The attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family claims there have been strategic leaks of records in the case intended to benefit defendant George Zimmerman.

Attorney Benjamin Crump said on Wednesday he wants “full transparency” in the case, and called for all the police files on the subject to be released.

After several news outlets were given access to a sealed medical examiner’s report on Martin and a police report on Zimmerman, Crump was incensed.

“It was leaked for a beneficial purpose, certainly to help George Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense,” he said. “This report needs to be vetted with a keen eye.”

“Look at this in the full context. George Zimmerman made the decision to get out of his car, profile Trayvon Martin, pursue Trayvon Martin and confront him.”

According to NBC News, the autopsy on the slain 17-year-old says that Martin was killed by a single “penetrating gunshot wound to the chest” Feb. 26.

Meanwhile, medical records leaked to ABC News showed Zimmerman likely suffered a broken nose, black eyes and was bleeding from the back of head.

His lawyer, Mark O’Mara, said he may seek a dismissal of the second-degree murder charge against his client under Florida’s “stand your ground” law.

Zimmerman pleaded not guilty last week and is free on bond.

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A Facebook log is displayed on the screen of an iPad, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in New York. Facebook’s initial public offering is one of the most hotly anticipated in years. The company is likely to have an estimated market valuation of $100 billion when its shares begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Friday. (AP Photo/James H. Collins)

The Facebook logo appears on a display inside the NASDAQ Marketsite in Times Square Thursday, May 17, 2012, in New York. Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share on Thursday, at the high end of its expected range. If extra shares reserved to cover additional demand are sold as part of the transaction, Facebook Inc. and its early investors stand to reap as much as $18.4 billion from the IPO. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

News about Facebook’s IPO moves across the Dow Jones ticker in Times Square Thursday, May 17, 2012 in New York. Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share on Thursday, at the high end of its expected range. If extra shares reserved to cover additional demand are sold as part of the transaction, Facebook Inc. and its early investors stand to reap as much as $18.4 billion from the IPO. The IPO values the company at around $104 billion, slightly more than Amazon.com, and well above well-known corporations such as Disney and Kraft. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook found more than enough friends.

The world’s definitive online social network said Thursday that it raised $16 billion for itself and its early investors in an initial public stock offering that values Facebook at $104 billion. That’s more than Amazon.com and other well-known companies such as Kraft, Walt Disney and McDonald’s.

It’s a big windfall for a company that began eight years ago with no way to make money.

Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share on Thursday, at the top of expectations. Now, regular investors will have a chance to buy stock in Facebook for the first time. The stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market sometime Friday morning. The ticker symbol will be FB.

Facebook’s offering is the culmination of a year’s worth of Internet IPOs that began last May with LinkedIn Corp. Since then, a steady stream of startups focused on the social side of the Web has gone public, with varying degrees of success. It all led up to Facebook, the company that’s come to define social networking by getting 900 million people around the world to share everything from photos of their pets to their deepest thoughts.

It has done so while managing to become one of the few profitable Internet companies to go public recently. It had net income of $205 million in the first three months of 2012, on revenue of $1.06 billion. In all of 2011, it earned $1 billion, up from $606 million a year earlier. That’s a far cry from 2007, when it posted a net loss of $138 million and revenue of $153 million.

“They could have gone public in 2009 at a much lower price,” said Nick Einhorn, research analyst at IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital. “They waited as long as they could to go public, so it makes sense that it’s a very large offering.”

Facebook Inc.’s valuation is the third-highest in an IPO, according to Dealogic, a provider of financial data. Only two Chinese banks, Agricultural Bank of China in 2010 and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in 2006, have been worth more. They were worth $133 billion and $132 billion, respectively. By another measure ?the amount raised? Facebook ranks third among U.S. IPOs. The largest was Visa, which raised $17.9 billion in 2008. No. 2 was Enel, a power company, and No. 4 was General Motors, according to Renaissance Capital.

The $38 share price is the price at which the investment banks arranging the offering will sell the stock to their clients. In an IPO, the banks buy the stock first from the company and the early investors and then sell to the public. If extra shares reserved to cover additional demand are sold as part of the transaction, Facebook and its early investors stand to reap as much as $18.4 billion.

For a company that was born in a Harvard dormitory and went on to reimagine online communication, the stock sale means more money to build on the features and services it offers users. It means an infusion of money to hire the best engineers to work at its sprawling Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, or in New York City, where it opened an engineering office last year.

