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Ah--actually, I successfully completed my contract at RUPP's DMC (contrary to what ex-co-director Martin Kroeber had stated)

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This one has been a long time in coming, just have been busy straight through for over a year, and didn't have a lot of extra time to do lower priority items, like blogging, etc. Basically, it all dates back to the semester I taught a video production course at the Royal University of Phnom Penh's DMC-- Department of Media and Communications . The co-director at the time, Martin Kroeber, supplied by the Ded (or DAAD?) as a visiting "professional scholar", had been telling a lot of folks that I resigned as an instructor there, that I did not leave in good form. I found this out a while later when speaking to the head of the German development organization who funds the program, while poking around for more lecturer work around Phnom Penh. Even the current Khmer co-director of the DMC had been under the same impression--that I had resigned. It's dissapointing that other lecturers who had been present throughout my term and its successful completion (see below) did