Good evening. Welcome. I'm Mark Uptigrove, the director of the LBJ Presidential Library, and I want to welcome you all here tonight for what is the last of our programs of 2015. It's been a great year, and thanks for making it so. Tonight we welcome back to our stage, S. C. Gwynne, who will be talking about his latest New York Times best-selling book, Rebel Yell, The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson, of which the Wall Street Journal wrote, Gwynne's easy loping style wraps itself effortlessly around the particulars of Stonewall Jackson's life, from his back of the mountain upbringing to the outburst of military genius in the Civil War. The result is a narrative vivid with details and insight. Many of you will remember when Sam joined us several years ago to discuss his best-selling book, Empire of the Summer Moon, the story of Quana Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, to say that that book was successful hardly does it justice. Sam spent most of the last 14 years as a writer at large for Texas Monthly, and prior to that worked for Time Magazine as a senior editor and bureau chief. Earlier in his career, he served as a teacher and international banker. The latter stint resulted in two critically acclaimed books, Selling Money and Outlaw Bank. Leading tonight's discussion with Sam will be Talmadge Boston, a well-known Dallas attorney and the author of three books in his own right, Raising the Bar, the Crucial Role of the Lawyer in Society, 1939, Baseball's Tipping Point, and Baseball and the Baby Boomer. He has also moderated discussions with, among others, Henry Kissinger, Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, and Frank DeFord. Before I bring out Sam and Talmadge, Sam has given us an actual rebel yell that we will hear by audio tape, so I will ask the booth to play you a rebel yell, which is the sound of the rebel yell that you would hear during the Civil War.  Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming to the stage S. C. Gwynne and Talmadge Boston. Good evening and welcome. Sam, let's start with the title of your book, Rebel Yell. We just heard it and we know that Stonewall Jackson started the yell at First Manassas when he told his troops, when you charge yell-like furies, and that, as you describe it, feral, eerie, corkscrewing sound that sounded like it was coming from the pit of hell worked so well that the Confederate troops used it in battles throughout the Civil War. But what caused you to choose Rebel Yell as the title for your book about Stonewall Jackson? Well, it was, you know, when I was looking around for a title, I discovered that he had been, his men had been the first one to do it and they had done it in his request. And by the way, I don't know if Virginia country boys thought the furies were Greek vengeance deities. I'm not sure they knew that, but whatever they thought it was, they did it and they yelled. And so I found that out and I thought, and I immediately thought, well that's the best title I've ever heard my entire life, Rebel Yell for a book. So, and I thought, okay, and 700 other people have already used it as a title for a Civil War book. So, and we live in the age of Google, Google, and I hit the thing and it was like 600,000 hits and I just went, oh, give me a break. And then I realized as I went through it, they were all Billy Idol, you know? The rock star did the song Rebel Yell. No one had done it. So it was there. So to me, it was just this miraculous, I mean, one, it was closely associated with Jackson himself. I think that, you know, we'll get into this, I suppose, but, you know, he was, you know, he gave the South a sort of a myth of hope and invincibility at a time when they didn't have it. And so it was in a spiritual sense, I guess, a yell, a yell of the underdog. Now, I think most people know that typically the big bucks in writing biographies these days go to people who write presidential biographies. And to use oilfield lingo, books on presidents are proven developed acreage. Yet you've chosen to be a semi-wildcat-er, stepping out into less developed territory with your coverage of Quanta Parker first and now Stonewall Jackson, who are two lesser covered historical figures. Were you thinking like a wildcat-er when you chose to write about Stonewall Jackson and Quanta Parker with a mindset of high risk, high reward? With Quanta, I didn't really think there was going to be a higher reward and I never actually thought of it that way because I just was, it was just something I wanted to do. It's one of those rare things where, I mean, I'm working at Texas Monthly, I'm an executive editor, I have good life and, you know, I just, I sort of said to myself, I said that, you know, I reminded myself that when I was younger, I had been an ambitious person and that I sort of, that even though I was doing well at Texas Monthly, I hadn't really been swinging from the fence since I sort of thought of it that way and so the Comanche Book was really that. I didn't really, I just wanted to do it. I just really wanted to do it and so I did it and I, however, once you have an international bestseller, the equation changes and for this one it was quite a different model because now the expectations, which were zero on Empire of the Summer Moon, I mean, the first printing there was 6,000 or something or less. The first printing here was 75,000. I mean, it's different levels of expectations. So yeah, I mean, I just, it with Rebel Yell, here's what happened. I mean, I wish this upon all writers, if you do happen to have a bestseller, it was my third book and the other two were not bestsellers, but a window opens if however briefly and the window is that you can sort of maybe do what you want or you'll be allowed to do what you want. And so I went back with Jackson and I just went back and tried to think of the most interesting thing, the person that in my past just captivated me and to me he was the great story of transformation in the Civil War. I mean, 14 months from obscure eccentric physics professor to the most famous military man in the world, you know, say no more. So that was it. Well, your book describes how Stonewall Jackson had a dual personality in many respects. He was fundamentally unrevealed and self-contained when he was around men, whereas he was able to open up with select women. He was, as you said, a social misfit nerd before the war and this glorious military leader during the war. He owned six slaves and yet he had started what proved to be a large Sunday school class for slaves at his church in Lexington. He hated the prospect of war and yet when the war started he was the ultimate attack dog. He was a devout Christian yet in wartime he became a remorseless killer. Can we compare him to Hector in the Iliad who was really two men, a ferocious warrior who inspired affection and trust from his comrades but who had the capacity to turn it off, turn his war mindset off and become a gentle, loving, thoughtful family man when he wasn't in war? Well, you've given me a very complex equation there and in fact what you just described was Jackson and the reason I think one of the holds he has on the American imagination is he was a tremendously complex person. When you think of some of the great generals who were complex people, MacArthur was one, Patton was another, but yeah he was, it is hard to resolve all these contradictions that are inside of him and his devout Christianity among others which is really the key to him. You have a man who in what you alluded to at the beginning there and well in Lexington at the beginning of the war, I mean he was just seen as kind of the odd major. He was the, you know, he was a bit of a hypochondriac and eccentric and he did, you know, he kind of obsessed about his own health and he was painfully shy and he was as a teacher the worst teacher that anyone had ever seen and he was, you know, in his classes and as a teacher he would call you to the blackboard for your recitation for a brutally difficult lesson in what we would now call physics and then if you missed anything or had a problem he would simply quote back to you the text that he had committed to memory and so you would think that maybe a stickler, this was another part of the two sides of his personality, the stickler for discipline like that, sorry a stickler for detail like that would have been a stickler for discipline too, but in fact the reverse was true, turns his back, spitballs everywhere, cadets mimicking his strange step from behind him, trussing cadets up, this is a Virginia military institute where he taught, trussing cadets up on the door so that they would tip over when he came in, removing the lynch pins from the cannons in his artillery class so the cannons would go spinning down the hill with the professor and so you had this guy that was kind of a, you know, a loser, I mean he was one of that great undifferentiated massive people that weren't, you know, that good at anything and one of the things he really wasn't good at was leadership. Again, you know, you brought up so many points in what you just said, that question that we may have to get to them as we go because this idea of Jackson, he did have a bit of a dual personality because with his two wives and one of his wife's sister he was this entirely different guy who spoke Spanish baby talk and, you know, in the house and was joyous and had a different view of things and everyone in Lexington and the war would have been astonished to know that that's what he was like in private. McCanton argument also being made that Stonewall Jackson had a lot of Achilles in him, the man who wanted to fly the black flag and take no prisoners who told his VMI students in time of war they should draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. The man comfortable with as you call it headlong man wasting aggressiveness and a man who after a battle whether it was Malvern Hill or Antietam wanted to keep on fighting and just didn't want to stop. So was he unique among the Confederate generals for his hyper aggressive approach to warfare? He was very unusual among any generals early in the war and early in the civil war began it was there was really no model for it the a lot of these generals had been in the Mexican war and so there was that kind of that war as a model but things had changed weapons had changed it was not the same war there were trains among other things that were that hadn't been there before and so Jackson to me was this sort of model he was one of the first generals I think who really appreciated one how hard the war was going to be how bitter how ruthless how cruel how violent how absolutely shattering it was going to be he got that quickly and one of the reasons he advocated a black flag war meaning take no prisoners in the north that he wanted to go burn Philly and burn Pittsburgh and burn Baltimore right away the theory was make them feel the pain so badly that they would have to come to terms well we sort of did the same thing in Japan in World War two but Jackson was this Jackson was one of the first who really embraced exactly what the war was going to require so you saw him doing these marches that nobody the likes of which nobody ever heard of being able to march men for huge distances in the Romney campaign through ice men barefoot in the ice Jackson didn't care he pushed them he marched them he was he was he was an advocate of total war early on he was as you said he had to be restrained in fact he got him