Tin Can Day 2025 is on Sunday, January 19, 2025: 1 TIN OF SOUP A DAY? HELP!?

Sunday, January 19, 2025 is Tin Can Day 2025.

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Peter Durand patented the container can in 1810, and Tin Can Day remembers his contribution towards the storage of perishable food.

Extremely low calorie diets may encourage weight loss initially, however, the mass that you are losing is likely to be muscle. Your body goes into a catabolic state, meaning it metabolizes your muscle! Also, as soon as you return to a 'normal' diet, the weight will pile back on. I would suggest a balanced diet with at least 1500 calories a day for your body to metabolize fat, and not muscle. The results will not be visible as quickly as extremely low calorie diets, but the weight would stay off and it is certainly healthier for your organs.

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Ideas for Spirit days?

Blackout Day: Everyone wears black!

Metal day: Everyone wears tin foil hats or pots and pans

Twins day: This one is my favorite. Everyone chooses a "twin", and they hang out all that day during lunch and stuff, wear similar clothes (the same clothes, if possible), etc.

Banana Phone Day: Everyone carries a banana around and pretends to talk on it, throughout the day.

Have fun!

Facts on the tin whistle? Urgentttt!?

The modern tin whistle is in the group of flutes called 'fipple flutes'. These are the kind that make sound by passing air over a sharp blade called the fipple. Other examples are the recorder and ocarina. They are the decendants of some of the earliest flutes. The oldest example was found in France and is thought to be over 20,000 years old.

Tin whistles are almost never made of tin any more. They are made of lots of different metals. The name tin whistle came from the 1800s when tin plate metal became cheap and available during the Industrial Revolution. Before that time tin plate was very expensive. In those early days, the whistles were made mostly of wood.

The tin whistle is a 'diatonic instrument'. It plays only the do-re-me scale and doesn't have all the sharps and flats. (An instrument that can play all the sharp and flat notes - like a piano - is called a 'chromatic instrument') This means that any one whistle can only play in a few musical keys. To compensate for this, whistles are produced in many sizes to play in the different keys. They range from the high G (only about 5" long) to the very low G (so long it sometimes curves around itself like the pipes on a trumpet). The most common key is D. That is the key most used in traditional Irish music.

The tin whistle is a popular first instrument for teaching young children.

The whistle is considered an Irish instrument, but most of them are made in England and America.

Many believe the whistle should be the Irish national instrument, but that honor goes to the harp.

Robert Clarke is considered the father of the modern tin whistle. In the 19th century he made them out of tin plate (once it was cheap) and sold them on the street for a penny each. This is why they are also called penny whistles.

Despite the name penny whistle, they can cost from a few dollars to over a thousand dollars for custom made professional models.

The whistle has a useful range of about 15 notes. This limitation helped give rise to much of the traditional Irish music. The music was written around the scale of the whistle.

The name flageolet is used in France and sometimes refers to a more complex type of flute that has keys to give additional notes. Some believe that name refers to the fast whipping movement of the players hands (to flagellate, or whip).

A great many whistle players also play the traditional Irish flute. It is a simple flute, usually made of wood and often without keys, that plays the same scale as the whistle. It is not a 'fipple flute' but uses an 'embouchure' like a modern flute. That is, the sound is produced by the players lips and mouth rather than by passing air over a sharp blade. It takes much more practice to learn.

Even though the whistle is most often thought of as an Irish instrument, it is popular all over the world and is used to play many forms of folk music. Even some of the great composers such as Mozart used it in their orchestras to play fast passages and imitate bird-song.