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Q: Determine if two chess positions are equal I'm currently debugging my transposition table for a chess variant engine where pieces can be placed (ie. originally not on the board). I need to know how often I'm hitting key collisions. I'm saving the piece list in each table index, along with the usual hash data. My simple solution for determining if two positions are equal is failing on transpositions because I'm linearly comparing the two piece lists.
Please do not suggest that I should be storing by board-centric instead of piece-centric. I have to store the piece list because of the unique nature of placable and captured pieces. Pieces in those states are like they are occupying an overlapping and position-less location. Please look at the description of how pieces are stored.
// [Piece List]
//
// Contents: The location of the pieces.
//           Values 0-63 are board indexes; -2 is dead; -1 is placeable
// Structure: Black pieces are at indexes 0-15
//            White pieces are at indexes 16-31
//            Within each set of colors the pieces are arranged as following:
//            8 Pawns, 2 Knights, 2 Bishops, 2 Rooks, 1 Queen, 1 King
// Example: piece[15] = 6 means the black king is on board index 6
//          piece[29] = -2 means the white rook is dead
char piece[32];

A transposition happens when pieces are moved in a different order, but the end result is the same board position. For example the following positions are equal:
1) first rook on A1; second rook on D7
2) first rook on D7; second rook on A1

The following is a non-optimised general algorithm; and the inner loop is similar to another general problem, but with the added restraint that values in 0-63 will only happen once (ie. only one piece per square).
for each color:
    for each piece type:
        are all pieces in the same position, disregarding transpositions?

The following comparison does NOT work because of transpositions. What I need is a way to detect transpositions as equal and only report actually different positions.
bool operator==(const Position &b)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++)
        if (piece[i] != b.piece[i])
            return false;
    return true;
}

Performance/memory is a consideration because the table gets over 100K hits (where keys are equal) per turn and a typical table has 1 million items. Henceforth, I'm looking for something faster than copying and sorting the lists.

A: There is lot of research done on computer chess and the way to create unique hash for a position is a well know problem with an universal solution used by virtually every chess engine.
What you need to do is use Zobrist Hashing to create a unique (not really unique, but we'll see later why this is not a problem in practice) key for each different positions. The Algorithm applied to chess is explained here.
When you start your program you create what we call zobrist keys. These are 64 bits random integers for each piece/square pairs. In C you would have an 2 dimension array like this :
unsigned long long zobKeys[NUMBER_OF_PIECES][NUMBER_OF_SQUARES];

Each of this key are initialized with a good random number generator (Warning : the random number generator provided with gcc or VC++ are not good enough, use an implementation of the Mersenne Twister).
When the board is empty you arbitrarily set it's hash key to 0, then when you add a piece on the board, say a Rook on A1, you also update the hash key by XORing the zobrist key for a rook on A1 with the hash key of the board. Like this (in C) :
boardHash = boardHash ^ zobKeys[ROOK][A1];

If you later remove the rook from this square you need to reverse what you just did, since a XOR can be reversed by applaying it again, you can simply use the same command again when you remove the piece :
boardHash = boardHash ^ zobKeys[ROOK][A1];

If you move a piece, say the rook on A1 goest to B1, you need to do two XOR, one to remove the rook on A1 and one to add a rook on B2.
boardHash = boardHash ^ zobKeys[ROOK][A1] ^ boardHash ^ zobKeys[ROOK][B1];

This way everytime you modify the board you also modify the hash. It is very efficient. You could also compute the hash from scatch each time by xoring the zobKeys corresponding to all pieces on the board. You will also need to XOR the position of the pawn that can be taken en passant and the status of the rooking capabilities of both side. You do it the same way, by creating zobris keys for each possible values.
This algotitm does not guaranty that each position has a unique hash, however, if you use a good pseudo random number generator, the odds of a collision occuring are so low that even if you let your engine play you whole life there is virtually no chances of a collision ever occuring.
edit: I just red that you are trying to implement this for a variant of chess that has off-board pieces. Zobrist hashing is still the right solution for you. You will have to find a way to incorporate theses information in the hash. You could for example have some keys for the off-the-board pieces :
unsigned long long offTheBoardZobKeys[NUMBER_OF_PIECE][MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_ON_PIECE_TYPE];

If you have 2 paws off the board and put one of this pawn on a2, you will have to do 2 operations :
// remove one pawn from the off-the-board
boardHash = boardHash ^ offTheBoardZobKeys[WHITE_PAWN][numberOfWhitePawsOffTheBoard];

// Put a pawn on a2
boardHash = boardHash ^ zobKeys[WHITE_PAWN][A2];

A: Why not keep an 64 byte string in your database that corresponds to the chessboard layout? Every type of piece, including 'no piece' represents a letter (different caps for both colors, ie ABC for black, abc for white). Board comparison boils down to simple string comparison.
In general, comparing from the chessboard perspective, instead of the piece perspective, will get rid of your transpositions problem!

A: "do not suggest that I should be storing by board-centric instead of piece-centric".
You're so focused on not doing that, that you miss the obvious solution. Compare board-specific. To compare two position lists L1 and L2, place all elements of L1 on a (temporary) board. Then, for each element of L2, check if it's present on the temporary board. If an element of L2 is not present on the board (and thus in L1), return unequal.
If after removing all elements of L2, there are still pieces left on the board, then L1 must have had elements not present in L2 and the lists are equal. L1 and L2 are only equal when the temporary board is empty afterwards.
An optimization is to check the lengths of L1 and L2 first. Not only will this catch many discrepancies quickly, it also eliminates the need to remove the elemetns of L2 from the baord and the "empty board" check at the end. That is only needed to catch the case where L1 is a true superset of L2. If L1 and L2 have the same size, and L2 is a subset of L1, then L1 and L2 must be equal.

