A tribute to Krimba

Krimba was born on the 29 of June in 2007 and died on the 22^nd of March 2009 at about 5:50 on the operating table of the vet's. We got her on 15^th of September 2007.

 

A friend and I were walking her at croft. She had been enjoying it and had been going for about an hour running around in the water and swimming. She had been fine. 

Suddenly she let out this weird, long cry. She sat down as she was crying and was holding up her front left paw up. She has had a history of arthritis and especially in that paw so I thought it could just be that or a thorn since it was so sudden. I tried to get her to lye down, but she wouldn’t. Then, suddenly she collapsed over onto her right side. At this point she seemed to be slipping away from consciousness of the real world. She kept her eyes open and did a few very eerie stretches with her front paws and back left paw, each time wining, showing that she could still feel the pain.

My friend then woke me up from all this and told me to ring my parents. They came at once and my friend waited on Croft Bridge to show them where to go. My Dad phoned a vet. She was at the other side of Hurworth and didn’t have any medication and so told us we had to get her to the vet’s in Darlington. While I was describing to her what happened, Krimba started breathing oddly, growling and rattling on some breaths. We got a towel from the car and lifted her onto it whilst my Mum moved a temporary fence put up across the kissing gate at Croft because they were doing building works. WE carried her to the car, which took a while because of the kissing gate. My friend had rung his Mum and so she picked him up and we departed to the vets.

Once we got her to the vet’s her heart was very faint and she wasn’t breathing. They put her on breathing apparatus, gave her an adrenaline shot to her heart and even did a bit of CPR but none had an effect. She died on the table at about 5:50 but I don’t think anyone really knew when she went.

 

The vet doesn't know what happened and an autopsy wouldn't be possible due to location and cost so she is going to be cremated at some point

 

This is a collection of pictures showing some of the better moments in her life. She will always be loved and missed.

New Apple In-ear Headphones review

I'll start by stating that I wanted to give these 3.5 stars so was generous.

 

They are superb quality headphones, the build would rival anything. The sound clarity is excellent. As apple states, you can hear new details, and I find it is much easier to hear individual instruments. There is far less background noise and more music which is brilliant. Overall, the driver end of them is great. But...

The silicone ear tips: They don't seem to come in S,M,L, instead they come in large, extra large, and extra extra large. Also, the tips extend over the main driver (this can be seen in apple's pictures of them). This mean that the silicone ear tips can't compress to fit the ear size, like the silicone is designed to. All of this means, if you have remotely small ear canals, it is very hard to get a good seal, and because of this the bass suffers greatly. If you shove them firmly into your ears (not a desirable requirement) and hold them there, they sound great, flawless, but then they won't stay there. However, they won't ever fall out and are very comfortable; they just can't give a good enough seal.

 

The casing: As we all know, these earphones have two drivers each, which is a great feature. But, I reckon that the two drives are mounted one in front of the other. This makes the headphones very long. They are actually 1.9cm from the mesh to the back, not including the silicone ear tip. This means they stick out more than other brands. This isn't a problem unless you like listening to music in bed, in which case it is slightly uncomfortable.

 

The wire: No problems with the wire. Some manufacturers ignore the wire and treat it as an afterthought. Apple has always been different. The wire is made from the same stuff as always (like the stock earphones you get free in an iPod). There is no reason to change this, as it produces no cable noise, which if you've experienced it in the past, you will no there is nothing worse. The mic and buttons are about 9.5cm down the cable from the right earphone and the mic itself is a bit less than 3cm long. I haven't actually used the buttons or mic as I am listening on the old 3rd gen iPod nano. However, the buttons press is Ok, except that the volume buttons are quite close to the middle button and I think it would be possible to hit both by mistake. Other than that, the unit is a nice addition and would be very useful. Like most apple earphones, the splitter can be moved up the cord towards the earphones. The moveable section can also detach from one wire. I don't know what this is for but I expect it is so that you can arrange the cable in some weird and wonderful way, so this could be useful to you. As you'd expect the headphone jack is in-line not at right angle. I prefer this, but others may disagree. The wire has no clever arrangement, it a simple "Y" shape.

 

Carrying case: I'm glad apple have brought one out. It is useful although I've used better. It fits very easily in your pocket and in my opinion is quite stylish. The only drawback is that the cable is a bit hard to wrap correctly. They can't be wrapped very quickly and I find the jack only fits well if you wind it slightly slack and then pop the jack in vertically with the headphones (you'll understand if you get them). I expect this will become easier in time, as you grow accustom to the movement. They unwrap fairly quickly, although I find other systems by Philips much faster and easier. I am glad they included it though.

 

Overall, I'm not sure they are worth the money. I have a pair of Philips SHE9500 I got for £10 and they deliver very similar sound quality. The do have the benefit of fitting my ears very well though. These headphones would be miles in front of the competition if they had decent tip and would produce a good seal. If you have larger ears, get them – they may fit very well and would be exceptional if they did. If not, you may want to think twice. Unfortunately, most other tips won’t fit onto these, so you can't swap for another pair.

 

Dimensions: Earpiece diameter (no tip): 8mm

Length of earpiece: 19mm High of earpiece: 27mm

Length of buttons/mic: 28mm

Thickness of buttons/mic: 3.5mm

Width of buttons/mic: 5mm

Large tip diameter (at largest point): 14mm

Medium tip diameter (largest point): 12.5mm

Small tip diameter (LP): 11mm

 

P.S. Make sure to screw in the mesh caps, mine were loose.

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