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If you’ve not already done so, you can subscribe to these daily listings and have them delivered to your inbox at 7am every morning. Alternatively, subscribe to Londonist Daily to hear about events further in the future. And help spread the word to your friends, who haven’t discovered us yet!  London Bridge, in Arizona. Image by Travis Elborough, details of his talk on the subject below. BLOOD: Today’s opportunity to donate blood is at Islington Town Hall. Free, see site for terms and conditions SUMMER GARDEN: Making sure that Pimm’s O’Clock keeps ticking over, the indoor Pimm’s Summer Garden opens its doors today. Reserve a blanket, try your hand at cucumber whittling or challenge your friends to a round of Pimmbledon. Entrance is free but blanket reservations cost £20 (including a can of Pimm’s, a picnic hamper and a takeaway blanket), reserve a blanket via pimmsblanket@grayling.com, until 29 June TIMEWAVE: Fusing technology with theatre, Timewave Festival puts on various plays that push the boundaries of storytelling. Festival pass £35, single tickets £10, concessions £8 (all +bkg fee), prebook, until 23 June LONDON WELLBEING: It is London Creativity and Wellbeing Week and a range of events are happening for anyone with an interest in the arts, health and wellbeing. Today there is a lunchtime concert, art exhibitions and meditation, yoga and portrait photography workshops. See website for full listings, until 22 June LONDON BRIDGE IN AMERICA: The story of London Bridge being uprooted and moved to Arizona is a bizarre one. Tonight at the British Library author Travis Elborough speaks about his book on the subject and tells the tale of this extraordinary event. Free, prebook, 12.30pm ASYLUM: The Space Between, a week long photographic exhibition to mark Refugee Week, is accompanied by a series of lunch-time talks by different female refugees detailing their particular experiences as refugees in the UK. Today, Prossy Kakooza, a Ugandan activist and LGBT campaigner, talks about her work to educate people on the plight of LGBT refugees. Free, RSVP to info.cara@isbu.ac.uk, 1pm RACE RELATIONS: In the 20th anniversary year of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Royal Society of Medicine hosts an evening’s discussion on race relations in the UK. Speakers include Doreen Lawrence and the BBC’s Razia Iqbal. Free, prebook, 6pm FOLK TALES: Discover utopian visions found in folk tales down the ages, at Housmans. £3, just turn up, 7pm CRIMINAL LONDON: Kris Hollington and Nina Hollington take you on a tour of criminal London from the safety of Woolfson & Tay. We raved about their recent book, and can highly recommend popping along to this. Free, prebook, 7pm COMEDY: Our Joel nearly had an aneurysm after seeing Max and Ivan last year, they were that good. Find out what’s in store this year at the Pleasance. £5, prebook, 8pm GIG: The Gloaming are a group of musicians who joined together to blend the rich Irish folk tradition with the New York contemporary art scene. The result is a unique live music experience that is at once innovative and traditional, and tonight they perform at the Barbican Centre. £20, prebook, 8pm NATURAL BORN STORYTELLERS: Raw, real-life tales, told on stage. Join Natural Born Storytellers at The Camden Head tonight for stories of what clothes define us and why, favourite items of clothing and their sentimental/comical/outrageous backstories. If you have a story you can join in, or just turn up and listen. Free, just turn up, 8.15pm INSPIRING DOC: Dochouse screens the incredible documentary Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law at The Lexi Cinema tonight. The documentary tells the story of Zimbabwean human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, who for decades has defended the ordinary citizens jailed by the Mugabe government. A Q&A session with the director and Beatrice Mtetwa herself will take place afterwards. £7/£5, prebook, 8.30pm Please contact matt@londonist.com with any suggestions, s

As part of the Switch Fringe festival in Ipswich, England, artist The Decibel Kid drew this map of the city to help attendees find their way around and track down shows and events. While most aspects are actual parts of Ipswich rendered in 16-bit style, keep your eyes out for the odd Nintendo cameo, like the King of Red Lions. Map [Switch Fringe, via Slashdot]

Tight end Rob Gronkowski underwent yet another surgery Tuesday as part of an offseason filled with procedures aimed at patching the New England Patriots star back together. This surgery was to address a problematic back. The surgery was said to have gone well and now the surgeon who performed the procedure, Dr. Robert Watkins, has…

State and local police spent hours at the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday night as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before.

