You have all of our extreme sympathy and we share your loss. Mark was a very successful, remarkable person who loved sharing his views on the world. I know that many here would appreciate if you shared his obit with us at the proper time, as we all knew snippets of him but by nature these boards are relatively anonymous. We know of his early musicianship, scholarship, love for fast cars, but there is certainly much more. Condolences, junebug, he will be missed, even by those that disagreed with his point of view of the world.