority of these churches are not as visible as the Portland movement. They are in my opinion still locked up in an old wardrobe. The lowered standards comparatively to the Portland family of churches zeal will steadily rise over time. Anyone practising the principles held by the disciple approach (generally representing the findings of Robert E. Coleman’s Master Plan of Evangelism) will quickly realise there is no time for a slacker in the Kingdom. The disciple approach knows no half measures! Many supporters of the United Cooperation Group or “our international family of churches” will have to “agree” on certain biblical principles uphold by McKean, like the Jethro’s principle, which ties in with the disciple approach. Here, the “persecution” Portland faces not only from outsiders in other church communities but from “flesh and blood” relations within the ICOC will befall the United Cooperation Group in the near future.

Alas, more fears, despite Arthur’s optimism: “Clearly our best and brightest days are ahead as we reengage in winning our cities and this world for Christ.” I say, it’s about time for those in the wardrobe to come out!

Personally I can deal with the “boogieman”. In fact, for ten years I had given my brain to that former “movement”. Today, it is relatively easy to anticipate where the Portland movement is heading officially. On the other hand, it’s the Boggart in the old wardrobe that scares me the most. Ever heard of it?

In one of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, Professor Lupin poses a question to his third-years studying Defence Against the Dark Arts. Standing next to him is an old wardrobe “in which the teachers kept their spare robes.” Only this time something more sinister has “moved in”. A Boggart. “So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a Boggart?” Hermione put up her hand. “It’s a shape-shifter”, she said. “It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.”

“Nobody” as the story continues with Professor Lupin, “knows what a Boggart looks like when he is alone, but when I let him out, he will immediately become whatever each of us most fears.” “This means”, said Professor Lupin lecturing the class, “that we have a huge advantage over the Boggart before we begin. Have you spotted it, Harry?”

Harry replied, “there are so many of us, it won’t know what shape it should be?” “Precisely,” said Professor Lupin. “He becomes confused.”

Lupin explains, “The charm that repels a Boggart is simple, yet it requires force of mind. You see, the thing that really finishes a Boggart is laughter. What you need to do is force it to assume a shape that you find amusing. We will practise the charm without wands first. After me, please … riddikulus! Riddikulus!” said the class together.”

A shape-shifter. “It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.”

If I was in Lupin’s class standing next to Harry Potter. My fear would be to see young people, become entrapped by the methodologies that “embrace discipleship”. So, “laughter” can make it go away, Professor Lupin?

I thought it over. I have become a Blogger. In the old wardrobe is a Boggart – a shape-shifter. I blogg about my experiences in the ICOC … and my fears for her future! But I am not alone! There are many of us. And if this is the scenario – the Boggart becomes confused. Maybe this process is becoming apparent concerning the Portland movement. “Perhaps most confusing is the persecution towards us within our own fellowship, the International Churches of Christ”, related Kip in Partners in the Gospel – Part 1.

Finally, I have assumed a shape. A restaurant menu! It makes me laugh. This time I’ll practise the charm without my wand first.

The leadership representing the houses of Renovation (The Portland movement) and Innovation (United Cooperation Group) despite their differences and confusion have something in common as this restaurant menu advertises.

“All the chicken you can eat!!! This is the same delicious chicken we have been serving for the past twenty years!”

After me, please… Ridiculous!!!

(Thank you R.K. Rowling for the little inspiration)

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Church Politics: The McKean’s and Us

Point 2: Are we fighting God?

The growing number of Portland family of churches, hereby describe as the Portland movement follows a predictable pattern of self-imposed isolation, fence-building and burned bridges as recorded throughout the history of the Boston movement. Not far behind them is the slowly awakening giant of the Unity Proposal Group, hereby describe as the United Cooperation Group, consisting of an estimate 70% of the former International Churches of Christ (ICOC).

Many ICOC members downplay the logical conclusions and reasons offered by various leaders in both factions as church politics thus cleverly avoid sticky issues that need urgent biblical attention of which “church unity” is paramount. How can Christians in both groups teach a Church study with a clear conscience while amongst them there may be quarrelling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder? Here, we need to ask, are we fighting God, like the Corinthians, when we quarrel amongst ourselves, lining up behind various church leaders?

Here the predictable pattern of self-imposed isolation, fence-building and burned bridges becomes unmistakeable as leadership of both factions revert to old habits with a slight twist. Both groups believe they can see the road ahead much clearer than those comrades on the other side. Nevertheless, both groups, more so with the Portland movement busy themselves with introducing former ICOC concepts by slowly giving old words new meaning to a new crowd.

Would you belief the ICOC cult of personalities – a thing of the past has been replaced by “a new group of like-minded friends creating a new synergy, a new movement.” However, here too we face a problem. Whose side is God on?

Mike Taliaferro now a supporter of the United Cooperation Group have answered a question concerning McKean’s role during the April 1st 2004 Faithful Conversations: “Yes, we are going to have a man lead the movement, and that is going to be Jesus Christ.” Today, Kip McKean who acted in a role as “leader of the movement” before 2001 also agrees with Taliaferro: “I will be with disciples agreeing to build a movement centered on one personality. And His name is Jesus.”

Now the Apostle Paul lectures the McKean's and us in our Church Studies: “Is Christ divided?” (1 Corinthians 1:13 NIV)

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Jewish Politics: You Might Be Fighting God?

