Last Friday, Urban Outfitters issued a statement to CNN that it was halting the sale of prescription drug paraphernalia products. The statement read, "In this extensive range of product we recognize that from time to time there may be individual items that are misinterpreted by people who are not our customer. As a result of this misinterpretation we are electing to discontinue these few styles from our current product offering."

On behalf of , our partners and the families across the country affected by the issue of prescription drug misuse and abuse, we commend Urban Outfitters for doing the right thing by discontinuing the sale of these products from their current offerings.

This May, thealerted us that Urban Outfitters, a national retail store popular with teens, was selling merchandise made to look like prescription pill bottles including prescription label flasks, pint and shot glasses. In response, The Partnership atlaunched an advocacy campaign and petition requesting that Urban Outfitters remove these products from their stores and website. Thanks to countless parents, teens, alliances and partners, including support from U.S. Representative Hal Rogers, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Gil Kerlikowske, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and 22 State Attorneys General, our efforts secured more than 4,700 signatures of support on .

Given that 90 percent of addictions start in the teenage years, these products, which linked medicine and alcohol and were aimed at a high school and college-age audience, wrongfully glorified the abuse and misuse of prescription drugs. All teenagers - regardless of who they are or where they live - are subject to the lure of drugs and alcohol. For this reason, The Partnership atcontinues to focus its efforts on educating, motivating, supporting and empowering families with the resources they need to help protect children from drug and alcohol abuse, most specifically in conjunction with The , our national initiative to prevent half a million teens from abusing prescription drugs and over-the-counter cough medicine by 2017.

According to the CDC, prescription drug abuse in the United States is now at epidemic levels. More Americans die from prescription drug overdoses than from heroin and cocaine overdoses combined. And according to our recently released Partnership Attitude Tracking Study, teen prescription drug misuse and abuse is up by 33 percent since 2008.

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In his third start after opening the season as a reliever for the Blue Jays, the right-hander was as good as Texas Rangers ace Yu Darvish in a 3-1 victory Thursday night.

Both starters allowed only one run over seven innings, and the Blue Jays got the tiebreaking hit in the eighth when Edwin Encarnacion had a two-run double.

"He was tremendous, he really was. You could kind of see that building," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Rogers. "He's really taken to it."

And the Blue Jays could have easily skipped Rogers (2-2), who was supposed to start Wednesday night's game at the Chicago White Sox that was postponed because of inclement weather. Instead, they just pushed back the entire rotation.

"They give me that confidence," Rogers said. "Yesterday after the game, we sat down at my locker and they talked to me, that I'd pitch tomorrow. I just went back to my room and thought about how I pitched the last time I pitched against the Rangers and let me go on the attack."

Casey Janssen worked a perfect ninth for his 14th save.

The slumping Rangers wasted another solid outing by Darvish, who has made five consecutive starts without a victory.

"I'm not amazed," Darvish said through his interpreter. "This is baseball. Anything can happen."

Darvish allowed only three hits and walked two, but threw 110 pitches to get through seven innings.

Since his last victory May 16 against Detroit, Darvish lost 1-0 to Oakland and has now gone four games in a row without getting a decision. The right-hander has a 2.08 ERA with 41 strikeouts in those 34 2-3 innings over those five games, but the Rangers have scored only seven runs for him in that same span and four of those runs came in the same game.

"Some games you get a lot of run support. Others you don't," he said. "I'm not really surprised by it."

Nelson Cruz homered for the Rangers (38-28), who have lost three in a row at home. They have dropped eight of 12 overall, falling out of first place in the AL West and two games behind Oakland.

The Athletics (41-27), who play four games in Texas next week, have won 21 of their last 26 games. They capped a three-game series sweep of the New York Yankees with a 3-2 win in 18 innings earlier Thursday.

Neal Cotts (2-1) replaced Darvish to start the eighth, when Emilio Bonifacio reached on a throwing error by Gold Glove third baseman Adrian Beltre. Munenori Kawasaki had a sac bunt before Tanner Scheppers, the second reliever, walked Jose Bautista before the double to left-center by Encarnacion broke the 1-all tie.

"Yeah, big hit," Gibbons said. "Jose's big at-bat before that and (Bonifacio) getting it started and a nice sac bunt, we played well."

Rangers center fielder Leonys Martin made a diving attempt to catch the game-deciding hit. He was fully extended when the ball went under his glove.

Martin sprained his left wrist after his gloved hand rolled awkwardly when he hit the ground. The Rangers said X-rays were negative, and said he was day to day with a mild sprain.

"Just hurts a little bit, but I don't think it's too serious," Martin said through a translator. "I had to run a lot and unfortunately, it was a great hit and I didn't get it."

After Cruz homered in the second, Toronto got even in the third, when Bonifacio had a leadoff single.

