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Overcrowding at UNMH unresolved

by Chloe Henson

news@dailylobo.com @ChloeHenson5 After more than a year of discussion, UNM Hospital has yet to settle on a solution to its high occupancy rate.

William Sparks, executive director for communication and marketing at UNM Health Sciences Center, said UNM officials began to focus on the issue late in 2011. He said the debate began because the occupancy rate at UNMH exceeds typical levels.

“The Regents, at that point, began considering what we’re going to do with our strategic plan and how we’re going to deal with the increasing demand on our facilities,” he said. “Most hospitals are recommended to have about a 75 percent usage issue, and we’re consistently over 90, and many, many times over 95 percent occupied.”

Sparks also said it’s important for UNMH to have a “surge capacity” in case anything dire happens and the hospital suddenly needed to support a large number of people.

“We’ve seen, just in the last year, several incidents where local facilities were stretched because of mass situations,” he said. “It could be flooding, it could be a violence situation, it could be an epidemic of some type. For a public hospital, you really need to have that surge capacity.”

According to the Albuquerque Journal, a proposal to construct a new 96-bed hospital section to “alleviate overcrowding at UNMH” had been delayed by the New Mexico Board of Finance in October of last year due to a lack of information. UNMH said it had “cash reserves to fund the hospital,” which would cost $146 million, according to the article.

Sparks said UNMH has worked on answering questions posed by the Board of Finance and has discussed what other options are available to the hospital.

Sparks said various UNM officials have approved the plan and that UNMH is still waiting on a decision from the board.

“We set out a plan, the Regents approved that plan, the higher education department of the state of New Mexico approved it in July of last year and the state board of finance still needs to give their approval,” he said, “But we’re still in the discussion stages at this time.

There really haven’t been any new developments in the past two months.”

Sparks said it is unknown when officials will decide how to solve the occupancy problem.

“We’re in ongoing discussions with all the different parties involved, with ourselves, with the providers, with other officials,” he said.

There is a consensus that the hospital needs to “increase capacity,” Sparks said. He said the discussion now is how to go about solving the problem over the next decade.

Presilla Gonzalez, a sophomore majoring in communications, said expansion of the hospital would be nice, but thinks University funding could go to other things, too.

“If they need the space, that would be a good investment,” she said. “But I think it’s not fair because the Presbyterian Hospital — that’s not too far — is also the only hospital in the state that isn’t funded by the state or government. I think it should go toward them more because they’re doing more for the local community, but UNM is a big institution, and they can afford that.”

Dylan Gauntt, a program coordinator for the English department, said he thinks the hospital needs to expand, but doesn’t know how it will be financed.

“We definitely need more beds so we can provide adequate care.

It’s just hard to say where the money should go,” he said. “I don’t know where it would come from or where else it could go.”

Ruby Santos / Daily Lobo UNMH has been planning to add a 96-bed wing to its main facility. The addition was proposed to reduce the museum’s bed occupancy rate from 90-95 percent to the recommended 70 percent. Talks regarding the plan have been proceeding since last year.

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Aaron Sweet / Daily Lobo Geoffrey Nicholson demonstrates the workings of Quelab’s homemade 3-D printer Monday afternoon. Quelab is a communityorganized space dedicated to learning by doing, formed in 2010 by Albuquerque locals Walter Duran, Geoff Nicholson, Adric Menning and Gabe Ortiz. See full story on Page 9.

Pornotopia gets second wind Refractory courts succumb to Supreme Court verdict

by Jyllian Roach

news@dailylobo.com @Jyllian_R Local pornography film festival Pornotopia will be showing off the best in independent pornographic flicks after being stalled out for nearly four years, said Molly Adler, co-owner of Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center and co-founder of Pornotopia.

This year’s event will run for one day instead of a full weekend like in past years, she said.

After a five-year battle with the city, which ended only when the state Supreme Court ruled 4-1 in favor of the fest, Adler said she was happy to get anything up on such short notice.

“I think this is really a relief and really a victory for free speech,” she said. “Consent is really sexy.”

The Nov. 1 event, dubbed “Pornotopia Uncensored,” will feature a sampling of films that would have been shown at the 2010 event had the festival been allowed to go forward.

