Welcome to Monet Cafe! I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I have another tree tutorial that was from last month in August that was tree month and I didn't get the chance to edit and upload it. So I wanted to make sure you didn't miss it. So here it is. Please subscribe if you haven't and click that little bell icon to be notified of future videos. Hello and welcome to Monet Cafe! I'm artist Susan Jenkins. I am glad you're here with me today. I'm gonna paint some trees, share with you product information, tips and techniques. I hope you'll follow along and I hope you'll follow on social media all of the sites affiliated with Monet Cafe. Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. You can find me on Instagram at Susan Jenkins Artist. Share your work there and tag me. And also you can become a patron of mine if you like for only $5 a month. I'll talk more about that later. But without further ado let's get to painting. Alright here we go. I'm using a reference image from one of our very own members in the Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. Her name is Robin Harris. That's another great asset about that group. We've got over 13,000 members from all over the world. Many of them share their own reference images allowing others to paint. So you get reference material from everywhere. All kinds of different subject matter. So I found this image from one of Robin's albums. I loved this grouping of trees. Thus far during tree months I've been focusing more on single trees. And often we paint trees in groups. And so I'd like to approach that and talk about how we simplify things. Sometimes there's so much going on. I particularly liked the gestural quality of these foreground trees. But there's a lot going on. So how do we get a focal point strategy and approach that? That'll be one of the topics. But first it's usually a good idea to get an initial sketch and identify those things that you want to stand out. The things that are most important or most beautiful to you about the image. So let's do that right now. The proportions of this image that I'll be painting is going to be 14 inches by 9 and a half inches. You can reduce that you know proportionally if you like. But I'm gonna go ahead and identify some of these elements that I really like. I'm just using a little Prismacolor new pastel. They're good for sketching. This is a nice dark that I like. It's actually called spruce blue. And it is number 305 is the number. It's made by Prismacolor called new pastel. So that's all I'm going to be using here. And I'm just going to get a little idea of some of the gesture of the trees and a little bit of a value study. Now like I said, lots going on. But what I really like is the grouping of trees right here in the front. And I like how they are just kind of they're kind of low down here in the landscape. And they're kind of just reaching up and twisting in and out. These look like birch trees. And don't be afraid to use different techniques when you're sketching. I'm just looking at some of the gestural quality here. You can twist some of them are thinner than others. Right now, I'm just kind of getting the the motion of the trees rather than getting the thickness of the trees. There's one over here kind of far over. I do kind of like that one. I think I would push that back to lead the eye down the trail. I like how they kind of go up and twist in another twist in and up. And you want to make sure you capture that because to me that's what's really pretty about this particular type of tree. Back here, we don't want everything on the same plane. There are some that are lower like this one. And I'll go ahead and make this one a little thicker. Bend, bend, bend. I like those little bends like that. This one would be a little higher up. We don't want everything flat. I like perspective in in painting. Okay, this one's actually got one going behind there. And I do like how this one is kind of twisting up and in here. There's one kind of twisting behind here. And it's kind of coming in and up and out in the middle. I continue to try and capture this gestural quality of the trees. And I'm using the reference image more as a guide than a strict photo. I have to adhere to every single tree where it is. And the one thing I do want is to keep some energy and movement in these trees. And now I will start adding some of the values that are in this photo. I'm basically just turning this little new pastel on its side. And I am making shapes. I'm not focusing on individual leaves. I'm literally just kind of blurring my eyes and looking at the dark areas where they are. And as you can see, the darkest area, if you look at the photo, where would you say that is? You can kind of tell where I've already put it. It's down at the base of those trees. Now, what I'm using here is a little blending tool.  Like this is where you get in packages that are to protect the items inside. Adding a little bit more of the dark. I decided to make that road a little bit more distinct and bring it in from the left kind of curving up and around. So I thought that gave a little bit more of an interesting composition. And as a focal point strategy, the eye goes primarily to areas of high contrast. So right where I have my darkest dark there at the base of those trees, I want the trees to be lighter to draw the eye in to that contrast value difference. And so I'm using a little kneaded eraser to kind of erase out some of the tree trunks. For this particular pastel painting, I decided to do an underpainting using these Durwent Ink Tense Blocks. They come in sets of different quantities. You don't have to get the whole set like I have. I've got the 72 set, but they're awesome. They're very brilliant and beautiful. And fortunately, as I work, you guys are going to be able to see my method of how I'm going to be using these some of the colors that I'm using. And that is because I was able to purchase some new equipment thanks to the support that I get on my Patreon page. So I want to say a big shout out. Thank you to my patrons. If you don't know what that is, it's a way you can support this channel for only $5 a month. It really does help to make these videos better and allows me to keep bringing free content here on Monet Cafe. And here's where you are able to get kind of a bird's eye view from that camera and the new camera arm I put up above. So hopefully that'll help. I don't have it perfected yet. Now I'm using these Derwent Ink Tense Blocks in a way that I think I've only played around with using it this way before. And I decided to use them almost like a watercolor palette. They are ink. They're compressed ink. And that's why they're so brilliant. But I wanted to get kind of a wash, a soft wash prior to getting some of the bold color. You'll see how I do that in just a minute. Now I started out, sometimes after I haven't painted for a while, I have to remember not to get too tight and fussy myself. And I was getting a little bit too fastidious with where I was putting things and I'm like, okay, I got to change my strategy here. So I got a larger brush and I just started painting big shapes and colors that I thought would complement the final painting. Now by the way, the surface that I'm using is Fisher 400. I love the surface. It's a sanded pastel surface, almost exactly like UART paper. If you have used UART paper before, it's almost exactly the same, except Fisher does not warp. UART paper has this tendency to warp and bend. So I love this surface. It's awesome. Now, as you can see, this has a really soft wash moody effect because of the technique I'm using, literally combining the inktense blocks with some water on my brush. Now here is how to get the bold, brilliant color that these Derwent inktense blocks are known for. And I'm using I actually break them. You can see me there. I just broke it and I break them into manageable sizes so that I can lay it on its side. I don't have that big long piece that I'm trying to paint with or actually kind of sketch with here. What I'm doing here is I'm using some of the greens. Notice I got down that soft moody color, which was really just to represent the sky. Notice how I did that one kind of warm the distant mountains and the road and the ground area. So I'm laying these greens on top of that, and they will be brighter in color and darker in value because of this technique. When you actually apply them to the pastel surface in this method rather than with the brush and the water that I did before, they will come out more intense and bold and darker in value. And the reason I'm doing that is because these leaves and trees and foreground elements are all going to be darker. So I wanted darker values for this. Now I'm using I don't know if I've ever used this before. I decided to use a fan brush. Now what I'm doing is this is typically how I've used in my past videos and many pastel artists use the Derwent blocks.  