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Honda Insight Becomes First Hybrid To Rank First In Japan Auto Sales
18 May 2009
PRESS RELEASE
May 2009
Honda has announced that its Insight model ranked as the industry's best-selling car among new vehicle registrations in Japan for the month of April 2009, with sales of 10,481 units according to figures from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. It is the first time in history for a hybrid model to be the industry's best selling vehicle in Japan for any monthly sales period.
Fit was the industry’s best-selling car among new vehicle registrations in Japan for calendar year 2008 and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. Fit was also the industry’s best-selling car for the month of March 2009, for the fourth consecutive month since December 2008, until it was displaced by Insight to become the industry’s second best-selling car in April 2009,with sales of 9,443 units. It is the first time Honda has occupied the industry’s top two best-selling car positions.
Since its introduction on February 6, 2009, the all-new Insight has been very well received by a wide range of customers due to its excellent environmental performance, easy-to-use packaging, light and comfortable driving and affordable pricing.
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Honda Partners Music Festivals For Environment
Honda FCX Clarity Named 2009 World Green Car
Honda Announces Improved Brain Machine Interface
May 2009
Honda has announced that its Insight model ranked as the industry's best-selling car among new vehicle registrations in Japan for the month of April 2009, with sales of 10,481 units according to figures from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. It is the first time in history for a hybrid model to be the industry's best selling vehicle in Japan for any monthly sales period.
Fit was the industry’s best-selling car among new vehicle registrations in Japan for calendar year 2008 and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. Fit was also the industry’s best-selling car for the month of March 2009, for the fourth consecutive month since December 2008, until it was displaced by Insight to become the industry’s second best-selling car in April 2009,with sales of 9,443 units. It is the first time Honda has occupied the industry’s top two best-selling car positions.
Since its introduction on February 6, 2009, the all-new Insight has been very well received by a wide range of customers due to its excellent environmental performance, easy-to-use packaging, light and comfortable driving and affordable pricing.
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Corbis Opens Sygma Preservation And Access Facility
18 May 2009
PRESS RELEASE
May 2009
Visual media provider, Corbis, has opened the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility, the culmination of the Sygma Preservation and Access Initiative started in 2004.
The announcement was made at an event held at the new facility outside of Paris, France, attended by photographers, photo editors, government dignitaries, and executives from Corbis and Locarchives, the document management company that built the facility.
The culmination of more than five years of work, the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility ensures that the collection's 50 million negatives, prints, color transparencies, and contact prints are carefully preserved and easily accessible for research and rediscovery by photographers, researchers, iconographers, historians as well as photo editors and art directors.
"The Sygma Preservation and Access Facility is a testament to our commitment to preserving the profoundly important Sygma collection," said Gary Shenk, CEO, Corbis.
"So many talented photographers have contributed to Sygma, and we are honored to safeguard and make accessible these treasures for today and the future."
With guidance from Henry Wilhelm, an expert in the long-term preservation of photographs who conducted a detailed examination of the Sygma collection for Corbis in 2006, Locarchives designed and built a specialized preservation facility dedicated to the Sygma collection located in Garnay, approximately 45 minutes outside Paris. The close proximity to Paris makes it easy for professionals to consult the archives in person. The 8,600sqft facility has approximately 7,000 meters (4.3 miles) of shelving in a temperature and humidity-controlled, airtight environment with advanced fire safety and security protections.
"The comprehensive analog and digital preservation program will systematically phase in minus 20°C (minus 4°F), humidity-controlled cold storage to halt gradual color fading and prevent deterioration of the acetate plastic film base of the irreplaceable photographic originals," said Wilhelm.
"To preserve the high-resolution digital scans made of the photographs and the digital camera captures produced by photographers in recent years, Corbis has provided secure servers that are backed-up offsite."
"If the collection had remained in the uncontrolled, room-temperature conditions where it had been kept for so many years, it would have perished before the end of this century," continued Wilhelm.
"The new Sygma facility will preserve and make accessible the extraordinary legacy of the work of the Sygma photographers for the people of France–and for the world–for more than a thousand years into the future."
While the originals can be accessed at the facility, Corbis has worked with photographers to identify and digitize the most significant images from the collection to make them available on the Corbis website. Over the past few years, Corbis has digitized 80,000 additional photographs to bring the total number from the collection available online to more than 800,000.
Since Corbis began the initiative in 2004, a dedicated team of Corbis archivists have been reorganizing the collection to classify pictures by photographer rather than by theme, and editors have been selecting new images to digitize and promote more extensively. Corbis also contacted more than 10,000 contributors to confirm that they wished to participate in the initiative. Meanwhile, Corbis identified a suitable location for the new facility and undertook construction.