Adler said a finalized schedule for the show has not been set, but she said attendees can expect to see film clips that include intimate moments, educational pieces and things that are sexual in nature, but not necessarily explicit.

Pornotopia, she said, is about showing a realistic portrayal of sex and sexuality that is often left out of mainstream adult films.

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“(Mainstream) porn features sexual athletes. That’s their job; they’re performers,” Adler said.

“Pornotopia is all about sex that is raw and real.”

One week before the main event, Adler and her business partner Matie Fricker will host a release party at Self Serve where participants will get a preview of the film clips.

The Pornotopia Film Festival began in 2007, and the most recent event was in 2009. The show went on hiatus after Albuquerque zoning authorities fined the Guild Cinema for showing adult films without a special permit, Adler said.

After losing in court and two appeals, the New Mexico branch of the American Civil Liberties Union presented the case to the Supreme Court, arguing that the zoning ordinance infringed on free speech rights.

Albuquerque’s zoning ordinance for adult entertainment businesses defines an adult entertainment business as an establishment that features “a live performance, act, or escort service distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the depiction, description, exposure, or representation of specified anatomical areas or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities,” or “audio or video displays, computer displays, films, motion pictures, slides or other visual representations or recordings

characterized or distinguished by an emphasis on the depiction, description, exposure or representation of specified anatomical areas or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities.”

Adler said the biggest problem with the ordinance is that it is too broad for business owners to know if they are breaking the law.

“A mainstream film, if it shows female breasts or a man with an erection under clothing, those things are illegal according to the zoning law,” she said. “So, technically, many many R-rated movies in mainstream theaters all over the city would be breaking zoning law, but they’ve never been cited.”

Adler said Fricker and she are putting this five-year fight behind them and are looking forward to holding the event this year. She said they hope to hold another weekend-long festival in 2014.

For more information on the upcoming Pornotopia event, visit selfservetoys.com/events/pornotopia-uncensored, or follow this QR code.

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Past, present popes pontificate on pedophilia

by Nicole Winfield The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY— Seven months after leaving the papacy, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI broke his self-imposed silence Tuesday by releasing a letter to one of Italy’s best-known atheists in which he denied covering up for sexually abusive priests and defended Christianity to non-believers.

It was the first work published

by Benedict since he retired and his first-ever denial of personal responsibility for the sex scandal. But what made the letter published in La Repubblica more remarkable was that it appeared just two weeks after Pope Francis penned a similar letter to the newspaper’s atheist editor.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the appearance of the letters was pure coincidence. But they provide evidence that the two men in white, who live across the Vatican gardens from one another, are of the same mind about the need for such dialogue and may even be collaborating on it.

Benedict wrote his letter to Piergiorgio Odifreddi, an Italian atheist and mathematician who in 2011 wrote a book titled “Dear Pope, I’m Writing to You.” The book was Odifreddi’s reaction to Benedict’s classic “Introduction to Christianity,” perhaps his best-known work.

In his book, Odifreddi posed a series of polemical arguments about the Catholic faith, including the church’s sex abuse scandal.

For nearly a quarter-century, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger headed the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office responsible for handling abuse cases. He was

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prefect when the scandal first exploded in the U.S. in 2002 and was pope when it erupted on a global scale in 2010 with revelations of thousands of victims in Europe and beyond, of bishops who covered up for pedophile priests and of Vatican officials who turned a blind eye to the crimes and in some cases actively interfered with bishops trying to report pedophiles to police.

In his letter, Benedict denies personal responsibility. “I never tried to cover these things up,” he wrote.

“That the power of evil penetrated so far into the interior world of the faith is a suffering that we must bear, but at the same time, we must do everything to prevent it from repeating,” he wrote, according to Repubblica. “Neither is it comforting to know that, according to research, the percentage of priests who commit these crimes isn’t any higher than the percentage of other similar professions. Regardless, one shouldn’t present this deviation as if it were something specific to Catholicism.”

As prefect, he contends, Ratzinger in 2001 compelled bishops around the world to send all credible cases of abuse to his office for review. He took the move because it had become clear to him that bishops were merely shuffling abusive priests around, rather than subjecting them to church trials.

