8.3 /10 SCORE Our Verdict Our Verdict Best for: Back sleeper Combo sleeper Side sleeper Stomach sleeper Score Breakdown Performance 9 /10 Policies 8.5 /10 Durability 7 /10 Features 8 /10 Pros and Cons Pros Two firmness levels in one bed (soft, medium-firm) Soft and light memory foam feel Optimal for side, back and stomach sleepers Cons Not supportive enough for sleepers over 230 pounds Might be too pricey for budget shoppers Table of Contents Lets be honest: most online beds are pretty similar. This factor can make your experience of shopping for a new bed tricky. For us, it can also make testing new mattresses boring. Thats why its always so refreshing when we come across a bed like the original Layla mattress.While most beds have only one main sleeping surface, this is a double-sided mattress. If you get tired of sleeping on one side, you can simply flip it over and try out the other. Each side has a different firmness to accommodate a wide variety of sleeper types, and since its a foam bed, its easy to move around. In this review, Ill explain why I personally love this bed and who exactly its best for.First impressions of the Layla mattress Dillon Payne/CNETOnce you order the Layla mattress online, itll eventually arrive at your doorstep inside a tall, cardboard box. It looks like it would hold something like an office water cooler or even a set of golf clubs, but trust me, it is indeed your new bed. To set it up, all you do is drag it inside, dump out the contents, rip off the plastic and watch the bed inflate on your foundation.We found that our Layla mattress needed some more time after the unboxing to expand, so we gave it a full night to sit out on our bed frame to get to its true form. That said, you can totally sleep on it right out of the box -- but it might look and feel a little strange at first.When it came time to test the mattress, I immediately noticed the sink-in comfort of the memory foam on both sides. As for those sides, one was clearly firmer than the other, but both were plenty accommodating for my sleep preferences. Being an all-foam bed, I found it best suited for average to petite-sized builds. Most importantly, it felt incredibly comfortable the moment I lay down.Video: Layla mattress reviewWatch me review the Layla mattress in this video.Layla mattress firmness and feelWhat does the Layla mattress feel like? Dillon Payne/CNETThe Layla mattress has a fluffy, airy memory foam feel. Pressing into either side reveals a response time slower than a neutral foam option but faster than a traditional Tempur-Pedic mattress. This provides sleepers with a body-conforming feel that doesnt leave you feeling stuck in the mattress.This type of mattress feel is great to have if you enjoy a little bit of memory foam in your bed. Its ideal for combination sleepers like me, offering a slight sink-in sensation that quickly adapts to your movements. Dense memory foam beds can sometimes make it harder to move around due to their viscous top layers. Fortunately, this mattress provides a memory foam feel that accommodates a wide range of preferences.How firm is the Layla mattress? Dillon Payne/CNETSince this is a flippable, all-foam mattress, theres a different firmness level on either side of it to try out. The soft side provides the most amount of pressure relief for strict side sleepers as its around a proper medium-soft on our scale. If you flip the bed over to the firm side, its a tinge firmer than a medium, making it the more supportive side for back, stomach and combination sleepers.Having two firmnesses in one bed makes the Layla mattress a super versatile option. If you happen not to like one side, you can just flip the bed over and try out the other. However, if youre looking for a much firmer style of hybrid mattress, the Layla mattress might not be the best choice. Luckily, the brand makes the Layla Hybrid, which has coils to provide more support for bigger people.Out of 10, our Mattress Smasher 9000 gave the soft side of the Layla Hybrid a score of 3.5 and the firm side an 8.6. Objectively, our specialized machine measured the firm side as much firmer than we expected -- sometimes, it takes a giant bed robot to give you a fresh perspective.Layla mattress construction Dillon Payne/CNETSince the Layla mattress is a double-sided bed, its construction differs from your average all-foam mattress. Its 10.5 thick and composed of the following materials:In the middle of the bed, youve got a layer of support foam, which provides the main support system for the mattress.Then, towards the soft side, youve got a responsive transition layer to act as a buffer between the support and comfort layers of the bed.Sandwiching everything on either side, youve got a copper-gel memory foam that gives the mattress its overall feel. These layers differ slightly in thickness to give each side a different firmness.Wrapping the bed is an intriguing cover with a honeycomb-style pattern. Its color is lighter on the softer side while the firm side has darker tones. Dillon