“Natural gas has been a godsend to this area. It has helped
farmers see a return on all the hard work they have put into their land just to
keep it,” says Bev Romanetti, a Pennsylvania cattle farmer. “I have found that
Range

 Resources wants to be
responsible; they want to do the right things, they want to protect our
environment, and they want to do right by us,” remarks Albie Rinehart, a

 retired schoolteacher
from Greene County, Pennsylvania.

 “I personally know a
lot of the people who work for Range Resources—it’s like dealing with your
neighbors,” states Buzz Meddings, a firefighter from Washington County,
Pennsylvania. Citizens of rural Pennsylvania are the people most affected by
natural gas exploration in the eastern

 region of the United
States. They are farmers, firefighters, teachers, single moms, restaurant
owners, and volunteers. They are hardy. They are the salt of the earth. More
important, they are the face of natural gas development in the Keystone State,
and they provide the voices through which the Texasbased energy company Range
Resources communicates its message of good corporate citizenship to the public.
At the company’s public outreach site,

 MyRangeResources.com,
everyday people offer video testimonials about the economic and social benefits
that Range brings to local communities, whether in terms of jobs, new
development, or concern for the natural environment. The site, which functions
as part of Range’s communications strategy, is an information clearinghouse for
all things related to natural gas exploration. Since discovering the
second-largest natural gas field in the world in 2004, Range has used open
communication to build trust among the stakeholders

 most affected by the
development of natural gas

 resources. While
natural gas is recognized as a clean energy solution to America’s energy needs,
citizens still want to know that natural gas exploration is safe for
communities and good for the environment. As explained at MyRangeResources.com,
Range makes safety a central component of its natural gas production. To
extract methane from rock formations deep down in the Earth, engineers guide a
5-inch-diameter

drill straight down more than a mile and then turn it
horizontally to penetrate shale rock thousands of feet in all directions. This
horizontal drilling method is a groundbreaking advancement that allows drillers
to capture far more methane than the old vertical-only method, which requires
many more wells to get a fraction of the output. Once Range’s drill arrives at
its destination 6,500 feet below the Earth’s surface, electric charges produce
cracks in the rock from which methane gas escapes. To enlarge these fractures
for maximum gas recovery, millions of gallons of water and sand are pumped to
the area under extreme pressure, expanding the cracks and freeing even more gas
to flow back up to the well head at the surface. For environmental safety,
Range houses its drill in a 24-inch-diameter casing comprised of five layers of
steel and concrete, isolating the entire production process from contact with
surrounding land and water. In its desire to leave as small an environmental
footprint as possible, Range has pioneered a way to recycle the millions of
gallons of water used in the drilling process. “One thing we’ve done from an
environmental point of view is we now recycle 100 percent of our water in our
development areas in Pennsylvania. In fact, we’re recycling nearly all of our
fluid, which is a real breakthrough for the industry,” says Jeffrey Ventura,
president and CEO of Range Resources. “Back when we began that process, a lot
of people felt that it couldn’t be done, that it was physically impossible. Lo
and behold, not only did we do it successfully, but now we’re doing it
large-scale.” Ventura, the leader credited with Range’s decision to explore the
Marcellus Shale gas formation in Pennsylvania, says water recycling is a major
innovation in natural gas production. “Just like the Marcellus Shale

 was a breakthrough,”
Ventura says, “on the environmental

 side, water recycling
was a real breakthrough.” To keep stakeholders informed about safety, Range has
also led the industry in the disclosure of core production processes,
especially the use of liquids for drilling and fracturing. “In the middle of
2010, there was a lot of concern nationwide about what’s in frack fluid, and
Range was the first company in the

 industry to say
exactly what’s in our frack fluid,” Ventura 
says. “We post it on our website and we supply it to the state for every
Marcellus Shale well that we’re drilling. It’s 99.9 percent water, and the 0.1
percent are common everyday household chemicals.” Range’s open communication
with the public has earned the respect of environmental groups as well as the
U.S.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which in 2012
announced that natural gas production was safe for drinking water at its test
site in Dimock Township, Pennsylvania. Consumers who want to keep informed on
the latest safety news can also visit RangeResponsibility.com, a new
information hub for the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts. The
site, which features an up-to-date Corporate Social Responsibility Report, is
part of the company’s goal to “be good stewards for shareholders while doing
the same thing for the environment and the communities where we live and work.”
The online communications effort is bolstered by daily Twitter updates and
monthly videos posted on YouTube. Safety, open communication, and leadership—
these are the qualities that have made Range Resources a vanguard of America’s
natural gas boom and a pioneer of sustainable energy development. “I’m proud of
what our technical team has done on the environmental side and the
communications side,” says Ventura of his company’s contribution to America’s
clean energy future.

