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34-405: Thermomix is a hybrid word derived from thermo- ('heating', from Greek θερμός thermós 'hot') and mix . In Italy and Portugal, it is sold under the trademark Bimby . The Thermomix was derived from a mixer series from Vorwerk originally called "VKM5", in 1961. It had seven functions: stirring, kneading , chopping , grating , mixing , milling and juicing . The justification for

68-424: A non-Hebrew word and a non-Hebrew suffix of different origins: Some hybrid words consist of a non-Hebrew word and a Hebrew suffix: Modern Hebrew also has a productive derogatory prefixal shm- , which results in an 'echoic expressive'. For example, um shmum ( או״ם־שמו״ם ‎), literally 'United Nations shm-United Nations', was a pejorative description by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion , of

102-528: A prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word . Hybridisms were formerly often considered to be barbarisms . Modern Hebrew abounds with non- Semitic derivational affixes, which are applied to words of both Semitic and non-Semitic descent. The following hybrid words consist of a Hebrew-descent word and a non-Semitic descent suffix: The following Modern Hebrew hybrid words have an international prefix: Some hybrid words consist of both

136-460: A producer refusing to supply a potential retailer or customer with a product – is not itself illegal unless the action would have an anti-competitive effect on the market as a whole. The ACCC brings court action against companies that breach the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, which can result in the application of fines and other penalties. The maximum fine for a corporation is calculated as

170-544: A range of 37 °C (99 °F) to 120 °C (248 °F) in the TM5 model (and 100 °C (212 °F) in the TM31, and previous models), a timer, and a built-in scale for weighing directly into the appliance. The price at launch in its home country was €1,139. The Thermomix is sold through direct sales by a sales force of "Thermomix consultants", who are encouraged to recruit other consultants to work under them. The Guardian said

204-480: A repairability score, they praised the modular conception and criticized the poor accessibility of some connections. There have been numerous accounts of a Thermomix machine "exploding" and scalding people with hot liquids. In October 2014 the model was recalled over claims that hot liquid or food may splash out of the mixing bowl. The Australian consumer organisation Choice called for an Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) investigation. In June 2017

238-569: A replacement sealing ring in November 2014. Hybrid word A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages. Such words are a type of macaronic language . The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology , it is straightforward to add

272-444: A subscription-based online recipe catalogue. The TM5 is equipped with guided cooking. The user interface is accessed through a touch screen, as opposed to the previous model’s buttons. According to the producer, the TM5 also has a less noisy motor, a larger mixing bowl, a new steamer, a higher maximum temperature of 120 °C (248 °F), and support for online recipes. In the TM31, recipes can only be followed manually by operating

306-518: A touch screen instead of the buttons and knobs of previous models. The chronology of Thermomix models is as follows: 75% of the machines sold are made in Cloyes-sur-le-Loir , France, and the rest in Wuppertal-Laaken , Germany. Both factories have been expanded. The Thermomix differs from ordinary blenders and food processors in having a thermostatically controlled heating element with

340-411: A website listing all Australian product recalls . The following organisations are commissioned to assist with the surveillance and monitoring of product safety in relevant areas: The ACCC, in conjunction with state and territory offices of fair trading, is responsible for developing and enforcing mandatory consumer product safety standards except where the product falls into the jurisdiction of one of

374-514: Is comparable to the Turkic initial m-segment conveying a sense of 'and so on' as in Turkish dergi mergi okumuyor , literally 'magazine "shmagazine" read:NEGATIVE:PRESENT:3rd.person.singular', i.e. '(He) doesn't read magazine, journals or anything like that'. In Filipino , hybrid words are called siyokoy (literally "merman"). For example, concernado ("concerned"): "concern-" is from English and "-ado"

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408-478: Is from Khoribari In Japanese , hybrid words are common in kango (words formed from kanji characters) in which some of the characters may be pronounced using Chinese pronunciations ( on'yomi, from Chinese morphemes), and others in the same word are pronounced using Japanese pronunciations ( kun'yomi, from Japanese morphemes). These words are known as jūbako (重箱) or yutō (湯桶), which are themselves examples of this kind of compound (they are autological words ):

442-817: Is the chief competition regulator of the Government of Australia , located within the Department of the Treasury . It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission and the Prices Surveillance Authority to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974 , which was renamed the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 on 1 January 2011. The ACCC's mandate

