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from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hey, welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in our Palo Alto studios today for a CUBE Conversation, a little bit of a break from the road. We'd like to have guests come into the Palo Alto studio and have a little bit calmer conversation without all the buzz of the show. And we're excited to have a return guest. She hasn't been on for like two and a half years, which I find extremely hard to believe, it's been too long. Marie Hatar, she's the CMO of Keysight Technologies. We're great to see you. Wonderful to see you again. Yeah, so last time we had you on, I had to look it up, it was October 2016 and you were the CMO of Ixia, which is a little bit different, but really not that different. Tell us how you got from Ixia to Keysight. So Keysight Technologies acquired Ixia and I was fortunate enough to be chosen to be the CMO for Keysight Technologies. So it was a great evolution, both for me personally and professionally. Right, and very kind of similar product and solutions portfolio, bigger obviously than what you were doing at Ixia, but for people that aren't familiar with Keysight, give them kind of the quick overview. Sure, so Ixia served two audiences. They really targeted the QA engineer, as well as the IT infrastructure. And Keysight actually targets, I would say, the design engineer, the manufacturing engineer. Part of the Ixia business, which is very closely aligned to Keysight, is in the test and measurement space. So Keysight Technologies really help any electrical engineer develop and innovate and bring products to market that basically have an electric signal going through them. What Keysight delivers are things like soloscopes, network analyzers, power supplies, signal generators, and anything in terms of the test and measurement of design of electronics. So you guys, and the company's been around for a while, it's four billion in revenue, so you guys are basically testing and measuring pretty much everything, right? As you say, as an electronic signal go through it. We have a broad area that we cover and we also have a very, very long history in terms of being in this space. Our heritage started off as the original Hewlett Packard, evolved into Agilent, and Keysight was spent out about four or five years ago as an independent company. And we're doing really well in terms of raising our awareness and visibility of a new name because anytime you change names you have to re-educate the market. Hey, this is us. You've worked with us for a very long time and we continue to be leaders in this space. Right, good opportunity for you though, right? That's what they get good CMOs for. I love marketing, so it's great. So the cool thing is not only are you working with stuff that's shipping today, but you guys have good visibility into the future. And as we talk about all the time, there's some really massive megatrends that are coming down the pike that would love to kind of get your thoughts off. One of them is 5G and World Congress was just a couple of weeks ago. I think you were also at RSA. 5G has been getting talked about for a while, but it's coming and we see more and more parts. I think there's actually been a couple of handsets delivered. You probably know way more than I and Tower, so I wonder if you can explain to people a little bit about 5G, when you think about 5G and the potential, because I don't think many people know much beyond kind of the buzzword, that it's bigger, faster, stronger, but it's a pretty significant leap over the current LTE. It's truly a revolutionary and disruptive technology, and it enables so much more than what's available today, which has really been what I would call incremental evolution. With 5G, it's truly transformative because in addition to faster, it is going into spectrum that was traditionally reserved for defense organizations getting into a millimeter wave, so it really changes the technology that we're all used to with the big cell towers. 5G uses much smaller antennas and multiple antennas that actually sit on buildings. In terms of because you're using millimeter wave, it doesn't travel as long distances as what you have with LTE, which is sub six gigahertz. That's all on the technology front. What's really amazing about 5G is it has capabilities such as ultra low latency, and it's supposed to consume a lot less power, so you could almost see it as really disrupting and transforming everything and how we think about everything, whether it's enabling the car of the future and autonomous driving, because now all of a sudden, your car can actually communicate to everything with vehicle to everything communication or cellular vehicle to everything communication. You can think about it as a way that it's transforming IoT and the evolution of everything that's happening in IoT. So yes, it's bigger, faster, better, much more reliable, much more lower latency, and for those of us who care a lot about sustainability, it's supposed to also deliver much lower power consumption. Right, just interesting, right? Because LTE was, I think, kind of the first step into real data space and people figured out that we're using our phones for a lot more than talk. In fact, the data transmission rates are way higher than the voice, of course, all voice over IP and people watch football on their TVs or on their screens, which is unimaginable a couple of years ago, but in 5G, now that's really not necessarily optimized for, but really an enabler for, as you said, IoT and kind of this next level of machine to machine communication. It's not just me texting you with the data and put more of these super high-fast, really require low latency applications in this IoT and the industrial IoT world that everybody's so psyched about. It can't happen without this type of technology. It really can't, I mean the whole industry 4.0, anything in terms of manufacturing and robotics and real-time communication that can happen in that, if you think about a lot of the cars that are out there, if you look at Tesla, they're doing ongoing updates and ongoing communications with all their cars all the time, and so something like 5G enables even a higher degree of communication and understanding of what's going on with the vehicle and as you get into more of autonomous vehicles, understanding what all the sensors and the radar in the car is seeing, basically communicating that to what's happening with edge computing, having all of that processing happen there and being able to send that back and be able to adapt to the environments that are going to be pretty significant and revolutionary. I mean I think in every area, this new technology in some ways, just in terms of what it opens up, will enable us to think of really transformative and disruptive ways of how we do things and it does require going along for the ride, investing early, understanding what it means and I would say it crosses so many vertical industries. We definitely have to have lunch with you and Sandra Rivera from Intel, it would be a really, really fun lunch, but one of the things you touched on with it, I don't think people really appreciate is this kind of new age of connected device and clearly Tesla's an easy example, right? It checks in every night, but as we see more and more devices being connected kind of back to the mothership and the ability for a maker of something to actually know now how are people using it? It's not just I build it, I ship it to my distributor and maybe I'll get a few back every now and then and we can take it apart and see how people use it, but just the whole kind of product management life cycle when you've got connected devices that actually report home into how they're actually being used and how people are using them is such a transformational, both relationship between the user and the device but now the device back to the manufacturer that they never, never used to have before. Yeah and it has both kind of technological as well as I would say society oriented ramifications. If you think about in the Tesla example, you're effectively saying, hey, it's okay for Tesla to constantly talk to my car. A lot of times we're used to the model of once I buy something, it's mine. You know, this is my device, not something that's part of your ongoing network, so to speak. And so with a lot of these evolutions that are going on, there's going to be both a capability shift in terms of what we can enable, but there's also going to come with it somewhat of a society shift of what's now accessed about you. So for example, with IoT, if you choose to move towards this concept of body area networks and having sensors all over you or potentially even embedded in you, how that is being leveraged to provide you information. How do you protect that from a security standpoint from someone tapping into that to abuse that information? So a lot of those topics were really big topics at Mobile World Congress in terms of the coming of 5G and just even kind of the completion of the standard because it's not yet fully ratified yet. So there's ongoing evolutions in that. There's obviously a lot of hype out there on this. We are very much involved with the whole ecosystem that's involved in 5G all the way from chipsets to the devices, to the networks that carry them, sort of looking at the whole end to end to the antennas, you name it, to the base stations. We're involved in that whole ecosystem. And as a key site, we actually have to get in really early because all of those innovators are depending on our technology to test and validate that it will perform as expected.  