Bonifacio then stole second, sliding headfirst with his hand stretched out to the base just ahead of the tag. Manager Ron Washington came out to discuss the call with second-base umpire Paul Schrieber television replays showed the ump got the call right. Bonifacio scored on a single by Melky Cabrera.

Darvish retired 14 of the last 15 batters he faced after that, including the last 10.

Rogers also retired 10 in a row around the same stretch, a streak that ended when Cruz had a two-out single in the seventh. But Rogers quickly got the third out and had thrown his last pitch when the Blue Jays went ahead.

He had pitched 3 1-3 innings his first start, and then allow one run in four innings against the Rangers last weekend.

"I'm awful proud to get the opportunity," Rogers said. "It doesn't matter where I'm going to be, I'm going to do my best everywhere."

Notes: Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, a former Mets player and minor league manager, was named Thursday as one of the AL coaches for the All-Star game next month at Citi Field in New York. ... Toronto had double plays to end each of the first two innings, including right fielder Bautista doubling off Chris McGuiness at first base in the second.

The former "90210" star married longtime girlfriend Angela Stacy at the Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Calif., on Friday, according to

The couple tied the knot in a "cottage pavilion under an archway of white hydrangeas and strands of crystals hanging from the trees," a source told the mag.

"Inside the [reception] tent, there were tables with white hydrangea floral arrangements and hurricane candles," the source added. "There [was] a separate section with a lounge set up with white leather couches and ottomans."

Matt, 30, and his groomsmen (including Miley Cyrus' ex-boyfriend, Justin Gaston), wore gray suits for the ceremony, the mag reported.

The actor announced his engagement to Angela one year ago, after proposing to his now-wife during a trip to Paris in May.

Matt - whose CW series was recently canceled - will soon be seen in a new show on the network, "Star-Crossed," alongside former "Friday Night Lights" star Aimee Teegarden.

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The Swiss rider, whose decision was expected because the 2013 Tour doesn't have an opening prologue stage, wrote on his Twitter account Friday that he won't be riding.

Cancellara's announcement came ahead of starting his home Tour of Switzerland on Saturday, a nine-day warmup for cycling's signature event that begins June 29.

Snow-blocked roads forced Swiss organizers to change the route of the second stage Sunday over the steep Nufenen pass at 8,130-feet altitude. The stage to the ski resort of Crans-Montana will instead start at Ulrichen.

Cancellara's rivals include defending champion Rui Costa of Portugal and Slovakian sprint specialist Peter Sagan.

So how did the House speaker and a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model end up in the same room? Funny story.

Turns out a couple members of his leadership team, including Rep. Fred Upton, were in an elevator at the New York City Mandarin Oriental on their way to a fundraiser when Upton starting talking.

Suddenly, a young woman turned around asking, "Uncle Fred?" Turns out the younger Upton lives in the hotel's residences and recognized her uncle's voice, a source familiar with the exchange said.

Kate Upton joined her uncle and his co-workers at their fundraiser for about an hour and that's where Boehner sang his famous ditty.

"This is your birthday song. It doesn't last too long. Hey."

Here'sof Boehner delivering it on the House floor.

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy even managed to grab a picture with the two famous Uptons, documenting it on his .

PARIS, June 8 (Reuters) - Serena Williams is already assured a place in tennis history but her coach believes the 16-time grand slam champion will soon embroider her status among the greats.

The American, who beat Maria Sharapova to win the French Open on Saturday, is now two grand slam titles shy of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova's tally of 18, and Patrick Mouratoglou believes Williams has the motivation to equal the mark.

"She needs two more titles and, yes, I think she's going to get them," Frenchman Mouratoglou told reporters after his charge beat Sharapova 6-4 6-4 at Roland Garros.

The all-time record is held by Australian Margaret Court, who won 24 major titles, two more than German Steffi Graf, followed by Americans Helen Wills Moody (19), Evert and Navratilova (18).

"When she is in the right state of mind, she is unbeatable," added Mouratoglou, who celebrated his 43rd birthday on Saturday.

"She is a huge champion, what more can I say?"

The only thing that would prevent 31-year-old Williams from adding to her collection would be retirement.

"It will only happen if her level of motivation goes down, and that is not the case today," Mouratoglou said.

On Saturday, Williams had more than enough motivation, firing three aces in the final game as she ended Sharapova's resilience on Court Philippe Chatrier.

"Serena wanted it at all cost," Mouratoglou said.

"She was the best in the key moments. She found the resources, as she always does when she wants to win."

(Writing by Julien Pretot; Editing by Stephen Wood)

In the past three years, 12 newhave been discovered in Southeast Alaska, and 25 known volcanic vents and lava flows re-evaluated, thanks to dogged work by geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Forest Service. Sprinkled across hundreds of islands and fjords, most of the volcanic piles are tiny cones compared to the super-duper stratovolcanoes that parade off to the west, in the Aleutian Range.