A lot of people say why would you use alcohol? Well, it dries faster. I think it behaves a little differently too. But you notice the intensity here. And I thought this fan brush was nice because it would give some texture to some of the grasses and the leaf shapes. And all I'm focusing is very similar to the sketch is large shapes and values. I squint my eyes to see the color and the value. And then I just go for it. Often painting is I don't know if I should use the word easy, but sometimes it's easier than we think. We're really just painting shapes and values here and having some fun with it. So I am definitely having fun with this. I'll do this technique for sure with the intense blocks because I liked getting that soft wash down first with that original technique, almost like watercolor and then getting your darker values down by laying down the intense blocks on the pastel paper. And once that's dry, it's time for pastels. This set is by Terry Ludwig. I love this set. You just saw my sock feet there. It's called the Maggie Price Basic Values 60 Soft Pastels. I love Terry Ludwig Pastels. They behave beautifully on this Fisher 400 surface. And as I typically do, I like to go ahead and get in some of my dark values. Now, unfortunately, the video editing software I'm using doesn't allow me to insert two images on top of this at the same time. Otherwise, I would have gone ahead and put the reference image up top along with the actual video footage of my hands as I paint. So I've got to figure out a workaround for that. But you can access the reference image. I'm going to provide a clickable link in the description of this video. If you'd like to pull it up and watch or be able to view the reference image, the actual photo as I'm painting. So again, I'm just squinting. I'm looking at the dark values. I'm once again using that little spruce blue new pastel. And now I'm using my little packing peanut. That is an excellent blending tool that I used before. But I noticed it was catching on this Fisher 400 paper. It was a little bit. The paper is a little bit too textural for that. So I went back to another blending tool that I use, which is a piece of pipe foam insulation that you can get at any hardware store. It's what you insulate your pipes with if you live in a cold climate. And it really is a great blending tool. So that just kind of softened up some of the dark values. And now it's time to get started with more color and pastel application. I really liked the coolness of some of the greens in the trees. I'll add some warmth later, but I'm getting the cool green colors down primarily as the darker values to begin with, because I know they're kind of in the shadow. You can tell there's a lot of light going on behind them with that beautiful purple mountain. And as you can see, you see the purple peeking through and that beautiful magenta pink color on the ground. And that was the original reason for getting that wash in to begin with. And now I'm not all too fussy about the sky in the background. I'm going to be carving sky holes in later. Now look at that gorgeous magenta. Now that is from you can see me holding up. This is the Terry Ludwig dark set. They make a set one and a set two. And I went ahead and got both of them. Actually, a few years ago, you can see how they've lasted me a long time there. I still have plenty of pastel left in this set. So I love this kind of burgundy magenta color. And I really played around with this color palette and had some fun with it. You'll see at the end, I even add some brilliant pinks and oh my goodness, the blues are just going to be gorgeous in this with this Maggie price set. Now I'm enhancing some of the coral kind of colors to go along with that earth. Earth colors typically in the foreground are going to be warmer anyway. So I thought that would be a nice combination with that magenta. Now I'm intensifying it a bit. I know I'm going to be adding other layers on top of this. So I went ahead and intensified the road. I knew I wanted it to be a lighter value because it has more light coming down coming through that little opening there. I'm using my little blending tool again just to kind of soften things. And this is exactly proof of the beauty of sanded surfaces. It's the layering capability that you get. And that's really something that took me a while to get my head wrapped around that your painting goes through some artists call it an adolescent stage or an awkward teenage stage to begin with because we're building these values and colors as layers. And it doesn't, as a matter of fact, it's not good if it looks too fixed too soon. You want to keep it loose and gradually add those layers. And then it gives you the ability. I mentioned talking about focal point more in this. It gives you the ability to later choose. Okay, what are my elements that are the focal point? And then you can layer like I mentioned before areas of light value in contrast with the dark values to draw the eye into that area. And you will see me do that later with that focal area of those birch trees reaching up and out. Now you see I'm gradually adding some warmer greens on this and I'm sneaking in some of these cooler greens in those areas. Light's going to be hitting some of those trees and leaves in the background. So I'm just kind of it's like a dance to me painting and the process of painting is you're just kind of looking at colors and values and playing and enjoying and experiencing the moment of it. Not just getting so fussy about having everything just so perfect. And now it may appear that I have lost my trees. Where are these trees? But again, that's the beauty of layering. I know that I can come in and layer on top of what's already there to reestablish where the trees are. I'm sneaking in a little bit of that peachy color to reestablish where the sky is as well. And now here is a technique it's called twisting. I am pulling and twisting this pastel to enhance some of that gesture in these background trees. And I don't want to overdo some of the trees that are not the focal area. I'm just suggesting them giving nice leanings to the trees and making sure to not have them too stiff or static. I apologize I lost a little bit of my camera footage that I just added back here. Again, I'm still trying to perfect this. The the camera battery sometimes runs out and I'm not aware of it and I don't get all of the footage. So I'll get that worked out. All right now where's that blue from this distant mountain. It's time to add that back in. And as you see I have plenty of layering capability here. So what I'm doing is it's gradually going to go from more blue at the top of the mountain in the distance and gradually get down to more purples as it comes down towards the horizon line wherever that would be back there. And so I'm just really making little shapes in between the trees. I'm not getting so caught up on the shapes being in exact places but you do want to pay attention because this isn't just messy. You know there is a strategy to it but so it's always this fine line between what is too tight and what's just you know crazy and messy. So you are paying attention to where some of these colors and values and shapes are but we're not making hard edges or anything so precise yet. And here I am re-establishing again some of the light color in the sky just peeking that through some of these tree leaf shapes. And now I'm going to start using this Terry Ludwig pastel here. This is from the Maggie Price set here that will be the tree trunks once again for these foreground trees. I'm giving some little gestural marks keeping some energy and bends to those trees. And here you'll see me developing my strategy. I even use some cooler colors for some of the trees that are in behind some of the foreground trees because that's what happens in the shadow. Things cool off. And now I'm going to be gradually adding some of the lighter areas of the trees and that's often how we work with soft pastels.  And you see I kind of skip my pastel along here and give some of that energy and feeling of the trees twisting and bending. I do apologize that I didn't have as much real-time footage in this video. Again this is a remnant from Tree Month in August and I really need to get to this month's theme which is Flower Month in Monet Café. And I've had a few little life challenges come up and get in the way of my painting. So hopefully I'll have some more flower tutorials coming. If you're in the Monet Café art group on Facebook you know that we have an album for reference images for all of the Monet Café members to be able to submit their photos. I'm calling it flowers. What am I calling it? A world of flowers and it's because we have members all over the world so we're literally getting flower reference images from everywhere on earth and the members are using each other's reference images to create flower paintings this month. So it's a lot of fun. So if you're a member there I can't wait to see what you add to the album to the painting challenge album that we have. And now you can see here I am still establishing some of the lighter little areas of these birch trees. I am going to zoom in even more when I get to some of the little darker areas. That's one thing birch trees are kind of known for is those little dark marks that kind of skip along the tree and just their beautiful trunks. I really love them. All right I've had a little bit of a cold so I'm going to give my voice a break. Give you guys some music. Oh see those purples I'm adding back there. I love adding purples in distant tree areas. So enjoy the music. I will be back. Also I do really appreciate it. If you sometimes I forget to do this. I'll watch someone else's video and I forget to hit the like button. It really does help the videos on YouTube and my channel. On YouTube it's in general. So please like this video. Comment. I love to hear your comments and subscribe if you haven't already. All right enjoy this. I'll be back at the end. And because many of you often ask about what the song is in a particular video I wanted to give credit to Akash Gandhi and this song is called Chords of Harmony. Come together and as you can probably notice I did my signature what I call punching up color. I sometimes just see that man it would be so neat if I just added like a brilliant pink here and some of those gorgeous blues down into the road. So I had some fun with color with this one. And I also decided to go into some of the the leaves in the reference image were kind of coming forward and that was the leaves over right here. The ones that were to the upper right side. And I just decided to go ahead and give them a little bit of an outline using a Prismacolor new pastel. Just some greens and give it some grasses. These new pastels are great for just some little linear work like that. So I hope you've enjoyed this. I hope you've learned something.  If you create from this video please share it in our homework album so I can see your work. Also if you're not a patron of mine you can share your results on Instagram and tag me at Susan Jenkins Artist. All right guys be blessed and happy painting.


