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Episodes- 29 September 2008
Nigella Lawson
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I have a bit of an awkward confession to make. I find food to be frankly an interruption to the day. It is not that I do not like it, but for me it is basically a fuel stop - and why that is awkward is that Nigella Lawson thinks exactly the opposite. She is a food critic, writer, broadcaster and all round food lover.
ANDREW DENTON: Nigella Lawson. Welcome Nigella.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Less of the all round please.
ANDREW DENTON: I do apologise.
ANDREW DENTON: Weve got off to a bad start. You say that food is about being alive. I clearly miss this point. What am I missing?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well you clearly understand that in a sense you realise you need food to survive.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Im sure that as much as you say that food is a fuel stop, you probably do have dinner with people because you want to spend time with them. You dont just sit around an empty table. I presume.
ANDREW DENTON: No thats true, but I do kind of like to be over quickly.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes I think thats a great loss for you.
ANDREW DENTON: And you see Im starting to feel a great sense of loss about that because there is something, yours was the first cooking show I ever actually looked up from whatever it was I was doing and watched. And it was partly because of the way you did it which was there was something very sensual about it. In fact I remember watching it and thinking what would it be like to sleep with roast chicken but thats me.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes that is that is a thought.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes. Ive never actually checked out that thought. Never consummated. But I remember thinking there is something very sensual about food and I Im missing out on that. What is it about?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Its the look, its the smell, its the feel and its the way in which just as one uses language to convey a thought or to attempt to convey a thought, I enjoy sort of being part of what food does and the different how the different flavours and textures add up. I mean I never thought I would cook I mean for a living. I dont really cook for a living but I never thought Id spend so much of my time around food but it I find it endlessly fascinating and in the end I think if you can put your obsessions to good use its better than fighting them.
ANDREW DENTON: You call yourself greedy, you use that word a lot about yourself. True story that you once accepted the challenge to eat 20 pickled eggs in ten minutes?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Im not sure how many. It may even have been 30. But that Im afraid was not so much about greed or not so much greed for food but financial greed because there was a thousand pounds riding on it.
ANDREW DENTON: What was it like to eat, did you win the bet?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I did it and I felt slightly contemptuous that anyone thought they could beat me in the eating stakes.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
NIGELLA LAWSON: And my real triumph was the fact that I did manage to have scrambled eggs for breakfast the next morning.
ANDREW DENTON: Is it true also that when with your first child, Cosima, when you had were having contractions you were eating and you decided not to let them interrupt the meal?
NIGELLA LAWSON: When I was in labour with her I was I was in fact eating a slice of pizza.
And just grasping onto a bookshelf in agony and my sister kindly tried to take my pizza away and I said dont go near my food.
NIGELLA LAWSON: But in fact the worst thing was when I was having my son. I was out for dinner while I was really more or less having him. And I stayed to the end of it. It was a very delicious steak béarnaise and but I think I rather appalled the other diners as I walked u and down having contractions but managed to go back there for lunch the next day with the baby in its little carry thing.
ANDREW DENTON: Whats extraordinary about you is that youve made this entire career out of food but you had no formal qualifications for it. How did you get from being Nigella Lawson to Nigella Lawson, Mrs Food?
NIGELLA LAWSON: [laugh] Mrs Food. I think it is very odd but maybe thats part of it because I do think that how a chef thinks about food is very different from how a normal person thinks about food. Partly because theres a theatrical element in running a restaurant that youre interested in putting on a performance. I think you need a different temperament, I think in many ways if I think of chefs, I mean I think theyre brilliant but they tend to be quite conflict driven.
ANDREW DENTON: Do you look at someone like Gordon Ramsay who always seems to be so furious around food and feel a bit sorry for him?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont because I think in fact hes a very sweet and charming man. Who, and we all in some way become if not trapped by some persona on TV, then at any rate it distorts, but you see again he is driven in a slightly frantic way and his professional life in the kitchen is much more of a juggling act. And its quite interesting actually, cause I once I think I was watching whatever the name of that program is when various people go and get trained to be a chef.
ANDREW DENTON: Hells Kitchen that one?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes. Exactly. And he was berating them and saying this is absolutely not on, you know seven of you have cooked this mushroom risotto and each one is different. To me thats the glory of cooking. Now of course if youre running a restaurant people want the same thing every time they order it.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah.
NIGELLA LAWSON: I would find that very confining. I mean I wouldnt be able to do it anyway but I would find it confining and so I think its a very very different thing.
ANDREW DENTON: You studied medieval languages at Oxford.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mmm.
ANDREW DENTON: Have you had much call for it?
NIGELLA LAWSON: [laugh] Thats a very vulgar way to think of education.
ANDREW DENTON: Im a vulgar antipodean.
NIGELLA LAWSON: I know it well I did do modern languages too. I know people always used to speak to me as if I should have been an air hostess or something. Well I suppose it did help me a bit because in fact when I went to Oxford I did the exam in French and German but I decided I never needed to speak to another French person and Id read an awful lot of French and I wanted to do Italian so I pretended I was going to study in Florence for a year. In fact I mean having said Ill do everything except for clean lavatories I did end up doing that cause I was a chambermaid in Florence but I decided to learn Italian and it did make me fall in love with Italian cooking so you could say that that helped.
ANDREW DENTON: The first time you set yourself the challenge of describing food. Where did you start?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well again it was quite interesting to try and talk about the experience of going to eat but in a way that people could understand what it was like, what it felt like, and so thats really how I started and then I started writing about cooking food more as a result of I suppose having small children and it was easier to write staying at home than going out.
ANDREW DENTON: A restaurant critic can be a feared creature and often is. Did you ever have to write a review of a meal which was a very negative one?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I always had a rule and I had a rule as well when I was a fiction reviewer which is that I wouldnt give a first time restaurant or a first novel a bad review. If it didnt deserve favourable comment it was kinder to leave alone unless something was enormously hyped but so that was my rule. I would try and think of something good to say or Id just dump it and go somewhere else.
ANDREW DENTON: You once said that people who dont understand the pleasures of food cannot possibly understand the pleasures of the flesh.
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont know that I was quite that brazen. I might have been I certainly, without wishing to offend you in any way, feel that if someone doesnt like eating, I probably wouldnt want to have sex with them.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm.
NIGELLA LAWSON: But thats just a purely personal view.
ANDREW DENTON: I feel were quite early in the interview for this part of the conversation.
NIGELLA LAWSON: And I havent done any proper research on the subject it has to be said. Its instinct that makes me have this view.
