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The present invention provides a method for producing sintered bodies or coatings from metal or ceramic powder, using a suspension of surface-modified nanoscale metal or ceramic particles.
"Nanoscale particles" are hereinafter to be understood to mean particles (including powders), whose average size is not more than 10 nm, in particular not more than 50 nm and particularly preferably not more than 30 nm. "Nanodisperse materials" are nanoscale particles dispersed in a cartier medium which can be a binder and may include dispersion aids.
In the processing of nanodisperse materials there are essentially two problems, namely
(a) the regulation of particle agglomeration in the processing of these materials and
(b) the production of processable ceramic materials with high solids contents.
Regarding problem (a), it is evident that, in the transition from submicron to nanoscale powders, an increase in agglomeration is generally observed. This can be attributed to the fact that, with decreasing particle size, weak forces of interaction, for example van der Waals forces, also gain considerably in importance, or even com to predominate. In addition, there is the fact that the particle surface is always occupied by functional groups, that is to say groups capable of undergoing condensation. In conventional submicron powders, these groups are only of significance to the extent that they can be used as centers of interaction for necessary organic processing aids (dispersion aids, binders etc.). Because of the large surface-area-to-volume ratio of nanodisperse materials, however, the surface groups also take on great importance from another point of view. On the one hand they similarly serve as reaction centers for organic processing aids. On the other hand, however, they can also lead to the formation of hard agglomerates as a result of condensation reactions taking place between individual particles. The particles are then joined to one another by, so to speak, sinter bridges. It is therefore desirable to develop methods with which the agglomeration can be controlled in such a manner that powders agglomerated in a regulated manner can be obtained. Furthermore, it would be desirable if, with this method, the reactive surface could be outwardly shielded, and interparticle condensation thus be prevented.
Regarding the aforementioned problem (b), it is notable that the production of ceramic compounds with high solids contents and processing properties matched to a shaping process poses serious difficulties. To avoid agglomerated material, which may lead to severe defects in both green and sintered bodies, the materials are generally used in suspensions. For suspension stabilization, dispersion aids are generally added, which have the function of preventing agglomeration and providing the suspension with the necessary processing properties. For suspension stabilization, two principal procedures can generally be distinguished, namely electrostatic and stabilization and steric stabilization.
Electrostatic stabilization has the disadvantage that, by virtue of the relative large hydrodynamic radius of the suspended nanoscale particles, only small solids contents are feasible. Steric stabilization, by contrast, provides the possibility, in principle, of producing suspensions with high solids contents from nanoscale materials, since in this case the hydrodynamic particle radius is much smaller.
The advantage of steric stabilization have already been indicated with reference to the example of SiO2. In this case, for the dispersion aid, nonionic organic polymers (e.g. polymethylmethacrylate) were generally used, which are adsorbed on the particle surface. The disadvantage of this kind of stabilization is that in this case, too, maximum solids contents of approx. 20 to 30 vol.-% are generally only feasible, and it is only possible to apply it to materials systems different from SiO2 with considerable restrictions. This is in particular because the surfacechemical properties (e.g. acid/basic properties) specific to a material usually cannot be taken into account.
It is therefore desirable to provide a method with which it is possible to modify the particle surface by means of suitable chemical compounds such that an optimum degree of dispersion is achieved and high solids contents of the dispersion are feasible.
For example, titanium nitride (TIN) falls within the group of metallic hard materials and has a cubic crystalline structure. Because of the high proportion of covalent bonding, TiN has a high melting point, a high hardness and good oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance. These properties are the reason the for applications of TiN as coating materials for wear protection on metals and as one of the components in multiphase ceramics, for example Al2 O3 /TiN or Si3 N4 /TiN.
Pure TiN coatings or TiN coatings with admixtures of TiC are today produced via gas-phase processes. These include the CVD (chemical vapour deposition) and PVD (physical vapour deposition) processes. Corresponding apparatus is commercially available and a component of industrial production processes. These coatings are used in the following fields:
wear protection of metals in abrasive and tribological applications,
on cutting, drilling and milling tools for increasing the machining capacity,
as corrosion protection coatings in chemical reactors,
as a coating of watch cases and jewellery.
A disadavantage of the TiN coatings produced by, for example, CVD and PVD is the inadequate adhesion to the substrates, so that the coatings often flake off and tools coated therewith become prematurely unusable. Substrates that can be used are metals with high heat resistance, hard metals, for example WC/Co, or else ceramic inserts.
Another application of nanocrystalline (nanoscale crystalline), ceramic powders such as TiN, TiC, SiC is their use in composite ceramics, for example Al2 O3 /TiC or Si3 N4 /TiN. The addition of such powders to the matrix materials can improve their mechanical properties, for example hardness, toughness or compressive strength. In a similar manner, the mechanical properties of bulk ceramics and metallic materials produced by powder metallurgical methods can be considerably improved by the application of nanocrystalline powders.
