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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

Paul Cussen

January 1919

This is the year that sees the publication of Yeats’ The Wild Swan’s at Coole, Francis Ledwidge’s Complete Poems, and ‘An Seabhac’, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha’s Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, the year in which Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination is published with illustrations by Harry Clarke.

C.S. Lewis publishes his first work in London, Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics.

Other publications of note are:

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

Herman Hesse’s Demian

Franz Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie (‘In the Penal Colony’)

W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence

Marcel Proust’s À l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, vol. 2 of À la recherche du temps perdu

P.G. Wodehouse’s My Man Jeeves stories

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day

L. Frank Baum’s The Magic of Oz

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Father Francis P. Duffy’s Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth (with Joyce Kilmer)

John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of Peace

Prof. William Strunk’s magnificent The Elements of Style

Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier, and

Arthur Ransome’s Six Weeks in Russia

The Little Review was seized by the Post Office in January, not because of the contribution by James Joyce, but because of the inclusion of some nude drawings.

In mid-January approximately 5,000 soldiers mutiny in Southampton, taking over the docks and refusing to obey orders. Lies had been told and the men had thought they were to be discharged when they were being sent to France. Sir Hugh Trenchard surrounded the mutineers with soldiers and military police.

There was a melee between US sailors and British soldiers on board the Rosslare express train from Cork. Most of the windows were broken when the train arrived in Waterford and a number of the American sailors were injured. One was missing, and was later found, fighting fit, in Dungarvan.

In Belfast more than 20 Sinn Féin prisoners climbed on to the roof of the prison where, over the course of two hours, they waved republican flags and sang Sinn Féin and other songs to a large crowd that assembled on Crumlin Road. Their protest ended when members of the crowd began throwing stones at the protesters on the roof despite a police presence.

‘I can declare that the spirit of the prisoners, so far from being broken, has grown more robust since their entrance to the jail.’ - Count Plunkett

‘In January, 1919, Cork Brigade, which was made up of about twenty battalions and embraced the whole of Cork County, was divided into three Brigades. Our Battalion (Bandon) became the 1st Battalion, Cork III. Brigade.

The other battalions in the Brigade area were, as far as I can recollect, - Clonakilty (2nd), Dunmanway (3rd), Skibbereen (4th), Bantry (5th). The 0/C., Cork III. Brigade, was Tom Hales who, up to the formation of the Brigade, was O/C. Bandon (1st) Battalion. I cannot recollect the names of the other officers on the Brigade Staff.

During 1919, beyond normal training, which was becoming slightly more advanced -selected members were being trained in scouting, signalling and the use of arms - there was no unusual activity in Company area.’ – Laurence Sexton.

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1290.pdf#page=5

1 January - Count Plunkett stays in his house in Upper Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin after being released from Birmingham Jail, having served seven months imprisonment.

Jerome David Salinger is born in Manhattan (d. 2010)

Edsel Ford succeeds his father as president of the Ford Motor Company.

HMY Iolaire hits the infamous "Beasts of Holm" rocks and sinks a mile from Stornoway harbour. Over 200 people drown in the tragedy.

2 January - The Cork Examiner reproduces a Daily Express article entitled ‘Why the Women Failed’ as 17 women had stood for election and only Countess Markievicz was elected. Two women had stood for election in Ireland; Winifred Carney failed to secure the seat for the Victoria Ward in Belfast.

3 January - The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement is signed for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Tragic Week begins in Argentina as striking workers fire on police. Three policemen die over the course of the week and 78 are wounded. Between 100 and 700 civilian deaths are reported along with 2,000 wounded, while 50,000 people are imprisoned. Martial law is declared.

5 January - The Sparticist uprising begins in Berlin.

6 January - Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep (b. 1858)

7 January - A reception is held at the Imperial Hotel by the members of the Cork branch of the Irish Women's Association for almost 300 Munster men who had been prisoners of war.

Robert Duncan is born in Oakland, California (d.1988)

The Christmas Rebellion in Cetinje begins in response to an attempt to unite the Kingdom of Montenegro with the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa is founded, led by Clements Kadalie.

10 January - Private Harman and Private Perry of the Royal Defence Corps were shot on sentry duty at the railway bridge in Monard.

The newly formed Freikorps attack Sparticist supporters in Berlin.

13 January - Workers councils in Berlin end the general strike bringing the Sparticist uprising to an end.

15 January - Proportional Representation is used for first time in Sligo municipal elections.

Rosa Luxemburg (b. 1871) is arrested along with Karl Liebknecht (the only member of the Reichstag to have voted against the war, b.1871) for their part in the Sparticist uprising. They are murdered by members of the Freikorps. Luxemburg’s body is thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin.

Red Rosa now has vanished too. (...) She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out. May she rest in peace. - Bertolt Brecht

The Great Boston Molasses Flood occurs when a large storage tank bursts and a wave of two million gallons of molasses travels at over 50 km/h through the North End killing 21 and injuring 150.

16 January - The 18th Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified, authorizing Prohibition.

18 January - The Paris Peace Conference opens at the Palace of Versailles.

Bentley Motors Limited is founded.

Pianist and composer, Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the Prime Minister of Poland.

19 January - The first elections in Germany of the new Weimar Republic.

20 January - Silva Kaputikyan is born in Yerevan (d. 2006)

21 January - The first meeting of Dáil Éireann, formed by Sinn Féin MPs elected to the House of Commons, is conducted exclusively in Irish. Cathal Brugha takes the chair and calls on Father O’Flanagan to bless the proceeding. Clár Oibre Poblacánaighe, the Democratic Programme, is adopted.

An ambush is carried out at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, by Irish Volunteers. Two RIC officers are killed; Constable James McDonnell, approximately 50 years old, was from Belmullet, County Mayo, a widower with four children; and Constable Patrick O'Connell was from Coachford, County Cork, approximately 30 years old and unmarried.

25 January - The League of Nations is founded in Paris.

26 January - Stoker 1st Class John McSweeney of Fuller’s Lane, Bandon Road dies of nephritis.

The 1918 All-Ireland hurling final is held in Croke Park.

Limerick 9-5 Wexford 1-3

27 January - A general strike is called over working hours led by engineering workers in Glasgow and Belfast.

31 January - The editorial of An t-Óglach states that the formation of Dáil Éireann “justifies Irish Volunteers in treating the armed forces of the enemy – whether soldiers or policemen – exactly as a National Army would treat the members of an invading army”

The British army is called in to deal with Scotland’s most widespread strike since 1820. Six tanks support 12,000 troops and the strikers give up their cause for a 40 hour work week after the Battle of George Square. Ironically, Glasgow citizens gave more per capita to fund the army’s tanks when “Julian the Tank” (No. 113) made a tour of Scotland in January 1918 as a Scottish War Savings Committee initiative. The tanks are not used against the public; their presence supporting the soldiers is enough.

