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As the opening of the transfer window draws ever closer and speculation becomes increasingly rife, many clubs will be waiting for this summers major tournament to play out before choosing to part with their cash.

Goal.com takes a look at the players competing in the European Championship who could be Premier League-bound this summer. Next up is Group C, containing Croatia, Italy, Republic of Ireland and Spain.

Milan BadeljMIDFIELDER | CROATIA

Sebastian GiovincoFORWARD | ITALY

The 25-year-old showed that he is sharp in front of goal and has an eye for a pass by playing a key role in the Gialloblu's eighth-place finish in Serie A.

Juventus still own 50 per cent of the rights for the diminutive forward, with Parma holding the rest, leaving his future with the newly-crowned Serie A champions uncertain.

Aiden McGeadyWINGER | REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Euro 2012 is now an opportunity for the winger to put himself in the shop window, and with Martin O'Neill set to bolster his Sunderland squad this summer, the Republic of Ireland international could be in the frame for a move to the Stadium of Light.

Jordi AlbaFULL-BACK | SPAIN

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After battling with its players last year, the NFL is now throwing down with its referees.

The league fixed bayonets for a labor showdown with game officials yesterday by all but declaring an impasse and threatening to use replacement refs this fall for the second time since 2001.

The previous six-year contract between the league and the NFL Referees Association expired after last season, and the owners claim stalled talks could force them to trust their $9 billion-a-year business and the safety of the players to a collection of small-college and Arena League officials.

In order to ensure that there is no disruption to NFL games this season, we will proceed immediately with the hiring and training of replacement officials, the league said in a statement yesterday afternoon.

The NFLs pronouncement provoked an immediate rebuke from both the referees and the players, who denounced the plan to use scabs and accused the league of negotiating in bad faith by recruiting potential replacements last week while talks were still being held in Washington.

According to a memo sent out earlier this month by NFL recruiting director Ron Baynes, among the candidates the league is seeking are retired officials, lower-division college officials, professional league officials and semi-professional league officials whose window of opportunity for advancement has pretty much closed.

The referees said the league is walking away from talks after just two sessions with a federal mediator and despite what officials insisted was an offer to take a smaller pay increase than the one they negotiated in 2006.

The NFL used replacement refs in 2001 for one exhibition game and the first week of the regular season before reaching a deal shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks disrupted play. That time, things went smoothly, although one replacement official asked Jerry Rice for his autograph on the field for a game.

It is unfortunate that as referees responsibilities are expanded that the NFL would jeopardize player health and safety and the integrity of the game by seeking amateur, underqualified referees to administer professional games, lead referee negotiator Mike Arnold said.

The players also weighed in, blistering the NFL in a statement for considering using what it twice described as scabs that would endanger player safety, although the NFLPA didnt say if it would honor a referee picket line this fall.

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Two demons wait for unsuspecting homeowners, hoping for their chance to gobble up time and money on new home and remodeling projects: Ripple Effect and Project Creep.

The Ripple Effect lurks quietly in the background. Just like the movements on the pond surface for which its named, The Ripple Effect starts out small and grows, expanding until it engulfs the entire project.

Project Creep is a silent menace, staying out of sight until its too late to avoid and putting the whole job at risk.

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The Ripple Effect is the remodeling budgets worst enemy and can wreak havoc on small and large projects alike.

A window replacement is a simple, isolated project, right? But the interior and exterior trim must be replaced and painted and the exterior siding may have to be reworked, especially if the new window isnt the same size as the old one.

And thats just the beginning. Once that window is replaced and the new window trim painted, the rest of the trim in the room looks bad by comparison and so you decide to paint that, too. A pebbles been dropped in the pond, and the ripples have begun to spread.

What started out as a simple window replacement ends up as the refinishing of an entire room.

In new home projects, the ripple effect is more pronounced in open plan designs. With fewer walls to separate spaces, its difficult to make flooring transitions from one room to another so more expensive floorings often cover more of the house. The lack of interior walls also requires a more expensive structural system and makes the placement of duct work and plumbing more difficult.

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The bizarre saga of the empty District B seat on the New Orleans City Council apparently entered its final chapter Friday when the deadline for the council to act passed, shifting the right to fill the vacancy to Mayor Mitch Landrieu. The city's legislative branch has been hamstrung by two members' decision to boycott recent meetings, depriving the council of the five-member quorum needed to vote on the matter.

Stacy Head, the District B representative since 2006, was elected to one of the council's two at-large seats in April. She resigned her district seat May 2, triggering a 30-day countdown for the council to pick her interim replacement. That window closed Friday.