For example, by virtue of its high covalent bonding characteristic, pure TiN has only a very low sinter activity. Compaction therefore normally requires the use of sintering additives. In the simpliest case this may be TiO2 which is formed on the TiN surface in air in the presence of water. For example, it has been reported that TiN powder with an average grain size of 0.1 μm can be sintered without pressure at temperatures of about 1500� C. up to relative densities of 95%. This sintering behaviour is ascribed to the activation of the diffusion mechanisms leading to compaction by the break up ot TiO2 localized on the TiN particle surface. Various publications deal with the sintering of TiN under pressure and/or in the presence of sintering additives. Thus, the hot pressing of TiN powders with a ds50 value of 1 μm at temperatures up to 2100� C. and a sintering pressure of 14 MPa only leads to a density of 93% of the theoretical density of TiN; see M. Morijama et at., "Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Hot-Pressed TiN-Ceramics without Additives", J. Jap. Ceram. Soc., 22 (1991), pages 275-281. In M. Morijama et al., "The Mechanical Properties of Hot-Pressed TiN Ceramics with Various Additives", J, Jap. Ceram. Soc., 101 (1993), pages 271-276, the compaction behaviour of TiN in the presence of sintering additives during hot pressing is described. Specimens with a total of 10 wt.-% of Al2 O3, Y2 O3 and B4 C produce, after hot pressing at 1950� C. and 14 MPa, densities of around 97 % of the theoretical. Furthermore, a 95% compaction by hot pressing at 1800� C. and 5.0 GPa has been reported.
The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing metal and ceramic sintered bodies and coatings, which makes possible a regulation of the particle agglomeration and sufficiently high solids contents of the particle suspension used and can be carried out at relatively low sintering temperatures.
This object is achieved according to the invention by a method for producing metal and ceramic sintered bodies or coatings, which is characterized in that nanocrystalline metal or ceramic powder wherein less than 1% of the individual particles have a deviation of more than 40%, and no individual particles have a deviation of more than 60%, form the average grain size is, in the presence of at least one low molecular weight organic compound having at least one functional group that can react and/or interact with groups present on the surface of the powder particles, dispersed in water and/or a polar organic solvent as dispersion medium, the dispersion medium is removed and the surface-modified metal or ceramic powder, which, before or after the removal of the dispersion medium, has been processed to form green bodies or coatings, is sintered.
The method according to the invention makes it possible to regulate the agglomeration of nanoscale metal and ceramic powders, as a result of which dispersions of such particles with high solids contents can be produced in a satisfactory manner.
Starting materials suitable for the method according to the invention are in particular nanocrystalline metal and ceramic powders with a primary particle size of preferably less than 100 nm. This powder is supplied in a highly agglomerated state. Particularly preferred metal and ceramic powders are disclosed in the German patent applications P 42 14 719.0, P 42 14 722.0, P 42 14 729.9, P 42 14 724.7 and P 42 14 725.5. They are obtainable by the CVR method, as ensues from the process described in German patent application P 42 14 719.0, in a CVR apparatus, which is provided in the German patent application P 42 14 725.5. The content of these patent applications is completely incorporated in the present application by reference. Corresponding texts are provided as appendices A (719.0), B (122.0), C (724.7), D (725.5), E (729.9) herewith (in German).
German patent application P 42 14 719.0 (U.S. application Ser. No. 08/050,590) discloses a method for producing fine-particulate metal and/or ceramic powder by the reaction of corresponding metal compounds and corresponding coreactants in the gas phase--CRV--, the metal compound(s) and the further coreactants being caused to react in a reactor in the gaseous phase, condensed out homogeneously directly from the gas phase with the exclusion of any wall reaction and subsequently separated from the reaction medium characterized in that the metal compounds and the coreactants are introduced into the reactor separately from one another at at least the reaction temperature. In the case in which a plurality of metal compounds and/or coreactants are to be introduced, the respective gas mixtures are to be chosen such that during the heating up, no reaction occurs that leads to solid reaction products. The method can be especially advantageously carried out in a tubular reactor. It is especially favourable if the metal compounds, the coreactants and the product particles flow through the reactor in a laminar manner. It is particularly preferred to introduce the metal compounds and the coreactants into the reactor as coaxial laminar substreams. In order, however, to ensure the thorough mixing of the two coaxial substreams, a Karman vortex path with defined intensity and enlargement is produced by installing a disturbance element in the otherwise strictly laminar flow.
A preferred embodiment of the method thus consists in mixing the coaxial, laminar substreams of the metal compound(s) and the coreactants in a defined manner by means of a Karman vortex path.
To prevent the precipitation of the coreactants on the reactor wall, which is highly preferred on energetic grounds, the reaction medium is preferably shielded by an inert gas blanket. This may be carded out by introducing an inert gas stream through specially shaped annular gaps in the reactor wall. Because of the Coanda effect, the inert gas stream lies against the reactor wall. The metal or ceramic powder particles produced in the reactor at typical residence times of between 10 and 300 msec as a result of a homogenous precipitation from the gas phase leave the reactor together with the gaseous reactants and the inert gases, which are blown in as carrier gases, purging gases and in order to reduce the HC1 adsorption.
