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John Justus Henckel (Johann)
John was born on February 10th, 1706 in Daudenzell, Moldenzell, Germany and his baptism took place on February 17th, 1706. John's father was Antonius Jacobus Henckel and his mother was Maria Elizabeth Dentzer. His paternal grandparents were George Henckel and Anna Eulala Dentzer; his maternal grandparents were John Nicholaus Dantzer and Barbara Katherine Geibel. He was an only child. He died at the age of 72 on August 17th, 1778 in German Valley, Augusta, Pennsylvania. He was buried in Original Hinckel Cemetery, Riverton, Pendleton, Virginia.
John "Jost" and Maria moved to Macungie Creek Settlement and joined the Goshenhoppen congregation which after 1812 was located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. In 1750 he sold his holdings and moved to Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina, settling on Dutchman's Creek about thirteen miles from Salisbury near the "Forks of the Yadkin". In 1760, because Indian depredations, they moved to Augusta County, Virginia, settling in the beautiful section known as "Germany Valley" which was located in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1778, later a part of Pendleton County (organized in 1788 from Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties). In 1863 West Virginia was formed and Germany Valley became a part of Pendleton County, West Virginia.
John Justus (Jost) Henckel served as commander of Hinkle's Fort and in furnished supplies to the Colonial forces in the Revolutionary War.
In his will Anthony Jacob Henckel left to his two youngest sons, John Justus and Anthony Jacob, the 250-acre home farm in New Hanover Township, then in Philadelphia Co, now Montgomery Co, PA. John Justus' share was 150 acres. (Volume XXII, Philadelphia County Administration Book "C", 11 April 1720-13 June 1737, page 250)
He settled on a farm near Macungie Creek, now Lehigh Co, PN, paying taxes as late as 1748 in PN.
By 1750 he sold his property in PN and made the long journey down the mountain valleys from PN into NC what is now Davidson Co NC.
In 1751 he was living on Dutchman's Creek in the Fork of the Yadkin, approximately 13 miles from Salisbury, Rowan Co, now Davidson Co, NC. Their new land in West Augusta was near the Shawnee Indian Trail, so there the family built a log fort for protection in 1761-62, the site of which can still be seen today. The fort was built as a protection against the Indians not only for the Hinkle family but for other settlers in the area. The settlement became know as Germany Valley because the families, all of German descent, conversed in their native German. Unlike Fort Seybert and Fort Upper Tract, Hinkle's Fort was spared destruction.
Germany Valley is named for the German families that were its earliest settlers. The first to arrive was the Hinkle (originally Henckel) family, which migrated from North Carolina in 1761. John Justus Hinkle, Sr (1705/6 - 1778) and his wife Maria Magdelena Hinkle (1710 - 1798), with their twelve children and their own families, came for the inexpensive farm land and relative freedom from Indian attacks. They were also attracted by the fertile limestone soils and gently rolling bottomland. They were soon joined by the Teters and by Pennsylvania Dutch families, some having migrated southwest following the ridges and through the "Valley of Virginia" from Pennsylvania's Lebanon and Lancaster counties. A few German families also moved west from Spotsylvania County, Virginia. These settlers brought the familiar custom of placing hex signs on their barns (perhaps the only section of West Virginia where these signs were once found.)
Indians were by no means absent from the region, however, as the famous Seneca Trail (or Great Indian Warpath) passed near the Valley and the nearby British positions at Fort Seybert and Fort Upper Tract had been destroyed (1758) in Indian uprisings led by Killbuck, a Delaware chieftain. Four years later, a stockade (Hinkle's Fort) was built by the men of the Hinkle family to protect these border settlements from additional Indian raids. At the time of the Revolution, the fort became headquarters and training ground for the North Fork Military Company which was organized by the sons and son-in-laws of John Justus Hinkle, Sr. The fort is long since gone, but a large arrowhead-shaped stone monument enclosed by an iron fence marks its former site. (This is along the valley road leading east from Riverton).
These traditional farming families long retained their language and "old country" customs and so the Valley became known as "German Settlement" or "Germany Valley". At about the same time, many Scotch-Irish families also migrated from the north and bought land in Pendleton County, including Germany Valley. Although the community prospered, it long remained isolated and its agricultural economy continued to be based predominantly on forage crops, cattle, horses, milk cows, and sheep. The farms remained largely self-sufficient because the poor roads and absence of turnpikes made it difficult to reach larger markets in adjacent areas.
At the time of the American Civil War, the communities of the upper North Fork, including Germany Valley, and Franklin, were strongly Confederate in their sympathies, although nearby Seneca Rocks and the lower South Branch Valley were generally northern in persuasion. Pendleton County was a border area like many unprotected by either Federal troops or the Confederates. Such divided counties, then the rule in central West Virginia, were torn by internal strife and uncertainty and border county wars among various partisan groups were continuous. County governments often ceased to operate altogether. Many of the Valleyâ€(tm)s men joined local partisan units such as the Pendleton Scouts, Pendleton Rifles, and Dixie Boys and fought for the Confederacy. In northern Pendleton County, the Swamp Dragons, or "Swamps", were equally strong defenders of the Union. Clashes between these units were frequent and bitter, with members of the same families often contending against one another. Raids by Union army units and Union partisans such as the Swamps occurred several times in the Valley during the war years.
Originally, the coves and moist slopes of the Valley were covered with fine timber stands, notably including black walnut. Much of the virgin forest was cut to supply local needs, and often good, commercial-grade logs were simply burned in land-clearing operations. Later in the 19th Century, professional lumbermen became interested and the remaining forests were harvested, sawn, and taken by horse and wagon to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Keyser, some 30 miles away. In the northwestern part of the county, much of the timber was hauled by logging railroad to the Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company mill at Horton in Randolph County. Due to the prevailing isolation and poor transportation system, large saw mills were not found in the area during the last part of the 19th Century. Small sash and circular saw mills, however, were present.
HINKLE'S FORT
(Germany Valley, Pendleton County, VA/WV)
Hinkle's Fort, built 1761-62, was located in Germany Valley, near Riverton. It was built by John Justus Henckel, Sr. (1706-1778), who came in 1760 from North Carolina with most of his twelve children, some with families, in search of a new home where Indians were less hostile and the soil more fertile. After a journey of weeks, they caught sight of their "promised land" when they reached the top of North Fork Mountain. Three sons, Abraham, Sr., John Justus, Jr., and Isaac, and three Teter son-in-laws were with him. John Justus, Sr. son of Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, had immigrated to America in 1717 with his parents who settled near Philadelphia, PA. He later moved to North Carolina.
The fort was built as a protection against the Indians not only for the Hinkle family but for other settlers in the area. The settlement became know as Germany Valley because the families, all of German descent, conversed in their native German. Unlike Fort Seybert and Fort Upper Tract, Hinkle's Fort was spared destruction.
During the Revolutionary War, Hinkle's Fort became the only outpost in Pendleton County for the patriot forces. John Justus Henckel, Sr. had been officially recognized for his services as commander of the fort and in furnishing supplies to the troops (detachments of the Virginia Militia) quartered there. The fort was headquaters and training grounds for the North Fork Military Company which had been organized by settlers early in the Revolutionary War and whose first captains were son-in-laws and sons of John Justus Henckel, Sr. After the Revolutionary War and when danger of Indian raids was past, the fort was torn down and some of the timbers used to build a large house on the site.
The family of John Justus Henckel, Sr. became a leading one in the early settlement and history of Pendleton County. Most of his sons and grandsons served in county offices. Isaac Hinkle and his nephew, Moses Hinkle,were two of eleven justices commissioned by the governor of Virginia to organize the new county of Pendleton, 1788. Eleven years earlier, Isaac Hinkle had been similarly commissioned to assit in the formation of Rockingham County, VA.
Markers at the site of the fort and at the graves of John Justus Henckel, Sr. and wife were dedicated on September 19, 1936 at a Henckel family reunion with several hundred descendants from throughout the United States in attendance who came to pay a lasting tribute to the memory of one of their patriarchs.
Written and submitted by Sarah Hinkle Warner
From Pendleton County, WV Past and Present, page 61
1. In 1750 John Justus Henchel sold his holdings in Pennsylvania and moved to Rowan, North Carolina. In 1760 because of Indian depredations he moved with his family to Augusta County, Virginia and settled in a beautiful section known as Germany Valley. This was included in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1778 and became part of Pendleton County in 1788. In 1863 the State of West Virginia was formed, and it included Germany Valley in the Union District of Pendleton County, West Virginia. The first improvement in Germany Valley by John Justus
Henckel was the construction of a stockade with an enclosed area sufficient to house the families of his sons and sons-in-law as well as the other settlers in the immediate vicinity. This structure was known as Hinkle's Fort and was used as an outpost prior to and during the Revolutionary War. The attacks of the Indians during this period caused all settlers in this area to seek shelter and safety in this fortress. John Justus Henckel, Sr, was the recognized commander of the fort at which Colonial troops were occasionally quartered. At his death in 1778 he was succeeded by his son, Abraham Hinkle.