A: Your main objection to storing the states board-wise is that you have a bag of position-less pieces. Why not maintain a board + a vector of pieces? This would meet your requirements and it has the advantage that it is a canonical representation for your states. Hence you don't need the sorting, and you either use this representation internally or convert to it when you need to compare :
Piece-type in A1
... 63 more squares
Number of white pawns off-board
Number of black pawns off-board
... other piece types

A: From the piece perspective you could do this:
for each color:
    for each piece type:
        start new list for board A
        for each piece of this piece type on board A
            add piece position to the list
        start new list for board B
        for each piece of this piece type on board B
            add piece position to the list
        order both lists and compare them

Optimizations can come in different ways. Your advantage is: as soon as you notice a difference: your done!
You could for instance start with a quick and dirty check by summing up all the indexes for all pieces, for both boards. The sums should be equal. If not, there's a difference.
If the sums are equal, you could quickly compare the positions of the unique pieces (King and Queen). Then you could write out (in somewhat complicated if statements) the comparisons for the pieces that are in pairs. All you then have to do is compare the pawns using the above stated method.

A: And a third option (I really do hope posting 3 answers to one question is ok, stackoverflow-wise ;)):
Always keep your pieces of the same type in index-order, ie the first pawn in the list should always have the lowest index. If a move takes place that breaks this, just flip the pawns positions in the list. The use won't see the difference, a pawn is a pawn.
Now when comparing positions, you can be sure there's no transpositions problem and you can just use your proposed for-loop.

A: Given your choice of game state representation, you have to sort the black pawns' indices, the white pawns' indices, etc., one way or the other.  If you don't do it in the course of creating a new game state, you will have to do it upon comparison.  Because you only need to sort a maximum of 8 elements, this can be done quite fast.
There are a few alternatives to represent your game states:

*

*Represent each type of piece as a bit field.  The first 64 bits mean that there is a piece of this type on that board coordinate; then there are n bits of "placeable" and n bits of "dead" slots, which have to be filled from one side (n is the number of pieces of this type).

or

*

*Give each type of piece a unique ID, e.g. white pawns could be 0x01.  A game state consists of an array of 64 pieces (the board) and two ordered lists of "placeable" and "dead" pieces.  Maintaining the order of these lists can be done quite efficiently upon inserting and deleting.

These two alternatives would not have a transposition problem.
Anyway, I have the impression that you are fiddling around with micro-optimizations when you should first get it to work.


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package org.hipparchus.optim.nonlinear.vector.leastsquares;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.hipparchus.analysis.MultivariateMatrixFunction;
import org.hipparchus.analysis.MultivariateVectorFunction;
import org.hipparchus.geometry.euclidean.twod.Vector2D;

