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The Corte Madera Circle Bank branch at303 Corte Madera Town Center hosts its annual “client appreciation day” on Fri., Aug. 12. Customers are invited to stop by and enjoy a continental breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or a barbecue lunch from noon to 2 p.m. Fun prizes are promised, including San Francisco Giants baseball tickets and $250 cash. Eighteen of Sausalito’s floating homes will participate in the annual tour on Sat., Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour will begin at the Gateway Shopping Center in Marin City, where tourists will then take a shuttle to the Kappas Marina Green on Gate 6 Road, off Bridgeway in northern Sausalito. Docents inside the homes will discuss the waterfront lifestyle and answer questions about the homes. Tickets can be purchased in advance online at floatinghomes.org for $35; tickets at the gate are $40. Proceeds benefit the Floating Homes Association and the Marin City Library. For more information, visit ­floatinghomes.org. Richard Winefield has resigned from his position as executive director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, effective Aug. 31. While the museum searches for another executive director, Karyn Flynn will serve as the interim executive director. The Bay Area Discovery Museum intends to fill Winefield’s seat with another qualified professional, ideally with leadership and fundraising skills as well as a dedication to early-childhood development. For more information, contact Melissa Norris via the museum at 339-3918. Tickets for the Sausalito Art Festival Foundation’s traditional Friday night opening party will be on sale starting Aug. 1. This year’s party will take place aboard the “San Francisco Spirit,” a Hornblower yacht moored at the Bay Model Harbor, on Fri., Sept. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. Guests will mingle with the festival’s artists while enjoying entertainment and snacks. Tickets are $100, with special $200 tickets for a VIP experience throughout the festival.

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The PSAT/NMSQT is no ordinary standardized test. As the qualifying exam for the National Merit Scholarship, the PSAT/NMSQT is the Cerberus that guards the gates to a $2500 scholarship prize and a slew of other desirable benefits -- a leg up in the admissions process, the prestige of being a National Merit Scholar, and sometimes even full scholarships to certain universities. When money is involved, the rules are different; when money is involved, everyone wants a slice of the pie. Unlike the SAT, whose changes have historically been content-driven, the PSAT/NMSQT, for better or for worse, has evolved around financial stimuli.

Act I: Introduction
The National Merit Scholarship Program began in 1955 as a privately funded academic scholarship program that rewarded outstanding scholastic achievement. In 1971, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation adopted the College Board's Preliminary SAT exam (PSAT) as the qualifying test for scholarship consideration, and the PSAT/NMSQT was born. On that glorious day, the sky blazed a brilliant, blinding cobalt, alight with the glorious furor of the heavens themselves as they descended to earth to bless the birth of the chosen test.

Act II: The Asian Invasion
For about ten years, the PSAT/NMSQT lived a quiet, simple life. But the world was experiencing sweeping economic and societal transitions, and our hero soon found itself being swept away with the tides of change.

Between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, Asian immigration into the United States exploded. During the Space Race of the 1960s, America, led by a youthful and charismatic President Kennedy, made its technological leaps and bounds into space, and the United States' land of opportunity became especially fertile, attracting immigrants from all over Asia, including India and China. The US even recruited foreigners -- going so far as to increase immigration quotas for people with advanced degrees in math and science. Indian people, soon followed by the Chinese, rushed to apply.

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