/* Thread and interpreter state structures and their interfaces */ #ifndef Py_PYSTATE_H #define Py_PYSTATE_H #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* State shared between threads */ struct _ts; /* Forward */ struct _is; /* Forward */ typedef struct _is { struct _is *next; struct _ts *tstate_head; PyObject *modules; PyObject *sysdict; PyObject *builtins; PyObject *modules_reloading; PyObject *codec_search_path; PyObject *codec_search_cache; PyObject *codec_error_registry; #ifdef HAVE_DLOPEN int dlopenflags; #endif #ifdef WITH_TSC int tscdump; #endif } PyInterpreterState; /* State unique per thread */ struct _frame; /* Avoid including frameobject.h */ /* Py_tracefunc return -1 when raising an exception, or 0 for success. */ typedef int (*Py_tracefunc)(PyObject *, struct _frame *, int, PyObject *); /* The following values are used for 'what' for tracefunc functions: */ #define PyTrace_CALL 0 #define PyTrace_EXCEPTION 1 #define PyTrace_LINE 2 #define PyTrace_RETURN 3 #define PyTrace_C_CALL 4 #define PyTrace_C_EXCEPTION 5 #define PyTrace_C_RETURN 6 typedef struct _ts { /* See Python/ceval.c for comments explaining most fields */ struct _ts *next; PyInterpreterState *interp; struct _frame *frame; int recursion_depth; /* 'tracing' keeps track of the execution depth when tracing/profiling. This is to prevent the actual trace/profile code from being recorded in the trace/profile. */ int tracing; int use_tracing; Py_tracefunc c_profilefunc; Py_tracefunc c_tracefunc; PyObject *c_profileobj; PyObject *c_traceobj; PyObject *curexc_type; PyObject *curexc_value; PyObject *curexc_traceback; PyObject *exc_type; PyObject *exc_value; PyObject *exc_traceback; PyObject *dict; /* Stores per-thread state */ /* tick_counter is incremented whenever the check_interval ticker * reaches zero. The purpose is to give a useful measure of the number * of interpreted bytecode instructions in a given thread. This * extremely lightweight statistic collector may be of interest to * profilers (like psyco.jit()), although nothing in the core uses it. */ int tick_counter; int gilstate_counter; PyObject *async_exc; /* Asynchronous exception to raise */ long thread_id; /* Thread id where this tstate was created */ int trash_delete_nesting; PyObject *trash_delete_later; /* XXX signal handlers should also be here */ } PyThreadState; PyAPI_FUNC(PyInterpreterState *) PyInterpreterState_New(void); PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyInterpreterState_Clear(PyInterpreterState *); PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyInterpreterState_Delete(PyInterpreterState *); PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyThreadState_New(PyInterpreterState *); PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) _PyThreadState_Prealloc(PyInterpreterState *); PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyThreadState_Init(PyThreadState *); PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_Clear(PyThreadState *); PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_Delete(PyThreadState *); #ifdef WITH_THREAD PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent(void); #endif PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyThreadState_Get(void); PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyThreadState_Swap(PyThreadState *); PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyThreadState_GetDict(void); PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(long, PyObject *); /* Variable and macro for in-line access to current thread state */ PyAPI_DATA(PyThreadState *) _PyThreadState_Current; #ifdef Py_DEBUG #define PyThreadState_GET() PyThreadState_Get() #else #define PyThreadState_GET() (_PyThreadState_Current) #endif typedef enum {PyGILState_LOCKED, PyGILState_UNLOCKED} PyGILState_STATE; /* Ensure that the current thread is ready to call the Python C API, regardless of the current state of Python, or of its thread lock. This may be called as many times as desired by a thread so long as each call is matched with a call to PyGILState_Release(). In general, other thread-state APIs may be used between _Ensure() and _Release() calls, so long as the thread-state is restored to its previous state before the Release(). For example, normal use of the Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS/ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS macros are acceptable. The return value is an opaque "handle" to the thread state when PyGILState_Ensure() was called, and must be passed to PyGILState_Release() to ensure Python is left in the same state. Even though recursive calls are allowed, these handles can *not* be shared - each unique call to PyGILState_Ensure must save the handle for its call to PyGILState_Release. When the function returns, the current thread will hold the GIL. Failure is a fatal error. */ PyAPI_FUNC(PyGILState_STATE) PyGILState_Ensure(void); /* Release any resources previously acquired. After this call, Python's state will be the same as it was prior to the corresponding PyGILState_Ensure() call (but generally this state will be unknown to the caller, hence the use of the GILState API.) Every call to PyGILState_Ensure must be matched by a call to PyGILState_Release on the same thread. */ PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyGILState_Release(PyGILState_STATE); /* Helper/diagnostic function - get the current thread state for this thread. May return NULL if no GILState API has been used on the current thread. Note that the main thread always has such a thread-state, even if no auto-thread-state call has been made on the main thread. */ PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyGILState_GetThisThreadState(void); /* The implementation of sys._current_frames() Returns a dict mapping thread id to that thread's current frame. */ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyThread_CurrentFrames(void); /* Routines for advanced debuggers, requested by David Beazley. Don't use unless you know what you are doing! */ PyAPI_FUNC(PyInterpreterState *) PyInterpreterState_Head(void); PyAPI_FUNC(PyInterpreterState *) PyInterpreterState_Next(PyInterpreterState *); PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyInterpreterState_ThreadHead(PyInterpreterState *); PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyThreadState_Next(PyThreadState *); typedef struct _frame *(*PyThreadFrameGetter)(PyThreadState *self_); /* hook for PyEval_GetFrame(), requested for Psyco */ PyAPI_DATA(PyThreadFrameGetter) _PyThreadState_GetFrame; #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* !Py_PYSTATE_H */