Well Mobile World Congress is interesting. Last week or the week before was RSA. And a lot of the things you're talking about, I would argue are probably going to be more important on the RSA type of kind of view of the world versus the Mobile World Congress, assuming you get everything to work, which I'm sure everybody will. But kind of the legal ramifications and the moral ramifications and the data privacy ramifications when there is so many more connected devices. And as you said, body area network right now, it's my heart rate. I went to an interesting Wall Street Journal conference where people can sell back their 23 and me genomic data back into a pool for researchers who are looking for certain profiles so they can do their clinical trials. And that's basically an electronic representation of literally who you are. And so again, I think you touch on a lot of really important points. That it's the security and data privacy and the moral issues around how that's used, treated, stored, protected are going to be the bigger issues as we just get more and more of these things becoming really software and data. Which we see in the products. Test is a lot more software than it is a car and that's why they can do updates all the time and keep updating the features. Well, even in our business, we're becoming much more of a software oriented business in terms of our test and measurement and how we look at the whole design workflow end to end. So in many ways, everything is becoming software. Just because if you think about this concept of the digitization that's going on of everything, there's a lot of discussions about this concept of digital twins where there's enough information derived from something physical that you can essentially replicate the digital twin and you can do the simulations and in what you're describing basically you could potentially have it model and represent whether it's a robotic process or a car process and anticipate, hey, this is time when this is going to wear down. This is what I'm seeing out there and this almost becomes predictive in terms of what's going on in the real world. So it's really exciting stuff and it's wonderful to be at the cusp of this. Going to RSA, I agree with you. All of those topics were front and center. Very important to understand and have the visibility in terms of a lot of these 5G networks. There's so much throughput going in.  How do you actually measure and have visibility in terms of really that is the service that you're offering? So there's a lot of discussion in terms of providing that visibility and that security in terms of, for those types of customers. Right, it's funny, we've done a lot of stuff with GE and back with the software group with Bill Rue and team and they've talked about, GE talks about digital twins a lot in the context of the industrial products that they build whether it's a turbine engine or whatever to the point that you said you can do testing and you can do maintenance scheduling and all this other stuff. What was weird at the Wall Street Journal conference is they're talking about digital twins for people. Your digital twins, so now I can test how would you respond to certain drug treatments? How might you respond to a different diet regime? How might you respond differently to a different exercise regime? And I never kind of heard that digital twin concept applied to a person and it's really interesting times. But before I let you go, I imagine your business has changed quite a bit as the percentage of makeup of all these devices has shifted from dedicated purpose-built hardware which is probably relatively easy to test to hardware platforms that are supporting a larger and increasing amount of software that actually drive the functionality. Must be good for your business because I'm sure the testing has got to be much more complex, not to mention people are pushing updates all of the time. Really different model than just testing a box. Well it has changed and actually what's, you know, when I talk to our customers, their goal is to innovate and bring their products to market faster and as a company that supports them, our goal is to accelerate their innovation and a lot of times it's how do you share the information as it's going from the design engineer to the quality and test to then go to manufacturing because a designer will build his product and then he'll send it off and say, okay, I'm kind of done. How do you then make sure that at every cog of the wheel you're basically able to share back what his expectation were when he was building it in a CAD system versus what they're actually seeing when they test the real-life product versus what they actually see when they're manufacturing and applying the same tests. So having that consistent software, which at Keysight we call Pathwave, it really allows that acceleration and the sharing across all of those different groups so that you can optimize the flow, so to speak, of your design. The other exciting part is you're right, there's just so much innovation and evolution in terms of the areas that we participate in because all of these technologies are changing. We talked about sort of the autonomous vehicle just as important as the electric vehicle and the growth in terms of how do you manufacture and test batteries in a scale that's gonna be required to keep up with the demand because traditional methods, it takes a long time to test a battery to make sure it's available and can be used. And we have some really innovative technology that allows us to expedite and accelerate that testing. So customers of ours like BMW are leveraging this technology so that they can accelerate their battery production, testing, and deployment. Well, we'll have to have you back another time. We're out of time to just, I'm so excited by the whole kind of change in mobility which is driven by really high capacity, inexpensive batteries, and these really powerful little brushless motors and as those things kind of permeate and all these different form factors, thankfully driven by the high volume car manufacturers since it's the same little cells that run a lot of these things, it's pretty cool space. But we can't get deep into that this time. We'll have to save it all for next time. So hopefully it won't be another two and a half years. I hope not. All right, Marie. Well, thanks for stopping by and really appreciate catching up. Thanks a lot, Jeff. Good to see you. All right, she's Marie. I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. We're in our CUBE studios in Palo Alto. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


There's an interesting new fad going around in Los Angeles these days called lymphatic drainage or lymphatic massage. Now in this video I thought I would share some ways to actually move your lymph besides just lymphatic massage as well as what this mysterious mystical substance is called the lymph. Hey guys, I'm Dr. Alex Hine, doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, and author of the health book, Master of the Day. So before we jump in, I've put together two links right below this video for you. The first is for a free guide which is five daily rituals that can potentially help you add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. And the second is if you'd like to learn more about becoming my patient in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine, you can contact my practice and clinic right below this video. So what is the lymph? Now the lymphatic fluid or lymph is a collection of extra fluid that drains from cells and tissues as well as many other substances. Those other substances are minerals, fats, nutrients, damaged cells, cancer cells, foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses, etc. And the lymph also transports the infection fighting white blood cells called lymphocytes. Now there are certain organs involved in your lymphatic system you probably have heard of but you don't know well like the spleen, the thymus, tonsils or adenoids, bone marrow and the appendix. So the lymph is very important not only for your immune system but also as the waste clearing up factory of the body. Now what does Chinese medicine have to do with the lymph and what is lymphatic drainage or lymphatic massage actually do? So in Chinese medicine we have a saying that chi moves the blood and blood is the commander of chi. For thousands of years it's been observed that lymphatic congestion of various kinds is a precursor to illness and more serious disease. Now how do you prevent that by movement? So ancient doctors all knew that circulatory movement, blood movement and what they considered chi movement, you could almost view blood as a more material version of what ancient doctors considered chi. But in many cases chi may just be lymphatic movement or lymph itself. But chi, let's say in this example is the lymph, a combination of substances and processes involving not only hormones, lymph circulation, blood circulation, electrical impulses are all combined in a concept called chi. And when we look at the channels in the body, you know Chinese medicine is famous for these diagrams of the channels of meridians and these acupuncture points. And there's more and more research showing that there is real scientific evidence for point specificity. That certain points in the body really do have different responses. When they're studied with fMRI technology. So it's really interesting