Pirates salvage final game from Reds, 3-2

CINCINNATI (AP) ? Jeff Locke allowed only an infield single through six innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Homer Bailey to salvage the final game of their series with the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2 on Sunday.

Second-place Pittsburgh left town with a three-game cushion over the Reds, who won the first two games of the series.

Locke (9-2) and the majors' second-stingiest bullpen limited the Reds to three singles, but issued seven walks and let a run score on a wild pitch. Jason Grilli worked the ninth for his 30th save in 31 chances. His only blown save came in Cincinnati on June 19.

Locke had to miss his last scheduled start and couldn't pitch in the All-Star game because of a sore back. There were no problems when he got back on the mound.

Bailey (5-9) struck out a career-high 12 but remained winless since his no-hitter against San Francisco at Great American Ball Park this month. Garrett Jones hit his second homer in two games, and the Pirates added a pair of runs in the seventh.

The Pirates hit six homers during the series, all solo shots.

The Ohio River rivals don't meet again until September, when they play each other six times in the last nine games. Both hope they have a lot at stake when they get back together ? the Reds trying for a second straight NL Central title, the Pirates trying to end their 20-year streak of losing records and make the playoffs for the first time since 1992.

They came away from their weekend series bunched a bit closer in their chase of division-leading St. Louis.

Bailey threw the first of his two no-hitters last Sept. 28 in Pittsburgh, a 1-0 win over a team he has dominated during his career. He threw his second no-hitter on July 2. Since then, he's started three games ? two on the road ? and gone 0-3 with a 5.50 ERA.

Locke's performance was encouraging for the Pirates, who have stayed in contention despite injuries in the rotation. Shin-Soo Choo's infield single in the first inning extended his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games.

Locke walked a pair and threw a wild pitch that let in a run in the fifth inning. The left-hander lowered his ERA to 2.11.

The Reds got another run in the eighth when Joey Votto grounded into a double play with the bases loaded against Mark Melancon, ending the reliever's streak of 15 scoreless innings.

Pittsburgh scored twice in the seventh on Jordy Mercer's single and Jose Tabata's pinch-hit single off Bailey, who threw 121 pitches.

NOTES: The Pirates continue their 10-game trip with the first of four games in Washington. The Reds begin an 11-game trip to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. They're in a stretch of playing 18 of 21 on the road. ... Bailey fanned 10 during his no-hitter in Pittsburgh and nine during his no-hitter against the Giants. ... The Reds plan to call up RHP Greg Reynolds from Triple-A Louisville to start one of their doubleheader games in San Francisco on Tuesday. Reynolds, a California native who played at Stanford, started 16 games for Colorado in 2008 and 2011.

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Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off since 2000

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 12 percent on Friday, their biggest plunge in 13 years, a day after the software company posted dismal quarterly results due to weak demand for its latest Windows system and poor sales of its Surface tablet.

The sell off comes after the stock was riding at five-year highs and is the biggest in percentage terms since April 2000, when the world's largest software company was locked in an antitrust dispute with the U.S. government and the internet stock bubble was deflating rapidly.

Friday's loss means about $36 billion has been wiped off Microsoft's market value in one day, exceeding the size of rival Yahoo Inc.

Microsoft's earnings were wrecked by a $900 million write down on the value of unsold Surface tablets after it cut prices in a bid to excite buyers.

The poor results shocked Wall Street, which had believed the company's strength with business customers would help it ride out a downturn in consumer PC sales. The results provoked fresh skepticism of Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's new plan to reshape the company around devices and services, unveiled last week.

"The recent reorganization does not fix the tablet or smartphone problem," said Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a note to clients on Friday. "The devices opportunity just received a $900 million hardware write-off for Surface RT and investors may not even like the idea of wading deeper into this territory."

Sherlund suggested that activist investors will pressure Ballmer to reconsider his strategy this summer, a reference to ValueAct Capital, which took a $2 billion stake in Microsoft in April and is widely expected to push for a board seat this summer.

"This (the results) was much more disruptive than investors have expected, with Microsoft missing its guidance in every division and guiding lower," wrote Sherlund. "Everything an activist investor could ask for."