And it means early investors, who took a chance seeding the young social network with start-up funds six, seven and eight years ago, can reap big rewards. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, invested $500,000 in the company in 2004. He’s selling nearly 17 million of his shares in the IPO, which means he’ll get some $640 million. He will hold on to about 28 million shares, worth $1.06 billion.

The offering values Facebook, whose 2011 revenue was $3.7 billion, at as much as $104 billion. The sky-high valuation has its skeptics, who worry about signs of a slowdown and Facebook’s ability to grow in the mobile space when it was created with desktop computers in mind. Rival Google Inc., whose revenue stood at $38 billion last year, has a market capitalization of $207 billion.

“There seems to be somewhat of a hype around the stock offering,” says Gartner analyst Brian Blau.

That may be an understatement.

Facebook’s IPO dominated media coverage in the weeks and days leading up to the event. CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie made headlines when he wore it to a meeting with investors as did General Motors’ decision this week to stop advertising on the site ?and rival Ford’s affirmation that its Facebook ads have been effective.

There are more than a few reasons for the exuberance. First, there’s Facebook’s sheer size and high profile. The company grew from a college-only social network to an Internet phenomenon embraced by legions of people, from teenagers to grandmothers to pro-democracy activists in the Middle East.

Secondly, it’s personal.

“It’s probably one of the first times there has been an IPO where everyone sort of has a stake in the outcome,” Blau says. While most Facebook users won’t see a penny from the offering, they are all intimately familiar with the company.

And then there’s Zuckerberg, who turned 28 on Monday. He has emerged as the latest in a lineage of Silicon Valley prodigies who are alternately hailed for pushing the world in new directions and reviled for overstepping their bounds. He counted the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs among his mentors, and he became one of the world’s youngest billionaires ? at least on paper ? well before Facebook went public. A dramatized and less-than-flattering version of Facebook’s founding was the subject of a Hollywood movie that won three Academy Awards last year, propelling Zuckerberg even further into the public spotlight.

Though Zuckerberg is selling about 30 million shares, he will remain Facebook’s largest shareholder. Even after the IPO, he will own 503.6 million shares, or 32 percent of Facebook’s total shares. At the $38 share price, his stake in the company is worth $19.1 billion. Zuckerberg will control the company with 56 percent of its voting stock as a result of agreements he has with other shareholders who promise to vote his way.

The set-up helps to ensure that he and other executives keep control as the demands of Wall Street for short-term returns exert new pressures on the company.

True to form, Zuckerberg and Facebook’s engineers are ringing in the IPO on their own terms. The company is holding an overnight “hackathon” Thursday, where engineers stay up writing programming code to come up with new features for the site. On Friday morning, Zuckerberg will ring the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters a continent away.

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Follow Barbara Ortutay on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BarbaraOrtutay

Associated Press

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COURAGE Found in Your Passion/Commitment: Courage is the inner passion, a drive to progress regardless of the perceived difficulty. Actions are “preceded” by the strength of your words. Words are “preceded’ by the courage found in your inner passion. All combined creates your experiences. For the purpose of this three part article we are going to discuss the Strength of your words, the Courage found in your passion and Wisdom found in reality as the keeper of truth… how this ties into you becoming aware of how your perception of love is at your core. There comes a time in everyone’s life when you MUST STEP FORWARD and meet the requirements of the time, of “your” current situation through competence. Competence describes MORE than just skills and knowledge. Competence represents anything that improves your ability to perform, including your knowledge, skills, relationships, resourcefulness, processes, systems and information. Building your competence boosts your confidence. Building competence requires courage…courage to face the reality through facts. Seek honest feedback based on reality as the keeper of truth. Then, be ready for what you might hear and be prepared to make changes that might feel uncomfortable, yet it will build your competence. Regardless of whether your time is now or in some future moment, being ready supports the “courage” to take the required actions, the steps necessary however large or small in what you MUST do to move forward. When you more forward… even through the path of what may be your “own inner resistance” to change, you gain the “courage” necessary for being the best you ever through your personal accountability in building your competence.