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Day 118: Kilmainham Gaol and the National Museum of Archaeology--A Morbid Yet Fascinating Trip Through Irish History

Who knew going to jail could be so stressful?

While we were planning our stay in Dublin, there was one place that I hoped we could visit but wasn't sure we'd be able to. Kilmainham Jail (or rather "Gaol," to use the traditional spelling) is a sacred place in Irish national history. Originally a common county prison, it evolved into a symbol of British oppression and Irish resistance. Generation after generation of Irish nationalists were imprisoned and executed here by the British, including the leaders of the watershed Easter Rising of 1916.

Being one of the most important political monuments as well as a carefully preserved historical structure, securing a visit to Kilmainham requires reserving a spot well in advance. Which we hadn't done. They also leave spots for walk-ins, but all the guides said you had to show up as early as possible to get a spot during the busy season. Which we were right in the middle of.

Kilmainham is on the far side of Dublin from where we were staying, but we made sure to leave with plenty of time to arrive before 9:30, when the Gaol opened. Or so we thought. While riding the DART into the city, we realized that it actually opened at 9:00 am. Then, to add to the stress, we missed our tram connection by ten seconds thanks to a red light and a confusing ticket machine.

Dublin's two-line tram system is called the Luas, which is Gaelic for "speed." The locals assured us that the name was purely ironic, and as we crawled along at slower-than-traffic speeds, I couldn't help but concur. It did leave me some time to spend with my thoughts, and I resigned myself to the thought that even if we didn't get to tour the Gaol itself, we could still visit the attached museum. But as we got to the door, a staff member smiled and said they had two slots left for the next tour in five minutes. Rushing in, we grabbed our tickets and made our way to the start of the tour.

The tour starts in a Victorian-era courtroom. The defendant’s chair stands before the judge’s seat, perched high and exposed on a table in the center of the room, surrounded by claustrophobically crowded benches and boxes. We were met by a grim-looking staff member who spoke through clenched jaws--possibly wired shut, we didn’t ask--and sent us on ahead to meet our much more loquacious guide. She took us through the courtyard and into the jail building itself.

After decades of neglect and decay, the jail was eventually restored in the 1960s with the help of surviving former inmates. Today, it is a suitably bleak monument to the bravery and hardships of men and women who were willing to die so that their fellows could one day live in a better world.

We learned that this prison was actually referred to as New Kilmainham. It was built to replace the old Kilmainham prison, where all prisoners were kept in one large chamber altogether. Men and women, children and adults, beggars and murderers. The new prison was meant to be (relatively) humane, with individual cells and stricter rules for how jailers could treat the prisoners. Still, it wasn’t great by modern standards.

The prison is divided into two sections. The original Georgian wing, built in the 1790s, is a warren of dark stairways and cell-lined corridors. The later Victorian wing uses a “panopticon” design--a large, well-lit chamber with cells lining the walls, allowing jailers to see if anything was amiss in any of the cells with a simple 360-degree turn.

There are small plaques above some cells, marking where individual Irish political prisoners were held.

One of the condemned leaders of the Easter Rising was a woman named Constance "Countess" Markievicz. Constance was born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowning family and studied as an artist in Paris, where she met and married a Polish artist, the self-styled Count Casimir Markievicz. The couple returned to Ireland, where Constance became deeply involved with a variety of militant republican and socialist organizations. She designed the uniforms worn during the Easter Rising and is said to have advised Irish women to dress sensibly--with strong boots and a revolver.

Constance was a central member and active combatant during the Easter Rising but her execution was commuted to life imprisonment because she was a woman. When she was informed of this, she actually mocked her jailors for not having the decency to shoot her like the men. She was released by the British a year later and would remain an outspoken and controversial figure until her death in 1927.

Even after the inevitable War of Independence was over, the bloodshed was only hitting its peak. The Irish parliament narrowly voted to sign a treaty with Britain, which would give it limited independence similar to that of Canada and Australia at that time. The pro-treaty pragmatists saw it as a necessary stepping stone to end the fighting and work toward full independence in time. The anti-treaty idealists saw anything less than full separation and independence from Britain as a betrayal of Ireland and all the patriots who gave their lives for its freedom.

The treaty was signed, and the Irish Civil War began. Jessica and I had both always assumed that the Irish Civil War was between the North and the South--which was particularly American of us, now that I think about it. In any case, the Irish Civil War was strictly within the southern Republic of Ireland.

Kilmainham was again filled with political prisoners, but this time it was the pro-treaty Irish government imprisoning anti-treaty Irish dissenters. More people died in the one-year Civil War than in the three-year War of Independence, and more political prisoners were executed in Kilmainham by the Irish Provisional Government in that one year than by the British government during the previous hundred years.

One of the anti-treaty prisoners held in Kilmainham during the Civil War was Grace Plunkett, widow of the Easter Rising leader Joseph Plunkett. The two were allowed to marry just a few hours before Joseph was executed--one of the sympathetic stories that sparked outrage against the British.

During her own stay in Kilmainham, Grace painted pictures on the wall of her cell, including one of the Madonna and Child that can still be seen through the cell door.

We saw an exercise yard where several anti-treaty prisoners were executed, as well as the rock-breaking yard where fourteen leaders of the Easter Rising were shot.

Thirteen were shot at one end of the yard, but the fourteenth--James Connolly--was already near death from wounds sustained during the fighting. Rather than let him die in a hospital, the British had Connolly brought to Kilmainham by ambulance, strapped him to a chair near the gate on the other end of the yard, and shot him.

The executions took place slowly over ten days, with none of the condemned knowing until their last hours when it would be their day to. Once they were all dead, the British dumped their bodies in an unmarked mass grave without coffins. But rather than instilling fear as the British intended, the viciousness of these actions finally turned public sentiment against the British for good.

We learned from our guide that the Irish separatists were actually a minority up until that very point. World War I was in high gear in 1916, and most Irish people favored solidarity with Britain. Two years later, the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein (pronounced "shin-fayn" and Gaelic for "we ourselves") won a landslide victory in Ireland's parliamentary election and renewed the Easter Proclamation of the free Republic of Ireland, kicking off the final War of Independence.

Even if we hadn’t gotten to tour the Gaol, the museum would have been worth the visit by itself. The first section includes artifacts from the Gaol’s history and talks about the hard lives of its prisoners. During the Great Famine, the Gaol was overwhelmed with people committing crimes just so that they could be sent to prison and get fed.

But so many people had the same idea that they ended up being still hungry and also in jail.

Another section covers the tumultuous years of the Easter Rising, War of Independence, and the Civil War. It includes a touching collection of the executed leaders’ last letters and personal belongings.

And another section covers the much longer history of Irish nationalism throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a fascinating story with way too many details to go into here. (And given all the detail I’ve been willing to go into already, you know that’s saying something.) One of the more interesting stories involved a group of separatists called the Fenians recruiting a bunch of Irish-American veterans from the American Civil War to go over to Ireland and lead a short-lived revolution in 1867.

