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Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practise that has been around for a few years. Wikipedia describes it as:
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Kent Beck,
who is credited with having developed or 'rediscovered' the technique,
stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Kent Beck,
who is credited with having developed or 'rediscovered' the technique,
stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires
Since 2003 TDD practises have seen refinements such as Behavior-Driven Development and Uncle Bob's Three Rules of TDD, all the while TDD has pretty much become an accepted way of developing quality software. Accepted that is everywhere outside of the database development arena and that is the arena in which I spend my working life. TDD simply has not, in my opinion, caught on with database developers like it has our appdev brethren and I was reminded of this yesterday when Atul Thakor asked on Twitter:
anyone done TDD for database development and would they recommend it?
anyone done TDD for database development and would they recommend it?
To which my answer was an emphatic:
(1) yes & (2) absolutely, yes
(1) yes & (2) absolutely, yes
I'll use this blog post to expand on that outside of 140 characters.
In October 2010 I undertook a mini-project for the client I was working for at the time (a bank) where a colleague and I were tasked with building the database portion of a system that would support reconciliation of our ETL processes. It was a nice piece of work in that it was small, well-scoped, time-bound, greenfield, did not have any external dependancies and had a technically savvy product owner. We sat down at the start and decided that this was an ideal opportunity to trial TDD as a method of developing a database; I would write the failing tests and my colleague would make the tests pass. We came up with some guiding principles and, although we didn't know it at the time, they were pretty close to Uncle Bob's three rules.
I used Visual Studio 2010's database unit testing framework1 to write my tests and have them run as part of our Continuous Integration (CI) build (see Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process). I would write the tests, check-in, the CI build would fail and my colleague would "get latest" in order to see what code he had to write to stop the build from failing. To cut a long story short the use of TDD was considered to be a great success; we shipped a working system on time/on budget and moreover, even though I didn't write a scrap of code that went into production I have never had more confidence that a system I was involved in building worked as intended. That's quite a statement. My confidence stemmed from the fact that as the test author I was ultimately responsible for ensuring that the system did what it was supposed to; I could qualify my confidence by pointing at our CI build and highlighting the number of tests that were passing and how that number had steadily increased as the project progressed.
By the time the project had finished the database consisted of (if memory serves me correctly) 6 tables and about 10 stored procedures or functions (so yes, very small). To test that we had roughly 70 tests that were getting run up to 20 times a day. The project had taken about two months from start-up to final delivery - you can make your own opinions as to whether you consider that prompt or tardy but our product owner was happy and that's pretty much all that counted as far as I was concerned.
Since that project I have moved onto other clients and at each one I have always extolled the use of database unit testing; we haven't always practised TDD but at each one we have been writing database unit tests and in the future I suspect that a client's willingness (or lack thereof) to use database unit testing will be a major factor in influencing whether we end up working together or not.
Are you a database developer doing database unit testing or perhaps even TDD? Let me know in the comments, I'd love to hear about others' experiences.
1Yes, that linked-to article from 7 years ago is the best one I
could find to describe what Visual Studio's Database Unit testing Framework actually is - sort it out Microsoft!
UPDATE: I have just remembered that Jamie Laflen has written an excellent whitepaper entitled Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects that goes into much more detail about how to achieve database TDD using Visual Studio than I have here. Well worth a read.
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Jamie, it seems from reading that one of the factors critical to the success was that you wrote the tests, and someone else wrote the code. That approach feels much better than when the same dev is responsible for both the tests and the code - has this been the case in other experiences with database unit testing?
Hi Kev,
Good question. I've used this setup (i.e. me writing the tests, someone else making them pass) once more since the above mentioned project and, again, I'm of the opinion that it was (by and large) a success.
I have written database unit tests on other projects since but that's not necassarily the same as doing TDD; on the two occasions where I *have* used TDD then a different person wrote the tests to the person that wrote the code. Based on that experience I would say that this setup works well but having never done TDD where I wrote both the tests *and* the code I can't say for sure whether one works better than the other. Ostensibly though, yes, I think its better for a different person to write the code than writes the tests.
Hope that answers your question.
In the not too distant future I'll be creating Unit tests for databases so will be able to comment further once i've got my hands dirty. Thanks for posting the link to Jamie Laflen's whitepaper :o)
Craig, I'll be expecting a reply here in the future then :)
Great article. I've been following your Database Projects and Testing articles pretty closely as I'm hoping to implement something similar. Of the few people I've talked to who have done it they almost all liked it; however, a few have questioned the ROI. I personally think that the ROI would be high in the confidence factor for the database, but don't know if the business would believe so or not. Thanks for posting.
Hi Eric,
Yes, convincing the business of the ROI is difficult.
-"We'd like to spend some time writing code to prevent mistakes creeping in in the future?"
-"What? You want me to pay you to write code that anticipates the fact that you're going to write bad code?"
Always a tricky one :)
To be honest it all depends on whether they've bought into agile or not and accepted that in the future, something WILL change. Once they get into that mindset then its a bit of an easier sell IMO.
I think the ROI is alot esaier to justify on longer term projects however I think my anecdote above proves that it can be beneficial on short term projects too.
To justify ROI, you might point them to one of the many studies which highlights the cost of finding bugs in different stages of development. Early = Less $$$
Thanks Creighton, interesting stuff.
I prefer BDD to TDD. It works out much better for me. Dan North is my coworker, which might also help a little bit. I have just written up a piece about my approach in database unit testing: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/close-those-loopholes-lessons-learned-from-unit-testing-t-sql/
My project is larger, several hundreds of tables, thousands of procedures and functions. Many of them are largely generated. We do not have full test coverage for trivial generated modules. In C# we would not have them at all - we would use generics.
However, more complex modules in our system have lots of tests.
Hi Alex,
Great article, thanks for that. Interesting to note that you opt to author the tests in C# - I've noticed many others doing similar in the past.
BDD I'm rather fuzzy on (even more so than TDD). I think I have some reading to do.
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Hi Jamie,
Apologies as I realise you posted this nearly a year ago now but I'm interested in db unit testing and possibly TDD.
Before you wrote the first tests, did you:
(a) Just have an empty database, and your colleague create table(s) and proc(s) to pass the test?
(b) Already have the data model designed, including tables, views, DRI etc?
(c) Some other approach?
i.e. are the tests purely driving T-SQL logic, or database design, or both?
Thanks, and great post as ever, your blog is an excellent resource.
Hi Gareth,
We started with a blank slate - CREATE DATABASE MyDB.
If memory serves it was me designing the data model but the crux of the solution was the code in the stored procedures, whch were written by my colleague.
The tests were essentially testing T-SQL logic but of course, those sprocs accessed tables so indirectly the tables were being tested too.
Testing "database design" (which you might think of as the sum of all the parts) is hard because you can't really say whether a database design has passed or failed. Its not a true or false, 0 or 1, type scenario, right? An overall design is an evolving beast.
Hope that helps
Thanks for your quick response Jamie. Yep you're right there's no easy answer to testing db design, particularly if you're TDDing it I imagine
Just wondering if given an existing relational data model you've created, with a few complex relationships governed by constraints - would you look to write negative tests that attempt to violate those constraints?
Or is that asking for too much of a test maintenance headache when the design evolves?
Also do you tend to write tests to check things like input parameter validation are working as expected?
Not sure I can easily TDD my current project as the requirements are still a little hazy (though I realise that's probably a good argument for not against!)
"Just wondering if given an existing relational data model you've created, with a few complex relationships governed by constraints - would you look to write negative tests that attempt to violate those constraints?"
Yes, I think I probably would. I want to make sure that bad data cannot get in.
Test maintenance is an issue - but always balanced against the cost of not having the tests in the first place - personally that's a trade-off I'm happy with. If you have your tests running as part of your CI build then you'll know pretty early on when they've broken and thus whether they are still valid or not.
"Also do you tend to write tests to check things like input parameter validation are working as expected?"
Yeah definitely. I'm a big fan of defensive programming (i.e. checking input params inside the sproc before actually doing anything with them) but I still think there's value in writing appropriate tests - in fact probably even more so, so you can check that your defensive programming code is doing what it expects.
Hope that's useful
Hey Jamie, great post.
A few of our DB Developers are currently giving TDD a go, however, there seems to be some internal debate of how far do you go? A few members of the team are testing things such as is this field I've said was an INT an INT for example, others are in the mindset that the tests that are written should test a unit of work, for example a procedure runs and returns a result. We all kind of agreed to disagree and ended up re-branding test as either Schema Tests and Functional Tests just for clarity.
