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Accommodative Secularism
While dismissing the petition, the court [Justices M. Katju and G.S. Misra] found that Article 27 operates even within the context of general taxing statutes, but it only militates against the use of a "substantial part" of the tax paid, toward the promotion or maintenance of any particular religion or religious denomination. A small proportion of taxes paid under a general taxing statute can accordingly be used by the state to fund religious groups. In the court's calculations, 25% is a substantial amount:
"In our opinion Article 27 would be violated if a substantial part of the entire income tax collected in India, or a substantial part of the entire central excise or the customs duties or sales tax, or a substantial part of any other tax collected in India, were to be utilized for promotion or maintenance of any particular religion or religious denomination. In other words, suppose 25 per cent of the entire income tax collected in India was utilized for promoting or maintaining any particular religion or religious denomination, that, in our opinion, would be violative of Article 27 of the Constitution...A balanced view has to be taken here, and we cannot say that even if one paisa of Government money is spent for a particular religion there will be violation of Article 27." (emphasis supplied)
Referencing the counter affidavit filed by the central government, the court cited similar instances where the state bears religious expenses, which are constitutional because the expenses are "small…in proportion to the entire tax collected": expenses incurred for the Kumbh mela, for pilgrimage to Mansarovar, and for providing facilities to pilgrims visiting temples and gurudwaras in Pakistan.
The court's holding arguably supports the proposition that the idea of secularism under India's constitution is accommodative. For this reason, cabinet ministers can take their oaths of office in the name of God, and perhaps for this reason that "benevolent" foundation ceremonies can be conducted at High Court buildings.
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- Dilip Rao said...
The judgment is whimsical and utterly unprincipled, shorn of any interpretive or historical basis. It is one thing for the court to have said that the government funds all religions and therefore not violative of art.27 but quite another to anchor the outcome on amount. It is like saying petty theft/corruption is not a crime but dacoity/huge scams are unlawful, one murder is okay but serial killing would be legally wrong! I suppose those would be "accommodative" positions too but could hardly be considered rational or acceptable.
- Abhinav Chandrachud said...
Thanks. I hesitate to defend this judgment, as my goal here is to spot trends, not to support them. But I think your analogy is unfair. There's clearly a difference between accommodating petty theft or murder and accommodating religion- only one of these is okay. I agree that the court should not have quantified what constitutes a "substantial" part of a general tax –even 1% can be substantial. But to say that a "substantiality" test is "irrational" is perhaps a little unfair too. I can think of many "materiality" thresholds or "substantiality" tests that the law recognizes which are considered rational: in copyright law infringement only occurs upon "substantial" copying, in contract law a fundamental breach only occurs if it goes to the "root" of the contract (not every minor breach justifies rescission), in constitutional law the "clear and present" danger test mandates that anti-state speech is only impermissible if it affects imminent unrest, in competition law acquisition agreements are only anticompetitive if they exceed certain financial thresholds. I also don't think it's an answer for the state to claim that it accommodates "all" religions as any justification for accommodating a particular religion, for two reasons: first, it would thereby exclude atheists and agnostics, second I'm virtually certain that it would leave out some "small" religious group or the other. The court could have held that the state should not spend any sum of money for any religious group altogether. But in its quest to accommodate religion, the court perhaps had to introduce some sort of materiality threshold.
- V.Venkatesan said...
You could also refer to the fact that the SC dismissed Solanki's SLP against the Gujarat HC's judgment without giving any reasons:
- Tarunabh Khaitan said...
thanks for drawing our attention to this remarkable judgment which continues the line of cases that disregard clear constitutional text to further the woolly idea of sarva dharma samabhava. this entire notion of accommodative 'Indian' version of secularism is entirely judge-made, and finds little support in constitutional text. constituent assembly debates, especially Ambedkar's intervention on the question of religion of personal laws, clearly point in the direction of a state that is indifferent to, rather than accommodative of, religion.
- Tarunabh Khaitan said...
apologies, my previous comment was mostly a rant. i do not believe that text is determinative, and am certainly not an originalist who believes that framers should continue to decide the scope of constitutional rights. i think text and history are relevant, but not determinative. my main problem with this 'Indian' version of secularism is normative, based on reasons independent of text and history. hope to explore this discomfort in a later post.
- Dilip Rao said...