this emerging kind of science that's coming in Chinese medicine regarding the acupuncture points and the channels. But one of our most ancient medical texts talks about one of the main precursors of disease is what we call stagnation. And lymphatic stagnation or congestion is one of those precursors. Ancient medical texts in our field and ancient physicians talked a lot about movement. The movement of blood, the movement of chi, the movement of certain organs, like if you're constantly overeating and you're not letting your stomach digest, well, you're going to feel stagnation in the stomach, which is indigestion or acid reflux, right? We've all felt that after having a meal that is way too big for our stomach. Now you do that enough times and that may lead to the progression of GERD, where you have gastrosophageal reflux disease, now you have an actual diagnosable disease. So that's an example of how a little stagnation repeatedly over time can produce a disease state. But all ancient doctors in our field talked a lot about circulation, movement. And one of the main practices to generate that movement is Qigong. I mean, there are 10,000 kinds of Qigong in China, but they all serve the same purpose, which is movement, opening, unblocking, creating circulation. And I'll never forget this one experience I had when I was walking around China and living in Beijing in the winter. I saw an old man walking around a lake just going like this, just clapping for an hour. And I asked a Chinese friend if this was a crazy person and he said no, he's doing a kind of Qigong used for arthritis in the hands, wrist issues and carpal tunnel. So there are various kinds of Qigong exercises. You could translate it as breath work, energy work, whatever, but ultimately they generate an increase in circulation. They strongly move the lymph and the blood. And so regardless of whether you make them sound esoteric or deeply scientific, they're good for your health because of the cardiovascular benefits. Now there are many ways to move your lymphatic fluid, your lymphatic system. The most obvious is exercise. So exercises like general working out, yoga, Qigong, all of those are moving the cardiovascular system. They're moving the blood and elevating your heart. So they're also moving the lymph. There's also a general sort of pumping activity that happens when you move your body with the axillary lymph nodes in your armpit and the inguinal lymph nodes in your groin. Now there are approximately 600 or so individual lymph nodes in clusters and various branches, but movement is one of the best ways.  This lengthened belly breathing, abdominal belly breathing, where you're breathing into a prolonged count and breathing out to a prolonged count is like an organ pump and a lymphatic pump. On top of that, you have various massage and body work practices, somatic practices and also drinking more water will help improve the flow of your lymph. So lymphatic system, very interesting, very underrated, often unknown. A lot of times these organs are removed, whether it's the appendix or the adenoids, tonsils, right? Very often as children, but in Chinese medicine, one of the main ways you stay young forever is by having great circulation of the blood. So exercise, exercise a lot, do your breathing exercises, do your Qigong, whatever it takes, you'll live a lot longer and you'll feel a lot better. Alright guys, my two cents on the lymphatic system, before you go, check out those related links right below this video and I will see you soon.


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A useful skill for young children is comparing sizes. One way to do this is by talking about biggest and smallest. Say you have some buttons. You can ask your child to point to the biggest one and then they can find the smallest one. You can do this just about anywhere with all kinds of different objects like bears and fuzzy pom poms. Just ask your child to point to the biggest one and the smallest one of each certain type of object. Doing this will help your child develop their ability to compare things.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Impeccable Premier League Soccer Football as they call it out there three box full case pick your team number two I did one brand just came out yesterday. I did one yesterday. We pulled some nice stuff out of there So hopefully this follows that trend There you go, Soccer's Premier League season is wrapped up my club Liverpool winning the title Very exciting for me. Very happy about that. I've been following that club for a long time. So Premier League is done. I Think the the division below the Premier League might still be wrapping up their playoffs to see who gets promoted Some clubs got relegated Watford got relegated I think Aston Villa avoided getting relegated. That's a crazy system. They got there And I think are they still I think they're planning to To still knock out the Champions League So that that should be wrapping up pretty soon too. We're starting and wrapping up pretty soon And then before you know it, they'll start that Premier League season again Crazy, right? So on the 30th three box pick your team to Man City City and Tottenham were number block teams right here Actually, if I pull that out like that And so that was the results of that which I which I uploaded already So if you want to see there was the video and the results for that you can check that out They'll set that aside here put that up here. We got basketball on too. So all the team sports are Coming back pretty exciting stuff. I like that they give us new blank cards now Actually do this this guy first. We've got Aaron Conley from Brighton 25 out of 50 Brighton stand. Let's look now. I'm curious. This is all just Premier League teams anyway. So They call them tables by the way, not standings Yeah, Brighton Brighton Survived they finished 15th. So it's 18th 19th and 20th that are That are relegated to the division below So that would be Bournemouth went down Watford went down and Norwich went down All right, so I think should be one just one base car in the bottom. Yes We'll use one of those blank cards. They gave us to hide the hits a little bit All right, we got out of 35 Nathan Ake for Bournemouth I think I feel like Bournemouth those relegated teams always this is a yearly thing They always have a few good players on that team So when a team gets relegated all the the Premier League teams that stay up Try to swoop in and snatch like some of the players that are on on higher salaries and stuff Joel Linton 65 so keep an eye on the transfer window for that That's for Newcastle, you know, so Bournemouth is Shannon All right, the Brighton Hovalbian went to Jared and the Joel Linton for Newcastle carry with that one Are these your hits? Yes For Tottenham, there's Davidson Sanchez 86 out of 99. So for number blocks, we go by that digit right there directly to the slash 86 so it'll go to number six That will be for Sean Amatic in Tottenham six We got out we got Joe snagging two cards at once. We've got James Madison from Leicester City three out of 10 Leicester finished fifth and just short of a Champions League spot I thought they were within striking distance of that Champions League spot, but they'll be in the Europa League Which is like the second division Champions League a lot of divisions It was Leicester and it goes to Iacopola with Leicester City And we've got Sean Wright Phillips I think he played here in the States for a little bit too 88 out of 99 Canvas creations on card autograph Sean Wright Phillips Eastwood with City 8 There you Jared Phillips, you're right Manchester City Was dinged real hard by UEFA the governing body for a European football, right? They got dinged by them for financial fair play, I think And They were banned They were banned from Champions League player for like two years But they appealed And it got rescinded like they weren't even punished at all for their discresions There's Peter check nice 40 out of 49 Peter check for Arsenal David Edelstein with that Think they wrote a big check Jared Phillips. Yeah, probably Something bribed well pet Guardiola looked real smug after after they were vindicated Right, and he was real smugs. I don't know what happened there, but you know soccer is kind of shady um If you guys remember Harry Potter why uh Why Ron Weasley wore that little helmet when he was quidditch keeper Face off of Peter check There you go. It's a trivia Arsenal once again David Ellison on this side. We got wow nice deli alley Two-color patch and autograph one no check that eight out of ten eastwood with that one. There you go eastwood nice Great player for Tottenham England man as well England could be creeping into another generation of good, uh Man, we would have had euros this summer if it wasn't for stupid COVID-19 We would have had euros We'll save this for last that's the case hit Instead it's postponed until next summer the euros are pretty much like the world cup minus The South American and Asian and African teams But you've got all the major European clubs in one big tournament. It would have been nice I was looking forward to that I would love to see some gold in there bread I want the gold give me the gold I want to know where the gold's at There's Ryan Fraser 22 out of 35 for Bournemouth Chen And we got Andre Yarmolenko to 65 for Westham Hammers finished, uh, just out of that relegation zone. They they were 16th Actually five points off relegation. They are all right. We got Jamie Vardy. Nice. Oh 10 out of 10 Look at that a bit of the Premier League lion right there That's pretty cool. Nice one for Leicester That is for Icapole remember, uh, remember when Leicester Won the Premier League title Jamie Vardy was a big reason why big reason why they had a good season this year too Yeah, bread if I if I pull a gold out of that case hit I'll definitely yell gold like soccer announcer say gold Let's see what this redemption is all about Will it be top number man city? If so, that'll go to Joe Fagundas.  