Tom Jones and Roger Lamb wrote some time ago a guide ‘You Might Be Fighting God’ (1991). The dual-author project with its bias “basic outline” on church history covers a period “from the dynamic first-century church to the divided religious world of today.”

The Boston movement was in its twelve year when this document saw the light in 1991. Nobody involved at the time with this church group would foreseen with the same years ahead in 2003 the demise of “God’s modern movement” a.k.a. the Boston movement better known as the International Churches of Christ (ICOC). How could they? Though history is always done backward, life is only lived forward.

History teaches us Gamaliel was a revered rabbi in his day. He was a disciple of the progressive branch of Judaism that originated with the rabbi Hillel. Pharisaic interpretations of the Law have long divided Jewish scholars between the houses of Hillel and Shammai. Gamaliel was not a Christian, nor an apostle nor an inspired writer no more than Pontius Pilate who crucified Jesus. Even so, many Christians often draw inspiration from his council to the Jews in order to substantiate a particular liberal idea as Biblical theology. Some justify “growth” as an indicator that “it is of God”. While others defend their own creed or belief system as “the will of God” in order to avoid “ever to slip into weak imitation of true Christianity”. Those who oppose them “might be fighting God”. They all quote the advice of Gamaliel, which he addressed, to the Sanhedrin: “Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will only find yourselves fighting against God”. (Acts 5:38,39 NIV)

Should Christians entertain this criterion of “Jewish politics” when groups oppose one another? Is it not reasonable for church groups in order to prevent strive amongst themselves to follow the plan of Gamaliel’s counsel to the Jews? “Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.” Here Paul’s Old Teacher builds his “present case” on events that took place “some time ago”. The unsuccessful activities of people like Theudas and Judas were based on “human logic”. Theudas claimed, “to be somebody” while Judas the Galilean “led a band of people in revolt”. Both were killed. In the end their followers were scattered.

What will we find in our “present case” with the rise of the Portland movement? Should we allow the same principle of “Jewish politics” as observed in the days of the Boston movement to continue its course with Kip McKean’s “new movement”? Let us like Gamaliel send the agitators of the Portland movement “outside for a little while” and counsel behind close doors. Let us consider two important points.

Point 1: Though history is always done backward, life is only lived forward.

The dynamic first-century church was never “completely united” in heart and mind as many might think. The honest report in the book of Acts regarding relationships between the characters we love to endear so much provides a steady picture of fragmentation. The one-size-fit-all shoe of complete unity as described in Acts 2:42-47 did not last very long. Nor could it. The Christians in the dynamic first-century church were not “one happy family” no more than the various fellowships of the ICOC struggling today to fit on the same shoe of union amongst themselves. On the other hand, Jesus close disciples also known as apostles were completely unified with him, but they were often at loggerheads with each other. They were 100% behind Christ and 100% real people. What was the reason for the steady decline concerning Jesus’ ideal of “complete unity” in the first-century church?

First and foremost the ‘absence’ of Jesus Christ physical presence to act as a Leader for the Christians must have had an impact on unity. Nevertheless, hopefully we all understand the reasons for his departure. The workings of the Holy Spirit in reaching more and more people for the Lord have resulted in breaking the cultural hub which so unified the primitive Christians in Acts 2:42. These early Christians or disciples of Jesus “meet together in the temple courts” and “enjoying the favour of all the people”. They were “one happy family” because they shared the same cultural history as Peter addressed them in Acts 2:14: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem”; in Acts 2:22: “Men of Israel”; in Acts 2:29: “Brothers” and in return the Eleven was greeted as “Brothers” by those people who reacted in favour of Peter’s plea to get baptised.

The modern Christian scarcely gives any thought to these matters when he or she read the New Testament. Therefore, the ‘dynamic’ of the first-century church gets compromised. Especially when church groups generalise the Bible to fit ‘God’s will’ into their specific ‘belief system’. Can you imagine the reaction of the Jewish audience when Christ announced: “be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Thomas the apostle could have reacted in this manner listening to Jesus: “be my witnesses in Jerusalem, … okay! And in all Judea … okay! And Samaria, … o…okay! And to the ends of the earth … Oh-say what?” When we go backward with history Jesus commission to “make disciples” seems like a well-rehearsed script. We understand from reading our Bibles how the events have unfolded one after the other. But we forget that life is lived forward – one day at a time! The same principle applies for those guys who had obeyed Jesus’ commission for the very first time. The Holy Spirit gradually empowered people starting with the small group of 120 believers in Acts 2:4, then fell on each new group of believers; the Jews in Acts 4:31; then on the Samaritans in Acts 8:17; then on the Gentiles in Acts 10:44; and last but not least John the Baptist’s disciples in Acts 19:6.

Jesus’ own group of disciples were comfortable with their own Jewish tradition and customs. They didn’t wear an American, or an African, or an Asian or a European costume. The motto of the apostle Paul “become all things to all men” was still long off. At the mean time, they knew nothing else but Judaism. Even so, Jesus did not replace their traditions and customs as he taught in the Temple or in the fields and towns around Palestine. Jesus died a Jew and appeared to his fellow Jews!

Today we see Jesus not only as a Jew but also as an American, an African, an Asian and a European! When I think and talk to Jesus. In my mind he is a white man who speaks Afrikaans! But when I was in the ICOC who is predominately an English institution my Jesus was a white man who speaks English! Maybe there are others perceiving Jesus in their likeness the way I do. Who knows? But that is how I can relate God to myself. And it is my opinion that through this association Jesus’ words rings true for the world of believers out there “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” Therefore, it is impossible to preach that “my Jesus” is more special than the Jesus others worship. Because Jesus is an American, an African, an Asian and a European! Therefore we are completely united with the Spirit that falls on us when we call on the Lord!

