Nonetheless, even the most sought-after events are looking surprisingly empty, as Rebecca Ong-Sutherland from Boston told me.
Mrs McKeown also said her late husband Stephen - Rebecca's stepfather - tried to take his own life five or six times before he killed himself in March 2008.
Actors Hugh Jackman, Lucy Lui and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos read the nominations.
Based on purely anecdotal evidence, at last count I had Veronique Drouhin (Domaine Drouhin), Maggie Harrison (Antica Terra), Kim Kramer (Kramer Vineyards), Rebecca Pittock-Shouldis (Ghost Hill), Melissa Burr (Stoller Family Estate) and Lynn Penner-Ash (Penner-Ash).
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In 2005 Rebecca Pittock-Shouldis of Ghost Hill Cellars chose to leave a full-time career in aviation as an Oregon Air National Guard maintenance technician on the F-15 Fighter Aircraft to pursue her passion for wine.
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In the picture book category, Rebecca Cobb - who has illustrated books by The Gruffalo creator, Julia Donaldson - has been shortlisted for Lunchtime, while Chris Haughton features for a second year running with Oh No George, about a dog who tries very hard to be well-behaved.
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Ceri Fuller stabbed his three children - Samuel, 12, Rebecca, eight, and seven-year-old Charlotte - to death, before jumping from a 60ft cliff.
The latest crop of shibori enthusiasts, such as Brooklyn-based designer Rebecca Atwood, who recently launched the Blauvelt Collection of hand-dyed pillows, is breathing new life into the ancient craft.
To get the word out, the Kaiser Family Foundation will launch an ambitious national media campaign that will include taped public service announcements by Magic Johnson, a one-time star of the Los Angeles Lakers turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Rebecca Lobo, one of the most high-profile players in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Sixth seed Francesca Schiavone needed almost two-and-a-half hours to see off a spirited display by Canada's Rebecca Marino in a 6-3 5-7 9-7 victory in the Margaret Court Arena.
One resident, 30-year-old Rebecca Carbone, said she head a loud blast that "sounded like a car backfiring".
" Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Alvares, one of 150 applicants, explained, "This is a real stepping stone for me.
Magazine co-editor Rebecca Roberts said there was a need to think more critically about the use of detention.
Houvenaghel was runner-up to Great Britain team-mate Rebecca Romero at the Beijing Games.
Rebecca Garcia, co-founder of Coder Dojo, came in to tell the girls about her experience in the tech industry.
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Another experiment the team are carrying out involves taking a metre-deep soil sample, which co-researcher Rebecca Rowe describes as "quite unusual".
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Rebecca and Drea have just vacationed on safari somewhere in Africa, and Peter once volunteered somewhere in Africa with Rebecca's since-deceased brother.
The film was adapted by writer-director Rebecca Miller (daughter of the noted American playwright) from a collection of her own short stories.
In 2006, according to The New York Review of Books, four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of the effects of two prescription drugs Clonidine and Depakote.
Rebecca Boenigk (Bay-nik) is the president of Neutral Posture, Inc.
Socio-biologist Rebecca Costa followed McDonough, and while her presentation style struck this viewer as well over the top, she made the essential point that far from blank slates, we as individuals are the certain genetic result our ancestors.
Dr Kolar, who carried out the post-mortem examinations, said Samuel and Rebecca also had cuts to their hands "consistent with defensive-type injuries".
Thalidomide patient Nick Holness and his 15-year-old daughter Rebecca are being presented by the group as evidence of "second generation" Thalidomide link.
"You dial 6069 and then you type what happened and where, " explains Rebecca Chiao, who co-founded HarassMap at the end of 2010.
Also on Thursday, American Rebecca Soni won the 200-meter breast stroke in 2:19.59, beating her own world record of 2:20.00, set Wednesday in the semifinals.
"One of the key purposes of the grant was to make this research public, " says Rebecca Freeman, a 26-year-old doctoral student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.
Enron Corp. ex-vice chairman Rebecca Mark was telling her family why she had to fly from Houston to New York on another trip for Azurix, the water company she runs.
Rebecca Arbogast, a Washington-based industry analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, said that while the stay is clearly a victory for Vonage, the expedited time frame causes problems for two reasons: It gives the company less time to develop a workaround technology should the appeal fail, while making it harder to market the service because consumers will know the issue could surface again this summer.
Among them is Rebecca Woo, a Hong Kong-based analyst for the Nomura Research Institute.
Defense attorney Rebecca Higgs suggested Wednesday that law-enforcement officers may have lied under oath when they denied speaking to Winter.
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