But the Southeast'sare in a class by themselves, the researchers found. A chemical signature in the lava flows links them to a massive volcanic field in Canada. Unusual patterns in the lava also point to eruptions under, over and alongside glaciers, which could help scientists pinpoint the size of Alaska'sduring past climate swings.

"It's giving us this serendipitous window on the history of climate in Southeast Alaska for the last 1 million years," said Susan Karl, a research geologist with the USGS in Anchorage and the project's leader. []

Volcano forensics

The project kicked off in 2009 as part of an interdisciplinary effort to better understand volcanism in Southeast Alaska, Karl said.

The team's first result, from a volcanic pile about 40 miles (70 kilometers) south of Mount Edgecumbe, was an intriguing match in time to the panhandle's biggest volcano. The team planned to test if the two were related, sort of a geologic genetic test. But even though the two volcanoes had erupted at about the same time in the past, their chemistry was wildly different. It was like one volcano was a freshwater fish and the other came from the salty ocean. And what really captured the geologist's attention were signs that the little volcano squeezed out lava that oozed next to glaciers.

"That's when we realized we had a whole new kind of volcano separate from Mount Edgecumbe," Karl told OurAmazingPlanet.

holds forensic clues that reveal what was happening in Earth's crust and mantle when the magma formed. The unusual chemistry sent Karl and her collaborators hunting for more rocks to test. This meant days-long backpacking trips into remote wilderness or submersible dives to underwater volcanoes.

Not only did they find the same unique chemical signature at other sites, the team stumbled upon new volcanoes overlooked by earlier mappers.

"We're convinced now there's probably a whole bunch of green knobs out there covered with timber that may be vents that may have never been mapped," said James Baichtal, a geologist with the U.S. Forest Service based in Thorne Bay, Alaska, and a project leader.

Connection to Canada

Now comes the CSI twist. All of these newly tested lavas in Alaska are kissing cousins to , such as Mount Edziza, which last erupted about 10,000 years ago.

The connection makes perfect sense, Karl said. "I'm actually surprised no one has hypothesized it before," she said. "It made total sense that this volcanic province would extend across Southeast Alaska, and now I have the data to show that's the case."

Little known outside of Canada, Mount Edziza is part of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, a broad swath of volcanoes and hot springs some 1,250 miles (2,000 km) long and about 375 miles (600 km) wide.

Karl's big picture meets approval with scientists studying Canada's volcanoes.

"I knew there were volcanics to the west in Alaska, but I didn't know they were nearly [this] extensive," said Ben Edwards, a volcanologist at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, who is not involved in the project but has visited the new volcanoes with Karl and Baichtal. "They have really found a lot more places than we realized, but there's certainly no reason for them not to be there. It makes a lot of sense."

As in Canada's volcanic province,and hot springs line up as amazingly linear features. Here's why: The tortured history of this corner of North America, a legacy of collision between the North America and Pacific tectonic plates, created a meshwork of leaky faults and fractures. Magma escapes from Earth's mantle through this patchwork when forces pull on the crust, opening space. The matching chemistry also hints that magma in both regions comes from a similar mantle source.

"It's always fun to discover a new vent; it's fun to find a fossil, and then to be able to understand why it's there is always very satisfying," Karl said. "That's what makes scientists tick."

Strange new finds

Some of the unusual finds Karl and Baichtal have uncovered include a maar lying 295 feet (90 meters) underwater near Cape Addington, about 40 miles (65 km) west of Craig, Alaska. Maars are bomblike craters blasted out when magma rising underground hits groundwater and explodes. Theis about 13,800 years old, Baichtal said. Sea level was 394 feet (120 m) lower when the maar formed.

The latest find is an underwater volcano in Behm Canal, where hundreds of thousands of tourists on cruise ships have sailed by New Eddystone Rock, an eroded volcano. Behm Canal is dotted with cinder cones, both onshore and below the water.

East of Ketchikan, a basalt flow lapped onto a 42,000-year-old beach, preserving shells, pinecones, pine needles and pollen. Barnacle plates sitting on top of the lava are about 13,000 years old, Baichtal said. The whole package now sits about 260 feet (80 meters) above sea level, hinting at how much Earth's crust has bobbed up since the last ice age.

"It gave us how much isostatic rebound there is today. That's one of those really great days in geology. You couldn't have written a better script, and there's a lot of those kind of things coming out of there," Baichtal said.

Volcanoes and climate change

While the volcanoes in Canada and Alaska have erupted for more than 10 million years, emerging data suggests that the last 3 million years ofgrowing and retreating in Alaska and British Columbia also prompted many small volcanoes to erupt, because the changing ice mass flexed the Earth. This activated the fractures and made room for more magma to rise.

