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but. the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery something absolutely. earth. starts feb 11th on t.w. . the digital world is the big winner in this pandemic watching from online shopping education live streaming the internet is growing stronger lockdowns have forced firms into digitizing and it's giving us newfound freedoms like flexible work and the chance to keep in contact with family and friends on a different level. but it all comes at
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a price the 2 faces of digitalisation topic today are made well it's game over for a number of top level e sports professionals the so-called athletes have hit on an incredibly lucrative business opportunity over the past few years which we've reported on before but this young stars have also found out all those hours in front of a screen and the global pressures of the entertainment sector can fast become a health hazard. reports. streaming is fast becoming a go to activity to relax and socialize have escaped from the pressures of everyday life. this is me hanging out with some friends this is no way any of us could make it to the professional. jump again x. but for a growing number of people playing video games is providing a golden ticket to fame fortune and legions of fans. the sport has moved into
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a $1000000000.00 industry young game is all around the world to pursue a shot at the big time but what price when you look at the stats of today's professional players the average retirement age is between just 23 and 25 years old . physical and mental burnout is a growing problem for professional sports players it's not something that's widely acknowledged within the industry players a finally starting to speak out and call for change. all of. better known as all of. you already know who he is. playing professionally since the age of 20 he's a gaming legend widely regarded as one of the best counterstrike global offensive players in history. 2015 he helped power his former team fanatic to world number one and was awarded the title of most valuable player. well and i've been gaming my
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whole life of course i loved it but there was also some kind of escape you could just. escape in another world and you don't have to think about anything else but just the game and i think that's something that i really enjoyed but following a wrist injury in 2016 the pressures of real life and a grueling competition schedule started to become overwhelming and everything i was just a low figure in the summer for tournament a lot more pressure like normally when it's not corona we will travel oak ridge travel like to honor plus they say year if not more and it's kind of stressful for your mind because you always have something where you have to perform and one of the times for some. people analyzing what you did wrong and everybody has so many opinions in 2017 he took a short leave of absence g. to personal reasons i just couldn't sleep good i was just thinking about the game 247 and like being stressed almost every day at all times all of came back
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refreshed but then in may of 2020 shocking his fans he announced in a tweet that he would be taking an extended break from professional gaming due to fatigue strain on his mental health and knack of motivation to compete it's so hard because if you see a team playing 8 hours a day that are better than you know you want to play my and i was today because you want to be the right that it just keeps going like that then you have like 12 hours practice plus like 5 hours individually and you keep doing that for every day i don't think it can be good for you because of a pandemic adding even more pressure to train around the clock a number of the best players in east for 2 or announce career breaks this year citing burnout and stress. medical professionals in the gaming industry have been concerned for years about the health impacts of overtraining sleep deprivation and players taking unregulated energy supplements we're seeing so much burnout we
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unfortunately had a couple deaths in the community this year people need to be addressing the mental health people and to be addressing the physical health of these athletes or or we're seeing repercussions are any a lot of the reasons are we're pushing these gamers well beyond how far we should be pushing anyone let alone 18 year old kids and we're not giving them the correct support you know gaming is a pastime in sports as a career and with so much money at stake professional gaming teams like x l e sports are starting to make more holistic changes to safeguard the health of that play as we are doing blood tests we're having nutrition companies supporting us you know working out we're focusing on sleep was a trick us a using in the n.b.a. my name is head of performance or my status as really quite surreal that i have to tell the players to play less if people have
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a bird or have issues they're just getting replaced and in my point of view the organization is responsible or mainly responsible why is this effete has this large started a growing number of top the sports teams are starting to build support for their players health into that contract providing team houses and personal chefs fitness simple form as coaches physios and mental health training but industry wide and for smaller teams don't have many official regulations that are actively safeguarding professional play is they are sleeping too that they're having not a structure at all so they go to bed at 3 at 5 pm they are not having enough sunlight they're looking at vitamin d. they normally don't have a cook so the nutrition is really bad in football for example be off the exit. b. of coaches and so on any sports there's no coaching no sense yet and the end it's nice to be successful not a lot of money but it's a really really disgusting when
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a person is $25.00 or 30 and has to stop what they are doing because it's really unhealthy for them and they have lifetime issues with. one of my state is now back playing professionally again with his team face time but the road to recovery has been a challenging one i've been working out a lot more on trying to it's a lot more help to think that helps me there are a lot more players are a lot more stress than they would like to admit to the public without people saying anything to schedule your spitta same on the it's not good for people self useful it is still a very new industry but as the tournament's in the prize money get bigger protecting young professionals from physical and mental burnout is going to become an important challenge. the pandemic has bankrupted countless businesses and continues to do so millions are out of work but he experts saying that there's no better time to start your own business than in
