My friend Bob Jergovic, chief investment officer for CLS Investment Firm, sent me an interesting piece of information. He quoted from a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of finance and a former Wall Street trader. The book is entitled “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.”

The Hess Collection Winery is donating nearly $3,000 to The Land Trust of Napa County via the environmental charity 1% For the Planet.