WASHINGTON Cheap Dallas Mavericks Hats , July 16 (Xinhua) -- Shootings at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, left four U.S. marines dead and three others wounded Thursday. The gunman was also killed later, authorities said.
According to local police, the two shooting incidents, which lasted for about 30 minutes, happened around 11:00 a.m., local time, at a military recruiting center and the Naval Reserve Center about 10 kilometers apart. The shooter reportedly shot while driving in an open-top Mustang.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had already identified the suspect as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. U.S. President Barack Obama said a full investigation was under way with the FBI in the lead.
"We've also been in contact with the Department of Defense to make sure that all our Defense facilities are properly attentive and vigilant as we sort through exactly what happened," said Obama in a statement, adding that initial investigation showed that the gunman acted alone.
Earlier Thursday the FBI said it had already started its investigation into what local officials described as "an act of domestic terrorism."
"We will treat this as a terrorism investigation until we determine it was not," said Ed Reinhold, an FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, at a press conference. "We have not determined if it was an act of terrorism or a criminal act."
Meanwhile, Reinhold said that the gunman, with "numerous weapons" on him, did not work at the military facilities involved.
The shooting incidents came one month after a racially motivated white gunman shot dead nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. The authorities were initially investigating the Charleston church massacre as "hate crime," rather than a possible act of terrorism.
Thursday's shootings also came at a time when U.S. military and law enforcement officials were increasingly concerned about threats posed by domestic sympathizers of the extremist group the Islamic State. The group had earlier called on its supporters to carry out lone-wolf attacks against "its enemies" worldwide during the month of Ramadan.
The Washington Post earlier quoted senior FBI officials as saying that the shooting did not appear to be related to any terrorist group.
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U.S. plagued by guns, violent crimes: China report
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- TheUnited Statesis haunted by spreading guns and frequent occurrence of violent crimes, according to the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014 released by China on Friday.
According to the "Crime in the United States" released by the FBI, there were an estimated 1,163,146 violent crimes reported to law enforcement in 2013, of which 14,196 are murders, 79,770 are rapes, 345,031 robberies and 724,149 aggravated assaults, says the report, released by the Information Office of China's State Council Information Office.
Joint stock company is one among the different forms of business organizations in any country. Each company requires capital towards effective operation of the company. Methods of raising capital: A company raises the required funds in two ways:
a) By issue of equity funds and b) By issue of debt funds Equity funds refer to the issue of equity share capital and preference share capital, whereas the issue of debt funds refers to issue of debentures or bonds. Share capital refers to the interest evinced by the individuals in the company and the issue of debenture or bond refers to the borrowed funds by the company from the public.
Issue of shares is done through the following stages: a) Authorized capital: Authorized capital refers to the maximum amount which can be raised by a company by inviting the public to invest in the company through equity or preference shares. The details about the issue of shares are available in the memorandum of association pertaining to the company. For example the authorized capital for a company can be $100 million; b) Issued capital: Issued capital refers to that part of the authorized capital which is issued to the public for subscription by dividing into shares and this may be say $50 million; c) Subscribed capital: Subscribed capital refers to that part of the issued capital which is actually subscribed by the public and this may be $30 million; d) Paid up capital: Paid up capital refers to that part of the subscribed capital which the public directly pay to the company as a part payment of the value of their shares. This may be; say, $25 million. The remaining amount of $5 million pertaining to the subscribed capital is paid after certain period of time as decided by the company.
Types of shares: The equity funds pertaining to any company can be divided into the following: a) Equity shares or ordinary shares; b) Preference shares and c) Deferred shares
Equity shares: Equity shares form the main basis of the finance of any company and the holders of such shares get dividend only after the preference shareholders are paid out of its profits. Hence they bear maximum risk. This is because they do not get any dividend if the company does not make any profit. At times, when profits are found to be very high, they get much more than the rate of dividend paid to the preference shareholders.
The ordinary shareholders have the right to vote to elect the board of directors of the company and they have also the right to vote on policy decisions of the company and hence they control the affairs of their company.