ANDREW DENTON: But clearly theres a theres a primality to eating which can explicit sex?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I think so. I think that when I see those people who are forever on diets and treat their body as a much feared enemy I think they dont look like theyre having much fun
ANDREW DENTON: Cause as you know your programs have been criticised by those who say they are a recipe for obesity and for heart disease and so on. Clearly you dont have much truck with that?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well I dont only because I think that I dont like the notion that food is either spoken of in those puritanical terms and its, again I feel its about fear of the flesh. Now clearly you know there are ways of eating healthily and unhealthily but I think thats to do with sort of the diet as a whole. And I think generally people are sensible enough. I have one slightly crusading feel which is non-food is bad to eat.
ANDREW DENTON: Whats non-food?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well its food that is ah hugely processed and really bears no relation to any essential food stuff.
ANDREW DENTON: Oh basically so its food additives in a tin?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Its food additives. You know a bit is fine. Again you know like I love crisps.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah.
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont think one can get too holy about it.
ANDREW DENTON: Right but I think theyre a natural food group.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes I the trouble is I always remember when I was a child my father always saying about crisps that it was the most expensive and most fattening way to eat a potato and thats what I think.
ANDREW DENTON: Well youve been working in America which is I mean everything comes with fries, even the fries come with fries. Do you find observing the American population a bit off-putting?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont. I find America a very interesting sort of land of contrasts because of course in the cities people eat nothing but lettuce and then in outside the cities even I cant finish a plateful. But I think it makes sense that a country that was really founded by people who were escaping poverty would in a way not be able to get over the fact and the good fortune of the sort of plate overflowing, so I understand psychologically why its there and I certainly think that I could get like that. I mean thats in a way a slightly sort of fearful thing which is that it would be so easy to eat so much that you really did train yourself up to eat three times as much as you needed.
ANDREW DENTON: So what stops you doing that?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I suppose vanity. I mean generally my greed is greater than my vanity and that I dont want to be thin. I mean being thin is very nice for clothes but on the whole Id rather eat than wear fashionable clothes.
ANDREW DENTON: What is the . . .
NIGELLA LAWSON: And then the really awful thing as well, when I see a picture of someone whos really hugely fat I dont think how hideous, I think how delicious it must have been to get there.
ANDREW DENTON: I think youre a cannibal in the making.
ANDREW DENTON: Your programs have been described by some as culinary porn because the very sensual way in which you do them. Do you take that as a compliment?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont pay any attention. I mean I think that its quite interesting because I mean I dont feel to be honest that as a person I have a coquettish manner at all. Im quite a direct person. When I film I have much more a notion of intimacy but the sort of intimacy as if I were talking to a sister or something. It seems to me not a very come-hitherish way of behaving. I dont know I mean its also true to say that I dont watch myself.
ANDREW DENTON: You dont ever watch?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont watch. I mean I occasion Ive had to see some of it but I try not to certainly to watch anything you know once it goes out.
ANDREW DENTON: So does it surprise you when people say oh I think your show is very, very stirring?
NIGELLA LAWSON: My feelings on when I see something on the monitor that that sensual aspect is the food and I have a cameraman who does rather beautiful lingering close ups of the food and I think in a way people m-maybe muddle the two which is which in a way makes perfect sense I think and I also think that there is something seeing a woman have appetite feels slightly lascivious to people. I think there is something still deemed to be either unseemly or wanton. About a woman showing appetite. I dont know that a man would be talked about in the same way. Hed be talked about as being a trencherman or thered be something seen to be sort of hearty. And wholesome so I think theres an element of that too.
ANDREW DENTON: You hated mealtimes as a kid. Is that right? Why was that?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well I probably was a bit like you as a child, well no not you as a child I wouldnt presume to know what you were like as a child but you claim now to think of food as fuel. Im not sure I even wanted refuelling. I liked the taste of certain foods but I did find mealtimes stressful and I think they are and they can be and I always feel at great pains sometimes when I talk about food and cooking and I dont want to make a false fetish out of mealtimes because I know that they can be very stressful.
ANDREW DENTON: So what was stressful about childhood mealtimes?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well I think childhood was stressful I have to say. I wasnt cut out to be a child. I really loathed the lack of autonomy and I think that children or at least this was what childhood was like when I was a child, I had no power and possibly the only way you could exercise power was by refusing to eat. You know, I grew up in a totalitarian state in which adults were the dictators and now that Im an adult I live in a totalitarian state where the children run everything.
NIGELLA LAWSON: And Ive never got my moment of authority which is probably just as well cause Im a very bad figure of authority.
ANDREW DENTON: Oh well thats probably why. You youre just a doormat there you go.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Oh I dont know about a doormat. But I certainly find it very difficult to be in a way in an authoritative position and even when I follow one of my recipes I subvert them. Even my own authority cannot be followed by me.
ANDREW DENTON: Youre an anarchist.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yeah a lazy one, an inactive one.
ANDREW DENTON: You once said that you felt blessed because youd had an unhappy childhood. Why blessed?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes that was probably very an odd way of putting it but I have observed that people who have a very happy childhood have a disconsolate air forever more and nothing quite measures up and life is a huge disappointment. I remember lying in bed on my 19th birthday and thinking oh my God, thank God that thats over. Nothing is ever going to be that bad again, and nothing ever has been that bad again.
ANDREW DENTON: Your Dad was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatchers Government.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mmm. Yes imagine how popular that makes you when youre a student
ANDREW DENTON: Oh yes. Yeah Im sure. What are your, cause you were in your late teens. What are your memories of your father at that time? Was he bringing home the red boxes? What was it like?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I actually I had left home by then. It was, I have a feeling, Im trying to think whether I think I was probably at university and Id left home and also my parents had separated about a year before that, so in effect I had really sort of spit off and created my own environment. And probably all adolescents get irritated being compared to their parents and its even more irksome if that happens publicly. So I think I distanced myself so much from that I wouldnt have known.
ANDREW DENTON: So there was never any talk in the house about Margaret Thatcher for example from your father?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well I think before he got to be Chancellor, I mean I do remember you know occasionally I used to do my homework in the House of Commons sometimes. And we would sometimes give her a lift home because when they were in opposition they she lived quite near us but no children are not enormously interested in their in their parents which and so I dont think I paid any attention.
ANDREW DENTON: Now you had a fairly difficult relationship with your Mum is that right?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mmm.
ANDREW DENTON: How was that?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I did have a difficult relationship with my mother. I mean I think mother daughter relationships are difficult but I for whatever reason, we just didnt get on until I was quite a lot older and I think that made me well I was going to say made me into quite a melancholic child, but I was probably a melancholic child, as indeed she was a depressive really and possibly we were quite similar. I mean that is the hideous truth. And she certainly was a fascinating person but not enormously maternal, despite the fact she did have four children.
