diff --git a/community/mahout-mr/mr/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/hadoop/als/ParallelALSFactorizationJob.java b/community/mahout-mr/mr/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/hadoop/als/ParallelALSFactorizationJob.java
index 2ce9b61603..65a672add3 100644
--- a/community/mahout-mr/mr/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/hadoop/als/ParallelALSFactorizationJob.java
+++ b/community/mahout-mr/mr/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/hadoop/als/ParallelALSFactorizationJob.java
@@ -392,7 +392,11 @@ static class IDMapReducer extends Reducer<VarIntWritable,VarLongWritable,VarIntW
     @Override
     protected void reduce(VarIntWritable index, Iterable<VarLongWritable> ids, Context ctx)
       throws IOException, InterruptedException {
-      ctx.write(index, ids.iterator().next());
+      if (ids.iterator().hasNext()) {
+        ctx.write(index, ids.iterator().next());
+      } else {
+        log.debug("Iterator is empty");
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/website/documentation/users/classification/bankmarketing-example.md b/website/documentation/users/classification/bankmarketing-example.md
index fa55673004..2037a7a420 100644
--- a/website/documentation/users/classification/bankmarketing-example.md
+++ b/website/documentation/users/classification/bankmarketing-example.md
@@ -1,24 +1,6 @@
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- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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 ---
 layout: default
-title:
-
-    
+title: Bank Marketing Example  
 ---
 
 Notice:    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
@@ -66,4 +48,4 @@ This example consists of 3 classes:
 
 When you run the main method of BankMarketingClassificationMain it parses the dataset using the TelephoneCallParser and trains
 a logistic regression model with 20 runs and 20 passes. The TelephoneCallParser uses Mahout's feature vector encoder
-to encode the features in the dataset into a vector. Afterwards the model is tested and the learning rate and AUC is printed accuracy is printed to standard output.
\ No newline at end of file
+to encode the features in the dataset into a vector. Afterwards the model is tested and the learning rate and AUC is printed accuracy is printed to standard output.