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Sabine Lisicki
Tennis Player
Born Sep 22, 1989 Age 25
Hometown Troisdorf Plays Right-handed (two...
Career Prize Money $2,130,750
Sabine Lisicki is a German professional tennis player. She was born in Troisdorf. Lisicki has won three WTA singles tournaments in her career (one in 2009 and two in 2011) and one doubles tournament (in 2011). She reached the quarterfinals of the 2009… Read More
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A method and apparatus providing for the construction of customized advertisement banners for Web pages on a client computer. The advertisement banners are customized based upon various factors including user profile information, technographic information, geographic information, demographic information and user interaction information. The information being either stored on the user's computer, server computers or obtained from the user's interaction with the Web page containing the advertisement banner. Once specific information is obtained, customized advertisement content is selected from Web server computers and the advertisement banner is dynamically constructed and displayed on the user's computer.
1. A method for dynamically providing a visual representation of a customizable advertisement within the context of a browser program running on a client computer comprising the steps of:
(a) downloading a Web page file from a Web server, the Web page file including at least one advertising fragment;
(b) locating an advertising applet program on an applet server using the advertising fragment, the advertising applet program containing program logic specifying how to construct the customizable advertisement;
(c) running the advertising applet program within the context of the browser program at the client computer to execute the program logic to construct the visual representation of the customizable advertisement;
(d) determining run time specific information for constructing the customizable advertisement; and
(e) using the run time specific information as input to the advertising applet program when constructing the visual representation of the customizable advertisement.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. An apparatus for dynamically providing a Web page with a user specific advertisement banner on a client computer display comprising:
a Web browser requesting a Web page stored on a Web server containing an advertising fragment;
a reference to an advertising applet program on an applet server obtained using the advertising fragment;
the advertising applet program constructing the advertisement banner on the client computer for display in the Web browser;
run time specific information for constructing the customizable advertisement; and
where the advertising applet program uses the run time specific information as input when constructing the advertisement banner.
5. The apparatus of
6. The apparatus of
7. A computer program product comprising:
a computer usable medium comprising:
a set of computer program instructions embodied on the computer usable medium, including instructions to:
download a Web page file from a Web server, the Web page file including at least one advertising fragment;
locate an advertising applet program on an applet server using the advertising fragment, the advertising applet program containing program logic specifying how to construct the customizable advertisement;
run the advertising applet program within the context of the browser program at the client computer to execute the program logic to construct the visual representation of the customizable advertisement;
determine run time specific information for constructing the customizable advertisement; and
use the run time specific information as input to the advertising applet program when constructing the visual representation of the customizable advertisement.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/144,309, filed Jul. 16, 1999, the entire teachings of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The World Wide Web of hypertext interlinked documents residing on networked computer servers located throughout the Internet has become a very popular mechanism for distributing information of various types among a wide audience at low cost. Selling advertising space on the Web has become a dominant way of covering the costs associated with presenting certain information. For example, content providers, such as Cable News Network (CNN) and U.S.A. Today, now provide highly detailed and sophisticated information at their Web sites for free. These sites are typically supported, at least in part, by the advertising they display.
Information is typically viewed on the Web using a browser program running on a client computer. A browser can read Web pages, built using Hyper Text Markup Language ("HTML"), downloaded from a Web server and display the contents. HTML provides the capability to display text, graphics, hypertext links, interactive applets and streaming audio/video. A Web browser can also read and write "cookies". Cookies are blocks of data that a Web server may store on a client computer and later retrieve to obtain information from the client computer. Most current generation Web browsers also run small segments of computer code which are transported over the Internet and executed on the client machine. They are typically written as Java™ applets and are run when referenced from a Web page.
Advertisers now increasingly seek ways to entice Web users who are casually browsing by grabbing their attention or perhaps even ultimately engaging them in an electronic commerce transaction, without actually requiring them to perform other processes which are perceived as being cumbersome. For example, it is now quite common for most Web pages to contain "banner ads" that contain attention-grabbing multimedia effects. Such effects are typically enabled by applet programs that not only present elaborate images, but also present animated objects and sounds.