Let us consider the Jewish Disciples of Christ that had to “make disciples” on foot “to the ends of the earth”. They had to cross over familiar terrain into unfamiliar territories. They had to go to the Americans, Africans, Asians, and Europeans! Imagine the conflict their traditions and customs have brought on themselves and their hearers. Gamaliel’s student did not only disagree with Barnabas on matters concerning the missions but also with Peter’s hypocrisy in far-away places. “How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? (Galatians 2:14 NIV) Not many Christians are aware of the incredible challenges these men had to overcome in order to succeed to the end. Perhaps if we allow ourselves to think more on these matters we would not be so desperate to force our minds and hearts into one-size-fit-all type of shoes that our first-century brethren couldn’t wear.

The Kingdom teachers and evangelist’s of the former ICOC have often over simplified the dynamic first-century church history. They too often have spoon fed hungry disciples with their one-size-fit-all lessons of which Jones and Lamb’s “You Might Be Fighting God” is a classic. Here is another story where the ICOC missions seem to come out tops where everyone else has failed. Ironically McKean in the Portland movement is repeating the same old story! Here, the attitude of the Portland churches relies on Gamaliel’s advice in order to intimidate the opposition – what-if-we-are-right-and-you-are-wrong?

Gamaliel never intended to intimidate the Sanhedrin, but he read history well in his judgement for the Jews not to oppose the Christians. He pointed out that false prophets often rose, attracted a large following and created a temporary stir, but once the leader had been killed, his followers dispersed and the movement eventually died out. The apostles’ claim that Jesus was the Messiah had dangerous political overtones. The Romans might interpret their talk of a new kingdom as part of an anti-government plot. Moreover, most of the members of the Sanhedrin were Sadducees, who did not believe in resurrection. Yet for the moment there was nothing they could do but warn the apostles against speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus. Even under the threat of scourging and imprisonment, Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather men!”

For the next few years the apostles and the other brethren lived relatively peacefully in Jerusalem. They continued to preach every day in the temple, but the Sanhedrin, bound by Gamaliel’s counsel did not prosecute them. Their numbers grew, but not at the spectacular pace of the first few months of their preaching. It seemed that Christianity was destined to become another of the many sects within Judaism, but a chain of events soon led the brethren in unforeseen directions that led to separation.

For almost a decade the Sanhedrin had stood by its decision against active prosecution of the apostles who believed in Jesus. Gradually the membership came to include a sizable number of Hellenists or Greek-speaking Jews. Most of them had lived in Jewish communities in the large cities of the Roman Empire such as Alexandria, Athens, Cyrene and Syrian Antioch. They were a cosmopolitan group, accustomed to doing business with their Gentile neighbours, and were considerably less conservative than the Aramaic-speaking Jews of Judea, whom they referred to as ‘Hebrews’.

The event that led to the stoning of Stephen a Greek-speaking Jew has altered the perception on “Jewish politics”. Not only did Stephen challenge the higher authorities thinking of central worship but also he had managed to instil God’s omnipresence in the minds of Christians. Christians no longer have to be seen around the temple. They can worship God wherever! Furthermore, Stephen’s death touch off a widespread persecution in Jerusalem of all the Hellenists associated with the brethren, though the Hebrew apostles were left unharmed. The persecutions were lead for the most part by Saul who was Gamaliel’s student who had witnessed Stephen’s death. The evangelists, from the Greek word euangelistai, meaning preachers of the good, influenced non-Jewish communities. As the gospel spread among Samaritans and Gentiles, an unforeseen problem develops. Until this time all members of the church had been practicing Jews. They had been admitted after repenting their sins and undergoing baptism, through which they received the Holy Spirit. At first all Gentile converts were required to embrace the Jewish religion before they could enter the community of the righteous. This requirement presented difficulties because many Gentiles who wished to join the church were reluctant to undergo the painful rite of circumcision and to observe the complicated Jewish dietary laws. For this reason the Judean brethren opposed the ministry to the Gentiles, which, though limited at first, was beginning to grow. However, Peter convinced the Jerusalem church of the worth and validity of the Gentile inclusion. The difficult issue of Gentile converts was by no means resolved by the meeting in Jerusalem and Peter’s own attitude proved ambivalent facing Paul again over this matter in later years.

In order to conclude our first point; shall we consider the following advice given by Walter Ralston Martin (1928-1989) in his book “The Kingdom of the Cults”. Martin stated on page 13: “Let it not be forgotten that Gamaliel’s advice is not Biblical theology; and if it were followed in the practical realm of experience as steadfastly as it is urged, then we would have to recognize Islam as “of God,” because of its rapid growth and reproductive virility throughout the world.” On page 384: “If his advice is to be followed and his criterion to be recognized, then the thriving growth of the various non-Christian cults, all of which deny the fundamentals of the Christian faith, must be acknowledged as the work of God! No consistent thinker of Christian orientation could long entertain such a warped conclusion without doing violence to a great portion of the New Testament.”

Next week, our second point: Are we fighting God? – We will investigate the criterion of “Jewish politics” as church politics in the Portland family of churches.