Organized by Sarah Willen and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, the June issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (vol. 37, issue 2) is a special issue entitled “Cultural Competence in Action: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Four Case Studies.”  Rather than engaging in the usual critique of medical “cultural competence” programs  (which aim to teach clinicians about culture, health disparities, and difference), this issue analyzes pedagogical strategies used in various clinical/educational settings, while illuminating the challenges these programs pose and the ways in which “cultural competence” takes local form. The issue features four original ethnographic papers, each of which is paired with a reflective companion essay written by a clinician-educator involved in the particular program (Antonio Bullon, Mansoor Malik, Roxana Llerena-Quinn, and Laurence Kirmayer). The programs include a course for psychiatry residents, a research/training collaborative that links a Historically Black University and an Ivy League University, a continuing medical education course, and a Canadian-based annual summer program for an international cohort of clinicians and researchers. The titles and abstracts of the ethnographic papers are pasted below. In addition, following the four paired papers are three commentaries by clinical educators and researchers: Michael Knipper, Robert Drake, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. Confronting a “Big Huge Gaping Wound”: Emotion and Anxiety in a Cultural Sensitivity Course for Psychiatry Residents (Sarah Willen)      Abstract: In his seminal volume From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences, George Devereux suggests that any therapeutic or scientific engagement with another human being inevitably will be shaped by one’s own expectations, assumptions, and reactions. If left unacknowledged, such unspoken and unconscious influences have the capacity to torpedo the interaction; if subjected to critical reflection, however, they can yield insights of great interpretive value and practical significance. Taking these reflections on counter-transference as point of departure, this article explores how a range of unacknowledged assumptions can torpedo good faith efforts to engender “cultural sensitivity” in a required course for American psychiatry residents. The course examined in this paper has been taught for seven successive years by a pair of attending psychiatrists at a longstanding New England residency training program. Despite the instructors’ good intentions and ongoing experimentation with content and format, the course has failed repeatedly to meet either residents’ expectations or, as the instructors bravely acknowledged, their own. The paper draws upon a year-long ethnographic study, conducted in the late 2000s during the most recent iteration of the course, which involved observation of course sessions, a series of interviews with course instructors, and pre- and post-course interviews with the majority of participating residents. By examining the dynamics of the course from the perspectives of both clinician-instructors and resident-students, the paper illuminates how classroom-based engagement with the clinical implications of culture and difference can run awry when the emotional potency of these issues is not adequately taken into account. Behind the Scenes of a Research and Training Collaboration: Power, Privilege, and the Hidden Transcript of Race (Elizabeth Carpenter-Song and Rob Whitley) Abstract: This paper examines a federally funded research and training collaboration between an Ivy League psychiatric research center and a historically Black university and medical center. This collaboration focuses on issues of psychiatric recovery and rehabilitation among African Americans. In addition, this multidisciplinary collaboration aims to build the research capacity at both institutions and to contribute to the tradition of research in culture and mental health within the medical social sciences and c

The legspinner Fawad Ahmed remains in contention for a late Ashes call-up despite being named in the Australia A squad to tour Africa while England and Australia battle for the urn

In light of All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski’s offseason back surgery, on top of enough arm surgeries to construct him a bionic limb styled after Inspector Gadget, the New England Patriots may find themselves in quite the pickle come September.ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported (via Rotoworld) that Gronk will begin training camp on the PUP (physically unable to perform) list, and if he remains on that list to begin the season, he will find himself ineligible for game action until Week 7. Missing the league’s best tight end is nothing new for the Patriots. They played five games without him last season and still scored the most points in the NFL, so his absence may not be a death knell for the offense, but that was then and this is now. Wes Welker and Brandon Lloyd aren’t around to pick up the slack anymore. Outside of Aaron Hernandez, quarterback Tom Brady will have an entirely new cast of starters trying to reel in his throws, none of whom are proven commodities. So while I expect great things from newly acquired Danny Amendola and Hernandez can help soften the blow, Brady figures to miss his reliable stud taking on the teeth of the defense more than he did last season. That’s where undrafted rookie tight end Zach Sudfeld comes in. Heading into offseason workouts, former New York Giant Jake Ballard seemed poised to slide into that role if things went ill for Gronkowski, which they have. Unfortunately for Ballard, he also succumbed to injury, although not of the surgical variety. He went down with an ankle injury during OTAs, and suddenly the unknown, undrafted rookie was thrust into action with the first-team offense. Sensing his opportunity, Sudfeld pounced, opening a lot of eyes in the process. The 6'7", 255-pound rookie from Nevada earned praise via Twitter from Mike Reiss at ESPN Boston.He caught the attention of NESN’s Doug Kyed as well. The recurring theme? Sudfeld looks comfortable putting his incredible size and athleticism to use in the passing game. He didn’t have many opportunities to showcase those skills at Nevada because he couldn’t stay healthy. He finally made it through a full season in 2012, and the results were impressive: 45 receptions, 598 yards, eight touchdown.Considering he played in a pistol offense that requires tight ends to take on active roles as blockers and suppresses their numbers—see Davis, Vernon circa 2012—posting those stats was no small feat. In fact, his numbers bear a strong resemblance to what another Patriots tight end posted during his final year of college: 47 receptions, 672 yards, 10 touchdowns.The second set of stats is obviously better, but considering they belong to Gronkowski himself, they aren’t as superior as one might imagine. To be clear, Sudfeld isn’t the Gronk, but he can do a lot of the same things, albeit not quite as well. The two are even the same age (24) and also share another far less fortunate similarity with a mutual propensity for injury. Sudfeld missed the equivalent of nearly two full seasons due to injury while at Nevada, and that health risk caused him to go undrafted despite measurables that seem better suited to an early-round selection. At Nevada’s pro day, NFLDraftScout.com recorded him finishing with a 4.78 40-yard dash, 37” vertical leap, 9’5” broad jump, 4.41 20-yard shuttle and 7.08 three-cone drill. Based on the combine results at NFL.com, he had a nearly identical workout to that of former Stanford tight end Zach Ertz, who landed with the Philadelphia Eagles after being taken 35th overall.Again, to be clear, I’m not saying Sudfeld is a second-round talent, but once players enter the NFL, their draft status becomes irrelevant, especially for players like Sudfeld who don’t even have a draft status to fall back on. What he does have are staggering size, uncanny athleticism, surprising agility and steady hands—all traits that helped

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