JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's main center-left parties may join forces against conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the January 22 election that he is currently forecast to win easily, one of the challengers said on Saturday.
Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, said on Twitter that she would meet counterparts from the kindred Yesh Atid and left-leaning Labour "to discuss the creation of a 'united front' to work together to replace Netanyahu".
Opinion polls see the three parties taking around 37 of parliament's 120 seats in the vote - collectively, enough to best the some 35 projected for Netanyahu's joint rightist list and, potentially, to form the next Israeli coalition government.
Netanyahu is a two-term premier who takes credit for the relative stability of the Israeli economy and appeals to the Jewish state's burgeoning religious-nationalist sectors by championing the settlement of occupied land. He has sounded hawkish on the Palestinians and Iran but avoided big conflicts.
Israel's festering international isolation has been seized on by Livni, who as top diplomat in the former government pursued inconclusive talks on founding a Palestinian state.
The leaders of Yesh Atid and Labour, Yair Lapid and Shelly Yachimovich, are new to politics and known to much of the public from their former jobs as television commentators. Their campaigns have focused largely on social reform.
Any alliance of the Netanyahu challengers would likely require that they agree power-shares and policies in advance.
Yachimovich said this week she intended either to be the next prime minister or to sit in opposition, and that Labour would not join a Netanyahu-led government. Livni and Lapid have yet to do the same.
"A unified move by ... all those who seek to change the government will be real and meaningful only if such parties act as we did," Yachimovich said in a statement confirming that she had agreed to meet Livni.
By collectively ruling out a future coalition partnership with Netanyahu, Yachimovich said, challengers could "plant enormous hope in the heart of the public ... and bring about grassroots mobilization for a determined and spirited struggle".
Lapid played down his scheduled meeting with Livni, telling Reuters that he would go at her invitation "because I'm a polite man". He said he had not agreed to discuss uniting the parties.
The Netanyahu government was unfazed by Livni's initiative.
"I wish that the other side, to the left, would coalesce, because that would hone the differences between us," Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon of the ruling Likud said in a speech.
In an apparent dig at Lapid and Yachimovich, Yaalon rued "the immodesty and immaturity in the desire of certain people to jump straight into the cold water of being prime minister, without passing through any stations along the way".
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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One of the most important factors in recovering from illness is nutrition, and understanding the scientific basis which underpins nutritional support is a key requirement for nutrition students and professionals. The Nutrition Society was established in 1941 to advance the scientific study of nutrition and its application to the maintenance of human and animal health; to support that mission, the Society created the Nutrition Society Textbook Series, published by Wiley. Highly acclaimed for their scientific integrity, the five books in the series are ground breaking in scope and approach and have contributed to the education of nutritionists and clinicians worldwide.
The leading series title Clinical Nutrition has now been revised and updated in a 2nd edition. Designed for use on courses worldwide, Clinical Nutrition is specifically tailored to meet the needs of the contemporary student interested in nutrition in a clinical setting. Covering the scientific basis underlying nutritional support, medical ethics and nutritional counseling, it focuses solely on the sick and metabolically compromised patient, dealing with clinical nutrition on a system by system basis to make the information more accessible.
With a new student-friendly structure and companion website, this is an essential purchase for students of nutrition and dietetics, and a useful guide for those students who major in other subjects that have a nutrition component, such as food science, medicine, pharmacy and nursing. Professionals in nutrition, dietetics, food science, medicine, health sciences and many related areas will also find this a great resource to have on their shelves.
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By: Marinos Elia, Olle Ljungqvist, Rebecca Stratton & Susan A. Lanham-New
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Sweat is wet -- even when it belongs to Kim Kardashian ex and NBA player Kris Humphries. But one Oklahoma City Thunder fan found that out the hard way.
The woman reached out to touch the Brooklyn Nets forward as he headed to the locker room Wednesday. Her priceless reaction to the sweaty athlete was captured in a clip that's scoring chuckles on the Internet.
As expected, outlets found inspiration in the perspiration.
Yahoo cracked that the video might enable Humphries to be recognized among the ranks of well-known prolific sweat-makers, such as Kevin Garnett, Lamar Odom and Nick Collison. "[Humphries] often seems to develop a slick, shiny coating soon after he sets foot on the court," the outlet noted.
Bleacher Report wrote:
"Would you run to touch some random dude after a workout at the gym? No, because that is gross and a little bit creepy. So, why do you have to touch an athlete after they finish up playing a hard-fought basketball game?"
Incidentally, Humphries worked himself into a lather for good reason. He had 11 points and seven rebounds in helping the visiting Nets beat the team with the best record in the NBA. But he sprained an ankle, giving his own team a reason to sweat.
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