Making an M.A. Thesis Template

In working on my M.T.S. thesis I had to research the form a thesis should take in order to meet the technical structural requirements. I must say that for a guy living in a tent most of the time, and for the prior eight years in Alaska, it is sometimes challenging enough to keep warm much less battle the computer to get all of the indentations and spacings just so.

Actually though the structure for a thesis isn't terribly difficult and once one has the right example documents, easily available on-line, settings up one's page margins, headers and paragraph criteria as well as font go rather quickly.

Writing a thesis is informative. One discovers the Forest Service and other government documents often use that thesis style and structure for their presentations so they are standard and look professional. After setting up one's one thesis and getting it right it would be a good idea to save it as a template for use in publishing any sort of document in the future so they all have that thesis style. 

http://www.kstk.org/2016/02/09/forest-service-seeks-input-on-new-anan-master-plan-mooring-float/ example of forest service Master's thesis style master plan presentation at the four links at end of the news article

Some college insiders avoid time wasting thought on technical details and simply mass produce templates so students can rather paint  by the numbers in a manner of speaking. I suppose the rich have often done so.

https://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp this one requires knowledge of LaTex. I suggest one make a template for-onself and use liber office or a similar open source program to make a template from a word document.

Still, there are many M.A. thesis templates out there in cyberspace. Here are a few...

https://www.clarkson.edu/cee/graduate/GSA_thesistemplate_091008.doc

https://www.k-state.edu/grad/etdr/template/mastersinstructions.doc

https://gradcollege.okstate.edu/content/thesis-and-dissertation-templates

I suggest dumping some experimental content into the thesis template, such as the value of digging holes deeper and deeper before filling them in or working to take the dirt out of the whole and into another before placing the good stuff in it.

Here is a draft of my M.T.S. thesis. I still have work to do with it, and getting those numbers to line up correctly is one of those computer issues that never would have occurred with a typewriter. Working on tech issues rather than content is a good thing to avoid with a template.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5mNLBmCx8N4eUVHLWZMa29YM2c/view?usp=sharing M.T.S. thesis

https://www.clarku.edu/graduate/current/formatguides/thesis-format-guide.pdf

http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdn/pdf/format_guidelines-m.pdf

Trump Could Appoint Conservative to High Court

It isn't likely that President Donald Trump would want to create an instant rift with his fellow Republican congress if elected and probably would give them a conservative such as they want. To start his first term in a protracted battle with Congress instead of addressing the nation's substantial challenges would simply be bad politics.

President H.W. Bush, today what would be called by right-wing extremists a liberal, was in his day regarded as a moderate in comparison to the conservative Ronald Reagan who practiced fast than light real politik with Gorbachev that H.W. on taking office had trouble in realizing and needed time to be briefed on why nuclear arms stockpiles should continue to be so drastically reduced (he was initially resistant). H.W. Bush appointed not only the liberal David Souter, he also appointed the excellent conservative Clarence Thomas to the court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush_Supreme_Court_candidates

"Upon Souter's nomination, Bush made clear that he had no litmus test for court appointees. "You might just think that the whole nomination had something to do with abortion," Bush told reporters upon nominating Souter. "It's something much broader than that. I have too much respect for the Supreme Court for that."[2] quote from above wiki article

The Ways Demos Could Have Murdered Scalia

People in Dallas have written on the topic of how Scalia could have been murdered. It hadn't occurred to me before I saw the article, yet I can add one method of inducing a heart attack; sophisticates in tech might have beamed some kind of electrical charger at him or infiltrated a tiny drone able to provide a shock. Scalia was somewhat vulnerable at a Texas ranch.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/3-ways-scalia-could-have-been-killed-8031773

Sure there would be motivation to take down a conservative justice before the appointer of radical liberals to the bench leaves office. The death of Scalia is a court composition changer if a liberal were to be appointed. The President ought to recuse himself and avoid the appearance of conflict of interest since it would be too convenient to use the passing of the best conservative justice in a generation to wrench America's future.

