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The Falls, Johns River
Posted on 10 August 2020 | 4 comments
[10 August 2020: I originally uploaded this post on 13 October 2004. Last night, the Emerging Artist and I stayed at the current incarnation of the Falls. As you'd expect, it's moved on. Mary White has died, but has left a marvellous legacy. The Falls Forest Retreat (web address unchanged from 14 years ago) is a lovely place to spend a night, and even more so to spend a weekend and go on walks in the convenanted bushland.]
A couple of months ago when I was looking on the WWW for places to stay on this break, I came across The Falls Forest Retreat. I'd been led to it by a smaller notice that indicated it was a gay-friendly nudist site, but the prospect of hanging about with a lot of naked people wasn't what enticed me to click on the link. In fact, it seems that I didn't even mention the site to Penny at the time, probably because of that, plus a whiff of (for want of a better word) eco-hucksterism. But as we were driving up the coast on Saturday, I remembered it and suggested that we leave the main road at Johns River and drop in at The Falls, possibly to stay the night.
The reason for my suggestion, and for Penny's alacrity in taking it up, lies some 35 years in the past, when The Falls was a farm that had seen better days, at the foot of a small volcanic cone, incorporating many acres of bushland, a waterfall, a huge fig tree, cow paddocks covered in bracken, a decrepit orchard and a sad farmhouse.
About that time, Mollie had a vision. (In case anyone comes in late, Mollie is my mother-in-law, now in a nursing home with dementia.) She had been a quixotic environmentalist for decades – she boycotted the first supermarket in Adelaide in the early 1950s for selling environmentally harmful pink toilet paper. When she was in her early 50s, her husband Ron had been pretty much sacked from his job as general manager of a large insurance company (a new, hard-edged managerial style was to be introduced), and was running a consultancy with Mollie as secretarial worker – which both of them found frustrating. With quite a lot of organising experience behind her thanks to her involvement in the anti-Vietnam-war movement, and a head full of ideas about organic gardening and environmental responsibility, Mollie decided to go for a bigger life. She set her heart on establishing a sustainable community somewhere in the country. She and Ron joined forces with a number of other couples – initially similarly well-off people in their 50s who had been with them in the anti-War movement – to build a commune. When they responded to the ad for The Falls, they fell in love at first sight, and the project was under way.
When I met Penny in 1976, she would refer to her parents as early-retiree hippies living on a geriatric commune. (They were probably about the age that Penny and I are now, but I won't dwell on that.) We were still in our first flush of low-serotonin euphoria – that is to say, newly fallen in love – when I first met the parents: Mollie in compost-stained overalls and Ron coming in on the tractor from an afternoon slashing bracken. By that time, the buildings were pretty much complete. There was a communal building, The Roundhouse, with a large kitchen, a pool table and a sunken triangular conversation pit in front of an ample fireplace; and six units for the participating couples. Not all of them were occupied yet, and Penny and I slept on a mattress on the bare cement floor of one of them. They had a huge vegetable garden – Mollie was passionate about mulching. There were bees, chickens, ducks, a paddock of agisted cattle, newly planted fruit trees, plus bracken and lantana to slash and rocks to be cleared from the paddocks. Visiting members of the younger generation were expected to lend a hand. We were also expected to join in bush-walking, skinny-dipping, tea-drinking with the elders. The place was magic.
Over the next years, the saga of The Falls formed part of the backdrop as Penny and I were setting up our life together. On their visits to Sydney, Mollie and Ron would regale us with tales, of the joys certainly (a visitor from China praised them for keeping the outside pit toilet, the 'Loo with a View' looking up the mountain, as well as the septic system, quoting Chairman Mao's dictum about walking on two legs), but also of the anguishes of their life. There were now six participating couples, each living with a degree of independence, but all involved in the communal enterprise. Ron and Mollie's previous experience in variations of the nuclear family hadn't prepared them for the inevitable politics of regular decision making meetings, and the different, often conflicting, ideas of what the place was all about. The other participants were: Mike and Toby, formerly of New York, he retired from work in advertising, she a graphic designer who would have liked to be an opera singer; Phil and Bill, Quakers with a passion for the environment; John and Anita, shopkeepers from nearby Taree who were attracted by the idea of communal living; Jack and Carol, farmers who liked the idea of working towards retirement by farming with a group; and Beryl, the only single person, a magnificent eccentric who seemed to see it as an intellectual adventure.