Briefly, the present invention provides a system for customizing Web page based advertisements based upon various factors including targeting (profile) information, technographic information, historical preferences, geographic information, demographic information or user interaction. These factors may be used individually or combined to create an effective customized advertisement. Targeting information can include information specific to a particular user and may be stored externally and accessed by a profile process.
More particularly, experience with print and television media have shown that general advertisements are not as effective as customized advertisements targeted to specific situations and/or consumers in attracting them to further investigate or purchase the products or services. Advertisements directed to groups of users through demographics or other attributes have been proven to be more effective than general advertisements, but not as effective as those customized for specific individuals.
Unfortunately, in the context of the World Wide Web, creating and storing customized advertisements for specific users is cumbersome because a large number of individual advertisements may be required to appeal to individuals in a specific audience. Managing a large number of advertisements is costly, both in terms of storage and processing. Delivering customized advertisements to a large user population, for products and services that have many options, could quickly overwhelm even a large, powerful Web server.
The present invention overcomes these problems by dynamically creating the advertisement on the user's computer using information obtained about the user at the time of displaying the advertisement. When a user requests a Web page containing an advertisement banner, a fragment of the banner is returned in the Web page along with a reference to an applet. The applet contains logic for deciding how to choose from among various possible elements which are needed to complete the construction of the advertisement banner. The logic may, for example, obtain information about the specific user and requests additional advertisement content from Web servers to complete the creation of the advertisement to be displayed to the user.
More specifically, both a method and apparatus may be provided for creating customized advertisement banners for Web pages. The advertisement banners are customized for specific users based upon information about the specific user viewing the page or based upon other criteria by using an applet program which is within the context of the browser program running on the user's computer. The user is identified by either an identifier stored on the user's computer or from the user's interaction with the Web page containing the advertisement banner. Once user specific information is obtained, specific advertisement content is obtained from one or more Web server computers and the advertisement banner is dynamically constructed and displayed on the user's computer using that specific content.
An advantage of this dynamic construction within the context of the browser is that the advertisement content can easily and inexpensively be tailored for the individual users; for example, if information about the user's occupation can be obtained, an area of the advertisement that scrolls news stories might target stories related to that user's occupation. This may be done to draw a user's attention to the advertisement banner.
An additional advantage of dynamically constructing the advertisement on the user's computer is that it requires less storage at the Web server and less bandwidth over the network. This is a result of being able to eliminate the need to create, store and send all possible combinations of advertisement for a target audience.
The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views. The drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention.
Customized scrolling news headlines 110 and customized stock ticker 116 represent advertising content types that can display customized information in a scrolling (horizontal and/or vertical) fashion. For example, a user known to be interested in baseball may see a scrolling list of scores for current games. In like fashion, if a list of stocks that a user is interested in is obtainable, that list can be used to construct a scrolling ticker of up-to-date stock prices. Data for these scrolling items may be obtained from a variety of Web servers.
Customized text 112 and customized graphics 114, specifically tailored for the user viewing the Ad banner 100 can also be displayed by the Web browser using an applet. The applet uses the identity of the user to customize the customized text 112 and/or graphics 114. The actual text and graphics displayed may be obtained from a variety of Web servers.
Bitmap graphic 122 represents a bitmap graphic image stored in the Ad banner 100 of Web page 105. An example use for bitmap graphic images in advertisement banner is the display of a company logo, which may not change based upon the user who is viewing it. Linked graphic 120 provides a hypertext link to other Web pages (or other parts of this Web page) on the Web. The linked graphic 120 can display text (e.g., a Uniform Resource Locator ("URL")) or a graphic as the launch point for the linked Web page. The exact contents of what the link references may not be known at the time the Ad banner 100 is constructed, that is the link may point to time-sensitive information or to information that changes based upon other conditions (e.g., breaking news reports).