RE-INVENTING THE TELEVISION NEWS BUSINESS*

A revolution in video storytelling

Creating entirely new & cost-effective production methods

From the world leaders in video production training and the creators of Character Driven Storytelling™

*and every other business that uses video

WHAT WE DO

Over the past 35 years, we have designed, built or restructured some of the most powerful news and journalism companies in the world.

We replace the traditional TV news ‘crew’ with one highly trained journalist, working alone with nothing but an iPhone.

No more TV news ‘crews’, no editors and no field producers.

This is television news done the way newspaper journalism is done – one reporter with their electronic pad and pencil.

In doing this, we can cut the cost of production by as much as 75% while increasing ratings and audience engagement.

In the place of conventional TV news ‘packages’ – ie, reporter stand up, interview, b-roll, man on the street, we marry great journalism with Netflix and Hollywood storytelling.

It’s a combination that works.

We have taken most of our clients to #1 in their respective markets.

And it’s not just for news. Any company, any profit, any NGO and anyone else who is online needs to tell their story in compelling yet cost-effective video. We can teach you to do that. Either in person or virtually.

EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE CAN TEACH YOUR STAFF TO PRODUCE

ITAY HOD

Itay Hod, MMJ with KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2018.

Because he works alone, with only an iPhone, he was able to embed himself with a homeless family.

Here’s the story he produced in a one-day turn.

KIET DO

Kiet Do, an MMJ with KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2021.

Here is a story he produced, all on his own, with only an iPhone and in a one-day turn.

TAYLOR SCHAUB

Taylor Schaub, an MMJ with Spectrum News 1 in LA, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2023.

Here is a story he turned in only one day, using only an iPhone. It was the first video story he ever did and it was nominated for an Emmy.

THE BOOTCAMP

How do we convert stations and whole networks to working in this way?

Since 1988, we have run intensive 5-Day Video Storytelling Bootcamps

We have done these all over the world.

These are hands-on bootcamps, and participants learn an entirely new way of creating TV news stories.

-We shoot at a 3:1 ratio or lower, so turnaround times are fast.

-We go directly from camera to timelilne and edit – no written scripts. We work in the medium of pictures and sound.

-We are entirely character-driven.

-We are driven by pictures and real events.

-We are focused almost entirely on ’the viewer experience’.

Since 1988, more than 70,000 journalists around the world have taken our bootcamps, either in person on virtualy.

Case Studies

CBS News

We have started to work with CBS News, bringing our ideas of character-driven storytelling to one of the most successful and biggest networks in the United States. Since beginning to work with them ratings have climbed and more importantly, audience engagement is through the ceiling.

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New York Times Television

We started New York Times Television in 1990 and it was the first paper to be brought into the world of TV. It quickly became one of the most successful non-fiction production companies in the United States. The series and documentaries we produced won many awards including multiple Emmys.