So there was Mollie, completely inexperienced in country ways, pushing for organic gardening, in fierce argument with Jack who understood how to make a farm work and had little respect for her high-falutin' ideas; there was Toby singing arias to the cows when there was Work To Be Done; there was someone having an affair with somebody in town and the spouse going predictably nuts; there was Bill insisting on everything being ideologically pure, and Mike adamant about the need to be laid back. Mollie was often distraught about being accused of guilt-tripping. Someone left, and a new couple arrived, ten years younger than the others, the woman a Communist activist from Melbourne, fiercely intolerant of the middle-class muddling-through she met there. And through it all affable, tolerant Ron acted like a social leaven, a warp to Mollie's earnest weft, a reminder that they all liked each other. I've got no doubt he was as dedicated to the place as Mollie was, but in a way I think he loved it for what it was while she loved it for what it could become.
When Ron had a stroke in 1979, it was a disaster. Partly paralysed and with his vision affected, he could no longer do his share of the work, and nor could he fill his crucial peacemaking function because he became irritable and depressed. After some months, Ron and Mollie sold their share and moved away, disappointed and at least a little bitter. The commune lasted only a few years after that, and the property was soon sold, with some unpleasantness about the divvying up of the profits. On her wall in the nursing home, Mollie has an image of one of the units that a friend painted from a photograph. And apart from occasional vague whispers, I knew nothing about it until I saw that web site earlier this year, claiming a history as a resort going back to 1910, and touting the set of a long-forgotten television series as one of its attractions.
So on Saturday night, as John w Howard was being voted in as Prime Minister yet again, Penny and I drove down the gravel road to The Falls 2004-style, with muted expectations. The impact was almost physical as we drove through the gate, around the huge fig tree and up the sweep of drive through recently mowed lawn, past the sculptural rocks that (I think) had been dragged to their present position as one of The Men's projects, and up to the farmhouse. The ancient lemon tree near the house was gone, the garden had shrunk, but the roundhouse, the units, the sheds, the lay of the land, were all familiar.
As we stepped out of the car, we were greeted by a vigorous, white-haired woman who turned out to be the owner, Mary E. White. She shuddered when I told her of the nudist-friendly reference. 'Yes,' she said. 'Someone said it would be suitable for a nudist resort because it's right at the end of the road, but I couldn't bear the thought of those naked bottoms sitting on my furniture.' Though she didn't say so, I believe that the web site is as it was when she bought the property 12 months ago – she has been much too busy to attend to it. She has covenanted the part of the property that is under bush, which is a way of protecting it from future development. She has spent the last year, helped by a son, uncovering the old gardens, ridding the property once more of lantana and bracken, establishing a new vegetable garden and chicken run, converting to a bore water supply (which made it necessary to dig up and replace all the pipes laid by Mollie's generation of builders). The result is that where we had half-expected to find a more or less cynical commercial enterprise, we found the place as if uncannily preserved. Ron and Mollie's unit had the same light fittings, the same tiles, the same built-in cupboards. The stone walls built by Ron and The Men were as they had been – a result of hundreds of hours work rooting out lantana, but the effect was as if time had stood still. The books on the Roundhouse shelves had the same eclectic feel – much about conservation, but also what you'd expect from a reader born in the 1920s.
Mary said that over these 12 months of hard work, suddenly in this new place after living in the same house in the northern suburbs of Sydney for decades, she has felt that she was living in someone else's dream. It's hard to resist the idea that the dream was Mollie's. An extraordinary number of factors make her an ideal heir to Mollie's dream: she is close to 80, just a little younger than Mollie; she is a passionate environmentalist, palaeo-botanist to be precise; what's more, her family home was in Balgowlah, a couple of blocks from where Mollie and Ron lived 50 years ago. Her aim is to have the place functioning as an environmental education and conference centre, and she's well on the way: 40 people from National Parks and Wildlife are arriving for a conference/ meeting in the near future. Once things are settled, she plans to get back to her writing: she is the author of many books, mainly on the history of the Australian environment, the most recent covering the last 5 billion years.
It was an emotional visit for Penny and me. Meeting Mary was a total delight, and she was equally delighted to hear what Penny could tell her of the history of the place. We went for walks in the evening and again in the morning – to the Falls themselves, and the beautiful Cascades, and yes, past the relics of the set of the forgotten TV series. I don't think Mollie's Alzheimer's would let her understand what we were talking about if we tried to tell her, but it's deeply gratifying that her baton has been passed on, not down the generations, but to someone of her own generation eminently fitted by passion and expertise to take it.
The Cascades, where the communards went skinny-dipping
The eponymous Falls
Apart from anything else, it's good to be reminded that elections aren't everything. (Mary, incidentally, told us a story about John Howard being a true gentleman once when she was struggling with luggage at an airport. Perhaps that's an omen …)


