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If you and your friends were betting on which one of you would start camping out earliest to get the first iPhone from the Apple store on Prince Street in NYC, all bets are off. That is unless your name is Alicia Keys, Iman, Liv Tyler, Jessica Alba, or Johnny Vulkan (above right). Mr. Vulkan of Anomoly, a marketing communications agency in Manhattan, is out on Prince Street now, as of Tuesday morning. I'll let him do the talking:

"We're doing this for Keep a Child Alive which is a charity that provides drugs for children in Africa. There are 20 million kids living with AIDS in Africa who need anti-retroviral drugs and it only costs a dollar a day to save a life for those kids. The iPhone is all about keeping connected with people and it's important at times like this to remember that we are all in fact connected to everybody, and it would be nice to remember people less fortunate than ourselves. So we're lining up for the next three day. We have about 80 volunteers so far and actually people on the street are coming by and volunteering to sit in as well. We are taking sponsors on our t-shirts; it's a minimum bid of $500. On Friday, one of Keep a Child Alive's ambassadors will go in here and buy the first iPhone. And then we're going to be auctioning off the iPhone on eBay, and the prize will be that iPhone, a Jawbone bluetooth headset, two round-trip tickets on Virgin America which launches in a month, and the prize winner will have that presented to them by one of Keep a Child Alive's [above mentioned] ambassadors. We want people to come by, say hi, and please visit keepachildalive.org and donate money; it's a great cause and we'd love to raise as much awareness for the cause as we can."