We got elegance rookie patch autograph silver Not sure where that's number two, but card 10 Nice 10 good good good striker number M Matisse Tybal No, I'm kidding O N We got Morgan Morgan Gibbs white. I have no idea where Morgan Gibbs white goes Morgan Gibbs white is a wolverhampton wander Also part of the England under 16s through under 21s There you go wolves attacking midfielder for the wolves number 17 There you go. What how did he how did he do this season? I don't think he played very much this season No, just seven appearances one f a cup appearance one league cup appearance Uh carry With wolverhampton Is he solid david? Yeah, maybe a good investment card. I'm sure they started I think I remember correctly I don't think they designated rookies in the past at least panini had it But now they're starting to designate rookies So I think that's going to help a lot in terms of collecting in terms of the hobby There's tim howard nice 78 out of 99 All-time legend for everton, which are my rivals josh proust with everton They're also an all-time legend for for the united states for us. Oh excellent keeper there A couple more here. We've got another Everton player indelible ink theo walcott former arsenal man 50 out of 99 Wow, there's robert ronkel Happy thursday to you too last night was my first break ever not watching live And he ends up with the that one-of-one virginal van dyke from yesterday. Whoo I was hot with the new balance logo. It's on the instagram at jasper's rakes And we got patrick vierra for arsenal david elsey 57 out of 99 Nice Immortal ink for david Wow, congrats to you robert now I know soccer in general sells pretty well in the secondary market, but I don't I don't know what that could possibly go for um Yeah, I mean he just won a title He's widely considered to be the best center back in the world at the moment right now At least for the next for the last couple years You know a lot of player of the year consideration all sorts of stuff so And everyone can point to him and probably the new goalkeeper for for liverpool allison Who came on board as they credit them? There's chris wood for burnley For turning for sol really solidifying the liverpool defense liverpool could always score never a problem for them, but all right Burnley benny with burnley I always say that you got to have a good spine in a in a soccer team, right?  You want a good center back a good mule fielder? 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I'm a liverpool supporter I hated this guy so much But I can respect the massiveness of this hit He's still these it's still playing pretty well these days. Man, that is nice There you go, man united mark basette all aboard the big hit express We've got personal box of these on jaspy's case breaks.com check it out There's diego costa Two-color jersey and autograph for chelsea. It'll be for mark basette as well. Wow mark A break for you. He got he got man united straight up I know yesterday david. I pulled that virginal van dyke one-of-one and this tonight the cr7 49 out of 99 indelible ink dean henderson for sheffield. You know sheffield had a great season this year I don't think anyone expected that from sheffield united this season shannon with that one And you know what the this goalkeeper is the big reason why sheffield. That's such a great season They could get some goal scorers We've got kyle walker for man city 16 out of 35 city six Sean mattick The last one. 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Welcome to this week's edition of the Wednesday webinar. I'm Laura Leno-Keefe, staff developer here at ESU8, and we're going to discuss assessment literacy and why it's so important. I wanted to talk about, take some time to talk a little bit about the exciting changes that are taking place in statewide assessment. Being aware of these changes will help us become more assessment literate and be able to articulate the importance of each type of assessment to students, parents, and other stakeholders.  But do we really know what each of these are assessing? And do we know how we can best utilize the results from these assessments? The multiple measures provided by the NDE balanced assessment system are formative, interim, and summative assessments. This year, the Nebraska Department of Education is launching an innovative new statewide assessment system for grades three through eight. The system uses different types of assessment at different times to monitor classroom learning in the moment, track academic growth over time, and measure grade level achievement relative to Nebraska's academic standards. In the moment, resources are focused on two main processes, formative instructional practices and tools.  Some of the two tools that are available are your teacher created tests and also test wiz is available through NWEA and NDE. This is formally the C4L. Formative measures and practices help us understand learning in the moment and include observational data as an essential component of balanced assessments. Growth assessments are adaptive, efficiently administered and individualized to each student, such as map growth, science tools, dibbles, and other forms of interim assessments. They're typically administered up to three times per year with the results made available quickly. Evidence reveals in-depth information about what students know and are ready to learn. Some of these tools are available now and some are in development here in Nebraska by Nebraska educators. The most common that you will hear of at this point is our NWEA map growth assessment. These interim assessments provide us with opportunity to look at growth over time and to measure progress against national norms for growth and performance. The new summative assessment, which focuses on providing information about where students are relative to the state standards, is now called the Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System, was formerly called NISA. This assessment will provide information on grade level achievement. It will be administered online and a portion of it will be adaptive and individualized to each student. The core content that will be assessed with the Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System or NSCAS are listed on the screen, but we also are looking at the summative assessment ACT being utilized at grade 11. If a summative assessment can be described as a digital snapshot, a formative assessment is like a streaming video. One is a picture of what a student knows that is captured in a single moment of time and the other is a moving picture that demonstrates active student learning and reasoning. So what are some opportunities to use multiple measures of assessment? Well, number one, it's a support of AQUEST strategic priority number five, which is to use assessments to measure and improve student achievement and to inform instruction. It aligns with accreditation and continuous improvement process such as the state frameworks and advanced ed. It aligns also with Marzano and Danielson frameworks. It has components of the Nebraska Literacy Program. It's the development of SLOs and Educator Effectiveness Strategies number four and number five, which include attention to using data to adjust instruction and the assessment practice. It also aligns with Nebraska's strategic ESSA plan. Five basic ways that this will change the culture of learning in our classroom is through engagement, mindset, practice, trust and structures. It will increase engagement with our students. They then change their mindset and become more of a growth mindset. They have more trust in the process because it is more goal centered. The practices that they do to achieve their goal changes the whole structure and classroom culture of learning when our students are assessment literate and also an increased assessment literacy among our teachers. So why does assessment literacy matter? It increases the equitability and ethical delivery of our instruction for our students. We look at aligning what our students need with what really we're giving them. And then we're measuring the growth at which what depth of learning is taking place. Again, it supports learning both in the short term and the long term, utilizing formative assessment to drive our instructional practices with immediate change, utilizing some of the interim and long term assessments or the summative assessments for long term change in maybe curriculum, maybe how we are teaching a particular subject or unit. It does take a growth mindset for our students as well as our teachers, our school districts to look at the data, make that data more actionable so that we aren't just collecting data for the sake of collecting data. We're actually putting it into practice to drive instruction and increase student learning. Thank you for taking the time today to watch the assessment literacy and why is it important Wednesday webinar. If you would like any assistance on NWEA map growth, applying reports, making student goals, setting student goals, ACT report reading and application, please don't hesitate to call us. Have a great day.


