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Yes, we are entering our 20th year of service to authors and the book industry. For our history, take a look at our entry in Wikitia . Unfortunately, we do not enter our 20th year with everyone who started with us or all of those who joined us along the way. Death has claimed her share--more than her fair share, it seems to us.  And so, we remember the following authors and staff with sadness for their loss and gratitude for their gifts which linger with us still. Alfred Stites (author and nonagenarian from Costa Rica)  Anne LaForge (volunteer podcast interviewer and literary advisor from San Juan Bautista, CA) Boris Shekhtman (author from Maryland and co-founder of the Coalition of Distinguished Language Center, which spawned MSI Press)  Carl Leaver (typesetter and MSI Press co-founder) Ekaterina Filatova , Ph.D. (author, professor at Leningrad/St. Petersburg State University, and founder of the socionics movement in Russia) Evgeniy (Zhenya)Yanovich (illustrator and Russia-based S

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The Passive-Aggressive Predator  The urban dictionary defines Passive-Aggressive as: “A defense mechanism that allows people who aren’t comfortable being openly aggressive to get what they want under the guise of still trying to please others. They want their way, but they also want everyone to still like them” (Urban Dictionary, 2005). I merely added the noun of predator because it means: 1) an animal that naturally preys on others, “wolves are major predators of rodents,” or 2) a person or group that ruthlessly exploits others. Both definitions fit in this case. The more talented the soccer team, the more problems they have with parents. Many of the select soccer teams report that they have a plethora of families that simply don’t pay to be in the club, and then come up with every excuse in the world not to pay their dues. It is typically the same families every year that say, “the check is in the mail,” but the money never seems to arrive. This type of behavior puts the