All right, this video is for setting up a VPN between two PFSense boxes in a peer-to-peer setting. This is going to be using OpenVPN. I have PFSense latest version as of November 2017, which is a 2.4 loaded on these. The lab network, as I call it, is my 192.1683.0 network. And that's what each of these boxes is connected to, is that network. So that's our pseudo internet, I guess you could say, because that's the side where these can talk. Then they have the LAN side, which has a Debian box here, Debian. Sorry, I always say that wrong. Debian box here, 40.50 is the IP address, and 20.50 is the IP address sending octets for this one over here. So currently these can't see each other. The goal when we're done is that they can not just see each other, but they can communicate back and forth fully across the network. Some of the other VPN configurations, for example, like the Road Warrior VPN, which I'm going to do a separate video for with PFSense, where you're going to connect like your laptop while you're out and about and get back into your network, those networks can be done with two PFSense boxes, but they're harder to get the routing to be bi-directional. Routing only works in one direction, which is normally what you want. You don't want everything on the network when you're connecting your laptop coming into yours, everything going back across bi-directionally, you just want to be able to get into your own network. So that'll be a separate video. This one is specifically for peer-to-peer server and client and how to set two PFSense routers at, for example, a company that has a branch office. You want all the computers across both the network to be able to talk to each other, and that's what we're going to be able to do here in this video. Let's close this and kind of get you started on this. So here's our client side, Debian, and I know it's a little small to read, but this is the one that has the 192.168. 20.50. Here's the other one. <IP_ADDRESS>. So if I go ping 20.50, we have nothing, 100% packet loss. And we do the same here. 100% packet loss. So either one of these can see each other. These are the virtual machines that they're connected to. I've done another video on networking with Zen Center in how you can create private lands. Essentially, there's a private network connecting those two together, but bridging it off so we can't see the other machines until we do the VPN. So all the traffic once we're done will be routed across there. And here's the box that's going to be our server. And I have it in the top here. It's kind of small to read, but it says the VPN server version right here. VPN client. Just names I gave them, not real relevant.  So the server will set up first, which is actually really easy to do. It's only a few steps. Go here, open VPN server, add and choose peer-to-peer shared key. There's other options where you can add SSL, TL, S and create more certificates. That's more advanced. We're just going to get the basic set up here. If you have something that advanced, maybe you're more advanced than IT. You probably also know how to create the other certificates. You have to share certificates between them doing it this way. We just have to create a shared key between them that we do and it makes it a lot simpler. So this can all stay at default. Description is what you want to call it and most call it our test VPN. This is just name of the VPN. Because you can specify port, leave it at default unless you have a custom use case. But this is also how you add multiple VPN servers to one PF sense box with only one WAN address. Now when you're choosing the interface you can choose WAN LAN or wherever you want or if you have multiple WAN addresses, you can choose which one to bind it to or ports. So you can set up different VPNs on different ports pretty easily. You can have many machines connecting to this one when you specify the network or when you get down to the network settings. So plenty of different options here to go on. And if you need multiple VPN servers for multiple purposes, by default open VPN runs on 1194, you can change that to whichever port you want to do. So here's the next part is the encryption algorithm. AES128CBC is the default. If you say, well, I need something a little more secure, bump it up to AES256CBC. The important thing to remember when you change the encryption algorithm here, the clients have to be using the same encryption algorithm or it won't work. If your machine supports hardware crypto, you can enable it here. IPv4TunnelNetwork. You do have to have with open VPN a tunnel network. What a tunnel network is, is a network where the two VPN servers have to agree on that tunnels the traffic. It's not the same as the actual network. Tunnel networks are a little bit different. So you can pick something that as long as it's not in one of the routable ranges, you can use this tunnel network. And I'm going to choose 192.168. It has to be a non-routable IP as well, or you'll run to other issues, 70.0 slash. But what this is, this is the tunnel ID IP address that will be assigned to each client. So doing a slash 24 essentially kind of like a DHCP server in open VPN for assigning IPs to understand each client that's connecting. So you have the public IP coming in, it's assigned a tunnel network and all the traffic routes through the tunnel network. And back to your standard remote network. Now here is the remote network. We're going to skip IPv6 and jump right to this. This is where we're going to put <IP_ADDRESS> slash 24. This is the remote network on the other side that's connecting. This is what we need to get the routes back and forth. So it's a bi-directional connection. Now if you're, as a server, you need to know the remote network of each peer that's connecting. Simple enough, I mean, if you're setting this up, you're generally going to know where this gets a problematic just so you know if you have, and we have a client like this, we had to redo their network and we put the VPNs in, they have one server, of course, with five different networks. Well, they were not connected previously, so they all had the same IP ranges. That just won't work. It won't know which way to route. So we had to go each site and redo the IP ranges. And when you have more than one, you can just specify the next ones, whatever the next network is. And you just space them all out here with a comma, a space, the other network slash 24. So if there's two networks, it would be this. You know, then we'll change the range again. Let's say you have a 25 network. You just put a comma and a space, then another network. And you list all the remote networks that will be connecting to this VPN. For demonstration purposes, we only have one network connecting, so we're going to leave this at one concurrent connections, maximum number of clients allowed to concurrently connect to this server. You may have a limitation on this that you only want so many people at a time. There's not licensing with PF sense in terms of this. So you can specify this if you want a maximum in there, you can say, I only need a maximum of clients to be concurrently connected to server to be, you know, 10, 15, whatever, it doesn't really matter. This is just preference and understanding if you need to limit this. Compression, leave it at default. Leave the rest of this at default, unless you have some special use case. This is all you need to do to get the server side set up, as far as the open VPN part. So we're going to click save firewall rules. I already threw this rule in here, but yes, you have to open up the 1194 port. Sometimes I forgot to mention that in previous times, and it's something that should be obvious, but this is definitely important. If you don't open it up, it does not open it up by default, just a fi on there. Also, once you create this, you're going to end up with an open VPN tab in your firewall. For now, we're just going to add another rule here to pass traffic. And then we're just going to throw this to the word any save. And this is where you could apply more rules. What I did here was open VPN also gets its own tab under the firewall rules. Maybe you have restrictions, maybe you just want the VPN to flow freely to all the other networks. But if you put nothing in here for the rules, well, you got a problem, you won't route any traffic over to here.  But filter rules as as you feel or see fit. So by default, I'm going to leave it all open for demonstration purposes. We don't we goal is really get these talking to each other. So now we can go back over to the open VPN. And the reason we're going back to it is we had checked a box that said generate the key. There's our shared key. So we're going to need that. And we're just going to do a control a and a copy. And this is where we copy the shared key. And we're going to paste it into the client side. So we're logged in. We're going to go ahead set up a VPN client now. Go to open VPN, go to client. This is our client side. And for here, we need the IP address of the server. So let me get that real quick. That's the 192 1683.98. We need to change the type peer to peer shared key, local port all that leave that all the same unless you've done something custom. Then we put in this whoops, 3.98. All this can be blank. No, do not automatically generate the shared key. And we just paste this in. So peer to peer, default default default IP address kind of goes somewhere. And now the IP address can be a fully qualified domain name or IP address. In this case, it's just an IP address proxy port proxy authentication description. This is our test VPN, just so it has a name. Now, the encryption algorithm, because we changed it on this side to AES 256 CBC, we just have to match it. I mean, you could just left it at default 128. But like I said, the client and server have to match, or you'll have problems. IPv4 tunnel network. We have to know the tunnel network of the server that was set up here. So we set the tunnel network to be this <IP_ADDRESS>. So there's our green tonal network. But then we also need our remote network. And remote network on the other side was 40 slash zero slash 24. And this is the remote network from this one. So you got to remember, we're going from this side here is 20 slash 24. And because everyone from this way here to get a gateway back in force, they got to crisscross each other. This is how you get back over there. So everything else here can stay the same. Save. And away we go. Let's go here to the home screen of this. And there we go. We've got the VPN working. But this will not allow it to ping back and forth because there's a couple more steps. And some people, this is often where they feel as though they had success, but this is where you get stuck with this because there's one more step you need to do. And what you need to do, because now you don't have a gateway yet from this side of the network, the client side of the network back over. So the devices, and you maybe you can log in the PF sense. And I think the PF sense is able to ping over there because of the way the network is. Yeah. And this