"Corbis has invested in a world-class facility that was specially designed for the long-term preservation of the Sygma collection," said Pierre Fonlupt, President, Locarchives.
"The photographic heritage conserved here is awe-inspiring, and we are proud to be part of the project."
Sygma is one of the greatest collections of documentary photography in the world. It is an invaluable historical record of important people and events in France, Europe and around the world. It is comprised of nine separate collections from the second half of the 20th century. The 1950s and 1960s imagery includes photography from Apis, Universal Photo, Interpress, Spitzer, Reporter Associés and other agencies. The collections from the 1970s and beyond includes the prestigious photojournalism, news, magazines, celebrities and portraits from the Sygma photo agency, as well as television and movie set imagery from Kipa, and sporting events from Tempsport.
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Winners Of Corbis Creativity For Social Justice Award Announced
Greenberg And Flood Return To Corbis Outline
Corbis Motion Launches With Significantly Expanded Collection
May 2009
Visual media provider, Corbis, has opened the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility, the culmination of the Sygma Preservation and Access Initiative started in 2004.
The announcement was made at an event held at the new facility outside of Paris, France, attended by photographers, photo editors, government dignitaries, and executives from Corbis and Locarchives, the document management company that built the facility.
The culmination of more than five years of work, the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility ensures that the collection's 50 million negatives, prints, color transparencies, and contact prints are carefully preserved and easily accessible for research and rediscovery by photographers, researchers, iconographers, historians as well as photo editors and art directors.
"The Sygma Preservation and Access Facility is a testament to our commitment to preserving the profoundly important Sygma collection," said Gary Shenk, CEO, Corbis.
"So many talented photographers have contributed to Sygma, and we are honored to safeguard and make accessible these treasures for today and the future."
With guidance from Henry Wilhelm, an expert in the long-term preservation of photographs who conducted a detailed examination of the Sygma collection for Corbis in 2006, Locarchives designed and built a specialized preservation facility dedicated to the Sygma collection located in Garnay, approximately 45 minutes outside Paris. The close proximity to Paris makes it easy for professionals to consult the archives in person. The 8,600sqft facility has approximately 7,000 meters (4.3 miles) of shelving in a temperature and humidity-controlled, airtight environment with advanced fire safety and security protections.
"The comprehensive analog and digital preservation program will systematically phase in minus 20°C (minus 4°F), humidity-controlled cold storage to halt gradual color fading and prevent deterioration of the acetate plastic film base of the irreplaceable photographic originals," said Wilhelm.
"To preserve the high-resolution digital scans made of the photographs and the digital camera captures produced by photographers in recent years, Corbis has provided secure servers that are backed-up offsite."
"If the collection had remained in the uncontrolled, room-temperature conditions where it had been kept for so many years, it would have perished before the end of this century," continued Wilhelm.
"The new Sygma facility will preserve and make accessible the extraordinary legacy of the work of the Sygma photographers for the people of France–and for the world–for more than a thousand years into the future."
While the originals can be accessed at the facility, Corbis has worked with photographers to identify and digitize the most significant images from the collection to make them available on the Corbis website. Over the past few years, Corbis has digitized 80,000 additional photographs to bring the total number from the collection available online to more than 800,000.
Since Corbis began the initiative in 2004, a dedicated team of Corbis archivists have been reorganizing the collection to classify pictures by photographer rather than by theme, and editors have been selecting new images to digitize and promote more extensively. Corbis also contacted more than 10,000 contributors to confirm that they wished to participate in the initiative. Meanwhile, Corbis identified a suitable location for the new facility and undertook construction.
"Corbis has invested in a world-class facility that was specially designed for the long-term preservation of the Sygma collection," said Pierre Fonlupt, President, Locarchives.
"The photographic heritage conserved here is awe-inspiring, and we are proud to be part of the project."
Sygma is one of the greatest collections of documentary photography in the world. It is an invaluable historical record of important people and events in France, Europe and around the world. It is comprised of nine separate collections from the second half of the 20th century. The 1950s and 1960s imagery includes photography from Apis, Universal Photo, Interpress, Spitzer, Reporter Associés and other agencies. The collections from the 1970s and beyond includes the prestigious photojournalism, news, magazines, celebrities and portraits from the Sygma photo agency, as well as television and movie set imagery from Kipa, and sporting events from Tempsport.
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