In Tolay Regional Park, north of Mount Edziza, Edwards is assembling evidence of periodic eruption pulses in the last 2.5 million years.

"We don't have a lot of the information yet, but it's consistent with some sort of link between glaciations and volcanism. If you put 2 to 3 km [1.2 to 1.8 miles] of ice on that part of the cordillera and then remove it pretty quickly, it may facilitate extension," he said.

The molten rock also has preserved impressions of bygone glaciers. Many of the lava flows touched ice, leaving ain the chilled rock. By dating the glacially cooled lava flows, researchers such as Karl, Baichtal and Edwards hope to better understand how much land mountain glaciers covered during past glaciations. About one-third of globalcould come from melting mountain glaciers, but estimating their past size is difficult because growing glaciers plow through evidence of their predecessors.

Risk of eruptions

Despite its great size, the overall risk from eruptions in the Alaska portion of the volcanic province is low, Karl said.

In Canada, the volume of erupted lava is less than 240 cubic miles (100 cubic km) every million years in the last 2 million years. By comparison, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spewed 4,650 cubic miles (19,400 cubic km) in the past 300,000 to 600,000 years. []

The most recent eruption in both countries was at the Blue River lava flow in Lava Fork, which crossed the Alaska-Canada border 120 years ago, according to new dating work by Karl and her colleagues. 

"Even though, theoretically, a volcano that erupted 120 years ago is an active volcano, but because it's so remote there isn't any real concern about it," Karl said.

However, an eruption in 1775 killed a village of First Nations people in Canada, though scientists aren't sure why. Lava didn't reach the town, and some researchers suspect gas from the volcano may have suffocated residents.

Karl notes that an earthquake on the Fairweather Fault, a major offshore strike-slip fault, presents a greater risk than a volcanic eruption. "If something is rumbling and bubbling we have so much more technology to become aware of it before it's a hazard, We can't predict exactly when theis going to go, and that's a much larger hazard," she said.

With 15,000 miles of shoreline and hundreds and hundreds of islands to explore, Karl and Baichtal think there are more volcanoes to discover in Southeast Alaska.

"It's a tough place to get around, but Sue and I just laugh at it. We will never finish," Baichtal said.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Another week of cold, wet weather has bogged down field work in parts of Minnesota.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crops and weather report for Minnesota that standing water and muddy fields hampered the remaining planting work last week, though crops planted earlier are emerging in better-drained fields.

Statewide, an average of 2.2 days were rated suitable for fieldwork last week, compared to 1.9 days a week earlier.

Corn planting was 87 percent complete, compared with a five-year average of 98 percent for this point. Corn emergence advanced to 65 percent, but remains well behind the average of 86 percent.

Soybeans were 55 percent planted, compared with an average of 88 percent. Soybeans were 18 percent emerged, which was 36 percentage points behind the average pace.

In the southern city of Adana, where pro- and anti-government protesters had clashed Saturday night, Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a fiery speech from the top of a bus.

"We won't do what a handful of looters have done. They burn and destroy. ... They destroy the shops of civilians. They destroy the cars of civilians," Erdogan told supporters who had greeted him at Adana airport. "They are low enough to insult the prime minister of this country."

He urged his supporters to avoid violence themselves and predicted that his Islamic-rooted party would defeat his opponents during local elections in March.

"As long as you walk with us, the Justice and Development Party administration will stand strong," Erdogan said, referring to his party. "As long as there is life in my body, your prime minister and your party chairman, God willing, will not be deterred by anything."

He then traveled to the city of Mersin, where anti-protests have been held, to make a similar speech and to open new sports facilities.

Later Sunday, Erdogan was scheduled to travel to Ankara, the capital, where supporters are again expected to greet him in a show of force.

In Adana late Saturday, a pro-government group hurled stones at marching anti-government demonstrators, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Police evacuated women and children, but the two groups continued to clash with stones and batons.

It was the second time in the last 10 days of protests that pro- and anti- demonstrated had fought with one another. On Thursday, party supporters attacked about 30 protesters in the city of Rize, on Turkey's Black Sea coast.

The nationwide anti-government protests were sparked by outrage over police use of force against an environmental protest in Istanbul on May 31, and have grown into a display of discontent toward Erdogan's government.

Many accuse the prime minister of becoming increasingly authoritarian after 10 years in power and of trying to impose his conservative, religious mores in the country which is governed by secular laws.

Erdogan has rejected the accusations, insisting he respects all lifestyles and is the "servant" of his people.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday, joined by thousands of fans from Istanbul's rival football teams, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas, who had set aside their usual enmity to oppose the government.

There also were mass anti-Erdogan protests in Ankara and the in the city of Izmir. Police in Ankara fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse thousands of people protesting near government buildings.

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