is showing up with the VPN. We've got a tunnel network assigned to us, but we don't have a gateway. And it's really easy to do. This is the, this is a really easy step. You go here, interface assignments. Right here, available network ports. And it adds it as another network port. Save. Then now it's added. Then we're going to go over here to interfaces. It called it opt one. We're going to call it open VPN. And we're going to enable the interface. Hit save. Apply. Now what this does, this adds a gateway. So devices on this side, the client side of the network, have a gateway to get out. So now when we go over here to routing, it's in here as a gateway interface, but it still isn't working in one minor detail. Once you've done this, you notice right here, we've got no IP address assigned to this. We set the restart the open VPN service. You could also reboot the whole router, but you know, that sometimes disruptive to people. So we restart the service. All right. Now it has a gateway. Now that it has a gateway attached to it, the two devices should ping to each other as soon as we also add a firewall rule. So now we're going to go over here to our rules, open VPN. Now there's two of them here. And one was the opt one that we renamed open VPN. And then this is the open VPN one. I probably shouldn't have called them the same thing, but I typed all caps with the other one right here. This is the one we have to actually add the rule to. And once again, we have to add a rule to get traffic to pass. I'm just going to say any for now. So we have a wide open rule here. This means all the data can go back and forth through the VPN. Like I said, this is where you can create all kinds of fun firewall rules if you had a lot of details, but a lot of times the goal with, for example, the client, when we just did, there's not any rules needed. We need the networks to completely talk to each other because they have a bunch of services that are moving back and forth. So now let's go over to our devian boxes. And if I did this right, they should work. And we're pinging on this side, it's responding and pinging on this side. That's really it for the VPN setup. It's really not that hard to do. It's pretty straightforward. You just have to remember those couple steps and adding the gateway one is kind of weird. You know, it's not as automated. And let's do something real quick here. Let's take and rename it just to show you, whoops, call it back to opt one apply. So here's where the rules are. And you can see that there's some packets going back and forth because I have them pinging. But we have no rules here. I do find it a little bit odd, at least conceptually, that you think you'd want to put rules against this gateway, but you actually put them apart on the open VPN that's auto created once you created the client side. Now, one other thing on the client side, let's say you have a more in depth network. And for example, we do at our office, and we've got multiple lands. Same thing that you do on the server side, you do on this. So if we're connecting to a server that has a whole bunch of remote networks, we just put inside a notation, a common a space, each of the networks on there. And that's how we get a gateway to that network. So as you if you have a really complicated network with just many lands, you need it, you need a VPN, this site to connect to all the different lands on that side, you just put a common space. So you know all of these because this is what's putting the routing information in there. Now, another side note to you can also add static routing. If you have some need for that as well, you can push static routes across the open VPN ports as well. If that's something needed, so you can say, take this, this is destination gateway. So if this rule pushes over here, and that works, that's also the other reason you added the open VPN interface as an interface gateway. So you can add static routes later. So you have some real custom routing. That's where that's going to go. So hopefully this guide was helpful. It's pretty straightforward for setting up the VPN. If you're wondering what I did here to add this, this is just adding the open VPN option out of here. So you can view that the VPN's up or down pretty straightforward. That's all that was first customization. But that's it. That's VPN done pretty straightforward, not too difficult. Once you have those couple of little steps in there and make sure you add those couple of firewall rules. All right, hopefully this was helpful. I'll do a separate video on how to do like the road warrior VPN on these, where you're going to take your Windows box and do that that was a separate video. So all right, if you like to count here, like, subscribe. If you have questions about this or if I wasn't clear on something and I need to redo this video, let me know. Thanks.


Oh my goodness. I think I pressed the right button. I think the right box How you doing Rod? I'm doing fairly well I a little sad though that we're live because I was enjoying that music it made me feel I don't know if you feel this but it made me feel like I was on like a cruise ship with Captain I thought being invited to the captain's table for dinner It is rather interesting when they find that royalty-free stuff to see what actually works but Thanks for joining today.  We're trying to swap the different people in and out and one of the mainstays of AZ Update is Pierre Romain on our team and Pierre got the lovely job of driving his daughters over to Montreal, two-hour drive from where he lives to be able to drop off for a vacation so he figured a live remote take would not be good Just with the noise in the background noise stuff like that So we're both stepped up to be able to do it today man. That's gonna be fun Yeah, it's it's the difference between like an action movie and a drama I guess so Pierre would we have the action movie with all the car sounds and it would be pretty absolutely This is teamwork, right? This this shows Shows our team great teamwork. So yeah, happy to do this happy to talk about all the good stuff we have Well in in in light of that one of the things that I wanted to talk about first in our air quotes banter section is talking about the The windows hybrid event that we had earlier this week. Did you get a chance to watch that on tuesday? I did well on tuesday. I watched pieces of it because obviously I'm never idle. That's just me. It's like an OCD thing. So i'm always doing something I'm always doing like two or three things So I did kind of catch some of that But then yesterday I went back and watched the things as a security person that I felt were More aligned with what I wanted to hear. So yeah, I did listen to all the security stuff yesterday I thought was pretty interesting Nice, you don't have that linked up on your screen resource that we could take a look at This is where we'd have the professional short links, but I don't know if we actually created the short links or not, but main way that we got Is um Oh, see there's you she used you should be the one that's on the main page not me So yeah, I'm on uh, yeah Let's go with that shared screen right there. So Yeah, so one of the announcements that came up as part of that is The windows auto patch as an example and you had a particular interest in this particular one What what exactly brought your eye for this concept of the windows auto patch? Oh, yeah, there's a this whole history thing here Some people don't know so I was on the original Team I was a contractor on the original team that created the original patch management guide at microsoft way way way way way back yet, um, so I'm semi Semi responsible for patch tuesday so everybody can absolutely hate me But this windows auto patch was I kind of gleaned this this week. I thought this was absolutely interesting Those customers that have been so hard tasked with updating their systems every month for ever Now microsoft can actually help you with that. It's called auto patch Auto patch you turn some or maybe all of your patching tasks over to microsoft I thought it was interesting how we'll actually take a subset of your environment do a little testing with the patches and pull those back And then if everything works, we're just gonna we're going to auto patch your systems for you more kind of like this This whole idea around the cloud and services and pay as you go and this whole utility concept It's absolutely amazing particularly for those customers that can take advantage of this Right now it also uses all of our signals that we get from other people if they're having problems with those patches It uses the ring system if you will to kind of gradually phase them out the different people Which is cool. It's all kind of anchored in our back end solution that is using Windows update for business as the main back end where you can control the different settings for all the different machines But it uses our information on being able to pull them back If they're working if there's troubles, but you still have control But we basically look after the infrastructure and the rollout and the scheduling that sort of stuff So pretty cool stuff. There's another whole section that was there talking about security And I know you're a security person And so in there, I'm just curious if you had anything with the security fundamentals breakouts that it was there anything in there that kind of caught your eye Well, we have some really excellent new features coming particularly for windows 11 Everything that we do at at microsoft. I hope folks get this is all modeled around kind of this zero trust idea So people think about our cloud. They think about our on-premises tool security tools zero trust It sounds right that just is a given. Yeah, you should focus on that But it goes even further because based on this hybrid work event and the discussion we had this week This is being modeled into windows 11. I mean, it's already there But I think it was exposed much much better In that it breaks down all the way from the hardware All the way to the applications the operating system the identity that's built in and then also All the way for that connection to the cloud where these systems can be managed with microsoft Defender for endpoint What really stuck with me though was the numbers How successful our products and services have been in protecting our customers. I actually wrote this down here 9.6 billion malware threats identified and and Remediated 35.7 billion phishing and other malicious emails identified 25.6 billion brute force attempts. That's huge 800 plus password attacks every second As both says the staff stuck for me. That's this that's the zinger that you mentioned 800 password attempts per second That we're catching as far as where that is That's insane if again, I finally found the url if you want to go off take a look at it It's not a nice short form one, but this is the event. It's completely free to go off and see the breakouts There's three of them We're talking specifically about the security fundamentals breakout for the stuff that was in there