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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/02/coronado-mansion-death-ruled-suicide/
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SAN DIEGO — The shocking hanging death of Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of Arizona pharmaceutical tycoon Jonah Shacknai, has been ruled a suicide, authorities announced Friday.
After a seven-week investigation, authorities concluded that Zahau, 32, bound her own hands and feet with a red rope and hanged herself naked off a second-floor balcony of Shacknai’s Coronado mansion, said sheriff’s homicide Sgt. Dave Nemeth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Zahau (why is son's last name mispelled?) ...cal
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Rebecca Zahau was 32-year-old woman discovered dead on July 13, 2011, in Coronado, California. Reports describe her as being hung to death while unclothed, with her hands bound behind her back and feet bound. She was found in the mansion of her boyfriend, Medicis Pharmaceutical CEO Jonah Shocknai. Shocknai's son Max had been found dead of a fall down stairs in the home on July 11, 2011. San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore announced on September 2, 2011 that the former death was suicide and the latter an accident, and that neither death were the result of foul play.[1] Members of Zahau's family dispute the contention that her death was suicide.[2]
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/sep/02/sd-county-sherrif-gore-womans-death-mansion-suicid/
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San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore is scheduled to lead a panel of experts Friday to discuss findings on the deaths of Zahau and 6-year-old Max Shacknai, who fell down the stairs at the mansion while under her care and succumbed to his injuries days later. Sheriff's department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell declined to comment Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/cautious-police-statements-belie-deaths-max-shacknai-rebecca-210500995.html
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http://www.sdsheriff.net/commandstaff/gore.html
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SHERIFF WILLIAM D. GORE
William D. Gore was appointed as the 29th Sheriff of San Diego County on July 3, 2009, and elected a year later in June 2010. Sheriff Gore oversees one of the largest Sheriff’s Departments in the nation: with 4,000 employees, an annual budget of over $600 million, and a service area of over 4,200 square miles extending to a 60 mile international border. Along with patrol and investigative operations, his department provides air support, search and rescue service, and forensic support for the San Diego region. His department operates seven detention facilities countywide.
http://monitoredstories.com/jonah-shacknai-hires-pr-firm-as-police-probe-death-of-rebecca-nalepa.html
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Jonah Shacknai Hires PR Firm as Police Probe Death of Rebecca Nalepa (Zahau)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sitrick-and-company-names-lance-ignon-head-of-bay-area-region-aaron-curtiss-head-of-its-denver-office-128233268.html
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Additionally, Sitrick announced that former Wall Street Journal reporter Jason Booth has rejoined the firm's Los Angeles office, while Michael Claes, a 35-year crisis communications veteran, has joined its New York office. Both hold the title of Member of the Firm.
The firm said it is looking to hire two additional senior executives for its Bay Area region and two for its Denver office.
Michael Sitrick, founder, chairman and CEO of Sitrick And Company, said the Bay Area has been an excellent market for the firm. He believes that Denver, too, will be a growth area.
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2011/08/ad-agency-steals-logo-gets-caught-says.html
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Ad agency steals logo. Gets caught. Says "blow me."
"Our new logo is old.
I’ve heard that people have been questioning our new logo. Allow me to explain. I’ve always loved timeless, beautiful things. So it’s not a coincidence that the logo looks like a 100 year old ligature. It was 100% intentional. I found it in my library in a book of ligatures that I’ve had for 30 years and always admired. I thought it would be nice to take something old and ignored and reimagine it. And that’s what I did.
I enlisted the help of a few talented people in the company and with full transparency we took the beauty of the original hand drawn letter forms and conveniently changed the C to a G, removed the O, and added a P.
Appropriation is a big part of our culture. Sampling is part of the modern music scene. Andy Warhol’s most famous silk screens were made from other people’s photographs. And Richard Prince blew up cigarette ads to make art.
Making something old new again was my full intention and I’m very happy with the outcome.”
Note to Rich: you are not an artist. You are a hack ad guy.
Related: ad agencies—consistently terrible at advertising themselves.
Update: The agency entered their new logo at Cannes in June. Notice there's no mention of the source in their design description here. "Full transparency."
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Public relations
Main entrance to Greka Refinery, Santa Maria, CaliforniaGreka created a website for their US operations in 2010. They have a website for their unrelated China operations – greendragongas.com, but it makes no mention of Greka Energy. In Santa Barbara County, they have occasionally hired retired County Supervisor Mike Stoker as a spokesman.[28] In 2008 they hired the public relations firm Sitrick and Company to assist in representing them.[55]
http://www.popeater.com/2010/04/22/lane-bryant-vs-fox-and-abc-publicity-stunt/
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Lane Bryant's spokesperson, however, told PopEater that ABC rejected its ad for all but the final minutes of 'Dancing' while running a commercial for Victoria's Secret that was similar in every respect except for the weight of the model. "We have never experienced this level of rejection – especially with what was clearly already approved and running on their network," said Holly Baird of Los Angeles PR firm Sitrick and Company, which the Columbus, Ohio-based retailer has hired to field inquiries about the ad. (Lane Bryant also directed Zimmerman Advertising, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., agency that created the commercial, to forward all questions about it to Sitrick.)
