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Amazing food!
Posted on 10 / 05 / 2014Amazing food, moderately priced, friendly staff. I highly recommend.
Cons: Not many raw options
Amazing food, moderately priced, friendly staff. I highly recommend.
The Thai banana rolls with ice cream are worth 5 stars right off the bat. I had the Three Flavours stir fry with brown rice for the main. Lots of sweet basil. It was very good.
The waitress was friendly and the place had a serene, calm atmosphere.
My omnivore friend had the Buddha burger with fries and he was very pleased with his meal too.
I have been to Green Earth at least half a dozen times now. The lady who always seems to be working there is very friendly. The food is delicious, comes out fast and most items are around $8 or $10. The portions are large and everything is always tasty. I love this place! I just wish that they also had a location downtown, rather than just the location at Broadview and Gerrard.
Green Earth is one of the vegan restaurants that I continue to revisit. They have a really great menu with many delicious options. The servers are always friendly and provide great service. My recommendations would be the crispy spring rolls, crispy chow mein (they also have soft chow mein), the thai banana rolls with ice cream and the tom yum soup. The only downside is that each time I have dined in the restaurant is empty or only has one or two other customers.
This is an easy restaurant to get to if you are driving down the Don Valley Pkwy coming into Toronto. We went there for lunch and I had the chow mein which was one of the lunch specials. I ended with Thai banana rolls with soy ice cream and coffee. It was good but I would like to try the regular menu at some point instead of the lunch special.
I'm not a huge fan of mock meats and this location, unlike it's sister restaurant in Pasadena is very mock-meat centered. They do have fresh juices which help counter the heaviness of eating mock meat though. I only ordered a juice and a "Fajita Vegana" wrap (lunch special). The "lunch special" meant it came with a drink, but the choices were only coke, sprite, etc, and I couldn't sub for a hot tea or anything unsweetened. The wrap was also a little small, and contained mostly peppers, mock meat, and sauce only, but was only $6. If I went back I'd definitely order Chinese style food. Nice owner, looking for a new waitress if you know anyone.
Ate here for lunch today, and loved almost everything we ordered. We started with crispy chickun nuggets, which were as crispy as described and were tasty. We then had the asparagus and spinach soup, which was good but tasted a little grassy. For entrees we had a portobello burger and a chickun burger. Both were yummy, but the chickun burger was especially delightful, and had the same fantastic breading as the nuggets. The avocado on the sandwiches came in one big square chunk each though, so we sliced them up so they would cover more of the patties. Really, really tasty. The server was very friendly too.
After traveling to Toronto again this year, eating a great meal at Green Earth again, I realized that I forgot to review them last year when I first discovered them and ate there. So, I need to relate my story from last year.
I was with my 94-year-old mother. I parked in front of the Green Earth Restaurant and went inside to get a menu to show my mother so we could decide if we wanted to try this place which was new to us. Mom said OK, and I proceeded to go to the machine to get a parking stub for the dashboard.
In the meantime, the owner/waitress, who luckily for us wasn't busy at the time, came out to help my mother into the restaurant (mom was weak and also uses a cane). After seating us, the lady sat diagonally across from mom and we talked for a while. The lady looked down and noticed that mom had inadvertently put her shoes on wrong that morning (left on right and right on left). The lady then proceeded to untie mom's shoes, switch them to the correct feet, and re-tie them.
I don't think that you'll find nicer, kinder people anywhere. And, they make great food and drinks.
I THINK this is probably my favourite Asian veg restaurant in toronto. I don't get there as much as I'd like since I'm a west ender and always seem to find myself passing by on tuesdays, when they are closed! But I've had a bunch of stuff off the menu and it was all good. Last munch it was a stick to your ribs US style meal and I loved it. They renewed my love for Asian Veg (which was all we had back in the '90s and I got sick of it!)
Not too bad, I can't say anything negative really because I liked everything.
My barbeque tofu was a bit plain, it lacked side vegetables and the barbeque could have been a lot more thick and rich. The Tofu could have been baked more (or fried or flame grilled) I did however like the creamy potato soup, but that also could have been much-much more thicker consistency. But was all satisfying none the less.
I also ordered 3 appetizers, all were amazing. Fried nuggets, prawns, and a 3rd I do not remember were all really delicious.
The Tom yum soup is amazing and must have for me when i go to this restaurant. The owners are committed vegetarians and very friendly.
My wife and I come here often for a simple, inexpensive meal. Three entrees shared between the two of us comes to $20 which can't really be beat. The food is pretty good for the price and I highly recommend the hue noodle soup or the three flavours. Their menu is varied and you can get everything from tacos to burgers to philly cheesesteak sandwiches to wonton soup. Not the best vegan restaurant in Toronto but it's affordable, friendly, clean, and one of those places you can go back to again and again.
Just let me quickly add my voice to those who love this restaurant. Probably the best selection and variety of vegetarian options I have ever seen. We enjoyed everything we tried. The waitress was sincere and willing to help with food restrictions.
You don't need to accept their spiritual convictions to enjoy great food, any more than you need to be Bhuddist to enjoy a Buddhist veg restaurant. The purpose of the restaurant seems to be to promote a vegetarian diet as compassionate to animals, environmentally friendly and a healthy lifestyle. No argument on any of those points from me! (We researched the organization, and found no activities that we would withhold support for.)
Ooops, excuse my hasty typing. Bhuddist=Buddhist
I have gone to Green Earth every week for 2 years now and I still love it, the food is so good, there are so many options, the staff are friendly, it is in a good location, and the food is so good, I have been getting the crispy veggie nuggets and the spicy Indian Curry with veggie beef, but everything is good you should visit it today!
I live near this restaurant and have found my experiences there enjoyable and the food tasty. The servers I've gotten have been attentive, though each time I've been there there's not been many people in the place (several times I have been the only person there)
I really appreciate that the menu is primarily vegan with VERY specific labeling on the few products with milk contamination, and I personally like the mixture of cuisine styles. I've yet to try many of the items, but I've enjoyed both the more typical Asian dishes (hot and sour soup, tofu and vegetables) and the western pastas I've had.