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6 Nigerians killed, 6 injured in Saudi stampede

Six Nigerians were counted among the dead and another six injured in a stampede on the way to the Jamrat complex (stoning site) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in which no fewer than 717 pilgrims died and 805 others injured on Thursday.
The Saudi Civil Defence Corps said that the exact cause of the accident could not be easily ascertained
The incident happened when there was a “sudden increase” in the number of pilgrims heading towards the pillars, the statement said.
This “resulted in a stampede among the pilgrims and the collapse of a large number of them”, it added.
Security personnel and the Saudi Red Crescent were “immediately” deployed to prevent more people heading towards the area, the directorate said.
The Saudi health minister, Khaled al-Falih, said the crush occurred because pilgrims failed to follow directions.
He said “many pilgrims move without respecting the timetables” established by authorities.

One eye witness said people were going towards the direction of throwing the stones while others were coming from the opposite direction. Then it became chaotic and suddenly people started going down.
There were Nigerians, Nigeriens, Chadians and Senegalese among other nationals. People were just climbing on top of others in order to move to a safer place and that's how some people died.
People were chanting Allah's name while others were crying, including children and infants. People fell on the ground seeking help but there was no-one to give them a helping hand. Everybody seemed to be on their own.
“It affected some members of our group. I lost my aunt as a result of the stampede and at the moment, two women from our entourage – a mother and her daughter – are still missing.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many of the injured were in a semi-conscious state due to harsh summer weather that compounded the problem.
Sirens wailed as ambulances conveyed corpses and injured persons to hospitals, while hundreds of Saudi security forces and hajj volunteers were on hand helping the victims.
Most of the injured were taken to the Mina Emergency Hospital while others were rushed to hospitals in Makkah.

The Jamarat area, where pilgrims perform the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual, had witnessed stampedes in the past.
However, the Saudi authorities had expanded the area by constructing a multi-million-dollar complex to ease the flow of pilgrims.
Pilgrims had spent the night in Muzdalifa and had come to Mina to throw seven stones at one of the three wall-like structures.
Preparations for the Hajj were marred when a crane collapsed at Mecca's Grand Mosque this month, killing 109 people.
It is the deadliest incident to occur during the Hajj in 25 years.

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Photo: Kishalay De / Undergraduate Department, IISc

Indian astronomers have detected microstructure emissions from a millisecond pulsar for the first time. Millisecond pulsars (MSP) are highly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron stars that take as little as one-thousandth to one-hundredth of a second to rotate about its axis once. In a recently published study, scientists from the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), have discovered these microstructure emissions using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), an array of thirty antennae scanning the sky for radio sources. They are now uncovering the processes that produce these microstructure emissions. While similar emissions had been discovered from more slowly rotating pulsars, this is the first time they have been discovered coming from millisecond pulsars.

“Pulsars rotate at the rate of about a few tens of rotations per second, and emit a beam of radiation along their magnetic axis. When this beam crosses the line of sight of an observer on Earth, this radiation can produce periodic pulses, pretty much like how a light house creates a periodic flash when viewed from a distance”, says Mr. Kishalay De, an undergraduate at the Department of Physics, IISc, at the time of the study.  “If these neutron stars do not significantly interact with any other stars in their environment, they gradually slow down over time, giving rise to normal period pulsars, which typically have rotation periods of about a few tenths of a second to a few seconds. However, a significant fraction of these stars have nearby companion stars from which they gravitationally pull material onto their surface. As the material is pulled into the star, it spins up the rotating star, like a string pulling a spinning top, and gives rise to millisecond pulsars, which can rotate up to a few hundred times per second”, he adds.

While observing single pulses from normal period pulsars, researchers have long observed rapid periodic fluctuations within them, but did not understand their origin. Since the time scales of these fluctuations were of the order of about a few hundred microseconds, they came to be known as microstructures. But when scientists began looking for these microstructures in emission from MSPs, they did not find them, suggesting an absence of such structures within the pulses from a MSP, which could have important consequences for our understanding of microstructure emission.

For the current study, researchers made use of the high sensitivity of the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Pune, to radio waves with wavelength of about a metre. “The large collecting area of the telescope allows one to conduct very detailed studies of faint pulsars at low frequencies, which are otherwise impossible with almost all the other telescopes on Earth. Pulsars are also intrinsically brighter when viewed with low frequency radio waves, making the GMRT an ideal instrument for studying a variety of interesting phenomena in these sources”, remarks Mr De. The GMRT has been in operation since 2001. It is made of an array of thirty fully steerable, parabolic radio telescopes and can investigate a variety of radio sources like pulsars, neutron stars and other extragalactic radio sources.

Although the current study does not identify the mechanisms behind microstructure emissions, it puts constraints on the possible reasons for the existence of such microstructures. With the GMRT undergoing a major upgrade, scientists will be able to further probe the mysteries behind pulsar emissions in greater detail. “These features could potentially be produced by the fundamental emitting entities responsible for pulsar radio emission, or be manifestations of physical processes associated with them. Hence, it is very important to study these features in detail, to shed light on the still elusive pulsar emission mechanism”, concludes Mr. De.


