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Giant Bead Work
Students in Westerly participated in a giant bead work of art, one that might set the Guiness Book Of World Records.
WESTERLY, R.I. – President Barack Obama is being immortalized in beads.
Fourth-grade students from around the country used small plastic beads to create a giant photo of the president.
The project will eventually measure 9 by 11-and-a-half feet and will be presented to the president on his birthday on Aug. 4.
When completed, it is expected to set a Guinness World Record for largest photo mosaic in the world.
Students from the Bradford School in Westerly took part in the project, which is also being assembled in a warehouse in Westerly.
The project uses PhotoPearls beads and their CEO, Peter Stambeck, is in Rhode Island to help with the assembly.
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Will the children place this “beaded BHO” next to the other 43 beaded presidents that they did? Maybe ABC put them up to it.
Cant jay70 see the good in anything? it was a country-wide project that elementary school children were involved in. I am sure this took dedication and hard work to get this put together as a gift to our president. we have not seen this done recently because this business is said to be new and why would we give such a gift to a man (BUSH) who gave our country a bad name? and how dare you say obama is running us to the ground? he is trying to get us out of a great economic difficulty that BUSH greatfully caused. maybe you shouldnt be in the mortgage business if you cannot spell. and i believe mortgage brokers helped get us into this mess were in today. So keep your comments to yourself if you dont like this project, i think its wonderful and these kids should feel proud and youre trying to take away from it.
It’s very troublesome that something positive like this turns into a political forum. It looks like some people that posted comments didn’t even watch the video. How did Fannie Mae and “political rederick” (Jay 70) get into this? Maybe you should have stayed in school, done your beaded picture and learn that it is spelled rhetoric. You should take a lesson from the kids that pride in your country and working together to do something special and meaningful is truly important.
No Jay70 your the joke when you have to be mean spirited trying to ruin something these kids are doing.
I never remember making any peanut art of Jimmy Carter. This country is officially a joke with this guy running us into the ground.
Maybe they would you would have to ask them. They are trying to beat a Guiness World Record. Why can’t you take it at that and leave out all the negative stuff. Let them enjoy themselves. Be happy for them don’t rain on their parade. You had your chance to be a kid let them.
Would they be building this if McCain had won? This country is so infatuated on who he is and not what he is doing.
People this is not about politics it’s about kids. Lighten up.
I do know what I am talking about I have been in the mortgage business for 20 years and just remember we wouldnt be able to do these loan if the guidelines werent in place and set by Fannie Mae and the investors. We could not originate a loan without an investor to buy it from us and they would never buy it if Fannie wouldnt insure it.
Wow Jay70- wrong, my friend. Try googling The American Prospect article, ‘Did Liberals Cause the Sub-Prime Crisis?‘ dated April 7, 2008. As pointed out in the article, it wasn’t the reduced regulations on the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act that caused the problems- it’s the independent banks and mortgage brokers who weren’t subject to ANY regulations who helped get us into this mess. In other words, it’s always the same problem- greed, which we had 8 long years of from Bush & Co. (Need I mention how Dick Cheney retired from Halliburton to become part of the Bush/Cheney political team and yet still received compensation from Halliburton while VP and Halliburton got all those cushy contactor jobs in Iraq? Coincidence? I think not.) I agree with tiredofRI- it’s just about kids trying to do something noteworthy that doesn’t involve violence. Leave the political crap out of it- or at least know what you’re talking about first.
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