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Levi Withee (October 26, 1834February 2, 1910) was an American lumberman, businessman, and Wisconsin pioneer.  He served eight years in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing La Crosse County.

Biography
Withee was born on October 26, 1834, in Somerset County, Maine.  He was raised on his father's farm and received a common school education. Upon reaching adulthood, he was tempted by the opportunities in the new western states and moved to Wisconsin.  He arrived in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1853 and went to work in the lumber industry.  By 1859, he had enough earnings to begin his own business further north, in Clark County, Wisconsin.

He was an owner or shareholder in many lumber companies in western Wisconsin, but was principally involved in the company Bright & Withee.  He was also invested in the Electric Light Plant, the Gas Light Company, and the La Crosse Farming Company.

Withee was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate on the Republican ticket in 1892 and was re-elected in 1896, serving from 1893 to 1901.  He did not run for a third term in 1900, but was a delegate that year to the 1900 Republican National Convention.  He was a stalwart Republican, always opposed to Robert La Follette's Progressive Republicans, and endorsed a primary challenge against La Follete in his 1902 gubernatorial re-election campaign.

Withee died from a stroke in 1910.

Personal life and family
Levi Withee was a son of Zachariah Withee and his wife Polly ( Longley).  Zachariah Withee was a veteran of the War of 1812 and received land as a reward for his service.  Levi Withee was the fifth of seven children.  His older brother Niram Withee also worked as a lumberman in the La Crosse area and was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature.

On June 3, 1868, he married Louisa H. Smith. They had one son, Abner, who was also active in the lumber business in Wisconsin and Florida, and was appointed to the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Florida.

Electoral history

| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 8, 1892

| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 3, 1896

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Batifole is being modest when it proclaims on its website that it's "the best French restaurant in Chinatown."
Walking along East Chinatown, you don't expect to find one of Toronto's most authentic French restaurants amid Pho Houses and Chinese Bakeries, but sure enough, there is Batifole. As you'd expect, stepping inside can be something of a culture shock, thanks to the restaurant's charmingly rustic Provençal atmosphere — light wooden cabinets that would be perfectly at home in a living room, basic wine racks tucked unpretentiously between one of the dining tables. Sure, there are a few odd touches (a leg lamp and highly modern light fixtures), but overall, the place has the welcome feel of an unassuming restaurant in rural France.
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I will eat duck whenever I can, so not surprisingly, for my main, I chose the due de canard ($22), "duck two ways, confit leg & pan seared breast with Muscat grapes." Both the leg and breast were heavenly. Perfectly prepared, the breast was soft and juicy, and the leg succulent and crispy. But what really elevated the meal were the Muscat grapes, which added a wonderfully sweet punch that really enhanced the duck flavour.
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We both finished with a crème brûlée ($7.50) each, which was good, if not so exceptional as to stand out from others we've had. My companion in particular wished the custard and sugar topping could have been a little thicker.
All in all, however, Batifole is great food for a worthy price. In fact, Batifole is being modest when it proclaims on its website that it's "the best French restaurant in Chinatown." It's one of the best French restaurants in the whole city, and it offers one of the best duck dishes I've ever had.
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WIll definitely stop by one of this days! Food looks fantastic!
This is by far our favourite restaurant in the city. We have been about four times now and every single dish has been fantastic and memorable as the dishes always stand out. Also, the "leg" lamp is there to commemorate the fact that the Holiday Classic movie " A Christmas Story" was filmed here (the scene where the family goes out for chinese food).
oh yes, it's really good. I had no idea that "A Christmas Story" was filmed there, how interesting!