killed at Chancellorsville he wanted to drive hooker into the Rappahannock in the darkness and that's what got him killed by his own men but he was a prototype in the war there was another general in the west in theater Ulysses S Grant who was in similar in some ways this extremely aggressive decisive style of command I mean so many of these generals in the early war were they lacked what Grant would have called moral courage and you know that this idea that you can make a decision and stick with it this idea that you make a decision that might endanger your your army you might get the army might be destroyed it might be captured you and your generals might be killed you could make a decision and and you were in a land that you didn't know in a terrain that you didn't know against men who wanted to kill you who were off somewhere in a place that you didn't know highly risky highly volatile Jackson had this uncanny sense of not only decisive grasp of terrain decisiveness I'll just give you one story and then I'll stop here but there was a union general named Robert Patterson early in the war and he's he's crossing over from Maryland into Virginia and he's pursuing Joseph Johnston at that point and the high command in Washington is trying to get Patterson to move to get him to go and just go get him you know go get him tiger and and Patterson wouldn't do it and he was goaded and goaded and goaded and and finally he sent it a wire back to Winfield Scott and he said look if you want me to do this I'll tell you what you send me an order and in that order you specify exactly what you want me to do where I'm but where I'm going to advance to how I'm going to advance where I'm going to be standing what I'm going to do and then I'll be happy to do it so Patterson's point was he didn't want the responsibility if Winfield Scott took it yes he sacrificed the army who knows what was going to happen to it but that kind of moral courage Jackson was both unbelievably aggressive I would say he's possibly the most aggressive commander America's ever produced but also willing at all times to be decisive and to take that responsibility for for a decision which of course did as Grant suggested bear huge moral consequences not only for his side his men his officers and himself that was a long answer now you've used the word once already but your book frequently describes Jackson's transformation his being a different person altogether even a transfiguration when he prepared for battle or was on the eve of battle or was in battle when as you say the light of battle shined its radiance upon him so as far as history's most esteemed war heroes go was Jackson's extreme transformation in battle unusual or is that what the great warriors do I think a lot of the the great generals were very brave men by definition almost you couldn't be well as my expertise is the civil war here but you really couldn't be a great general without being a very brave person as I said because for one thing generals died at a much higher rate than the than the grunts down below did so it was it was your own skin that you were risking so Jackson was I mean when Jackson went into battle is what you're talking about they said he kind of glowed with the light of battle it brought out something different in him he was he was a transformed man and it's interesting if you look at his career because he really there were two things that it turns out that he was he had a talent for and one was god and religion his real calling should have been presbyterian minister I mean he thought about god all day long he consecrated every act that he did to god he prayed during battle the most lost one of his fingers praying during battle prayed in his tent he was not god was not outside of or somewhere else god was god was completely within and permeated his life he should have been a presbyterian minister he was the worst white he was as bad a public speaker as he was a teacher for one thing and he had no social skills he was and he realized that to be a pastor you couldn't really do that so in that sense he was a failure he was not an outright failure in the sense of having tried it but he did do it on a small scale at the at the sunday school for slaves in lexington but he was a he just you know he hadn't succeeded so there you put that so that's one thing that he was good out okay the other thing that he was good at was war now in the mexican war the bravery that he showed was so extraordinary it was just absolutely astonishing you can have to picture this near mexico city there's a big battle going on the mexicans are defending mexico city and and the american troops are marching in and there's a point at which the mexicans have focused all of their firepower their their their guns their artillery and their and their musket fire and everything else on this one particular patch of road and in and there's a moment when jackson ends up out there all by himself everybody else's duct for cover because there's way too much lead and stuff flying around there but jackson standing there literally alone with 110 in the middle of that road in this hail storm he and and it was funny because he said as he stood there when everybody else diving for cover and getting out of there he was saying to the men men it's fine it's perfectly safe come out here and join me which he later said was the only lie he ever told uh he was incredibly dangerous but the point was he this was witnessed because it was so extraordinary and because of the way it was set up it was witnessed by a division commander it was witnessed by a lot of people he was singled out he was promoted for it he was uh it was an extraordinary piece of bravery but there's there's the blue light there's the that that glow of battle and war that he was good at so so but what happens next uh we just said that he couldn't be the presbytery minister that he should have been probably he goes into the peacetime army he's not suited to the peacetime army it doesn't work he has a very bad time of it in florida actually he causes trouble and he it's not his place and then he goes to become a professor at a military institute of physics which is not his place either he's no good at that either so we have these things that he's good at right that he sort of doesn't get to do and one of these you know he was famous for being obsessed with his health and all this things wrong with him physically well all those things magically disappear when the war starts strangely enough but he you know it's it's anyway he uh he was he was very much transformed by the war and i think my one of my arguments is that he really this was his calling this he was really good at this he knew everything about war he was great at every aspect of it really good at administration administration good at marching and maneuver uh as a tactician he was okay i mean he was b plus tactician but at almost everything he was absolutely flat brilliant at it and so what happened during the war and this happened to other people too uh grant being in Sherman being famous failures before the war who suddenly this other talent gets brought out and so uh so Jackson was not not unique i mean in a war that in a war where transformations were you know common the civil war made a specialty out of transforming people right in most cases it was the glorious senator or congressman or or businessman who ended up as a cowardly or incompetent general and quickly washed out there's a whole bunch of political generals that that happened reverse transformation reverse transformation then you had the famous ones like Grant you know sitting on his leaning on the broom in his father's store in Galena Illinois a few months before the war a failure at everything he'd done Sherman teaching at a little uh military school in Louisiana a failure in all of his business ventures at those guys were transformed the other way now talking about his faith and his being a presbyterian when when you say the word presbyterian the word that pops into most people's mind is predestination the theology that everything that happens in life has already been set in stone by an all-knowing all-powerful god so was it Jackson's presbyterian belief in predestination that empowered his ferocious and often reckless courage in battle uh well he would have probably answered that question yes i mean one of the things that um one of after Jackson was always riding into the heat of whatever it was and standing there amid the shell fire he should have been killed 10 times over um he was always doing that and and and at some point one of his staff said you know general how how can you do that um you know that's that's how can you stand there just or sit on your horse there and what he said was he said was i've never felt safer in my whole life he said the reason i feel so safe is because god has appointed the hour for my death and that is there's has already been appointed it's already going to happen it's predestined anything about it is predestined now he wasn't his beliefs were not and i would argue not entirely predestinary and he did there was plenty of wiggle room in the middle there but but yeah in that sense he believed that um that everything was in the hands of god he believed that all of his battles were in the hands of god he believed that he never he did not deserve credit for any of his victories he not only believed that but he thought that if he were given credit it was a form of idolatry of sort of worshiping a false idol in this case him and it would actually result in the fall of the confederacy now besides his devotion to god his other all-consuming focus during wartime was on a soldier's duty duty was duty you shirked it at your own peril and this obsession with duty caused him to refuse a soldier's request to attend his child's funeral and to be in conflict with soldiers from generals to his vmi friends who crossed him or who retreated without orders so among the great military leaders of the civil war was jackson's all-consuming focus on duty atypical or was is that the norm for a soldier highly atypical um his idea of what duty was was quite strict and and and did extend to his his generals who he often fought with and often put under arrest and um he he arrested his more of his generals more of his current he just arrested people whenever they did not do what he believed was duty and and to just you asked was he unique or something i'll give you just one example robert ely never arrested any general not a single general jackson was doing it every other day it seemed for a while at one point he had half the you know the general staff in in half of the generals in some form of arrest but uh yeah he had a very very clear in particular sense of duty i think it got in his way um but uh he i would say he was at an extreme yeah now one of the tools that you use in making the image of stonewall jackson so vivid in the book is to compare and contrast him with other key historic figures of the time a really cool comparison with the abolitionist john brown comparisons with with us grant and contrasting him with mclellan and then in the end just an unbelievable comparison between stonewall jackson and abraham lincoln so it's drawing these parallels between people part of your process and bringing your story into clear focus of the of the characters you're trying to portray it was very much so and and i discovered that the technique or we didn't discover the technique but i discovered that i could use the technique