The Presidential modus operandi on exploiting circumstances to the utmost are known though and the liberal media is assuredly an accomplice. Scalia is said to have dies of natural causes, yet they also said J.F.K. was put down by one shooter. 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-antonin-scalia-autopsy-cause-of-death-20160215-story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/02/15/daily-202-why-blocking-obama-s-pick-to-replace-scalia-could-cost-republicans-their-senate-majority/56c13943981b92a22d189bff/

Growth Prospects for Aggressive Biological War

Aggressive nuclear war seemed to make everyone losers with various M.A.D. policy scenarios. First-strike biological attacks on global population with select portions immunized seems to be a winning scenario, and technology advances such as drones that would make aerial delivery of virus to formerly remote areas of the globe practical for world conquerors on a small budget along with the profusion of recombinant D.N.A. research and computer aided design tools present challenges to contain.

Given enough people capable of perpetrating democide per capita the odds are that in time some individual or group will take a first-strike op on everyone else. The dynamics of failing to use the window of opportunity works against those of a morally righteous nature and Christians of course. While assurances that government is competent to secure safety are plentiful (the Bill Clinton administration told the public that U.S. intelligence was so good that they would know way in advance of any actual attack-even while K.S.M. and Osama Bin Ladin were firming up their plans), the broad dispersion of tools for making weapons of mass destruction to reduce world population to 25 million or so seem to becoming saturated. PhDs in biology and drone rentals in the next quarter century appear to be an emergent danger.

The Legacy of Three Doper &/or Alcoholic Presidents

As in appointing a succession of bad CEOs to a corporation the finances tend to suffer. Bad decisions are made. Special interests are curried, depravity advances.

President Has No Right to Decree Supreme Court Members

The President has no right to decree Supreme Court positions. He can only make nominations the Congress will approve. That's how radical imbalances to the left are prevented from destroying the remnants of individualism and free enterprise altogether.

The President could nominate an excellent conservative justice-a clone of the fine late Justice Scalia, and cement his post-office financial prospects better than his tax cuts for the rich.

Bernie Sanders; Dead Reckoning in the Socialist Mode

It is true that socialism as an economic system isn't self-standing without being repressive on creativity and individualism. It is also a fact that badly regulated predatory capitalism becomes criminally repressive, concentrates capital so far as to resemble aristocracy and is generally loutish in owning the broadcast media and buying ass-kissing politicians. So what is the Democrat party to do with a socialist running against a would be imperial dynasty mouthpiece for global imperialism?

Well, the nation needs a one-party system to get anything done these days. On hopes a self-thinking independent moderate President working with conservatives of the same party lightens up and increases the tax rates while government size is cut and existing programs made more effective. Maybe Trump can do that.

Since the Congress isn't socialist Sanders won't be able to create socialism. When government owns all business it gets really dumb. Widgets begin to grow like potato sprouts in a root cellar infected with fungus, although there is enough food to eat for a while. Sanders is the only Democrat with a backbone though and would be a hard negotiator for party and public interests in increasing taxes to a non-deficit creating size while Republicans cut government size over all.

Obamacare needs to fail. It leaves out the poor that travel to look for a job and aren't really able to qualify for Medicare or subsidies anywhere. The best way to save money and assure all American citizens are covered would be to expanded the V.A. and treat all Americans for free that earn fewer than 15,000 dollars annually networking with community public health clinics and other poor people's service clinics that would let anyone without any money saved get treatment at a rated sliding scale according to their income for all earning up to $20,000 annually. Emergency services for those that are chronic and out of funds should be another program unless they can fit into the V.A.-Public health system. Taxes would be increased to pay for treatment for the poor.

Trump and Sanders seem to be the real live candidates this year. I would have that a Ralph Nadir clone with a degree in ecospheric economics, a M.T.S. degree and experience as an LT in the U.S. Army was running on his own financing, yet will have to wait for another cycle.

Declare Total War on Mosquito Pinhead Zika Virus

There is no excuse for letting mosquitoes create a global generation of pinheads greater than or equal to the politicians running the U.S. economy and environmental policies. A generation of pin heads in the southern hemisphere would create vast challenges for humanity in the future, if being pinheaded means that one is dumber rather than smarter. I am not prejudging the conic brain potential, yet it seems to be less than optimal for human development.

Total war to keep humanity free of creeping pinheadedness should be aggressively implemented and the U.S. government should respond better than it did to the Ebola virus though the threat to politicians sex-touring Africa is not as immediate.

There may be 1.5 million cases of Zika virus illnesses on Earth presently. It is preponderantly spread by a daytime-active mosquito; the Aedes mosquito. Probably a search for making a sterility inducing Aedes mosquito hybrid is needed, unless the mosquito has some significant value to some other link in the web of life. Brazil has 1% of newborns infected in some areas, and that would affect future social composition, and should be limited.