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Editorial Surveillance and the Management of Visibility in Peer Production

Christian Pentzold

This article investigates the scopic regimes of computer-mediated peer production and the possibilities for seeing, knowing, and governing that are entailed in its accomplishment. Examining the case of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the analysis takes a closer look at the everyday routines of mutual observation and the tools that authors have crafted to watch over each other through an archive of wiki-based activities. Based on a three-year ethnographic study among English- and German-language contributors, the article interrogates the technologically enabled gaze they direct to collaborative activities as a form of mutual editorial surveillance. Regarding the status of the knowledge circulated in such environments, it characterizes the management of visibility as an exploitation of both operational cognizance and nescience. In conclusion, the reciprocal information gathering by users about their peers invites to redraft, once again, concepts of panopticism commonly employed to describe modern societies of control and discipline.

surveillance, visibility, digital archive, online collaboration, peer production, panopticon, Wikipedia

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Avoiding multiple reads with top-level imports

Recently I’ve been working with various applications that require importing large JSON definition files which detail complex application settings. Often, these files are required by multiple auxiliary modules in the codebase. All principles of software engineering point towards importing this sort of file only once, regardless of how many secondary modules it is used in.

My instinctive approach to this would be to have a main handler module read in the file and then pass its contents as a class initialization argument:

The problem with this is that if you have an elaborate import process, and multiple files to import, it could start to look messy. I recently discovered that this multiple initialization argument approach isn’t actually necessary.

In Python, you can actually import the same settings loader module in the two auxiliary modules (module1 and module2), and python will only load it once:

Now when we test this out in the terminal:

Despite calling import settings_loader  twice, Python actually only called it once. This is extremely useful but also could cause headaches if you actually wanted to import the file twice. If so, then I would include the settings importer inside the __init__()  of each ClassX and instantiate it twice.

Mocking out an API call deep in your code

With any actively developed (python) coding project, you’re and your team are going to be running the same set of tests sometimes hundreds of times per week. If there’s an HTTP request to any 3rd-party source in there, this can cause problems. API calls can be expense, excessive scraping of the same source can cause IP blacklisting and the calls could just slow down your whole test process, adding extra baggage to the code deployment process.

To fix this, we can use Python’s mock library. Mock is really useful for creating fake function calls, fake Classes and other fake objects which can return fake values. In most cases when testing, you are really just testing how the application parses data rather than the reliability of the 3rd party service. The API’s response is generally the same. Mock can let you simulate the API’s response and parse its data rather than actually have to make the call each time.

It’s quite tricky to set up so I thought I would write a tutorial. The situation set up has a few components but I’ll try and explain it as well as possible. Let’s say there is a service that provides some useful API response. There’s a site, HTTPBin, set up by Kenneth Reitz to test HTTP libraries, which we will use here. Check out: https://httpbin.org/ip. The content is as follows:

Let’s say our program wants to grab the IP address in the origin field. Yup – a fairly pointless program but this will be analogous to many situations you’ll encounter.

Here’s a totally over-engineered class to get data from this service. When the class is initialized in __init__, it creates a base_url variable pointing to HTTPBin. The main handler function is the get_ip function, which simply grabs that field’s content. This first makes a call to api_call which uses requests.get to grab that HTTP data.

To run this code its simply (in a Python Shell):

What if we want to mock out requests.get? The Mock module documentation is quite unclear on how to target a specific function deep within a class. It turns out the easiest way to do this is not MagicMock or return_value but instead to use the counter-intuitively named “side_effect” feature. This is the testing module pre-mocking:

As you can see, this is a standard set of tests to check that the ip_grabber function returns a valid-ish IP address. It is run as follows:

However, the problem here is that it is going to call the actual API each time you run the tests. To stop this, let’s integrate the mock module:

Here we’ve:

  1. Imported the mock module. Note: if you get an error about “wraps” in the “six” module then it is almost certainly because you have more than one installation of six or mock and one needs to be deleted.
  2. Create a fake function fake_get to replace requests.get with. This actually returns just “123” for now so you can see how it makes the test fail below.
  3. Added the mock.patch wrapper around the test_ip_grabber function. Very important here is specifying the function name as it is imported in my_module NOT as it appears in the Python standard library; i.e. we are doing “my_module.get” rather than “requests.get”. The side_effect= then says to replace that with whatever function we want.
  4. The fake function specified by side effect must now be added as an argument to the function.

Running this, we get:

Mock’s side_effect has replaced requests.get 🙂 To make this pass, just replace  return {'origin': '123'} with return {'origin': ''}  and run again:

Tests pass and zero HTTP traffic! 🙂

Fixing a Django/Vagrant error in ifup/ifup-eth

I normally test out a django project using a local vagrant instance. Vagrant creates a virtual machine running the django project which instantly recognizes changes to code. However, I was running a test recently and the VM suddenly started outputting error messages as follows. Note: I’ve redacted some parts of these terminal outputs.

(Scroll to the bottom of this post to skip to the solution)

No translation files? I’ve never heard of them. Thinking it could be a random error, I tried to run the test again and got:

I tried logging out of the instance and got an I/O error:

Attempting to ssh into the VM again is refused:

Sometimes the “turning it off and on again” solution can work, so let’s try vagrant reload:

A timeout error this round. The error seems related to authentication, but it’s not the whole story. The VM is running according to global-status, despite not being correctly set up, which is a bit strange.

I also run a GUI called VirtualBox which is sometimes handy for visualizing all VMs on your laptop. Checking there, it also seems to be present – so global-status wasn’t lying to us. Let’s try halting it:

A forced shutdown this time. So far debugging this error isn’t going well. It is totally strange because the VM was working perfectly beforehand. Vagrant up after this produces the same timeouts:

Let’s try destroying the vagrant instance completely….