2. They first lived in Macumbie Creek, 10 miles from Allentown. In 1750 John sold his land and moved to Cutchmans Creek in Rowan County (nowDavidson), North Carolina. Due to Indian threats they moved to German Valley Settlement, Pendelton County, Virginia.
The first improvement in Germany Valley by "Yost" Henkle was the construction of a stockade wiith an enclosed area, sufficiient tohouse his family, the families of his sons and sons-in-law as well asthe other settlers in the immediate vicinity. Known as "Hinkle's Fort" this structure was an outpost prior to and during the RevolutionaryWar. Attacks by Indians during this period caused all settlers in thevicinity to seek shelter in the safety of the fort. Colonial Troopswere occasionally quartered here.
The site of the fort near Riverton, Pendleton County, West Virginia was located in 1925-27. In 1930 the Henckel Family Association erected a marker on the site of the old fort.
The services of John Justus Henckel as commander of Hinkle's Fort and in furnishing supplies to the Colonial forces has been recognized
officially by the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution and other patriotic orders as a qualification for membership
3. The Hinkle Family, by Linda Adams
In his will Anthony Jacob Henckel left to his two youngest sons, John Justus and Anthony Jacob, the 250-acre home farm in New Hanover Township, then in Philadelphia County, now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. John Justus' share was 150 acres. In about 1730, John Justus married Maria Magdalena Eschmann, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Eschmann of German-Swiss origin, and settled on a farm near Macungie Creek, now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paying taxes as late as 1748 in Pennsylvania.
By 1750 he sold his property in Pennsylvania and made the long journey down the mountain valleys from Pennsylvania into North Carolina. In 1751 he was living on Dutchman's Creek in the Fork of the Yadkin, approzimately 13 miles from Salisbury, Rowan County, now Davidson County, North Carolina. He and his family lived there until danger from Indians prompted him to move his wife and twelve children to what is now Germany Valley, Pendleton County, West Virginia. Their new land was near the Shawnee Indian Trail, so there the family built a log fort for protection in 1761-62, the site of which can still be seen today. John Justus, his sons, and his sons-in-law participated actively in the defense of the frontier during the Revolutionary War and furnished supplies for the Continental forces. The Hinkle Fort farm became the headquarters and training grounds of the North Fork Battalion.
After John Justus' death in 1778, his son Abraham owned the property and carried on through the remainder of the war and until danger from Indians passed. A granite marker was unveiled by the Henckel Family Association at the site of the Hinkle Fort on September 29, 1936. A monument was also erected to the memory of John Justus and his wife in the graveyard of the Henckel homestead at a spot near the grave of Abraham Henckel.
Children of John Justus and Mary Henckel were: Anna Maria Elizabeth, b. 1731, m. Moses Ellsworth; Jacob Henckel, b. ca. 1733, d. 1779, m. Mary Barbara Teter; Rebecca, m. Paul Teter; Catherine, m. Adam Biffel; Mary Magdalena b. 1739, d. October 18, 1829, m. John Skidmore; Abraham b. ca. 1749, d. 1815, m. Mary Catherine Teter; Susannah Henkel, married Philip Teter; John Justus, Jr., b. January 14, 1752, d. 1794, married Christiana Negely; Hannah, m. Andrew Johnson in 1791; Elizabeth, m. Christian W. Ruhlman, d. 1754; Isaac, b. ca. 1756, d. October, 1824.
Solomon and Ambrose Henkel, great grandsons of John Justus Henckel through his son, Jacob Henkel, established the Henkel Press in 1806 at New Market, Virginia. They published, among other items, church minutes and pamphlets, small graded school books, and hymnals. In 1807, Ambrose Henkel began the publication of the first German newspaper in the South, "Virginia and New Market Popular Instructor and Weekly News." Nearly all the publications were in German; some pamphlets were in English. They were noted, however, for their publication of the works of Luther in the English language, sanctioned by the Tennessee Synod. Henkel family papers, correspondence, and items printed by their press have been preserved in the rare books and manuscripts collections at the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, and Duke University.
4. Hinkle's Fort, Germanna Valley, Pendleton County, West Virginia
John Justus "Jost" Henkel, son of Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, was born in Daudenzell, Germany, 10 February 1706 and died August 1778 in Germany Valley, Pendleton Co., WV. He was eleven years of age when he reached Pennsylvania where he grew to manhood on his father's farm in New Hanover Township.
After he married Maria Eschmann, a German-Swiss, about 1730, they removed to Upper Milford Township in Bucks (now Lehigh) County,. near Dillingerville, Pennsylvania where they joined the Gossenhoppen Congregation. Until 1748 he paid taxes there, but in 1750 he sold his land, and by 1751 he and his family, which then included ten children, were living on Dutchman's Creek in the Forks of the Yadkin in Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina. Two more children were born in Rowan County, North Carolina.
After only ten years in Rowan County, NC, John Justus Henkel in 1760 removed to Germany Valley on the north fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River in Augusta, later Rockingham County, VA, and now Pendleton County, WV. All of his children including three of his married children and their families were said to have accompanied him to Germany Valley, but there is doubt that his daughter Catherine who married John Adam Biffle made the move. The successful arrangements for the migration of so many individuals required the mind and leadership of a remarkable individual. The records of his family clearly indicate that John Justus Henkel was indeed an exceptional man.
A careful study of Henkel and Biffle records raises serious doubt if Catherine Henkel and her husband Adam Biffle accompanied her father to Germany Valley. A daughter Mary was born ca. 1758 in Rowan Co., NC; son John, their eldest son, was born there in 1760, the same year of the removal, and their youngest son, Jacob, was born there in 1763. If the couple did remove to Germany Valley, they must have soon returned because other Rowan County records place Adam in that county as late as 1779. By 1779 he removed from Rowan County and entered land on the south bank of the Holston River Valley in what is now Sullivan County, Tennessee. In this move, as already mentioned, he was accompanied by his son-in-law, John Jacob Eller, Jr.
Among the married children who removed to Germany Valley with John Justus Henkel were his oldest daughter, Anna Maria Henkel and her husband Moses Elsworth, his oldest son, Jacob Henkel, and his wife Barbara Teter, and daughter Rebecca Henkel and her husband Paul Teter. Among the three couples were several grandchildren, including young Paul Biffle, son of Jacob and Barbara Teter Henkel, who was destined to become a most distinguished Lutheran minister, printer and publisher of the southeastern frontier.
All of his sons-in-law, his sons and some grandsons were active in the Revolutionary War. His family fort became a military fort and was used to quarter and drill the militia. The Henkel Family Association in 1938 placed a handsome granite arrow-head monument honoring John Justus Henkel near the site of his fort. Also a West Virginia Historical marker which mentions the Hinkle Fort is placed adjacent to highway # 33 overlooking Germany Valley. (Note: My wife and I visited these sites soon after Conf III but were advised not to attempt to reach the Henkel cemetery without making prior arrangements.)
One reason often mentioned for the move of the Henkels from Rowan County was to escape Indian problems associated with the uprising among the Cherokees in 1760. This explanation seems implausible since the land on which they settled in Germany Valley was adjacent to the Seneca and Shawnee Indians trail along which much Indian traffic still passed between the northern and southern tribes. The first task facing the family upon their arrival was the erection of a fort large enough to protect the large extended Henkel family from Indian attack. It seems unlikely that John Justus Henkel would not have known that Indian problems existed in Germany Valley prior to his arrival there.
A more logical explanation suggested by some for his move to Germany Valley, was his concern about the legacy he would leave his large family of children and grandchildren. He was past fifty years of age when he decided apparently that sufficient fertile land could not be acquired in Rowan County to insure the future security for his children and grandchildren. He was attracted to the more fertile limestone soil in Germany Valley where cheap land was abundant. His decision then sprang apparently from that same impulse, common to all early settlers of that period - the desire for more and better land that would provide economic security for his immediate family and future descendants.
John Justus Henkel and members of his family are buried in a grave on the hillside overlooking the site of the fort. The dimensions of the character, intelligence, and accomplishments of John Justus Henkel are revealed in part by his great courage and skill in safely removing such a large number of family members from Rowan County to Germany Valley and building a historic fort. Equally revealing was his concern for his families future, and his acquisition of much land to insure that future. Perhaps the major revelation about this remarkable man was the transmission of the essence of his own character and moral values to his children and grandchildren.