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 * Class used in the tests.
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class CircleVectorial {
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    public CircleVectorial() {
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    public void addPoint(double px, double py) {
        points.add(new Vector2D(px, py));
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    public int getN() {
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    public double getRadius(Vector2D center) {
        double r = 0;
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            r += point.distance(center);
        }
        return r / points.size();
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    public MultivariateVectorFunction getModelFunction() {
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            public double[] value(double[] params) {
                Vector2D center = new Vector2D(params[0], params[1]);
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Ed Stacey talks through Plastics Capital's trading update on March 1st, for the year ending March 31st. Important – Please read this information: This video has been commissioned by Plastics Capital PLC and prepared and issued by Capital Network for publication globally. All information used in the publication of this video has been compiled from publicly available sources that are believed to be reliable, however, we do not guarantee the accuracy of this video. Opinions contained in this video represent those of the research department of Capital Network at the time of publication. The securities described in the video may not be eligible for sale in all jurisdictions or to certain categories of investors. Capital Network does not offer or provide personalised advice. We publish information about companies in which we believe our viewers may be interested in and this information reflects our opinions. The information that we provide or that is derived from our website is not intended to be, and should not be construed in any manner whatsoever as, personalised advice. Also, our website and the information provided by us should not be construed by any subscriber or prospective subscriber as Capital Network's solicitation to effect, or attempt to effect, any transaction in a security. This document is not a solicitation or inducement to buy, sell, subscribe, or underwrite any securities mentioned or in the topic of this video. This video is provided for information purposes only and should not be construed as an offer or solicitation for investment in any securities mentioned or in the topic of this video. Capital Network has a restrictive policy relating to personal dealing. Capital Network does not conduct any investment business and, accordingly, does not itself hold any positions in the securities mentioned in this video. However, the respective directors, officers, employees and contractors of Capital Network may have a position in any or related securities mentioned in this video. Capital Network or its affiliates may perform services or solicit business from any of the companies mentioned in this video. The value of securities mentioned in this video can fall as well as rise and could be subject to large and sudden swings. In addition it may be difficult or not possible to buy, sell or obtain accurate information about the value of securities mentioned in this video. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance. Forward-looking information or statements in this video contain information that is based on assumptions, forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable, and therefore involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of their subject matter to be materially different from current expectations. The content of this video is of a general nature, is intended as a source of general information only and is not intended to constitute a recommendation or opinion in relation to acquiring or disposing (including refraining from acquiring or disposing) of securities. The distribution of this video is not a "personalised service". It should not be relied upon in making an investment decision. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Capital Network, its affiliates and contractors, and their respective directors, officers and employees will not be liable for any loss or damage arising as a result of reliance being placed on any of the information contained in this video and do not guarantee the returns on investments in the products discussed in this publication.
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Activist investor group Coast Capital's James Rasteh discusses plans by FirstGroup PLC (LON:FGP) to sell off its Greyhound US bus business as part of a "rationalisation" of its portfolio. It's part of a plan by the group to focus on First Student and First Transit, its core North American contracting businesses, which it feels have the greatest potential to generate sustainable value and growth. Rasteh says there's isn't an individual [on the board] with any relevant transportation experience in North America and asks how they're expecting to operate these businesses better than their peers.
STRATEGY MJS Capital believes that security of capital is one of the principal areas which investors consider when building a well balanced portfolio. With this in mind the company has structured bonds that can not only deliver a high level of security but also an innovative and high yielding investment policy. The company is able to take advantage of many exclusive and private trade programmes that generate high yield returns with greatly reduced risk. Profits can be generated with relatively little risk by buying and selling of securities through a well known method called arbitrage. Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset in order to profit from the price differences between a seller and a buyer of financial instruments. The Company has access to private trade programmes that operate on an arbitrage basis so that they only purchase a security if it has contracted with an agreed buyer. MJS Capital is able to offer investors a high rate of return on the bonds because, first, in the opinion of its directors, debt trading programmes have historically produced above average returns and, secondly, the company will profit from the difference between the price at which it acquires debt securities and the price at which it sells them. MJS Capital will pursue two investment policies. First, it will invest directly or indirectly in private debt trading programmes which purchase discounted debt securities only if they have been pre-sold through low risk arbitrage transactions. Secondly, it will directly purchase debt securities from their issuers at a discounted price. MJS Capital has access to the issuers of debt securities, which may be acquired with predefined discounts. The company will consider reselling these securities at an increased price or at full value or holding them until their maturity date or for shorter periods in order to receive an income from them. The plan for the bonds is simple, which can be seen by this table showing the net return on investment depending on the bond term. Find out more on our website www.mjs.capital
Capital is a type of good that can be consumed now, but if consumption is deferred, an increased supply of consumable goods is likely to be available later. Adam Smith defines capital as "That part of a man's stock which he expects to afford him revenue is called his capital." Capital is derived from the Latin word "caput" meaning head, as in "head of cattle". The term "stock" is derived from the Old English word for stump or tree trunk, i.e. something that grows over time. It has been used to refer to all the moveable property of a farm since at least 1510. In Middle Ages France contracted leases and loans bearing interest specified payment in heads of cattle.
In economics, capital goods, real capital, or capital assets are already-produced durable goods or any non-financial asset that is used in production of goods or services.
How a capital good is maintained or returned to its pre-production state varies with the type of capital involved. In most cases capital is replaced after a depreciation period as newer forms of capital make continued use of current capital non profitable. It is also possible that advances make an obsolete form of capital practical again.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. It is noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its legal representation for victims of hate groups, its classification of militia movement and other extremist organizations, and its educational programs that promote tolerance. The SPLC also classifies and lists hate groups—organizations that in its opinion "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics." The SPLC's hate group list has been the source of some controversy.
In 1971, Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. founded the SPLC as a civil rights law firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. Civil rights leader Julian Bond joined Dees and Levin and served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979. The SPLC's litigating strategy involves filing civil suits for damages on behalf of the victims of hate group harassment, threats, and violence.
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PLC or plc may refer to:
Public limited company, a type of company
Presidents Leadership Class, University of Colorado at Boulder
Platoon Leaders Class, of the US Marine Corps Officer Candidates School
Prague Linguistic Circle or Prague School of Linguistics
Presbyterian Ladies' College (disambiguation), several independent girls' schools in Australia
Professional learning community,for collaborative learning
Pymble Ladies' College, girls' school, Sydney, Australia
Post Leaving Certificate, informal term for tertiary courses in Ireland
Medicine and psychology
Phospholipase C, an enzyme involved in signal transduction
Perlecan, an extracellular matrix protein
Pityriasis lichenoides chronica, a chronic immune system disease
Posterolateral Corner, a region of the human knee
Peter Lougheed Centre, a hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Partido Liberal Colombiano, the Colombian Liberal Party
Palestinian Legislative Council, of the Palestinian Authority
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Phospholipase C, gamma 1, also known as PLCG1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PLCG1 gene.
The protein encoded by this gene catalyzes the formation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and diacylglycerol from phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. This reaction uses calcium as a cofactor and plays an important role in the intracellular transduction of receptor-mediated tyrosine kinase activators. For example, when activated by SRC, the encoded protein causes the Ras guanine nucleotide exchange factor RASGRP1 to translocate to the Golgi apparatus, where it activates Ras. Also, this protein has been shown to be a major substrate for heparin-binding growth factor 1 (acidic fibroblast growth factor)-activated tyrosine kinase. The receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPmu (PTPRM) is capable of dephosphorylating PLCG1. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.
Has been shown to interact with CISH which negatively regulates it by targeting it for degradation. The deletion of Cish in effector T cells has been shown to augment TCR signaling and subsequent effector cytokine release, proliferation and survival. The adoptive transfer of tumor-specific effector T cells knocked out or knocked down for CISH resulted in a significant increase in functional avidity and long-term tumor immunity. There are no changes in activity or phosphorylation of Cish's purported target, STAT5 in either the presence or absence of Cish.
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United Capital Financial Advisers, LLC ("United Capital") is a national financial management firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California. It has 74 offices in the United States and manages $15 billion in assets. United Capital was founded by CEO Joe Duran. Private-equity firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Grail Partners LLC own approximately 40 percent of United Capital while employees and managers own the remaining. United Capital has described itself as an early adopter among finance companies of behavioral finance. In 2015, United Capital began describing its services as "financial life management", to emphasize the difference from wealth management.
United Capital was founded in 2005 as a national network of independent advisory firms. The company was initially founded, financed and developed by Duran and his business colleagues. By 2010, United Capital by over 150 employees and $30 million in revenue. By 2008, following several acquisitions of investment advisory firms such as Maul Capital Management, Integrated Financial Management, and Trevethan Capital Partners, United Capital was operating with 47 offices and 350 employees. The company made its largest acquisition of 2014 when it acquired Ellis & Ellis, a $500 million-asset firm that was previously affiliated with Ameriprise Financial.
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Networking and networking may refer to:
Biological, biosocial, electric, and electronic
Biological network
Electrical network
Telecommunications network
Universities network
Art, entertainment, and media
Network (film), a 1976 American movie
Network (video game), a 1980 business simulation game for the Apple II
Network (album), a 2004 album by Saga
Network DVD, British DVD label
The Network, an American new wave band
Network (comics), a series of Marvel Comics characters
Network, a member of Sovereign Seven
The Network, an organization run by comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise
Network (TV series), a Canadian variety television series
In organizations
NETWORK, an American social justice group
The Network (political party), an Italian political party
NETWORK (Slovak party), a political party in Slovakia
The Network (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable
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Network is a 1976 American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight.
The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight), and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky).
In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment". In 2006, the two Writers Guilds of America voted Chayefsky's script one of the 10 greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier.
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Italian Paolo Di Canio, whose appointment as Sunderland manager sparked the resignation of a former Government minister from the club's board, said on Monday he was hurt by unfair accusations against him.
Despite previously working as the manager of League One club Swindon Town and playing in both England and Scotland during a long playing career, news of his appointment rekindled interest in the remarks he made to Italian news agency ANSA in 2005 when he said: "I am a fascist, not a racist."
The former Labour Government foreign secretary David Miliband immediately resigned as Sunderland's vice-chairman and non-executive director after Di Canio was named Martin O'Neill's successor on Sunday night.
Miliband cited the Italian's "past political statements" as his reason for leaving the board.
Di Canio, 44, was named as manager of the struggling Premier League club after the surprise dismissal of O'Neill on Saturday with Sunderland hovering just above the relegation zone without a win in their last eight matches.
On Monday Di Canio issued a statement on Sunderland's website refuting the allegations made against him.
"Something can happen many years ago but what counts is the facts," he said.
"My life speaks for me. Of course it hurts me because people try to take your dignity and that is not fair.
"I believe in my pillars and I have values. What offends me more than anything is not because they touch me; they touch what my parents gave to me; the values they gave to me. This is not acceptable.
"What I can say is that if someone is hurt, I am sorry. But this didn't come from me, it came from a big story that people put out in a different way to what it was."
Di Canio continued: "I don't have a problem with anyone. I haven't had a problem in the past and I don't know why I have to keep repeating my story, to be defending myself on something that doesn't belong to me every time I change clubs.
"Talk about racism? That is absolutely stupid, stupid and ridiculous. The people who know me can change that idea quickly. When I was in England my best friends were Trevor Sinclair and Chris Powell, the Charlton manager - they can tell you everything about my character."
Sunderland's CEO Margaret Byrne said the club was disappointed by some of the reaction to Di Canio's appointment and that some people were trying to turn it into a "political circus".
"Sunderland AFC is a traditional football club, with a rich and proud history. It has a strong ethos and ethics and that has not changed in any shape or form.
"Naturally it's been very disappointing to read some of the reaction to Paolo's appointment in the last 24 hours.
"Anyone who has met Paolo and spoken with him personally, as we did in depth before making this appointment, will know that he is an honest man, a man of principle and a driven, determined and passionate individual.
"To accuse him now, as some have done, of being a racist or having fascist sympathies, is insulting not only to him but to the integrity of this football club.