The space shuttle is in orbit and members of a highly specialized team at NASA's Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility are tracking its progress. In two days, the orbiter will re-enter Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. It'll perform an intricate series of slowing maneuvers and glide to a successful landing at Edwards Air Force Base. Okay, Houston, we're rolling out on final land. It looks beautiful. Roger that. Edwards is the home of NASA's Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, the nerve center of three sites supporting a highly evolved technology network called the Western Aeronautical Test Range. The range is a key facility in NASA's aeronautical and space research and a major national resource. Its development is a critical achievement in flight testing today's experimental aircraft. The range furnished precision monitoring for the orbiter during its crucial end of mission maneuvers and helped it guide the ship to a safe landing. The first sonic boom was heard at Dryden on October 14, 1947, when Chuck Yeager flew the X-1 experimental rocket-powered airplane through the sound barrier. Facilities and equipment for air-to-ground monitoring of test flights were primitive. Flight research results depended mainly on air-to-air chase observations and recording data on board for later examination. In 1959, NASA began testing the X-15 rocket plane. This air-launched, highly experimental test vehicle reached altitudes far outside the atmosphere and flew at unprecedented speeds. No chase plane could keep up with it. Testing the X-15 absolutely depended on immediate, sophisticated air-to-ground communications, tracking and data acquisition. Unlike previous research aircraft, the X-15, with its high energy management requirements, demanded real-time tracking and voice communication to accomplish its mission. To test the X-15, Dryden engineers developed a complex system for flight monitoring, a system that went far beyond anything yet known. They called it the X-15 High Range. The range allowed researchers on the ground to track the X-15 throughout its entire mission, monitor its data during flight, and maintain radio contact with the pilot. It enabled investigators to deal with data in real time during experimental flights and change plans during flight. This greatly increased each mission's effectiveness and saved time and program cost. It also made flight testing safer. Dryden engineering teams set up remote sites at Ealy and Bady, Nevada to accommodate the great speeds of the X-15. For testing high-speed, long-range aircraft, Ealy and Bady became outer perimeters of the high range. The western aeronautical test range of today is the high range grown up, a working integration of state-of-the-art communications, tracking equipment, computers, and electronic display systems. The result of creative engineering proven by continuous application, these systems provide the laboratory needed to test today's high performance air and spacecraft. The mission control center is the focal point of the range. This is where everything comes together. Here supremely advanced systems such as the Master Graphics Interactive Console or MAGIC Display give researchers a unique edge in flight testing. MAGIC is an interactive, high-resolution, easy-to-use tool which allows investigators to see yaw roll, time history, and cross-plots on command. It opens new capabilities in changing parameters during flight, thus saving valuable time and optimizing information yield. Here the real-time interactive map, or RIM, is helping advance flight research. This is an intelligent graphic workstation that instantly shows an aircraft's flight position with respect to geographic location. RIM tracks, displays, and computes time-distance measurements, functions done previously with pen and paper. It immediately projects flight path on command, allows the controller to change perspective by zooming in on areas of interest, and warns the flight controller when his aircraft is approaching a restricted area. RIM reduces workload on the host computer, which is free to perform other critical mission-related tasks more efficiently. The F-18 high-alpha spin display demonstrates how innovative graphics systems can be tailored to meet requirements of a specific program. This presentation details precisely and in real-time such critical information as yaw rate, airspeed, altitude, and spin conditions for high-risk flight research programs. Such advanced systems greatly simplify the work of the range control officer, whose job it is to determine how well the range is operating. They vastly increase findings of the principal investigator and his team during a mission, and the quantity and quality of work achieved by the flight controller, who coordinates the test aircraft, chase plane, and control tower. They enhance flight safety monitoring and the capabilities of the aircraft operations director and flight safety officer. The output of all mission control systems depends on data drawn in real-time from all other elements of the range, the aeronautical tracking facilities, the communications building, the real-time processing, and display systems. Dryden has two tracking facilities. Their antenna systems provide radar and telemetry for command uplink and downlink research data. Their equipment can track local test flights or satellites orbiting at altitudes exceeding 32,000 miles. During space shuttle missions, support technicians use the facilities to track the shuttle in orbit and during re-entry. These stations are the acquisition points for all research data from air and spacecraft, and the points for primary command uplink. The communications building provides the radio frequency link, which allows aircraft and spacecraft to talk to ground control. It provides air-to-ground communication between pilots and engineers in all of the missions participating aircraft, and backup command uplink to research vehicles. The telemetry processing room houses many of the range's real-time processing and display systems. These high-performance test aircraft produce such huge quantities of data that human investigators working on their own can't begin to interpret and use them during a mission. These systems rely on computers for quick real-time processing and conversion of raw data into real-time information that researchers and pilots can respond to during a flight. The real-time processing and display systems generate organized results on control room monitors and strip chart recorders. A vital part of today's western aeronautical test range is the Moffat Flight Complex in Northern California. Based at Ames Research Center on Naval Air Station Moffat Field, this is one of the country's prime test sites for powered lift and rotorcraft vehicles. A new satellite link, the NASCOM Integrated System Digital Network, generally shortened to NISDN, and a process called Time Division Multiple Access allow Moffat and Dryden each to monitor flights at the other's facility and at their remote locations. Because the area surrounding Moffat Field has grown increasingly congested, researchers here conduct many of their sea-level altitude tests at Crow's Landing in the San Joaquin Valley. While Crow's Landing is equipped to support these flight tests, much of the real-time monitoring and post-mission processing is done from Moffat Field. Range versatility is giving researchers vast new capabilities and opening great new vistas in research flight testing. At the same time, sophisticated new research projects are demanding new capabilities of the range. There is a growing need to test experimental aircraft at remote locations. Engineers have answered this need by developing the Mobile Research Flight Test Support Capability, generally known as the Western Aeronautical Test Range Mobile System. Created for total adaptability, the mobile system can go virtually anywhere and get to work immediately on arrival. Its air ride suspension protects the delicate equipment inside during hauling, either overground or by air. Its first run, supporting the advanced fighter technology integration F-16 in tests at Nellis Air Force Base, proved completely successful and demonstrated that it can handle real-time processing and display and communications with the airplane and mission control at Dryden. An outstanding example of resourceful design, the fully equipped trailer can perform all of the functions normally done in the control room at Moffat or Dryden. Its approximately 2,600 cubic feet can store the six-foot telemetry antenna during moves. When the trailer arrives at a test site, expandable 18-foot sections on