Ludwig Henckel*
- b.~ 1550 in Hessen-Darmstadt, Prussia, Germany
Casper Henckel
- b.1576 in Allerdorf, Lumda, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany d.02 Mar 1651 in Allerdorf, Lumda, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
Matthias Henckel
- b.1605 in Allerdorf, Lumda, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
George Henckel
- b.1635 in Allerdorf, Lumda, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany d.~29 Jan 1677 in Mehrenberg, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Antonius Jacobus Henckel
- b.12 Oct 1668 in Mehrenberg, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Germany d.12 Aug 1728 in Chestnut Hill, Germantown, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania
Simon Dantzer
- b.~ 1564 in Steinbach, Odenwald, Germany
- b.~ 1595
Othmar Dentzer
- d.<26 Aug 1676 in Steinberg (formerly Steinmerk) Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
Anna Eulala Dentzer
- b.06 Jun 1640 in Steinberg, Odenwald, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia d.<11 Mar 1700 in Steinberg (formerly Steinmerk) Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
Emmerich Wagner*
- b.1550 in Steinbach, Darmstadt, Germany d. in Steinbach, Darmstadt, Germany
Ludwig Wagner
- b.1572 d.1633
Louisa Wagner
- b.~ 1605 in Ranisch-Holzhausen, Hesse-Kassel, Germany d.05 Nov 1676 in Steinberg
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John Justus Henckel
- b.10 Feb 1706 in Daudenzell, Moldenzell, Germany d.17 Aug 1778 in German Valley, Augusta, Pennsylvania
John Nicholaus Dantzer
- b.~ 1640 in Marburg, Hessen, Germany d.08 Feb 1703 in Frankenthal, Germany
Maria Elizabeth Dentzer
- b.1672 in Birkenau, Germany d.23 Jan 1744 in Germantown, Pennsylvania
Barbara Katherine Geibel
- b.1644 in Marburg, Hessen, Germany
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Associated external link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Valley
Details of John's family with Maria Magdalena Eschmann


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NEW ORLEANS – A cathartic return of music and culture to New Orleans' chief music festival after three years ended its first weekend with the Red Hot Chili Peppers honoring the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins by closing out the show for his band.
Hawkins died March 25 and the Foo Fighters bowed out of their slot at Jazz Fest, the first time New Orleans has held the massive festival since COVID-19 cancelled it in 2020 and 2021.
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith's base drum Sunday had a hawk silhouette like the one tattooed on Hawkins' arm. Taylor was written across it, The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported.
And at the end of the 90-minute set, Smith took center stage as Hawkins' widow and members of the Foo Fighters stood just off stage.
"We love the Foo Fighters and we love our brother Taylor Hawkins. It's meant a lot to us to be able to play for them," said Smith who then led the crowd in chanting 'We love you Taylor!'"
The vibe of the 2022 Jazz Fest echoed the 2006 festival, held eight months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The 2020 and 2021 festivals were canceled by an entirely different storm — COVID-19.
The two-weekend event draws tens of thousands to the city's Fair Grounds Race Course, where as many as 80 musical acts perform daily on more than a dozen stages, complemented by art and craft exhibits and an array of booths featuring foods from Louisiana and beyond.
Jazz Fest attracts well known acts like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who and Lionel Richie but it might be best known for showcasing a dizzying array of Louisiana musical talent, styles and genres — jazz, blues, Cajun, Zydeco and more.
Masks were a rare sight at the festival, most of which takes place outdoors. It is taking place as COVID-19 cases are at a lower point than they've been in months and two-thirds of the U.S. population is vaccinated.
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KYW: Gates Foundation Donates $2.5M To Help Improve Philadelphia's Schools
Philadelphia's collaboration among public, charter, and Catholic schools is getting a financial shot in the arm from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The effort among Philadelphia's district, charter, and archdiocesan schools known as the "Great Schools Compact" has received a $2.5-million grant from the Gates Foundation.
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WHYY: Gates gives Philly schools $2.5 million to work together
Philadelphia's traditional public schools, charters and Catholic schools historically have been rivals.
Now they are receiving $2.5 million over the next three years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to foster greater collaboration.
An opportunity for a great school for every child
PSP executive director discusses the Great Schools Compact
Philadelphia already has some schools that are really good. So why not focus on sending those schools more money and more students? That's the basic challenge facing the District, says Mark Gleason, the executive director of the Philadelphia School Partnership.
WHYY: With charter schools looking to expand, communities could feel ripple effects
"The majority of families in Philadelphia wish they had more high quality school options to choose from," said Mark Gleason, the executive director of the Philadelphia School Partnership and a central figure in the Great Schools Compact. "They don't understand why, if we have example of schools that are really good, why can't we have more of them."
Philadelphia public officials head to Denver in pursuit of district-charter collaboration best practices
The city and the Philadelphia School District will move aggressively on a pledge to eliminate 50,000 seats in the lowest-performing city schools, Mayor Nutter promised Tuesday.
Nutter and members of the School Reform Commission will travel to Denver this week to examine how schools work there. Denver has decentralized many of its school operations and was one of the first cities in the United States to sign a compact promoting cooperation between its school district and charter schools.
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Cannes 2015: Every movie reviewed
Born to greatness: Michael Fassbender as Macbeth with Marion Cotillard's Lady Macbeth Credit: Studio Canal/GenEditorial72
Telegraph Film 26 May 2015 • 11:27am
Here's our complete rundown of the best, worst and most controversial at Cannes 2015
Here's what the Telegraph critics made of the features that screened at Cannes 2015, from Emmanuelle Bercot's opening film to Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or-winning Dheepan to Michael Fassbender's Macbeth – and everything weird, wonderful and unexpected in between.
Rating: * * * * *
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, David Thewlis
We said: "This pared-down adaptation by Jacob Koskoff, Michael Leslie and Todd Louiso feels jagged and spare – the bleached, modernist carcass of the original verse – while the sheer innovation of the staging lends a flesh-creeping freshness to every familiar toss and turn of Shakespeare's plot." Read the full review of Macbeth.
They said: "As Macbeth, Michael Fassbender, committed to the project before the director, is almost great but not quite. He's commanding all right – but you are never quite moved enough by him, never feel his inwardness, as you must for the play to have its full tragic force." (David Sexton, Evening Standard, * * * *)
Dheepan - winner of the Palme d'Or
Rating: * * * *
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers
We said: "As an empathetic snapshot of the current immigrant experience in France, the film is compelling right through, but it's the central relationship that really digs its way into your soul. The leads, Jesuthasan and Srinivasan, both of whom give beautifully detailed, worry-filled performances, get their characters edging towards an intimacy with each other that only makes the occasional flare-ups more bitter and personal in their animus." Read the full review of Dheepan.
They said: "Jacques Audiard has made his name, in films such as A Prophet, Rust & Bone and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, for a kind of ecstatic violence of the soul. Dheepan, his new film about a former Tamil Tiger fighter looking for a new life in France, certainly has some of the director's trademark ferocity, especially in its final minutes, but it displays what I can only describe as dialled-down Audiard." (Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, * * * *)
Director: Jia Zhang-Ke
Starring: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jin Dong, Dong Zijian, Sylvia Chang
We said: "When Jia Zhang-ke begins his latest state-of-China epic with a cannon-blast of Pet Shop Boys, you sit up and take notice. "Together! Your hand in my hand / Together! We will make our plans" isn't just an unexpected, way for Jia to launch into his kaleidoscopic and close-to-wonderful new film." Read the full review of Mountains May Depart.
They said: "Zhangke's always had a throughline regarding economic inequality and the 21st century-style Chinese capitalism in his work, but Mountains May Depart might be the director's defining statement on the way that his nation has changed over the past few decades." (Oliver Lyttelton, Indiewire)
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki
We said: "The first film in seven years from the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien – a period-drama martial arts movie – is an immaculate treasure box of light, texture and movement. It is one of the most purely beautiful films I have ever seen." Read the full review of The Assassin.
They said: "Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin is a gorgeous creation, a martial arts movie that willfully withholds and subverts the primary pleasures of the genre to get at something more beautiful, mysterious and timeless. One doesn't watch The Assassin so much as fall under its sway." (Tim Grierson, Paste)
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara
We said: "Yakuza Apocalypse stays foolish. Or, to be precise, it starts foolish, before dog-legging into absurd, and then the giant frog turns up, and every last narrative-aesthetic rule goes up in smoke. Miike stirs everything into the mix: slapstick, body horror, stop-motion animation, and vintage giant monster carnage." Read the full review of Yakuza Apocalypse.
