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  Gareth Bale was an unused substitute in Real Madrid's Champions League final win over Liverpool last month Wales captain Gareth Bale has agreed to join MLS side Los Angeles FC on a free transfer. Forward Bale, 32, is currently a free agent having left Real Madrid after nine years in Spain. The five-time Champions League winner had been linked with a return to Tottenham Hotspur as well as a move to home-city club Cardiff. LAFC have yet to officially confirm the deal, but Bale tweeted on Saturday saying: "See you soon, Los Angeles". The signing of Bale, who joined Real Madrid for a then world-record fee of £85m in 2013, is set to follow LAFC's  move for Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini  earlier this month. There was speculation that Bale would end his playing career had Wales missed out on qualification for the 2022 World Cup. But after Robert Page's side booked their place in Qatar by beating Ukraine in their World Cup play-off final earlier this month, the only

  Table 4 Summary of the current knowledge about utilization of millipedes by mammals as anointing and/or food item. Mammals Millipedes Chemicals Use Reference Marsupialia          Opossum ( Didelphis albiventris ) Leptodesmus dentellus  (Chelodesmidae)  Gymnostreptus olivaceus  (Spirostreptidae) Benzoquinones and Cyanogenics Consumption and sniffing [ 47 ] Carnivora          White-nosed coatis ( Nasua narica ) Orthoporus  sp. (Spirostreptidae) Benzoquinones Consumption after prey-rolling treatment [ 13 ]  Meerkat-mangoose ( Suricata suricatta ) ? ? Consumption after treatment [ 49 ,  51 ]  Striped skunk ( Mephitis mephitis ) ? ? Consumption [ 52 ] Primates          Capuchin monkeys ( Cebus  sp.) Orthoporus dorsovittatus  (Spirostreptidae) Benzoquinones Self-anointing [ 19 ]  Capuchin monkeys ( C. olivaceus ) Orthoporus dorsovittatus  (Spirostreptidae) Benzoquinones Self-anointing [ 18 ]  Owl monkeys ( Aotus  sp.) Anadenobolus monilicornis  (Rhinocricidae) Benzoquinones Self-anointing

  Table 3 Tymbodesmus falcatus  metal contents (based on dry matter) and DRIs for a pregnant women of 19–30 yrs, by IOM 2004 [ 39 ]. Metal mg/kg DRI (mg/day) Pb 6.2 — Cd <0.5 — Ca 174,000 1,000 Fe 10,600 27 K 2,610 4,700 Cu 789 1 Mg 4,990 350 Na 1,630 1,500 Zn 160 11

  Table 1 Tymbodesmus falcatus  amino acid analysis (based on dry matter). Amino acid mg/mg Alanin 0.0676 Asparagin 0.0137 Asparaginic acid 0.0164 Glutamin + lysin 0.0217 Glutamic acid 0.0000 Glycin 0.0000 Isoleucin + leucin 0.0283 Methionin 0.0056 Phenylalanin 0.0132 Prolin 0.0062 Serin 0.0142 Threonin 0.0251 Tryptophan 0.0053 Tyrosin 0.0151 Valin 0.0193 Total 0.2518

Table 2 Fatty acid distribution as determined by pyrolysis-GC/MS analysis. Unsaturated fatty acids constitute 40% of total fatty acids of  Tymbodesmus falcatus . No. ID Name Percent 1 10:0 Caprylic acid 3 0.3 2 12:0 Lauric acid 4.33 0.5 3 14:0 Myristic acid 5.82 3.1 4 15:0 Pentadecanoic acid 6.56 1.0 5 16:0 Palmitic acid 7.37 43.1 6 16:1 n9 Sapienic acid 7.61 0.2 7 16:1 n7 Palmitoleic acid 7.67 1.5 8 17:0 Margaric acid 8.01 0.8 9 18:0 Stearic acid 8.73 7.8 10 18:1 n9 Oleic acid 9.06 36.8 11 18:1 n7 Vaccenic acid   0.0 12 18:2 n6 Linoleic acid 9.5 1.6 13 18:3 n6 Gamma linolenic acid   0.0 14 20:0 Arachidic acid 10 1.1 15 18:3 n3 Alpha linolenic acid 10.08 0.1 16 18:2 x Octadecenoic acid 10.24 0.5 17 20:1 n9 Gadoleic acid   0.0 18 18:2 x Octadecenoic acid 10.34 0.5 19 18:2 x Octadecenoic acid 10.55 0.3 20 20:2 Eicosadienoic acid   0.0 21 20:3 Eicosatrienoic acid   0.0 22 22:0 Behenic acid 11.2 0.1 23 20:4 n6 Arachidonic acid   0.0 24 21:0 Heneicosylic acid 11.77 0.1 25 20:5 n3 Timnodonic

Abstract The first record of millipedes (Diplopoda) being regularly used for food by humans (the Bobo people of Burkina Faso) is given, including information on how the millipedes are prepared. The species in question are  Tymbodesmus falcatus  (Karsch, 1881) and  Sphenodesmus sheribongensis  (Schiøtz, 1966) (Gomphodesmidae) and an unidentified species of Spirostreptidae. New information on the nutritional value of millipedes is provided; unsaturated fatty acids, calcium, and iron contents are particularly high. The millipedes’ defensive secretions, hydrogen cyanide and benzoquinones, present a severe challenge for the spread of millipedes as an everyday food source. On the other hand, the possibility that benzoquinones may act as insect-repellents, as known from studies on nonhuman primates, and that sublethal cyanide ingestion may enhance human innate resistance to malaria, suggests promising ethnomedical perspectives to our findings.Mrs 

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities. More than 10,000 known ant species occur around the world. They are especially prevalent in tropical forests, where they may be up to half of all the insects living in some locations.