No doubt there are plenty of such tests but they are usually laid down to harmonize conflicting principles often in light of common law or existing practice and to resolve textual and contextual ambiguities. None of that exists here; moreover, when the text itself lays down perfectly clearly what is and is not permissible, there is little justification for resorting to non-existent threshold tests without citing any noteworthy grounds for the same. The Indian Constitution is not written like the US Constitution and exceptions to a rule are specifically laid down where applicable. If a substantiality test was indeed intended, art.27 could have as easily been written to read "No person shall be compelled to pay any taxes, the proceeds of which are specifically and substantially appropriated...". But it does not and the Court cites no explanation for giving it a meaning it does not carry.
As for your second argument, I am sympathetic to the fact that atheists and agnostics will be excluded but am not convinced that it was not so intended. The text again clearly says "any particular religion or religious denomination" and not merely "any religion or religious denomination" indicating that treating all religions on the same footing is acceptable. The extensive historical record of state patronage to religion spanning many centuries fully supports this proposition and there is little doubt that the practice which was prevalent in British India and the princely states was not meant to be discontinued after independence. Of course, small groups ought to be entitled to the benefit as much as larger ones.
- Abhinav Chandrachud said...
Many thanks VV, Tarunabh and Dilip. My attention was also helpfully drawn to this blog post by a reader: http://ukscblog.com/so-help-me-god
- Shamnad Basheer said...
Thanks for highlighting this interesting decn, Abhinav:
Am not entirely sure that the reasoning is sound. like Dilip, i am not sure if Article 27 permits a "substantiality" test to be read in...the only issue is whether or not the moneys collected are specifically appropriated to support a religious cause..
that apart, there are obvious difficulties in applying the test through off the cuff numerical values... if 25% is the test (although the court did not strictly state so), no funding of religions by the state would ever fall foul: can you imagine what a legal 10% (of the total tax) would actually amount to?


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buying into the cloud storage for corporations is going to be a huge market in the next couple of years.
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Chart play here for me. Extremely oversold. Earnings not too great lately, but it is owned by value oriented funds so they must see something worthy here. Haven't studied the stock in a while, but based on charts I think it is a good play here.
Imation is a removable data storage media company the market has oversold due to an overreaction to unfavorable industry trends. Imation's problem and the cause of the selling pressure is two-fold; Imation's primary and highest margin products are proprietary and semi-proprietary magnetic tape products and the market for these products is slowly deteriorating due to the emergence of new storage formats. Secondly, although demand for data storage is dramatically increasing each year, removable media market size is expected to decline in terms of revenue. One reason for this is open format tape, or non-proprietary tape, continues to gain share against the proprietary legacy formats owned by companies like Imation. The result of this trend is fewer units will be shipped because the new non-proprietary storage formats have higher capacity cartridges, are typically more competitive with lower gross margins, and lead to greater price competition. So despite increased storage demand, revenues will likely decline.
Obviously these are unfavorable industry trends. However, Imation has a viable business model and is transforming their product mix. They are reducing their reliance on the only product they manufacture themselves, magnetic tape for data storage, and expanding their product offerings in optical, flash, and removable HDD. For a sense of the growth opportunity, the magnetic tape business is estimated to be a $1.8B industry, while the optical and flash media industries are estimated to be $3B and $11B, respectively, and removable HDD is still an emerging industry. I think this business is worth something, but the current valuation implies the product lines have almost zero value.
Imation trades at a 22% FCF yield on 2008 numbers and has consistently generated strong free cash flow for the past 10 years. On TTM it trades at a 15% FCF yield and EV/EBITDA is 2.6x using 2008 numbers. Even if EBITDA is cut in half, it will trade at only 5.2x EBITDA. They also have a very strong balance sheet and even when I am extremely conservative, I calculate a liquidation value of roughly $8.00 a share.
The average street estimates imply Imation will do $1.9B in sales in 2009 and $2.2B in sales in 2010. EBITDA margins peaked in 2002 at 13% and in 2008 they hit an all time low of 3.9%. My worst-case scenario estimate for 2009 leads me to believe the stock is too cheap to ignore.
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- End 2009 with EV/EBITDA multiple of roughly 5x.
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I´ve always like this company products, but it seems they lag behind the market developments of its industry... it´s also likely that they still have the 3M internal "mind set"... kind of a paquidermic structure.