They said: "Taking place in that part of the imagination ruled by storytelling capacity before narrative logic, realism and cause/effect psychology comes along, the film is an insane headrush of the most disposable, nonsensical, whacked-out genre bliss possible." (Jessica Kiang, Indiewire)
Rating: * *
Director: Gaspar Noé
Starring: Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin
We said: "The problem with Love isn't its purpose, which I find wholly laudable, nor the sex itself, which is beautiful and also – to use a taboo critical term – sexy. It's that both these things deserved a far richer and more intelligent film to support them." Read the full review of Love.
They said: "The biggest surprise of Love is its modest ambition: Noé's intermittently absorbing, somewhat half-baked, underwritten chronicle of a doomed romance does offer a few tidbits of hardcore goods as promised, but otherwise feels lightweight." (Eric Kohn, Indiewire)
Rating: * * *
Starring: Michael Caine, Karvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda, Paul Dano
We said: "There are lightning-flashes of pure, ornamental brilliance throughout Paolo Sorrentino's follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2013 masterpiece The Great Beauty, although there's not much happening on the landscape they illuminate." Read the full review of Youth.
They said: "There are brilliant flourishes here that could only have come from Sorrentino: superb swooping camera moves, grotesque faces and angular perspectives, and it always watchable. But it's beset with Sorrentino's occasional fanboy weakness for pop-star cameos – Paloma Faith appears here, playing herself and not earning her keep." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, * * *)
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram
We said: "Apichatpong's work isn't so much an acquired taste as a required one. It's different from almost anything else out there, with long, static shots underscored by nothing more than the soothing chirp of cicadas and rustle of leaves, and characters who drift in a blissed-out limbo between the spirit world and ours." Read the full review of Cemetery of Splendour.
They said: "Weerasethakul combines a gentle deadpan humour with his usual quietist worldview. If the sleeping sickness is a form of group hysteria, then it is a very calm sort of hysteria. But more than this, it is another example of this director's insistence on a spiritual realm which overlaps with our own." (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian, * * * *)
Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Benicio Del Toro, Victor Garber, Jeffrey Donovan
We said: "There's not much fault to find with Sicario on the level of craft or performances, just its rather sputtering momentum, and the lack of a higher purpose. It's admirable that the film's taking its subject, Mexico's bloody drug cartels, seriously; it's just not enough." Read the full review of Sicario.
They said: "The stage initially seems to be set for a Silence of the Lambs-style feminist thriller involving a intrepid woman at odds with her gruff, male-dominated workforce. But Blunt's character ultimately remains the passive spectator in a web of conspiracies and mounting investigative strategies that — once revealed — amount to little more than a simplistic indictment of the ubiquitous corruption at hand." (Eric Kohn, Indiewire)
Director: László Nemes
Starring: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Sándor Zsótér
We said: "Nemes's film is set entirely, and with pitiless, unyielding intensity, inside Auschwitz-Birkenau. It's almost too ruthless an achievement for its own good. It pushes its vision to the bitter end, eschewing emotion, reflection, or intellectual framing as if banned at gunpoint from any such lapses. But these are the very dehumanising conditions Saul is dealing with, and the film's brave choice is to follow them to the letter." Read the full review of Son of Saul.
They said: "The death and torment of everyone else is dashed past in the name of one pie-eyed salvation mission. But you can't deny, nor can you resist, the screaming power of Nemes's mise-en-scène. The cinema of genocide will never be quite the same again." (Nigel Andrews, Financial Times)
Marguerite and Julien
Director: Valérie Donzelli
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Aurélia Petit
We said: "Donzelli has adapted her film from an unused François Truffaut script, yet nothing beneath Marguerite & Julien's fussy surface suggests any kind of understanding of why his films were and remain so exhilarating and surging with life. Instead, Donzelli's film plays out with plodding straightforwardness, one scene following on from the next with almost no time for reflection, or the building of erotic tension, or a sense of scandal, or anything else." Read the full review of Marguerite and Julien.
They said: "This is a turkey de luxe, with stuffing, bread sauce, and a paper hat. There is mad over-acting, a sinister reactionary priest and two separate face-slapping incidents. When Marguerite and Julien finally make their escape, they have weird, freaky nature-embracing sex in a forest: it looks madly uncomfortable, like the performances." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, *)
Starring: Diane Lane, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling (voices)
We said: "The opening sequence of Pixar's Up became notorious for making cinema-goers cry in under four minutes, but – in my case at least – Inside Out has beaten it. The first tear was rolling down my cheek within 30 seconds flat. This is a humane and heart-wrenchingly beautiful film from director Pete Docter; even measured alongside Pixar's numerous great pictures, it stands out as one of the studio's very best." Read the full review of Inside Out.
They said: "Inside Out hasn't anything as genuinely emotionally devastating as Up, or the subtlety and inspired subversion of Monsters Inc. and the Toy Stories which it certainly resembles at various stages. But it is certainly a terrifically likeable, ebullient and seductive piece of entertainment, taken at full-throttle." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)
Starring: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson, Cory Michael Smith, Jake Lacy
We said: "Everything, in this long-gestating adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel, feels weighted to perfection. The film's a smorgasbord of edible Fifties design which finds meaning in the smallest details. And the acting slays you: Cate Blanchett, especially, somehow leaps over her own highest standards with a subtlety that's little short of phenomenal." Read the full review of Carol.
They said: "Often the film can be as buttoned-up as its era, relying on loaded looks and gestures to communicate deep oceans of feeling. So the film is initially a little, if not underwhelming, at least chillier than expected." (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair)
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Mélanie Thierry, Fedja Stukan, Eldar Reisdovic
We said: "This pitch-black story about international aid workers in the Balkans is full of punchy comic dialogue – doubly impressive, given this is the director's first English-language picture – and has a winning habit of thwarting your expectations as to where the most morally upstanding course of action might lead." Read the full review of A Perfect Day.
They said: "Tipping its hat to anti-war screen comedies that came out of the counterculture movement like Catch-22 and M*A*S*H – with a dash of the mordant absurdism of Emir Kusturica and Goran Paskaljevic fueled by the Balkan setting – the good-looking film's humour is low-key to a fault, and its characters don't always generate the sparks that the script intends." (David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter)
Starring: Emmanuelle Bercot, Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco, Chrystèle Saint-Louis Augustin, Patrick Raynal
We said: "Maïwenn has her films unfold in a kind of perpetual, caffeinated close-up – they're built of laughter and food and arguments and sex, all experienced at close quarters, with her camera capturing the emotions of her cast as they flash across their faces like sunlight through the windscreen of a speeding car." Read the full review of Mon Roi.
They said: "Despite committed turns by Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Bercot as an unlikely couple who meet cute, have a kid and wind up squabbling over whether they should separate, Mon Roi never moves beyond the basic trappings of its formula. Worse, it repeats the same tropes over and over again for two hours, as if the filmmaker ran out of steam along with her central couple." (Eric Kohn, Indiewire)
Starring: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Janis Winehouse, Blake Fielder-Civil (archive footage)
We said: "Kapadia's film is many things: a Sherlockian reconstruction of Winehouse's arcing path across the skies of superstardom, a commemoration of her colossal talent, and a moving tribute to a brilliant, witty, vivacious young woman gone far too soon." Read the full review of Amy.
They said: "Amy is an emotionally stirring and technically polished tribute, its sprawling mass of diverse source material elegantly cleaned up, color-corrected and shaped into a satisfying narrative. If Kapadia's film feels like an incomplete story, that is mainly because Winehouse's life was itself incomplete." (Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter)
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti
We said: "Turturro deserves four stars – but the rest of Moretti's saggy melodrama is scarcely half as good."
They said: "One of Moretti's most minor-key works, My Mother leaves the audience to make connections, and those who are bored by its sometimes drab surface [...] may be unwilling to make the effort. That's their loss." (Lee Marshall, Screen International)
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe, Jordan Gavaris, Katie Aselton
We said: "Van Sant wanted to study a man drowning in sorrow and guide him towards the light. But the guidance he gets is fake, forced, and unbearably tricksy, a kind of suicide rehab with gotcha devices. Like Aokigahara itself, the whole film needs cordoning off with safety rope and ""Keep Out" signs. There's nothing to see inside." Read the full review of The Sea of Trees.
They said: "Not even Matthew McConaughey can sustain the mushy, amateurish story, which digs itself a deeper hole as it moves along. The established talents of both director and star only serve to magnify the many wrong moves that this stunning misfire takes." (Eric Kohn, Indiewire)
Director: Natalie Portman
Starring: Natalie Portman, Shira Haas, Makram Khoury
We said: "Portman has adapted a memoir by the Israeli novelist Amos Oz about his childhood in 1940s Jerusalem, under the British mandate, through the civil war of 1947-8, and to the creation of the state of Israel. The film feels like a personal project for Portman, but thankfully never a vanity one. It's a fine piece of work – and you sense there's better to come." Read the full review of A Tale of Love and Darkness.
