Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Forty Years Later

How about a music drama this week - for free.

Successful middle-aged publishing executive David Grossman risks everything to fulfill a promise to a woman he has not seen in forty years. When teen sweethearts and now aging Baby Boomers David and Jill reunite after four decades, sparks fly fast and furious, despite his long marriage to Allison and Jill’s reputation as a famous, former lesbian.

Jill Black, a “one hit wonder” Hollywood screenwriter, is consumed with a last chance to write and direct her own film. Success will reinvigorate her career. Failure will end it. When a pompous studio “suit” begins to undermine her authority and threatens to kill her project, the pressure forces her to spin from rage to murderous madness as she ensnares David in her plans.

By Steven Jay Griffel.

The River Wild - Near Sacramento

According to the Sacramento Bee, Saturday's "Rafting Gone Wild" event on the American River "degenerated into a series of brawls with dozens of rafters fighting each other with oars and rocks and hurling stones at deputies on the scene."

More than 3,500 tubers--many with floating coolers stocked with beer--turned out for the second annual event on Saturday, officials said. At about 5 p.m. local time, approximately 50 rafters began fighting on a beach area along the river, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Dept. deputy chief Scott Cockrum told the newspaper, "beating each other with paddles or rocks and hurling stones at fire and rescue boats."

RIM Ordered to Pay Up

Can RIM recover from this?

A federal jury in San Francisco has found Blackberry maker Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) liable for $147.2 million in damages for infringing on patents held by Mformation Technologies Inc.

Mformation, of Edison, N.J., sued Research in Motion in October 2008, alleging that Canada-based RIM infringed on its 1999 invention for remotely managing wireless devices. Mformation’s software allows companies to remotely access employee cell phones to do software upgrades, change passwords or to wipe data from phones that have been stolen.

Officials at RIM, which has been struggling with plummeting sales, a declining stock and other problems, did not provide a comment Saturday.

Thakur said the jury ruled that Research in Motion should pay his client $8 for each of the 18.4 million Blackberrys that were connected to the Blackberry Enterprise Server, from the day the lawsuit was filed until the time of the trial. That’s a total of $147.2 million.

This is a huge hit for RIM.

Drew Brees Signs Huge Contract

Drew Brees and the Saints reached a deal on par with the quarterback's record-setting play, giving New Orleans' fans some news they can celebrate after an offseason rife with turmoil.

The team announced Friday that it had agreed to a five-year contract with Brees. A person familiar with the deal said it's for $100 million, with $60 million guaranteed.

The deal will also pay the quarterback $40 million the first year, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because financial details had not been publicly announced.

Picture Quiz: ESPY's or Comic Con?

Two huge events in Southern California this week with the ESPY's taking place and now Comic Con going on in San Diego.

Two events that attract different crowds, or do they?

Here are some pics taken from the two events, can you tell which event they were taken at?

-answers below in the follow up

1.2.3.4.5.6. (an easy one)

Update on Friday, July 13, 2012 at 12:26PM by Rick C.Limpert

1. ESPY

2. Comic Con

3. Comic Con

4. ESPY

5. ESPY

6. Comic Con, of course