Given the opportunity, how much testing would you personally recommend? The counter argument for having more tests (especially schema based ones) means having vastly more time spent maintaining tests over the other.


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"What Is the Other?"
Ilija Trojanow, you were born in Bulgaria, you were brought up in Kenya. You have been living in India and South Africa for the past seven, eight years. How come you are a German author?
Ilija Trojanow: I have always been writing poems in English, for the last 25 years. But when I decided to write my first novel it was a conscientious decision to stick with German, for practical reasons but also for reasons of a certain love relationship with German. I feel closer to German than I do to any other language. And I feel that if you compare language to a tool box that German offers you more tools than any other language. It is a language with enormous variety and enormous flexibility, which I think suits prose, suits novels perfectly.
If I was a poet I would have probably gone for English because I think in poetry English has other kind of privileges and strengths. The question of language is highly politicized. A language like Macedonian had to become a language of its own for reasons of statehood and political independence.
I think that language is probably the kind of instrument which is closest to the human beings and I think if you ask me what people really cared about besides material things, then probably language is the thing people feel closest to. And therefore, if you ask me what is a sense of home or what is a sense of identity, I would always link it to language as opposed to place or any political union.
Your novel "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds) which has just been published in Germany, has already received a prestigious literary award. The novel is about an English historical figure. There must be a special story about how you came about this Sir Richard Francis Burton.
Trojanow: I do believe that especially the 19th century in England or in Great Britain has brought forth a number of extraordinary, independent-minded, eccentric, powerful, courageous people, who were to a large extent supportive of the Empire, who were part of the system but at the same time, they had very much their own mind, and they had an individual concept of how to approach the world, what to look for, how to transport cultural and religious differences, and how to write about them.
When you look at the history of the world, there are not very many epochs where you have such an abundance of extraordinary individuals as you have in England in the 19th century. And one of the most extraordinary ones is Richard Burton.
I think if you look around Europe, the only person for example in Germany who could be compared with Richard Burton would be (Alexander von) Humboldt. First of all, Richard Burton had an encyclopaedic interest towards the world; there is hardly anything that did not interest him. And when something really interested him, he was quite pedantic in his thirst for knowledge. He really wanted to know everything.
When you look at his book "The Sword", there is such detailed information about Chinese and Japanese swords and how they are made, and the different uses, and the different rituals around it. Same thing if you read his terminal essay on "A Thousand and One Nights". And he was the first to complete a whole translation of "A Thousand and One Nights" in English. There is such knowledge about most elements of Arabic culture.
At the same time he was someone who was not in any way afraid of putting his whole existence on the line of risking everything in his search not only for information, but also in his efforts, I think livelong efforts, to keep changing. And I think this was the exciting thing about the Victorian Age, that people had a feeling, that change is not only possible, but it is inevitable and that change is linked to a positive outcome.
In today's world we have seen the destructive result of change and we have seen how languages disappear, how cultures disappear. We have become very sceptical. But when you look back at the 19th century,
there was this enormous believe that all this change would be for the better that civilization would rise to its heights and that technology would solve all human problems.
So basically what I am saying is that the era is very exciting and the human being Burton is very exciting. And - and this is the third element which was probably most influential on me writing the whole novel - is that we still struggle with the idea: what is the other?
Every day when I open the newspaper and I read reports from Iraq, Iran, India, China, wherever, there is this continuous struggle to define where do we stand when we are exposed to something we do not understand. How do we react? How do we fluctuate between clichés, prejudices and a serious effort to change our position through this very painful and very difficult struggle of understanding.
In many respects we have not progressed beyond the times of Richard Burton. Actually when you look at the way he would try to avoid the clichés of his time he is probably more adequate than many authors of our times.
I believe that you did have very much of an interest in finding out about this man. Have you read all his books? And which was the first book that you read by Richard Burton?
Trojanow: Richard Burton published about 50 books, and there a few that we know have been published but are very difficult to find. Not a single one of these books is truly successful as a book. And the reason is - as someone once wrote - that Richard Burton is an orchestra without conductor. He never ever acknowledged the economy of form, he was never disciplined in editing his own work.
So basically, it is an invitation to a reader or to an author like myself to walk through this endless labyrinth of knowledge and experience and to take elements which can then be forged into a novel. So in many ways it was a blissful state for a novelist.
But when you went on your own Hajj to Mecca from Bombay in 2003, did you have his book about his pilgrimage to Mecca in you luggage?
Trojanow: Actually I did. But I found out that I did not read it, because the pilgrimage was so exciting and inspiring for me personally, also from a spiritual point of view, that I did not do anything else. Basically I just lived as a pilgrim for five or six weeks. But I had read the book before, and I read it afterwards. And as with any other book, there are moments when you would want to kiss him and moments when you would want to beat him up. That's the kind of person he is. But that's why it is always worth reading him.
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Ilja Trojanow was born in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 1965, but he grew up in Nairobi. In the nineties he studied in Munich, Germany, where he founded a publishing house for African literature. Then he moved to Bombay, already with the intention of writing a book about Sir Richard Francis Burton. Trojanow's novel "The Collector of Worlds" starts in India where Sir Richard Francis Burton was posted as an officer. In 2003 Trojanow himself went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He subsequently moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he is currently stationed.
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My oldest child is not graduating from high school just yet but, though I feel like she just started, she is already nearing the end of her freshman year. Didn't we just finish the arduous process of selecting which high school she'd go to? And how she'd get in without any report cards or test scores to factor in? It's making my head spin to think about the fact that, as fast as this year has gone, we only get 3 more of those before she's off into whatever is next. College? Work? Apprenticeship? Who knows. I don't have to think about that now. Do I? Huh? Okay, okay, I am. And so is she.
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- In spite of what some adults may tell you, high school is not actually, "the best time of your life." Sure it can be fun but there's lots more to come. And if it is the best time of your life? I'm sorry.
- Tune into what you love and make decisions based on that. If someone tells you "there's lots of jobs in statistics" but statistics isn't really your thing, don't do it. Tune in first to what you love to do, then make your decisions from that information.
- Be open to discovering new things that you love. All the time. It is one of the great thrills of life.
- Treat life like a giant menu. Try a little of this and a little of that until you find the thing that is most delicious. Then order more of that.
- No decision you make today is truly for the rest of your life. Well, other than birth and death that is. So what you decide today about what you will do or study or practice or where you might go, can be changed. Try it this semester. Change it next. No matter how old you get to be, remember that most decisions can be changed. Just play it by year.
- If a rule doesn't make sense, question it. Seriously. There is no harm in asking if rules can be broken. Or in breaking them. Sometimes. Not my rules. But other people's.
- People like to help so don't be afraid to ask. If you are feeling shy about asking, think how good it feels when someone asks you to help them based on your level of expertise. Whether you need help finding your way or getting a job or figuring out a math problem, find someone and ask. If they can't help you, ask if they know someone who can. Just put it out there and your answers will come.
- There is no "one way" to do something. Though many will try to convince you that their way is THE way. Do things the way that works for you. Even if someone tells you, "this is the way it's always been done," if you think of an easier or more sensible way, do it.
- Be you. Plain and simple. No matter where you go. Be you. And be the very best you that you can possibly be.
- Look for the good in people. It's easy sometimes to find what's bad or wrong with people, but it feels so much better to see what's good. When you're struggling with this, try even harder because you'll feel so much better when you do.
- Have fun. Really we're here to have fun. So even the mundane or monotonous? Make it fun.


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Since Obama is hitting the auto-bailout theme pretty hard in the manufacturing-heavy and still up-in-the-presidential-air state of Ohio, the Left got into quite the tizzy with one of Romney's attempts to puncture the inflated narrative, with fact-checkers and pundits crying foul. Matthews summarizes the Jeep/China drama at the start of his segment:
Brit Hume summed up the real situation in one succinct tweet:
Romney Jeep ad is factually accurate. Critics are attacking what they say it implies. Fair enough, but don't call it fact-checking.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 31, 2012
While it is true that Romney did misstate the facts in that first stump speech in Ohio, the Jeep ad itself is factually correct, and more than anything merely serves to point out that President Obama gave a taxpayer-funded bailout to a company that does practice offshoring — to which Obama has repeatedly professed opposition in principle (well, to outsourcing, anyway, but I digress). Matthews tries to argue that the Jeep production that Chrysler is thinking of creating in China would be for Jeeps that will be sold in China, but as his guest former RNC chairman Michael Steele points out, hello — exports, anyone? American workers can make even more money by shipping products abroad as well as selling them domestically.
Anyways, there is definitely a heavy stench of desperation hanging over this election, but the wind isn't blowing from the Romney camp.