The big thing that caught my eye was just the level of interesting and breakdown that david did With regards to the demos that he brought out like the dude is literally Pulling up fiddler to look at the traffic between the website and teams and the other stuff to be able to So no over here this packet tells you this or else. Uh, he brought out the best one which I thought was Capturing the traffic between the tpm and the cpu Live on the bottom She steals the bit locker key and then talking specifically with that with our new pluton silicone. It's coming out So I have a amazing stuff. Yeah, so I have a in-person conference coming up next month. It's uh, it's Most it's usually a in-point manager type conference. I'm bringing security stuff into it and I was Those demos you're talking about. I absolutely wanted to steal some of those So I should be looking for the uh, the expense report coming in from you for some additional hardware. I take it Hey, yeah, much like me. Here you go Nice Cool stuff go off and check out that particular event. Uh, some really cool stuff inside the fundamentals piece We also talked a bit about the it management for hybrid work section as well The demos are not quite as slick as the other ones are but you know, give them props for some of the announcements that came in there Um, very cool stuff. Uh, they have a bunch of resources and links during those sessions about 20 minutes apiece So go check those ones out. But you know, we've got some actual news that came out from new releases that came from this week For things that are coming up and I believe the first one we're going to be talking about is uh Yours it is specifically about azure backup. What's new with that man? Absolutely. I I thought this this kind of stuck out to me As a security person, right? So I have to have a certain skill set to be able to remediate things threats and things like this But at the core as a security person It's all about the data, right all about the data the metrics Um, this was hugely important to me. So we've released just Recently some capability around metrics and metric alerts for some of our storage capability But now right this week released it for blob storage Which is huge and I can't tell you the number of times working with Microsoft Sentinel our customers have said Hey, I need to be able to track All storage accounts and we've kind of been I don't know Not quite as Full on some of those storage accounts and now it looks like that capability is coming into play And this is absolutely awesome awesome This absolutely meets what customers have been requesting and asking for for a long time This is going to give you Stuff about did the restore job work? How's the health of restore job? You know because at the end of the day When you're talking about potential disaster recovery You need to know that your backups are pretty good, right? So this is this is good stuff to be able to tell at least from that perspective whether or not things are going to work nice the Backup solution definitely enhanced for being able to do stuff more monitoring take that you can do and take in place Which is awesome And we've got a link on there for being able to go off and check out the details On the backup support metrics and the reporting you can do on that one there for some new updates Pretty cool stuff. Yep. Um, what one caught my eye from our update service was actually talking about the bastion support Uh for using kerberos for authentication. It's it's a small little update, but it's still important to know that's now possible Uh, the basically, uh, it can now work with um, both the basic and standard skew as far as how you're using azure bastion Uh, and simply some docs and resource links from this particular update talking about how to set up kerberos authentication Inside your bastion environment and also how to configure it to use Uh kerberos authentication as well Now i'm curious rod like, uh azure bastion deployed Yes, no, are you an interested Individual talking about bastion again kind of hinting on your security background. I kind of would know the answer But I thought I'd ask well. Yeah, absolutely. Um, I do have it deployed in my own environment and with it quite a bit it it does Give you kind of a sense of well, let's use the word. I'm sorry security It does kind of give you some security knowing that those connections are are secure and safe, right? Um, the other thing I Hesitate to say this, but I have to last time I was on the show with pier We talked about bastion and I just have to be very clear. It has to be pronounced a certain way. Otherwise, it sounds like another word You just got to be careful about that. It's azure bastion And it yeah, it's uh, it's a really good service This I remember when this azure bastion first came out in um in ga last year and customers absolutely ate this stuff up so This support for kerberos is is is pretty awesome and as I think customers will find over time There will be even greater support for a lot of our other services as well Right What I like is that we keep on extending the functionality of it I mean we started off and it was just literally a web interface to be able to go off and take a look at a Remote desktop type session through a web interface, which was kind of clunky but worked But now we've actually got like ssl you can go go and do through the bastion house directly with your native client Uh, we've got rdp capabilities And then now we actually have a different level of a higher level of authentication with kerberos authentication taking place So I love how we keep on innovating to it, but ultimately it's your jumpbox as a service Jb as I guess it is For being able to act with your actual resources as a good good practice to be able to often do different things You might have to trademark that by the way. I know I need to go off and get that twitter account Um, what do you got up next for your next item that we have to talk about? Oh, yeah, so this one actually comes with a with a with a short story So some folks know that I co-host a weekly podcast called microsoft security insights Um nice in and a couple of our guests talked about mdi not this week, but last wednesday Evening we talked about mdi and one of the things that was brought out as part of that conversation was In microsoft defender for identity is almost a near perfect Product one of microsoft's near perfect and customers say this all the time because it works. It's awesome. It works great But in relation to personal security product all it literally does is monitor and alert, right? It couldn't remediate. It could there's you couldn't take action on whatever that was. Well Fast forward of this week. Guess what we announced this week that we now microsoft defender for identity supports response actions It's limited Right. It's limited to these two disable user and reset user password But literally we're talking about identity and from a security analyst perspective if if I can do two things If I can reset a user's password or I can disable a user because I believe that that account might be potentially Compromised I've protected the rest of my environment. So those are huge while it's only two things those are huge And according to the product team, there's more actions coming. So it's getting Microsoft defender for identity is becoming more and more aligned with what all of the rest of our security products can can do as well So that's that's that's really awesome. Nice And as always we've got a nice link inside the blog that was so see that's associated with this particular recording on it The ops talk to get access to all those links additional resources All the links that we have also point to docks resource pages and or microsoft learn modules. You can go off and try them yourself And we basically just done the work of bringing together some of the more interesting topics to chat about here During the show. So defender. I wasn't even aware of the the defender for identity response actions that were possible so that's kind of cool that you brought that up and Cool stuff that the last article that we have to chat about right now Is about something that is near and dear to my heart as someone who used to Go through a whole bunch of hosting and work with a bunch of different hosters and content that sort of stuff Is the availability to do BYO IP bring your own IP Don't go off the tongue as nice as like an i as acronym or something like that But the whole concept of bring your own IP. I mean your public IP address like I still remember back way back in the day The you know what the address is that they use for microsoft on training materials. Remember that or do you know that one rod? I I don't I don't 131 107 and then Boom boom like I remember that one there and always in all the labs that they used to have for 131 107 If you do an ns look up on that address range It actually comes back as being owned by microsoft right so back in the day We own our own IP address ranges and you build up your reputation of your house secure How you know your your identity of your your computer in your Organization based on the IP address ranges that you potentially own and you might want to use those as part of your Applications that you're deploying and your resources and workloads are deploying up into the public cloud So we now have the general availability of being able to bring your own IP address ranges into azure themselves And these are the public ones. You're not your internal ones. These are the public ones So it comes in very handy if you've got some resources that you've now moved up into azure But then now you need to reference those public IP addresses and they would normally point to your on-premises boxes Through the firewall and redirection now they can point natively and directly up inside of azure If you wanted to with bring your own IP they could basically be onboarded as azure regional custom IP prefixes Which is the typical term for how it works And then we've got a link to doing the custom IP prefixes This has been available in preview mode for a while now But now that we're actually hit ga. We're now kind of excited to say that you can now By o ip up into the azure world By oi No, that still doesn't work Man, I don't know what it is After having this explained to me yesterday, I absolutely love this because I've run websites for years Right and you always have to you always have to change your dns and point to ip to it If you change services or hosting companies and stuff, so Yeah, I get that this is from a security perspective too. I think I don't want to overlook this talking about that reputation company that ip arrange and things like this God forbid that you would have your ip Put on some deny list somewhere Right. There's a lot of this back in the day. Remember those? Yeah, yeah, and it could happen and you talk about the reputation and being able to bring your Your ip addresses over that these trusted You know connection numbers, right? That's that's that's really good. That is kind of a security component. So I actually love that Absolutely. Yeah, I