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Time: 07-05-2007 17:18 User: Ibarker PubDate: 07-06-2007 Zone: KY Edition: 1 Page Name: 2 Color: Bftapfenta E2 I FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2007 THE COURIER-JOURNAL FEATURES COFFEE Heine Brothers brews up CDs a BBBBBBBBCTrKKriVtiBSBBfl' BMl BBBBbXBbSbBt BJ sK' wm bf JSt bbbim Lm HIH HHSlw ff IB Bf HtLJJBiBBBiBB7Bll' BBBBIBBBBbNI bbbbbBbHbhL ZMkml liFlBBEeu bbbBbFbbbbf BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBHk. MBjMni tempt to place the CD at indie coffee shops nationwide. "There are an awful lot of people like Heine Brothers' Coffee out there," Mays said. "We have a lot of friends in the industry, and we could expose a lot of people to a lot of music by getting a little stack of these on the counter or retail shelves." Barnes feels the same. "With records sales down, finding new ways to catch consumers' attention is a necessary part of the game," he said.

"I think it's great that independent businesses, no matter what their common grounds, can unite together and fight corporate domination. A lot of alliances need to be formed." Mays said that he and Holland are already thinking about "Volume Two." The first was all sonaBLAST! artists as a matter of speed and convenience, but the second could be unsigned artists or be dedicated to a particular genre, he said. "It's truly a seat-of-our-pants idea," Mays said, "but hopefully it's going to work on some level and we can have volume three, four or whatever. 'Independent Hip-hop for Independent Coffee How does that sound?" Reporter Jeffrey Lee Puckett can be reached at (502) 582-4160. "With records sales down, finding new ways to catch consumers' attention is a necessary part of the game." MIKE MAYS, co-owner of Louisville's Heine Brothers' Coffee One" features New York-based Irishman Mark Geary, The Old Ceremony, Kelly McCrae, Charlotte Kendrick, Gabriel Ju-det-Weinshel and BLOCK.

Barnes' two tracks are from his album "The Recalibrated Heart." The cover art is by Louisville's Ashley Cecil, a painter activist attracted to Heine Brothers' support of fair trade coffee growers. A dollar from each sale will be donated to a fair trade organization, whose goal is to help marginalized producers of any type goods compete on an international scale. Mays said that "IMFICD" isn't meant as an anti-Starbucks statement, but as a reiteration of the Heine Brothers' philosophy that local businesses can easily compete with corporations (sonaBLAST! is also based in Louisville, although it maintains a New York office). They'll shop "IMFICD" at a fall coffee convention in an at By Sam Upshaw The Courier-Journal Doss High School, got his job at Raytheon after he gave a speech at helps teens find summer job Continued from El "Independent Music for Independent Coffee Drinkers: Volume One" is a production of Holland's sonaBLAST! records and Heine Brothers' Coffee. The first volume, available now for $9.99 at all Heine Brothers' locations and at ear X-tacy records, is a compilation of sonaBLAST! artists, in-cluding Louisville's Jamie Barnes.

Holland, a recent transplant from New York, has built sonaBLAST! on the model of independent artists recording for a label not affiliated with any of the major labels. The idea for "IMFICD" came up while talking music with Mays. "We were talking one day, and I just said why don't we do an indie music for indie coffee drinkers," Holland said. "I saw some quote that indie coffee is 5 percent of the market in the States and the light bulb went off that, hey, that's the same (market share) as indie music. Maybe there is a connection." "It's just sort of an organic idea that came out of that conversation," Mays said.

"The bottom line is that I'm a huge music lover and I love the idea of indie music so we decided to give this a whirl." In addition to Barnes, the consistently strong "Volume HOT DOG I In Continued from El By the fifth inning, I fled the scene, resolved to settle the matter once and for all with a kosher hot dog smack-down. On the way home, I picked up packages of Nathan's Famous Beef Franks and Hebrew National Beef Franks. Both packages weighed 12 ounces, contained 7 hot dogs (why I have no idea), and cost around 4 bucks, give or take 50 cents when hot dogs are on sale. At home I set up a blind tasting with a couple of carefully screened, completely unbiased judges, including my friend Dona like me, a long-time Nathan's fan. Uncooked, we noticed that both brands looked very much like, well, hot dogs.

They were bun-length cylinders with a meaty red hue. But one dog (call it dog A) was visibly thinner than the other (call it dog B). And when we tasted them uncooked, dog A was perceptibly spicier than and tangibly more firm. Uncooked, it was advantage: A. Then we placed a few hot smackdown, the winner is point average.