I find the food rather bland as far as seasoning goes, and the few 'hot' dishes weren't very hot and spicy to my palate, but I've never gotten a bad plate here. The large soups especially have been a lifesaver for me when I've been sick, I've taken them out and carried them home for later.
A word of caution, though, there's a television going constantly, as the restaurant is owned by a religious organization, and it constantly flashes multilingual "news" and information from the perspective of their leader. I find it distracting and sit facing away, and even if the decor wasn't simple tables and chairs in a white room, I'd not bring someone else here to eat who hasn't before because of this television.
Perhaps it's because Green Earth is a Supreme Master Restaurant (paintings from the master on the wall, their tv channel playing on the large monitor in the corner), but their menu is distinct from other Chinese-Buddhist restaurants in Toronto. It's a mish-mash of Western and Pan-Asian, and there are gems throughout.
To give you an indication of how cool this place is, during the holidays and beyond they had a six course Xmas special with cider, stuffed and baked mushrooms, a heart soup, cranberry, mashed potatoes & a tofurky-style faux turkey roast with gravy, greens and carrot cake for dessert for 17.95. Holy cow it was a post-holiday godsend. I'm marking it on my calendar for next year.
Their prices are typically lower, averaging $10 for a main.
I'll be back again soon, as my gf also can't get enough of it.
The food was pretty good but nothing spectacular. The staff is friendly and wants you to be happy with the food and the restaurant. The place is clean.
The whole "supreme master" cult thing they have going on is strange, but not so in my face that it is a problem.
Definitely worth a visit.
This is one of my favourite vegetarian places in Toronto. I'm addicted to the crispy chow mein!
the place itself is modest but the food is so good. i got the "chicken" balls and they tasted amazing. my meat eating brothers loved them! the items are cheap and delicious.
I discovered this restaurant by chance shortly after they opened in July and I've been there at least once a week since then.
Don't be thrown by the huge menu. They offer Asian, North American, Italian and even Mexican food. This is usually a bad sign for me and makes me nervous, but believe me, it's all good. I stick mainly to the Asian dishes (their Chow Mein is simple and perfect and their Pho is perfect for the cooler weather) but I've also tried their burgers (don't think of them as traditional burger patties - more like hearty sandwiches) and fries which are surprisingly good. For those who like mock meat, their "chicken" has no equal. Deserts are also delicious, and being a vegan, it's not always easy to find good deserts in restaurants. I never liked real cheesecake before I was vegan, but I'm completely addicted to their cheesecake here.
Personally, it's really nice for me to go to a restaurant where 99% of the menu is vegan and the few items on the menu that are vegetarian are marked with dots. It's a pretty funny reversal to what I experience in most places.
The restaurant itself is bright, simply decorated and impeccably clean. The staff are all incredibly friendly and if it is the type of thing that matters to anybody, they are all committed vegetarians. This is where I feel compelled to point out the only possible downside to the place. And really, if you go in knowing this, it isn't really a downside at all. The service is pretty slow and the servers aren't great at what they do. They are some of the nicest, friendliest, hardest working servers around, they just aren't very good at it. It is a family business and they are still learning all the ropes. They've got the food down - believe me when I say you'll have trouble finding better - they just need more practice serving. So if you don't mind waiting a bit longer for your food than you would at a place with more polished and professional servers then I whole heartedly recommend Green Earth to anyone.
We arrived at about 6PM on a Sunday. The restaurant is well-decorated and fairly clean, and the four of us sat down and waited for our menus. And waited. After a few minutes we received our menus, and we made our selections. There are a lot of items on the menu, so many I found it hard to choose! Three of us ordered smoothies as well, including myself.
It wasn't terribly busy, there were a few other people but it was by no means packed or hectic. The waitress was making our smoothies, and after a while she brought out a small platter of hummus and pita that we had ordered. The hummus and pita was not satisfactory, but we were all starving so we all had some.
A couple came in probably 20 minutes or so after we had arrived. Nothing against them, but this couple was served all their food before I had even received my smoothie. The waitress brought us our second smoothie out of three about 45 minutes after we had arrived. She was friendly, but not very communicative as to what was taking so long, or whether we were going to get our food that day or next week, even after being asked specifically how much longer we'd have to wait.
So after waiting an hour, and only receiving a small plate of hummus and pita and a couple smoothies, we left. The waitress was very sympathetic, told us that "it's not normally like this", and offered to give us the drinks, and hummus for free, but we paid for them, and left.
We were all very disappointed, but I don't think anyone was as disappointed as myself. Here I am, a vegan bringing out my three omnivore friends to an all-vegetarian restaurant and we get barely any service after an hour of waiting? It was downright embarrassing.
The supreme master TV is mildly entertaining and confusing, but ultimately wasn't enough to counteract whatever was going wrong that night. I doubt I'll ever pay them a visit again, which is unfortunate. I really wanted to like this restaurant.
Wow- that sounds super odd for this restaurant. I go ALL the time, and it's always quick and awesome. You missed out by not giving them a chance to correct the situation.
I stepped into Green Earth to try their veggie burger. They've got a number of veggie burgers, actually, but only one named 'veggie burger'. It's terrible. The buns were cheap things that weren't up to the task. The task? Okay, They didn't have much of a chance to contain the slop that they poured onto them. The mushrooms in sauce - something meant to go into another dish perhaps? - placed 'under' a thick slice of hard, crappy supermarket tomato meant that I had no chance of actually eating this thing like a burger. While the mushrooms tasted good, The overall appeal of this combination was zero. And the side salad on the plate could have used a drizzle of ANYTHING. I am not a rabbit.
I don't blame the server who was nice and who asked how things were. She also thoughtfully said she'd point out to the chef or cook what I had to say.
The restaurant eating area is nice. It's bright and clean. One wall is all mirror though. Some folks are okay with that. I don't like mirrors, at least not big ones that distort the size and shape of the room and which some designers see as a nice touch.