remember that having to worry about keeping your ip ranges clean Having to take them off the different spam bot lists or stuff for mail relays. Oh, yeah All that fun stuff Again, these are only four items that we found that were kind of interesting. They were relevant to bring up inside the aza update show um, we mentioned the event at the very beginning which was the um Hybrid work and we specifically called out the two breakouts For managing your environment and also securing your environment There was one more that we wanted to bring up We didn't have it inside our official show notes that you brought up which was a beta exam What was that? What was that talking about because I saw you tweeting about that earlier this week that you had some problems with the system uh Not really problems Are you you were too anxious to take it that that's what it was? Yeah, they announced it was going to go live yesterday And I've been waiting and and even yesterday morning I was hitting the refresh button because I wanted to schedule this exam absolutely as soon as possible So which which one was it just say one knows Which one which one was it? But you're waiting for the beta. What was it called? sc 100 sc 100 going live got it Right, so we we have this whole series this sc series of exams now sc 100 through sc 400. I think there's another one as well um, but these are Cover our Our security platform products More so from like a an analyst or someone that works with our products works with security this sc 100 Is the one that kind of pulls everything together from an architect security architect perspective With standing up the architect this the platform Setting up the infrastructure Governance and risk making sure everything is secure and doing it from a zero trust perspective. So this is actually pretty huge Um, I did finally get to schedule it It's actually scheduled for this afternoon. I think I take it at three o'clock this afternoon So I'm really excited about that the cool thing about it though is that If you pass this one along with and I've got that list right here These others if you have these already you get a cyber security architect expert badge and I that's all that's what that's what I'm in it for I always want the extra stuff So really you're looking for completion of all the different expert badges that you can grab. Is that what it is? Yeah, yeah, I I think I think if I go back and look I think I have every certification we have so nice, um, just one of those Another ocd thing of mine that you know, I have to admit to Um, definitely. Hey, I remember my my my mcp certification page used to be about four pages long from all the stuff I took I have kind of slowed down a little bit as the newer ones have come out, but I still am Plugging away at various different ones, but thanks for talking about the sc 100 It for for the for that particular exam anything that you would point to as like a good study guide resource any kind of tips So There are a few and in fact this this link we have to this page There are a couple on here There's not a lot because it is a beta exam. Okay. Okay, not a lot in reference to study materials um And because it is a beta We're offering the first 300 people that take the exam or schedule to take it before may 5th and some Money off the registration Because I registered because I'm a microsoft person it doesn't take away from those 300 people So, okay, good. Thank you. I've taken your seat So, yeah, you can you can do that but from a study perspective It's literally just I personally I think it's just hands-on We have a lot of really good learn modules um That can cover a lot of this stuff But at the end of the day you need to combine those learn modules with actually with actual hands-on if you want to pass this Stuff I've taken all of the sc series exams and nice if I hadn't worked with the product I probably would have failed each one. So right so the those resource links are helpful I find it usually works out quite well going for the exam objectives page on microsoft learn Taking those objective pages put them inside of a one note and then going off and finding the docs and finding the learn stuff That's associated with each one of those objectives to be able to go off as my starting point for things Cool stuff. Speaking of of some training and some other online capabilities There's some cool stuff going on with our team that we put together Which is called the learn live study hall for hybrid Right cool stuff. Do you have the link for that one there we can show for everybody? Let me see if I can grab it. I think I was in the midst of it when um, I'll let you find and I'll talk about a little bit So we were approached by a team internally at microsoft that handles Generating and sourcing different skilling resources. I know because I'm saying the word skilling I'm driving pier crazy right now if he's listening because he hates it with Skilling so I'm going to say skilling as many times as I can in this section But they approached us for a skilling initiative That was going to be talking about how to skill people up With regards to their hybrid capabilities And so uh thomas mower on our team went ahead and helped coordinate the effort of finding resources for everyone and finding presenters to be able to present the content As well. Uh, so you've got the slide up there. So let me pull that up for everybody to be able to see but The the idea is that we've got I want to say almost like a dozen and change almost more than that Of stuff lined up on the main page for the resources you can go off and find it here But we're talking about all the different connectivity that we have on the hybrid sense We're pairing up both internal microsoft people of product team people and microsoft mvps as well To be able to deliver these they're all about as you can see here 90 minutes long Which is a interactive chat back and forth and look at the learn modules together And the demos and stuff like that and then go through some skill testing questions This is going to be going starting uh actually in a week or so and finishing up in mid may So it's a it's a good long endeavor of a couple of them a week And they're also time zone friendly to work both in europe and also in north america And a little bit early except the north american ones work for our friends over in australia and the asia pacific region two For some content. So you'll see some friendly faces here as possible hosts for these particular entries And you'll see some really good content as we go through Anyone in there stick out for you as an interesting my friend Yeah, I think this is uh, this is an awesome endeavor. I have to tell you because um It's it's sometimes finding the appropriate time to go through some of these learn modules on your own You kind of get you know pulled away to do other things this remote work It takes a certain personality to really just stay, you know, nose in focused all the time So being able to do this with somebody That's yeah, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, definitely. So go check that one out Go sign up. They're all free to attend 90 minutes a piece block them in your schedule Uh, you can also see them on demand after the fact. Uh, so there'll be some good content coming up there um In our community event section, uh, just obviously shameful self promotion Uh, I'm even dressed up accordingly according to the parts patch and switch is going to be on later today Uh in about an hour and 35 minutes or so at a at um twitch.tv slash patch and switch Joey snow will be joining me show all that other guy. What's his name again? Um, Steve I think it is. Yeah, Steve's going to be joining us too Uh for some good shenanigans of just kind of blowing off some steam But you mentioned at the very top of the hour the thing that you do on wednesdays Uh, what's the name of that one there? What's going on with there? And is it every wednesday and who's part of it? Oh, yeah, so it's called microsoft security insights if folks don't know that was kind of the original name for a lot of our security platforms right kind of the codename So that's the name of the podcast it is a podcast every wednesday night 5 p.m Eastern time live on twitch Okay, um, and we're nearing our 100th episode which is pretty fantastic to think about And it goes for about an hour hour 15 minutes the replay Uh, the audio replay for podcasts, right? Um, it comes out the following week Usually monday on all the podcast platforms Some exciting news coming up that we're starting to slowly migrate to a microsoft platform microsoft reactor for production and For the show which is pretty awesome in itself It's it's co-hosted by myself A couple of my colleagues internally brody and edward and and we have one non microsoft person who's absolutely amazing with security red teaming stuff so frank and It's it's a really good really good event We we talk about all things microsoft security. We have partners on we have product managers constantly That want to come in and talk about what they're doing what they're excited about We have folks from our field who are working with customers constantly It's literally all across the spectrum all across the board and it's a really interesting relaxed Um conversation That's awesome, man. We make fun of your first episode that's going to be going on with the reactors April 20th. We're having on matt sosman who is currently product manager With the microsoft identity in an engineering team. So got it. Cool. I know matt. He's a good guy So uh, should be a good guest to have on yeah awesome stuff, man Well, we we've got one last thing to hit on in our normal schedule stuff Which is what is the learn module of the week? Yeah, I think i've said the word uh identity about a hundred times today during the show I thought you know might as well finish with that We do have this this says exam sc 300 this microsoft identity and access But it is absolutely if you go down to the bottom of this page. There is a whole learn module associated with this Oh, yeah Not just a module. Yeah, well not the right the whole learning path talking about our identity Solutions being over with microsoft identity and stuff like that. Um, and as I mentioned earlier This is great to prepare you for that exam But you also need hands on and there's a lot of capability that we provide the customers to give you either hands on in your environment Or we'll give you a little demo Environment that you can get a little bit of hands-on experience with so Cool stuff, uh microsoft learn modules always good to have and obviously that one there with identity identity is one of the cornerstones for being able to correctly Secure your environment. Is it not it is the first Step in securing your environment if you don't have identity managed you literally have no security Well, very valid point I like that very valid Cool stuff, man. Well, you know, I think we're just about done anything for closing comments anything For well, hopefully they'll let us back to host the show again, but uh, it's like one of those things Yeah, it's like leaving the leaving the car keys with the kids and going out of town, right? I just don't know what's gonna happen Um, yeah, hopefully they'll have us back. I enjoy myself probably a little too much sometimes, but yeah Nice. Well, hey, thank you very much everyone for joining us really appreciate it. Uh, you know a little bit clunky We managed to make it through There's some great people that go off and made some comments. I saw some team members and some community members on the different platforms the facebook's the You tubes and the twitches so again join us again next week for another episode all this information is available on the blog for itopstalk.com And the episode has all the different show notes and all the different lengths rod Thank you very much for joining today and helping me co-host and also Thank you and a hit tip of the hat was out to pierre for trusting us with the keys to the car Uh, and uh, we'll see you next week Yep, have a good week