The metal or ceramic powder is then preferably separated out at temperatures above the boiling or sublimation points of the metal compounds used, the coreactants and/or the products inevitably formed during the reaction. The separation out, here, may advantageously be carded out by means of a blow-back filter. If the latter is operated at high temperatures of, for example, 600� C., the adsorption of the gases, in particular the non-inert gases such as HCI, NH3, TiCI4, etc., at the very large surface of the ceramic or metal powder may be kept low. In particular, the formation of NH4 Cl (higher than 350� C.) is prevented in the production of nitrides.
The interfering substances that still remain adsorbed on the powder surface, may be further removed in a downstream vacuum vessel, preferably at temperatures of approx. 600� C. again. The finished powder should then be discharged from the apparatus with the exclusion of air.
Preferred metal compounds are one or more from the group comprising BCl3, boric acid esters, boranes, SiCl4, other chlorosilanes, silanes, metal halides, partly hydrogenated metal halides, rnetal hydrides, metal alcoholates, metal alkyls, metal amides, metal azides, metal borohydrides and metal carbonyls.
Preferred further coreactants are one or more from the group comprising H2, NH3, hydrazine, amine, CH4, other alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls, O2, air, BCl3, boric acid esters, boranes, SiCl4, other chlorosilanes and silanes.
Nano- or microdisperse (crystalline or amorphous) metal and/or ceramic powders can be produced by this method, preferred metal and/or ceramic powders being carbides, nitrides, borides, silicides, phosphites, sulfides, oxides and/or combinations thereof of the elements B, AI, Si, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, La, Y, Fe, Co, Ni or these elements alone or in combination with one another.
It is possible, by this method, to produce metal and ceramic powders having a particle size adjustable between 1 and 3000 nm (3 μm) and extremely narrow particle size distribution. A characteristic of the particles thus produced is the complete absence of particles that are considerably larger than the average grain size. Thus, the powders produced by the method generally comprise less than 1% of individual powders that deviate by more than 20% from the average grain size. No particles that deviate by more than 50% are present.
The non-oxidic powders have extremely low oxygen contents (less than 1000 ppm). Further charactistics of the powders are their high purity, high surface purity and good reproducibility.
In the method according to the present invention it is possible to sinter the metal or ceramic powders completely at extremely low temperatures. The sintering temperature in this case is preferably 0.4 to 0.6 of the melting or decomposition point. This opens up new fields of application for corresponding ceramics. There can also be significant advantages to reduced metal sintering temperature ranges.
To deagglomerate the agglomerates of metal and ceramic starting material in the dispersion medium to their primary particles and to produce a stable nanodisperse suspension, surface modifiers are used according to the invention, i.e. surface-modifying low molecular-weight organic (=carbon-containing) compounds are used which have at least (and preferably) one function group which can react and/or (at least) interact with groups present on the surface of the metal and ceramic particles. Compounds suitable for this are in particular those having a molecular weight which is not higher than 1000, preferably not higher than 500 and in particular not higher than 350. Such compounds are preferably liquid under standard conditions and are soluble, or at least emulsifiable, in the dispersion medium.
Such compounds preferably have no more than a total of 30, in particular no more than a total of 20 and particularly preferably no more than 15, carbon atoms. The functional groups which these compounds have to bear depend primarily on the surface groups of the particular starting material used and, furthermore, on the desired ineraction. It is particularly preferred if an acid/base reaction according to Bronsted or Lewis (including complex formation and adduct formation) can take place between the functional groups of the surface-modified compound and the surface groups of the particles. An example of another suitable interaction is the dipole-dipole interaction. Examples of preferred functional groups are thus carboxylic acid groups (primary, secondary and tertiary) amino groups and C--H acid groupings. A plurality of these groups may also be present in one molecule betaines, amino acids, EDTA, etc.
Accordingly, examples of particularly preferred surface modifiers are saturated or unsaturated mono- and polycarboxylic acids (preferably monocarboxylic acids) with 1 to 12 carbon atoms (e.g. formic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, pentanoic acid, hexanoic acid, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, crotonic acid, citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, oxalic acid, maleic acid and fumaric acid). In the case of the unsaturated carboxylic acid, there is also the possibility of carrying out crosslinking with the aid of the ethylenically unsaturated double bond.