$7 for what I got was too much money. Otherwise, Give me a good veggie burger and an edible side salad for $7 and I'll be happy. I don't want my food for free.
I really wonder how they could something so simple so wrong. Any kind of burger 'has' to have a paddy of some sort. If it's the sort of abomination I had, it's a sloppy joe sort of item, except for the obscene tomato slice. It wasn't just a slice. It was 3x the thickness you'd reasonably expect. And hard as hell. Biting down on that meant that there was no chance I wasn't going to make a mess. I had to resort to using my fork and knife, which is okay. But why?
Rhizome: Please ignore me in the future. Agran: I explore restaurants. Duh! But I wouldn't expect someone who is on a site like this to understand that. Right? I don't eat meat, so veggie restos interest me. And I happen to be in the vicinity of this particular resto often. As I said, Duh!!!
You went there for a veggie burger? Were they out of tortellini? That's like bitching about Canadian food at the Mandarin. WTF did you expect?
Seriously, there are lots of burger places in Toronto that have really good veggie burgers that look and taste like real burgers. Why go to an Asian restaurant in little Chinatown for a burger? And for the record, I've had the Green Earth veggie burger (I go there a lot so I tried something new one day) and it was really good. Didn't taste anything like I remember burgers taste like, but it was still really good.
This place is fabulous! A very new, almost entirely vegan restaurant, very reasonably priced and incredibly delicious. My first meal there started with some wontons, my main dish was a vegan fettucine alfredo that tasted very fresh and creamy but not overly rich and heavy like the non-vegan version so I followed it with a vegan banana split (yum)! On my next visit I had a massive veg pho --so, so good!
The staff is very friendly and passionate about promoting green habits but not at all pushy. This is definitely my new favorite Toronto restaurant!
What luck! I happened to discover this absolute gem one day after it opened. Went in, ordered the lemongrass veggie chicken and was immediately hooked! Let me put it this way - this restaurant has been open for one month and my family has already dined there probably 8 times. It does help that it's in our neighbourhood - but it also helps that the food is very reasonably priced and there is a very wide variety of choices on the menu. For instance, one evening I ordered a (vegan!!!) Philly Cheesesteak sandwich while my daughter ordered a Supreme Burrito and my husband had a vegan Pho soup. The menu also has such traditional fare as spaghetti with veggie "meat sauce", veggie burgers and much more. The lemongrass is the best though :). If you're in the neighbourhood at lunch time they also have lunch specials that are SUPER cheap. My 8 year old daughter has proclaimed it her favourite restaurant already.
Almost everything on the menu is completely vegan (even the whipped cream on their AMAZING desserts - did I mention that I ordered my husband's birthday cake from here as well). The few items (and I mean few) that are not vegan are indicated on the menu.
The staff is super friendly and eager to please. They can get the orders a little mixed up from time to time but one must remember it's a new place and growing pains are inevitable.
The only sort of "weird-ish" thing here are the books, artwork and constant streaming video of the "Supreme Master". I get the impression that the restaurant is run by a religious group following a woman by the name of Supreme Master Ching Hai (look her up on wikipedia). The messages on the video (regarding the ethics of going meatless, saving the planet from global warming, humanitarian efforts) all seem positive though so it's not offputting or offensive...just a little different (we're not religious). Honestly, they could be showing anything and I would still eat there (okay, in some cases I might switch to take out!) The food is that good!!
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I just started hacking around with Clojure, and although I adore the language, I can't understand how to do certain things idiomatically.
Writing a web-app using compojure, here's one of my controller actions:
(defn create [session params]
(let [user (user/find-by-email (params :email))]
(if user
(if (user/authenticate user (params :password))
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(resp/redirect "/?error=incorrect-password"))
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I'm writing this in a very imperative way. Using so many let
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look if user exists
if user exists, try to sign user in using password provided
if password is wrong, redirect to "/?error=incorrect-password"
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else create user, sign user in, and redirect to "/home?new-user=true"
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THM Mini Cheesecakes
Angela's THM Cheesecake
Here's the recipe for my friend's yummy Trim Healthy Mama Cheesecakes that several have requested:
1 cup almond flour
½ cup pecan pieces
1 stick butter melted
Pinch of salt
1/8 tsp cinnamon
3 tsp Natural Mate (stevia and erythritol blend)
Dash of nutmeg
Mix all ingredients together and spread in well-greased springform pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
2- 8oz packages of cream cheese (1/3 less fat is ok) at room temperature
2 eggs
½ cup Natural Mate (stevia and erythritol blend)
1 tsp lemon juice
¼ tsp glucomannan
2 Tbls whipping cream
For best results, leave your cream cheese out overnight. Handle your batter gently. When you add eggs, only beat them until the yolks disappear.
Beat the cream cheese and the sweetener together until smooth. Add lemon juice, whipping cream and glucomannan. Then, add the eggs one at a time, beating just until the yolks disappear. Pour into prepared crust and bake at 350 degrees for 30 min. Let cool and store in refrigerator.
2 cups whipping cream
4 Tbls Natural Mate (stevia and erythritol blend)
1 Tbls Vanilla
Whip cream until stiff peaks begin to form. Add in vanilla and sweetener. NO NOT OVERBEAT!!!
Place whipped cream in icing back and top cooled cheesecake. Also, top with shaved Lily's chocolate bars.
For mini cheesecakes: Bake in 24 lined muffin cups. Bake for only 15-20 minutes.
For chocolate espresso cheesecake: Omit whipping cream. Double all other ingredients. Mix together ¼ cup whipping cream and 2Tbsp instant espresso. Set aside. Melt 1 cup Lily's chocolate chips in microwave at half power. Add to the whipping cream mixture and the add to the batter at the end.
Chocolate crust:
6 Tbls almond flour
2 tsp instant espresso
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup butter
3 oz Lily's chocolate chopped ( or chips)
½ cup Natural Mate (stevia and erythritol blend)
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
Melt chocolate and butter in microwave on half power. Add egg, vanilla, espresso and sweetener. Stir well and add the almond flour and salt. Spread crust in prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Colonial Christmas Homeschool Day
On Friday, December 12th we attended the Colonial Christmas Homeschool Day at Audubon State Historic Site. We rotated through different stations discussing colonial times as well as Christmas traditions.