We had to pause halfway through our visit to the museum for some badly needed food and caffeine. Our time in jail had weighed heavily on us, and we were starting to bicker. It also didn’t help that we hadn’t eaten anything yet. But after a coffee and a bite to eat, we were back on track.

After Kilmainham, we took a bus over to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which was built near the spring where St. Patrick is said to have performed his baptisms. It is a lovely cathedral, but in most ways very much like the other Anglican cathedrals we've seen already.

Actually, the fact that it is an Anglican church is one of the most interesting thing about St. Patrick's. Ireland is famously Catholic, and less than three percent of the Republic's population belongs to the Anglican Church of Ireland. Yet the country's most important church is Anglican. Of course, the answer to this riddle is as harsh and obvious as the stones of Kilmainham Gaol--the British.

We saw the regimental flags hanging in the north transept and finally learned about the fascinating tradition we'd been oblivious to in all the British cathedrals we'd visited in the last two months.

Whenever a British military regiment disbands or receives new colors, its old flag is retired or "laid up" in a cathedral or other important place. There, it is left in peace to slowly fade away--like the proverbial old soldier.

The cathedral is filled with beautiful stained glass windows, mostly dating from the late 1800s. That was when the Guinness family decided to spend some of their beer money to renovate the cathedral and beautify the surrounding working-class neighborhoods.

Fittingly, one of their windows bears the verse “I was thirsty and ye gave me drink.”

Speaking of Guinness, Jessica noticed a peculiar detail in one of the church’s warning signs about pickpockets.

For our last big stop of the day, we took a stroll through St. Stephen’s Green to the National Museum of Archaeology, which is right across the street from Bram Stoker’s old house. (Disappointingly, the museum didn’t address vampires at all.)

The museum is compact but amazingly rich with fascinating and well-presented artifacts. Starting at the entrance, a clockwise walk around the main room takes you from the prehistoric stone age up into the early iron age.

One entire side of the room is occupied by an extraordinary 4000-year-old canoe. Carved from a single giant log, it measures over 45 feet long.

Even within the bronze-age artifacts that make up the bulk of the collection, we could see how the tools and weapons grew more refined over time.

For me, one of the most interesting artifacts was a set of molds that the ancient Irish used to cast bronze blades. It never occurred to me that bronze-age weapons were cast, not forged. I don’t even know if you can forge bronze, come to think of it. (Actually, I looked it up. You technically can, but only with certain alloys of bronze. I don’t think that the ancient Irish had that level of metallurgical sophistication. If they did, they would have just made steel.)

In the center of the room is a vast display of ancient gold jewelry.

Even here, you can see the intricacy of design that foreshadows the amazing Celtic knotwork designs that would flourish in the Middle Ages.

Before we went to see those medieval artifacts in the room known as the Treasury, we visited another display on mummies. Not Egyptian mummies--Irish bog mummies.

(No, I won’t post any pictures.)

Despite being very wet, the peat bogs that make up much of Ireland are almost completely starved of oxygen when you get down deep in them. That’s why the island is such a rich source of amazingly preserved artifacts. And some of those artifacts are people.

In the more rural areas of Ireland, people still cut peat to fuel their furnaces in the winter. They say that the peat grows about a meter every thousand years, so you don’t need to dig very deep to find things that are very old. Every so often, one of these people will dig up a bead or bracelet with their peat. And once in a while, someone will dig up a body.

The museum had three preserved bodies on display, tucked away in respectfully shielded rooms so that you didn’t have to see them unless you really wanted to. Jessica didn’t, but I did.

They were fascinating and unsettling at the same time. Imagine walking into a room with what looks like a wrinkled old leather jacket on a table. But instead of cuffs, the arms end in perfectly preserved brown leather hands--nails, palm lines, and even fingerprints--fingers curled in an uncannily human gesture.

Anyway, on to the treasury.

The treasury includes some of the most impressive ornamental metalwork I’ve ever seen anywhere. The Vikings may have been a scourge to Ireland, but the metalworking skills they brought with them allowed the Celts to transform their traditional knotwork patterns into truly remarkable masterpieces.

The most famous piece, and probably the most impressive, is the Tara Brooch.

Another is the Cross of Cong. It was originally made to fit on top of a priest’s staff and is said to contain a fragment of the True Cross. For centuries after Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church, devout priests of Cong kept the cross secret and safe until the 1800s, when it was rediscovered by the outside world and eventually moved to the museum.

As it happened, we would be visiting Cong the very next day.

Before heading home from the museum, we went for a bit of shoe shopping. Jessica’s shoes had gotten a little run down--the recent mudding incident in Wales hadn’t helped the matter--and she wanted to replace one of her two pairs with something Irish.

My own shoes were getting a little thin in the heel, too, but in the end I decided to keep them for a while longer. We’d be doing a Scottish bog walk in less than two weeks, and I didn’t want to replace my one pair of shoes with a new one just to muck them up right off the bat.

Back home, we cheered as Croatia beat out Russia in penalty shots to move on to the World Cup semifinals. The other semifinalists were England, France, and Belgium. I was rooting for either England or Croatia, which meant that in Ireland I was rooting for Croatia.

Next Post: The Hills of Connemara

Last Post: Story and Song–the Book of Kells and a Musical Irish Pub Crawl

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The Latest: Inspired by Shazier, Steelers off to fast start

/December 11, 2017 (AP)(STL.NEWS) —

The Latest on Week 14 of the NFL season: (all times local):

9:15 p.m.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are off to an inspired start while taking a 14-0 lead over the Baltimore Ravens.

Le’Veon Bell has scored both touchdowns for Pittsburgh, scoring on a 20-yard reception. He added a 1-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter.

The Steelers are playing without linebacker Ryan Shazier, who remains in the hospital recovering from a spinal injury suffered against Cincinnati. The team is wearing Shazier-themed T-shirts underneath their jerseys and several players have an image of Shazier on their game cleats.

Pittsburgh can clinch the AFC North title for the third time in four years with a victory.

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8 p.m.

The Philadelphia Eagles have clinched the NFC East title, but lost quarterback Carson Wentz to a knee injury.

Nick Foles replaced Wentz, and the Eagles beat the Los Angeles Rams 43-35 to improve to 11-2.

The Jacksonville Jaguars now sit atop the AFC South after beating Seattle 30-24. They moved ahead of Tennessee after the Titans lost 12-7 in Arizona.

The Chargers beat Washington 30-13 to stay tied with Kansas City in the AFC West.

Denver snapped an eight-game skid by beating the New York Jets 23-0.

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7:10 p.m.

The Philadelphia Eagles say quarterback Carson Wentz has an injured knee and won’t return to Sunday’s showdown against Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams.

