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The received wisdom says you should never go back; LP Hartley famously said "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" and who am I to argue with that? There's no denying though that my past has, to some degree, become my future.
Some of you might remember my 'Black Rat' column from the earliest days of TRD, back when it was little more than a photocopied publication aimed at London's despatch riders. Back in 1998, I was working in London for Bonds as a despatch rider on a liveried Pan Euro ST1100 and each month I'd write 1,500 words for TRD about life on the road.
Fast forward 15 years and a lot has changed. I'm no longer a despatch rider – I left that behind in early 2000 to become a freelance journalist, a choice that has taken me around the world and shown me some fascinating (and occasionally dark) aspects of life. I'm no longer based in London either – I live in Belfast now and although I still do the odd bit of journalism, I earn most of my living as a ghostwriter. That's the stuff that's different. The parallels? I'm back delivering vital packages on a Pan European and I'm writing about it for TRD once again. QED: my past, and my future.
It's funny how things work out. Back in 2002 I was lucky enough to be invited by South Yorkshire Police to spend some time on a marked police motorcycle so I could write a feature about life as a bike cop but, before they'd allow me to run around answering calls on blues and twos, they put me through a course to teach me how to do so. I had no idea then that what I learned would prove so useful eleven years later.
The reason I'm back on a Pan, and the reason for my reappearance in this magazine, is the precious cargo that I carry when I'm on shift: human blood – samples for urgent analysis and whole units for transfusion, which my colleagues and I collect from various blood banks and transfer straight to the hospital where the patient is waiting. That course I did with South Yorkshire Police has proved useful for those urgent calls we get, which mean running across Belfast on blues-and-twos to ensure we get the blood where it's needed, in the shortest time possible.
Blood bikes have been operating in the UK for more than 40 years. The service began on April 1st, 1969 in Stevenage, when a youth community action group named Freewheelers was established to encourage experienced bikers to use their riding skills to provide a fast and reliable courier service to local hospitals. Using the model created by Freewheelers, other groups were established across the UK and Ireland over the years, operated and run by volunteers and funded entirely by sponsorship and donations from the public. The reason? Well, the NHS largely relies on taxis to transport medical essentials outside of core hours. This makes a huge dent in an already over-stretched budget. Blood Bikes provide a vital service, which is entirely free to the NHS – the hospitals we serve save between £20 and £50 every time we undertake a run for them.
The objective is simple; we provide an out-of-hours emergency service to transport urgently needed units of blood for transfusion, human tissues and other medical requirements between NHS facilities. To do this we use specially adapted motorcycles to assist local health trusts by providing fast, safe and efficient transport from NHS labs or blood banks to hospitals or other facilities. The bikes we use are all fully-liveried ex-police Honda Pan Europeans and Deauvilles, complete with blue lights and tri-sound sirens; on an urgent run, these are used to full effect to ensure that we get the blood from bank to patient in the quickest possible time. The distances we cover may sometimes be short, but Belfast's rush-hour traffic is amongst the worst in the UK so every second we can steal is of paramount importance when it can mean the difference between life and death.
Although a patient may be waiting on the operating room table for the blood that we carry, there is another factor that contributes to the urgency and it's the fact that the cold chain for human blood has to be observed and protected at all times. This means that it has to be kept at a constant 4°C as once it's outside of a refrigerator it's only viable for 30 minutes; any longer and it has to be disposed of, so it's imperative that we get it from pick-up to delivery point fast. Every second counts.
The service has only been operating in Belfast since the end of January this year but we've already completed well over 1,200 individual taskings and the number is increasing daily. It takes a surprising number of riders, all of whom give up their time for free, to ensure we have cover when it's needed. The riders in the team are a great bunch and include an airline pilot, a retired publican and several advanced motorcycle instructors. There are two husband-and-wife teams, and everyone has an advanced riding qualification. Age wise, we're all the wrong side of 40. The esprit de corps is brilliant though, born of a unity of purpose and conviction, a belief in what we're doing, and all of us derive an enormous sense of satisfaction from doing something worthwhile. For me it's also the perfect counterfoil to my freelance existence, which sees me working from home for extended periods; I actively look forward to my weekly shifts.
We certainly don't do it for the weather; more often than not showers and rain are our constant companions, bar one ten-day period early in June when the temperature in Belfast was hotter than LA, Madrid and Paris and we saw clear blue skies and bright sunshine throughout. But hey, this is Belfast. It rains. You live with it.
The riding's good, though it's taken me a while to get used to the way people ride bikes here. After cutting my biking teeth in London traffic, it was a bit of a culture shock when I saw so many riders here sitting in traffic, nine, ten, sometimes more vehicles back from the white line at the lights. That's inexcusable enough in summer but hey, if that's your thing then each to his own, but in winter? Why? Why would you do that? Why suffer riding a motorbike in sub-zero temperatures if you can't buy time with it? If you want to sit in traffic, go by car – at least you'll be warm and dry. You could listen to the radio, or read – that seems to be the latest fad among some of the more 'switched-off' car drivers stuck in the daily hell of commuter traffic. Why not join them? If you're so out of touch with how to ride a bike that you've forgotten what your instructor told you about 'making progress' you're hardly likely to be bike aware when you're behind the wheel now, are you?
A great many bikers here don't respond the way I expect when I'm driving a car either. If I see a bike in my mirrors and there's space for me to do so, I always move over. And I'm generally left wondering why I bothered, as, looking in my mirrors again, I see the same bike sitting behind me and an all but empty twisting ribbon of tarmac snaking into the distance ahead. Make room for a bike and sit in wonder as nothing happens. I don't think I ever saw that when I lived on the mainland.
Seeing bikers filtering here is unusual enough that it's notable when you actually do see someone on a bike gap-chasing and riding the broken white line. Given the glacial pace that traffic moves at during rush hour here, any biker who chooses not to filter is in danger of being overtaken by continental drift. I've heard several theories for this, most of which revolve around the fact that severe traffic jams are a relatively recent phenomenon in this wee city, so bikers never needed to filter previously, thus it's a skill rarely used. Really? Maybe it's a London-centric skill, little used by anyone outside of the Capital but I don't think so. Perhaps you could enlighten me.
Traffic jams are why Blood Bikes came into being in Belfast; well, those and the flag protests which made global news and threatened to drag Northern Ireland back into the dark ages between September last year and the first few months of 2013. A daily diet of violence, blocked roads, rioting and security alerts, allied to Belfast's latest import – bus lanes – were a recipe for disaster and they brought utter gridlock to the city's already crowded roads. The bus lanes were introduced earlier this spring and they brought utter misery to Belfast's frustrated commuters, snarling up traffic and bringing the City to a standstill. This had an obvious impact on the ability of the blood banks to ensure that urgent supplies would get to their destination on time as, even the NHS Blood Vans, which are also equipped with blues-and-twos, had problems getting through. The Blood Bikes offered a seemingly perfect solution.
It's tiring; riding on blues-and-twos is a privilege, but it's mentally exhausting and at the end of each shift, I feel utterly fatigued in a way that I haven't experienced since my early days as a courier in London. That said, it's a nice tiredness and it comes with a feeling of a job well done. We're only a tiny cog in a massive machine, but I've yet to find a sense of job satisfaction remotely close to what I feel having just delivered six units of blood for an urgent transfusion and I'm looking forward to watching this fledgling unit that I'm a part of grow…
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Pete Spooner August 22, 2013 at 12:47 pm - Reply
Good article, Gave me a lump in my throat. Mind you I'm one of those bikers stuck in traffic (sometimes), relearning after a 40ry gap.
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Alec Baldwin on 'Rust' fatal shooting: 'Someone is responsible ... but I know it's not me'
The actor spoke with George Stephanopoulos for an exclusive interview on ABC and Hulu.
By Lucien Bruggeman
Alec Baldwin describes meeting family of 'Rust' cinematographer
NEW YORK -- On the morning of Oct. 21, Alec Baldwin had an epiphany.
Sitting in a church pew on the set of "Rust," a low-budget Western film, the star actor observed the hustle-and-bustle around him with a renewed sense of appreciation. A project he loved was finally coming to life - the magic of the cinema felt within reach.
"I sat on that bench, and I said, 'This movie has made me love making movies again,'" Baldwin told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in his first exclusive interview.
"I really thought we were onto something," he continued. "And then this gun goes off."
Hours after his moment of reflection, Baldwin was holding an antique Colt .45 revolver during a marking rehearsal for the film, when the prop gun discharged a live bullet, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
"Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property," Baldwin said. "Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can't say who that is, but I know it's not me."
Baldwin sat down with Stephanopoulos to sift through the series of events that led to Hutchins' death, saying he had no reason to suspect a live bullet could be in the prop gun. He also discussed the criticism, litigation and investigations surrounding the incident.
"I don't know what happened on that set. I don't know how that bullet arrived in that gun. I don't know," Baldwin said. "But I'm all for doing anything that will take us to a place where this is less likely to happen again."
"Alec Baldwin Unscripted," produced by George Stephanopoulos Productions, is now streaming on Hulu .
Next week, a two-hour "20/20" delves into the events ahead of the deadly shooting on the set of "Rust" and the pending investigations into what went wrong, and features the Baldwin interview and new interviews. "20/20" airs Friday, Dec. 10 (9:01-11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC and streaming next day on Hulu.
SEE ALSO: 'Rust' assistant director Dave Halls says Alec Baldwin 'did not pull that trigger," according to attorney
An attorney for "Rust" assistant director Dave Halls and the owner of a prop arsenal that provided guns to the film set speak out about the fatal shooting.
'A cold gun'
The cast and crew of "Rust" were working against the clock, Baldwin said. The budget, approximately $7 million, accounted for just 21 days of filming at the famed Bonanza Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The film's producers were excited to have secured Hutchins, a 41-year-old mother and a rising star in the notoriously competitive industry. Baldwin and Hutchins had never worked together before.
"I loved working with this woman," he said. "She was a joy. Everyone loved her as a person. And everyone admired her talent."
Halyna Hutchins profile photo on Instagram. (@haylnahutchins via Instagram)
On the day of the shooting, Baldwin said he and Hutchins met to discuss an upcoming scene. In it, Baldwin was playing a cornered and badly wounded character who would draw his weapon on two foes.
During rehearsal, Baldwin said the film's first assistant director, Dave Halls, handed him a revolver. Baldwin recalled Halls telling him, "This is a cold gun" - industry jargon for a weapon that is either literally empty or loaded with non-firing "dummy" rounds.
"Now, what happened there, and why he made that statement, and what the realities were, I have, again, I have no idea," Baldwin said.
Lisa Torraco, a lawyer for Halls, has since said that checking the weapon was "not his responsibility," and that "expecting an assistant director to check a firearm is like telling the assistant director to check the camera angle or telling the assistant director to check sound or lighting."
Torraco also would not confirm if Halls was the person who handed Baldwin the gun.
Actor Alec Baldwin is speaking out about the fatal "Rust" movie set shooting in an exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos, Mike Marza has more.
'I didn't pull the trigger'
Gun in hand, Baldwin said he and Hutchins began blocking out the scene. She was directing his every move, he said: "Everything is at her direction."
"This was a marking rehearsal," Baldwin said. "And [Hutchins] says to me, 'Hold the gun lower. Go to your right. Okay, right there. All right, do that. Now show it a little bit lower.' And she's getting me to position the gun."
"She's guiding me through how she wants me to hold the gun for this angle," he said. "I'm holding the gun where she told me to hold it, which ended up being aimed right below her armpit."
What happened next remains a mystery. It's the subject of intense public scrutiny and an investigation fronted by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
To get the shot, Baldwin said he needed to cock the gun, but not fire it: "The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger."
"I cock the gun. I go, 'Can you see that? Can you see that? Can you see that?'" Baldwin said. "And then I let go of the hammer of the gun, and the gun goes off. I let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off."
"So, you never pulled the trigger?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"No, no, no, no, no," Baldwin said. "I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them."
Torraco, Halls' attorney, corroborated Baldwin's account on Thursday, saying Halls told her "from day one" that he was watching from three or four feet away and "the entire time Baldwin had his finger outside the trigger guard parallel to the barrel ... that Alec did not pull that trigger."
The aftermath: Chaos and confusion
After cocking and releasing the gun's hammer, Baldwin recalled that, "first of all, everyone is horrified, they're shocked, it's loud."
"[Hutchins] goes down. I thought to myself, 'Did she faint?'" he said. "The notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me till probably 45 minutes to an hour later."
Baldwin said accidental discharges of blanks or dummy rounds on film and television sets are common. In fact, crew members have since said that there had already been at least one accidental discharge on the "Rust" set just days before the fatal incident.
So when Baldwin's gun discharged, he said it wasn't immediately clear to him or anyone else watching the scene that something terrible had happened.
Baldwin said Halls telling him he was handling a "cold gun" added an additional layer of confusion because it meant the gun was supposed to be clear of live rounds.
In the chaos that followed, Baldwin said he wondered whether Hutchins had been hit by an errant projectile from a malfunctioning gun, like "wadding," which packs gunpowder into the barrel, or perhaps even had a heart attack.
"No one could understand," he said.
Hutchins had been shot in the chest with a live bullet. Souza, a longtime friend and collaborator of Baldwin's, had been standing behind Hutchins when the discharge occurred and was hit with the same bullet.
Baldwin said he stood over Hutchins for 60 seconds, "kind of in shock," he said, before being told to leave the area. Baldwin said he and other crew members had their eyes "glued" to the emergency helicopter that arrived some 30 minutes later.
He said he then went to the sheriff's office. There, he said officers showed him a photo of a lead bullet that had been removed from Souza. That's when officers told him Hutchins had died, he said.
"At the very end of my interview with the sheriff's department ... they said to me, 'We regret to tell you that [Hutchins] didn't make it,'" Baldwin said. "They told me right then and there."
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Crew complaints, claims of an unsafe set
Some crew members have described the fatal incident as a symptom of a production in disarray, leveling allegations in the press and in civil litigation of unsafe work conditions, long hours, insufficient housing accommodations and under-qualified hires.
Just hours before the shooting, several crew members walked off the set in protest.
Baldwin was wary of those complaints, framing the 12- or 13-hour workdays as common practice on film sets.
He said any allegations of an unsafe work environment were never brought to his attention nor, he said, did he perceive working conditions as unsafe.
Baldwin said that the day before some crew members quit, Lane Luper, a camera assistant, alerted him to issues with hotel rooms for the crew, but made no mention of safety issues. Baldwin said he was prepared to return a portion of his salary to support better accommodations. But the next day, without warning to him, according to Baldwin, the crew members did not show up.
"They decided to renegotiate the contract in the middle of filming, which is not a good idea, as far as I'm concerned," Baldwin said.
Another target of public scrutiny - and the two civil lawsuits - is Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the film's 24-year-old armorer and prop master. As armorer, Gutierrez Reed, the daughter of famed Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, was responsible for maintaining, handling, loading and unloading any weapons on set. When Baldwin arrived on set, he said Gutierrez Reed gave him a 90-minute demonstration on gun safety.
Gutierrez Reed had only worked as an armorer on one film prior to "Rust," and was tasked with splitting her time between armorer and other prop-related tasks.
Baldwin, as a co-producer on the film, said he played no role in the decision to hire her. He said he served as a "purely creative producer ... I don't hire anybody in the crew."
"Do you think she was up for the job?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"I assumed because she was there and she was hired she was up for the job," Baldwin said. "I mean, I'm not a producer that hires the crew."
David Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez Reed, told "Good Morning America" last month that he believes somebody may have "intended to sabotage this set with a live round intentionally placed in a box of dummies." Bowles added that Gutierrez-Reed had no idea where the live bullets came from.
Jason Bowles represents "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, said he's afraid "somebody intended to sabotage [the movie] set with a live round."
Baldwin said it is hard for him to imagine that being the case, and said he believes it was "overwhelmingly likely that it was an accident."
"That's an enormous charge to make, that someone came and did something, for what purpose? To attack who? To discredit who? To harm me? The production?" he said. "What was their motive in doing that, if somebody did that?"
Responding to criticism and legal exposure
Baldwin has been named in two civil lawsuits, including one that accuses him of "playing Russian roulette" with the firearm by pointing it towards Hutchins.
In "Rust," Baldwin argued, he followed the same protocol he exercised over the course of his 40-year career in film and television, and said he placed faith in the professionals he said were responsible for maintaining a safe set.
"In terms of the handling of the gun, that day I did exactly what I've done every day on that movie," Baldwin said. "The actor's responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them to do."
"When that person who was charged with that job handed me the weapon, I trusted them" he continued. "And I never had a problem, ever."
Halls told investigators in a sworn affidavit that Gutierrez-Reed opened the firearm used by Baldwin, but he could only remember seeing "three rounds" and that "he should have checked all of them, but didn't, and couldn't recall if Gutierrez-Reed spun the drum." Halls also told investigators he didn't know there were any live rounds in the firearm he gave to Baldwin, according to the affidavit.
Baldwin maintained that he would never misuse a gun on set. He reiterated that he was only following Hutchins' direction and trusting Halls' "cold gun" instruction.
"I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never," Baldwin said.
"There are some who say you're never supposed to point a gun on anyone on a set no matter what," Stephanopoulos said.
"Unless the person is the cinematographer who's directing me at where to point the gun for her camera angle," Baldwin said. "That's exactly what happened."
Criticism of Baldwin has come from fellow actors, some of whom shared their own protocol using weapons while filming. George Clooney said recently that, "Every single time I'm handed a gun on a set -- every time they had me a gun -- I look at it, I open it, I show it to the person I'm pointing it to. We show it to the crew."
Baldwin took issue with Clooney's thinly veiled jab, calling it "misplaced."
"There were a lot of people who felt it necessary to contribute some comment to the situation, which really didn't help the situation at all," he said. "If your protocol is you checking the gun every time, well, good for you. Good for you."
"My protocol was to trust the person that had the job," he continued. "And it worked up until this point."
"What is the actor's responsibility?" Stephanopoulos pressed.
"That's a tough question," Baldwin said. "Because the actor's responsibility going this day forward is very different than it was the day before that ... I did the same thing that day that I did all the other days we were shooting."
Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told ABC News that criminal charges regarding the incident were "on the table."
Baldwin downplayed his exposure to criminal charges.
"I've been told by people who are in the know, in terms of even inside the state, that it's highly unlikely that I would be charged with anything criminally," he said.
The personal toll
"Do you feel guilt?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"No. no," Baldwin said. "I might have killed myself if I thought I was responsible, and I don't say that lightly,"
The incident nonetheless left him scarred, he said, and continues to weigh on him.
"I have dreams about this constantly now," Baldwin said. "I go through my day, and I make it through the day. Then I collapse at the end of the day. Emotionally, I collapse."
Hutchins' death has also made him question whether he wants to continue making films, he said, and said he "can't imagine" ever doing a movie with guns in it again.
"I couldn't give a s--- about my career anymore," he said.
"Is it over?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"Well, it could be," Baldwin said.
After the shooting, Baldwin said he had the chance to meet Hutchins' widower, Matthew, and her 9-year-old son.
"I didn't know what to say," Baldwin said. "[Matthew] hugged [me] and he goes, like, 'I suppose you and I are going to go through this together,' he said. And I thought, 'Well, not as much as you are.'"
For Hutchins' family's sake and the sake of his own emotional well-being, Baldwin said he wants answers. He repeatedly alluded to his interest in the criminal investigation underway, saying he eagerly awaits its results.
Until then, he said, all he can do is reflect.
"You said you're not a victim," Stephanopoulos said. "But is this the worst thing that's ever happened to you?
"Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah," Baldwin replied. "Because think back, and I think of what could I have done?"
"Alec Baldwin Unscripted," produced by George Stephanopoulos Productions, is now streaming on Hulu.
Next week, a two-hour "20/20" delves into the events ahead of the deadly shooting on the set of "Rust" and the pending investigations into what went wrong, featuring the Baldwin interview and new interviews. "20/20" airs Friday, Dec. 10 (9:01-11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC and streaming next day on Hulu.
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A new crack formed on the volcano in the Canary Islands, from which lava flows
Gene Ingram October 1, 2021 2 min read
People on the island must protect themselves from volcanic ash.
A new crack has formed at the La Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma, from which lava flows. It flows down the slope in a different way than the lava from previous fissures. Reuters reported on Friday that such a development in the conditions of the island's residents forced them to wear a headscarf and glasses over their faces, thus protecting themselves from volcanic ash.
La Cumbre Vieja volcano is located on the southern edge of the island of La Palma, where about 85,000 people live. Its explosion occurred on September 19. The volcano released volcanic ash and lava, which slowly flowed down the slope to the coast and then earlier this week began pouring into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Since the eruption that day, several cracks have formed on the volcano. The latest rift occurred on Thursday evening, about 400 meters north of where the largest volcanic eruption occurred on September 19. The Volcanic Institute of the Canary Islands described it as a new hotbed of volcanic eruption.
The Associated Press reported Friday that the formation of a new fault was accompanied by seismic activity. They recorded eight new earthquakes in the area, the most powerful of which was 3.5 degrees.
An order to evacuate the residents of the area has not yet been issued, while the new volcanic activity is being monitored and evaluated by the relevant authorities.
As a result of the eruption and subsequent volcanic activity, about 6000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the area so far. At the same time, more than 800 buildings were destroyed there, including apartment houses, churches and schools. However, the volcanic eruption did not result in casualties or injuries.
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Macedonia – Austria 10/6, odds and results
Odds for Macedonia – Austria
Austria left as winners from the last match against Macedonia
Austria finally came out with a victory of 4 goals against 1. The odds before the match in UEFA Euro Qualifiers between Macedonia and Austria favoured Austria to win. The betting company Fansbet gave the highest odds, of 4/5 times your wager if Austria were to win.
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Macedonia has an average of 1,33 goals scored per match at home in UEFA Euro Qualifiers. During this season, Macedonia has conceded a total of 6 goals in 3 games played on home grounds in UEFA Euro Qualifiers. That means that Macedonia has conceded an average of 2,00 goals per match.
During this season of UEFA Euro Qualifiers, Macedonia has scored a total of 5 goals in the 4 matches they have played, which gives them an average of 1,25 goals scored per match. During this past season, Macedonia has conceded a total of 7 goals in the 4 matches in the league. In average, Macedonia has conceded a total of 1,75 goals per match.
In away matches this season, Austria has scored 6 goals in 2 matches. Austria does on the other hand have a record of 5 conceded goals during this season of UEFA Euro Qualifiers.
Austria has produced an average of 1,75 goals per match in the 4 played in UEFA Euro Qualifiers. Austria has played a total of 4 matches this season, and during those 4 matches the team has conceded a total of 6 goals giving them an average of 1,50 conceded goals per match.