in writing my book empire the summer moonland i decided that the best way to look at my my character randall mckenzie who was this great indian fighter that nobody ever heard of was to twin him with custer who was the really bad indian fighter that everybody had heard of both were civil war heroes and so i i did it in that book i just twin them and i paired them as a way to show it and so i did it again in this book and as you say john brown jackson uh jackson mclellan jackson and george mclellan was the great early union general and he and jackson were both members of class of 1846 the class that produced 22 generals 12 union and 10 confederate out of 59 graduates 22 generals out of 59 quite a class and here you had so so mclellan mclellan by the time mclellan's it is is a borderline genius he's very very smart and he comes in he's already been to the university of pennsylvania and graduated by the age of 16 when he starts west point which by the way is the best engineering school in the country he's his father's a prominent doctor he's a philadelphia blue blood right and so on the other hand you have jackson orphan hillbilly from apalachia or whatever he was a completely different case jackson basically mclellan came in at at the top of his class and left at the top of his class jackson came in at 164th and barely made the cuts as he went and so i just compare the two it's an interesting comparison among other things you know by the end of course mclellan mclellan graduates second in the class and is disappointed in that but he's he's the the valedictorian or ever the class and he he sort of goes out the way he came in jackson meanwhile started out and was called the immortals the people who couldn't do anything the people who are almost certainly going to wash out and west point was brutal at washing people out i mean you're going from 164 people down to 59 just every every year they just whacked them well they they had exams and if you didn't pass the exams you were gone so here's my theory about jackson so jackson comes in to the finest engineering school in the country with a a very spotty rural western virginia now west virginia education i mean a really bad education i think and it's hard to get equivalencies here but i would think it might be an eighth grade education as we would conceive of it if that if that and the math that he had was i don't he had had no algebra as far as i know so that actually let's just imagine for the moment somebody coming in to the university of texas engineering school the seventh grade education no math just think about that for a moment think of how smart you would have to be to perform now jackson rose jackson made the first couple cutoffs he made by the skin of his teeth but by the end he was 17th out of 59 rising fast that the the hardest course of all he got a fourth in fourth out of his class i mean people there said that he another year he might have led the class but he was it was an extraordinary act of will to do that to be able to get through that um and i think you know going to ut engineering on on that kind of education is a good comparison so so anyway that was true and then i'll say one more thing about you know lincoln uh one of the things i think most historians have missed about jackson's death it was the first great outpouring of grief for a fallen leader in american history and it's it's sort of jarring to hear that because you think oh wait a second try to think wait i'm going to add him but in fact it really was um you know franklin was old and obese when he died he got 20 000 people in philadelphia you know uh washington adams jefferson had very modest funerals as old men zack taylor got 100 000 in washington out to his funeral procession but he was a president who hadn't been there very long and jackson's death absolutely transformed the entire south i mean it shattered the south uh it was it was uh a very close comparison to the death of lincoln almost exactly two years later which of course is over shadow jackson's death in history but to look at the two is is really unlike my comparison of say jackson to mclell and where they're polar opposites here there's so many similarities at least in the the effect of the death you had you know they they they became uh the sort of sim the symbolism of their death i guess was was was similar there was there were the their funerals were the funerals that all these hundreds of thousands of young men would never have uh when they returned home symbolically by train it was the journey home that the young men would never have there was all of this i mean it was kind of there they were the vessels into which the uh the pent up heart ache as i write in the book of the nation could be poured and and uh uh drew gilpin faus called lincoln's uh what happened after lincoln's death the national funeral and the national funeral was exactly what it was for the confederacy um and the and before i stop here i'll say just one more thing the uh the when the trains were when the trains were going home you had you had of course lincoln going to new york you had jackson going to lynchberg uh the scale uh the scale was was vastly different but um when lincoln died generally the south still hated him uh they they thought he would they would have had a better deal with him than who came after him but they they hated him in jackson curiously there were many outpourings of admiration and and and genuine mourning in the north even among abolitionists um people a lot of people in the north well thought he was fighting in the wrong cause but thought he was a christian gentleman and a brilliant warrior and kind of in some cases they were kind of proud to claim him and somebody once said to have fought against him was just after having fought under him now another tool that you use to bring stonewall jackson to life is identifying historical tipping points the battle of winchester is the tipping point for the birth of the myth and legend of stonewall jackson the battle of second manassas is almost the tipping point for de facto confederate independence lincoln's emancipation proclamation is the tipping point for the union's finally becoming impassioned about winning the war and finally jackson's death as the tipping point for the south's declined towards certain defeat so is that the historian's job to identify the precise moment or event when momentum shifts and the tide turns yes and and it is something that i find missing in a lot of history that that sense of just stepping back a little bit and saying that here is what this means here is what second manassas meant here is here is what um uh for example when i was talking about the romney campaign which is it's it's this winter campaign it's a it's a it's not a success and jackson ends up resigning it's it's messy he's meddled with by richmond and so what i but with romney to me i think it's my job to point out which i do in the book i say yeah but if you were look if you're paying close attention this was an example this was an exercise of a new style of command that nobody had ever seen before men were going to be made to march that way they were going to be made to die they were going to follow the leader and they were going to do what he said and they were going to take risks and all these things it was a completely new concept in command at that point that it wasn't what people thought this was about um soldiers freezing to death um and in the 18 degree weather with 30 mile an hour winds and if you go to something like uh and of course if this is less this is obvious all historians have pointed this out but you know the battle of antedom which jackson fought fought in was uh was in a larger historical sense about giving link and the ability to issue the emancipation proclamation so yeah i i think that that those those meaningful uh those those meaningful moments the battle of winchester is what put him on the map it you know again this is 14 well by 14 months into the war we had already had the battle of winchester by that point jackson was being compared to napoleon jackson was the most famous military man in the western world uh this was the valley campaign and so i say you it's my job to point out say hey winchester changed everything suddenly you have this man who is uh who embodies the the hope for the beleaguered south yeah as i read all that and just as the union soldiers feared the sound of the rebel yell after winchester they feared the sound of the name stonewall jackson because of there's some there's some great moments too where you can see that what's at play is not anything real but it's the idea of jackson um you can see it at hooker in the first day of chancellorsville where he you know he he suddenly finds out that it's jackson and not these other two generals in the field against him and it affects your decision-making suddenly they were thinking you know we're going to change my tactics which in fact change the battle the best example of this that i can think of is um there's a moment after harpers ferry where jackson swallows an entire union army hole in harpers ferry and there's a moment where there's this big union army coming through this ridge um toward harpers ferry and between them and the garrison harpers ferry they vastly outnumber jackson they had gone in the outnumber and they out everything jackson and and um and there's a moment when here they come here come the union troops through the pass on to what should have been certain victory and suddenly they hear all these the rebel yell people give them the rebel yell the the rebels are going crazy the union guys say what are you guys celebrating for and they said well the the sound of gunfire just stopped from harpers ferry that means that jackson has taken harpers ferry and at this point it was entirely the idea of jackson this this mysterious remote sort of magical force that had just eaten another union army hole and the union general stops just stops and the colonel can't make him move that's the end of it there was a bunch of that and i think that that that when you are in war i think in general when when the your your opponent is is known one of the reasons that lee did what or could do what he did early on against the union forces is because it was a reverse effect he knew who mclellan was now in an interview in last sunday's dallas morning news you were asked if there were any lessons from the life of stonewall jackson that we can apply today and your answer surprisingly to me at least was i can't make any direct contacts with 2014 though you went on to explain why jackson still lives on today but aren't there lessons to be learned for on how to be a great leader in 2014 that can be learned and better understood by knowing how stonewall jackson went about taking care of his business his leadership business during the civil war you know there are i i didn't i didn't take i i didn't take the question that they asked me that way i thought they were trying to link it to current events oh okay and i can't link it to afghanistan although many people we've had discussions about the command trees in afghanistan but um but uh uh no i think yes absolutely jackson jackson's um uh i tell people some great lessons one arrest all your generals two don't don't care a whit for what you do to your men punish them make them march in snow and hurt them never tell any of your staff anything about what you're doing even in the middle of battle okay i'm this is all true i'm not making this up