Wentz was hit hard as he scrambled into the end zone late in the third quarter on a play that was called back because of holding on tackle Lane Johnson. Four plays later, Wentz threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Alshon Jeffery to give the Eagles a short-lived 31-28 lead. The Rams then went up 35-31 on a 1-yard run by Todd Gurley.

The Eagles quarterback went to the locker room, and he has been replaced by Nick Foles.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

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7 p.m.

Seahawks all-everything linebacker Bobby Wagner has been ruled out against Jacksonville with a hamstring injury.

Wagner left the game in the third quarter, went to the locker room for evaluation and treatment and did not return.

LB K.J. Wright also left the game with a concussion and has been ruled out.

It was the latest injury for a defense already playing without cornerback Richard Sherman, safety Kam Chancellor and defensive end Cliff Avril.

— AP Sports Writer Mark Long reporting from Jacksonville, Florida.

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6:40 p.m.

There’s been a huge momentum swing in the Eagles-Rams showdown between division leaders.

Blake Countess returned a blocked punt 16 yards for a touchdown to give the Rams a 28-24 lead early in the third quarter. The punt was blocked by Michael Thomas, and the ball bounced right to Countess in stride.

It was the Rams’ second TD in less than two minutes. Jared Goff capped the opening drive of the second half with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Sammy Watkins.

The Eagles had taken a 24-14 halftime lead on three touchdown passes by Carson Wentz. They need to win to clinch the NFC East.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

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6:30 p.m.

New York Jets quarterback Josh McCown has been ruled out against Denver with a left hand injury.

McCown was hurt in the third quarter against Denver when he was hit by Broncos linebacker Shane Ray. McCown walked toward the Jets’ sideline holding his left hand before taking a knee. After being checked out, he went to the locker room.

Bryce Petty took over for McCown, who also was shaken up earlier in the game while scrambling for extra yardage.

In other injuries, long snapper Thomas Hennessy (head) and running back Elijah McGuire (ankle) are both out.

— AP Sports Writer Pat Graham reporting from Denver.

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5:55 p.m.

Philip Rivers and the Los Angeles Chargers’ offense started out on a roll against Washington.

The Chargers racked up 354 yards against the Redskins while taking a 23-6 lead. Those 354 yards were the most a first half for the Chargers since at least 1991 and their most in any half since 2010.

Rivers passed for 256 yards and two touchdowns while passing Warren Moon for ninth place in NFL history in yards passing.

The Chargers didn’t punt, but were forced to kick three field goals. They also made an 81-yard drive in the final 85 seconds before halftime, but Austin Ekeler was tackled at the 4 on a 33-yard run as time ran out.

— AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham reporting from Carson, California

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5:50 p.m.

The Seattle Seahawks were held scoreless in a first half for the first time in more than a year.

Jalen Ramsey intercepted one of Russell Wilson’s deep passes, Blair Walsh missed a 38-yard field goal at the end of the half and the Jaguars led Seattle 3-0 at the break.

It was the first time the Seahawks were held without points in an opening 30 minutes since playing at Arizona in October 2016. That game ended in a 6-6 tie.

— AP Sports Writer Mark Long reporting from Jacksonville, Florida

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5:45 p.m.

Larry Fitzgerald of Arizona now stands third on the NFL’s all-time receiving list.

The Cardinals wide receiver caught a 23-yard pass early in the third quarter against Tennessee to give him 15,303 yards receiving. That pushed him past Randy Moss who had 15,292 yards. Fitzgerald used to wash Moss’ car for cash and borrowed it for the prom.

Only Jerry Rice (22,895) and Terry Owens (15,934) have more yards receiving in NFL history than Fitzgerald.

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5:40 p.m.

Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan is out against the Arizona Cardinals with a back injury.

Lewan went to the locker room with a back injury in the first half, and the tackle who was a Pro Bowl lineman last season was questionable to return. But he came out for the second half without his gear.

Backup Dennis Kelly replaced Lewan at left tackle.

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The Associated Press has counted at least 16 NFL players protesting during the national anthem in Week 14.

After five players protested during the early games, the count jumped with the late afternoon games.

Chargers left tackle Russell Okung raised his fist as he does every game before kickoff against Washington.

In Arizona, Titan wide receiver Rishard Matthews stayed off the field during the anthem and then joined his teammates on the sideline once it ended. Titans linebacker Nate Palmer raised a fist and looked to the sky during the anthem.

Rams linebacker Robert Quinn held up his right fist for most of the anthem. Punter Johnny Hekker had his arm around Quinn in support.

At least seven Seattle Seahawks players sat or knelt for the national anthem in Jacksonville. The group included defensive linemen Michael Bennett, Sheldon Richardson, Frank Clark, Quinton Jefferson, Marcus Smith and Branden Jackson, and offensive lineman Duane Brown. All seven have sat or knelt previously.

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4:25 p.m.

Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams have jumped on top quickly in the showdown between the first two draft picks of the 2016 NFL draft.

This game between Goff and Carson Wentz’s Eagles marks just the eighth time in the Super Bowl era that quarterbacks taken No. 1 and No. 2 overall in the same draft have squared off. Goff was the first pick overall in 2016, followed by Wentz.

The No. 1 pick is 5-2 in such matchups.

Wentz and the Eagles got the ball first. But Wentz was intercepted on the third play from scrimmage, and the Rams scored three plays later for a 7-0 lead for Goff.

The last No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup came on Sept. 13, 2015, when the No. 2 pick in that year’s draft, Marcus Mariota, led Tennessee to a 42-14 victory vs. Jameis Winston (No. 1) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their NFL debuts.

Before that, it was all the way back to 1998, when the top pick that year, Peyton Manning, led the Colts to a 17-12 victory against second pick Ryan Leaf and the San Diego Chargers.

Drew Bledsoe (No. 1, 1993) and Rick Mirer (No. 2) faced off three times — Mirer was with a different team each time — and Jim Plunkett (No. 1, 1971) and Archie Manning (No. 2) faced off twice.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

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The Minnesota Vikings have missed their chance to clinch the NFC North with both chances Sunday, starting with a 31-24 loss to Carolina. The Vikings still could’ve clinched with losses or ties by Detroit and Green Bay only to see the Lions beat Tampa Bay 24-21 and the Packers kept Cleveland winless with a 27-21 overtime victory.

Philadelphia could have clinched before its game with the Rams, but Dallas beat the Giants 30-10.

Buffalo’s 13-7 overtime win over Indianapolis means both New England and Pittsburgh will have to win their own games to clinch playoff berths.

Kansas City beat Oakland 26-15 to take sole possession of the top of the AFC West to itself.

Chicago routed Cincinnati 33-7, and San Francisco beat Houston 26-16.

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2:58 p.m.

Bills rookie quarterback Nathan Peterman has been shaken up after a run and replaced by third-stringer Joe Webb in Buffalo’s game against Indianapolis.