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WWII veteran, age 102, finally receives his medals
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During a surprise ceremony at Xavier House near Regis University, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter presented Rev. Edward F. Flaherty, Jr., S.J., with seven medals for his WWII service.
By Karen Augé
In 1941, before there was D-Day, or the flag raising on Iwo Jima, or Pearl Harbor, a young man from Missouri named Edward Flaherty Jr. put on an Army uniform.
After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Flaherty stayed on, serving his country and his fellow soldiers as an Army medic throughout the bloody Pacific Theater battles of World War II. As part of the 131st Engineer Regiment Medical Detachment, he helped treat wounded soldiers and assisted with evacuations.
Last week, more than 75 years after his service ended, Rev. Edward F. Flaherty, Jr., S.J., now 102 and a retired Jesuit priest and Regis University instructor, received official thanks from his country.
Rev. Edward F. Flaherty, Jr., S.J., a retired Jesuit priest and Regis University instructor, recently received seven medals – and an official thank you – from his country.
In a surprise ceremony last week at Regis' Xavier House residence, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Arvada) presented Flaherty with seven long overdue medals: the Army Good Conduct Medal; American Defense Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two Bronze Service Stars; World War II Victory Medal; Honorable Service Lapel Button – WWII; and Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one Bronze Service Star.
Perlmutter's office worked to procure the medals Flaherty had earned but never received. The ceremony featured letters of official thanks and lofty words about courage, commitment and selflessness from numerous dignitaries and elected officials, including Gov. Jared Polis. Perlmutter noted that Flaherty had survived not one, but two pandemics.
"Thank you. That's all I can say – thank you for all these commendations that I don't feel worthy of accepting," Flaherty told the gathered group.
Clearly, none of the many friends and former colleagues who attended the ceremony shared that opinion. Before he pinned the medals on Flaherty's chest, retired Army Major Gen. Steven P. Best noted that the former medic's service didn't end when he hung up his uniform.
Ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1965, Flaherty was a longtime theology instructor at Regis College and Regis Jesuit High School, and served as Lowry Air Force Base chaplain. He also was a pastor at Shrine of St. Anne Catholic church in Arvada until he retired in 2017 – at age 99.
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Retired Army Major Gen. Steven P. Best pinned the medals onto Rev. Flaherty's shirt.
The community and the state of Colorado will soon lose this quiet force, as Flaherty heads, reluctantly, to a Jesuit retirement home in St. Louis. "I'll miss Colorado," he said before the ceremony. "It's been a wonderful place to be."
His medals at last in place, Flaherty offered a few words to those gathered in what has been his hometown for the past 50-some years. "I hope that the spirit that invigorated us back in World War II and Korea . . . that that same spirit will be passed on to the younger generation today."
Flaherty lamented what he considers a reverence for material things taking priority over spiritual matters in too many lives today.
And the man who readily admits he doesn't like the spotlight jokingly complained that he hadn't been given advance warning about the Friday morning ceremony.
"Had I known this was coming, I would have fled to the mountains."
Karen Augé is the magazine editor at Regis University.
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I am Director of Communications at Regis University, a Jesuit Catholic university with three locations in Denver. I have more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, including 10 years as a freelance features reporter for The Associated Press.
I love how Regis engages with its own community and in the world. We're each encouraged to seek truth, live purposeful lives and continually question, "How ought we to live?"
Inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola, Regis University provides a rich academic life for students that reflects its 140-year commitment to the liberal arts and a Christian education focused on the welfare of all humanity. Regis educates women and men of all ages to make a positive impact in a rapidly changing world. Regis students take this instruction to heart: They logged more than 63,000 hours of community service during the 2019-20 school year in Denver and throughout the world.


