Texans Lose Johnson, Beat Steelers 17-10

By CHRIS DUNCAN AP Sports Writer

HOUSTON October 2, 2011 (AP)

Andre Johnson went down, so the Houston Texans turned to their other offensive star to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Arian Foster rushed for 155 yards Sunday, including the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Texans' 17-10 win.
Johnson, Houston's All-Pro receiver, left in the second quarter with a right hamstring injury and did not return to the game, though he was back on the sideline late to watch Houston (3-1) finish off Ben Roethlisberger and the injury-plagued Steelers (2-2).
Big Ben was beat up all day, sacked five times behind an offensive line missing two regular starters. The Steelers also lost running back Rashard Mendenhall (hamstring), linebacker James Harrison (eye) and defensive end Aaron Smith (foot) during the game.
Roethlisberger hurt his left foot but stayed in, and he was wearing a walking boot when he left the stadium. He said he was injured on the second-to-last series when he was tackled from behind. Roethlisberger had an X-ray after the game but said he didn't know the results.
Foster, meanwhile, finally looked healthy after weeks of nursing a left hamstring strain. He broke a 42-yard touchdown run with about 12 minutes left after the Steelers rallied to tie it at 10-all. Foster finished with 30 carries.
"He stepped up for his team today," Houston coach Gary Kubiak said.
Matt Schaub threw a touchdown pass to Owen Daniels in the first half. The Texans led 10-0 at the break, and an ill-timed penalty cost them another touchdown.

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On the final snap before the half, Danieal Manning blocked Shaun Suisham's field-goal attempt, and Johnathan Joseph scooped up the loose ball and ran 61 yards to the end zone. But Manning was flagged for an illegal block well behind Joseph, and the score was nullified.
Houston was on the move in the second quarter when Johnson pulled up without getting touched.
The five-time Pro Bowl receiver caught a pass, turned upfield and then fell forward near the 40-yard line, immediately clutching the back of his right leg. He limped off and walked to the locker room on his own.
The Texans seemed to lose their edge after that. The drive stalled and Neil Rackers kicked a 22-yard field goal for a 10-0 lead. Rackers improved to 10-for-10 this season.
Schaub threw a 30-yard pass to Daniels to the Steelers 42 early in the fourth. Foster took it from there, breaking outside and outrunning the Pittsburgh secondary to the end zone.
Johnson was back on the sideline for the final 10 minutes and he watched Houston's defense finish it off.
Antonio Smith and Mario Williams sacked Roethlisberger, and linebacker Connor Barwin swatted away Big Ben's fourth-down pass with 2:38 left.
The Steelers had one last gasp after Houston had another touchdown wiped away by a penalty. Joseph intercepted Roethlisberger's pass from the end zone and returned it for a score, but rookie J.J. Watt was flagged for roughing the passer.
The Texans got an interception that counted by Jason Allen to end the drive and clinch the win.
Another Houston penalty in the first half wiped out a sack and forced fumble by Barwin.
The Texans dominated the first half, with Foster setting the tone on the first drive.
The 2010 NFL rushing champion ran over, around and through the Steelers' defense, gaining 41 yards in all. He had a pair of 5-yard runs to the Pittsburgh 1, and with the Steelers keying on him, Daniels was open and Schaub found him for an easy touchdown.
The score finished a 19-play drive that consumed 10 minutes, 55 seconds, both franchise records.
Williams sacked Roethlisberger on the fourth play of the second half. But Pittsburgh's line starting holding up better, and Roethlisberger threw a 23-yard pass to Antonio Brown to the Houston 15. Mendenhall scored on a 3-yard run, his last play before leaving with the injury.
Backup Isaac Redman broke an 18-yard run across midfield to start the Steelers' next series. Pittsburgh chewed up the last five minutes of the third quarter with the drive, and Suisham tied it with a 26-yard field goal.

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Facebook Charging in 2011? Not Now, Not Ever

Rumor had it that Facebook would begin charging its users up to $10 to maintain their spot on the social media network. Thankfully, Mark Zuckerberg will not be reaching his hands into our coin purses any time soon.

