The weekend's concerts were public events, with celebrities and audiences gathering to defy fear of terror.
In any event, recent British Columbian winters have not been cold enough to kill the beetles.The infestation is gathering pace: foresters fear that by 2013 four-fifths of British Columbia's central-southern pine forest will be gone.
But the inhabitants of Durham, who suffer around a quarter less crime than people elsewhere in the region, are very worried about it indeed; 26% have even managed to convince themselves that they live in a highly disorderly area.What's more, gathering information about fear may generate more of the stuff.
Sunday was the biggest gathering of pro-indy supporters since the referendum, with thousands returning to George Square for a "Hope Over Fear" gathering over the afternoon.
To begin with, the use of this term is questionable, as it has, as a rule, referred not to protesters shouting down a speaker at a gathering but rather to government or other officials canceling or prohibiting a speech or gathering out of fear of the protests it might generate.
In Liberia, pastor Amos Teah, said once full pews were now largely empty as members feared gathering in crowds, while he has changed the way he conducts his Methodist church services.
Rupert Murdoch now owned the Sunday Times, and it was changing; the Falklands war was gathering, too, and fears there would soon be pictures of dead British soldiers meant that McCullin's Salvador pictures weren't run.
The school also houses a community center which has raised some eyebrows with local security forces who are wary about any kind of public gathering for fear of organized rebellion.
Ours is not a gathering of fear or despair.
She added: "History is repeating itself; the same tactics are being used by Hitler (identify a problem, finding a scapegoat target to blame, and stirring up people with a combination of fanaticism, false promises, and fear, and gathering the funding).
Facebook sought to collect details of hundreds of millions of users' phone calls and texts without permission as it feared that gathering the data openly would bring negative headlines.
