Space Coast Music Festival in Cape Canaveral

space-coast-music-festival-85 This year`s Space Coast Music  Festival in Cape Canaveral promises to  turn an ordinary day into a real musical  celebration with a lot of fun moments  and unforgettable memories.  The Festival will include 10 hours of non-  stop music, featuring headliner The New  Orleans Suspects, on a beautiful  waterfront setting.

The all-day party will be held at the Manatee Sanctuary Park in Cape Canaveral on Saturday, September 28th from 11 AM – 10pm. There will be all kinds of interesting activities for the guests, including a classic car show cruise, a children’s stage area with Rock Star Parties, where the little ones can get their faces painted, colour their hair with spray and perform with real instruments.

The event will also feature the renowned and diverse array of critically acclaimed art and craft vendors. This year`s Space Coast Music Festival will also include THE KING (QUEEN) OF WINGS COMPETITION, where Space Coast area restaurants will compete to see who has the best wings.

The admission for this day of celebration is only $5 and children under 12 will be admitted free with a paid adult admission.

 

Carnival Cruise Lines with changes at Port Canaveral in 2014

Carnival SensationPort Canaveral announced that starting in 2014 Carnival will add new ships to its schedule of home-ported ships sailing year-round to Caribbean destinations. The first new ship, the renovated Carnival Sunshine, will arrive in April 2014 and replace the Carnival Dream at Canaveral. The next month, the larger Carnival Liberty will arrive to replace the Carnival Ecstasy at the Brevard County seaport.

Carnival Sunshine, which recently completed a massive $155 million transformation, will be repositioned from New Orleans to Port Canaveral beginning in April 2014. This move will allow Carnival to continue to offer attractive new options from Port Canaveral and marks the first time the line will have a ship in Central Florida featuring all of the fantastic Fun Ship 2.0 bar, dining and entertainment innovations.

Carnival will also increase capacity in Port Canaveral by 30 percent when Carnival Liberty launches year-round five- to eight-day Caribbean cruises in May 2014, adding a second Fun Ship 2.0-equipped vessel to the Space Coast.  The ship’s many popular features include Guy’s Burger Joint, developed in tandem with Food Network star Guy Fieri, along with BlueIguana Cantina, RedFrog Rum Bar, EA Sports Bar, BlueIguana Tequila Bar and the award-winning Alchemy Bar.

Carnival Sensation will continue sailing 3- and 4-night cruises to The Bahamas from Port Canaveral to round out Carnival’s three-ship Canaveral fleet

“Port Canaveral has been a valuable partner with Carnival for more than 20 years and we’re pleased to expand our operations from the Space Coast with the deployment of the Carnival Liberty in 2014,” Carnival Cruise Lines President and CEO Gerry Cahill said in a prepared statement.

Carnival Cruise Lines continues to make a positive economic impact upon our community,” said Port Canaveral Commission Secretary/Treasurer Frank Sullivan “and we continue to warmly welcome their ships and their partnership at our Port.”

Port Canaveral Pink Ribbon Walk And Port Fest 2013

SpreadTheHopeLogo_2013The Port Canaveral Pink Ribbon Walk And Port Fest is an unique, family oriented event, benefiting the Space Coast Cancer Foundation. Come out and enjoy a day full of family fun, a day in which you can contribute to an important cause. All you have to do is donate $20 and you are officially part of the Pink Ribbon Walk.

In addition, you can also shop, sample specialties from the local restaurants at Flavor of the Port, participate in the famous Bed & Bathtub Race and try your skills at the Peel & Eat Shrimp Eating Contest.

The event will take place at The Cove on Glen Cheek Drive in Port Canaveral on October 5, 2013. The beginning is scheduled for 9 a.m. and different activities will run through the whole day, until 6 p.m.

Cellphones could help preventing car accidents

Car safety technologies are becoming a more and more important problem with the more cars flooding the roads. Auto makers seek to equip vehicles with more so-called active safety features, such as lane departure warnings or forward collision alerts—technology that aims to help drivers avoid a crash, rather than dull the blow of one that has already occurred The three-point seatbelt and the airbags. The three-point seatbelt and the airbags used to be innovative ones, now they are just not enough.

Auto makers today are using radars, lasers and other sensors in some vehicles to help drivers avoid crashes by detecting what’s around them. But what about potential dangers lurking out of sight, such as a pedestrian stepping out into traffic from behind a parked car? Wouldn’t it be nice if people could use their cellphones to prevent car accidents?

Honda Motor Co.  thinks it has a solution for that. The Japanese auto maker is working on technology that alerts pedestrians to oncoming cars and sends a warning to their cellphones if they’re about to be struck. Likewise, the technology also warns drivers of crossing pedestrians and passing motorcycles blocked from view.

“The sensors we have now are for the immediate surroundings,” said Art St. Cyr, vice president of product planning and logistics for Honda’s American division, during a presentation of some of the company’s advanced safety features.

“These technologies are looking past that, two or three cars up ahead or what you can’t see around the corner,” he added.

Honda’s system uses a phone’s Global Positioning System to send signals to the car about where a pedestrian is located, in what direction they’re traveling and how fast they’re going. It also tells the vehicle whether this person is texting, making a call or listening to music.

The application then calculates the risk of a vehicle-pedestrian collision, and if one is found, alerts the driver with alarms sounding in the car and a flashing display that says “brake.” The pedestrian’s phone also gets a warning to “watch out” and makes a honking sound.

Opening of Dave Nisbet Road in Port Canaveral

Morning_ART(1)The Port Canaveral Authority announced that the new Dave Nisbet Road realignment will be completed Wednesday evening, allowing the road to be open to the public on Thursday morning, August 22nd, 2013.

The Authority, however, appeals to people with a request to remove all off-premises signs, which were allowed during the recontruction to help visitors and customers better find their way to the Cove and other areas, no later than 5pm on the Wednesday afternoon. Any remaining signs after Wednesday in the right of ways or on the fences will be removed and disposed by the contractor or Port staff.

The Dave Nisbet Road was closed on May 20, 2013, due to the construction of a new state-of-the-art Welcome Center. It will be the centerpiece of an extensive redevelopment of The Cove harborside dining and retail area, as well as a community hub, repository of local history, visitor magnet and gateway to the region’s attractions.

The Port Canaveral Welcome Center is just the beginning of an extensive Canaveral Port Authority project to redevelop The Cove harborside marketplace area and bring significant benefits to local businesses and Brevard County’s overall economy.