Taxpayers can check the status of their refund through an online inquiry form, but it will not give a timeline for when the returns will be received, Gleba said. Val Lawrence, a Gladstone resident for 10 years, said she waited more than two months for her refund of $319.
Fugitive Dale Cregan boasted to pals how he lost his eye after being hit with a knuckle duster during a fight with police in Thailand.
In the most famous case of all, Isaac Newton tried looking at the sun in a mirror, essentially blinding himself for three days and experiencing afterimages for months. Scientists don't have a good bead on the prevalence of eye damage after a solar eclipse. In one study, conducted in 1999 after a solar eclipse visible in Europe, 45 patients with possible solar retinopathy showed up at an eye clinic in Leicester in the United Kingdom after viewing the eclipse. Forty were confirmed to have some sort of damage or symptoms; five of those had visible changes in their retina.