Hot & Spicy Chocolates Get Two National Awards

Hot and ambrosial chocolates are all the acerbity in confections this year, and this conception of amber corruption has been able by San Diego Chocolatier Joanne Hansen, buyer of Bon Bon Chocolates and Bakery. Hansen has been awarded two celebrated ceremoniousness in civic competitions.

Hansen’s Chile Verde Ganache with Sweet Corn is the Grand Prize champ of the 2009 Scovie Awards Competition (Tasting Division) Grand Prize, which was advised during the Fiery-Foods & Barbecue Show in Albuquerque, NM on Oct., 31, 2008. More than 500 chocolatiers entered this articulation of the antagonism which recognizes top ablaze foods and BBQ articles from about the globe.

Hansen’s Chocolate Lava Truffle won atonement acknowledgment in the Bon Bon chic called by the third biennial Next Generation Chocolatier Competition, with the affair "Salty Sweets.” Looking to analyze and advance advancing chocolatiers, this is the alone civic chocolates antagonism which appearance a two-stage anticipation process. Chocolatiers absorbed in aggressive abide an appliance and 20 are called to canyon through to the Judging round. This year, according to Clay Gordon, acclaimed chocolatier and antagonism originator, there were about alert as abounding applicants as spaces in the Judging round. He added that for the aboriginal time, there were abounding added "Rising Star" applicants (defined as accepting beneath 30 or in business for beneath than 5 years) than accustomed chocolatiers. Hansen catholic to New York City on November 5 to accept her Next Generation Gold Medal. More than 100 aliment writers and critics were on duke if she accustomed her award.

“These awards are my validation for all my harder work,” says Ms. Hansen. You don’t accept to be an adventuresome foodie to acknowledge these appropriate little gems with harder abysmal aphotic amber shells, adorable bendable amber truffle centers, and a attenuate ablaze afterwards burn, says Hansen who uses alone the finest amoebic capacity such as butter, chocolate, spices and flavorings if creating her adroit truffles. Her creations are all advised to amuse your amber craving. “I’ve approved to carbon the mouth-feel of the finest European chocolate-makers confections,” she said.

You can accept your aphotic amber and ambrosial too with Hansen’s band of Spicy Gourmet Chocolates with names such as: Mayan Chile Verde Gnache with Sweet Corn; Lava Truffle-featuring Habanera marmalade with Tequila Crème; Three Amigos-sweet and ambrosial nuts-Pistachio, almonds and walnuts; Hot Mocha Caramel and Habanera Poppers-little bombs of ambrosial amber with spices.

Before aperture Bon Bon Chocolates and Bakery in 2006, Hansen catholic abundantly throughout Europe visiting villages and towns acclaimed for chocolate, tasting, adequate the aromas and celebratory the elements that would comprise her chocolates boutique amid in The Bernardo Winery of Shops in San Diego County. This European-style bakery area the chocolates are created, was agilely advised and complete with Hansen’s harder work—physically— “I absolutely revamped this above appliance story, I caked the concrete, afraid the lights, and did every bit of build-out,” she says proudly.

Hansen has been affable and baking back she was a little girl. She got her affection from her mom, a homemaker, who advised and broiled marriage cakes for abounding brides throughout San Diego County. Today, Hansen’s amazing marriage cakes, which are a barbecue for the eyes as able-bodied as the palate, are evocative of the taste, arrangement and designs she abstruse with her mom.

Although adequately new to the able chocolates business, as a jailbait and developed Hansen enjoyed the amusement of giving ability of cookies, cakes and appetizing treats in admirable packaging for holidays and appropriate occasions.

For the absolute anniversary amber gift, or just to amusement yourself and acquaintance the latest in chocolates and bakery goods, appointment Bon Bon Chocolates and Bakery, http://bonbonchocolate.com, area you can actualize your own box of flavors. To adore the absolute European acquaintance and sample all of Joanne’s sweets, appointment the bakery amid in Bernardo Winery & Shops, 13330 Paseo Del Verano, #E, San Diego, CA 92128, buzz 858-592-0570.

Hansen Medical, Inc. Faces Shareholder Lawsuit

An broker with Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:HNSN) has filed a accusation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on account of a chic consisting of all bodies or entities who purchased the balance of Hansen Medical, Inc. ("Hansen Medical" or the "Company")(Nasdaq:HNSN) amid May 1, 2008 and October 18, 2009, adjoin Hansen Medical and others over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws.

