Lukewarm in Paradise: A Mormon “Poi Dog” Political Journalist's Journey into Hawaii Politics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BackgroundThis paper describes a lifelong journey in journalism which began in Canada and includes the U.S. mainland and Hawaii.The journey provided the author a unique perspective on the politics of Hawaii as seen during the many years the author lived here.This paper includes an appendix which lists and briefly describes 66 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whom the author has known personally or written about in newspapers, or historical articles.This convenience sample is taken from more than 500 elected politicians and government officials the author interviewed, reported on, or wrote about in scholarly articles, books or newspapers in Canada, Utah, Pennsylvania and Hawaii.Though the author's background in political writing as well as journalism and journalism education spans two countries, four states, and nearly 50 years, this paper primarily focuses on Hawaii politics, particularly the period from 1964 to 1981 when the author was employed as a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (1964-69), as administrative assistant to the Senate Minority (1969-1977) and as coordinator for the Marine Advisory Program at the University of Hawai'i (1977-1981).As part of his responsibilities in the LDS Church, the author also originated the Hawaii Record-Bulletin in 1967.This LDS publication was patterned after the Catholic Herald and was mailed to Hawaii's media, government officials, and libraries.The author served as reporter, editor, and liaison between
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".