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Vettel: Singapore was the turning point
Over the course of the season, Sebastian Vettel has been involved in a number of costly mistakes, and on Sunday he finally paid the price, watching on helplessly as rival Lewis Hamilton secured his fifth title.
However, while many point to Hockenheim as the point it all began to unravel for the German, who famously slid off a wet track and into the barriers while leading, Vettel insists that it was actually Singapore that was the turning point.
"I think, yeah, from Singapore onwards we just didn't have the pace to keep up with Mercedes for a couple of races and then obviously some other things happened on top that didn't help and we couldn't score the points due to mistakes that we did, mistakes that I did," he admitted.
"So it didn't help."
Though going into the Singapore weekend as favourite, Vettel qualified behind Hamilton and Verstappen on a track notorious for its lack of overtaking opportunities.
The Singapore weekend also marked the introduction of a series of much-anticipated upgrades, which subsequently proved to impede performance and were eventually removed.
"I can't be too hard on myself with what happened in Germany," he continued, "because it's not like... I've done much bigger mistakes this year but obviously it was the most costly one.
"Unfortunately it's part of racing: when you push you might be sometimes pushing a little bit too hard. I chose the wrong corner as well.
"But anyway, it's behind me and I'm not really thinking about that too much. I consider it part of racing and it happens to others as well.
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Battle of Kringen () involved an ambush by Norwegian peasant militia of Scottish mercenary soldiers who were on their way to enlist in the Swedish army for the Kalmar War.

The battle has since become a part of folklore in Norway, giving names to local places in the Ottadalen valley.

Background
The Scottish forces (Skottetoget) were partly recruited, partly pressed into service by Sir James Spens, apparently against the preferences of James VI, who favored the Danish-Norwegian side in the war. Two ships sailed from Dundee and Caithness in early August, met up on the Orkney Islands and sailed for Norway.

Because sea routes had been blocked by Danish forces in the Kalmar War, the Scots decided to follow a land route to Sweden that other Scottish and Dutch forces had successfully used. On 20 August the ships landed in Isfjorden in Romsdal, though the pilot apparently put the forces on shore in rough terrain. The soldiers proceeded to march up the valley of Romsdalen and down into the Gudbrandsdal.

Having been warned of the incursion, and probably inflamed by a massacre of Norwegian conscripts at Nya Lödöse and the events of Mönnichhoven's march (Mönnichhoven-marsjen) earlier in July,  farmers and peasants from Vågå, Lesja, Lom, Dovre, Fron, and Ringebu mobilized to meet the enemy. Legend has it that the sheriff of the area, Lars Gunnarson Hågå ( 1570 –  1650), came into the church in Dovre with a battle axe, struck it on the floor, and shouted "Let it be known - the enemy has come to our land!" (Gjev ljod - fienden har kome til landet!).

Order of battle
Ramsay had as captains George Sinclair, George Hay, and Sir Henry Bruce. As the Scottish forces progressed southward, they were reportedly followed by Norwegian scouts. The Scottish forces included two companies on foot, commanded by George Sinclair and Ramsay. In recent years, it has been argued that the Scots were lightly armed but this is not probable and the bodies were looted afterwards for weapons and belongings. The Norwegians were armed with swords, spears, axes, scythes, a few muskets, and some crossbows.

According to folklore, the force of the Scottish troops was between 900 and 1,100 or more, but historians generally discount the estimate, placing the probable strength as low as 300. The strength of the Norwegian militia troops is estimated to have been no more than 500.

Combat operations

There are few entirely credible accounts of the battle, but the oral history has two Norwegians on horseback following the Scottish troops, possibly on the other side of the valley. One was a woman by the name of Guri, known as Prillar-Guri to posterity; the other was an unnamed man. The man rode his horse facing backward, providing a distraction for the marching troops. When the Scots reached the narrowest section of the Gudbrandsdal at Kringen,  Guri blew her horn, signaling the ambush. The chosen place of assault is fairly steep, and the river runs close to what would be considered the only passable road at the time. Thus, the Scots would be trapped between the river and the mountain side, which they could not possibly scale.

According to folklore, the Norwegian troops threw logs and rocks down the valley, crushing the marching Scottish soldiers, but this is not confirmed. It is known, however, that they shot at the Scottish soldiers with crossbows and muskets. Among the first to fall was George Sinclair, apparently shot by a militiaman named Berdon Sejelstad. It is his name that is most commonly associated with the battle. Sinclair was a nephew of the Earl of Caithness and a historical figure in the Clan Sinclair.

Close combat ensued, the militiamen fighting with swords, axes, scythes, and presumably other improvised weapons. Over half of the Scottish troops were killed in action during the battle. Some may have escaped, but others were captured. All but 14 of around 300 were summarily executed at Kvam in what is now Nord-Fron, the survivors then sent to Christiania for imprisonment. Those killed were thrown into a mass grave at the local cemetery, north of the Scottish barn (Skottelåven), in which captured soldiers had been held; this was later called Skottehaugen (Scottish barrow). Among the survivors were the officers Alexander Ramsay, Sir Henry Bruce, James Moneypenny, and James Scott, who were eventually repatriated.