jackson had a very eccentric style but as i was saying earlier there the things that you would you know could trot out at a management seminar in 2014 um are this uh remarkable decisiveness remarkable ability to use command ability to use his his his authority and his command um i would say aggressiveness speed all the things that you know the patent studied him closely the german studied him closely and acted accordingly uh speed um deception um again this is when you're looking at if you're looking at like say the corporate world these things would be very helpful to you you know decide what you do stick by your gun stick to what you're doing um he's he was a in some ways he was a leader a great leader in spite of himself he was he was uh he wasn't perfect he was flawed um and yet uh you know there were there questions when when uh when uh jackson's brother-in-law dh hill it was a confederate general was asked why the men follow jackson so blindly and and uh he said well because he wins and that was hill was a cynical guy and that was a cynical sort of answer and i think that you could maybe make the same statement about nick saban what you want to play for nick saban well why do you want to play for nick saban well he wins uh he may not he didn't have to be mother teresa he doesn't have to be anything else he has to win so that that was part of it but he also but jackson was i compare him in the book to long street so lee's two main lieutenants in the early war were jackson and james longstreet and longstreet was the plotter i mean he was a good fighter and he was brave and and he but he was a color not not a very colorful personality and he was just longstreet jackson on the other hand was i mean he was he was remote generally speaking from his men he was he got prayed in battle prayed in the middle of battle he was jackson was about as i was saying sort of magic and mystery and and other things and and and you know longstreet inspired respect among the union troops jackson it was fear and awe and uh i'm not sure how good a management that lesson lesson that is well you know he wasn't into pomp and circumstances he was humble i mean you know you read good to great right these are the traits but that is true you'd be back to that's a good point i i'm the humility the willing to give credit to others um all of that was i think a significant yeah i'm glad you brought up the next saving because another way to look at jackson's relevance as a role model for leadership in 2014 as i read it was to compare him to to ut's head football coach charlie strong who you profiled in texas monthly a year ago because let me rattle off some of these things i thought my gosh he cared little about the opinions of others paren alums he firmly stripped the companies of their independence and hammered them together into regiments a team effort he imposed an unforgiving program of drill and instruction and got rid of the whiskey he required officers to remain habitually with their commands like the coach is sleeping in the dorms his penalties were prompt and inexorable such that rules were rules violations or violations and consequences must follow he was all about scrupulous honesty meticulous accountability cool professionalism and his obsession with detail was seen as proof of an iron will these are all about stonewall jackson that's what we've been reading in the sports pages about charlie strong that's that's brilliant okay that's flat brilliant okay i i never i i could never have made that connection you just made it and you're exactly right everything that he said was my description of jackson but it applies exactly so you're exactly right but that was it's it's hard for me sometimes to to sort of get a handle on because there's so much to jackson but you you you put your finger on it there there's it there it's it's also it's all those things that you said and there's a complete and utter consistency all the time of it there is never it's sort of like you know michael corley owner you and the godfather it's not you know it's not personal it's a business and it wasn't if jackson was going to take you out and shoot you and your guys for having come to him and said look the draft is up we're out of here that was not personal with him that was and and you knew it and you knew you would be shot and uh he wasn't he he was very evenhanded when he had his first command in harper's ferry he had to break the militias because the war started out where everybody thought this is going to be a hoot and they were all them they were all these old militias and the militias all had generals and the generals had plumes in their hats and sabers and entirages and they would pass out whiskey and cigars and and they believed they were going to retain their authority and jackson just absolutely broke them on the wheel but he did it he did it fairly and he did it consistently and they all went to richman to complain and get rid of him and it didn't work and he came back but he was he was a terrifically even-handed administrator and it was all and he and so much of the war of the when you see the the dramatics of the early war generals with big egos doing things they shouldn't be doing and another 2014 relevant lesson that to me was triggered by jackson's life story is the importance of choosing a career path that allows a person to fully use his strengths fulfill his destiny do what he was born to do and get into a mode of what contemporary psychologists call flow and your book makes clear that during wartime stonewall jackson was absolutely in a perfect state of flow whenever he led his troops into battle so you use the word redemption the violence passion and redemption of stonewall jackson i had to redemption has many different definitions and so i looked it up and were you defining redemption as jackson's ultimate fulfillment of his human potential or if that's not it tell me what the redemption is about no that's one meaning of it but i would start that with i mean i use the word very deliberately and and the first the first sense of it would be purely religious jackson was a devout christian therefore he saw himself as a sinner and therefore a sinner to be redeemed by the grace of god and he believed that he would be redeemed by the grace of god after when he died and he actually looked forward to that as as a devout christian he looked forward to that to that moment so redeemed in that very specific sense that he would be and he believed he would be with then there's the other side which you hinted at the more secular side of the word redeemed which might be redeemed from his own failures redeemed from his own ordinariness perhaps perhaps fulfill fulfilling things that he had that he should have done or wanted to do i mean the civil war hadn't come along he would have been a forgotten VMI professor that no one would ever even thought about yeah a nice little guy with a little job and just the odd major he would have been and uh no it's uh the uh there's a moment there's a lot it's longer than a moment but in the winter of 1862 1863 um jackson was the the battle of fredericksburg had just been fought resounding confederate victory and the confederate army was camped um up on the hills near the rapahannock near near fredericksburg and jackson at that point was uh he just had this string of of great victories and even the loss and tedum was a drawn battle against twice their size he and lee had done absolutely extraordinary things and he had fulfilled everything that you could have imagined he that a military man could have wanted he was famous he was a rock star he was swarmed in public women were would literally throw themselves on him to get buttons on his coat and locks of his hair men were stealing hairs from his horse's tail um i had a description of my book by jeb jeb seward's uh chief of staff where who's mistaken for him he describes like fleeing through this town with this mob and pursuit and he gets in a hotel and he's got to barricade himself into the hotel that's how famous jackson was well jackson didn't like that but it was a fulfillment of of source the other fulfillment this is much more interesting to me was that he in the winter of 1862 1863 jackson almost single-handedly i don't say that's too extreme jackson was the principal driving force behind the unbelievable wave of christian revivals that swept through the confederate army that winter there were going to be more to come in the war but this is jackson's last winter on earth he refused to be the frontman he refused to preach he refused to require any of his men to go to church services he didn't do any of that but he re actively recruited and financed this the regimental chaplains which is really the way which is really the way he pushed into the army he uh he uh he was very aggressive with this he used his own money to to finance literature and everything again he was behind the scenes he would go to the services but in that winter you suddenly saw chapels being built everywhere and generals like lian jackson and all these services and these great revivals and and even though he couldn't have been that presbyterian minister that he should have been and wanted to be in fact he what he sustained i mean he was was had more of an effect on people than many of the you know this was the era of course of the great great revivals and and great preachers and the revivals in some ways he had more of an effect than they did so we can talk about this i think all under the general banner of of redemption yeah now a huge part of stonewall jackson's story was his historic partnership with robert e lee lee being the tactician jackson being quote the iron fist and a righteous tool of destruction and on page five sixty you say that after jackson's death robert e lee would never again be so brilliant is it accurate to say that lee's high historic historical legacy came about in large part because he had stonewall jackson's and his heroics in his toolkit it depends on what you look at in the larger sense yes i mean lee had what he said was the greatest executive officer the sun ever shown i mean it was true and the lee jackson partnership was made in heaven i mean they were you could make a buddy movie but they were opposite personalities but they were extraordinarily effective in battle uh and and it was in fact a form of high command teamwork absolutely unseen in the war to that point now in individual battles the first campaign that the two fought together was the seven days which was just a absolute miserable sloppy piece of work from everybody's point of view lee didn't know how to move armies yet jackson performed badly a couple of times but the effect of seven days of course was that lee became hugely famous by driving george mclellan and his entire hundred twenty thousand man army into the james river where they cowered behind the behind their gunboats but once once the team starts going which you which you see at at second manassas it's really just absolutely extraordinary what they're able to do together they think alike and one of the things i i say in my book is that when jackson first started operating the shenando valley the place where his valley campaign would be where he first became so famous what happened was uh he was nominally reporting to a general named joseph johnson but in fact johnson was way preoccupied with the defense of richmond as increasingly jefferson davis was and so davis basically said to his military sidekick at that point robert e lee