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On This Day in 2015: Andy Murray inspires Great Britain to rare Davis Cup win
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Andy Murray inspired Great Britain to their first Davis Cup triumph in 79 years on this day in 2015 after victory in the final against Belgium.
Not since 1936, when Fred Perry and Bunny Austin helped defeat Australia, had Britain won the trophy.
When Murray completed a straight-sets win against David Goffin in Ghent to clinch it he completed one of the most impressive feats of his career.
Andy Murray holds the trophy aloft after his defeat of David Goffin sealed Great Britain's Davis Cup triumph (Andrew Milligan/PA)
The Scot's 6-3 7-5 6-3 triumph against the Belgian number one at the Flanders Expo was his 11th win in the competition that season.
Of the 12 points Britain needed to claim the title, Murray won 11 of them, eight in singles and three in doubles with brother Jamie. The only player not a member of the Murray family to contribute was James Ward.
Three other players have won 11 rubbers in a season since the current Davis Cup format was introduced in 1981, but Murray became the first to do so all in live rubbers and remain unbeaten.
En route to glory Britain defeated the United States 3-2 in Glasgow, France 3-1 in London and Australia 3-2 in the semi-finals in Glasgow before Murray sealed a 3-1 success against Belgium.
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The Africa Cup of Nations group stage continues to ramp up this afternoon with Ivory Coast hoping to seal their spot in the last-16 against a buoyed Sierra Leone side. Among the tournament favourites, the Ivorians began their campaign with a 1-0 victory over Equatorial Guinea thanks to Max Gradel's early strike in their opening match. Ivory Coast vs Sierra Leone is scheduled for a 4pm GMT kick-off on Sunday, January 16, 2022.
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\section{INTRODUCTION}