They said: "So often, films from Israel and Palestine concentrate on the conflict between these two cultures, rather than life as it is experienced on the ground – that is, struggling to find some normalcy amid shootings and bombs... A Tale of Love and Darkness opts for a sombre portrayal of life in Jerusalem, one whose virtually monochromatic colour palette has been pushed toward the dolorous blue end of the spectrum." (Peter Debruge, Variety)
Starring: Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey
We said: "Irrational Man is like a so-so episode of Columbo, where we're in on the hows and whys, and merely wait for the who to drop in someone else's head. Stone's Jill is more Nancy Drew than Peter Falk, though, and those cogs turn awfully slowly – Allen hasn't written a part that lets her snappy intelligence come to the fore, only her easy charm and sudden, flaring bursts of outrage." Read the full review of Irrational Man.
They said: "There are one or two nice moments, and some clunkingly improbable and lazily written plot twists, for which the narrative path has been notionally cleared with stitchback references early in the script. They really should either have had more basic plausibility, more genuine hair-raising excitement, or been cleared for us as overtly comic and absurd." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, * *)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Léa Seydoux, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly, Olivia Colman
We said: "Colin Farrell's David is a widower newly arrived at a processing unit for single people, where they're given a set number of days in which to find a new partner among the inmates, or else be transformed into a creature of their choosing. Despite its slicing weirdness, The Lobster is surprisingly moving. Every frame has been composed with cerebral coolness, and the hotel and its surrounding forests are shot with a dream-like lucidity. I haven't seen anything quite like it before." Read the full review of The Lobster.
They said: "The Lobster is elegant and eccentric in Lanthimos's familiar style: the world of the hotel is brilliantly created, and the film cleverly mocks the unexamined strangeness of hotels with all their corporate furniture of leisure and relaxation. This part of the film looks like the weekend break or team-building exercise from hell." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, * * *)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Suzu Hirose, Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho
We said: "This is a story about grace, kindness, and a form of rescue: that of 15-year-old Suzu (Suzu Hirose, an absolute pleasure to watch), by the three half-sisters she's never met until their father's funeral. The patience of the filmmaking is pretty remarkable, a feat of embroidery slowly taking shape. It's an invitation to sit back and settle in for one of Kore-eda's loveliest films." Read the full review of Our Little Sister.
They said: "Kore-eda's trademark humility and humanism is here, and we do get glimpses, even stretches, that suggest the piercingly bittersweet vitality of his best work. But Our Little Sister feels like "Kore-eda lite." Not that he was ever the heaviest of filmmakers: a lullaby of sweet but repeated notes; a cool hand stroking a brow long after the fever has passed." (Jessica Kiang, Indiewire)
Starring: Salma Hayek, Toby Jones, Vincent Cassel, Bebe Cave, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Stacy Martin, John C. Reilly
We said: "A triptych of fables drawn from a 17th-century book of Neapolitan folk stories dances on a razor's edge between funny and unnerving, with sequences of shadow-spun horror rubbing up against moments of searing baroque beauty. It's the kind of film you've spent the past 10 years wishing Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton would make." Read the full review of Tale of Tales.
They said: "These fairy tales are certainly not aimed at children, though they will light the fire of many teens. Apart from a few moments of artistic eros – the first a shot of two court ladies consumed with passion for each other in a carriage; the second a post-orgy scene laced with naked, Felliniesque bodies – there is an underlying horror that is unnerving even for adults." (Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter)
La Tête Haute / Standing Tall
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Starring: Rod Paradot, Catherine Deneuve, Sara Forestier, Benoît Magimel
We said: "An unglamorous social realist drama about a juvenile deliquent makes for an unlikely Cannes opener, but its young star – discovered smoking outside a technical college in the Paris suburbs – gives a performance that's worth getting excited about." Read the full review of Standing Tall.
They said: "It is a high-minded, often touching movie which replaces the nihilism and miserabilism often to be found in social realism, and replaces them with a positive vision of what the state can – and can't – do to help." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, * * *)
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
We said: "Miller's long-delayed return to the Mad Max series is nothing less than a Krakatoan eruption of craziness. The film is almost nothing but chase, with each high-octane action sequence shunting into the next at breakneck speed." Read the full review of Mad Max: Fury Road.
They said: "Inevitably the leanness of the early films has been lost, but without question Fury Road remains the work of a visionary. Miller has put all the money, all the perverse and poetic flights of his imagination, on the screen." (Ian Nathan, Empire, * * * * *)
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In previous articles we stated that forecasts point to an increase in median temperatures of up to 5ºC more before the end of this century. The increase in climate change brought about by global warming does not, strictly speaking, lend itself to forecasts; the bad thing is that, up until now, all the forecasts have been rendered inaccurate by the sheer speed and intensity of events and their impact—in short, by reality.
James Hansen's latest paper on Perception of Climate Change, published last month by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and mentioned in The Economist, states that the "climate dice" (a term used to describe the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons) has shifted towards unusually warm spells over the past thirty years. Thanks to global warming, another new category has emerged: "extremely high summertime temperatures". This "extreme heat", which during the base period (1951-1980) covered much less than 1% of the Earth's surface, now covers about 10% of the land area. The seasonal temperature deviations have shifted unmistakably towards high temperatures and the range of anomalies has increased.
What does "global warming" really mean? As well as temperature increases, it means alterations in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather phenomena, with 2011 beating all existing records in the USA: annual losses caused by these phenomena have gone from a few billion US dollars in 1980 to more than 200 billion dollars today, according to the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events. Other phenomena related to global warming such as the rise in sea levels, changes in the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation and wind events, the increase of cyclones, the fall in farm productivity, the increasing scarcity of potable water or the loss of biodiversity, are just a few of the global phenomena that will cause significant regional impacts.
Let's focus further on a particularly sensitive issue: water. One of the immediate impacts expected is the growing scarcity of drinking water: in the Mediterraneanregion and Africa and Southern Africa, increased drought levels and the subsequent drop in surface runoff (by more than 30%), and in large areas of China, India (the Himalayas alone are home to more than 50,000 glaciers that feed into 10 major rivers that are vital to the water supply in Asia—the Amu Darya, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Yangtze, the Hu nag He and the Tarim—on which 1.3 billion people depend for their water supply, and the Andes, as a result of glacier ice melting in the mountains which provide seasonal water for a number of rivers.
"Water is going to run out longer before oil does" warned Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, in the last OECD forum held last May.
Researcher Aiguo Dai uses a predictive model that analyzes changes in the worldwide aridity over the period 1923-2010 and concludes that these changes point towards severe and prolonged periods of drought for the next 30-90 years as a result of lower rainfall precipitations and increasing evaporation.
Between 100 and 200 million people a year fell prey to flooding, drought and other water-related disasters; nearly two-thirds of these disasters are caused by flooding. The OECD's Environmental Outlook 2050 calculates that the number or people at risk of suffering the consequences of flooding will rise from today's figure of 1.2 billion to approximately 1.6 billion in 2050—that's nearly 20% of the planet's population! The economic value of the assets at risk will come to 45 trillion dollars in 2050, a figure 340% higher than in 2010.
Speaking on food prices crisis and volatility, in a recent Financial Times article, the Head of Investments at GMO, Jeremy Grantham, warned that the impact of current climate change effects on drought and flooding are being seriously underestimated.
We are already faced with one of the consequences: the food price volatility. The US corn crisis, brought on by the worst drought seen in the USA since the 1950's, is directly related to global warming. Moreover, as Stanford's Noah Diffenbaugh states in a recent study published in Nature Climate Change, it shows that US corn price volatility is far more sensitive to the immediate effects of climate change than to energy policies (such as production quotas for bio-fuels).
The evidence on the dramatic effects of global warming are more and numerous and serious by the day, and their consequences represent a futile waste of human life, and lead to the deterioration of vast eco-systems which, in turn speeds up global warming. We are witnessing the destruction of a part of our historic and cultural essence, greater volatility of basic food prices (wheat, corn, rice) and the ever-diminishing security of their supply due to protectionist measures in the countries where they are produced (Russia in2010, India in 2011).
Science has made it clear that the causes of global warming are, by and large, human-made, the term: Anthropocene, is already in use to name the era we are now entering. Global overpopulation and the Western world excessive consumption lifestyle are to blame, as its increasing demand for energy is satisfied by producing fossil fuels whose large-scale combustion is highly polluting, as is the case of coal, oil and, to a lesser extent, gas; main CO2 producers and responsible for heating the planet.