One of the things I really wanted to offer with my latest blog redesign was the option for people to download a desktop wallpaper of any of my photo-blog posts. However, knowing my own limitations, I wanted to make it as simple and automated a process as possible.
I knew that if I went with a system where I had to crop, export and upload each different image size, well, I'd never do it. So I decided to take advantage of the built-in featured image functions in WordPress. I have a feeling, looking back on this, that I could have done this a slightly simpler way (using the option to define image sizes on the fly, and not on export – but perhaps this is a slightly less intensive method as regards server load).
First up I've defined all the image sizes I want to offer for download. It's important here to use a standard prefix on the wallpaper sizes if you're using other pre-defined featured image sizes.
As you can see here, I've covered the most common desktop wallpaper sizes. I'm not covering things like smart phone screen sizes, and I've obviously had to set the crop setting to true on each of them. I have to make sure when I'm uploading a photo blog post that I'm uploading a larger size than my greatest desktop background size.
One other proviso: this is only going to really work on landscape aspect images. I'd have to do some extra work to make this system work for portrait aspect images – but portrait aspect doesn't really work for desktop backgrounds. Potentially the easiest thing would be to have a custom field specifying that the image uploaded is portrait aspect; if that field is ticked, I would entirely skip the desktop background download option in the code.
Next up we have our function, which you should add to functions.php in your WordPress template.
Essentially we're grabbing our featured image sizes array and looking through it. If any of the array keys start with 'wallpaper' then we place that key into another array. This array will only contain our wallpaper sizes.
From there we start an unordered list and output the download link. I'm parsing out the image size for each one so I can use that as the link text, and grabbing the URL for the specific image by using wp_get_attachment_image_src().
That's it! You will now have a nice outputted list of wallpaper sizes. If you're doing this retrospectively, you might want to alter the function to generate the different sizes on the fly, or you can use a Thumbnail Regenerator plugin to recreate all your featured image sizes. There are a few available, but most recently I've used AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild.
Any questions or suggestions, please let me know in the comments.