Aftermath and legacy

A statue depicting Prillar-Guri is located in the community of Otta, Norway. The peak where she allegedly stood bears her name to this day, and a local broadcasting antenna is symbolically set on the top.

A number of places were named after the Scottish incursion, notably along the route. The barn was destroyed by artillery fire during the Battle for Kvam in the Norwegian campaign.

Captured Scottish weapons, including a pistol, a Lochaber axe, a broadsword and several basket hilt claymores, were put on display at the Gudbrandsdal War Museum at Kvam (Gudbrandsdal Krigsminnesamling i Kvam) to commemorate the battle. The display also includes a model of one of the Caithness Scots.

There is evidence that some Scots may have settled in Norway and farm names may confirm that.  There is a "Sinclair's Club" in Otta and there are regular re-enactments of the battle. Sinclair's grave is now a local landmark though the Norwegians at the time sought to desecrate his memory by burying him outside the church walls.

Part of the bunad design for this area—known as rutaliv—is reminiscent of the Sinclair red tartan.

In literature and music
Norwegian poet Edvard Storm wrote a poem that tells the story of the battle, Zinklarvisa  ("Sinclair's ballad"). Henrik Wergeland wrote a historical tragedy called Sinklars død (The Death of Sinclair). The plotline concerns Sinclair and his lady, telling of the fatal choices that led to the tragic deaths at Kringen. The Norwegian folk-rock band Folque's song "Sinclairvise" makes use of Storm's poem.

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg composed Sinclair's March, one of his four Norwegian Dances, in honor of George Sinclair, hero of the Battle of Kringen.

The Faroese metal group Týr included a version of this song on their 2008 album Land, called "Sinklars Vísa". The ballad is still being sung in the Faroe Islands along with the traditional chain dance without any use of musical instruments.

In 2009, the Norwegian rock band Street Legal released an instrumental song called "The Battle of Kringen" on their album titled Bite the Bullet.

References

Sources
This article is based in part upon Sagn, samlede i Gudbrandsdalen om Slaget ved Kringen, 26de August 1612 first published in 1838  by Hans Petter Schnitler Krag (1794-1855), pastor of the parish of Vågå.

Other sources
Michell, Thomas History of the Scottish Expedition to Norway in 1612 (T. Nelson, London. 1886)
Gjerset, Knut History of the Norwegian People (The MacMillan Company, 1915, Volume I, pages 197 – 204)
"The Battle of Kringen", by Ann Pedersen, was featured as the cover story in the August 2012 edition of the "Viking" (USPS 611-600, ISSN 0038-1462), a Sons of Norway publication (pp. 10–14).

External links
Zinklarvisa
Scottish Military Disasters
Gudbrandsdal War Memorial, Kvam

Battles involving Norway
Battles involving Scotland
1612 in Norway
1612 in Scotland
Kalmar War
Conflicts in 1612
History of Oppland
Norway–Scotland relations
Scottish mercenaries
Clan Sinclair
Massacres in Norway