Ratzinger actually tried in 1988 to get around the cumbersome church trials, asking the Vatican’s legal office for quicker ways to permanently remove priests who raped and molested children. But he was rebuffed, with the legal office saying that doing so would compromise the priests’ ability to defend themselves.

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Ratzinger was hamstrung by Pope John Paul II’s unspoken policy against letting young men leave the priesthood and his overriding concern with preserving the rights of accused clerics, often at the expense of victims — a concern formed in part by his experiences in communist-controlled Poland, where priests were often accused of trumped-up charges.

Eventually, a year after the abuse scandal exploded in the U.S., Ratzinger pushed through administrative changes in 2003 and 2004 that enabled his office to permanently remove abusers without going through a church trial. But that decision came decades after his office began receiving a steady stream of documentation about the scale of abuse in the U.S. — far too late, according to victims.

“In the church’s entire history, no one knew more but did less to protect kids than Benedict,” said Barbara Dorris, outreach director of the U.S.-based victims’ advocacy group SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused

by Priests. “As head of CDF, thousands of cases of predator priests crossed his desk. Did he choose to warn families or call police about even one of those dangerous clerics? No. That, by definition, is a cover-up.”

After the 2010 explosion of abuse cases, the Vatican issued informal guidelines ordering bishops to report suspected abusers to police in countries where it is required.

But the Vatican has yet to remove or sanction any bishop who covered up for an abuser.

Benedict became the first pope in 600 years to resign when he retired Feb. 28, setting the stage for the election of Francis two weeks Culture Editor Jyllian Roach Sports Editor Thomas Romero-Salas Assistant Sports Editor J. R. Oppenheim Opinion Editor John Tyczkowski Social Media Editor J. R. Oppenheim

L”Osservatore Romano / AP photo In this March 23 photo provided by the Vatican paper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, left, and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI pray together in Castel Gandolfo. Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy’s well-known atheists. later. Benedict said at the time that he would spend his final years “hidden from the world,” living in a converted monastery tucked behind St. Peter’s Basilica, reading and praying.

Benedict’s decision to cloister himself was in part due to his own shy, bookish nature, but also to make clear that he was no longer pope and that his successor was in charge.

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Benedict has been seen only a handful of times since his retirement and only once with Francis, at an official Vatican ceremony in July. A prolific writer, he has published nothing since retiring except for the encyclical “The Light of Faith,” which was signed by Francis but was actually written almost entirely by Benedict.

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — For more than two decades, Sigifredo Saldana Iracheta insisted he was a U.S. citizen, repeatedly explaining to immigration officials that he was born to an American father and a Mexican mother in a city just south of the Texas border.

Year after year, the federal government rejected his claims, deporting him at least four times and at one point detaining him for nearly two years as he sought permission to join his wife and three children in South Texas.

In rejecting Saldana’s bid for citizenship, the government sought to apply an old law that cited Article 314 of the Mexican Constitution, which supposedly dealt with legitimizing out-of-wedlock births. But there was a problem: The Mexican Constitution has no such article.

The error appears to have originated in 1978, and it’s been repeated ever since, frustrating an untold number of people who are legally entitled to U.S. citizenship but couldn’t get it.

“What this looks like is nobody’s ever checked it out. And it is shocking,” said Matthew Hoppock, a Kansas City attorney who specializes in federal appeals related to immigration issues.

Saldana’s case was finally resolved earlier this month, when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the government’s explanation of a “typo” and ruled that he had been a citizen since birth.

The error, the court said, had been “perpetuated and uncorrected” by the Department of Homeland Security.

After serving a prison sentence for a 1989 drug conviction in Texas, the 49-year-old laborer told authorities he was a U.S. citizen, but was deported in 1992. Between 2002 and 2007, he applied four times for a certificate of citizenship.

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26F would offer equality to DACA students Editor,

We, as students who participated in an endeavor to bring Resolution 26F to ASUNM, feel that the Daily Lobo’s article on the matter in the Thursday, September 12 issue was somewhat inaccurate and may have overlooked the main focus of the issue.