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Can Obama End the War on Terror?
It's not solely up to him, and it won't be easy.
By Michael Crowley @CrowleyTIMEMay 24, 2013
Larry Downing / REUTERS
U.S. President Barack Obama makes a point at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 2013.
In his broad address on drone strikes, al Qaeda terrorists, and the prison at Guantanamo Bay Thursday, Barack Obama wrestled with some of the hardest moral questions that have defined national security policy since September 11: Who is the enemy? Who can we kill, and where, and how? What to do with suspected terrorists we hold in captivity? And when, if ever, will this war as we know it end? Along the way, Obama issued a strong defense of his reliance on drones to kill suspected terrorists in places where other military means are infeasible or risk more civilian deaths. He announced higher standards for drone strikes, limiting them to situations where the confidence about a target's location is extremely high and the possibility of civilian casualties is virtually nil. He reiterated his belief that the Guantanamo prison is a stain on America's honor and image around the world and should be closed, and vowed new action to make that long-delayed goal a reality.
(VIDEO: Obama Press Conference April 30, 2013)
But while Obama has an obviously sincere desire to bring the war against al Qaeda to a close and close the books on Guantanamo, however, he also lacks the power to make these things happen on his own. The future of the terror war that Obama inherited from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney depends on some very open questions:
Will Republicans Play Along? The initial GOP response to Obama's speech was skeptical. "The theme of the speech was that this war is winding down… [but] the enemy is morphing and spreading, there are more theaters of conflict today than in several years," said GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "The President's speech today will be viewed by terrorists as a victory," declared Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.
Some of Obama's plans require no Republican sign-off—he can change the rules governing drone strikes, for instance, by presidential directive. And he can transfer the dozens of Yemeni detainees at the camp who have been cleared for release back to their home country on his own. But fully shuttering Gitmo will require him to win Congress's permission to move dozens of the camp's 166 inmates from Cuba into the U.S., something now barred by law. At the moment, some Republicans seem no more interested in helping him than they did when Obama first proposed this idea in 2009. "GITMO must stay open for business," Chambliss said Thursday. Others are more amenable, though still skeptical: House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, who would play a lead role in any Congressional action, calls himself "open to a proposal from the president, but that plan has to consist of more than political talking points."
(MORE: President Obama Sides With His Guantanamo Bay Protesters)
Obama also said that he wants Congress to revisit the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the law it passed a few days after the September 11 attacks authorizing the broad use of force to fight al Qaeda and its allies; the president suggested he might like to see the law repealed eventually. Many Republicans like it just fine, and would oppose efforts to limit its scope.
Will al Qaeda Regain its Strength? Obama's speech described a more limited al Qaeda threat that the kind of mass-casualty attack within America that changed history on September 11, 2001. He described al Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan as decimated, and said that small-scale attacks from domestic radicals, like the Tsnaraev brothers, or attacks on American targets abroad, like the U.S. compound at Benghazi, are the likely new norm. There's no question that those threats are real. But intelligence officials say that at least one al Qaeda affiliate—the group's Yemen branch—still poses a dangerous threat to the United States. And although al Qaeda may be on the run in some places, it is also gaining strength in others, like northern Africa, Iraq, and Syria, where the prospect of al Qaeda-affiliated radicals acquiring chemical weapons is real. On Thursday an administration official noted in a briefing for reporters that unrest of the Arab Spring has allowed anti-American radicals to "gain a foothold" in new places. It's possible that self-proclaimed al Qaeda terrorists in those areas will maintain regional ambitions. But it's also possible they will renew their efforts to strike at America, perhaps compelling Obama to step up his use of drones.
(MORE: What if al Qaeda Gets Syrian Chemical Weapons?)
Is Closing Guantanamo Good Enough? There are two major cases against Guantanamo. The first is that the camp itself damages our national security by inspiring anti-American sentiment and serving as a rallying cry for jihadists. By this thinking, shutting down the facility is a huge breakthrough. And it may be.
But there's another other critique. This one holds that Guantanamo itself isn't the problem. It's the policy behind it: indefinite detention. Obama's plan would send some Guantanamo detainees back to their home in Yemen, and possibly to some other countries, and try others in the criminal and military justice systems on U.S. soil. But even Obama's plan would leave nearly 50 prisoners in a state of indefinite detention. These are prisoners who probably can never be charged in court, either because the evidence against them is tainted by the use of torture, or because the government is convinced they are dangerous but does not have specific charges to mount against them. On this question, Obama essentially punted: "[O]nce we commit to a process of closing GTMO, I am confident that this legacy problem can be resolved, consistent with our commitment to the rule of law," he said.
"[H]istory will cast a harsh judgment on this aspect of our fight against terrorism, and those of us who fail to end it," Obama went on to say. But he has not offered a clear plan for what to do with these prisoners who apparently cannot be tried. One thing he does not seem prepared to do is simply release them. America may have damaged al Qaeda enough that Barack Obama can talk about a day when the war against the disciples of Osama bin Laden will be over. But that day has not yet arrived. And until it does, Obama may have to live with some unpleasant moral compromises.
Cover Story: Homeland Insecurity: After Boston, The Struggle Between Liberty and Security


