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• They are well organized

I'm completing tasks assigned to me by the commander. What, did you think Duty is the only clan that can follow orders? We can be disciplined too, when the situation warrants. You gotta be a moron to really believe that Freedom is full of junkies and drunks. Think about it, if that were true our whole clan would've been dead and buried a long time ago.
We ain't just a collection of anarchists - we've got damn good order in our clan and we don't mess around. It may not be as apparent as with the military or Duty, 'cause we joined the clan to enjoy freedom and equality, but we can always get together and get shit done.

We don't have a strict hierarchy. Earn our respect and you get plenty of followers. However, when on the mission, we obey the commander's orders without question.

• They undertook to protect the Barrier

Holding the Barrier as best we can. The military stopped defending it after the Emission, and so many monsters broke through there that even we in the Dark Valley shat our pants. That's when our boss organized the expedition.
(random dialogue with a Freedomer)

• They study the Zone on their own

Our clan lives in the Zone and studies it, in a practical sense. I believe that the Zone is an unbelievable scientific opportunity for the whole of humanity. (...) I have no doubt that in a few years' time, we will see a massive leap in science and other areas of human knowledge thanks to our research here in the Zone. This leap will be felt by everyone... even people whose closest contact with science and technology is their cell phone!

Did you know that Freedom is studying the Zone too? We're not scientists, that's true, but we also want to know what created this nature's miracle. Everything here is a gift to humanity: all these anomalies, artifacts and mysterious emissions. What were we talking about? Oh, yes, you asked me what I'm doing here. I'm collecting data for research - taking measurements of background radiation, temperature, humidity and noting the presence of monsters and anomalies...

I reckon our boys could do the job. Freedom has its share of smart folks and if we don't know something we'll ask at the bunker. We'd love the opportunity to help science! Speak to Loki at Yanov - I'm sure he'll say the same.
(random Freedomer's advice on who to hire for protection of the bunker)

• They have great technicians

This lightweight stalker bodysuit is made by Freedom craftsmen. The suit's fabric is treated with Horizon, a special solution developed by the faction by trial and error to increase resistance to anomalies.
(descripiton of "Wind of Freedom" suit)
This stalker bodysuit with reinforced body armor made by Freedom craftsmen represents a good compromise between combat and anomaly protection. The built-in body armor comprises armor plating and ten Kevlar layers, capable of stopping a pistol bullet. The suit uses the relatively expensive Sovereign compound for anomaly protection.
(description of "Guardian of Freedom" suit)
A development of Freedom technicians, who were the first to replace metal with carbon fiber in view of exoskeletons' huge weight.
(Replacing metal components with carbon fiber exoskeleton; upgrade for exoskeleton)

• Mikluha - pioneer leader

Imagine this - they found our Mikluha! And the guys that were with him also survived. They sneaked past the braineraser, and then spent a month just killing time, couldn't get back out.
Did you understand what's going on here? Well I just gained new respect for Mikluha! Imagine - to survive four weeks in this shit, and not to lose any of your guys either!
(dialogues with random Freedomers)

In the formerly inaccessible zone one of the Freedom detachments was discovered. How did they manage to get through unharmed and then survive a few weeks here? Can't even imagine. I guess we underestimated these guys.

• They started the conflict with Duty

Duty is trying to destroy the Zone, Freedom is trying to destroy Duty, and the bandits are using any chance they get to shovel some more money in. I've had enough and I won't take it any more. I've travelled the Zone on my own and even stood with Freedom for a while. But as soon as they started talking about whacking Duty, I put my skates on and sailed.

Duty seeks to destroy the Zone and appropriate its secrets. We must stop them. Our main job is to fight Duty.

I meet up with one of the Duty men when there's a cease-fire. We share. The man's actually smart, but, shit, narrow-minded like your tank. You see, our philosophy is completely different from theirs: you can only tame the Zone, assimilate it, but not destroy it.
(dialogue with a random Freedomer)

• Their questionable actions under Lukash command

To the North, not far from the Brain Scorcher, Freedom have set up their HQ in an old military base. They're notorious nihilists, anarchists and criminals - freedom fighters, freaking guerrillas all of them. All they do is sabotage research groups, attack army units and constantly skirmish with Duty.