ANDREW DENTON: She was a very beautiful woman.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mmm.
ANDREW DENTON: But she had real body issues didnt she? I think you recalled that when she was sick with cancer she actually said its the first time in her life she didnt have to worry about eating.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes. Well, you know worry about getting putting on weight. But I think also it was quite frightening. I only worked out after she died that shed been bulimic. I knew shed been anorexic. And when we all put on an awful lot of weight then because anorexics tend to feed other people cause they have a such an obsession with food but you know but against all that she was very idiosyncratic, very entertaining and I remember a lot of things she says or she said.
ANDREW DENTON: What are some of the things that Vanessa said that ring in your head?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well she was very good for example, she was totally anarchic, and in fact when my things, she got my father into trouble an awful lot when he was trying to first trying to be an MP, he didnt get in and she it must have been the early 70s, May possibly, and she took off her dress in a restaurant. She was wearing a pale pink mini dress and she wanted to swap with someone who was wearing a man wearing a flouncy shirt and took her dress off in the restaurant. If you were trying to be a conservative MP, you didnt want your wife taking off her dress in a restaurant. That wasnt really a very good thing to do. But she I do remember her when geography was made compulsory at school. I hated geography. And my father tried very reasonably to say you know could I give it up and they said no and my mother stormed into school and said Nigella is far too highly strung for a subject like geography. And the headmaster had no choice but to let me off. Its quite hard to think I mean she always you know she always had a very she had a very good word which I suppose really wasnt a good word. It was just maybe because she had a limited vocabulary which she used to use about people which was dispicism, which was a mixture I suppose between despising someone and having contempt.
NIGELLA LAWSON: And she would say I have utter dispicism.
ANDREW DENTON: Thats a fantastic word. What about your own children? Do you hope theyll be blessed with an unhappy childhood?
NIGELLA LAWSON: No. Im afraid they have already had more to bear than I would ever want children to have to bear. But I also feel slightly worried sometimes that my desire to protect them which has so far anyway been not a very successful attempt but nevertheless I have a desire to protect them which I think is in some sense disabling. Im not enormously indulgent but I probably was indulgent in some ways when John my first husband their father was ill.
ANDREW DENTON: John spent four years with throat cancer before he died and for much of that time and in that extraordinary documentary he allowed to be made about himself . . .
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mmm.
ANDREW DENTON: . . . he talked about being incredibly angry.
NIGELLA LAWSON: How do you care for somebody that is so angry? I think that one of the difficulties about I suppose trying to live with someone who is ill is that their anger is justified and your anger is not. And thats an inequality that you have to accept. I mean John also its a bit took advantage of it and did things like you know spent far too much money on clothes cause he felt he had the moral high ground and I couldnt tell him off. And you know John would be absolutely taken up with a cut of a suit he was getting irrespective of the fact that he was going through something absolutely enormous and awful. He could still be diverted by thinking do I want it double breasted and or do I want two vents or one vent. Now you wouldnt think its possible for someone to be like that but you are and thats how you manage and I think that the extraordinary thing about human beings is how we all try and normalise everything.
ANDREW DENTON: John was a very funny man. Ive read a lot of his columns and he said a lovely thing about you that he had a wonderful life and hed never said that before he met you. Clearly you two unlocked something in each other.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mmm.
ANDREW DENTON: Is that right?
NIGELLA LAWSON: When I met John I was perhaps too restrained, certainly still quite shy and he was noisy, openly attention seeking, adored being the centre of everything and I think it was quite good for me to see that was an acceptable not an unacceptable but a rather lovely way to be.
ANDREW DENTON: When he allowed the documentary crew into the house to film him over that the period of his cancer, was that a hard thing for you to accept?
NIGELLA LAWSON: It I was furious but hed already accepted so therefore I had no choice.
ANDREW DENTON: And was this part of his desire to be on show? Why would he do that?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I dont know. He I think it was like you know I think what seemed to be his way of confronting his cancer both the documentary and his columns in many ways was the way of avoiding it, not that he could avoid it cause he was living through it, but it turned it into a work problem.
ANDREW DENTON: I remember he wrote a column about you laughing at the idea of he was the domestic goddess saying just yesterday I saw this domestic goddess taking one of her childrens socks out of a pocket and using it as a handkerchief.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes.
ANDREW DENTON: Was did he call you right?
NIGELLA LAWSON: He certainly did but you know I never claimed to be a domestic goddess. I am incredibly messy and the only domestic activity I really like is cooking, although I do like being at home I suppose. In that sense Im domestic. But Im no Im not remotely I am slattern and I think it did amuse him.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm.
NIGELLA LAWSON: It did amuse him that.
ANDREW DENTON: Where was food in your life during this time when John was dying?
NIGELLA LAWSON: It was very difficult because of course he couldnt eat. For most of the time. I tried not to think of it too much. I occasionally felt very guilty of the cooking smells going upstairs. I mean but having said that you know John rather like Charles now didnt really like eating the sort of food I cooked a lot. I mean I remember once the children once saying to me cant we have pizza out of a box like daddy and Id cut out pizzas in the shape of giraffes and things like that.
NIGELLA LAWSON: So really he was always happier with a packet of something.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm. John wrote r-really exceptional columns in all the time when he was sick. Have your children read those columns and will do you want them to read them when theyre older?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes I would like them to read them at some stage, but I also feel you know a pain in my chest thinking of how they will feel reading it.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Theres you know, theres nothing I can do to make things better really. Its an awkward situation to say the least.
ANDREW DENTON: It was much commented on after John died that a few weeks later you took up with Charles Saatchi and it really set tongues wagging at the time.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Not a few weeks but certainly very
ANDREW DENTON: Well
short time.
ANDREW DENTON: Very short. Was there a sense after having dealt with so much illness and death after that of actually being set free?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Things happen when they happen. I dont think you can say well wouldnt it be nice if this happened in a years time and Im sure itd be more sensible but thats now how it happens so I think and I suppose you know it there is something I suppose I was grateful for being given life if you like or the feeling alive.
ANDREW DENTON: People looked sideways at there was the thought of talk you would expect there to be.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes but I would understand that.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes. Did it bother you at the time? Or were you surprised that that happened?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well, I wasnt surprised at peoples comments and I think had I not gone through that they were probably the sort of comments I would have made. I think had Johns family been upset or the children been upset I would have been, but I you know I was concerned with how I felt and how they felt, so I couldnt really start taking on board how people I didnt know felt. I understood it, but I didnt let it upset me. And it and its quite interesting that I would say two of Johns best friends have become you know the most friendly with Charles, so I think that people who know and who understand are probably less judgmental than people who dont. Having said that its something I couldnt have understood because until youre in that position, you dont really know how youll be.