They had 10 different stations for us to rotate through that day. This was open to all homeschoolers with registration required. There were 200+ people from BCH represented that day along with other groups.
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Afterwards, many of the families stayed to picnic on the grounds. It turned out to be a beautiful day for picnicking with friends.
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Pics with friends (and Anna Claire):
Here's a beautiful picture taken by one of our moms (Suzette) who is a photographer:
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Computational Mass Spectrometry–Based Proteomics
Citation: Käll L, Vitek O (2011) Computational Mass Spectrometry–Based Proteomics. PLoS Comput Biol 7(12): e1002277. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002277
Editor: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute, United States of America
Published: December 1, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Käll, Vitek. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: Funding was provided by NSF CAREER grant DBI-1054826 to OV http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1054826 and the Swedish Research council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Goals and Challenges of Proteomics
Proteomics is defined as the system-wide characterization of all the proteins in an organism in terms of their sequence, localization, abundance, post-translational modifications, and biomolecular interactions. Modern proteomic investigations are increasingly quantitative and comprehensive [1]. Examples include the relative quantification of over 4,000 proteins in haploid and diploid yeast, which identified the pheromone signaling pathway as enriched in differential abundance [2]; determination of site- and time-specific dynamics of more than 6,000 phosphorylation sites of HeLa cells stimulated with epidermal growth factor [3]; and characterization of 232 multiprotein complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which proposed new cellular roles for 344 proteins [4]. Such investigations are now successfully utilized in functional biology [5], [6], genomics [7], [8], and biomedical research [9].
Challenges of proteomic studies stem from the complexity of the proteome and to its broad dynamic range. For example, the human genome contains around 20,000 protein coding genes. Their translation, combined with splicing or proteolysis, yields an estimated 50,000–500,000 proteins, and over 10 million different protein forms can be derived by somatic DNA rearrangements and post-translational modifications [10]. The abundance of protein species in human plasma spans more than 10 orders of magnitude [11]. Unlike oligonucleotides, proteins cannot be amplified, and therefore the objectives of proteomics are achieved by sensitive and scalable technologies identifying and quantifying proteins [12]. The overall mass spectrometry–based proteomic workflow is summarized in Figure 1.
Experimental Design
Quantitative proteomic investigations are conducted in the context of biological variation [13], technical variation due to sample processing and spectral acquisition, and ambiguities of spectral interpretation. Statistical experimental design [14], [15] accounts for these sources of variation. The first goal of experimental design is to avoid biases [16], [17] (i.e., systematic errors in interpretation) by clearly defining the populations of interest, matching the individuals with respect to the confounding factors, randomizing the selection of matched individuals from the population, and randomizing sample allocation to the processing steps. The second goal is to ensure efficiency (i.e., minimal random variation and uncertainty for a given cost) by choosing an appropriate number of biological and technical replicates, and by allocating the replicates to experimental resources in balanced blocks. The steps of the statistical experimental design are summarized in Figure 2.
Mass Spectrometry–Based Measurements
Global Label-Free LC-MS/MS Workflow
Mass spectrometry is currently the only technology for protein identification and quantification that is both high-accuracy and high-throughput [18]–[20]. Although many alternatives exist, shotgun liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS; overview in Figure 3) is most frequently used. Mass spectrometry is better amenable to characterizing peptides; therefore, LC-MS/MS starts by enzymatically digesting proteins into a peptide mixture. Next, liquid chromatography (LC) separates the peptides, and the separated peptides are ionized and further separated by the mass spectrometer according to their mass-to-charge ratio in a mass spectrum (MS). The mass spectra obtained from the same sample at different elution times form an LC-MS run, and intensities of MS peaks, are related to peptide abundance. For identification, the mass spectrometer isolates the biological material of selected MS peaks, subjects it to collision energy or another type of fragmentation, and separates the resulting fragments in a secondary (MS/MS) mass spectrum. The distances between the MS/MS peaks are used to infer the amino acid sequence of the parent MS peak. Since abundant MS1 peaks are more likely to be selected for fragmentation, relative peptide quantification can also be achieved by counting the number of identified MS/MS spectra.
An LC-MS/MS experiment can identify and quantify thousands of proteins in complex mixtures. It requires minimal manipulation of the sample, and minimal prior information regarding its composition. However, the workflow has a number of deficiencies. Enzymatic digestion increases the complexity of the mixture. For example, a proteome comprising 5,000 proteins is expected to yield over 250,000 tryptic peptides, and minor cleavage and fragmentations of abundant proteins can obscure major events of low-abundant proteins, complicating the interpretation [21]. Dynamic range of mass spectrometers is limited to 3–4 orders of magnitude, and the direct LC-MS/MS analysis is biased towards most abundant peptides [22]. Technical variation can further undermine the identification and the quantification steps. A variety of extensions to this basic workflow have therefore been proposed.
Overcoming Between-Run Variation: Label-Based Quantification
The LC-MS/MS workflow is enhanced by labeling samples from different conditions metabolically (e.g., with SILAC [23], where stable isotopes are included in the growth medium of an organism), or chemically (e.g., with iTRAQ [24] or TMT [25], where reacting chemical labels are applied during sample processing). Samples with different labels are combined and analyzed by a mass spectrometer within a single LC-MS run. Peaks from the samples are subsequently recognized by label-induced mass shifts in MS (SILAC) or MS/MS (iTRAQ, TMT) spectra, and used for relative quantification. Labeling enables within-run comparisons of protein abundance, and improves the precision of quantification. Experimental design can further gain efficiency through optimal allocation of samples to the labels, e.g., in reciprocal or reference designs [26] or by using labeled synthetic peptides as references. However, labeling requires extra sample manipulation and increases the complexity of the sample.
