Samsung and HTC unveiled their new flagship smartphones last month at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona but LG decided to make us wait for its new device. The company has already scheduled an event on April 28th where it will finally unveil the LG G4 but already there have been many rumors about the device. We’ll now look back at some of the rumors and try to get a sense of what to expect from LG’s next flagship smartphone.

Display

The LG G3 had a 5.5-inch display so it wasn’t wrong to assume that its successor would retain the same size, and it seems quite likely that it does. LG recently unveiled its new 5.5-inch Quad HD display panel with 2,560×1,440 pixel resolution and 538 pixels per inch. It makes use of Advanced In-Cell touch which simply means that the display will react to touches even if there’s water on the surface. It’s quite likely that this display will find its way into the LG G4.

Processor

Most Android flagships are expected to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and LG did go with this chip for the G Flex 2, but recent rumors suggest that this is not the processor that will power the LG G4. Instead the new flagship is believed to come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor with 3GB of RAM.

Design

As far as the design is concerned there’s no need to rely upon rumors for that. A few weeks back LG published a website ahead of time which revealed official press renders of the LG G4 ahead of time, giving us a good look at what the next flagship looks like. Since then the company has also confirmed that the LG G4 does indeed come with a leather back. Build materials might include plastic since it hasn’t been rumored that the LG G4 will feature a full metal construction like the Galaxy S6.

Camera

LG has talked about the camera in some of the teasers that it has released for the upcoming flagship. The specifics are not known but LG has confirmed that the G4’s camera has f/1.8 aperture lens which should perform quite well in low light conditions. Presumably the flagship may have a 16 megapixel sensor like its rival from Samsung, but we’ll have to wait and see about that.

Software

There’s no doubt in the fact that the LG G4 is going to come running Android 5.0 Lollipop straight out of the box. Like all other OEMs the company is certainly going to slap on a custom skin on Google’s mobile operating system. LG has already teased the upcoming LG UX 4.0 user interface that we’ll see in the G4, the video will give you an idea of what to expect.

Features

Expect to find all the usual connectivity features like Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth. There’s no word as yet if it’ll support wireless charging out of the box. The LG G4 is also likely to have a microSD card slot as well as a removable battery, two features that Galaxy S6 owners are missing deeply.

Price And Availability

Rumor has it that the LG G4 is going to be slightly more expensive than the Galaxy S6 but the company has not talked pricing yet, so we don’t know if that will be true or not. LG is going to release the smartphone on May 31st, at least in South Korea, it remains to be seen when it will arrive in other markets across the globe. We’ll find out for sure at LG’s event on April 28th.

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Amy Winehouse’s family has spoken out against “Amy,” the upcoming documentary based on the late singer’s life.

A spokesperson for the family told People in a statement that they want to “disassociate themselves from the forthcoming film.”

“It is both misleading and contains some basic untruths,” the statement reads.

Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, also criticized the film while speaking to British newspaper The Sun.

“I felt sick when I watched it for the first time. Amy would be furious. This is not what she would have wanted,” he said.

The film, directed by Asif Kapadia, is slated to debut at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in May. The first trailer for the documentary features the “Back To Black” singer talking about her career. Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011.

For more from Winehouse’s family, head over to People.

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Over the last year, I have been asked many times about Bruce Jenner.

Those around me are aware that I am a therapist and activist working with many transgender individuals, and who lectures about these issues publicly. What’s more, I identify as trans* and genderqueer myself, so it is understandable that, when speculation arises about an individual in the public eye possibly being trans*, people in my circle turn to me.

“What about his hair?” people ask. “His body seems to be changing and he’s so secretive. Have you seen his nose?” “Was he wearing nail polish?” “What about how his family is treating him?” And lastly, “Are those… breasts?”

I have thus far kept my mouth firmly sealed shut.

I can’t help but consider history. The “Hottentot Venus” was a stage and sideshow exhibit; for several years in the early part of the 19th century, Saartjie Baartman, a woman and slave born around 1789 in South Africa and sold to a circus showman, was paraded around London and France for the captivation of the masses. She was displayed naked except for a beaded skirt, though accounts say she sometimes wore a skintight bodysuit. She was different; she was a big woman with a particularly large bottom and labia, as well as dark ebony skin, still uncommon throughout Europe except in slaves… the sum of which only accentuated that her shape and mannerisms were utterly unlike those of the prim, Caucasian women of Europe. She was compared occasionally to an orangutan rather than a woman. Saartije, or more accurately Saartije’s body, was the exhibit.