Peterman took off to his right and dived headfirst as he was being tackled in a cloud of snow by linebacker Antonio Morrison and tackle Johnathan Hankins.

Peterman lay on the field for a moment and was slow to get up before going to a medical tent on the sideline. He was then taken to the locker room for further evaluation of a head injury.

The rookie fifth-round pick was starting in place of Tyrod Taylor, who is sidelined by a bruised left knee.

Third-stringer Joe Webb took over.

— John Wawrow reporting from Orchard Park, New York.

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2:40 p.m.

Tom Savage will not return to Houston’s game against the San Francisco 49ers because of a concussion.

Savage was injured when he was driven to the ground on a hit by Elvis Dumervil with about nine minutes left in the second quarter. Replays showed Savage looking dazed after his head hit the ground with both of his arms lifted upward shaking.

He was taken to the medical tent where he stayed for less than three minutes before returning to the bench and going back in for the next series. He threw two incompletions on that drive, and Houston’s team doctor approached him after he returned to the sideline after that possession.

Savage tried repeatedly to enter the game on the next series. But a team official kept grabbing Savage’s jersey and finally his arm and pulled him away from the field. He then could be seen arguing with that person and the team’s trainer before being escorted to the locker room.

He was replaced by T.J. Yates.

— AP Sports Writer Kristie Rieken reporting from Houston.

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2:06 p.m.

Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper has left their game against Kansas City after getting his right leg rolled under while blocking downfield late in the second quarter.

Cooper had missed the past couple games with a concussion, but he cleared the NFL’s protocol earlier this week. He was still questionable with a left ankle sprain, and it was the opposite leg that got caught under a defender as Cooper blocked downfield on DeAndre Washington’s run.

Cooper dominated the Chiefs in their meeting earlier this season, catching 11 passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns.

— AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta reporting from Kansas City, Missouri.

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1:28 p.m.

Josh Gordon has his first touchdown in nearly four years.

Cleveland’s troubled wide receiver, who recently returned after being suspended for two seasons, caught an 18-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter against Green Bay. It was Gordon’s first TD since December 2013. The 26-year-old played his first game since 2014 last week.

The winless Browns are hoping Gordon can stay sober and resurrect his Pro Bowl career. He caught a 38-yard pass on Cleveland’s first play from scrimmage .

— AP Sports Writer Tom Withers reporting from Cleveland.

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George William Russell (AE) - Writer, Painter, Philosopher, Social Activist

by Arthur Russell

George William Russell was born in the rural townland of Drumgor, near the town of Lurgan, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland on April 10th 1867 to Thomas Elias Russell and Mary (nee Armstrong). He was baptized in the nearby Shankill church. He was the youngest of three children; a brother Thomas Samuel who was 3 years older and sister Mary Elizabeth, who was one year older. When he was 11 years old, the family moved to Dublin to allow father Thomas to take up a new job in a brewery. George was sent to the Metropolitan School of Art where he befriended the principal teacher's son, William Butler Yeats, who was destined to become the brightest light of the Irish Literary revival as well as a future Nobel prize winner for literature.

When George was 17, the Russell family was dealt a severe blow with the death of his sister Mary Elizabeth. The poignant poem "A Memory" gives indication of how her death affected him, and was an early indication of his writing talent.

You remember dear together  

Two children you and I  

Sat once in the Autumn weather

Watching the Autumn sky

There was someone around us straying  

The whole of the long day through  

Who seemed to say, "I am playing  

At hide and seek with you"

And one thing after another

Was whispered out of the air

How God was a great big brother

Whose home is everywhere

His light like a smile comes glancing

Through the cool winds as they pass

From the flowers in heaven dancing

To the stars that shine in the grass

The heart of the wise was beating

Sweet sweet in our hearts that day

And many a thought came fleeting

And fancies solemn and gay

We were grave in our ways divining  

How childhood was taking wings  

And the wonderful world was shining  

With vast eternal things.

His Cooperative Work

After leaving Art School, where he developed his painting skills, but obviously not enough to consider taking up painting as a full time profession capable of giving him an income, he went to work in his father's employer's brewery. Later he became a clerk in Pim's drapery store in Dublin, where he was earning 60 pounds sterling per annum by the time he resigned to join the budding Irish Cooperative and Credit Union movements at the invitation of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) founder, Sir Horace Plunkett. His first job with IAOS was as Banks Organiser, but his writing ability soon saw him contributing to and then editing the Society's magazine The Irish Homestead which later merged with The Irish Statesman. He had a strong social sense and threw himself wholeheartedly into the development of the Cooperative movement as a means of supporting the economic development and market integration of emergent small holder proprietors that the various Land Purchase Acts were creating all over Ireland at the time. His cooperative work brought him to every part of Ireland, most of which still had searing and recent memories of famine and eviction which were seen as outcomes of the centuries old landlord system of land ownership in Ireland.

He edited the IAOS publication until 1930, which provided him with an outlet to display his writing talents as well as giving him a facility to mix the practical with the visionary (the vision and the dream). His boyhood experience as the son of a small holder farming community in Armagh helped him to provide well grounded technical advice to his farmer readers, at the same time giving him opportunity to outline philosophical thoughts on what the social and political future for his rural readers might be. He was sought after as a speaker lecturer not only in Ireland, but also in the United Kingdom and pre and post Depression era United States of the 1920's and 1930's.

After his death in England in 1935, his body was returned to Dublin and lay in state for a day in Plunkett House, headquarters of IAOS, before it was brought to Mount Jerome cemetery for burial.

His Literary Work

Cover of AE's first publication (1894) Drawing by the author

His first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way, published in 1894, established George William Russell as one of the leading lights of the Irish Literary Revival. His friend W B Yeats considered this little book as one of the most important literary offerings of the day.

The Origin of His Pseudonym "AE"

As his literary reputation grew he adopted the pseudonym "AE", derived from the word Aeon. This is a gnostic term used to describe the first created being. The story is told that his printer had difficulty deciphering Russell's handwriting and could only discern the first two letters of the 4 letter word in his manuscript. When asked to clarify the remaining two letters of the word, Russell decided not to add to what had already been composited by the printer and thereafter used AE to sign off on all subsequent offerings. His mystic disposition had earlier caused him to join the small Theosophist movement in Dublin for several years, but he left after the death of its founder, Madame Blavatsky. While living there he met his future wife, Violet North and married her in 1897. The couple lived for some time in Coulson Avenue where they were neighbours to Maude Gonne and Count and Countess Markiewicz.

He was an active member and contributor to the Irish Literary Society, which was founded by his friend W B Yeats and others. The early moving force for the literary movement was the writings of Standish O'Grady who looked at Ireland's romantic past for inspiration. On reading O'Grady, Russell was moved to write "one suddenly feels ancient memories rushing at him and knows he was born in a royal house - it was the memory of race which rose up within me."