Other Wall Street analysts were similarly dismayed by Microsoft's latest financial report.

Brokerages Raymond James and Cowen & Co cut their ratings on Microsoft stock by a notch to "market perform" and at least five others trimmed their price targets by as much as $3.

Price targets were cut as low as $35, below Thursday's closing price of $35.44. The shares fell to $31.55 on the Nasdaq.

FBR Capital Markets analyst David Hilal said Microsoft's revenue from Windows operating system in the fourth quarter was 9 percent below his expectations.

"The key potential growth drivers (Windows 8, Surface) of the Microsoft story appear to be fading, heading into FY14," Hilal wrote in a note.

Earlier this week, Microsoft said it was drastically cutting Surface prices to entice buyers, reducing the value of the devices in its inventory.

Microsoft launched Surface tablets last year to challenge Apple Inc's iPad, but their sales have failed to meet expectations.

"The new Windows RT operating system has not been the hit MSFT had hoped for," Cowen analyst Gregg Moskowitz said in a note, adding that investor expectations for the tablet were never very high.

Janney Capital Markets analysts said the write down was an admission that Microsoft's first attempt in the tablet market had not been successful.

The company also said on Thursday it expected revenue from Windows software to continue to fall due to a weak PC market.

Microsoft's outlook points to a weaker PC market, shifts towards subscription revenue and a pause ahead of the Xbox One gaming console release, all of which are expected to put revenue growth under pressure, Morgan Stanley analysts said in a note.

Xbox is the only device by Microsoft that has found a following among consumers and a new version is expected to launch this year.

(Reporting by Chandni Doulatramani in Bangalore, David Gaffen in New York and Bill Rigby in Seattle; Editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal and Andrew Hay)

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Mursi supporters rally in Egypt, army shows muscle

By Ulf Laessing and Yasmine Saleh

CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi took to the streets of Egyptian cities on Friday to demand the reinstatement of the Islamist leader.

However, Egypt's armed forces, which shunted the country's first freely elected president from office less than three weeks ago, looked in no mood to make concessions, putting on a show of force in the hazy skies above Cairo.

Eight fighter jets screamed over the sun-baked city both in the morning and afternoon, while two formations of helicopters, some trailing the Egyptian flag, hummed over the roof tops.

Waving their own Egyptian flags, along with portraits of the bearded Mursi, members of the Muslim Brotherhood marched in Cairo, Alexandria and several other cities along the Nile Delta, denouncing what they termed a military coup.

"We are coming out today to restore legitimacy," said Tarek Yassin, 40, who had traveled to Cairo from the southern city of Sohag, underscoring the Brotherhood's deep roots in the provinces. "We consider what happened secular thuggery. It would never happen in any democratic country," he said.

Soldiers prevented protesters from nearing army installations, and there were reports of only minor scuffles, with troops firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators close to the presidential palace in Cairo, the state news agency said.

"We are following the progress of the protests and are ready for all events or escalation," said a military official, asking not to be named as he was not authorized to talk to the media.

At least 99 people have died in violence since Mursi's removal on July 3, more than half of them when troops fired on Islamist protesters outside a Cairo barracks on July 8. Seven people died earlier this week in clashes between opposing camps.

"They (the Brotherhood) now know the people are not with them and have had it with them after what happened to them and their country this past year," the officer said.

The army has dismissed any talk of a coup, saying it had to intervene after vast protests on June 30 against Mursi, denounced by his many critics as incompetent and partisan after just a year in office.

It has called for a new constitution and a swift new vote, installing an interim cabinet that includes no members of the Brotherhood or other Islamist parties that triumphed in a string of elections following the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

FEARS OF CHAOS

Mursi is being held in an undisclosed location by the army, and numerous senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders have also been detained in recent days, leading to fears of a broad crackdown.

The top United Nations human rights official, Navi Pillay, has asked the new Egyptian government to explain both the legal basis for the detentions and to say whether trials were planned.

"We've specifically asked about (Mursi) and his presidential team in addition to others who were arrested. We don't even know how many people at this point," Pillay's spokesman, Rupert Colville, told reporters in Geneva on Friday.