Examples of other suitable surface modifiers are mono- and polyamines, in particular those of the general formula R3-n NHn, wherein n=0, 1 or 2 and the R residues, independently of one another, represent alkyl groups having 1 to 12, in particular 1 to 6 and particularly preferably 1 to 4, carbon atoms (e.g. methyl, ethyl, n- and i-propyl and butyl) and ethylene polyamines (e.g. ethylene diamine, diethylene triamine, etc.); β-dicarbonyl compounds having 4 to 12, in particular 5 to 8 carbon atoms, for example acetyl acetone, 2,4-hexane dione, 3,5-heptane dione, acetoacetic acid, and C1 -C4 -alkyl acetoacetate, organoalkoxy silanes, for example those which are used for the surface modification of colloidal silicic acid (e.g. those of the general formula R4-m Si(OR')m, wherein the groups R and R' independently of one another, represent C1 -C4 -alkyl and m is 1, 2, 3 or 4) and modified alcoholates in which some of the OR groups (R as defined above) are substituted by inert organic groups and via which bonding (condendation) of the OR groups still present to the particle surface takes place, and the organic groups effect the shieldings. Examples of this are, for example, zirconium and titanium alcoholates M(OR)4 (M=Ti, Zr), in which some of the OR groups have been replaced by a complexing agent, for example a β-dicarbonyl compound or a (mono)carboxylic acid. If an ethylenically unsaturated compound (such as methacrylic acid) is used as complexing agent, crosslinking may additionally take place (see above).
In the case of TiN, particularly preferred surface modifiers are guanidine carbonate and guanidine propionic acid.
Water and/or polar organic solvents are used as dispersion medium. Suitable polar organic solvents are preferably those that are miscible with water. Specific examples of polar organic solvents that can be used are alcohols, for example aliphatic alcohols with 1 to 6 carbon atoms (in particular methanol), ethanol, n-and i-propanol and butanol), ketones, such as acetone and butanone, esters, such as ethyl acetate, ethers, such as diethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran and tetrahydropyran, amides, such as dimethylacetamide and dimethylformamide, sulfoxides and sulfones, such as sulfolane and dimethyl sulfoxide, and halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons. Naturally, mixtures of these solvents can also be used.
The dispersion medium used preferably has a boiling point which allows its ready removal by distillation (optionally under reduced pressure). Solvents with a boiling point below 200� C., in particular below 150� C., are preferred.
In the implementation of the method according to the invention, the content of dispersion medium is generally 20 to 90, preferably 30 to 80, and in particular 35 to 75 wt.-%. The remainder of the dispersion is composed of ceramic or metal starting powder and low-molecular-weight organic compounds (surface modifiers). The weight ratio of ceramic or metal starting powder/surface modifier is in this case generally 1000:1 to 4:1, in particular 500:1 to 8:1 and particularly preferably 250:1 to 10:1.
The method according to the invention is preferably carried out at a temperature of from room temperature (approx. 20� C.) up to the boiling point of the dispersion medium. Dispersion temperatures are preferably in the range from 50� to 100� C. In a particularly preferred embodiment, refluxing of the dispersion medium is employed.
The dispersion time depends in particular on the type of materials used, but is generally some minutes up to several hours, for example 1 to 24 hours.
To improve the deagglomeration, the dispersion (suspension) may optionally be treated by means of ultrasound, intensive mixers or in grinding processes conventional for ceramics, e.g. agitating ball mills.
After completion of the surface modification, the dispersion (suspension) obtained may be either further processed as such (i.e. for the production of green bodies or for coating substrates) or the dispersion medium is entirely or partly removed (for example until a desired solids concentration is reached) before further processing. A particularly preferred method for removing the dispersion medium is freeze drying or freeze spray drying.
After drying, the surface-modified metal or ceramic powder may optionally be redispersed in a different dispersion medium, which comprises water and/or an organic solvent. For complete redispersion, it has proved appropriate first of all to modify the powder with the surface modifier and then to redisperse it in an organic solvent, a mixture of organic solvent and water or else pure water.
The metal or ceramic suspensions obtained by the method according to the invention or the dry, surface-modified nanocrystalline metal or ceramic powders have a particle size distribution of below 100 nm. They can be further processed in various ways to produce green bodies or sintered bodies or coatings. For example, extrusion compounds can be produced, which, after extrusion, can be sintered to produce finished molded bodies. In the process, 20 to 80, in particular 30 to 70 and particularly preferably 40 to 60 parts by weight of surface-modified metal or ceramic powder (either as such or in the form of a dispersion produced, for example, as above), 10 to 70, in particular 20 to 60 and particularly preferably 30 to 50, parts by weight of dispersion medium and 0.5 to 20, in particular 2 to 15, particularly preferably 5 to 10, parts by weight of additives, selected from binders, plasticizers and mixtures thereof are usually used per 100 parts by weight of extrusion compound.
The aforementioned binders and plasticizers are preferably selected from modified celluloses (e.g. methylcellulose, ethylcellulose, propylcellulose and carboxymodified cellulose), polyalkylene glycols (in particular polyethylene glycol and polypropylene glycol, preferably with an average molecular weight of 400 to 50 000), dialkylphthalates (e.g. dimethylphthalate, diethylphthalate, dipropylphthalate and dibutylphthalate) and mixtures of the aforesaid substances. Naturally, other binders and plasticizers, such as polyvinylalcohol etc., may also be used.
The aforesaid binders and plasticizers are required to ensure an extrudable compound and an adequate dimensional stability after shaping.