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The following heatsink manufacturer contact information is intended to aid OEMs, distributors, and tech industry buyers in sourcing out cooling companies. Consumers looking to buy heatsinks should look to their nearest online retailer, or computer store, as heatsinks are not sold through the websites listed here, unless otherwise specified.
If you would like your company listed, or information updated, please email mpage@frostytech.com with all the necessary details. This list focuses on manufacturers of computer level heatsinks only; processors, graphics cards, motherboard components, etc.
Company Background: Active Cool, which was founded in 2000, has developed an active cooler for computer processors manufactured by Intel and AMD.
2F, No. 192, Lien Chen Road, Chung Ho, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Company Background: Provide Appropriate Cooling Solutions for New Technologies. Focus on Producing Advanced Products to Solve Thermal Influence in Micro-Electronics.
Company Background: For more than eight years Adda has developed a broad range of products designed to extend the life of electronic components primarily used for the information technology industry. Now, we develop and manufacture on two continents and intend to expand our manufacturing further.
Specialty: Standard extrusion heat sinks and custom high aspect ratio heat sink assemblies.
Company Background: Ajigo designs, manufactures, and markets thermal solutions for the computer and electronic industries. Combining Asian manufacturing centers and an understanding of global customer requirements, Ajigo offers cost effective cooling products without sacrificing quality and reliability. Ajigo was established in Asia and the United States by engineering and marketing professionals with experience in thermal management and a history of innovation. The same group worked with AMD to design cpu coolers to support the launch of the first Athlon.
Company Background: The Akasa cooler component range includes CPU coolers, case fans plus low profile heatsinks and high efficiency coolers for the specialized market. These components are often to be found in award winning PCs. Our client list includes many well-known names and major OEM system developers and board manufacturers throughout the world.
Specialty: Light metal parts made by MicroForging(R).
Company Background: In 1989 Alpha began to apply our technology to heat sinks. Since then, we have developed high performance heat sinks previously thought impossible to make and at the same time developed MicroForging, a new technology surpassing any other forging techniques. Our customers include SUN Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC. We also serve many domestic and overseas Electronics and Electronical Makers.
Company Background: Arkua Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Taiwan by a group of aggressive and experienced engineers in their respective fields. Since our establishment, we have successfully gained worldwide recognition for our innovative designs and our facilities are certified for ISO-9001 international quality standards. Arkua Technology devotes in researching and developing Heat Conducting Techniques, and successfully applies it to CPU coolers for various kinds of PCs, heat-dissipation system for close-type Chassis, and solutions for heat-accumulation that electronics encounter.
Specialty: The major products are Desktop components (CPU Cooler, Chassis, PSU, LCD monitor, Accessories), MB, NB, VGA card, ODD, PDA, Wireless, Mobile, Networking, and Broadband.
Company Background: ASUSTeK now is a total 3C solution provider. We started as the No. 1 MB vendor and expended our successful experiences to other fields, ex. thermal. Our RD are masters of thermal related subjects, like airflow analysis, material conductivity and efficiency design. ASUS' design innovation and product quality can guarantee that we provide the best thermal solutions.
AVC - Asia Vital Components Co.,Ltd.
Company Background: AVC, HQ in Taiwan, is the world's largest CPU cooler supplier and the 353th manufacturer in Taiwan, equipped with more than 100 R&D members and production floor of over 55,000 square meter located in Taipei and Kaoshiung, Taiwan and Shenzhen and Shanghai, China. AVC is also a leading provider of various thermal products, including DC fan, heat sink, thermal module used in notebook and heat pipe. AVC's customers include most of the first tier OEM/ODM PC and notebook makers with revenue accounted for USD$86 millions in 2001 for CPU cooler only. AVC is a vertically integrated and R&D oriented company,providing thermal problem solving capability ranging from component to system level and from theoretical simulation to reality.
Specialty: Specialized manufacturing in heat sink, heat pipe, and thermal product.
Company Background: The biggest manufacturer of heat sink, and heat pipe; strong R&D ability.
No.13, Wu-chiuan 5th Rd., Wu-gu Industry Area, Taipei Hsien, 248, Taiwan R.O.C.
Specialty: CpuMate Inc. has designed, developed, and manufactured a myriad of innovative cooling devices for electronics device. We are proud to offer our impressive line of patented thermal solutions.
Company Background: CpuMate Inc. was established in 1994, formerly Ever Security Inc., a vendor specialized in manufacturing motorcycle & bicycle components and Computer hardware. In 1995, Ever Security started its development in thermal technology. In 1996, partnership with ITRI for thermal-solution development formed. Nov. 2001, CpuMate was formally established as an independent thermal solution company, located in Taipei, with capital US$9 millions.
Company Background: Dynatron Corporation, the leading manufacturer of CPU cooling products.
Company Background: EKL AG was founded as Elektronik Kühlsysteme Leutkirch GmbH in 1995 and has been registered as a public limited company since march 2000. The company is based in Leutkirch, a town in the south-west Allgäu region. Over 50 experienced employees are dedicated to meeting the divers requirements of our international customers. Besides the research and development of cooling systems for computers, the company´s service spectrum covers distribution, marketing and logistics on a global scale. EKL also boasts its own production and distribution subsidiaries in Hungary and Taiwan. The direct transfer of know-how to and from the asian markets allows us access to the latest developments and to market dynamic strategies quickly. We have the facilities in both Germany and Hungary to assemble over 20,000 cooling systems per site on a daily basis. Our capacities in Taiwan are even capable of production over 57,000 units. The EKL AG company has been certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001 since 1999.
Company Background: We are a Design Company, and we mark the Hi-End Case , Power Supply and total Thermal Solution (Cooling Solution) for our Customer.
Company Background: Eumax's major products include: Heat Sinks, CPU Coolers, Chipset Coolers, DC fans, Interface Materials and any other PC products. Their mission is to help our customers address thermal issues and high quality PC components at all stages of product design by utilizing their talented R&D department and core engineers.
4FL, NO.123-8, Hsing De Rd., San-Chung City, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan R.O.C.
Specialty: CPU cooler, VGA cooler, HDD Cooler, System blower, ODM/OEM.
Company Background: Evercool is headquartered in Taiwan and has its own factory located in Guang Dong China. This means that you can count on availability, as Evercool warehouse is full of components and ready to ship goods, at all times. Our China factory occupy approximate 10,000 square feet, there are around 700~800 employees. Our production line produces about 2.5 million pieces per month at present, which are manufactured in accordance with the approvals of ISO 9001. Growing numbers of happy customers such as Hewlett Packard, Acer, FIC etc. can weigh our success and growth.
Specialty: Computer cooling & Thermal solutions.
Company Background: Founded in 1991, Spire? is the brand for computer thermal solutions. To meet the needs of the global market, we have established the production facilities in China, the head office in the USA and overseas branches in The Netherlands, U.K., Germany, Taiwan and Japan all strategically located to the customers we serve.
8F, No. 651-9, Chung Jeng Road, Shing Chuang 242, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Company Background: CPU COOLERS, DVD-R, CD-R.
Company Background: GlacialTech, Inc. was established in June 2001 by a team of 8 world-class researchers (PHDs) and three factory owners. As a total thermal solution provider for personal and corporate computing markets, GlacialTech's extensive product lineup includes coolers for desktops and servers, thermal modules for notebooks and PDAs, as well as customized thermal design services which deliver an optimum balance of performance and value, to users everywhere.
Specialty: Total Thermal Solution for PC/Server (Product: Heatsink/Fan/Case/Power Supply).
Company Background: Taipei HQ was founded in 1992, in 1996 US branch office was set up. 500-people production line was built up in Mainland China in 1999 and in 2001 the French office was established. Customers include AMD, Intel and world top 10 PC manufacturers. Coolers are our design and Globalwin own many patents registered in different countries.
No. 41, Shin-ban Rd., Taoyuan City, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Specialty: Thermal products, Heat pipes, DC fan, Contact probes.
Company Background: Ideal Elethermal Inc. (IEI), founded in March 1996, is a professional total thermal solution provider for computer and electronics industries. IEI has been endeavoring in developing high-quality, cost-effective and reliable thermal solutions for its customers to solve all sorts of thermal problems for their products. IEI deems very highly of its customers by providing one-stop high-quality and efficient service, which includes product designing, fast prototyping, CFD simulation, experimental verifications, mass production and extending services for all of its valuable and respectable customers.
Specialty: Customized air cooled and water cooled cooper or aluminum heatsinks.
Company Background: Now in our 20th year as precision machine shop with a core competency in heatsink technology and manufacturing, Interfab has the ability to customize to our customer's needs and specifications, instead of having components designed around the heatsinks demands.
Specialty: CPU Coolers, Heat Sinks (extruded & machined), Blowers, DC Fans, AC Fans, & Custom Thermal Designs.