476-672: Is to protect consumer rights and business rights and obligations, to perform industry regulation and price monitoring, and to prevent illegal anti-competitive behaviour. The ACCC's deeper origins are found in the Restrictive Trade Practices Act of Sir Garfield Barwick , Attorney-General in the Liberal Government of Sir Robert Menzies in 1965. Opponents derided Barwick's Trade Practices Act 1965 as "ineffectual". (The Act) did not declare any practices illegal ipso facto , but only did so after detailed investigation by

510-525: The Australian Consumer Law and regulation of telecommunications and energy industries. The ACCC, under the Act, also regulates certain industries by providing access to national infrastructure. The ACCC also has an educative role and seeks to educate both consumers and businesses as to their rights and responsibilities under the Act. The Australian Energy Regulator is a constituent but separate part of

544-526: The United Nations , called in Modern Hebrew umot meukhadot ( אומות מאוחדות ‎) and abbreviated um ( או״ם ‎). Thus, when a Hebrew speaker would like to express his impatience with or disdain for philosophy, s/he can say filosófya- shm ilosófya ( פילוסופיה־שמילוסופיה ‎). Modern Hebrew shm- is traceable back to Yiddish , and is found in English as well as shm-reduplication . This

578-474: The ACCC and is responsible for economic energy regulation. It shares staff and premises with the ACCC, but has a separate board, although at least one board member must also be a Commissioner at the ACCC. In most cases the spirit of the Act, and thus the actions of the ACCC, favours neither consumer nor supplier, but strives to achieve a competitive market without artificial restrictions. For example, refusal to deal –

612-713: The ACCC published findings of its inquiry into the competitiveness of retail prices for groceries in Australia. The report found that the Australian supermarket sector is " workably competitive ", but price competition is limited by barriers to entry and a lack of incentive for the two major players, Coles and Woolworths, to compete on price. The report also noted that Coles and Woolworths engage in deliberate strategies designed to ensure they maintain exclusive access to prime sites such as shopping centres to prevent centre managers leasing space to competing supermarkets. In September 2009,

646-487: The ACCC reached agreement with Coles and Woolworths to phase out restrictive lease agreements. The ACCC has enforced the law against producers of quack devices with medical claims like Power Balance . It won a case on 24 March 2016 against Valve for failing to provide refunds for faulty products, and making representations that domestic consumer guarantees did not apply to purchases using the Steam client. The ACCC maintains

680-728: The ACCC started court proceedings against the Australian Thermomix distributor, alleging that it breached Australian Consumer Law , failed to comply with mandatory reporting requirements for injuries, asked consumers to sign non-disclosure agreements, and made false and misleading statements about its 2014 recall. Choice told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that it was aware of 87 cases where Thermomix consumers had been burned. The ABC understood that 18 of those required several weeks of treatment in hospital burns units. In April 2018 Thermomix in Australia

714-646: The Act. In regard to its role of safeguarding consumer rights, there has been occasional criticism of the ACCC for being "all-talk-no-action". This criticism is most likely due to the inherent difficulty in obtaining sufficient evidence to prove breaches of the restrictive trade practices provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act. The ACCC has exercised its authority in a number of retail areas, including fining retailer Target for false advertising and Woolworths (including some Safeway -branded supermarkets in Victoria ) for anti-competitive liquor deals. In 2008,

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748-527: The Attorney-General in the Whitlam Labor Government , solicited the advice of the economist and business commentator, Professor Ted Wheelwright . In April 1973, Wheelwright produced a report for Murphy which became the blueprint of new legislation. He recommended, among other things, that the Act be clearly focused on protecting the consumer. Murphy is acknowledged as having completely changed

782-482: The Competition and Consumer Act. Such undertakings may include a wide range of remedies to the conduct. A range of other remedies can be ordered by the court. For example, companies are frequently forced to publish retractions of false advertising claims in national newspapers and at their places of business. Companies found in breach of the CCA are usually bound to implement a compliance program to ensure future compliance with