All right, welcome back. It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and former president Goodluck Jonathan has been in the news for the past 24 hours specifically human rights lawyer Femi Fallano says that the former president cannot contest in the 2023 presidential election citing constitutional provisions barring the ex-president from seeking re-election. Now the senior lawyer said this in a statement in response to growing cause on Jonathan to throw his heart into the ring ahead of the 2023 election. He said Mr. Jonathan, who was Nigerian president between 2010 and 2015 would bridge constitutional term limits of two terms of eight years if he runs for the presidency and wins again. He recalled that Jonathan became the president of Nigeria in 2010 following the sudden death of President Omar Erdogan. Now Erdogan later contested and won the 2011 presidential election. We have Nick Agole public affairs analyst joining us in this conversation. Good morning to you Mr. Agole. Thanks for joining us on the breakfast. You have good morning to you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, it is indeed our pleasure. For some time now, for days running into weeks, you know, the media has been awash or the president would cause for the former president to you know, join the presidential race and even people are asking him to join the APC and all of that. But you know how it has played out over time now. Consent lawyer, Femi Falunae and even a whole lot of them, Essay and Sahar, you know, vowing to sue the president or the former president if he declares interest to run that it is unconstitutional. First of all, let me just get your specific background and see how you're raising all of that. Okay. Thank you very much for that question. I am not a lawyer. So let me serve that caveat up front. But I am a Nigerian citizen who is interested in governance in Nigeria and our public affairs. So my reading of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 as amended in section 137 subsection 3 says a person who was soon in to complete the term for which another person was elected as president, should not be elected to such office for more than a single term. So if I give a layman's interpretation to that provision of the Constitution, it means that former president, Good Lord Jonathan, was soon in to complete the term of the next president, Umaru Musayar-Adua, and therefore he is entitled to be elected to the office of the president for one more single term. And that single term happened when former president, Good Lord Jonathan, was elected as president in 2011. Therefore, looking at the Constitution as I am reading here as a layman, I would say that president, Good Lord Jonathan, former president, Good Lord Jonathan, can no longer seek for election to another term. This is what I interpret from the Constitution as I am reading to you. We also have some other quotas, some quota arguing that the law that has been quoted by Falunar saying that he cannot become president again, that law was made. He had already been sworn in twice. So he had already been sworn in twice before the law was made. And so the argument is do we backdate the law? He had the revered legal luminary from Falunar son yesterday on a television program where he made several quotations of judgments that have been delivered by competent courts in Nigeria in the past that affirm that when a law is made, as in this case the amendment of the Nigeria Constitution, after an event has happened, that the law takes retroactive effect back to when that event happened. So if we go by the submission of the revered legal gentleman, it then means that even though the Constitution was amended after President Good Lord Jonathan had already been sworn in for two terms, that these amendments would take retroactive effect to the two terms he has said before the amendment. Alright, a lot of reactions have followed that particular development. Specifically, you know, a lot of people are vowing to go to court over that and they are saying that let me just read something to you. The vice chairman, director of public affairs of the Igbo Leadership Development Foundation, Dr. Law, may have said his group will be going to court to challenge Jonathan should he declare his interest. May have stated that these are the people's democratic members of the House of Reps, one ex-president accepting offers of the APC and Bahari. Okay, explaining the stand of the ILDF before, who believes the next president should be from the Southeast region, argued that Jonathan had been affected by the constitutional amendment and those had no right. So specifically, do you really think this particular case, if it goes to court, will actually stand based on merit? Right. I have no idea how the courts are going to decide this, because you know, sometimes in Nigerian courts, even when the facts are very clear, the courts can throw out a case on technical grounds. So until this is taken to court and it is judged all the way, I believe to the Supreme Court, before we were able to know where the law justices on which side of the divide the law justices are going to fall on. And now we say it is a good thing. It's going to deepen our democracy. If we add to our common law, if this is actually tested in the courts, let the courts, who are the constituted authority to interpret our laws, be the one to have a final say in this debate that is happening. But you know, we still have this argument still saying that this law came after. This law came after he had completed his tenure. I mean, so it shouldn't affect him and everyone is expected to, I mean, those who are actually holding on this argument are saying that Falana of all people should know about this part of it, that it doesn't really hold him. Because at the time he had already completed his tenure before the law came on board. But looking at it now, what would you expect of Jonathan at the time? Would you say that it's okay for him to go ahead and pursue it if it's been pressured? Because he feels like he's not the one who wants to become president, but you have a lot of Nigerians who have trunked out on the streets and are asking him to become president or contest for the position of the president. So the legal case has already been laid by the likes of Fermi Falana's son that there has been court rulings in the past that have affirmed that new laws passed have retroactive effect. But I am going to also look at it from a layman's point of view to say that the former president, Good Lord Jonathan, has already been sworn in twice before the amendment of the Nigerian constitution. He is now trying to go and stand for election under this new constitution because it is not the old constitution that is going to govern his desire to become president again. He is not going to become president, and the operating constitution is the amended one as we speak today. And therefore, he has to abide or qualify to be elected as a president under the subsisting law, under the current law, under the law that we have as of today. And that law, as we have as today in section 137, subsection 3, is saying that he cannot be elected again as president because he has already served a single term after he was sworn in the first time to complete the tenure of late president Umaru Musa Yara Dua. So if we look at it from this perspective, then we will say that Mr. Jonathan's case may be weak because he cannot be facing today's law and then sitting on yesterday's law and saying I was qualified with yesterday's law and therefore I can disobey today's law. I don't think that is going to likely hold water.  All right. Thank you so much. Let's bring in some legal perspective to all of this. We have joining us right now, human rights lawyer Barista Justice. Good morning to you Barista. Thanks for joining us in this discourse. Yeah, good morning. All right, Justice, let's try and get the whole legal perspective because we need to get lots more clarity after a Femi Falano essay and came out to explain why the former president cannot run. There seems to be the talk of the former president being sworn in twice. Another issue again is that he should not run for more than 80 years. Just try and explain all of this to us. Well, the Femi Falano, the other friend of mine, the law is written without telling me. The issue is that, as a piece to deal with, which law is going to govern the Femi Falano election? And by and large, the body that has given an amendment of the Femi Falano is in the position of appointing now our government the conduct, potentially, that we are taking over our government. So we cannot run the party. The law has issued today, the amendment has issued today, to not give Jonathan the right to continue the game. So in some other law, as it is noted, he has not changed anybody's view about it. Moving along, I think about which law we need to run into today in America. Is it these issues of law? I know that law is the best of some people's problems. But I don't think there's any conflict. We must look at this politically and do the work. I'm telling you, there are so many things as is supposed to be. We must implement everything. So as far as the law is concerned, the amended question of the constitution that is the first law of the nation, is it one law of the law? And I'm not sure anybody can hear about it. But do you think that the law, I mean quickly before we move back to Nica Goulet, do you think that the law, this amended part, applies to him or the amended part walks retroactive? Well, if you are trying things that are not going to come up here, you must look at the law. The question which is the first, when we have an amended question of the constitution, we still have to look at it as it is now. See, most times when we think of ideas that will not hold the law back, you know, it is only when the defense wants to think of things that they want to do to look at the law, to think the law and not to think. Let me say this. Let the lawyer not be. There is what we call the constitution law. And most times, there is what we call the constitution. Sometimes you look at these things that the law can't be clear. I ask the people.  