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IT administrators are often looking to improve processes and efficiency within their organization. While they can request users to download certain applications, the new enterprise app catalog within BlackBerry App World provides IT admins with an easy way to distribute applications to BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users through BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. It also allows users to access those apps from one convenient repository. When the user is connected to the corporate network, a "Work" app catalog will appear in BlackBerry App World, which can include group licensed apps purchased by the company and custom apps developed for the business.
Employees can download and manage these work apps the same way that they manage any other apps in BlackBerry App World. Apps listed in the Work app catalog include standard information such as available updates, current version, and more. The Work app catalog utilizes BlackBerry® Balance™ technology which is designed to separate work apps from personal apps in an easy and convenient way for both users and IT admins.
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Six months later, a new version of the app has been released and it becomes a priority for the IT group within the organization to have all employees operating with consistent versions of the app in order to remain functional. Updates can be made available through the Work app catalog and downloaded by users in a timely manner.
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Over the 50 years since Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the Transcendental Meditation program to the West, it has spread to over 150 countries worldwide and is practiced by millions of people. In the modern world of the Internet, every organization will attract some criticism, and it's hard for the reader to sort out what is fact or fiction. I will be addressing the few inevitable criticisms from my scientific perspective (see About David Orme-Johnson ).
These issues include challenges to the research, questions about whether TM is a religion or cult, whether it has harmful effects, and about court cases, and on the Maharishi Effect and TM's possible influence on society.
We live in an era in which science is evolving from a materialist worldview to integrate into its theoretical structure the last great frontier of science, consciousness. It is natural during this phase transition for those steeped in a mechanistic paradigm to be critical of the emerging scientific understanding that consciousness plays a fundamental role in natural law. The scientific investigation of consciousness is critical to our understanding of the natural world and for solving the recalcitrant problems of humankind, which are all ultimately problems of mind.
I intend this site to be a resource for those interested in pursuing issues and concerns about meditation effects and research, including the latest scientific research on higher states of consciousness and enlightenment. In most cases each relevant Issue is followed by The Evidence, which includes factual information (scientific research, documented facts, and events that I have personally witnessed), and A Personal View, which contains my own interpretations and opinions. There are also links to primary documents, including PDFs of the full text of original research papers, which the reader can download, as well as links to other web sites for more expanded information.
If you are interested in lists of research on the Transcendental Meditation technique, in studies comparing different meditation and relaxation techniques, or in questions such as whether the research is valid, whether the effects are due to self-selection or placebo, or are otherwise inconclusive, or whether the researchers on Transcendental Meditation are objective and committed to the scientific method, or whether outside reviews have discredited the research, go to RESEARCH.
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Child Protective Services
Victories for Parents' Rights May Help in Dealing with CPS
Two recent court cases affirmed the 4th amendment right of the family to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures by Child Protective Services.
In both cases, the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Child Protective Services' entry into a home and forced strip searches of children when there is no emergency or without a warrant are violations of the parents' 4th amendment rights.
The first case, Calabretta v. Floyd, involved a Yolo County CPS worker who, accompanied by a police officer, forced entry into the Calabretta home without a warrant and demanded a strip search of their 3 year old daughter.
The Calabretta v. Floyd decision has been published. It might be wise to print this decision, read and familiarize yourself with it, and keep a copy handy in your home—possibly near the front door along with your tape recorder that is always supplied with fresh tape and batteries.
Calabretta v. Floyd
HSLDA Press Release
August 26, 1999
Yolo County, CA—Social workers are bound to obey the U.S. Constitution when investigating child abuse cases, said a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an opinion handed down Thursday, August 26, 1999.
"This opinion will have a nationwide impact. With respect to the Fourth Amendment, the Ninth Circuit settled the social worker question once and for all. No longer can social workers enter a home without either a warrant or probable cause of an emergency," said Michael Farris, lead attorney for the plaintiffs.
In the second case, according to the LA Times account, Escondido CPS with the help of local police seized two children from a home in the middle of the night and without a warrant. The seizure was based on a tip from a family member. Three days later, CPS had the children examined at a hospital without their parents present, and despite finding no evidence of abuse, kept the children for a total of 2 1/2 months. Upon the children's return, the family was billed for foster care.
With this decision, the Ninth Circuit opened the way for the family to sue for "damages on the allegations of civil rights violations, abduction of the children and infliction of emotional distress."
"In particular, the court said a jury should decide whether the city of Escondido had a policy of picking up children without verifying the existence of a court order and without reasonable cause."
LA Times Article on Escondido Case
September 15, 1999, page A3
Parents' Rights Upheld in Child Abuse Inquiries;
Justices rule that authorities searching for evidence must get family consent or a judge's order before an invasive examination of a minor.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that government officials investigating possible child abuse cannot conduct an invasive bodily search of a child without parental permission unless a judge has ruled in advance that such a search is warranted.
The following article was printed in the December 1997-January 1998 issue of CHNews.
When Child Protective Services Calls
by Brad Dacus, President Pacific Justice Institute
Reprinted by permission.
Janet, a devoted homeschooler, never thought she had very much to worry about. After all, she always thought of herself to be an above-average mother. She spent lots of time with her children and filed her private school affidavit as required by state law. Unfortunately, Janet was completely unaware of the growing threat to her family autonomy. It struck suddenly.
She received a call from Child Protective Services, who asked for an appointment to visit her and her children. It was to be a visit solely to follow up on a phone call they had received from a concerned neighbor. It would only take a few minutes.
Janet agreed to let CPS come to her home a couple days later to ask some questions of her. There was little hesitancy because, after all, she was a good mother and had nothing to worry about. Later that week CPS showed up with two law enforcement officers. They had a warrant to enter the premises and take her three children for some questioning. Janet was not told where they were taken nor when she would see her children again. Sound absurd?
Unfortunately, Janet is by no means alone. CPS in California has greatly increased the number of cases they are handling. And as Janet soon discovered, homeschoolers are by no means exempt. In fact, as homeschooling becomes more and more widespread, cases like Janet's will likely only increase.
So what should a homeschooling parent do when placed in a situation like Janet's? First, we at Pacific Justice Institute recommend that the parent contact either our organization or a private attorney to provide them immediate legal counsel. Second, Pacific Justice Institute has discovered the following method for homeschoolers which, however cumbersome, almost always effectively circumvents the above tragedy from occurring.
Assuming CPS calls beforehand to set up an appointment, the parent should not lose their friendly demeanor or sound defensive. Parents need to ask why CPS feels the need to visit with them or their children, and then the parent should make sure that they have plenty of time to take their children for a private medical exam beforehand. Parents must not simply hang-up or refuse to cooperate. CPS only needs a "reasonable suspicion" of child abuse (physical or emotional) to temporarily seize children. Consequently, the goal is to negate that reasonable suspicion before CPS has an opportunity to either visit with or take the children. But how?
The parent should immediately have their child physically examined by a private, non-CPS affiliated, physician. The physician should be very thorough in his or her exam so that he or she can immediately write a letter stating that no bruises, marks, or health concerns were found on the child that in any way would create any suspicion of child abuse or neglect. (If it is at all possible in the parent's mind that emotional abuse may be alleged, then the parent should have the child questioned by a child psychiatrist and have a similar report prepared immediately.)
After the parent receives these written reports, the parent should send copies via certified mail to the CPS worker handling the case, as well as to the CPS worker's supervisor. To make sure that the CPS worker and supervisor receive these reports on time, the parent might want to personally (and in a friendly, helpful manner) deliver these reports to them instead.
The parent should then follow-up with a phone call to make sure that the reports satisfied the CPS worker's concerns and that the earlier scheduled meeting with the parent and children was, in fact, no longer necessary. Nine times out of 10, that will be the case.
However, in those rare occurrences when it is not the case, the parent should immediately call competent legal counsel to intervene further on their behalf.
The parent also should not hesitate to further question the CPS worker to find out specifically what concerns he or she still had outstanding that were not already covered by the report. You may find that the CPS worker simply wants a second opinion or may have mistakenly lost or forgotten about the reports that were sent. Please note that CPS workers in Sacramento County handle an average of 400 case files.
If the CPS worker continues to insist on examining the children, or even takes the children, the parent can be assured they probably have developed the proper evidence needed to get their children back in a timely fashion. The parent also has laid the groundwork for a possible civil suit against CPS if it can be shown that the CPS worker maliciously withheld the medical or psychological reports from the judge who signed the order allowing CPS to take the children.
Often, after the CPS worker has taken the children, they may offer to give back the children contingent upon parents signing an admission of neglect, waiver of a right to trial, and/or pledge to undergo CPS supervised "parental training". All parents should seek competent legal counsel before signing such a document.