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/01/zika-virus-world-health-organisation-declares-global-health-emergency

Poor Leadership Fiscal Ethics Create Public Debt

The fiscal political ethics of a nation's leaders eventually turn up reflected in the state of the nation's public budget and economy. If leaders play fast and loose with truth and regulations, environment and foreign military investments public debt will increase. Since the Reagan administration ended the cold war the nation's leaders have used bad ethics and ideas to corrupt the public sector and Wall Street. The U.S. public debt is approaching 20 trillion dollars and the President just advanced a 4.1 trillion dollar budget for a single year.

There are numerous reasons why U.S. political leaders are fiscal misanthropes so far as integrity, stability and sustainability of the national economy goes. Even international players such as the Pope visiting communist Cuba before arriving in Texas create apparent conflicts of interest as he advocates on behalf of illegal alien labor from Latin America flooding the U.S. economy, enhancing opportunities for fiscally corrupt policy. America's corrupted political economy affects that of the rest of the world. Bad government ethics endanger planetary environmental security as swell not to mention billions of lives affected by economic dislocation.

Sophomoric economic ideas and political philosophy won't solve the problem. In Saudi Arabia thieves still have a hand cut off for correction. On Wall Street the Federal Reserve gave trillions of dollars of zero interest loans and the government bought up toxic debt following the banking and home mortgage derivatives flam merging into business as usual. With the public debt being the sink that props up defense contractors that require a Russian antagonist and a protracted Middle Eastern conflict presently bad ethics has plenty to hide behind assisted as they are by broadcast media propaganda spin-drift as effective as a virtual Al Qaeda of America supporting of fiscal terrorism. Wealth is being redistributed from the poor and middle class to the rich thanks to the Clintons,  Bushes and Obamas.

With sufficient material resources and personnel skills the United States should have had a balanced budget and virtually no public debt in the years following the end of the cold war. Instead the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas and their cronies took the nation down a road of rampant doofussism dumping unethical finance regs, vast left-right wing public debt and homosexual marriage withholding only from beastiality yet the Supream Court hasn’t ruled on that yet. They may find the founders didn’t intend the constitution to prevent it.

Bad ethics at the top produced the negative bottom line. Yet a nation taught that a quarter of the working adults should be in financial services, skills for production degraded and material fabrication outsourced while inputting cheap foreign migrant labor isn't one that should remain prosperous. The Roman Empire employed so many good German warriors in its own legions from the conquered provinces that eventually Roman defense capabilities withered away. Like many Americans today that don't care much for Washington D.C., the immigrants didn't care about Rome.

The nation's financial leadership is fundamentally crooked. It has sophomoric understanding of political philosophy. Lawyer's want to enrich themselves through politics bringing no direct relevant qualification to apply when elected. The last year the U.S. government had a balanced budget was during the final phase of the second term of Bill Clinton. It occurred through fate rather than planning.

Bill Clinton had raised the tax rates to a reasonable level. Republicans controlled congress though and were free to cut federal spending with the President weakened politically from getting blow jobs from a student intern in the Oval Office and possibly elsewhere. President Bill signed off on the Republican budget and that concurrence of circumstance never happened again. Neither side can produce a balanced budget, assure all Americans a guaranteed minimum income, good health and dental care, full employment, good education, a recovering environment, space exploration, strong defense and secure borders; they are concerned with financial perfidy and sloppiness instead.

Scientists Say they've Discovered Gravity Waves

Detecting gravity waves is a big deal for physicists. Gravity travels at the speed of light and apparently warps space-time. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity had equations that described the way gravity acts to warp space and time that should be regarded as one spacetime thing instead of two different things.

L.I.G.O. is a large gravity-wave searching tool that cost a billion dollars to build. If it could get better at making observations and measurements of gravity waves, or perhaps a future large interferometer observatory could, it might be able to determine if gravity occurs in extra-dimensions beyond the standard four dimensions of normal spacetime of this Universe.

If gravity waves can have their energy accurately observed and quantified it might be possible to determine if all of their energy is accounted for in this Universe or if some of it is going elsewhere. making such accurate observations make take a very long time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/02/11/cosmic-breakthrough-physicists-detect-gravitational-waves-from-violent-black-hole-merger/