The director set out his stall with Following and its old-school film noir flashback structure.
In breakthrough title Memento, time run backwards. We see Guy Pearce's acute amnesiac Lenny shoot a man during the opening credits, soon realising the scene is playing in reverse. The next 110mins unfold end-to-beginning, the audiences piecing together clues as to why Lenny has committed the murder.
Even Insomnia, the seemingly straightforward follow-up to Memento, occurs in an Alaskan town of never-ending daytime.
In Interstellar, the nearer the crew looking for a new home world get to a black hole, the slower time moves. An expeditionary party's few hours on a potential new planet is over twenty years for the hapless astronaut left aboard the mother ship. And everyone on Earth, including Matthew McConaughey's character's kids. Meaning he's missed a third of their lives, depicted in a powerhouse scene of video messages spanning two decades.
Slowing of time also occurs in Inception, the deeper into a man's dreams a gang of infiltrators dive. Time turning treacly also infuses the film's score. Recurring musical motif Non, Je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf is super slowed for the film's central soundtrack cue, Half Remembered Dream.
In Dunkirk, three different time lines of one week, one day and one hour criss-cross and converge to breathtaking effect.
The Dark Knight trilogy also goes temporally screwy, although perhaps not intentionally. From Batman Begins to The Dark Knight Rises Bruce Wayne is the Caped Crusader for only about 18 months. Not quite the life's calling of the character in the comics.
Bruce Wayne loses his pa to a mugger's bullet, setting him on the road to becoming Batman. Even Interstellar's Cooper loses both his dad (before the film begins) and father-in-law John Lithgow on his way to saving humankind.
Nolan males react to the death of a spouse by self-destructing rather than confronting their grief. An exception here is Matthew McConaughey's Cooper, as his job in Interstellar is to save everyone on a self-destructing Earth. But, for the most part, these guys should talk it out more.
Guy Pearce's character Lenny is haunted by a quest to find his wife's killer, which we find out is a task without end come the close (or beginning) of Memento.
Christian Bale's master illusionist Borden drives wife Rebecca Hall to an untimely grave in The Prestige, his obsessive behaviour also bringing about his own downfall.
Even Following features the death of a significant female other, which predictably doesn't bode well for the male protagonist. Same thing in The Dark Knight. When Maggie Gyllenhaal's Rachel dies things swiftly go south for Bruce Wayne, before his rejection of the Batman symbol at the close of the movie.
It's hard for Nolan characters to achieve end goals (if indeed, they achieve them at all).
During the climax of The Dark Knight Rises Batman just cannot rid himself of a nuclear device (oddly echoing the 1966 Batman movie in which Adam West's Caped Crusader faces a similar problem).
Becoming Batman is a 7-year journey of training and self-discovery in the harsh mountain ranges of the Himalayas.
The Prestige's Borden achieves the ultimate magic trick by having him and his identical twin (or maybe clone) living for years as one person. But, Borden's perceived mood swings drive his wife to suicide (see The Death of a Wife Ruins Your Life above).
Completing the mission in Inception means venturing into not one, not two, but three different dreams. And from inner space to outer, to save the species in Interstellar requires Cooper diving into a black hole with only a space suit for protection.
Then there is Dunkirk. Arguably no characters in Nolan's filmography have had it as tough as those Tommies trying to get off the beach. Bombs from above, bullets from behind and the cold embrace of the sea in front. Nolan's triumph is allowing the locations and the elements, plus practical effects work and sound design, to convey what a Herculean achievement it was rescuing over 300,000 men off the sand.
In a body of work where even time itself bends to the will of the filmmaker, you know surprises lay ahead. Sometimes they announce themselves early on: Memento's temporally topsy-turvy opening credits, Inception's plastic dream reality.
Other times Nolan saves the reveal for later in the game. Insomnia's twist occurs at the end of the first act (although credit for that goes to screenwriters of the original 1997 movie, Nikolaj Frobenius and Erik Skjoldbjærg).
Following's labyrinthine crosses and double crosses are exposed as the movie approaches its climax.
Nolan's best twists come from (typically dark) emotional states. The Dark Knight Rises has a key shock saved for the climactic moments and Interstellar features two double crosses deep into the mission. These twists arrive because characters believe they are doing the right thing, motivated by (warped) compassion.
Dunkirk follows this pattern with a climactic character reveal that shines light on both the soldiers' desperation and humanity, making the story point that language barriers should not wall off basic decency.
We're of the opinion Dunkirk is Nolan's best work to date. But, the director is not without his wobbles.
Interstellar is 70% bold filmmaking, 30% bunkum. Anne Hathaway's "Love Conquers All" speech should have been overhauled before shoot day.
Marion Cotillard needed to take another run at that silly death scene in The Dark Knight Rises. And while we're at it, Batman shouldn't have been Batman for only 18 months. He's Batman! If he's polished off organised crime he'll go after purse snatchers and burglars. Because he's the goddamn Batman! Batman doesn't retire!
And while many Nolan movies have meaty parts for women, he seems more invested in the lads than the lasses. We want to see a Nolan film with a female lead, preferably penned by a woman.
And then there's The Prestige. A five-star movie right up until the final moments when it elects to cheat on its central premise with naff science-fiction.
Thereby ruining a brilliant movie about two rival master illusionists, each attempting to outdo the other in convincing the eye something has occurred the brain knows cannot be true. Doesn't matter if Nolan was remaining faithful to Christopher Priest's book, it's bobbins and spoils a polished yarn.
Since making his Nolanverse debut with Batman Begins, Caine has become the director's lucky charm. Every film after that first Dark Knight outing has featured Micklewhite Magic, introducing the legendary actor to a new generation of fans. And reminding older audience members of Caine's talent. The British legend even crops up in Dunkirk – keep your ears open.
Nolan's original composer was David Julyan, who scored Following, Memento, Insomnia and The Prestige. But, Hans Zimmer has become the director's go-to music man. And although Zimmer has 180 composer credits to his name on IMdb, putting music to everything from The Boss Baby to Pirates of the Caribbean to Chappie, his partnership with Nolan is most exciting.
The Dark Knight Trilogy is powered by pounding rhythms mirroring the Caped Crusader's drive against crime. Inception's woozy guitar work and moments of bombast match the unreality and sudden panic of night sweats (and gave a multitude of trailers since those Inception "bwaahhhs)". It also did that Edith Piaf super slowed down thing (see Time Goes Screwy, above).
In their recent collaborations, the music has evolved. Interstellar ditched the percussive bombast for a church organ, matching the missionary undercurrents of the story. Although that's as far as religious parallels go, Nolan coming across as a staunch rationalist.
Dunkirk is Nolan and Zimmer's most effective collaboration to date. Using the metronomic ticking of a clock as the base motif, the German-born composer's score is an astonishing soundscape of pulsating rhythms, surreal aural effects and an invocation of Elgar's Nimrod. Riding alongside the film's teeth-rattling sound design, and often dovetailing with it, the score does the talking in a film with sparse dialogue.
Nolan loves IMAX. A persuasive argument can be made for him blazing the trail for narrative storytelling using the format. No Nolan, no Pacific Rim, no Godzilla, no The Force Awakens in IMAX. Okay, also no Batman v Superman and those Transformers sequels. But, a great artist can't hold the paintbrush for inferior talents.
Nolan has also made it a sometime event to preview his movies with a 5 or 6-minute IMAX teaser. Always in December, preceding release of the full movie in July the following year.
The Dark Knight's opening heist wowed audiences in December 2007.
The Dark Knight Rising did the same again in December 2011 with its opening mid-air hijacking. And forced the filmmakers to de-muffle Bane's voice when it became apparent audiences couldn't understand the masked 'roid monster's mutterings.
Dunkirk was teased for audiences in December 2016, closing out that annus horribilis with the promise of something cinematically extraordinary to come in summer 2017.
These teasers played before lesser movies, leading to inevitable groans when they ended and the main feature began.
Theatrically, Nolan's films have crossed $4.3bn to date for an average $430m per outing. Admittedly, Michael Bay's 13 movies average $450m… But you don't reach the kind of money Nolan's films are making unless you're giving audiences something special.
And the British director knows with great budgets comes great responsibility to provide something spectacular.
Batman Begins' finale in The Narrows. The Dark Knight's bank heist or underground car chase. The Dark Knight Rises' unveiling of the Batwing. Inception's corkscrewing corridor dream fight. Interstellar's evacuation from the water planet or docking with the spinning space station. Dunkirk's climactic race against time rescue as the Heinkel bomber bears down on shipwrecked survivors.
What separates Nolan from most blockbuster filmmakers is he successfully weaves spectacle in with story and character. As a director of set-pieces Nolan proves the real deal (even if that includes miniatures) feels tactile and believable, whereas CGI can tumble into the alienating weightlessness of the uncanny valley.
Not to say that Nolan dismisses digital effects. No amount of make-up could replicate the stunning realisation of Harvey Dent as Two-Face in The Dark Knight. Digital airbrushing also proved handy for erasing Tom Hardy's tattoos in The Dark Knight Rises. And Dunkirk will have employed invisible digital work to remove safety harnesses and hydraulics for scenes when ships go down.
But, Dunkirk will stand the test of time because it conveys the harshness and desperation of the siutation with as much practical filmmaking as possible. Real planes, real ships, real extras, real sea, real deal.