Overcoming Limits of Dynamic Range: Targeted Workflows
The complexity of a biological mixture can be overcome by fractionation [27]; however, this severely undermines the throughput. A valuable alternative is selected reaction monitoring (SRM) (also referred to as multiple reaction monitoring, MRM), a targeted workflow where the mass spectrometer isolates a set of pre-defined peptides and their fragments during mass analysis [28]–[31]. The resulting peptide-fragment pairs (called transitions) are used for quantification. Since the isolation is highly specific, SRM enables the most sensitive mass spectrometry–based quantification currently available. For example, proteins expressed with fewer than 50 copies/cell were quantified in total yeast lysates [32]. As shown in Figure 3, SRM can be conducted in conjunction with both label-free and label-based workflows. The drawback of targeted workflows is that they only quantify a priori known proteins, require optimized experimental protocols, and limit the number of measurements per run to a few hundreds. Further technological developments [33] and optimal experimental designs [34] will help alleviate these drawbacks.
Computation and Statistics
Identification of Peptides and Proteins
The computational and statistical analyses of the acquired spectra are illustrated in Figure 4. With the shotgun LC-MS/MS workflow, the first step is to identify sequences of amino acids that correspond to the MS/MS spectra. This has received much attention from both algorithmic and statistical viewpoints [35]–37. A predominant approach is the database search, which compares each observed spectrum to the theoretical spectra predicted from a genomic sequence database (or to the previously identified experimental spectra in a library [38]), and reports the best-scoring peptide-spectrum match (PSM). Emerging alternatives are de novo identifications and hybrid searches [39], [40].
Due to the stochastic nature of the MS/MS spectra [41], and to deficiencies of scoring functions and databases, the best-scoring PSMs are not necessarily correct. Statistical characterization of the identifications is necessary, and is now required by most journals [42]. This problem is frequently formalized as controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in the list of reported PSMs [43], [44]. Representative methods for controlling FDR are two-group models, which view the reported PSMs as a mixture of correct and incorrect identifications [45], and methods utilizing decoy databases [46]. Typically, only around 30% of MS/MS spectra are confidently identified, and developing improved methods is an active area of research.
The task of identification extends to inferring peptides and proteins in the sample from the identified MS/MS spectra. This is challenging due to the "many-to-many" mapping of peptides to proteins, and of MS/MS spectra to peptides. Inference must enable parsimonious results, while maintaining the sensitivity and characterizing the confidence in the identifications. The problem of protein inference is not entirely solved. For example, arguments exist in favor [47] and against [48] reporting single-peptide protein identifications, and in favor [49] and against [50] the exclusive use of protease-specific peptides.
A typical experiment generates hundreds of thousands of MS/MS spectra, and open-source and commercial pipelines such as the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline [51] streamline spectral handling and interpretation through common infrastructure.
Quantification of Spectral Features
The next step in quantitative label-free LC-MS/MS experiments is to locate and quantify MS peaks, annotate them with peptide and sequence identities, and establish the correspondence of peaks between runs [52]. Label-based workflows with MS quantification (e.g., SILAC) search for pairs of peaks with known mass shifts that correspond to a same peptide. Workflows with MS/MS quantification (e.g., iTRAQ) locate and quantify reporter MS/MS fragments. All these tasks can be made difficult by irregular, overlapped, and missing peaks, chromatographic variations between runs, and incomplete and incorrect identifications. As a result, only a subset of the identified proteins is typically quantified [53]. A variety of signal processing software tools are reviewed in [54], and the representative ones are OpenMS [55] for label-based quantification and MaxQuant [56] for quantification with SILAC.
Targeted SRM experiments sidestep the need for identifying and aligning peaks, and signal processing focuses on peak detection, quantification, and annotation. However, difficulties can arise with overlapped or suppressed signals or incorrectly calibrated transitions, and computational methods can help filter out poor quality transitions [57], [58]. Pipelines such as Skyline [59], [60] and ATAQS [61] streamline these tasks.
Frequently, sample handling induces differences in the quantitative signals between runs, and global between-run normalization is necessary to distinguish true biological changes from these artifacts. Two common approaches to global normalization are sample-based and control-based. Sample-based normalization, e.g., quantile normalization or normalization based on the total ion current, makes the best use of the data, but assumes that the majority of features do not change in abundance [62]. Control-based normalization in preferred in experiments with few measurements or many biological changes.
Finding Differentially Abundant Proteins
Typical statistical goals of quantitative proteomics are protein quantification, i.e., estimation of protein concentration in a sample on a relative or absolute scale, and class comparison, i.e., determination of proteins that change in average abundance between conditions. To achieve this, it is often necessary to summarize the quantitative information across all the features that pertain to a protein. One such approach is spectral counting [63], which is based on the insight that in global LC-MS/MS peaks from abundant proteins are more frequently selected for fragmentation, and uses the number of identified MS/MS spectra as a proxy for the abundance. The approach involves minimal signal processing; however, it requires specialized statistical modeling, is limited to finding large changes among abundant proteins, and is most successful with mixtures of low complexity, e.g., for determination of protein complexes [64].
Alternative approaches are based on summarizing signals from quantified spectral peaks. With other technologies such as gene expression microarrays, similar summarization is performed by some form of averaging, e.g., with Robust Multiarray Averaging (RMA) [65]. Unfortunately, averaging fails to produce accurate results in mass spectrometry–based proteomics. Length, charge, and other chemical properties of peptides greatly affect the quality of the signals, and averaging obscures these difference in information content.
A more successful summarization requires probabilistic modeling, which represents all features of a protein and characterizes their variation. A diverse range of such models has been proposed, and there is no single generally accepted procedure. The models differ in using raw or log-transformed intensities, comparing groups in terms of ratios or differences, and using general-purpose [66] or specialized [67] classes of statistical models. Important aspects are accurate representation of the experimental design and of within-run groupings of peaks in label-based workflows, treatment of missing data (e.g., using specialized [68] or general-purpose [69], [70] techniques), incorporating confidence in feature identifications [71], expanding the scope of conclusions to the underlying populations or restricting it to the selected samples [66], and controlling the FDR in the list of differentially abundant proteins. In some cases, e.g., in samples enriched in post-translational modifications, changes in peak intensities can be due to both differential abundance and differential modifications. Comparisons at the feature level are then more appropriate; however, they should be adjusted for the overall changes in protein abundance [72].