After thorough mixing of the aforesaid components (e.g. in a conventional mixing device), a portion of the dispersion medium can be removed (preferably under reduced pressure), until the extrusion compound has the desired solids content. Preferred solids contents of the extrusion compound are at least 30 and in particular at least 40 vol.-%.
Other preferred shaping methods are electrophoresis, Slip casting, slip pressure casting and filter pressing, and also combinations of electrophoresis, slip casting, slip pressure casting or filter pressing; also injection moulding, fibre spinning, gel casting and centrifuging. By means of these shaping processes, compact molded bodies with high green densities are obtained. The suspensions can be used for coating purposes. Suitable coating processes are, for example, dip coating, spin coating, doctor blade application, spreading and electrophoresis. Substrates that come into consideration are, for example, metals, ceramics, hard metals, glass and cermets. The coatings can be applied as single layers or multi-layers.
The green bodies or coatings produced can then be dried and subjected to sinter treatment. In this process it has been found, surprisingly, that the desired compaction takes place even at relatively low temperatures. Furthermore, surprisingly, no sinter additives are required. The sintering temperature is usually in the range from 0.4 to 0.6 of the melting point or decomposition point. This is significantly lower than in the prior art, where temperatures close to the melting point or decomposition point, sintering additives and possibly also pressure are required.
The ceramic and metal sintered bodies or coatings obtained are characterized by a nanoscale structure with a grain size below 100 nm, a density of >95% of the theoretical and a high hardness.
The metal and ceramic sintered molded bodies produced according to the invention are used, for example, as:
bulk ceramic, for example for abrasive powder;
coating material for metals, ceramics and glass for decoration purposes, wear protection, triboligical applications, corrosion protection, in particular as a coating on cutting tools and abrasive agents or abrasive powders;
component in ceramic/ceramic composites. Al2 O3, TiC, SiC and Si3 N4, in particular, come into consideration as matrix phase;
component of nanocomposites;
sintering aids for relatively coarse ceramics;
hard-type metal/ceramics composites;
microporous coatings for filtration purposes, e.g. micro-ultra-nano-filtration and reverse osmosis.
The following examples serve to explain the present invention further without, however, restricting it.
Surface modification of nanoscale TiN
1 g of guanidine propionic acid was dissolved in 200 ml of a mixture of water and ethanol (volume ratio 1:1). 10 g of TiN powder, which was obtained according to example 2 of the German patent application P 42 14 719.0 (U.S. application Ser. No. 08/050,590) was added to the solution with constant stirring. Subsequently the mixture is heated for 5 hours with refluxing at 100� C. After the end of the reaction time the suspension was separated out and the filter residue was washed with ethanol. The moist powder obtained was dried for 8 h at 70� C.
Redispersion of the TiN powder and slip formation
60 g of the surface-modified TiN powder from Example 1 was added to 100 ml of water under constant stirring and intermittent ultrasonic treatment. In the process, the pH of the suspension was maintained at a value of approximately 9 by the addition of tetrabutyl ammonium hydroxide. A stable slip with 37.5 wt.-% solids content was produced. The particle size was in the range from 20 to 50 nm.
The method of Example 2 was repeated, however methanol was used as redispersion medium instead of water.
The method of Example 2 was repeated, however ethanol was used as redispersion medium instead of water.
Green body production from the TiN slip (slip casting) 50 ml of the 37.5 wt.-% strength TiN slip from Example 2 was poured into a round PMM mold (diameter: 40 mm, height: 50 mm, pore size 1 μm). After standing for 6 hours, a green body with the dimensions: diamter 40 mm, height 3 mm, green density 40-50% of the theoretical was produced.
A green body was produced according to Example 5, but additional pressure was applied (5 bar) to reduce the casting time.
Green body sintering
Green bodies produced according to Example 5 were dried under regulated moisture and temperature in a climatic cabinet. After drying, they were sintered in an argon atmosphere at temperatures between 1100� C. and 1300� C. (i.e . . . to . . . % of TiN melting point. The heating rate is 3 K./min up to T=600� C. and 20 K./min between 600� C. and the isothermal holding temperature. As a result of this sinter treatment, the samples reached relative densities of over 95% of the theoretical and had average grain sizes of below 100 nm.
Coating of Al2 O3 substrates
Following the method of Example 1, a 20 wt.-% strength aqueous suspension of surface-modified TiN powder was produced. A dense-sintered Al2 O3 plate was coated by immersion in the suspension. The coated plate was dried and sintered at 1300� C. in an argon atmosphere. By this means a solid TiN top coat with a thickness of approx. 5 μm was obtained.
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60-year-old man who shot at officers and firefighters Monday espoused anti-government views and claimed to be starting his own nation called "Doug-E-Stan"
By Tristan Hallman
The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — A 60-year-old Corinth man who shot at officers and firefighters Monday in Far North Dallas espoused anti-government views and claimed to be starting his own nation called "Doug-E-Stan," police said Tuesday.