Fortunately, over the last five years of coordinating the representation of parents confronted by CPS, there was not a single time when the CPS worker was successful in removing children from their parents when the parents followed the above preventative measures.
Without a doubt, no homeschooling parent can be completely sure that they will never be confronted by CPS. However, there is no reason why non-abusive, non-neglecting parents should ever have to unnecessarily have their family endure the severe trauma resulting from such confrontations.
If you would like more information about how Pacific Justice Institute intervenes and represents homeschooling parents, without charge, please feel free to contact us at (916) 857-6900 or via our web page at http://www.pacificjustice.org.
Links for additional information on CPS:
NOTE: The links on this page are provided for information only. CHN does not endorse these organizations and their views do not necessarily represent the views of CHN, its Board of Trustees or its membership and should not be considered legal advice.
American Family Rights Association
AFRA is a national directory of existing groups and individuals who are working on issues concerning the rights of families, parents, and children.
Child Protection Reform
Excellent site with important advice, links to research and parents' advocacy organizations.
Fight CPS and WIN
"This website exists to address the needs of families who are having legal problems with the child welfare services industry due to unjust or false accusations, misrepresentations, mistakes of fact, or exaggerations of circumstance."
Lifting the Veil
A Critical Look at the Child Welfare System
Family Advocacy Center
Help for Families in Crisis
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Web page entitled "Parents Victimized by Children's Protective Services"
Beware the Child Protectors
by William Norman Grigg
The New American, August 30, 1999
Child Protective Services Abuse & Assistance – Reliable Answers.com
"This site provides legal resources, advice, timely CPS news articles, valuable research and advice on how homeschoolers can avoid contact with child protection workers."


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Like a proud grandfather, Oscar de la Renta beamed from one side of a runway Wednesday high above 42nd Street as bite-size models showed off his first full children's collection for spring, a garden party of floral and lace party dresses for girls and classic layered looks for boys.
One lucky little model hitched a ride in a wagon painted in a blue petal design to complement her red dress in the same print. Two boys toted skateboards for their strut down the runway and two others glided on scooters.
Some had their end-of-runway pause before the cameras down like the bigger pros — and all wore huge smiles. The young walkers ranged in age from 3 to 9.
De la Renta launched a small collection of kidswear for spring of this year, expanded it for fall 2012 and now has a more extensive spring line for 2013. Though far from the priciest, he's among top fashion designers pushing more expensive duds for the increasingly lucrative toddler-with-bucks market, though many of the fancy formal frocks or playwear fall within range for a special gift from a loved one.
Dolce & Gabbana and Marni also launched kid collections this fall as luxury stores Nordstrom and Bergdorf Goodman expand children's sections. Also showing at New York Fashion Week this time around was Ralph Lauren, a holiday collection introducing a young customer to his mix of oft-layered patterns and textures.
There were colored skinny cords and flouncy short skirts paired with puffer jackets, tuxedo shirts and chunky sweaters on Lauren's kid runway earlier in the week.
De la Renta, known for his $5,000 romantic cocktail dresses, struggled to come up with the right partner who also shared his view that clothes should be appropriate for children, said CEO Alex Bolen, the designer's son-in-law.
The fashion house also wanted to make sure prices would be relatively affordable, to let the designer reach new customers who felt intimidated by heftier price tags for women.
Generally, de la Renta children's party dresses last season didn't exceed $350. Kid offerings from other designers can exceed $500.
In lime, light pink and magenta, he worked in cotton and twill for spring, with some silk thrown in.
Some of the girls wore hand-crocheted jackets in light pinks and blues.
One linen dress in turquoise as a dotted wrap. Many had big bows that tied behind the back. His florals were gardenia, azalea and iris, with an ikat pattern in navy and turquoise. A white summer dress was done in cotton eyelet lace.
A white linen party dress had flower applique in navy. Another had a chenille bodice in silk with a raffia silk skirt. He tiered a formal dress in taffeta in ice blue, with silk fringe.
Stripes and plaids in bright blues and muted tones ruled for boys dressed in cotton twill shorts, cargo pants and trousers in poplin and twill. One boy wore a turquoise seersucker cotton blazer with matching shorts. Another wore red shorts and a blue and long-sleeve red print button shirt with a stripe belt.
A multicolor check cotton button shirt was worn with an orange V-neck cashmere sweater. Both dressed in light pink with white, an older boy escorted a younger girl smiling shyly from underneath a pilgrimesque bonnet.


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| Berryshine
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Berryshine in Call of the Cutie
Berryshine with brilliant orange mane in The Return of Harmony Part 2
Berryshine as an Earth Crystal Pony in Flight to the Finish
Berryshine as a Pegasus in Rainbow Falls
Pegasus (Rainbow Falls)
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|Pale, light grayish mulberry
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|Ashleigh Ball (English, S7E19)
Lauren Jackson (English, S9E25)
Depiction in the series
Season oneBerryshine appears frequently in the series as a background pony. She makes her debut in Friendship is Magic, part 1 when she, along with Cherry Berry, Golden Harvest and Sweetie Drops, watches Twilight Sparkle arrive in Ponyville for the first time. She makes her first prominent appearance in Bridle Gossip when she whisks a little filly from her doorstep out of fear of Zecora.
In Winter Wrap Up, Berryshine makes appearances as both a member of the plant team and a member of the animal team, sometimes simultaneously. She also briefly appears as a Pegasus in the same episode, and a Pegasus with her color scheme and cutie mark falls exhausted after the Running of the Leaves in Fall Weather Friends, where she wears the number 6. Berryshine herself competes in the Running of the Leaves as contestant #88.
She inspects some apples in Call of the Cutie, but gets scared off when Apple Bloom tries to force her to buy them; later in the episode, she drinks directly out of a punch bowl in Diamond Tiara's cute-ceañera after checking to see if anyone is looking. Sabrina Alberghetti specifically chose Berryshine for the punch bowl scene due to her cutie mark, and had intended for her to burp after drinking out of the bowl.[3][4]
Berryshine, along with Sweetie Drops, tries to hound Fluttershy to Rarity's Carousel Boutique in Green Isn't Your Color, but both are disappointed when they find her gone. In Over a Barrel, Berryshine appears in Appleloosa wearing a straw-colored cowpony hat, although she switches to a gray top hat during all of her running sequences.
Season twoBerryshine appears again in The Return of Harmony Part 2 where she sneezes from a pepper shaker, one of Discord's tricks. In Luna Eclipsed, she alternates between wearing a ghost sheet[5] and a safari outfit, sometimes appearing twice in the same shot with each one of her wearing a different costume. Her safari outfit, a recolor of the one worn by Daring Do but with the pith helmet worn by Twilight Sparkle in Feeling Pinkie Keen, was added to the episode in order to fill out the crowd scenes and due to time constraints.[6]
Berryshine and "Piña Colada" take part in the Sisterhooves Social; they lose the first pie-eating contest, but win the main event. At the race, they wear matching white shirts and appear briefly in the egg-carrying challenge, dropping their eggs while Rarity and Sweetie Belle pass them by. They take the lead in the final stretch of running course and win the Sisterhooves Social. Despite taking part in the competition, Berryshine's character design and color scheme is also used for some of the spectator ponies.
In The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, during the song, Flim closes Berryshine's dropped jaw. In Hearts and Hooves Day, a way-too-lovestruck Big McIntosh inadvertently drags her house way off her property when Apple Bloom attempts to stop him from reaching Cheerilee by hitching him to it. In A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1, she walks through Canterlot at night, and she makes multiple appearances in crowds in Part 2.
Season three
In The Crystal Empire - Part 2, she briefly appears with the Crystal Ponies in the audience of the Crystal Faire jousting match between Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy at the Crystal Empire. In Too Many Pinkie Pies she drinks juice with Cloud Kicker. In One Bad Apple during Babs Seed (song), she sits in the movie theater and eats popcorn.
Season fourIn season four, Berryshine appears at the Summer Sun Celebration in Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1 and Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2. In Rainbow Falls, she appears as a Pegasus during the Equestria Games qualification tryouts.
She also makes several appearances in Pinkie Pride, Simple Ways, Filli Vanilli, Twilight Time, It Ain't Easy Being Breezies, Maud Pie, For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils, Leap of Faith, and Testing Testing 1, 2, 3. She appears at the Traders Exchange in Trade Ya!, the Equestria Games in the episode of the same name, and at Twilight Sparkle's castle in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2.