he said hey look we're too busy with the defense of richmond why don't you look after the valley and which and started this extraordinary correspondence between the two men at that point lee was seen as not really not necessarily who you wanted in field command he hadn't performed that well in the war he was thought to be a little fussy um he wasn't what anybody later found out that he was um but in his correspondence with jackson jackson is really the first one to see this profoundly aggressive riverboat gambler risk taken guy and and one of the reasons jackson was able to do the valley is he had this little voice this little little man standing on his shoulder robert e lee saying you know using terms like if you can drive the enemy drive the enemy move the enemy and so in purely military terms the two of them discovered each other these very aggressive guys in an early in the war where aggressiveness wasn't yet perceived as a as a value everybody wanted and in fact people thought jackson was a bit of an attack dog he should be reigned in now last question although in 2014 we're in the midst of the civil war sesquicentennial today we're living in a strange politically correct world such that as we speak there are actually political activists in places like charlottesville virginia who are trying to have removed from public places all statues and monuments related to the confederacy so as your book vividly depicts the amazing wartime accomplishments of stonewall jackson and his dauntless courage and his consummate general ship demonstrated by his string of military successes from 1861 until his death in 1863 i wonder what coverage of his life if any is being taught to america school children these days i don't know not very much it's interesting it's interesting there's a stonewall jackson elementary school in dallas that i think's in 32 but uh you know it's it's the civil war one of the things that you learn as a yankee i'm as connecticut yankee as you get i you know we were just brought up to the civil war was really simple if you grew up in connecticut trust me it was it wasn't hard to figure out why it was being fought and and who won and we weren't really we didn't pay much attention to it frankly and we being you know yankees um connecticut yankees but the civil wars are really it's a it's an extremely sort of complicated thing and to slavery was the larger reason why it was fought and in fact it was a it was the america's inability to know what to do with its new territories this gigantic amount of new territories that dwarf the original colonies that it acquired and then in the uh since the louisiana purchase and it was what are we going to do with it that's what the civil war was really about so it was about what will the nation in the future be about slavery not about slavery um but when you come to in my book i i talk a lot about slavery and jackson's uh you know relationship to it and one of the things you learn is that it's never as simple as you thought it was going to be jackson came from the western part of virginia which was where his uncle commons had had 12 slaves but slaves were uncommon there not only that but western virginia deseceded from the from the confederacy as soon as virginia seceded and so he was from a part of the country that actually went for the north uh he himself had six slaves uh three of which he were reclamation projects people had asked him to one of them wanted his freedom another three of them came through his wife he was as far as we know a benevolent owner although he did not have any views that said that slaves were not property he and his wife believed that they were on the other hand he started and ran a very successful sunday school for slaves in lexington that had a hundred students at one point um he did this in violation of virginia law the virginia law which was based on the nap turner rebellion of the 1830s said that you know if you if you taught slaves to read in this case the bible or taught them to be literate they would rise up and kill you and so jackson did this uh in contravention of virginia law and he was in fact accosted in the street a number of occasions that i described in the book by people who said you can't do this jackson's interest was saving souls but he ran a good school people liked it and to this day there's a uh this is part of the complexity of the south there is a stained glass window in a black church in virginia put there by one of jackson's old students um anyway and then then we get into the war itself slavery when jackson's in his valley campaign was the first time that slaves crossed lines in large numbers i think it was it was one of the first times anyway crossing to nithaniel bank's army and the union army believe that jackson would would kill them and and uh you had you know there was just there was there was many different levels of this i guess and and that well i mean every you know obviously one condemns slavery but the confederacy was a large and the south as a whole was a very large and complex entity um and that you can't just rule it off with uh i'm sorry just rule rule it out or dismiss it if you will um uh as a single issue cause well i think all of us are tremendously indebted to you for bringing stonewall jackson alive uh at a time when when we're living in this very unusual world with this uh attitude toward the the south and the confederacy and trying to demonize uh so much of it so thank you for this wonderful book let's show our appreciation to s c glenn thank you


In a previous video, we've created this map with points with varying sizes for population. In this video, we're going to create a print layout with a collapsed legend for the circles. This video is based on a tutorial by Derrick Foots, which has been modified for the summer course for IHC Delft on creating graphs, maps and animations. You can find the free tutorial also on GIS OpenCourseWare. The link is provided in the description of this video. You can create a print layout by going to the Project menu and choose New Print Layout. And let's give it a name, Polation Map. Click OK, and it will open a new window with the Print Layout where we can design our map. Let's first click right on the page to see the page properties, and here you can set the size orientation of the sheet which we keep as default. Here on the left side you can find buttons to add different things like the map, pictures, label, legend, scale bar, north arrow, shapes, HTML, attribute tables or plots. Let's add the map first. If you drag a box it will add the map to the frame of the box. Let's maximize this map to the full paper and you see that it will snap to the corners when we resize the rectangle. Next we will use the Move Item Content button to pan and zoom the map within the box. So you can pan and with the scroll button you can zoom. If you use control scroll you can make smaller steps and make sure that it completely fits within the box. With the scale value on the right you can further fine tune this. Now let's add the title. Easy way is to drag a box completely from the left to the right edge of the sheet. We place Lorem Ibsen the dummy text by the title of the map, largest metropoles on earth. Let's change the font. You can scroll through this or type directly the name of the font and there is a calibrary that we're going to use, bold with the size of 24. Take OK and change horizontal alignment to center and vertical alignment to middle. Now let's add a legend. Drag a box here on the bottom left and it's already clear that the ocean is the ocean and that the countries are the countries so we can remove those unnecessary legend items but the most important is of course the different sizes of the circles that represent the populated places. You see that this middle class does not exist so let's type there empty and we could have changed that with different intervals but somehow this happened but we'll improve the legend later. We also add a space before the zero to better align the text for legend item. Then we remove the background so we can place it in the ocean and let's add a title it's called metropolitan areas and then also make clear that this is population in millions by changing this label of the layer to in millions of inhabitants. Now drag the legend to space that we have in the ocean and this already looks nice and could be exported but we're still going to do some finishing touches so let's use the paper a little bit better by moving the map a bit down so we're moving the map inside the map frame and move also the legend then a bit down and we can also have the title bit closer to the map. Also we'll improve the legend using some special settings here in the main QGIS screen in the layer styling panel. So make sure that your populated places layer is again the target layer. Go to the symbology tab and change from graduated to single symbol. You will lose the styling based on the size and it will just take the first the smallest circle but we're going to adjust this so change the size of the simple marker to two and use a solid line as an outline. Then for the size we're going to use the data defined override and we use the assistant and then we get this nice dialogue where we can choose the source field which is still pop max but we can use an expression here that we used before to divide it by a million click okay. Then we use the refresh button to adjust the values to the range and we're going to change the size from 0.5 to 12 to get a nice scaling of the circles. For the skill methods now we're going to use radius, go back and click on marker. You find the button advanced and you choose data defined size legend. Change that to collapsed legend and you see here a much nicer representation of the different sizes of the circles. We can further adjust that by giving a human readable title instead of our expression so we type here in millions of inhabitants and we also want to control these classes so we check the box for manual size classes and the first one is 1 million then the second one is 10 million then we have 25 million and the last circle is 40 million which fits the whole range. Save the map and go back to the layout view and there we see that our legend has been automatically updated. It might be a little bug which causes that this first class 0 to 10 is there so we remove it and now our map is ready to be exported. We still need to do a few adjustments for the labels, the manual adjustments. So let's copy the scale so we have exactly the same scale here in the map canvas and then we can manually adjust the label and go to the map canvas and refresh it to see where they end up. It's always good to attribute the data source and to add the author so I'm going to add a label here replace lorem ipsum with a data source and this is natural earth and then cartographer and then you could put your name. Resize the box and I'll use Calibri light italic 8 and then you can move it it probably looks nice if you align it with the bottom of the map and now you can export it to a PDF. When you export it you can uncheck the box to append georeference information because then it will not be a geo PDF and it's just for printing and you can see the result in a PDF viewer. It looks a bit unbalanced because of the data source text you might want to split that the part goes to the left and the right of the map so let's do that. Select them both and make sure that they are aligned and that's our map so save it again to PDF and that's the result.


