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by Max Maxfield I’m a big fan of having hobby projects. In addition to taking one’s mind off the toils, troubles, and tribulations of the world, I think that having a new “thing” that you want to do is the best way to set about learning how to do it. Take adding a new programming language to your repertoire as an example. One way to do this is to wade through the language reference manual (yawn). Another approach is to come up with some algorithm or task you wish to code in this new language, and then research how to achieve this goal. Of course, I’m not saying t...

Thoughts over the last couple of days, you've had a piece talking about the power of a president's words. >> yes, i mean i think it has been a moment where there's clearly a vacuum of the kind of leadership that franklin roosevelt described, in 1932, before he became president, saying the presidency is not an engineering job, it is not an administrative job, it's preeminently a place of moral leadership. and i think not just console ner chief, which is a new cliche, you know, it is like saying that we got this, we have sort of entered that place. and you know, what we need is someone who speak...

Visit. >> the stories he told me about the missions that he accomplished, building schools, clinics, roadways and bridges, really had an impact on his life. he finally felt like, "hey, i'm getting to do something." >> reporter: when george left the military with the rank of captain, he took a corporate engineering job, but soon realized that life in an office building wasn't for him. he wanted to work for real people, which is why george put aside that fancy degree of his and went to vegas to train as a firefighter/emt. >> focusing on himself was not

Captain, he took a corporate engineering job, but soon realized that life in an office building wasn't for him. he wanted to work for real people, which is why george put aside that fancy degree of his and went to vegas to train as a firefighter/emt. >> focusing on himself was not how he wanted to live his life. he wanted to serve. that was a favorite word of his, to serve. >> reporter: so while shauna served drinks at the palms, george served as a firefighter and found time to volunteer, do what he could for the down on their luck souls who live on the fringes of so much glitz here. in 2004, ...

Will be selling true pop popcorn. >> reporter: she left a full-time engineering job to join the air force. now she's working to profekt the fellow americaning in a new way, nutrition. >> it's a different kind of war. the amount of deaths that are happening in the united states can be preventable, cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease. >> reporter: she said the program is huge for her brand. >> 18 stores and now 9 states and covering lowe's to 68 stores in the last 6 months. >> reporter: according to bunker labs, a full xwaert of active duty service members want to own a company. they say th...