either side of the computer banks open to provide 630 additional cubic feet of space. Highly compact computer banks receive, store and process data for the trailer's major components, telemetry, communications, real-time and post-mission processing, display and strip charts, and a full remotely piloted research vehicle cockpit, which permits remote operation of an unmanned aircraft. The trailer can operate independently or interface with a mission control center. Because it is highly automated, two people can handle operations and maintenance. The trailer's reinforced roof supports the deployed directional antenna, which accommodates both tracking and communications. The antenna can receive and transmit in the L, S and C bands. When the trailer reaches its full capability, the system will include a mobile earth station, radar system and frequency van. Heavily dependent on the range and the mobile trailer is the Joint Army NASA Rotor Air Loads Program. This project is using a Blackhawk and other helicopters to discover what stresses rotor blades encounter during flight. This will measure a total of 250 pressure points on the blades. All of these measurements require extreme precision and real-time transmission to both ground control and a tape recorder on board. This places enormous demands on range equipment, requirements for acoustical testing and a variety of flight modes called for flying in different locations, including Edwards and Crow's Landing. Ground instrumentation for these flights is programmed dedicated, very costly and not practical to install in all control rooms. The mobile trailer allows researchers to make a single installation which they can move from one location to another. Ames researchers are using Crow's Landing to conduct tests with the Harrier. This remarkable aircraft flies successfully both as a vertical takeoff vehicle and as a high-performance fighter. Investigators are using it to explore flight dynamics, propulsion, controls and display for short and vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. They expect these tests to result in advanced design concepts for aircraft of the future. Harrier flights generate a great amount of information and rely heavily on range data acquisition facilities. The range has been indispensable in supporting this uniquely versatile aircraft called the Tilt Rotor. The cells mattered on its wings tilt upward to make it fly like a helicopter or 90 degrees forward allowing it to fly like an airplane. With the Tilt Rotor, Ames research has produced an extremely successful working aircraft from which the Marine Corps production Tilt Rotor V-22 was derived. Dryden is where Ames tests high-performance airplanes. Clean, dry desert air and sparsely populated terrain make this location ideal for researching high-speed jet and rocket-powered aircraft. The F-18 high-alpha research vehicle is pushing high-performance to unprecedented extremes. Using a modified pre-production F-18 as test bed, this program is working to improve fighter performance at high angles of attack. This is possible only if engineers learn precisely how air vortices flow during high-angle maneuvers both on and off the airplane's surface. To study on-surface flows, investigators released colored dye during specific maneuvers over areas of interest such as the nose and wing and photographed the resulting patterns. This information also is downlinked in real time for immediate assessment. Off-surface flows show up clearly when an onboard generator emits smoke over the F-18's leading edge extension, a video camera in a nearby chase plane and another inside the F-18 showing precise vortex flows. The airplane carries a total of four strategically placed onboard video cameras. This program is completely dependent on the range. During test flights, the F-18 downlinks two video signals and two streams of telemetry data. It depends on the range's command uplink capability for trajectory guidance. The program's specific high-alpha spin display is critical to carrying out F-18 missions. It defines emergency recovery procedures for any loss of control situation that might occur. The F-15 places enormous real-time computation and display demands on the range because its engine is heavily loaded with instrumentation. Researchers are using the F-15 to develop methods for reducing pilot workload. If they can create systems that take over basic operating tasks, pilots will be freed for other critical activities such as responding to threats or setting up weapons systems. The program team is working on developing a trajectory guidance system. A computer which they have mounted in the airplane's ammunition bay calculates airspeed and altitude with no assistance from the pilot. Aircraft and engine command then can be supplied either to the pilot through the heads-up display or directly to the aircraft in the automatic mode. This technology significantly reduces pilot workload. The range, with its magic and rim displays, is uniquely equipped to support this program. These advanced interactive displays allow F-15 team members to view in real time the airplane's trajectory three miles behind and seven ahead of its present position. At the same time, they also can watch the aircraft's ground track with reference to restricted areas and monitor processed parameters critical to the flight. Should any fault or failure occur on board, these displays will flag it immediately. The advanced fighter technology integration called AFTI F-16 is another demanding program that puts extremely heavy loads on the range. AFTI is a joint NASA Air Force program. The aircraft, a highly modified version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, has been expanding the limits of flight since 1981. Equipped with a unique set of computer-driven control surfaces, the AFTI can execute maneuvers impossible with any other aircraft. AFTI's total dependence on computers and experimentation with flight modes never before attempted make the range a crucial part of testing this airplane. A heads-up display, which superimposes critical flight data over the cockpit window, allows the pilot to monitor instrumentation readings without looking away from the flight path. Range tracking facilities simultaneously feed this picture to researchers in the control room, allowing them to monitor in real time what the pilot is seeing. Currently, the F-16, working to improve close air support in Europe, is checking technologies such as automated attack, digital map systems for poor weather and night flying, and target acquisition from ground control. This testing, utilizing computer-based artificial intelligence, uses great amounts of data and requires the capacity to profit from in-flight corrections and change the test agenda. The range gives AFTI critical support which is not available anywhere else. Its systems during flight offer more processed data in easily used form. RIM figures importantly by letting flight controllers reprogram for restricted altitudes. AFTI's multiple program requirements and exacting test schedule demand optimal return from test flights, and the range makes this possible effectively and safely. Some of the flight experimentation performed at Dryden has been so hazardous that researchers ruled out the use of onboard pilots. For these high-risk programs, they developed remotely piloted research vehicles called RPRVs. The SPIN research vehicle was a characteristic RPRV. It was carried aloft under the wing of a B-52 then air-launched. Typical of all air-launched vehicles, RPRVs require precise coordination of carrier, test aircraft, and chase plane. They consume enormous quantities of range support. Pilots fly remotely piloted research vehicles from cockpits on the ground, depending completely on telemetry provided by the range to receive sensory information from and send commands to the airplane. The range's advanced antenna systems supply the primary command uplink to all of the RPRVs. The complexity of flight maneuvers accommodated by this impressive system was demonstrated dramatically in the testing of HIMAT. Short for highly maneuverable aircraft technology, HIMAT was one of Dryden's most spectacular RPRVs. At about 3,400 pounds and less than half the size of an average fighter, it allowed testing of a highly experimental configuration at considerably less cost than would have been the case with a man-rated vehicle. HIMAT was designed to be more maneuverable than any existing fighter and made turns pulling up to eight and a half times the force of Earth's gravity. Such maneuvers would cause extreme discomfort to even an experienced test pilot. The range antenna systems, with