Customized streaming content 118 can display streamed audio and video content in the Ad banner 100. This data can also be specific to the user viewing the Web page 105 and obtained from a variety of Web servers.
Technographic information includes information obtainable about a user's environment (computer and otherwise). Some examples of technographic information include the user's network bandwidth, web browser version, operating system version, computer audio capabilities, time of day, day of week/year and outside ambient temperature. Geographic information may include, physical location as well as Internet domain type/name, Internet Service Provider name as well as the URL hosting the Web page containing the advertisement. Demographic information includes characteristics about the user herself, for example, age, gender, likes, dislikes and income. User interaction information can be tracked and used in customizing the advertisement, for example, a users actions while playing a game displaying within the advertisement can produce different subsequent displays.
However, other parameters may be included with the SET-COOKIE header. In one instance, an EXPIRES=DATE parameter is used inform the server when the data in the cookie is no longer valid. Once the expiration date has been reached, the cookie will no longer be stored or given out. Additionally, the user can use this date to determine which cookies to delete from their computer. If no EXPIRES=DATE is set then the cookie will expire at the end of the user's session.
A DOMAIN=DOMAIN_NAME parameter is used to store the valid domain to which this cookie will be returned. When a request for a Web page is made its URL is compared to the DOMAIN of cookies stored on the client computer. If a match is found that cookie is send along with the request for the Web page to that URL. Matching need not be exact. For example, a technique of "tail-matching" may be used where the URL is compared against the top-level domain and the next level domain up can be used to force the cookie to be sent to a number of related URLs. The default DOMAIN_NAME is the domain of the Web server which generated the cookie.
A PATH=PATH parameter is used to specify a subset of the URLs within a domain which are to receive this cookie. If PATH is not specified it defaults to the path of the Web page described in the requested URL. SECURE is a setting within a cookie that is used to ensure that this cookie will only be returned when the communications channel is secure (e.g., HTTP over SSL). These URL requests are often carried out using a common gateway interface ("CGI") standard known to Web servers and browsers for defining communication between client computers and information servers (e.g., Web server 210). A Web page server 210 contains various Web pages of interest to the user of the Web browser 200. These Web pages may contain advertisement banners for display. The Ad banners 100 can be stored on separate Ad servers 220, or the Ad banners 100 can be stored on Web page server 210 itself. Each Ad banner 100 may be a fully-constructed advertisement (i.e., a basic Ad stream) or an Ad fragment (i.e., sparse Ad stream). An Ad fragment 215 can contain connection information to another server (e.g., Applet server 230). The Ad fragment 215, requested by the Web server 210, is returned as part of the Web page 105 that the Web browser 200 requested from the Web page server 210.
The Web page 105 with Ad fragment 215 contains connection information the Web browser 200 uses to communicate with Applet server 230. The Applet server 230 uses the information contained in Applet server cookie 207 to communicate with a profile process 250. The profile process 250 accesses a profile data base have information associated with Applet server cookie 207. The profile process 250 can retrieve profile parameters 255 from the profile database that will be used to customize the Ad banner 100 for a specific user of Web browser 200 identified by Applet server cookie 207. The profile parameters 255 are returned to Web browser 200.
Technographic information includes information obtainable about a user's environment (computer and otherwise). Some examples of technographic information include the user's network bandwidth, web browser version, operating system version, computer audio capabilities, time of day, day of week/year and outside ambient temperature. Geographic information may include, physical location as well as Internet domain type/name, Internet Service Provider name as well as the URL hosting the Web page containing the advertisement. Demographic information includes characteristics about the user herself, for example, age, gender, likes, dislikes and income. User interaction information can be tracked and used in customizing the advertisement, for example, a users actions while playing a game displaying within the advertisement can produce different subsequent displays.