Given the diversity of experimental designs and analysis steps, all these tasks can rarely be performed in a fully automated fashion, and consultations with statisticians are highly recommended.
Downstream Analysis
The high-throughput nature of proteomic data is similar to that of gene expression microarrays, and many downstream analysis methods can also be applied in proteomics [73]. In particular, all analyses benefit from data visualization [74]. Unsupervised class discovery helps find functionally related proteins, or biological samples homogeneous with respect to the quantitative protein profiles. Supervised class prediction, e.g., prediction of the disease status of a patient based on his or her protein abundance [75], and its thorough validation [76], are the required steps for discovery of biomarkers of disease.
Enrichment analysis tests whether pre-specified sets of proteins, e.g., those sharing a function, change in abundance more systematically than as expected by chance. This is referred to as pathway analysis when the protein set forms a pathway. The analysis investigates hypotheses that are more directly relevant to the biological function, and can help detect small but consistent changes in abundance within the set. Many enrichment analysis methods exist and are systematically reviewed in [77], [78], and representative examples are the hypergeometric (equivalently, Fisher's exact) test and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) [79]. A particular challenge in proteomics is to map the protein identitifiers to gene-centric knowledge bases. The tools for this task are reviewed in [80], and a representative one is DAVID [81].
A frequently asked question is the correlation between the expression of protein-coding genes and the abundances of the corresponding proteins [82]–[84]. Many studies reported that in bacteria and uni-cellular eukaryotes, proteins and mRNA exhibit moderate correlation in a steady state (Pearson correlation of the order of 0.4), but it improves to the order of 0.6–0.7 for proteins that are directly affected by a relevant condition or a stress [2]. An even lower correlation has been historically reported for multi-cellular eukaryotes; however, technological improvements now also point to a steady state correlation in human samples of the order of 0.4 [85].
The moderate correlation of transcript and protein abundance indicates a major role of post-translational regulation in the activity of the cell. Therefore, the best functional insight can be obtained by combining measurements across technologies, and searching for broader groups of genes, proteins, and metabolites forming regulatory relationships [86], [87]. Such integrative studies are increasingly appearing [88], [89]. They remain challenging, however, due to the complexity of the underlying processes, incomplete sampling of the proteome, uncertainty in protein identities and difficulties of resolving multiple proteomic, genomic, and technological identifiers across platforms. New specialized methods and algorithms are needed to address these challenges.
Despite the challenges, mass spectrometry–based proteomics continues to bring high promise for basic science and clinical research [90]. Several studies recently demonstrated that with appropriate care and training, it is now possible to accurately and reproducibly identify and quantify proteins across laboratories and instrument platforms [91]–[93]. In shotgun proteomics, most repeatable peptide identifications corresponded to enzyme-specific cleavage sites, intense MS peaks, and proteins that generated many distinct peptides. Targeted quantification could reproducibly detect low µg/ml protein concentrations in unfractionated plasma.
To date, only 65% of all predicted human proteins have been reliably observed by mass spectrometry [90]. Therefore, future experimental developments will focus on improving the sensitivity, reproducibility, and comprehensiveness of protein identifications, and the sensitivity and accuracy of quantification. All studies consistently emphasize the key role of computation [94]. Future computational efforts will involve the development of proteome-centric knowledge bases such as neXtProt (http://www.nextprot.org/), repositories of experimental data, and the development of methods for optimal experimental design and data interpretation. Venues such as RECOMB Satellite Conference on Computational Proteomics [95] aim at closing the communication gap between biologists, chemists, and statisticians, and enable integrative and collaborative research.
This material was first presented as a tutorial at ISMB 2010 and 2011. We thank the organizers for the opportunity to present the tutorial. We thank O'Reilly Science Art (http://www.oreillyscienceart.com/) for help preparing the figures.
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Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror
I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? [more inside]
Examples of applied critical theory
I'm looking for examples of critical theory being successfully used to bring about progressive social change. Is there a particular legal, policy or social reform that can be clearly ascribed to the influence of critical theory (or any of its offshoots, such as queer theory or postcolonial theory)? I can think of many examples of activists who are influenced by theory and its concepts -- from queerness to performativity to the panopticon -- but is there any clear evidence of campaigns influenced by theory having tangible impact on lived social conditions, beyond merely "awareness raising" or "reshaping the discourse".
Intro to Deleuze's concept of the "nomad", "nomadology" and "nomadicism"
I am looking for an introductory text (preferably available online) that will outline these concepts for me. Thanks.
Recommend me books on critical / (post) marxist spatial theory
I am interested in critical theoretical and marxist spatial theory, please recommend me some books that provide a good overview or introduction to this area!
Literature about art and entertainment analysis?
What are the important works of literature that analyze art and entertainment (a&e) from an interdisciplinary, critical or literary perspective? [more inside]
Alain Badiou: Where should I start?
Alain Badiou: Where should I start? [more inside]
New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/hypermedial cultures)
I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. [more inside]
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Can anyone help me out with getting a pdf copy of Robert Cox's 1981 article - "Social Forces, States, and World Orders"? [more inside]
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Kirby Super Star
A wide variety of Kirby games from years' past, along with some new and previously unused ideas, all come together to make Kirby's Super Star a classic filled with hours of gameplay fun!The entire Kirby formula is here, including an upgrade of the first game [Spring Breeze], a bird devastating the crops of Pop Star [Dyna Blade], a race for food against King DeDeDe in "Gourmet Race," which can be done head-to-head, a Treasure-Hunting Adventure [The Great Cave Offensive], an old enemy from Kirby's Adventure out for revenge in "Revenge of Meta Knight", which features timed levels, and a planet-hopping journey to stop the fighting Mr Shine and Mr Bright in "Milky Way Galaxy," where Deluxe Copy Abilities are the only way to acquire most Abilities!