Mott insulators~\cite{Mott1968, Imada1998} are a fundamental phenomenon in strongly correlated quantum many-body physics. At fractional filling (throughout this paper, the ``filling" corresponds to the number of electrons per unit cell and spin projection~\cite{nphys2600}), a material must be metallic according to the conventional band theory. However, it could be a Mott insulator due to dramatic correlation effects. If such a Mott insulator does not break any symmetry and has a spin gap, it will carry fractionalized excitations~\cite{Anderson1987,Kalmeyer1987} and possess a non-trivial topological order~\cite{Kivelson1987,Wen1989,Hastings2004}. At integer filling, a band insulator is likely if there is a gap between the uppermost fully occupied band and the lowermost unoccupied band. However, in the presence of crystalline point-group symmetries, some partially filled bands crossing the Fermi energy may touch with other bands at some high symmetry points in the Brillouin zone. The correlation effects could again forbid a trivial band insulator state; meanwhile other types of symmetric Mott insulating phases, either with~\cite{nphys2600,Roy2012} or without~\cite{PhysRevLett.110.125301, Kimchi2013} topological orders, may emerge. Among the latter cases, one category of novel Mott insulator is dubbed as fragile Mott insulator (FMI)\cite{Yao2007,Yao2010}. A fragile Mott insulator features a nontrivial one-dimensional irreducible representation of crystalline point-group, and cannot be adiabatically connected to any band insulator which respects the time-reversal and the same crystalline point-group symmetry. In this sense, it is the interplay between symmetries of the underlying system and correlation effects that give rise to the fragile Mott insulator phase.

