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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Part 1: You Are Currently Stuck -- 1. What Is the Mediocrity Trap? -- 2. Why Everyone Remains Stuck -- 3. The World and Mediocrity -- Part 2: Breaking Free of the Trap -- 4. Change Your Environment or It'll Change You -- 5. Be a Rebel (a.k.a. Embrace the Weird) -- 6. What You Believe about Yourself Is What You Become -- 7. If You Want to Succeed, You Can't Just Be Interested-You Need to Be Committed -- 8. If You Tolerate Mediocrity, That's What You Get -- Part 3: Life Free of the Trap: Creating a Winning Mindset -- 9. Consistency -- 10. Focus on Learning and Creating -- 11. Treat Yourself Like the Hero (and Work Your Ass Off) -- 12. Behave Like Successful People Behave -- 13. Why You Shouldn't Take Advice from (Almost) Anyone -- 14. Welcome to Life Outside of Mediocre -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Intro -- THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME: CLIMATE AND AVIATION CONSIDERATIONS -- THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME: CLIMATE AND AVIATION CONSIDERATIONS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EU EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME (ETS): LOOKING TO 2020 -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW -- RESULTS FROM PHASE 1 AND 2 -- PHASE 3 -- Auctions -- New Entrant Reserves -- EC Phase 3 Decision on Eligible Industries -- Flexibility Mechanisms and Price Volatility Control -- Expanding Coverage -- SUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR US CAP-AND-TRADE PROPOSALS -- Emission Inventories and Target Setting -- Coverage -- Allocation Schemes -- Flexibility and Price Volatility -- End Notes -- Chapter 2: AVIATION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSION TRADING SCHEME -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- A Two-Decade Process to Address Aviation Emissions -- WHY ADDRESS AVIATION EMISSIONS? -- Aviation: Relatively Large Among Many Small Emission Categories -- One of the Fastest Growing Sources of Emissions -- Counteracting Influences: Demand Growth and Efficiency Gains -- Expansion of Air Transport Demand -- Past Improvements in Fuel Efficiency and Emissions per Passenger-Mile -- Further Improvements May Help Suppress Emissions -- Aviation Emissions Projected to Grow Rapidly -- EU'S LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS -- HOW THE EU'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME WORKS -- AVIATION IN THE EU ETS -- Aviation Provisions in the EU ETS -- Disposition of Revenues -- Potential EU Exemptions with Equivalent Measures by Other States -- ESTIMATED IMPACTS ON US AIRLINES -- Emission Reduction Potential of Technical Improvements -- Different Assumptions about Allowance Prices -- Alleged Effects on R&D and Investment in New Equipment -- Potential for Profit Opportunities and Windfalls -- Competitive Dynamics

Cover PARADOXES OF INTERACTIVITY -- CONTENTS -- The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines: A Paradox of Interactivity -- I. Rethinking Interactivity -- Does the Body Disappear? A Comment on Computer Generated Spaces -- Transparency and Opacity: Interface Technology of Mediation in New Media Art -- Where the Action is: Distributed Agency between Humans, Machines, and Programs -- Surface, Interface, Subface: Three Cases of Interaction and One Concept -- Double Cross Playing Diamonds: Understanding Interactivity in/between Bigraphs and Diamonds -- II. Interplay between Art, Science, and Technology -- Where Art and Science Meet (or Where They Work at Cross-Purposes) -- Time, Magma, Continuity: Some Remarks on In-Formation and the Fabrication of "Poiesis" -- Implications of Unfolding -- UNORT-KATASTER: An Urban Experiment Towards Participatory Media Development -- Modelling and Analysing Expressive Gesture in Multimodal Systems -- III. Interactive Media Performances: Past, Present, and Future -- Interaction Computer Dance: The Resonance Paradigm 1900/2000 -- Staging of the Thinking Space: From Immersion to Performative Presence -- From Interactive Live Electronic Music to New Media Art -- Extending the Musical Experience: From the Physical to the Digital and Back -- Virtual Musical Instruments and Robot Music Performances -- Authors' Biographies.

Current findings from anthropology, genetics, prehistory, cognitive and neuroscience indicate that human nature is grounded in a co-evolution of tool use, symbolic communication, social interaction and cultural transmission. Digital information technology has recently entered as a new tool in this co-evolution, and will probably have the strongest impact on shaping the human mind in the near future. A common effort from the humanities, the sciences, art and technology is necessary to understand this ongoing co- evolutionary process. Interactivity is a key for understanding the new relationships formed by humans with social robots as well as interactive environments and wearables underlying this process. Of special importance for understanding interactivity are human-computer and human-robot interaction, as well as media theory and New Media Art. "Paradoxes of Interactivity" brings together reflections on "interactivity" from different theoretical perspectives, the interplay of science and art, and recent technological developments for artistic applications, especially in the realm of sound.

Early-onset, severe retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the gene encoding retinal pigment epithelium–specific 65-kD protein (RPE65) is associated with poor vision at birth and complete loss of vision in early adulthood. We administered to three young adult patients subretinal injections of recombinant adeno-associated virus vector 2/2 expressing RPE65 complementary DNA (cDNA) under the control of a human RPE65 promoter. There were no serious adverse events. There was no clinically significant change in visual acuity or in peripheral visual fields on Goldmann perimetry in any of the three patients. We detected no change in retinal responses on electroretinography. One patient had significant improvement in visual function on microperimetry and on dark-adapted perimetry. This patient also showed improvement in a subjective test of visual mobility. These findings provide support for further clinical studies of this experimental approach in other patients with mutant RPE65. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00643747.) ; Supported by grants from the U.K. Department of Health, the British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society, and the Special Trustees of Moorfields Eye Hospital, and by the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust, the Wellcome Trust, the European Union (EVI-Genoret and Clinigene programs), the Medical Research Council, Foundation Fighting Blindness, Fight for Sight, the Ulverscroft Foundation, Fighting Blindness (Ireland), Moorfields Eye Hospital, and Institute of Ophthalmology Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, University College London.