10/28/2023 0 Comments A mess“Materials can be worked and reworked endlessly, meaning a child can create something and recreate it over and over. “Messy play offers kids a chance for real self-expression because there is no "right" answer,” Ms Micallef said. Goodstart Warner centre director Fiona Micallef said the benefits of digging in dirt, and playing with water were numerous, including encouraging self-expression, self-esteem and developing social, investigation skills and physical skills. It allows children to explore, discover, negotiate, take risks, create meaning and solve problems. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Messy play is important for young children because it encourages them to learn and develop skills including gross and fine motor skills, co-ordination and concentration. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account If the company is required to remove all the lead-clad cables, it could cost AT&T roughly $84 million a year in a 15 to 25-year process, the analysts wrote. Raymond James analysts wrote in a note Wednesday that they estimate AT&T could spend between $264 million and $1.2 billion to remove lead-covered cables. Shares of telecom companies pared back their losses Wednesday, buoyed by a broader market rally fueled by strong second-quarter earnings reports.īoth companies are likely to field questions about how the possibility of toxic lead cables could affect their balance sheets going forward, during an earnings season when Wall Street is already homing in on corporate outlooks. Shares of Verizon, also mentioned in the Journal’s investigation, fell to their lowest closing level since 2010 on Monday. Ryan’s letter requests answers to a slew of questions from USTelecom, Verizon and AT&T by July 25 - the same day Verizon is set to report its second-quarter earnings results and a day before AT&T is scheduled to do the same.ĪT&T shares earlier this week hit a three-decade low following a flurry of downgrades from analysts on concerns that the potential of toxic lead cables could create long-term headwinds for the companies in question. Verizon did not respond to requests for comment. USTelecom has said that it has “not seen, nor have regulators identified, evidence that legacy lead-sheathed telecom cables are a leading cause of lead exposure or the cause of a public health issue.” “The scientific literature and reliable studies in the US and abroad give no reason to believe that these cables pose a public health issue or a risk to workers when appropriate safety measures are in place,” the company said. “As a father of two young sons, the possibility of them ingesting lead at a local playground due to Verizon’s negligence over these lead-sheathed cables is appalling,” Ryan wrote in the letter.ĪT&T has said in response to the Journal’s investigation that it plans to conduct additional testing, including at the locations the investigation mentions, and that the Journal’s testing methodologies are flawed. The Environmental Protection Agency outlines a soil lead hazard on property occupied by children if it has lead equal to or more than 400 ppm in a play area, or an average of 1,200 ppm in the rest of the area. Lead in soil at the corner of the playground was reportedly at 850 ppm. One such cable hangs bordering a playground in Wappingers Falls, New York, and lead in nearby soil measured more than 1,000 parts per million, the Journal reported. Larry W Smith/EPA/ShutterstockĪT&T shares hit 30 year low after toxic lead cable report A view of Whitacre Tower, AT&T's Global Headquarters' building at One AT&T Plaza in Dallas, Texas, in March 2011.
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