If Im going to own SanDisk in the flash memory arena I might as well own the most undervalued removable data storage company. Imation is trading at nearly par to book value. They are growing revenues at 25-30% per year but are reeling from a slight reduction in EPS over the last two quarters. Still the company is trading at just 12 times forward earnings and they are clearly growing faster than nearly all other competitors. They are extremely cash heavy as well, with $6 per share in cash with no debt. I'd bet these oversold conditions don't hold for long and I'd be a buyer here.
Flash memory will make spinning hard drives in computers obsolete within 2-4 years, Imation and SanDisk and the premier companies in this business.


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Fellow map makers, behold the power of Sketchup!!
This is a work in progress but progress is going very fast. Now that I have broken through the glass ceiling with Sketchup you guys and the Dark Sun community in general can expect some fantasic resources coming very soon (like a few days).
To that end this is a beta version of what I hope will become the new "official" map of Tyr. Once I get all the buildings modeled up I can paint them very easily. Then the really fun stuff begins. I am going to place unique buildings in there and as a long term goal all the points of interest described in the books will be custom building with these medium quality buildings as the filler.
And the best part is this will be available as a vector map. That means that you can zoom in as far as you want to go, from a birds eye view all the way to combat grid level.
As you can see I am modeling this right off the OFFICIAL boxed set map(!!)
This will be something like the finished version, but the final version buildings will be fully colored and textured:


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Tulsa OU Caravan: Tidbits from Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale
TULSA — Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale visited with reporters Monday evening before her OU Caravan appearance.
Here's a few highlights from her interview session:
* Coale again praised last season's team, which overcame lots of potentially devastating injuries to reach the Sweet 16.
"You know, you're not supposed to have favorite teams, or favorite players, or favorite children," Coale said. "I've gotta tell you, I loved this team. I loved everything about this team. I loved their heartbeat, I loved their competitive drive. I loved how they believed in one another and played for each other.
"It was an honor to be their coach. I felt that every single game that we played. And now that the season is in the books, it's one of the most rewarding I've been a part of."
* Coale joked about her team's healthy backcourt depth.
"Contrary to popular opinion, we are not trying to compete in the 6-foot and under league," Coale said. "They're really good players. I think there will be a lot of competition for playing time, I really do."
The Sooners return starting guards Morgan Hook, Aaryn Ellenberg and Sharane Campbell, plus young reserves Maddie Manning and Nicole Kornet.
Also, three of the Sooners' four incoming recruits are guards. Coale added guards Gioya Carter, T'ona Edwards and Derica Wyatt to the fold, along with forward Shaya Kellogg.
Carter, from Carl Albert, was The Oklahoman's 2013 Super 5 Player of the Year, and Edwards was named Little All-City Player of the Year after leading Northeast to the Class 2A state title.
* Edwards was a late addition to Coale's recruiting class. She committed in March.
"I watched (Edwards) several times in her high-school season," Coale said. "She's the kind of kid that grows on you. You watch her, and you watch her, and you watch her, and the kid just finds a way to win games. She finds a way to make plays."
The 5-5 guard averaged 16.7 points and 7.0 rebounds as a senior at Northeast.
Hook returns as the Sooners' starting point guard, but backup Jasmine Hartman was lost to graduation. Manning was a true freshman last year, but tore her ACL early in the season.
"(Edwards) gives us some much-needed depth at the point position," Coale said. "Last year, you had Jasmine to run scout team against Morgan, and Maddie gets hurt. What if you want to play Jasmine and Morgan together? What do you do? And you're looking at that same scenario with Jasmine graduated, so we needed that third point guard in the rotation."
* Coale praised the state of Oklahoma's four Division I women's basketball programs, all of which qualified for the 2013 NCAA Tournament.
Oklahoma advanced to the Sweet 16, where it lost 74-59 to Tennessee. Oklahoma State reached the second round, losing 68-59 after a valliant effort against No. 2-seeded Duke on its home floor.
No. 16-seed Tulsa lost its first-round game 72-56 at top-seeded Stanford.
Like OU, Oral Roberts was eliminated from the tournament by Tennessee. The No. 15-seeded Golden Eagles lost 83-62 to the Volunteers in the first round.
"All four schools made it and played well," Coale said. "Had a great showing, and I think across the board, the thing that people across the country will say about those four teams is we all fought like crazy. Really competitive, and full of rosters with Oklahoma kids, all of us.
"I think it really spoke volumes, maybe more about the state of high-school basketball in the state of Oklahoma, than anything, because we have so many kids from here."