The profile parameters 255 contains a pointer to an Ad applet 235 stored on the Applet server 230 and a set of profile parameters. The Ad applet 235, running on the client computer, will use the profile parameters to construct a user specific Ad banner 100. The Applet server 230 accepts applet server cookie 207 (if it exists) and serves the Ad applet 235 to the Web browser 200 on the client computer. An applet is a small segment of code that can be transported over the Internet and executed on a client computer. Applets are typically written in Java™ and executed in a Java Virtual Machine ("JVM"), most Web browsers implement a JVM for running applets. Applets inherit from, and extend, the Java Applet class. Applets can play sounds, make network connection to the host they came from, display HTML documents and invoke public methods of other applets on the same Web page. For security reasons, applets that are loaded over a network (e.g., the Internet) have several restrictions. One restriction is that an applet cannot ordinarily read or write files on the computer that is executing it (cookie files being an exception). Another restriction is that an applet cannot make network connections except to the host that served it.
Applets are invoked from an HTML Web page using the <APPLET> tag. The <APPLET> tag allows the specification of an applet name attribute (CODE=), as well as the height (HEIGHT=) and width (WIDTH=) attributes of the applet display in pixels. Parameters may be passed to the applet using the parameter name (PARAM NAME=) and value (VALUE=) attributes. The location of the applet class file may also be specified using the (CODEBASE=) attribute.
The Web page 105 with Ad banner 100 is loaded by the Web browser 200 invoking the Ad applet 235. The Ad applet 235 served by the Applet server 230, will communicate with the Applet server 230 to provide the user specific content used in the construction of Ad banner 100. The Applet server 230 may communicate with a variety of content servers 240–243 to provide the content 245, 246 needed by the Ad banner 100. These Content servers 240–243 may be HTML protocol Web servers or other information servers (e.g., database servers). The Ad applet 235 may optionally request additional advertisement content as needed, either to customize the Ad banner 100 for the specific user or to expand "sparse" advertising content previously returned. Sparse advertising content is content that requires additional communication in order to be fully displayed. This delayed approach to streaming advertising content to a client computer has the advantage of reducing the amount of content downloaded in situations when it may never need to be displayed. Content may not need to be displayed based upon a user's profile or the user's interaction with the Ad banner 100 or Web page 105 itself.
In one preferred embodiment a server hosting framework 260 houses the applet server 230 and some number of content servers 240, 241. In addition the profile process 250 can be hosted as part of applet server 230 or as a separate server. The server hosting framework can provide certain optimizations based upon communications efficiencies, but is not a required configuration. Embodiments of the present invention exist independently of the network configuration of the various servers.
In one example a user, Dave, starts his personal computer, launches his Web browser (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer) and connects to the Internet. Using his Web browser he requests a Web page from the URL "http://www.yahoo.com", his Web browser sends the URL and any cookie that www.yahoo.com has stored on Dave's personal computer to the www.yahoo.com Web server. When www.yahoo.com receives Dave's request it parses the cookie and determines an appropriate Ad banner to display along with the www.yahoo.com homepage. The Ad banner may be located locally on the www.yahoo.com host or it may be stored remotely on another Ad server. Assume the Web server choose an Ad banner for Folgers coffee.
If the Ad banner is one configured according to an embodiment of the present invention it may only be sparsely populated, awaiting more customization based upon the specific user, demographic or technographic information associated with the personal computer onto which it will be displayed. In this case the sparsely populated Ad banner (i.e., Ad fragment) will contain a link to an applet server capable of aiding in the construction of a Folgers coffee Ad banner customized for Dave at his personal computer. Once the applet server has been contacted it can use an applet server cookie to "identify" Dave and look-up know profile parameters for Dave along with an applet to download. Additionally, profile parameters may be returned that indicate time-of-day, region or country and other relevant information. The profile parameters and applet are download. With the applet running it uses the profile parameters to request additional Ad content to construct an Ad banner customized specifically for Dave at this time. For example, if it can be determined that Dave is an upper-income individual and that it is late evening when Dave requested the www.yahoo.com URL an embodiment of the present invention may construct a Folgers coffee Ad Banner featuring Folgers Premium French Roast de-caffeinated blend. Dave, launching his Web browser the next morning might be greeted by a different Folgers Ad banner featuring a double-espresso blend. In this way, embodiments of the present invention allow for dynamic Ad banners to be constructed on users' personal computers.