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a crisis you have to learn how to scrimp and save when financing dries up you have to find customers when there's no demand and you need a really good idea. last year i met the founder of a tiny startup in spain that's created an eco friendly healthy and affordable beacon stake from a 3 d. printer a year on the company continues to grow and continues to wow the skeptics pretty even tastes pretty good to tell you the truth. well well my colleague sound bites on the boss of the biotech for some tips on how to develop a successful stop. people felt that with very good beginning we have people deferred through the prepared plan because . i'm a deficiency theo and found out what i mean because of that startup in barcelona working on the future of land they need it is my advice for you to give that like pull the fire. for the event of your idea your
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purty good effect will keep your passion what do you get your talent i come from a time where the difficulty i was very pushy you're nearing because they've been working all my life by maybe. building organs for human rights all for biomedical purpose so the beginning i want it to be secure never at the top of the war but we created the new technology and once you create your pick knowledge if you want to find the feedback from the safety in my case for example i went to perry check if this was a crazy idea or excuse me fair and warmth are very interesting or many people would set up a period tell you that because nothing they did yeah then you have. to drive you to go forward. very important think that buying in that sector right could be the ball that certainly the very proud of but
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that we didn't find the best way to bring the problem to market so you could buy but i 550 and got right that most for example upbeat to be between feeding people would meet for example you know or create the separate plant or book in retail and here you are not thinking about the right people that but i believe the market. starts at the very 1st thing i think. it's not a complicated and who even in the face that says something doesn't go well. meaning that you can think another direction and here we are. it is very hard to find better talented people so you one more time and that is very important because it seems. to stay with you for a long time so you don't want just to put another tidemand on line and look for the people to come to you you really sometimes one could be the right people so go and
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find the right people at the right places and i mean typically we have to be in one even if they can a logical degree call it the performance and then we have to be interested in which we pulled back when the performance the. people that are focused on the technology the business team you spoke was done through that you master the client the partners. you want to find the right team but my own strategy was to look for v.c. beating on the media so that. would contact me and say hey we are interested in what you are believe we should poking about it and i feel that if you don't feel that your county europe for example for me but that is being paid already believe you cannot find the right but that you have now or do you have guys you can have that people from all over the ward investing in your company.
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the next step is to scale meaning that especially in our case where we have a very strong mission a very strong vision which we want to create a sustainable future. well you need to scale up to bring that product and leaders about advances in their nation so the next step is to raise more money bring he says $2000.00 of production to get our allows our hold on a lot to be a beta boat all over the ward the next 5 to 10 years i hope that by 5 or so mandation as you're starting your business base there. good tips for business there but how about some tips in organizing our daily lives in the pandemic social distancing to avoid the coronaviruses change so many things paradoxically resulted in better health fuel communicable diseases like colds and flu but everyone gets
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sick sometime how to visit the doctor in times of limited access if your medical consultation a line. took a look at the growing field of tele medicine she started by booking a virtual appointment herself. i need to see a dermatologist at short notice. the next available appointment is in 4 months time . but then i discover a dr offering online consultation. after entering a few personal details on her website i find myself talking to her just a few minutes later. the next. yes i do get tired my hands have been really really dry for quite a long time now and they each a bit to talk. in washing their hands more frequently might even pages skin is natural protective barrier this can lead to a kind of eczema so the 1st thing you need to do is apply hand cream a lot more often than. the online consultation costs 30 euros i consider
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that a price worth paying if i had a problem i was concerned about as i get help quickly and easily. in many cases we can look at the patient to make an assessment based on the severity and extent of the problem and then also determine the degree of urgency of course that's no substitute for personal contact you still need doctor's surgery for physical checking all for certain technical equipment needed for a more precise diagnosis. yet. the video consultation serves as a preliminary finding for diseases where a visual cue. by the doctor is enough this form tell medical treatment has only been permitted in germany since 2019. in the coronavirus era patients are happy for the opportunity to save time and avoid risk of infection and demand to soar. like so many other areas of life medical care is now also becoming
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digitalized. people with chronic conditions can for example have their blood pressure monitored remotely by staff at a clinic. next i talked to a health care management expert florian kind says patients in germany have become increasingly receptive to the concept of telemedicine this is led to greater willingness among investors to provide funding that enables young companies to acquire new technologies carbon dioxide can get a lot of firms in germany of insufficient funding. that's especially the case with startups but that's no changing in some areas we're seeing many parts of the health sector getting a lot more capital. than able to catch up with us for example our companies now have a better set of all round with competent teams so they can develop a broader scope. and frequent. the digital boom has benefited and given birth to a lot of startups swedish company crew has developed
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a digital health that allows users to consult with a doctor live after registering online patients answer a series of questions about their symptoms and can then request an appointment. cruise network now extends to 900 doctors across europe covering all manner of medical conditions. to hire an infection inspect terrio infections headaches many different types of pain diarrhea and vomiting eye infections everything that normally a general practitioner will deal with at short notice. try putting your head down said that your chin meets your chest. painful yes yes i feel it on the right side of my head where the pain was. the services available in scandinavia france britain and now in germany to its doctors speak
