The Projector: Fireworks at the Festival and at the Carleton Ching Nomination Hearing - Honolulu Civil Beat

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Sunday Spectacle The 21st annual Honolulu Festival featured fireworks produced by pyrotechnics experts from Japan and Hawaii off the Waikiki coast Sunday. The festival promotes ethnic harmony between the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.
Lighting Up Waikiki Performers from Akita Kanto light their candles in preparation for their performance in front of the Moana Surfrider Hotel on Sunday night during the Honolulu Festival. Kanto lanterns are suspended by bamboo and weigh almost 100 pounds balanced by performers.
Dragon on Kalakaua A 'Rising Dragon' dwarfs handlers along Kalakaua Avenue during a climactic parade. The festival promotes ethnic harmony between the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.
Daijayama on Parade The Honolulu Daijayama makes its way down Kalakaua Avene during the festival parade. The Honolulu Festival inherited the mikoshi — a portable Shinto shrine — from the Japanese city of Omuta in Fukuoka Prefecture.
On Paper, the Nays Have It Testimony opposing and supporting the nomination of Carleton Ching to head the state Department of Land and Natural Resources is piled up at a Senate confirmation hearing.
Moral Support Nolan Espinda, left, the nominee for director of the state Department of Public Safety, braces Carleton Ching for the first day of his confirmation hearing Wednesday. Espinda's nomination was confirmed by the full Senate on Thursday.
Pat on the Back Gov. David Ige, left, encourages his DLNR nominee, Carleton Ching, before the confirmation hearing. Environmentalists say that as a pro-development lobbyist, Ching is unqualified to head a department charged with protecting public lands. The committee ultimately voted 5-2 to opposed the nomination.
Rotunda Rally Families and early childhood advocates show their support for family-child interaction learning programs during a Thursday rally in the Capitol rotunda.
Mosaic Playground During the Thursday rally inside the Capitol rotunda, kids play on a glass mosaic called 'Aquarius,' which was made by artist Tadashi Sato.

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