Public relations
http://www.popeater.com/2010/04/22/lane-bryant-vs-fox-and-abc-publicity-stunt/
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Lane Bryant's spokesperson, however, told PopEater that ABC rejected its ad for all but the final minutes of 'Dancing' while running a commercial for Victoria's Secret that was similar in every respect except for the weight of the model. "We have never experienced this level of rejection – especially with what was clearly already approved and running on their network," said Holly Baird of Los Angeles PR firm Sitrick and Company, which the Columbus, Ohio-based retailer has hired to field inquiries about the ad. (Lane Bryant also directed Zimmerman Advertising, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., agency that created the commercial, to forward all questions about it to Sitrick.)
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Jonah Shacknai
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Scottsdale , AZ
Sector: HEALTHCARE / Biotechnology
Officer since January 1988
54 Years Old
Jonah Shacknai is our founder, Chairman and has been our Chief Executive Officer since 1988. Mr. Shacknai has an extremely well diversified corporate and public service background. From 1977 until late 1982, Mr. Shacknai served as chief aide to the House of Representatives? committee with responsibility for health policy, and in other senior legislative positions. During his service with the House of Representatives, Mr. Shacknai drafted significant legislation affecting health care, environmental protection, science policy and consumer protection. He was also a member of the Commission on the Federal Drug Approval Process, and the National Council on Drugs. From 1982 to 1988, as senior partner in the law firm of Royer, Shacknai, and Mehle, Mr. Shacknai represented over 30 multinational pharmaceutical and medical device concerns, as well as four major industry trade associations. Mr. Shacknai also served in an executive capacity with Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc., prior to its acquisition by Schering-Plough Corporation. In November 1999, Mr. Shacknai was selected to serve on the Listed Company Advisory Committee to the New York Stock Exchange (?LCAC?). The LCAC was created in 1976 by the New York Stock Exchange board to address issues that are of critical importance to the Exchange and the corporate community. In May 2002, Mr. Shacknai was honored with a Doctorate of Humane Letters by the NYCPM (affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons), and in the Fall of 2001, he received the national award from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge?. In January 2000, Mr. Shacknai was selected as Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Karl Eller Center of the University of Arizona. Mr. Shacknai is president and director of the Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation, a ranch centered around special needs children, and is an honorary director of Delta Society, a public service organization promoting animal-human bonds. He is also a director of the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center, the World Craniofacial Foundation and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. In 1997, he received the Arizona Entrepreneur of the Year award, and was one of three finalists for U.S. Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr. Shacknai has served as a member of the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health, and on the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission, both federal cabinet-appointed positions. Mr. Shacknai obtained a B.S. degree from Colgate University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sitrick-and-company-names-lance-ignon-head-of-bay-area-region-aaron-curtiss-head-of-its-denver-office-2011-08-23
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Jason Booth
Jason Booth served as Vice President, Communications for the activist investment firms Steel Partners and Steel Partners Japan before re-joining Sitrick. He had been with Sitrick for five years before that, providing high-level strategic public relations counsel, with an emphasis on financial situations, litigation support, restructuring and crisis communications. During his tenure with Sitrick, Mr. Booth provided strategic communications support for numerous proxy contests, Chapter 11 restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. He also provided advice and counsel to public companies facing short-selling attacks.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Booth was the Asia economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. He also wrote the Journal's "Heard in Asia" investment column and served as a financial reporter for the South China Morning Post. In total, Mr. Booth spent more than 10 years living and working as a financial journalist in China and Korea.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Jason/Booth
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group
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http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070101/hidi-sitrick.html
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January 1, 2007
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sitrick-and-company-names-lance-ignon-head-of-bay-area-region-aaron-curtiss-head-of-its-denver-office-2011-08-23
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Jason Booth
Jason Booth served as Vice President, Communications for the activist investment firms Steel Partners and Steel Partners Japan before re-joining Sitrick. He had been with Sitrick for five years before that, providing high-level strategic public relations counsel, with an emphasis on financial situations, litigation support, restructuring and crisis communications. During his tenure with Sitrick, Mr. Booth provided strategic communications support for numerous proxy contests, Chapter 11 restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. He also provided advice and counsel to public companies facing short-selling attacks.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Booth was the Asia economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. He also wrote the Journal's "Heard in Asia" investment column and served as a financial reporter for the South China Morning Post. In total, Mr. Booth spent more than 10 years living and working as a financial journalist in China and Korea.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Jason/Booth
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group
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National Advertising Agencies
Omnicom Group's national advertising agencies are renowned for strategic and creative excellence. National agencies include:- Arnell Group
- Element 79 Partners
- Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
- GSD&M
- Martin/Williams
- Merkley & Partners
- Zimmerman Partners
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070101/hidi-sitrick.html
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January 1, 2007
How I Did It: Michael Sitrick, Chairman and CEO, Sitrick and Co.
You're getting buried in the press? You can't get your side of the story out? For business leaders and celebrities alike, Michael Sitrick is the PR man who makes things right.
As told to Mark Lacter
When bad things happen to a company--a bankruptcy filing, a CEO's messy divorce, a proxy fight--Michael Sitrick is the public relations guy who gets the call. His clients, who have included billionaire investor Ron Burkle, Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC) ex-chairman Gary Winnick, and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) ex-chairwoman Patricia Dunn, hire him to present their best sides to the press and public, by means that range from encouraging a reporter to see the client's point of view to placing a sympathetic op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal. Sitrick, who runs his operation out of a sleek high-rise in L.A.'s Century City, is also the make-this-go-away guy for entertainment industry bigs--everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Halle Berry. Whomever's case he is presenting, Sitrick is not afraid to make waves with reporters and editors, day or night--at $695 an hour, that's what his clients expect. He is the author of Spin: How to Turn the Power of the Press to Your Advantage.
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