their enormous capacity, enabled the pilot to perform even the most complicated maneuvers from his ground cockpit. Its small size and quick movements made HIMAT very hard to track with conventional chase aircraft. Range tracking, telemetry, and command uplink made these flights possible. The most dramatic use of command uplink was the full-scale transport-controlled impact demonstration RPRV called SID for short. Dryden conducted the SID experiment in cooperation with the FAA and NASA Langley to test the effectiveness of crash-worthy advances including an anti-missing fuel designed to reduce damage from fire following a crash. Researchers instrumented this old B-720 passenger jetliner to be flown as a remotely piloted vehicle. Pilot Fitz Fulton worked for months in the ground cockpit and in the plane itself with range support to prepare the jetliner's remotely-controlled systems for its flight to final impact. During the crash test, range telemetry worked flawlessly. While best known for carrying out research on high-performance aircraft, Dryden's range has supported a wide variety of test aircraft, such as the Gossamer Albatross, which was pedaled somewhat like a bicycle. The Light Eagle, another human-powered experimental airplane, won four records during its range-supported flight tests. This aircraft was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student project. The idea came from Greek mythology accounts of Daedalus effort to build wings for human flight. The Eagle served as a prototype for the aircraft Daedalus, which flew the 74-mile distance from Crete to Santorini in a record-setting 3 hours 55 minutes. Dryden engineers supported the Eagle flight tests with long-range optics and a video van. To support development of the space shuttle, Dryden researchers built and tested a series of wingless aircraft called lifting bodies. The X-24B was one of these aircraft. They drew their lift entirely from their body shapes, which acted like the wings of conventional airplanes. The X-24B was rocket-powered, so it could reach speeds and altitudes similar to those encountered by the shuttle when it approaches to land. The lifting bodies depended on range support for energy management and guidance to the landing site. The uniquely configured X-29A forward-swept wing is entirely dependent on the range to conduct its flight tests. This high-performance research aircraft maneuvers at very high speeds. At the same time, it requires constant computer adjustment and correction to position its exotic flight control surfaces. The X-29 set a whole new baseline for the range in real-time data processing and display. Range engineers answered the X-29 program's demands by developing the necessary capabilities in just four months. In the process, they created facsimiles of cockpit status panels on control room monitors. They established a real-time satellite link between the Dryden Range control room and the contractor's home base in New York. Yet they developed the capacity to deliver more than four million processed words per minute to control room display monitors and strip-chart recorders on both sides of the continent in real-time. The historic YF-12 also was a completely range-dependent test plane. This high-performance vehicle flew so fast and so high that no other airplane could stay with it. In a matter of moments, it covered so much territory that Dryden had to maintain an extended range in order to test it. As with the X-15, the Ely and Beatty test sites in Nevada became range boundaries for YF-12 experiments. Officially clocked at 2,000 miles per hour, the YF-12, with its air-breathing engines, was the prototype for hypersonic planes of the future. The national aerospace plane, or NASP, will be such a hypersonic plane and much more. This is the next generation air and spacecraft. NASP will take off horizontally like an ordinary airplane, accelerate to escape velocity, leave the atmosphere, and fly in low-Earth orbit. It'll re-enter the atmosphere and make a powered horizontal landing, again like an ordinary airplane. Currently in the design phase, this joint NASA Air Force research craft is targeted to make its first flight in 1994. NASP will take off and land at Edwards Air Force Base. As the program progresses, the plane will cover the continental United States in minutes. During flights in the atmosphere, range mission control will encompass every contiguous state. When NASP begins orbital flights, range scope will become worldwide. Telemetry will interface with NAS's tracking and data relay satellite system. NASP test flights may require multiple fully equipped mobile trailers positioned at strategic locations. Range controllers and researchers will need to know where the plane is every moment in terms of latitude, longitude, and altitude. At NASP speeds, this will be a major accomplishment. Researchers will need ground computer processed instrumentation data during flights. This will place extraordinary demands on range acquisition and processing. Being ready for next generation test planes is a major challenge for range engineers. They're meeting it by developing next generation equipment and support systems. A prime example is the Automated Flight Test Management System, or ATMS. This is a highly advanced, knowledge-based system being developed to assist researchers plan and conduct flight test missions and make necessary changes in real time. A flight engineer enters test parameters and aircraft performance characteristics, and ATMS provides an ordered set of flight test points. ATMS designers are experimenting with artificial intelligence to direct flight control programs. They anticipate big benefits for programs requiring the ability to record small changes in aircraft parameters during repeated maneuvers. For its earliest days, the Western Aeronautical Test Range has played a key role in advancing the latest concepts in air and spacecraft. The best aeronautical engineers have used its facilities to maximize their research. Milt Thompson is the chief engineer at Ames Dryden. Thompson was a test pilot on both the history-making X-15 and lifting-body aircraft. He had a major part in creating the tradition of excellence here. He's among the few people qualified to give first-hand perspective on the development of today's aeronautics and the direction of tomorrow's research. Key programs that kind of defined the range were the X-15 and subsequent to that, the YF-12. That had an extremely long range requiring tracking communications and data relay. The NASC program will provide the next challenge for the range. It, of course, will be an extremely high-speed vehicle potentially going on into orbit. It will cover an awful lot of distance in its test program and during, say, an acceleration up to orbital speeds. It will require almost a worldwide tracking capability to follow the vehicle in its development program. Any other program other than NASC that involves extremely high speeds will be candidates also for good utilization of the high-range. For example, any scramjet or ramjet propulsion test programs, there again the speeds will be high and it will require the support of a range such as what we currently have. These become essential, as I indicated, for safety to ensure that we know where the vehicle is and are able to guide the vehicle back to a successful landing. The range has been an essential part of the development of the high-speed aircraft. Without the range, I don't see how we could have done this. You have to have this tracking capability and the data transmission capability to really do a development program on these higher-speed vehicles. In my opinion, there is just no question that we have an unsurpassed capability as far as being able to handle aeronautical research programs within this country and very likely within the world. Building on its basic capabilities, television downlink including heads-up display, guidance and control uplink, worldwide tracking network ties, and transmission of data to any location, the western aeronautical test range undergoes continuous expansion, refinement and improvement at the hands of its top professional engineers and support team. Since the time of the X-15, the range has experienced astounding transformations and expanded its capabilities to become the complex and indispensable network it is today. It will continue to be a vital resource for testing air and spacecraft of the future. Each future research craft from exotic forms only now being familiar to those we have not yet imagined will share a common link. They will depend on the western aeronautical test range, supporting exploration that knows no limit.