Season five
Berryshine flees from a swarm of twittermites, participates in the Running of the Leaves in Tanks for the Memories, attends the Appleloosa Rodeo in Appleoosa's Most Wanted, appears at Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda's wedding in Slice of Life, attends the Grand Equestria Pony Summit in Princess Spike, attends the friendship party in Party Pooped, appears in Ponyville's shared dream in Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, and takes part in the Sisterhooves Social with "Piña Colada" in Brotherhooves Social. In The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, Berryshine receives a delivery from Pinkie Pie. She also appears in the final group shot during Friends Are Always There For You in The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2.
Season sixIn On Your Marks, Berryshine is seen grape-stomping with fellow berry pony Cherry Berry along with Apple Bloom. In A Hearth's Warming Tale, she helps with decorating for the Hearth's Warming and sings the final lines of Hearth's Warming Eve Is Here Once Again (Reprise). In Applejack's "Day" Off, she appears in the Ponyville Day Spa. In The Cart Before the Ponies, she participates the Applewood Derby. In The Fault in Our Cutie Marks, she attends the baseball game and Gabby's cute-ceañera.
Season seven
In Celestial Advice, Berryshine is one of the many ponies at the medal ceremony for Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, Thorax and Discord. At one point, she is seen talking with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. In A Flurry of Emotions, she attends the art show hosted by Spearhead. In Fame and Misfortune, she appears as a Twilight Sparkle's fan. In It Isn't the Mane Thing About You, she appears in the crowd at Davenport's auction with a speaking role. She also appears in flashback of Rainbow Dash's birthday party in Secrets and Pies.
Season eight
Berryshine attends the comedy club in The Maud Couple, talks to Lyra Heartstrings and Shoeshine in Surf and or Turf, and watches the play in Horse Play.
Best Gift Ever
In the special My Little Pony Best Gift Ever, Berryshine appears at the Ponyville marketplace as a fruit vendor during One More Day.
Times are approximate and taken from videos available online.
|Season one
|6:47 – witnessing Twilight Sparkle's arrival in Ponyville, 16:34 – in the foreground at the start of the surprise party, 17:00 ~ 17:18 – mingling at the party, 18:40 – heading to the town hall, 19:35 – grinning in anticipation of Princess Celestia's appearance, 20:08 – staring at the growing mist, 20:14, 20:58 – gasps at the mention of Nightmare Moon's name.
|2:28 – in line for Applejack's stand in Applejack's fantasy, 2:34 – taking a basket of apples and paying for it, 3:47 – in the audience witnessing Rainbow Dash in Rainbow's fantasy, 4:23 – in the foreground as the Wonderbolts fly by, 8:01 – on the dance floor in Canterlot Castle in Rarity's fantasy, 8:13 – standing at the wedding, 12:48 – running from the rain in reality, 17:11 – hears "Twilight has an extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala", 17:36 ~ 18:01 – chasing Twilight.
Duplicates: 8:13 – one duplicate at the wedding, 17:45 ~ 18:01 – entire pony posse intermittently duplicated for effect.
|2:11 – shuts her window in fright from the cow stampede, 2:15 – running from the stampede in panic, 2:27, 2:36 – watching the stampede nearing Ponyville, 3:57 – standing around in town, 4:04, 4:12, 4:19 – walking around during party preparations, 4:52 ~ 6:47 – in the audience at the party for Applejack, 15:08 – sick in bed from eating bad muffins, 18:11 – shuts her window from the bunny stampede, 18:13 – running around.
|1:28 – standing in front of the town hall and in front of the joke shop with Shoeshine, 1:31 – closer view of Berryshine in front of the joke shop, 13:15 – watching Fluttershy lead the ducks, 13:39 – watching Fluttershy run from Gilda, 15:34 – at Pinkie Pie's party for Gilda, 16:04 – laughing at the pepper-in-the-vanilla-lemon-drops and dribble-glass pranks, 16:26 – laughing at the spitting snakes prank, 16:39 – standing with Minuette, 17:03 – laughing at the relighting birthday candles prank, 17:14, 17:41, 17:49 – standing near the pin-the-tail-on-the-pony game, 18:56 – watching Gilda try to leave with Rainbow Dash, 19:43.
Duplicates: 1:28 – two Berryshines in different areas of the town square.
|9:12 – in the crowd for Trixie's show watching Rarity run away, 9:23 ~ 9:50 – near Twilight, 10:04 – walking away, 15:46 – running from the Ursa, 16:23 – gasping, 17:45 – looking at the Ursa in awe.
|1:40 – sleeping on the grass in the park, 20:11 – walking behind Golden Harvest and Shoeshine as the pegasi clear the smoke.
|0:21 – pulls "Ruby Pinch" into a house, 20:04 – standing in the town square.
Duplicates: 20:04 – multiple Berryshines in different areas of the town square.
|2:41 – hoisting the banner with Golden Harvest in the park, 2:49 – standing beside Golden Harvest and receiving Twilight's rebuttal, 13:57 – looking at the falling parasprites, 17:48 – running from the parasprites behind Shoeshine.
|2:10 ~ 2:42 – in the crowd to hear Mayor Mare's speech (with a plant team vest), 2:30 – with an animal team vest, 2:33 – back to a plant team vest (eyes are dark blue), 2:45 – with the animal team (eyes are fuchsia, 2:48 – with the plant team, 4:11 – singing with her head touching Minuette's head, 4:56 – standing while holding a rake, 5:49 – singing with the plant team, 5:51, 6:01 – holding the last note with Twilight (as a Pegasus pony in the weather team), 17:19 – walking up with Caramel to argue (as an Earth pony in the plant team again), 17:25 – looking at the mayor, 17:53 – looking at Twilight and then Caramel, 20:12 ~ 21:00 – in the crowd facing the mayor and Twilight.
Duplicates: 2:10 – three duplicates in the crowd, 2:19 – two duplicates, 2:39, 5:51 – one Berryshine in the plant team and one in the animal team, 20:15 – three duplicates in the crowd, 20:25 – one duplicate, 20:34 – two duplicates, 20:59.
|6:02 – examining apples and then getting surprised by Apple Bloom (with two brown satchels), 16:35 – drinks directly out of the punch bowl at Diamond Tiara's cute-ceañera, 17:07.
|5:30 – watching Rainbow Dash's bale of hay fly in the Iron Pony competition, 5:35 – carrying Applejack in celebration, 6:03 – in the crowd, 6:09 – watching while being stood on by Lemon Hearts, 6:14, 6:25 – watching Applejack leap, 6:31 – watching Rainbow leap, 6:59 ~ 7:25 – watching the final event, 8:51 – at the Running of the Leaves, 9:11 – taking her place at the starting line (contestant #88), 9:14 – warming up, 10:39 – waiting for the race to begin, 11:01, 11:27, 11:36 – starts running (contestant #6), 11:40 – running in the Running of the Leaves, 11:54 – second place, 13:20 – passing Applejack, 14:31 – passing Rainbow Dash, 16:41, 17:15, 17:42 – passing Rainbow, 17:56 – being passed by Rainbow, 18:19, 18:51 – standing near the finish line (tags are gone), 19:30 ~ 20:04 – in the crowd watching Rainbow and Applejack fight.
Duplicates: 6:03 – two duplicates, 11:37 – entire pony posse intermittently duplicated for effect, 12:04 – two Berryshines running, 13:20, 13:45, 16:41, 18:19, 19:31 – one Berryshine in the background.
|14:13 – in the crowd watching Rarity's fashions go onstage.
Duplicates: 14:13 – two duplicates in the crowd.
|2:06 – walking in a street, 2:07, 2:11 – looking at Scootaloo's trick, 5:36 – walking into Carousel Boutique, 16:40 – staring at the Cutie Mark Crusaders during the talent show, 18:46 – laughing, 19:14, 19:51 – awaiting the last award of the night, 20:02 – applauding.
Duplicates: 18:46 – one duplicate in the crowd, 20:02 – at least five duplicates.
|9:47 ~ 10:17 – in the crowd at Fluttershy's first fashion show, 10:12 – smiling, 11:15 – looking through the windows of Carousel Boutique for Fluttershy (with a camera), 11:58 – in the boutique with Sweetie Drops, 12:08 – looks at Sweetie Drops and then at Rarity, 16:43 ~ 18:39 – in the audience for Fluttershy's latest fashion show, 18:07 – looking at Lyrica Lilac as she speaks.