And starting from scratch:

That’s a very weird error. Perhaps something failed randomly?

Apparently it still created the VM. SSHing into it gives this:

Bizarrely there are no files! Something still didn’t startup properly.

At this point I was getting a bit frustrated and started to Google the error. The most relevant blog post I could find was Mike Berggren’s solution here: http://mikeberggren.com/post/100289806126/if-up. He fixed this issue and reports: “I’ll spare you the rest of the gory details but suffice it to say, we eventually circumvented that check and ran that same command from the host. It came back with another MAC address claiming ownership“. Does this mean he literally commented out the lines of code that make that check? He may have had a very different problem and I’m no dev-ops expert but perhaps there’s a better solution – maybe that check is there for a reason.

Let’s look back at that network error mentioned before:

Cat the vagrant file and it reveals the same IP address. This means that this particular vagrant is always assigned that IP address. If this is the only instance, how is it that something else on this virtual network is using it? Something inside my mac is conflicting with it.

We can check to see what’s really running (aside from what global-status and VirtualBox say) by checking running processes:

Aha! There are actually 2 of them. Let’s destroy the non-functioning blank VM that we created before and see if anything has changed:

Yup, it has gone:

Use kill -9 [pid] to remove it.

Now let’s try recreating the VM:

It works!

  • I’m still not sure why this happened in the first place. The errors at the start came totally out of the blue – I’d been running that VM for several weeks without issues. Perhaps it was the fact that I’d been running it for so long?
  • Vagrant global-status and VirtualBox seem to not entirely accurately report running VMs so definitely check all running vbox processes using ps and remove any extras that didn’t shut down properly. This reminds me of the –prune option in global-status (https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/cli/global-status.html) which can fix persistent old entries.

Big thanks to Tony (http://blog.tonns.org/) for helping work this issue out!

Extending MongoDB findOne() functionality to findAnother()

Given a new MongoDB instance to work with, its often difficult to understand the structure since, unlike SQL, the database is inherently schema-less. A popular initial tool is Variety.js, which finds all possible fields and tells you the types, occurrences and percentages of them in the db.

However, it is often useful to see the contents of the fields as well. For this, you can use findOne(), which grabs what seems to be the last inserted record from the collection and pretty-prints it to the terminal. This is great, but sometimes you want to see more than one record to get a better feel for field contents. In this post I’ll show you how I extended Mongo to do this.

(Assuming you’ve already installed mongo and git – I use  brew install mongo from the homebrew package manager and git came with XCode on my Mac)

First off, let’s get a copy of mongo’s code:

This will have created a folder in your Documents, so let’s inspect it:

There’s quite a lot of files there, it will take a while to find where the findOne() function is located. Github’s repository search returns far too many results so let’s use a unix file search instead. MongoDB is written in JavaScript (and compiled) so we need to look for a function definition like findOne = function( or function findOne( . Try this search:

The two flags here are -l  (lowercase L) which shows filenames, and R  which searches all subdirectories. The fullstop at the end means to search the current directory. You can see it found a javascript file there, “collection.js”. If you open it up in a text editor, the findOne() function is listed:

This code can also be found here on the mongodb github page: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/src/mongo/shell/collection.js#L207

Our function is going to extend findOne instead to find another record. This can be implemented by doing a “find” using exactly the same code, but then skipping a random number of records ahead. The skip amount has to be less than the number of records listed which unfortunately means we have to run the query twice. First to count the number of results, and second to actually skip some amount.

Copy the findOne function and rename it to findAnother, with these lines at the top instead:

  1. Gets a count of the records the query returns (stored in total_records)
  2. Generates a random number in a range from 1 to the count (stored in randomNumber)
  3. Queries again using that number as a skip (stored in cursor)

Generating random numbers in a range is a little obscure in JavaScript but I found a helpful tip on StackOverflow to do it: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7228322 in one line. I’m used to Python’s ultra simple random.randrange().

Let’s test this out first. You’ll notice that all code can be returned in mongo’s javascript shell:

You can actually replace this code live in the terminal, though it won’t be saved once you close it. Try first replacing findOne with a Hello World:

You can test out our new function first in the terminal by copying everything after the first equals. Open a mongoDB shell to your favourite db and type db.my_collection.findOne =  then paste in the function. Try calling it and it should return different results each time.

Let’s patch mongodb now with our function. We have to compile mongo from the source we just downloaded.

  1. Save the collection.js file you just edited with the new findAnother() function
  2. Make sure you have a C++ compiler installed. I’m using gcc, which was installed using  brew install gcc
  3. Check how many cores your processor has. According to Google, my 2.7 GHz Intel i5 has 4 cores.
  4. In the same terminal window (still in the mongo folder), type: scons -j4 mongo  and press enter. The 4  here is the number of cores I have, and seriously speeds things up. scons  is a program that handles compilation, and putting mongo  at the end of this specifies that we only want to patch mongo’s client.

You’ll see a huge amount of green text as scons checks everything, and then:

Its compiled! We now have to replace the existing mongo application with our modified version. Let’s do a unix find:

We want to replace the mongo application in /usr/local/Cellar/ (where brew installed it to). Let’s back it up then copy across:

Now, open up a MongoDB shell to your favourite DB:

  • This could be really slow since it has to run the query twice. However, typically I don’t add super taxing queries to findOne().
  • This function may be replaced if you reinstall/upgrade mongo with brew – they release new versions fairly frequently.