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a range of different languages and germany consultations are offered in german or english. prescriptions sick notes and referrals are all issued electronically but doesn't that raise data privacy concerns as a lot of harm and off are a lot of people will have questions because it's all so new and data privacy concerns are always great when it comes to health matters. we're seeing people getting used to it pretty quickly because they know that it works and that doctors who have tell you medical treatment training are able to find out a lot by asking the patient questions and his if you are also for. digital applications are now commonplace in the health care world in addition to remote consultations they now also enable aftercare for acute and chronic diseases ordering medication compiling patient data and even psychotherapy services. when it comes to serious or life threatening conditions there is no substitute for
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a proper visit to the doctor but telemedicine can offer supplementary help and in germany for example health insurance companies now cover both types of treatment. now all that digital work during the pandemic has highlighted the need for a new generation of computer savvy specialists children these days tend to be immersed in a digital world right from the very beginning but what about us older people if you are looking for a job and can afford the training i.t. bootcamp software to bring you up to speed in just months it could be worth it because companies are desperately looking for professionals who can drive digitalisation. the global economy is in trouble supply chains spanning the planet have been disrupted the pandemic has highlighted the limits of the present economic system and the importance of digital technologies noire fisher is a counterfeit in hamburg that describes itself as
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a school and pool for digital talent. we are seeing growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis. for short courses it calls boot camps to train people in computer related fields. 3 months course and these are signs for university graduates costs a little under $9000.00 euros. training as a web developer costs just under 8000. digitalisation combined with coronavirus being forced to deal with these things now the. flexibility and the willingness to go new ways are more important than ever that holds for training courses to remote learning is the order of the day. we see people who want to change their lives some have been working in the
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profession for 15 or 20 years and now want to change course. they spent 3 months with us doing intensive training and so they can work in an entirely new field. the need for many more digital professionals did not start with the pandemic but it has made it great. the problem we are addressing on a small scale with our bootcamps is the lack of qualified personnel there are 124000 i t. vacancies in germany right now on average it takes 150 days to fill a vacancy so there clearly aren't enough qualified. digital publishing is one industry in need of more people. are publishers magazines while the print runs of its paper editions have been falling for years its online presence has been growing fast its online publications now account for
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a 3rd of its revenues. we have to work on the future viability of a company all the time and that involves finding qualified staff we have an arrangement with whereby we can contact its recent graduates at an early stage so we can recruit good candidates for our digital business. export driven manufacturing base is taking a battering because of the coronavirus crisis while digital developments are not. the digital. if we don't manage to. make them more digitally savvy we're going to. technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays there's no way around the need to optimize people's digital skill sets. i love working from
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home but i. work my back. like computer isn't as good as in the office the good. old times of the day. you can get a little too much time. out. that's working from home for you it was too much sometimes for you too e-mails phone calls leg skype what is a. chat call. and you're expected to be available $24.00 seventh's would you react immediately to messages and form calls. was somehow managing to do some actual i'm. sorry but i can't talk to you right now i'm shooting a video. how
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can we get through this jungle without going crazy. i've got a few tips for you to. define when you want to do something and for a long possible plan ahead when you want to do certain tests and how much time you'll need that way you can focus better on the task at hand. introductions and be near people typically killers research has shown that it can take an average of 23 minutes to get back into a subject after you've been distracted which brings me to my next point to. set priorities when someone contacts you. whether you have to answer right away or if it can wait someone we should. hear on the how we should put that help.
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on the other hand the women who have me start to do their we're starting her own forward progress in our words which might detract from the fuse for some return of always way those 3 things obviously they are sometimes matters so urgent that they need to be resolved immediately. i'm shooting a video but i'm going. no you back in one hour ok but if they are not postponed them and focus on your current task. choose the chair the communication you feel the most comfortable with what would you prefer writing or speaking i know it's not up to you to dictate the means of communication. i've read some fascinating articles about how the tools are more difficult for women than for men. in part because
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a lightning strikes. base is previously the media so for me mostly in my attempts to all format a lot better we might say no i want to do things straight in the hour slot her some other simple. answer is simple but as we're remembering to some calls because immediately takes the pressure off the video one more thing about the maids trying to get out of as many mailing lists as you can spend 2 to 3 hours every day checking our maids wouldn't it be great if we could get down hundreds. take breaks nothing new about that. but seriously take a time out. that's imperative for your health and productivity just like it on the steps cutting off time.
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going. to go. all over the world more and more people are having trouble sleeping some of them even sleep all day and are active at night but sleep disorders have a detrimental effect on the body and may even increase the likelihood of dementia. what can be done to prevent people. in 15 minutes d.w.
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