Happy Thursday everyone. I'm Jason the Duke from Evil Genius Leadership Consultants This is the Geeks are sexy show fourth Thursday of the month where we take over from Michelle Davis We talk about how to be successful in business and leadership here in Las Vegas and beyond before we get started with our first guest I want to mention our sponsor 5 a.m. Global They've been nice enough to sponsor this segment with KCJ today and 5 a.m. Global is a full-service PR and marketing firm run by our good friend Sean Willis who's been on the show a few times They will take care of your PR your news releases your media buys if you need help with your social media They'll take care of that and one of the things that they are really great at at 5 a.m. Global is they put on these incredible incredible events And do all this event management so they will book your speakers they will find your event space They'll do all the stuff you need So if you're looking to have an event see Sean Willis and our team at 5 a.m. Global But now we're going to talk to our first guest KCJ of KCJ photo you are a true Las Vegas local born and raised here Not born not born born in San Diego. Look at those five though. I Already after a bad start everybody After a bad start, okay, but you've been a photographer for a number of years now and You've recently shifted what you've been doing when we first met a year year and a half ago You were doing you were doing things a little bit differently and that's what we're here to have you talk about today It's time to catch up. It's time to see what you're up to welcome back to the show KC. Thanks for being here All right, so tell us what have you been up to with your business since we last talked Before when I was on the show, I was mostly focusing on boudoir photography with women So building up confidence from the foundation up so that they can take that into all the other areas of their life I have now just kind of expanded that and made the umbrella really helping women in both their boardroom and their bedroom Okay, so I am offering a subscription based photography service for women-owned businesses That need to really get out in front of the camera so that they can get their ideal client by sharing their stories Sharing their why and really honing in on what they can so they can get More business from the web and social media So one of the things we found in the last five or six years subscription based services are really a great way to bring Revenue into your company, but I've never heard of anyone doing this with photography How are you running a subscription based photography service? Tell it tell it tell our viewers how it works because I'm sure they're going to be interested Well, there's two different types of plans because the two businesses that I service are really Businesses that have either products or services or I service a lot of people who are speakers People who run events things like that so with the speakers and event planners and things like that There's actually a retainer type of service So they have a certain number of hours every 90 days where they can utilize my services to Capture them in the moment with speaking engaging retreats anything like that Okay, so then they have that as well as social media Planning on planning so I help them actually help auto schedule out their posts on Instagram because I was handing over photos nobody was utilizing them and I really think that there was a Lack of helping them have the tools they really need to succeed with all the photos we're giving them I said nothing is worse than when you're a creative type and you do some what you feel like it's some great work for people And then they don't use it. So so help bridge that gap. So and then the second thing or the photography service was Every 90 days for the other types of businesses the more traditional types of businesses We do a storytelling called see what their goals are for the quarter and what they really need to focus on for the 90 days And I schedule an entire day shoot to get them 90 days of content in one day so that they can have a mass and then start planning Okay, great. So how did you go from what you were doing to doing this? What was the what was the thought process? What was the decision-making process? How did you get there? Sometimes the universe just beats you and beats you and beats you until you start listening And it's funny because I have so many friends who are in business like I am and they all kept coming to me like Oh, you know, it's so hard to figure out what to post on social media It's so hard to have you know consistent photos all this stuff and they kept telling me their pain points and the whole time I was going yeah, I feel you. I'm in the same boat blah blah blah blah one day. I was like wait a minute I can fix that. I would love to help with that So then I kind of just expanded my reach and realized that if I make it easier on them and me It'll be mutually beneficial. So okay now. Let's talk about some of those pain points I want to dig into that a little bit What were some of the pain points that your friends were having that you realized you could help with? Because I'm betting some of our viewers are having the same pain points and having thought of how you might be able to help them One of the biggest ones is not knowing how to tell their story online to reach their ideal client and not knowing how to be Authentic and not knowing what stories to tell to create value in their audiences and evoke emotions So one thing I really bring to the table with that is the storytelling aspect I am the creative aspect So it's really easy for me to help them tell that side of their story and help be creative with it So that I can help them get their message out through pictures so that it's visual Because people really retain the message when they see it visually versus if they just hear it or see it written on a piece of paper so Helping them do that as well as be more consistent with their posts because so many algorithms of social media platforms Really value consistency By giving them a ton of imagery and planned out stories and value messages We can have them actually auto scheduled so that they can just respond and do the engagement instead of having to remember Oh, no I didn't post today because you'll immediately get dropped back down at the rankings for the algorithm So if you can start to be really consistent, you'll start to see the ROI form over time because just like with website SEO It's a long game So when you're doing marketing and trying to get your story out and create an audience and a following online You really have to put the work in and be consistent So I really help them lay that foundation and help get comfortable in front of the camera because most people are not But all of us want to do business with people we know like and trust absolutely So helping them tell their story and get out in front of that camera is what I help with So now you have this retainer service the subscription based service But you're still doing these all-inclusive experiences For especially your women clients right whether that is the boudoir photography on the personal side or for business women on The on the business side. So tell us about these all-inclusive experiences how you set them up How they're working out that kind of thing So I love all-inclusive because it really just means that you're hitting the easy button You know, it's for people who really are just sick of doing everything themselves And they want somebody to help fix it and I take care of everything from start to finish So okay on the boudoir aspect or on the boudoir end where it would be more of the fitman and empowerment Confidence fierce sexy fit photos and I include wardrobe styling hair and makeup helping them source a hotel room or whatever Location they want to do so it really takes all of the work out of their hands They literally just have to show up with a clean face and clean hair. Okay on the business as aspect I know so many people who do not know how to create story don't know what they want to say So that's why we do that storytelling call as well as on the back end I help them auto-schedule out their posts on a platform like that so that they can just Come to me. We help tell their story I help them auto-schedule it and it kind of auto does everything for them So all-inclusive in being you come to me and we can help get you in front of your right client So what you'll do is you'll you'll sit down you'll talk about what what are you all about? What is the story you want to tell then you'll kind of storyboard that out a little bit This is this is the this is what you want to convey on Monday This is what you want to convey on Tuesday, and then you'll go take the photos and you'll do that for the whole month Quarter for the whole quarter So you'll do 90 you'll probably do a lot more than 90 photos But you'll do you'll do 90 photos that you plan on using and how long does that take when you do that usually about three To four hours and in that storytelling call We really focus on what locations we're gonna be shooting what props we need and we need to incorporate any other people into that And okay accessories and outfits and if there needs to be any change of like hair makeup anything like that So we coordinate that all first and then I send them all those notes from that call so that they can have that list So that we can really have that storyboard about when we get to the shoot very cool. So your business has grown Since the last time we had you in the show. How have you grown and learned since the last time we saw you here? I believe that I have grown exponentially which I'm really happy to report because sometimes when you don't look back you don't celebrate those wins and all of that learning and It's really nice to kind of be in this spot again because I can go back to where I was before and I really think that I've grown and learned in the aspect that having a base of Steady income in my business. It's it made me so much more Solidified and comfortable in my own make a lot more calm right because I know that there's money coming in So that I can give more time to my creative aspects my philanthropic efforts as well as really pay attention and give the best Treatments of my clients because I'm not freaking out not knowing where I'm going to get my next client from standing All right. Well, we're just about out of time before we go Tell the audience how they can get a hold of you and they can either get signed up for your subscription service Or you're all inclusive experience. Um kzjadphoto.com C A S E Y J A D E P H O T O dot com You can also download my free e-book on instant confidence boosters If you guys are just kind of getting off there on the wrong side of the bed and want something to pep your step up You can download that for free on my website as well as instagram is kzjadphoto pretty much everything And you don't you don't need to spell it again because I will type it up in the show now So you don't need to do any spelling on this show. Yeah, you never know. All right. Well, thank you for watching us Hang in there We're going to be back with charisa more from down syndrome organization of southern nevada. Stay right here