The military are staging a gradual Zone takeover. We need to slow them down, otherwise the Zone will turn into a research zoo. One of the military camps is right by the Agroprom. If you manage to purge the place a bit, it will slow down Zone's takeover by the army.
(description of "Destroy the military camp" task)

We eliminate monsters, expect for us it's a matter of survival, not profit. Mutant populations are not as numerous; besides, they're living beings too, so we can't permit their annihilation. Some individuals refuse to understand it. An apt illustration is the stalker called Scarecrow. He got his nickname for a reason, selling stuffed mutants. We've warned him before, but all for nothing. So can you do a good deed for mother Earth?
(description of "Kill the stalker called Scarecrow" task)

• Their actions could pose a threat to the world

I'll tell you about artifacts. What's an artifact? It's a cluster of anomalous energy, kinda like a stock cube. There's also artifacts that can...err...what's that damn word...ah, right...ge-ne-ra-te anomalies! I think that's how Chekhov says it. Anyway, only problem is, once the artifact generates an anomaly it's as good as useless. The anomaly itself ain't exactly powerful nor does it last long, but it's good enough to delay someone or knock 'em off your trail altogether.

Have you heard the rumor that the Zone is growing? I think it's true 'cause I've seen real scary mutants near the perimeter, ones that you could only meet near the center of the Zone before. Not good, eh?
(dialogue with a random stalker)

• They have plenty of bad apples in their ranks

Behave, OK? Got it? Try fooling around and you'll be sorry. We had a slow-witted one here once; he pissed everyone off so bad that we made him take a hike on the minefield - naked. You should have heard Skinflint cursing when that dude's arm fell square on his head! That was something special... yeah... So, you got the idea?

I didn't expect him to do this! I've known him for ages! We hunted for our first artifacts together, we made Freedom what it is today! I trusted him with all the operational planning, and he just went and sold us out...
(dialogue with Chekhov)

Have you heard the kind of people Freedom recruits nowadays? There was this fella called Flint, bragged left and right about his escapades and trophies... well, he turned out to be the scum of the earth. Left his buddy to die in an anomaly, grabbed his loot and took off. Later they uncovered more of his exploits over at Zaton, where he basically fed a group of hunters to a chimera. I used to think better of Freedom... Hell, I'd rather be factionless than have friends like that.

• Extra trivia - debunking myths

My pals and I want to head for the Dark Valley and take a bite out of those Freedom cats. Only we can't do that without Yoga's permission - he's the boss around here. I don't feel too comfortable stepping up to him, so we're still mulling it over for now.
(random dialogue with a bandit)
Gee, I thought we had enough misery, but no - now even the bandits are plotting something nasty for us.
(dialogue with Ganja)
It looks like this area is gonna be Freedom territory pretty soon. They've really stepped up their fight here ever since they sorted out their internal problems. They have a presence here and in Limansk, and they're still holding onto the Dark Valley. I say "still" because they've spread themselves pretty damn thin: they're fighting for Limansk, the military base and they've also got their HQ in the Dark Valley. I have a strong feeling the bandits are gonna start pushing them out of there. Think about it: all you need is one brainy bandit to grasp the situation and take full advantage by putting a good squeeze on Freedom. That's what I'd do if I were them.
(random dialogue with a stalker)

There's nothing new. There are no more artifacts here, and in those little cottages bloodsuckers used to live, we shot them off best as we could.
(random dialogue with a Freedomer)
Man, will you look at all those bloodsucking monsters swarming in the village! No one gets within a hundred meters of it, except complete dumbheads.
(dialogue with Lukash)
Lately, no one has been bringing any artifacts from the village - they are too scared. They say bloodsuckers have settled in there.
(dialogue with Skinflint

• The Guardians feature has been deployed on testnet, and with this occasion we invited the community to an incentivized hacking competition. Several topics that have been pointed out are already fixed, such as the limited denial of service for accounts with leaked keys.
• Created a WebSocket connector template for the Outport Driver that facilitates seamless exporting of blockchain data (such as blocks, validators, and processing results), useful for dApps, network monitoring and data analysis.
• Reviews and specifications on the Output transfer ordering for all kinds of scenarios with a focus on ensuring deterministic execution and order on multiple cross shard calls and callbacks.