ANDREW DENTON: Well John himself was fairly clear eyed about it. He wrote about how he hoped that you know as long as he wasnt too tepid in the grave that you would take up with someone else. There was this clearly something you had.
NIGELLA LAWSON: No he always he used to drive me mad. He used to say Id like to think of them queuing up and Id say God youre really sick. Youre really sick cause theres not I shouldnt say that but I, you know, its oh in a way even if he hadnt said that you know life has, you know your life continues.
ANDREW DENTON: Had you talked about Charles?
NIGELLA LAWSON: He knew Charles. No I didnt, no I didnt. I didnt talk in that way because I didnt have any notion that Id become involved and then marry him anything. I dont know what he thought. I mean to be honest when someone is dying I think, they slowly distance themselves from life quite a bit. I think its the only way anyone could cope with dying.
ANDREW DENTON: You and John were very similar deep down. Is it the same for you Charles?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Oh, John and I werent similar deep down, at all.
ANDREW DENTON: You didnt find that that kindred spirit?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes but we had many things that were alike, but we were essentially very different and I think that in a sense is liberating cause the difficulty is when I say we were very different. There is something about families, and this is the family that you grow up in rather than the family that you later form, if you do that, which is everyone is very bound by the family script and youre given a role. I, for example, am the over-sensitive poetic incompetent one and within the family script. Im not that now but thats, you know despite the fact that apart from my father I was the only one who could change a plug, I was still this one. And I think all families give you that role so partly you need as you grow up to find some escape route from that role. So I think that thats partly what you unconsciously seek in a in a in a partner or otherwise youre just two people agreeing with one another.
ANDREW DENTON: So how are you and Charles different?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Our interests in a way are slightly different. I mean again you see hes got the same thing that John had which is a huge engagement in life. You know, he can get my tummys rumbling. I have to be fed at constant intervals.
ANDREW DENTON: Somebody food.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Quickly.
ANDREW DENTON: Were just going to keep going until you break.
NIGELLA LAWSON: I warn you I turn murderous as well as suicidal when Im hungry.
ANDREW DENTON: Can you put them in the other order? Then Ill be a lot safer. Can we get back as we wind towards the end now before I let you eat, to some primal matters.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Mm hmm.
ANDREW DENTON: Food. Should it be eaten with your hands as much as possible? I do remember Pamela Stevenson saying the first real meal she ate with Billy Connelly he ate fish with his hands and she was absolutely . . .
NIGELLA LAWSON: That she cooked?
attracted yes.
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yes Im not sure that I would be. I think that Im both. I have a lot I like my mother before me I have a probably a slight tussle between the bohemian and the bourgeois.
ANDREW DENTON: And your choice in men, you like a manly man, is that right?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Yeah I like an animal.
ANDREW DENTON: An animal? With a pelt?
NIGELLA LAWSON: I like a pelt full, a hairy back and everything.
ANDREW DENTON: Mm hmm. And whats the definition of an animal for you?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well that by that, thats what I mean by an animal.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
NIGELLA LAWSON: You know, a pelt. But in a way though, I don't really have a type. You know, I think that its I do it the other way around. You know, I get you know, I get drawn to someone and then I think that all the characteristics that person has are by definition the ones I look for.
ANDREW DENTON: Now, I know you need to go and eat, so what sort of food are you thinking about today?
NIGELLA LAWSON: Well, I obviously have planned ahead.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm.
NIGELLA LAWSON: And Im having pea soup because the other day I cooked a ham for the children and I kept the stock to make pea soup and someone has sent me some cured salmon to taste, so I thought Id have that with some brown bread alongside.
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm mmm mmm. Nigella go and eat. Thank you. Its been lovely talking to you. Thank you very much.
NIGELLA LAWSON: And you.


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Rafts, Scooters and Pooches set to take over Kawerau
Rafts, Scooters and Pooches set to take over Kawerau
Rafts, Scooters and Pooches will take over Kawerau this weekend.
On Saturday (5th April) organisers from Rafting Adventure, New Zealand will once again take to the Tarawera River rapids in what is the 10th Seriously Social Rafting Comp. The event is open to anyone keen to give competitive rafting a try and continues to encourage participation in the sport.
After reaching the 16 team limit a week out from the event, team spots have been increased to allow for an additional 4 teams to enter. This is the last major whitewater event this summer season in Kawerau.
With the competitions inception back in 2010,
raft enthusiasts from 13-70 years of age have joined in the
fun at the World famous venue in Kawerau.
After the dizzy heights of the World Rafting Champs back in November 2013, that saw a vibrant mix and colour of nationalities from all continents on the globe, this week's social comp. will offer time trials and head 2 heads in a less formal and fun focussed format.
Teams will come as far afield as Auckland and will boast interesting names such as the Double Boogies, Sunshine Superstars and River Dogs, with the Hydraulic Damsels sure favourites for the best team name title.
The newly created river walkway (finalist in the 2014 NZ Wood Timber Awards) is just perfect for viewing the rafting and other whitewater activities, whilst the Waterhouse Street Reserve lends itself nicely for a picnic and walk amongst the trees.
Additionally to rafting, elsewhere in Kawerau a full event weekend is planned with Dog Agility Champs at Prideaux Park (all weekend) with competitors travelling from all over the North Island and the Kawerau Youth Council 'Skate Park Jam' also taking place on Saturday, showcasing a pro. Skate team from Auckland and offering local scooterists and skaters an opportunity to win top prizes.
Kawerau District Council Head of community events and activities, Lee Barton said "There literally is something for everyone for the first month of April in Kawerau and after the community organised and celebrated the towns 60thBirthday last week, everyone can once again enjoy another energetic weekend of activities in the township."

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In this text we see a beautiful picture of what it means to "Put first things first" in the matter of Dedication to God and His Servants." As you take note of the mindset the Macedonians displayed, it is easy to see why Paul selected them as an example for the Corinthian church and likewise to each church today.
What motivated their selfless sacrifice? What was the key to their generosity in giving? What prompted such dedication to God and His servants? Our text answers these questions! This is the mindset God wants us to express.
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How do you know if you are really saved? Many struggle with this issue and will find help here in this series of messages. Others claim to be saved but their life contradicts their claim. They have no biblical warrant for their claim in spite of the fact they "prayed a prayer when they were young." There is warning from God for those in that condition as well.
In this first message in the series, an overview of the topic of one's assurance of salvation is given; the sermon outline that is attached gives the roadmap to be followed. The good news is that you can settle the doubts regarding the matter of your soul's eternal destiny. You will never find assurance of salvation by looking inwardly or by looking to your past: far too many look to those for a feeling of security. Instead, there's an objective basis for your hope and evidences that God's Word gives that indicate whether a person has genuine saving faith or not.