She was scrutinized by anyone with the price of admission. Every inch was subject to public ridicule, open for public discussion. She had become an exotic, fetishized object valued only for her ability to fascinate.

In the end, her celebrity gone, she died poor and in obscurity.

And my own story feels relevant. I transitioned many years ago in college. I was acutely aware that those who had known me as “Larry” could witness I was changing, and though I never hid, now my classmates were gossiping. One September I was approached in the cafeteria and asked if I’d had surgery that summer. I was stunned; I suddenly realized I no longer retained control over information about my identity, or even about my body, in a way that wasn’t the case for other. I wondered if I could ask about what was hidden within the asker’s pants in response. “You show me yours, and I’ll show you mine,” I wish I had replied. Somehow I recognized it wouldn’t be equally okay.

As humans we seem to have a need to question that which we do not understand. The “strange” thing we see can make us uncomfortable; it does not conform to our interpretation of the world, so we are intrigued and feel compelled to peek. We may simultaneously shove the strange thing away. “It” is other than “us,” — odd and different. “It” is bizarre. Perverse. Often unacceptable.

And as gender is a fundamental way we categorize individuals, when we encounter an individual who does not easily fit within the box that matches the gender they were assigned at birth, we have a natural curiosity, a desire to figure out, and an intuitive need to talk.

Bruce has now made a decision to share his transition publicly, a choice that required a great deal of courage. I have nothing but sympathy for his history of suffering, and I applaud his taking charge of his own narrative. On a much lesser scale, I made the same choices and now talk openly about myself when I speak in public, though it is unclear how much of a choice Saartje could make for herself.

Regardless, questioning and possibly altering one’s gender is agonizing and deeply personal. It can rend your family apart, cost your career, relationships and significant amounts of money, even if you are fortunate to have the financial and social privilege to undergo the changes. The process can take years, an entire lifetime.

Everyone who transitions does so somewhat publicly, though not all of us have cameras focused on our every move. When we speak of Bruce, hopefully we can remember that Bruce is, at heart, a person, and give him the dignity he is due.

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Liberals are confronted with a dilemma: They are deeply troubled by the candidacy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but she is the overwhelming frontrunner for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Further, Clinton’s comments in support of middle class America represent a decidedly populist tenor, and those noises she’s making sound awfully good to battle-weary political junkies desperate to oppose the presidential spokesmen of the wealthy elites in the Republican Party. On the other hand, both Clintons appear to be captives of the same economic class Liberals seek to contain, and the sourcing of funds for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State becomes more scandalous by the minute.

In addition, Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq and is on record as being more “hawkish” in pursuing foreign policy than President Obama. She has favored the financial elites over common folk in previous incarnations; and, she is a latecomer in objecting to the militarization of police in the U.S., as well as the not so latent racism practiced throughout the country. Clinton appears to be paranoid and secretive, voting for the Patriot Act in 2001 and again in 2005.

In the meantime, despite all of the well-deserved cynicism in regard to their candidate, Liberals are advised to take advantage of Clinton’s campaign initiative by trying to pin down her progressive “creds” as much as possible at a moment in time when it is clearly in her interest to allow them to do so, because it is at this point in the campaign maneuvering that Republicans will do everything possible to tear her down before the campaign begins in earnest.

Answering policy questions might actually be a welcome respite for her. So, while we listen to the issues of political dynasty and every misdeed the Clintons have committed — slavishly pursuing money, the issues surrounding the Benghazi tragedy and the erased emails from her personal server, Liberals may well be able to burnish their own policy concerns.

So what are the questions, and how should they be posed? Starting with her professed desire to help the middle class in this country means changing the tax code to resort the deck on income distribution. The following questions apply, and they can be asked at any forum at which she appears and by anyone who chooses to reprint this list.

Candidate Clinton, would you?

Income Inequality

1. Remove the earnings cap on Social Security payments?
2. Impose a transaction fee for securities (including derivatives) trades?
3. Place the same tax rates on investment income as ordinary income?
4. Remove the carried interest classification for earnings?
5. Increase the tax rate and reduce the exclusions for estate taxes?
6. Limit the home interest deductions with caps on primary and secondary homes?

