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Regarding Canadian votes:

Carolina Clay:

OFFICIAL from JERRY AIKEN and ARON HALL

From: RCCYBERREP [mailto:RCCYBERREP@young-america.com] On Behalf Of Pepsi Refresh

Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 11:27 AM

To: Jerry Aiken

Subject: Pepsi Refresh Project - Jerry Aiken

Hello Jerry,

Thank you for contacting us with regards to the Pepsi Refresh Project. It is our pleasure to assist you.

No, U.S.A. residents can only vote for the American Pepsi Refresh Project.

Also, Canadian residents can only vote for the Canadian Pepsi Refresh Project.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Thank you for choosing Pepsi! Together, we're going to do a lot of good!!

Also, this was on the National Inclusion Project Pepsi Refresh Board this morning:

Our Leader:

Jerry Aiken

2 days to go - we need the help of all groups to defeat Progressive Slate. Please help us move up 1 position to the winner's circle. Make a difference in the lives of children! Thanks You!

We all are working hard to win this for Clay's birthday. We have a number of wonderful Charities working with us to try to secure our position in the money. This week end Hope Heals asked everyone who came to her Thanksgiving dinner to vote before they ate. She sent us 168 votes from Thanksgiving. Then Friday, she commented they were having people over for a number of events, so was hoping she could secure upward of 1000 votes.

That's what I call love.

You've probably already heard about the Rett story, but in case you haven't, Arianna a gal who attends Hale Middle School has no voice, so the alumni of HMS decided to gather 120 to vote on the Pepsi Refresh as Rett has the medical technology to possibly give a voice to Arianna. Arianna and her family, along with 120 HMS alumni have been voting and giving NIP 600 votes each day. Each person is allowed 10 votes, one going to Rett, then they selected 9 other Charities. We are the 10th Charity selected, even though we are not officially a part of the Rett Alliance, we are in the NIP Alliance, it was decided since NIP voted during the September Challenge and helped Rett/IRSF win $250,000.

they would allow us as the 10th Charity. During the 4 days HMS was off, they decided since more family would be there, they could double the vote and gave the NIP 1200 votes each of the 4 days.

These are only two wonderful stories coming out of this Pepsi Refresh.

Due to you and all other NIP/Clay Aiken supporters, I believe this has helped the NIP become more visual. So many people have seen the video and now know who the NIP is and what a wonderful program we have. This could bring

more donators to the NIP.

Also, we have built a solid reputation as workers. Many of the Charities have seen how hard we have worked to win

this grant. We have worked not only for the NIP but for all the Charities we helped move up the ladder.

Thank you all for Voting!

I tried the close up in Photoshop......about doubled the size, added a tad of blurring to smooth out the re-sampling bumps, and this is what I got. Not too bad, but in hindsight, I should have lightened that area on the right of his forehead just a little bit.

Higher Res Close Up

Thanks Kareneh. I wish Decca would correct his eyes to green too. One of my favorite Clay features.

My guess is he's thinking "Here's looking at you kid."

ClaySTO did this one over at CH and CV. I asked her if she could do it in High Res, but she did not know how.

I love it as she has made Clay's eyes green. Can anyone her convert this to High Res? Just love those

green eyes.

Thanks for your help....if you can.

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