The setting of desired house odds andor house advantage may be locked out based on manual indications, for example from a dealer, andor based on automatically determined indications, for example the removal of one or more playing cards from a shoe or other receptacle or distribution of playing cards to a position on a gaming table. An optical core region is over the first cladding layer where the optical core region is configured to receive a light beam. The transponder includes memory for storing measurements, calibration data, programmable trim settings, transponder ID and the like. Based on the first set of information, the network node selects one of the detected local gateways to provide packet data network connectivity to the user equipment when the user equipment type is of a fixed type. A crystal structure of the reforming region is different from that of the initial substrate. The assembly contains a monitoring device, which monitors the outputting of data requested from the buffer and which ensures, when specific circumstances occur, that the buffer memory device outputs other data instead of the requested data andor signals that the use of the data output can lead to problems in the system components connected downstream of the buffer memory device.