The students of UNM Dream Team have been working to gain support and strategize on different methods to push for immigration reform. During the past couple weeks, the members of UNM Dream Team reached out to the ASUNM senators, ethnic centers, student organizations and many other allies in an effort to pass an important resolution through the undergraduate student government body.

The primary goal of Resolution 26F is to allow any individual who has obtained status under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and meets residency requirements (12 month consecutive presence in New Mexico) to be allowed to petition for in-state tuition.

DACA is a discretionary decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security implemented August 15, 2012. It allows children who were brought to the U.S. under the age of 16 and have no criminal background to apply for lawful presence in the U.S. and a renewable two-year work permit.

The importance of passing this resolution is due to the high disparity between in-state tuition and out-of-state tuition: $3,223 per semester compared to $10,344 per semester. Any out-of-state student with a social security number who has resided in New Mexico for 12 consecutive months can petition to pay in-state tuition after that period.

We believe that if the same requirements are met, DACA recipients should be allowed to petition for the same opportunity.

Under the guidelines set forth by the New Mexico Higher Education Department, which sets the rules dictating this matter, any individual that is lawfully present in New Mexico and fulfills the residency requirements has the right to petition for instate tuition. Being that DACA grants lawful presence in the U.S. as ruled by a federal judge, DACA recipients should be allowed to petition as well.

ASUNM Resolution 26F shows UNM undergraduate support regarding this issue.

It was sponsored by Senator Liliana Benitez De Luna, Senator Jason Fuller, Senator Erik Nava and Senator Meghan Maes. It was supported at the ASUNM meeting by UNM Dream Team, MEChA de UNM, MexSA, MOCA, Amnesty International, LULAC, CAMPerinos, Students for Justice in Palestine, The Muslim Student Association, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars UNM chapter, Phi Iota Alpha and Alpha Kappa Delta. The resolution passed ASUNM by a vote of 18-0-0.

Only a handful of states have taken these steps, including Florida, Ohio and Massachusetts. If UNM were to follow in the same steps, it would be putting UNM and New Mexico at the forefront along with these other states making a historic change.

If you want to learn more about this resolution or if you want to get involved, you can email us at unmdream@unm.edu.

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Time for a new look at direct current?

by John Tyczkowski

opinion@dailylobo.com I’m here today to discuss one of the classic debates of our time: that of AC/DC. Now, you can put away your Angus Young signature edition Gibson guitar and your turntable. I’m talking about alternating current versus direct current, the two ways of transmitting electricity from a power plant to your home or business.

For over a century the electricity transmission method of choice in the U.S. has been alternating current. This standard, popularized

by George Westinghouse in the 1890s, involves sending electricity over long distances from a power plant to consumers by converting various types of higher-voltage direct current into a single lower-voltage alternating current for easier transmission. Upon reaching its destination, the low-voltage current is converted back into the several different types of higher voltages through the use of transformers.

However, such transmission wasn’t perfect.

Some electricity is lost while stepping down the voltage from resistance while the current travels through the line, and also while stepping the voltage back up.

In contrast, direct current — popularized by light bulb inventor Thomas Edison — could be sent exactly where it needed to go without any electricity loss or need for transformers over short distances, though its efficiency decreased over longer distances. Because of the lack of voltage loss in transmission, it was also much better than alternating current at powering the electrical appliances of the day.

As you can see, neither standard was perfect, yet alternating current won out. Why? A main reason that alternating current won out over direct current was the nature of power plants in the late nineteenth century. Large, sootspewing coal plants produced the electricity transmitted through the power lines. Naturally,

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direct current that devices such as laptops, video game consoles and phones require for their high power intensity needs.

There are several other bonuses. That brick creates a lot of waste heat due to the aforementioned electricity cost to transform alternating current into direct current. Besides preventing power brick fires, skipping that stage means that consumers could harness much more of their locally generated electricity.

The use of direct current would also create some benefits in the business world, especially in the areas of supercomputing and data storage. The use of direct current has been proven to increase energy efficiency use in high-tech, power-intensive applications by 15 percent, according to one study by the National University of Singapore’s Energy Studies Institute. Part of this is due to the lack of alternating-to-directcurrent transformers, which cuts down on cooling costs needed to combat waste heat.