In step 302 the Ad banner 100, with the Ad fragment 215, is returned to the Web server 210. The Web server 210 then returns the Web page 105, including the Ad banner 100 with Ad fragment 215 to the Web browser 200 at step 303. In step 304 the Web browser uses the Ad fragment (which contains the URL of an Applet server 230) and the applet server cookie 207 associated with the Applet server 230 to request an Ad applet 235 and profile parameters 255.
In step 305 the profile process 250 matches the applet server cookie 207 with information accessible to profile process 250. Having matched the applet server cookie 207 to a record accessible to profile process 250, profile parameters 255 associated with a specific user are then extracted. Profile process 250 can be a process running within Applet server 230 or it can be running on a separate server. The profile parameters 255, along with a pointer to a specific Ad applet 235, are then returned to the Web browser 200. The Web browser 200 request a specific Ad applet from the Applet server 230 in Step 306.
In Step 307 the Ad applet 235 is returned by the Applet server 230 to the client Web browser 200. In Step 308 the Ad applet 235 executes and constructs the Ad banner 100 that will be displayed. The Ad applet 235 may contain a basic Ad stream 410 (see
While this invention has been particularly shown and described with references to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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Dalton's Law - Concept
Kendal Orenstein
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Dalton s Law states that total pressure of a gaseous mixture is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of each substance present.
Alright. Amongst the neat things that Dalton did for us in Chemistry, he came up with his own law called Dalton's law of partial pressure. And what that states is that the total pressure of a mixture of gas is equal to the sum of the pressures of all the gases in the mixture. Before we move on I just want to make sure we understand what partial pressure is, and that's the pressure exerted by a single gas within a big mixture of gases. Okay, this might actually be the easiest of all the gas laws that we've learned about. So let's actually put this into practice and see what it is that I'm talking about.
Alright. So at sea level we know that air, that air pressure is equals to 101.3 kilo pascals. We know that. And what does air consist of? Air consist of nitrogen, oxygen, water, vapor, argon and carbon dioxide. All these stuff makes up our mixture of air that we breathe in everyday. Okay, so we know the total pressure is 101.3 kilo pascals, we can then figure out the pressure of each individual substance. So we've nitrogen is 78.1 kilo pascals, oxygen gas is 20.9 kilo pascals, water vapor is 1.28 kilo pascals, argon is 0.97 kilo pascals and lastly carbon dioxide is 0.05 kilo pascals with at least volume this one. So all these stuff when you add up everything, would equals 101.3 kilo pascals. This is example of Dalton's law. But you can do other things with these two besides just adding up to get the total pressure. You can actually find the percentages of each one too. So if we, say you wanted the percentage of nitrogen in air, you would take 78.1 divided by our total which is 101.3 and you'd find that nitrogen can makes up 77 percent of our air.
The same way you can do with oxygen. 20.9 divided by 101.3 kilo pascals and we find that it's 20.6 percent of the air we breathe. You can do the same thing for each one and figure out the percentage of each substances in the total mixture.
so there's a lot of different fun things you can do with Dalton's law even though it actually fairly simple.
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3 Morkie puppies 2 girls one boy.
Mother is full blood registered Maltese
Father is full blood registered Yorkie/ I posted the last 2 pictures of the mom and dad.
These puppies are tiny. I have posted a picture of them with a soda can for comparison.
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Bunny - AKC Miniature Dachshund
Bunny, born 9-24-05 is a choc/tan female, that is available as a pet for $300. She is current on vaccines and de-wormings, is crate trained and will have a current rabies vaccine, prior to leaving.