Although proposed in Refs.~\onlinecite{Yao2007,Yao2010}, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no unbiased demonstration of the existence of FMI with advanced numerical approaches in strongly correlated systems. Here, we perform such a systematic study. Employing extensive cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT)~\cite{Georges1996,Kotliar2006,Maier2005,Kotliar2001}  calculations with exact diagonalization (ED) impurity solver~\cite{Caffarel1994,Liebsch2008,Liebsch2009,Koch2008,RQHe2012}, we investigate the ground state phase diagram and Mott metal-insulator transitions of the half-filled Hubbard model on two plaquette -- the 1/5 depleted and checkerboard -- square lattices. Based on the simulation results and group theory analysis, we unambiguously demonstrate that there exist FMI phases in these systems.

\begin{figure}

  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{plaquettelattice.eps}
  \caption{\label{fig:SqLatt}(color online) Illustration of the 1/5-depleted square lattice (a) and checkerboard square lattice (b). Intra (inter)-plaquette hoppings are represented by thick red (thin green) solid lines. The black dashed (dotted) square represents the 4 (8)-site cluster used in our CDMFT+ED calculations, these clusters reflect $C_{4v}$ point-group symmetry. The lowercase letters (a, b, c, d) represent four sites in a unit cell. White dots with blue letters and blue dots with white letters denote the two magnetic sublattices when the system develops antiferromagnetic order.}
\end{figure}

Both 1/5-depleted and checkerboard square lattices consist of coupled plaquette unit cells with four sites per unit cell (see Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt}) and are non-Bravais lattices with $C_{4v}$ crystalline point-group symmetry. Here we consider the conventional half-filling case, which corresponds to four electrons within a unit cell and thus belongs to the above defined integer filling case. The 1/5-depleted square lattice~\cite{Satoshi1995,Ueda1996,Troyer1996} was first discovered in the study of spin-gapped calcium vanadate material CaV$_{4}$O$_{9}$~\cite{Satoshi1995}, and later on, in a vacancy-ordered iron selenide family of pnictides~\cite{Bao2011,Ye2011,Yan2011} where a rich variety of phases, including several magnetically ordering and superconducting, have been observed~\cite{Maiti2011,Xu2013}. Recently, the half-filled Hubbard model on this lattice has been studied with different numerical methods, including CDMFT with continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solver~\cite{Yanagi2014}, determinantal quantum Monte simulations~\cite{Khatami2014}, and variational cluster approximation~\cite{Yamada2014}. However, a systematic study in which magnetic to non-magnetic phase transition, Mott metal-insulator transition, as well as the realization of a fragile Mott insulator phase, has not been carried out. Here, we employ extensive CDMFT+ED simulations to explore the ground state phase diagram and the non-magnetic metal-insulator transitions. We find a fragile Mott insulator phase in this model and confirm its novel symmetry properties and its Mott insulator character, based on numerical results and group theory analysis. In addition, we find that in the checkerboard square lattice \cite{Tsai2006,Wenzel2009,Chakraborty2011,Ying2014}, a fragile Mott insulator also exists. We determine its ground state phase diagram by means of extensive CDMFT+ED simulations as well.

