The relationship between the Herman Liebman Memorial Fund and the Amalgamated Houses

The Herman Liebman Memorial Fund is a 503(c)(3) organization.  From the 2010 return that is on the NYS Attorney General website,  and the last complete return, I see that its purpose is defined as 

To provide and support cultural and educational programs for residents of two moderate income housing developments, Amalgamated Housing and Park Reservoir Housing and members of the general public in the surrounding north Bronx.

The president is listed as Ed Yaker.  Robert Massre who is the finance manager of the Amalgamated Housing is listed as the person who keeps the books.  The other officers are listed as Brad Silver, Vice President, Howard Kamiel, Vice President,  Howard Leventhal, Secretary, and Jack Spiegel , Teasurer

The paid preparer is listed as Stephen W. Beer of the firm

Czarnowski & Beer.

The firm Czarnowski & Beer are the independent auditors of the Amalgamated Housing.

The ties between the Amalgamated Houses and the Herman Liebman Memorial Fund are so knotted together that I feel that at any meeting where the Amalgamated board of directors are present should also be a time when questions can be asked about the Herman Liebman Memorial Fund.

Good by Mr. Bagel

Good by Mr. Bagel, store closed April 2013

Embezzlement at Penn South

Chelsea's Penn South Complex, embezzlement, dnainfo.com

There was no excuse for this to have happened.  We had a smaller embezzlement scandal at the Amalgamated Houses and that should have been a warning to other limited dividend co-ops to implement better accounting controls.  Penn South should get new auditors, clearly the ones they have failed them.

FFR, best tool for assessing intermediate stenoses

Fractional flow reserve the best tool for assessing intermediate stenoses : Cardiology News


This is the definition of intermediate stenosis used in the article "intermediate 50%-70% stenosis in a patient with stable ischemic heart disease"
Here is a quote:

FFR is the method par excellence for determining if an intermediate stenosis is hemodynamically significant; that is, whether the lesion is responsible for reversible ischemia. If it is, then coronary stenting will improve the patient’s functional status and reduce the likelihood of acute MI and all-cause mortality down the road. If FFR indicates that the stenosis is not responsible for reversible ischemia, however, then PCI won’t improve the patient’s prognosis. FFR has the additional virtues of being fast and simple, and it enables immediate decision-making in the cath lab, he explained.

Nestles and its hostility to breast feeding

Nestle spied on antiglobalism activist group

HDL values and cardiovascular event rates

Connection between HDL values and Cardiovascular event rates under scrutiny
Here are the opening paragraphs of this commentary

HDL-raising: A good hypothesis gone bad

By: BRUCE JANCIN, Cardiology News Digital Network SNOWMASS, COLO. – The once highly attractive notion that boosting HDL cholesterol levels will reduce cardiovascular event rates is now dead, or more generously, it remains unsupported by evidence despite expenditure of billions of dollars on negative clinical trials. "An iconic concept of HDL has not borne good fruit. It really isn’t what we don’t know that hurts us so much as the things that we think are true but just ain’t so – and that’s the story of HDL," Dr. Robert A. Vogel said at the annual cardiovascular conference at Snowmass sponsored by the American College of Cardiology. Indeed, it now appears that the relationship between HDL and atherosclerosis is far more complicated than lipidologists thought. Evidence now suggests that HDL mass may not be as important as HDL function, which can switch between being anti- and pro-atherogenic in a matter of hours. And HDL may not even be playing an active role in cardiovascular risk; a low HDL may be associated with an increase in cardiovascular events simply because it is a marker for other cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, smoking, and insulin resistance.

Rosie O'Donnell describes her heart attack

Of course the show with Rosie O'Donnell is full of promos, but here is some useful online information about women and heart disease. AHA Guideline Effectiveness-Based Guidelines for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women—2011 Update

This is from Newday, here's the entire story rosie-o-donnell-to-talk-about-heart-attack Rosie O'Donnell to talk about heart attack on 'Dr. Oz'

Monday October 8, 2012 5:25 PM By Kirthana Ramisetti

Rosie O’Donnell taped an appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show” last week, giving her first interview about her near-fatal heart attack in August. The episode, which will feature the Nyack resident discussing the circumstances that led her to realize she was suffering the symptoms of the attack, was supposed to air Oct. 8, but has been pushed to Oct. 25 to coincide with the first day of fall sweeps.
My comment:  A cynical decision, I am sure product endorsements will be part of the show.  Nevertheless, the program will probably educate more women about heart disease.

A woman has a heart attack

Rosie took an aspirin but didn't see a doctor until the next day.  That could have been too late.
Melinda Beck reporter for the Wall Street Journal has an excellent article
Minutes Matter, Yet Many Don't Get Help as Symptoms Can Seem Harmless

An article from WebMD about aspirin and heart attack.

Here are some useful posts from Heart Sisters.
Rosie described failing to call 911.  Here's a discussion about that.
No such thing as a small heart attack
The new country called Heart Disease