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All About Soils By Paolo Benedetti	A Story in Stone By Dave Garton	Becoming Wise By Scott Cohen

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A Fountain of Watershaping Insights

Jon Mitovich is president and general manager of Roman Fountains, a designer and manufacturer of fountain-system packages and components based in Albuquerque, N.M.

BOOK NOTES

The Creative Side of Concrete

Concrete is an utterly amazing material, but it's so widely used — so pervasive in our world — that it's easy for the average person to take it for granted and barely give it a second thought. As watershapers, of course, we don't have the luxury...

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Olympic Champion Mark Spitz

Before there was the amazing Michael Phelps there was the amazing Mark Spitz, who garnered a record-breaking seven gold medals in swimming events at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. That achievement was unsurpassed (and unmatched) for nearly four decades, until Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Can you answer these questions about Mark Spitz, who is now 61?

What was the first international athletic event in which Spitz competed?
Why did Spitz wear a mustache when he competed, as opposed to all the other swimmers who shaved their facial and body hair?
What word did Spitz use to characterize Michael Phelps’ winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics?
In 1998, Spitz appeared in a TV commercial for Playstation, along with another well-known figure. Who was it?

To learn the correct answers and watch a video of Spitz reminiscing about his athletic career, click here.

By Jim McCloskey

I’ve spent 50 of my years living in Southern California – an exhilarating half-century in which I’ve spent a lot of time, man and boy, in the presence of watershapes of various forms and sizes. The experiences I’ve had have filled me with opinions about the nature of these bodies of water and their accoutrements, so get ready.

The house in which I grew up had a small reflecting pool in its compact front courtyard, complete with a spitting concrete frog that I still have in my possession. [more]

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