Payne/CNETLayla mattress performanceMotion isolationThis bed deadens a noticeable amount of cross-mattress movement. The copper-gel memory foam absorbs lots of motion and doesnt really allow much to transfer from side to side. This is especially true for the soft side of the mattress, which has a thicker layer of this foam. If getting a bed with good motion isolation is a top priority for you, you shouldnt have any concerns with this mattress.Edge-to-edge supportFor an all-foam mattress, wed say the Layla mattress presents sleepers with pretty good edge support. The Firm Side of the bed will likely provide a bit more support along the edges than the Soft Side due to its firmer profile. Hybrid beds that have support coils or even reinforced coils along the perimeter usually perform the best in this category. Still, based on our tests, we didnt observe any apparent roll-off sensation with this bed at all. If you or your partner like to really hug the edges of your bed at night, you should feel plenty of support in this regard on the Layla mattress. Dillon Payne/CNETTemperatureEven though the cover on the Layla mattress is designed to be breathable and the copper-infused memory foam on either side is meant to help with cooling, wed classify the Layla mattress as temperature-neutral. We dont expect this mattress to actively cool you down at night, but it wont overheat either. While that might sound like a downside, most online mattresses fall within this temperature-neutral range. However, if you're looking for an active-cooling mattress, you can always check out our best cooling mattress for hot sleepers list.DurabilitySince this is an all-foam bed with a flippable design, the Layla mattress should be durable enough to last most body types for many years to come. More specifically, its best suited for supporting smaller or average-sized individuals over time. If youre a heavier person like me, you may want to invest in a hybrid mattress with support coils instead of a foam option. If you or your partner are on the much heavier side, you may benefit more from sleeping on an ultra-durable hybrid mattress. In that case, feel free to check out our Best Beds for Heavy People list.Who is the Layla mattress best for? Dillon Payne/CNETWhile this is a super versatile mattress meant to accommodate a wide variety of sleeping preferences, it's still best for select groups of sleepers. Heres who we think will love this bed the most.Sleeping positionStrict side sleepers will likely benefit the most from sleeping on this beds soft side. It provides an ample amount of sink-in pressure relief for the areas of your body that really dig into a mattress, like shoulders and hips. Along with having a soft profile, the memory foam on top will help cradle side sleepers more as they rest.Combination sleepers who like to rotate between different sleeping positions will likely prefer the firm side. The thinner memory foam layer is responsive enough to adapt to movements quickly while providing a nice balance of support and comfort. But if youre a diehard back or stomach sleeper looking for a much firmer mattress, this is not the best choice for you. In that case, Id look up the Essential by Layla. Its around a proper medium-firm, but its not a flippable mattress like the others.Body typeAs mentioned, the construction of this bed makes it best at supporting medium- to petite-sized builds. If youre a heavier person, you could get more of a support advantage with the Layla Hybrid, but you could also get by on this mattress just fine.Layla mattress pricing Size Measurements (inches)PriceTwin 38x75 inches$749Twin XL 38x80 inches$849Full 54x75 inches$999Queen 60x80 inches$1,099King 76x80 inches$1,249Cal King 72x84 inches$1,249 Price-wise, Id say the Layla mattress is offering at a really nice value, especially considering that youre essentially getting two beds in one here. Plus, Layla is one of those brands that usually runs discounts on its beds year-round. After you apply one to the queen size, you can expect to pay right around $950 -- not bad for a flippable mattress.Trial, shipping and warranty Dillon Payne/CNETLayla backs its two main beds with a generous policy set. Its beds ship to you in a box for free, and once its in your possession, you get a 120-night trial period to try it at home risk free. If you happen not to like it within that time frame, you can return it for free. On the other hand, if you decide to keep it, youre backed by a lifetime warranty. Thats above and beyond the usual standard for an online mattress warranty.How does the Layla mattress compare to other mattresses?Layla Mattress vs. Layla HybridThere are some noticeable differences between the two flippable beds from Layla. The flagship Layla bed is more affordable than the Layla Hybrid, which is designed to be more premium. Since the Layla Hybrid has support coils, it's the better option for heavier people, while the all-foam design of the Layla mattress is most suitable for supporting medium- to petite-sized