Kirby's Adventure introduced the Copy Ability, but Kirby's Super Star is the first game in the series to truly expand on the concept, adding multiple moves to each Ability and giving some of them new names (for example "Back Drop" is now known as "Suplex"). Each Ability has their own unique moves; can you master them all?New Abilities added to the series include Bomb, Plasma, Yo-Yo, Jet, Wing, Ninja, Copy (a scanner that allows Kirby to take an Ability without swallowing that enemy), Cook and Paint, among others.
To start there are only three main games available, the side game "Gourmet Race" and the two Mini-Games. By completing the main games you'll eventually be able to unlock "Revenge of Meta Knight" and "Milky Way Galaxy." Once those two games are completed you'll unlock "The Arena," a Boss Gauntlet in which you'll battle the Bosses from all the other Game Modes concluding with one final battle against Marx!
Each mode can be tackled solo, but a Helper can be summoned, which is either AI-controlled or controlled by a second player. If they run out of HP they'll explode and burn up for a bit before disappearing, but if they run into an enemy with a Copy Ability that doesn't have a use limit or Sleep, they'll take that Ability instantly!
Kirby's Super Star Ultra on the Nintendo DS may have made this game seem a bit obsolete due to all the new additions that were made to the remake, but this game is still a heck of a lot of fun!
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- Best Kirby game ever! Apr 26
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- Genre: Action (Wii VC)
- Theme(s): Anime, Fantasy
- Perspective(s): Flat side view
- Developer: HAL Laboratory
- Publisher: Nintendo
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Investment Firms Pull Back On Fed Borrowing
Posted: 05/01/2008 - Big Wall Street investment companies are pulling back on their borrowing from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program.
Posted: 05/01/2008 - Big Wall Street investment companies are pulling back on their borrowing from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program.
Posted: 05/01/2008 - The Commerce Department reports consumer spending was up four-tenths of a percent in March, but higher prices for food, gas and other things accounted for most of the increase.
Posted: 04/29/2008 - President Bush is sending a message to lawmakers working out details on a massive farm bill.
Posted: 04/29/2008 - He's calling it a "tough time" for the economy, though President Bush still won't use the dreaded word "recession."
Posted: 04/29/2008 - The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) will mark the beginning of construction of its new State Headquarters and Research Building with a Construction Celebration Ceremony, to be held Wednesday, April 30, at 3:30 p.m.
Posted: 04/28/2008 - Candy maker Mars Inc. says it's buying confectioner Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. in an all-cash deal valued at almost $23 billion.
Posted: 04/28/2008 - Continental Airlines is telling its employees that now is not the time for the airline to combine with another carrier.
Posted: 04/25/2008 - A new snapshot of consumer confidence in the U.S. has dropped to the lowest level in 26 years.
Posted: 04/25/2008 - General Motors says threatened strikes by United Auto Workers locals at plants in Kansas and Michigan have been postponed.
Posted: 04/25/2008 - The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank has agreed to pay up to 144 million dollars to settle federal allegations.
Posted: 04/25/2008 - Shoppers who are fond of Bloomingdale's Manhattan store may want to spend a little extra time looking through the racks this weekend.
Posted: 04/25/2008 - No city in the weekly Triple-A Texas gasoline price survey fell short of a record-high pump price this week.
Posted: 04/22/2008 - A key House Republican plans to introduce a much narrower housing rescue bill than the $300 billion program Democrats are pushing.
Posted: 04/18/2008 - Halliburton today confirmed it's talked with European contractor Expro International Group about a possible all-cash purchase of the overseas outfit.
Posted: 04/18/2008 - Texas still expects strip clubs to pay the so-called "pole tax" while the state appeals a court ruling that the fee is unconstitutional.
Posted: 04/18/2008 - The unemployment rate in Texas rose to 4.3 percent in March.
Posted: 04/17/2008 - Dell says it will expand its presence in China by selling desktop and notebook computers at Suning, the country's second-largest electronics chain.
Posted: 04/17/2008 - News from Texas A&M's Center for Retailing Studies
Posted: 04/17/2008 - In an effort to make an impact on the Aggies of tomorrow, Texas A&M's Business Student Council (BSC) is holding a college-wide school supply drive for kids in Bryan ISD elementary schools.
Posted: 04/16/2008 - JPMorgan Chase says its first-quarter profit fell 50 percent, but it managed to exceed Wall Street forecasts.
Posted: 04/16/2008 - The Messina Hof Wine and Roses Festival celebrates the budding of the grape vine and the blooming of the roses.
Posted: 04/15/2008 - The government says wholesale inflation was soaring in March. The increase in the Producer Price Index was nearly triple what was forecast.
Updated: 04/15/2008 - The Justice Department pledges to take a look at how the proposed merger of Northwest and Delta will affect consumers.
Posted: 04/15/2008 - Hundreds of American Airlines pilots stood silently outside the buildings of the airline's biggest customers and investors today to protest.
Posted: 04/14/2008 - The Texas Department of Agriculture is pleased to announce approximately $1.6 million in Enology and Viticulture Education and Research (EVER) grants that will directly benefit Texas' booming wine industry.


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A total of $15.4 million in grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will help St. Charles Parish upgrade and improve drainage infrastructure in Boutte, New Sarpy, Norco, St. Rose, Luling and Bayou Gauche.
The needed projects were well suited to the hazard mitigation grants' purpose, which is to prevent potential flood damage for area residents and businesses.
Projects and amount awarded are:
Eighty Arpent Pump Station Auto Bar Screen Cleaner
(Boutte) - $4,000,900
New Sarpy Pump Station Auto Bar Screen Cleaner
(New Sarpy) - $1,640,000
Engineer's Canal Pump Station Auto Bar Screen Cleaner
(Norco) - $1,897,934
Dianne Pump Station Auto Bar Screen Cleaner
(St. Rose) - $603,900
(These projects will install automatic bar screen cleaners on the above pumping stations to prevent stormwater-related debris from clogging the pump's intake. This helps protect Public Works crews during rain events and prevents pumps from cycling on and off.)
