A device for securing a length of rope includes a housing with at least one pair of apertures therein defining a passage through the housing for receiving a line of rope. First and second address portion signals are derivable respectively from first and second interim address portion signals. An intelligent facility may automatically change audio controls for users to simply interact with various communications and media applications. The geographically separate LAN or LANs are bridged using either a customer’s IP network or isolation routers associated with the redundant telephony call processing hosts. The floating gate transistor provides a dense and planar dynamic electrically alterable and programmable read only memory cell adapted for uses such as for a dynamic random access memory or a dynamically refreshed flash EEPROM memory.