His Theatrical Work

Yeats and Russell shared a passion for the theatre and together they formed the National Theatre Company, later called the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Yeats was President, Russell Vice-President and among the Committee members were Maud Gonne and the Gaelic language scholar and later first President of the Republic of Ireland, Douglas Hyde. Russell's play Deirdre is credited to have been the spark that set the Irish dramatic movement alight. Not only did he write the play, he also designed the costumes in its first production. His brilliant but eccentric personality contributed mightily to the evolving Irish literary revival, which is popularly referred to as the "Celtic twilight".

His Paintings:

Bathers - by AE (exhibited in 1904)

Russell had a talent for painting, which he followed during his life, mainly for his own recreation "whenever words failed him". There is a respectable gallery of his works which would lead one to question how good and enduring his painting legacy would be if he had invested more time and effort into that side of his output. We will never know. Suffice it to say, his paintings have a significant market and are well regarded by many.

The Irish Times newspaper, on the occasion of the centenary of the first exhibition of his paintings in 1904 at which he sold an amazing 68 paintings – many to the noted New York art collector, John Tobin; suggested it is high time for another exhibition to create awareness and appreciation of AE's art.

Russell the Social Activist

He was destined to live through troubled times in Ireland and much change. The first two decades of the 20th century were the final years of the British Empire in Ireland and ushered in the formative years of the new Irish Free State that emerged in the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence in 1919-1921. It was never in Russell's nature to be a mere bystander or spectator in the movements of his times, and he engaged fully in trying to formulate what kind of Ireland would face into the last century of the millennium. As a visionary, poet, painter, author, journalist, economist and (finally) an agricultural expert he had views aplenty and was never slow to express them with great articulation and conviction.

He was involved in the general strike of 1913 and took part in a mass meeting in Albert Hall London in support of the Dublin strikers, where he shared the platform with George Bernard Shaw and suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst. He was an Irish Nationalist, but as a committed pacifist he deplored the violence of the Nationalist inspired Dublin Rebellion in Easter 1916. This did not stop him from organising a subscription for the widow of one of the executed leaders, James Connolly, who he had befriended during the 1913 strike; both men having shared views on how to deal with the exploitative attitude of many employers of the time.

The following lines written by Russell indicates something of the dilemma he and many pacifist nationalists of the day felt. He could admire the idealism of those who followed Patrick Pearse in taking up the gun in pursuit of nationalist ideals, but like many others he had serious issues with bloodletting as a means to achieve them.

"And yet my spirit rose in pride

Refashioning in burnished gold

The images of those who died

Or were shut up in penal cell

Here's to you Pearse, your dream, not mine

And yet the thought- for this you fell

Has turned life's water into wine".

(from To the memory of some I knew who are dead and loved Ireland - 1917)

He was conscious his adherence to non main stream views and opinions at a time when the extremes on both sides of the political divide were in clear ascendancy, drew sharp criticism from many, but he remained stoically unapologetic for his pacifism through that most turbulent period of Irish history.

On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition

They call us aliens we are told  

Because our wayward visions stray  

From that dim banner they unfold  

The dreams of worn out yesterday.

We hold the Ireland of the heart  

More than the land our eyes have seen  

And love the goal for which we start  

More than the tale of what has been.

No blazoned banner we unfold  

One charge alone we give to youth  

Against the sceptred myth to hold  

The golden heresy of truth.

His Relationship With the Newly Independent Irish State

George William Russell was disappointed that Irish independence was painfully slow in bringing the cultural and social flowering for which he yearned. He was of the opinion that the emerging rather puritanical state with its narrow vision, of which censorship of arts and writing was one of its most potent instruments, effectively blocked intellectual and artistic freedom as it tried to establish the new nation during the 1920s and 30s. He was particularly critical of the excessive influence the Catholic Hierarchy had manage to establish over the emergent body politic. It was his discomfort with this, along with the death of his wife a year earlier that caused him to leave Ireland in the aftermath of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress which was held in Dublin and which he considered a potent demonstration of over pervasive clerical power.

He moved to Bournemouth in England where he died in 1935.

His Support to Young Writers and Artists

During his years in Dublin, his company was much sought after and his home in Rathgar Avenue, Dublin became a meeting place for those interested in the Arts and Economics. He paid special attention to young talent, which he did all in his power to groom and encourage.

He was an endless source of support and advice to emerging writers. He first met James Joyce in 1902 and encouraged him to hone his craft as a writer. He once loaned him money, which Joyce acknowledged pithily with a written "AEIOU".

One of his lesser known acts was to support the American writer Pamela Lyndon Travers, the future author of Mary Poppins (published 1934) at a time when her interest in myths brought her into contact with both Yeats and himself in 1924. AE encouraged her to write and even published some of her writings in The Irish Statesman.

Simone Tery the French writer in L'ile des Bards wrote about him:

"Do you want to know about providence, the origin of the universe, the end of the universe?  Go to AE.  

Do you want to know about Gaelic literature?  Go to AE.  

Do you want to know about the Celtic soul?  Go to AE.  

Do you want to know about Irish History?  Go to AE.  

Do you want to know about the export of eggs?  Go to AE.  

Do you want to know how to run society?  Go to AE.  

If you find life insipid -  Go to AE.  

If you need a friend -  Go to AE.

These lines from a contemporary are a fitting accolade for one of Ireland's not so well known writers who played a vital role in what is now known as the Celtic revival.

Author's Note – While I had always been aware of George William Russell, otherwise known as AE, with whom I share a surname: I was not so aware of any family connection with him until very recently, when a distant cousin with interest in genealogy put focus on a lady called Frances Mary McGee, whose mother was a daughter of our common great grandfather. This lady married the brother of George William (AE), and while his surname was also Russell, Thomas Elias was not directly related to "our" Russells. (At least we need to go much further back to find any blood linkage). This information about Frances Mary caused me to remember conversations in my own family about a distant cousin called Fanny (short for Frances) McGee, second cousin to my father who had married into a family associated with artists and poets. Who else could it have been?

It was a personal Eureka moment, as I share some of AE's interests (though not necessarily his unique talent) for reading, writing, (I really know little about painting!) As well I share a strong belief in the positive role of self-help cooperative endeavor for solving problems facing Agriculture in feeding today's World's burgeoning population.

Arthur Russell is the Author of Morgallion, a novel set in medieval Ireland during the Invasion of Ireland in 1314 by the Scottish army led by Edward deBruce, the last crowned King of Ireland. It tells the story of Cormac MacLochlainn, a young man from the Gaelic crannóg community of Moynagh and how he, his family and his dreams endured and survived that turbulent period of history. Morgallion was awarded the indieBRAG Medallion and is available in paperback and e-book form.