Lanona Nelson, who owns LiP Genius Childcare Center with her husband, Mitch, has worked with Project One three years. She hired four students this summer. "We do like having the teens come in and help out and actually we ask Project One to send us teenagers interested in early childhood education. Most of them go to Central, and they're in the different magnet programs." Melody Samuels-Hill, a Project One veteran, said the experience inspired her. "The job that really helped me to learn about the working world was with Brown Williamson," said Melody, who as a teen worked with Project One three summers starting in 1989 and is now legislative aide to 1st District Metro Council member Judy Green.

"I worked in corporate communication, writing press releases. That really set the tone for what I would do as an adult in my professional life." In today's tight economy, where employers increasingly rely on adult part-time and temporary workers, King appealed to Louisville business leaders to hire more teens this summer. "Every company in Louisville should hire at least one teenager in the summer. We have a lot of young people who not only want to work, but need to be connected to something positive. "A lot of kids who are economically disadvantaged, their chances of being in a positive job environment are really limited, compared to kids from an advantaged community.

A summer job gives the disadvantaged kids that opportunity." Jessy Geary, who will be a senior at Project One's kickoff breakfast. RITE I Project Continued from El man resources coordinator for Raytheon, which hired four students this summer through Project One. "Our students interact with all levels of management, they learn a lot about working in the world. It helps us tremendously, and it also helps them," she said. Jessy and other students employed through Project One can be counted among the fortunate.

Project One partners with area employers, including big corporations such as Humana Norton Healthcare, Raytheon, Kentucky Kingdom, Waterfront Development plus smaller businesses like Anderson Wood Products Co. and LiF Genius Child Care and Technology Center. Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown and Metro Louisville's Office of Youth Development help underwrite the project's skill training and education programs. But King, the Project One founder and pastor of Brown Memorial CME Church in Louisville, said, "We lack resources. We had over 2,000 kids apply this year and we were able to give jobs to about 800.

We have a small boat in a large ocean." Many other Louisville-area kids are working summer jobs that are usually available in fast-food restaurants, mowing neighborhood lawns and in retail sales. Metro Louisville's Office of Youth Development hosted a job fair at the Muhammad Ali Center earlier this year where hundreds of area teens interviewed with personnel staff from YUM! Brandslnc, Papa Finally we grilled the dogs for 5 minutes over 300-degree heat on a meticulously calibrated gas grill carefully tending them so each dog bore delicate grill marks. First of all, both grilled dogs were an order of magnitude better than the ones steeped in water. They looked fabulous and had a resounding "pop." But more important, dog A was the clear winner in terms of taste: grilling had turned it into a spicy, garlicky marvel; by comparison, dog was just plain bland. The result? Well, of course, it's just as I was saying all along: Of course the Hebrew National is the superior hot dog.

How could it not be? It says right on the package, "We answer to a higher power." You can find both Nathan's Famous and Hebrew National hot dogs at supermarkets throughout the area. And of course you can run your own hot dog smackdown with any brands you like for just a few bucks. If nothing else, a hot dog smackdown is a good excuse to cleanse your palate with beer. John's Pizza, UPS, Belle of Louisville and other employers. But the summer job, long a rite of passage for American youth, is harder to come by today.

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks employment of 16- to 19-year-olds, reported in May that the national teen employment rate of 34 percent was the lowest in 60 years. In Jefferson County, about 12,000 youngsters 14 to 18 years old now have jobs, compared to more than 15,000 this time of year in 2001, according to Workforce Kentucky, the labor market Web site of the State Office of Employment and Training. (Statewide, the numbers are 53,000 employed now, compared to 60,000 in 2001.) For youngsters from low-income communities, Project One is one of the few chances at summer employment, typically a teen's first exposure to a structured work environment. Canayec'ya Smith, a Central High School sophomore working as a teacher's aide at LiP Genius Childcare Center a job she got through Project One said, "I really didn't have an alternative, and I was hoping I'd get a job. Actually, I requested LiP Genius, because I knew I would be working with younger-age kids, see how they develop and listen to directions and learn things." Since its inception in 1985, Project One has helped more than 10,000 disadvantaged youngsters formulate career goals, learn job-search skills and get practical work experience.

Applicants are recruited from Jefferson County public schools, must be 13 to 19 years old and have at least a 2.0 grade fimyjiii! Canter dogs in boiling water, took the pan off the heat, and let the dogs steep for 5 minutes. During this treatment, dog expanded even more, so much that even an umpire would have had no trouble telling the two dogs apart. In this state, both dogs had taut surfaces, a satisfying pop when we bit into them. Dog A still had a much firmer internal texture though one taster admired the creamy, almost voluptuous smoothness of dog B. Flavor-wise, the two dogs were nearly indistinguishable; the spice that had characterized dog A in our uncooked tasting had nearly disappeared.

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