It probably depends on the district (county, state, etc.). I have a friend who drives a school bus, and she is considered a “9-month employee” along with certain other employees like school secretaries and lunch ladies. She is considered part-time, but is qualified for a few certain benefits, but cannot get unemployment over the summer.
Do women who die during menstruation continue to bleed in death? If so, how is this dealt with in the morgue? And when the body is prepared for burial, is the uterus emptied?
There are a few options; the Portland transit company (TriMet) pays businesses to allow their drivers to use the bathrooms. They’ve also installed at least one porta-potty; recently, a driver was stabbed by a person unknown when he exited the facility.
I have a family member who is a school bus driver in NYC. He gets paid full-time even though he only spends 4-5 hours a day working, and he collects unemployment during the summer.
Okay, I’ve got a question for all the bug experts out there. What are these tiny, aphid-like bugs? I spotted them on the Tomales Point Trail in Point Reyes – I’ve seen mass hatchings from other insect egg cases, but I can’t figure out what these are.
Honestly this is pretty much like asking why a car would stop working. There are hundreds of ways to build a Web site, dozens of ways to put them online, and millions of ways for them to break.
One way that web sites go down that often makes the news is called Distributed Denial of Service, DDoS. A baddie writes a virus that goes on a bunch of people’s machines, then all these machines go to a Web site and do the equivalent of hitting the “refresh” button over and over and over. Every one of these requests must be served and the Web server gets overwhelmed and nobody can get to it.
There’s also a myriad of reasons why one’s network would go down at work.
They look reduviid-like, but I’d need a microscope and a key to really be sure.
As far as which species they are–you’d need an expert on the local Hemiptera (the insect order these little guys are in) to figure that out. Depending on the anatomical features used to identify specimens in this group down to species, you may not be able to get IDs past genus, if you even get that far.
Where I live, school bus drivers are part time employees and even receive unemployment for spring and winter breaks. So do the people who work in the school cafeterias.
I don’t know, but a nurse friend of mine told me that when preparing a newly deceased person for the casket, she usually plugs up the anus with a wad of cotton wool.
Car question: When you put your car in “Park”, what is actually happening inside the transmission? I’ve read there’s something called a parking “pawl” (iirc), but I don’t know what it does. Does it somehow engage a gear that can’t turn? Or the car version of putting a stick in the spokes? It doesn’t seem to be a “brake” mechanism where some sort of caliper grabs something, due to the fact that it will bind on a hill (a brake wouldn’t do that).