  • A function that acts like a python generator, keeping state and cycling forward until it reaches the end of the record set. This would fix any slowness above, but be less random.

Converting an HTML table to an Excel download HTTP Response: A hack for slow OLAP DB connections

Zenko (“Good fox” in Japanese) is a reporting system (see code on Github here) I’ve created over the last couple of weeks at Mozilla. Basically my non-technical coworkers were getting so frustrated by Tableau (“what the heck is the difference between INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN?”) that I decided to create a simple dashboard interface for them.

Its a simple bootstrap front-end to a database containing campaign stats for sponsored tiles. You can drill down to each tile or client/partner and pivot by things like locale, country and date.

Zenko’s stack (high to low)

A new feature

When loading one of the analyses pages, a table will be shown. My coworker wanted to be able to download the data to Excel. I came up with 4 possible ways to implement this:

  1. Simply rerun the query, format the results as a csv on the backend, save it and window.open() the file location.
  2. Automatically save the data from each analysis request server request and periodically clear old files.
  3. Use a javascript library like ExcelBuilder
  4. Send the data back to the server, format it, and then back to the client via an iframe

Which is the best solution?

  1. This is problematic because our sticking point is the query speed. The redshift database is an OLAP Column Oriented database, and append-only. This means that it is insanely fast to add data to, but quite slow (often 6+ seconds) to query. Yes, it is dealing with billions of rows so excusable, but its not so great in terms of user experience to wait so long.The user doesn’t want to wait another 6 seconds for the analysis to rerun when they have the data already.
  2. This sounds like it could just end up storing a lot of data on the client, but it could work quite well. In terms of security though, I’m not sure that the data should be lingering on the user’s PC unrequested though.
  3. This didn’t work out so well – in Firefox, the file is incorrectly named. In the future, I’d like to name the files according to the parameters of the analysis e.g. <client>-<date>-<country>.xls
  4. This is the weirdest solution, but it works! Flask is running locally so it is actually very fast. There are no huge JQuery/JavaScript complications with file permissions and the fact that you can manipulate the data easily on the server is nice too.

Solution 4

The process is as follows when the “Download for Excel” button is clicked:

  1. Reference the HTML table using JavaScript and convert it to an array of arrays
  2. Append an iframe to the DOM
  3. Append a form with a POST action and hidden field to the iframe
  4. Insert the table contents into the hidden field’s value
  5. Submit the form
  6. Let Flask receive the POST request and format the information as a CSV
  7. Return an HTTP response with a file attachment containing the CSV

Let’s implement it

There were various ways to do this in JQuery with iterable.each()  but I ran into complications and simply referencing cells using .children was much easier.

The (locally running) Flask will then recieve a POST request at /download_excel . Let’s set up the route:

Now, when the user clicks the button:

Download Link for Excel

They instantly get:

Download popup

Sorry, I can’t show what it looks like in Excel because the data isn’t public at the moment. All code is however available here on github!

One bizarre thing, however, is that the form doesn’t appear in the inspector (in either Chrome or Firefox):

Invisible in the inspector

Though, you can access it with some fairly lengthy getters:

Future features

  • The files could be named something more intuitive than data.csv  – perhaps a combination of various things seen in the URL’s query string
  • Accommodate for a table wider than 6 rows. This could be done easily by stringifying the array using a different delimiter such as a “###”.
  • Create an .xls file rather than a CSV, if there is any advantage

Using Web Workers in Firefox Extensions

Web Workers allow you to run code in the background in browsers such as Firefox. This is how to build one into a Firefox Extension, which is slightly different than from just creating one as normal on a page. The documentation for doing this is basically non-existent, so hopefully you’ll find this useful.

Please make sure you have a development environment set up similar to the one described here in my previous post.

How do workers work?

  • Workers in /data/ are not directly connected to scripts in /lib/
  • However, they can communicate by sending messages to each other
  • These messages are text only, so could contain serialized JSON, but nothing else
  • You’ll notice below that we are basically just slinging messages between two scripts

The code for the worker

Navigate to the /data/ directory and create a file called hello_world.js

Now paste the following in there (new users of vim, press i  to start typing and Esc  followed by :wq  to save):

This says that whenever the worker receives a message from the client, then send a message back with the word “Hello” prepended.

One note here: In workers, you can’t use the useful function  console.log("message") , instead use  dump("message")

Let’s call the worker from the main code

Let’s navigate back to the /lib/  folder and edit the main.js  file, which is the first thing that runs in the extension.

Paste in the following code:

And run  cfx run . You’ll notice a messy error:

Aha! The key line here is:  ReferenceError: Worker is not defined . This is because Firefox Extensions use something called a ChromeWorker instead. We need to import this in main.js by pasting this at the top:

and changing the line that references the hello_world.js file to call a ChromeWorker instead:

Ok let’s try running it again! Try  cfx run . Wtf another error?!

The key line here is:  Malformed script URI: hello_world.js . This cryptic error is because firefox can’t yet access anything in the /data/  folder. We have to use another part of the SDK to enable access to it.

Open main.js  and put this at the top:

Now we can use the function self.data.url() . When you put a filename as the first argument, it will return a string like  resource://jid1-zmowxggdley0aa-at-jetpack/test/data/whatever_file.js which properly refers to it in the case of extensions. Modify the worker import line as follows:

Now let’s run the extension again using cfx run :

Yay it works! The Worker returned the message “Hello Matthew“.