Mursi backers have set up a round-the-clock vigil outside a mosque in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City. Thousands flocked there on Friday to join the protests, but the fierce summer heat, coming at a time when devout Muslims fast to mark the holy month of Ramadan, might have kept some supporters away.

"Tonight, tonight, tonight, Sisi is going down tonight," the crowd chanted, referring to General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the head of the armed forces, who played a central role in driving Mursi from office.

Large-scale anti-Mursi demonstrations, called by the Tamarud youth movement, which organized the decisive June 30 protests, failed to materialize on Friday.

In his first address as interim president, Adli Mansour, previously head of the constitutional court, promised on Thursday to fight those he said wanted to destabilize the state.

"We are going through a critical stage and some want us to move towards chaos, and we want to move towards stability. Some want a bloody path," he said in a televised address. "We will fight a battle for security until the end."

Egypt, the most populous nation in the Arab world, is a strategic hinge between the Middle East and North Africa and has long been a vital U.S. ally in the region.

Washington has tried to tread softly through the crisis, undecided whether to brand the downfall of Mursi a coup, a move that would force the United States to suspend all aid to Cairo, including some $1.3 billion given annually to the military.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned Egypt's new foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, expressing hopes that the transitional period of government would be successful, a spokesman for the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Friday.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders say they will not resort to violence in their campaign to reinstate Mursi.

"The goal of our peaceful mass rallies and peaceful sit-ins in squares across Egypt is to force the coup plotters to reverse their action," Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood official, said on his Facebook page.

(Additional reporting by Maggie Fick and Alexander Dziadosz?; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Alistair Lyon, Philippa Fletcher and Will Waterman)

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Lady Chef Stampede: Mexico?s Official Executive Chef Just Closed Her Restaurant To Open A Catering Biz

Welcome to?Lady Chef Stampede, Amanda Cohen?s series about the world?s most influential Lady Chefs!?Click here?to read her Q & A with us about the column, or read on to learn more about this week?s Lady Chef?

I?m holding a Lady Chef Stampede, posting about the dozens of women who?ve changed the history of food, now and in the past! Whether they?re chefs, restauranteurs, or writers, these are the women on whose shoulders we?re all standing. Today: Mexico?s official lady chef, Patricia Quintana.

It?s kind of unbelievable that the woman who is the executive chef of the Mexican Ministry of Tourism is someone I?ve never really heard of. I mean, Mexico, Canada, and the United States are all neighbors but for some reason it wasn?t until recently that I even knew she existed, which reflects badly on me. Of course, the fact that she doesn?t even have an English-language Wikipedia page doesn?t help.

Born in Veracruz, her family owned a ranch where, as a kid, she became obsessed with life on the farm, wanting to know how the crops came in, how the corn was dried in lye, how it was made into tortillas, basically everything she could about farming and ranching. She was also fascinated by the cooking her mother and grandmother did and she wanted to learn that, too. The whole experience was like food boot camp.

Later she went to boarding school in Switzerland, then cooked in France under Paul Bocuse and the Troisgros brothers. She returned to Mexico and, despite her European training, she immediately dedicated herself to regional cuisine, trying to understand, preserve, and advance traditional cooking techniques and the traditional cuisine of her country. She believes that the roots of Mexican cooking lie in corn, beans, chiles, vanilla, tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and chocolate, and her favorite tool in the kitchen is her molcajete. A living encyclopedia of chilis, she is also one of the few chefs who believes there?s more to Mexican cuisine than the food of just a handful of southern states, insisting that the cuisine of the north is equally as vital and worthwhile.

Speaking Spanish, English, French, and Italian, Quintana is a global ambassador for Mexican cuisine and a teacher and cooking tradition researcher. Her Mexico City restaurant, Izote, is considered one of its best, and she?s also the author of 10 cookbooks. Combining old school French concepts like wine pairings with her take on Mexican food she is probably the most high-profile chef in Mexico, but unfortunately, after 13 years, Izote closed a few nights ago. She announced in an email that for now she?ll be running a catering service called ?Izote va a tu Casa.?

That?s the messed-up restaurant world we live in: one of Mexico?s most famous female chefs is now running a catering business.

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