I googled and found your watch at Ebay. (The serial numbers matched.) It may have a 7 jewel movement - does it? Notice that the face has roman numerals and that all numerals point to the center of the face; in other words, the numerals at the bottom are upside down. This may have some indication of age. For clock faces, all roman numeral originally pointed to the center of the face with the result of inverted numerals at the bottom of the dial. At some point in history, clock makers began to put numerals from 4 through 8 right side up. Here is a link that might be useful: Key Wound Pocket Watch

I dont think anyone implied that she doesnt have right to spend it how she wishes. Personally, I could never justify some of the above costs while there are those without food and shelter. Im one for pampering yourself, but thats too extreme for me, and as I said before I think shes going to that extreme to fill a void elsewhere in her life. I think shes the poster child of a lost soul with all the signs we of her crumbling relationships and so forth. I wouldnt be surprised if she pulled a Marilyn Monroe on us, though I surely hope she doesnt. I do enjoy alot of her music, though I dont agree that shes very talented in the way of singing. Not a bad actress though. -Devon

Hello, As a vegetable gardener I just went through a very difficult period...watching my crops dye off, raised bed by raised bed. I thought I'd share on a couple of garden boards my 3 week ordeal of trying to eradicate a pocket gopher that devastated my garden so that you can learn from my difficulties. First off it started with a couple of my young bean plants disappearing over night. What could it be I thought? Insects/snails couldn't eat that much in a single night. And mice usually left remnants behind. Still I put out the baited mouse traps that night. Next morning several traps were sprung, bait was gone. But then I noticed my beets were wilted. I pulled one up and noticed a tunnel below about the size of a quarter in diameter. The bottom of the beet was gone and small teeth marks were apparent. Hmmm...never had an underground mouse. After reading on the internet I eliminated a mole since they like worms and grubs. This guy was clearly eating vegetables. Lots of them. I was convinced it was a Vole. A small mouse like rodent that likes vegetables. I put more surface traps out, and a couple of rat traps seeing that the bait was gone from the previous mouse traps. This plan continued for about a week. During that time I snared a couple of tree rats but watched as this underground creature ate everything in my raised bed and then moved on to the next one killing the contents of the next. Back to the internet for solutions. I wasn't ready to use poison. I frowned on the idea of putting poison into my organic garden soil. And leaving it out for other animals like birds to accidentally eat seemed like a very bad idea. After all he didn't seem to be eating the apples and peanut butter I put on the surface. He was enjoying gourmet vegetables. By the end of the second week he had cleared out all my beans, my dragon carrots, golden beets, radishes (all three varieties), and had now invaded the first of my tomato boxes killing the first of 3 plants. This was war. In a matter of 14 days he had erased my efforts since October. I built some bait traps made with 2" PVC with poison in it and inserted them into the tunnels I uncovered. This contained the poison and prevented others animals in the environment from reaching it. 3 more days and he hadn't touched the poison. Several of the PVC pipes were filled with soil. Time to call a professional exterminator to see if they had something up their sleeve. During that time he had now cleared out two 3 feet by 8 feet garden beds and was working his way through the 3rd. The exterminator really had nothing to offer but felt my pain. He saw the pride of my garden and the devastation. Strychnine was his only weapon but agreed not a good plan for an organic garden area. He also questioned if it was a vole. He thought it might be a pocket gopher. He also suggested that tunnels were likely between my raised beds. I told him I had saw a product that used carbon monoxide from your car's tail pipe. He said, "yeah, that might be worth a try. Let me know if it works". Although he could not offer a solution reclassifying my enemy proved helpful. 3 consecutive days of CO fumigation with car exhaust did nothing. I again started reading everything I could about pocket gophers. Each day he continued his rampage. Now killing several of the cucumber plants. After researching further I agreed with the exterminator. This was a gopher not a vole. Gophers are solo animals. Plugging and sealing any open tunnels, which I had seen during my probing. Each time I uncovered a tunnel I would find it later plugged with soil. They don't like light coming in and it protects their tunnel system from predators. Voles in contrast seem to leave entry/exit tunnel open for quick get away. They also are a more social animal...several of them living in the same tunnel system. Visions of Bill Murray the grounds keeper in Caddy Shack danced in my head. I could see this war escalating to explosives. I already kept the pellet rifle nearby in case this guy poked his head up. The story ends on a happy note. Good for me at least....not so good for my unwanted guest. I trapped him using a mechanical spring trap. A medieval looking device that is a tube with a guillotine wire connected to a spring actuated by a lever. I watched a Youtube video of a researcher from the university of Nebraska on how to plant the traps. I dug down one of the lateral tunnels I found and partially buried the trap. Sure enough the next day I found the trap sprung with a tail hanging out of it. He had crawled inside trying to seal the light coming in the other end. Victory. I literally raised my arms and danced around. (University of Neb video) All told I spent over $200 on traps, bait, and such. Most did nothing. The key is to identify your pest correctly. And don't give up. I hope this short story enlightens other gardeners. Since it is May I still have some time to recover and get some plants back into the ground. But any gardener can surely feel the pain. Mark

I watched the CBS shows and I've watched the Dateline and some of the Dr. Phil. I don't know what to think, other than believing an intruder is the least-likely scenario. Not impossible, but very unlikely, due to the way the note was written, the way the body was discovered, and Burke's interviews shortly after the crime and 18 months after the crime. Burke said he heard his mother come into his room and then go out of it looking for JonBenet, and then he heard her in hysterics (as he said in the interview afterward "going psycho") and just stayed in bed pretending to sleep or trying to sleep, rather than go try to find out what had happened. Picture your own kids. You burst into your 9 year old's room and then just as suddenly depart. You are frantically crying and screaming, alerting your spouse and then placing a 911 call. Your 9 year old doesn't freeze with fear. They don't hide. They also don't come ask you what's wrong. They don't go find dad and ask what's wrong. They just stay in bed and wait. The only reason I can think of for him to do this is either that he was used to the sound of adults "going psycho" in other parts of the house and did not find that unusual/alarming--or he knew what the problem was and was waiting to find out how his parents were going to handle it.