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1653  let botPattern = "(googlebot\/|bot|Googlebot-Mobile|Googlebot-Image|Google favicon|Mediapartners-Google|bingbot|slurp|java|wget|curl|Commons-HttpClient|Python-urllib|libwww|httpunit|nutch|phpcrawl|msnbot|jyxobot|FAST-WebCrawler|FAST Enterprise Crawler|biglotron|teoma|convera|seekbot|gigablast|exabot|ngbot|ia_archiver|GingerCrawler|webmon |httrack|webcrawler|grub.org|UsineNouvelleCrawler|antibot|netresearchserver|speedy|fluffy|bibnum.bnf|findlink|msrbot|panscient|yacybot|AISearchBot|IOI|ips-agent|tagoobot|MJ12bot|dotbot|woriobot|yanga|buzzbot|mlbot|yandexbot|purebot|Linguee Bot|Voyager|CyberPatrol|voilabot|baiduspider|citeseerxbot|spbot|twengabot|postrank|turnitinbot|scribdbot|page2rss|sitebot|linkdex|Adidxbot|blekkobot|ezooms|dotbot|Mail.RU_Bot|discobot|heritrix|findthatfile|europarchive.org|NerdByNature.Bot|sistrix crawler|ahrefsbot|Aboundex|domaincrawler|wbsearchbot|summify|ccbot|edisterbot|seznambot|ec2linkfinder|gslfbot|aihitbot|intelium_bot|facebookexternalhit|yeti|RetrevoPageAnalyzer|lb-spider|sogou|lssbot|careerbot|wotbox|wocbot|ichiro|DuckDuckBot|lssrocketcrawler|drupact|webcompanycrawler|acoonbot|openindexspider|gnam gnam spider|web-archive-net.com.bot|backlinkcrawler|coccoc|integromedb|content crawler spider|toplistbot|seokicks-robot|it2media-domain-crawler|ip-web-crawler.com|siteexplorer.info|elisabot|proximic|changedetection|blexbot|arabot|WeSEE:Search|niki-bot|CrystalSemanticsBot|rogerbot|360Spider|psbot|InterfaxScanBot|Lipperhey SEO Service|CC Metadata Scaper|g00g1e.net|GrapeshotCrawler|urlappendbot|brainobot|fr-crawler|binlar|SimpleCrawler|Livelapbot|Twitterbot|cXensebot|smtbot|bnf.fr_bot|A6-Indexer|ADmantX|Facebot|Twitterbot|OrangeBot|memorybot|AdvBot|MegaIndex|SemanticScholarBot|ltx71|nerdybot|xovibot|BUbiNG|Qwantify|archive.org_bot|Applebot|TweetmemeBot|crawler4j|findxbot|SemrushBot|yoozBot|lipperhey|y!j-asr|Domain Re-Animator Bot|AddThis)";
1654
1655  let regex = new RegExp(botPattern, 'i');
1656
1657  // define var conditionalSampleRate as 0 if the userAgent matches a pattern in botPatterns
1658  // otherwise, define conditionalSampleRate as 100
1659  let conditionalSampleRate = regex.test(navigator.userAgent) ? 0 : 10;
1660  window.DD_RUM.onReady(function() {
1661    window.DD_RUM.init({
1662      applicationId: 'a1c5469d-ab6f-4740-b889-5955b6c24e72',
1663      clientToken: 'pub9ae25d27d775da672cae8a79ec522337',
1664      site: 'datadoghq.com',
1665      service: 'fdp',
1666      env: 'production',
1667      sessionSampleRate: conditionalSampleRate,
1668      sessionReplaySampleRate: 0,
1669      defaultPrivacyLevel: 'mask',
1670      trackUserInteractions: true,
1671      trackResources: true,
1672      trackLongTasks: 1,
1673      traceContextInjection: 'sampled'
1674    });
1675  });
1676</script>
1676
1677
1678  
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1678
1679  
1679<script nonce="3270caa0565a29ecc1e6931ecec19dff1ab1226e1095e55a8f4ed7da685e8baf" src="https://cdn.firespring.com/core/v2/js/fireSlider/jquery.fireSlider.velocity.js"></script>
1679
1680        
1680<script type="application/javascript" nonce="3270caa0565a29ecc1e6931ecec19dff1ab1226e1095e55a8f4ed7da685e8baf">
1681      $(document).ready(() => {
1682        var noneEffect = function(element, options) {
1683          element.velocity({translateX: [(options.nextPos + '%'), (options.currPos + '%')]}, {duration: 0, queue: options.effect, easing: [0]});
1684        }
1685        fireSlider.prototype.Effects.register('none', noneEffect);
1686      })
1687    </script>
1687
1688  
1689
1690  <noscript><p><img
1691        alt="Firespring Analytics"
1692        width="1"
1693        height="1"
1694        src="https://analytics.firespring.com//100742428.gif"
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1696<!-- Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->
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1698    <iframe
1699      src=https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-PP5LN6HD
1700      height="0"
1701      width="0"
1702      style="display:none;visibility:hidden"
1703    ></iframe>
1704  </noscript>
1705  <noscript>
1706    <iframe
1707      src=https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-KJ9CLXWT
1708      height="0"
1709      width="0"
1710      style="display:none;visibility:hidden"
1711    ></iframe>
1712  </noscript>
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