Duplicates: 9:47 – five duplicates in the crowd, 9:56 – two duplicates.
|7:04 – in Appleloosa with a straw-colored cowpony hat, 7:17 – drawing horse-drawn carriages, 12:14 – standing in a yard, 15:46 – running away from the stage with the Appleloosans (with a gray top hat), 15:58 – running through town, 16:29 – on the bottom of the stack supporting Peachy Sweet and Jonagold (with her straw-colored hat back), 18:03 – staring at the looming buffaloes, 18:24 – standing ready behind a barricade, 19:04 – running from the buffaloes (with the top hat), 19:20.
|6:41 – listening to Princess Celestia's announcement at her party, 7:08 – walking out the door, 7:16 – back inside and staring at Rarity as she leaves.
|11:17 ~ 11:29 – standing in the audience for the performance in Rarity's flashback, 11:56 – facing Cherry Berry in Canterlot in Twilight Sparkle's flashback, 12:19 – watching the sun rise, 12:25, 15:28 – staring at Twilight in the present day, 15:36 – walking through Ponyville.
Duplicates: 11:18 – one duplicate in the audience.
|0:01 – walking with Daisy and taking a look at Rainbowshine as she flies by.
|4:43 – in line for Applejack's stand in her fantasy, 5:28 – seemingly in the crowd crossing the drawbridge, 19:40 – running from the animals.
Duplicates: 5:28 – one duplicate in the crowd.
|Season two
|During the theme song with Sunshower Raindrops
|02:19 – seen along with two clones
|11:34 ~11:37 – sneezes from pepper dumped on her from a giant pepper shaker, 20:56 ~ 21:45 – at the end ceremony.
|01:19 – walking while Twilight Sparkle is going over her list, 7:39 – walking as Twilight runs by, 16:38 ~ 18:07 – fighting over Smarty Pants.
|2:54 – dressed as a ghost, 4:15 ~ 4:19 – standing as Mayor Mare speaks to the crowd, 6:51 ~ 7:36 – two duplicate Berryshines cowering in front of Princess Luna, one dressed as a ghost, the other as a safari pony, 8:18 – safari Berryshine quivering in front of Luna as she points her hoof at them, 11:51 – cheering for Luna (in the safari outfit) and then dancing (as a ghost), 15:01 – ghost and safari Berryshine cowering in front of Luna, 15:17 – safari Berryshine looking at Luna going up into the sky, 15:46 – looking sad, 16:01 – talking to "Candy Mane".
|16:08 – participating in and losing the pie-eating competition, 17:00 – assembles into the crowd around Granny Smith, 17:26 ~ 17:50 – at starting line and starts race (is also in crowd at one point), 18:51 ~ 19:23 – in crowd and racing against Rarity and Sweetie Belle.
|11:27 – looking at Apple Bloom's cutie pox, 12:21 – looking hungrily at the pie Apple Bloom diced up with her loop-de-hoop, 16:21 – watching Apple Bloom fence, 16:43 – yelling and then running inside in fear of cutie pox.
|2:20 – cheering for Rainbow Dash, 3:12, 3:25, 4:32 – circled around Rainbow Dash, 7:22 ~ 7:40 – standing and cheering, 16:17 – standing around and then leaving Rainbow Dash, 17:44 – in the crowd.
|16:28 – running away from Spike.
|01:57 – putting a hat on in the changing room, 20:05 – cheering with a duplicate.
|5:07 – looking at Apple Bloom and Granny Smith, 5:43 – talking to Cherry Berry.
|2:42 ~ 3:49 – in the crowd cheering for Applejack, 07:49 – cleaning the rodeo arena, 08:28 – getting off the train in Dodge Junction.
|2:08 – standing in line, 2:15, 4:09 – angry that Applejack has run out of cider, 4:40 – watching Flim and Flam arrive, 4:58, 5:10 – being talked to by Flim, 5:43 ~ 8:10 – in the Flim Flam Brothers song, 10:09 – in line, 10:57 – going after cider, 11:08 – watches Rainbow Dash's cup get knocked away, 11:24 – excited about the cider, 12:06 – says "wow", 12:23 – watches Flam talk, 19:50 – watching the Apple family leave.
|0:02 – in Ponyville square (twice), 03:00 – walking around Ponyville, 3:09, 4:11 – in Ponyville square, 13:35 – crying out in despair in Apple Bloom's imagination, 18:05 ~ 18:09 – inside the house Apple Bloom ties to Big McIntosh.
|5:00 ~ 6:23 – in Pinkie's song, 11:24 ~ 11:37 – watching Pinkie and then laughing at Cranky Doodle Donkey.
|4:54 – walking in the market, 7:24 ~ 10:25 – at Iron Will's seminar, 11:57 – outside Sugarcube Corner, then in line, and moves to the back of the line when Fluttershy asserts herself.
|3:40 – walking around Ponyville, 4:01 ~ 4:24 – listening to Twilight Sparkle, 6:21 – surprised by Cerberus, 6:30 – running away in a panic, 6:32 – shutting her window in fear.
|18:31 – ignoring the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
|0:36 – watching Big McIntosh carry the cake, 10:53 – looking adoringly at "Con Mane" in Pinkie's imagination, 11:30 – throwing herself at "Con Mane"'s feet.
|14:04 – walking behind Rarity.
|5:52 ~ 9:30 – in the audience of the wedding, 14:23 – running from the changelings, 21:07 – watching the carriage go by.
|Season three
|12:03 – in the audience of the jousting match.
|00:10 – sitting at a table, 13:23 – in the crowd, 13:36 – in front of the crowd on the left.
|08:13 – in the movie theatre, 15:43 – playing a tuba and several other background appearances in the Summer Harvest Parade, 15:48 – in the crowd.
|03:37 – watching Rainbow Dash, 20:16 – cheering for Pinkie Pie.
|18:17 – lying on the bench in the train.
|00:39 – entering the train.
|0:32 - at a café table with Shoeshine; 1:59 ~ 2:05 - in the crowd grumbling at Rarity; 2:59 ~ 3:11 - in the crowd at Sugarcube Corner; 10:39 - galloping through Ponyville with a raincloud over her; 12:52 - walking through Ponyville, looking mad; 13:00 ~ 13:16 - in the crowd during A True, True Friend; 18:24 ~ 19:35 - at Twilight's princess coronation; 20:53 ~ 21:17 - in the crowd during Life in Equestria
Duplicates: 20:53 - one in the crowd
|Season four
|0:47 – walking through Canterlot, 13:26 – running through Ponyville
|20:30 – in the crowd at the Summer Sun Celebration
|19:51 - watching the Cutie Mark Crusaders speed by; 20:27 - in the sweeping crowd shot
Duplicates: 20:27 ~ 20:31 - two in the crowd
| 4:13 - chatting with Sunshower Raindrops and Sassaflash; 20:26 - applauding
Duplicates: one at 20:26, several at 20:39
|0:01 - dancing in Appleloosa; 1:20 - standing next to "Tornado Bolt"; 1:24 - watching Pinkie Pie enter Ponyville; 2:06 - passing by Mr. and Mrs. Cake; 2:43, 3:03 - with other ponies during Pinkie the Party Planner; 5:52 ~ 6:40 - seen during The Super Duper Party Pony; 7:09, 7:11, 7:19 - in the crowd admiring Cheese Sandwich; 13:02 ~ 16:32 - watching Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich's goof off; 18:21, 18:24 - in Cheese Sandwich's flashback during Cheese Confesses; 19:51 - watching Cheese Sandwich's party cannon fire
Duplicates: one at 6:09, one at 14:01
|0:08, 0:10 - at the Ponyville Days Festival announcement; 4:49, 4:51 - getting off the train; 5:05 - looking at Rarity
Duplicates: several at 0:10
|10:20 - watching the Pony Tones perform; 12:24 - galloping past a pen of animals
|10:21 ~ 11:40 - sitting with Minuette at the Hay Burger
|6:17 - cheering for Fluttershy
|18:53 - riding the train next to Pinkie Pie and Maud Pie
|3:42 - applauding the Cutie Mark Crusaders
|5:26, 6:36 - seen during Flim Flam Miracle Curative Tonic; 14:38 ~ 16:32 - in a Ponyville Swim Meet crowd; 15:22, 16:04 - near Flim and Flam's tonic stand; 16:42 - trotting up to Apple Bloom and Granny Smith; 19:09, 19:18 - in the crowd of ponies
|20:02 - helping Rainbow Dash prepare for her test
|1:40, 1:43, 12:20 - at the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange; 5:48 - talking with Wensley; 15:10, 15:13 - in an ever-condensing crowd of ponies; 17:20 - trading items with Lyra Heartstrings; 19:34 - at the Traders Exchange trial; 20:10 - leaving the Traders Exchange
|16:11 - trapped in the crystallized Town Hall with Royal Riff
|7:02 - in the Equestria Games crowd; 8:32 - walking away from the stadium; 14:36 - listening to Spike sing; 16:33, 16:39, 16:58 - watching the ice archery event
|16:28 - in a Leap of Faith flashback