• Testnet T1.5.4.0 release after guardians' competition findings fix
• Finished implementing a feature which will sync missing trie nodes from network if they are not saved in storage
• Written semi-integration tests for different scenarios
• Further testing & optimisation on the concentrated liquidity base implementation SC
• Finished transfer ordering
• Wrapping up some log events updates
• Final touches on the Safe Price mechanism
• Started implementation of a robust mechanism that facilitates the transmission of node configurations over a WebSocket when a request is made for seamless retrieval and querying of data
• Implement general NFTs analytics query
• Update staking contract tutorial documentation
• TCS:
• Added extra fields on /register route response, in order to provide url for 3rd party apps also, not qr code only
• Improved the errors returned on API level, as internal server error was used for most of the cases
• Reviews + testing on latest changes
• Further development of system tests targeting the VM
• Integrated the WebSocket template into a custom solution to enable firehose integration and developed additional scripts to facilitate the necessary setup for testing the integration
• sdk-js - minor release of sdk-js-wallet
• Bugfixes on the component responsible for computing transaction gas fees in the outport driver
• mxpy contract verify update to specify contract name when using verifying a multicontractimplemented "cold" signing with mxpy
• Add guardian support for mxpy
• Bughunt & bugfixes on the WebSocket host to ensure uninterrupted message transmission even when no clients are connected to the server
• Debugging and testing support
• sdk-py - BLS signing support for M1
• Working on copying data from ES indexes to Google Big Query
• Improvements on the reproducible builds flow (support for multi-contracts) - version not yet released
• Testing on: xLaunchpad, Delegation manager, xExchange API
• Epochs fast forwarder on internal testnets
• Stress testing guardians
• Enable the extension for the guarded account protection in case of compromised account by allowing the user to set again the active guardian in pending state, which doubles protection time
• xLaunchpad API improvements
• KYC service testing
• Multi tokens transfers via relayed transactions semi-integration test
• Finished the task that brings consistency into tokens transfers values checks
• Configurable shard blocks finality analysis and first implementation
• Redis helm chart and mainnet redeploy
• Internal testnets elasticsearch indexer setup
• Review on new log events standard, which enhances the information for developers and users for the information that passes between SCs
• Added new contracts labels
• Boosted metastaking upgrade fuzz tests
• Updated prometheus metrics for guardians service
• Redis cacher implementation and testing for guardians service; this will replace current local cache implementation that is not suitable for scalable solutions
• mx-sdk-py-exchange refactors & dev
• Extended documentation for Governance off-chain and on-chain process for xExchange
• Working on ARM64 build and repository for a set of our solutions
• Specifications for community farms, farms with multiple rewards, new mystery box lottery SC
• Distributed locks implementation for guardians service, based on redis
• Prototype for a smart contract static API for tests, routed through the VM executor interface
• Fixed an undefined behavior in the VM in an edge case
• Added new unit tests & bugfixing on MultiversX API
• Added more testing scenarios on twisbox orchestrator
• Guardians testing
• Debugging various issues on cards microservices
• New indexer testing
• System test scripts improvements
• Testing all incoming branches
• KYC service: backoffice: /accounts, /pending-accounts, /history, /stats and general pipeline verification after KYC validation
• Finished new price discovery charts data
• Optimised escrow queries with events handling

• What a SWOT analysis is;
• How it's applied in business strategies and marketing efforts;
• How to use the SWOT framework for any task.

• Strengths – your inherent qualities, resources, or skills that set you apart from the rest;
• Weaknesses – whatever is or may be stopping you or the business from performing well;
• Opportunities – external factors that you can use to your advantage to become more competitive;
• Threats – external factors that may harm your performance in the short or long run.

• Strengths and Opportunities can help you or the company achieve your goal or succeed at a project. So, they represent positive factors.
• Weaknesses and Threats can negatively impact your progress and have to be mitigated. They're negative factors.