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GAC Profile: Marsha M. Everton
by Compendium News Staff | Nov 30, 2018 | Academic Libraries, Governor's Advisory Council (GAC), Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Marsha Everton
Marsha Everton, a long-time resident of York County, recently moved to Cumberland County. She enjoys living on the Susquehanna River in Lemoyne, PA.
Her new home library is the beautiful Cleve J. Fredricksen Library. During her years in York, Marsha's library home was Martin Library, a location that was literally across the street from her office at The Pfaltzgraff Co.
Marsha's three children, now young adults, were raised with the help of Martin Library and especially enjoyed the Summer Reading programs.
Marsha was elected to the Board of the York County Library System (YCLS) in 2007, serving for 10 years. In the last two years of her term, she also served as Board Chair. Some of Marsha's accomplishments during her term included:
Development of a library strategy to support York County's adaptation to a new economy.
Consolidation of branch libraries and specific library infrastructure elements to provide higher quality, lower cost services to the citizens of York County – including the integration of Martin Library as a branch of YCLS.
Creation of key governance initiatives, including formation of an Audit and Information Technology Committee.
Succession planning and selection of a new President for YCLS.
Marsha is strongly committed to her beliefs that:
Libraries are critical to sustaining a knowledge-based democracy.
Public libraries are critical to the lifelong learning that allows Pennsylvanians to find professional growth and jobs that pay a living wage.
Strong school libraries and professional librarians are the key to teaching our children how to navigate a world of data that needs to be shaped into factual information.
Childhood literacy programs provide the critical foundation for individual development and a readiness that gives our Pennsylvania schools the opportunity to teach and reach for new levels of academic and economic achievement.
Pennsylvania libraries power progress!!!
Marsha was appointed to the Governor's Advisory Council on Library Development in 2014, initially serving as a Library Trustee representative. In 2018, she was reappointed as a Lay User of Libraries and as Chair of the Marketing Committee.
Professionally, Marsha serves as a Director & Advisor for a range of for-profit and non-profit organizations.
In the for-profit sector, she currently serves as a director for Integrus Holdings, Inc. and The Fitzpatrick Companies Inc. and on the advisory board of Lion Brothers Company Inc. She also served a ten-year term as a director of The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.
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Marsha previously worked for over 20 years for The Pfaltzgraff Co., rising to the position of President & CEO. In a series of leadership roles, she developed Pfaltzgraff as the leading casual dinnerware brand and company in the United States.
Marsha is passionate about the evolving role of Pennsylvania libraries in the new economy.
Her passion is clear in her response to our question about her view on the role of libraries in our communities.
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Many historians believe that the 15th century invention of the Gutenberg Press was the most important technological transformation point in human history. The mechanical moveable type allowed production of multiple copies of books in a mere fraction of the time that it took to hand copy manuscripts. The state of literacy and learning in the world was forever altered, catalyzing the shift from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age and from one-on-one apprenticeship learning to mass education models. – And libraries were a key driver in providing access to that new learning technology!!!!!
The impact of the current disruptive technologies of computing, the internet and mobile access is comparable to that transformation. Literacy and learning are being redefined. We are moving from a model of mass education to education that will be highly customized for individuals. We are moving from "once and done" learning in institutions to a requirement for individual lifelong learning in order to stay relevant in our fast-changing world. – And, again, libraries are a key driver in providing access to the new (as well as old) technology!!!
Libraries truly power progress!!!"
Marsha's favorite book of all time is Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. Her much-used, tattered copy remains in her personal book collection, reminding her of the original inspiration for her interest in engineering and problem-solving. This interest led to her studies at Georgia Institute of Technology and Stanford University – and a career in technology products, database marketing and fact-based decision-making. Mike and Mary Anne's story also became the foundation for including innovation in every process and decision – illustrating the importance of having "fresh eyes" when you look at what appear to be the facts – to discover new ways to move forward.
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Q: Match common IDs between two huge csv files I need to compare two huge csv files with a thousand of entries like bellow:
id;val

1;a
2;b
3;c

Ans second file has the following structure
id1;entry
1;002
2;x90
5;d07

The desired result is to match and combine the lines with the same value for id/id1 and create a third csv file with only matched entries showing bellow:
idR;valR;entryR
1;a;002
2;b;x90

To accomplish this I can load each file in a distinct database table and perform a select like this to retrieve all matched values:
select tb1.id, tb1.val tb2.entry
  from tb1, tb2
 where tb1.id = tb2.1

At once I can retrieve all values desired with this approach.
But let's suppose these files could be sorted and in this way use it's possible to use awk to print the results for a entries with the same values for id and id1. The best that I can do is to create two associative arrays for each value and perform a binary search using awk and sed/cut?
It's possible to load these two files and combine them at once to produce a final csv file with the results?
Or I can to this with perl with standard lib?

A: Load the information in memory with awk and then print the line if the id matches:
$ awk 'FNR==NR {a[$1]=$2; next} ($1 in a) {print $1, $2, a[$1]}' f2 f1
1 a 002
2 b x90

Explanation
The basic idea is to do things when reading file1 and other_things when reading file2:
awk 'FNR==NR {things; next} {other_things}' file1 file2

In our case, things is to store the content of file2 in memory, mapping every id to its value.
Then, it goes through file1 and prints the content of the line, together with the mapped value, if there is a common id.