Company Background: Since 1991 we have supplied dependable, cutting-edge cooling products to large OEMs around the world. With over 800 employees and operations in North America, Europe and Asia, JMC has established itself as a leading thermal solutions provider.
Specialty: Produced Heatsink By Skiving Technology and CPU Cooler.
Company Background: Kai-Way Technology Co., Ltd is ISO 9002 certified company and was founded in Middle of 2001. The company produces PC Thermal Cooling products and applies the latest Technology such as Fin Skiving for top performance. Kai-Way own a factory in Taipei Hsien, Taiwan with a total of 35 employees including 4 Engineers. A strong R & D team enables Kai-Way Tech. to constantly develop top quality CPU Cooler and PC thermal cooling products.
Company Background: Kuang Thousand Technology Co., Ltd. ( KUTHTEC) was founded in 2001. The company has been devoted to design, research and development, and manufacturing in the cooling functions of CPUs. To enhanced the heat dissipation, we focus on the high density of aluminum and copper different materials combination.
Company Background: Metafoam Technologies is specialized in the development and commercialization of innovative open-cell metal foam solutions. Through unique properties of its copper foams and its patent pending processes to bond metal foam to rods and plates, Metafoam offers thermal solutions many times superior than what can be found in the market. High surface area cold plates that do not need micromachining, flat heat pipes having a great capillary force, and high performance boiling/evaporator plates for vapor chambers, thermosyphons, jet impingement & spray cooling solutions are count amongst Metafoam's products. Visit our website or contact us to learn more about these products.
Specialty: Manufacturer of Heat Sinks and Extruded Aluminum Products. Customer and Standard Designs, Prototypes to Production Quantities, Thermal Management Design Assistance.
Company Background: 29 years in business, served major industries including: electronics, telecommunications, computer, medical, instrumentation, industrial, contract manufacturing, food service, automotive, military, power etc., machined samples in less than one week, new extrusion samples in 3 weeks. Provide value added input to our customers design process (design, cost, manufacturability, thermal performance).
Neng Tyi Precision Industries Co., Ltd.
No. 23, Wu Chuan Third Road, Wu Ku Hsiang, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Specialty: Thermal Solution in NB, PC, RAM Module, Precision Tooling & Manufacturing.
Company Background: NengTyi Precision Industries was founded in 1990 devoted to the research of the highest technology in heat dissipation techniques. With a highly experienced R&D team, Neng Tyi rapidly became thermal industry leader designing and developing high quality OEM/ODM thermal solutions for well known enterprises like Sony, Fujitsu, Mitac, Gigabyte, Kingston, etc.
7F-1, No. 512, Cheng Kung Rd., Sec. 2, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Specialty: DC FAN, CPU COOLER, VGA COOLER, WATER COOLING SYSTEM.
Company Background: Established in 1998 & factories in Taiwan & China.
Power Cooler Enterprise Co. Ltd.
12F-7, No.77 Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Sec. 1, Hsi Chih, Taipei Hsien Taiwan, R.O.C.
Radian Heatsinks, Div. of Intricast Company, Inc.
Specialty: Provides full-service thermal solutions for high-end electronics, including CPUs, DC Converters, BGAs, IGBTs, TECs and ASICs. Radian also offers complimentary thermal analysis, simulation services and heatsink design assistance for custom cooling challenges.
Company Background: Radian Heatsinks provides value-added thermal design solutions for the advanced microelectronics and components industries worldwide. We are a division of Intricast Company, Inc., which has supplied quality custom metal components to a variety of industries since 1974.
6F, No.18, Tian Mu E. Rd., Taipei Taiwan, R.O.C.
Specialty: Intel and AMD heatsink fan.
3F, No.77, Sec.1, Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsi-Chih, Taipei Hsien 221, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Specialty: CPU Coolers, Heatpipes, Connectors and Cables.
Company Background: TaiSol Electronics designs and manufactures electronics thermal cooling and flash media connector solutions. Taisol also supply millions of cable assemblies worldwide.
Specialty: Intel and AMD High-End Desktop CPU Solutions, Vapor Chamber Solution.
Company Background: Established in 2H 2001, Thermal Integration Technology Inc. (T.I.T.I.) is a professional thermal solution provider. By offering wide range of thermal products, T.I.T.I. fulfills the strict requirement on thermal solution for both computing and IA industries. The elite staffs from respective fields, T.I.T.I. continuously introduce more value-added products to market. We strive to be the customer oriented thermal solution provider.
Company Background: Thermalright specializes in the design and manufacture of a wide array of cooling systems and modules for the information communication technology (ICT) industries. Our CPU cooler line of products is designed with a diverse group of end users in mind; as such, our products are suitable in a variety of distribution channels. Thermalright employees the top-notch designers and uses advance testing equipment and process that meet the stringent testing specifications of Intel and AMD. Our people and our process are ISO-9000 certified.
Specialty: The major products are heat sink, stamping clip, CPU cooler, DC Fan, Folded fin and thermal products.
Company Background: Established in 1998, Thermaltake has quickly risen as a respected leader in computer thermal solutions technology. Thermaltake has increasingly enjoyed the adoption of its thermal strategies by OEM & ODM companies worldwide. Our engineering staff are masters of airflow analysis, material conductivity and efficiency design. Thermaltake's devotion to quality and customer satisfaction has earned its products the approval of computer enthusiasts everywhere.
25F, No. 29, Sec. 2, Jungjeng E. Rd., Danshuei Jen, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
Specialty:Machined/extruded manufacturing technology for high performance heatsinks and custom-made cooling solutions.
Company Background:Tocools have a powerful technology of machined and extruded heatsinks for manufacturing high performance heatsinks. This technology is contributed to the best cost, the best quality, and the best delivery. Tocools manufacture many high performance heatsinks, CPU coolers and custom-made coolers.
Specialty:Sharing our technical expertise & innovative designs. Providing the most enhanced total-solutions for computer systems. Offering completed and diversified product lines to meet your needs.
Company Background:Vantec devoted in manufacturing and developing total PC solutions to the computer users. Sharing our technical expertise and innovative designs to meet personal and industrial needs for computer systems are our major objects. In order to meet the modern market demands, we expended our product lines to offer you more computer peripheral devices. To understand and satisfy consumers' needs are always our primary goals. Our line products offer you a complete, affordable way to upgrade your personal computer.
Specialty:Silent fans and cooling systems.
Company Background: Research & development in fluid engineering.
Specialty: Extruded heatsinks and high volume cooling solutions.
Company Background: Zalman were founded January 1999 and hold 8 Patents & 14 Design Patents for coolers for electronic equipment. Since that time Zalman Tech Co. have relocated and expanded their headquarters and factory to Seoul, Korea. In 2002 the US branch of Zalman was founded and exports increased to a total of 28 countries. Zalman Tech Co are ISO9001: 2000 Certified, and their CNPS7000 model was selected as a Finalist for 2002 Best of COMDEX Awards in Las Vegas.


It must be winter. How else to explain that we've started on yet another room renovation before we've even finished the craft room. The same thing happened in 2008 when, in the depths of a March winter storm, we decided to spontaneously transform a guest room into a green office for two. Being cooped up indoors apparently makes us very productive, ha!
We've decided to transform the dining room. With the living room looking fabulous, the dining room across the hall looks even more tragic. Here's how it looked the day we bought it... boring, plain, and very yellow.
The great thing about a room like this is that you can create a whole brand new look very easily. The challenging part is that you have way too many options to choose from!
In designing the room, I knew I wanted a mix of modern and traditional. I'm craving colour these days and this is a perfect room for taking some design risks. The dining room isn't a room we're constantly in, plus the pocket doors make it easy to close the room off from the rest of the house. The room is at the front of the house so why not make it a showpiece?
I've resigned myself to the fact that I will never live in an Instagram-perfect white walled minimally designed home. Though I like those photos, in reality I crave pattern, colour, texture, traditional style and architectural details.
And most of all, especially lately, I want rooms that make us happy. In a world that seems increasingly unhappy, I want our home environment to be one of joy. I want rooms that make me smile, even if I just catch a glimpse of them as I walk up the stairs. I want all-over pattern granny-ish wallpaper that makes my heart sing, even if its not a popular choice. I want to sit in my 15 year old dining chairs, even though I can buy a new set that is lighter and brighter and more modern. With this home, I'm finding I'm making more deliberate choices and being more conscious about what I bring (and take away) from my home.
This is the design I've landed on. I haven't purchased all the elements yet though I'm sure we'll end up somewhere close to this rendering.