Further information from [email protected]

Hat Tip To: English Historical Fiction Authors

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The Latest: Inspired by Shazier, Steelers off to fast start

/December 11, 2017 (AP)(STL.NEWS) —

The Latest on Week 14 of the NFL season: (all times local):

9:15 p.m.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are off to an inspired start while taking a 14-0 lead over the Baltimore Ravens.

Le’Veon Bell has scored both touchdowns for Pittsburgh, scoring on a 20-yard reception. He added a 1-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter.

Pittsburgh can clinch the AFC North title for the third time in four years with a victory.

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8 p.m.

The Philadelphia Eagles have clinched the NFC East title, but lost quarterback Carson Wentz to a knee injury.

Nick Foles replaced Wentz, and the Eagles beat the Los Angeles Rams 43-35 to improve to 11-2.

The Jacksonville Jaguars now sit atop the AFC South after beating Seattle 30-24. They moved ahead of Tennessee after the Titans lost 12-7 in Arizona.

The Chargers beat Washington 30-13 to stay tied with Kansas City in the AFC West.

Denver snapped an eight-game skid by beating the New York Jets 23-0.

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7:10 p.m.

The Philadelphia Eagles say quarterback Carson Wentz has an injured knee and won’t return to Sunday’s showdown against Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams.

The Eagles quarterback went to the locker room, and he has been replaced by Nick Foles.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

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7 p.m.

Seahawks all-everything linebacker Bobby Wagner has been ruled out against Jacksonville with a hamstring injury.

Wagner left the game in the third quarter, went to the locker room for evaluation and treatment and did not return.

LB K.J. Wright also left the game with a concussion and has been ruled out.

It was the latest injury for a defense already playing without cornerback Richard Sherman, safety Kam Chancellor and defensive end Cliff Avril.

— AP Sports Writer Mark Long reporting from Jacksonville, Florida.

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6:40 p.m.

There’s been a huge momentum swing in the Eagles-Rams showdown between division leaders.

It was the Rams’ second TD in less than two minutes. Jared Goff capped the opening drive of the second half with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Sammy Watkins.

The Eagles had taken a 24-14 halftime lead on three touchdown passes by Carson Wentz. They need to win to clinch the NFC East.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

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6:30 p.m.

New York Jets quarterback Josh McCown has been ruled out against Denver with a left hand injury.

Bryce Petty took over for McCown, who also was shaken up earlier in the game while scrambling for extra yardage.

In other injuries, long snapper Thomas Hennessy (head) and running back Elijah McGuire (ankle) are both out.

— AP Sports Writer Pat Graham reporting from Denver.

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5:55 p.m.

Philip Rivers and the Los Angeles Chargers’ offense started out on a roll against Washington.

The Chargers racked up 354 yards against the Redskins while taking a 23-6 lead. Those 354 yards were the most a first half for the Chargers since at least 1991 and their most in any half since 2010.

Rivers passed for 256 yards and two touchdowns while passing Warren Moon for ninth place in NFL history in yards passing.

— AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham reporting from Carson, California

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5:50 p.m.

The Seattle Seahawks were held scoreless in a first half for the first time in more than a year.

Jalen Ramsey intercepted one of Russell Wilson’s deep passes, Blair Walsh missed a 38-yard field goal at the end of the half and the Jaguars led Seattle 3-0 at the break.

It was the first time the Seahawks were held without points in an opening 30 minutes since playing at Arizona in October 2016. That game ended in a 6-6 tie.

— AP Sports Writer Mark Long reporting from Jacksonville, Florida

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5:45 p.m.

Larry Fitzgerald of Arizona now stands third on the NFL’s all-time receiving list.

Only Jerry Rice (22,895) and Terry Owens (15,934) have more yards receiving in NFL history than Fitzgerald.

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5:40 p.m.

Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan is out against the Arizona Cardinals with a back injury.

Backup Dennis Kelly replaced Lewan at left tackle.

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The Associated Press has counted at least 16 NFL players protesting during the national anthem in Week 14.

After five players protested during the early games, the count jumped with the late afternoon games.

Chargers left tackle Russell Okung raised his fist as he does every game before kickoff against Washington.

Rams linebacker Robert Quinn held up his right fist for most of the anthem. Punter Johnny Hekker had his arm around Quinn in support.

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4:25 p.m.

Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams have jumped on top quickly in the showdown between the first two draft picks of the 2016 NFL draft.

The No. 1 pick is 5-2 in such matchups.

Wentz and the Eagles got the ball first. But Wentz was intercepted on the third play from scrimmage, and the Rams scored three plays later for a 7-0 lead for Goff.

Before that, it was all the way back to 1998, when the top pick that year, Peyton Manning, led the Colts to a 17-12 victory against second pick Ryan Leaf and the San Diego Chargers.

Drew Bledsoe (No. 1, 1993) and Rick Mirer (No. 2) faced off three times — Mirer was with a different team each time — and Jim Plunkett (No. 1, 1971) and Archie Manning (No. 2) faced off twice.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

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Philadelphia could have clinched before its game with the Rams, but Dallas beat the Giants 30-10.

Buffalo’s 13-7 overtime win over Indianapolis means both New England and Pittsburgh will have to win their own games to clinch playoff berths.

Kansas City beat Oakland 26-15 to take sole possession of the top of the AFC West to itself.

Chicago routed Cincinnati 33-7, and San Francisco beat Houston 26-16.

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2:58 p.m.

Bills rookie quarterback Nathan Peterman has been shaken up after a run and replaced by third-stringer Joe Webb in Buffalo’s game against Indianapolis.

Peterman took off to his right and dived headfirst as he was being tackled in a cloud of snow by linebacker Antonio Morrison and tackle Johnathan Hankins.

Peterman lay on the field for a moment and was slow to get up before going to a medical tent on the sideline. He was then taken to the locker room for further evaluation of a head injury.

The rookie fifth-round pick was starting in place of Tyrod Taylor, who is sidelined by a bruised left knee.

Third-stringer Joe Webb took over.

— John Wawrow reporting from Orchard Park, New York.

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2:40 p.m.

Tom Savage will not return to Houston’s game against the San Francisco 49ers because of a concussion.

He was replaced by T.J. Yates.

— AP Sports Writer Kristie Rieken reporting from Houston.

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2:06 p.m.

Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper has left their game against Kansas City after getting his right leg rolled under while blocking downfield late in the second quarter.

Cooper dominated the Chiefs in their meeting earlier this season, catching 11 passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns.

— AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta reporting from Kansas City, Missouri.

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1:28 p.m.

Josh Gordon has his first touchdown in nearly four years.

The winless Browns are hoping Gordon can stay sober and resurrect his Pro Bowl career. He caught a 38-yard pass on Cleveland’s first play from scrimmage .

— AP Sports Writer Tom Withers reporting from Cleveland.

