A washing machine includes a laundry-detergent and fabric-softener drawer that can be pulled out of the machine. A state flag indicates, when assigned, which mobile station should transmit during an uplink time slot associated with the downlink time slot. Call routing is then initiated through the enterprise system and a request message is sent to the communication device that includes the dialing sequence. Horizontal reinforcing members are also used in the channels and vertical reinforcing members are used in cores of adjacent blocks for reinforcing a wall.