Eighty Arpent Pump Station Capacity Increase
(Boutte) - $2,967,030
(This project will increase the capacity of the Eighty Arpent Pump Station from 101,000 gallons per minute to 444,000 gallons per minute. The upgrade is needed due to increased flow from new subdivisions developed between River Road and Highway 90. Work on this project should go to bid before the end of 2010.)
Ormond Boulevard Canal Road Crossing Improvements
(Destrehan) - $2,187,211
(This project will replace an existing 60-inch culvert under Ormond Boulevard near Airline with a 28-inch span by 6.5-foot rise concrete arch culvert. This will allow increased flow for the drainage of homes on the western side of the boulevard. Work on this project should go to bid before the end of 2010.)
Willowdale Box Culvert Improvements
(Luling) - $549,275
(This project will replace the existing 36-inch concrete culvert on Willowdale Boulevard near Cottage Drive and 40-inch culvert on Beaupre Drive near Cottage Drive with appropriately sized culverts to prevent flooding in surrounding neighborhoods.)
No. 10 Canal Road Crossing Culvert Improvements
(Bayou Gauche) - $1,600,000
(This project will replace culverts located at the intersections of No. 10 Canal and Matherne Drive, Pleasant Valley Drive, Dixie Drive, Bayou Estates, Bayou Estates South and Pine Streets with appropriately sized box culverts to prevent flooding in the surrounding subdivision.)
The applications were a result of a $74 million statewide competitive projects allocation announced in May 2008 by the Louisiana Recovery Authority.
Overall, the parish decided to take an aggressive approach to the process by submitting 21 grant applications for almost $26 million in critical-need infrastructure.
"We were faced with having to fund multiple projects with a limited supply of funding," Fonseca said. "The effort required many long hours over a six-week period and an 'all-hands-on-deck' approach by parish staff."
Departments involved included the Grants Office, Public Works, Waterworks, Emergency Preparedness and others.
The applications were submitted to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for evaluation and ranking. Following GOHSEP's selection process, the parish was notified in April 2009 that applications for 11 projects were selected to be reviewed by FEMA.
The parish in late 2009 was awarded $1.4 million for Luling's Lakewood Pump Station Automatic Bar Screen Cleaners, the elevation of 16 repetitive loss homes at a cost of $3 million and the installation of hurricane shutters on the East and West Bank Waterworks Offices at a cost of $25,372.
During the continued FEMA review of the remaining eight project applications, the parish opted to condense their applications into two to increase the chances of them all being funding.
"We're excited to get started on these much-needed projects, and I'd like to publicly thank all who worked on this for their tenacity over a two-year period," Parish President V.J. St. Pierre said. "Our success is a direct result of a significant amount of teamwork amongst parish employees."
The grant awards are also welcome news for Public Works Director Sam Scholle, whose engineers have worked diligently on getting many of the projects ready to go out to bid.
The grants also offer his department more flexibility, he said.
"The benefit of having these projects' construction costs fully funded is that Public Works can now use drainage fund revenue to address other drainage projects in the parish," he said. "The more funding we have, the more we can accomplish."
St. Pierre added that the grants would also have a positive effect on the local economy.
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The mission of St. Charles Parish government is to provide high quality, efficient services to sustain and enhance the quality of life for all residents of St. Charles Parish.
Culvert Project – A $15. 4 million FEMA grant will help fund the construction of culverts similar to this under Ormond Boulevard, replacing the current aging culvert and helping ease drainage concerns in the area.


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Will you all lie to me and tell me second pregnancies are a breeze and second children STTN from day one?
So ummm......
If you refuse to answer a question, then you must know you are wrong..
Congrats, RVC!
Mine are 22 months apart. DD was also a suprise...I'd needed 6 rounds of Clomid to get DS. I was weaning him, and suddenly was pregnant.
Second baby is louder, but overall much easier. The pregnancy, labor, delivery, and recovery were ALL easier. She nursed great from the beginning, and was STTN at two weeks. I was freaking out and waking her to nurse, until our ped was all "WHY???" She is a little busybody, though. I can tell, already.
I don't get why we're still talking about this. I lost one kid, one time. It was a big zoo, and in my defense, he was an asshole. @pinupteacher
Quick labor too!
And my 3 week old has slept 20hrs a day since birth. Breastfed.
It's my toddler that's the issue. But I already had him. So not really a surprise.
Yeah!! congrats!! A mini cupcake!
Mind your own vagina, thanks. -ThisCharmingMaman
My second pregnancy was much easier and the delivery was WAY quicker and easier!
My second is definitely my more challenging child, but that didn't start until he was around 2. He was a model baby, always happy and smiling and slept through the night at six weeks.
I don't get why we're still talking about this. I lost one kid, one time. It was a big zoo, and in my defense, he was an asshole. @pinupteacher


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Will iOS 5's Safari deliver better support for web editors?
One of the long-standing frustrations for anyone who's tried to edit blog posts or web documents using Mobile Safari is the absence of support for the HTML5 contentEditable attribute. The attribute, which began as an Internet Explorer 5.5 feature and later found its way into most modern browsers, is part of the suite of tools that made it possible for older versions of Google Documents and other inline editors to do their rich-text WYSIWIG editing magic.
[Commenter Darren notes that Google Docs itself does not use contentEditable anymore, but instead does all the editing using a custom JavaScript editor. –MR]
Unfortunately, up through iOS 4.3 there's no support for the contentEditable attribute in Mobile Safari, which means that popular web editing tools either don't work at all or have to provide severely limited iOS-specific versions. According to this thread on Hacker News, it looks like things may be changing in iOS 5; preliminary tests on the beta seem to show that the attribute is working as expected in the new version of Safari.
If this does prove out for the final builds of iOS 5 (and that's a reasonably substantial 'if,' since we're still several months away from release), we could be looking at a dramatic improvement in support for virtually all web-based rich text editing tasks on the iPad. For those of us who have struggled with this issue for a while, it's welcome news indeed.
Thanks to Gary Poster for his question.
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