rain it for its own good." Question: The text mainly talks about   _ . Options: A: Diane Fossey B: the gorillas in Rwanda C: the protection of the gorillas D: the film Gorillas in the Mist
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There have always been laws against copying other people's ideas. However, when copying was only limited to copying something by hand, problems were solved easily. The solution was always the destruction or removal of the copy. Nowadays, the rise of the Internet has made the issue of intellectual property   more complicated. Almost every bit of information can be cut and pasted  with a few clicks of a mouse. Many art forms such as writings, films, and music need new protection to ensure that people do not simply transfer them for free. Online illegal copying has been blamed for a huge reduction in the sales of many records because it is hard to convince people to buy something that they can get for free. Even the ideas behind traditional games, such as Scrabble, have been used without the owners' permission. Old laws have been struggling to keep up. While music companies have been successful in persuading courts that action should be taken against people who illegally download music, the law is difficult to carry out. Furthermore, intellectual property rights vary widely from country to country, so it's up for debate which laws apply. Finally, there is the fact that many people simply do not see the act as theft, since once the work has been digitized there is no clear physical object to steal in the first place. All of these issues mean that companies involved with intellectual property -- ideas or easily digitized information -- are fighting desperately to get people to pay for the information they use, rather than paying for an object like a CD that they use. While the companies have sometimes been successful, the practical barriers to full protection seem _. Finally, all that concerned parties can do is hope that their few successes scare off others and try to find new ways of making money. Question: Why do writings, films, and music need protection? Options: A: They are very expensive. B: They are impossible to copy. C: It is easy to make CDs, books, and movies. D: They are easily able to be transferred when in digital form.
DWhile several power companies that have been allocated captive coal blocks recently are left high and dry with the lack of assured buyers for electricity under power purchase agreements (PPAs), even the limited number of PPAs signed in recent years could now unravel owing to sluggish demand and financially-crippled state distribution companies.
With earlier demand projections proving to be gross overestimates, the Rajasthan government is learnt to have terminated power purchase obligations for all but two of the nine PPAs signed by it in 2013. This would leave the state's distribution company RVPN with obligation to buy just 500 MW of power instead of 1,975 MW envisaged earlier under long-term agreements with producers.
The state's move, prompted also by debt-laden RVPN, was earlier endorsed by the state electricity regulatory commission (SERC).
Rajasthan's move, a sign of persisting problems in the power sector, would jeopardise several power producers including Lanco Babandh, PTC Athens (Chattisgarh), SKS Power, PTC-MB Power and KSK Mahanadi. These firms had signed PPAs with RVPN in 2013, after emerging as top bidders under the Case 1 bidding mechanism.
In fact, Rajasthan had floated tenders for purchasing 1,000 MW of power in 2012. The state eventually signed PPAs with nine companies for a capacity of 1,975 MW.
RVPN had filed a petition before the SERC in November last year, seeking its approval to reduce the PPA capacities to just 500 MW. In other words, it sought cancellation of seven PPPs and retention of only two — the 250 MW PPA with PTC-Maruti Clean Fuel and another agreement for purchase of the same amount of power from PTC-DB Power. For both the retained PPAs, the firms concerned had submitted the bids under the aegis of state-run Power Trading Corporation India (PTC).
The SERC, sources said, approved the discom's plea for cancellation of the PPAs on the ground that the commission-appointed energy assessment committee (EAC), a body that forecasts power demand for 12-60 months in advance, had reviewed its earlier decision and recommended only 600 MW of long-term PPAs. "If the petitioner based on relevant considerations and EAC recommendation has now come to the conclusion that they may not need 1,000 MW of power for which approval of the commission was obtained and need only 500 MW, the same deserves to be accepted," the commission noted in an order issued late last month.
The commission added that it was the requirement of the state which should prevail as accepting purchase obligations beyond its capacity would in turn burden the consumers. The long-term levelised tariff discovered in case of the seven cancelled PPAs ranged between Rs 4.81 and Rs 6.03/unit.
Given the deteriorating financial health of discoms, there has been a dearth of demand for power and this has manifested in the fact that not many PPAs have been signed in the country over the last three years. While in 2012, bids were invited for PPAs amounting to 10 giga watts (GW), purchases tied up by power companies under PPPs since then has been only a small fraction of that. In June this year, PPAs for supply of 2,400 MW of electricity to Andhra Pradesh's distribution companies were signed, and the tariffs discovered seemed remunerative to the power producers, causing analysts to predict a revival of demand. Although the weighted average tariff of Rs 4.57 per unit for the first year of the 25-year PPAs quoted by the top five bidders for supply of power to Andhra discoms under the newly designed Case 1 mechanism was among the lowest in the last five years, it included a record-high fixed-cost component of 73%, implying the risk would lie mostly with the buyers and the end consumers rather than with the developers.
But that seems to be a one-off event. Debt-laden discoms in other states are in no hurry to sign new PPAs. The Rajasthan discom, for example, has been struggling to stay afloat with outstanding loans of Rs 73,000 crore and accumulated losses of Rs 69,000 crore.
Source- Indian ExpressJohn McCain’s absence from the Senate as he recovers from surgery has led Republican leadership to postpone consideration of the troubled healthcare bill. Surgeons in Phoenix removed a blood clot from above 80-year-old McCain’s left eye on Friday.
John Cornyn of Texas, the No2 Senate Republican, told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday there should be a vote once a “full contingent of senators” was available.
McCain predicted last week that the bill would fail when senators back in their home states for the summer recess – which McConnell delayed by three weeks – heard strong opposition from voters.
On Sunday, a Washington Post/ABC News poll put public support for Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as Obamacare, over its possible Republican replacement at 50% to 24%, or two to one.
With a 52-48 majority, Republicans can afford to lose only two of their own party. One conservative, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and a moderate, Susan Collins of Maine, have said they will vote against the measure.
The White House has put its weight behind the bill, with Donald Trump seeking to influence wavering senators, of whom Collins said on Sunday there remained “eight to 10” with “serious concerns”. Collins said she had been contacted by Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
In addition to its effects on access to health insurance, the Senate bill mandates huge cuts to Medicaid, which is relied upon by many old or low-income Americans.
On CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Collins said she would “respectfully disagree with the vice-president’s analysis”.
“This bill would impose fundamental, sweeping changes in the Medicaid program and those include very deep cuts,” she said.
“Those would affect some of the most vulnerable people in society including disabled children and poor seniors. It would affect the rural hospitals, nursing homes. They would have a very difficult time even staying in existence, serving vulnerable populations. So no, I see it very differently.
On Saturday, two insurance industry giants said in an open letter to McConnell that a provision authored by the Texas conservative Ted Cruz was “unworkable in any form” as it would “undermine protections for those with pre-existing medical conditions”, increase premiums and lead to “widespread terminations of coverage”.
The Cruz provision would allow insurers to sell basic, “bare bones” plans as well as the comprehensive coverage mandated under the ACA. The open letter was issued by America’s Health Care Plans and the BlueCross BlueShield Association.
On Sunday, Collins said the Cruz provision was “not the answer”. Paul said that though Cruz and another hardliner, Mike Lee of Utah, were “trying to do what’s right”, their amendment was compromised by having been “done in the context of keeping all of the overall regulatory scheme of Obamacare”.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score for the first version of the Senate bill said it would cause 22 million people to lose access to health insurance in 10 years. A House bill, passed in May to great fanfare from Trump, scored worse. The White House responded by criticising CBO methodology and accuracy.
A new CBO score and a procedural Senate vote had been been expected in