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Are you Planning to go?.......................................................23 Breaking News......................................................................13 Classifieds: WorldWide Buyers’ Guide™...................59-72 Education Connection..........................................................46 Hot Off the Press.....................................................................9 Industry Announcements.....................................................19 Obituary: Bachelder, Bud Benjamin....................................17 Obituary: Clark, Darrell Eugene...........................................17 Obituary: Kwader, Thomas “Tom”.......................................48 Photo Page............................................................................14 Product Spotlight.................................................................47 Who’s in the News................................................................13 WorldWide Buyers Meet Sellers.............................35-43 WorldWide Farmers’ Corner............................22 WorldWide ..............6 Acker Drill Company...........................................................69 Allegheny Instruments........................................................16 Atlantic Screen & Manufacturing, Inc. (ASI)........................29 Baker Water Systems.........................................................51 Better Water Industries Inc..................................................46 Bit Brokers International (BBI)............................................53 Bitco, Inc.............................................................................27 Central Mine Equipment Company (CME)..........................15 Drill King International.........................................................70 Drill Pipe, Inc.......................................................................30 Drilling Equipment Sales, Inc. (DES)..................................71 Drilling Supply & Mfg (DSM)...............................................55 Eastern Driller Manufacturing Company Inc. (EDM)...........25 Empire State Water Well Drillers Assn. (ESWWDA) Ann. Mtg....23,49 ESI Supply..........................................................................18 GeoPro, Inc.........................................................................28 Geoprobe Systems®..............................................................2 Geothermal Supply Company, Inc. (GSC)..........................47 GETEC, Inc...........................................................................7 Heron Instruments, Inc.......................................................44 Hole Products ....................................................................56 Infinity Tool Manufacturing..................................................72 Infinity Tool Manufacturing..................................................54 KS Bit, Inc.............................................................................3 Louisiana Ground Water Assn. (LGWA) Convention...........32 Merrill Manufacturing..........................................................33 Mills Machine Company, Inc...............................................45 Moab Bit & Tool Co., Inc......................................................50 Mountain States Ground Water Expo.................................26 N&N Drilling Supply.............................................................34 SEMCO, Inc.......................................................................1,6 SIMCO® Drilling Equipment...................................................4 Star Iron Works, Inc. - Construction....................................20 Star Iron Works, Inc. - Water Well.......................................21 T&T Carbide Inc..................................................................12 Texas Ground Water Assn. (TGWA) Convention................31 Utah Ground Water Assn. 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Wilson, Jr., Robert Evans: The Un-Comfort Zone II...8 A Tunnel Boring Machine Named Emily.....................11 Working with Many Challenges.................................19 Research on Safer Mars Drilling and Sample Collecting...24 Battersby, Mark E.: Drilling Into Money Not Boring..34 Smarter Soil Insights to Transform Brownfield..........54 New Rig Design Inspired by Forestry Equipment.........44 Drill Records from 1930s Aid in Exploration..................51 Alliance Optimizing Blasting with AI-Driven Insights...52 This Method Could Boost Oil Output.........................30 Storkson, Britt: Data Centers: What They Do and Don’t...46 NETL Advances Understanding of Scale Formation...50 Filling in the Voids.....................................................13 Geotechnical Data for a Hydroelectric Scheme...........56 A Major Milestone for Enhanced Geothermal Systems...20 Connor, Tim: Corporate Discipline...........................26 Compressed Air in Geothermal Drilling.....................28 How Tools Work in HDD............................................33 What is Horizontal Directional Drilling?.....................49 Two Companies Collaborate to Accelerate Mining....27 Smith, Billy Bob: The “Idiots” Corner.......................32 Excavating Infrastructure Essentials............................53 An Upgraded Wastewater Treatment Plant for SURF...16 Videoing with an Underwater Well Camera System...29 Rasmussen, Tim: Water for Life International..........57 PennDrill Mfg. 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