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<A>The compression algorithm image, used the format of the DDS. Has a few types: 
DXT1 (BC1), the DXT3 (BC2), the DXT5 (BC3), as well as the DXT1a (BC1a), the 
DXT5n (BC3n), ATI1 (BC4), ATI2 (BC5, the LATC, RGTC). <BR>The image is divided 
into fragments of 4x4. All the pixels in a fragment are two average colors. A 
fragment of the Texel - - describes the two 16-bit values of the colors and 
sixteen 2-bit values of the pixels. Thus, we get 2*16+16*2 = 64 Bits per Texel 
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depending on the type of DXT. In DXT1 texel the alpha channel describes the four 
colors. When the maximum or minimum transparency, on the texel is one bit. 
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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court acquitted CPI(M) state secretary Rakesh Singha and three others in a criminal case related to labour unrest at the construction site of Natpha Jhakri hydropower project in June 1999 in which two persons had died.
“The conviction and sentence passed by the learned trial court against the accused-appellants are hereby set aside,” the judge’s order stated.
The trial court in its 2004 judgment had convicted Rakesh Singha, Hari Om Sharma (since deceased) Kishan Kumar Kashmiri and Bhagat Ram Kaushal and handed out imprisonment sentences for 6 months, one year and two years, to all of them on three separate charges.
The labour unrest was caused at Nathpa Jhakri Joint Venture, a contractor company executing construction of a 11 Km tunnel between Jhakri, Manglahad and Daj Kotla in Sutlej River valley, who laid off a large work force after 90 percent of the job at hand had been completed.
Rakesh Singha and Hari Om happened to be trade union leaders with Singha then being the president of CITU, a union affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxists).
Striking workers had stalled work at the project site since February 1999 and the company administration with help from police had failed to persuade the workers to let resume work.
The company management requisitioned services of Loyal Security Forces, Bombay to provide security cover to the workers who wanted to continue with their work.
At a barrier point workers of the company restrained the security forces from proceeding further and started shouting slogans against them.
One Rajinder Kaushal (not an accused in the case) picked up a stone and on this all workers picked up stones and starting pelting the security personnel, who had to take shelter behind a vehicle.
 He was later found dead in a nallah.
Prosecution alleged that Rakesh Singh had conducted meetings at CITU office at Kotla on June 17 and 22 to incite the workers that resulted in the violence.
Cross FIRs were registered over the violence that had erupted.
After completion of investigation in both the cases, challans were filed against 14 persons and both cases were tried separately and independently.
In the FIR by workmen, the accused were acquitted whereas it was incumbent upon the trial court to try both the cases together to find out who was the agressor, the judge observed.
Leading the defense team Jagdish Vats argued that Rakesh Singha was not even present at the spot where the incident is said to have taken place.
To frighten the workmen, the company used the services of security guards in collusion with police without valid orders.
The police resorted to lathi charge and the security guards opened gun fire resulting in some workers sustaining pellet injuries and one died, Vats argued.
He let the court know that Singha as president of CITU had been working for the welfare of laourers and in that pursuit was counseling them.
On the other hand the prosecution supporting the impugned judgment of the lower court submitted that Singha was the king pin who instigated the workers to violence.
Holding the labourers as the aggressors, Deputy Advocate General PM Negi argued that security personnel and the police had only tried to defend themselves.
The Judge also noted that “the facts reveal that the security personnel and the police were brought on the spot by the company to suppress the agitation and to compel them to resume work.
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<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Switch ppc64le to using upstream repositories
username_0: Nvidia now provides proper repositories for ppc64le so let's point to that now and update the tests.

In addition, change from using chef-yum-docker to the docker cookbook for testing.
<issue_comment>username_0:!bump major ~
<issue_comment>username_1: Jenkins has merged this PR into `master` and has automatically performed a major-level version bump to v3.0.0.  Have a nice day!A/B Testing: How Much Data Do You Need?
I’ve started an A/B test for a client almost 3 weeks ago. We are trying to determine if we can bring overall reservations and revenue up by changing the layout of the homepage. Our hypothesis is that if specials were promoted in a more visible fashion on the homepage, conversion rate would increase, as would overall revenue.
RESULTS - 2 DAYS
After two days of data, we saw that the “B” version of the homepage had twice as many specials booked than the “control,” or “A” version. As a percentage of bookings, version B had 17% more specials booked than A. Version B also showed 71% more total bookings, and an increased conversion rate of 71%! This was looking to be very promising for our hypothesis.
RESULTS - 12 DAYS
With 12 days of data, we saw that as a percentage of bookings, version B had 23.22% more specials booked than A (up from 17% at the last check). However, overall conversion rate had dropped to be 8.1% below the control version (previously 71% higher). I decided that with such a swing in numbers, we probably didn’t have enough data to be able to draw a conclusion, and we should let the test continue