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Shanghai Chowsing Pet Products Co., Ltd. (hereafter “ChowSing”) announces the closing of its Series B+ funding round of nearly 400 million yuan (around 63 million dollars) led by Cathay Capital and Tencent. This fund raising will enable ChowSing to develop its brand building, to optimize its supply chain, and to enhance its product R&D and IT capabilities.
Since its creation in 2004, ChowSing has taken an original approach by choosing to focus on pet nutrition – through its flagship brand Nourse – as opposed to staple foods or basic products such as litter. With pet nutrition products R&D covering dogs and cats’ entire life cycle and formulas that combine taste and nutritional efficacy, ChowSing has quickly become the leading pet nutrition brand in China in terms of online sales volume. Its flagship products include anti-hair loss supplements, vitamins and calcium tablets.
This fundraising is the largest in the Chinese domestic animal healthcare sector this year and follows the strategy put in place over the past year around three main objectives: consolidating the supply chain, developing the Nourse brand, and continuing to gain market share. In April 2021, ChowSing’s flagship brand, Nourse, announced an investment of RMB 700 million (around USD 110 million) for the construction of a new factory in Anhui province in southern China. In this factory, a new pet food production line will be launched with the aim of reaching RMB 5 billion (USD 780 million) in annual production value upon completion.
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# AndroidJavaTimeDemo [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/JavaTime/media/medium-badge.svg" width=109>](https://medium.com/nanogiants/handling-dates-on-android-1fccccde9d54)
This repo contains an Android app with simple date usecases, implemented with different frameworks/libraries. The idea is to compare the dex count and APK size.

## Usecases
* start a hardcoded countdown to the next Sunday 19:00:00 Central European Time (CET)
* parse different ISO 8601 strings, typically used when communicating with a backend

[<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/JavaTime/media/device-2020-11-20-192105.png" width=160>](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/JavaTime/media/device-2020-11-20-192105.png)

## Implementations
In this repository there are 5 branches, each using a different technology (all using AGP 4.1.0, with D8/R8 enabled)

|     Branch    |     Version   |  Description  |
| ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |
| [kotlinx](https://github.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/tree/kotlinx) | 0.1.0 | [kotlinx-datetime](https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime) (which uses Java 8 [java.time](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-summary.html) through [core library desugaring](https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support-table) on Android) |
| [JavaTime](https://github.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/tree/JavaTime) | 1.1.0 | Java 8 [java.time](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-summary.html) through [core library desugaring](https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support-table) ([desugar_jdk_libs](https://github.com/google/desugar_jdk_libs)) |
| [JodaTime](https://github.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/tree/JodaTime) | 2.10.7.1 | [JodaTime Android](https://github.com/dlew/joda-time-android) library ([JodaTime](https://www.joda.org/joda-time/) with Android adjustments) |
| [ThreeTenABP](https://github.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/tree/ThreeTenABP) | 1.3.0 | [ThreeTenABP](https://github.com/JakeWharton/ThreeTenABP) library ([ThreeTenBP](https://www.threeten.org/threetenbp/) with Android adjustments) |
| [SimpleDateFormat](https://github.com/G00fY2/AndroidJavaTimeDemo/tree/SimpleDateFormat) | --- | [Date](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Date), [SimpleDateFormat](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat) and [Calendar](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Calendar) |


## License
     The MIT License (MIT)

    Copyright (C) 2020 <NAME>

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Educators from across the district wrote in to defend the hard work that they do each day. Many called the author ignorant – which he was.
But I fumed for a different reason.
For seven years, I had worked in schools deemed failures based on the rules of No Child Left Behind. My first year, I was determined to raise my students’ test scores and lift us from an F to an A. By year seven, I knew that I was playing a rigged game.
Our schools were deemed “failing” because standardized tests said they were – not because they reflected any truth about our schools other than the economic background of our student population.
Mr. Sabine’s perception of our schools was proof that the planned attack on our public schools was working: the public believed what the tests said about our schools.
And so I wrote my own letter pointing out the problems with using standardized test scores to determine the success of our schools, and warned that things would only appear worse when our students took the made-to-fail Smarter Balanced Assessment.
Within a few days, a mother wrote to me to thank me for my response, and invited me to join her local Opt Out group.
Opt Out? Parents were actually having their children sit out of these wicked tests?
As a classroom teacher, I learned quickly that there was only so much I could say or do without risking my job, but I pushed the envelope as far as I could to spread the word about Opt Out.
When one of my letters about testing was published by the Washington Post, I felt certain that we were winning the war.
I was, of course, dead wrong.
The more I researched, the more I came across documents that made me wonder if there were people on the other side – the reformers and profiteers – that actually wanted us to opt out. One article written by Tom Vander Ark – one of the Kings of Corporate Reform – called for the “end of the big test” all together, in favor of more frequent, “formative” tests. When I did a search of these emails, I found one from Vander Ark expressing his worry that PARCC and SBAC would end up being just another “cheap” end-of-the-year test. What he wanted was a testing ecosystem.
Then I read another document predicting that standardized tests would soon be obsolete, to be replaced by continuous data feeds that would scoop up all sorts of personal information about children.
And so I started watching the testing scene carefully, wondering how much truth there was to these predictions, and sure enough, corporations like Pearson and McGraw Hill began to announce that they were moving away from the “big test” toward the burgeoning “formative assessment” and “personalized learning” market.
Then came a huge punch in the gut: this document from the Gates Foundation made it clear that the weird “proficiency-based diploma” mandate that had recently entered my state through the Nellie Mae Education Foundation was directly linked to the high-tech, research-devoid “personalized learning” experiment that was