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Arabella Kochanski
It's a haunting mystery Beaver County investigators never expected. The woman's head was found in the woods off Mason Road in Economy Borough on Dec. 12, 2014. The perplexing case has stuck with Chief O'Brien ever since.
"Looking at her, it reminded you that she had been laid out, possibly for a funeral. And it appeared to us that the head had been professionally or at least removed by somebody with some sort of medical knowledge," Chief O'Brien said.
A year after the strange discovery, Chief O'Brien said in a press conference, "We have also been in contact with the funerals directions association, medical examiners association, several other schools that have all stated that this is not a common use or have never even heard of this type of use to replace eyes that have been enucleated from a body."
Chief O'Brien was a bit surprised when "Unsolved Mysteries" reached out to do an episode. He said those who work on the show were terrific to work with, and they became really passionate about getting this case out to more people.
"It does stick with you, mainly because we don't know who she is, and we know that she has a name. We know that she belongs to somebody, and that's somebody's mother or sister. And we know that somebody probably out there possibly doesn't know that this has happened. So, to me, that's the important part of the case now is to is to get her identified," he said.
As VP of Consumer Insights, Adrien Lanusse helps Netflix understand how viewers across the world experience its service. Lanusse sat with dscout recently to share his passion for curiosity and empathy, his own multicultural background, and his understanding of the threads that connect viewers and consumers around the world.
I like to look at different sources of insight and then compare different cultures. For example, when we launched Netflix in Latin America, we knew that Latin Americans watch a lot of entertainment and have relatively larger households. The concept of unlimited viewing for one low fixed price appealed to this audience.
My own multicultural identity has a strong influence on my passion for my work. My dad was a shepherd in a rural part of France before he came to the U.S., and my mom was from Mexico. I grew up recognizing that a lot of the products we used at home were very different from the products other kids at school used. However, I always felt closer to other children of immigrants, regardless of where they came from. And I became incredibly curious about the distinct influences of culture, society, and individual traits on behavior.
I was lucky to find an internship many years ago with a company that focused on understanding multicultural consumers. I spent 20 years heading multicultural research and strategy on the agency side. Then about six years ago, I had the chance to take the skills I gained in understanding cross-cultural markets to Netflix at a time when Netflix was just beginning its global expansion.
In the early 90s, the corporate clients that came to our consultancy were on the forefront of understanding multicultural consumers in America. They were mostly interested in demystifying these niche markets and developing advertising and communications strategies.
The next element is seeing how these different threads come together. As the world is getting smaller, we must go beyond simply comparing one country to another to understand underlying threads, which is more powerful. What elements of what we observe are cultural? What elements are based on societal drivers? And what are individual factors?
Stuber took the job heading global features for Netflix in 2017. At the time, the longtime Universal exec left his Bluegrass Films label, which he started with partner Dylan Clark. While at Universal, he worked on projects including best picture winner A Beautiful Mind, Meet the Parents, the Bourne franchise and the Fast & Furious franchise.
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Bela Bajaria (born 1970 in the London Borough of Brent[1]) is a British-American businesswoman and media executive.[2] She joined Netflix in 2016 to oversee unscripted and scripted series.[3] Bajaria is currently the Chief Content Officer.[4][5]
Bajaria was born in London, England, to parents of Indian descent and spent her time in London and Zambia.[6] In the 1970s, when Bajaria was 4, her parents moved from London to the United States' West Coast with her brother to explore business opportunities. However, her parents overstayed their visas and became illegal immigrants, resulting in her being raised by her grandparents until they could legally obtain residency.[7] Upon joining her parents in the United States in 1978, she enrolled in the local Los Angeles public schools during a time when it was "not cool to be Indian." As a teenager, she was enrolled at Torrance High School and Rolling Hills High School while working as a cashier.[7]
Upon graduating high school, Bajaria was encouraged to enter the beauty pageants by a friend. She subsequently won the Miss LA India contest, Miss India USA, and was eventually crowned Miss India Worldwide 1991.[6] Bajaria graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 1995 with her Bachelor of Arts communications degree from their College of Liberal Arts.[8]
Upon graduating from university, Bajaria accepted a position with CBS in 1996 as an assistant in the movies and miniseries department. As an assistant, she read all of the scripts and spent hours in CBS' basement videotape library studying old films.[6] She left CBS shortly for a management position at Warner Bros. Television Studios but returned in 1997 as a director. After the January 2002 departure of longtime CBS Movies and Miniseries senior vice president Sunta Izzicupo, under whom she had worked since the mid-'90s, Bajaria was promoted to vice president and then senior vice president of the department.[8] When television films began to decline, she requested a move to CBS' production studio to develop cable shows.[6] She joined Universal Television as executive vice president in 2011[9] and shortly thereafter became president of the studio.[10]
Bajaria joined Netflix in 2016 as head of unscripted and scripted content.[11] In the same year, she was ranked 43rd on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.[12] In 2019, she began leading all local language series.[13] In 2020, she was promoted to the role of global head of television for Netflix.[14][5]
In 2021 and again in 2022, Bajaria was named one of the top "captains" of the home entertainment industry in the annual Media Play News Women in Home Entertainment issue.[15] In December 2022, she was named to The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100.[16]
The director of Mobility City in Zaragoza, Jaime Armengol, got proceedings underway: "This more than digitised society is servitised and is dependent on data." To such an extent that the Fundacin IberCaja and Expo Empresarial have launched Mobility City as a pioneering project to contribute to developing the area and boosting smart and sustainable mobility. Some 28 companies have already signed up and there is a triple objective: zero emissions, zero stress and zero victims.
It is common knowledge that "the concept of mobility as a service is no longer a trend but a necessity." And as with any necessity, it applies to everyone. "Public-private cooperation on mobility is essential. There is technology and consumption but not the regulation to go with it," claimed the head of Uber in Spain, Juan Galiardo, who prefers not to get a driving licence. The future should not be illegal...
"People talk about the Netflix of mobility, which has to be easy, personal and suited to the user's experience," insisted Francisco Javier Rodrguez, manager of transformation and digital innovation at Renfe, which handles 480 million trips every year and accounts for 80% of electric public transport. From a transport operator to a mobility operator.
Mobility is global, but it is also urban and between cities. "Zaragoza would not be Zaragoza without an AVE high-speed train," he pointed out. What better than the hand held out for dialogue: "It is impossible to understand a mobility initiative as a service without the public administration, what is most difficult for all of us is to cooperate and we should eliminate the resistance to sharing data."
"Cities can lead these changes but the private sector has to get involved. However, the war will be about who becomes the platform... We won't have 40 applications and Netflix ceases to exist," argued Ugo Valent, director of Fira de Barcelona's Sal Smart City.
For his part, the director of innovation projects at RACC, Miquel Roca, who also supports mobility as a service, argues that "if the new mobility is to save our future, we have to begin democratising it." A genuine exercise in simplification and homogenisation to reach even more people.
The CEO of SocialCar, Mar Alarcn, pointed out that cooperation is still in a Beta phase and the key to the new mobility is down to the public administration: "We need it to be the real engine of regulatory change and for it to convince people of the need to develop cities. The mobility of the future in this country could go the way of renewables in 2010."
"Data should be a public infrastructure, like water or transport," pointed out Francesca Bria, Barcelona City Council's commissioner of Technology and Digital Innovation, in an interview with VIA Empresa coinciding with the Smart City Expo World Congress held in the Catalan capital.
Right and left, in (un)equal parts are also part of the mobility race. According to Armengol, "there has been an ideological appropriation of certain means of transport." Yet, fortunately, we are already making the change in mentality for bicycles that go towards the left and cars towards the right.
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