Head recommended urban planner Errol George as her interim successor. In line with tradition, the other members were expected to quickly ratify her choice, but the walkout by Cynthia Hedge-Morrell and Jon Johnson has prevented the council from voting, and all attempts at reaching a council consensus behind either George or some other candidate apparently failed.

Landrieu, who will become just the second mayor in modern history to fill a council seat, pledged Friday to act quickly. The mayor will have plenty of possibilities to choose from, as names of a dozen or so hopefuls had surfaced by week's end.

"Throughout this process, I've encouraged the City Council to come together to appoint an interim council member to represent District B," Landrieu said in a written statement.

"Now, according to the City Charter, that responsibility falls to me. I will fulfill my obligation in short order, so that the people of District B are represented on the City Council this month."

The council's next scheduled meeting is Thursday. Hedge-Morrell and Johnson have promised to attend.

Landrieu, who pledged to pick "an experienced and qualified person," urged residents, council members and other elected officials to recommend names to him to fill the post until a Nov. 6 election is held to choose a permanent successor for Head. The winner will serve until May 2014.

The unprecedented City Hall standoff started when Hedge-Morrell and Johnson, without warning, walked out of the council's May 3 meeting, moments after the council failed to approve a City Charter amendment they favored and moments before it was to vote on the George appointment.

Hedge-Morrell said her walkout was related both to what she called the "politicizing" of the proposed charter amendment, which would have changed the procedures for electing the two at-large members, and to some of her colleagues' "ongoing and implicit disregard for debate and discussion" that she said left her feeling "marginalized."

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Walking to the front window he looks out every morning, Edward Mathewson wanted to see his flag.

The silk, hand-sewn stars and stripes had travelled a long way to reach the pole planted in the 80-year-old Navy veteran's front yard in Scranton.

From the arid skies over Camp Victory in Iraq and the military bases of Afghanistan, the flag found its way to Dunmore in the hands of Mathewson's son-in-law, Lt. Col. Patrick Cusick of the National Guard, who returned from his third tour of duty last year.

But there was no quiet rustling rising from his front yard on Memorial Day. His flag had disappeared.

"The first thought in my mind was 'Whoever took this flag out of my yard - I hope they rot in hell,' " Mathewson said Thursday.

Monday would have been trying enough without the loss of his home's proud adornment - this year's Memorial Day had fallen on the sixth anniversary of the death of his wife, Mary.

So, Mathewson celebrated the annual holiday as best he could and settled on a sad truth.

"I figured well, that's it. I'll probably never see it again," he said.

Mathewson soon learned that his story was not unique, and that the Dunmore Police Department may have found his flag - Officer Bob Ruddy had found a pile of about 30 flags stacked near Dunmore High School.

Mathewson headed over to the Dunmore Borough Building later that day with the hope of claiming his flag from the stack of stolen banners. He saw two attached to poles like his own.

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The use of hormone replacement therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has been hugely controversial. Once touted as a godsend for women with menopause-related hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness, use of the therapy has dramatically declined since July 2002.

That was when research through the Women's Health Initiative was abruptly halted because an elevated number of cases of breast cancer was detected in the study participants. With that, women began to worry whether the therapy had put them at increased risk, a concern that appeared to be justified when a subsequent decline in breast cancer incidence was linked to widespread cessation of the therapy.

The July issue of a Climacteric, the journal of the International Menopause Society, revisits the topic 10 years later to sort out the therapy's actual effect on women's health. In more than a dozen articles focusing on hormone replacement therapy's relationship to breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia and other conditions, the authors (some of them involved in the original Women's Health Initiative work) conclude that for younger women using the therapy close to the time of menopause, benefits generally outweigh the risks.

A common theme in the articles is that the initial finding that the therapy increases breast cancer risk didn't hold up; the increased risk was actually quite small among younger women, rising among the oldest. The data also revealed a "window of opportunity" during which the therapy's benefits outweigh its risks, one of the articles notes. That window occurs before a woman turns 60 and/or within 10 years of entering menopause.

Here's a summary of some of the journal's findings:

- Women whose breast cancer risk is otherwise low and who suffer from lots of menopausal symptoms may benefit from the therapy.

- It appears that women using hormone replacement therapy have a large reduction 40 percent in colorectal cancer risk.

- The therapy appears to offer substantial bone-health benefits, including a reduction in fracture risk.

- The therapy appears to increase risk of dementia, though it's not clear how that relates to the age at which a woman starts such therapy.

- A small increased risk of stroke is associated with hormone replacement therapy initiated near menopause.

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