Sure, 15 percent may not sound like much, but it can really add up when you’re talking about a facility with hundreds, if not thousands, of computers running all day, every day. Also, taking such electricity-guzzling facilities off the grid would do a lot to reduce fossil fuel-generated electricity consumption overall.

Basically, increasing the use of direct current, paired with local electricity generation, makes long-term sense across several sectors. Residential consumers and business owners will be happy because their homes and businesses can enjoy higher energy efficiencies overall, and environmental advocates will be happy because fewer homes will be using fossil fuel-generated electricity to power their daily needs. And, of course, everyone will be happy that they won’t have to worry about forgetting their power bricks at home or work anymore.

So rest easy, Mr. Edison. Westinghouse may end up getting his comeuppance after all.

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it wasn’t in anyone’s best interests to live or work near one if they could help it.

Also, direct current required different types of lines for different voltage types, unlike alternating current’s one-line-fits-all approach, since it wasn’t easily convertible to different intensities. This led to city streets being cluttered by several types of power lines, which became hazardous in some cases. A notable instance of this was the multiple deaths during the Great Blizzard of 1888 in New York City that were attributed to iced-up, fallen direct-current power lines.

Direct current simply wasn’t practical given those infrastructure-based caveats. Under that system, power plants would crowd urban areas in order to satisfy local electricity needs, and those areas would in turn require a clutter of power lines to satisfy differing voltage needs.

That, of course, didn’t stop Edison, Westinghouse and their European affiliates from battling it out in a brutal “War of the Currents,” which involved fear-mongering, deception and the botched electrocution of a death-row inmate. But I digress.

Direct current has since been used in a number of specialized applications, most notably in the telecommunications industry. However, with the arrival of practical off-the-grid green electricity options, the widespread use of direct current could help bring thousands of homes off main electricity lines and reduce dependence on fossil fuel power.

Homes and businesses can now generate their own electricity on location with solar panel arrays and wind turbines. Such applications are natural avenues for direct-current transmission, since the electricity would be traveling only a few feet from source to usage, making alternating current unnecessary.

What immediate benefits would we see from a wide application of direct current? Well, we could all say goodbye to the brick-like transformers that all modern electronics use to convert alternating current from the socket into the

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For students who want to learn how to assemble a fully-working robot, find a place to restage their failed ninth-grade science projects, play a restored 1980s Asteroids game — or anything in between, Quelab is the place to be.

Formed in July 2010 by Albuquerque locals Walter Duran, UNM Anderson School of Business graduate Geoff Nicholson, Adric Menning and Gabe Ortiz, Quelab is Albuquerque’s first official ‘hackerspace’, where beginner and professional geeks can come together.

“Quelab is a community-organized space dedicated to learning by doing,” Nicholson said. “We’re all about breaking things and putting them back together for educational purposes.”

~Walter Duran co-founder Located at 1112 Second St. NW, Quelab holds ‘hacknights’ several times per month. Hacknights are an opportunity for new participants and returning members to use the space for whatever they might need.

“We provide a space for communication, science, technology, art and math,” said Duran. “This is a community for shared learning. Members work with everything from 3-D printers and robots to knitting and Etch A Sketch.”

The term hackerspace, as the Quelab uses it, refers to a creative and innovative space in which people can make, break, learn and explore.

Though they call themselves a hackerspace, Quelab is in the process of relabeling the nonprofit as a ‘makerspace.’

“The term hacker has a malicious reputation,” Nicholson said. “Every-

Aaron Sweet/ Daily Lobo A robotic arm built by one of Quelab’s many members sits upon a display shelf. Quelab is Albuquerque’s first official ‘hackerspace.’ thing we do, we do for education and learning, not for malicious reasons.”

Throughout the building are several meeting rooms, workshops and even a kitchen for those extensive projects. Quelab provides shelves of books and even rents out tools to assist projects.

Among Quelab’s paid members, who have increased from the four founders to more than 30 individuals, are UNM employees and graduate students, Duran said.