What is the key to seeing lasting fruit after a Revival meeting? What does it mean to "behold the glory of the Lord?" It's also the key to understanding how we are to change into Christ-likeness.
This message is part 2 in the series that our pastor delivered as a follow-up to the previous week's Revival meetings.
After Revival services are over, what's next? Our hearts may be stirred to make a decision to change during an invitation, but if we only acknowledge a need to change or make a decision to change w/o taking any further steps to see that change take place, we rob ourselves of the blessing of change.
Christ-likeness is not achieved by depending upon a list of "do's" and "don'ts"; though obviously that will be needed! Christian growth is not measured by how many facts we have gained over the years from sermons, SS lessons or personal study of the Bible; it's measured by how closely we match the character of Christ while we live at home, at work, etc.
Our text is one of many that presents to us the dynamics of biblical change--how it occurs; it explains how we progress in Christ-likeness. It affords for us great hope and a clearly marked out pathway for meaningful & substantial change in Christ-likeness.
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Have you ever been genuinely born again? Prove it! Not by your verbal claims but what kind of life you are living! Far too many claim to be saved but the orientation of their life says otherwise. In this day, many Americans claim to believe in God and claim to be Christians, but how do you know if you have merely a profession of faith instead of a genuine possession of faith in Christ? Listen to this challenging message from God's Word and "Examine Yourselves."
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Donetsk: Kiev has offered sweeping autonomous powers to regional governments in an attempt to defuse attempts by pro-Russian protesters to establish separatist republics in the east of Ukraine.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the acting Prime Minister, told regional leaders and businessmen in Donetsk on Friday that parliament should consider a "law on referendums to allow regions to decide issues of key importance to them".
"Executive committers of each region will be handed all financial, economic, administrative and other powers so they control their own territories, giving them the ability to develop these territories to attract investment and receive additional income for each region by amending the budget law of Ukraine," he said.
"The central government is ready not only for dialogue with the regions, but to meet legal demands and wishes of every resident of the country."
The devolution of power to the regions is a significant concession to demands from Moscow that Ukraine switches to a federal system of power to guarantee the rights of Russian speakers living in the country's east and south.
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the country a warning over its arrears on its gas imports, saying that officials could demand upfront payments.
Ukrainian and Western leaders have previously denounced the demand for federalisation as a transparent attempt by Moscow to increase its influence in the regions, possibly as a prelude to a Crimea-style annexation. Pro-Russian separatists took control of government buildings in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk last Sunday, declaring independent republics and calling for referendums on autonomy and possible unification with Russia.
Police evicted protesters from the regional administration building in Kharkiv, but protesters still control the regional government building in Donetsk and the security service building in Luhansk. A 48-hour deadline for the protesters to leave the buildings passed at noon on Friday without incident, and Mr Yatsenyuk abandoned threats to forcibly evict the separatists.
The separatists are divided over the way forward, with many arguing that surrendering the building would be to give up their only leverage.
In Washington, the Obama administration blacklisted six separatist leaders in Crimea, a former Ukrainian official and a gas company based in Crimea for their roles in splitting off Crimea from Ukraine.
They include Pyotr Zima, who headed the state security bureau in Crimea, and Sergei Tsekov, former vice-speaker of Ukraine's parliament, who helped facilitate the referendum that led to the annexation.
The orders freeze any of the individuals' assets held in the United States and prohibit them from conducting business there or with US citizens or entities.
Undeterred by that action, the Crimean legislature rushed to approve a new constitution on Friday, binding the region even more closely to Russia in the wake of its annexation by Moscow last month. The new constitution states that Crimea is ''an integral part'' of the Russian Federation.
Tempers flared at a meeting of the self-declared council of the people's republic of Donetsk, as self-declared "deputies" shouted and squared up to one another after the leadership presented proposals including freeing the building in exchange for a promise of amnesty and other premises elsewhere.
Four-way talks on the crisis in Ukraine between the United States, EU, Russia and Ukrainian government will be held in Geneva on April 17, a US official confirmed Friday.
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The Deve Gowda government is in a tizzy over former Congress president
Narasimha Rao's increasing discomfiture at the hands of the courts.
Now that the former premier is scheduled to appear in the
Tis Hazari courts in Delhi to answer charges in a cheating
case, federal Cabinet Secretary T S R Subramaniam
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meeting on Monday, September 23, to ensure that there was no untoward
incident while the VVIP accused answered the metropolitan court's summons.
Fire brigades will be in place in the Tis Hazari complex on Monday,
September 30. All visitors will be screened and as far as possible kept
away. Jammers will ensure that no cellular phone worked in the
vicinity for as long as Rao is in court. (Jammers are necessary
to block remote control explosive devices and land mines.)
A mobile
hospital will follow Rao's motorcade. Further, the elite Special
Protection Group will ensure that no photographs are taken
of Rao if the court decides to send him to Tihar jail. The
last detail is necessary in order to avoid the humiliation of
a photograph of a former PM being shown in newspapers across
the world going to jail in a cheating case.
Top businessmen and corporate managers do it all the time.
So do most ministers and politicians. When flying within the country
or abroad, they invariably send their factotums with their tickets
and bookable luggage in advance to the airport. With the luggage
booked and a comfortable seat of one's preference assured, the
VIP lands up minutes before the flight takes off.
Sometime this neat little arrangement leads to complications.
Like the other day, federal Sports Minister Dhanushkodi
Athithan dispatched his secretary to do the needful
to Delhi airport. For some reason when the minister reached
the airport to take the flight to Madras, his secretary was still stuck
at the airline counter. And the cops wouldn't allow Athithan entry
into the departure lounge without his producing the airline ticket
in spite of his insisting that he was a minister.
One big VVIP tantrum ensued, with threats to have the cops
suspended. The cops stood their ground. ''If you are a passenger,"
they told DA, "show us your ticket. Otherwise,
get yourself a valid pass for entry
into the departure lounge."
Athithan called Delhi Police Commissioner Nikhil Kumar,
even as a curious crowd gathered
around the minister. Soon a small posse of uniformed men surfaced to prevent
any untoward incident. A few moments
later, the minister's secretary appeared with his boarding pass. Athithan,
we hear, took it out on his hapless secretary as well.
Congress member of the Lok Sabha, Ratnakumari Rani, the daughter
of the late foreign minister Dinesh Singh, stands out among women
MPs for her immaculate dress sense and her proper
New to active politics, her manner is still aloof. A little
problem arose the other day when the aging CPI-M MP Nirmal Chatterjee
heard the youthful lady's cellular phone in her bag emitting
the offending musical ring. She was embarrassed and immediately
switched off the phone which she had forgotten to do while entering
the House. But the old codger that he is, Chatterjee sees cellular
phones as another symbol of the economic liberalisation gone wrong.