|20:19 - walking up to Twilight's castle; 20:30, 21:14 - seen during Let the Rainbow Remind You
|Season five
|8:17, 8:18 - fleeing from the twittermite swarm
|0:03 - walking through Ponyville; 0:19, 0:22 - participating in the Running of the Leaves; 8:10 - raking leaves (different cutie mark)
|19:05 - laughing at Trouble Shoes; 20:27 - listening to Trouble Shoes
|3:46 - talking with Shoeshine; 5:59, 6:01, 6:20 - observing the Mane Six; 15:28 ~ 15:51 - picked up by DJ Pon-3's mobile DJ station; 16:22 - flying into town hall
|0:06 - at the Grand Equestria Pony Summit; 3:34 - watching a mime perform; 10:25 - in a line of summit delegates
|8:19 - walking through Ponyville with Caramel; 17:47 - on a Ponyville bridge; 19:59, 20:36 - at the friendship party in Ponyville
|13:29 ~ 15:15, 16:40, 17:05, 17:14, 19:49 - in Ponyville's shared dream; 14:03 - as a Pegasus
|7:43, 8:13 - sitting next to Minuette in the upper tier of the stadium
|18:28 - watching Coco Pommel get carried onto the stage
|6:33 - paired with "Piña Colada" for the Sisterhooves Social; 7:39 - talking to Cherry Fizzy; 10:01 - standing next to Caramel; 13:20, 13:28 - watching Apple Bloom and "Orchard Blossom" juggling bowling pins; 14:26, 14:29, 14:46, 14:56 - at the start line for the obstacle course with "Piña Colada"; 15:03, 15:46, 16:25 - participating in the Sisterhooves Social race
|13:38 - standing next to Daisy; 20:25 - standing next to Cotton Cloudy
|7:10 - standing next to Noteworthy at a carrot stand; 9:42 - receiving a delivery from Pinkie Pie
|1:43 - decorating Ponyville for Nightmare Night; 14:59 - dressed as a ghost
|3:28 - tending to her windowsill plants
|3:42 - talking to Golden Harvest; 21:11 - member of the changeling resistance
|1:15 ~ 5:04 - member of the changeling resistance; 21:06 - joining Starlight Glimmer and the Mane Six for the finale; 21:11 - as part of "Group B" for the finale; 21:31 - appears in final group shot
|Season six
|1:52 - talking to Golden Harvest outside the Castle of Friendship
|17:26 - in the park talking to Shoeshine
|11:39 - grape stomping with Apple Bloom and Cherry Berry; 18:30 ~ 20:25 - watching the dance recital
|2:13 - talking with Sassaflash and Rainbowshine out of a window; 16:16 - in the crowd for Trixie's show
|14:07 ~ 18:41 - in the crowd for the Wonderbolts' performance
|0:59 - drinking a mug of hot cider; 13:31 - helping ponies string up some bells and a wreath; 21:02 - taking part in the finale; 21:26 - singing the final lines
|7:24, 7:41, 8:21 - waiting in line for the steam room; 11:34 - getting a warm towel
|14:33 - at the start line for the Derby with Goldengrape and Sweetie Drops
|7:24, 7:49, 8:02 - in the crowd of angry ponies; 9:51 - talking to Daisy outside Sugarcube Corner
|12:56 - part of the crowd of fanponies at the train station; 19:40 - in the stands for the buckball game
|12:46 - in the stands of the baseball game; 13:33 - cheering on Gabby; 20:52 - attending Gabby's cute-ceañera; 21:07 - dancing at Gabby's cute-ceañera
|9:18 - walking and talking with Golden Harvest
|Season seven
|2:40 - watching the medal ceremony; 3:59 - talking to Meadow Song (behind Trixie); 4:10 - standing behind Sunburst; 4:15 - standing with Amethyst Star; 5:39 - talking to Amethyst Star; 6:05 - talking to the Cutie Mark Crusaders; 6:22 - talking to Lucky Clover and Cherry Berry; 6:30 - talking to the Crusaders; 16:44 - talking to Sweetie Drops; 18:46 - standing in the crowd
|6:32 - looking at a painting with Shoeshine; 7:17 - looking at a painting with Caramel; 8:18 - picking out a toy and giving it to the foal next to her; 9:16 - looking at the mess of dolls
|16:15 - looking at the carrot stand outside Sugarcube Corner
|10:50 - in the stands of Wonderbolts' arena
|0:06 - running past Apple Bloom; 0:08 - at Grand Pear's stand; 8:05 - walking behind Applejack
|0:51 - walking with "Earnest Schoolpony" outside Twilight's castle; 6:22 - walking past the Fillydelphia fanponies; 8:21 - standing next to Sassaflash; 14:25 - holding an "I Heart Twilight Sparkle" sign
|0:11 - carrying a wagon of flowers; 8:57 - talking to Lucky Clover; 10:57 - talking to Golden Harvest; 21:16 - walking up to the stage
|0:01 - looking at flowers; 11:31 - in the crowd outside the Quill and Sofa store (speaking role); 19:20 - looking at the pony wearing Mr. Breezy's outfit
|0:01 - walking outside Sugarcube Corner; 5:12, 20:06 - talking to Shoeshine in flashback of Rainbow Dash's birthday party
|Season eight
|0:08 ~ 1:22 - at the comedy club
|16:19 - in the audience for the fashion show (shot reused from Green Isn't Your Color)
|1:22 - talking to Lyra Heartstrings and Shoeshine
|13:28; 15:56, 17:39 - in the audience for the play
|2:07 - sleeping outside the Castle of Friendship
|0:05 - walking in the School of Friendship foyer
|6:00 - walking with Sunshower Raindrops and Cloud Kicker
Depiction in Equestria Girls
My Little Pony Equestria Girls
In Equestria Girls, Berryshine or a similar looking pony appears in the aerial view of the Crystal Empire train station.
Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks
In Rainbow Rocks, Berryshine is one of many ponies seen in the establishing shot of Ponyville.
Equestria Girls: Friendship Games
In Friendship Games, she is seen running around in the Ponyville Day Spa when Midnight Sparkle opens one of the dimensional rifts to Equestria.
Equestria Girls Forgotten Friendship
Berryshine appears walking past the Canterlot library in its second establishing shot.
Depiction in My Little Pony The Movie
Berryshine appears in My Little Pony The Movie during We Got the Beat, We Got This Together, and Tempest Shadow's attack on Canterlot.
Other depictions
Friendship is Magic shorts
In Triple Pony Dare Ya, Berryshine appears waiting in line for Granny Smith's Hearth's Warming fruitcake at the Ponyville marketplace. In Sundae, Sundae, Sundae, she attends the unveiling of the ice cream museum at Sugarcube Corner.
IDW comics
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Berryshine appears on Issue #4's Hot Topic cover and T-shirt, on Issue #43 page 7, on Issue #44 page 8, on Issue #46 pages 1, 3, 5, and 14, and on Issue #47 pages 2, 14-16, and 20. In My Little Pony Micro-Series, she appears on Issue #2 page 19. In My Little Pony: Friends Forever, she appears on two Issue #7 Jetpack Comics covers RE, in Issue #9, on Issue #37 page 20. In My Little Pony: Ponyville Mysteries, she appears on Issue #4 pages 11-12.
A pony with Berryshine's color scheme and mane style appears inside a stand at the Ponyville marketplace on Micro-Series Issue #5 page 13, on Friendship is Magic Issue #23 page 16, on Friends Forever Issue #10 page 1, on Issue #15's SUB cover, and on Friendship is Magic Issue #30 pages 2-3.
Chapter books
Chapter 8 of the chapter book Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell, "Gilda's Got Game", mentions a character by the name of Berry Punch. Pinkie Pie leaves Twilight's cottage for "the housewarming party at Berry Punch's new place," singing "Oh, the bestest cottage is a warm one! A cottage that is filled with frieeends! So let's warm this house and fill it up with a party that never eeeends!"
Chapter 3 of Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare, "The Golden Oak Library Society", also mentions a Berry Punch: "Plot Twist and Berry Punch walked in together, followed by their friends Lyra Heartstrings, [Sweetie Drops/Bon Bon], and Wild Fire."
Berry Punch also appears in Discord and the Ponyville Players Dramarama.
The Hub Network's online game Equestrivia Challenge refers to Berryshine as Berry Punch.[7][8]
My Little Pony (mobile game)
Berryshine, under the name Berry Punch, is a playable character in Gameloft's mobile game. Her in-game description states, "A lover of all delicious drinks that feature a berry twist, Berry Punch is an earth pony who's earned her name!"