Police say they had found no link between Douglas Lee LeGuin, a Corinth homeowner with no criminal past, and any specific anti-government groups or movements. There was also no clear link between LeGuin and the Far North Dallas house where police said he planned to "occupy" the new nation.
LeGuin was charged with seven counts of aggravated assault against a public servant. He was being held in Dallas County jail late Tuesday in lieu of $350,000 bail.
Maj. Jeff Cotner of the crimes against persons division said the whole incident was "somewhat surreal."
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Corinth Police Assistant Chief Greg Wilkerson said LeGuin's wife called authorities about 1:30 p.m. Monday, reporting that her husband was missing and hadn't gone to work. An AK-47 assault rifle, ammunition and propane tanks were missing from his home, police said.
Wilkerson also said a friend of LeGuin's in Kentucky told LeGuin's wife he had received some audio of him expressing anti-government views.
Later in the afternoon, police said, LeGuin showed up at the house in the 5500 block of North 40th Place and threatened a nanny who answered the door.
Cotner said LeGuin apparently did not try to get inside the house, and he credited the nanny with closing the door and hiding a young girl.
When Dallas firefighters drove by the house, LeGuin started shooting at them, police said. Two bullets hit the firetruck. He also is accused of shooting at officers when they showed up. Nobody was injured.
After the initial shots, police said, LeGuin went into the woods and called 911.
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Dallas police found several propane tanks and jars filled with liquid outside the home. Some had exploded, and LeGuin said he shot at least one.
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It might do. My touch screen didn't work at all once when I tried to charge phone on a train. Train power points can be a bit dodgy so I assumed it was that and I've never had the problem again. All I can suggest is try and test it on another charger unit and see if problem persists.
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With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause isolation.
Her characters, mostly Midwesterners, are bizarre
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With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause isolation.
Her characters, mostly Midwesterners, are bizarre but endearing. A reform school graduate is placed in the care of her psychic aunt and in the servitude of a lucrative dog retrieval scheme. A mother who has accepted her son's modest employment selling blue jeans bemoans the above-board lifestyle she discovers him leading as a wanted criminal. A rehab counselor lives vicariously through her already pregnant stepdaughter's love affair with a drunk who spends his days in recovery and his nights in the bar.
Full of wry wit, tender sympathy, and heartland attitude, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa is as strange, funny, and poignant as the real world it resembles.
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THE CITY pool was full of children that day, but I don't think that's what bothered me. I was fourteen and happy to be out with my friends. It was sunny but cool for mid-July in Iowa. A breeze flipped up the edges of our beach towels as we lined them up on the crumbling cement, anchoring them with clogs, a bottle of coconut oil, and a transistor radio which seemed to play nothing but Sammy Davis, Jr., singing "The Candy Man." My friends flopped down on their backs and fell asleep, but I couldn't relax. I sat cross-legged in my faded bikini, a hand-me-down from my sister Daisy.
Daisy was lifeguarding, but she couldn't see me, didn't even know I was there. She looked like a stranger perched above the masses in her red tank suit and mirror sunglasses, her nose a triangle of zinc oxide. In one month, she was going away to college, leaving me to take care of our father. I couldn't let myself think about how dreary life would be without Daisy. I gazed out at the pool, which was circular, with the deep part and diving island in the center. A group of four or five children splashed around at the edge of the deep water, shrieking and dunking each other. A smaller girl in a green one-piece bathing suit dog-paddled near the splashers, barely keeping her chin above water. She wanted to play too, but the other childrenfriends? neighbors? sisters and brothers?ignored her. Teenagers were doing cannonballs off the high dive, and their waves sloshed over her head. Nobody except me seemed to notice. The girl was paddling as hard as she could, getting nowhere.
I stood up and waded into the water, which reeked of chlorine, and began swimming the breaststroke toward the group of children, holding my head up as a snake does. The older kids moved off toward the slide, leaving the little girl behind. When she saw me, she opened her eyes wide and reached out. I didn't have a clue how to rescue someone. I took her hand and she clawed her way up my arm. She was on me like a monkey. Her legs swung up and wrapped around my neck, dunking me, choking me. I tried to stand, but I couldn't touch bottom. She kicked me, hard, in the jaw. I shoved her away but she held on to me. I'd had enough of this kind of treatment. My hand gripped her head like a rubber ball. I held her underwater and watched her thin body squirming in its green ruffled suit.
Someone finally screamed, and the lifeguards began blowing their whistles. Daisy dove from her chair in a red flash. Still I held the girl under. It's too late now, was the only thought I remember having. A man tackled me from behind, and Daisy jerked the girl from the water. The man gripped me tightly to his blubbery chest, as if I were trying to run away. Over on the cement Daisy knelt beside the girl and gave her mouth-to-mouth. After a few seconds Daisy stood up, holding the squalling girl, stroking her wet hair. The ruffles on the girl's suit were flipped up and plastered to her body. "Daisy," I called out. When Daisy looked over at me, her face slack with shock, I realized what I'd done.