He wanted someone to tell Rani that she shouldn't carry the phone
into the House.
Who would tell her? Chatterjee wasn't willing to
do so himself. The back benchers he talked to did not know her.
But one of them suggested that the task be assigned to the DMK
member of the Lok Sabha, Pudukottai Siva, with whom
she is often seen talking in parliamentary precincts. This has led to some malicious tongue-wagging in the central
hall of Parliament.
Were Rani and Siva as
friendly in this House as former ministers Selja Kumari
and Mukul Wasnik were in the last one? The point is that when
it comes to some innocent fun the nation's law-makers are no better
than young college kids.
Rare is the man in these days of sleaze who allows his self-interest
to suffer for the sake of his principles. The story of Chief Election
Commissioner T N Seshan's sapphire ring, which his old buddy
Subramanian Swamy insists came from
Chandra Swami,
is well known by now. So is Seshan's use of the private plane
of an equally controversial industrialist.
Now hear this about a
publicity-seeking IAS officer who along with a host of other
government servants became a member of a co-operative housing
society in east Delhi after its management was taken over by the
Delhi Development Authority. Having got himself a plum flat,
the self-styled crusader was quick to sell it at a huge premium.
In this he was following the lead of some of his colleagues
who became members of the society once it came under the control
of a fellow civil servant.
But our crusader was amiss in not informing
the housing finance company from whom he had taken a loan to buy
the flat that he had sold it. The buyer was told
that all loans against the house were cleared.
Unfortunately for
the crusading officer, an executive of the finance company was
a resident in the same colony. When the finance company approached
the crusader, he pleaded amnesia and reluctantly paid back their
dues. So much for the integrity of present-day crusaders!
The provisional Congress president, Sitaram Kesri, is an enigma
wrapped in a mystery. How anyone handling the party's finances
could survive for seventeen long years is a wondrous feat by itself.
But Kesrai's mantra has been loyalty to the super boss. He has
that rare ability to mould himself according to the demands of
the changing times.
Despite the current confusion about his caste,
those blessed with long memories recall how he exploited his
bania caste in the eighties to stake his claim, though in vain,
to become Bihar's first bania chief minister.
Now that political correctness puts a premium on being a Mandal
backward or even a Muslim, Kesri camouflages his bania origins
to paint himself as a backward who pines for reservations for
the Muslims as well.
Not long ago, there were some among the so-called lower castes
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December 2, 2010 | Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio) lawmakers have been in Congress for at least two decades, and have plenty influence to show for it. Political watchers are prepared for the rivals -- their positions switched -- to resume their sparring in January. OpenSecrets Blog, meanwhile, details who may have the key political advantages as the curtain opens on the 112th Congress.
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November 4, 2010 | The priciest midterm election in U.S. history saw a Republican tide sweep numerous Democrats out of office, as voters anxious about the state of the economy ousted more House incumbents from office than any time since 1948. While several money-in-politics axioms held true, money was not a panacea for embattled politicians.
Political Action Committees Boost Vulnerable Dems, But Some Candidates Distance Themselves From PAC Cash
October 20, 2010 | Political action committees have funneled $72.6 million into the campaign coffers of Democrats competing in the country's most competitive races -- more than four times the amount PACs have donated to Republicans in these races, the Center for Responsive Politics has found.
Vulnerable House Dems – But Not Obama – Divest Campaign Cash While Pressuring Embattled Charlie Rangel
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This is the long-reach dock lasso that simplifies the docking or launching of a boat. Terminating in a 12"-diameter ring made from EDP rubber that easily drops over cleats or pilings, the lasso is attached to a corrosion-resistant telescoping aluminum pole that extends to a maximum 84", making it ideal for boats up to 50' in length. Its textured plastic handle provides a sure grip. With a tensile strength of 900 psi, the rubber's natural friction grips whatever it is looped over yet it is flexible enough for use in fending off drifting boats. Collapses to 41" for convenient storage. 84" L x 12" Diam. (2 lbs.)
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Mr. Adnan Oktar has said that Muslim scholars and the Directorate of Religious Affairs must issue a fatwa about the death penalty sentence handed down by Egyptian courts against 529 people, saying that it is haram, and that otherwise, this oppression would not end with protests.
Following this comment, the President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, Mehmet Gormez and Yeni Safak journalist Hayrettin Karaman, made a call to Egyptian authorities. Recently, the International Union of Muslim Scholars made a statement, saying that the Egyptian death penalty verdicts lacked even the simplest legal criteria.
April 8th, 2014: A9 TV
ADNAN OKTAR: Now some scholars there issue fatwas:They say that death penalty is a necessity and it is acceptable according to the Qur'an and the hadiths. The others say, "It abides by the laws." So they will not listen to what we say. It is vital that they issue a fatwa saying that death penalty is forbidden by religion; a counter-fatwa. Most of the scholars in the Muslim world are sleeping; they are in a deep sleep. The Religious Affairs Directorate could also issue a fatwa. Otherwise they will hang all of them, let me tell you. They will not care about any protests.
April 9th, 2014: A9 TV
ADNAN OKTAR: The world's reaction is very important. Religious scholars could issue a fatwa. Some of them just sit there and act like they know all the answers about unrelated matters. This is a very important topic. Five or ten scholars can come together and issue a fatwa stating that it is haram and forbidden to shed Muslim blood. They cannot subvert such a fatwa. Insha'Allah. This is the key point.
(The AK Party Head Office Youth Section organized a nation-wide protest for the death penalty handed down by Egyptian courts against 528 people.)
ADNAN OKTAR: Well done to those men; Masha'Allah. This is how a Muslim must be like. They can persuade the scholars. They can ask ten or twenty scholars to issue a fatwa saying, "It is forbidden by religion to massacre Muslims like this." If their hands get used to blood, then not just 500, but they can even martyr 500 thousand people. They are crazy. First of all, they should release those young girls. Let's focus on this mostly. They have put them in cages. This is outrageous and immoral. How could you treat them like animal? This is the trouble with bigotry. They cause Muslims such trouble and then they just sit aside.
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The International Association of Muslim Scholars condemned the death penalty sentences recently handed down by Egyptian courts to those who resisted the coup, and states that the verdicts were "political." The union also made a written statement where it was noted that the so-called verdicts could not be accepted because they were "political." The union made a call "not to stay silent and not to be an observer" and made an assessment of the situation saying, "We must support the free people of Egypt, leaving aside temporary and non-humanitarian interests."


