5 Hot Careers In Government Technology | CAREEREALISM

It?s no secret that government jobs are some of the most coveted positions in the country. One of the biggest opportunities for job seekers in government is the growing need for technology professionals.

President Barack Obama has?made modernizing government technology, infrastructure, IT, and cyber security a priority. While technology jobs within the government continue to blossom, here are some of the most in-demand careers in government technology:

1. E-GOV Analyst

E-GOV, code for ?electronic government,? is also known as digital or online government. If you?ve already had some previous experience working in the tech world, have a propensity to be Internet and computer savvy, posses the ability to think very analytically, and enjoy being creative?this might be the career for you.

Some roles and tasks you will be required to fulfill include: staying up to date on communication tools, social media, web applications, and software developments. You will also be working alongside local government to distribute e-information, website editing and assisting, and designing anything from web content to mobile data applications.

2. Computer Scientist At The U.S. Department Of The Air Force

According to Making the Difference, a ranking done on the Computer Science and IT positions in the Federal Government, the Department of Defense reigns as the largest number of full-time and permanent positions in the U.S. with currently 74,460 positions.

This career path integrates technology and government at its highest platform: building and discovering a comprehensive program to revolutionize air, space, and cyberspace technology and expertise.

Skills required for this career include: knowledge of mathematical science, statistics, software and computer system organization. These skills and expertise? are needed to power theoretical models and pursuits. Summoning all computer scientists ? the U.S. Department of Defense wants you.

3. Information Architect

You might be one of those people who spent endless nights as a young kid building Legos or mastering puzzles. As you grew older, these toys turned into computers, mobile devices, and smartphones. With a career as an information architect, you will not only be building and integrating data but have the opportunity to construct a promising career.

Information architects? major tasks include: managing data-specific program and projects, and applying and delivering data solutions. You will also be expected to expand on innovative communication tools to model and implement infrastructure regarding the use of technologies in a government sphere. As a result, the government continues to recruit intelligent, creative, and proactive candidates to design a better world and environment in which we live.

4. Medical Technologist ?With The Veterans Health Administration

There?s no arguing that people who devote their careers in the government health care industry are helping to save lives every day. According to a recent White House report, nearly 50 million older Americans and those with disabilities rely on Medicare each year.

Professionals who are handy in repairing medical equipment and have good management skills,?as well as extensive knowledge of the medical laboratory, should consider being a medical technologist for the Veterans Health Administration.

5.Information Technology Specialist- Department Of Energy

Millions of Americans are becoming aware of the limited resources and have developed acumen for supporting sustainable, ecological solutions for our energy policy. If you?re one of them, a career as an IT Specialist with an industry like Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) might be it for you.

BPA monitors, integrates, curates, and assesses projects and initiatives through a focus on energy efficiency, the environment, power, and transmission, while leading the way in wind integration and hydropower. Specialists would be resolving many IT issues and circumventing future problems through analysis and research.

This article was written by Social Media Outreach Coordinator Logan Harper on behalf of CAREEREALISM-Approved Partner, 2U ? an education technology company that partners with institutions of higher education such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which provides an online Masters Degree in Public Administration.

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Human brain is divided on fear and panic: Different areas of brain responsible for external, internal threats

Feb. 4, 2013 ? When doctors at the University of Iowa prepared a patient to inhale a panic-inducing dose of carbon dioxide, she was fearless. But within seconds of breathing in the mixture, she cried for help, overwhelmed by the sensation that she was suffocating.

The patient, a woman in her 40s known as SM, has an extremely rare condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease that has caused extensive damage to the amygdala, an almond-shaped area in the brain long known for its role in fear. She had not felt terror since getting the disease when she was an adolescent.

In a paper published online Feb. 3 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the UI team provides proof that the amygdala is not the only gatekeeper of fear in the human mind. Other regions -- such as the brainstem, diencephalon, or insular cortex -- could sense the body's most primal inner signals of danger when basic survival is threatened.

"This research says panic, or intense fear, is induced somewhere outside of the amygdala," says John Wemmie, associate professor of psychiatry at the UI and senior author on the paper. "This could be a fundamental part of explaining why people have panic attacks."

If true, the newly discovered pathways could become targets for treating panic attacks, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and other anxiety-related conditions caused by a swirl of internal emotional triggers.

"Our findings can shed light on how a normal response can lead to a disorder, and also on potential treatment mechanisms," says Daniel Tranel, professor of neurology and psychology at the UI and a corresponding author on the paper.

Decades of research have shown the amygdala plays a central role in generating fear in response to external threats. Indeed, UI researchers have worked for years with SM, and noted her absence of fear when she was confronted with snakes, spiders, horror movies, haunted houses, and other external threats, including an incident where she was held up at knife point. But her response to internal threats had never been explored.

