B. Ross Ashley, retired hospital worker living in Toronto, ON, Canada. Former employee of Mt Sinai Hospital, former member of the Service Employees International Union, local 204, and after amalgamation of the Southern Ontario locals, Local 1 Canada. Member of the New Democratic Party, supporter of the NDP Socialist Caucus, partisan of the Fourth International (Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International). I sing baritone in Common Thread Community Chorus of Toronto, play mountain dulcimer/Appalachian dulcimer/lap dulcimer/hogfiddle, and sometimes fool around with an ocarina.