“We encourage students to come use the space,” he said. “We share UNM’s interest in creating an innovative space. We want students to know that there is a hands-on learning and working space available. We even had a student who came and worked on her Ph.D. here.”

Students who don’t have a project to work on but are still interested in what Quelab has to offer are welcome

to attend classes and workshops held

by Quelab upon request. According to Quelab.net, past events include Judobots, where participants learned to make functioning robots which then competed head-to-head with others, and PacketParty!, a security and network interactive workshop.

Currently, the space holds three communal meeting nights per week, two hacknights and a Coworking Tuesday, at which members and non-members are welcome. Once a month Quelab holds a general meeting, also open to the public, during which the board discusses upcoming projects and events. Paid members receive keys to the space so they can access it any time, said Duran.

“Members are constantly learning from and teaching each other in an amplification of skills and creativity,” Nicholson said. “That is what we need places like this for.”

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The mix of New Mexican and Iranian décor in and around the Kabab House, and the grilled green chile served with all entrée plates makes perfect sense to Farid Veryiyani, owner of the Kabab House.

Veryiyani, a Kurdish Iranian by birth, says the green chile here reminds him of the spicy peppers his family used in the foods he ate growing up, and the climate of Albuquerque reminds him of his birthplace.

He opened the Kabab House a few months ago with the help of his brother, chef Kayvan Varyani, and niece Chonour Varyani, the restaurant’s manager. They came to help after the construction on Lead and Coal avenues forced the closing of his earlier establishment at that location, Saffron Café. Between the two brothers, they have brought some amazing family recipes to the University area.

All the meats are brought in fresh, then seasoned and marinated; there is a different spice blend for each type of entrée. Then, the meats are skewered, grilled and served with a grilled tomato and a grilled green chile.

Entrées come with saffron rice and salad, and are all preceded by a bowl of the house soup. The soup, made daily, varies depending on the stock ingredients available. It has been delicious the half dozen times I’ve had it. Minced carrots, onions, tomatoes and rice are slow simmered and seasoned with herbs and chiles. The soup is excuse enough to eat there, and it’s free with every meal, as is wireless internet. Kabab House offers a 10 percent discount to UNM students and employees.

The entrées are all reasonably priced, but the house special is a

Matt Brown / Daily Lobo Kabab House’s specialty, the Sultani Kabob, is a skewer of seasoned, tenderized beef filet and a skewer of seasoned, marinated ground beef, grilled and served with saffron rice, a grilled tomato and a grilled green chile. great deal at $7.99: Two skewers of delicious, whether traditionally seathe Kabob Koobideh, either chicken soned, Asian teriyaki or New Mexico or beef, or one of each. Koobideh is style with red or green chile. Kabab the name for meat that has been sea- House also offers a vegetarian plate soned, ground, formed into slabs with seasoned squash, peppers and and marinated overnight. mushrooms.

The grilled meat is crisp at the For a snack or an easily portaedges, but still juicy. The meats are ble lunch, the special sandwich is served on an enormous lavash, a handy. A single skewer of chicken flatbread that looks like a pita and or beef Koobideh or chicken breast tastes like a piece of Indian naan, or thigh is wrapped in a lavash with with sliced onion, pickled cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, onions and pickgrilled green chile and tomato and led vegetables. At $5.99, it is quick cucumber yogurt sauce. and cheap.

Meals are accompanied by a Those with an adventurous shaker of summaq, a Middle East- palate should try the specialty ern seasoning made from the sumac Persian dishes. plant. Sumac is tart, almost lemony, Kabab House, at 301 Cornell and goes wonderfully with the sa- Drive SE, is open Monday through vory flavors of the kabobs.

Thursday 11 a.m to 2 p.m for lunch There are really only three meats and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. for dinner; and available — chicken, beef and lamb Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m.

— but each meat is served in sever- to 9 p.m. Veryiyani has applied for a al different ways, each with its own beer and wine license, and plans to seasoning. be open every day with no break beChicken is available in the form tween lunch and dinner in the next of skewered wings, boneless thighs, few months. For more information breast meat or ground. call 312-8949 or visit kababhouseThere are a number of lamb dish- abq.com. es, and the beef filet is tender and

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