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The Latest: Inspired by Shazier, Steelers off to fast start

/December 11, 2017 (AP)(STL.NEWS) —

The Latest on Week 14 of the NFL season: (all times local):

9:15 p.m.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are off to an inspired start while taking a 14-0 lead over the Baltimore Ravens.

Le’Veon Bell has scored both touchdowns for Pittsburgh, scoring on a 20-yard reception. He added a 1-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter.

Pittsburgh can clinch the AFC North title for the third time in four years with a victory.

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8 p.m.

The Philadelphia Eagles have clinched the NFC East title, but lost quarterback Carson Wentz to a knee injury.

Nick Foles replaced Wentz, and the Eagles beat the Los Angeles Rams 43-35 to improve to 11-2.

The Jacksonville Jaguars now sit atop the AFC South after beating Seattle 30-24. They moved ahead of Tennessee after the Titans lost 12-7 in Arizona.

The Chargers beat Washington 30-13 to stay tied with Kansas City in the AFC West.

Denver snapped an eight-game skid by beating the New York Jets 23-0.

___

7:10 p.m.

The Philadelphia Eagles say quarterback Carson Wentz has an injured knee and won’t return to Sunday’s showdown against Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams.

The Eagles quarterback went to the locker room, and he has been replaced by Nick Foles.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

___

7 p.m.

Seahawks all-everything linebacker Bobby Wagner has been ruled out against Jacksonville with a hamstring injury.

Wagner left the game in the third quarter, went to the locker room for evaluation and treatment and did not return.

LB K.J. Wright also left the game with a concussion and has been ruled out.

It was the latest injury for a defense already playing without cornerback Richard Sherman, safety Kam Chancellor and defensive end Cliff Avril.

— AP Sports Writer Mark Long reporting from Jacksonville, Florida.

___

6:40 p.m.

There’s been a huge momentum swing in the Eagles-Rams showdown between division leaders.

It was the Rams’ second TD in less than two minutes. Jared Goff capped the opening drive of the second half with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Sammy Watkins.

The Eagles had taken a 24-14 halftime lead on three touchdown passes by Carson Wentz. They need to win to clinch the NFC East.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

___

6:30 p.m.

New York Jets quarterback Josh McCown has been ruled out against Denver with a left hand injury.

Bryce Petty took over for McCown, who also was shaken up earlier in the game while scrambling for extra yardage.

In other injuries, long snapper Thomas Hennessy (head) and running back Elijah McGuire (ankle) are both out.

— AP Sports Writer Pat Graham reporting from Denver.

___

5:55 p.m.

Philip Rivers and the Los Angeles Chargers’ offense started out on a roll against Washington.

The Chargers racked up 354 yards against the Redskins while taking a 23-6 lead. Those 354 yards were the most a first half for the Chargers since at least 1991 and their most in any half since 2010.

Rivers passed for 256 yards and two touchdowns while passing Warren Moon for ninth place in NFL history in yards passing.

— AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham reporting from Carson, California

___

5:50 p.m.

The Seattle Seahawks were held scoreless in a first half for the first time in more than a year.

Jalen Ramsey intercepted one of Russell Wilson’s deep passes, Blair Walsh missed a 38-yard field goal at the end of the half and the Jaguars led Seattle 3-0 at the break.

It was the first time the Seahawks were held without points in an opening 30 minutes since playing at Arizona in October 2016. That game ended in a 6-6 tie.

— AP Sports Writer Mark Long reporting from Jacksonville, Florida

___

5:45 p.m.

Larry Fitzgerald of Arizona now stands third on the NFL’s all-time receiving list.

Only Jerry Rice (22,895) and Terry Owens (15,934) have more yards receiving in NFL history than Fitzgerald.

___

5:40 p.m.

Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan is out against the Arizona Cardinals with a back injury.

Backup Dennis Kelly replaced Lewan at left tackle.

___

The Associated Press has counted at least 16 NFL players protesting during the national anthem in Week 14.

After five players protested during the early games, the count jumped with the late afternoon games.

Chargers left tackle Russell Okung raised his fist as he does every game before kickoff against Washington.

Rams linebacker Robert Quinn held up his right fist for most of the anthem. Punter Johnny Hekker had his arm around Quinn in support.

___

4:25 p.m.

Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams have jumped on top quickly in the showdown between the first two draft picks of the 2016 NFL draft.

The No. 1 pick is 5-2 in such matchups.

Wentz and the Eagles got the ball first. But Wentz was intercepted on the third play from scrimmage, and the Rams scored three plays later for a 7-0 lead for Goff.

Before that, it was all the way back to 1998, when the top pick that year, Peyton Manning, led the Colts to a 17-12 victory against second pick Ryan Leaf and the San Diego Chargers.

Drew Bledsoe (No. 1, 1993) and Rick Mirer (No. 2) faced off three times — Mirer was with a different team each time — and Jim Plunkett (No. 1, 1971) and Archie Manning (No. 2) faced off twice.

— AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson reporting from Los Angeles

___

Philadelphia could have clinched before its game with the Rams, but Dallas beat the Giants 30-10.

Buffalo’s 13-7 overtime win over Indianapolis means both New England and Pittsburgh will have to win their own games to clinch playoff berths.

Kansas City beat Oakland 26-15 to take sole possession of the top of the AFC West to itself.

Chicago routed Cincinnati 33-7, and San Francisco beat Houston 26-16.

___

2:58 p.m.

Bills rookie quarterback Nathan Peterman has been shaken up after a run and replaced by third-stringer Joe Webb in Buffalo’s game against Indianapolis.

Peterman took off to his right and dived headfirst as he was being tackled in a cloud of snow by linebacker Antonio Morrison and tackle Johnathan Hankins.

Peterman lay on the field for a moment and was slow to get up before going to a medical tent on the sideline. He was then taken to the locker room for further evaluation of a head injury.

The rookie fifth-round pick was starting in place of Tyrod Taylor, who is sidelined by a bruised left knee.

Third-stringer Joe Webb took over.

— John Wawrow reporting from Orchard Park, New York.

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2:40 p.m.

Tom Savage will not return to Houston’s game against the San Francisco 49ers because of a concussion.

He was replaced by T.J. Yates.

— AP Sports Writer Kristie Rieken reporting from Houston.

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2:06 p.m.

Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper has left their game against Kansas City after getting his right leg rolled under while blocking downfield late in the second quarter.

Cooper dominated the Chiefs in their meeting earlier this season, catching 11 passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns.

— AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta reporting from Kansas City, Missouri.

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1:28 p.m.

Josh Gordon has his first touchdown in nearly four years.

The winless Browns are hoping Gordon can stay sober and resurrect his Pro Bowl career. He caught a 38-yard pass on Cleveland’s first play from scrimmage .

— AP Sports Writer Tom Withers reporting from Cleveland.

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By Associated Press, published on STL.NEWS by St. Louis Media, LLC (AS)

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