\section{MODEL AND METHOD}

We study a two-dimensional single-band Hubbard model on 1/5-depleted and checkerboard square lattice, as schematically shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt}. The Hamiltonian reads,
\begin{eqnarray}
  \hat{H} &=& \hat{H}_{0} + U\sum_{i\alpha}\hat{n}_{i\alpha\uparrow}\hat{n}_{i\alpha\downarrow}, \label{eq:hamiltonian}\\
  \hat{H}_{0} &=& -\sum_{i\alpha,j\beta,\sigma}t_{i\alpha,j\beta}\hat{c}_{i\alpha\sigma}^{\dagger}\hat{c}_{j\beta\sigma} - \mu\sum_{i\alpha\sigma}\hat{n}_{i\alpha\sigma}\nonumber\\
  &=& \sum\limits_{\mathbf{k}\in \text{BZ},\sigma}\hat{\mathbf{c}}_{\mathbf{k}\sigma}^{\dagger}\mathbf{H}_{0}(\mathbf{k})\hat{\mathbf{c}}_{\mathbf{k}\sigma},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\mathbf{H}_{0}(\mathbf{k})$ is the non-interacting Bloch Hamiltonian matrix and $i$ and $j$ label the unit cells, $\alpha$ and $\beta$ label the sites ($a$,$b$,$c$,$d$) within a unit cell. In momentum space, $\hat{\mathbf{c}}_{\mathbf{k}\sigma}^{\dagger}=(\hat{c}_{a\mathbf{k}\sigma}^{\dagger},\hat{c}_{b\mathbf{k}\sigma}^{\dagger},\hat{c}_{c\mathbf{k}\sigma}^{\dagger}, \hat{c}_{d\mathbf{k}\sigma}^{\dagger})$. $U$ is the on-site repulsive Coulomb interaction and we set the chemical potential $\mu=U/2$ for the half-filling. Here $t_{i\alpha,i\beta}=t$ is the intra-plaquette hopping and $t_{i\alpha,j\beta}(i\ne j)=t'$ is the inter-plaquette hopping. As we vary the ratio $t'/t$, the bandwidths of the non-interacting band structures in the two models are fixed at $W=4$. Correspondingly we set the energy unit to be $W/4$ throughout the paper. For simplicity, we introduce a parameter $\lambda\in [0,1]$, specified as follows. For the 1/5-depleted square lattice (Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt} (a)):
\vspace{2ex}

  \indent $t=2\lambda/(1+\lambda)$ and $t'=2-4\lambda/(1+\lambda)$;\\
  \indent$\lambda=0$ is the decoupled-dimer limit;\\
  \indent$\lambda=1$ is the decoupled-plaquette limit;\\
  \indent$\lambda=1/2$ is the homogenous case with $t=t'$;\\

\noindent and for the checkerboard square lattice (Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt} (b)):
\vspace{2ex}

  \indent $t=\lambda$ and $t'=1-\lambda$;\\
  \indent $\lambda=0$ is one decoupled-plaquette limit;\\
  \indent $\lambda=1$ is another decoupled-plaquette limit;\\
  \indent $\lambda=1/2$ is the homogenous square lattice limit.\\

\begin{figure}

  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{ds4_U0p0_Band.eps}
  \caption{\label{fig:dsband}(color online) Non-interacting band structure of the 1/5-depleted square lattice along the high symmetry path $\Gamma(0,0)\rightarrow\text{X}(0,\pi)\rightarrow\text{M}(\pi,\pi)\rightarrow\Gamma(0,0)$. In the region of $0<\lambda<1/3$, e.g. (a), the system is a band insulator; in the region of $1/3<\lambda<1$, e.g. (b-d), the system becomes a metal with a hole pocket centered at $\Gamma$ point and an electron pocket centered at $M$ point, and the Fermi surface is nested. At $\lambda=1/2$, both $\Gamma$ and M points are threefold degenerated.}
\vspace{2ex}
  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{cs4_U0p0_Band.eps}
  \caption{\label{fig:csband}(color online) Non-interacting band structure of the checkerboard square lattice along the high symmetry path. Different from the 1/5-depleted square lattice, there is no band insulator for the whole $\lambda$ range, and the Fermi surface is always nested.}
\end{figure}

Figure \ref{fig:dsband} shows the non-interacting band structure of the 1/5-depleted square lattice. In the half-filling case, there are a band insulating phase in the region of $0 < \lambda < 1/3$ and a metallic phase with nested Fermi surface in the region of $1/3 < \lambda < 1$ \cite{Yanagi2014}, respectively. The non-interacting band structure of the checkerboard square lattice is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:csband}, in which the system is always metallic with nested Fermi surface for the entire $\lambda$ range.

To study the correlated systems described by Eq.~(\ref{eq:hamiltonian}), we employed CDMFT+ED method. The CDMFT, as a cluster extension of dynamical mean-field theory, maps an interacting lattice problem onto an auxiliary quantum cluster impurity problem embedded in a self-consistently determined mean-field bath. The short-range correlations within the cluster can be treated exactly, while the non-local correlations between clusters are treated at a mean-field level. In this paper, we perform zero temperature CDMFT+ED calculations with 4 (8) correlated impurities (see Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt}) in the plaquette (dimer) side of the phase diagram and keep 8 bath levels in total. We introduce the nomenclature ``(ds/cs/s)$n_{c}$-$m_{b}$b-AF/PM/ED"~\cite{Hassan2013} to differentiate the technical details of impurity cluster systems used in the simulations, where ``(ds/cs/s)$n_{c}$-$m_{b}$b" represent the 1/5-depleted/checkerboard/homogenous square lattices with $n_{c}$ correlated impurities and $m_{b}$ bath levels, while ``AF/PM/ED" stand for the CDMFT calculations with the antiferromagnetic mean-field bath, the paramagnetic mean-field bath, or, a purely finite-size Lanczos ED calculation, respectively.

In the CDMFT+ED simulations, the size of impurity system (correlated impurities plus bath levels) cannot be too large as the Hilbert space of the system grows exponentially with its size. However, we have verified that the sizes of the impurity system employed here are sufficient to capture the thermodynamic limit properties of the underlying strongly correlated many-body ground states. Appendix~\ref{app:benchmark} shows our CDMFT+ED simulation results of the impurity system with various sizes on the staggered magnetization for the half-filled Hubbard model on a homogeneous square lattice. The results agree well with the quantum Monte Carlo ones at the Heisenberg limit. For the 1/5-depleted square lattice, we employ the ds8-8b-AF impurity system in the dimer side (labelled by the black dotted diamond in Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt} (a)), and this impurity system is able to treat the inter- and intra-plaquette short-range correlations on equal footing. In the plaquette side, however, the ds8-8b-AF is not suitable since it can not correctly take the strong intra-plaquette correlations of the outer four boundary sites in their own plaquettes into consideration. Instead, we use the ds4-8b-AF impurity system (labelled by the black dashed square in Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt} (a)) which captures the correlation within a plaquette.