Bunny is accustomed to running free, within a fenced area, she does not ...
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Baron - AKC Miniature Dachshund
Baron is a six year old, shaded red male, weighing 12 lbs., available to a pet home for $300, plus $100 for his neuter. He is current on vaccines and de-wormings, and will be neutered and given a current rabies vaccine, and teeth cleaned, prior to leaving.
Baron is ...
Bambi - AKC Blk/Cream, long hair Miniature Dachshund
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Bambi, born 5-8-14, is a blk/cream long hair, Miniature Dachshund. She is a very loving, & gentle dog, that thrives on attention and would make an excellent pet. Bambi is already crate trained and current on all vaccines & wormings.
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Layla - PRA Clear, AKC Shaded Cream, Miniature Dachshund
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Honey & Landon are the proud parents of three shaded cream, miniature, long hair Dachshund, pups! We have one males and two females. Landon, the dad, is show pointed and all pups are PRA Clear, via ...
Sparky is a shaded red male, that's already neutered, looking for his forever home! Sparky is out of our Tiki and is Champion sired by an outside male.
Sparky does have an overbite, however, this is only cosmetic and doesn't affect his eating. Sparky is crate trained, ...
Sophie - AKC, EE Cream Miniature Dachshund
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Sophie, born on 5-8-14, is a very loving, & gentle dog, that thrives on attention and would make an excellent pet. Sophie is already spayed, crate trained and current on all vaccines & wormings.


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..........I am leaning towards full rebuild by a erengine rebuilder machine shop.
Be sure you know what they are going to do. A cheap rebuild is a waste of every dollar. The paradox with a rebuild is that you really want to get everything back to near new, while you have it out. You wouldn't want to pull it again, would you?
However, a good rebuild can cost well more than half the value of the motor.
One way to save some money is to do the disassembly and reassembly yourself, if you have the skill and manuals. Outsource the machinist stuff that requires special tooling.
Another strategy is to go find your exact motor in excellent used condition, which would be much less expensive than a rebuild.
If you want to be decadent, consider buying a new one and seeing if they will take your core on trade. Puts you back together, worry free.
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Pope Francis is everywhere, it seems. Now Minda Zetlin over at business magazine Inc. imparts eight leadership lessons that make Pope Francis so effective and why all leaders should adopt these lessons.
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Christians should memorize not only the Ten Commandments but also the beatitudes, which Jesus taught as the path to true happiness, Pope Francis said.
At his weekly general audience Wednesday, the pope said he was so serious about the need for Christians to know the text of the beatitudes from Matthew 5:3-12 -- "Blessed are the poor in spirit ..." -- that he would read each one out loud and have the crowd repeat it.
More than 6,000 people filled the Vatican audience hall and its atrium for the pope's first general audience after a monthlong break.
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Going forward for Communion at Mass, Catholics must do so with a desire to imitate Jesus' compassion for others and with a commitment to sharing what they have, Pope Francis said.
"One who goes to the Eucharist without having compassion for the needy and without sharing is not right with Jesus," the pope said Sunday before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square.
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Respected Kiwi writer Marc Hinton says the Crusaders have the ability to beat the Bulls in the Super 14 semi-final in Soweto.
Hinton, writing for stuff.co.nz, believes the Saders are the ideal team to face the Bulls this weekend, especially after the latter rested their key players for the clash against the Stormers last Saturday.
He has listed five reasons why the Saders will win:
1 Momentum. Believe it or not it's actually on the side of the Crusaders despite their patchy finish to the season. They were the best team on the paddock a fortnight ago when they wound down their unsuccessful tour with a 35-40 defeat notable as much for the outrageous refereeing performance of Marius Jonker as it was for anything spectacular the Bulls did.