• Which strengths you should maximize and emphasize;
• Which weaknesses you should minimize and keep at bay;
• Which opportunities you can take advantage of;
• Which threats you should look out for and counter.

• Choosing the business model for a new enterprise;
• Creating a break-even analysis and a business plan;
• Analyzing the company's quarterly and annual performance.

• Increase your chances of landing a job;
• Position yourself for getting a promotion;
• Understand what needs to change in your life in general.

• Internal research. You'll need every piece of information on your or the company's performance to pinpoint the internal factors in SWOT analysis. That can include financial, sales, marketing, and other reports with key metrics.
• External research. Gather the data on your competitors, the market, the company's position and market share, and the industry as a whole. This data will be the basis for assessing your opportunities and threats.

• Outstanding customer service with a high satisfaction rate;
• Strong financial performance;
• The first-mover advantage;
• Positive brand attributes;
• Strong technical expertise in the field.

• What do you or the company do well?
• What are your strongest assets?
• Is there something only you or the company do?
• What is your competitive edge?
• What do customers appreciate about the company?

• Poor brand recognition among the target audience;
• Suboptimal employee productivity;
• Limited resources, human or otherwise;
• Lack of intellectual property for key technologies;
• Long delivery times.

• What do your competitors beat you at?
• What do customers complain about?
• What is holding back your or the company's success?
• What resources do you or the company lack?
• What are the gaps in your internal business processes?

• New markets emerging within the industry;
• New advertising channels rising to prominence;
• Particular customer needs that remain underserved.

• Are there ways to gain useful resources you don't have or have little of?
• Are there any technological advancements that can help you mitigate your weaknesses?
• Are there any new or overlooked opportunities that you can exploit?
• How can the current economy or market trends be of use to you?

• High competition for the job you're after;
• Potential layoffs due to a financial crisis.

• New emerging competitors, direct or indirect;
• New regulations that can entail considerable additional costs for the business;
• Unfavorable investment climate.

• Who are your competitors, and what is their market position?
• What is the state of the economy, industry, and market? Are they in decline?
• Are there any new regulations that can harm the business?

• Factors that aren't specific enough – clarify or cross them out;
• Factors that aren't evidence-based – find proof or get rid of them;
• Factors that are over- or underestimated – have a fresh pair of eyes to look at the list.

• How can you maximize your strengths? Which ones should be the top priority to boost?
• How can you mitigate or eliminate your weaknesses? Which ones should be taken care of first?
• Which opportunities should you take advantage of? Which ones will pay off the most?
• Which threats can do the most harm? How can you limit their impact?

Understanding Yeast Infections

The Signs of a Bad Yeast Infection

1. Intense Itching and Irritation: One of the hallmark signs of a severe yeast infection is relentless itching and irritation in and around the affected area. The itching may be accompanied by redness and swelling, making it increasingly uncomfortable for the individual.
2. Abnormal Discharge: A bad yeast infection often leads to an abnormal vaginal discharge. The discharge is typically thick, clumpy, and white, resembling cottage cheese. It may also have a strong, unpleasant odor.
3. Pain and Soreness: In severe cases, a yeast infection can cause pain and soreness during sexual intercourse or urination. The inflamed tissues and the presence of yeast can lead to discomfort and a burning sensation.
4. Redness and Swelling: The vulva and surrounding areas may appear red and swollen in a bad yeast infection. This inflammation is a result of the body's immune response to the overgrowth of Candida.
5. Skin Rash: In some instances, a yeast infection can extend beyond the genital area, causing a red, itchy rash in the folds of the skin. This is commonly seen in cases of intertrigo, where moist and warm environments promote yeast growth.

When to Seek Medical Attention

Prevention and Self-Care

1. Keeping the genital area clean and dry.
2. Avoiding tight-fitting clothing made of non-breathable fabrics.
3. Wearing cotton underwear.
4. Limiting the use of scented products in the genital area.
5. Taking probiotics or eating yogurt with live cultures to maintain a healthy balance of bacteria.

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