The “Hollowing Out” of the Middle Class

1. Support a national $15 per hour minimum wage?
2. Provide mandatory paid sick leave, maternity leave and minimum three weeks’ paid vacation?
3. Impose surcharges on executive pay in excess of 25 times that of average worker pay?
4. Require that corporate bonuses be shared with all employees, not just the executives?
5. Establish a “sustainable living” standard (currently considered to be a minimum of $15 per hour wage) and penalize corporations that underpay by increasing their tax rates?
6. Require gender pay equality and paid maternity leave?
7. Increase Social Security benefits?

Economic Growth and Stability

1. Reinstate Glass Steagall in order to re-separate commercial banking and investment banking?
2. Review and remove unneeded corporate subsidies, specifically for oil companies and corporate farmers?
3. Enforce anti-trust provisions and break up international corporations that unfairly use globalization to outsource jobs and avoid taxes?
4. Require large corporations establish “work councils” which include labor, educators and management to determine work force requirements and training?
5. Oppose NAFTA type trade deals, support trade with Europe? Specifically, change the TTP to require national commitment to job training and eliminate corporate rights to bypass governments in claims pursuits?
6. Commit to major infrastructure building programs, especially those targeting education, transportation and public service needs?
7. Require labor representation on corporate boards and broaden shareholder voting rights to include enforceable rights over compensation?

Social Welfare and Health Care Issues

1. Publicly supported education through college K-16?
2. Establish a path for Obamacare to migrate to Medicare for All?
3. Allow government to negotiate rates for drugs, regulate prices?
4. Retarget medical payments for outcomes not procedures?
5. Increase R&D for medical research?

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

1. Encourage and protect whistleblowers?
2. Assure internet neutrality?
3. Stop domestic spying by restricting all metadata collections by NIA, NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.?
4. Support campaign finance reform by establishing public support and eliminating private contributions?
5. Establish a free standard national voter ID built on an expanded Social Security card system?
6. Declare Election Day a national, paid holiday for all?
7. Create programs to demilitarize police by retraining them for community assistance and safety?
8. Create a national database for racial profiling?
9. Disengage from private prisons, address mass incarcerations by making use of community-based justice and restitution programs?
10. Reestablish fairness in broadcast and cable media with an “equal time provision” and news requirements for FCC licenses?

Foreign Policy

1. Reframe the national policy in the Middle East to containment, not involvement?
2. Realign with Europe?
3. Redefine foreign policy for a post-Pax Americana world by shifting more global responsibilities to international organizations? Audit those organizations and demand efficiencies?
4. Require accountability and reduce military spending and increase foreign aid to support education and American business interests?

Government Over-Regulation

1. Create an open architecture for efficiency and simplification?
2. Create a permanent civil commission to address waste and red tape overkill?
3. Establish harsh penalties for corruption?

Environmental/Energy Policy

1. Place a moratorium on fracking until ground water and water usage issues are resolved?
2. Extend renewable energy credits?
3. Support R&D efforts for energy sources and energy savings?

Campaign Finance Reform

1. Restrict political officials from easily migrating to/from lobbying firms?
2. Outlaw PACs as a part of election reform?
3. Limit campaign periods?
4. Propose publicly supported campaigns for all elections to national office?
5. Require that independent bodies propose redistricting for Congressional seats?

If You Really Want to be Progressive

1. Nationalize pension systems to include all American workers (Social Security for all) beginning at age 65?
2. Regulate the health care industry as if it were a public utility?
3. Transition veterans care into the Medicare program, allowing them access to the entire health care system?
4. Declare terrorists an FBI and police issue, and withdraw the military, NIA, NSA, CIA, etc., components?
5. Re-establish the nuclear disarmament policy and engage China, Pakistan, India, Israel and Russia in the forum?
6. Create universal service for all post high school aged Americans?
7. Develop a Satisfaction Index to track the Consumer Price Index, and use it as a measure to determine government policy?

The list may be long, and there may be little time or opportunity to confront Clinton with policy questions, however, the more she is given the opportunity and shown the need to define a vision for America that approximates the Liberal agenda, the better off she, and we, will be in the ultimate campaign against a candidate mouthing sound bites to cover commitments to wealthy donors. Since Clinton is the commanding frontrunner — and should she win — Liberals need to do the best they can to define her in ways that become policy.

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As we’re all aware, weed makes us a bit forgetful. Say what? But a regular toke can also leave you more prone to remembering stuff that didn’t actually happen, according to new research published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

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