In this training video, we are looking at the use of multiple baselines. So in this example, we've got a baseline, which is now well behind where the actual project sits because of a constraint whereby an engineer manager is often long-term sickness. So right now, the situation with the manager is we need to get moving against, we have to reset the baseline. So let's show you the constraint. So here's a constraint and the engineer manager is unavailable for long-term sickness. So what we're going to say here is we set a new baseline and we've got someone in the engineer manager's team to step up and do the work of the engineer manager. So they found out more about the role, they've done a bit of digging themselves and they've managed to cover for the engineer manager. So they're the one now who are going to do the design job spec. So in effect, a second baseline has been set. So if I turn on the second baseline, baseline and it's baseline one. So right now, the baseline one, we are just being set. So it's a new baseline and we are where we want to be. But we now know we've got another baseline, which was the original baseline, which is where our real problem was. So sometimes you want to see multiple baselines to see where things might have gone awry within a project or a process you might be controlling through Microsoft Project. So for example, I can go to a view on the task tab and go to a view called if I go to more views. There's a view called, if I scroll down and then look at it, there's a view about baselines. Here we go, multiple baseline Gantt. So you can show multiple baselines through more views and it's called multiple baseline Gantt. But what it's going to do, it's actually going to get rid of my bars on the Gantt chart. So we'll see what it does right now. If I apply it. Okay, I've changed the timeline view to condense it, but all I can see right now is two baselines. If someone asked me, if I look at the blue baseline, this is the original baseline called baseline itself. The red baseline, this is baseline one. So if someone says to me, well, we are the Gantt chart bars, I can't see them. I can only see the two baselines right now in what's called multiple baseline Gantt's view. Well, for some people, they're printing that this is not what they want. They want to be able to print with multiple baselines as well as showing the Gantt chart itself and how the Gantt chart is behaving at present. So we're going to come up to this view, go back to Gantt chart and now I'm going to leave it on the actual baseline one, which is now set and just show you what I can do with using project and so the format tab and format bar styles. So I can now in this area create a new icon for baseline one and actually show it on the Gantt chart. So baseline is already here. You can see baseline. Now I can now produce one for baseline one to start. So I'm going to now produce one for baseline one to start. So I'm going to cancel this for a minute. I'm going to take it back to the original baseline and I now want baseline one to come on now in line with the Gantt chart itself. So I know the baseline is displayed, the original one, but I also want the baseline one to be displayed. So now go to the format tab, the format arrow and bar styles. Now if I come down to the bottom, I can now create a new one. So I want to create baseline one and the appearance, which I can now control. I'm going to use a shape of I could use a thick blue bar again if I wanted to or I could use thin blue bars. So I'm going to keep the way I was pattern. I might choose a thicker pattern and the color of the middle of the baseline. I want to change in this example to become. I'm going to go for a dark orange. Now the starting point. I might want a little triangle for example. So I'm going to click a little triangle and I can say, okay, what kind of color do I want for this? So I might put a solid black color or I might want a different kind of color. I'm going to go for a blueish color. So there's a blue triangle with a blue pointing arrow with an orange bar for my baseline one and there it is and now going to change the end shape to be a little point to point in the other direction. So there's a second one and I'll keep keep the same kind of blue color. So there we go. You can now see what what is trying to do. There's the preview. Now I want this to control baseline one start date and baseline one finish date. So I'm going up to baseline one start. So that's from and then to baseline one finish. There's loads and loads of fields you can control using the bar styles. So this is just an example of an extra baseline that I'm creating to put on the Gantt chart. So there we go, baseline one start, baseline one finish. Now I've got it selected and I've now clicked okay and there we go. So I've now got the baseline turned on.  So they turned on anytime now that I change something within the baseline. I'll now get a variance from where I was. So I've now got a baseline graphic. I can now show where the original baseline was where the baseline one now is. If I go back into format bars, if I don't like what I've just done, I can go back in and say, okay, I want to change that to look to look in a different way. I'd say I wanted to do something else. Could be a different kind of line, different kind of color. Go for maybe black this time then okay. And we can now see little areas of a change in. So we can now see that a baseline can be set through multiple ways. So this shows how baselines could be displayed within Microsoft Project with multiple baselines. If I were to put a second constraint on now just to show a delay from the baseline. So first interview. I'm going to delay it by and this is now for the 24th of December. So we're going to delay that one because we can't work over the holidays. So in this example, you know, we had the constraint. We could have done this through calendars as well. So I'm delay this for so we'll go from the 24th to the 7th. I will say note will be delayed due to Christmas holidays. Okay, and we can now see there's a delay from the baseline and the baseline graphic now shows the delay. The bar is now showing us where we're going. So we can now see a split from the two of them according to the baseline we've now set. If you wanted to change the color again and we think, okay, I don't want to print with blue and blue or black and blue, we might go back and format it again. It's okay and I don't like that appearance. We go back make it more visible. Maybe I can now see the delay of the baseline and what it's trying to achieve. So we've now got a little delay between two little arrows. Could have done this a solid line and left it with none of these hours. You might say, well, how would you do that without getting rid of the line? Can we can we get rid of the start and end points? So we could go back to format bar styles could come down the bottom again and we could say blank, blank. We only want the line itself. Okay. And that to a lot of people looks better. So sometimes it's not just the kind of shapes you can create. It's the way it looks for viewing and printing. And if I had to look at this now, I could then print with it if I were to set to, for example, A3. So I could look at this in print. Okay, set it to maybe A3. And there we go. So we can now see some baseline stuff. Information where I should be take this to the meeting and there's a full report on the baselines and where we are now against the project. So this completes the use of baseline graphics within Microsoft project looking at different views and formatting bar styles to give you baseline graphics within Gantt Shortfield.


Hello. Thank you so much for coming here to this presentation. I will be talking about using the online as the Android app. And before I will get to what it means, I will show you a bit of the history of how LibreOffice evolved on the Android. So it is quite an old project these days. It is eight years when it all started. The first thing was actually to get something on the screen. So Michael Meeks and Tori Lilquist have pioneered this thing. And they had just tremendous amount of things that they had to do to make it work. Like, first of all, it was necessary to make sure that there are some configuration switches to be able to cross compile. Luckily, at that time, there was some effort in LibreOffice to try to cross compile on Windows. So building on Linux for the Windows target using MinW. And so there was some preparations for the cross compilation at the time. So that was possible to use. But of course, there were many limitations. Then when the code was compiled, there were limitations how to actually run that. So linker on the Android at the time had limitation of some like 96 dynamic libraries that it was possible to link together. So it was necessary to somehow overtake that. So Matush Kukań at that time was merging the libraries together so that they become something bigger. There was lots of things that had to be done to actually link in the components into one thing. So as you have the components in the LibreOffice, that normally they are dynamically loaded. But it was necessary to get them actually into the one application, compile them together so that no additional dynamic loading is happening when you start using that. There were a lot of fun with font config because it has to load the files from the disk to actually being able to use the fonts for the rendering, the stuff on the screen, and stuff like that. Debugging. Debugging at the time was a nightmare as well. It was that you had to connect the GDB some remote way to the device, try to debug there. In order to actually being able to debug, you had to put there some timeout and do it in the right order. So yeah, big thanks to Tor, big thanks to Michael to actually get something. And something looked like this, which was awesome. It was the entire LibreOffice running on the tablet. But of course, you see the limitations. For the users, when do you want to use something like touch-based? It is just not fit for that. You have the toolbars there. You have the menus, which are small on the device and everything. So it was necessary to go further. So the next step here was the rendering the whole pages. So that was something that was reasonably possible to achieve. So I think it was Tomasz who was working on that, or somebody. I don't recall that well, sorry. But you were able to actually render the entire page from the document, have it as previews there, and then show the entire screen. It's on the entire screen without the limitations of the UI that was around that. So that was a great progress. But it was not getting us anywhere near to the editing that we needed. So the next step was to actually use the work that was being done online on providing the content of the pages and of the documents by the LibreOffice kit. So you have probably heard many times about the talt rendering.  