Get your generals out of the way at a community college or similar but be SURE the credits transfer to THE four year college you want to attend.

This will save you thousands of dollars and you end up getting your BA or BS from the school you wanted.

Think about marketing. Huge opportunities for growth positions and most marketing departments have a tight relationship with their corporate purse holders.

I've lived here all my life. The first thing you need to know about Minnesota is that it is the "State where nothing is allowed." as local radio jockey would say.

The second thing is at all levels a favorite thing to do here is crawl as far up your business as possible.

As an example; Governor Dayton actually came out after the state house and senate both passed bills to liberalize the use of small scale consumer fireworks and admitted that he was lobbied by the firemen lobby and he used their opinions and "feelings" and emotions to decide against the state voter constituency's legislation and vetoe'd the bill.
Now I'm not a huge fanboy for fireworks, couldn't care less, but this is a key example of the mentality of "mother knows best" and it runs sooo deep here.

This is also the state where the governor alone tried to unionize all private home daycare centers whether they wanted to be union or not, in a clear example of trying to force union membership rolls to grow as repayment for him winning the election. This would force these new members to pay dues, and to offset the cost, raise their rates.

Socialism has a history of "shedding" it's people to cut costs due to economic failures and "backwardness" of socialist/communist style governments.

Collectivizing agriculture creating a distribution nightmare, developing fake sciences for medicine and agriculture production, intentionally failing to adopt known ways to feed your people, industrialization of large regions of self sufficient rural communities etc. were just a few of the ways socialist countries ground their own populations into dust and bones when they needed to have fewer mouths to feed. It's unfortunate this history is not taught routinely for the scary reality it must have been for these people.

Getting stuff done was never in the design of the house or senate or the Presidency. Laws were supposed to be fought for with logic and majority viewpoints. While it is true that Presidents have acted as you say for ages, The The House was designed to be the people's voice and the Senate was designed to stop majority rule running over a portion of the electorate that needs a voice of it's own. The President's main functions after you remove the Madison Avenue style marketing tactics are still to appoint the judges of the Supreme Court and also to perform veto powers, as well as other obvious functions like national security, Commander In Chief, etc. But in the end, a veto pen does not lend itself well to "getting stuff done".

Get him something larger in scope than programming. Look into astrophysics or biology or botany sciences, or aeronautics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, materials sciences, anything engineering related or high math or high tech, but not programming.

Think about promoting something where they seek interests and career lines that might work for themselves or create their own corporation.

If you want to shoot for an interest leading to most likely employment, get him something for marketing and business. Entrepreneurship as well.
I don't recommend these as careers for everyone, but there will be lots of need.

Alternatively, get him a book on how things are actually made, not how they say they are on How It's Made or Mythbusters.
Something with a lot of good photos of Injection molding, machining, forging, casting, metal injection molding, powdered metallurgy, 3D printing and Selective Laser Sintering, Fused Deposition Modeling, etc.

Anyone here ever run a milling machine? That's a subtractive prototyper.

Apparently they can jack straight into my mind and tell what I'm going to either program on my CNC, or turn handles to make on my manual lathe and mills?

The patent office needs a huge overhaul.

We'd be better off without it and take the position that speed to market of new innovations can keep development income going.

I predict an obvious but subtle castigation of lower courts for it getting there at all.

But when did we lose common sense? Can't a corporation think it's way out of a wet paper sack?
Clearly the solution for them would be to raise prices abroad.

This parallels drug importing I suppose as well. Same solution imho.

Oh wait...nobody abroad would pay that much for a book? Then maybe you're gouging the US market and as a judge I'd say you've made your profit here via gouging and abroad by what you were willing to sell for under no choice but your own and what the market will bear.

Tough Shiite.

First off, this was last reported in March in the UK's Guardian as well.

More to the point, the US Gov. had a surplus of it from the 1920's that it sold off much of in the late 1990's so part of this is self imposed.
Also, much of current day helium is being used for vacuum chamber leak testing for semiconductor production, aerial surveillance balloons,
UAV's and regular old heli-arc welding in factories and shops all over the world.
I'm guessing the use for the surveillance balloons and stockpiling to support them is more to blame than any number of little party balloons.

What you're seeing is a lag in time from the Fed Gov's helium privatization program where private industry has not yet ramped up production
to meet a decades standard level of consumption.
Not some scientists opinion where little kids balloons are affecting a world resource market.

Historically it's ladies who temper the male political ego, eventually moderating the propensity to go to war and to fight.

I don't see this lasting long in the days of social media, having such a large young population in Iran.

Acts like this will energize the Iranian women's population and I predict change will come soon.

The same agency tasked by Bolden to build relations with the Muslim world is now supposed to be the same agency that we can trust with firing off a satellite to measure something on earth we could measure cheaper....wait for it... ON EARTH... When pigs fly I say.

Maybe cat loving ladies have this parasite and they give it to their cats instead.

While maybe not at age three, (seven though) this is being done every day here in the Good Old U.S. of A. and all over the world by the World Scouting Organizations under which all the nations Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorer Scouts, and similar organizations of other names in other nations all provide character building, values in personal fitness, and skills in the outdoors.

Yet another article that attempts to portray a reality in the US that is not.