individuals. The firm side of the flagship Layla mattress is also a bit firmer than that of the Layla Hybrids. This makes the Layla mattress slightly more accommodating for primary back and stomach sleepers. Layla vs. NectarThe flagship Nectar and Layla beds share some similarities but are quite different overall. Both are memory foam mattresses with a responsive memory foam feel, but their biggest difference lies in their construction. While the Layla mattress is double-sided, the Nectar Classic Memory Foam only has one main sleeping surface. Its also much firmer than the Layla mattress and slightly more affordable after a discount. And when it comes to policies, its hard to beat the ones offered by Nectar these days. The final verdictTheres a good reason this bed makes so many of our best lists. Its a quality double-sided mattress with an airy memory foam feel thats backed by great policies. If you dont have much money to spend, but are still looking for something nice, its definitely worth consideration.You might like the Layla if:You want a flippable, all-foam mattressYou want a responsive memory foam feelYou want two firmness levels in one bedYouve got a budget under $1,000You might not like the Layla mattress if:You're looking for a hybrid mattressYou prefer the feel of a dense memory foam mattressYoure searching for a much firmer mattressYou want to spend up on something more premiumLayla mattress FAQs How thick is the Layla Hybrid mattress? This bed is a whopping 10.5 inches thick, which is around the average thickness of an online bed. I often recommend investing in deep pocket sheets if your bed is over 15 inches thick. Luckily, you should be able to use a normal sheet set on the Layla mattress. Youll obviously have to rearrange your sheets if you want to sleep on the other side -- its a cruel world we live in. Show more Is Layla a good brand? Generally, Id say so. Having personally tested Layla products for the past six and a half years, I think they make high-quality stuff. For years, I slept exclusively with one of the Layla Kapok Pillows. I highly recommend those if you like a shredded memory foam pillow. I highly doubt Layla as a brand back its beds with such generous policies if they werent so quality and trusted. Show more Do hybrid mattresses sag? Modern-day hybrid beds are intentionally designed not to sag excessively over time. On a more old-school, traditional innerspring mattress, the sleeping surface could start to bow towards the middle, but only after prolonged use -- Im talking 15-20 years here. With beds like the Layla mattress, I cant see an option like this overly sagging any time soon. Show more

Eames House: A landmark of 20th century design, the colorful modernist house was designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949 and served as their home and studio until their death. Though located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, which has been heavily affected by the fire, the home is currently unharmed. We are closely monitoring the situation and the Eames Foundation has taken every precaution to protect the site. Yesterday, the Foundations team worked quickly to remove a small number of objects from the house before they had to evacuate the building, Lucia Dewey Atwood, executive director of the Eames Foundation, said in a statement to AD. The loss and displacement caused by these fires is staggering, and we stand in solidarity with everyone affected during this incredibly difficult time. Visits to the residence are cancelled until further notice.Theatre Palisades, Pierson Playhouse: Founded by three veteran television writers, Theatre Palisade, Pierson Playhouse was located in a California Modern structure designed by John G. Wallis. Our beloved Pierson Playhouse is gone, but the heart of Theatre Palisades beats on. We will rise again, the organization posted on Facebook.The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center was lost early Wednesday.Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center: According to NBC Los Angeles, the temple and Jewish center was destroyed early Wednesday. The congregation dates back to 1921, according to the temples website.Malibu Feed Bin: Offering food and supplies for horses, livestock, and pets, the Malibu Feed Bin has been in operation since 1966. According to a post on Facebook, the red, shiplap building that housed the store was lost in the fire. This is so unreal for me and Im having a hard time finding the words that even make sense. I want to thank everyone who has sent kind words and expressed concern for the store, my family, and staff. We are so thankful for the love and support you all have shown us after 60 years in business, the owners wrote.Reel Inn: A iconic roadside seafood restaurant, Reel Inn succumbed to flames, according to the Malibu Times. Known for its fresh fish and laid-back coastal atmosphere, Reel Inn has been a staple along the Pacific Coast Highway for decades, the outlet wrote.This is a developing story.

Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity, among broader changes it made to its moderation policies and practices Tuesday.The companys new guidelines prohibit insults about someones intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations. However, the latest guidelines now include a caveat for accusing LGBTQ people of being mentally ill because they are gay or transgender.We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like weird, the revised company guidelines read.The new guidelines around hate speech are part of Metas broader major changes regarding how it moderates online speech on its platforms. On Tuesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it will replace its fact-checking program, which has relied on trusted organizational partners, with a community-driven system similar to Xs Community Notes. Xs system allows users to submit suggested notes on other peoples content, and then certain users vote on whether or not the notes are publicly displayed. Zuckerberg cited recent elections and a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech.The long list of changes to the new hate speech guidelines include removing rules that forbid insults about a persons appearance based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease. Meta also scrapped policies that prohibited expressions of hate against a person or a group on the basis of their protected class and that banned users from referring to transgender or nonbinary people as it.GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group, denounced the changes.Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives, President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for profit at the expense of its users and true freedom of expression. Fact-checking and hate speech policies protect free speech.A spokesperson for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.CEOs and business leaders in tech and beyond are broadening their efforts to woo President-elect Donald Trump. Meta is among the several tech companies and executives including Amazon, Apple CEO Tim Cook and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that donated $1 million to Trumps second inaugural fund within the last several weeks. Meta also announced Tuesday that UFCs Dana White, a longtime Trump supporter, would join its board.

Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher Franois Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop benchmarks thatll probe AI for human-level intelligence.The nonprofit, the ARC Prize Foundation, will be led by Greg Kamradt, an ex-Salesforce engineering director and founder of the AI product studio Leverage. Kamradt will serve as president and a member of the board. [W]ere growing into a proper nonprofit foundation to act as a useful north star toward artificial general intelligence, Chollet wrote in a post on the nonprofits website. (Artificial general intelligence is a nebulous term, but its commonly understood to mean AI that can perform most tasks humans can.) [W]e are trying to inspire progress by promoting [the gap] in basic human capability.The ARC Prize Foundation will expand on ARC-AGI, a test developed by Chollet to evaluate whether an AI system can efficiently acquire new skills outside the data it was trained on.Chollet introduced ARC-AGI, short for Abstract and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence, in 2019. Many AI systems can ace Math Olympiad exams and figure out potential solutions to PhD-level problems. But until this year, the best-performing AI could only solve just under a third of the tasks in ARC-AGI. Unlike most frontier AI benchmarks, we are not trying to measure AI risk with superhuman exam questions, Chollet wrote in the post. Future versions of the ARC-AGI benchmark will focus on shrinking [the human capability] gap towards zero.ARC-AGI consists of puzzle-like problems where an AI has to generate the correct answer grid from a collection of different-colored squares. The problems were designed to force an AI to adapt to new problems it hasnt seen before. Last June, Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop kicked off acompetitionto build an AI capable of besting ARC-AGI. OpenAIs unreleased o3 model was the first to achieve a qualifying score but only with an extraordinary amount of computing power.Chollet has made it clear that ARC-AGI has flaws many models have been able to brute force their way to high scores and that he doesnt believe that o3 possess human-level intelligence. [E]arly data points suggest that the upcoming [successor to the ARC-AGI] benchmark will still pose a significant challenge to o3, potentially reducing its score to under 30% even at high compute (while a smart human would still be able to score over 95% with no training), Chollet said in a statement last December. Youll know artificial general intelligence is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible.Knoop says that the plan is to launch a second-gen ARC-AGI benchmark this year alongside a new competition. The nonprofit will also embark on designing the third edition of ARC-AGI. It remains to be seen how the ARC Prize Foundation addresses the criticism Chollet has faced for overselling ARC-AGI as a benchmark toward reaching AGI. The very definition of AGI is being hotly contested now; one OpenAI staff member recentlyclaimedthat AGI has already been achieved if one defines AGI as AI better than most humans at most tasks.Interestingly, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in December that the company intends to partner with the ARC-AGI team to build future benchmarks. Chollet gave no update on possible partnership in todays announcement.

Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the number one free app in Apples App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for the number one spot as devastating fires continue to rage across Southern California.Watch Duty has been around since 2021 and says its used by firefighters and first responders across the western United States.Fire tracking app goes viral amid wildfires (image credit: Maxwell Zeff)The Watch Duty app pulls information about active wildfires from a network of active and retired firefighters, first responders, official government reports, and volunteer reporters who monitor radio scanners around the clock. While other fire tracking apps solely rely on government alerts, Watch Duty claims to have more real-time information. However, its important to remember the app is not a replacement for official information.Downloading the app will show you wildfires in your immediate area, and alert you about nearby fires, evacuation warnings, and firefighting efforts. You can also use the app to check in other areas, which may be especially helpful if you have loved ones in Southern California.Image Credits:Watch DutyThe fire tracking app shot to the top of the charts Wednesday morning as more than 70,000 people in and around Los Angeles county face evacuation orders from the Palisades Fire near Santa Monica and the Eaton Fire near Pasadena. At the time of writing, the Associated Press reports that the fires have destroyed more than 1,000 structures and killed at least two people. The fires continue to rage, pushed by a ferocious wind storm affecting the area, with winds topping out at 100 mph.Friends in LA: Download the Watch Duty app to track the fire in real time, said Ryan Peterson, the CEO of Flexport in a tweet on Tuesday. Its the official wild fire app used by the firemen in California with very granular real time updates, video feeds and evacuation maps.The apps founder and CEO, John Mills, told the Washington Post earlier this year that he started Watch Duty after moving to a fire-prone area of Northern California.

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature, similar to Xs. The Mastodon founder, whose app competes with X and Metas X rival, Instagram Threads, called Metas changes deeply troubling and a concern to anyone with a conscience. He also warned Threads users who cross-post from Threads to Mastodon via Threads fediverse-sharing feature that Mastodon will take action on hate speech and any Threads account violating Mastodons existing policies.Following the announcement of Metas loosened content moderation rules, which affect LGBTQ communities and other marginalized users, many Mastodon users wanted to know what this meant for the open source, decentralized social network, given its connection with Threads.Last June, Meta opened up its fediverse-sharing feature to all Threads users after earlier beta testing in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. The feature lets Threads users enable an option that will publish their posts directly on Mastodon as well, allowing them to reach a broader audience. ScreenshotRochko previously touted Threads federation, saying the move made the open source Mastodon a far more attractive option. He has also spoken about how Metas adoption of the underlying ActivityPub protocol, which powers Mastodon and other federated servers, was a validation of the move to decentralized social media.However, not all in the fediverse are in universal agreement on Mastodons integration with Threads. Hundreds of smaller Mastodon servers block Threads, which means their users cant connect with Threads users or vice versa. (Meta also blocks hundreds of Mastodon servers, too, over violations of Community Standards and other moderation and privacy issues.)It was previously unclear how Mastodon would respond to Metas new policy, and whether or not the larger Mastodon instances, like mastodon.social, would now take action against Threads accounts.Rochkos post indicates the organization is aware that Threads integration could soon become a moderation challenge. Hate speech is prohibited, and we will take action on any Threads account found violating our policies, he warned in a post on his Mastodon account.He also urged users on Threads who disagreed with Metas new direction to move to Mastodon instead, though its not as easy to do as moving an account between different Mastodon servers. Thats because Threads is not yet fully integrated with the fediverse in this way.