Everything after that seemed nightmarish but inevitable. Daisy and I were taken up to the pool manager's office, dripping wet, to sit in plastic chairs and wait for the police. The detective who came wore a velour shirt and looked familiar, like someone I might've seen at church. Daisy reported what had happened in a businesslike voice, while I stared at the tufts of hair on my big toes, wondering if I should shave them. The detective asked me if I had anything to add. "She tried to drown me first," I said.
"That's not how the witnesses tell it," he said.
I glanced over at Daisy. "Sorry," she said, ever the honest one. "I didn't see that part."
At my hearing, we sat on a bench in front of the juvenile judgefirst the detective, then my father, hanging his head, then my sister Daisy, her arm around my father, and then me. My mother, who'd washed her hands of us, didn't show. Because of my previous recordshoplifting and truancythe judge decided to send me to the Cary Home in Des Moines for one school year.
The Cary Home for Girls was an elegant brick house tucked into a cul-de-sac on the edge of an upper-class neighborhood. From the outside, you'd never know it contained six teenage delinquents and their live-in counselors. We bad girls attended class in the large attic of the house, ate pizza burgers, did homework together, and watched reruns of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." It hardly felt like punishment.
At night, though, things fell apart. I had relentless dreams about Lisa Lazar, the little girl from the pool. She came to the Cary Home in her ruffled bathing suit and invited me outside to play. When she smiled, crooking her finger at me, I woke up terrified. I would stare at the buzzing streetlight outside my bedroom window and wonder what someone like me was doing at the Cary Home, someone who, until recently, had played by the rules, was fairly popular, had a semi-cute boyfriend, and tried her best to get decent grades.
In April, near the end of my stay at Cary Home, my father called to tell me that his sister, Marie-Therese, was coming to see me. "She wants to help out," he said. I'd never met my aunt before. She and my father exchanged Christmas cards and birthday phone calls, but that was about it. "Marie stays on the move. She's a wheeler-dealer," was my father's only explanation of why we never saw her. I wasn't sure what a wheeler-dealer was, but it sounded intriguing.
On the evening of her visit, I stepped into the living room and saw a fattish woman in baggy shorts and huiraches sprawled on the sofa, snoring. I recognized her dark curly hair and sharp features from an old photo I'd once found in my father's desk at the Magruder Times, of which he was the editora photo of my father and Marie-Therese as children, posing in chaps and cowboy boots in front of some mountains in New Mexico, where they grew up. I said, "Hello?"
She bounced up, wide awake. "I'm your aunt Merry," she said, shaking my hand. "M-E-R-R-Y, as in Christmas."
We sat down across from each other and she explained that she'd recently changed her name to Merry because she'd moved to Columbus, Ohio. "Midwesterners don't like anything Frenchy," she said.
"That's true," I said. I was disappointed that she'd changed her name and looked so ordinary and lived in Ohio. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my roommate, the klepto, in the yard, peering in through the screen window. She was sneaking out to meet her boyfriend the arsonist. She bugged out her eyes and flicked her tongue. I ignored her. I asked Merry, "Why'd you decide to come see me?"
"Brother said family could visit," she said. "And I'm family, last I checked."
"Thanks," I said. My parents had never once been to see me at the home. My father was too ashamed, and my mother was too busy looking after her own father, Smitty, who owned the Times. Daisy, who'd postponed college for a year, drove over every Sunday and took me out to the movies or the Frozen Custard. We always got teary when we said good-bye. She would ruffle my hair and call me Squirt, willing me to be innocent again.
"Listen, sugar," said Merry, leaning forward with her elbows on her knees. "I called Brother last week 'cause I got the feeling something was wrong. He's worried sick. I offered to look after you, just for the summer. Transitional period. Before you go home."
So they didn't want me back. "I committed a crime," I said. "That's why I'm here."
"Nice place, too." Merry looked around at our cozy living room, furnished in Early American sofas and chairs that could swallow you whole.
"I don't want to be in the way," I said. "Don't you have a family in Ohio?" I knew she'd been married twice and had step-children.
"Oh, sure," she said. "But we won't be going to Ohio. We'll be staying out at the homeplace, in New Mexico."
My father once wrote a piece for the newspaper about what it was like to grow up on a ranchhaying, feeding livestock, planting and watering alfalfabut he never talked to us about New Mexico. His parents had been to visit us a few times when I was little, but I barely remembered them. Now his father was dead and his mother was a sick old lady. "Why do we have to go out there?" I asked Merry.
She took my hand and squeezed it. One of her eyes was blue, the other green. "I'm a psychic," she said. "You're going to be helping me with a job. Mom has offered us the use of her home."
"I tried to kill someone," I said. "A small child."
"I know, sugar," Merry said. "You did an extremely vicious thing." She stood up and slung her purse strap over her shoulder, as if that settled that.
I was relieved, if only for a moment, to think that it did.
Aunt Merry and I left for New Mexico the last week of June. In Kansas she insisted that I drive her Lincoln Continental. I had my learner's permit, but I'd never driven on the interstate.