“Same old same old creates same old same old.”- Veronique

“To be whatever you want to be that’s the wonder of the human spirit. To accomplish your dreams is the power found in the human will. To trust oneself by going beyond what limits becomes the passion from in the courage to succeed.” -Veronique

WISDOM Gained From Reality as the Keeper of Truth: Another key factor to success personally and professionally is discovering and facing REALITY as the keeper of truth, “wisdom” in a nut shell. Wisdom is simple truths. Wisdom is choosing the purity of truth over popularity. Reality can be defined as “the truth” – the real nature of something – the FACTS unaltered by perception or misunderstanding. Choosing to search for truth is wise, having the courage to confront the hard realities will pay dividends. You’ll find the road to success a little straighter, the challenges less overwhelming and fewer surprises along the way when you allow yourself to grow from reality as the keeper of truth. Using the strength of your words forms the reality of your opportunities and the reality of developing a refined understanding or appreciation that supports solutions to the most challenging problems. You know you are getting to the real wisdom… the simple truths, when you can glean nuggets of wisdom from common sense principles such as:

NO MATTER WHAT: be accountable and responsible for how you feel and what you want.

DON’T SETTLE FOR MEDIOCRE: give beyond the expected.

LIVE UP TO YOUR WORD: it is all you have that defines you.

ABOVE MONEY: hold tightly to your values… don’t let money lessen your integrity.

SEE FEEL TRUST KNOW: set attainable goals, envision their growth, keep moving forward no matter what, take positive action moment by moment… know what you focus on will eventuality create.

STAND WHERE YOU STAND: focus on what you can be responsible for, let go of control or manipulating others to get what you want… invest your energy in what you have command over.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: and your power lives in your thoughts, your words, your actions… become consciously aware of how you are using these keys to create through.

ALLOW: Missing the mark, often referred to as “mistakes” are opportunities to gain wisdom from your circumstances and move forward. When you, miss the mark IE: make a mistake, don’t look back at it for long. Grow from the situation and move forward with STRENGTH – COURAGE – WISDOM.

Although the past cannot be changed; how you shape your future moment to moment is still in your hands. – Veronique

(It’s always good to reread so our mind can fully absorb the empowering suggestions to be successful.)

Building Ushakable Internal Foundations since 1986. Veronique’s intensive spiritual quest became expressed in her innovative course The Choice Is Mine. Her work teaches you how to look at life situations so you can know your full potential & act positively on that awareness, to live your dream life sooner rather than later. Take that first step in your personal development & buy your course today.

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Everyone’s favorite dynamic British little kid YouTube duo is back, baby!

Young Sophia Grace Brownlee and Rosie McClelland returned to The Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday, armed with a new Nicki Minaj song to cover.

Before singing Nicki’s newest single, “Starships,” Sophia Grace, 8, and Rosie, 5, revealed that Britney Spears and Justin Bieber are fans on Twitter.

Not shabby in the follower department. Or the singing department. These youngsters really can carry a pop hit and turn it into a viral sensation:

Sophia Grace & Rosie – Starships (Live on Ellen)

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NEW YORK — After the Tupac hologram performance at Coachella made such a huge splash, the team behind the projection system floated the possibility this week of an Elvis hologram to perform with Justin Bieber. Even ’90s girl group TLC is rumored to be considering a virtual version of the late Left Eye on their upcoming tour.

With all that talk, MTV News hit Times Square to ask fans which departed artists they would most like to see perform in hologram form. While some of those interviewed wanted to see other rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. or Nate Dogg, one fan thought Whitney Houston should get the honors.

“I love her, I grew up singing her [songs], just walking around the house when I was seven or eight,” Shayana of Houston said.

Brits Amy Winehouse and John Lennon of the Beatles were also popular picks, and a few rock fans mentioned Queen’s flamboyant frontman. “It would have to be Freddie Mercury because Queen were one of the all-time greatest bands and he was a showman,” said a fan named Rob.

Blane Mader would like to see a hologram of another great showman, Michael Jackson.

“It’s a really cliché answer, but in my time I’ve never seen him and it would just be something awesome to watch,” Mader said of the King of Pop.

Members of the Jackson 5 recently announced that they would love to have a virtual Michael on their upcoming Unity Tour. “Wouldn’t that be wonderful? As a matter of fact, we had that idea two years ago for Michael’s Cirque du Soleil show,” Michael’s brother Jackie Jackson told E! News.

Share your wish-list for future hologram performers in the comments below!

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