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Since March 2013, when the San Jose police academy was revived after a multiyear budget freeze and graduated 43 officers, the infusion of fresh blood into the ranks has steadily declined. Interest in the department tapered off in the face of neighboring police agencies offering higher salaries. For several years, the academy became a de facto training ground for those outside agencies, as fresh graduates or soon-to-be graduates were routinely poached with the lure of cash and contract stability. The new San Jose police contract signed in February includes a 20-percent raise phased in over three years, starting with a balloon increase of 10 percent in 2017-18, and recruiting bonuses.

A Surfin’ Safari in Saratoga: The Beach Boys were responsible for some of the greatest rock songs of all time, The short list would include such fan favorites as “Surfer Girl,” “Help Me, Rhonda,” “God Only Knows,” “California Girls” and, of course, “Good Vibrations.” But, really, we could go on and on about this California band’s magical song book, Hear for yourself on Sept, ballet flats urban outfitters 22 when Mike Love leads the Beach Boys into the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Details: 7:30 p.m.; $49.50-$99.50; www.mountainwinery.com.— Jim Harrington, Staff..

Best, a celebrated theater actress in New York and London, said that she worked on the film for less than a week. Ehle, also best known in New York for her stage work (“Coast of Utopia,” “Macbeth”), said she got the call about attending the party a week and a half earlier, just as she’d managed to see the movie herself, and didn’t mind being summoned to schmooze. “The film deserves it,” she said. Meanwhile, around Los Angeles, David Fincher, director of “The Social Network,” was spending what was meant to be his vacation doing Q & A’s with industry groups.

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