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Home Education Buildings A Swift solution for larger projects
A Swift solution for larger projects
WERNICK Buildings is heavily targeting the education sector with a modular system designed for larger projects. The firm's Swiftplan product can deliver multi-storey solutions and has been described as offering flexibility due to its compatibility with a wide range of both interior and exterior finishes.
Chris Hart, Wernick's divisional manager in Scotland, told Project Scotland that the market is now treating modular construction as a more viable alternative to traditional methods, resulting in enquiries for larger buildings.
"Wernick identified there was a gap in the market for a product specifically designed to perform for large projects," Chris explained. "It was also needed to allow better architectural finishes to be used.
"The insulation on the building is non-combustible, so it not only provides outstanding fire engineering, it offers an increase in both thermal and acoustic performance. It's a warm frame design which negates cold bridging and has been very successful in practical testing on completed buildings.
"The floor deck is cross laminated timber, which takes us to a very high level performing floor and moves us beyond the use of concrete floor construction. The lack of concrete provides a considerable reduction in the carbon footprint of the building because cement is one of the worst construction materials from a CO2 point of view.
"The roof is a flat roof with a parapet edge detail, which provides us with the ability to get really contemporary sharp lines from an architectural perspective. The building can be a lot more striking."
Chris said Swiftplan can benefit the education sector by providing a solution with much larger open spans, solid floor construction and higher internal soffits. There is flexibility from both a design and M&E standpoint, while floor noise is reduced – something that can be important in a school setting.
Chris provided three examples of where the product has already proved its worth. One is a school in England with an "excellent" finish, which has generated very positive feedback. Another is Swansea University, which specified the system for a large teaching block featuring a lot of architectural details. The third is Wernick's own group headquarters in Essex, which is a traditional high end office setting. This office features a two-storey glazed atrium and as the building was for Wernick, allowed the business to trial things like claddings and floor finishings to ensure the system really can offer near enough every aspect you'd usually see in a traditionally constructed building.
Chris added, "In all these cases, the performance has actually exceeded our expectations. I've been blown away by what can be achieved with modern construction despite 15 years in the industry.
"We've seen a big uptake from the universities and education sector generally to create larger, more contemporary looking buildings – and doing that quickly and cost-effectively. This is where the Swiftplan system really works well."
Chris believes the market is definitely becoming more swayed by modular solutions, explaining that the Scottish Government's early years programme has driven a new level of uptake for modular construction.
"Councils are striving to complete a huge delivery programme of buildings on a very limited budget," he said. "The market is also becoming aware of wider targets as well. We've been asked to speak a number of times recently about the climate emergency from a modular point of view.
"The market now realises modular offers better performance and reduced carbon footprint, and of course less waste as well. These drivers are helping to change people's perceptions as they're looking at alternatives to make buildings cleaner, greener and better."
Wernick Buildings
Project Scotland
Work progresses on £47m Wallyford Learning Campus build
New £3m Greenock nursery officially opened
Work begins on build of new £50m Passivhaus Edinburgh school


