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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The Athens Dialogues involved a year of preparation, with each presenter providing a paper for publication by the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies on the Internet at http://www.athensdialogues.org (accessed on 1 September 2010). Four expert respondents were selected to lead the dialogues on quality of life with prepared questions for clarifications, challenges to propositions made by the speakers, and seeking an integrative understanding of how the diachronic sense of Greek contributions may have contributed to the topic. The session was then opened to discussion by the larger audience of invited scholars and members of the public for an extended dialogue on quality of life. 2. The Quality of Life by Emmy Award–winning playwright-director Jane Anderson was winner of three 2008 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, including Best Play, Best Playwright, and Best Lead Actress (Laurie Metcalf). It was also nominated for four 2007 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. 3. Quality of Life is a narrative feature film and authentic story of Michael “Heir” Rosario and Curtis “Vain” Smith, the most prolific and talented graffiti writers in the Mission District in San Francisco. It was a winner of a prestigious Special Mention jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival. 4. Human Development Reports, http://hdr.undp.org/en (accessed 1 September 2010). 5. Economist Intelligence Unit's quality of life index, http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/quality_of_life.pdf (accessed 1 September 2010). 6. Calvert–Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, http://www.calvert-henderson.com (accessed 1 September 2010). 7. R. Costanza, B. Fisher, S. Ali, C. Beer, L. Bond, R. Boumans, N. Danigelis, J. Dickinson, C. Elliott, J. Farley, D. Gayer, L. Glenn, T. Hudspeth, D. Mahoney, L. McCahill, B. McIntosh, B. Reed, S. Abu Turab Rizvi, D. Rizzo, T. Simpatico, and R. Snapp, “Quality of Life: An Approach Integrating Opportunities, Human Needs, and Subjective Well-Being,” Ecological Economics 61, no. 2–3 (2007): 267–276. 8. C. Alexander, The Nature of Order, An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe, Vol. 1, The Phenomenon of Life (Berkeley, CA: Center for Environmental Structure, 2002). 9. P. Crutzen, and E. Stoermer, “The Anthropo-cene,” Global Change Newsletter 41 (2000): 17–18. 10. J. Ravetz, “Post-Normal Science and the Complexity of Transitions Towards Sustainability,” Ecological Complexity 3 (2006): 275–284.