3. How might Range’s leadership, communication, and values
affect employees’ organizational commitment? Explain.

Homework:

Prompt the user for an Integer and one of the following Strings: convert, add, or subtract.

If the user enters “convert” or “Convert”, multiply the number entered by 5 then divide the result by 9.If the user enters “add” or “Add”, add 15.8549 to the number. If the user enters “subtract” or “Subtract”, subtract 1.0001 from the number then square the result.

Display the result with at most two places after the decimal point. Include the function chosen in the printout.

If anything other than convert, add, or subtract is entered print an error message and stop.

5.24 Lab7Num3

Write a program that accepts a word from the keyboard (a string) and converts it into Pig Latin. Output the word in Pig Latin. These are the rules for conversion: Look at the first character in the word, if it is a vowel, just add “way” to the end of the word Otherwise move the consonant to the end and add “ay”. For example: “apple” becomes “appleway” and “cat” becomes “atcay”

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Lab7Num3 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);

//get phrase

System.out.println(“Enter a word in lowercase”);

}

}

5.23 Lab7Num2

Suppose you work for an online service that provides a bulletin board for its users. You would like to filter out profanity and consider the words “cat”, “dog”, “llama” to be profane. Write a program that reads a phrase from the keyboard and tests whether the string contains one of these words. Output “contains profanity” or “doesn’t contain profanity”. If the input is: “I have a dog” your program should output “contains profanity”.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Lab7Num2 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);

String str;

System.out.println(“Enter a phrase”);

if ()

System.out.println(“contains profanity”);

else

System.out.println(“does not contain profanity”);

}

}

5.22 Lab7Num1

An integer is divisible by another if the remainder after division is zero. For example, 10 % 5 is zero, but 7 % 5 is not. Write a program that accepts two integers from the keyboard and outputs whether the first one is divisible by the second.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Lab7Num1 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);

int num1;

int num2;

System.out.println(“Enter two integers”);

if()

System.out.println(num1 + ” is divisible by ” + num2);

else

System.out.println(num1 + ” is not divisible by ” + num2);

}

}

The executive and judicial branches of the U.S. national government often seem to operate independently and with little conflict. Many laws are signed by the President and then implemented without a word from the judicial branch. However, there are times when executive decisions are challenged by the judicial branch in a process called judicial review. In addition, there are times when a judicial review has direct impact on your life. For example, when the Supreme Court declared the Affordable Care Act constitutional, many people without health care insurance were finally able to purchase health care insurance. Additionally, when the Supreme Court declared sections of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, some of the constraints that prevented many gay and lesbian couples from marrying were eliminated. Executive Order 13658 on February 20, 2014 also had a direct impact on many business people that contract with the federal government by increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Clearly, the actions of the executive and judicial branches often directly affect our lives. Think about how you have been personally impacted by a Supreme Court decision.

Write: In your journal, explain how the actions of the executive and/or judicial branches have personally affected your life.

Your journal response must be a minimum one page, double-spaced. Justify your conclusions with facts and persuasive reasoning. Fully respond to all parts of the question and write your response in your own words. Outside research and references are not required for journal assignments, but if you choose to utilize outside sources they must be correctly cited utilizing APA format both within the body of your journal and include a full reference page

APA format & No Plagiarism

Identify a social problem that is common among the organization (or its clients) and research current policies at that state and federal levels that impact the social problem. Then, from a position of advocacy, identify methods to address the social problem (i.e., how you, as a social worker, and the agency advocate to change the problem). You are expected to specifically address how both you and the agency can effectively engage policy makers to make them aware of the social problem and the impact that the policies have on the agency and clients.

The Assignment (2-3 pages):

• Identify the social problem: Opioids
• Explain rational for selecting social problem
• Describe state and federal policies that impact the social problem
• Identify specific methods to address the social problems
• Explain how the agency and student can advocate to change the social problem