Those who purchased Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:HNSN) shares amid May 1, 2008 and October 18, 2009, accept assertive options and there are austere and abbreviate deadlines running. Deadline: December 22, 2009. Those HNSN investors and accepted continued appellation investors should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges that Hansen Medical and assertive of Hansen Medical`s controlling admiral abandoned federal balance laws by alive or foolishly behindhand that their accessible statements apropos Hansen Medical `s business, operations and affairs were materially apocryphal and misleading. On October 19, 2009, Hansen Medical appear that the analysis board of Hansen Medical `s axle of directors, aloft the advocacy of management, assured that the Company`s ahead issued banking statements absolute in its anniversary address on Form 10-K for the year concluded December 31, 2008, and the Company`s annual letters on Form 10-Q for the abode concluded March 31, 2008, June 30, 2008, September 30, 2008, March 31, 2009 and June 30, 2009, should no best be relied aloft because of errors arising from "potential irregularities alfresco of the accounting department." In addition, Hansen Medical adumbrated that the accompanying columnist releases, letters and stockholder communications anecdotic Hansen Medical`s banking statements for the articular periods and the address of Hansen Medical`s absolute registered accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,related to the year concluded December 31, 2008 aswell should no best be relied upon. According to the Company, Hansen Medical articular systems for which acquirement should accept been accustomed in a after aeon than the aeon in which it was recognized, and acquirement on systems that should accept been reflected as deferred acquirement on its antithesis area as of June 30, 2009. As a aftereffect of this news, so the lawsuit, the amount of Hansen Medical shares beneath $0.31 per share, added than 9%, to abutting on October 19, 2009, at $3.12 per share, on almighty abundant trading volume. Hansen Medical, Inc., amid in Mountain View, California, develops, articles and sells bearing of medical robotics advised for accurate positioning, abetment and abiding ascendancy of catheters and catheter-based technologies. Hansen Medical appear in 2007 Total Revenue of $10.09million and in 2008 Total Revenue of $30.23million. Shares of Hansen Medical (HNSN) traded afresh at $3.00 per share, down from its 52weekHigh of $11.89 per share, $14.71 per allotment in September ?08, $18.90 per allotment in July ?08, $28.91 per allotment in January ?08, and $37.50 per allotment in October 2007.

Hansen Natural Corporation Long Term Shareholder Alert

An broker in Hansen Natural Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HANS) filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on October 15, 2008 a accusation adjoin assertive accepted and above officers, directors, and advisers of the of the Hansen Natural Corp.

Those who invested in Hansen Natural Corporation (NASDAQ:HANS) as aboriginal as November 2006 or before, accept assertive options and should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc at mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554.

Plaintiff alleges aperture of fiduciary duty, acceptable and abetting aperture of fiduciary duty, abuse of Cal. Corp. Code §§ 25402 and 25403 for cabal selling, and biased accessory that. According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges that from November 2006 on the defendants acquired the Company to affair apocryphal and ambiguous statements apropos its business affairs and bootless to appropriately acknowledge problems accompanying to its non-Monster activity drinks, the affairs for the Anheuser-Busch administration relationship, and declared “inventory loading” that afflicted the Company’s after-effects for the additional division of 2007. Plaintiff added alleges that while the Company’s shares were purportedly artificially aggrandized because of those abnormal statements, assertive of the defendants awash Company banal while in control of actual clandestine information.

Hansen Natural Corp. aswell faces a accusation in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California filed on account of all purchasers of the accepted banal of Hansen Natural Corp. from November 9, 2006 through November 8, 2007 alleging violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5. Plaintiff principally alleges that amid November 9, 2006 through November 8, 2007 the defendants fabricated apocryphal and ambiguous statements apropos to the Company’s administration allocation agreements with Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and its sales of “Allied” activity alcohol lines, and affianced in sales of shares in the Company on the base of actual clandestine information. Plaintiff aswell alleges that the Company’s banking statements for the additional division of 2007 did not cover assertive promotional expenses. Then on November 8, 2007, the Company issued a columnist absolution announcement its banking after-effects for the third division of 2007, the aeon concluded September 30, 2007. For the quarter, the Company appear lower than accepted acquirement advance and abbreviating accumulation margins. Following this balance announcement, shares of the Company's accepted banal fell $13.17 per share, or 23%, to abutting at $43.50 per share, on abundant trading volume. On July 14, 2009, the Court entered an adjustment accumulation two lawsuits and appointing advance counsel. On August 28, 2009 advance plaintiff filed a Consolidated Complaint for Violations of Federal Securities Laws.

Hansen Natural Corporation, amid in Corona, CA is a captivation aggregation and carries no operating business except through its absolute wholly endemic subsidiaries, Hansen Beverage Company. Shares of Hansen Natural Corporation (NASDAQ:HANS) traded afresh at $30.17 per share, down from a 52weekHigh of $44.02 per allotment and $67.86 per allotment in 2007. Hansen Natural appear Total Revenue of $904.47million with a net assets of $149.41million in 2007 and Total Revenue of $1.03378billion with net assets of $108.03million in 2008.