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Jade Walker, the New York City-based author of The Blog of Death, has always had a passion for obituaries. As the overnight editor/producer of The New York Times on the Web, she published the Obits section and spent a year working on the Portraits of Grief, a collection of obits for the victims of the Sept. 11th terror attacks. When she was the editor of Inscriptions Magazine, Walker compiled the hugely popular R.I.P. section of writer obits. Now she spends her days commemorating the dead on her popular Weblog and her nights working the graveyard shift as an online editor/producer for The Associated Press.
BOSTON. Philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. and author Peter Benchley will be honored by the New England Aquarium for their lifelong work and dedication to conservation causes. Each man will receive the David B. Stone Award for distinguished service to the environment and the community. This award is given biannually and is named after the Aquarium’s visionary principal founder, Boston businessman David B. Stone. The awards will be presented at the Aquarium’s annual gala, which will be held Friday, September 16.
 
  
Both Benchley and Rockefeller are world renowned for their work in their principal occupations, but both men have had a lifelong love of the ocean and have worked tirelessly to improve marine life around the globe. Below are descriptions of their conservation work.
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Since its debut in June 2003, The Blog of Death has published 1,400+ obituaries and 19,000+ tributes. The site has been featured on the BBC Radio and in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Sacramento Bee, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, The Morning Call, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Poynter Online, Quietpoly Magazine, Yahoo! Picks and CBSMarketwatch.com.
 
 
David Rockefeller Jr. is a man who loves the water. “I love being on the ocean,” he says simply. “Time stops for me out there.” So when he retired from his post as chairman of Rockefeller & Co., Inc. in the late 1990s, he decided to let that love guide him. “I was asking myself what I wanted to do with the next phase of my life,” Rockefeller explains. “And the answer came back: ‘Protect the oceans.’” He has been doing just that ever since.
 
 
 
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The Blog of Death

Jade Walker, the New York City-based author of The Blog of Death, has always had a passion for obituaries. As the overnight editor/producer of The New York Times on the Web, she published the Obits section and spent a year working on the Portraits of Grief, a collection of obits for the victims of the Sept. 11th terror attacks. When she was the editor of Inscriptions Magazine, Walker compiled the hugely popular R.I.P. section of writer obits. Now she spends her days commemorating the dead on her popular Weblog and her nights working the graveyard shift as an online editor/producer for The Associated Press.

Since its debut in June 2003, The Blog of Death has published 1,400+ obituaries and 19,000+ tributes. The site has been featured on the BBC Radio and in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Sacramento Bee, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, The Morning Call, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Poynter Online, Quietpoly Magazine, Yahoo! Picks and CBSMarketwatch.com.

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