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The Shops at Columbus Circle is an urban shopping mall in the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, New York City — a complex of skyscrapers that was completed in 2003. It is located at Columbus Circle, next to the southwestern corner of Central Park. It includes mostly upscale stores selling luxury brands, including Davidoff, L’Occitane, Hugo Boss, Tumi, Coach, Cole Haan, Thomas Pink, Tourneau, and Stuart Weitzman. The mall also has several restaurants such as the Michelin 3-star Per Se and Masa (allegedly the most expensive restaurant in New York [1]), a Borders Books and Music store, a Samsung Electronics store, and a Whole Foods Market.

Whole Foods liquor store

When it first opened in 2004, the Whole Foods Market at Columbus Circle sold liquor from an attached room near the cash registers away from the main shopping aisles. However, this configuration was in violation of New York’s liquor licensing laws, which require grocery stores to have a separate street entrance to their liquor departments, ostensibly to prevent minors from buying alcohol. In 2005, Whole Foods settled with state authorities and closed its liquor operations at Columbus Circle, hoping to transfer its license to a new location it would be opening on the Lower East Side.[2] The space formerly used for liquor now sells Whole Foods’ ECO line of cotton/hemp clothing.[3]

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The Toronto Secular Alliance (TSA) was a citywide secularist organization which began as a student organization based at the University of Toronto. The organization is now known as the Freethought Association of Canada (FAC).Its purpose is to “promote secularism and related topics”, such as freethought and skepticism, through educational events, social events, and activism. [1] The Toronto Secular Alliance was a member of the Secular Student Alliance. [2] The Secular Freethought Centre, which is now called the Centre for Inquiry Ontario continues to be the organization’s headquarters.

Toronto Secular Alliance Logo

Birth

The Toronto Secular Alliance (TSA) has its origins as a student group founded at the
University of Toronto (UofT) St. George Campus. It was founded by and continues to
be led by Justin Trottier. The initial catalyst for the formation of the TSA was the
decision by UofT to create a “multi-faith” centre.[3] The project was intended to serve as a
means of promoting interaction between the various religious groups on campus and
to provide prayer space for religious students; the latter being particularly a
concern for Muslims who are to pray five times a day. The TSA advanced the position
that the university should instead choose to maintain itself as a ‘public’ institution
that does not endorse or fund any particular ideologies that may happen to occur within
its student population. The proposed cost of the centre is $3, 389, 400 according to
UofT assessments. [4]
Estimates have suggested that about 40% of the student population
did not belong to any faith and hence the TSA believed that it was unethical to use the
tuition of non-religious students to promote religious ideologies on campus. The TSA
became the only group on campus to speak out against the faith centre project in campus
newspapers, which resulted in much controversy regarding the group.

Sharia Controversy

The creation of the TSA was far too late to have been able to halt the development of the
multi-faith centre at the university. However, the numerous other issues were to explode on
the campus political landscape. In 2006 the attempts to create Sharia law courts in Ontario
sparked major controversy over fears in the public that Canadian citizens would be subject to
regulations similar to those seen in countries such as Iran or Pakistan. The Toronto Secular
Alliance again took the position of ‘one law for all Canadians’, and in contrast to other
anti-Sharia law groups, insisted that the communal courts created previously for other religions should also be disbanded. Within the Muslim community itself there was much controversy,
with more liberal Muslim leaders, such as Tarek Fatah, arguing against the implementation of Sharia law. The TSA met with some success in bringing these issues to the campus community and gaining support for its position. As a result of incredible public uproar, the
provincial legislature rejected the creation of Sharia courts in Ontario.

Know Radical Islam

February 6-10, 2006 marked a series of events, hosted by the UofT chapter of the secular Zionist
group Betar Tagar and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, entitled
Know Radical Islam week. [5]The aim of the events were to promote awareness of the threat posed by
the numerous groups around the world that have appropriated Islam for a political agenda spread
by means of terrorist actions. (They specifically name Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the
leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran.) The TSA made a decision, regard as highly
controversial, to support the series of events as a co-sponsor. This was seen to many as a
pro-Israeli/anti-Islamic bias of the TSA. However, the TSA has never taken a position in regard
to favouring the state of Israel, but aims to remain a non-partisan organization, the membership
of which holds varying opinions in regards to a diverse number of political issues.

“Is God all in your head?”

On March 10 2006, the TSA held its largest event at the MacLeod Auditorium, at UofT, entitled
“Is God all in your head?” The event featured lectures by neuro-scientist Dr. Michael Persinger and oncologist Dr. Robert Buckman discussing a scientific approach to understanding (supposedly)divine experiences. Dr. Persinger, has been experimenting with “the god machine”, which is capable of stimulating brains to create euphoric experiences. A raffle was conducted and the winner, a student at the university, was given the chance to visit Dr. Persinger’s facility and experience the machine first hand. He would later (on the opening night of Freethought Celebration Week 2006) describe his experiences with the machine. While the experiment was successful in providing euphoric and angry emotions, it did not create what he could describe as ‘divine’ or supernatural. The audience numbered over a thousand.

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Gold Circle, an upscale discount chain similar to Target, was the discount division of Federated Department Stores.

History

Covering mostly New York, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and Kentucky, the chain was founded in 1967 in Columbus, Ohio, with its corporate headquarters and distribution center located in Worthington, Ohio, a Columbus northern suburb. In 1984, Gold Circle was notable as the first major discounter to implement chain wide UPC barcode scanning in an effort to reduce checkout time for shoppers and improve inventory accuracy and speed store merchandise replenishment.

Merge with Richway

In 1986, Federated merged its Gold Circle division with its Richway discount stores, another Federated discount division, in an effort to improve the operating efficiency and profits of both. While the chains each continued to operate under their original names, buying and other administrative functions for both were consolidated into Gold Circle’s Worthington, Ohio headquarters.

Liquidation

In 1988, after Campeau Corporation acquired Federated Department Stores, Gold Circle (along with Richway) was liquidated in addition to the sale or liquidation of several other under-performing Federated divisions. The chain was dismantled in late 1988 with Kimco Development acquiring most of the store locations while the corporate office and distribution center were sold off in separate transactions. 33 former Gold Circle stores later reopened in 1989 as Hills and most of the former Richways reopened as Target Stores.

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