After word spread that Facebook may require users to pay, a representative for the company took to its Facebook page to squash speculation.
"A rumor on the internet caught our attention. We have no plans to charge for Facebook. It's free and always will be," read the post. With 460,678 likes, 46,029 comments, and 102,825 shares, it seems as if Facebook dodged a bullet.
However, there is no doubt that Facebook could reap great spoils by charging members.
Currently, the site has 800 million active users with more than 50 percent of active users logging onto Facebook in any given day, according to the site's statistics. Facebook's IPO could be high as $76 a share with an estimated overall value of $33.7 billion, according to The New York Times.

With a charge of $10 per month per user for the supposed "gold membership," that would add up to a whopping $96 billion in annual revenue.
Alas, it could never be that simple. Facebook's revenue is heavily tied to participation. "Once that drops, its revenue is going to decline," said Sam Hamadeh, chief of PrviCo, in a Fox4kc.com article.
This most recent hoax began just days after Facebook's facelift last week. The site now features a Ticker, it groups categories of friends together to allow for more detailed tracking, newly added photographs appear larger, and the "Poke" button is now concealed. A timeline is also slated to be available within the next few weeks.
The rumor spread virally on peoples' news feed, via a message that said Facebook would charge people for access unless they copied and pasted a certain message onto their Wall. "If you copy this on your wall, your icon will turn blue and Facebook will be free for you," the message said. "Please pass this message on, if not your account will be deleted if you do not pay," according to PC Magazine
Many users are reportedly complaining about the site's changes. A monthly charge would probably not go over well either.
With other social networking sites such as Twitter and Tumblr showing exponential growth, Facebook needs to maintain its "free forever" mantra in order to stay afloat.
Twitter announced that it has over 100 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in daily and 40 percent of whom have not tweeted in the last month, according to the Huffington Post. There are said to be 200 million tweets per day.
Rumors about a potential Facebook fee have been circulating since 2009.

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'Pan Am' premiere review: Lighter than air, but not bubble-headed?

by Ken Tucker

David Caruso needs his trademark sunglasses to look up at the bright sky and glimpse CSI: MIami‘s new Sunday-night competition: the sleek airliners of Pan Am; it’s a new series that is, to use a word that would have been employed during the era in which the show is set, kicky — fun, with the promise of something more.
West Wing director and Pan Am executive producer Thomas Schlamme directed a dreamy vision of what it was like to be a stewardess circa the early 1960s, and his smooth visual storytelling did a lot to cover up clunky dialogue and corny plot twists such as a married passenger boarding a flight containing the gamine stewardess (a pert Karine Vanasse) he’s been having an affair with. Kate (Kelli Garner) is helping out the CIA with a little espionage, even as the Bay of Pigs mess is dragged in to lend some heavy seriousness to a series that really wants to be lighter than air.

The most engaging co-star is Christina Ricci, playing a rebellious stewardess with a working knowledge of Marxism (you can practically see her beatnik black turtleneck beneath her stew uniform; and Ricci’s wide dark eyes suggest evenings spent pounding bongos while reciting protest poetry). In general, Pan Am juggles romance, espionage, and comedy in subplots that will take a while to get sorted out. Right now, the show doesn’t seem to know exactly what it wants to be, and is experimenting with tone, and seeing what works and what doesn’t. That’s the kind of attitude that, if the tinkering is done right, could lead to an interesting series.

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Pan Am — along with The Playboy Club, which has already landed with a resounding flop in the ratings — suggest the deep yet almost inexplicable envy that broadcast networks have of Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men. The period drama has a persistent allure for network programmers, despite the fact it hasn’t really worked for them, ratings-wise, in a long time (pace Swingtown, Homefront, American Dreams), and that if Pan Am were to only get Mad Men-sized ratings for ABC, it’d quickly do a death spiral into cancellation.
The show could certainly do without dialogue that tries to articulate what it wants us to believe about it — that back then, the career of stewardess led  to, as one of the horny pilots says without a trace of believability, “a new breed of woman… they just had an impulse to take flight.” Puh-leese. What Pan Am is selling is fantasy, or an envious reminder of what life used to be like up, up, and away — yes, kids, there really used to be roomy seats and attentive service. (But then again, you were wearing suits and ties or dresses to fly, not sweat pants and t-shirts with Starbucks stains on them.) I’m intrigued enough to watch again to see how the show shakes down, what proportion of romance vs. spy story it will settle upon. Are you?

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