Welcome to nursing school explain in this video on mixing insulins. Now the two insulins that we can mix in one insulins range is regular insulin and NPH and because the two insulins have a different onset peak and duration we have to be very careful that we don't contaminate drawing up one insulin and inadvertently putting it in the other because then the onset peak and duration are mixed and we no longer have what we expect to be in there and that could adversely affect the patient. So we always need to double check that we administer the correct dosages but also this technique for mixing insulins in once a range is a very particular one. First of all regular insulin is clear we also refer to it as clear insulin and then NPH comes kind of cloudy. This here is a demo dose but it's very similar to the actual insulin. So as you can see on the bottom there's some precipitation so I want to make sure I roll the vial first to kind of mix it up. What you don't want to do is shake it because that might create some air bubbles and if you've ever drawn insulin up before it's not that easy to get these air bubbles out. So I'm gonna mix this up. I probably have to mix it again once I'm a little bit more ready to go. So then of course I'm always gonna perform hand hygiene and don my gloves. I want to also tell you that today we're gonna draw up five units of regular and 10 units of NPH. So first things first this is a brand new vial so I'm gonna open up the cap use my alcohol wipe and clean the top of that rubber stopper vigorously for about 10 to 15 seconds. I always like to keep the alcohol wipe on top and then use a second one to clean the other vial that way I know which one has been cleaned and which one is ready to go. Now the tricky part here because we want to mix the insulins in the syringe only and not in the vial and we always have to insert air into any vial before we withdraw the medication there is a certain order that we have to go by. So we're going to it is less harmful let's put it this way it's less harmful if the regular insulin gets in the NPH because regular insulins onset peak and duration are shorter than the NPH but if I was to put NPH in the regular insulin now I expect this insulin to last for maybe four to six hours but I have some NPH in there now this insulin is going to last a lot longer which really if you think about it might make the patient hypoglycemic so I want to be extra careful that I don't get any NPH into the regular insulin so I've cleaned them both and there is a saying it goes cloudy clear clear cloudy so think about it a nice bright day it's cloudy in the morning it gets clear during the day it stays clear in the afternoon and it gets cloudy in the evening there are other acronyms you can use for that but just think about what you don't want to happen clearly we don't want any one of the insulins to be mixed in the other vial but the worst-case scenario would be getting the longer acting into the shorter acting vial so we're going to we said use ten units of NPH and five units of regular insulin which makes a total of 15 units but because I need to insert the air first with my insulin insulins syringe I'm going to draw up the ten units first that I'm going to insert into the NPH so I'm just going to take it here the mixing up right now doesn't matter because I'm not really dealing with the liquid I'm just inserting the air and I do not want to turn this vial upside down because then I could get insulin on or liquid onto the needle that I could then inadvertently carry over to the other one so I'm going to insert the five units the ten units here and then insert the five units in the regular vial now because I'm going to draw up the clear first so for the air cloudy then clear for drawing up clear and then cloudy so I inserted the five units I can invert my vial and draw up the five units and I'm pretty lucky here I don't have any air bubbles so double checking it might be a small one right there so I'm just gonna flick this and see if there's anything on the move okay so no air bubbles and now I need to draw up the NPH so now I need to be very careful not to push any of this regular insulin in the NPH vial so I cannot draw back on the plunger once the needle has been inserted in the NPH vial draw it up vigorously because that might create some turbulence and let some of the fluid go back so I need to do this very slowly and I need to also only go to the 10 to the 15 unit mark because then I have my total of five regular and 10 NPH drawn up if I were to go a little bit further than the 10 units then I don't know exactly what my mix ratio is I clearly have too much NPH and I have to discard the syringe and start over so this is very critical so we've already inserted the air so now I'm going to withdraw the 10 units and I'm seeing it's become a little bit cloudy what a sediment has settled there so I'm gonna just gently swirl and shake the vial and that is mostly to help with the concentration otherwise if it's not dissolved correctly you're also not going to get the correct dose okay I have a little more sediment here so I'm just going to set my syringe aside carefully and swirl this a little bit more until it's completely dissolved now since I'm not sure if I touched the top of the rubber stopper I'm just gonna give this another little wipe here and continue to swirl because I don't want it to settle sometimes it's a little bit of a give and take so now I am ready to withdraw my 10 units very carefully so no air inserted because I've already done that so I'm gonna put the needle in and then carefully withdraw the 10 units the 10 additional units so now I need to go down to 15 okay so I'm at 15 I don't see any air bubbles so I withdraw my needle carefully recap my needle with the one-handed technique to make sure I don't accidentally stab myself and go hypoglycemic take a vial and help to push it on there and then I can actually move this little safety device over to the side a little bit so that you can see that I have a total of 15 units right here and the 15 is right there and that is the correct mix of my insulin five units of regular and 10 units of nph then I go ahead and I label the syringe appropriately do all my patient rights and go administer it to my patient thanks so much for watching this video on mixing insulin which is a super important skill like I said not not many times used anymore but also check my other skills videos about medication administration thanks for watching see you soon