The other thing I've resigned myself to? That our home renovation and DIY projects take much longer than they did a decade ago when I first started blogging. It could be because we live busier lives now with a daughter and jobs to distract us. Or that we're older and don't have that youthful energy we once did. But, maybe, I've learned that the process is the joy... that sifting through paint chips and wallpaper samples is my idea of bliss and deciding on the perfect chandelier is a problem I love having. Blogging and social media and the rush to get to the After can be good motivators, but they sure can make you forget to enjoy the moment and all the messiness that comes with it.
I'm not sure when we'll get to finishing off this room, it will be after the craft room, that's for sure. But when we do, I know I'll be thrilled with the end result because I've enjoyed every step along the way.


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As layoffs multiply, HR leaders are feeling the heat
'Tis the season for layoffs, particularly in the tech sector, as employers like Meta, Twitter and Netflix eliminate tens of thousands of workers. And with more companies reducing staff — and other CEOs considering it as recession fears loom — human resources executives find themselves under growing stress as they manage these separations.
Workforce reductions have become virtually a daily occurrence, as four out of five HR chiefs are in the process of trimming the rolls "to a great extent," through means that include layoffs, hiring freezes, voluntary retirements, not replacing people who leave and job performance-based cuts, according to PwC's recent Pulse Survey, based on responses from 657 executives in the U.S. from mid-October.
In this environment, HR leaders find themselves comparing notes on the best way to handle what everyone can agree is a horrible responsibility, particularly as the holiday season approaches.
Melissa Terry, head of HR at Clovis, Calif.-based VEM Group, a plastics manufacturing company that serves the medical, automotive, aerospace and other industries, shared that she deals with the increased pressure by communicating with team members directly and sharing company information with them explicitly. "I am always truthful with them, filling information gaps by sharing market data and the current state of the company's profits, as well as keeping them informed of potential future actions," she said.
Downsizing is happening both in person and remotely, as many employees continue to work from home, although Terry believes face-to-face interactions are preferred. Meanwhile, HR leaders themselves should deliver the bad news in person, never delegating the responsibility. And empathy is essential. "You should show your support for the survivors," she said.
Mind must also be paid to employees who keep their jobs, as they could begin to question their future at the company. "They require clear communication about how their jobs and objectives may change," Terry said. "They will want to know what the organization's future looks like from the management's perspective."
Staff reductions are particularly challenging when those who are getting cut happen to be outstanding employees.
"It is hard to tell someone they no longer have a job, especially when their performance has been stellar," said Kimberley Tyler-Smith, who heads strategy and growth for the job platform ResumeWorded, based in New York. Layoffs are "an emotionally charged process but also a very time-consuming one," she related.
Executing separations is not just about the process but also about managing one's own feelings and expectations, as Tyler-Smith sees it. The best way to handle layoffs is to be as prepared as possible before the meeting with the employee, Tyler-Smith advised. "Gather all the information you may need for this conversation, such as the employee's performance reviews and compensation history," she said. "This will help you better understand what needs to be discussed with them to know why they are being let go." She believes the most important thing is to be clear about why the layoffs are happening, and what the company expects from the outgoing employees before they leave.
"It is hard to tell someone they no longer have a job, especially when their performance has been stellar…Gather all the information you may need for this conversation, such as the employee's performance reviews and compensation history."
Kimberley Tyler-Smith, head of strategy and growth for the job platform ResumeWorded.
Robert Kelley, professor of management at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, said companies should view separation events as "a future investment in people, not primarily a cost drain," suggesting that employers think of those being laid off as "alumni whom you might want to rehire in the future when the company is on better footing. Granted, many might not want to come back, but you want them to leave saying that they were treated well in the process."
While most employees appreciate that layoffs are a reality of the working world, what they won't accept is "being depersonalized and treated like commodities instead of as a valued person," Kelley proposed. "You don't want them badmouthing you to future employees and future customers."
Linda Shaffer, chief people and operations officer at San Francisco-based Checkr, an HR services platform, said that as more companies carry out layoffs, it is incumbent upon HR professionals to be "strategic, innovative and agile."
There is no right answer when it comes to whether layoffs should be conducted in person or remotely, she maintained. Some organizations may choose to carry out layoffs in person, as it allows them to provide clear and direct feedback to individual employees and offer support services like career transition assistance and outplacement counseling, she said. But, she noted, conducting layoffs remotely can be an effective way to minimize the disruption and anxiety caused by large-scale layoffs, while still allowing employees to receive important information about their employment status.
Ultimately, the decision about whether to carry out layoffs in person or remotely will depend on a variety of factors specific to each organization, including its culture and operating structure, as well as the nature of the layoffs themselves.
No matter how cuts are carried out, it is crucial that HR executives stay focused on what is best for the organization, rather than getting caught up in personal feelings or emotions, Shaffer stressed. That may involve setting clear goals and metrics that are aligned with overall business objectives, developing systems and processes that support efficient and fair layoffs, and always communicating openly and honestly with staff.
She also advises HR chiefs to work closely with senior executives and other leaders throughout the process, so everyone is aligned on key decisions and actions. This may involve providing regular updates on progress, as well as engaging in meaningful dialogue about potential challenges or obstacles.
It is critical that HR professionals work closely with the C-suite to ensure staff reductions are carried out in a fair and sensitive manner, Shaffer said, "so that employees feel supported and respected throughout this difficult process."
Three questions with Mary von Aue, senior editor at communications agency WE Codeword.
You're due to publish an article in CodeWord on Nov. 15 that describes why the flexibility of working remotely is critical for your health because you suffer from epilepsy. Can you talk about why being in the office was so difficult, and what support you had from managers?
I've suffered a concussion from a seizure in the office. I've had to get stitches from a seizure in the office. I've bit through my tongue, broken my nose, and have incurred a lot of serious injuries from not being able to sit down when I need to or alert someone who is prepared to handle an oncoming seizure. Some managers have let me work from home on days when I feel an oncoming seizure; some have insisted I come to the office, resulting in the aforementioned emergencies. My safety shouldn't rely on a manager's mood but it does.
Employers often don't understand that there is more to a person wanting to work from home than simple convenience. What does flexibility mean for you and how you manage your symptoms?
The seizures prevent me from driving so for years I commuted to work by subway, sometimes taking an hour each way. Coming home late one night, I had a seizure and I was not only mugged, but the person used my thumbprint to open my phone and Venmo [a payment app] themself several times, amounting to $6,000. They left me for dead on the floor of the C train. I could have avoided this by working in a safe environment where I could prepare for a potential fall at the first symptom and alert roommates. It's so much more than a convenience.
The privacy of being able to manage symptoms at home is understandable. But is there a part of you that ever thinks — why should I have to hide this — why aren't people better equipped or trained to support people with health conditions in the office?
About 3.4 million people in the U.S. have epilepsy but we lack any substantial visibility. I want to raise awareness, but I shouldn't have to convulse on the office floor to prove we deserve consideration. I've never worked in an office that trained staff on supporting epileptics until they've seen the spectacle firsthand, and sometimes not even then. It's always reactive. I don't want to hide my condition, I just want people to hear epileptics without us first having to show them, because by then it might be too late. — Jessica Davies.
61% of 1,000 employees polled in the U.S. would rather get paid parental leave instead of employer-paid mental health benefits, including 63% of women.
[Source of data: Breeze's paid parental leave report.]
8 in 10 of the job roles held by at least 50,000 workers in the U.K. pay men more per hour than women.
[Source of data: Ciphr's Gender Pay Gap study.]
"The best thing you can do to maintain a culture of respect is be as gracious and generous as possible to those who are leaving. Those who remain feel guilt. Those who leave can be shocked and devastated."
Twitter is hardly alone when it comes to companies botching layoffs. But in a post-Covid-19 environment, where employees have revolted against harsh management practices and corporations are particularly keen on being seen as good places to work, the issue of downsizing is an especially sensitive one.
With layoffs continuing to snowball, how should management foster a workplace of respect with so much anxiety in the air?
Workplace experts say leaders should set an example and be an upstander to bias in the workplace by immediately calling it out.
A recent survey found nearly half of workers admit having experienced physical and mental health issues due to money-related stress. Here's how employers are trying to help them.
Some ex-professional athletes may be lucky enough to enjoy lucrative punditry jobs when they retire, but most people have to reinvent themselves in a business setting, which is hard.
Having a best friend at work is increasingly ancient history. But, in the post-pandemic workplace, these relationships are more critical than ever (especially for men.)
The working world has high-jacked a term typically found in the domain of romantic relationships: career cushioning. And it's on the rise, thanks to the current economic uncertainty.
L'Oréal has taken an interesting approach to get people back to the office — paying for employees to hire a concierge to help with a range of personal chores. [Fortune]
How technology can bring workspaces into the future. [PropertyNotify]


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