"Don't sweat it," Merry said. "The Queen Mary handles like a dream."
I sat up straight, my hands gripping the wheel as we rolled across Kansas at 70 miles per hour. Merry propped her bare feet up on the dashboard, knees tucked under her purple caftan. If I dropped down to 65, she would bark out, "What are you waiting for? A tow?" If I sped up to 75, she'd imitate a police siren.
But most of the time she talked about herself. "I wear different-colored contacts," she said. "Throws people off balance. They pop out sometimes, but I always find them. I have ESP. Had it since I was a kid. Once Brother lost his G-Man ring and I led him right to the spot, in the schoolyard, where it fell off his finger. Unfortunately, someone had stepped on it by then. When I was your age, Mom put me on the radio. My own psychic call-in show. I directed a woman right to where her baby wandered off tothe bottom of a well. Brother was so jealous."
I didn't want to reveal how eager I was to learn anything about my father. "Was he?" I said in a neutral tone.
"He was," Merry said. "He got stuck with all the chores. Didn't stand up for himself. Held it all in, till he couldn't take it anymore." She started humming "Rock of Ages" and stared out the window, letting me know she was finished with that subject.
We passed a muddy lot packed tight with cattle that seemed to go on for miles, bigger than anything I'd ever seen in Iowa. Finally I asked Merry, "Do you still have a radio show?"
"Oh no, but I still help people find things. They call me up from all over the U.S. and Canada. Missing dogs are my specialty." She studied her feet and wiggled her red-painted toes.
Merry was more childlike, and more self-confident, than any adult I'd ever known. She didn't seem to realize, or care, how weird she was. I said, "How do you find missing dogs?" Up ahead, in my lane, a station wagon was going much too slow.
"Pass him, pass him!" Merry yelled. We surged around the station wagon and veered back into our own lane. Merry went on in her ordinary voice, "Say, for example, some rich guy calls me from Indiana. He and his wife are missing their yellow Lab, Captain Crunch. Someone stole him right out of his pen. Man and his wife are distraught. Dog's a kid substitute. They've been offering a two-thousand-dollar reward, but no leads. I'm quiet for a while, and then I say, 'Your dog is safe. I see a late-model Ford, dark green, with two men in it. They drag Captain Crunch into their car. I see them driving to New Mexico. They're taking the dog to Los Alamos, for research purposes. But they stop at a convenience store in Espa-ola, and the Captain escapes.'
" 'Thank God,' says the man. 'Where is he now?'
" 'I can't tell exactly,' I say. 'Put an ad in the Santa Fe New Mexican. You'll find him.'
"He says, 'Thank you, thank you' and says he'll send me a check for my commission."
"Are you right all the time?" I felt as if Aunt Merry and I were aliens, flying through the wheat fields in a space ship.
"One hundred percent of the time." She swiveled to face me, the gold trim around the neck of her caftan glittering. "I can guarantee that somebody living with her grandmother just outside Santa Fe will answer that ad, and the happy couple will drive to New Mexico to pick up their dog. My little helper will hand over most of the reward money to me, keeping a bit for herself. All the time I'll be back in Ohio, so nobody can connect us. Not that these people ever try. They might suspect they've been had, but they've got a new dog. Everyone's happy. Even the dog."
I glanced down at the pavement racing underneath us. "I thought you had a gift."
"I do," she said. "I know how to make a living."
"I'm getting tired," I said. "My eyes aren't seeing very well."
"At the next rest area, pull over and take five."
"What if you can't find a dog that looks like theirs?"
"He's waiting at Mother's. Captain Crunch Junior." She swung her feet back up on the dashboard. "It'll be an adventure, sugar," she said.
My grandmother lived in a low brick house with tiny windows, surrounded by ramshackle outbuildings that looked like they were floating in a sea of red dirt. A few cottonwood trees punctuated the gray-green sagebrush. "This is a farm?" I asked Merry. "I thought you lived on a farm."
"We utilized an irrigation system," Merry said.
When we got out of the car, I saw a dog tied to the cornerpost of the front porch. He was yellow, but he looked part Lab and part something else. He was smaller than a Lab and had floppy ears. "They'll never believe this is their dog," I said. He strained at the rope and wagged his tail. "Is that the best you could find?"
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Elizabeth Stuckey-French's characters may live in small towns but their lives are anything but small as they seek to find their way out of intricate situations, give voice to surprising emotions. The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa is a rich, absorbing collection, the first of many, I hope, by this gifted writer.
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A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Elizabeth Stuckey-French has been awarded a James Michener Fellowship, and her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and other literary magazines. She teaches fiction writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
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690 SW Higgins Ave
Missoula, MT 59803 Phone number & directions
690 SW Higgins Ave
Missoula, MT 59803 Phone number & directions
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- Dr. Robert James Whalen DDS and DMD is a male dentist and practices in Family Dentistry.
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Dr. Robert Whalen practices Family Dentistry near Missoula, MT.
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