"The Prime Minister attended the D-Day commemoration event in France - I hope you would agree there is an equally pressing need here to safeguard the memory of those fighter pilots who helped preserve our freedom, " she said.
They saw that the industries of Technology, Entertainment and Design -- the T, E and D of TED -- were converging and that an event covering all three could be uniquely interesting.
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In any event Mowbray-d'Arbela's plan is to market her filter around the world and eventually reach the point where Americans are demanding the product.
We also covered several off-grid devices that we'd like to have in the event of another storm of Sandy's magnitude -- Nokero's compact SunRay Pro solar charger, Berkey's super-versatile and effective water filter and Eton's hand-crank cellphone charger.
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D-Day is the best-remembered event of Britain's second world war, a preference that exemplifies the nation's esteem for improvisation and making-do.
Whatever happens in the coming weeks and months, the French holiday will hang around Ieuan Wyn Jones' neck, just as one decision to skip a D-Day commemoration in favour of a golf event did for Rhodri Morgan.
The design is even collapsible and battery-powered in the event you'd like to hand out hard copies on the spot.
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Facebook already told us all that it'd be announcing something new and Android-related at an event on April 4th.
House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-Michigan), one of many congressional representatives at the event, called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert to put the patients' bill of rights legislation on the schedule.
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The invitation-only event in a House of Representatives office building was sponsored by Florida evangelist D.
"You'd think she'd be off-limits to anything legitimate, " says Josh Richman, a well-known Los Angeles event director.
He'd had an early-morning meeting at Greece's central bank, given the keynote speech at an event on corporate social responsibility, then had dinner with his wife, Nellie.
He was third overall in his home event, the Tour Down Under, sixth in the Tour d'Algarve and fourth in the Milan-San Remo.
DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg told an audience at the event that starting next year, all of DreamWorks' animated movies would be made in 3-D.
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