* Asked what Whitney Hand is going to do now, Coale said, "Anything she wants."
Hand started 103 games at Oklahoma, recording 1,211 points, 555 rebounds and 296 assists. A second ACL tear in early December ended her college career and, seemingly, her playing career altogther.
But the San Antonio Silver Stars selected Hand in the third round of last month's WNBA Draft, leaving open the possibility that she could return to the floor in 2014.
"I don't think she knows at this time," Coale said of that opportunity. "A lot of it will depend on the knee and how it heals."
Hand's husband, former Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones, is beginning his NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Should Hand choose to pursue a WNBA career in San Antonio, Coale said she didn't think the conflicting professional sports careers would be an issue.
"The great thing about the WNBA season is it's so short," Coale said. "It falls in a perfect complement to his season and what he does. I think there's probably a way to do both, and if there were ever two people who could do it, it would probably be them."


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Ads blare everywhere. How can you resist eating more?
May 29, 2000 -- I'm hungry but on a deadline, so to save time I head for the McDonald's drive-through where I plan to order the grilled chicken sandwich, hold the mayo -- just 300 calories and 5 grams of fat. Making my way to the pick-up window, I drive past large illustrated menus of burgers, fries, milk shakes, and that yummy new yogurt parfait.
But I'd expect these temptations from Mickey D's. The truth is, temptations like that yogurt-with-granola goody aren't the only foods calling my name these days. It seems that once I set foot outside my door (or turn on the television), everyone is telling me to "Eat! Eat! Eat!"
At the mall with my son, I stop at the food-court bakery for a cup of coffee, and he points out the "Buy three cookies, get one free" sign. At dinner with my brother, the waitress hears he is "starving" and offers up potato-skin appetizers dripping in cheese. She waves dessert menus in our faces twice. My grocery store always has someone handing out food samples.
It's frustrating. After overcoming a chubby childhood, I've managed to hold down my weight through a dull but successful strategy of watching my food intake and exercising. But lately I feel like I am losing the tug-of-war between what I know is the right stuff to eat and what some nutritionists call the "pressure to eat."
Yes, It Really Is a Plot
It's not my imagination. The world is trying to make us all fat. It's not as if we're being encouraged to eat our peas and carrots, says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Unfortunately, we are constantly being pressured to eat unhealthy foods."
Every year, the food industry forks over about $11 billion for advertising and another $22 billion on trade shows and other promotions, according to a report on obesity in the January-February 2000 issue of Public Health Reports. In 1998, promotion costs for popular candy bars ranged from $10 to $50 million, says Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, professor and chair of the department of nutrition and food studies at New York University, who co-authored the article. That same year, McDonald's spent more than a billion dollars for promotion.


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Fashion News
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21 Feb. 2011
NEW WEB SHOP COUTURE SOCIETY PRESENTS EXCLUSIVE HIGH FASHIONWhat editors and fashion people love most about the runways, many buyers don't dare to order for their stores, as the more individual avant-garde pieces of the collections presented might not serve mainstream taste and aren't considered wearable or commercial enough.
Couture Society, a newly founded online start-up from Berlin, now helps out and offers the chance to find exclusive international design pieces independent of traditional retailers on the web. "We want to free fashion addicts from the retailers' style code," Alexander Schimkat, founder of Couture Society, says.
As 'crowd-sourcing' hits the fashion world, users of Couture Society can go online and queue up for their favorite must-haves. As soon as there is a minimum order quantity, the designer starts to produce exclusively for the platform's customers.
So far, the company works exclusively with well-established brands that have been around for several seasons, to guarantee dependable order and significant styles. "We do a seasonal selection on relevant national markets to offer a most interesting portfolio to an international high fashion and new couture audience. Our focus right now is on European labels," Alexander Schimkat reports. "The assortment is put together in close cooperation with the platform called "Society Board", including selected opinion leaders in the field of fashion, such as editors, bloggers or celebrities," he adds.
At the moment, the website offers a very selective range of designers from Copenhagen, Stockholm, Paris, New York or Berlin, such as Ivana Helsinki, Dawid Tomaszweski, Minna Parikka, Camilla Norrback, Escada, Tillmann Lauterbach, Best Behavior, Wackerhaus, or Mongrels in Common. By the end of the year, Couture Society aims to offer about 50 labels with expansion potential.
The launch of Couture Society is expected to follow shortly.
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