CANTON, Mich., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers who struggle each year tofind gifts for their Baby Boomer grandparents and parents who "have it all"can finally present their relatives with the ..."purrfect" gift this year. B.A.Maze, Inc. offers a simple-to-use hand-held tool called the PurrFect Opener(R)which makes opening medicine packaging and other household items easier,quicker and safer. According to the American College of Rheumatology, one inthree adults suffers from arthritis, and for those sufferers, the simple taskof opening a child-proof cap can be a painful daily chore. Designed to looklike a cat, this multi-purpose tool breaks anti-contamination seals, grips andtwists child-lock caps, removes cotton balls, splits pills, and opens pull-tabs.
"Each design element on the tool has a function," says its inventor, Robert Mazur. The ears and tail pierce plastic packaging and paper and foil seals. The tail reaches into narrow openings pulling ...cotton from hard to reach bottles. Pockets on the back of the cat are used to push pills through blister packs avoiding dropping the pill on the floor. A rubber pad on the back assists gripping and turning child-proof lids while a magnet is attached for easy storage on the fridge. The PurrFect Opener (TM) ($9.95) is available in stores, catalogs or at http://www.purrfectopener.com .
Moves to scrap large denominated bills are unlikely to have an impact on black market activity, according to global money laundering expert Robert Mazur. A former special agent with US...
The film, like the book, shows Mazur pretending to be "Bob Musella," a mustachioed money launderer who uses his family-owned jewelry company as a front to convert suitcases full of drug money into ...more than $32 million in bank transactions.
It's becoming a regular phenomenon at Cheeburger Cheeburger, 17398 Haggerty Road in Livonia, in the College Park Shopping Center near 6 Mile. The restaurant opened earlier this month and has had ...people waiting in line to order its specialty burgers, fries and other products. "We ate at one in Florida years ago, and it was awesome," says Laura Switalski. They always wanted to open one and decided the timing was right last year. They hope to add other Cheeburger Cheeburger locations, too. Cheeburger Cheeburger's main attraction is the Monster, a 1- pound burger. The restaurant comes to a standstill as people clap, a picture is taken of the person who has ingested the burger, that person autographs it and the photo is put on the Monster Board. Children who eat a half-pound burger also get their pictures on the wall.
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BA Maze, Canton, MI, designs and sells easy-to-use bottle openers for aging consumers. After seeing their arthritis-stricken grandmother struggle with medication bottles, founders Michael Mazur and ...Robert Mazur invented the PurrFect Opener. The cat-shaped gadget makes it easier to open these containers, with features that include a head angled to pry open lids. The device also opens conventional cans and bottles. The company planned to call its patented product MOLLI (medicine-opening lid-lifting instrument) until a product specialist they met at the University of Michigan persuaded Robert to change the shape and name of the opener -- and base those on a cat, a beloved pet symbolizing independence. After three years in business, the company in 2005 received orders from Meijer supercenters in the Midwest and from Walgreens stores in Michigan. Both have since reordered.