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\begin{figure}[h]

  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{dsn_mb_QPT.eps}
  \caption{\label{fig:ds_QPT} (color online) (a) Phase diagram of the half-filled Hubbard model on the 1/5-depleted square lattice. The green circles, red squares, and blue triangles are the phase boundaries obtained from ds8-8b-AF, ds4-8b-AF, and ds16-0b-ED systems, respectively. The dimer insulator at small $\lambda$ and the fragile Mott insulator at large $\lambda$ are separated by the AF insulator. The region of AF insulator shrinks as the interaction strength $U/W$ increases. (b-c) Staggered magnetization $m_{s}=\frac{1}{2n_{c}}\sum_{i=1}^{n_{c}}|\braket{\hat{n}_{i\uparrow}}-\braket{\hat{n}_{i\downarrow}}|$ as functions of $\lambda$ and $U/W$, the solid and hollow points are obtained from ds4-8b-AF and ds8-8b-AF impurity systems, respectively. (d) Spin gap $\Delta_{s}=E_{1}(S=1)-E_{0}(S=0)$ are calculated from ds8-0b-ED (solid line) and ds16-0b-ED (hollow points) systems with periodic boundary condition show two minima in the curves which can be used to estimate the quantum phase transitions from dimer insulator to AF insulator and from AF insulator to FMI. Insets are the enlarged plots at the two phase transition regions. (e-f) Spin-spin correlations between intra-plaquette (red, blue) and inter-plaquette (green) sites become more inhomogeneous as $U$ increasing. Solid lines and hollow points are obtained from the ds8-0b-ED and ds16-0b-ED systems, respectively.}
\end{figure}

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\section{RESULTS and Analysis}

Figure \ref{fig:ds_QPT}(a) shows the phase diagram of the half-filled Hubbard model on the 1/5-depleted square lattice, obtained from the CDMFT+ED simulations. Three different insulating phases exist: dimer insulator (DI), plaquette insulator (fragile Mott insulator), and the intervening N\'{e}el antiferromagnetic insulator (AFI). The magnetic to non-magnetic phase transitions are continuous, which can be seen from the continuous vanishing of the staggered magnetization $m_{s}$ shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (b) and (c). The dimer (plaquette) insulator has all the symmetries of the underlying lattice and is a singlet gapped state which is adiabatically connected to the decoupled dimer (plaquette) limit. In these two spin-gapped phases, the energy gap is a singlet-triplet excitation gap. This gap can be directly calculated by the finite size ED and the corresponding results are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (d). The AFI, with a magnetic long-range order, breaks the SU(2) spin rotational symmetry and then has gapless Goldstone modes. Thus, the gap closing transitions in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (d) signify the DI to AFI and FMI to AFI transitions.

The physical picture of the phase transitions in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (a) can be readily appreciated. The nested Fermi surface in the area of $1/3<\lambda<1$ at $U=0$ (see Fig.~\ref{fig:dsband}) is unstable towards the antiferromagnetic insulating phase upon infinitesimally small $U$. As $U$ is further increased, depending on the value of $\lambda$, the short-range inter-plaquette and intra-plaquette spin correlations start to develop. As can be seen from the spin-spin correlations shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (e-f), the system would favor a spin-singlet ground state, either in the form of dimer or plaquette. When the short-range correlation inside the dimer or plaquette is strong enough to destroy the long-range AF order, the continuous quantum phase transitions from AFI to DI or from AFI to FMI occur.

The phase boundaries obtained here are close to those obtained by other methods on the Hubbard model~\cite{Khatami2014, Yamada2014}. Furthermore, extrapolating to the Heisenberg limit, we get the transition points $\lambda_{1c}^{\text{CDMFT}}\approx 0.418$ (obtained by ds8-8-AF) and $\lambda_{2c}^{\text{CDMFT}}\approx 0.536$ (obtained by ds4-8b-AF), which are consistent with the quantum Monte Carlo results for Heisenberg model in Refs.~\onlinecite{Troyer1996,Schwandt2009}, with $\lambda_{1c}^{\text{QMC}}\approx 0.436$ and $\lambda_{2c}^{\text{QMC}}\approx 0.509$, respectively.

Next, we discuss the differences between the dimer insulator and the plaquette insulator, and reveal the fact that the plaquette insulator is essentially a fragile Mott insulator. According to the group theory, a non-degenerate ground state which does not break the crystalline point-group symmetry must transform according to one of the one-dimensional irreducible representations of the crystalline point-group. Therefore, two non-symmetry-breaking phases must be distinct phases, if their respective non-degenerate ground states transform according to different one-dimensional irreducible representations of the point-group. Now, let's consider a finite size system which contains $L\times L$ plaquettes (e.g. the $L=3$ cases in Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt}) and preserves the $C_{4v}$ crystalline point-group symmetry. In the decoupled-dimer limit, $\lambda=0$, the non-degenerate ground state of this system is a product state of all the singlets on each inter-plaquette bond. This ground state transforms according to the identity ($A_{1}$) representation of $C_{4v}$ point-group no matter whether $L$ is even or odd. Since the DI phase can be adiabatically connected to the decoupled-dimer limit, the DI phase will transform according to the identity representation. Note, the $U=0$ band insulator with $0<\lambda<1/3$ (Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (a)) certainly transforms according to the identity representation~\cite{Yao2010}.

\begin{figure}

  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{dsn_mb_Akw.eps}
  \caption{\label{fig:ds_Akw} (color online) Spectral function $A(\mathbf{k},\omega)=-\text{Im}[G(\mathbf{k},\omega+i\eta)]/\pi$ of the half-filled Hubbard model on the 1/5-depleted square lattice along the high symmetry path. Here the Lorentzian broadening factor $\eta$ is $0.05$. (a-b) are obtained from ds8-8b-PM impurity system at $\lambda=0.4$ in the dimer side. We use the self-energy $\Sigma$ periodization scheme~\cite{Sakai2012, Yanagi2014} to restore the unit cell translation symmetry. As $U$ increases, the electron pocket centered at M point and the hole pocket centered at $\Gamma$ point shrink, the system undergoes a Lifshitz transition~\cite{Yanagi2014,Chen2012}. (c-d) Spectral function $A(\mathbf{k},\omega)$ are obtained from ds4-8b-PM impurity system at $\lambda=0.7$ in the plaquette side. The splitting of electronic bands near the Fermi surface is clearly a hallmark of Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition, i.e., a direct Mott gap opens by $U$ with the spectral weights transfer to higher energies.}
\end{figure}

The situation is different in the plaquette side. In the decoupled-plaquette limit, $\lambda=1$, the non-degenerate ground state of the $L\times L$ plaquette system is a product of all the singlets on each plaquette. The singlet on a plaquette is an entangled quantum state and has $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$ symmetry~\cite{Tsai2006,Yao2007,Yao2010}. This remarkable feature directly determines the nontrivial group symmetry of the plaquette-limit ground state. Following the argument in Ref.~\onlinecite{Yao2010}, we perform detailed group theory analysis, as shown in Appendix~\ref{app:1D}. It follows that the ground state in the plaquette limit transforms according to the nontrivial $B_{2}$ ($A_{1}$) representation when $L$ is odd (even). In the thermodynamic limit, a phase will not depend on the way how the thermodynamic limit is approached, therefore, the plaquette insulator phase, which is continuously connected to the plaquette limit state, cannot be adiabatically connected to DI or any time-reversal symmetric band insulator (as they transform according to the $A_{1}$ representation). Hence, the plaquette insulator is an FMI, as proposed in Refs.~\onlinecite{Yao2007,Yao2010}. Accordingly, there must be some intervening phases or a direct phase transition between the DI and the FMI. And indeed, there is an intervening AFI phase with N\'{e}el antiferromagnetic order between the DI and the FMI in the phase diagram, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_QPT} (a).