VFX and animation studio MPC brought Disney's characters and the African savannah to life in the recently released CG feature Mufasa: The Lion King. Under the leadership of director Barry Jenkins, the studio blended artistry and leading-edge technology to capture the story's heart and soul.Production VFX supervisor Adam Valdez, animation supervisor Daniel Fotheringham, VFX producer Barry St. John, VFX supervisor Audrey Ferrara, and VFX producers Georgie Duncan and Benny Milligan led a team of over 1,700 artists, technologists, and production crew across four continents.The films production leveraged innovative tools and techniques, including virtual production and motion-capture during pre-production. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, the team collaborated remotely across London, New York, and Los Angeles, using VR to navigate digital environments. Motion-capture performers' movements were mapped onto digital animals. Jenkins was able to direct performances live using Unreal Engine real-time animated feeds. To create a blueprint for our final animation our motion capture shoot involved multiple performers playing Mufasa, Sarabi, Taka, Rafiki and even Zazu says Valdez. They wore motion capture suits, and through a process we call QuadCap, their movements were mapped onto digital lion characters. This technology aligned the performers head and spine movements to the lions head and neck, their legs to the lions front legs, and simulated the lions back legs and hips to follow. Barry could then watch a live feed of the lions on screen through Unreal Engine, allowing him to give real-time performance and camera notes to the actors and DP.We added facial expressions and lip sync to enhance characters performances. Fotheringham noted, then Barry could walk through the recorded sequence in VR making notes before we could wrap it up to be shot virtually. Performances with complex animal mechanics, like fighting or leaping were then integrated into the Quadcap performances and into the virtual sets, creating a complete master scene that Barry and James could shoot from any angle. This innovative blending of live-action filmmaking techniques and visual effects became a defining feature of the entire production. MPCs Character Lab team crafted over 118 photorealistic unique animals, each built from the ground up using anatomically precise bone and muscle structure. MPCs proprietary grooming system, Loma, created lifelike fur with an unprecedented number of hairs that could react naturally to environmental elements like snow, wind and water. Meanwhile, MPCs animators delivered performances rich in emotional depth and authenticity.The studios Environment artists crafted expansive African landscapes through scouting trips, photogrammetry, and hand-sculpting. They designed plains, canyons, and forests, capturing every detail from weathered rocks to blades of grass. To manage the vast scale, they developed a 107 square-mile digital world, rendered with photorealistic detail.Source: MPC Journalist, antique shop owner, aspiring gemologistL'Wrenbrings a diverse perspective to animation, where every frame reflects her varied passions.

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Breakdown & ShowreelsGladiator II: VFX Breakdown by FramestoreBy Vincent Frei - 08/01/2025 Pulse-pounding action comes alive with really cool visual effects in Gladiator II. From lifelike baboons to the sheer power of a charging rhinoceros, Framestore delivers a cinematic spectacle you wont forget!WANT TO KNOW MORE?Framestore: Dedicated page about Gladiator II on Framestore website.Christian Kaestner & Kyle Dunlevy: Heres my interview of Christian Kaestner (VFX Supervisor) & Kyle Dunlevy (Animation Supervisor) at Framestore.Mark Bakowski: Heres my interview of Production VFX Supervisor Mark Bakowski. Vincent Frei The Art of VFX 2024

In this episode, we dive into the extraordinary VFX of Better Man.Also check out our interview with the films director: Michael GraceyDirector Michael Gracey & making Better Manand also our interview with the team at Wt FX.fxpodcast: Better Man with Wt FXDont forget to subscribe to both the VFXShow and the fxpodcast to get both of our most popular podcasts.This week in our Boy Band lineup is:Matt Wallin * @mattwallin www.mattwallin.com.Follow Matt on Mastodon: @[emailprotected]Jason Diamond @jasondiamond www.thediamondbros.comMike Seymour @mikeseymour. www.fxguide.com. + @mikeseymourSpecial thanks to Matt Wallin for the editing & production of the show with help from Jim Shen.