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There are a few basic rules of hoof care. Use a quality hoof care
product that does not have a high petroleum base. When applying hoof
dressing, do not apply it more than an inch below the coronet band.
Let it flow down the fibers of the hoof by itself. It is a good idea
to remove hoof black to allow the hoof to breathe and to allow hoof
dressing to penetrate into the hoof. Control excessive moisture, do
not over bathe or saturate the feet. Control bacteria and fungus by
treating feet once or twice a week with Betadine. Lime stalls,
paddocks and barn aisles regularly.
Abnormalities of the Hoof
Contraction is a term used to describe a
condition where the walls of the hoof in the area of the heel have pressed
inward to fill the gap left by the absence of the frog. The hoof
appears very skinny and this condition is very painful to the horse.
Thrush is the main cause of this condition, but contracted heels can also
be caused by anything that inhibits the outward spread of the hoof.
Contraction can be treated by leaving out the hind nails of the shoe to
increase the ability of the hoof to spread and fitting the shoe fuller to
the hoof.
White line fungus is a condition that weakens the hoof
wall, causing it to break out at the nails. It is a bacteria that
eats away the thin layer between sole and wall leaving deep pockets or
trenches in the open space. This causes the wall to dry and break
away. To treat this condition you must clean the area by removing
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What do I need to fix to get a wind screen?
Hey guys,
Picked up an M3 vert the other day, and one thing that was wrong with it (besides having NO windscreen) was it looks like the slots you put the screen in are broken, the interior pieces as well as i'm not sure if its missing anything on the "inside".
Can't seem to find part numbers for these pieces or what the names are of the pieces I need - Does anyone happen to know?
The part in your pic covers the hole left by the top mechanism when it's down; nothing to do with the wind screen. It's been in the news a lot lately :lmao: http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=838854
The screen has pins that go in holes in the side panels near the rear speakers.
Oh ok, so by the founds of it it's a cap , rod and a spring that go there - My assumption is it "pops" up when the top goes down and out of the way to cover the gap?
Seems to be fairly inexpensive - Thanks!
Yes, it actually slides under toward the front of the car as the top is raised. You can see the tracks in the side of the hole.
Suseer which side did you damage? I may have a replacement piece for you which includes the whole top part and the flap.
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Effective, In-House Distributed Data Tokenisation
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Ulf Mattsson of Protegrity provides insight into the challenges of data tokenisation and how his company has developed a scalable and distributed approach to tokenisation which overcomes the challenges associated with the more usual centralised methods
A new approach is being taken to tokenize data which eliminates challenges associated with standard centralized tokenization. Particularly in high volume operations, the usual way of generating tokens is prone to issues that impact the availability and performance of the data. From a security standpoint, it is critical to address the issue of collisions caused when tokenization solutions assign the same token to two separate pieces of data. This next generation tokenization solution addresses all of these issues. System performance, availability and scaling are enhanced, numeric and alpha tokens are generated to protect a wide range of high-risk data, key management is greatly simplified, and collisions are eliminated. This new approach has the potential to change where tokenization can be used.
Different ways to render data unreadable
There are three different ways to render data unreadable:
1) Two-way cryptography with associated key management processes
2) One-way transformations including truncation and one-way cryptographic hash functions
3) Index tokens and pads
of sensitive data is one of the most effective means of preventing information disclosure and the resulting potential for fraud. Cryptographic technology is mature and well proven. The choice of
scheme and topology is critical in deploying a secure, effective and reasonable control.
Hash algorithms are one-way functions that turn a message into a fingerprint and are usually no more than a dozen bytes long. Truncation will discard part of the input field. These approaches are used to reduce the cost of securing data fields when data is not needed to do business and will never need the original data back again.
Tokenization is substituting sensitive data with replacement values that retain all the essential characteristics without compromising its security. A token can be thought of as a claim check that an authorized user or system can use to obtain sensitive data such as a credit card number. Using tokenization, all credit card numbers stored in business applications and databases are removed and placed in a highly secure, centralized
management server that can be protected and monitored utilizing robust
A Central Token Solution
* Minimize risk of exposing data with intrinsic value
* Reduce number of potential attacker targets
* Reduce cost of PCI assessment upwards of $225K per year
All industries can benefit from centralizing and tokenizing data. Tokenization is about understanding how to design systems and processes to minimize the risk of exposing data elements with intrinsic (or market) value. An enterprise tokenization strategy reduces the overall risk to the enterprise by limiting the amount of people having access to confidential data. When Tokenization is applied strategically to enterprise applications, confidential data management costs are reduced and the risk of a security breach is eliminated. Security is immediately strengthened by reducing the number of potential targets for would-be attackers. Studies have shown annual audits average $225K per year for the world's largest credit card acceptors.
Any business that collects, processes or stores payment card data is likely to gain measurable benefits from central tokenization. Most of the tokenization packages available today are focused on the Point of Sale (POS), card data is removed from the process at the earliest point and a token number with no value to the attacker is substituted. These approaches are offered by third party gateway vendors and other service providers.
Common Myths about Tokenization
Myth: Data is gone forever if you lose access to the
Myth: Do not encrypt data that will be tokenized
Myth: Tokens transparently solve everything
There has been erroneous information published about tokenization. For example, that tokenization is better than
because "if you lose access to the
keys the data is gone forever." This issue exists with both tokenization and
, and in both cases can be managed through proper key management, and secure key recovery process. Both a key server and a token server can crash, and therefore must have a backup. The token server is often using
to encrypt the data that is stored there, so the token server may also lose the key. A solid key management solution and process is a critical part of any enterprise data protection plan.
Some articles encourage businesses not to encrypt data that they plan to tokenize. They claim that encrypted data takes more tokenization space than clear text data, and that many forms of sensitive data contain more characters than a 16-digit credit card number causing storage and manageability problems. This is untrue if you are using Format-Controlling
(FCE), which is available from Protegrity. Telling companies not to encrypt because of an issue that is easily addressed denies them a critical layer of security that is the best line of defense for sensitive data.
Often tokenization can be complicated in larger retail environments or enterprises because the data resides in many places, different applications, and service providers. Applications which have to process the real value of the data would need to be reworked to support tokenization. The cost for changing the application code can be hard to justify when considering the level of risk reduction. Regardless of industry, if the data resides in many different places, switching to tokenization will probably require some programming changes and you may not be able to rebuild if using a legacy application.
Tokenizing and the Data Lifecycle
The combined approaches of tokenization and
can be used to protect the whole data lifecycle in an enterprise. It also provides high quality production level data in test environments, virtualized servers and outsourced environments.
