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Classic sex role theory predicts that sexual selection should be stronger in males in taxa showing conventional sex roles and stronger in females in role reversed mating systems. To test this very central prediction and to assess the utility of different measures of sexual selection, we estimated sexual selection in both sexes in four seed beetle species with divergent sex roles using a novel experimental design. We found that sexual selection was sizeable in females and the strength of sexual selection was similar in females and males in role-reversed species. Sexual selection was overall significantly stronger in males than in females and residual selection formed a substantial component of net selection in both sexes. Furthermore, sexual selection in females was stronger in role-reversed species compared to species with conventional sex roles. Variance-based measures of sexual selection (the Bateman gradient and selection opportunities) were better predictors of sexual dimorphism in reproductive behavior and morphology across species compared to trait-based measures (selection differentials). Our results highlight the importance of using assays that incorporate components of fitness manifested after mating. We suggest that the Bateman gradient is generally the most informative measure of the strength of sexual selection in comparisons across sexes and/or species.

On the evening of Monday 10 October 2011, Jane Curtis, President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, presented Professor Angus Macdonald with the Finlaison Medal in recognition of his services to the actuarial profession. Macdonald's qualifications include a BSc Mathematics (Glasgow) 1981, a PhD in Actuarial Science (Heriot-Watt) 1995 and he qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1984. Angus worked with Scottish Amicable until 1989, then joined the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University. He was appointed to Senior Lecturer in 1997, to Professor in 2000, and since 2007 he has been Head of Department. In 2006 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Early in 2002, three nineteenth-century Scottish flute manuscripts came to light in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD). The manuscripts are inscribed with the name of James Simpson of Dundee. The two slimmer volumes are dated 1828 and 1830. The third undated manuscript is a more handsomely bound volume and, judging by the content and handwriting, was likely to have been started at around the same time. Each manuscript consists almost entirely of flute duets and trios, and untexted psalm tunes for three and four voices. The history of the manuscripts is unknown, but it can be deduced that they were acquired by the RSAMD sometime after 1958. The manuscripts offer a colourful ‘snapshot’ of music-making in Dundee in the nineteenth century, with their cross-section of Scottish tunes and more widely-used drawing-room music, not to mention their church connections.

Winnipeg, Man. -- Trucks have been banned from using University Crescent in Winnipeg.

\"It's a great rock and roll town. There are great fans. People like to rock,\" he said. The band will be in town Nov. 8 for the Whisky Rocks concert at 46 West. Hosted by comedian and author Sean Cullen, the evening features live music, hors d'oeuvres, a tasting of five premium Canadian whiskies and a full set from The Trews closing out the night. \"We were approached by the LCBO to do this contest. The opening act will have to audition for the spot, which we thought was an intriguing concept, so we signed on,\" [John Angus] said. \"The most interesting thing was that bands across Ontario got to upload their videos and the public votes and the winner opens the show.\" The event will feature performances from the three finalists in the Whisky Rocks Showdown Competition.

Career criminal John Angus had been branded a 'significant risk to the public in general and adult females in particular'. Jim Ferguson, chairman of the Crime Prevention Panel in Inverness, where Angus lived, said: 'All serial sex offenders should be locked up as a matter of course and just not allowed out.' Angus's lengthy criminal record includes convictions of indecent assault, assault and robbery and a ten-year jail term for assault, robbery and abduction. Angus, who has spent most of his adult life behind bars, was found guilty after a two-day trial on a reduced assault charge, with the deletion of the words 'with intent to rape.' He also admitted breaching the SOPO.

Career criminal John Angus had been branded a 'significant risk to the public in general and adult females in particular'. Jim Ferguson, chairman of the Crime Prevention Panel in Inverness, where Angus lived, said: 'All serial sex offenders should be locked up as a matter of course and just not allowed out.' Angus's lengthy criminal record includes convictions of indecent assault, assault and robbery and a ten-year jail term for assault, robbery and abduction. Angus, who has spent most of his adult life behind bars, was found guilty after a two-day trial on a reduced assault charge, with the deletion of the words 'with intent to rape.' He also admitted breaching the SOPO.

Pen and ink drawing of Glen Nevis, from Dorothy Dunbrille's Up and Down the Glens, published by Ryerson Press in 1954. [* Glengarry News 18 Nov. 1981 (by Marguerite Seger, daughter of Max SEGER; valuable for personal knowledge), Queen's Alumni Review (May-June 1982) p. 32 * \"Dorothy Dumbrille Papers Arranged and Described by Anne MacDermaid,\" typescript, Queen's University Archives, Nov. 1976 * see Royce MacGillivray, Bibliography of Glengarry County (1996) for more information on her publications. * biog. details in her Up and Down the Glens and Braggart in My Step and on the dust jackets of her books * biog., tribute, by G.R. Arnott, Glengarry Life 1976 * Arthur Prévost, \"Elle écrit pour l'unité de tous les Canadiens,\" Le Petit Journal (21-28 fév. 1960), illustration * biog. sketch in Des'Avirons (Alexandria, Ont., 14 juillet 1972) * Edward S. St. John, \"The Image of the French Canadian in Glengarry Literature,\" OH 65:2 (June 1973) * Royce MacGillivray, The Slopes of the Andes (1990), 154, and \"The Historians of Glengarry,\" Glengarry Life 1996 * \"Books That Need Reprinting,\" Glengarry News 4 Feb. 1971: editorial on her histories * her mother (Mrs R.J. Dumbrille): obituary Cornwall Standard Freeholder 31 May 1933; Up and Down the Glens, 128 * interview with Dorothy Dumbrille taped 3 May 1978 for Multicultural History Society of Ontario * personal knowledge * letters from Dorothy Dumbrille to Royce MacGillivray and Ewan Ross in files of present author * honorary degree: information from C.C. FRASER in conversation 12 May 1978 * takes part in play, United Church, Alexandria, Glengarry News 16 Feb. 1934 * Glengarry News 8 June 1945, receives letter of thanks from Eleanor Roosevelt for prose tribute to FDR * Archdeacon Dumbrille to retire, Cornwall Standard Freeholder 2 March 1948.] According to some reports Maybelle was slightly \"retarded.\" [...]winning Macdonald's favour, whenever exactly that happened, must be taken as the decisive event in the rise of a distinguished Canadian family, who would now for some years grow in the shadow of the Sandfields. According to tradition, the parents were Irish Catholics.

I thoroughly agree with letter-writer John Angus. I love my lawn but maintenance now is impossible. I am a senior citizen with lower back pain. It was never possible for me to extract the weeds in interlocking bricks in our entrance walkway. I purchased a propane weed torch for this.

I would like to thank Dalton McGuinty for the legislation banning herbicides and pesticides from our lawns. For the past two years, I hired a lawn care company in the summer to dump herbicides and pesticides to reduce weeds and grubs. This had the effect of enormously altering my lawn's health and appearance. I particularly noted a reduction in grubs, which were everywhere. Photo: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen / Armed with his 'Weed Hound' device, [John Angus] is attacking the hundreds of dandelions that are popping up on his lawn. ;;