Aim:  To assess daily energy distribution among Australians, provide evidence on the relative importance of eating occasions to energy intake and its relationship to age, gender and body mass index. Methods:  Dietary data collected via 24‐hour recalls during the 1995 National Nutrition Survey (n = 10 851 adults) and the 2007 National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (4837 = children) were analysed. Percentage of total energy intake was tabulated according to time, eating occasions, body mass index, age and gender. Results:  The Australians consumed three main meals and two to three snacks, with the highest energy intake at ‘dinner’. Among children, ‘breakfast’ accounted for 15% of the energy, ‘lunch’ 19%, ‘dinner’ 30% and ‘snacks’ 35%. For adults, energy from ‘breakfast’ was 14%, ‘lunch’ 21%, ‘dinner’ 37% and ‘snacks’ 28%. Younger children and older adults consumed a lower per cent energy during the later part of the day. No difference in energy distribution was observed by gender. No difference in body mass index was observed for children and inconsistent differences were seen for adults. Conclusion:  A high proportion of energy was consumed at ‘dinner’, but snacks were also an important source of energy intake. A variety of energy distribution patterns appear to be moderated by age. Older children consumed significantly less at breakfast and more snacks than younger children. In contrast, older adults consumed more energy at breakfast and less as snacks compared with younger adults. The findings indicate some key messages for informing primary prevention strategies among specific age groups including the need to attain a more even distribution of energy throughout the day.

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In the coming years, the European building sector faces a large challenge to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emission. Private homeowners need to participate in this process, but various barriers prevent them from conducting extensive energy renovations. Studies have, nonetheless, shown that improvements in indoor environment, comfort and architecture can motivate the Danish homeowners to complete energy renovations. In order to utilize these results and thereby reduce the energy consumption in the existing Danish building stock, this paper examines which aspects of indoor environment and comfort the homeowners find essential, and which level of architectural change they prefer. The presented results derive from a survey conducted January 2012 where 883 homeowners completed a questionnaire about energy renovation. The aspects found most crucial for good indoor environment and comfort are stable 2 and right temperature, good and plenty daylight, the ability to open windows and get fresh air, optimal layout and no draught. Preferably, the architecture should undergo some changes, but it is essential that the original style of the house is respected. The life-cycle situation is the key element to consider when motivating the homeowners since this can influence the effect of the motivation in both negative and positive direction.

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136 an artistic sense in staging for pictorial and visual support and interest; a wise selection of symphonic music for introductory and atmospheric work; and, above all, a dramatic sensibility for timing, cueing, and building toward climax. ' Although I have emphasized the use of the choric drama for graduation exercises, it is obviously just as effective at other occasions. So far, however, graduation has made the heaviest demand on the choric drama. At no other time after graduation will there be presented to the erstwhile pupil or school audience another experience of this sort. The professional stage and adult citizen being what they are, there is neither time nor adequate circumstance for epic indulgence. The high-school graduation is, and can be even more so, distinctly in itself a rare and very high art in American civilization. ' Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Colby Lewis is a television producer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A. Laurence Mortensen teaches in the Department of Drama at the University of Oklahoma.MOST high school directors are interested in suggestions that will help them use their very limited local facilities with a minimum of expense.The drama director at the secondary-school level realizes in his first year that, in the total program of the school, drama is only one of several activities which the stage must accommodate, and that the school administration has naturally adopted a plan of stage decoration that will afford a neutral background for all public functions. The cyclorama has thus become standard equipment on most high-school stages, and, since the drapes and the complementary borderlights often represent a considerable investment, the drama director is expected to use them. This requirement need not prove an. obstacle to artistic enterprise. In-_ deed, it has inspired many settings which have been more theatrical than most of the investiture on the professional stage. A great deal of disservice has been done to drama by attempting to mount it within a realistic frame. If the setting remains frankly theatrical, we are able to view the living actor . with the detachment which is necessary to the enjoyment of all art. It is only when the scenery mirrors every detail of nature that we lose our objective