Furthermore, in the non-interacting $U=0$ limit, there are four bands among which two bands touch at high symmetry points $\Gamma$ and M in the Brillouin zone (see Fig.~\ref{fig:dsband}) due to the wavevector group $G_{\mathbf{k}}=C_{4v}$ at $\mathbf{k}=\text{M}$ or $\Gamma$. The wavevector group is a subgroup of crystalline point-group that leaves the wavevector invariant or translates it by a reciprocal lattice vector. According to the group representation theory, the Bloch Hamiltonian $\mathbf{H}_{0}(\mathbf{k})$ at M or $\Gamma$ point can be block-diagonalized according to the irreducible representations of the wavevector group: $A_{1}\oplus B_{2}\oplus E$. The presence of a two-dimensional irreducible representation $E$ indicates that the two bands are essentially degenerated at $\Gamma$ and M points (see Fig.~\ref{fig:dsband} and Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_Akw}). Taking M point for example, the lower two bands touch and form a two-dimensional irreducible representation($E$) of $G_{\text{M}}$ in the region of $0<\lambda<1/2$, while the middle two bands touch in the region of $1/2<\lambda<1$. The different bands touching at M or $\Gamma$ point have remarkable effects upon the non-magnetic metal-insulator transition, as can be seen from the spectral functions calculated from the CDMFT+ED in Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_Akw}. The non-magnetic metal-insulator transition in the region of $1/3<\lambda<1/2$ is of a Lifshitz type~\cite{Lifshitz1960,Chen2012,Yanagi2014} with shrinking electron and hole pockets and opening an indirect gap at critical $U_{c}$ (see Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_Akw} (a-b)). On the contrary, in the plaquette region of $1/2<\lambda<1$, the correlation effect does not push the middle two quasi-particle bands away from each other, but instead, it splits the bands near the Fermi energy to form an insulator as $U$ increases (see Fig.~\ref{fig:ds_Akw} (c-d)). Thus, the non-magnetic metal-insulator transition in the plaquette side is of a Mott-Hubbard type. In this sense, the plaquette insulator is indeed an FMI because of not only its nontrivial symmetry properties but also being the Mott metal-insulator transition. In addition, the $d$-wave character of the ground state wave function will have some impact on the macroscopic observable properties, such as the $d$-wave symmetry of the pairing correlations~\cite{Yao2007, Khatami2014}. Therefore, we can also call the plaquette insulator a ``$d$-Mott" insulator~\cite{Yao2007, Yao2010}.

\begin{figure}

  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{cs4_8b_QPT.eps}
  \caption{\label{fig:cs_QPT} (color online) Phase diagram and staggered magnetization of the half-filled Hubbard model on the checkerboard square lattice. The results are obtained by the CDMFT+ED with cs4-8b-AF impurity system. We use four-site cluster (see Fig.~\ref{fig:SqLatt} (b)) in the CDMFT simulations in order to accurately incorporate the correlations within plaquette.}
\end{figure}

Now we study the case of the checkerboard square lattice. We obtain two symmetric phase boundaries and further find that the magnetic to non-magnetic phase transitions are also continuous, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:cs_QPT}. The extrapolated critical point $\lambda_{2c}^{\text{CDMFT}}\approx 0.62$ is also compatible with quantum Monte Carlo result $\lambda_{2c}^{\text{QMC}}\approx 0.5745$ in the Heisenberg limit~\cite{Lauchli2002,Wenzel2009}. Similarly, the ground states at the two plaquette insulator phases transform according to the nontrivial $B_{1}$ (identity $A_{1}$) representation when $L$ is odd (even). Thus we can use the similar symmetry argument to prove that these two plaquette insulators cannot be adiabatically connected to any time-reversal symmetric band insulator in the thermodynamic limit. The non-interacting band structure in Fig.~\ref{fig:csband} shows that there is no band insulator in the whole $\lambda$ range. The bands touching at $\Gamma$ and M points are also due to the wavevector group $G_{M(\Gamma)}=C_{4v}$. Likewise, the metal-insulator transition is of the Mott-Hubard type. Therefore, the plaquette insulators in this model are also FMI or $d$-Mott insulator, as referred in Refs.~\onlinecite{Tsai2006,Yao2007,Ying2014}.

\section{SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION}

In summary, we have mapped out the ground state phase diagrams of the Hubbard model on the 1/5-depleted and checkerboard square lattices, by means of extensive CDMFT+ED simulations. For the first time being demonstrated with advanced numerical approach, we find out that the plaquette insulators in these systems are actually a well-defined fragile Mott insulator. The FMI is always separated from a band insulator at $U=0$ limit. In the phase diagram of the 1/5-depleted square lattice, an intervening N{\'e}el ordered AFI separates the DI and FMI at finite $U/W$. Our numerical and analytical calculations show that the DI is adiabatically connected to band insulator, while the FMI cannot be adiabatically connected to any time-reversal symmetric band insulator or DI. The non-magnetic metal-insulator transition at the dimer side is of Lifshitz type, while that at the FMI side is of Mott-Hubbard type with splitting of the energy bands crossing the Fermi energy.

As the DI and FMI transform according to different one-dimensional irreducible representations of the $C_{4v}$ point-group symmetry, it will be interesting to investigate possible superconductivity instabilities in the two plaquette systems upon doping. Under the interplay of crystalline point-group symmetry and correlation-driven magnetic properties, a change of the superconducting pairing symmetry is expected~\cite{Scalapino1996,Tsai2006,Khatami2014}. Direct observation of such change of pairing symmetry will shed light on the unconventional superconductivity in the iron selenide family as well as the understanding of the intimate relation between magnetic and superconducting correlations in similar systems.

\begin{acknowledgments}

We thank Hong Yao and Ning-Hua Tong for inspirational discussions. All the numerical calculations were carried out on the Physical Laboratory of High Performance Computing in RUC. This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91121008 and 11190024) and National Program for Basic Research of MOST of China (Grant No. 2011CBA00112). Z.Y.M. is supported by the National Thousand-Young-Talents Program of China.

\end{acknowledgments}

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