Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a telephone user with automated attendant functions with numerous selectable options. The options include selecting one or many greetings to be given to the caller before sending the caller to voice mail, recording a new greeting for the caller after learning the caller's identity, re-routing the call and adding an audio message to be delivered to the substitute called party before the call is connected, and delivering a selected or customized greeting to the caller and then placing the caller on hold without accepting the call. A display screen with a cursor is used to facilitate presentation of information and options to the telephone user and selection of options by the telephone user.

Abstract: An armrest, for use between adjacent seats in a row of seats, is movable between a deployed position, and a stowed position. The armrest is secured to a carriage which is slidably mounted on a track located between the backrests of the adjacent seats. The carriage movable on the track between an upper position in which the armrest is at a desired level for use and a lower position in which the armrest is level with the seat cushions of the seat. A releasable latching bolt secures the carriage in its upper position.

Abstract: A vibrating beam force transducer is comprised of an oscillating sensing element having a frequency output indicative of the force applied to the sensing element. The sensing element has a variable electrical resistance which can vary in accordance with temperature fluctuations over the operating range of the transducer.A drive circuit is electrically coupled to the sensing element for causing the sensing element to oscillate at a resonant frequency that is a function of the force applied to the sensing element. The drive circuit includes a source of DC voltage, which is utilized for altering the electrical characteristics of the drive circuit in response to variations in the electrical resistance of the sensing element.

Abstract: The process for fabricating ceramic bodies which comprises providing a particulate ceramic powder such as Si.sub.3 N.sub.4, and adding a sintering aid such as SiO.sub.2 and/or Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, and providing an aqueous solution of a water soluble plastic binder, particularly poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline), and which can include auxiliary components, e.g. a surfactant. The ceramic powder including sintering aids is dispersed in the aqueous solution containing binder, and stirring is continued until the dispersion becomes viscous. The resulting viscous dispersion is then dried to form a mixture of the particulate ceramic material and the binder, and the dried mixture is injection molded, e.g. at temperature of about 400.degree. to 500.degree. F. in an argon atmosphere. The injection molded product is then stripped of the binder by heating at temperature ranging from about 700.degree. to about 850.degree. F., without causing any stripping defects.