In the development lifecycle there is a need to be able to perform high quality test scenarios on production quality test data by reversing the data hiding process. Key data fields that can be used to identify an individual or corporation need to be cleansed to depersonalize the information. In the early stages of implementation, cleansed data needs to be easily restored (for downstream systems and feeding systems). This requires two-way processing. The restoration process should be limited to situations for which there is no alternative to using production data.
Authorization to use this process must be limited and controlled. In some situations, business rules must be maintained during any cleansing operation (addresses for processing, dates of birth for age processing, names for gender distinction). There should also be the ability to set parameters, or to select or identify fields to be scrambled, based on a combination of business rules.
Should a company build their own tokenizing solution?
Developing all the capabilities to build a solution in-house can present significant challenges. To be implemented effectively, all applications that currently house payment data must be integrated with the centralized tokenization server. Developing either of these interfaces would require a great deal of expertise to ensure performance and availability. Writing an application that is capable of issuing and managing tokens in heterogeneous environments that can support multiple field length requirements can be complex and challenging.
Furthermore, ongoing support of this application could be time consuming and difficult. Allocating a dedicated resource to this large undertaking and covering for responsibilities could present logistical, tactical, and budgetary challenges.
For many organizations, locating the in-house expertise to develop such complex capabilities as key management, token management, policy controls, and heterogeneous application integration can be very difficult. Writing code that interfaces with multiple applications, while minimizing the performance impact on those applications, presents an array of challenges. The overhead of maintaining and enhancing a security product of this complexity can ultimately represent a huge resource investment and a distraction from an organization's core focus and expertise.
Security administrators looking to gain the benefits of centralization and tokenization, without having to develop and support their own tokenization server, should look at vendors that offer off-the-shelf solutions.
Reasons to keep the token server in-house
* Liability and risk
* Many applications use or store data
* Multi-channel commerce
* Security of outsourcing
* Recurring cost of tokenization when data volume is increasing since outsourcing may charge based on transaction volume issues of transparency, availability, performance and scalability
Typically companies do not want to outsource secure handling of data since they cannot outsource risk and liability. Organizations are not willing to move the risk from its environment into a potentially less secure hosted environment. Further, enterprises need to maintain certain information about transactions at the point of sales (POS), as well as on higher levels. In most retail systems, there are a plurality of applications that use or store card data, from the POS to the data warehouse, as well as sales audit, loss prevention, and finance. At the same time, the system needs to be adequately protected from attacks from data thieves.
Merchants who gather card data via Web commerce, call centers and other channels, should ensure that the product or service they use can tokenize data through all channels. Not all offerings in the market work well or cost-effectively in a multi-channel environment, particularly if the token service is outsourced. Merchants need to ensure that their requirements reflect current and near-future channel needs. Another concern is that tokenization is new and unproven can pose an additional risk relative to mature
Risk Management
analysis will reveal whether the cost of deploying tokenization in house is worth the benefits. An outsourcing environment must be carefully reviewed from a security point and provide a reliable service to each globally connected endpoint. Many merchants continue to object to having anyone keep their card data other than themselves. Often, these are leading merchants that have made significant investments in data security and simply do not believe that any other company has more motivation (or better technology) than they do to protect their data.
Along with separation of duties and auditing, a tokenization solution requires a solid
and key management system to protect the information in the tokenization server. By combining
with tokenization, organizations can have security, efficiency, and cost savings for application areas within an enterprise.
Holistic solutions can support end-to-end field
, which is an important part of the next generation protection of the sensitive data flow. In some data flows the best combination is end-to-end field
utilizing format controlling
from the point of acquisition and into the central systems. At that point the data field will be converted to a token for permanent use within the central systems. A mature solution should provide this integration between
/tokenization processes.
Security is addressed by a running the tokenization solution in-house on a high security network segment isolated from all other data and applications. If a segmented approach is used, most tokenization requests will need to be authorized to access this highly sensitive server. Access to the token server must be provided based on authentication, authorization, encrypted channel and monitoring or blocking of suspicious transaction volumes and requests.
Transparency, availability, performance, scalability and security are common concerns with tokenization, particularly if the service is outsourced. Transparency can be enhanced by selecting a tokenization solution that is well integrated into enterprise systems like databases. Availability concerns can be addressed by selecting a tokenization solution that is running in-house on a high availability platform. Performance issues can be addressed by selecting a tokenization solution that is running locally on your high transaction volume servers. Scalability is best addressed by a selecting a tokenization solution that is running in-house on your high performance corporate back-bone network.
The Solution: Distributed Tokenization
Distributed tokenization is a method of storing sensitive strings of characters on a local server. This new approach changes where tokenization can be used. After years of research and development, Protegrity has developed a solution by intelligently altering the traditional backend processes used in tokenization.
This new patent-pending way to tokenize data eliminates the challenges associated with standard centralized tokenization and solves the issues described above with outsourcing. Particularly in high volume operations, the usual way of generating tokens is prone to issues that impact the availability and performance of the data. From a security standpoint, it is critical to address the issue of collisions caused when tokenization solutions assign the same token to two separate pieces of data.
This next generation tokenization solution addresses all issues. System performance, availability and scaling are enhanced, numeric and alpha tokens are generated, key management is greatly simplified, and collisions are eliminated.
The benefits include scalable with multiple, parallel instances, dramatic high performance, highly available, centralized or distributed deployment, no token collisions and support of PCI and PII data.
A solution can provide easy export of the static token tables to remote Token Servers to support a distributed tokenization operation. The static token tables can easily be distributed by using a simple file export to each Token Server. Each token table should be encrypted throughout this exported and import operation.
This new way to tokenize data which eliminates challenges associated with standard centralized tokenization. This new approach has the potential to change where tokenization can be used.
It is important to understand that data is stored to render follow-up checks, audits, and analysis. At the same time the information stored on the servers is a security risk, and needs to be protected. Even though the examples discussed in this article are mostly concerned with credit card numbers, similar issues are encountered when handling social security numbers, driving license numbers or bank account numbers. Companies need to deploy an enterprise tokenization and key management solution to lock down various data across the enterprise.
A holistic solution for data security should be based on a centralized data security management that protect sensitive information from acquisition to deletion across the enterprise. Protegrity customers maintain complete protection over their data and business by employing software and solutions specifically designed to secure data, manage the data via a centralized policy, and generate detailed security reports.
Third party data security vendors develop solutions that protect data in the most cost effective manner. External security technology specialists with deep expertise in data security techniques,
key management, and security policy in distributed environments are needed to find the most cost effective approach for each organization. To maximize security with minimal business impact, high performance, transparent solution optimized for the dynamic enterprise will require a risk-adjusted approach to data security. This approach will optimize the data security techniques that will be deployed on each system in the enterprise.
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