In an embodiment, an energy absorbing device comprises: a metal component comprising greater than or equal to three walls forming a metal component channel; and a plastic component having a honeycomb structure with a plurality of walls defining comb channels therein. The inventive crimping pliers comprise a toggle lever drive. The base station system and the base station controller have functions analogous to those of a base station system in a standard mobile telephone network. The compositions show good performance on mold. In particular, one embodiment may allow for the CI’s data to be normalized by doing a look up against a Product Catalog andor an Alias Catalog.