Fundamentals of Magic
Berryshine appears in episode 5 of Fundamentals of Magic, "When Magic Goes Wrong".
MerchandiseIn the third wave of mystery pack mini-figure toys and collector cards, a pony named Berryshine shares the show character's coat and mane colors and cutie mark, but is a green-eyed unicorn, using the Rarity design, instead of the cerise-eyed Earth pony as depicted in the show. According to the European version of the card, Berryshine "loves berries". The U.S. version of the card lists Berryshine's name with a trademark symbol and has a longer description reading, "BERRYSHINE loves berries more than any pony!"[9]
A second Berryshine mini-figure toy[10][11][12] and collector card pair was leaked in September 2013 and released in November 2013 as part of the ninth wave of mystery packs, which also list Berryshine's name with a trademark symbol.[13][14] This pony is an Earth pony, using the Pinkie Pie design, with a cerise eye color, matching the attributes of the show character. The U.S. version of this card uses the same description as the previous U.S. collector card. A November 6, 2013 "vorläufige Abbildung" image for mystery packs depicts the show character.
Berryshine, along with hosts of characters from the show, appears on the Comic Con 2011 and Season 2 posters. On the Comic Con 2011 poster, she is behind Mayor Mare, smiling beside Minuette. On the season two poster, she is between Minuette and Golden Harvest, smiling with her legs around them.
Series 2 of Enterplay's trading cards includes a card featuring Berryshine that refers to her by the name Berry Punch[15] and lists this name with a trademark symbol. Her card is #37 and has a description that reads "Some ponies say she's a little overprotective of her loved ones, but hanging out with Berry Punch is always a good time! She sells a wide variety of drinks made from berries and other fruit, and thanks to her love for her own recipes, Berry frequently slurps down all the profits. She's very close to Minuette and likes to engage in a little friendly competition, like helping with the Running of the Leaves and winning the Sisterhooves Social!" The card lists her likes as "Cider! Cider! Cider! Cider!" and groups her with DJ Pon-3, "Piña Colada" and Minuette.
In Enterplay's collectible card game, α #20 C, a card of Sweetie Sunrise, attributes to Berry Punch the quote "I don't know about you, but it takes more than a cup of orange juice to get ME going in the morning."[16] In the game's expansion set Canterlot Nights, #130 U, Apple Cider, attributes to Berry Punch the quote "And that's why they call this stuff 'Liquid Courage.'" In the game's set Rock N Rave, #2 F a card of Berry Punch, lists the quote "And one more for the road!" In the game's expansion set The Crystal Games, #33 F, another card of Berry Punch, lists the quote "Whoever said, 'You can lead a pony to water but you can't make them drink,' had NO idea what they're talking about." In the game's expansion set Absolute Discord, #128 U, Cider Stand, attributes to Berry Punch the quote "Whoa, is tomorrow cider season already?! Good times, good times."
Berryshine appears on multiple WeLoveFine.com merchandise designs, always along with other characters from the show.
An Enterplay dog tag checklist has listed Berryshine's name as Berry Punch with a trademark symbol.[17]
- "Cider, cider, cider, cider, cider, cider!"
- — The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 and Enterplay collectible card game Defenders of Equestria #26 C card of Berry Punch & Orange Swirl
- "I'll give you twice whatever the pony who wants to buy the yellow one is paying!"
- — It Isn't the Mane Thing About You
- "Where is it?"
- — Friends Forever Issue #23 page 2
- "Daring Do is such an exciting hero! I just love her!"
- — Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare
- "I don't know about you, but it takes more than a cup of orange juice to get ME going in the morning."
- — Enterplay collectible card game α #20 C card of Sweetie Sunrise
- "And that's why they call this stuff 'Liquid Courage.'"
- — Enterplay collectible card game Canterlot Nights #130 U card Apple Cider
- "And one more for the road!"
- — Enterplay collectible card game Rock N Rave #2 F card of Berry Punch
- "Whoever said, 'You can lead a pony to water but you can't make them drink,' had NO idea what they're talking about."
- — Enterplay collectible card game The Crystal Games #33 F card of Berry Punch
- "Whoa, is tomorrow cider season already?! Good times, good times."
- — Enterplay collectible card game Absolute Discord #128 U card Cider Stand
- "Wow, what did I drink last night? Because I'm definitely gonna need more of that."
- — Enterplay collectible card game High Magic #24 C card of Berry Punch
- "Zap apple jam is good and all, but zap apple cider is my JAM."
- — Enterplay collectible card game High Magic #116 R and #Pƒ7 cards Zap Apples
- "This is the poking end this time, right? Okay, good."
- — Enterplay collectible card game Marks in Time #80 C card Ever Vigilant
- "The sooner we get this done the sooner we can start the party!"
- — Enterplay collectible card game Friends Forever #68 R card of Berry Punch
See also
- List of ponies
- Berry Punch on the Collectible Card Game Wiki
- Berry Punch on the My Little Pony Gameloft Wiki
- Berry Punch on the Fan Wiki
- ↑ Twitter / Fyre_flye: @pegastarlight @BronyCon I ... (2013-05-02). Retrieved on 2013 May 2.
- ↑ PonyCon 2016 Character Development Panel with Lauren Faust. YouTube (2016-02-18). Retrieved on 2016 March 12.
- ↑ Sibsy Stops By the EQD IRC. Equestria Daily (2011-09-02). Retrieved on 2012 July 5.
- ↑ Interview: Sabrina "Sibsy" Alberghetti. Everfree Radio (2012-04-14). Retrieved on 2012 July 5.
- ↑ Post by layout artist "Nayuki" on The Allspark Forums (2011-10-22). Retrieved on 2012 July 5. Archived locally.
- ↑ Post by layout artist "Nayuki" on The Allspark Forums (2012-02-13). Retrieved on 2012 July 5. Archived locally.
- ↑ quizData.xml. Retrieved on 2014 April 29.
- ↑ BerryPunch.png. Retrieved on 2014 April 29.
- ↑ Kart22Racer sent in these images of the blind bags.... My Little Pony G4 Merchandise (2012-07-09). Retrieved on 2012 July 9.
- ↑ T2_arJXlJaXXXXXXXX_!!907806781.jpg. Retrieved on 2013 September 6.
- ↑ T2Xt2.XkhXXXXXXXXX_!!907806781.jpg. Retrieved on 2013 September 6.
- ↑ T27h0PXdVeXXXXXXXX_!!907806781.jpg. Retrieved on 2013 September 6.
- ↑ http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopCulture/Collectibles/WhatsNew/My+Little+Pony+Blind+Bag+Figure-10100878.jsp. Hot Topic. Retrieved on 2013 December 7.
- ↑ T2UjddXp4aXXXXXXXX_!!52061440.jpg. Retrieved on 2013 September 12.
- ↑ A selection of trading cards including a Berry Punch card. Retrieved on 2013 March 25.
- ↑ My Little Pony Prerelease Part 2 and Rainbow Dash Theme Deck (2013-12-09). Retrieved on 2013 December 11.
- ↑ Dog Tags are coming!. Facebook (2013-10-09). Retrieved on 2013 October 9.


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Most areas will see about one-third to two-thirds of an inch of rain, with up to an inch possible in the San Gabriel mountains.
There's also a possibility of thunderstorms, with small hail and isolated waterspouts off the coast.
A winter storm watch will be in effect from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning for the Ventura County mountains and Los Angeles County mountains.
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Winter weather advisories have been issued for the valleys of the Inland Empire, the Santa Ana mountains and foothills and the Antelope Valley.
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Similar advisories have also been issued starting Tuesday afternoon for the Los Angeles County coast, the Orange County coast and the valleys of the Inland Empire.


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Just as an experiment - I'd like to ask all the Inmates of the Northeast section to post up their absolutely favorite road in their area. A link to a Google map so people can figure out how to get to it, then a brief description of why it's your favorite road.
If this works out well - I will sticky this thread (but leave it open so it can be added to.)
I'll give a try for the first example..
Some quick notes on using Google maps to embed things
I'd suggest the following, once you locate your road on Google Maps in a new tab or window:
- Right Upper Corner of the Google map - look for "Link" - select it.
- A window will open with two offerings, we'll use both.
- Copy the "Past Link in Email or IM" - and then paste it in your message to our group.
- Copy the "Paste HTML to embed in website" and paste it in your message. You can change the Width and Height to 640 and 480 if you want - that's a reasonable size for a map here.
If there are any problems - please PM me..