A: Can do this with standard join utility
file1.txt
1 a
2 b
3 c

file2.txt
1 002
2 x90
5 d07

join example
join -1 1 -2 1 -o 1.1,1.2,2.2 file1.txt file2.txt

here join is joining from file1.field1 to file2.field2 and outputting the fields specified with the -o flag
output
1 a 002
2 b x90

A: Size is the difficult part, as to merge files you may need to read in the whole lot.
However for a general solution the the problem in perl:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Text::CSV;

my %count_of;
my @field_order;

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
    my $csv = Text::CSV->new( { binary => 1 } );
    open( my $input, "<", $file ) or die $!;
    my $header_row = $csv->getline($input);
    foreach my $header (@$header_row) {
        if ( not $count_of{$header} ) {
            push( @field_order, $header );
        }
        $count_of{$header}++;
    }
}

print "Common headers:\n";
my @common_headers = grep { $count_of{$_} >= @ARGV } keys %count_of;
print join( "\n", @common_headers );

my %lookup_row;
my $key_field;
if (@common_headers) { $key_field = shift @common_headers };

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
    my $csv = Text::CSV->new( { binary => 1 } );
    open( my $input, "<", $file ) or die $!;
    my @headers = @{ $csv->getline($input) };
    $csv->column_names(@headers);
    while ( my $row_hr = $csv->getline_hr($input) ) {
        my $key = $.;
        if ($key_field) {
            $key = $row_hr->{$key_field};
        }
        $lookup_row{$key}{$file} = $row_hr;
    }
    close($input);
}

my $csv_out = Text::CSV->new( { binary => 1 } );
my $header_row = \@field_order;
$csv_out->print( \*STDOUT, $header_row );
print "\n";

foreach my $key ( sort keys %lookup_row ) {
    my %combined_row;
    foreach my $file ( sort keys %{ $lookup_row{$key} } ) {
        foreach my $header (@field_order) {
            if ( $lookup_row{$key}{$file}{$header} ) {
                if (   not defined $combined_row{$header}
                    or not $combined_row{$header} eq
                    $lookup_row{$key}{$file}{$header} )
                {
                    $combined_row{$header}
                        .= $lookup_row{$key}{$file}{$header};
                }
            }
        }
    }
    my @row = @combined_row{@field_order};
    $csv_out->print( \*STDOUT, \@row );
    print "\n";
}

Note that Text::CSV can be altered to redirect output to a file handle rather than STDOUT which is probably not what you want for large files (or y'know, just > output.csv. )
You can also configure the delimiter for Text::CSV via sep_char:
my $csv = Text::CSV -> new ( { binary => 1, sep_char => "\t" } );

I was unclear what your separator was, so have assumed comma (as you refer to csv).
Script above will pick out a common field and merge on that, or line number if none exists.
Note:
This script reads files into memory and merges them there, sorting and joining on a common key. It will sort based on this for output. It's therefore memory greedy, but should 'just work' in a lot of cases. Just specify the filenames splice.pl file1.csv file2.csv file3.csv
If there is a common field in these files, it'll join on those and output in order. If there isn't, it'll use line number.

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Walram de Rosse (1254 - tussen 1 augustus en 20 oktober 1302), ook wel Walram of Waleran van Valkenburg genoemd, was een middeleeuwse ridder uit het adellijke Huis Valkenburg-Heinsberg. Hij was onder andere heer van Valkenburg en Monschau.

Biografische schets
Naast Valkenburg en Monschau bezat Walram onder andere Sittard, Arrancy-sur-Crusne en Marville. Door de vele oorlogen die Walrams vader Dirk II van Valkenburg had gevoerd, stonden er grote schulden open. Omdat Arrancy en Marville geïsoleerd lagen kwamen deze twee bezittingen in aanmerking om te worden verkocht om zo de financiële huishouding op orde te krijgen. Walram zocht hiervoor contact met zijn oom graaf Hendrik V van Luxemburg. Rondom deze koop ontstonden echter grote moeilijkheden. Zo was Theobald I van Bar, bloedverwant van de grootmoeder van Walram (Elisabeth van Bar), tegen de verkoop. Op 2 april 1271 werd Walram schadeloos gesteld. Hij ontving de gebieden Sankt Vith, Amel en Neundorf. Omstreeks 1280 werd Walram schout van Aken.

Onder Walram is het dorp Valkenburg uitgegroeid tot een dusdanige plaats, dat deze een eigen kerk kreeg. Er wordt hier gesproken van "ecclesia castris", kerk van het kasteel of van de versterking. Men gaat ervan uit dat een voorloper van de H.H. Nicolaas en Barbarakerk toen werd gebouwd.

