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Forty-four years ago, Mark Ruffin set his foot for the first time in Malaysia and never had he thought he would one day call it home.

MELAKA - Forty-four years ago, Mark Ruffin (picture) set his foot for the first time in Malaysia and never had he thought he would one day call it home.The 66-year-old American said the beauty of Malaysia and the uniqueness of its multi-racial and multi-religious society had truly made him fall in love with the country and its people.Born in Indiana in the United States, Ruffin said he had followed his father to work with a defence company supplying ammunition for armoured vehicles in Brussels, Belgium in the 1970s.

Man charged with attempted murder after shooting in Walmart parking lot during drug deal, officials say Updated May 07, 2021; A 22-year-old Neptune Township resident was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot another man in the parking lot of a Walmart during a drug deal on Wednesday afternoon. The man who was shot outside the store on Route 66 in Neptune Township just after 1 p.m. was taken to a local hospital to be treated for an injury not considered life-threatening, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday. Ruffin was caught by police following a brief foot...

Shades of Soul All Night Long Get Wid' It Hey Uh In the '70s, the Portland, Oregon, group Pleasure may have been ahead of its time with its jazzy funk. During the same time, in the same town, the Jeff Lorber Fusion was breaking ground with its own funky brand of jazz. In...   more » the '90s, the old friends hooked up for this recording, which sounds as fresh as if they'd recorded it yesterday. Lorber fans will love tracks featuring then-rising stars like trumpeter Chris Botti and the late saxophonist Art Porter, but it's the timeless funk of the boys from Pleasure that dominate here w...

Lot Lines: OKC loses a true community builder J. David Chapman OKC lost a giant last week – Mark Ruffin. I reached out to Zach Martin of Adept for a brief tribute to Mark. The following are Zach’s comments: Last Saturday, my mentor, friend, and hero, Mark Ruffin, passed away at the age of 58 (COVID-19). Mark is survived by his wife, Manda, and four children. Looking back, we never had a conversation where he didn’t bring up his amazing family. He was active in his local church, had an abundance of friends and a played a mean game of ping-pong.