  • What does this {notation}  mean?

It is shorthand for:

Basically this means that  require("chrome") returns an Object, and we just need the value that is referenced by the key “ChromeWorker”. This is a very succinct way of extracting things from JavaScript Objects that will come in handy in the future.

  • Why is Worker now called ChromeWorker? Are we doing something with Google Chrome?

This is a naming coincidence and nothing to do with Chrome as in the browser. Chrome in this case refers to Firefox Addon internals.

Setting up a development environment for Firefox Extensions.

This is the method I use to create simple firefox extensions. This tutorial is a precursor to the next one which is about using Web Workers (i.e. allowing code to run on background threads).

Setting up the environment

We’re going to need the Firefox Addon SDK. This is a collection of python files that will let you run a test (optionally blank) version of Firefox. To download it:

Now extract it and remove the tarball:

Go to the directory and startup the special shell:

Now you can see that the shell has prepended (addon-sdk-1.17) in brackets to the prompt. This means that the window is probably half filled with text so we can reduce that with the command:

Much cleaner! 🙂

Setting up the extension template

Now that we have this special addon-sdk shell, navigate back to your documents and create a new folder for our extension.

This special shell has various useful commands included, which all look like  cfx xyz . For more about them see here. In this case we use  cfx init

Let’s inspect what was created:

  •  lib  contains a file called main.js  which is the main handler file for all extension code
  • data  is empty but can be used to store things like workers (which we will come to later) or large data files
  • test  can contain unit tests (quite hard to set up but useful for test driven development later)
  • package.json  contains metadata about the extension – version number, name of the creator, description, licensing etc

You can start writing code in main.js and it will run in the browser. Once finished, use  cfx run to test it!

See the next tutorial on how to write a firefox extension using web workers!

MongoDB aspirin

Basically this is a list in progress of common errors/tasks/gripes I get when using Mongo. I’ve noted down what usually works. Maybe you’ll find it useful 🙂

Why has my remote mongodb connection been refused?

    • Delete the mongod.lock  file from your main mongodb storage folder and restart [SO]
    • If on redhat, check  sestatus
    • Modify /etc/sysconfig/iptables   to have the correct firewall rules according to the mongodb docs.

How do can you iterate through all mongoDB collections in pymongo?

I normally access collections as object attributes like:   conn.Database.Collection.find_one() but actually databases and connections can be accessed as keys in a dictionary as well:

Why is mongod terminating whenever I close the shell? Even when using &  at the end

When starting mongod, use mongod --fork (note: fork must be right after the word mongod) and it will start as a background process instead. Or just add fork = true  to your config.

I just created an authenticated database and can’t even use show dbs !

Create a new user with all 4 of the following permissions: userAdminAnyDatabase, readWriteAnyDatabase, dbAdminAnyDatabase, clusterAdmin:

Shared Variables in Python Multiprocessing to pre-map/reduce

I’ve been using the multiprocessing library in Python quite a bit recently and started using the shared variable functionality. It can change something like this from my previous post:

Into a much nicer:

Thus eliminating the reduce stage. This is especially useful if you have a shared dictionary which you’re updating from multiple servers. There’s another possible shared datatype called Array, which, as it suggests, is a shared array. Note: One pitfall (that I fell for) is thinking that the "i"  in Value("i", 0)  is the name of the variable. Actually, its a typecode which stands for “integer”.

There are other ways to do this, however, each of which has its own trade offs:

# Solution Advantages Disadvantages
1 Shared file Easy to implement and access after Very slow
2 Shared mongoDB document Easy to implement Slow to constantly query for it
3 Multiprocessing Value/Array (this example) Very fast, easy to implement On 1 PC only, can’t be accessed after process is killed
4 Memcached Shared Value Networked aspect is useful for big distributed databases, shared.set() function is already available TCP could slow you down a bit

A quick solution to OrderedDict’s limitations in Python with O(1) index lookups

Background to the Problem

I work regularly with gigantic machine learning datasets. One very versatile format, for use in WEKA is the “ARFF” (Attribute Relation File Format). This essentially creates a nicely structured, rich CSV file which can easily be used in Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, SVMs etc. In order to solve the problem of very sparse CSV data, there is a sparse ARFF format that lets users convert sparse lines in each file such as:

f0 f1 f2 f3 fn
1 0 1 0 0

Into a more succint version where you have a list of features and simply specify the feature’s index and value (if any):

{0 1, 2 1}

i.e. {feature-index-zero is 1, feature-index-two is 1}, simply omitting all the zero-values.

The Implementation Problem

This is easy enough if you have, say 4 features, but what if you have over 1 million features and need to find the index of each one? Searching for a feature in a list is O(n), and if your training data is huge too, then creating the sparse ARFF is going to be hugely inefficient:

I thought I could improve this by using an OrderedDict. This is, very simply, a dictionary that maintains the order of its items – so you can pop() items from the end in a stack-like manner. However, after some research on StackOverflow, this disappointingly this doesn’t contain any efficient way to calculate the index of key:

The solution

What can we do about this? Enter my favorite thing ever, defaultdicts with lambdas:

Assigning items values in addition to the index is fairly straightforward with a slightly modified lambda:

This is a fun fix, but doesn’t support full dictionary functionality – deleting items won’t reorder the index and you can’t iterate in order through this easily. However, since in creating this ARFF file, there’s no need for deletions or iteration that’s not a problem.


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CU National Update for November 19, 2012

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