So there are some who do not raise their hands. So I will explain. So the talt rendering idea is that actually, instead of rendering the entire screen, when you want to update, it is easier to actually partition it into some areas. So normally, like in the desktop applications, like when you type somewhere anywhere on the screen, there is some area of that screen invalidated, and it is re-rendered. In order to make it easier, like what actually is the area of the screen that was invalidated, we partitioned the entire document into so-called tiles, which are 256 to 256 bitmaps. And say, OK, so during this typing, only the third tile was changed. So request this third tile or the tile in the third column, first row, and send it again. And it is easier in that way than actually the client. So here, the Android application, but in the online, the client in the online only gets a new bitmap. It draws it on the screen. So even though it looks like text, like what is actually showing on the screen is not text, but it is a series of bitmap. And so the idea here was to use this technique of the tiles. And we needed to have some way to compose them to create the document. So the idea at that time was to reuse the code from Mozilla. They were using the tile rendering for their documents as well. And so Quickie has ripped off the composer of the tiles from the Mozilla to actually being able on the Android device to show the documents on the screen. So now it was nicely showing the document screen. And it was a great base for further work, like when you were editing, because you were able to request new tiles and get them. And so you were able to update the document. So as the next step, in the following years, they were adding more features to the toolbar and elsewhere in the Android app. But unfortunately, it turned out that the split between the online, where there was lots of development happening, and between the Android application is too low on the level. So it was that it was sharing the LibreOffice kit, but nothing above that. And so for every feature that was added to the online, it was necessary to actually re-implement it for the Android app as well. Many people have done great work there. So many things were being ported to the Android app. But it was not just catching up with the online. So very recently, the idea was to actually do the split not between the Java part and the LibreOffice kit, but much higher and actually reuse as much of the online for the Android app as possible. And Tor has pioneered that for iOS. It turned out that it is something that actually works. And so why not to do it for Android as well? Let's share code. And so what needed to be done? So first of all, it was necessary to adapt how the things are being built. Because so far, the entire Android application was being built in the core.git. So there's an Android folder in there. And when you were on Android, you've set up the configure to cross compile, blah, blah, blah. And at the end, you had some APK somewhere in the work there. And you were fine. So I wanted to build on top of this as much as possible. So I did the adaptations to this code so that instead, so in addition to creation of this APK, the liblo-native-code.so, which is basically all the merged code together that is needed for the tiles to be drawn on Android. So it is basically the entire LibreOffice kit and all the code from LibreOffice that is needed for its functionality so that it was possible to have it as a separate SO that you can link to something else. So that was the first step. Then I wanted this to be convenient for people to actually use it. So I created the Android project from scratch and did it the way how the Android projects using native code are supposed to look like in Android Studio. So from the LibreOffice point of view, like in online.git, there's an Android subfolder. But this Android subfolder looks exactly as a normal Android project that just works in the Android Studio using the standard tool. To be able to build that, actually, like using these normal tools, I had to use CMake for actually building the low WSD. So there's a CMake file list.txt, or how do they call that? That lists the files that need to be compiled from low WSD into one thing. And it links against the SleepLowNative code from the core Git that you have elsewhere. And you can directly press build or run from the Android Studio. It just builds it all together. So the inconvenient step for people who are not used to Android development is the first step of actually building the SleepLowNative code in core.git. But other than that, on top of that, that's as people are used to that. Side effect of that is that the debugging of the native part is just much easier than what it was years ago. So directly from the Android Studio, you can open the C++ code. As you can see it, you can start the debug app. It just works. Of course, when it is outside of the low WSD, you have to have the symbols for the SleepLowNative code as well. But it is actually not necessary to have them in the APK. It is possible to create the APK with the stripped symbols. And then it is described in the 3DME, like what you need to set up in the Android Studio. So you point to the version of the library that has the debugging symbols. And then you can set the breakpoints directly in the user interface of Android Studio and all these things just work for you. The next step was to create the minimal application. So Gulshar has done lots of work in this. So the UI is actually very simple for the document showing. So you have only a web view over the entire screen of the Android device. And in this web view, you run the JavaScript from the online. Again, Tor has done lots of stuff to this JavaScript so that it is prepared for this. There's a vague web socket in this JavaScript thing so that we do not have to use the normal web socket communication. Instead, we talk directly to this web view. And there are two directions, actually, how you need to send messages. So from the JavaScript into the native code, you use the JavaScript interface. You specify which object is supposed to get the messages and some handler name that you can then use in the JavaScript for actually accessing this stuff. And in this object, when you have the class for that, you have to annotate the methods that you can call with JavaScript interface. And then in the JavaScript, you can use it directly like this. So long message handle dot post mobile message stuff. Things work. Of course, it is more advanced the other way around. So from the native to JavaScript, because you cannot just call the JavaScript like the JavaScript methods directly. Instead, you have to use this JavaScript colon. And the thing after that will be parsed by the JavaScript, executed, and stuff done. So this is how you call from the native to JavaScript. And then lots of functionality had to be ported from the old app. So what I described so far was just the editing part. But the old app in the core.git had much more than this. So there was the initial shell where you have the recent documents and stuff like that. So that had to be ported. It was necessary to associate the files the same way the old application was doing that. So when you install the thing, you will like, and for example, in your email client, you tap on some file that Android knows that the online or this Android app based on online can actually handle these files and stuff that. Of course, lots of things are some necessary hacks. Or how to, well, it's the only solution. So it is not a hack, I don't know. So for example, for this font config to be able to work, you have to provide it as assets. But then you have to copy it actually to the storage part of the Android app so that the native code can use that. And do stuff with that. Then there were some additional activities or fragments inside the application, like showing the license and notice. And of course, there were some settings. And then this year, Kaishu Sahu did just an amazing job helping with this. So he has added a great list of features into this app. So that was print support, slideshow, so that you can start the slideshow and see it on the screen. Inserting images, sharing documents, save us into a new name, permissions. So of course, the app asked for permissions to access the storage, but it has to be explained to the user when they initially declined this dialogue. There were some launcher shortcuts, supple for more documents in the safe. And very importantly, dimming the document when inactive so that normally you have the choice between showing the document still on the screen or actually dimming it according to the timeout that is in Android. But with this, we actually listen to the dimming messages that come from the online code and then trigger the dim from the Android. Of course, when you wake it up again, the timeout starts from the start. And tremendous amount of bug fixing. So getting the lifecycle correctly, or at least to the state where it is now, was a big struggle because there are some many threats that are going on in there and align it with the Android's lifecycle, like how the application is supposed to be started, stopped, and how it's supposed to perform was amounts of tries. Not a constant, like eight hours a day, but it was a struggle. And then various other small fixes. So start-up time, the font config was just taking tremendous amount of time on the first start-up because it was trying to cache all the no-toe fonts that are on the Android device. And there are many of them. So I've just disabled that so that the start-up after that is nearly instant. Of course, there were some crashes and some other small things. So you probably want to see how it works. So I've recorded a video because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to stream it directly to the screen. So when I started, you see the shell. Now I've tapped on one of the documents, like it is loading the document. Now it has shown on the screen you have to start the editing by using the pencil button. Then I was trying to type something. Of course, I'm slow in typing on the device. But you can see that it does something, actually. And you can even insert an image, which is what I tried to show here as well. So now I'm inserting the image. It asked me what. So some random image. Well, the only one that I had there usable. So it inserts the image. And now when I finish that, it autosaves. So now when you restart it again, you will see that the modifications are in there. So that's it for the demo, I think. And future steps. So there's obviously more to do. As you have seen, the text input is not ideal. There are some lags. Part of that is that it was a debug built. So there's a lot of logging going on and stuff like that, which adds to the time that it takes to actually type something. But I have a suspicion that actually parsing this JavaScript stuff and passing big strings through that takes a lot of time. I have to measure that if it is really true. And if it is really true, it is possible to actually have a WebSocket open inside the app on Android. So I would be able to use that for the communication as we do in the normal online. Still, there are some time the document doesn't load. So sometime when you trigger opening a document, you get a JavaScript error that the document couldn't be accessed. Some timing issue, most probably. I don't know. Have to debug that. Then the document creation code, the old way there is that it just copies some template file somewhere to the new name and then opens it. In the meantime, we have the possibility in the online to actually use some kind of template operation and start the document just directly from a template and maybe some more fixes because there is always stuff to fix. So that's it from me. Big thank you for listening, but even bigger thanks to people who were working on that. So I list here the people who helped me with this in the online part. But of course, it is building on lots of stuff that were done by Tor, Quickie, and Cloth, and other people. So thank you so much. If you want to get involved in this, it is familiar for you. If you have any experience with the Android development, you will see that it is easy to do. And steps how to get the stuff that is not that easy is described in this Android readme.  So that's it from me. Thank you so much.