Competitive Service versus Excepted Service Positions. There are two types of non-executive positions in the federal government: 1) those that are in the competitive service, and 2) those that are in the excepted service. Competitive Service â Competitive service positions are subject to the civil service laws passed by Congress.
Post to Facebook. Kevlar inventor Stephanie Kwolek dies at 90 Stephanie Kwolek, the DuPont scientist whose invention, Kevlar, has saved countless lives as the essential ingredient in body armor, has died. Kwolek, of the Sharpley neighborhood in Talleyville, died Wednesday following a brief illness, said her friend, Rita Vasta, who is handling Kwolek's affairs. She was 90.
Jamie Callister is the grandson of Cyril Percy Callister, the man who invented Vegemite. Jamie's late father Bill was one of the original Vegemite kids.He and his siblings Jean and Ian got to taste the experimental pastes that Cyril brought home from Fred Walker & Company lab in Melbourne.ow Jamie has turned his research into a book, The Man Who Invented Vegemite. Cyril, born into a humble family in rural Victoria in 1893, studied science at university and worked as a munitions chemist in Britain during World War I.