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Palestine in 2013 Without Abbas or Meshaal
Published by admin at 10:19 am under Articles,Palestinian politics
By Daoud Kuttab
The Palestinian leadership seems to be on the verge of change. It is very likely that this will be the last year that Palestine will be led by the PLO's Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas' Khaled Meshaal.
Abbas announced over a year ago that he does not plan to run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority once such elections take place. All efforts to organize national reconciliation with Hamas and to resolve the West Bank-Gaza dispute through elections have failed.Two weeks ago, in a heated meeting of the Palestinian leadership, Abbas suggested West-Bank-only presidential elections so that he can be relieved of his position in an orderly manner. His suggestion for November elections was turned down and, according to a Gulf-based publication, he asked the Palestinian leadership to nominate someone to replace him within 10 days of his return from the New York trip. The Forward published a similar statement. Jewish leaders who met Abbas were told by the Palestinian leader that he expects to exit the political scene within a few months.
Friends and colleagues also state that the 77-year-old grandfather wants to spend time with his family. He has Qatari and Jordanian passports in case he chooses to live outside Palestine. Meshaal also indicated, publicly and privately, his desire to transfer power to others within the Islamic movement. Mashaal, 56, a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin, has seen the weakening of the organization's external financial and political support, as well as the loss ofHamas' headquarters in Syria. Being forced to choose between Shiite Iran and Sunni Gulf countries, Meshaal went with the latter.
As a result of Meshaal's closeness to Saudi and Gulf leaders, the issue of reconciliation with Abbas became paramount. But it is on this issue that Meshaal found the ground under his feet shaking. The Gaza-based Hamas leadership clutching to power in Palestinian areas rejected various reconciliation proposals, leaving Meshaal in an unenviable position, unable to deliver on agreements with Fateh, including the Doha agreement signed in the past year. Meshaal has made his position clear and the struggle for leadership now seems to be focused on two individuals.Ismail Haniyeh, whose list won the highest number of votes in the 2006 elections, has been Hamas' de facto prime minister in Gaza. Haniyeh will be competing with Meshaal's current deputy Musa Abu Marzouk. Unlike Mrshaal, Abu Marzouk's origins are in Gaza, which removes the contentious Gaza-West Bank divide in the upcoming struggle for the leadership of Hamas. Both Haniyeh and Mahmoud Zahar traveled to a number of Arab countries and Iran and are said to have ensured the continuation of financial support from Iran, much to the displeasure of Sunni Gulf leaders.
Whatever the backgrounds, motives and circumstances, it is very likely that Palestine in 2013 will witness the absence of two major leaders that have shaped the Palestinian struggle for the past decades. Gone will be the PLO's current leader and architect and signatory of the Oslo Accords. Although Meshaal has recently adopted the slogan of nonviolent "popular struggle," his expected absence from the political scene will constitute the departure of one of the most charismatic and vocal proponents and defenders of the Palestinian/Islamic armed resistance movement.
Palestine without Abbas and Meshaal will need to forge ahead a totally new strategy for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a truly independent sovereign state.The details of any permanent agreement are roughly known: a contiguous independent state within the 1967 borders, shared Jerusalem and a symbolic resolution for the refugee problem. What any new strategy will have to focus on is how to reach such a solution. Some will argue that the struggle should shift from the two-state solution to the one-state formula.
While some see this as a strategic solution, many concede that this might work out as a more practical tactic to force the Israelis to understand that if they do not concede to the two-state solution the nature of their own state, namely a Jewish state, will be severely compromised if the outcome is a democratic state for all the people between the river and the sea.
More important than the nature of the state, strategic thinking and unification of purpose is needed to arrive at such state. With the political and violent processes having proved useless, it is incumbent on any new leadership to come up with a strategy that could have better results than the disaster we have seen both through the Oslo process (more settlements) and the armed struggle (more death, hate and settlements).Some will argue that a mix of local nonviolent activities coupled with an international boycott and divestment movement can produce, as in South Africa, the desired results. Others will continue to try used and failed slogan and methodologies. Palestine will need to produce new leaders as well as new strategies for liberation. This will not be easy.
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Q: OpenLDAP - user cannot login after ACL rules change I'm playing around with OpenLDAP servers with replication, and needed to set appropriate ACLs to give replication user to read everything in source host.
After reading this article created this set of rules:
olcAccess: {0}to * by dn.base="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" manage
olcAccess: {1}to * by dn.base="uid=rpuser,dc=example,dc=com" read
olcAccess: {2}to attrs=userPassword by self write by anonymous auth by * none
olcAccess: {3}to attrs=shadowLastChange by self write by * read
olcAccess: {4}to * by users read

What I wanted to achieve was:

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*Admin can do everything, no limits

*Replication user can read everyting

*Users can change their passwords

*Any access to directory is possible only for logged in users, no anonymous access.

After setting above ACLs to server, replication user cannot login at all. I do not understand why this happens, Replication user DN is correct and as far as I know it should match...
Server logs after login attempt:
slapd[3475]: => access_allowed: result not in cache (userPassword)
slapd[3475]: => access_allowed: auth access to "uid=rpuser,dc=example,dc=com" "userPassword" requested
slapd[3475]: => acl_get: [1] attr userPassword
slapd[3475]: => acl_mask: access to entry "uid=rpuser,dc=example,dc=com", attr "userPassword" requested
slapd[3475]: => acl_mask: to value by "", (=0)
slapd[3475]: <= check a_dn_pat: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
slapd[3475]: <= acl_mask: no more <who> clauses, returning =0 (stop)
slapd[3475]: => slap_access_allowed: auth access denied by =0
slapd[3475]: => access_allowed: no more rules

If I understand correctly, only first ACL is checked?

A: Those ACLs are not tested but should work:
olcAccess: {0}to * by dn.base="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" manage by * break
olcAccess: {1}to * by dn.base="uid=rpuser,dc=example,dc=com" read by * break
olcAccess: {2}to attrs=userPassword by self write by anonymous auth by * none
olcAccess: {3}to attrs=shadowLastChange by self write by * read
olcAccess: {4}to * by users read

You'll need by * break in first two rules so if there is no match in specific by clause next rule will be checked. You don't need by * break in the attrs=userPassword or attrs=shadowLastChange -- there should be no fallback to to * by users read.

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