Well, I wish we were able to hear you clearly. I mean, the audio is not very clear. And unfortunately, that's a legal question. But we'll just move away from that. And we're hoping that we're able to reconnect with you and get your perspective, whether or not that part of the amended law is retroactive, in the sense that it was done, he had completed his tenure at a time before the law became. And so what should we be looking at at this point in time? However, Nika Goulet is still part of the conversation. Nika Goulet, are you with us? Yes. All right. So moving from now, do you see those who are not in support? I mean, do you see a lot of litigation against the former president? Yes. There will be litigation either way. If the president contests there will be litigation. If he is bad from contesting those who support him, I believe we also approach the courts so that they will fight for his own rights. And we cannot wait to see that litigation play out. But as a public affairs analyst, let me drag this conversation to my own territory. As a public affairs analyst, I will say that because we have been discussing the constitutional qualification of former president, Good Lord Jonathan, for another term of office as a president, I am dragging the conversations now to public affairs analysis. And I will say that from a public affairs analysis perspective, President Good Lord Jonathan is not qualified to become a president again because we have already tested him. He was vice president from 2007 to 2010. And from 2010 to 2015, that is six years, I mean five years, 2010 to 2015, five years, he was our president. Well, he didn't complete, let's not forget that he was, I mean he was vice president to the lady, Musa Yardwa, and he didn't complete the tenure of, I mean he had to complete the tenure so it was not like he was elected independently to become president. According to the constitution, he had to replace him. So how do we explain the remaining under half? I think we should bring the barrister to explain that to us. Barrister, can you explain more of that to us because people are talking about two terms like Massi had said, he only completed the tenure of his former principal, Musa Yardwa, and that he run for four years again. But another issue, maybe I might not really understand the law so well, but the fact was that for 2015, he was also supposed to contest. So if it were supposed to sum everything up together, he would have done the year he completed for the former president Yardwa, his four years, and if he had one in 2015, there'd be another four years. How do you explain all of these gray areas? Barrister, Ohebu? Yes. For me, I think my friend, the CEO said, you know he's going to make a question of the constitution, which the court in my life would be called unless where to go or where to be directed. But what is this? Whether he had some purpose before or not, for me, is not even a thing. Why would you be looking at the law? I think what I would prefer to do on the constitution of the case today and not even if they don't have the right to go down with my women, money, children, parents, and all those activities of our women in logic. But let us talk about the question here is what is the current position in a good country with which I didn't know to go to continue this election? Or not? Do you think that there are opportunities to do this? Because if you believe a lot of women here who have sworn in to do their price to do and they have the age of this job or never to do something like this, try Nigeria. Maybe surprise. How do you do that? Because in my court usually I talk about relations in Nigeria each and every job I talk about time. Barstow-Hurk, are you still there? Yes, I'm here. Okay, but all of this now let me just digress a little bit now all of this clamor for the former president to get back into power it has been very debatable on social media across various people are saying that if he were to come back that he would write some of those wrongs that we are seeing right now how do you reason really? Well, I think if you I don't I don't even see it happening personally I don't see it happening and that is why I'm not picking it up so serious I think all these things are speculations and all the rest I know most are people that are advising me and all the rest but for me for me as far as I'm concerned he is not qualified to contest for the national election but he should put himself and be careful everything he don't play politics is everything when you begin to listen to psycho fans and all the rest they will end up at the end of the day embarrassing you and messing you up this is Nigeria we know how and everything so I would advise him to take the little respect or the respect he has also the name he has attained for himself and build on that that all these unnecessary issues of Jonathan here Jonathan here and all the rest so he should just listen to people like us and each psycho fan say no is anytime he's needed in government for one advice or the other he should know instead to come and provide advice and all the rest that is my own take but he should not do things that will that will corner him for a necessary legal battle and all the rest and the problem in Nigeria will continue to linger and somebody who now says he wants to be a messiah or he has done it before will now become the actual issue of problem Nigeria have I don't even see him even if he joins APC now or PDP let's get back to Nika Goulay who's still with us hopefully Nick do we still have you with us I'm here all right so but it feels like it's a pattern with our politicians I mean if you look at it we feel we seem to be going in circles so you have a former president becoming coming back to becoming the president or maybe the vice president is a thing with us so we just keep going back in that circle does it really mean that those who have become president or vice president at a time whether or not military or non-military are the ones that have the solution to the problems of Nigeria why is it that we to always gravitate towards past leaders to become future leaders I think it's a very wrong thing for us to be doing this what you have described because the best job interview you can give to a candidate is to see the candidate perform on that job and we have seen this past leaders perform on the job and they don't do a good job with it president good Lord Jonathan himself after five years as a president he didn't deliver much I think a lot of people are clamoring for him because if his performance was at 30% President Buhari has taken that performance to about 15-10% and so Nigerians are looking at 15-10% and they are not getting maybe we should have gone back to that 30% because I run president good Lord Jonathan 30% because president good Lord Jonathan did not touch on the fundamental issues that are bedeviling Nigeria he is from the Niger data and one of the biggest issues in the Niger data is pollution environmental pollution coming from gas flares the oil companies produce gas and they set it on fire it loses money for Nigeria we don't have electricity that the gas should have been used in generating and it is causing environmental damage pollution to his own Niger data people in five years Jonathan saw gas flares and left gas flares and did nothing with it Jonathan saw refineries for them we come down and he left them for broken down and he continued to pay few subsidies he didn't deal with that Jonathan made exchange rates and left it as it was even though Buhari was watching it Jonathan didn't do much in agriculture to unlock value from agriculture Nigeria continued to import food Nigeria a country blessed with the best fertile soil in the whole world with a good climate to match a sufficient amount of rainfall there was no industrial mechanized agriculture that he set emotion that today Nigeria would have been full sufficient and a spotting food he didn't deal with that in dealing with corruption look at the kind of things that his own minister for petroleum Madame Alice was engaging in when I say when I just I mean leaving this with Jonathan and the fact that he's been pressured to join the race for 2023 to become president as a matter of fact I don't know if he has declared his interest I mean we have not heard that he has actually come out to say I want to become president and via a particular political party but the question is why do we still have leaders I mean past leaders maybe from the military look at the president the current president was a former president I mean during the military you know regime and so you have you also look at the current aspirants who are running for the presidency you have past vice president and so it feels like it has to always be around the president former president or the vice president and all of the specimens doesn't really mean that power centers with this person or the experience or they have the solution to the problem why do we always and why do they always have to push themselves in the race I think there is a lot of executive power in Nigeria when people test executive power in Nigeria they don't want to leave it I mean if you were in the UK like Boris Johnson you had a party during Covid and the police are coming into your house to interview you to convict your criminal offense when you are in that kind of office you can't wait to leave it but when you are in an office where you are almost like a maximum leader you know you are above the law nobody can touch you everything is at your back and people want to be there and we have seen these people come back Kobasanjo came back you know Buhari has come back Osibajo wants to come back Jonathan wants to come back and we have seen that they cannot deliver anything because if they had delivered Nigeria would be a better place than we are today we are in a Nigeria today where a pregnant woman is being kidnapped and is being heard on Nigerian soil and the bank this even went and brought the doctors to come and deliver her her baby in bondage and the bank this had the to take the pictures of that baby and show it to the Nigerian public and we have armed forces we have a commander in chief of the armed forces and they are going to bed and sleeping and Nigerian citizens are being heard in bondage on Nigerian soil it's not as if they are taking them to a foreign country they are here with us and this is kind of people who want to come back again and they listen why they are coming back is because they have taken possession of the electoral process they control the parties and all of that and that is where Nigerian citizens have to come in alright thank you so much Nika Gole for your thoughts this morning we just have to wrap it up at that particular you know thought that you just left off Nika Gole is a public affairs analyst we were also joined by Barrister Justice but thank you so much I'm gentlemen thank you so much thank you so much I have a nice day alright it is still the breakfast in 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