The UI team decided to test SM and two other amygdala-damaged patients with a well-known internally generated threat. In this case, they asked the participants, all females, to inhale a gas mixture containing 35 percent carbon dioxide, one of the most commonly used experiments in the laboratory for inducing a brief bout of panic that lasts for about 30 seconds to a minute. The patients took one deep breath of the gas, and quickly had the classic panic-stricken response expected from those without brain damage: They gasped for air, their heart rate shot up, they became distressed, and they tried to rip off their inhalation masks. Afterward, they recounted sensations that to them were completely novel, describing them as "panic."

"They were scared for their lives," says first author Justin Feinstein, a clinical neuropsychologist who earned his doctorate at the UI last year.

Wemmie had looked at how mice responded to fear, publishing a paper in the journal Cell in 2009 showing that the amygdala can directly detect carbon dioxide to produce fear. He expected to find the same pattern with humans.

"We were completely surprised when the patients had a panic attack," says Wemmie, also a faculty member in the Iowa Neuroscience Graduate Program.

By contrast, only three of 12 healthy participants panicked -- a rate similar to adults with no history of panic attacks. Notably, none of the three patients with amygdala damage has a history of panic attacks. The higher rate of carbon dioxide-induced panic in the patients suggests that an intact amygdala may normally inhibit panic.

Interestingly, the amygdala-damaged patients had no fear leading up to the test, unlike the healthy participants, many who began sweating and whose heart rates rose just before inhaling the carbon dioxide. That, of course, was consistent with the notion that the amygdala detects danger in the external environment and physiologically prepares the organism to confront the threat.

"Information from the outside world gets filtered through the amygdala in order to generate fear," Feinstein says. "On the other hand, signs of danger arising from inside the body can provoke a very primal form of fear, even in the absence of a functioning amygdala."

Contributing authors include Colin Buzza, Robin Follmer, and William Coryell, from the UI Department of Psychiatry; Rene Hurlemann, from the University of Bonn Department of Psychiatry; Nader Dahdaleh, of the UI Department of Neurosurgery; and Michael Welsh, UI professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Buzza and Hurlemann are co-first authors on the paper.

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Journal References:

1. Justin S Feinstein, Colin Buzza, Rene Hurlemann, Robin L Follmer, Nader S Dahdaleh, William H Coryell, Michael J Welsh, Daniel Tranel, John A Wemmie. Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage. Nature Neuroscience, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nn.3323
2. Adam E. Ziemann, Jason E. Allen, Nader S. Dahdaleh, Iuliia I. Drebot, Matthew W. Coryell, Amanda M. Wunsch, Cynthia M. Lynch, Frank M. Faraci, Matthew A. Howard, Michael J. Welsh, John A. Wemmie. The Amygdala Is a Chemosensor that Detects Carbon Dioxide and Acidosis to Elicit Fear Behavior. Cell, 2009; 139 (5): 1012 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.10.029

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How to communicate with brokers properly? - Zillow Real Estate ...

Yes, Chaddzy, this is a difficult decision. On the one hand, you know that most people get better results when they partner with one broker and work as a team; on the other hand, you haven't found a broker that you want to team up with.

As for what is "better," well, it depends. It may be "better" for you to continue to shop for a broker, and maybe it's the lucky broker that meets you at the right property that gets paid. Or, maybe if you keep looking, you will find the broker than can really "be good for you."

All the best,

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Iranian Space Official: Photo Shows Wrong Monkey

Hmm. What that article actually says is that a western news organization ran an image that they claimed they found on an Iranian news website, but when that Iranian site was checked later the same day no such image was found - the unaltered original was found there though.

In fact, nobody has been able to find the altered image being served by Iranian media anywhere, it seems. So it ends up being "he said she said". That's why the article says

So far, though, it can?t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance. Sepah apparently published the three-missile version of the image today without further explanation.

There could be any number of explanations for that, including a patriotic but rogue photographer on the Iranian side, or even some kind of Western propaganda. I'm very doubtful that AFP has been compromised, it's more likely it was done by the Iranians, but unfortunately there is a history of absurdly flaky forgeries that support the case for war against middle eastern countries surfacing through the press. At any rate, it's impossible to conclude from this that there's some kind of systematic Iranian policy of photoshopping news images.

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Dow ends above 14,000 for 1st time since Oct 2007

NEW YORK (AP) ? The Dow stock market index closed above 14,000 for the first time since before the financial crisis rocked the world economy.

Propelled by strong auto sales and optimism about U.S. jobs, the Dow Jones industrial average crossed the line early Friday and continued flirting with the mark all day. The other major stock indexes also rose.

The Dow was up 149 points to 14,010. It's gained 6.9 percent this year. The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 15 to 1,513. The Nasdaq composite index added 37 to 3,179.

The government jobs report that pushed stocks forward was mixed. The U.S. said it added 157,000 jobs in January, in line with expectations. But unemployment inched up to 7.9 percent.

Automakers Toyota, Ford, GM and Chrysler all reported double-digit sales gains for January.

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