816-585: The Trade Practices Commissioner. There were so many restrictive practices reported to the Commissioner, and the investigations were so prolonged, that one cynic remarked that at the (then) current rate of progress, it would take a hundred years to examine them all! Though recognised as a failure, Barwick's legislation established in Australian law "the principle of legislative coverage of trade practices". The area badly needed reform. Lionel Murphy ,

850-530: The ability to keep dishes hot or cold. The TM3300, the first version named "Thermomix", was released in 1985, with a white finish and having the mixing bowl lower than the previous model. The next model, the Thermomix TM21, was released in 1996, with a bigger bowl, integrated weighing scale and a more modern appearance.TM5 incorporates digital technologies, and allows "guided cooking" using proprietary memory chips to provide settings and cooking instructions, and

884-452: The approach "resembles multilevel marketing ". Vorwerk claims the appliance may be used to prepare complete meals with no need for advanced culinary knowledge. The TM6 was announced in March 2019 and has a number of new features including slow cooking, fermentation and sous vide . The TM5 is a digital machine. It can be purchased with an optional ‘Cook-Key’ WiFi add-on, which allows access to

918-502: The development of the heating element comes from the managing director of Vorwerk France, who around 1970 came up with the idea of designing a machine that could simultaneously blend and cook, to make thickened soups and baby food, popular in France. In 1971 the original Thermomix VM 2000 was launched on the market – first in France, later in Spain and Italy. The bright orange VM 2200 followed, with

952-685: The first character of jūbako is read using on'yomi , the second kun'yomi , while it is the other way around with yutō . Other examples include 場所 basho "place" ( kun-on ), 金色 kin'iro "golden" ( on-kun ) and 合気道 aikidō "the martial art Aikido " ( kun-on-on ). Some hybrid words are neither jūbako nor yutō (縦中横 tatechūyoko ( kun-on-kun )). Foreign words may also be hybridized with Chinese or Japanese readings in slang words such as 高層ビル kōsōbiru "high-rise building" ( on-on-katakana ) and 飯テロ meshitero "food terrorism" ( kun-katakana ). Australian Competition %26 Consumer Commission The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ( ACCC )

986-436: The larger of: $ 50,000,000; or three times the value of the illegal benefit; or (if the value of the benefit cannot be ascertained) 30% of turnover for the preceding 12 months. Individuals may be fined up to $ 2,500,000 under the Competition and Consumer Act for offences such as price fixing or participation in a cartel . The ACCC also has power to accept, on its own behalf, court enforceable undertakings under section 87B of

1020-449: The machine with push buttons, without the guided recipe feature of the newer model. However, it can do many of the same things as the TM5. In 2010 Stiftung Warentest rated the model TM 31 with mark 3.2 (satisfactory). The price of 985 euro , the high noise level, and the lack of grating and slicing functionality was criticised. The successor model TM 5 was rated in 2015 with mark 2.9 (satisfactory). The noise level (measured at 91 decibel)

1054-411: The previous approach regarding trade practices in Australia. For the first time in Australian federal law, his Trade Practices Bill, which was passed on 6 August 1974, introduced offences related to monopolisation, exclusive dealing, price discrimination, resale price maintenance, restraints of trade by agreement, anti-competitive mergers, misleading advertising, coercive sales conduct, pyramid selling, and

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1088-559: The sale of unsolicited goods. Though the Act included substantial penalties, Murphy's initiative received very little opposition in the Parliament or the business community. The ACCC administers the Competition and Consumer Act, and has standing to take action in the Federal Court of Australia to enforce its provision. The Competition and Consumer Act contains a broad range of provisions, such as provisions on anti-competitive conduct,

1122-506: Was again criticised, and the testers said that this was the reason why it was rated down. In 2014 Vorwerk was awarded a critical "Shonky Award" by the Australian consumer advocate Choice , for the "flawed launch of its new model". In 2016 the TM5 was rated 4 out of 5 stars in C|Net and had a positive review on Wired. In 2018, iFixit published a teardown of the Thermomix TM5. Without giving

1156-497: Was handed a $ 4.6 million fine because they had violated consumer law by failing to report dangerous defects. In 2014 Thermomix TM31 (12423100 to 14323199) was recalled in Australia. The ACCC issued recall notice 2014/14361 in October 2014. The sealing ring was identified as a point of possible failure in circumstances where the machine was operated at high speed and then switched to the lid open position. Vorwerk shipped all affected owners

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