In 1282 werd Walram door overeenkomst een vazal van Gwijde van Dampierre in diens hoedanigheid van markgraaf van Namen (hoewel Gwijde ook graaf van Vlaanderen was en Walram zich sterk zou inzetten voor diens Vlaamse strijd). Volgens de initiële overeenkomst zegde Walram twintig ridders toe in het kader van Gwijdes conflict met de graaf van Henegouwen. Hij steunde hem in diverse conflicten en bracht nieuwe vazallen aan, zoals Jan van Reifferscheid uit het Rijnland, voor wie Walram borg stond. Hij trad op als scheidsrechter in een geschil tussen Gwijde en de heer van Oudenaarde, adviseerde de graaf in diens conflict met de Franse koning, bepleitte zijn zaak bij de Duitse koning en vertegenwoordigde Vlaanderen in de vredesonderhandelingen met Frankrijk.

De Limburgse Successieoorlog, die tussen 1283 en 1288 plaatsvond en alle heren van Brabant tot aan de Rijn aanging, bepaalde ook in belangrijke mate het leven van Walram en de toekomst van Valkenburg. Walram zat in deze strijd in een in meerdere opzichten onprettige positie. Zo was hij zelf kandidaat voor de erfopvolging door zijn Limburgse verwantschap, maar wilde zijn – machtigere – schoonbroer, Reinoud I van Gelre niet in diens ambities dwarsbomen. Daarnaast was Walram als heer van Valkenburg leenman van een aantal Brabantse lenen, en de Brabantse hertog Jan I van Brabant aasde net als Reinoud op de hertogtitel. Ook de graven van Luxemburg zagen Limburg als een belangrijke toevoeging aan hun bezit.

Walram koos de kant van Reinoud I van Gelre, en om eervol met Reinoud te kunnen strijden, deed Walram dit onder de vlag van Monschau. Op 5 juni 1288 werd de twist beslist met de Slag bij Woeringen, waar de Brabantse alliantie de Gelderse alliantie waartoe Walram behoorde, versloeg. Gevolg hiervan was voor Valkenburg dat Brabant een sterke positie had ingenomen in Overmaas en Hertogdom Limburg. Hierdoor werd de druk van de Brabantse expansiepolitiek op Valkenburg groter. Nadat Reinoud I van Gelre gevangen was genomen in de Slag van Woeringen, werd Gelre in 1291 verpand aan graaf Gwijde van Vlaanderen. Deze stelde Walram aan als een van zijn stadhouders om Gelre te besturen in de jaren van de verpanding.

Walram gold in zijn tijd als een van de strijdlustigste ridders. Zo spreekt geschiedschrijver Jan van Heelu lovend over de daden en dapperheid in de Slag van Woeringen. Zo wordt ook over zijn daden bij het beleg van Vendôme gesproken. Hier zou Walram bij een uitval de hertog van Vendôme hebben geprobeerd gevangen te nemen door deze voor zich op zijn paard te zetten en weg te vluchten. Toen bleek dat Walram met de extra last (de hertog) niet snel genoeg kon wegkomen van de Franse troepen, gooide hij de hertog in de stadsgracht, waar hij verdronk.

In oktober 1296 ontving Walram van graaf Gwijde een som van meer dan 2000 pond. Deze betaling verklaart waarom hij honderd strijders leverde voor de Frans-Vlaamse oorlog, die het volgende jaar uitbrak. Hoewel hij vocht in 1297 en 1300, zou hij aan de Guldensporenslag niet meer deelnemen. Walram overleed tussen 1 augustus en 20 oktober 1302. Volgens de traditie is hij in de grote kerk in Sittard begraven.

Huwelijk en kinderen
Walram was voor 30 mei 1275 getrouwd met Phillipa van Gelre, zus van graaf Reinoud I van Gelre. Reinoud schenkt Walram en Phillipa Susteren met Diederen als huwelijksgeschenk.

Walram trouwde in 1276 met Philippa van Gelre, dochter van Otto II van Gelre en Filippa de Dammartin. Walram en Philippa kregen 4 kinderen:
 Dirk III van Valkenburg
 Reinoud van Valkenburg
 Jan van Valkenburg en Born, heer van Born
 Elisabeth, die trouwde met Simon van Sponheim

Bronnen
 http://www.vestingstadvalkenburg.nl/archiefstukken/WalramI.pdf
 H.J.H. Schurgers, J.G.M. Notten, L.G.W.N. Pluymaekers, "geschiedenis van Valkenburg-Houthem", Uitgeverij het land van valkenburg, (1979)
 J.M. van de Venne, "Geschiedenis van het kasteel van Valkenburg zijn heren en hun drossaarden", uitgegeven door stichting "Kasteel van Valkenburg", (1951)

Voetnoten

Huis Valkenburg-Heinsberg
Heer van Valkenburg
Heer van Monschau


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