The Saders took plenty out of that Loftus match where they played most of the rugby, established the tempo and very much dictated terms for a clash which swung on two or three contentious decisions by Jonker. Then they turned round, off the long trip home, and pretty clinically dealt to a Brumbies side that had the sniff of the semis in their nostrils.
There were signs at the weekend that the Crusaders game had finally gone to the level that Blackadder has been seeking for a while now. Their work, particularly off turnover, was as sharp as it's been all year and when New Zealand's best team has its link play and counter game going, they are always tough to beat.
On the other side of the coin the Bulls forsook momentum in favour of resting their top lineup ahead of the semifinals – a tactic fraught with danger. It hasn't worked in the past – particularly for the Waratahs in 2002 – and it will be interesting to see how the Bulls come out on the back of what was essentially a bye week for their leading players.
2 The Soweto factor. The Bulls have an awesome record at Loftus Versfeld where they haven't been beaten in over two years and where they've never lost in the Super rugby post-season.
But unfortunately for them, this semi ain't at their Pretoria fortress, it's in a soccer stadium in Soweto, because of the looming Fifa World Cup. That changes the playing field significantly.
Any mental blocks the Crusaders may have had over playing at a stadium where they've twice been rolled by the Bulls at semifinal time now go out the window.
Instead it's been notable that the Crusaders team have been embracing the Soweto factor ahead of the match, expressing their excitement at the chance to play in the famous Johannesburg township at a quality venue just a stone's throw from the brand new Soccer City stadium that will host the World Cup final in a few short weeks.
Loftus may not have held any fears for the Saders, but it certainly presented some bad memories. There will still be a full house of Bulls fans at Orlando Stadium, but that won't worry the Kiwis a bit as they look to make the most of their scheduling break.
3 They're due. Simple as that. The Crusaders have a superb post-season record with this their ninth straight semifinal appearance and their 12th in 13 seasons. Until 2007 they'd never lost a semi, and they responded to that departure (at the hands of the Bulls) by bouncing back to claim title No 7 the following year.
What do you know they lost at the semifinal stage to the Bulls again last year, so if the cycle holds true they should go all the way again in 2010.
But more than just sequencing suggests this could be the Crusaders year. They're an outfit that have played more playoffs football than anybody in the competition, and they know what's required at this stage. Plus they tend to learn their lessons. Those two semifinal defeats by the Bulls will be painful reminders of just what it takes to win against this tough side. A fortnight ago showed they've got a plan that works. Now they just need to execute it a smidgeon better and get a fairer deal from the man with the whistle.
4 They've got a better backline. Sure, everyone knows rugby wins are forged up front, but both these packs are full of quality individuals and really should cancel each other out. Lineout edge to Bulls, scrum one to Crusaders, the breakdown and loose forward battle should be a beaut.
But the Crusaders' attack game has found its feet in the nick of time, with Zac Guildford, Sean Maitland, Colin Slade, Dan Carter and, to a lesser degree, Robbie Fruean running into some serious form. The decision to go with Dan Bowden as a second five-eighth also seems to have worked, especially in terms of the distribution and kicking game.
The Bulls, on the other hand, are without their best finisher (van den Heever) to suspension and, let's face it, have never been renowned for their willingness to shift it through the hands. If the Crusaders can again make this a free-flowing encounter, they will hold the trump cards.
5 Dan Carter. He's spent all year making uncharacteristic mistakes and struggling to find his A game. But the last two weeks there have been signs that the world's best No 10 is coming back to the form that we've come to expect from him.
The battle between two fabulous pivots could well decide this clash. Morne Steyn has punished the Crusaders heavily in their recent meetings and Blackadder will stress the need to minimise the chances for this great points-taker to have either shots or pots at goal.
But Steyn does not have the decision-making prowess, nor the running game, of Carter at his best. All season the All Black great has played a strangely off-key tune, but wouldn't it be typical – and timely – for him to take command now when the stakes are highest.
Steyn is a fine player. But he's not Carter. Big advantage to the Crusaders.