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The BBC

We have been working with the BBC since the year 2000 helping to convert their national news network to our visual storytelling technique. Most recently we have trained teams from their sports, documentaries, and comedy divisions to make character-driven stories using only smartphones.

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Spectrum News

For the past five years we have worked with Spectrum News to introduce and train their journalists on visual, character driven storytelling using smartphones helping to create a different kind of local news for their network of 24-Hour News Stations across the United States.

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The United Nations

In 2006, we were approached by the United Nations. Rather than rely on news outlets, it would be much easier to train the field operatives to produce their own stories. We spent two years working with the UN, training more than 100 of their staff in bootcamps in Geneva and Nairobi.

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The Newark Star-Ledger

We trained 50 print reporters at the paper to shoot and tell their own stories, in conjunction with their print work. We built a TV newsroom in their existing print newsroom – you could not ask for a better set and they began to live stream their stories in conjunction with their print work.

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Mcgraw Hill

We spent two years with McGraw Hill, training more than 150 of their staffers, making them completely video literate. McGraw/Hill media properties we transit included Business Week, Aviation Week, (what was the name of the architecture magazine), and JD Power and Associates.

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Voice of America

In 1990, we were approached by The Voice of America, the official broadcasting agency for the United States Government. When we met with VOA, they were only a short wave radio broadcaster, but working with them, we took them into television, launching VOA-TV.

Learn More

Oyster Yachts

British based Oyster Yachts makes some of the finest yachts in the world. Like every other company, they had to find a way to feed the never-ending video demands of social media – sites like Instagram and TikTok. We trained the Oyster staff to tell their own stories, using only iPhones.

Learn More

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

We were approached by SEPA, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency because they had to continually find a way to ‘feed the media beast’. The result was that SEPA was able to tell their own stories, whenever they wanted, and at almost no additional cost.

Learn More

Michael on Media

Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.

He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.

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RE-INVENTING THE TELEVISION NEWS BUSINESS*

A revolution in video storytelling

Creating entirely new & cost-effective production methods

From the world leaders in video production training and the creators of Character Driven Storytelling™

*and every other business that uses video

WHAT WE DO

Over the past 35 years, we have designed, built or restructured some of the most powerful news and journalism companies in the world.

We replace the traditional TV news ‘crew’ with one highly trained journalist, working alone with nothing but an iPhone.

No more TV news ‘crews’, no editors and no field producers.

This is television news done the way newspaper journalism is done – one reporter with their electronic pad and pencil.

In doing this, we can cut the cost of production by as much as 75% while increasing ratings and audience engagement.

In the place of conventional TV news ‘packages’ – ie, reporter stand up, interview, b-roll, man on the street, we marry great journalism with Netflix and Hollywood storytelling.

It’s a combination that works.

We have taken most of our clients to #1 in their respective markets.

And it’s not just for news. Any company, any profit, any NGO and anyone else who is online needs to tell their story in compelling yet cost-effective video. We can teach you to do that. Either in person or virtually.

EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE CAN TEACH YOUR STAFF TO PRODUCE

ITAY HOD

Itay Hod, MMJ with KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2018.

Because he works alone, with only an iPhone, he was able to embed himself with a homeless family.

Here’s the story he produced in a one-day turn.

KIET DO

Kiet Do, an MMJ with KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2021.

Here is a story he produced, all on his own, with only an iPhone and in a one-day turn.

TAYLOR SCHAUB

Taylor Schaub, an MMJ with Spectrum News 1 in LA, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2023.

Here is a story he turned in only one day, using only an iPhone. It was the first video story he ever did and it was nominated for an Emmy.

THE BOOTCAMP

How do we convert stations and whole networks to working in this way?

Since 1988, we have run intensive 5-Day Video Storytelling Bootcamps

We have done these all over the world.

These are hands-on bootcamps, and participants learn an entirely new way of creating TV news stories.

-We shoot at a 3:1 ratio or lower, so turnaround times are fast.

-We go directly from camera to timelilne and edit – no written scripts. We work in the medium of pictures and sound.

-We are entirely character-driven.

-We are driven by pictures and real events.

-We are focused almost entirely on ’the viewer experience’.

Since 1988, more than 70,000 journalists around the world have taken our bootcamps, either in person on virtualy.

Case Studies

CBS News

New York Times Television

The BBC

Spectrum News

The United Nations

The Newark Star-Ledger

Mcgraw Hill

Voice of America

Oyster Yachts

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

Michael on Media